Sterling Marlin Qualifying
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- Sterling Marlin shown qualifying at Daytona, Indianapolis and Talladega driving the Morgan McClure car with the Runt Pittman engine. Tony Glover said Larry and Runt like the sound. I like the sound too!!!!
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My favorite sounding internal combustion engine ever
Lol lol lol great comment i agree 100 pct
These super speedway cars with the X-pipe are the reason why I'm so hell bent on putting together a top end combination for my Corvette's LS7 that will rev out to 8000 rpm. I just want to re-live my 90's childhood as best I can.
That sound was badass,Morgan McClure racing was building the best plate motors in the mid 90s.
You Dang Right they were, And coming from a single car team!!
It’s not the engine that makes that amazing sound it’s the X-Pipe
@@EvanDunham9 We understand, just talking about Mr. Pittman making some great motors.
Runt pitman who built the motors lived next door to me. Great guy
That Kodak car would make Smokey Yunick and Chad Knaus proud.
The X pipe gave the sound that hey were unbeatable, Love It!!! Great years in Nascar.
Sterling Marlin. My favorite driver through the years. He ended up being the last of the good ol' boys.
This car in 1995, especially the X-pipe used at Daytona, changed the way NASCAR sounded at super speedways for 20 years. Such an amazing sounding car. Too bad they don't sound like that these days.
5:23 - Long story cut short, Dr Gas out of Salt Lake City made some phone calls and informed the Sterling Marlin team he could add 5 hp to the car. They installed the X-pipe exhaust system and dynoed the car. The results were good! I don’t think they ever said how much hp the exhaust added. No one on the team had heard the car at wide open throttle under load at 193 mph until qualifying. Apparently the team was all giggles when on fhe first lap everyone in the pits stopped what they were doing to watch the #4. The sound was unreal! Sterling Marlins team kept the exhaust a secret for awhile, with a lot of people thinking the heads were modified somehow. Here is a great video explaining the whole situation in great detail. th-cam.com/video/4EtSA1TocZg/w-d-xo.html
I was told it gave the 4 car an extra 9 HP advantage on the superspeedways.
I remember Sterling gave an interview for a magazine years back when he was driving for Morgan McClure Motorsports. I think it was after he won the Pepsi 400. He was asked what made the No. 4 Chevy such a special car, his answer was "it can sniff out the draft exceptionally well". So it had an innovative exhaust system, and whatever goodies that Pittman had for the engine, plus the ability to race in the draft so much better that anyone else. That car was the perfect storm.
This was when Nascar was way better the teams could fiddle with stuff more like exhaust and stuff.Today they would be parked and fined for this.
One of the crew guys for that team told me that marlin hated it. Said it sounded like a woman screaming in his ear lol.
@@mark6310 that would especially apply to Ray Evernham when he was Gordons crew chief in the late 90s. Half of what's in the NASCAR rule book today was because of Ray Evernham.
To me, this is one of the sexiest sounds ever. Really one of the best sounds. The nostalgia is thru the roof
It's the 2000 cars for me.
Back then, that was a unique sound. Everyone was running straight piped race cars with that aggressive rumble. In the late 90s you would hear that sound more often, especially during the restrictor plate races.
As I recall there was an exhaust company (can't remember the name) that came up with a new configuration (what we now know was the X-pipe). They contacted Richard Childress but he wasn't interested. So, they contacted Larry McClure and he agreed to test it out. The engine picked up about 8 horsepower just by bolting the new exhaust on. Larry agreed to run the new exhaust system but insisted he be allowed to run it exclusively through the 1995 season. So, by the time it was made available to other teams for 1996, MMM already had a full year of R&D with it. Basically, this exhaust system mounted on one of Runt's plate engines made a combination that was nearly impossible to beat in 1995 and 96. Here's some results to think about: 1995 Daytona 500 - 1st; Winston 500 (Talladega) - Broke a rocker arm. After repairs, helped Jeff Gordon and others run down, catch, and pass the leaders; Pepsi 400 - 2nd; Diehard 500 (Talladega) - 1st; 1996 Daytona 500 - Burned a piston while leading; Winston Select 500 - 1st. Came from the back to the front 3 times and still led the most laps; Pepsi 400 - 1st. Repeatedly held off all 3 Hendrick cars with no drafting help; Diehard 500 - Car destroyed when clipped by Ernie Irvan while battling side by side with Dale Earnhardt for the lead. Won 4 of the 8 plate races in 95-96. If not for mechanical problems, probably would've won 2 more. Man, it was a great time to be an MMM fan. Sure do miss those days.
Nascar sucks now they don't let the teams do anything like this now.You would never see this today.Teams could use different combinations back then,experiment some.
I know Boyd Butler built the 4 cars exhaust but I always thought they ran a flat crank the cross-over eliminates the 90% pop but not the rumble the 4 cars exhaust buzzed like a 180%(flat) crank engine even in 96 when other teams used Dr gas's headers the other cars rumbled like a 90% (cross)crank V8 should
Okay Art but Pittman could not change the firing order very much when he changed the firing order he also had to change the cam to match it but the firing order must be for a 90% crank engine unless he was running a 180% crank then the firing order is very different. Not saying for sure it was a flat crank engine just saying it damn sure sounded like it even the announcers said the 4 car sounded like an Indy car and Indy cars run flat cranks and almost all 4 cylinder engines ran flat cranks like crotch rockets
Dr. Gas was the company.
@@michaelcorvin4330 correct it is dr.gas
What they had was an x pipe. It was standard headers, but they collected into and x then back out each side. 2 into 1 and back into 2
Close to an x pipe. 2 U shaped pipes welded together in the center.
@@King1614 Surely there's more trickery in there, they have to be baffled or something? There are heaps of cars with X Pipes like you describe that sound NOTHING like this.
Look up mark giles Camaro on here. I’ve seen this car in person, he was a fab guy for Morgan McClure during this era. Now he builds muscle cars on a 1992 cup series road course chassis. He puts this exhaust on all of them. It’s literally 2 u shapes pipes welded in the center and cut out in the joined area. It changes the pulse rate on the exhaust and cleans it up. 180* headers do it as well. A 45* v8 isn’t efficient in exhaust, but the new corvettes have a flat plane crankshaft in it that changes firing and cleans up the pulse rate and changes the sound as well. Pretty wild what this guy came up with to gain about 10HP that ultimately led to a revolution in NASCAR. The boom tubes made a difference as well in tuning but the sound itself came from the U-pipes.
th-cam.com/video/Q6wXpOQVdN0/w-d-xo.html
Comments but This guy has a few videos on the nascar sound of this era.
@@King1614 yes this does lead to a very smooth 8 cyl sound similar to flat plane crank, 180 degree headers, or an inline 8. Anything to balance the alternating exhaust pulses
Boom tubes and x pipes....best sounding car ever
Still like the tuned straight piped true duel exhaust big blocks in the 70s best, the old school “American muscle” 💪
I miss Sterling, Mark, Ricky Rudd, the Dales, Geoff, Ernie, Ted. I don't even remember Morgan-McClure not being around anymore. They just.... weren't.
I think Ward Burton ran for them some in 2007 and then that was it
i miss that sound so much
Ah yes
Back when the x-pipe was new
god i miss this sound
Boom Tubes
the crew chief at the end not giving straight answers 🤣🤣
I remember this
They called the exhaust tips “Boom Tubes”
The boom tubes had nothing to do with the high pitch sound. Go look at the iroc cars the just had the X pipe and it’s produces it. The boom tubes just amplify the sound that being produced the way it starts small and opens big like a megaphone. The X pipe is the actual sound. Vs H pipe. Just because the path is pretty much straight you can a dirty sound from the cylinder. With out having bends that change the sound. The x pipe you are getting the true sound
@@klk1900 The question is what specifically about THIS X Pipe causes the whine.
There are plenty of cars with X Pipes that sound nothing like this. I know it's what causes the sound, but WHAT about this specific system does it? Is it the length, the diameter, the position, is it baffled?
@@dons1932 it's because these cars have tri y headers that even put the exhaust pulses.
@@ccracing176 did the tri y's on these cars have stepped pipes back then?
The legendary X pipe sound!
remember it like it was yesterday, i’ve been waiting for years for these videos to come on you tube.
My uncle used to work for the pitcrew for the Kodak car back in the day.
Tony Glover goes into detail about the exhaust on the Dale Jr download. The guy that designed it at doctor has was trying to offer the system to teams but nobody thought it was worth it, Tony was willing to try anything and went for it. They had a 1 year deal to be the sole team with the system... Then the next year, the IROC series got it and one turned over, and was posted on a magazine cover in the air. The next week everyone was running Dr gas
The Indianapolis qualifying lap sounds like a late 60's USAC indycar.
Why can't this x pipe sound be in the Cup cars at Daytona and Talladega again???
Well, the Next Gen car has an x-pipe, but this exact sound can’t be attained because of strict gear limits implemented at the 2007 Fall Talladega race simply because Toyota whined to NASCAR about grenading their engines, so of course Toyota got its way.
@@Trainlover1995 are they still going to run x pipes at certain tracks this season or no?
Darrell with the nitrous rig in his suit. lol
The x pipes . That would probably get you docked 1000 points and 10 race crew chief suspension theses days because innovation is not allowed lol. That car was almost untouchable at the plate tracks in 94 and 95
The fords in the xfinity race at Daytona were using x pipes. You could hear the high pitch
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Dont forget about the tri y headers that even out the exhaust pulses. Just an xpipe and long tube headers will get you this similar sound, but a set of tri y headers AND and an xpipe on a street car and you will get this exact sound. Also please be realistic, these cars are winding almost 10,000rpm.
Tri Ys with equal length primaries aren’t easy to come by but they exist
Plate track engines only turned around 7,000
sounds like an INDY car
So Glovers comment it was a different combination in the engine was not true. Same engine as everyone else, just different exhaust system.
Pittman discovered something in the intake manifold, and reworked it to perfection. And it was well within the rules. Competition Director Gary Nelson called it a stroke of genius.
@Art Vandelay it really was unlike anything I had heard out of a Winston Cup stock car before. A very unique sound and car.
@Art Vandelay according to various accounts, during practice and qualifying for the '95 Die Hard 500, Rusty Wallace was chased out of the Morgan McClure garage stall for trying to get a peek at the engine of the No.4 car. Pretty sure it was that race.
@Art Vandelay I heard that Chevrolet had pulled out on Roger as a sponsor in Indy car racing, being that he ran Chevy engines in his Indycars. Don't think he ever forgot that. The next year, (I think '94) his cars had Mercedes Benz engines. (!)
Art Vandelay The high-pitched sound didn’t start until 1995 at Daytona. Prior to that the 4 car sounded like all the others. It was still fast, Runt was still working his magic, and MMM was winning plate races in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994, but the distinctive sound didn’t start until they started using the Dr. Gas x-pipe exhaust at the 1995 Daytona Speedweeks.
Wish they had shut up for a min to let us hear that car.
This is INDY, not florida.
Somebody through some speedy dry on pit road to soak up Tony's drip after this interview.
Too bad the announcers couldn't shut up so we could enjoy the exhaust.
it doesn't sound like an indycar though, as some say...
well the indycars of the time, since they had nascar "like" V8s
It sort of does to be honest. Flat plane crank V8's whine and wail. Cross plane V8's do not.
To make a cross plane V8 wail like an exotic flat plane (F1 / Indy etc) it is pretty accurate comparo to make.
@@dons1932 I know that. And in the 70s, teams did use flat planes. I thought they did for years, but only had it confirmed last year.
@@dons1932 Also, I don't really hear it, I hear more what plate cars would sound like a few years later.
Where's the daytona one ...that's where it really started
Got to watch the whole video.