Carburetor and Distributor Tuning

to True racing components the other thing obviously you've seen a carburetor and you're seeing a distributor spark plug wires that was the the tuning devices back in the day when you got to the track you'd follow your weather station and you would change jets in the carburetor and air bleeds as you see up top you would change quarters for the drivability and the driver would step into the throttle he wanted a certain feel that you would really identify with the driver and then obviously you'd Advance a timing as needed for engine performance then they came in the Advent of cooling down the radiators big cooling mechanisms large water tanks were used to begin with but then they had these machines that would circulate the water through a series of Radiators and big water tanks so then we were working on how to tune the engine for the cool down and our two lap run you know to make you qualify on that Port the other thing back in the day if you come to the rear of the engine magnesium Bell housings a lot of times teams that have magnesium Bell housings and maggies and valve covers these are aluminum but the Magnesium parts were because of lightweight and heat dissipation obviously very prone to flammability when they fire flash off they do not go out so and they put off a tremendous amount of heat so through some situations that the track NASCAR mandated a safety rule to convert all the Magnesium parts to aluminum I think at one point we even had magnesium intake manifolds I think somewhere along the line I heard the story of Ernie Elliott trying to make a set of magnesium cylinder in but again um the uh the C3 engine was very powerful for its day especially with the Robert Yates ports and intakes is that where the the term