Buick Indy engine?!?

[Pablo]

What the heck is this? I didn't know buick made an indy engine

eBay Motors: Turbo CART Indy Buick V-6 racing or street rod engine (item 110277394669 end time Aug-13-08 07:20:09 PDT)

if its legit, that would be one hell of a thing to have under the hood of a turbo regal

 

[Mike Licht]

does that ignition system remind you of anything?
ML

 

[fitz3820]

They sure did - under a loophole in USAC rules by using a "stock block" the Buick could run more boost and more displacement than the other cars with pure race engines - but only at Indy, the other tracks were sanctioned by CART.

The motor made tons of power and qualified well but they were not terribly reliable and never won Indy

They probably should have named our cars Grand National/Indy as they were a mix of a NASCAR body with an Indy influenced motor...

Also of note, many of us are injecting alcohol when all the Indy cars have run on pure methanol since the mid 60s (now on ethanol)...

 

[BLACK6PACK]

Pretty sure the buick motor held the lap speed record at indy for well over 10 years.

 

[turbofish38]

What the heck is this? I didn't know buick made an indy engine

To bad there isn't a lot on info on the internet as far as Indy Buicks go. Buick dumped more money into the Indy program than they did in the NASCAR motor program. Both supported the Stage2 parts. Pick up a Buick Power Source Manual for some specifics for some of the parts.

One of the more noted names of teams running the Buick was none other than Kenny Bernstein. Yes the TopFuel King Kenny. Anybody remember the lame ass tech clinic from around 90-91 that KB put on at the GS Nationals? And McLaren who did the motor devolpement for the GNX built a lot of these motors. Bruce Allen the ProStock driver did a lot of head porting on these when he worked for McLaren. The weird bellhousing is a piece that most if not all of the Indy type cars use. It supports what is refered to as Cosworth Drives. This was a system devolped back in the 60's by Cosworth for the Formula 1 cars which incorporated external pumps for the oil and cooling systems on an engine. They are still used today. Somewhere I have a parts list for the one used on GMs Aurora Indy engine.

Up until a few years ago the Stage2 Buick was used as the spec motor for the Indy Lights series. But it was a NA motor. They were built exclusively by George Montgomery out of Ohio. Yes the same Ohio George that ran Gassers back in the 60's and 70's. Funny how it takes a drag racer to make one of these motors to fast.

 

[aminga]

To bad there isn't a lot on info on the internet as far as Indy Buicks go. Buick dumped more money into the Indy program than they did in the NASCAR motor program. Both supported the Stage2 parts. Pick up a Buick Power Source Manual for some specifics for some of the parts.

One of the more noted names of teams running the Buick was none other than Kenny Bernstein. Yes the TopFuel King Kenny. Anybody remember the lame ass tech clinic from around 90-91 that KB put on at the GS Nationals? And McLaren who did the motor devolpement for the GNX built a lot of these motors. Bruce Allen the ProStock driver did a lot of head porting on these when he worked for McLaren. The weird bellhousing is a piece that most if not all of the Indy type cars use. It supports what is refered to as Cosworth Drives. This was a system devolped back in the 60's by Cosworth for the Formula 1 cars which incorporated external pumps for the oil and cooling systems on an engine. They are still used today. Somewhere I have a parts list for the one used on GMs Aurora Indy engine.

Up until a few years ago the Stage2 Buick was used as the spec motor for the Indy Lights series. But it was a NA motor. They were built exclusively by George Montgomery out of Ohio. Yes the same Ohio George that ran Gassers back in the 60's and 70's. Funny how it takes a drag racer to make one of these motors to fast.

Everyone remembers the Scotty Brayton qualifing in 84 where they set that high speed but they kept it going and even when Buick abandoned the program Menards bought the rights and continued. The few races I watched before they went N/A the V6 had gotten pretty reliable but the Ilmores and others had started making big enough power so the Little 6 was outclassed.


Was still cool to close your eyes and listen you could tell Every Buick V6 when it passed by the sound only.

 

[UNGN]

Scott Brayton took one of his Indy Buick V6's and put it in a Cobra Kit car.

 

[jsta6]

I have a bunch of magazine articles on the indy buicks. There was a lot of write ups in the "autoweek" magazines. Unfortunately, I haven't inventoried the autoweek articles yet. But there was always something about them. There were also a few articles about how one of the buick drivers got caught smuggling a lot of drugs.

I don't have the articles in front of me, but I think the first year when they got the pole it was the transmission that went, not the engine.

Here are some of the articles that I do have inventoried already:
CAR AND DRIVER 4?/84 BUICK - FIRST STOCK-BLOCK-POWERED CAR TO BREAK 200MPH AT INDY
CARS 1 9 8 4? MISSION IMPOSSIBLE = 1984 BUICK RIVIERA INDY PACE CAR
HOT ROD Mar-81 1981 INDY 500 BUICK PACE CAR - SHORT
HOT ROD Aug-85 Popularity Pole: Inside the stock-block Buick V6 the won the pole at Indy. by John Baechtel.
HOT ROD Jan-86 BUICK V-6 MINI INDY, IHRA DRAG CAR, OFF-ROAD
MOTOR TREND Sep-85 BUICK AT INDY
MUSCLECARS summer (june) 85 BUICK SETS THE PACE - BUICK INDY PACE CARS
POPULAR MECHANICS May-84 BUICK INDY 500 V6
POPULAR MECHANICS Sep-84 INTERCOOLED BUICK V6 NEWS; INDY ENGINES
STOCK CAR RACING Oct-85 BUICK AT INDY
SuperAuto Illustrated Jul-86 Cheap Thrills : 1986 Buick Regal Grand National (pix and specs); INDY BUICK, BUICK MODEL
TURBO Jul-86 UNDERSTANDING TURBOCHARGERS, ELECTRONIC CONTROLS PART II; TWIN TURBO RIVIERA INDY PACE CAR

 

[notacarlo]

I found one for sale a couple of months ago in Atlanta. It may still be for sale. I think they wanted 18K for it....or 8K I don't remember.

Turkey baster intake......ooooooooh nice. I want it.