Advanced Engine & Aerodynamic Modifications

this car they tore us down in daytona it's firecracker race we had a line suffering through the door online hello lines so we could check turn it on and head off yeah yeah so we can pull back or let it or not pull back yeah had an open closed lever in the floor down there what was that for why would you want that build it more vacuum huh set more oil keep oil sucked out of the engine that was more power was that something for qualifying or during the race so how did how did that work like situationally what was that we ran into race we we had not on this car but prior to this they outlawed it on this car we had an oil pump that run off the rear end instead of being a single stage oil pump you know that would circulate the oil right through the cooler we had like a five-stage one five-stage oil pump and we sucked the oil out of the oil pan and we got away with it uh for a couple years and uh they caught us well we cut it cut one of the oil lines and we started licking oil so they outlawed it after that so you were the engine's oil pump was driven off the rear end not the engine both both so when you were at speed you would you had another one that would pull more vacuum on the engine right interesting yep and there was a ball valve that the driver could reach reach they found that and they said oh we've caught what they've been doing gary nelson got in there with his tie in his suit and then they determined well it's nothing anyway so they thought that's what you were doing but yeah was it just one that was a big deal it helped us a little bit but it wasn't a big deal he didn't know how much it helped so there was no it wasn't like a big deal there's a bunch of little things a bunch of little things you have to pay attention to detail we worked on these cars 12 months out of the year we worked after the last race from daylight to dark on restrictor plate motors we had one nasa engineer ex nasa engineer from up here in blithfield that helped us um okay our intake manifold did you ever run these heads again after daytona yeah like did it did this did this in here hurt power if it didn't have a plate what was going on with the intake manifold well we just said some design changes inside uh that helped it changed the signal to the carburetor you had to have the right oil pan you had to have the right scraper in the engine you know she bolted on before the oil pan to keep the oil from you wanted to rob that engine of all the oil that was splashing around you…