The Toyota Camry is a regular family-style car (a sedan) meant for everyday driving. People talk about it a lot because it’s widely available and usually focuses on comfort and reliability. In the podcast, it’s just being referenced as a particular car color and example.
The Ford Maverick is a small pickup truck. It’s meant to be useful for everyday errands and longer trips without being huge. The podcast is mentioning that it handled a planned drive smoothly.
“Fluids” are the liquids the car needs to keep working—like cooling liquid. In racing, teams often prep or top them off during pit stops so the car can keep going.
The “pits” are the area where the team works on the car during a race stop. They use it to do fast repairs and tire changes so the driver can get back out.
A “road course” is a track that uses turns similar to real roads, and a “long” road course race typically means extended time on track with sustained braking, cornering, and heat buildup. That kind of event can be physically demanding for drivers and increases the importance of hydration and cooling.
The “truck series” is a racing league where the cars are based on pickup trucks. It’s a separate series from the main top-level NASCAR races, but drivers can compete in both.
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current gen cars
“Current gen cars” just means the newest generation of race cars being used right now. If a driver struggled in them, it usually means they weren’t as competitive with the latest setup and rules.
Race strategy is how teams plan the race while it’s happening. It includes things like when to stop for tires, and it can let a driver recover even after a bad moment.
A road course is a race track with lots of turns and braking, not just left turns like an oval. Drivers have to be smooth and consistent so the car stays fast for many laps.
A street course is a race run on regular city streets that get temporarily turned into a track. Since it’s not built as a permanent racetrack, it can be bumpier and harder to predict than a dedicated track.
They’re talking about an upcoming race in San Diego and what makes it different. The key point is that the track is a street course, so it could change who performs best.
Qualifying is when drivers try to set the fastest lap before the race. Your qualifying result helps decide where you start the race, but you still have to keep the car working well for the whole event.
They mention the Cup series as one of the racing competitions. The point is that the driver’s results can differ depending on which series they’re racing in.
They say he won the O'Reilly series, even though he struggled in the Cup series. It’s basically comparing his results in two different competitions.
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faster lap time
Lap time is how long it takes to go around the track once. Getting a faster lap usually means driving more efficiently through turns and braking zones.
Breaking style is just how a driver brakes—when they start braking and how aggressively. Better braking helps the car turn in more predictably and can shave time off a lap.
Clutch slip is when the clutch isn’t fully grabbing right away, so the car transitions to power more gradually. Drivers sometimes use it to avoid wheel traction problems, but excessive slip can cause heat and wear.
Wheel spin is when the tires spin but the car doesn’t move as quickly as you’d expect. Racers try to avoid it because it wastes traction and can wear the tires faster.
The Dacia Sandero is a small hatchback meant to be affordable. It’s built for everyday driving and practical use rather than high performance. The podcast is just noting that someone was especially focused on it in a video highlight.
The Indy 500 is a famous big race in the U.S. for open-wheel cars. It’s a major event on its own, and drivers often work their way up through smaller races first.
Le Mans is the famous 24-hour endurance race. Instead of just racing fast for a short time, teams have to manage strategy and reliability for a whole day.
NASCAR is a big U.S. racing series with stock cars. It’s different from open-wheel or endurance racing, so it’s a good example of how tough it is to adapt.
A road course is a race track with lots of corners, not just left turns on an oval. It rewards braking and turning technique more than pure straight-line speed.
IMSA is a big U.S. sports-car racing series. It often features longer races where teams and drivers have to manage the car over time, not just sprint around a track.
A mechanical failure means something important on the car breaks or stops working. In long races, that can be especially damaging because there’s not much time left to fix it.
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auction site
An auction site is a place where people bid on a car, and the highest bid wins. What you show and how clearly you describe the car can affect the final price.
Hagerty is an automotive company best known for classic-car insurance and collector-focused services. Here it’s discussed as an auction/consignment channel for selling a project car, including how communication affects the sale process.
Cars and Bids is a website where you can list a car to sell, often like an auction. The host says it’s free to list there, so it’s easier to use than some other options.
Golden hour is the period shortly after sunrise or before sunset when the sun’s angle creates warm, flattering light. Photographers use it to make cars look better in pictures because shadows soften and colors pop.
Pinstripes are thin decorative stripes applied to a car’s body, often along body lines or around panels. Here, the host removes maroon pinstripes that run from the headlight area along the fender and window area, then back toward the quarter panel and tail-light area.
Belt molding is the trim strip that runs along the side of the car, typically around the doors at about window height. The host describes a pinstripe path that runs underneath this trim, which helps locate exactly where the stripes were applied.
Quarter glass is the side window located behind the rear door on a coupe or sedan. The host references it to describe where the second pinstripe section runs under the glass toward the rear.
A rubber wheel is a soft tool surface used to lift off sticky residue or striping material. It helps remove the stripe without damaging the paint as easily as harder tools.
Single-stage paint means the paint layer does both the color and the shine. When you polish it, you’re working directly on that finish, so fading can often be improved more directly than on cars with separate clear coat.
Chemical Guys C4 polish is a cleaner/polish that helps bring back the paint’s shine. Here it’s being used to make the area where the stripe was look like the rest of the car again.
A random orbital is a polishing machine that moves in a way that helps prevent ugly scratches. Using it on a slower setting helps you polish safely without risking damage to the paint.
Primer spots are places where the paint is thin or gone and you can see the undercoat (primer). The host is being careful so they don’t polish those spots bigger and make the damage more noticeable.
“Repop” here means a made-to-look-like-original replacement, like a reproduction sticker. They want one because they don’t have the exact 1984 car item they’re trying to display.
Floor mats are removable coverings placed on a car’s floor to protect the carpet from dirt, moisture, and wear. In this segment, the hosts focus on choosing mats that match the original material thickness and color for a project car’s interior.
They’re talking about a Cadillac CTS 4, which is a luxury car. The “4” usually means it has all-wheel drive, and they’re planning to sell it at auction.
A no-reserve auction means there’s no minimum price the car has to reach. If someone bids the most, the car sells—even if the final price is lower than expected.
It’s basically the real price people are willing to pay. If you list it where more buyers can find it, you usually get a better idea of what it’s worth.
Motor Trend is a car magazine that gives awards. The host is saying this car won an award, which can make it more desirable to some buyers.
Brand
Golden Calipers
Golden Calipers is the name of an award tied to Motor Trend. The idea is that having the award paperwork or magazine can make the car seem more special to buyers.
The brake light switch is what turns your brake lights on when you press the brake pedal. If it’s bad, your brake lights might stay off even when you’re braking.
A multimeter is a tool for checking electrical readings. In this case, it’s being used to help measure temperature so the fan turns on at the right point.
ITG makes aftermarket air filters. Here, the host picked them because they fit better and don’t hit the car’s body parts.
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single sausage filters
“Single sausage filters” refers to individual, cylindrical-style filter elements used per carburetor rather than one shared filter assembly. Using separate elements can improve packaging and airflow while keeping each carb’s intake path more direct.
A fuel pressure regulator keeps fuel pressure at the right level. If it fails and pressure drops, the engine may not get enough fuel even if it’s running.
A diaphragm is like a thin rubbery membrane inside some fuel parts. If it breaks or gets damaged, fuel can get through when it shouldn’t, and the engine may run too rich (burn too much fuel).
“Running rich” means the engine is getting too much fuel compared to air. It can make the car run rough and waste fuel, and it can also contribute to heat problems.
An air pocket is a bubble of air trapped in the fuel line. It can stop fuel from moving the way it should, so the car may act weird until the bubble works its way out.
If the temperature gauge is pegged at the top, the engine is running too hot. That can happen if the cooling fan isn’t turning on when it should or if something else is making the engine heat up.
The cooling fan is supposed to kick on when the engine gets hot enough. If it’s set wrong, the engine can overheat because the fan doesn’t start in time.
“Advanced” timing means the spark happens earlier than it should. If it’s too early, the engine can run hotter and may start knocking or feeling rough.
The fuel gauge is the dashboard indicator that tells you how much gas is in the tank. If it and other dash lights stop working together, it usually means there’s an electrical problem feeding the dashboard.
A “ground” is the car’s electrical return path. If the ground connection is loose, the car can act like several things are broken even though the problem is really one wiring connection.
Charging means the engine is running the alternator to refill the battery. If it’s not charging, the battery can run down and the car may act weird until you fix the electrical problem.
A fuse panel is where the car keeps fuses that protect electrical circuits. If something electrical isn’t working, checking the fuse panel can help find whether a fuse or circuit is the cause.
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final wiring
“Final wiring” is the last step of finishing the car’s electrical connections. It’s a common place for problems like loose wires or bad grounds that can make several dashboard or engine functions fail.
A test drive is a short real-world drive to make sure the car is fixed and safe. After wiring or cooling work, it helps confirm everything works while the engine is under load.
A sensor is a small electronic part that tells the car what’s going on. If it’s acting up, the car may run poorly, so the host is swapping in different ones to see which is correct.
NGK is a well-known brand that makes ignition and engine sensors/related components used across many car makes. Here, it’s mentioned as one of the sensor options the speaker is comparing against another brand.
Voltage is the electricity level going through a part. Measuring it helps you figure out whether the sensor is being powered correctly or behaving as it should.
The Eagle Talon is a compact car that was made to feel more performance-focused than a typical commuter. The podcast mentions it in the context of doing brake work, which is a normal maintenance task. It sounds like the owner is taking care of the car and adding personal touches.
BMW G20 is a specific generation of the BMW 3 Series. They’re talking about ball joints, which are parts in the suspension that help the wheels move smoothly.
The Infiniti G20 is a small luxury sedan. The podcast says it has some ball joints that need work, but that it can still be driven for now. Ball joints are parts in the suspension that help the wheels move correctly.
A machine shop is a shop that does precision work on car parts. In an engine build, they check and prepare parts so everything fits and works properly.
Pistons are the engine parts that move up and down inside the cylinders, compressing the air-fuel mixture and transferring force to the crankshaft. Installing “new pistons” usually goes along with cylinder work (like boring/honing) to restore the correct fit and clearances.
The Porsche 944 is a classic Porsche sports car that people often work on themselves. It’s a popular “project car” because it’s fun to drive and there’s lots of support for repairs and upgrades.
The Volvo S70 is a Volvo sedan from the 1990s. Here they’re talking about the version with a five-cylinder engine and how it’s closely related to the older Volvo 850 underneath.
“Five-cylinder” means the engine has five cylinders that burn fuel. It’s a specific engine layout that can feel and sound different from the more common four- or six-cylinder engines.
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non-turbine
They’re saying it’s not turbocharged. That usually means the engine makes power in a more straightforward way, without the extra boost from a turbo.
A manual swap means changing the car so it uses a manual gearbox instead of an automatic. It’s usually a bigger project than it sounds because you need more than just the shifter.
The Volvo 850 Turbo is a Volvo sedan/wagon platform with a turbocharged engine. They’re using it as an example of a project that’s complicated to do correctly.
A servo is a small motor that can be controlled very precisely. In RC cars it often controls steering, so a better servo makes the car respond more accurately.
A gyro is a sensor that helps the car stay stable while it’s turning. In drift-style RC driving, it can help the car slide more consistently instead of getting wobbly.
LiPo batteries are the common rechargeable RC battery type. They’re used because they can provide strong power, and the host is talking about the wiring/connector setup for them.
Bullet connectors are small plug-style connectors used to wire RC batteries and electronics. They’re convenient, but you want them connected securely so power doesn’t cut out.
The Mazda Miata is a small two-seat sports car designed for fun driving. People like it because it’s simple and there’s a lot of support for modifications. The podcast is talking about using a Miata body as part of a build project.
MST is the brand of the RC Miata body shell they’re using. Different brands can fit differently, so wheelbase compatibility is important.
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m chassis
“M chassis” is the RC car frame they’re using. It’s shorter than the usual setup, so it changes how the car fits certain body shells and how it drives.
Wheelbase is the spacing between the front and rear wheels. A shorter wheelbase can make the car feel more agile, and it also determines whether certain body shells will fit.
The Mazda RX-7 is a sports car, and some versions use a rotary engine instead of the more common engine type. Because it’s an older design, it can need careful maintenance to stay healthy. The podcast is warning to be careful when dealing with the first-generation model.
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comp legal
“Comp legal” means it follows the competition rules. They’re saying the shorter chassis might not be allowed in official events.
A qualifier is a timed or bracketed session used to determine starting positions or advancement in RC racing. It often includes multiple rounds and can be sensitive to setup changes like tire choice and track conditions.
Tire compound is what the tire material is made from. If you switch to a different material, the car can grip and slide differently, so it may feel “off” right away.
Practice laps are your “warm-up” runs to figure out the track. If you change tires between practice and qualifying, the car can feel different even if nothing else changes.
A “project car” is a car someone is working on step-by-step, usually because it needs repairs or upgrades. It’s not just drive-and-go—it’s more like a long-term build or restoration.
A “barn find” is a car that’s been sitting around for a long time, often neglected. The fun part is that it might be saved and brought back to life, but it usually takes work.
They’re talking about European-made cars and how they tended to show up earlier in the U.S. on the East Coast. It’s about where those cars were sold and how that affected what people could buy nearby.
They’re contrasting Japanese cars with European cars. The idea is that Japanese brands were more commonly sold on the West Coast, while European brands were more common on the East Coast.
Max Hoffman was an important person who helped bring European cars into the U.S. The hosts mention him to explain how different kinds of cars ended up being more common in different parts of the country.
In car terms, “rescuing” usually means taking a car that’s been left behind or is in rough shape and fixing it up. It’s interesting because it takes real know-how to bring it back.
The Audi A4 is a real car model from Audi. A “touring car” is a version prepared for racing, and here they’re talking about a racing-themed model of it.
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1000 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 yeah you can't immediately tell somebody how many cars you have you'll
really give those up at a yuppie 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 you know is this a Nigerian oil print I also wish you drove
a tan Camry anyways that's a very horrible podcast content very inside
John they'd love to be driven hard
all right what do auto off topic how are you Brad I'm good Andrew how are you I'm
not bad I'm doing okay sorry sorry for the missed week I planned poorly I guess
I I don't know we just shows how much we communicate sometimes during the week we
do well it's funny because I had a plan to leave here on Wednesday morning I forgot
to tell you on Tuesday night that we should record because I was busy packing
so it was like I don't know maybe we're gonna drift car or something oh we were
driving to Oklahoma to watch our nephew graduate his class of eight so it was a
long drive planned for Wednesday but we did the Maverick so it went smoothly yeah
so yeah we're getting ready to record tonight and you know scrolling social
media course wait for you to get ready and then you know this morning
you know so this weekend coming up it's this is the we are Thursday before
one more day weekend so we've got 8500 on Sunday and then the coke 600 so huge
motorsports weekend in the United States so looking forward to watching the 8500
and the coke 600 so there of course you know my feeds I've got NASCAR any car
stuff so we get a thing this morning cow bush was in the hospital okay now two
weeks ago at Watkins Lynn the guy was complaining about being sick so after the
car he after after the race he got a radio in the car and asked to have
fluids prepared for him when he came into the pits I think right remember
correctly something like that so it seemed like you had a cold dehydrated I
don't know your long road course race that's not uncommon yeah I think you know
he said he was sick before it so now like within the last like two hours it's
come out this film me announced that unfortunately he passed away this
afternoon or during the day today so they haven't said why yeah it's that's
pretty wild because he was only 41 years old yeah so I had no idea I thought he
was I didn't know he's younger than me maybe that's cuz I don't feel like I'm
as old as I am but I was surprised yeah now he's definitely not one of my
favorite drivers some people he's definitely guy that's either you love
him or you hate him I mean he that was his character right like he was that
character to a tee like he didn't want people to like him and it was a character
like it's not who he was or who he wasn't that's just it's maybe characters the
wrong word but he you know every sport has a heel right and it was him I guess
but there's been a couple races this season where he just like picked fights
with people for seemingly no reason so that's true that was kind of weird that
definitely makes you people not like you and he's certainly underperformed in
the you know current gen cars but then he won he won the truck series race
Friday night yeah but they're less than a week ago they're based on the oldest
version of the cars right so well I'm just saying he was still performing at a
top level six days ago yeah I guess you're against guys in the truck series
but you know he was performing at a higher level than most people in the
world yeah you're below the cup series but regardless he was driving the car to
drove a vehicle to a victory six days ago and now he's passed which is just it's
hard to fathom that I guess without it being like an accident like that yeah
medical issue like yeah I don't know it's just weird I said he should retire I
you know sadly I didn't want the guy to die that's no he never wants me to die I
mean most mostly don't want somebody to die but usually it's just like we want
to retire because he's sticking up the field he wasn't doing very good out
there and he was causing problems but at the same time you can't knock what he's
done for the sport over the years as far as bringing people in and is you know I
guess he he was pretty well respected by the other drivers yeah it's sad
nonetheless I mean he did have 63 wins in the cup series that was nothing to
that the previous championship too so yeah that's talking he was talking earlier this
year about you know hanging it up and concentrating on his son who's like I
don't know 13 or 14 years old becoming you know the replacement bush in the
series or in racing in general NASCAR in general so it's just just how it's sad
I don't know how to paint but it's weird when somebody who's younger than you
passes away of seemingly natural causes yeah it's a bummer it's definitely gonna
put a damper on like I said there's a huge weekend in motorsport the United
States so yeah it's interesting because he already had a replacement driver listed
because he was going to be out of the car now do they continue to run that car
or do they not run that cars weekend out of respect for him and his name I don't
I was thinking about this earlier I think they should run the car I think it
would be super cool because number his number is number eight right I think
it would be really cool if all the drivers agree that on the eighth lap or I
forget who's driving his car they just let him leave the eighth lap right is it
all there yeah yeah I can't remember who it is
it's a non-regular but he's a Cup Series driver but he just doesn't have a regular
ride I think currently and I can't remember his name but yeah I think that
would be really cool because it's you know it's the beginning of the race
you're not gonna change much to the beginning of the race but we really
meet they just kind of got together and let the eight car leave the eighth lap
right maybe that's something they do or maybe they pull the car but
Austin Hill was driving his car supposedly yeah but I hope RCR keeps their other cars in
out of respect because that he probably would have wanted that well I'm sure yeah
yeah I'm sure that's for they will I mean that's not only respect but it's also
that's me can't just pull the cars out of the one of the biggest races of the year
so yeah yeah I mean you've had I mean there's been there's precedents for if
there's racing accidents they pulled the cars but sure since he passed away not
in a racing incident yeah they should they should run the cars that that's a
that's a good way I think that's good for the team hopefully I mean I don't know
it depends right you know I'm sure all the teams upset but yeah may want to
compete it's it's what you do every week so yeah I mean take your mind off all
the things right yeah so that's a that's unfortunate news but um yeah I know we
can talk about the Watkins Glen race that was pretty cool
SVG putting on another absolute clinic of road course racing so ridiculous about
that yeah so ridiculous like I don't even yeah he came back there's two weeks
ago now so the numbers I might have wrong here but he made up like 27 seconds
and 18 laps or something because he had to pit with 25 laps left and they were
like oh he's out but no he just drove back to the front like it was nothing
so dumb impressive that dog my guess is the word it's it's really impressive I
mean he's not unbeatable on a road course me lost Dakota so Redick and and Redick
kind of was doing pretty well keeping decent pace with him sure but yeah just
incredible so it should be interesting to see you know what happened I hope I
hope guys aren't giving up on road courses I don't like to see that so
hopefully we see you know since we're going to the San Diego race which is a
street course you know that nobody's ever run before in real life you know I'm
sure there's some setups of it but it should be interesting to see what
happens there like who can challenge so last last time that happened SPG was the
victory so well yeah I mean except for unless something weird happens which
happened in Chicago when you're so yep we'll see yeah no he's he's an impressive
road course racer there's no question I don't I don't even understand the the
vector in times between him and the other drivers like it's not like these
guys are jumps like no none of us could go out there and beat them no they're
if they're professional racebed drivers who are very good at the sport and I my
only thing that I dislike about this dominance of SVG is that it takes non
NASCAR fans from the outside looking at it going like see I told y'all that a
bunch of rednecks I just put a real race car driver out there and he wipes the
floor with them but I don't think that's the case I think that's just the
outside you know perspective but I've heard that from more than one person so
it's interesting to see what's going on but and I don't know we shall see the
other track house cars did qualify well so yeah they just couldn't hold
together for the whole race and they're all top five right yeah they start well
they started up high yeah qualifying so and then I think Conor Zills just had a
bad day in the Cup series but he won the O'Reilly series so he was doing pretty
good most of the day yeah in the walk is gonna race until the very end when he
had a incident as well so yeah that's gonna be a bad day he's also yeah yeah
anomaly I think yeah so that's the thing we have something different there's
something different about SVG and I don't know what it is but the man can
maintain his tires long-credited everybody else and that's one of his
biggest advantages but not only that he maintains his tires while turning it
faster lap time so I just don't I don't know it's just really about his breaking
style breaking style over the others the slip in the clutch in the corners
they were trying to leave the pit stall like almost no wheel spin leaving the
pit stall so yeah you know some of these guys like just it feels dramatic you
just drop it and do a burnout as you get out because you're on sticker jars but
that that's a little bit of you know tire wear and and the cars do have more
horsepower on the on the road courses too so well it should be interesting you
know we're gonna see in the other race I believe our tickets I don't think just
timing wise we won't be able to make it to the truck race unfortunately I believe
our tickets cover all three races but I definitely make it we'll see cuz it's
during the day well how really is the race I don't know we'll have to look at
the back for this I don't want to talk about it right now but okay we'll figure
out logistics of our trip off the podcast but we'll definitely go to the
rally's race because I want to see those cars on a road course because sure it
will be kind of zilch and probably s3g again and whoever else battling up so
that's gonna be a good race Sunday's race should be really good so looking
forward to that like my guess is a lot of cup drivers will be there on the yeah
rally race because it's a new track especially yeah so it's definitely worth
going to it and let's see so yeah walking to them was cool it was interesting
because it was in the spring it's like almost never in the spring I don't think
it's ever maybe it's never been in the spring I don't remember ever being the
spring it's always been a late summer race my lifetime I think so next summer
there's our number yeah next year they are going back to a late summer race so
it'll be in the playoffs it's not the playoffs anymore the chase will be a
chase race yeah and then did the all-star race was this past week which
like we said so also our weekend was a truck race to accomplish one and then I
don't know I didn't watch the Saturday's race I don't know one that I kind of
wasn't super paying attention to the all-star race the like the third lap
Ryan Priest got wrecked or wrecked lap 2 lap 2 and like ruptured the fuel cell
which was insane and the car caught fire and luckily you got out crooked off and
he was fine but like that was just like an insane I haven't seen a NASCAR catch
fire in quite a while it's been quite a while for that kind of fire yeah like
they typically they've kind of set these cars up to not do that because he so that
that was like a red flag condition for a while I think and then it was like three
races in one race I mean it it felt like it was really long like it started in the
middle of the day and then like I was like so it was like four hours or
something the all-star race is always two qualifiers in a main and that's why
they call it the all-star race there are certain conditions you have to meet in
the beginning of the season and if you've met those conditions you're
automatically in the main race in the end there are a number of drivers who
are not automatically in the main race and they're finishing position in the
first two qualifying races determines whether or not they make it into the
main final race and then there's one wild card fan vote choice that gets to go
into the final race as well the interesting thing this year that kind
of screwed everything up so many wrecks right there were so many so many people
wasn't there are so many wrecks cars was just a couple of big wrecks that
there were so many cars that were out that by the end I think that almost
every almost every car that was trying to race in got in just because of
attrition they just had enough spaces open because of cars that were wrecked
so bad they couldn't be repaired that's the other interesting thing is that if
you were wrecked out of the first or second race and you were already in the
final race you were allowed to fix your car for the final race and the one thing
that people were complaining about in that particular situation is if you were
able to fix your race sorry car before the final race if your
car was a hundred percent before you started the race and then you wrecked it
you're able to fix it to a hundred and ten percent meaning you could bend the
rules a little bit more because your car was wrecked fixed from a wreck so
sometimes there's an advantage to that but anyway most of the cars got in only
if you did not and then that meant that the guy who was voted in as you know
fans choice to get voted in was like 7th or 8th down the list just be by
chance because everybody else caught in and that's how Daniel Suarez went up in
the final race so just a wild strange issue I was also only half paying
attention because it's not a points race it doesn't really matter and as we were
talking about free podcast like how do you have an all-star race where everybody
is there that'd be like having an NBA game with 1500 players because they're
in the league is there it's weird to have an all-star race in a sport in a
non-traditional team sport I guess so yeah I guess it should be more like they
combined I feel like they've done in the past they combine the all-star race with
the throwbacks or they went to what's it Wellsboro Wilkesboro right with the
race the all-star race has always been special in some way shape or form one
thing that's pretty traditional is almost always run at night so having an
all-star race not under the lights was also kind of weird and yeah we're
talking about that we're regretting that so I don't think we'll see that again
and they're already talking about next year's all-star race being at another
like legacy old track they don't exactly we'll see what happens we should do it
should just be a cool exhibition race especially because Dover is always such a
good race like it's weird to take it off the schedule and make it all-star race
was that Dover I actually didn't like watching the broadcast like I was like
where is this Nashville like they felt they kept not saying it was weird but
you know what we're also done with we were done with Fox coverage so that's
what hundred percent thank God it's terrible yeah and I don't know where
now well now we're on Amazon but I don't know how long that coverage goes
either so who knows I can't follow it anymore I've been trying to the same
thing with you know obviously not obviously but for anybody who does not
know me my second favorite sport after auto racing is basketball and trying to
follow a basketball playoffs this year has been nightmare because one night it's
on Amazon one night it's on Peacock one night it's on ESPN one night it's on
NBC it's just like can we just have a consistent thing here please like yeah
cable and it worked yeah exactly so hard to follow thankfully I have crime and
Peacock those are the two paid services I have to find the game on but what an
absolute nightmare it's been to watch the basketball playoffs because because
you know there's four rounds of playoffs at seven games each two it's a lot of
games for each team so just trying to find each one is like terrible I guess
I shouldn't complain because you're able to watch every game even if it's an
out-of-market game like you wouldn't be able to watch maybe your favorite team
if they weren't the home team before the divisional playoffs started if it was
just you know the first round but now you can so I don't know it's just hard to
follow it because there's so many different channels it's on because there's so
many different games but anyway currently go OKC so doesn't Celtics
her out okay all right again I've failed at keeping up with Indy car other than
the first race the season I kind of fell off first race of the season and I have
all the rest of them queued up on the DVR and have not watched them bitch like
ten hours of racing before the weekend I've actually been in the garage and I
was thinking that when I'm working on my project or updates that we'll get to
later I can just put them on the background yeah I mean the good thing
is like any 500 kind of exists on its own so it does there's a lot of not-series
drivers in there too yeah but that's I'm definitely gonna make it a point it's
gonna rain in the Northeast hopefully it's not gonna rain in Indiana does every
year and hopefully doesn't rain was it Charlotte coke 600 so right there is
one driver doing the double it's not Kyle Larson no Catherine leg go for her I
hope she does it I'm she completes all she has to do to be better than Kyle
Larson yeah finish both races if she finishes both races she'll have done
better than Kyle Larson has ever done and maybe we can shut Kyle Larson up
by being the best race car driver in any format of any time ever as he clearly
proved himself not to be that no I think you know did you watch any of the
lights from the nevergreen 24-hour race that was also this past weekend I watched
a little bit of it but it seemed to be every highlight reel I watched was
obsessed with the Dacia Sandero yeah well that's pretty cool too but also yeah
it was also funny watching a bunch of F1 fans discovering endurance racing
yeah cars passing each other yeah yeah that's what that's what racing is
supposed to be because Max Verstappen was absolutely dominating for a while and
that Mercedes I don't know if that car I think did the car break I don't know if
they actually won the whole thing I don't know I didn't see the finish I know I
was just fall kind of falling out social media and it used to be
stream for free on YouTube and I guess they cut the US streams because I don't
know it's so silly I hit all right yeah yeah that's definitely a race I'd like
to go to I was there three years ago now just after it and all the stuff was
still left over and I was like man a few weeks earlier what I don't understand
100% it's not directly tied to a race series that's on standalone race like
the Indy 500 kind of well it has its own feeder series feeder races that are
run on the nevergreen there's like shorter qualifying races there was a
bunch of like old stuff out there yeah it's really cool that's what's so cool
about it but there was a guy running what looked like late 80s really 90s
DTM Mercedes and they run that's so cool and they run the north course
north life and the F1 it's huge let's so they combine both tracks which is
really cool so yeah it seems super cool that's definitely a bucket list race to
get to that in Le Mans so but anyway yeah that was pretty cool stuff watching
watching him actually race cars and pass cars you're like okay this guy isn't
just a one-trick open-wheeled car like this guy like the way he's got used to
think Kyle Larson yeah well the the mentality of the way he's racing is
like like race car drives in the 60s would just jump into anything and race it
right it's like a Mario Andretti type thing where he'd race NASCAR race F1
he'd race endurance cars race Le Mans whatever that's what I want to see
that's what I want to see out of my race drivers do it all I want to see you
enthusiast enthusiastic about just racing just wheeling a car that's what I
want yeah drive drive whatever you can drive yeah watching up a person is
really good at driving is really enjoyable so doesn't matter who it is as
long as they're good at my my guess is that a lot of these NASCAR guys would
get much better and road courses if they spent more time driving road courses
during off weeks yeah if they could you know yeah I know there's like
sponsorship stuff but yeah it would be it'd be super cool to see more of these
guys crossover at least with IMSA because that's in the United States or have
them do you know Le Mans have them do a Nürburgring it'd be right
for Stappen for Stappen's car did have a mechanical failure with less than four
hours to go but the other team AMG car won the race
all right no motorsport how about any project updates nothing like super
technical I've been working on a couple of things one of them is the record I
know it feels like I've been saying this every week for months now is going
through the process of going on an auction site and that will be I'm hoping
before next podcast live on cars and bids I don't know if I talked about putting
on cars and bids or not I was not going to based on our experience in the past
with the Infinity but I was running it through Hagerty at first it was a real
issue with the car and the person that particular buyer but then president's
not pulling the review down was kind of why I didn't want to do it but I was
prepping everything through Hagerty because a friend of ours sold their
Galata PR4 through there Josh with pretty good luck but I was annoyed at the
lack of communication from Hagerty and to this day I still haven't received an
email for an actual person from them it's all been like automated or AI written
things that annoys me because I don't want to have that kind of care before
the auction and imagine what it's gonna be like during and after so I decided
not to go through Hagerty at that point and I went through cars and bids and by
the second email I had a person assigned to me and like a personalized email so
that already is enough for me to change so I changed over to cars and bids
thankfully it's also free to list on cars and bids now they don't charge you at
all as a seller so there's no big deal there I sent a bunch of pictures into
them they've been going through those I'm actually taking the car back out
tomorrow night because I want to reshoot some things because I'm not happy with
them they're a little bit darker than I want them to be and in trying to lighten
them up they're just it's so it's just not right so tomorrow after work I want
to go out you know for the the hour leading up to golden hour after golden
hour and take some pictures of the car again and I resubmit all the photos so
I actually spent the last day and a half vacuuming and cleaning and wiping down
and polishing the car just to make sure it looks top shape for the pictures so
that should be good but what I've the big project I've been working on is still
the starry on mechanically I have not done anything but I've been doing a
ton of cleaning of the car I never really got the chance to like deep deep
clean the car before I took it on the rally event a couple weeks ago and I've
been going over it with the buffer and the first step was actually let me back
up a little bit first step was actually removing the pinstripes that are on the
car I don't know if you can picture them but there was a maroon pinstripe that
ran from the headlight along the top of the fender underneath the belt molding
on the window and then up the back of the window and then a second one that
started on the quarter behind the door and ran under the quarter glass all the
way to the back tail lights I didn't hate it but I also didn't love it and on
top of that it was pretty worn out and there are like pieces of it that were
missing so I was actually nervous that it was going to be kind of a disaster and
taking it off and the paint was going to be trash around it if I took it off and
it's gonna show like it been there forever and I couldn't hide it but I got
the good old-fashioned favorite tool out the rubber wheel and I started to go to
town and it came off pretty flawlessly and as we've discussed previously on the
show it's a single-stage paint job on the car so I went over the lines where
the stripe type was by hand with some of the Chemical Guys C4 polish and once I
did like two passes with that I step back and the the fading line was gone you
could not see the pinstripes anymore they were 100% just disappeared so I'm very
happy how that came out then I use that same C4 polish on the random orbital
like slower speed one because I don't know how thick the paint is in the car
there's a couple places like on the corners where I think was happened as
what it was sitting outside under a car cover the wind or the paint off and you
can see some primer spots so I don't want to make those primer spots any bigger
so I've been using on the lower speed random orbital with that same C4
polish and just kind of going over each panel with the on the car with that
polisher and it's the car is amazingly white now when I would be halfway done
with the panel I tried to take pictures but with the weather garage lights are
and just white paint in general and the way cameras catch light sometimes you
see it through the camera but to the naked eye the non-polished panels look
yellow it actually reminded me of like if you see a picture of somebody who you
know took the painting off the wall in somebody's house who was a smoker like
behind the painting we bright white and the rest of the wall just look yellow it
was kind of like that the entire car just looked yellow and they didn't realize
how bright white the paint actually is as we're bringing back that depth to the
single-stage white and getting rid of any of the old staining that was on the car
before so that that white paint is like it's super super white like it's an
ultra bright white and I like it a lot so very happy to how it's coming out so I
think try to remember the name of the color was an 84 if I remember correctly it
was
my bar die with this what's the what's the white color on the summer white so
summer white is what's on the galant right mm-hmm so I think this is gonna be
Sarajevo right no that's not the right color either it should be the right color
and I'll get into that in a minute but I think it's rocky white is the color I'll
have to look it up again I don't remember for a fact but it's a different
white color now I'm bummed because I had it in my head before I started this
podcast now it's gone it should be Sarajevo white because the 84 Olympics
were in Sarajevo and the official car of the 84 Olympics was Mitsubishi so
oh that makes sense now why that was like I was wondered that and I knew that fact
too I never just I just put it together you said it yeah speaking of which there
was a really neat orange like sticker that they had on some of the cars they
sold then that nobody makes a repop off and I'd like to make a repop off to put
in the window because I don't have an 84 Mitsubishi is it the coyote on it or
something or what we talked about the that yeah that particular logo does not
have the coyote on it's just an orange logo with like a snowflake kind of thing
and it's it's neat I'll get it made eventually but there's the little
coyote guy is another local from the Sarajevo he's like the character of the
Sarajevo Olympics right here but that wasn't specifically Mitsubishi but
nonetheless the car the car looks super bright white right now and I am even
more in love with it than I was before and this car is just coming out so nice
I actually my birthday was last week and Naomi was trying to figure out what
to get me for my birthday and we actually got she had already thought of this and
I was like hey I'm gonna order some floor mats for the car she's like I was
trying to start floor mats for you and she actually found the same website that
I was going to use and so actually we ordered the floor mats for the car I
don't know they've ever heard of Lloyd mats no Christopher Lloyd like Lloyd
Christmas yes yeah LL the YOD they're a very old or mat company they've been
around for many many years and they have patterns they're kind of like Coco
Matt's sort of I guess as far as like fancy goes they're incredibly bricy but
they're very nice they've been around for a million years they have patterns in
stock for almost every car so I can have them custom cut to an 84 Mitsubishi
they make them to order they're not in stock and they have like 20 different
colors that she was from so I went and I bought they call them their Lux mats
because the factory Mitsubishi mats on the tan car that I have are a super deep
like half-inch thick piled carpet in that tan color and this car didn't come
with any mats so their Lux mats are the same kind of material that the original
Mitsubishi ones were at the time because don't forget like the Staryon was like
their flyship right so they spared no expense and they built this car in fact
I pulled the front plate frame off the plate frame weighs six pounds that's how
like solid everything is this car doesn't even make sense so anyway I ordered
the mats they actually came today and they are spectacular they're super like
luxurious feeling and they're the perfect maroon color to match the interior so
stoked to have those I'm gonna put those in when I finish cleaning the interior
so I had not been in the interior yet since the rally but so I've been
concentrating on the exterior so this this car has quickly gone from like
give us thing running and run a rally to a brand new car that I'm actually in
love with so I'm very happy with that but still some more things to do I still
got to finish the cleaning wheels up a little bit more I need to get the exhaust
built because it's exhausted I had hole in it but and then start my journey of
the modifications that I want to make once the record is gone so very happy
lights good car keep her forever cool so that's pretty much all I've been working
on I haven't really don't think I've touched anything else what's crazy is
that I haven't even driven the car since I got back I put it in the garage and I
just got a clean that's been sitting there for three weeks now so oh air
conditioning that's why I gotta fix next in the car that's the next big project
so anyway how about you Andrew have you actually been working on the Volvo at all
well actually speaking of putting stuff up at auction I don't think we're really
talking about it my grandfather passed away in February he came out here for
that but he had a 2008 Cadillac with about 3,000 miles on it CTS 4 so I'm
actually gonna it's like doesn't need much cleaning I'm gonna spiff it up takes
some nice pictures but that's gonna go on bring a trailer so we're gonna do this
for so that's the 3.6 or 3.8 liter 4 by 4 all-wheel-drive work yeah it's
all-wheel-drive 3.6 I think this is the direct injection one I think it has
everything but nav it's gold over tan so real honestly no nav no nav is a good
option because yeah actor nav always looks dated exactly so the only comp I
could find was the one I'm bringing trailer from like two years ago is a
red one with the nav I think and I had like 30,000 miles on it and it sold for
like 16 grand so or 12 grand I think so yeah I think I'm gonna take your advice
and put it up as a no reserve auction and just see how it goes yeah you
don't you don't need to get a specific dollar amount out of them and I think
you'll get a better result selling it that way than dealing with Facebook
marketplace people locally right yeah because nobody understands what that is
it's it's a it's a weird it's kind of a weird car super low mileage someone will
really want it who sees a number in your trailer and just let them have it for
whatever it goes for and yeah just selling it for the family so yeah I mean
you'll find out the true market value by opening it up to the market but yeah it
was just funny because I was reading the comments of that comp sale and some
they were asking like oh does have the nav and the guys yeah has nav but I
wouldn't use it I just use my phone like people wanted it to have the nav for
some reason and the seller is like it's from 2008 it's way out of date and like
what do you we care like just like because they're asking me if the screen
popped you know the screen would pop up from the dash it's like yes it pops up
like like you don't need to use it just use your phone so it actually had a
weird option I sort of remember this now if time I had that it had it was like
the episode of it's always sunny which Charlie makes a tape of directions for
Frank it would just voice guide you without a map like through on star or
something yeah but it was actually satellite it wasn't you know at the
third stoplight or the third orb Charlie they're all orbs we're talking
about yeah and then it's it will also include that was a automobile car of the
year in 2008 motor trimmed motor trend car of the year in 2008 like golden
Calipers it will also include the golden Calipers from the dealership I mean I
feel like that because you have that and I think you should probably try to find
a copy of that magazine on even I should yeah I should sell with the car and I
think that some bring a trailer person will be it will see that and be like oh
my god $48,000 hey it may be that's you have your grandfather buying the car
if I can have the Calipers and they're like I guess it's like sure yeah I came
from Sudday right yeah and the and apparently I didn't realize he's got
the banner to those hanging up in the showroom they gave him that oh yeah that's
the thing people don't realize like at car dealerships you can just ask them for
things it's it's kind of when you buy a house we just be like hey can you guys
leave the X whatever it is in the house like I like that let's just leave it's
like it's like ducks ducks in the park as many as you could fit in your trunk
yeah they're all free like yeah you don't like like seriously when I bought
this house it had a bunch of weird mirrors in it and the people that are
selling it were like can we have that mirror in the dining room and has
sentimental value we're like yeah yes yeah but we're just gonna smash it
please take it but if I was like actually I want it we could have
negotiated like a price for it like that's totally like that is not that
is something you can do and just not a lot of people realize it so so I'm I'm
going to interrupt you for one second in Cadillac talk I did look it up Rocky
White is the name of the car but it's the same color code as Sarajevo so my
guess is they changed it in 84 to Sarajevo white because of that if that's a
guess I could be wrong but that's what I'm looking at right here so it says code
w18 Sarajevo or Rocky White so and some of white might be a little different too
you know because I'm white is definitely different it's a little less bright the
Sarajevo white is a brighter like snow white than the sunlight is so having
owned one of each or more than one of Sarajevo and one summit white car in my
past I can definitely say the Sarajevo white is much brighter yeah so yeah I
did work on the I do work on the Volvo my dad and I talked about we figured out
that it needed a brake light switch so I put that in brake lights work maybe I
already talked about this basically buttoned up all the wiring all the
wiring under the hood is done our buddy Jared came over helped me to put on
hoods on the car I got it cranked over fuel system purged got run in the other
night dialed in the electric fan because I had my multimeter it's kind of
thermometer setting on it with a thermal couple so when I got to 190 I adjusted
the fan controller so the fan comes on at 190 it cycles for about 15 20 degrees
gets like 175 shuts off perfect fan controller didn't have a number on it
turn it to nope no number just got a radial switch on it and you just adjust
it so yeah you know the temperature that's good the filters I have on it
air filters the rear one on the rear carb is just touching there's like a body
reinforcement the inner fender it's touching there so I've ordered these were
just cheap like $30 Weber filters I bought some more expensive ITG ones
because they're like single sausage filters for each carb so they're like
you know they're tapered and they're not as tall so they won't hit the body
because basically I was crank it over and it was you could hear it tapping
against the body of the car which is not good because that's directly basically
smashing the car up against the inner fender yeah so basically that'll
change those out and then you know it was running pretty well it was running
very well actually the only weird thing was the fuel pressure regulator suddenly
just dropped to zero even the car was running and the bowl filled up all the
way after I had it adjusted at 3 psi where it wants to live so I don't know
what's going on with that that's kind of annoying hopefully the FML didn't eat it
within five starts that's kind of annoying it's not starts it's sitting
right it's that's what it's only sat with gas in it since November barely any
gas in it yeah you're really annoying I'm actually nervous about that with my
crest at the out front because I put gas in it like two years ago and it's
left an off fuel in my freshly redone tank yeah so I'm you know I've got it
it's been sitting for a couple days next time I go over there I'm gonna try to
start it maybe it'll somehow reset itself you know there's no leaks like I
looked up when these things fail and usually like the diaphragm fails and
it'll be leaking fuel out it'll be like running really rich seems to be okay I
don't know why but maybe there was like an air pocket in there what was being
adjusted or something and like because basically took a while for that little
filter to fill up with fuel as it was running there's no leaks anywhere else
like I don't know it's very weird I'm hoping letting it sit lets it somehow
reset pressure bleeds down or something and I can read adjust it luckily if I
have to those are rebuildable the fuel pressure radius you can't buy parts for
like 40 bucks and rebuild them hopefully now I don't think it's gonna be anything
with that I think that's probably just some weird something weird happened I
think you'll probably self-correct once you're using the car I hope so it's just
weird and everything looks nice and clear and clean in there other than like the
gas turned green for a little bit and then it went clear again it was kind of
weird but it was just getting some of the old stuff out of the tank that didn't
quite get out of it yeah but it has a I have a filter from the tank to the fuel
pump and then the pump pumps it up to this fuel pressure radio which also has a
filter in it and those goes into the carbs the carbs have little filters in
them too currently so they price a little stone filters I assume yeah yeah then
we have to figure out when we were running it in November the temp gauge was
maxed and I think that's maybe we didn't have the fan set quite correctly and the
time it was a bit advanced so that the car might have been running a little warm
but it didn't like wasn't like dangerously warm but but now running it
it's completely flat line it doesn't even move on the dash and the fuel gauge
doesn't move on the dash so I gotta figure that out there's something going
on there's no lights in the dash either those aren't working when you turn the
headlights on so all those like one big ground somewhere yeah it's gonna be a
ground thing that's where I'm gonna start and oh speaking of grounds that was I
had the car running and I realized it wasn't charging I was like that was
weird like I just happened to hook up another we have multiple multi meters so
I had one I was like well you know I'm just curious I hooked up the battery to
make sure it was charging it wasn't charging I was like all right multi
multi meters yeah I was like that's weird I gotta look into that and then the
fan wasn't coming on so as it was coming up to you know temp I'm watching on the
other multi meter I'm like all right this is not good fans not coming on when
it should it's not charging we'll shut it off sure enough I go back and over by
my little fuse panel I have a big ground area with a bunch of the grounds I had
loosened it because I was doing other wiring work and moving things around and
I forgot to retighten it so yeah always check your grounds so once we're gonna
retighten things yeah once I fix that ground the fans are working again and
the car was charging so that's good and yeah that's really it's just gonna be
like fiddling with the final wiring and I've got we talked about tires last time
I ordered them they're here I can have mounted flush the brakes and start test
drive the car yeah it's summertime I start test driving it and I missed the
Marlborough had cruising meet it was last week I'll go to the next one definitely
that's my plan for like three weeks in June so what you need to do is you need
to sign up for a rally that costs like a thousand dollars and then just get the
car running two days before and then slam 2000 hard miles on it if I
can deal with that stress that's what you need to do the car will probably do
the stress test I I don't know if I can take the stress yeah well I I don't know
if I could have done it either without the love and support of family and
friends but especially didn't help me and Chris so it was you need some kind of
ridiculous goal here so I think just getting it two tons over is is pretty
good that'd be a very big win so yeah because in I also I want to try to
finish it pretty quickly this week because I want to get working on my my mom's
beetle what needs to get I want her to be able to drive that over to Marlborough
had to so but I'm pissed up well that's pretty much as far as project cars you
know that's pretty much it I got I got a new cool attempt sensor a different
company than the dent the NGK one NTK NTK one to try on the the launch because
that thing's been weird so I'm gonna try it head-to-head I've got a brand new one
NTK that heads in the toolbox and I got this other new one yeah have them
sitting have them sitting and check the voltage on them yeah we'll tell you what
I had four different ones and I got four different own readouts yeah I'm curious
now roll so yeah that's very strange and then I get stickers on those get
some the Talon and you know once I do the brakes in my mom's beetle a little
ball joints in the G20 so other than that because I can't it's drivable but I don't
want to drive it because they are slightly loose and sure it's probably
fine around town but yeah and I don't know if you're I don't think you're
coming to visit soon but if you need a rinse car when you're here I want you
to be able to use it so yes I don't want to have to I was just I'm trying to
figure out how to make that happen because I PTO is the tough issue but I
want to go out there at least once this summer I'd like to get the NSU rolling
again so I can get that shipped and get the hold done so I get that shipped so
let's see what happens try to figure out something also yeah I I almost bought a
car last weekend yeah but I didn't buy it yet so I don't care about too much
there's a potential bucket in the discord let's take it the secret inside
track you would know this there's a potential bucket list car one of my
three bucket list all-time cars that I've always wanted sort of fell in our
lap last weekend hasn't actually fallen on that yet
but there's a there's a strong potential that it could be here soon is also I
wasn't gonna buy any more cars but you know every now and then things just
happen yeah and I forgot oh totally I found a machine shop willing to take on
the 3dc in the carola okay good I've totally forgot about that car you have
too many cars I did not because it's in my way every time walk outside just not
run and the engines in my way and I just want to get them so my normal machine
shop said no I don't have a block plate for that and I was like well I don't need
to put a block plate on I just need you to like measure the bore and make sure
it's not cracked and make sure it looks good enough to put new pistons in so this
new guy is all about it and he's done many 3dc's over the years and I had a
long conversation with him actually today so I'm excited to bring it down to
him on Monday so things are moving yeah well I also got invited by your dad
back to judge it Misslewood too so yeah if you come up for that that'd be fun I
would like to but chances are yeah slim well I will be judgy in your honor thank
you we have we have like an eight or nine day trip in August that's really I'm
not complaining because I'm not gonna complain about having a vacation but
it's really kind of thrown a bit of a wrench in the works as far as PTO time
to get home at some point because I'm trying to determine whether or not I
walk home at some point during the summer or save the time for the holidays so
we'll see we shall see
I can get more done in the summer obviously but the holidays the holidays so who knows
so anyway and as always I am trying to figure out what car is to get rid of because I can
do some stuff but I'm having a hard time so I think definitely 944 Mercure
I'm recording 944 I want 100% going away other than that I'm having a hard time so
I just don't know anyway if anybody wants to buy one of my cars let me know because
maybe the right off-call would dice me I also have a 13 mile boo with low mileage
that's a good car for someone that I don't want that please book
I also have a 2000 Volvo S70 with like 70,000 miles on it needs a couple things
I kind of want that but I don't want that yeah needs like a power stream pump I think
a couple I'm just gonna sell it as is if I were looking for a daily
I would fly there tomorrow and drive that home over the three-day weekend
yeah but as a great car yeah I'm gonna actually I will probably post that not
I'll put it on Facebook but I'll probably cross post it to a
like the New England face like New England Volvo group because that's like a good
enthusiast Volvo car like somebody will daily that a five cylinder car
they are five cylinder non-turbine yep automatic yeah that's cool
those are very good cars like those were well made cars those from the that was from 93 to 2005
five was that was was it that late series of car yeah because it went from the 850
to the S70 series it's the same car underneath just refreshed yeah those were that was a
flagship car for them that was a big deal after the 240 to build the 850 series yeah I know it was
an overbuilt car it was very much like a very on overbuilt great yeah those are really good cars
um but yeah um I don't know that's pretty much a manual swap one of those
pretty difficult uh ask Jordan our buddy with the 850 turbo yeah it was it was not simple
that's right I remember what that took yeah yeah yeah it's actually possible by that car
uh yeah I'll see let's see if anyone wants it but uh anyway that's all the real cars I have
I can talk about a couple RC car stuff sure I actually before we started that I visited
the local new drift track there um I haven't built my drift car yet because obviously real car
projects have been in the way but I'll get there but I visited there the the pricing structure is
very similar to your drift track setup so that's good to know um it's the same kind of tile that
they run on yours so that's good for ease of use um but there's a bunch of other cool stuff there
too like they have a huge crawler course yeah um like a carpet a couple different carpet tracks
and a full minisee track which is the most dangerous one because I love minisies yeah
so I need to talk to them about seeing if they ever run they should do a vintage minisee night
because I would 100% be there it's just cool because it's like uh you know people talk about
like a third space is it's a it's a nice third space that's not a bar or whatever yeah you know
and for less money than it cost to hang out at a bar all night for sure exactly like it's not
so they it's like one price like it's not hourly right yeah it's a day right yep yeah
yeah that's what you do with an hour left it's on you you get there with six hours left you pay the
same price yeah that's cool so yeah and they have the same thing as yours where there's a membership
to get you discount and all kinds of stuff so yeah I'm gonna bring my car out because we're
we're gonna stay out there for a week after the San Diego race I'm gonna bring my car with me
one of my car will definitely be done be definitely done by that so I'll bring up a couple of the
small tools because they travel well so we can tune your car like the alignment rack and stuff and
maybe the scales excellent um
oh excuse me a little dust there yeah
one second
here's a little seltzer water diesel right yeah um I've been working on the TTO2 with the MRC
conversion that's been pretty fun let's go a ton of MRC parts on it now and some Tamiya
alley shocks which I always wanted on one of my Tamiya cars so it's funny because you say MRC
and my brain goes to old Tamiya stuff because that used to be the importer of Tamiya stuff back
in the 80s model rectifier corporation nope it's now in Japan it's matrix racing club and they make
a bunch of totally unrelated yeah but they're making a bunch of cool parts that change the suspension
geometry a bit and add angle and it drips pretty well I was playing around with it took a different
I had to get a better servo for it um you know that the quote-unquote cheap
drift servo on a main was not very good I actually need to leave a review for it because it stinks
it's too fast it'd be better on like a rock crawler where you need some high torque
to move some big tires but uh you know so change the gyro on it that works a bit better
it's an interesting gyro it's a it's another Japanese company metal garage but it's a rebrand of
RCOMG which apparently is like probably the manufacturer that manufactures because they
they look basically identical to all the yokomo stuff and all the rev d stuff and there's a lot of
debate online on whether stuff's the same because that's typically the way Chinese manufacturing
works is they just have one factory and they make everything like um and then basically they're
probably just the only one that's bespoke maybe is the programming but uh these also have a
programmer like the yokomo does you can change the stuff that you want so it seems to work pretty
well at least in the TTO2 so um I sent that to you earlier you can get like a gyro that should
perform as good as the yokomo v4 from what people say for like half price so yeah I was excited
that I haven't bought the stuff yet when I got that from you because they'll probably buy all that
stuff yeah so and then I can I can tell you about the other stuff after I don't have to bore people
with it but I kind of like the entry level yokomo latrachs are pretty good for I've been
looking at the entry level motor and speed controller yeah it's pretty that's what I'm
running it's it's pretty darn good uh and you can get the adapter for the Tamiya plug to
to run bullet connectors into the lithium uh the lipos so um it's not a big deal or you can
uh yeah that car's been pretty cool and now I'm working on the uh
I'm gonna convert the mbo1 I got an eagle racing drift kit for it which basically moves the servo
to the front uh it's got a lot of blingy blue aluminum on it so it'll be a little different
and uh I'm gonna retire that a-wrath body because I don't want to get ruined because it's really
cool looking I'll get a display chassis for it and uh I've got a mst na miata body that's gonna
go on this m chassis car so it'll be a 225 wheelbase m chassis which is shorter than a regular
1.10 scale car sure I didn't know that the mst miata was actually a short wheelbase it is uh
that's good and it's funny because the reviews were like this is supposed to fit the whitey car
which is a regular size yokomo and something that really wasn't reading the description or
maybe it wasn't described properly but yeah it's an m chassis body I thought for sure it was for
the bigger chassis myself and I read the description so maybe it was not described properly yeah I
think that and the first gen rx7 maybe yeah maybe not yeah you gotta be careful but it's cool I like
that it's not as common because it's hard to get those bodies to see m chassis cars and m chassis
are not comp legal because they are shorter so um yeah that should be a fun little project something
different uh and then I actually did the beginning of the month I didn't talk about I did comp at my
local track um that went about as well as you expect uh see you won this yeah maybe the second
round of the qualifier um that was hard I I actually didn't realize that we were running one
tire compound I didn't realize we changed the tire compound uh they did talk about it I remember
seeing it but I kind of ignored it I didn't understand what people were saying uh so like I
basically did all the practice laps and the old tires and then switched the new ones and did a
couple laps and then much qualify so it just felt slightly different but I thought it was just me
sure but yeah the tires were slightly it's it's funny how the plastic tire material does make
them feel slightly different yeah I mean compound is compound right it's plastic rubber if it's a
different material it's gonna yeah do a different thing and then the the course was very tight and
very technical different from the last one that was a little bit more open so it was tricky it was
you know I was like qualifier mill like basically I think they only had 16 drivers
or 20 they had 20 drivers that's what it was so they did like a bottom eight qualifier for
so I was in the bottom eight so they just had all the bottom eight guys go against each other
and then move up to the whatever the next thing would be I don't know I can't do it right now I'm
sorry uh you weren't there so you don't know yeah yeah uh basically you like I don't know what's
confusing right is like you start out there's a lead car a chase car and basically the lead car is
just trying to hit all the zones and the little precision like squares that you can go over and
you're like trying to just like get some angle get in the box and go around the corner because
they're marked out with yellow but like you know I like take off and I'm like doing it
and seemingly doing all right and it's like the other person dragging behind and you're like
did I do something wrong like why are they so far behind like this is confusing they're not like
keeping up with me but it's also because they're not very good so it's like you're also in the
bottom eight yeah so you're like it's because when I'm there just messing around and I'm like
chasing one of the guys who's like one of the best drivers I can just hang with him because I'm
just matching what he's doing like it's just you're just mimicking what he's like I can just
do that but when you have somebody else leading is hard yeah you're like I don't like am I doing
this wrong and then you know like I eliminated like two people and then I went up against this
other person and I got eliminated and it's like I don't even understand what just happened like I
did it exactly the same as before but I don't understand what the difference was but whatever
that's weird so maybe I don't know the nuance nuance is one of those things that it's like
drifting those things like the nuance is the whole thing that you don't understand the nuance
and you don't understand what happened and I bet the more you do it and the more conversations you
watch maybe you'll understand more maybe it's like watching a professional sport you know when I
first started watching basketball I didn't understand what was what and now I've been watching it for
so long I get it maybe it's not it's not going to be very practical though just do it I don't want
to pay 40 bucks just to learn every time so like the next time you can go at spectate well that too
but the next time one's going to come up I'm going to be like hey to the people that go regularly
can we just do like some mock competition because we could all probably use it because it's like
this is you can't it's silly becomes open practice for them too so yeah it's silly to just
I don't know it's I'm trying to speed run it a little bit then just do it every single time
that'll take a long time I don't know time to go to school of youtube yeah maybe there is I don't
know I don't like watching you I don't just get out of the attention span for youtube videos for
some reason I can watch regular tv shows but I just can't attend something always hold me yeah it depends
anyway that's what I've been working on let's get a lot of cast stuff I'd recommend you watch the
latest John Ludwig video if I'm right swing that Audi from the woods because I'm curious I don't
like it would be entertaining to watch but I sat there and I watched the whole thing like I was
doing other things at the same time and I watched it in two sessions but it was incredibly entertaining
to watch them navigate that thing from its spot of death in the woods and get it out of there
without destroying it yeah I was very cathartic to watch it's interesting because he you know he
sent my local uh he's he's nearby where I go to in New Hampshire a lot and it's like how does he
keep finding all these old out east in the woods of New Hampshire I don't know he talks about that
in the video and he brings up the point that I brought up before you know talking about the nsu
and stuff like european cars came into the east coast japanese cars came to the west coast that's
just how it was you know you had the whole max hoffman thing bringing cars in through new york
and they wanted to being filtered around new england you had a dealership network out here that sold
or out here out there in the east coast that sold european cars and they just they came to that side
of the country faster so that's just what oh there's a Volkswagen's of course those fair west coast
but it's just a uh it's the only one thing to have european cars yeah the bullfights are everywhere
because they were cheap but they were very misunderstood and I remember you know talking
to people in the past about out east in the 70s and even in the early 80s and they were just people
would just laugh at them they were useless cars to people but which is probably why that one
wound up in a junkyard in 1978 when it was eight years old yeah so somebody couldn't fix it so
yeah so yeah because the car's not smashed at all and even they were dragging it out of woods
the wheels rolled so crazy crazy it the cars are very rusty don't get me wrong it's all
like it's a nice car but that's his aesthetic though so that's 100% what he does yep I dig it
so and to give you a chance to like go buy his place and check out his stuff he's a really nice
guy too in person so no matter a few times but anyway yeah I'd recommend watching that because
that was very entertained by it and I don't even know why like I said there's not a lot too it was
just it was just cool to watch so maybe because it's like the rescuing of a car is kind of like my
thing you know the car I was talking about earlier is a similar situation it's just sitting under
a retrogety yard so who knows very interesting to watch him because his father is a lifelong
recovery tow truck driver so he knows how to do this stuff and I guess it's like anything if you're
watching somebody who's good at their craft doing their craft it's fascinating to see that happen
you know knowing that they know what they're doing even though it looks like chaos yeah so
yeah his father's old shop is on the way to where we go in the after it's an old art deco
service station yep it's super cool there for years yeah I don't know who owns it
and then we've done anything with it hopefully they don't tear it down because it's really cool
looking like you just put a coffee shop in there or something it would just look cool like that yep
so I'll leave it with a lot or you buy it ourselves yeah exactly anything else
no thanks so Andrew I think that's an episode all right cool so you know follow us on instagram and
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tsi ss 350 they can find us both on scale outcast I did just pick up a couple of new tarmac cars
I haven't bought any for a long time but they just released a b5 Audi a4 touring car and it is
spectacular so I bought it immediately um I haven't fixed the pictures of it they haven't yet but it's
killer so uh that's like by me so I've been posting pictures of the previous rally that I
recently did and updates on stereo and of course stuff basically right now so more stuff to come
all right cool and if you want to hang out with us talk cars and talk cars a bunch of other cool
people message us for an invite to the discord so 100 percent we got another vintage Audi owner
today yeah all right cool as always keep cars analog and name of the roses
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Road-trip chatter turns into NASCAR hype, starting with the “coke 600 so huge motorsports weekend in the United States,” then shifting into how teams handle sudden driver tragedy and what it means for race-week decisions. The hosts bounce through road-course storylines (Watkins Glen recovery, San Diego street-course uncertainty) and All-Star format rules, including fuel-cell drama and repair allowances. After the racing talk, the show dives deep into project-car work: selling strategies, paint/pinstripe correction, and hands-on troubleshooting like fan controller tuning and fuel-pressure regulator mysteries.
Hey we are back. This episode kicks off with some Motorsports talk and then we get into some project car stuff. Andrew is days away from driving the Volvo and Brad has been treating the Starion to a spa day. Then Andrew talks about some R/C drifting and working on R/C chassis.
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