Garage Heroes In Training Oct 14, 2025

GHiT 0734: Prepping for NHMS and Summit Point Races - And More

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Who hope to one day be the world's greatest driving heroes, created from the cosmic legends

of the universe, comes our team captain, The Vision, Bill Fisher.

And there soon to be Wonder Woman, Vicky Fisher.

And our captain marvel and head flight trainee, Jennifer Scriptjunk.

Their mission to fight injustice, share what is right and wrong to get you out of your house

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They are The Garage Heroes in Training Team.

Welcome to The Garage Heroes in Training Podcast.

We are not an IT podcast, obviously, by the time that it took me to get this

one started.

Who else has house tag?

Hi, I'm Jeremy.

I'm Max.

I'm Andrew.

I'm Vicky.

And I'm a bad IT person.

Anyway, we are here on The Garage Heroes in Training Podcast to talk to our sister

cars, sister teams, and sister friends or brothers, brothers, sisters, uncles,

cousins, something, is there a gender neutral version?

I don't know.

Anyway, so we thought we would get everybody up to speed with where we are, where we've

been, and what we're up to, and what we got coming up, because we got some stuff

coming.

So, you know, instead of talking to people about what they're doing, we decided

we were going to tell you what we were doing.

So, Jeremy, you are driving home from an event.

Yes, sir, I am.

And you've been doing several events.

So what have you been up to there, buddy?

I have been incredibly busy with extreme experience by instructing gig that I do.

I have traveled to, I don't know, six different states in the last five weeks.

And I'm coming off of our home event, my home event, which is New Hampshire Motor

Speedway.

So that was nice to be there for the last four days prior to the upcoming

race in two weeks.

Get me back prepared, because I haven't been, I haven't driven that track

in a minute.

So just in case people aren't aware what extreme experience is, why would

they not be?

We've had, we've had episodes on it.

What's extreme?

Extreme experience is for all of you listeners that have never been on a

racetrack, it is your chance to drive a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or any

supercar that we have or Jeremy's favorite or my favorite, my new

favorite right now, the Z06.

And it's the opportunity for you to drive on a racetrack with a

professional driving instructor, giving you tips, tricks and hints on how

to be quick and drive correctly on a racetrack while experiencing the

unbelievable thrill of a supercar.

So they can get professional instructors and or Jeremy.

And or Jeremy.

Very well.

Yeah, you better hope I'm not in the car, because yeah, that's I learn

every day.

It's like every time if you don't, you're doing it wrong there,

buddy.

Yeah, no, you're right, right.

All right, so so that's what you've been up to recently.

Max, what have you guys been doing?

Getting ready for lemon's new Hampshire coming up.

Nice.

How goes that?

It's good.

Car wise, which car first off, you've got a variety.

You've got the melted wagon.

You got the

so we're going to bring the the 30 again.

Okay.

And yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, great.

And it's pretty much pretty much ready to go.

Just like, I don't know,

might try to lower the seat, just to spec if possible, that kind of

stuff and.

You know, change all the fluids, change the brakes.

Just basic stuff in between since Thompson.

It's been pretty good.

To upgrade the whole system, because they change all their

fittings with their new systems, they merge with someone.

Oh, cool suit and cool shirt, I think, or something like that.

So, so we found the

the ends, you know, not through them and it's like half price.

Can someone say McMaster car?

Yeah, we didn't get them from there, but I did see those on there.

But, right, yeah, so we did that, changed the ends on some

shirts and to try to make make it work with everybody's stuff.

Yeah, the fittings are the biggest pain with those systems.

Yeah.

So your front cool suits in 50 degree weather.

Well, it was something that we had a problem with at Thompson.

OK, so they want to come like unplugged while you're driving.

And so we were just trying to correct it for if and when we

need it, you know, next time, which we might not need it in

New Hampshire or not.

I mean, last year it was warm enough to to want it.

Popping. OK.

It was really nice.

It might not be like that this year, but we'll see.

So, Jeremy, this is called fixing it before you need it.

Is that what you do?

Yeah, well, I mean, you don't have to.

You can.

Oh, OK.

You know, the first rule of lemons.

Don't bring broken shit to the track.

Well, you need to tell everybody that races.

I mean, I didn't say they made the first rule.

They just know the first rule.

So coffee.

Yes.

What about you, Miss Audrey?

You've been helping Max out.

You've been you've been strangling life, taking it

taking it by the hold and kicking some butt.

Yeah, yeah, you know, I've been beating him into submission.

I guess that he 46 projects so that, you know,

can become the next one.

Cool.

He likes it when you do that, though, Audra.

Don't I know that's motivating?

Yeah.

How about you?

The only fans podcast would have to complete that joke

that I had in my head.

So we'll skip on that.

Did you get out for autofrost today, Miss Vicky?

We did.

Nice. Yep.

That's exciting. So where did you go?

Like homing mall, which is out near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

It's kind of like not quite central, but kind of like east of central

Pennsylvania.

And took us about an hour and a half to get there.

Took Dogo with us.

She was a hit because everybody that was supposed to be here

there was nobody left.

So we took everybody we took the dog and she was she was a hit.

She was so good, so good,

just chilling out underneath the tent, not moving, going anywhere,

just hanging out by herself.

I just I just want to distract Vicky from a dog podcast.

Miss Vicky.

Yes. On the podium.

I did. I made third.

That's awesome. Yeah.

The car license you drive.

I did. Me and Jennifer shared the Miata, this one here.

But the 99 Miata.

I'm not going to do that again, because that's just a hot mess.

The jumping in and out and trying to get. Yeah.

It's driving.

Yeah, it's not not fun.

Not fun. Six point harness co-driving is not apparently.

No, not great.

No, not great at all.

We did it with the lemons car when we first with the five series.

That is when we first got that going, and that was, you know,

a lot of hop in and out pretty gets pretty hectic sometimes.

Yeah, you don't really get a breath.

Especially in the harness.

I thought you drove for like a minute and 30 seconds.

How was that like?

Yeah, but as soon as I sat down, I yeah, I had.

Sometimes the driver changes.

There's no there's not enough time between runs to like,

like, you know, get out casually.

You know what I mean?

OK, all right.

So, like, it all depends on the pace of the event, really.

Yeah, I've never had a fight with great people, though, over it.

No, not you.

That's good, you're good.

Yeah, yeah. So we did that today.

But I got to tell you, soon as soon as that sucker ended,

it was almost an empty parking lot.

I mean, there was no like ending.

There was no nothing.

There was just you drove back and and I turned around

and like half the parking lot was gone.

Like, holy crap. OK, this is how it goes.

I tried, Audra.

I think I was trying to follow in your footsteps.

I believe the proper training ritual was vacate the premises,

go to a bar with way too much background noise and record the podcast.

The two girls refused after all those episodes that you did.

They refused to do it.

I'm like, this is the professional way to do a podcast after autographs.

What is the matter? And they wouldn't know it.

Yeah, what the dog in an hour and a half away, that's different.

And sometimes you just have to learn from others' mistakes.

And, you know, we did it once.

It was probably not the best way to go.

But we weren't drinking.

Once. We thought it was fine. Once.

Oh, well, OK, there was the one from the casino.

Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, wait a minute.

There was that other time.

And then there was there was this one time back in band camp.

Where? Yeah. Yeah.

I believe it. I believe it.

If I were to put like a bookie, if I were to put the betting odds,

I would say the over and under is four.

I'm leaning towards five, so maybe four and a half.

Oh, yes.

There was one at the end.

I have to go back to the casino.

It's been a little while.

I listened to him. You just made them.

Bill, you got to remember she was drinking

so she doesn't remember. That's true.

That's true. It's fine. It's fine.

They wouldn't do it.

Audra, I don't know what does what's the matter with these two?

They they they didn't want to follow

in the footsteps of your greatness.

Maybe they didn't want to be measured against the bar.

That was the shift.

There was that.

I did think much of Audra when I was out there.

I did as that's good.

Up, Jeremy's in New Hampshire.

Did you have fun?

I did. We had a good time.

We're going to have to do it.

I think in the very first trip out,

I know I'm burning a little pod for our second one,

but totally missed the course.

No, totally did not even go in the right time zone for the course.

Nope. No, that's that's that was one section is like,

oh, the cones are way over there.

Yeah, I was on the field.

So it's fine.

So, Jennifer, on the the course starts with like a kink into a big.

Set my lazy left turn like a big wide banking turn into a slalom.

Jennifer came around that left turn

and just followed that left turn as if it just kept going straight through the slalom.

She had really, really fast.

You know, I will say if you want to have a fast time,

just don't slow you go much faster.

She was a blazingly fast on her first run when she didn't do this.

Well, she did the slalom.

She she looked at all the cones and said, oh, there's one over there.

There's they were all to her left.

I don't know. Maybe it's a different.

I was like, wow, she's got really good time.

Yeah, she got really good time to come back in.

Yeah. And I'm like, man, I got to up my game.

Yeah. Then realized she missed like a whole section of cone.

But she didn't miss up. She went right by.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, you know, that's OK.

That's fine. Did you drive the Miata as well, Phil?

No, it was just the two of them.

But we we planned on we planned on going.

It was going to be Jennifer and Vicki and I.

And then we invited Liam and he brought his girlfriend, Sid.

And then we're getting everything together yesterday.

And we realized there's nobody home for the dog.

So we're like, oh, let's bring the dog

because we'd only done Evo school.

So we were expecting three groups.

So we were like, one group will be working, one group will be driving

and the other group can watch.

There was only two groups.

So I dropped out.

So. How many times has Bill?

What's up?

I know I told him that.

Audra, what did you ask?

Oh, I was wondering how many cars they were running.

Total. Yeah, I think there was.

Seventy somewhere around there.

It's the last last event of the week, the last event of the year.

Sorry.

Well, you turned like Vicki.

How big was it?

It was a pretty big course.

Allow me. Oh, my gosh.

Let's see her first two two rounds.

She I don't know if these are exclamation points

is that to them, but they seem to be horizontal.

There's a line through a line through.

I went off course to like twice.

So I've got two two runs with lines through them.

Like exclamation points, I think.

And then she managed.

Let's see, we did one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Ten laps.

That's great.

And her one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh

matched her last.

Thirty eight point five, eight, six to the to the thousandth.

Well, that's that's a decent size

course for a mile.

So the fastest car in the fastest time was a thirty one eight.

And that car was pretty damn fast.

I wouldn't imagine.

Yeah. And then I realized I had ball tires.

That didn't help.

I was like, Bill, I think the tires are spent

because, you know, truly have a hard time gripping.

Yeah, I did a quick calculation there.

And then I did a quick calculation driving back.

Care to guess how many heat cycles those those puppies had?

Anyone just slower than tire pressure.

You're good. How many how many heat cycles?

Yeah, I was going to say sixty five sixty seven.

No, you said it was you told me thirty.

Well, I thought about it more.

A fun further review.

Hey, listen, if I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times.

The limit is the limit is the limit.

You drive what you got.

That's what you got.

If you wanted better tires, you could drive back for two hours

and drive back for two hours.

And by then we'd have to set up our own cones.

So those those were the tires you had.

Yeah, you came in third.

Yeah, if I didn't have to jump in and out so much, you know,

and it wasn't towards the end of the day.

And I realized what was going on.

God, you're a golfer with these excuses.

No, I was thinking I should have just lowered the tire pressure.

It didn't even check the pork.

I know. But we were as soon as we were, except for lunch,

we were just in and out or in the field.

So, you know, have an adjustment to the cars.

Like as soon as it brought in, I had like a few moments.

But if there was a second car and Jeff was in a second car,

I would have had time to to mess with the car.

If if.

Oh, I mean, it's hard.

It's very, very busy.

Oh, it is.

But you know what the most fun for for her father is?

Is when Miss Vicki comes in third

and her son in a better car slower.

That's satisfying, isn't it?

Am I going to have fun with that this week?

Yes, I am. Yeah.

Yeah.

He beat her.

She beat him by let's do the math.

Well, you should be beating him

because you have ten thousand times the track experience.

But he's in a twenty twenty five Honda Civic

and she's in a nineteen ninety nine Miata.

So she she did thirty eight, let's say thirty eight five.

He did forty two nine.

Is the Honda prepped at all?

No, no, it's a street car.

Street car. Oh, well, you know, it then she should be kicking his ass.

Well, well, well, well, every five cents.

Yes, you know, it's perfect for out of press.

A good carpenter never blames his tools, people.

Never blames his tools.

So Bill seems how you've been deflecting this all time.

But what have you been up to?

I go for, you know, I am a a veritable trove of health issues.

So I have my latest one was I had eye surgery last week.

So how did that go?

You look pretty, you know, as the doctor said,

you have blue eyes and now you have.

A magnifying lens inside your eyes go by sunglasses.

OK, I go by sunglasses.

So yeah, team anyway.

So that was kind of half the reason I drive today, besides the dog.

Yeah, just that was that was his excuse

for not coming to race with me at New Hampshire as well.

Yeah, well, I just I was pretty serious, I don't know.

I am here are the restrictions I am allowed to do.

I have to sleep on my back and vertical.

I have a maximum lift weight of 10 pounds, 10 pounds.

That's like a gallon of water.

If I go get a gallon of milk, I have to get Vicki to smell.

Yeah, I know.

I know, I'm just, you know, buttering Jeremy.

No, we can't. No, we can't.

Yeah, not with my left hand.

Um, and then let's see what else sleep on my back.

There's 10 I know, I just got to give you a crap.

I know it's fine.

Listen, we can't all look like Santa Claus, Jeremy.

That's right. That's right.

We can all be Santa Claus here.

That is a fact.

You're the gift that keeps on giving, Jeremy.

Oh, you got that right.

That's right. So, Jeremy, how's the how's your car coming?

I, Nick, Nick came up a month ago or so, something like that.

That, that weird guy who's coming to New Hampshire racing.

Lies.

We went over the car, had to order tie rods, did a couple of the things,

swapped a few parts here and there.

And then I just got the tie rods in last week on Monday, I think,

or this past Monday.

I just got to put the tie rods in, inner tie rod was smoked.

But that was really the only, was it bent or wore out?

That was just wore out for two races to just have an inner tie rod that was bad.

That was, I mean, that's pretty damn good.

That's good.

So I'm going to put those in when I get back from New Jersey.

So that Monday, when I get back, I'm going to put those in

and then load everything into the trailer and I'll be ready to drop

everything off Thursday at the track.

You know what?

Somebody had a Chevy S10 at the autocross today.

Same year, same year, but it had the like the pickup body, not the steak side.

Yeah. Somebody had the El Camino too.

Yeah. El Camino, old one.

Mm hmm. That's awesome.

Yeah. That was fun to watch.

There was one guy out there, or girl, I don't know, because I had a helmet on.

And Vicki's times were like 38 seconds, right?

Care to guess?

Fastest time was 31.

This was on the other end.

Care to guess?

Um, hold on.

Hold on.

I got 73.

73. All right.

Anyone else?

Forty nine.

OK. Forty nine.

Max, would you say 55?

Fifty five.

OK.

Audrey, you're the autocross experience, I'll say.

I'll go 80.

The correct answer.

Ninety eight point three.

How does that happen?

If you saw him, you would understand.

Well, I'm not surprised.

He was probably a hundred years old.

I think the guy picking up the cone passed him.

But the dude, the dude or the dude

that was having the best time ever.

SCC. That's all the past.

The car wasn't.

It was it was another one of the older cars.

I think, you know what?

I think I know what there was an older woman who was who was in the car.

And it looked like an old charger, like an old charger

or like a duster or something like one of those cars like has those lines.

You know, those two cars look nothing like.

I know, but yeah.

So but I do I do remember that because she had come up.

He's like, how's your day going?

The woman probably was like in her 70s, so it could have been her.

I wasn't sure if she was autocrossing

or trying to pass her limo driver test.

Something was going on.

Yeah, she was passengering in a car that was like goldish color.

Yeah, it was hysterical, but it was it was great because they were having

the awesome, though, fun.

That's all right.

That's all that matters.

Ninety eight, you said.

Yeah, ninety eight seconds.

Yeah, it was spectacular.

I really wanted to know what happened

because the scoreboard only had two digits for seconds and three digits for

thousands so close to going like ping.

That's awesome.

Yes, you know what?

She's like she looked like she was probably about like seventy two and you know,

was the seventy three year old looks different.

No, I'm just saying she was she was it.

She was roughly in that age group and good for her.

I mean, hey, they were probably with her son.

They were having a good time.

That's all that matters.

That's what matters.

All right.

Before we move on from autocross,

Audra, you have run many organizations.

You have run many events.

You've you've been responsible for many, many autocross things.

Care to guess how many things we screwed up today at autocross.

And I'm not talking driving.

I'm talking to everything else.

All of them.

How many?

There was five of us.

Many are there.

Five of us with three cars.

Guessing there was a lot, Bill.

Yes. Yes.

That's a good number.

Twenty three different things.

It may be what happened?

She may have gotten faster than we are for the number of screwed up things.

We had a lot of it's fine.

You know, we were just out there farting around.

Yeah, it was a disaster.

Part of it wasn't our fault.

The web page on motorsports.redge didn't have everything.

So when we registered, we didn't really register because they're like,

well, what class are you in?

I'm like, didn't ask.

What car are you in?

Didn't ask.

So that was some of it wasn't our fault.

But man, if it could go wrong,

we did it all the time.

Jennifer took the wrong helmet because it had Vicki's face on a name on it,

the sticker thing.

Oh, God.

So in other words, what you're saying is when anyone asks garage heroes

and training for advice on anything racing, yep, do not listen.

Do not do what.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

It's the exact opposite, Jeremy.

We do things wrong, so you won't.

What you're saying really is, you know, you've been hacking

on me about autocross for years now.

No, actually a little bit harder than you thought it was.

No, the driving was fine.

It was everything else we screwed up.

Yeah, you know, it was it was the equivalent of like walking

into an entirely different environment

because we've only done like one autocross before that.

Only evo schools.

Yeah. Vicki.

So kind of going in there, it's like, oh, that's what that means.

And as the cars are going by, I'm like, well, what does that mean?

You know, what are the what are those letters mean?

And then I'm like, and the letters kept going.

It was like AST, BST, CST.

And, you know, at one point we were like up a G.

I'm like, do you get the whole alphabet?

You know, and he's like, no, he goes, I think they stop at H

because one of the guys had the flags that was there.

And I'm like, well, I want to work hard enough just to get B.S.

on my car. That's what I want. Just B.S.T.

So, yeah.

So, you know, and then like towards into the second, I'm like,

oh, that's what that little box is.

That's the time. OK, because I wasn't even paying attention to the time.

I was just driving, you know, so just just it was just.

You caught on quick, but I but I was so focused on other things.

I'm like, and then it took a while for everything to kind of knit together.

And I'm like, OK, now I get it.

And then with the shared card, they wanted us to change the numbers

in between drivers. Yeah.

That was a pain.

Yeah. Just put a one on the end of it every time I got in.

So it's OK. No big.

No, we got this covered.

So, Jeremy, I'm saying it sounds like a very long day for four minutes of driving.

Yeah. But, you know, I made I made friends.

This whole social aspect, the driving is fun.

It's very intense.

Yeah. If you just, yeah, I'm just doing a lot of talking.

Yeah. So so one of the guys, one of the guys was there.

He's like, so how different is this from like your racing?

And I said, well, in our racing, you kind of get it is pricey,

but you get your bang for your buck and we've converted many autocrossers.

Come in, come in. We've got cookies.

You know, we haven't actually even done an autocross in two years.

Yeah. That's perfect.

Next year, Audra, Max and I are going to go do an autocross somewhere

because I've never done one.

And that would be so much fun.

We're close enough that we could find a place and go.

If you do it and schools in session, we will come up and visit

and we will do it too.

Yeah. How long does it take you to get to Devon's, Jeremy?

I think Jeremy wins the New Hampshire Internet.

It's very frozen.

Yep. Jeremy, you're back.

That's one way to have liked that question, I guess.

I guess he doesn't know.

You back, Jeremy. There he is.

What was that? Look, I heard how long and that was it.

Oh, I was just wondering, Jeremy, how long does it take you to drive

from like your house to Devon's?

I don't know. I've never driven there.

Yeah.

Well, it's probably 38 seconds or so.

Where is Devon's? Where is Devon?

Air mass, surely mass around that area?

Well, it's probably an hour and 20 minutes.

Maybe an hour and a half.

That's about what it takes for us to get there as well.

Yeah. If it's too far,

Audra knows a nice haunted house we can rent on Airbnb.

And that would be like 40 minutes or four hours for a bill.

Yeah, probably. That's kind of extreme.

It's all right. You guys are worth it.

Yeah. And that haunted house would be great.

Yeah. Well, not Jeremy, but you guys.

We can take Audra back.

Murder house.

Do we want to do we want to let anybody into the the inside joke

in case they missed that episode?

Well, Airbnb, that was very, very scary.

Wasn't there like a.

Oh, that's right.

The murder house.

Yeah, yeah, this is weird loft with like an old lady chair

and it was freaky.

Yeah, sounds great.

You know, that was, you know, running across the golf course

with, you know, adult drinks in the dark.

And we're not supposed to be there, but anyway, the murder.

Sounds fun.

Well, that wasn't the plan for the weekend.

So that's that's one reason you got to make

got to make the best of a bad situation.

So we've got some upcoming races.

You do. Yes, we do.

Jeremy Max and Audra will be at.

We'll be at lemons at New Hampshire.

That's right.

Jeremy's home track.

The rest of you guys will be at summit the following weekend.

That's right.

And we have I'm just saying I'm calling my shot.

We got one hell of a theme for there.

So how's the car?

I am about done the list to get to the transmission.

Civic. Yeah.

Yeah, I think out of all the list, I talked about.

What's that?

You did everything that you and I talked about when I was there.

Yes, yes, I have.

I the throttle body was actually seized.

So I had to take it off and completely clean the whole thing.

I actually took it to a friend of mine and I'm like, hey, I can't.

I can't unfreeze this.

Yeah, so he did it.

And anyway, got it all cleaned up, put it back on.

But now next time, say Simon says that's right.

So yeah, so.

But now the idle is almost like open idle.

So I so I call Chris yesterday.

He's like, well, there's a thing in the back to adjust it.

And then, you know, the throttle cable, just a throttle cable.

And that should, you know, ease that up.

So I'm like, well, I didn't do anything different.

So I don't know.

Did you make sure those vacuum lines that I found that were disconnected?

Did you make sure those were all connected?

Yes, I did.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to go through and double check everything again.

We see vacuum lines suck.

Yeah, right.

Let's see. What did I leave it?

I still have to put the boot on the.

The left tie rod.

Yeah.

Do a little exhaust maintenance.

And check the rockers and nothing bolt.

But then I'm trying to get it to the point when I can.

I could take it for a drive to check the transmission,

because I can do the rest of it if I don't have a transmission.

You know, so I don't have a transmission issue.

Right. So I have a friend that I might have to take over to Zephyr,

but he says that it could be the slave master

or the clutch master or the.

Yeah, the slave cylinder or the slave master, Mr.

Master, Mr. Sleeve.

Yeah. So he thinks it might be something like that.

Didn't you say there was an adjustment to?

Well, that was the adjustment.

That was the adjustment.

It's been a pain in the butt to bleed.

Remember, we spent hours and hours at Pittsburgh leading.

Yeah, but that would not give me not fifth.

Like I did not have fifth.

And I know we don't need fifth,

but I don't want to drive a car that I can't get into fifth

unless it creates a problem somewhere else.

No, you don't even need fifth.

As long as it shifts through first first through fourth.

Right. Yeah, we don't have enough in there.

We don't have a force power to need fifth.

Yeah, but but again, I go back to the whole situation

if I don't have fifth and it was built for fifth.

If I don't have a fifth gear,

will that create a problem somewhere else?

It was built not to be a race car.

No, it won't create a problem.

OK, if everything works perfectly fine

and you have per second, third and fourth.

Yes, you won't go into fifth

and don't ever try to put it in fifth.

Just drive it four speed will fix it over the winter.

That's and that's fine.

That's the only thing I need to worry about.

And then, of course, the speedometer.

Don't don't know.

Yeah, so you don't need a speedometer.

I know, but I still would like to stop it.

Jeremy, stop it.

You can fix things before you go to the car.

If you're telling me you don't need it, you don't need.

No, it doesn't.

It's supposed to have it, so I need to fix.

I need to understand how to fix it.

Stop it. Understand how to fix it.

But don't know that you don't need it

because you should never be looking down at the speedometer.

Yes. And I know that.

But what does she going to know how she does it?

The thing is, is that it already I already put a new speedometer

a speed sensor in it.

Oh, I remember that.

Yeah, because there was a whole thing.

So I ordered a new one and put the new one in.

And now it's not working.

And I know it's for the right one.

So anyway, I know more now than I did back then

when I did this whole transmission thing.

So I can go ahead and I can double check everything.

I don't know if I might just have a bad part.

I don't think that's it, but I'm going to double check it anyway.

Did you plug in the gauge?

Yeah, I'm going to go back and double check that.

So, I mean, that is the tack works.

The tack works so that everything it should work.

If it's going to work and the tack works

and all the other pages work on the instrument cluster, it should work.

Yeah. So, I mean, all in all, I don't think I need to check the rockers

because as soon as all those other adjustments were done,

everything was sounded pretty great.

And then I just need to not bolt it.

So, good.

Honestly, I just got to put it back together.

So, but yeah, he sent me.

He sent me quite the list.

Oh, I can't say it, but we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

We had like 10 things that we were working on.

So I think I'm down to like two left.

OK, I could start assembling it.

And even though even those aren't even terrible, they're just really fast.

And our theme.

Is spectacular.

It is spectacular.

Well, Eric's involved.

Exactly.

What's that?

What's that Stallone movie over the top?

Over the top.

It's not the top.

Yeah, over the top.

Yeah. Yeah.

Welcome to the land of Eric.

Yep. Land of Eric.

I think the only thing that's got him bothered is he's got like two

different musical numbers that he hasn't quite figured out yet.

So. Oh, he'll figure it out.

Don't worry. I didn't.

I didn't say he wouldn't.

I just said he doesn't have it yet.

So that's bothering him because it'll be amazing.

Yes. Yes.

He's a I was going to say multicultural now.

What's what is that?

A he would he would be the egot of lemons seeming.

Yes. Yeah.

He would be exactly.

All right.

So we're doing some of point.

Never been to some point.

Anybody else been to some point?

No, sir. No, I can't wait to go someday.

Yeah, we might have to.

You know why we might have to.

Yeah, I do.

Oh, the sad news that has everybody

curled up in the fetal position.

Hey, we're not going to talk about that.

No, I'm just really happy that we were able to go.

And, you know, I mean, we went twice.

You guys went more.

Yeah, we've been telling you to go for how long, right?

Every time, right?

So I did.

So I did hear some insider information about this.

We've beaten around the bush to Bush's name pit races closing.

So go ahead, insider information, please.

I have a source that believes that some of the.

Decision was made.

A lot.

By the fact that they had.

Three.

Incredibly unfortunate events this year.

On track.

Yes.

Three.

Two motorcycle, one car.

And my source knows that the one of the people that.

With the with the car, the car, the car personally, but also with the track

and has been there and worked there.

So that source believes that that could have helped sway that big decision

they probably already had an offer, but refused it.

And then this happened this year.

And so I mean, it's terrible.

It's unfortunate.

We all we all have to accept that responsibility when we go to a racetrack,

but we don't ever think about like the owners of the track and the things

that they have to go through because those unfortunate things happen at their track.

So with that said, it is the worst news, in my opinion, in racing.

In the last whatever, because that, in my opinion, is the best track in the country.

I love that track.

Now, with that said, there's a few I haven't been to, but I love that track

more than any other track in this country.

But you've been to how many tracks, like 50.

I've been to over 50 tracks.

Yeah. So it's not like, you know, I've been to six tracks.

I mean, you've been to.

Right. I've been to over 50 tracks.

That is my favorite.

I have to count them, but that is hands down my favorite track in the country.

And it is unfortunate, but, you know, we don't know the things that go on

with the behind the scenes stuff.

So it is very sad, but like Max said, it's awesome that all of those

that were able to race there were able to race there.

And it's just unfortunate that these things happen in life.

Right. So I have one question.

Perhaps you would know since you have this inside info, Jeremy.

If if we win the four hundred and fifty million dollars,

is it too late to put in an offer and keep it open?

I do not believe that Amazon would sell it to us.

It is going to be an AI data center

as well as they are Amazon's doing something else there as well.

I'd have to win a really big lottery to have more money than Bezos, I think.

Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah.

And it's kind of crazy that they're using that facility

because there's so much free, open, empty land around there.

But I think it's just the fact that it's on top of the hill

that makes it perfect for satellite and, you know, AI and all that crap.

It's got the water tower right there, too.

Yeah, yeah.

So pit race, I think we're too late.

Pit race, no more.

It's very sad. It's terrible.

Well, you two did get to race there, though.

So that's job well done.

Yeah, thank you, Jeremy.

I think we all got to race there, which was nice.

We were all able to race there this one last year.

Yeah. Sorry, Bill.

I was there. Oh, no, I didn't go there because I was sick.

No, you were sick.

Yeah, so, I mean, you know, it's unfortunate.

It really truly is. It's sad, but maybe someone will

create a new pit race, a better pit race.

It's going to be tough.

That was a nice piece of property they had, too.

Yeah, phenomenal.

And they just got done building all the buildings and everything.

So yeah, I mean, it's just sad.

Like I I had no idea that they had had any

incidents like that at all.

No, well, I mean, nobody talks about them if they do happen.

Right, right.

So, you know, that's kind of a piece of information that

it really, you know, it really changed your whole

perspective on the whole thing, right?

Yeah, that of the tracks we go to, that's one of the safer tracks.

I'm not going to say it's the safest track because there's some tracks

that are like middle of nowhere with no walls ever.

But, you know, there's only

two, maybe three places you can get into trouble there in a big way.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, but there there was an accident, a really bad situation on the carding track.

That was awesome.

That was an awesome carding track, too, by the way.

Yeah, there was a listen.

I grew up with Action Park being open.

So, you know, my right.

I mean, that place was like a human hamburger machine.

It was just like, send them in, rip up up, send them out.

But it sucks.

I cried myself to sleep the other night.

I thought it was a good idea to have a

tube water slide that does a loop-de-loop.

Oh, I think that's great.

I want to do it right now.

Think about where the water flows, even if you had the water going.

The water doesn't stay on the outside.

When you're at the top, the water's at the bottom.

That's the best rug burn ever.

You should have seen some of the people that got out of that puppy.

Skin? Don't need no stinkin' skin.

Who needs that?

Imagine if you got stuck at the top and then

big old Bubba's coming behind it to unplug the.

Oh, yeah, unplug the unplug the plumbing.

Oh, yeah.

Let's do this.

Kaboom.

Anyway.

Hmm.

Anyway, sorry.

Too many flashbacks to Action Park.

Where is they called in the documentary?

What did they call it? Traction Park?

Class Action.

Class Action Park.

Last action. That's what it was.

Yeah, I guess it was our nickname was Traction Park

because everybody went there, came out and had to go to Traction.

Anyway, OK, so Jeremy, trucks ready?

Good to go.

I haven't even looked at the truck.

OK, no, I'll pull that out Monday and we'll take a look at it.

So take note of that, Miss Vicki.

When Jeremy says don't worry about it, don't just ignore it.

Look what he's doing. Yeah.

No, we're I mean, we're taking the BMW.

I haven't even looked.

Oh, I thought you were taking the truck.

OK. No, no, no, we're going to BMW.

We're going to truck also?

No, no, no, no, I mean, we might bring it over there

and put it for sale sign on it.

Oh, yeah.

Those of you that might listen, we're not going to ship it to Kenya.

I'm sorry. I know guys.

I got friends there.

Hi, up.

We're talking royalty.

The the awesome, reliable, super fun to drive.

L. Hefe is going to be up for auction here soon.

No, you better let Jeff know.

Jeff keeps petting it every time we walk.

He walks by.

Oh, I already tried to sell it to him.

He does. He's no.

No, he doesn't want to.

He does, but he doesn't.

I want you to go for it.

It's for it. It's a stowage.

It's got a brand new motor, a brand new transmission.

It's got the rear end is swapped into a limited slip rear end.

It's got all kinds of new parts.

It's we put stiffer springs in the front

to help with the lack of traction in the rear,

because apparently a Chevrolet limited slip

is not a true limited slip rear end.

It's a limited slip.

It will still allow the inside wheel

if there's too much weight lifted off of it.

It will still allow the inside wheel to do a complete burnout

just like we see those stupid Cordova's do

every time they go around the corner of the hill.

Nothing like nothing like a one wheel peel, man.

And that's what L. Hefe did.

Yeah.

So we put heavier springs in the front to eliminate that

and it seemed to work pretty good at New Jersey.

So let me translate this.

You have fixed everything that's wrong with the truck.

You have dialed dialed the truck in.

Yeah, you have race proven that it is good to go.

Yeah. And now you're getting rid of it.

Somebody's going to be lucky.

Yeah. Yeah.

I think it's going to fall into the right hands

of someone that has decided they want to try lemon.

That'd be a great car to start with.

It is a good starting car.

It really is.

And it's a great car for experienced people.

It is. No, but I meant like it just runs.

It just runs and it drives and it's fun.

The best part about it is when you get to drive around

the outside or the inside of Viadas

and E30s and some E36s

like that thing.

It's just and you can outstop almost everything on the track.

Yeah. I think everybody it may be Max.

Max, did you drive it?

I have not driven it.

OK, so you're the only one on here who hasn't driven it.

All just driven it.

Vicky's got a bajillion miles on it.

I think. Jeremy's driven it.

Probably almost as much as we have a lot.

Yeah. So it's a fun truck.

I would we have lots of theme ideas.

We've got it set up now that theming is very quick.

You can just use those boards on the back and boom.

New thing knows what will happen.

Maybe we'll just keep it for next year

and just take it to the tracks and just have other people drive it.

We'll see what happens.

Miss Vicky, it's not an audio part. It's not a video.

I know. So what do you think is going to replace pit?

Some point. Some point.

You think? Yeah.

Do you think lemons might have had a head up,

which is why they're starting some point?

No, no, nobody has the heads up on this.

No, no, even I think extreme was set to go there next year already.

Oh, we already paid the we paid deposit.

Yeah, we paid the deposit like two weeks ago.

Yeah. So this this was a surprise to just about everything.

Yeah, this was a complete surprise.

I guess it was like.

The decision was made.

A week before it all came out.

Yeah, like before everybody started talking about it.

You know, two weeks ago.

No, this week.

So yeah, this week.

But like so the decision, maybe a week and a half ago was made.

Yeah, within the last two weeks, they decided, you know,

what the weirdest thing about this whole thing for me is

if you want to start a flame war in the racing.

Social medias, what brake pads?

What brake fluid?

What's what safety harnesses?

What what anything?

Not anybody says it's a good thing that it's gone.

Everybody loved that track.

No, everybody.

Yeah, it's it's sad.

But yeah, lemons will use summit and then they'll have to find

somewhere else to take the overflow again,

because I think we're going to run into the same issues.

Yeah, we're going to have too many cars for not enough tracks.

Yeah, too many cars for four tracks.

You know, it could come back.

Lightning.

Now, now, Eric will never.

Now, I don't think I don't think lemons will ever go to lightning.

We have since we've been since we've been doing it, you know what?

And that was that was because of a of a situation that they didn't have

a choice that was a SCCA booking took the other track.

Yeah, yeah.

And then we went to lightning and we had that incredible

the worst rollover incident lemons has had.

Mm hmm.

That was the guy that did the car wheel.

Remember, right? Yeah, yeah, I remember that one.

I forgot that was there.

I thought that was Thompson for a minute.

Oh, yeah, they yeah.

Audra wasn't there for that one.

There was a guy who threaded the needle coming out of the bowl

on on lightning and he went up in between tried to cars.

He tried to.

He ended up cartwheeling his car.

Oh, my God, a few times, a few times.

You can watch the in car.

You can watch the video from the one of the cars.

You can watch the video from a car behind.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

At absolutely 100 percent his fault.

Yeah, you ought to put himself there.

He was an arrive and drive.

What happened?

Audra was Audra Max.

They were they were going through the end of the corner

and he wedged himself in between and his tire

hit the other tire of the other car.

And it just shot him straight up in the air

like that rolled him up over the car.

Yeah, it was like that.

Yeah, it was like the dark night in the truck.

But, you know, that was the same place that Mark Petronis got.

Got he did the same thing and he ended up in the trees.

Yeah, where he had his really nasty accident.

Yeah, because the ball when you come out of the ball at lightning,

it is incredibly fast and it and it's wide.

And all of a sudden it kind of comes back down

and everybody's trying to fight for position right there.

Well, it comes back down and it's got a slight kink.

Yep. So.

Straight, straight anymore.

They brought that car in like a shark

that they just pulled from the ocean, like upside down.

Just hanging on a tow truck.

It was it was terrible.

This is the one that ate that swimmer.

Oh, sorry. Yeah, it was bad.

It was really bad.

I mean, he was fine.

He walked away from it.

But I think that whole team got banned, didn't they?

For like a year.

They give you a roller car.

No, just a driver.

Just a driver.

Yeah, the driver.

Yeah.

Speaking of things that were bad,

I took Miss Vicki to finally see Jaws.

Oh, stop.

Jaws?

The original movie?

Yeah, she never saw it.

The original.

Yeah.

Yeah, so.

Three, three, two, maybe, I don't know,

F bombs, top of her lungs.

No problem.

Punched me like there is no business.

Just hauled off and punched me

right in the middle of the theater.

No problem.

Why?

This nice older woman.

I have been dodging that movie for decades.

This this nice older woman was

sitting in the theater with us.

She drove her out.

Just the language and coarseness of this.

And I was required to tip her off

for the scenes that you should jump at,

which I did.

And she still punched me.

No, not all of them.

I told you it was coming.

I said, it's coming.

Yeah, you said here.

And I said, yes, it's coming.

And that they weren't the worst of them.

And then it comes out.

No, they were the gory, scary ones.

He didn't tell me.

I still have the Bruce.

I still.

Oh, Vicki, you don't like scary movies.

No, no, well, I'm not a fan of them,

but I've been dodging that one

because I grew up on the water.

So like from time when I was a kid,

that I was at the beach like every frickin' weekend

with my dad, with the pontoon boats.

And, you know, it was I have no desire

to go see that movie. Excuse me, judge.

We've lived in nice places with rather warm water.

You don't go in the ocean.

I did then.

You complain that the water was cold

when we were at Hawaii.

It became a stigma at that point.

I just can't become a stigma

before you see the movie.

No, about avoiding it.

Yeah, I was avoiding it.

I just I had no desire to see it.

And but I do have to say, I do have to say it's a good movie.

It is a good movie.

The way they the way they put everything together

with that, of course, there was no CGI, obviously.

And there was no sea.

There was no sea. There was nothing.

And, you know, now I mean, there's a whole lot

more build up and whole.

But they really did a good job

putting that movie together the way they did.

I was really impressed, I got to say.

You were impressed enough to punch me.

That was reactionary.

So, Bill, did you have your pillow in the tub?

Before you left the house?

Once I bandaged up my arm when I got home.

I think at one point I just yelled like the F word,

like really loud.

Yes, you did in the movie.

But but it was only us

because it was like one of the last weeks of running.

And there was an older woman who was in there.

And I think I yelled it so loud, she just got up and left.

She just left.

Because it wasn't like a little F, you know,

it wasn't like a little one.

It wasn't like a oh, our group could hear it.

No, no, the people in the next theater could hear.

So so.

I'm scared you're that bad.

So we went with my son and his girlfriend, too, and Jennifer.

And I looked all the way down at the end of the row

at Sid and she had the boo face and shake her head like,

nah, I'm not good.

I'm not having a good time.

And I'm like a same boo face beneath.

It was pretty good.

Because it was terrible.

I finally talked him into it.

You know what I did?

Here's the devious plot.

I asked her to go.

I think anybody who listens to the podcast knows that I asked her to go.

Even on the last wood episode,

I was to the point where I was going to drive three hours

to go see Jeff to go see this movie.

You know what I ended up doing?

Hey, Liam, you want to go see Jaws?

Yeah, I'll go.

Oh, why don't you see if your mom wants to go?

Liam asked her.

She's like, oh, sure, I'll go.

Well, it wasn't quite like that.

I got nothing.

There was contemplating and I'm like,

well, if my son is going to ask me, then I'll go.

So bottom of the barrel, one in the tub.

That's me.

Yeah, I got no pull.

All right.

So we got to do a post-posterace New Hampshire.

Yeah, we do.

All right.

Say good night to you all.

Let you guys finish the podcast.

I've been here since 4 a.m.

We're wrapping.

Good luck at the Good Luck with New Hampshire.

Two teams represent.

Yeah, we're going to represent.

I feel like we've got both cars, top 30 cars.

Top 30 cars?

Max, you going with that?

Sure.

All right.

Walter?

We'll see.

I don't know.

We can do it.

Yeah.

All right.

Top 30 cars.

What's up?

Did they get a garage?

Yeah.

What garage?

We don't know.

Oh.

As long as you have a garage, I have found,

here's the second rule of the lemons.

If you get a garage, the weather is usually nice.

If you don't get a garage, the weather is usually trash.

You always get a garage.

Always.

Exactly.

Jeremy, did you?

Yeah.

So we'll try to figure out where you guys are,

and then maybe we can move garages,

switch with somebody.

Usually you can.

All right.

And then we will.

The main garage.

Yeah.

OK.

Yeah.

OK.

And then we'll try to support the team

while you guys are licking your victory or wounds,

whichever way it goes.

And we'll try and do some appointments a week after.

I think Friday night we'll do, or Friday, whatever.

We'll do a little walk and talk Saturday.

We'll do some walk and talk Saturday night.

OK.

We will be available.

OK.

All right.

Thanks, everybody.

Thanks for putting up for my IT from hell.

Thanks.

Yeah.

Bye.

How do you all this afternoon?

Bye.

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The Garage Heroes in Training team shares updates on their recent and upcoming racing activities, including prepping for events at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Summit Point. Highlights include Jeremy's extensive instructing gigs with Extreme Experience, Max and Audra's car prep for Lemons races, and Vicky's autocross adventures. They discuss challenges with car setups, racing mishaps, and the sad news of Pit Race track closing due to safety incidents. The episode also touches on the fun and chaos of autocross events, team dynamics, and plans for future races, all sprinkled with humor and personal stories.

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