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Engine Shop and Dyno Cell

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Lake Speed Shows Us His Backyard 1980s NASCAR Race Shop! (AND The Go Kart That Beat Ayrton Senna)

What happens here

Lake Speed leads the group to the engine shop, highlighting various parts and tools, including transmission parts, crankshafts, and other engine components. He describes the meticulous process of grinding cylinder heads by hand before the advent of CNC machines. He then points out an old-school Bilstein shock from his 1983 Purex car, comparing it to a modern Formula suspension shock. Finally, they reach the dyno cell, where engines are tested. He mentions a goal to refresh an old Ford engine to see its performance with modern components.

Goal: Explore the engine building area and dynamic testing capabilities.

Tools and materials

  • Bilstein Shock Bilstein — Suspension system
  • Crankshafts N/A — Building and maintaining engines
  • Cylinder Heads Brodix — Building and maintaining engines
  • Engine Hoist N/A — Lifting and moving engines
  • Formula Suspension Shock Monroe — Modern suspension system
  • Transmission Parts Jerico — Building and maintaining transmissions

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get more seat time and learn more about the chassis and stuff running out there." And he said, "When you're not running, I'll drive it." So, he ran it some and I drove some and that was uh that was part of the education for me to learn about chassis stuff, too, was just working on the cars. That's a ASA style car like same kind of that Mark Martin and Rusty all these guys ran back then. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Well, let's get back over here where where the business was around this way. Give you an idea how it all flowed at work. And how how similar does coming in here look as it was when you were younger? Like does this take you back coming in here? Like Yeah. Yeah, it it does. You know, it was it was different. Obviously, there was surface plate back here where that big table is next to the tractor. There was no surface plate. We didn't have no surface plate. No, not that one. But the one for the chassis. Oh, yeah. That was a big underneath this beam was where the cars were the frames and everything were built. If you doing front clip, rear clip, whatever's going on, total chassis, whatever. There was a jig underneath that thing there and that's where the car went. That big table over there where they actually built the front front clips and the rear clips. Put all the fabrication stuff and steel and everything was back here. So you basically did all the fab work from from this beam this this way. That's why you have curtains hanging right there. Oh, so keep the the dust down. Keep most all the nasty stuff was back here. This is where Yeah, heavy fab was back here. Heavy fabrication stuff was done there. Then you move to the between this beam and that beam. This was all the minor stuff that happened in this area here. And then the then there was another curtain that was pulled from that beam over and then the finished the finish work was done over there and then out the door. Yeah, there wasn't a setup plate. There were four painted spots on the floor that was a level spot and you set it up with strings and levels over on there. You just made sure. Was this one of those squares here? No. No. No. They were over there by the front door. Oh, yeah. What are these things? Uh, this was see it easier. This is one of my favorite cars. This car was run as an intermediate car and came close to winning a bunch of races. Then when after after I'm out of stock cars and been out of stock cars for several years, uh a friend of mine introduced me to vintage stock…

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