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Project Introduction and Initial Observation

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This NASCAR Engine Was Built 20 Years Ago and NEVER Used! How Much Power Has It Lost? (Ford C3)

What happens here

The video opens with a brief clip of an engine running on a dyno. The host then introduces the project, explaining that they are about to dyno test a Ford racing engine that has been sitting for 20 years. He highlights a previous engine that lost significant horsepower, attributing it to rust in the cylinders. The current engine also shows visible rust inside the cylinders, which will be investigated.

Goal: Introduce the engine, its history, and the project's goal of performance analysis and teardown.

Tools and materials

  • Engine Dyno — To measure engine horsepower and torque
  • Ford Racing Engine — The primary subject of the project

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was scary how much rust was in these cylinders ah that's disgusting you remember how there were two engines in Lake speed's garage well we showed you the refresh of the first one which was a used engine the second one he had rebuilt 20 years ago and it just sat we were about to dyno that and find out what it does with Lake Jr the Curiosity Mitchell it can't resist it it's like okay the other one was down you know 200 horsepower from where the dyno sheet said when we died last summer we could never really figure out what that Smoking Gun was just sitting is that what did it we know we found some Rust and some things here and there so once you pick up 300 horsepower you're like oh my God I have to have an answer and we had that other one sitting on there in the floor and it's like okay it made the same power essentially as the other engine 20 years ago we have a Dyno we have an engine let's put it back in the exact same Dyno and let Venice do his magic again and see what happens through a refresh perspective it would be kind of fun to refresh this engine do everything we did before except no new cam no new valve springs leave the valve train part of it out see what just updating the heads and the manifold the hone and the Pistons and the Rings what does that do by itself how much is due to what we don't know yeah this will give us a little bit of an idea of what we can find out you take out the biggest what is probably on paper the biggest gain is the cam specs oh yeah when Billy did the camera you saw there was a ton more lift right so like that's for certainly you know a ton of it there's no doubt and it's cool that it's the same Dino as the Baseline test on the other one too so there's no variable there should we tell them what we saw but wait we need to do this though when the video is running and you see these wailing around this is just little frayed edges it's not arcing you know how many comments I answered about that oh you're sparked up on the valve cover oh I still I still get that one too nope this is these are really old it was scary how much rust was in these cylinders so this is going to be really interesting to see because we pulled pulled it out and we fogged it down a couple weeks ago I was horrified how much rust was in here did we look inside the other one first no we never did we never looked in there no we have no idea what it was like so we don't know if the Rings were filing that rust off and it was just gone by the time we tore it…

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