Lake Speed's Forgotten NASCAR Engine is READY TO RIP! 90's Ford C3 with Modern Tech Dyno Test 

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On behalf of Dad and myself, we can’t thank everyone enough for all the support. We are overwhelmed by all excitement and encouragement. We can’t wait to get Dad back on the track!

Lake jr's knowledge and ability to explain it while being so excited is gold.

I hope you all like this intro it took me over 2 hours to make it 😂

You can tell Lake Jr is just proud as hell to be able to help you out and make his dad's day. Fine job sir

Lake saying screw the small track i want to haul as* is priceless. He probably went home and dug a fire suit out of mothballs, washed it and shined his helmet. Checked the forecast for good weather . Ordered a new set of tires.

I forgot to mention in my first comment: I can hardly wait to see Lake Speed driving his race car flat out with this refurbished/updated/original engine!!!

You was born 30 yrs too late. I can remember living near 5 nascar shops not 1 near where they all are now. Some were around Charlotte but not all. In 98 I can remember hearing a car practicing at Greenville p track in the middle of a week day near my work. But this one sounded different, so we drove the 1/2 mile to see Jeff Gordon making some test laps for Martinsville. Stuff like that happened all the time. I lived across the road In traveler's rest sc 1986.. from the quaker state Ricky rudd driver.. Buick team. When I was a teen I lived down the road from the Skoal bandit shop Asheville NC . Think Leo Jackson? owned it then. Both buildings in SC and Asheville NC still there. It's sad what nascar has come to. And sheet metal? Just go grab it out of the dumpster.. nobody cared 😂 different times you and Logan would have absolutely loved the 80s God bless you two..

I love the historical content of it no matter if it's long or short am looking forward to see lake speed run one more time with a big smile on his face

You and Lake's son are knocking it out of the park in this video series. Can't wait to see the results!

Just finished watching qualifying for the Clash, and now this. What a great day :) Can't wait to see Lake wheel that thing again!

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it…..keep it going, your onto something!

We can’t wait for this one!

You two just keep doing what you're doing.. there's no one better at showing people the real history of nascar.without what you do it lost forever.lake Speed was a bad ass privateer. He did more with less than 75% of the entire field and . Lake Jr. Is 1 of a kind . VERY VERY SMART MAN

Great video guys! Keep on rolling with this content. I think you ve hit on something that alot of long time Nascar fans, and race fans in general, love to see. Nostalgia. With the help of guys like Larry Mc Clure, Lake Sr. and Jr., and all of the other car owners, drivers, and mechanics, you have brought both insight and entertainment to many. Learning from the past is the key to living in the present. Keep it up!

Lake Speed and his son are just awesome!! I raced Karts back in the 70's and Lake was our hero. This has been a great series.

This is the best "Nascar" series done in many years. Fantastic video as well as the rest of them. You two are setting a new standard. The editing keeps getting better and your questions and commentary are excellent as well as knowing when to just listen. Really great job on this and subject matter is riveting. Cannot wait to see Lake run this car! Lake Jr. should have his own show. Love listening and learning all this. :)

Not only do you two have one of the most underrated RU-vid channel, you embody the old school, down home way that Nascar used to be. You also gave the sexiest hat model!. 😁👍

My favorite smell is vp108 and synthetic 2 stroke oil. It has to be below freezing air temperatures though for it to smell sweet. The vp108 through a 4 stroke is pretty good though. As for engine oil, there is meeting api specs, and there is exceeding them. The penzoil platinum is one of many that truly exceed the specifications. Amsoil and mobile 1 are others. In my non racing, but non easy use gas applications I use Walmart synthetic. It’s quality and cheap.

Very interested in they cylinder wall treatment.

I appreciate you guys putting together the videos in this series with Lake’s car. Cool stuff!

This was by far one of my most favorite documented rebuild/resto series. So much great information and a lot of great people. It's insane how a few little tricks applied to some old school parts can transform an engine in a big way. I hope you do another series like this and you absolutely have to document Lake Speed at VIR testing out this rocket engine. Even put a simple timing app on a phone in the car to record the MPH he gets up to.

I like the fact that they talk to you like normal people and they don't look at your funny when you ask questions because honestly some of these people can be pretty arrogant like you should know it already why would you be there if you knew it already..the Speed guys Are good group of people I can tell it just by how they respond to your questions! Great Video

VP C16 smells the best to me! Man this content is awesome. I love all the people that’s involved with this, seeing them excited about it, seeing the insides of it! The best part of it though is seeing the spark in Lake Sr! Thanks for the videos!

I sure hope you guys are going all the way with this series. To the reinstallation of the motor to Lake Speed out on the racetrack that would be awesome to see. You guys rock keep it up !!!! Love seeing the history of Nascar.

Keep up the good work.Looking Forward to watching,I know I will enjoy it before I ever watch it.

The amount of masters of their trades showing and sharing on this project is the best part of all.

Thanks again for great content. Very interesting.

Heck ya. Going to be interesting to see the difference.

I was a fan of Lake in the 60's when he was Champion kart racer. Wonderful to follow him through Stock Car career. Seeing and hearing him and his family now is a hoot. Thank you so much.

My dad was big into Nascar and I loved it too... but I don't follow the modern Nascar at all... these legends made racing and I will always love your videos... I don't care what format you use I will still watch them... what ever is more fun for you works for me.. you gotta enjoy the videos or they aren't as good for us... your excitement is what makes the video perfect....

I am not new and love your content and would watch whole videos, but the jump cuts/editing honestly made it so much better for me. I get that some videos are meant for the more in depth convo's and tidbits, but this one was done great still giving us some of that, but going through a lot of elapsed time and still delivering

Really enjoyed this one. The API 20 rating mentioned earlier isn’t all encompassing though. I’m a staunch believer of Pennzoil and have been for 30 years. I do have a couple of things to add to the importance of using the correct oil that you or someone on the channel may not be aware of. The gig you made about a lawnmower blowing up goes along with what I’m talking about. For most engines built since around the mid to late 80’s until present these newer oils are fine,as the newer recipes used in oil today have a lower content of zinc in the mixture. This is fine for roller camshafts and the engines with narrower ring packages. Older engines that employ flat tappet camshafts and the wider ring packs rely more heavily on oils with higher zinc concentrations. The zinc for lack of a better way to explain it creates a coating to all of the valleys and peaks similar to what you learned in the ring honing episode for the cylinders. That microscopic layer is imperative to the longevity of flat tappet camshafts and lifters because of the lubricity properties of zinc especially on startup and break in. I’ve been dragged into more than one engine repair on a non roller cam setup due to my buddies swapping in a cam and trying to use synthetic oil while also having higher spring pressures along with improper break in procedure. My point is this, the new oils are excellent and do an excellent job for the engines utilizing newer technology. The new oils however aren’t all encompassing. For people who aren’t sure what to use they need to do some research on their setup and speak to individuals who are actually knowledgeable about such things. Talk to the guys at a local machine shop or two instead of the kid at the auto supply who can’t make change but can look things up on the store computer. My apologies for being so long winded, I grew up around a family owned automotive garage that has been passed down from my great grandfather that was big enough that we had our own machine shop and learned to grind valves,seats and knurl guides before the age of 10. Love the channel and what you’re doing. Stapleton, if this is a bit much for the channel or RU-vid I’ll understand completely if you need to delete it, I almost didn’t type any of it but felt obligated to at least make an attempt at a helpful tidbit. Anyway keep up the great work and don’t lash anymore valvetrains with paper. 👍

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!! The content of all your NASCAR engine videos is UNBELIEVABLE, content of how nascar motors really work. And how Speeds head does not EXPLODE!!! With that stuff in there is beyond me. NOW you have to get Lake and Rusty To VIR and spend a day there to see who can put down the BEST TIME!!! THANKS for the series!!!!

I love the dyno sounds. Waren Johnson's race shop used to be about a mile from my house and I absolutely loved when they were testing engines.

We had an engine builder one time for our late model and he thought we needed valve lash caps because of some spec he had learned. I guess the book said to use them. Well, some of those caps came off and we dropped a valve first race of the season. Oh well, guess the engine builder learned something from that experience.

So awesome to see this engine build!!! Lake Speed and his son are both bad ass!!

This was a great series of videos man! We need to get Lake Speed in the SRX series now!!!

Great video guys! I'm always on the edge of my seat, especially for these Lake Speed vids. My name is Lake too and I've always been into racing. Growing up in Indy it sorta came with the territory. For years I've heard "There's a NASCAR racer named Lake, ya know." Your videos have been such an incredible history lesson of his career. Thank you so much!

Thanks Mitch, Miss Logan and everyone else involved with filming and editing of this video

Can’t wait!

Can't wait to see it run and put in a car

Can't wait to see Lake run that engine 👍

The format made it a bit easier to digest. But that's just me. Yall are killing it.

I worked in a machine shop and I would love it when customers would bring in old NASCAR engines in for machining. We would turn them into dirt track late model engines. They would make around 700-800 HP after we were done!

Great to see all this development. Keep these comin'.

Great job on these engine videos of lake speed engine. Would love to see lake speed driving his car around the track again with this engine. Love all these videos you guys do. Even the old race shops. Your friend David Hiatte from Missouri

Thankyou so much for putting a smile on lake and his boys face. He was my favorite driver next to Ernie Irvin back In his heyday! Thanks Stape

Excellent video, was out of town all day yesterday so just now getting this in my videos! Here with you all a day late but here just the same, very interesting tech video, and it's sure appreciated to know that you both went to a lot of effort to produce this and other videos for us to view! LMAO on setting solid lifters, have had similar experiences with an LS6 454 engine in a boat that ran much better when we set the lash hot instead of ice cold. It's all about learning! Thank you & Logan for this cool video!

That was AWESOME! Can't wait to see Lake get on the track and mash on it. Lake Jr is a cool customer and so damn smart. You know Lake Sr is a proud Papa. You guys are killing it with these videos. You and Logan keep doing what you're doing!

Cant wait guys. I have what I believe is a Dorton built 18deg Chev NASCAR engine that has sat new for over 20 years as well. Only done dyno time and was then pulled apart. Once you guys are finished I want to reach out and see if I can get some advice on doing the same to my engine. It will go back into a 95 Hutch built Monte Carlo NASCAR which Lake Speed Snr saw race when he was in Australia commentating back in 99.

YES! It is long past time for it to rip itnon the track again😁👍

Watching the guys building up the heads was great. The muscle memory on display was real ! I have really enjoyed this series and your channel in general. Love from the UK

Great job on the intro. The whole series with lake and his son has been fantastic! Can't wait to see the car going down the track.

This was one of the coolest and most insightful video series I've ever seen on the details of the cup engines from the 90s. As a huge Ford fan, this was awesome to see. Have the Speeds involved throughout the process made it even better. Thanks for all of the work that went into this.

Would love to go to VIR and hang out with y'all. To see the look on Lake Speed's face there would be priceless.

I can't imagine finding a more fitting pair to represent your vision of Golden Age to Modern Technology than Lake Sr & Jr. The Speeds are truly examples of the high caliber of people in Motorsports and life in general. I hope you are able to show us the on-track results of everyone's hard work. This has been a great series and I have enjoyed every step of the way. Thanks

I can’t wait for this one!

Great video and the new format is very good. I've done my share of engines on the dyno and never get enough of it! and Lake is spot on when he says that these machines have made engine building a science today as we can see everything we do.

Hey tell Lake jr. that I really enjoyed his recent article in Hotrod magazine. I know writing tech articles isn’t his day job, but he’s really good at it. I’m a big fan of Stapleton42. Thanks for the 90s content- that’s when I started following NASCAR. Keep it up!!!

Here from the live chat. awesome video so far cant wait to see it pull

Lake is a pure legend and still humble. That’s what you call greatnesses and an og gentleman 🤷‍♂️. Also Lake jr. Realizes this is a big part of him. He loves and respects his father and is clearly proud to be part of this and proud of who his father is. It’s touching to see this stuff being so intertwined in a great family.

You are producing your best content of all time. When I get back to work here after I get my knee replaced I'll be buying a bunch of your stuff. You guys are doing a really good job I love the old NASCAR stuff being a 55 year old man that loves NASCAR stuff it's really great to see you guys grow the shop looks great remember I offered you a bunch of shop tools a long time ago. You guys are doing great I'm proud of you both and you look very happy together and that's a beautiful thing. Keep up the good work I love all the videos this one was exceptionally good because you did pop around a little bit and bring an old clip so I thought that was super educational and gave the video a lot of content and updates really build up to the horsepower numbers at the end. Nice job

I enjoy the jump cuts, but I also really enjoy the full scoop of old knowledge and seeing the history

Lake Speed is a real good driver.

I have been following the Lake Speed engine build. You have assembled the most complete series I have ever seen. Lake Speed Sr and Jr are awesome. I could listen to Jr break down a race engine in every detail for hours. He is the best I have seen. That being said I am not a big NASCAR guy more a NHRA fan. Still I soak up the knowledge. Congratulations on a great series.

Worth the wait to see this video. 300+ HP gain from where it was to now is amazing. Can't wait to see it in the car and making laps somewhere, it's going to be an animal.

IMHO don't worry about what the viewers want. Keep doing what you want. The views and subs will come because of your creativity and content. You will never give everybody what they want. I rarely like videos longer than 15 or 20 minutes. However, yours are the exception, so again, you're doing something right.

This engine sounded so much better than the other one on the dyno! Impressive numbers on the dyno from now to back when it was rebuilt. Great series--Thanks!!!!

Dennis Borem is the man! Long time Lake Speed fan too! 🏁🏁🏁

Great job, love the history you are documenting. Keep up the great work.

The smirk on the seasoned Lake Speed face when the final numbers were stated by Jr has to be worth the price of production! Love this production format btw.

I’ve been watching you since you started and I think you’ve done a great job separating your channel from just a standard ls built channel into an awesome nascar history/tech channel!! Both of you are great!!

Yes you nailed it. Love the info input. More input as a retired ASE Technician and Muscle car dirt track racer use to be from the 70s through the twenty twenties I hope thanks alot folks.

Doing great Mitch & Logan. Enjoyed the video and the new format. Cheers from the UK

I am an old guy. I have an attention span that is never wavering. You do what you need to build your audience. I will always watch to he end! Old guys like me are very loyal……go get them youngens they are your long term future, do what you need to sign them up!

87 hp from basically the same engine with some modern refinements, on a NATURALLY ASPIRATED, still single carb engine, still the same block, crank, rods, heads, even rockers....simply one word for it....FANTASTIC !!

I've been excitedly waiting for this video for awhile, and it did not disappoint. It's going to be great to see Lake ripping up VIR. Have you convinced him to run an x pipe on the car this engine is going in?

This was a cool video father and son love for the sport is compelling thanks for sharing 👍

Love your content. I’ve been around for years, can’t wait for the Escalade to come back out. The history is cool, the education is cool. I enjoy the new format of moving the videos along a little faster. 30 minute videos is kind of my sweet spot. Too much longer and I can’t sit still that long.

That was a really good video I like that format. Lots and lots of really good information technical enough to explain what’s really going on but simple enough to understand in Layman’s terms🎉

Been waiting for this one! It was worth the wait! Now I can't wait for Lake to get out on VIR! This project is such a treat! Thanks for doing this!

Well broski I finally got a chance to finish it, and ya absolutely Killed it. Doing an amazing job, keep on keepin on brother bear 🤙🐼🤙

Great job! Love the info about all the glory days of NASCAR!!!! Keep up the great work!!

Yay!!! Been waiting for this for a while now 😃😁

Love hearing all the nascar stories and tech from back in the day. Also love hearing stories from those who made nascar and racing possible. Engine builders, chassis fabricators, etc .. keep going plenty of content still out there

Great job guys

I love the update and Lake Speed is just a great guy and obviously raised a great son. It's a joy to watch your videos. Keep it up.

More dinner time Nascar treats, nice! :)

Been a Lake Speed fan for many years . Lake always got the most out of the least. Would have been interesting to see what he could have accomplished with a premium ride.

Keep this stuff coming!! Awesome series!! As a long time Lake Speed fan from way back , I can't wait to see Lake tearing it up at VIR in a legendary car with a legendary wheel man!! Thank you guys so much for sharing this!!!

Just seeing the look on Lake Speeds Eyes was awesome. I hope you get to see him run a lap at VIR.

Very kewl. Loved to video about the evolution of the Ford Nascar engines. Enjoy it folks. Hybrids and electrics are coming. No way around it.

Even knowing nothing about building an engine, this is my new favorite series so far. Loved the Richard Petty series, but hearing that engine screaming again is awesome. Can't wait to see Lake running it. I like the new format. Hits all the high points, makes the video smoother, and lets you put out separate videos with even more specific content (like the carb info you said would be it's own thing). Thanks for what yall do.

That's awesome

So good , I don’t mind the new format at all , I like the nitty gritty when a old feller is telling his stories . But something like this wrap up video the small jump through scenes were ideal

Almost 70,I have so many great memories of NASCAR & the legends from the mid 60's to the early 2000's! It was so great to see the teams switching to Fords back then! Junior,Penske,Lake & others,it really made me feel good! Bless all the independents, with their one car teams,with less funding than the big multi car teams! Always pulled a little harder for them to do well! Best of luck to y'all!❤🏁

Love the videos keep them coming I enjoy every video you all have done. Keep being the genuine down to earth people that you are please

Just watched the segment on Lake Sr talking about leading Talledega. I believe this race was in 1980 and also this is the motor that came from a shop at the end of a dirt road. I helped build this engine as I was working for Bobby Brown then. Also sometimes when your father would pick these engines up he would stay over at my house so he wouldn’t have to drive back to Jackson so late at night. Love these stories as y’all have brought them back to life.

I thought the editing was good on this one. You still pick out the parts people want to hear and distill it down further. I'm happy either way, best to the both of you!