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You are so right, you also need to heat the oil before you build pressure, those things are very much like F1 and Indy car in terms of clearances, do it wrong and you ruin your engine. Ernie was never in the same league as Robert Yates or even Roush when they were all building separately. He got his reputation from the time they were running Clevelands in the narrow T-birds that had a leg up on everybody as did Bill, on an even playing field they weren't that good. I would highly doubt 860 on a calibrated dyno and yes, you can bet there are no really up to date parts in that engine. I saw one of the used Yates Pre FR9 Ford engines on a dyno a couple of months ago it it was around 830 with a cam you could not drive on the street.
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With the engine rules NASCAR has in place,one is limited on what can be done with the cam/heads, without NASCAR rules these engines are very capable of a lot more power...900+hp is easy......
With that said, a guy here bought on older Roush engine,supposedly rebuilt with only dyno time on it,put it in a road race Mustang and is he is very disappointed with it.....Doesn't want to idle at anything less than 1500 rpms, and doesn't want to run under any load at less than 2500 rpms without bucking and spitting....these engines are built to run in the 5500 to 9000 rpm range, anything else, they just don't work very well......
David