Examining IROC Engine Components

to be there what is this thing on the stand right now so this is a an IROC motor that uh Ray over and have to restoring the car and uh I believe from Ray I may have this date wrong but it was around 1979 is the last thing time this car this engine has raced it was an IROC series then it ran a Riverside Ray could correct me on this 79 or 80. and this engine is actually in the car that Daryl won the race with so it's kind of a time capsule for us it hadn't been taken like rebuilt since then we thought well usually engines you know you get them they've been rebuilt 10 times well this one still had the the bearings dated from that year and all the associated parts were pretty much period correct did you reuse all those we had to replace the crank because the one in it is here it had a crack in it and the main Journal had a crack in it the rods are still the same rods it was a Corolla rod from from the late 70s so Pandora in great shape like Paul you just had to go over size on The Wristband yes with the engine same cylinder heads same intake um that Edelbrock intake it it almost it predates me I was a I was a teenager at that time so um that was probably one of the real early single plane edelbrocks like that are these the bearings from it they are yeah but these are like a yeah where does it have the date on there I remember seeing it yeah yeah you look back here you can see 779 sure yep 779 yeah that's uh that's pretty special yeah it is that was when my dad graduated high school somebody put that engine together these things came from traco originally it's correct what was um what were they known for uh Draco did a lot of road racing they did a lot of projects they did stuff with General Motors looks good Paul yeah it should be it turns over and I saved your decal there you go he was peeling oh there you go I don't know for how long it saved but there's a little respiration tip yeah I was gonna use silicone because that might have even held better what was it Set It Off 292 castings is that what they were using in NASCAR back then too yep about the best head you were people are using these have had some Port work done we have to remember this engine wasn't wasn't necessarily developed to make all-out Power what they were all just wanted to be the same so they had a I don't know what the horsepower spec but they had us back whether it was 550 horsepower somewhere in that area interesting I wonder how close it'll be to that's back now like it'll it'll be…