... I think there's a corvette motor in my cuda.

It looks like my Mopar 383, except looks like an electric water pump setup. Racers use that to rid a little "parasitic load". Isn't "electric assist" a slippery path to electric cars which will soon dominate drag racing once they figure out to install just enough batteries to make it 1/4 mile. Anyway, you can't use that for daily driving, and make sure the belt is on before you even run the engine the first time.