NASCAR race engine specifications?

[Jantrix]

I've decided to use a Monogram Ford V8 from the 1996 #88 T-Bird in a upcoming project. Where can find data on the engine? Displacement, torque, horsepower? I'm sure it's fast as heck, cuz it beat Earnhart that year, or so I've read, but I'd like to know more. Is there a website or other source for that data?

[Force]

NASCAR has had a maximum engine displacement of 358 cui for many years now and you might never really know the true horsepower and torque numbers as most teams who built the engines were very secret about that, but somewhere around 550 to 750 hp depending on track and maybe around 530-550 lbs torque...or even higher.
Back then the No 88 was a Robert Yates team car driven by Dale Jarrett and the engine was most lileky based on a 351 windsor bored up to 358 cui and built by the Yates team wich is defunct since some years, Robert Yates succumbed to cancer some years ago but his son Doug build the Ford FR9 engines the Ford NASCAR teams use today together with Roush (Roush/Yates engines) and that's a totally different engine from what they used back then and they make 800 plus hp but are restriced down depending on track and aero package.

Edited February 20, 2021 by Force

[ZTony8]

Back in the 90s our sports car club got  a tour of some Roush facilities in Livonia, Michigan through the efforts of one of our members who worked there at the time. We happened to be at the dyno facility and Ted Musgrave's Daytona restrictor plate engine was being tested after the race. I was looking over the dyno operator's shoulder and saw the best figures- 432 horsepower, 393 pound feet of torque.

[Jantrix]

Thanks guys. That's all I needed.