An El Camino full of Questions

One thousand cars sir you have a thousand cars I don't think I'd attempt to try this

stunt or we owe this horsepower to Uncle Sam's too big a car like I put my beer belly on

it you can't immediately tell somebody how many cars you have you'll really give those

up in a yuffy something to think about stay on the bar don't go off the bar with your Bronco

1980 Volvo horns what's right man's coolant he's like oh I thought I'd be small it's for a

small car and oh yeah but it's still an automatic transmission they're never gonna be light it's

definitely gonna have to crash starting off with Brad by another car that's the west

internet she knows this is Nigerian oil print I also wish you drove a tan Camry anyways

that's a very horrible podcast content very inside job they love to be driven hard

oh do auto off topic how goes it Brad it goes wonderful Andrew yeah we are back

with another episode as much as I'll say yeah we actually took some questions for this episode

and it had been a minute since we've done a question a listener question episode so we

presented that to the listeners I would say even more than a minute like even in the slang term

maybe it wasn't it's been an hour it's been a few minutes for sure if not an hour it's been a

long time we have not done a question episode in quite some time so I figured it was due the

only issue is to further my rant last week about Instagram and Facebook and algorithms it's we

don't post enough on the auto off topic pages to get any traction with these questions so thankfully

we did get eight or nine questions so we do have something but it's hard to it's hard to get

questions without paying for promotion when you have a page that's flagged as a business even

if your business isn't a money-making business but it is what it is I do have to thank you actually

because after podcast last week you did tell me how to you instructed me how you fixed your

Instagram algorithm for what you're seeing anyway and I didn't know it was possible to do that and

I've had the most pleasurable Instagram experience the past week where I'm not seeing a bunch of

stuff I don't want to see and my page has gone back to mostly just the car content that I want so

I gotta work for that yeah you're gonna curate that feed well I hear you the feed but the problem

was all the suggested stuff that was coming to me that I was not curated in any way shape

or form other than by other people who I follow their algorithms pushing it towards me so thankfully

that has gone and my only annoyance now is when somebody reposts something I still see it which

I don't know why that's an option now but it is apparently an option yeah you gotta you know you

gotta look at your feeds are like gardens and you to keep them weeded and pruned to keep the way

you want otherwise they get unruly or other people take them over and then you get fed stuff you

don't want well that's what was happening and it was making me it was causing me anger during the

day because I'm seeing things like I tried to you know we don't talk about politics in this

podcast or we're gonna talk about it now and I try to avoid that when I'm scrolling through Instagram

looking for pictures of cars that's what I enjoy looking at but then I get fed content that makes

me angry and it feeds the anger machine which is what social media seems to have gone to be

nowadays right anger cells and I don't want to be angry all day I just want to get cars like

there's a time and a place for things and it used to be we'd subscribe to four or five different

car magazines and the substitute for that how is scrolling through Instagram so that's what I

want to do I want to see car stuff and it's thanks to your your little advice there I've gotten back

to a lot better of that and I only see things that I I choose to see so much better much better

can't do anything about the ads though but as well as anyway where are we going listener

questions is that what we're talking about well why don't we do if you've got some project

updates first and we'll talk NASCAR because you actually went to the race so I did go through

race it was an excellent time to yeah project updates I have one quick one I didn't do any

work at all I paid somebody to work on my car which is always it's always like a fear I guess

like you don't want the wrong thing to happen you don't want the person to do the thing you

didn't ask him to do or damage the car or tell you that you're crazy and you can't do what you

want to do but thankfully it worked out very well I lack two things to weld here in the garage

one of which is you know the skill to be a welder I'm not a welder and the other one is a weld a

welder so I have not nor the skilled with the equipment to weld here in the garage so at this

moment in time until I purchase some equipment and learn I guess not perfect but get better at

welding I will anytime anytime I need something welded I will still be

pushing that off to somebody else so I had the exhaust fixed in the record I think I talked

about having it done last week but now it's actually done and there's a exhaust shop around

the corner from me called big gyms not roast beef just exhaust um that's a very north shore

joke for north shore people who know that most roast beef places are called big gyms um yeah

big gyms roast beef yeah there we go big gyms custom exhaust in north phoenix I will highly

recommend them I've known about them in the past I've never personally used them for my

personal cars but a shop I used to work at used them often for little exhaust repairs

and I know he does full custom exhausts and he's okay working on non-factory stuff and he was

excited to get it in there and get it worked on and he put it up in the air he went through the

whole car and he called me and he said okay this exhaust is obviously custom which we knew going

into it and I told him that I had a time yeah he said it's way too big for the car I said yep

yes it's probably about a three inch exhaust um he went through the exhaust and he said the exhaust

is too big it doesn't really fit I'm gonna do my best to make it fit he said the problems you're

having with the exhaust are twofold he said one it looks like it was an aftermarket kit not like

a custom built for the car and it's all slip bits and you and the u-joint bolts so the u-bolts

mm-hmm and it has a couple of hangers on it that don't seem like they were well thought out

and as you drive the car they probably vibrated and they cracked and fell off he said so the problem

is this was probably done to be a bolt-on kit and they probably used factory hanger locations

but with the exercise of the exhaust it will never stay using those locations especially with the

slip fit joints instead of being welded because what will happen is different pieces of the pipe

will move and then it will put extra strain in other areas and it will crack he said so you

have a couple issues with that he says number one I need to make some new mounts number two he goes

I'd like to weld up where the slip bits are so that no longer slip fit and they have a

welded connection so that will make the whole exhaust stronger and less likely to fail in the

future to which I said yeah I mean that sounds a great idea so let's do it um the exhaust is

three inches from the turbo back so it's definitely a very free flowing exhaust system and this car

if you slap the new turbo on it would probably make a ton of power so that'd be cool but that's

for the next owner to take care of so he added a couple hangers one in the middle of the car at

the back of the transmission and one at the back of the car by the rear subframe he tucked the exhaust

up the best he could it still hangs a little bit low in the front but not to the point that it

scrapes anymore so that's good um and he took and he welded where the slip bits were he took the

u bolts off and he welded it around like a you know full custom style exhaust system on the car

went down there to pick it up he quoted me a price that seemed too low for everything he did

and he honored that price he added he had $30 for the price for a couple of the hangers that he had

to take out his inventory which is totally fine because the whole exhaust is $180 to fix which I

feel is incredibly reasonable for the work that was done um it fits perfect it sounds perfect

he fixed a couple of leaks because a couple where it was hanging low one of the things that hanging

low had caused was the spring bolts had started to loosen up and one of them had backed off all

the way so he put new spring bolts and new bolts on and then he welded up like I said the the slip

bits there's no leaks in the car anymore the car sounds absolutely incredible it it it sounds like

a proper sports car exhaust now the car sounds really good it doesn't sound too loud it's got a

nice mellow tone to it Naomi actually drove the car to work today and I heard her pull back up

when she came home and I was like oh man that car sounds so good so the car sounds really nice um

it's definitely going to make the next person quite happy I'm I'm quite sure so

last thing's last on that car is uh orders for new tires and wait for an opening on I think the

Hagerty auctions is where we're going to go so I was trying to avoid auctions but I think it's

going to be the best the best move to get it in front of the right amount of people and uh

I feel dirty using cars and bids or bring a trailer so the Hagerty auctions seems to be a

little bit less um I don't know seems to be a little less stuffy and a little more like enthusiast

driven I'm not trying to go to bring a trailer and catch that bring a trailer you know the one

I have the one more core that sold for $75,000 like I don't I don't want that I just wanted to go

to a good enthusiast for a reasonable price and Hagerty seems to be the the marketplace for that

right now so might as well take advantage of that Hagerty Drivers Club membership free listing right

so that's the uh that's the future I think for that car but overall I'm I'm pretty happy with

where that car is at um I've said before I think I didn't give it a fair shake in the past but

now that I've gone through everything and the car runs and drives really nicely

I mean it's it's gonna make somebody a good car I would I would get in that car in traffic

cross country now like it's it's just good it just goes I took it actually to we're gonna talk about

shortly but I drove it to the NASCAR race on Sunday um and just drove out there drove back

about an hour and a half to get back to the traffic about an hour in the way there

there's traffic traction only about 30 minutes away but it takes a little longer to get there

when it's an actual race but it never the temperature never went above like a quarter

on the on the gauge everything seems to work I mean it just it's the car is a pretty good car now

so somebody would be pretty happy with that now that it's now that it's sorted so and getting rid

of it will make room to finish the starry on so that should be the big update next week because

there's a bunch of parts coming in tomorrow some today some tomorrow anyway that's my project

our update that's the only thing I worked on this week and you said you don't touch anything this

weekend no I just been touching the little cars the RC cars still want you there yeah

I get electronics in the tto2 project turned into a drift car maybe I talked about putting

electronics into the low transfer car that's all basically set up I'm like working on bodies for

them I started on the rx7 body for the tto2 because I'm working up to the other body for the

LTS car because it's a multi-piece body so I'm a little nervous about it probably

also I'm getting used to like trying to practice painting so I've got I've got another body I'm

gonna I need my current drift chassis I've been using a lot the rd2o needs a new body because

I've kind of worn that one out and also I want something different I'm tired looking at it

because I've been using it at least once a week for six months so well like a new body so I've

got that the yokomo pandem gr86 that's kind of kind of a wide body kit to it so I can run

slightly wider wheels because for I can talk about the competition I went to for doing competitions

you kind of want a slightly wider stance and wider wheels so you know why is car well yeah so

I'm just saying the other two cars are more scale builds fun stuff something I want but the other

if I want to use rd2o to compete I kind of want wider wheels well you want to get a wider track

uh and you can wind the track in the front for more stability and you need a wider body to do that

because certain rules you can't just have the wheels sticking out there's like a there's like a max

amount the wheels can stick out so of the body work because they just don't want people doing

anything so uh yeah on sunday there was the first drift event of the scale drift series for the

um I don't know how it works it's like it feels like it's per track they all have like their events

and then like you can gain points and then go to maybe a regional or something I'm still learning

about it but like my local track is going to have five or six events over the year and the finals

but also the other local track had their own version of it so I'm not sure but regardless

they had 32 drivers so they do a 32 person bracket and it's pretty interesting so they set up

it's part of the course it's not the whole track so they set up a start

and then they lined up zones so basically like drift zones through certain parts of the corner

and clipping points uh and basically during the drivers meeting explained interestingly with a

old RC body on the end of a swiffer uh you know like the swiffer like dry duster like a dry mop

put the body on the end of it basically walked and showed everybody like this is the ideal line

that you'll be judging on if you can run this line you will get the most points uh and basically you

there's three judges and they watch the whole run and they confer with each other and they just

they're experienced drifters that have one events and they just know by watching your car

how much angle you get where you are where you place it and like hitting the certain points

that they want you to hit the clipping points that's how they score it and I think it's like

maybe I think it was like 30 points per section that each judge was watching

so uh I still don't know enough like a lot about it like I'm still learning about it

so it was very interesting to watch I brought my camera I took a lot of pictures I put them up

on the internet you can see them taking taking pictures was interesting because of the zones

it gave me something to aim for I was like I wish real motor sports had this kind of

I mean drifting does yeah I guess I never shot a professional drifting I've shot like amateur

stuff but I never which is mostly like just people out messing around kind of like what we do

regularly with drift cars but they're actually been to a competition but anyway

it's interesting because so you have 32 people and then the first thing they do is qualifying

so every person does a solo does solo two runs and that's their qualifying that seeds them in the

bracket so like that I kind of wasn't it actually goes really fast because the the runs only take

like 20 seconds it's only if you like 20 or 30 feet and it's it's both serious and

unserious like it's serious enough that we move it along but it's not so serious it's just tiny

cars right but uh it's like I don't know it just didn't occur to me that you've got like 45 people

standing there uh and you have to do a run by yourself but everybody everybody's watching you

golf yeah so yeah so there's like that pressure to do a good run performance anxiety yeah and

and then it's like when you're watching golf on the like the putting green everybody's like

like claps afterwards like it's like okay okay you hit the wall because oh yeah yeah

but like even if you have a bad run everybody's like you know like because there's a bunch of

there's a several people that had never done it before and they like kind of didn't do so great

but once they finished everybody was like all right man uh and then like one person kind of messed

up from here yeah yeah one person kind of messed out like right out of the gate and they were just

like to start over like start over come on we want you to again that's that that's that

unserious but serious bit right there like we don't want people to get discouraged so

yeah let's make it just seated yeah so you do your runs you get scored um and then that starts

then you move to the battle rounds so the battle rounds are you start with the top seated person

versus the lowest seated person uh so that's a little that's a little rough to watch sometimes

because it's like uh and and to this guy's credit he's only been drifting for like a month I've been

drifting for four months and I didn't want to do the competition because I was too nervous so

he went out and did it and of course this guy that's really good it was spoiler alert ended up

in the white floor with him yeah yeah but it was like all right man that's

you know good job you you did it yeah yeah he got over his beginner's anxiety you just did it

yeah so that you go through all the people like that and then it gets into you know

you do the first round and then it's just you know goes off like a bracket and you get down to the

you know you go from 32 16 8 right 8 4 and then the winner this is on math works yes

it was 2 but it's okay well it's like I was trying to think yeah what I don't watch March

Madness so that's the only time I usually think about brackets or hear about them should divide by

2 you're fine okay but that's Salem high school education doing good work it's the it's not bad

it's the not sports guy pay attention to brackets so yeah because I mean even the in season bracket

NASCAR last year was like dumb like it didn't work at all that was dumb and they're not doing this here

I don't think that was that makes sense to even sort people that was just dumb yeah so yeah that

it's interesting and you know so then you know I'm watching it I took some cool pictures and

I'm like it doesn't look too bad so then last night I go to we're just you know messing around

practicing and I'm trying to run the line and I'm like man this is way way harder so I was starting

to get it after a while but my tires are kind of worn out I didn't have fresh tires like you

do part of the entrance fee of the the competition is that you'll get brand four brand new tires too

so I was running on very old tires I think newer tires would help me out I was struggling for some

traction but you're probably a wider stance yeah well we changed tire spec tires too so

but yeah it's the wheel width doesn't change it's still a 26 millimeter wheel but the track width

of the car would change so because you can put different offset wheels on right yep yeah and

actually the ideal the ones I'm going to put on are eight mils and they are so I'm running like

five mils with one and a half spacers in the front so um but they're kind of stiff so the

the ones I have are high traction so they're very soft wheels so they're actually flex

and it's totally legal to run those legal I didn't say you can run so you'll actually

end up with more traction that way to help the grip so that's the other thing I have to learn I

understand even watching it it's hard to follow the the lead follow so like the chase lead dynamic

yeah it looks pretty difficult yeah because you're trying to match I guess you're sort of

trying to match the lead um but you can't touch them but you can't let them get too far away

you can't touch the wall really hard like this it's very it's very subjective the way they

does it and the guy in the guy in front has to have like good angle and carry good speed

and hit the clipping points and the guy behind has to maintain a similar you know has to stay

close yeah and do what he does so the guy in front leads and the guy behind is just basically

copying what he's doing and the closer you can come to copying it the better points you get right

yeah it's kind of like horse I guess yeah that makes sense order um so yeah I'll I'll practice

some more the next ones may I'll see if I have the guts to do it I mean there's no you know it's

like 40 bucks or something there's no and if you sail you just do it again next time like it's not

a big deal yeah that's why I gotta get over like my old competitive nature like it's no big deal

like cares if you it doesn't matter if it's that thing of like I don't really care from

lousy at this because I just enjoy doing it right yeah I understand so you're doing it for fun

the competition then becomes for fun you know there's no more at stake than you and me at 17 years

old playing Gran Turismo like yeah it's the same it's the same level of competition like it's just

for fun exactly so anyway that's that's what I got up to how's the uh how's the NASCAR race

yeah let's talk about NASCAR real quick a little different flavor this week because I went to the

event I will get to listener questions afterwards so the episode is not over afterwards so if you

don't want to hear NASCAR fast forward a little bit otherwise stick around um

um it was fun I haven't been to an event in a couple years I think I went to the spring race

in 24 was the last one I went to I don't remember why I didn't go last year I shouldn't go to either

race last year busy life was chaotic last year um things have come down a bit this year and I just

I've been jones into going to an event in person so this made the most sense I have figured out and

I don't know this works for every track but it definitely works in Phoenix right now and it's

the same way I went in 24 I waited until the day before the event and I bought tickets on the stub hub

they were significantly cheaper than buying them in advance um I think I paid 55 bucks a ticket

for two tickets that's pretty good oh yeah it's significantly less money and Phoenix has free

parking and there's plenty of parking and they have free shuttles from the parking to the racetrack

so there's no issues with any other cost if you don't want to and because NASCAR is one of the

few sports that allows you to bring your own beverages uh no booze you can't bring alcohol

I don't know if that's new or not I think it was allowed last time I went yeah um you can bring

a cooler but you can't bring alcohol in the cooler but whatever I don't drink that much anyway so it's

fine I packed the cooler with a bunch of polar and some bottles of water uh and I took Roberto

to his first NASCAR race nice Naomi's daughter Courtney's boyfriend uh he lives in town here

and he's a big sports guy he's never been a big NASCAR guy so he's not a big NASCAR guy all it took

was one in-person event uh and he's always hooked it's the sound and the smells and the the sound

the smells the feel like everything about it just it's sports doesn't hurt yeah it doesn't hurt he's

a big basketball guy and he's a big Jordan right now there you go so that certainly helped his uh

helped his his getting into it but he's a big sports stats and like player name guy too

he's already like yeah he's already learning different drivers and the teams and you know

different stats and he's he's way into it and it's super cool to to have been able to give him that

he quickly picked a driver to root for based on just like pure vibes man

um and he picked Suarez and our first stop was our first stop was the Spire trailer

and at the bottom of Suarez t-shirt so that's pretty cool t-shirt with a big sugar skull on the

front like a Mexican sugar skull and a racing helmet in the back and number seven on the sleeve

with pretty cool shirt so he's rooting for him all day very disappointing when he got taken out

in the back in the legano incident but um yeah it was uh it was a good time it was a really good

time um our seats were i was a little annoyed at myself because i had two windows open and i

decided on which seats i wanted and i somehow chose the ones i didn't want but that's okay we're still

there the only issue was that i know that track i know that part of the track stays in the sun

the whole race oh no and part of the track goes in the shadows before the end of the race and i

stayed in the sun the whole time but it's fine listen i brought my sunblock and uh i was okay

i was just tired but i wasn't burnt so that's good burdo on the other hand was a little gross

toasty but it's okay he'll be fine he's young so anyway it was uh it was a good time um i bought a

2311 hat because i don't like any of the hats on their website so i went to the trailer and they had

a couple of hats that they don't sell on the website i got a nice little subtle bubble Wallace hat

it's got a little number 23 on the bottom left side of the front and the 2311 logo on the side

very subtle as you pointed out before we started recording tonight it's uh to anybody who doesn't

know it just looks like a jordan hat exactly so uh yeah it was uh it was a real good time um

we were at the back-back cooler so we had plenty of beverages stayed hydrated the whole time

i remembered to bring earplugs i guess i should probably say Naomi remembered to give me earplugs

so that was nice to have because normally i forget earplugs and i get annoyed with myself

but overall it was a good race uh our seats were pretty good we couldn't have been

any further down turn three because we were in the last two seats of the grandstands

but the grandstands end and it becomes like camper village on the other side so there's no other

seats so we were right at the entrance to turn three and we could see all the way down the back

stretch from the turn two to turn three i mean you see the whole track that really the only blind

spot is behind the screen yeah but we can see the whole track except for behind the screen

unfortunately behind the screen from where we're sitting was the exit of the dog leg which was

the accident happened but whatever you can see it on the screen afterwards so it's fine

and we had a clear view of turn three and four into the finish line so that was it was there

definitely good seats and the race was good the whole time was entertaining race there was no

real lulls i mean the first couple stages were pretty clean the third stage was anything but

but it went by pretty quick even though it was a long race so good amount of lead changes and

tons of lead changes the most cautions of any race at phoenix ever

weird weird tire attrition issues i don't know what was going on there the weirdest thing though

was watching that like the guide of tire go down tire would go down card go to the wall yellow'd

come out cars going around the track at whatever 55 65 miles an hour whatever yellow flag speed is

and then like more tires were exploding under yellow never seen that happen before either so

i don't know if it was a combination of a new tire compound plus they've never run this high of a

horsepower package at phoenix before and it was just burning through tires faster than they thought

they were going to but it was very bizarre seeing just some of the teams have troubled tires and then

some of the teams rolled the dice and did pit and stayed out there for longer on their tires and

while they ultimately made a poor decision because they fell behind quickly their tires

didn't explode so who knows it was a weird weird setup so i don't know if you saw that at the end

of stage two the 60 and the six stayed out to flip the stage or after yellow at some point they stayed

out yeah and they were out there on like 10 to 20 lap older tires and they had said in the

broadcast earlier that old tires were good for almost two seconds a lap off and i was like man

they're really helping for a quick yellow but they stayed out there and they went from burst and

second to dead last within like five laps yeah it was awful there was a lot of strong cars running

i mean there were a lot of strong cars running yeah and it seemed like whoever got the lead

just drove away every time yeah you got some clean air and because that's a mile and a half track

it's a one mile track oh one mile okay all right good hopefully that hopefully that bodes well for

new hampshire hopefully the race is good because they'll have the horsepower and

yeah i think they're running the same horsepower package in all of them on mile tracks so

they ran like the full 700 horsepower cars i think there were more like 500 or 550 last year

yeah it's everything that's a significant bump i think they said everything a mile and a half down

it got more horsepower yeah yeah which is what you want to see there was no there was no fuel

economy racing at this event it was all actual racing yeah and no matter what time of the race

it was there was racing somewhere on the track you know guys racing for third guys racing for fifth

guys racing for 15th um it was a really good it was a really good race to watch it was a perfect

first race to bring somebody to um there was just so much going on that it just kept attention the

whole time so but the the facilities at phoenix as far as racetracks go i don't know if new hampshire

has tapped up their game i haven't been there in a while but no no it was it's a very nice place

yeah it's a very nice place bathrooms are like super clean and like professional like

it's not gross dirty sporting stadium feeling at all it just it's a nice it's a very nice place the

food is typical sports event expensive but there's tons of options for food and it's just it's all

it's a pretty nice place i uh i enjoyed my time there i'd like to go to more events there i wish

they had more events there i'd like to go to more events there yeah watch the anycar race on tv

obviously that was pretty cool yeah i watched the highlights that was the weird jay turn that one

guy did was pretty cool yeah that was wild that he had the yeah as the rookie had the foresight

like they said it came off the brakes and it kept him off the wall yeah yeah they came off

the brakes let it roll backwards put it back in first gear and flipped a rockford turn there and

the car going back straight again super cool something also i've never seen done um but

anyway i ryan blaney won the race um yeah the 45 retic was going for his uh his fourth straight

and a couple of points in the race i thought he might have it yeah but christopher bell was really

strong which is not surprising because christopher bell is always strong in phoenix and ryan blaney

was really strong and they gave they gave a heck of a race to get up there at the end and it was

either one of them was going to win the end was pretty much the yeah my thought process

luckily tai gibbs flamed out yeah we still finished like fifth or sixth or something i

like didn't he yeah he's still gonna top ten i do like that the nascar memes the nascar memes

account always now has uh um my reaction to hate watching tai gibbs is my favorite every week they

post it sbg also had a great great finish he was also top ten the end of the day he spun twice

once not his fault but he's like the best trackhouse driver right now he's definitely their point man

like he's 100 the guy that they're putting all their money on uh and 2311 had a great day too

both red and and bubba finished top 10 so you can't they're they're they're kicking butt in the

standings this year like not only four races in but it's a strong year for the underdog teams when

all the points matter the teams are gonna every point matters yeah every point matters they got

rid of the gimmicks the winning in gimmick uh now everybody's racing over points everybody's

racing hard yeah i think winning the first two races of the year is pretty much getting guaranteed

you in though i would hope so so um but yeah that was yeah and then just uh uh legano on the poll

and then just getting actually wrecked like so hard after pushing through people was very well he

caused a wreck coming out of the dog leg himself the previous yellow so it was his own come up

and then he got taken out later i mean he i shouldn't say he got taken out he caused the

accident both times yeah but whatever but i was just i felt bad for was it zillich he took out

there or most of our somebody he took he took out a couple of good cars i don't remember who but

i felt bad for the cars he took out so it was uh who was driving the 48 car uh alfredo

tony pasta anthony yeah tony pasta fast pasta they call him uh anthony alfredo i felt bad for

him because he was actually having a really good showing driving the 48 car um because what's his

name is uh out on basically like in question i guess he's a vertigo yeah um alex bowman but he

was having a really good outing and he was like he was driving the car very well it's cool to see

a fill-in driver doing well and then he got taken out in that backstretch crash pretty heavily so

thankfully bowman wasn't in the car with his concussion vertigo but

but it was a double penske win weekend though so i think newgarten won on saturday so

yeah it is what it is get one of all get penske a couple i guess yeah home home team i guess

it's sort of he's got dealerships here but that's about his home team as he gets

home team would have been michael mcdonald michael mcdonnell mcdonnell excuse me he's a uh

he's from glendale he's a local boy here but oh good it's a good time highly recommended

go to a race jack stopped up the night before tickets were like half price totally worth it

If I hadn't bought a hat, my entire day would have cost me just

not counting the additional ticket for somebody else, the t-shirt and hat.

Like I could have gone to the race for just the $55 plus gas.

And that's a pretty good.

Pretty bad. That's pretty good all day cost, I think.

Yeah, so.

All right, let's get to some questions because we're

I don't know.

All right, so I'm going to go to Instagram.

And we have eight posts on Instagram questions, which is pretty good

considering the algorithm is terrible at the moment.

Eight, eight comments and 12 likes.

So used to be you'd post on Instagram and you get like 100 likes,

but not anymore.

All right, so let's see. First question.

Also, we posted the question to our discord group.

Quick plug. Come join our discord.

We just did a message us on messages on auto off topic.

Instagram or wherever you contact us normally.

And we will give you a link to join the discord and join the conversation there.

These questions all are on Instagram. However, we did instruct anybody on discord who wanted to ask a question to go to the Instagram page.

Judge Mills, who is on our discord.

It's been several years since I've asked Andrew.

So Andrew, this is for you as your opinion on the El Camino softened in recent times.

No, I still do not like the car or truck hybrid.

It's not my thing.

So that is a no.

No, sorry. Mills and I are pro El Camino. Andrew is anti El Camino.

Just give me a Chevelle.

I don't need the back cut off.

Sometimes you'd a whole thing to do Chevelle.

Andrew is pro Chevelle with a trailer hitch.

All right, I'll give you that.

All right, Ryan dot makes what is everyone's motorsport attendance participation plan for 26 while I plan on going to the Phoenix NASCAR race in March done.

Okay, checked off.

We have you have tickets to New Hampshire, I assume.

I do.

I basically have some.

Okay, excellent.

And we both have tickets to NASCAR in San Diego.

Yep.

Which is going to be absolutely amazing.

Yep.

Super looking forward to that.

That's a first year for that event.

It's replacing the Chicago street race this year.

The Chicago race got three years and they moved on.

And I think there's at least a two year deal for San Diego, right?

I think so.

At least one and we're going.

So it's one and done.

We will have been there. Yeah, I'm not thinking about next year.

Yeah, so we have plans for that event.

Other motorsports event. I don't have tickets for anything else.

I'm probably going to go to the fall race in Phoenix, the NASCAR race here in Phoenix.

I don't know what else I don't really have plans to go to anything else. Yeah, everything else I have plans for this year is I'm doing the DWA camping while awesome rally.

Doing obviously my own.

Arizona rally.

Were you going to come out here for climb to the clouds or no.

It's probably not going to happen this year.

Okay.

Just based on everything else.

I have my, my brain was thinking about this earlier because I was checking my PTO.

Because you were talking about doing a four noon cup drive for anybody in New England listening that wants to get involved with that free touch Andrew.

And I was trying to figure out if I could make it out for a weekend. So I'd like to do that with you guys.

Even if I just ride passenger with people.

So I was trying to think about that. But then I was thinking about climb to the clouds.

And then I was thinking about August.

And I think my trip, do you know when climb to the clouds is it's in August, right?

Yeah, I think so.

I don't. I've been really bad about keeping track of it.

To be honest, even though we have the internet right in front of us.

Yeah, I'm pulling up right now.

You got it.

August 7th, eighth and ninth. Okay.

So this will be your, let's basically your birthday. So the issue with that is on August 13. I am flying to Seattle.

And then I'll be in Alaska until the 21st.

So I don't know if I'll be able to pull the week before that go to Massachusetts is going to be the issue.

There's only so much PTO.

There's only so much available cash for plane tickets.

I think is the, it turns out life costs money, Andrew. I don't like this.

Should be, should be free. Let's not.

So yeah, chances of me at climb to clouds are slim.

Because of my trip to Alaska.

So it's fair. And then also I have three days in Oklahoma in May, plus the other rallies in May.

And then we're going to NASCAR in, was that June?

Yep.

And then in October, I have all of my stuff. Like I said, the, my rally here, the other big Japanese car show here.

There's so much stuff going on once that end of summer happens. So the one thing I might be able to add to my schedule might be the four noon cup, depending on when it is, if it's in May, probably not.

If it's in June, maybe. So we'll see.

That's where I'm at as far as events go. I guess the question was motorsports events. So it's kind of, it's kind of a mix of things.

There is talk of them doing, it's not.

There's a talk that's actually happening here in Arizona, the Southwest Speed Fest.

It's like our local grid life. I would like to go to that this year. One just passed, but there's no one coming in the fall. So.

I wish I could put that.

That's it. Any extra words for you? You haven't mentioned yet.

I'm going to do grid life circuit legends.

A plan on that. That's in August.

I won't bother with Watkins Glen this year because I'm going to go to San Diego for NASCAR. I would like to, I don't know if I can swing it, but if I get to an IMSA race somewhere, at some point, maybe Watkins Glen, that's probably the closest.

And then maybe I got to see, I don't know if I can do it, but there's an Indianapolis eight hour.

That's in the fall, which I think is different from the, there's like an IMSA race at Indianapolis and there's a different endurance series that also races at Indianapolis, but it's in like October.

That would be kind of cool just to, and it's probably inexpensive because it's not the Indy 500. So, I don't know, and then definitely.

Even the Indy 500 wasn't expensive.

No, but it's crowded like an endurance race there will not be crowded.

No, there'd be a lot of access. I'm sure too. It'd be like just like going to Daytona.

Yeah. So yeah, that's probably it.

Sounds pretty good. And maybe next year we should pencil in, I could fly out there for Watkins Glen NASCAR weekend because I'd like to go there.

Yeah. Well, I would really like to, it didn't work out this year. We keep saying it. Long Beach Grand Prix would be nice because that's,

endurance racing, Indy car drifting. So.

Yep, that's a weekend. Listen, I can drive there in five hours and I haven't done it either. So.

Yeah, that's the point.

So next question, I think, right?

All right. Rob drives slow.

I remember back in the late nineties when Nissan restored and sold 240Z's off the showroom floor.

If you could pick one manufacturer and one car, what would it be?

I'm going to say hard mode, no Mitsubishi's.

Oh, okay.

Fine.

There's a medieval Rastarion. Instantly.

Yeah.

I'll let you answer first.

I don't have an answer either.

You don't answer either.

Listen, what one car brand new off the showroom floor that I'd like to own.

That's not a Mitsubishi or a Mitsubishi cross branded Dodge product.

The 240Z is already an answer and the obvious step from a 240Z is a .510.

That would be an amazing car.

Yeah.

I would, I would think something like a Mini Cooper would do very well as far as like a company decision and making money on something.

But I feel like Mini Coopers are almost still too common and there's too many companies doing that kind of build to a Mini Cooper.

So maybe not.

But Volkswagen would probably do very well selling Beatles.

Yeah.

Like re-manufactured by Volkswagen Beatles.

But I think that my answer would be a Mark II GTI.

Oh yeah. Okay.

That's pretty cool.

That's still a bucket list car.

I owned one for a short period of time.

But I never drove it because I bought it blown up.

I put it back together.

If you remember, we got it running off ether.

I had some field delivery issues.

And then somebody randomly drove by my dad's house and started sitting out front and offered to buy it.

So we sold it.

And I met, I met story.

Yeah, it was kind of a metallic red.

I can't even name the color.

No, I used to know the name of the color, but it was an 87 16 valve GTI.

So it was really the first car I ever bought broken to fix.

And kind of got it mostly done.

She had rusty fuel lines in the end of your place.

But yeah, the guy from Euro house.

So it was like,

it's down off of North street for some reason drove by our parents house and sorry,

it's sitting there and like knocked on the door and offered twice what I had into it without me ever finishing it.

So it went away.

So.

But yeah, Mark II GTI, I think would be a pretty good.

I think there's enough people that would also buy those.

Like there's enough Volkswagen nerds or people that love those cars that

two things would be good about that.

One, they'd be able to sell them.

And two, they might start reproducing some of the parts that are maybe harder to find now.

And maybe Volkswagen would sell those.

But I think, I think a Mark II GTI would be, would be the move.

I'd say a Mark one, but I think the Mark two is more substantial of a car.

And if you're going to sell something to people as a fully rebuilt car, I think having the more,

the more modern feel of the Mark two, which I mean, it doesn't sound like much going from 84 to 85,

but there's a big shift in those two cars.

So I think that would be, that would be pretty cool.

So obviously my answer was staring on, but that's, that's the easy mode answer.

Yeah.

I mean, it's kind of funny.

We talked about this, but it is currently being done by like places like built by legends, right?

Yeah.

And do GTRs.

Yeah.

I'm not going to go with a GTR.

But, you know, if I could have something brand new, or like ultra new.

I do like an Integra type R, I think.

Yeah.

Integra is probably a great choice.

Maybe not even necessarily type ours, but if they built like some top spec GSRs.

Or, or, or even if I can have a factory fresh version of my SI, that would be like nostalgia trip amazing.

And that was also a car.

That's also a car that I think they'd have no problem moving if they did it.

And so, yeah, I thought that the other version of his question is what car would you sing your eyes, right?

You know, put all the extra work and do it modernize and make it special.

And I think this is a better version of that question because you're not taking something you make it unobtainable.

You're just restoring a car back to factory fresh and selling it pretty much as new.

So I, I like that.

But yeah, I, I, I stand by mark to mark to still on my.

Micah read that was the color of my car.

I stand by my, my still wanting one.

I honestly think they would make a pretty good daily driver out here because they wouldn't rust out here and they're a fun little runabout like it's decent gas mileage and is fairly reliable when built properly so.

Next question from the stylist guy.

If you both.

Ooh, restart that question.

Yeah, I want you both.

You got it.

So I apologize because I think he fat figured something here.

So I'm having a hard time reading it.

It says I want you both to share.

Yeah, your automotive captain Picard moment, meaning what was the thing that changed your life forever in terms of your tasting cars, or perhaps the event that launched you down the path you've chosen.

Was it a specific model and experience or other think back and pick up the one thing that if it was deleted from your personal history would unravel the tapestry of your life as you know it.

You want me to go first.

Well, we've talked about this question before we have in other other degrees, what brought us down the, what brought us on the path of cars that were on is Gran Turismo right.

Yep.

Gran Turismo and Japanese car model kits.

That's what did it.

It was like what if they was.

Sorry, go ahead.

If there was one moment that would 100% change everything.

It would be not buying my talent.

Okay, it was buying buying my Eagle Talon that dove me into this world of Mitsubishi's.

Okay, the car was broken all the time.

It led me dry.

I was out of money as a young man.

I took up my first personal loan to fix it once like it was a mess.

But it's what opened to me up to learning about starry on which all you all know my starry on worship at this point.

And then my love of starry on opened me up to my love of Colts.

And then we wanted to get off roading.

I was like, man as well get into Mitsubishi's and that was Raiders and Monteiro's at Ram 50 pickups.

And all of that can lead back to my talent.

Also, what can lead back to my talent is your talent, which might also.

So me not buying my first talent, you might not have like a lot or your talent.

Yeah, yeah, that's possible.

I might have been more Subaru's first, even though I ended up at Subaru's anyways, but it was definitely because I'm a little bit younger.

You could have gone hard.

You could have gone hard down the road of Volvo because you were into Volvos when you were younger too.

Yeah, still.

Yeah, and I was a little bit younger though, but that would buy in that first.

Well, that PS one and then playing rage racer and then playing Gran Turismo.

I can like 98 99 that was like, whoa, there's all these cars that are not muscle cars.

And if you never had the talent and I never had my talent, maybe when you got your Honda, you would have stuck with Hondas, you know.

Yeah, we made that it was like having the game and then you buy in that car.

Then we made the connection of like, wait a minute, we recognize the 463 from reading the little description in Gran Turismo.

That's the same thing.

These are related.

The closest thing to an EVO we could put our hands on at the time.

And that's really where it came from because I wanted an EVO or a Subaru and the Subaru's that they sold here at the time that were in my price range were lame.

I mean, I probably could have afforded a 2.5 RS in the 90s, but it wasn't a turbo.

It wasn't the same.

They're cool.

It was.

No, we know good.

Oh, it's very cool.

Now that we know, but at the time it was like, I didn't want, I didn't want the non-turbo.

I wanted a turbo.

Yeah.

We lived in New England.

It was snowing.

I wanted a car with all the drive traction and I wanted a turbo.

That being said, and I've probably talked about it on the podcast before, I cross shopped the three most unrelated cars of all time when I bought that car.

This also will date me because I had a $3,000 budget.

And in this $3,000 budget, there were three cars that I test drove.

One was in 1990.

So this is in 1999.

One is a 1990 Eagle Talon.

So it's a nine year old car for $3,000 with less than 100,000 miles on it.

The other was a 1984 Volkswagen rabbit GTI in the classic black with a red, the red like velour style, velour style or crushed whatever cloth material on the interior.

And the third car was a 1967 Pontiac Le Mans with a, which is basically a, it was a quote unquote clone GTO was also $3,000.

So those three cars couldn't be like one rear wheel drive V8, one front wheel drive, 1.8 liter and one all wheel drive turbo drives two liter.

They were all manual transmissions.

I couldn't drive any of them.

So they had not learned how to drive a manual with much.

I knew how to drive a manual from driving my dad's Jeep around parking lots, but I'd never really driven a manual.

They're all manuals.

They were all ready to go.

They did not need anything.

And they were all $3,000.

That's a ridiculous choice of cars to have for $3,000.

And that's all I had for $3,000.

So any dime above $3,000 meant I wasn't buying the car.

And those are the three cars.

So I still haven't scratched that Volkswagen GTI itch and I want to.

I don't really have an itch for a 67 Pontiac Le Mans or GTO.

I like them.

But had I bought that car, we would be in a very, I would at least be in a very different place, automotive wise, because I already had my Camaro.

And if I had already had my 85 Cutlass, and if I had gotten rid of that one talent and had gone with the Le Mans, I could be a mob row smoking Budweiser drinking muscle car guy.

But all we know those are things, but you know, yeah.

This further, every time I talk about this time period, I'm like, yeah, we peaked, we peaked in the year 2000.

Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah.

But I mean, just, and I think we've talked about this before, like just the fact that I was able to buy a nine year old all wheel drive turbocharged five speed car that was like the peak of its thing with less than 100,000 miles on it for $3,000 is an absurdity in today's market because a nine year old WRX, the equivalent car is $26,000 probably.

Yeah, exactly.

So, so dumb. Anyway, that's, that's, I think the answer there. Do you have any other thing to add to that before?

No, that's that's it.

Move on. Now, so one Eagle Talon did the whole thing, which I constantly say I should maybe get rid of my eclipse and go back to a first gen Eagle Talon model drive turbo and just kind of like have it back in my life.

But who knows.

It'd be so much better now at maintaining it and keeping it running.

And I still have the wheels that I bought for that car. So I can just replicate the car immediately.

The very of the era, because the wheels are very 1999 2000, but I think that'd be okay.

All right, Daytona turbo responds to the stylist guy, and he says in a very unserious manner, if you had to hit your hand with a hammer or drive only the stylist guys stylist for the rest of your life, would you use a ball bean or a framing hammer.

And Daytona turbo.

I'm sure he knows that we love the stylist guy and we love the stylist guy stylist. So we would just drive the stylist. I would choose do anyway. Yeah, your G 20 is basically the same car.

Yeah.

Same the same recipe anyway.

So I still want to drive that stylist it looks like a fun car and I'd love to compare it to your G 20 because your G 20 still remains to this day, the most fun frontal drive car I've ever driven.

So

just go Steve, which senses matter to you the most in regards to automotive enthusiasm, the smell of an old car, the feeling of a nice steering wheel or shift knob, the sound of the induction exhaust, etc.

What, as our friends over at Dragunov awesome say what sense of occasion makes you matters most to you as an automotive enthusiast.

I

It's pretty easy.

Simple guy.

I like an induction exhaust noise and I have several of my cars have different versions of these things, either they have a good induction noise or they have a good exhaust noise some have both.

So that's where Matt.

Yeah, I, I like a nice steering wheel and a shift knob, but I also don't care that much.

A lot of my cars have stock steering wheels like my 78 colt has this terrible plastic thin steering wheel and I love the car.

The Camaro has a very pretty wood rimmed rally wheel.

It's terribly uncomfortable and it's metal spokes are painful when the wheel returns.

Doesn't matter.

The car sounds amazing.

And with the colt, it's just a combination of how the car feels around me. It's a combination of all those things. Like, I probably will change steering wheel eventually, but it the way the car.

I can't even tell you what is that car. Just the way that car speaks to me is my favorite car. I don't even have one sense because it smells terrible. It isn't comfortable.

Who knows.

But yeah, I would agree with you. It's exhaust. I mean, I spent five minutes talking about how amazing the Mercore sounds now.

So, yeah, I love the sound of the exhaust and I love a good turbo spool sound, which the Mercore has in spades.

I love a good natural overrun, not a crackletoom BMW, but like just that little bit of little pop on decels. Perfect. Like, it's great.

Final question. It's perfect that you have a 944 in the picture. They came here to talk about cheap Porsches that often wind up being kind of expensive.

This is expensive. Such satisfying cars, though.

That's not really a question, but I can tell you that if you do your own maintenance, a Porsche 944 is not an expensive car.

There's a lot of talk about Porsche tax and is that the other thing, but there's enough shared parts on that car and there's enough maintenance stuff out there and that stuff is not expensive.

I've done a lot of maintenance in the car and it costs more than, say, the maintenance on a Starion.

But at the end of the day, it's not out of your own capable hands of repair. There's nothing on the car that's incredibly complicated.

I got in my own head a little bit about doing the timing belt job, only because I was nervous about doing a timing belt job on a car that was a Porsche.

But when Josh came by and we tackled it together, it turned out to be very similar to a Mitsubishi timing belt job minus the twin cam factor, so it was actually even easier.

So it wasn't difficult at all and I don't think there's been anything on the car that's lost parts-wise more than, you know, 100 bucks.

It hasn't been a very expensive car to maintain.

It's got a universal Bosch fuel pump. Fuel filter was $10. Oil filters are $10.

I spent a little bit more money on oils. I put the liquid molly in it, but control arms are like 70 bucks.

You can't buy calipers. Calipers are expensive, but you can buy rebuilt kits for sub-$20.

So if you're handy, there's nothing in the Porsche that costs a lot of money as far as normal maintenance goes.

Clutch jobs are expensive, but again, if you're handy, you can do that on your own.

To be fair, I haven't broken into the engine like pistons or valves or cams or stuff like that.

That could be more money. I don't know for a fact.

But if the Porsche blew up tomorrow, I probably would just throw the engine in the trash anyway and put an inline five Volkswagen motor in it.

But does it make a kit for that now?

So yeah, I don't think it's that expensive.

I think if you want a 944, I think go buy one now because I feel like the Porsche tax is going to hit them soon.

It hasn't yet. You can still buy a decent driver for five to ten grand.

So in fact, if you want to talk, give me a call. That car is for sale.

So definitely we can make a deal if you're actually in the market for a Porsche.

And no one doesn't need the expensive services by somebody else because I've already done them.

And actually, I think the clutch is also fairly new because I think previous owner Bradley did the clutch not long before I got the car.

So it doesn't need any of the expensive stuff.

Don't don't be afraid of 944 ownership as far as money goes.

It's not bad.

So 911 stuff, probably more money, but I don't have the experience so I can't actually tell you.

I never will because the cars cost too much.

If you want a Porsche, if you want a 944, they're becoming more accepted in the Porsche circles now.

You can go to a Porsche event without being laughed at.

They accept you in there.

It is a fun car to drive.

Even more so now that I put less sticky tires on it, which I still think Andrew, you have to drive the car before I sell it because I want you to feel a difference.

Okay.

It's a totally different car with normal tires on it.

Anyway, that's the final statement slash question of the evening.

All right.

I think we can call that an episode.

Yeah, so if you want to interact with us, come join us in the discord message us and we'll give you an invite.

Yeah, we're always posting stuff in there. It's the cool hangout spot.

But if you're not following us on Instagram, follow us there.

It feels redundant to tell people because it feels like if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably following you and I on Instagram.

Maybe.

Yeah, maybe.

I've been posting some stuff to the Scale Autocast YouTube channel.

I've been trying to do some more videos about the different RC cars.

I did a long video of it's like a straight video of just building one of those one 30 second scale.

It was she must nap kits of an 86.

It's just entirely me just building it. I was like, no, see some people like to watch that stuff. So,

you know, there are two guys that build bottle cars on Instagram YouTube.

Yeah.

And they post like an hour long video.

And I have been known to put those videos on in the background and just while I'm working or something just have that video playing because it's kind of like it's pleasing to watch.

They don't even talk much during the build.

They just have a camera on their forehead or something and they just build the car and it's not something I would sit down and watch.

But to have it on as like a background sometimes while I'm working, it's kind of, it's kind of nice.

And you get a little insight into the quality of certain kits if they're actually good or not based on because they will stop and be like, this kid sucks or this kid was a pleasure.

Yeah.

People are into that.

Yeah, they're maybe I'll watch yours.

Yeah, go for it.

All right.

But yeah, you can find me on Instagram race and anger.

We have auto topic on Instagram scale out of cast.

Yeah, I put a bunch of pictures on.

It's not my personal Facebook. I figured that was the easiest way.

I haven't really been using the race and anger page that much.

But so yeah, there's a bunch of pictures from the drift event. I put some on Instagram.

Yeah.

Brad, where can I find you?

I think it's on me also on Instagram TSI SS 350.

I actually did break out the die cast photo booth today and I took some pictures of some die cast to post starting tomorrow, hopefully.

Yeah, some other more die cast content coming up.

I took the initiative today Andrew on my lunch break to snap some pictures because there's a like, there's so many new starring on conquest towns and eclipses from auto world.

And I was like, we haven't taken pictures as many of these yet. So yeah, you need something out there.

All right.

It's going to be an interesting enthusiast.

All right.

As always, keep guys and along.

A name for the roses.