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Interior Safety, Ernie Irvan's Engine Parts, and Future Plans

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The Car That Changed NASCAR: Sterling Marlin's Crazy Sounding 1995 Daytona 500 Winning Monte Carlo!

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The hosts delve further into the car's interior, specifically discussing the confined space and the small window size, which would make exiting the car quickly difficult. They also confirm the absence of a window net or any head and neck restraint device (HANS device) in that era. The segment wraps up by showcasing engine heads and an intake manifold from Ernie Irvan's 1991 Daytona 500 winning car, hinting at future videos to explain how those components were engineered. The host expresses a desire to prepare Sterling Marlin's car to run again and have Marlin himself start it, inviting viewer feedback.

Goal: Understand interior safety features (or lack thereof) and glimpse future content related to engine technology.

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has ever heard of people doing that because if they had the mandated spring rate you move the axle back and then it gets a little bit more leverage on there is that ball valve still in here it's not but you now you mentioned the window look at the wind on this one that one there this car in that car versus the the downforce car yeah yeah the windows like i don't know if i can fit through that window i can fit through that window so you can fit through this window i don't know like i don't know how your helmet would fit through this window getting like if you had to get out of the car quickly you'd have not a whole lot of room for error so they didn't have to worry about that yeah that's true but all this this is just like how that kind of fans in to be flat that's just really neat yeah all aerodynamic tricks right here see all that right there rolls and this is where the window net would have clamped in right yeah all right go ahead you know how to do it one foot second foot slide in right foot okay next one and yeah there's no way i could fit in there i get stuck halfway in the car because my body would not fit in that seat then bobby because they were black and hot what did bobby hamilton say that caused you to paint them gray inside he said they were so hot they were hotter inside he didn't like it so then he started did you tell him that you can't hide things in great pains easily yeah he didn't care he said he was complaining he said it's not accelerating you know when you have to let off over run said what do you mean let off you're not supposed to let off in that car keep it wide open that's what we told all of our drivers so bob didn't complain about that anymore i asked him if the car ran and he said it would but they've never started it since they've restored it 15 years ago so it has no oil in it it probably need to be you know carburetor might need to be cleaned out or primed or something basically it was not ready to start on the spot but if we could get sterling to go there we could get it ready to start and have him start it if that's something you'd like to see leave a comment maybe go comment on sterling's facebook pages if he's still out there racing you know like let's make this happen i think it'd be awesome to hear that car and to have it fire for the first time since talladega 1996 and have him be the one sitting there poking the button would be pretty special we also went to larry's house where he pulled out the cylinder heads and…

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