Engine Building Area and Vintage Tools

what's all this um machinery over here like this pile of old headers of was that historical significance engine hot bench for running engines like uh not necessarily a dyno but we often call them hot benches where you can just run an engine and fine-tune the carburetor anytime and whatnot just just to make sure everything's gonna behave properly before you stuff it in the car get a heat cycle in and re-torque the heads that stuff yeah yeah that sort of thing and a lot of old original equipment this is a rio deca block so you set blocks up and your fly cutter cuts to surfaces you know how many nascar races had engines go through here hey this is an original piece and that book i showed you this is in it really feature a guy running this machine in the book really yeah and a lot of what this is engine building components just old school equipment for doing the motors we've had some 427 stuff in stock for the cars we build you know a lot of guys that know what they're know their stuff we'll see this is a uh saddle or 427 saddle or screw in freeze plugs cross bolted mains okay you actually got a bolt that goes