Auto Off Topic Feb 27, 2026

Small Scale Drifting

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Car

Ford Bronco

The Ford Bronco is a type of big SUV that can drive on rough roads and trails. It was popular a long time ago and is now made again with new technology.

Term

automatic transmission

An automatic transmission is a system in a car that changes the gears for you, so you don't have to do it yourself when you drive.

Car

The Toyota Camry is a popular car that many people use because it is easy to drive and doesn’t break down often. It’s a good choice if you want a car that lasts a long time and is comfortable for daily use.

Part

carburetor choke

A carburetor choke helps the car start when the engine is cold by adding more fuel. If it gets stuck, the car might run badly or be hard to start.

Part

Webber carburetors

Webber carburetors help mix air and fuel for your engine. They are special because one Webber unit actually has two carburetors inside it, which helps the engine run better and faster.

Part

DCOE 40 carburetors

DCOE 40 carburetors are special parts that help mix air and fuel for the engine. The '40' means the size of the opening where air flows is 40 millimeters wide, which is good for racing cars.

Part

chokes

Chokes are little parts inside a carburetor that help control how much air gets into the engine, especially when the engine is cold or running slow. This helps the engine run better and not stall.

Term

venturi effect

The venturi effect is when air speeds up as it goes through a narrow part of the carburetor, which helps pull fuel into the air so the engine can burn it and run properly.

Part

Weber carburetors

A Weber carburetor is a device that mixes air and fuel for the engine to run. You can adjust small screws on it to help the engine idle smoothly and get the right fuel mix.

Part

Webbers

Webbers are special parts that mix air and fuel for an engine to help it run better, especially in older or sporty cars.

Term

air-fuel ratio

Air-fuel ratio is how much air mixes with fuel in the engine to make it run well; too much or too little can cause problems.

Term

timing

Timing is when the spark happens inside the engine to make the fuel burn at the right moment so the car runs well.

Part

temperature gauge

A temperature gauge is a tool in the car that shows how hot the engine is getting so you know if it's too hot or just right.

Part

reverse lights

Reverse lights are the white lights at the back of a car that turn on when you put the car in reverse, so people know you're backing up.

Brand

Hella

Hella is a company that makes car lights and other parts, known for making good quality headlights and taillights.

Part

third brake light

The third brake light is an extra red light at the back of the car, usually in the middle and higher up, that helps other drivers see when you're stopping.

Car

Porsche 944

The Porsche 944 is a fun sports car made by Porsche. It has its engine in the front and powers the back wheels, which helps it drive well.

Part

header

A header is a part that helps the car's engine push out exhaust gases better, making the car sound nicer and sometimes run stronger.

Car

Honda Civic

The Honda Civic is a small car that many people like because it is easy to fix and can be made faster or louder with upgrades.

Part

catback exhaust

A catback exhaust is a part of the car's exhaust system that starts after the pollution filter and goes to the back of the car. Changing it can make the car sound better and sometimes perform better.

Part

mechanical fan

A mechanical fan is a fan that spins because the engine makes it spin. It helps keep the car cool but can be noisy.

Part

clutch fan

A clutch fan is a fan that can turn on or off depending on how hot the engine is. This helps save energy and makes less noise when the engine is cool.

Part

rotor

A rotor is a round metal disc that helps stop the car when you press the brake pedal.

Part

oil filter

An oil filter cleans the oil inside the engine so the engine stays healthy.

Part

fuel filter

A fuel filter cleans the gas before it goes into the engine so the car runs better.

Car

Chevrolet Spin

The Chevrolet Spin is a small family car that can carry a lot of people and stuff inside. It’s popular in some countries because it’s affordable and useful for families.

Car

Volkswagen Rabbit

The Volkswagen Rabbit is a small car from a long time ago that was easy to drive and lasted a long time. People still like it because it’s simple and parts can still be found.

Car

Mitsubishi Starion

The Mitsubishi Starion is an older sporty car that was fast for its time because it had a turbo engine. People who like classic cars often talk about it because it’s unique and fun to drive.

Term

rpm

RPM tells you how fast the engine is spinning. The higher the number, the faster the engine is turning.

Car

Mazda MX-5 / Miata

The Mazda Miata is a small, fun car that’s easy to drive and handles really well around corners. It’s popular because it’s simple, sporty, and not too expensive.

Part

oil shocks

Oil shocks are parts that help the car's wheels move smoothly up and down by using oil inside them to slow down bumps.

Concept

Daytona 500

The Daytona 500 is a big car race in the United States where drivers race fast cars on a big oval track. It's one of the most famous races people watch every year.

Concept

fuel mileage racing

Fuel mileage racing means drivers try to use less gas so they don't have to stop as often to fill up. This can help them stay ahead in the race even if they're not the fastest.

Car

Dodge Challenger

The Dodge Challenger is a big, strong car that looks like the old muscle cars and can go very fast. People like it because it’s powerful and has a cool style.

Concept

NASCAR

NASCAR is a type of car racing in the US where drivers race around oval tracks in cars that look like regular cars but are made for racing. It's very popular and has many fans.

Car

Hyundai Kona

The Hyundai Kona is a small SUV that’s easy to drive and has a lot of features for the price. It’s good if you want a car that’s a bit bigger than a regular car but still easy to park and use every day.

Term

horsepower

Horsepower is how strong a car's engine is. More horsepower means the car can go faster and get up to speed quicker.

LIVE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

alright welcome to auto off topic what's up Brad not too much Andrew Hyban digging out from a

blizzard so what now yeah well we talked about the weather so take a drink but I mean it's

impossible not to talk about the weather when you have another 20 plus inch snowstorm after

having one like a week ago so some places it legitimately be a snowfall for the blizzard

78 yep the big difference being y'all knew it was coming yeah so it wasn't a surprise we did

see some some towns weren't even dug out after a whole day it was like well it's hard to push snow

when it's 30 inches in the street so I'm good luck with that guys yeah so we were there's we had a

big snowstorm a few weeks ago and it hung around because of the cold weather and then that technically

wasn't like a blizzard this was a blizzard because the wind was higher so I actually didn't have that

much snow howl up at my house but the wind was blowing couldn't even see like down the street

like pure white out which is what makes it a blizzard it's basically a hurricane but with

snow I saw some places had like 60 to 70 mile an hour gusts with like sustained 40 mile an hour

winds so that's a that's a nasty storm and I saw our friend Keith lives out in situate or works in

situate lives there too it really works there anyway that's an oceanfront town I saw images from

there and the water was aggressively lapping the homes from the ocean so that's always bad

the ocean on land so I'm glad y'all made it you never lost your power either so you're good right

now I don't usually do that here it's usually when cars crash into the pole out front yeah

yeah so that's you've been digging out from snow it's like stuck in the house in the school last

two days so yeah that was that's our weather talk but you were here last week we had a short

episode but we did talk about we were gonna go over to Salem and work on the Volvo and we did so

I talked about before the chokes in the Carburet is being stuck which apparently was an issue with

kind of the quality of the Spanish webbers supposedly and so it was kind of hard to get people

to understand so like the webbers are basically one webber is two carburetors in one and having

dual webbers is a single means you have a single carburetor for each cylinder on your four cylinder

so the modern equivalent would be like an individual throttle body situation yeah it's

mechanically controlled individual throttle bodies that's what yeah with mechanical injection yes

so yeah each of the left barrels there's a venturi and then a choke inside so not like a

choke like for cold start it's a choke it actually closes the barrel down so they're DCOE 40s which

means the barrel is 40 the max you can put in there is a 40 millimeter thing which would be

ridiculous that's like for a full race car if at that point if you're if you're maxing out of 40

you should really have I think we've talked about this for you really have like a 45 millimeter

webber on there hey never want to run something at its maximum all the time yeah I have it so

you're still room for moving and the chokes that they come with which really they're just this

little smooth to bore insert that goes inside the insert what comes stock in the carbs out of the

box is the 30 millimeter which is kind of the middle of the road just how they set them up

and that's how we have the car running before but considering the car does not have any headwork

like hoarding or anything it doesn't have a radical can or anything and really only other thing it

has is a header 30 is actually a little bit big believe it or not so I close it down to a 28

millimeter so what that does is with your venturi effect so yes you get less air especially at

high rpm which is not really going to be a high rpm race engine you know I had spent a lot of

time at higher p.m. wide open throttle so by closing it down you actually get a higher

velocity of air so for idle and stuff and mid-range you'll have better flow and vacuum it'll

top out when you go to wide open throttle or whatever but that's fine the car doesn't make

its max power up there it's gonna make the most power hopefully low to mid-range so anyway I went

to pull out the left barrels on each single one kind of recapping here and they were stuck

it's really annoying I got kind of frustrated I was like whatever so then you were here and I was

like well let's go work on it on Saturday and our friend Jared was gonna come over to and hang out

with us so before you guys even got there I was like you know what I'm gonna try one thing because

I was gonna take the carbs off and pop them out from the back I thought we're at that point it took

a seal puller tool it's got the curved fork on it and you can tap it with a hammer to pull a seal

out I was like you know what I don't really care if I ding up the chokes because I'm not gonna reuse

these so I kind of put it in there and tapped it with a hammer and they came loose I was like alright

sweet so plus I had put some Croyol in there a few weeks ago so that kind of creeped around the

whole thing I think maybe that helped a little bit too but taking them out you can see yeah there's

a little brass set screw that's in there for during assembly and it rides down a channel inside the

board to align it and it was like kind of mushed over a little bit and just kind of weird compared

to the other side that I took out it came out easily so they're a little bit misaligned I don't

know but anyway they went back together all set by that time you guys would come over my dad was

out in the garage so we're like well let's fire this car we're like go home I figured it out already

yeah yeah let's fire this thing up so it runs so we hooked up the electric pump back up this time

we ran it through the mechanical pump took a few tries to get the fuel up into the bowls again and

get the kind of fuel pressure set again it was kind of it was running like okay and then all

of a sudden we were oh we reset all the idle adjustments screws too and rewatched the video on

it it's like D3 shooter or something on YouTube it's like the best video on Weber carbs like he

like so the guy does such a good job of going through it and all the adjustments because what

you're adjusting is the idle and progression screw so it's all you're literally adjusting is for

is the idle like it doesn't you're not worried about anything else and you're there's like three

little progression holes on the other side of the butterfly valve that this jet also controls

and you're just trying to adjust it for basically the first part of it it was it was not only okay

but it was I don't eat very rich yeah I was and it was yeah it was there's some other weirdness but

we kind of fixed it up but yeah it was like we had the screws turned out like three turns which

is way too much they shouldn't like for webbers to work right they should be like a one turn to

one and a half turns and that's kind of where we ended up was like one and a half turns once we got

it going and then we're like that was kind of playing with a little bit it was it was kind of

island a little weird all of a sudden it just like smoothed out like it kind of and then we

had like a good air-fuel ratio you know a little bit on the rich side which is fine but very promising

it didn't we wanted to you know you give it a little revs it didn't want us it didn't seem to

stumble it kind of picked up nice so you know the next steps there will probably we gotta recheck

the valves readjust them recheck timing another friend of ours that's got his name is Jordan he's

got dual webbers on two of his Datsun's he said they tend to like like 12 degrees of timing at

idle and this car set at 10 right now so maybe we'll turn that up a little bit and yeah there's

that and just like I gotta clean up or empty the tank of all the old fuel but for the most part

that's pretty much it we double check the coolant temp because the gauge is like pegged but the

engine doesn't seem to be running hot according to like the infrared gauge we had on there and the

fans working because you can kind of tell when an engine like an engine will smell hot too if it's

running hot or run bad I mean we're not like an overheating engine at all yeah it'll just feel

hot you feel a hot engine just yeah you can smell it plus you all that we say the fan came on you

put an electric fan in the car and you have a sensor on it for set for a certain temperature and it

came on and shut off again so obviously it's reading properly so yeah that's reading properly but

when you look at the gauge in the car it's pegged to full hot right what I'm saying is because that's

reading properly I'm not concerned about the car overheating because the fan turns off which means

it gets down to a temperature where it doesn't need the fan anymore which is not overheating yeah

it's not set very high I think I have a fan set to like 180 so right which is probably where it

belongs yeah so but I just need to confirm what the temps are actually because the sensor for

is at the back of the head you're getting a temp off the radiator just kind of confirm it maybe

maybe I can pull the the cluster out and adjust the alignment of the gauge needle maybe there's

usually a way I remember when I did this in the Colt there was a way to we have the cluster out

to take in a multimeter and figure out what the ohms are at the gauge and it'll tell you where

they're supposed to be at certain temperatures I'm sure there's a same similar chart for a check

basically check the resistance that's in the gauge at different temperatures and that's how it knows

what to go to for on the needle uses resistance to adjust the needle so I'm sure there's a way to

figure it out if not you probably also just temporarily tap a temperature gauge off of the

sensor in the head right the single yeah maybe I don't have a digital gate or an electric gauge

off of it so it would work you want saying you get like a cheap manual temperature gauge oh wait

no no it's got electric never mind electric yeah yeah so you get a cheap a cheap electric gauge

it's probably just a single blade connector and they usually have pretty universal style so

you should be able to figure it out but yeah my guess is there's a bunch of dirt and grime on

the back of the gauge and screwing it up yeah and maybe the gauge is off uncalibrated and that's

why the car was overheated I don't know because could be because the car was clearly overheated

at some point yeah I would like to do that again so yeah otherwise it's you know then I

gotta go through like the you know whether get a little better to throw the wiring into the dash

again install the better fuse block but it's getting there and I think I'll you know I'll be

driving it when it's all this three feet of snow melts so yeah once you put the fuel tank situation

to bed I don't think there's anything stopping you from driving it driving it or at least driving

up and down the street figuring out what else it needs before you can drive it drive it yeah

good gotta bleed the brakes or flush them sure because the fluid is old and black the

what else the I'm trying to think oh the brake lights don't work so we gotta figure that out I

did order a round like rear-facing red fog light but I'm gonna wire it in as a third brake light

that's a good idea an old car with tiny daylights yeah so plus that so I know look cooler than having

like one up in the back window like a weird one yep it looks like a measurably cooler like sort of

offset in the rear bumper by the plate it's just like a big red round kind of typical does that car

have integrated reverse lights or are they separate they're integrated but I was saying about adding

a square reverse light under the bumper a single I think you should have matched the other side

one red one clear if I can find a similar clear one yeah this one I got is like just under six

inches six inch round okay it's a vintage dial one obviously vintage looking yeah I don't know

some random name I never heard of it was like 25 bucks in eBay because the hella ones are hella

expensive yes they are I have a red square hella one for the back of the blue Colt if I want to

get that car put right together I was gonna do the same thing but it go under the bumper in the back

off to the side set up as a third brake light basically yeah so yeah it's cool let me do it

that's you know that's pretty much it I mean that's it's gonna get new tires and go on those wheels

I have but you know I could I think I can drive around a little bit on those just make sure it's

good yeah absolutely yeah it's a I'm pretty excited about that it sounds really good it sounds

really good my Instagram running so it sounds it sounds really good and like a proper car of

that era it doesn't have a super loud exhaust it has super loud intake noise which is what you

want from a car with twin levers right so yeah I'm glad I splurged on replacing that exhaust

because the exhaust that came on the car was like just two resonators welded into like straight pipe

and I switched it to like a it's a Sanix or something I don't know it's a stock style

replacement yeah it's a sport tuna two-inch sporty exhaust yeah and as we've learned from my

944 that just the stock exhaust is usually fine when you add that header and you have a header on

your car which probably makes it sound really good because the 944 sounds amazing which the header

yeah I mean it sounded really good just idle in there the garage it didn't it actually didn't

sound that loud like so you said it's more intake than exhaust you reminded me actually of your the

setup on your old Civic you had which allowed intake and basically factory catback exhaust yeah

and the other thing you know it didn't sound that loud the other thing too not having the

mechanical fan is nice because that wasn't just making a bunch of noise swinging through the air

so well yeah that's a big difference those mechanical fans that are not on clutches especially

are like it just sound loud all the time actually it was that was a clutch fan but still they sound

loud sweet I'm I'm super excited for it I know that it's that much closer and it's cool to get

a little bit of wrenching time done midwinter out there too because it's like a little bit of a

brain reset for you I'm sure so move off from RC cars for a few days and work on a real car

yeah especially because it was like last year the engine was still in pieces at this time so

yeah I know your goal was to have it running and driving before this winter happened but

I think that the path you're on is completely acceptable and better to not rush it and make

it right which is what you're doing so I think given the time you have to work on a car I think

you've done really well with your time on this car so it's not easy to take a car from nothing

and make it work again so huge goal huge goal hit there

so excellent I'm just a little envious that Jared really riding it before me probably but that's

okay you have any uh you work on the front stress I have a few things I think we talked

about the timing belt in the Porsche the last time so that is done I did order a bunch of parts

I have a huge list of things to do to that car before I put it on the market for sale

so big box game in yesterday with all the tune-up parts just the regular stuff plugs wires cap

rotor fuel filter oil filter oil change I also have front wheel bearings and I have pads and

rotors and I have caliper rebuild kits because there's no calipers available for that car

so Naomi also actually picked up the other day surprised me with a ultrasonic cleaner

to do the pistons and the calipers because you gotta clean those really good before you

looking back together and those ultrasonic cleaners are supposedly the best way to do it

so we grabbed an ultrasonic cleaner the other day so I'm excited to play with a new tool as

well obviously so that's going to happen in that car next not much to report yet because

none of it's happened yet but we're there we were talking in the discord earlier today about

parts availability on things and people were surprised that there's no brake calipers available

for 944s and it's like one of those things where the more I thought about it it was like yeah I can

still get random parts for a 78 colt probably because there's like three of us buying what's left

but at 944 is so popular that there's just people buying the parts left and right and

there's less stuff lefty to go around it's my assumption on that so it's weird that they're

not just like a parts spin car that wasn't a common caliper like it is a common caliper

it's off some bolt wagon it's off some bolt wagon but they just don't have them anymore

fox um I don't remember what it is it's something out of the control arms our rabbit control arms

and I can still get those but I can't get the calipers so weird whatever it's sort of there are

calipers available if you're willing to pay Porsche tax from a Porsche specialist and they're like

you know five or six hundred dollars a piece or something like that for like which I'm not

dual pistons willing to pay that so I'll just rebuild them I got the seal kit and I'll take

them apart and supposedly use that ultrasonic cleaner on the pistons and it seems about nice

we'll see what happens I haven't taken them apart yet but at least when I take them apart I'll have

the tools to do it I've never built a set of calipers myself I remember when we were growing

up building cars or working in cars back east we had King Caliper right there in PBD that you

just dropped them off and like 30 to 50 bucks they'd rebuild your calipers for you they're also gone

fortunately probably because they're charging 30 to 50 bucks to rebuild your calipers

we should be charging more I really regret that I didn't go over to their place before someone

else moved in and I should have stole the sign off the fence that was still there after they closed

because it was a really cool retro sign yeah it was I'm sure it's in the dump

or you can go over there it's a cross bit gym over there now and see if it's still in there

oh so anyway so that's the update on the Porsche I haven't done any of the work yet

the pastures came in yesterday and they've been a little under the weather so I haven't

got out there and worked on it but I did work on the starion a little bit so

big thanks again to Naomi while I was out in Massachusetts she brought the tank to a place

here called CRS something radiator service they're a place that does you know radiator

rebuilding and boiling cleaning and they also do gas tank repairs so the ongoing saga of the

starion tank we were trying to figure out what was wrong with it where it was leaking from

I think last time I talked about it on here I was like I think it must be a hole behind the

heat shield so unfortunately that is not the case they put it in their big tank and cleaned it

and they found a bunch of pinholes in the bottom of the tank so my assumption is that while the car

was sitting for long periods of time you know the moisture content and condensation and ethanol

and the fuel just sat in the bottom of the tank and it started rusting away the bottom of the tank

so it doesn't seem too bad they stopped working on it and said they would not fix the tank because

it had too many holes I'm sure there's something to do with their guarantee or warranty if they can't

fix it if it has too many holes on it but it looks repairable to me I've spoken to my friend

Michael down here who welds and he's like yeah we'll take care of that because if we got a kind

of hole section out and plate it I don't care that's fine so we're gonna get in there and figure

that out I did pick up a smoke machine for two reasons one I need to figure out the emissions

issue on the eclipse three reasons one the eclipse two emissions issue on our family members 05 Lancer

okay and I figured it'd be a good way to figure out why where the tank is leaking from if I just

cover all the known holes and fill it with smoke any smoke that comes out it's like a

lot of the holes that are unseen right so that's what we did the machines really cool I mean they

come a long way affordable smoke machines because I remember you bought one a few years ago and it

looked like you're trying to take out a building with a bomb it was quite scary looking but this is

a legit machine that looks like a you know professional emission style smoke machine you

seen a shop and it was like 45 dollars so they keep ones that certainly come a long way

also dj bar mitzvahs on the weekend what's that dj bar mitzvahs on the weekend yeah exactly

all set every halloween next year make everybody work around the smoke wand um

I have your eyes on that well anyway so yeah I did I did that we covered up all the holes in the

tank it obviously leaked out of the rust holes we covered the known rust holes and there were no

additional leaks from the thing so the hope is that those are the worst parts that I have looked

inside the tank of the flashlight because that place did put it in their hot tank and clean it

out and get rid of all the gunk so other than some flaky rust and dust inside the tank you can see

where the thin parts of the tank are and I don't see light coming through anywhere else

by using you know putting a I have that uh boroscope camera and put the boroscope in there

and then run a flashlight all on the outside of it I didn't see anything or the other way

running the flashlight inside the tank and trying to see it I couldn't see any holes

so I think we're gonna roll the dice and we're gonna just patch up the holes we can see

air doesn't seem too thin around those either they just seem like literal pinholes which is odd but

it is what it is so Michael's gonna cut out a small little there's three sections that are like

you know one by two maybe the largest that will need to be replaced so once I put some

undercoating back on that I don't think you'll even know it was there wherever in there so that's

the hole and also I think it's the front side of the tank where you wouldn't see it anyway so

but anyways that's that's hopefully gonna be it for that particular issue with that car and then

I can go towards putting it together putting a fuel pump in it and uh making the car run that's

I think this weekend's goal is to just run a fuel line and a inline pump into a gas

game and see if the car can run and then go from there so fingers crossed on that one but I think

that's all I've really worked on I mean pretty good because I've only been home for a week

or less than a week but that's the biggest things I've done um

yeah that's it a couple other car rights this weekend we did but no other

car work was done so good times project car updates updated should be more next week because

like I said I have always 944 parts and I at least want to get the tune up done because the car

doesn't run right now it starts and but it won't idle and uh when I pulled the distributor off doing

the tying belt I already knew it was not running right before I did the tying belt but the motor

was running so poorly I didn't want to also have a tying belt issue while the motor was skipping and

bumbling around and you know put extra strain on a already unknown quantity of a tying belt so

we changed the tying belt car runs exactly the same as it did before the tying belt but a tying

belt doesn't necessarily pick a poor running car run good unless there's something really wrong so

didn't expect to fix anything but when I took off the distributor cap uh it's filled it's full

grime and rust and just it's well past time so I'm hoping that's going to be a huge

help in that and the other thought process is the fuel filter as well so there's not much else

going on there everything else seems fine there's no shorts there's no weird vacuum leaks it's just

got to be some of the hard parts are just the car's been sitting for like a year and it needs to

be gone through I think so hopefully that'll make it run good so that's with the update for next

week and fingers crossed the scenario will be running nice maybe they're running but at least

have started and improve concept it will run so well it ran before right they've never heard that

car run oh really I thought you had a new one running nope nope I cranked it over with the fuel

disconnected because I didn't want to suck fuel from the tank into the into the injectors but it

so it my turn of the key on and I keyed it it did crank over the fuel pump kicked on and it

pumped fuel through the lines but I had disconnected it at the at the throttle body because I didn't

decide that engine if there was any hope for it to be fixed so I'm going to do you new a new

fuel filter inline fuel filter before I clean up the lines um my spring you know the carbon

fuel system cleaner through the hard lines replace the rubber lines in the engine bay

and do a new fuel filter in the engine bay before I do anything that's all this hopefully weekend's

plan so I don't want to put any bad fuel in that car if I can help it so

try to the right thing with a quick thing it's hard you know just want to make a run but like no

must do this the right way because I did it the right way with the white the ram 50 truck

and it paid off in the end because I mean there was almost no work to make the truck run again

because that's exaggerating it was less work than it would have been if I had gummed the whole

thing up so yeah cool yeah so that's it for our car updates I would like to talk about RC car

stuff for a minute if you don't mind yeah well one of the things we did do over here was I took

you to the drift track so would you think that I did did yeah it didn't take much yeah it's over

so I went out the first time you handed me the controller it was intimidating yeah because

you're not just in your backyard dashing a car around you're on a track with people who know

they're doing yeah props to you for doing it by yourself it was less busy the first time I went

a bunch of new people have joined recently so yeah there is like 20 yeah yeah but it's not like

there's not competitions going on every single night most nights are just like

you show up and you're just drifting around you know people link up called random tando's

you just kind of link up and or we had a big train going of cars the other night it's just

some sort of happens naturally but because everybody has a you know more than 32 seconds

of controller time with a drift car I was a little bit uh a little bit trepidatious going

out there and I ran a couple laps and I was like this is very difficult and I handed the controller

back and I was like I need to process what just happened because you have to unlearn everything

you know about driving in our car pretty much yeah so it's on uh what's called p-tile which is

very common the most common service most of the the good tracks that you'll find right my local

track here is also p-tile yeah it runs a p-tile there's a commercial grade like industrial style

linoleum tile floor yeah they're not very expensive at all it's kind of funny how that

just worked it's like the best service for it yeah p-tile is not the name for a special thing

p-tile is what you'd go to home people and buy they common home people I need p-tile the price

per square foot is like five bucks or something it's like really low like it's not it's not this

premium thing right less than that actually there's some other version that's like j-tile that's like

slightly different but that's like more expensive it's very few and far between that people use that

and supposedly it's like a slight difference at high like high speed grip or something but

the local track pro is like no just p-tile is fine because some some places will run like

polished concrete or something but um what happens with the p-tile is it just more consistent

the grip is more consistent so that kind of gets like polished in as cars run on it with the plastic

tires yeah our other tile or sorry our other track here in town is not at a business it's like some

guys backyard and that is a concrete polished concrete surface oh p-tiles better looks like p-tile

is like less than two dollars a square foot yeah uh and there's a couple different tires that work

with that we happen to be the track I know to the sponsor by Reeve D so we run ASO one tires

that are really tires like the track runs yeah they're like plastic

HPD like just a hard plastic think of like the think of a your childhood big wheel

yeah that's basically what it is it's cool though because for the most part you don't have to

really attach them to the wheels the wheels don't get banged up and you can reuse wheels

you can swap the tires or use the wheels unlike on-road cars you have to glue the tires so

but yeah anyway that's it's like driving on ice

this is the only way to describe it like it's very very low grip it's like driving on ice but the

the biggest thing to unlearn now now having RC experience certainly helped because I am aware

of how to drive an RC car and how to adjust for whether it's driving away from you or driving

towards you and I have that dialed from just being RC cars throughout my entire childhood and now

again in the past couple years as an adult but the biggest difference between a standard RC car

and this RC car is that um what we call gyro so that when you pitch the car sideways you're not

your natural instinct though is to counter steer and if you counter steer

by your controller it turns into you spun the car out or you've gone straight

there's really not you have to remember that the car is going to start to counter steer for you

and what your input with the controller is is you're inputting the angle of the car basically

not the actual direction of the car and it's all adjustable so I have mine turned down so it

actually does it less I do have to do some counter steering right but it's interesting because

it turned high up and it'll basically steer for them it's just a matter of what you're comfortable

with but the the basic principle behind that is if you're drifting a car a real car you're in the car

and you have physics to help you yeah like you have the seat of your pants feel you can feel the

yaw you can feel the direction change you know where the tires are pointing when you're driving

an RC car all of that goes out the window so you don't have any of that you know natural instinct

so having the car do it for you the car is basically feeling what you would feel seat of

the pants in the gyro so it helps to say it helps I think is the wrong word I think that it

it just it it does what you your body would do in a car naturally yeah if you

now people are probably like well why not just turn all the way off if you turn it all the way

off it's impossible you cannot do it um early on in drifting the cars were full of drive when

this first came out almost 20 years ago now so yeah it's easy a full drive or all the drive RC car

you can totally drift it's super easy we used to do it with our RS4s like you can get them

sideways and just sure but they don't have mega angle um so yeah if you turn all the way down

it doesn't work so there's different adjustment levels that it has and assist levels that you

can adjust and play with on some of the higher end gyros so but I have mine turned down to it like

you know it's all in percentages you actually control it through the third channel of the radio

which is cool and it's literally just the thing with the drifting is that there is

some there's definitely some tuning that you have to adjust the car to

uh there's a learning curve to driving it and then there's just like a lot of it is just the

vibe of how you feel the what feels good to you like there's no set there's some like basic settings

you can start with but the rest of the fine tuning is totally up to the person that drives the car

and it's no there's no one setup that was just like there's no like here's the p-tile setup

just set your car to this and it'll work it just doesn't work that way which is kind of cool

which I think was a disadvantage to me going into it using your car because you are already our

experience and have me have controlled it to the point where you like it and I go in there as a

complete noob and I'm just like spin spin spin straight spin crash the wall but I would if I

would set your car up kind of the base setting similar mine and then let you fine tune it the

way you like it but or or you should start with the settings out of the box and then that's my

plan and set start start with the settings out of the box and go from there so I don't I don't

want to go into having any other thought process other than this is how it came and then go from

there so and what I did the the first mods I made were buying an alignment rack and then I bought

like fancy aluminum parts or a different carbon chassis or anything because the we got you the

or name we got you the same chassis I have for Christmas it's the RD20 which is Yokomo which

is basically all plastic so it's got plastic bathtub chassis plastic backbone all the parts

of plastic but it comes with oil shocks um you have to add all your own electronics but

you know there was a guy there this week that had a the RTR version of it the RTR version of it

didn't come with oil shocks had friction shocks the thing had like no dampening came with brush

electronics that currently blew up out of the box which is the guy I already had to change them I'm

like he was in pretty good spirits about it I was like man for 300 bucks I'd be pretty upset with

yeah for like for like a setup here um because in general I've I've you know I've started in

October uh so I've been doing it for quite a few months being able to go a couple times a week

because it's I'm lucky it's only 10 minutes from the house it's hand ammonium in Danvers

Danvers mass yeah super cool guys if you ever uh have been in that area you want to get into it

it's definitely they were very inviting to newbies nobody was like what are you not here you're out

here newbie like they were very very open to just avoiding your lack of skill and just letting you

get better so but as I was saying like I gave the controller back later and I was like I need a little

time to like soak this in a little bit and then of course we had an issue where we had to wait

you know probably 40 minutes in between runs for yeah so uh about that I've never seen a lipo

battery go up there's always everybody talks about them that they they can and you know I

know that seems kind of rare nope we have a lipo battery go up in a car inside luckily he wasn't

running it but it was sitting on the bench and the guy grabbed it quick enough whether that was

the right thing to do and brought it outside by hand like that's kind of talking to them out like

maybe we should recommend because they had fire blankets like maybe you wrap the thing in the

fire blanket and bring it outside yes and he wouldn't have burned his hand if that was the case

yeah I mean he wasn't burned badly but but he got a couple of burns fire department had to come and

because it was a lot of smoke and well the fire department had to come because the smoke set off

the fire alarm yeah it's a commercial building and the commercial building fire alarm goes off

you're not gonna knock in the fire department come so they were cool about it though and they

were pretty happy because a tandem onium is pretty safety forward like they require you to have

bags for your charging they require you know fire extinguishers around everywhere they're

pretty good about the safety aspect up there because they don't want to have an issue so when

you charge these things you know they either go in a bag or I have a box that I charge mine in

yep usually that's typically when they'll go off is if you're charging them it's right unusual

to have them go off in the car it clearly can happen but even like a few months ago someone was

like yeah you always just when you put the car in the like I have a bag a pit bag so you make sure

you take the battery out of the car and it goes in the lipo box or bag yep because you don't want

it in the pit bag in the car going off in the back of your car while you're driving to the track or

something because then you're gonna lose your whole car like your real car just in storage in your house

you want to make sure you take that thing out and put it in your bag if you don't burn your

house down for your stupid little hobby yeah so I ended up buying a second I have this thing

it looks like a little lunch box you're charging with vent holes in it to let the pressure out I

ended up buying a second one because all these RTR cars that I bought recently like Marco's

monster truck the boat they all came with lipo's and the little even the little crawler has the

little tiny lipo so when they're sitting here in the basement they're at least in a box so

we'll just right which opens the fire yeah um yeah it's that's the only like super dangerous thing

like buy a quality reputable battery this was a coyote battery apparently yeah so built by those

coyote C.A.Y. yeah I've seen them advertised and I guess Pat we got it runs tracks that he's seen

other ones online that have gone up so uh those are banned that's track no coyote batteries also

not recommended that anybody buys them so yeah now it was definitely a uh a sobering moment of

how quickly it can go sideways because it was it went from nothing to like having to evacuate the

building within I don't know 20 seconds it was quite a big thing nothing in the building caught on

fire right uh he did lose about 700 dollars in electronics on his car but yeah yeah he had

a pricey pay I guess he had a really nice car carbon chassis was ruined yep acu-vance

electronics and the battery the motor was gone like you're not good so yeah not good and you

don't have insurance on toy cars so uh couldn't couldn't call up uh couldn't call up haggardy and

that's kind of the fun thing so I've been mine is all plastic and that's why I've been I'm like

trying to run it like that as long as possible I'm like I don't really feel like it's worth it

to buy any mods for it because you can buy a a different yokemo a higher end yokemo if you want

that comes with all the aluminum stuff I'm like if I want aluminum stuff mainly I just buy a

different one instead of spending money on wooden parts even back in the day when we're doing

touring car racing a lot of the guys would just spend spend spend on all these upgrades which

some of them are nothing more than style like which is fine that's but it's just like real cars you

can mod it to your taste and what you want and people like outside of like builds shock shock

absorbers and stuff I mean most of the upgrades are just if they save a gram in weight I mean what

is the was that usually like weight stiffness tunability but my goal was to see how far I can

go with the plastic chassis and because the the reason why one of the yokemo is because it's

highly highly adjustable with all the parts that came with it and I've been able to adjust it really

well um I've surprised a couple people where they drove it that they're like wow this is the same

car you started with because it like I can see you're driving better and then I let them grab

like wow this drives really well I'm like yeah and I can start I've started to keep up with the

the faster people so which is a lot of no you I know you don't watch a lot of YouTube but there's

on the the Donut media channel yeah they do that high car low car thing with a modified one car with

cheap parts and one car expensive parts and test them together well they did a 1 10th RC drift

version of that last week you might want to look it was kind of interesting because they did

they did did yokemo chassis and one of them they threw like three grand worth of stuff at

and then ran it with one that was basically out of the box with a couple of minor

things like basically set up like your car like like good electronics but not like

acu-vans ridiculous electronics and then the other car had like again three thousand dollars

worth of stuff thrown at it so it was neat to see that there was not a lot of difference

I have the video I have the hobby wing

USC combo the drift combo in mine which has a bluetooth I had to buy a bluetooth

tuner that go with it so it connects over the air you can also get a plug-in one like a

it's like a little game boy pad or something to adjust it that's kind of middle of the road

that's like a really good setup and it was funny I was having trouble with the car

getting it out of corner speed and you kind of noticed that when you were there it was really

spinning the wheels so the the week after you were here uh I was talking to one of the the

veterans there and he's like what's the boost timing on that so I hadn't really gone in too much

into the so the thing with brushless motors what makes them different is that especially

censored ones is that you can adjust there's a thing called boost timing and then turbo

so the the motor can typically has timing adjustment on it too so like the stock timing

adjustment it's kind of like a gas engine we advance the timing it makes it faster or run better

sort of and that's really where the difference kind of ends the static timing on the motor is

that 30 and you could turn it all the way up to 50 if you want but then you can set within the

electronics the timing and it kind of um I was watching a video on this it kind of

takes into account you know people are like well you used to be able to adjust that with

gearing or you used to do it that way and people are like yeah you still can adjust the gearing

a little bit but having it electronically gives you more uh adjustability to it instead so it's

on the fly and it's basically like moving the power band so like I it was set up however we

set it up when first went there it was coming in too soon at like 6000 rpm so it was just basically

lighting up the tires so we moved it up so it only comes in at like 8000 rpm and I had advanced the

time in like 15 degrees up to uh I've got it set right now at 28000 rpm so it's basically like a

it's like a ramp right so it does the 15 degrees over that from 8000 to 28000 rpm

and then once it hits 28000 rpm it stays advanced at 15 degrees but it takes that entire rpm range

to advance to 15 degrees but by moving it up in the rpm range is that you're getting

a nice low this is drifting is all about wheel speed uh it's letting you get a nice gradual

acceleration out of the corner without lighting up the tires you're getting enough grip on the

pitas it's very very slippery very low traction and then once you like you're slowly gaining wheel

speed and then you're also gaining like motor power and that's what helps you accelerate it's

hard to it's like I'm probably not even explaining it right but it's counterintuitive

to how you would with a real car because you don't have the traction of rubber tires

where you're trying you're basically delaying the acceleration a bit and then the turbo is like

an instant timing advance and you can use that for that's it only happens when you hit full throttle

and that's where you heard my car the other night it was like it was like really loud

that was too much we turned it down it's like I have it down to like 15 degrees so it's a little

quieter but use that for initiation so you can get a sudden burst of wheel speed to help you

rotate the car if the rear wheels aren't spinning the front doesn't turn that's the other thing

so yeah that's something I learned quickly yeah it works once the you need to have the rear

wheel spinning for the gyro to want to work it's kind of yeah that's how it works

well it's the same thing in a in a real car if your car tries to go sideways and you get on

a brakes you're going to spin the car out right you got to keep that rear wheel spinning in order

to get your momentum going and it works the same with these but since the traction is so limited

when there's no spinning at the rear then the front end just doesn't turn anymore there's no

there's no grip on those front tires which should be interesting to see obviously you can't do it

there but it'll be interesting to try on like a practice surface somewhere with like a rubber

set of door and car tires and the rock I can see what it does I think I asked about that and

and the car was like ripped like they're so fast with a I can't imagine a high grip tire

there was one night the the track owner and pro pat had some different tire he was trying

it was like a high traction tire for p-towel or something some specialized tire and the thing was

his car was so fast it was like this is too fast well I mean the the brushless motors with the

you know the 2s lipo batteries probably makes like a 40 or 50 mile an hour car out of it in that case

yeah with a 30 000 plus rpm like it's a lot yeah so yeah but again that all comes down to like

you have to tune to how you drive it and depends on how your throttle control is like

I have my throttle set up not linear I have it set up kind of step so I can which I shouldn't

it I just just sort of not told you about and just like figure it out yeah because I have it

just set up so you can kind of hold like 25 to 50 percent throttle is the majority of where you live

and you're just keeping that wheel speed and then you know just a slight it's just very much

it's just very slight to accelerate and keep up

um but yeah it's that part's pretty interesting and then the other stuff I got into instead of

buying mods as I bought a programmer for the servo so I could actually go in the servo is

programmable so you can go in and come to find out the yokomo servo is set up for high grip carpet

kind of from the factory because I think one of the complaints is that they were a little slow

side to side and there's like a neutral width that you can adjust that basically took the neutral

width out because it would basically slow the servo down because if you had higher grip because

people do drift on carpet you'd have higher grip you don't want to have a servo that turns

really fast because it'll spin the car out sure you actually want to slow that movement down a

little bit but on low traction like petal it can move really fast and I was having a lot of

with initiation and changing direction for drifts so I turned all the way down I played with it one

night I went through like four like I was like trying it I did this like four times that landing on

just turning it all the way down finally made the car feel different and I was like all right that's

pretty cool I like that because I was going to try it well I still am going to try a different

servo with the Reeve D ones but just to see what the difference is but the interesting thing and

I'll tell you for you the aluminum body servo from Yokomo and the plastic body servo really

aren't that different other than the aluminum body because they're both programmable come to find out

at the both all metal gear ball bearing same internal plastic one is less money so you can

buy a plastic one and you can program it and yeah do whatever you want to do to it I have

basically the same setup that you have in your car is what I'm going to purchase from my car the

hobby wing setup and the Yokomo servo and Yokomo gyro so oh the other thing you want to make sure

too is that the BEC for the servo you can adjust on the SC so you can give it the most power

you didn't like you want to give the be able to give the servo seven volts so it's got the most

speed so the learning curve is steep on this stuff but I'll get there yeah but I would definitely

just it was from I don't know I like we said it's real cars these scale cars like it's really

fun to model them right we love doing that love personalizing them but on this step into this hobby

I was like you know what I'm gonna do it differently than the way I do it normally I'm gonna buy

a really good beginner chassis that's good out of the box I'm gonna stick with the way it's set up

or the parts that are on it for as long as possible and I just want to see if I can tune it

and teach myself that part first and tuning all the other stuff before I go spend big bucks on

like a super nice chassis because you can go buy a Yokomo chassis that's like 800 bucks

yeah or more yeah and it's got all the aluminum stuff and belt drive and there's different

theories on motor setup torque anti-torque all kinds of stuff and you'd be like or there's

other different chassis's that have different setups and you'll be chasing your tail forever

and get frustrated that's what happens a lot a lot of people buy they get into this they buy like

super nice stuff and they know how to set it up and they get frustrated with it and they don't do it

so I'll just do anything you get over your head quickly yeah it's and you know I'm not knocking

it because it's fun to buy stuff and mod it right that's just what's fun about it and

the other part of it that gets fun is doing all the bodies and stuff so like you know it's funny I

went from having one drift chassis I'm getting back on RC then having one drift chassis in October

and now I've got like three four um I bought it used it's a from the track owner it's a SD10 LTS

from Yokomo so it's a low transfer special which basically it does like super aggressive like

roll body roll yeah yeah so it's got the battery is set up high the motor is set up way up high

it has longer travel shocks with super soft springs

it's very dynamic watching those guys run yeah it's pretty cool it's I'm gonna set up a little

differently I'll probably set up the boost timing a little bit differently but I might not give it

any turbo I might just make it set up so that you have to like really throw the car into the core

and make it roll and change direction and that'll be 16 or 17 car body on it so it'll look yeah exactly

yeah um then I took uh which is totally not the way you should build a drift car I've got a

TTO2 with a conversion kit for real drive because it's very expensive it's like you know especially

with shipping and tariffs now it was like 50 bucks to ship this $50 kit to convert it sure

$150 kit already so it's not really that's why everybody's like just go buy like a yokomo

or a MST chassis or something to start with because they're already set up and so you hold

nearly yourself yeah it's it's surely a love of the game I'm a Tamiya person it's a Maya guy

I just want to I've seen some really cool TTO2 set up for drifting so

uh I'm gonna play with that and then I took on a mini chassis an M chassis because I wanted to do

there are some smaller bodies with shorter wheel bases like a Miata or a 86 body

but it was an MBO1 chassis which is a newer M chassis that Tamiya came out with a few years ago

that it's an interesting chassis because it does front wheel drive or rear wheel drive

you know the trash yeah no you can't do all drive you can change the configuration

yeah you knew front rear wheel front motor front wheel drive basically the way you saw it

where the wide part of the chassis was at the back if you do it front wheel drive it flips it

puts the wide part in the front it's like kind of interesting modular but in MRC which is

um that kit was interesting because it came with friction shocks so when you saw it the other day

we drifted it or I drifted it drifted all right I had to buy special smaller wheels for it special

smaller drift tires for it but it wasn't too bad and I was using base yokemola trucks

um so in the meantime I've I installed a high-mount battery tray so the battery

tray is actually up and over the motor which is in a high position which is another thing

that you do the MBO1 so it's kind of the center of the chassis up high the motor is over the rear

um and then I had some I bought some better oil shocks for the TTO2 so I switched those

oil shocks over to the MBO1 because it fits that's the fun stuff with all the modern Tamiya stuff

a lot of stuff switches over um and it drifted a lot better um still could use a little bit of

tuning wood stuff but I think for just a funky small chassis car I might just leave it the way

it is and it'll just be a fun car to take out every now and then the next one I do want to do

because I have the parts to do it is take an MBO1 and you combine it with parts from the

BTO1 Tamiya kit which is a full size 110 scale yes you can make it a front motor

rear wheel drive so the motor will be up high in the front and then be rear wheel drive yeah

um so yeah I'm going to try that out uh and then there's like companies that make extra

conversions that can go on top of those and add like carbon plates and stuff so maybe I'll get a

little while with that so we'll see it's just kind of fun to build those like you're out of control

Andrew yeah the problem is I like building kits and these are like fun weird Japanese type kits to

build and the cool thing is too is I think if ever you wanted to get out of them all of these have

market to sell them to like I think if you want to start building RC kits you could let them go

for more than you're into them for and just do it you could definitely build kits for people

absolutely those guys that don't want to build kits they're not good enough to build them

they get intimidated by building them um you shouldn't be it's easy I do it when I was eight

yeah well Tamiya kits are the easiest to build definitely start with one of those

yeah you'll you'll see when you build that Yokomo the instructions are clear but not super clear

but you have experienced building a RC car so you'll know what to do like the number one thing is

people throw the servo in power the thing up and then with the servo horn aren't it already so it's

like crooked yeah that's that's every RC car though so yeah yeah but it's like a thing that's

like it's not I actually don't think in the Yokomo electronics I might not say that in the

instructions it's funny because you know I've been getting back into RC cars as well and not to go

too long on RC cars here but we're so we're into right now and uh it's year of winter time so you're

driving them right now I'm excited for the summertime here when it's 120 degrees outside

I'll be it's my new RC track my new micro new succession yeah um I am building this the monster

beetle kit the one I actually used for Christmas thank you very much um but it's my third to my

kit in the past year so I'm putting it together and I'm like I'm not going to finish this front

steering because I'm just going to throw these parts in the trash and I'm going to buy adjustable

turnbuckles from the get go because they make so much more sense now like yeah first thing I built

I was like okay it's how you do it but I was like oh these turnbuckles are really cool is I can adjust

it without taking the whole car apart you got oh I ordered some turnbuckles for it before I even

drive a stupid car so um backtracking a little bit just to get off topic I completely forgot the

biggest most important update of the week what's up my garage is air conditioning oh there you go

yeah hey oh right so um if you're local to Phoenix we used Everest air or Everest air conditioning

heating or whatever uh they were the nicest people we've ever dealt with for anything like this I

feel like um they listened to what we wanted and they designed a system based on what we were looking

for and gave us multiple options on how to set it up and went with a not because of brand loyalty

just because of it's the most recommendation most recommended unit you can get so I went with a

Mitsubishi uh just also happens to be the brand loyalty part is kind of nice the only new Mitsubishi

right by yes brand new Mitsubishi just let the cars though if you use a a diamond certified

installer you get a 10 year warranty just like a car we did too yeah so I use the diamond installer

Everest is one of those um it is a 10 year parts labor and freon warranty which is pretty much

unbeatable so um but yeah I have air conditioning in the garage we have a a single I think it's

two ton capacity I think it's 24 000p to use something those numbers those numbers don't

mean much to me because I'm not an air conditioning guy but that's what I remember something around

there but it's to do a you know seven hundred and seven watts square foot room with 18 to 20

foot ceilings so supposedly it's enough to do that whole thing we shall see uh it's not been hot

enough here obviously because it's middle of February to use it but the other night it was down

in probably the mid 40s outside so we did try the heat pump version of it and I stood in the very

middle of the room and I could instantly feel the heat so my assumption is the air conditioning

will work the same way and the cool thing about the Mitsubishi units I don't know if they've changed

since you've got them or how they were then but they're so efficient because they have a variable

motor on the unit outside whereas most of them are just on off so when it first kicks on it

starts really slowly and ramps up so it uses less electricity to get up to speed and we were doing

our I shouldn't say we I'll give Naomi full credit for this she was doing the math because she works

for the electric company on what it will likely cost to run this thing and if we keep it at like

you know 80 degrees in the garage in the summertime when it's 120 outside

based on the efficiency and the ratings of this unit it should really cost us like 20 bucks a

month in the hot months to run it so totally worth it so very very excited to have that

I don't want it to get hot here because I do prefer the winter weather here but also

I'm less worried about this year because I have a air conditioner in my garage so there'll be no

stopping of the car projects yeah all summer long it's so quiet but when the outside temperature

is 120 that's enough difference that it feels cool oh yeah 100% and you can crank it down when

you're in there I'm just taking up leaving it in somewhere in the 80s I just want to leave the room

well also for efficiency wise you want to have the air conditioning on all the time

because everything if it's 100 degrees plus in the room everything in the room is 100 degrees

and when you turn the air conditioner on now it also has to fight the heat soak in every object in

the room and when you have a room full of cars big metal objects hold heat really well the air

condition will work a lot harder to take the heat out of those things so if you constantly have the

thing at like 85 or you're not in there and you can crank it down to the 70s when you're in there

it's not going to make much of a difference on the usage of electricity and you'll be able to

enjoy the space in the garage more than you could without it also the Mitsubishi units are so quiet

I had to put my hand on the big glower outside even though it was running like you can't hear it

it's like 20 decibels which is like a human whisper so yeah so quiet yeah I have a whole

house set up here and we run it out 72 all summer it's fine yep it's perfectly cool yeah and you

walk outside you can hear about those window units rattling away really and I can barely hear mine

running by the side of the house yep yeah so I'm super excited about it um I forget who's why

I apologize but somebody suggested I put a rally art sticker right over the logo on my Mitsubishi

here you go you should put a put a marble logo like vinyl on it and the one that's inside

yeah just a little just a little rally art stripes right next to the Mitsubishi logo I think

it might be uh might be some might be funny but yeah so now I'm super excited because it's going to

make keeping projects going through the summertime like a huge thing and I can also store all of my

hobby stuff now in the garage like I was I was afraid to store unbilled model kits and stuff

out there so they didn't want them in over 100 degrees because it would plastic would warp and

weird things happen to decals but now that's climate controlled in there I'm gonna get

yeah I'm gonna take all the closet space back there you go we'll get all these model kits out

there and it'd be cool to like display them on unbilled model kit boxes for nerds like us

are kind of a display piece so I'm uh I'm super excited for it so again I know I thank you

multiple times it's probably a huge props to Naomi for helping me figure all this out and

helping pull the trigger and figuring out how to finance it and how to make it all work and

that's the other thing too is that this company we use is giving us zero interest financing for

I think a year so it's like it's dumb not to do it so super good idea so way into it so it's all

installed it's up and running I'm glad that we pre-wired the garage for 240 um because there was

no extra wiring had to be done they were able to just tap into the already existing wiring in the

walls so super cool literally super cool very excited for that anyway I'm almost proud to talk

about that that's the biggest thing that happened this week it's probably the reason I didn't get

myself in cars because I had to have the garage cleaned out to have the install done I spent a

day taking everything back off the walls I dug up and another day putting everything back up again

so but it's all good super excited for it like you probably heard my voice like this is

almost as excited as they are I'm gonna buy a new car for this new air conditioning unit

all right did you want to find it oh geez we have more to talk about yeah and make up for

last week's short episode so you were here and we actually um because you were here we had some

friends text us that they wanted to go out to lunch and I sat there with Stephanie I was like

why don't we just have a detour and 500 party instead of their house yeah and if you're listening

you were invited or sorry yeah so we had some people over and um had some nice food we watched

you tell the 500 and um you know looking at the people talking about it after I mean it was a good

race I thought it was a good race I thought so too the end was cool uh definitely uh see

and tell eretic win it it was very cool to be in the room with fans of all the drivers

who had a chance to win the race yeah like there was some little needling going on between everybody

so it was really cool yeah um my father in law likes jace Elliott and it's fine

it was yeah like what he was like leaving with like a lap and a half or something that all of a

sudden was not bleeding I've never seen I've never seen your father-in-law show so much range of

emotion in such a short period of time as I saw during the Daytona 500 but uh yeah there's some

interesting critique afterwards I guess it really didn't show on tv but they were kind of doing like

fuel mileage racing which is kind of boring I mean I definitely noticed that when I was there

in person you can hear that the throttles aren't as open enough and they're just kind of like well

and that's kind of a problem with probably the speedway package and they need to work on that

and sure it's always been a problem with because it's still technically a restrictor plate race

yeah someone drives like just give us the horsepower man and they add a lot of drag on the cars

to keep the speeds down and yeah it's kind of like maybe they should do some testing with the car

and just see how fast the thing will go without a restrictor plate yeah add add more add more drag

yes needed and lose the restrictor plate because um now so that was pretty cool to see 2311 win

after their loss because they also won lost if they won yep um and I know it's hard to say that

you know a team funded by Michael Jordan is the underdog team but they really are yeah compared

to the 2311 and track house those are the those are the the the more and inspired motorsports this

year out of nowhere um they're all the underdog teams especially when compared to pensky or

hendrick who are just yeah you know they could print money basically so uh so yeah speaking of like

high speeds and they went to atlanta which is ecopark speedway and whatever i don't know what

ecopark is i think they used car dealer yeah it's a weird name it's like is it like car mark car

car max i don't know weird but bad marketing in their park because they own a speedway with

no idea what they do yeah but atlanta is a mile and a half speedway that races like a super speedway

now it's still a driving track yeah so that ecopark is a car dealership and not only is it a

car dealership there's one here in town not far from me so i should know that yeah say that kind

of gives you a taste of what the cars would run like without restrictor plates yeah um and i don't

think the coolest thing about it is when they get a run they get a run yeah and i don't think

i'm trying to remember back to what they were talking about at the beginning of the year i

i think only at road courses and tracks under a mile and a half are they up in the horsepower

and they're giving them like seven over seven hundred or something yeah uh so this is like

the lower horsepower and they're running this fast and they get the draft and the massive

they're getting massive runs on each other and like there's a ton of passing like these first

to race 40 some odd changes yeah so this is what listen i people like f1 but i mean what happens

there's like a ton of lead changes around the nascar race and their strategy to like when you

pit and this one race is great during qualifying and then that the race is over the qualifying

water is usually the finish order essentially yeah so well it was interesting that they for

some reason maybe it was the weather they didn't do any practice or qualifying for

Atlanta so they just 100 the weather they just set them up how they finished i think in Daytona

or by points um so it turns out to be how they finished in Daytona there's a little one race so

yeah so toleratic got to start on the pole and then shockingly somehow after a big wreck

and losing the fender on his car on a drafting track won the race yeah i think we're gonna start

seeing cars on drafting tracks uh loosely mount their right front fender because he at one point

went from like 20 second to third in the span of like two and a half laps is that a fast car

yeah i'm the two of those were fast yep uh i mean there was fords up there there were

some chevys up there whatever the host of ours in a Chevy use right up there this is the Chevy

race car yeah so you can't say like the chevys aren't running well because Spire figured it out

yep i don't know why Hendrick didn't figure it out i mean couple well two out of the

Hendrick cars were running up top yeah Lugano was up front a lot he's a forward though right

yeah but Larson and Byron were running up there yeah Chase was running up there until he

inexplicably went left too far like at some point he was i'll go further left

i came right out yeah so then so yeah at some point Larson comes down the track for some reason

he's like i don't know where's three wide he just dove down to the bottom and SPG happened

to be making a run on the bottom on the yellow line like he was above it and got pushed down

he did that twice right he got pushed on the grass twice yeah well the second time was less

of a push than the grass the second time it was uh he he lost the air on the car and he caught it

going into the grass but what it shows is what a wheel man SPG really is yeah most guys yeah

most guys can't slide that thing through the grass at speed and not crash the car and that car had

air damage but he's gonna win a oval this year 100 6th he finished top 10 both both weeks so far

yeah so he's out there we're going into kota so absolute challenger for kota like

yep he's the favorite right but then you've got a bunch of other guys like a challenge

kona zilch uh importantly we skipped over the fact that uh tally reddick won the second race as well

so now he's won the first race of the year tally reddick only he's the only the sixth driver

in the history of NASCAR to win the first two races in the season yeah so pretty cool

but we'll also do it really well uh and actually the Atlanta race was his the lose

uh he just had a bad he made a bad block bad block and his teammate was there and he took

the opportunity right so well he went up high to take to block hosevar because if you don't block

hosevar in that case hosevar is going to get underneath you he's going to use you up and so

you're going to wipe in a wall anyway so but hosevar is going to win too at some point this

season oh a hundred percent pushing so hard yeah uh and even watching the the wreck he had with bell

i think he was he was going for it what else in what in the moment it looked like hosevar was a

big jerk and just ramroded his car car ramrod through the two front cars but the more replays

the more you saw when he committed to the move there was a hole yeah he was already committed

the car was already moving there was no slowing down bell bell had a lead block close the hole up

yeah bell closed the hole up too late and then just took him out so i thought it was i thought it

was great i just i like watching hosevar and i've seen multiple legendary NASCAR drivers talking

about him being like a day learned heart style driver which is wild to see this was the problem

in the last couple years it's starting to change but guys needed to race each other they weren't

racing each other yeah like too afraid to touch it's like no well there's there was too much like

team orders like oh they're all Chevy's you better be care better than us to each other not like

no i'm gonna win like you didn't want to race my race to win yeah and that's good they they've

changed the point structure because it it it's a big deal to win and so Todd Reich was already

off to good start two race wins yeah but he's not in the playoffs nope but he but he did win the

regular season championship last year so uh he could win the regular series championship this year

and then maybe you have a chance for the whole thing so yep but everybody's still in it which

is cool right so it's all by points i think the running order right now is reddick wallis

hosevar or something like that ridiculous like the entire top 10 of the point standings are two

races there's like one or two legacy teams that's it which is awesome yeah it's it's some real good

racing um yep it it feels it's starting to feel more like it used to feel

and um this the next gen car the seven gen car definitely right reddick reddick wallis chase

alley at hosevar and in fifth place is i could give you 48 chances to guess who fifth place is

and you'd never get there because it's zane smith what in fifth place right now backmarker

so like i know it's only two races but that's still pretty amazing well it's funny because zane

smith runs for front row motorsports so he's not even a major team either no but he's a backmarker

so like he missed some of the big wrecks because in the back he was able to avoid and then just

move up through attrition which is fair that's the way racing works yeah he finished seventh

this weekend and in Daytona he finished sixth so does he miss man's got two top 10

two top 10 finishes so far this year and in a moment of making me feel incredibly old is

birth year is the year of my high school graduation so that's cool anyway yeah i um good

to see that you know the the other thing these these cars race really well the mile and a half

tracks um they got to do some improvements for these drafting tracks i mean really they just have

all the two big ones right you've got talladega and atona the two restrictor plate tracks so

but it'll be interesting to see what happens at the road course with the higher horsepower and at

the shorter tracks the higher horsepower because that's what i'm asking for right so last year it

was about making the tires stickier and having them wear out faster and hopefully they kept with

that tire formula and just added the horsepower to make them wear out even faster because that's

the thing you want the tires to wear out but you want the speed out of the cars you want to make

it feels like the combination is having those you know you want the cars to be fast

but there needs to be like a limit to how far you can run on the tires you shouldn't

know the run half the race in the tires you want to force them in instant fall off they

should be gradual fall off yeah to a point and then it should just like fall off and then

they have to come in the pits and then like 100 100 percent because you but what you don't want

is a guy who can run 50 lap but not 51 laps on the tires yeah you want a guy who can run

50 laps but at lap 25 he's a 10th or two slower than he was at lap one i want to see that strategy

though where if you've got a long green flag run people have to start coming in and making green

flight pit stops when you do it you know you do it early you get some tires you get some

make up some positions and then you know whatever that's what makes it really interesting so

hopefully they keep figuring out that formula and keep working on it because it seems like it's

going in the right direction at least for the first two races and you got you got to give them

credit for trying too they're not just resting on their laurels they're trying to make it

not only more competitive but also more interesting for the viewers so yeah so like i said kota should

be interesting you've got sfg is definitely the favorite but like rex done well on road courses

larson does well car is ilch is amazing at road courses he uses matches sfg

you've got mike medowell can run a road course the dinger can run a road course

was it uh was it ryan priest that one i'm thinking of that one walkins glenn that beat sfg

or anything the other one it was the build some reins car but maybe it wasn't ryan priest driving

it it was christ busher that's it yeah busher um yeah so that should be

pretty interesting to see i wonder if it's going to rain i don't know

also it should be fun to watch this weekend too not to go too off the deep end here with

nascar stuff but um the nascar truck series at st petersburg i think that's a petersburg

yep um so same week so then this weekend must also have any car yeah um

where's the race though it's in florida somewhere that's a run it's a st petersburg

yeah st petersburg florida is it st petersburg yep st p

yep you're at the same beat but it's a road course street course they can actually

a street course and the trucks have never run a street course before so that'd be cool

for some reason there's a couple yeah there's a couple of rainers coming in for that but we'll

see uh jimmy johnson's coming in for that um it should be fun doesn't watch because he's good

in that chassis style um and as an f1 driver who's coming too and i forget which f1 driver it is

nice um oh uh not f1 well i think you're right oh you're a different indy car you're on f1 too

uh dario frankie is not a run to do oh fun all right i'll watch that race yep yeah i'll just

podcast we're um yeah i don't know if you're not into the race talk you can shoot out early

but um we're fast forward in case we give you any nuggets afterwards

yeah you're under the scale stuff fast forward i don't know let's tell you

it's podcasts about what we're into uh and it's old cars toy cars they're not toys

and not collectibles andrew yeah i get to um man i tried to find a quick follow up to like

rally sweden and i went on youtube and i found like this dirtfish one and i appreciate that

it was pure it was just highlights with no narration and no music just pure sound pure

highlights but it wasn't what i was looking for i wanted like a recap so let's go back yeah you

need you need a little bit of talking to know what's going on yeah but if you just wanted to

watch it cool yeah i i watched all the was money carl the first week yeah um there was a daily

update that wrc posted yeah i can remember to watch it when i'm like can't find anything on tv

that i can i always forget that i can put youtube on my tv i have to watch it on my small screen

so because that's a good thing though i i do want to keep up with that stuff that's pretty cool

um yeah that's why i watch a lot of racing that i don't watch regularly like mass car like i

usually watch the indica recap and the truck series yeah and yeah it's usually do a good

15 to 20 minute recap of the race and give you the yeah i want to keep more track of like

wec races the endurance racing that's outside of united states too because that sounds cool

for sure but yeah because there's so much good racing going on right now

yeah and i don't know if you get uh mav tv at your house i think it's still called mav tv

i do on your cable monster gym they broadcast they broadcast all of the um yeah monster jam

um transam races yep yeah so and the australian touring car stuff is all on youtube too so

tons it's really good yeah

oh all right so you can find us all off topic we're on instagram i am raced nigger on instagram

you get a lot of casts on instagram too i've been mostly just doing drift content i've got

a die cast you want to put on that brad but i posted uh my building rc car south the other day

yeah you did so all right brad we're gonna find you uh they could find me at some of the same

places but then they can find me on my personal accounts at tsi ss 350 i haven't been doing much

posting lately and i probably should get back into that um there was just a bit of time where i was

not using social media as much and i was trying to not be on there but it shouldn't stop you from

posting i guess so just post on through it all right cool as always keep cars analog

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The hosts dive into the challenges of tuning and repairing a vintage Volvo with dual Weber carburetors, focusing on stuck chokes and carburetor adjustments for better performance. They share hands-on troubleshooting, including removing stuck parts, adjusting idle screws, and addressing temperature gauge issues. The episode also touches on recent severe snowstorms affecting their area and plans for further maintenance like brake fluid changes and wiring improvements. The conversational tone captures the real-world frustrations and successes of working on classic cars in winter conditions.

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We're back with a longer than usual episode. Brad was here in person a for the prior episode so we were able to work on the Volvo in person. The weber carbs got and update and Brad has some Starion updates. We then do a deep dive on some R/C projects and round it up with NASCAR talk.

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