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World of Outlaws
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late model
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Chevrolet Monte Carlos
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Mazda Rx8
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Volkswagen Jetta
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Welcome back to the martini works podcast and you guys want
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worry. We saw your comments we seen the backlash we felt it and
it hurts. No, we agree with you guys completely we get it. I
think majority of us thought it's a podcast you guys are just
listening we didn't realize how intently you were watching and
that's on us honestly. Yeah, I'm gonna start wearing makeup.
You're not wearing me.
Anyways, so no, I think that's a great thing that you guys
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stuff pointed over specific things when we're talking about
them. I think it makes sense. That's fair. I just give us some
grace. We're three dudes and the frickin podcast takes an over
an hour to film and there's so many cameras and then over an
hour to edit and then to go back there. It's just a lot. We're
working through it but we hear you guys and we want to keep
improving and getting better. So I think that'll come in the
future and thank you guys for your honest feedback too because
it's only gonna make us better but today I am here with oh I
didn't realize you're gonna introduce introduce me. I'm
Dustin and just and I'm Dakota and this is the Martin works
podcast. Welcome. We kicked Alex off of it again for today
because we like Dustin more. Dustin's been doing some cool
stuff and that's why we wanted to have mine and I think we want
to talk a little bit about motor sports in general. I think
going to events is super fun and everyone should do it but we
are kind of talking about shooting the shit how drifting
and then like dirt track oval racing. It's like same same but
different. It's like copy my copy my homework but but make it
your own right. Yeah. Obviously there's major differences
between these but there is also some weird similarities when
you think about it but they are very different audiences. Oh a
hundred percent a hundred percent but I think it's really
interesting like what I what prompted this is I was out of
race this weekend and I was looking at some of their
apparel and it's it's different like it's a different style of
apparel and we can chat a little bit about that but the way
that like the way that dirt track racers convey themselves in
conversation is the same as the way drifters convey them like
FD guys convey themselves and it's really interesting how how
similar they are. I would say the difference is that like in my
opinion drift guys are listening to like sad pop punk and dirt
track race guys are just listening to dad rock. That's the
only difference. I would kill to see an oval track car with
like a JDM drift livery on it. So OK so low key. I was thinking
about what I was thinking about this. How rad would it be
because dirt track cars are sick. You know they're like
tubular chassis like late models are tube chassis and stuff and
whatnot and they're they're really purpose built cars but
when you crash one of those you wad it up like if you tweak a
frame that's the end of it. It's just the cars not worthless
but dang they're worthless. Yeah. So they'll sell them for
you know two grand twenty five hundred bucks. How sick would it
be to build a drift light model because think about you could
you'd have to do some fab work right. But the chassis is a
tube chassis so you can bolt up and weld up whatever the hell
you want to and it'd be gangster. See like this big block
Chevy freaking late model out there with like a reverse chrome
liver. I just it would be goofy as hell. I'd be sick. I
think like they're like built crooked aren't they. Yes. So a
couple of things the chassis every there's nothing symmetrical
so and we're talking specifically late models if you're a
dirt guy here. Sprint cars are kind of the same thing that's
different conversation but a late model chassis is typically
built twisted a couple degrees and then the rear ends in those
cars like the reason that they they they weight transfer so
hard and you see the like body roll up is the rear end is
actually engineered to rotate. So it's engineered in the back
of the car to roll steering. Basically. Yeah. Essentially so
that's what you do. That's what drives the car on the corner
which is wild. Yeah that is not. I think that's why it's so
cool and like grown up beaver damn old beaver tucky power
com raceway and stuff. So I've always had kind of like a
slight interest in that stuff never got heavily into it but I
knew it went to school with guys that did it you know and still
race to this day. So it's always been interesting but it's cool
to see how those cars are built like the Sprint cars right
where they have the like gigantic wings but only dedicated to
turning left. Oh yeah. Well you have to man. They're they're a
tube chassis car that essentially is like the front end is
just spindles right and a tie rod for the steering which doesn't
even have like a true gearbox. It just comes up. There's like a
bar that comes up to the side to a drop box and then that goes
over to the steering linkage and that's it. Like it's super
simple but then you've got 900 HP's in front of you a drive
shaft that's literally straddle that goes right underneath in
between your legs to the rear end and that's it. I didn't
realize they made that much power. Yeah like 900 HP's 1200
pounds like weight wise. So they're they're dummy. You have
to that's why they're so loud. Yeah. How cool would it be. We
should do this as a video. Yeah. Like have a dirt driver and a
drifter swap seats. Oh yeah. It's really funny because we went
down to Riverside this last year. We brought the Sim Rig with
and you loaded up some dirt track. Oh yeah. This is a good
story. I was watching Dustin doing oh man he's ripping but
yeah the whole time you're going sideways and it looks like
you're you're you're chucking it in the corner and so like I'm
like I want to try this and so I like get in there and I like
go to throw the wheel like you do like and I just immediately
wall it like that was weird. So I like try it again. I mean I'm
like what the fuck is going on. Dustin's like why are you
counter steering. I'm like what do you mean. Why am I
counter drifting. He's like just just punch the throttle and
steer into the corner. I'm like that's that's not what I was
doing. You need to turn right to go left. And he was under
watched cars. It's wild though because you you roll those cars
out there and like and I think we're on Knoxville so like a
really big wide open half mile track where you can pretty much
stand on it the whole time but you'll come into the corner and
you just you just lift a little bit and kind of set the
steering wheel and the whole car will start to rotate because
it'll it'll weight transfer on that right rear and then from
there all you're doing is just taking that steering wheel and
just you know half turn quarter turn increments just enough to
balance that front end out. Everything else about that car
you're driving off your right foot. You're just a throttle
input is the whole amount of rotation. Is there really any
braking or is it mostly like just throttle. Yeah so especially
as you get in traffic that's where where brake really becomes
a factor because like what'll happen is if you're you're
battling with a guy and you're trying to you know find grip
and whatever else you know you'll come into a corner and
you'll stand on the brake and flick the rear end of the car
out and then plant the throttle again and so you'll kind of you
know you come in and you you rotate the nose in and then once
that weight transfers you stand on it and you kind of walk out
on that corner and you'll you'll sweep up. They call the slide
job. You'll slide up in front of him on hit the cushion and then
away you go. Damn. Yeah it's fun. It's it's why how do you think
a dirt driver would do drifting. Um you know honestly Corey
Tulaska is probably the guy to talk to because he ran a
screw and a sprinter for a while. Oh yeah. You know he did
dirt driving. Yeah. He's been racing his whole life. He's in a
well from a throttle input perspective. I think I think they
would really if for someone who's never drifted before I think
would really struggle with steering input because they're
they're going to try and get that thing to weight transfer out
and drive it off that right rear which you probably could you
put a really like a really soft spring in that right rear or or
you know loosen that coil over up a little bit so it weight
transfers back. I bet you could make it work. The right turns
would be hard though. All they do is turn left you know. So
tell us a little bit about the event you went to. Oh my god.
Dude. Dude. All right. So I just got back from an event called
Gateway Dirt Nationals. It is an indoor late model and dirt
modified events which is different. Yeah. So it's in
like a it's in a stadium right. Think of like Monster Jam. Yeah
but but dirt racing. So brain it's it's the brain child of a
guy by the name of Cody Summers who is an incredibly smart
human being and Cody decided if they can run monster trucks
indoors we can run late models indoors. So they truck in I
forget how many metric tons of dirt but it's a pile of it. I
mean they build this track every year for this event and then
when they're done they clean it up take it all back out again
because it's a lot of work. It's a football field. A fun fact
for you I found how to store turf by the way they make these
really cool little like center driven things and it's a whole
idea. Anyway store turf in a dumpster. No so so what what
they do is they bring in all this dirt and then they build it
from the floor up like three cinder blocks high in the
corners. So there's a ton of banking on it. It's a fifth
mile but the event is like I was telling you guys a little bit
earlier the event is like a modern day Coliseum like it
is no holds like wreckers or checkers get in there thrash
the hell out of this car. You're up on the wheel the whole
time. You know you're really kind of elbows up racing. That's
a big dirt thing elbows up because the spring cars when the
wheel sits down in front of you. So when you're racing really
aggressively they say your elbows are up because you're
like you're like up like this on the wheel. So really cool
stuff but it is man. The whole experience is electric in that
place. It's like imagine going to Lambo right. You guys been
Lambo. Yeah. You know how cool Lambo is when like the packers
are winning everybody's cheering and screaming and
they're all placed on earth and they're all pissed drunk and
everyone's having a good time. It's like that but with race
cars. It's so cool. Dude it is even if you're not even if
you're not a dirt racing guy just to be in that environment is
intoxicating. It's so cool. And that's that's how I was saying
is like if you haven't been to any motor sports events you
should really do it like gotten the chance to go to some
IMSA races or even going to the local track up here and
watching drifting like I don't partake in drifting. I wish I
just can't afford it. Y'all are gnarly but like going and
watching is so dang fun and it's such a good vibe and there's
so many good people. It's all like minded people there too.
So like going out to these events I really think it can open
up a new alleyway for you for like what you want to do with
your vehicles and stuff you know like it's inspiring. It gets
you hooked. How many people come to this event. 38,000 people
in the dough. It was insane dude. It's impressive. Yeah. I
just feel like anytime I've seen those events with their
track race I'm not talking down but it's typically a little
scattered. Yeah. The the crowd does sell it out or it's got to
be damn near sold out. It was it was probably 75% capacity.
They opened up the 400 level seats so there's people up in
the 400 levels and it was nuts man. It was it was absolutely
bonkers the amount of people that come in for that event. Do
you think that space is growing or do you think it's
declining? I think it's growing. I think I think the dome
specifically we call it the dome because it happens at the
dome at America Center but Gateway Dirt Nationals the
event is growing rapidly. I think that that'll be Cody will
be in a different spot by by 2027. I bet because he'll sell
that stadium out. What state was it? Missouri. Missouri. I
literally stayed. I'll show you guys a picture. I stayed from
my hotel room. I could see the arch. Oh, that's nice. Yeah.
It's actually kind of sketchy down there by the way. If you've
never been like the arch area is actually no it's a hundred
percent. Yeah. Louis ain't really that fun of a place. I
almost got to do a fight. I'll tell you guys about that. He
was fighting us. Well, he tried. He walked out in front of me
and I may have kind of just slapped the quarter panel of
his car but whatever. Anyway, different different time.
Different time. He walked in front of you. He slept his
car. No, no, no. He drove in front of me. We don't need
to go there but the event is growing like crazy I think and
that space is growing. You know, I think like the event was
70k to win on Saturday. 70 thousand bucks just to start the
main event paid $3,000 in your pocket. So, it's it's growing
and it's growing rapidly. That's really cool. You think it
will get is there local shows around here that they they're
doing races like in this area? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Like Plymouth. Plymouth has usually I think they're hosting
High Limit next year which is a sprint car series. World of
Outlaws is coming back again. I mean they're there that the
world of dirt racing is very much alive and well and I
think there's this weird misconception in the market
that like kind of like you said, dirt racing is like very
like not really podunk but but kind of more rural, very low
budget. Is it mostly like a Midwest thing? No, it's
everywhere. It's so interesting. Everywhere but what's
interesting is is the type of car you're into is very
different depending on where you're from. Right. Like Arizona
loves late models. They love late models. That's their jam.
Late models and street stocks. You get down South, big
street stock country. You know, Alabama and Georgia, they
love street stocks and late models. What is that? What's
street stock? Um okay. So, a late model, you know the late
model is right. We talked about that real long car. Real
fancy. The crooked one. Yeah. The big parallel gram looking
one. Yeah. Street stocks are originally started as like
like Monte Carlos that they would strip down and race. You
know, more car-esque. Sure. Sure. And then as you get up
into the the northeast kind of main Vermont, all that
stuff, those guys love big block modifies. Those are like
the door wedge shape ones. Have you never seen those? I
think I know what you're talking about. Yeah. They're
wild. They like. Jels, put a picture up so I can see. Yeah.
Jels, put it on. Oh, I get it. Um but but they love their
mods and then like the Midwest is Sprint car capital of
the world. Really? Oh, dude, we love Sprint cars here. Um
but it's crazy. Like people don't realize from where we
are right now, if you wanted to go racing or if you wanted to
go watch a race within a two hour drive, you can go Angel
Park, Big Beaver Dam, because Little Beaver Dam is closed
now, but Big Beaver Dam is still open. Uh Wilmont, 141,
Seymour, Anaggo, uh
there's like two or three. There's a seven, eight tracks
within two hours I hear. That's what I was gonna say. Like
any time. Yeah. So, when are you gonna start racing? Let me
tell you. Let me tell you a little secret. I've seen you
whipping on the sim. So, this is this is something. So, I
was trying to go diesel drag race next year really bad.
That was my jam, right? But to be honest, it is it's pretty
expensive. And any racing, I feel like it's just excellent. I
should really finish my LBZ before I buy another diesel
truck to be honest with you. So, I was like, okay, well,
we'll figure it out. So, Gravity Park, that's the other
park uh track. I forgot Gravity Park in Chilton, which is
like 40 minutes from here. Just posted the other day that
there's a growing series in in dirt racing um where they're
dropping five three LS's um into late models and you can
build one of those. The goal is to build that that car for
ten grand to go racing car chassis engine everything. Okay.
It's like, oh, holy shit. Just go get a business loan for
change. I guess we just you know, that's a little more
attainable than than the kind of dollars. So, we'll see what
what shakes out next year. I definitely got the bug after
this weekend though. I bet. Well, you've been you went to uh
Knoxville too. So, those are kind of like some back to back
heaters. I feel like that uh I'd probably get the bug due
going to stuff like that. I'm so addicted to that. Especially
especially like uh being able to like get down in there and
like really like, you know, close to it, shooting the
content and then I'll show you guys the video once we hop
off here because I know we're coming close on on the first
bit but um I'll show you a video. I was standing on the
safety barrier or like behind the safety barrier which is
just concrete blocks at at Gateway and the car is closer
than I am to that camera. Sideways in a corner at 90
miles an hour. Shake in the earth. It was crazy. You can
hear if you listen to the video closely, you can hear the
air as he goes. That's sick. It's wild. That's super dope.
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Alright, 2026 is on the horizon. I can smell it. I can
taste it. I can hear it coming. What's it taste like? Um
pizza. Oh, lots of pizza. I like 26. Let's go. Let's go. So,
what I'm curious about is do you guys have plans or are you
starting to think about what 2026 looks like? I know some
of us have projects. Some of us have builds that we want to
the finishing touches on. What is your 2026 look like maybe in a
dream state and what will realistically probably happen?
Your first. Got him. Uh it'd be cool if I had a car to drive
again. That'd be that'd be fun. So, what's going on? Give give
the debrief real quick on the situation. Uh it was one of
those situations where I was feeling really, really
motivated one day. Mm hmm. I put the 240 up on like Jack
stands. Started to dive into it, ripped the fenders off, ripped
the bumpers off, ripped basically the whole body kit off.
He's just had like a bunch of new like rear control arms and
stuff to put in because I really wanted to get rid of all of
the negative camber in the rear. Um so, I bought a bunch of
like ISR control arms and shit like that and in the middle of
like putting that in like broke some bolts and shit like that
and just got busy with other shit and now it's just
collecting cobwebs and the garage is a nightmare because
we've been like doing stuff with the house so it's like all
the boxes and shit get thrown out there. It's like I need a
tool so I bring it in like there's just shit everywhere
right now and like I look at the garage and I'm just so
unmotivated to go out there and do shit with it and it's like
now it's to the point like I rip so much stuff out. It's like
well, I want to put new stuff back on like I don't want to
put the old fenders back on it. It's like I have the new
origin bumper but it's like I'd have to paint that to match it
but if I want to paint that to match I might as well just
paint the whole car but then to paint the whole car it's like
I want to do the bodywork to it but if the bodywork to it I
might want I want to make it run and it's just like a never
ending cycle of this is while you're in there while you're
yeah while you're in there syndrome. Yeah. 100% yeah.
Thank you. You need this whiteboard and a list and just
start picking away. You just gotta start checking off what
you can and then too I get this way like with with content.
I love editing. I love making videos and stuff like that but
it's always while you're in there, right? It's like, oh, I
want to add this. Oh, I want to fucking make this. Exactly.
And I think it gets to a point and this works for for cars too
is like you have to just recognize what is realistic for
me in this time frame and what can I actually do like we all
have that dream state and I think we can get there eventually
but if you want to like get out and at least you're having
seat time and stuff and it doesn't have to sit, I think you
just gotta start marking down what can I realistically do
this month? Yeah. And just start checking her off because
yeah, I know you were you were drifting quite a bit and then
it was like a wall, you know, not not physically. Yeah,
thankfully, you know, like a mental wall of like yeah, it's
just like so much to do. Like the car was the car's decent.
There's just things that that need to be addressed with it.
Like the cooling system needs to be gone through. Like the
fans need to be rewired because at this point it's just
literally a fucking electrical like fire hazard. Like I was
literally at the track and like the the switch that because
they're just like auxiliary like electrical fans that were
wired up and it's like the switch like I went to shut it
off one time and it literally burned me the wire like so
fucking molten hot and like it burned the switch out and I
couldn't shut them off so I had to like rip the wire off the
thing to like just connect the circuit and let it burn my
finger. Jesus. I'm like, okay, well, that's that's gotta be
addressed and it's like the engine like, you know, like
leaks oil and shit like that and it's probably due for like a
refresh of some sort. You know, it's like there's a lot of
things. It's an old s chassis. Yeah. It's an old s chassis
that's had a rough fucking life. Yeah, she's she's seen some
stuff. I think for 2026 getting the 240 going. Yeah, I just
like like especially since I don't have like the rx8 anymore
and it's like I don't have anything fun to just like take
for a drive. It's like I want to be able to street the car. I
think like is I know it's like fucking caged and it's got you
know, don't it's loud and obnoxious and all this shit, but
it's like I love cars like that. I love like stupid obnoxious
cars. So it's like I want to be able to like have fun with it
without like spending $300 on a track day 100 percent. You
know, I want to want to take it to fucking lunch. Yeah, you
don't go drive downtown, go cruising like a Hoonigan. Yeah,
the lunch bring it to work. So, you know, like yeah, drive to
work's a little bit fun in the morning. It's like I yeah, I
don't even think I drove it at all this year. You did not.
It's been we get the bike to which helps. Yeah, the bike
definitely helped that that like quelled like the the need
for something. So that was a lot of fun. But yeah, it's it
does break my heart. I just walk out into the garage and it's
like it's just sitting there and it's just every, you know,
another box gets thrown on it and another like the spider
webs are crazy. I like that. That really broke my heart when
it's like spider webs attached to the ground to like the back
of the car. It's like, damn, I really have not touched this
thing. Baby steps just gotta start taking. Yeah, I know with
with winter here and you know, shit starting to calm like
winter winter. I hate it because it's fucking cold and
can't do anything, but that forces you to stay inside and do
something. And what's inside the fucking car? So fortunate
enough to have heated garage. I should probably make the most
of that situation because I've wanted that basically since
we've your whole life and moved into apartments and didn't
have that, you know, kind of stuff. It was like the goals.
I want to have a nice heated garage and it's like I have it
and not fucking utilizing it and that's stupid. What am I
doing? So yeah, this this winter the goal is get it back
together in one piece. At least fix like the wiring
situation, the cooling situation that I kind of like a
running and driving car. Maybe make some weird noises yet.
Maybe maybe it's not the greatest looking yet, but at
least I can drive with it. So 100%. Well, by you, Dustin,
what you got going on? Oh lord. Um man, there's a lot of
stuff. 26 I think as we roll into to 26, I have a mountain of
parts that need to go in the truck. I have I feel like you
have a mountain of parts already in the truck. I do. Oh no.
I have a mountain of parts on the truck. I don't I that truck
is pretty much stock engine wise. Oh is it? Trans drivetrain is
all pretty much stock. You have a couple of stuff. Oh yeah.
Yeah. I got 30 over injectors, new CP3. Let's do it rich. 64
mil turbo. What's that? Uh what's that? I don't know. It's
bigger than you know. That's true. Ooh. Wait, ready? Ready for
to be scared. Ready? Forced induction. But no, I've got
bigger turbo injectors, new fuel pump. I'm I'm at this weird
spot with you talk about while you're in there, right? Yeah.
I'm at this weird spot where I really to do that job
effectively, I'm going to take the cab off, right? It's way
easier. It's way easier because it's like it's like it's
like two harnesses, eight bolts starting to sound like a Jeep
guy. It's pretty simple. So, I'm going to take the cab up,
which is going to be awesome. Um and then. Which should be
pretty because we put new cab mounts in there. Oh yeah,
they'll come apart, which is nice. The rough part is over.
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely perfect. So, um so we'll uh we'll do
that but what I'm struggling with is that while I'm while I'm
in there, um I really should do head studs, heads, you know,
head gaskets, right? Um that kind of that stuff. All the easy
stuff. Yeah, it's really not so bad when you take the cab out
of there. When it's already. I mean, yeah, that's fair. That's
fair. Um but and then I I have a call with a company actually
directly after this, which is why I'm a little short on time
today. Um but I'll have enough fuel and the stock bottom end
of that truck will hold to about 700. I make like 450 right
now. You got plenty of. The brands won't hold 700. So, I
need heads and a trans build and I
realistically could make like 700 HPs. So, I think that's the
direction I want to go. That would be insane. Is like a
six hundred, six fifty horsepower build. Six. Six seven.
Six seventy, you know. You're a brain right idiot.
Robert, you're pissing me off. How many miles are on your
truck currently? Two hundred and eighty five thousand. That is
so crazy and to like do all this at two hundred and eighty
five K is so like it's bending to me. Damn quarter million
miles. I think it's time to make more power. Take the cab off
and make it make seven hundred. That's sick. I it's just like
truck world's so different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, assuming I
make like seven hundred HPs, six hundred HPs, it probably
be like six hundred HPs and like a thousand foot pounds of
torque, eleven hundred foot pounds of torque, which would be
sick. Um then we'll hood stack it, I think. Okay. Why? Um I've
always wanted to hood stack because they're fun, but my
two rules for a hood stack are you can't do it when it's the
primary tow rig because everything you have will be
covered in soot. Yep. And you can't do it if you're under
five on a horsepower or you're a poser. Fair enough. I I
think that's fair. Is there a mark for Volkswagen Jetta TDI
then you can do it every time. Is there an actual
performance benefit to hood stack? No. Not really. It's
just kind of cool. But it just sounds cool and it looks
cool. I mean yeah. Fair enough. Like got the whole Peter
built with the pipes right out the front. Like I feel like
it's kind of like escalate. It's like a big truck. You have
your exhaust right in front of you. Remember everyone back in
the day was doing like bumper exit exhausts and like their
2D clips and like guns and shit. Like it was always like you
put a bumper exit exhaust and a two steps and it was like the
loudest thing on earth. Yeah. It's it's cool though on a diesel
because like you spool it up and you got you know I would do
like a like a short little you know three four inch um that's
pretty pipe. Yeah. Four inches is huge for the record. That's
shorter than more than enough to get it done. Anyway um but
it's cool because you're in the driver's seat and you like you
go to like brake boost it and spool it up and it'll kind of
blow a little black smoke and as it cleans up you know it
spools up it'll clear up and then when you stand on it it
just spills out smoke. It's probably the inner tractor kid
in me. Yeah. It is cool. I'm just hesitant. I think your
truck looks so good. Yeah. The way it is like it's like
anytime you talk about like a significant exterior mod like
that. I'm always. I'm backing you off. Dakota's my best temp
check because the other day I was like you know I make
enough that I could probably go race that thing if I just
pulled the lift kit out of it and Dakota's like shut up.
Leave it alone. I haven't seen that. It looks it looks really
good. What you'd want out of a Durham accident. Yeah. I do
like it. So we'll get we'll get the pile of parts installed
get that cleaned up. Um I'd like to clean the frame up a
little bit because it's been a couple of years getting kind
of gross again. Um and then we'll see man. I don't know.
I've had that truck for six years now dude. Good. Yeah.
You've used it dude. I used an abuse. I found a video the
other day from the first Gatlinburg trip we took when I
took when I hauled the 430 in the RA down there on the
street tires and the stock bumper set up and I was like
it looks so good. Yeah. It's a it's a good truck. So yeah,
that's that's the attainable side of things. Dream Golden is
I don't know. I'd like to go either drag racing or dirt
late model racing or sometimes. Yeah. I just want to go
fast man. That'd be dope. That'd be awesome. Yeah. What are
you working on? I got more stuff I want to do to the
forerunner especially around Black Friday, Cyber Monday.
There's a lot of mods that I've seen that I like. Um I'd like
to swap out like it has the TRD Pro roof rack on it. I don't
like the double decker half rack. Oh yeah. I'd like to just
get a solid one across but man. I'm going to be honest. Who
we could build one. Probably because they build them out of
aluminum profiling. Same as the SimRigs. Once I saw that one
that Alex had on the on the the Hilux, I was like, I could
build this. This is that's easy. Yeah. Yeah. So, there's a a
few little subtle things overall. I kind of like where it's
at but a couple more things I want to do and then I want to
actually like get out and use it in 2026. I like I want to
take it to some trails. I'd be sick. There's some really cool
trails up in the UP area that I would absolutely love to do
and then like camp out there and I want to do more of that too
like camping. We got we did a little bit last year and it
was just horrendous like we went and it was like you guys
like the worst weather mile an hour. It was the worst weather.
Jesus. It was it was crazy. I'll never forget that. It's like
you guys are going camping. This weekend's going to be so
great and it's like I remember stepping outside on Saturday
almost getting knocked on my ass. I was like they're in a
fucking tent right now. We go to make lunch. It's like you
set the bread loaf on neighbors are eating it like it was
crazy but yeah, I want to get out and do more of that.
Additionally, have the bike. There are mods I want to do to
that as well. I would love to tune it. Yeah. Oh, I have to
actually. Yeah, I have to. I have to because I I did a full
the fucking GSX8R require to do an exhaust like it's all one
piece from like the like the actual like header I guess all
the way down and around to the cat and then the muffler it
was all one piece so there's no like slip on style exhaust. I
had to I had to do the whole exhaust Jesus which typically
requires a tune because you're changing so much. I have a
Honda CB 1000 Hornet and those initially when they came out
there in the UK and then they brought them over to the
states for whatever reason from the UK to the states they
detuned them. So even from the factory it's making less
already more used to than it should be. So I really want to
get that tune just to open up. There's so much potential just
sitting there the way it is that I'd love to people say it
really wakes up like not that necessarily wake up your
leader but yeah, no big deal. Plenty more power. I would like
to however there are some issues. I actually just got a
recall notice in the mail for it because the shifter the
linkage the bolts fall out while and then you can't shift
while you're riding. So that's an emergency recall that came
out but additionally it's not recalled yet but I'm seeing it
all across the pages as they're having major oil consumption
issues with these bikes right now which is interesting
because the engine it is the the leader bike engine on the
CB 1000RR I think it was a 2017 around that year or so and
they were known to consume I feel like any Honda consumes a
little bit of oil but it's like this time it's it's pretty
it's just drinking it. So I'm keeping an eye I think between
my last oil change and now I did see a little bit down
there. So now I'm nervous to tune it because if there's a
factory warranty or anything I can't avoid it. Yeah. I don't
want to yeah exactly. So we'll wait it out a little bit if I
get there as soon as I can I'm tuning it because I've just
heard phenomenal things. Yeah. Tune it. Dude that bike sounds
so gnarly. Oh yeah. I love the bike otherwise. Absolutely love
it. So more fun stuff with that and then I think dream is I
would love to get myself a little project cars a little
fun. I don't I don't think in 2026 it'll happen. Could I won't
say no but Harlequin. Oh dude if if a Harlequin came up and
it was the right place I would buy it cash right now. Oh yeah.
I truly would. I've always wanted one. I feel like I can make
it happen one day. So I would otherwise like a clean 20th
anniversary mark for. Oh yeah. I think you'd go back and I
would. I would. Yeah. And I honestly I'd want a Moli yellow
again without accidents. I love a Moli yellow. Otherwise jazz
blue is really cool too. I thought that's neat but I
really love a Moli yellow. There is something about the
yellow. It's in a weird truck. It's a motor sports thing.
It's a racetrack. I would love a little project car to tinker
with like I'll always have that bug in to have some. That's
good. Keeps the drive going. Yeah. 100%. Otherwise too like
with Martino works I'd love to do a little bit more motor
sports stuff. Be around. It would get you guys in some
seed time. I think every once in a while we get some events
going on whether like we're going to hang out with
Continental or we're going to road America and it's like I'd
love to get in. Those are such unique opportunities. It
sounds horrible but it's like sometimes you almost get a
little bit numb to it because we do it so often which is
amazing to be able to say that. So it's like in 2026 I
really want to recognize while we're at those events and
take advantage of being at those events more. 100%. I just
want clapped car to be fixed. I miss that car so much. So
stop. I love that car. I love us two thousands too but that
thing that thing is a curse. Well, it's hard to listen.
There's a curse. She's had a hard life, right? Yeah and she's
spreading it on everyone. Give her a break. Give her a break.
Yeah. That car's been cursed since day one. I just kind of
wanted out of you. There's something going on and I love
us too. Okay. So for me to say that trust me on this. There's
something up with that curse piece of aluminum. It's steel.
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All right, Dustin, I keep hearing that you're going to
this this pry thing. What's pry? It's pre actually. Oh,
prik. No, no, no prik. PRI. PRI, Performance Racing
Industry. It's a trade show. It's in Indianapolis. Oh,
Thursday. Damn. So, by the time this episode comes out,
actually, I will be there at PRI, which is really
exciting. But PRI is cool. It's a smaller trade show than
like a SEMA, for example. And it is from the SEMA
organization. Yeah, from the same organization as SEMA.
But really cool event because it's less showy and flashy
than SEMA. SEMA is very like. It has everything. SEMA is
everything from like formats to detailing to paint to
windows. Literally everything. SEMA is much more of, I would
say, like a global event. It's much more of an
international automotive trade show. PRI is really just
Performance and Racing. So, it's cool because a lot of your
big players are still there. You know, your Air Lifts and
your Hoosiers and your. You just said Performance and
Racing. What's Air Lift doing? Well, Air Lift Company, right
on the towing side of things. I was just asking because I'm
sure there's some people listening. Oh, yeah. Also,
the Air Lift Performance makes coilovers. Yeah. Which is
pretty cool. But anyway, so, you know, there's some of your
big companies there, but then there's also like all of your
retro or retro, not retro, but like vintage motor sports
brands, your Hollys and Edelbrocks and Brian Thuley
Racings and and it's cool because it's kind of this big
like melting pot of motorsports stuff. So, you have
diesel and dirt and drag racing and circle track and and
drifting and grid life is there and I mean it's if you like
going fast, turning one direction or another or
otherwise just having something that makes more power
than stock, it's a show for you. That's dope. I've never
been. Yeah, it's a lot of good things though. It's cool too
because like I think SEMA, SEMA can be a lot because
you're in Las Vegas, right? So, like you get done and then
you go out and everything is never in your face and it's
never ending. PRI school because you go to the show and
then you get done the show at five and then you go grab
dinner and then it's minus four degrees outside. So,
everyone is in. Like, I don't want to be one of the 12 bars
that directly is around. PRI is SEMA for old people. Uh
kinda. Yeah. Honestly. No, I've I've heard it. It's actually
like it's really. No, it's a lot of fun. It's it's cool and
it's a little bit smaller. So, like you can cover the show
in a day and a half, two days. This will be your third year
going now because you guys have gone what two years or is
this your second year? This is my four. Oh, shit. You've been
going for a minute. Thank either three or four. I have to
look back. This might be four because I think I went in
twenty-two, twenty-three. I brought Alex, twenty-four. I
brought Alex and Lars. Is it uh open to the public or do
you gotta be? Nope. You have to be a member. So, so you do
it. There's um there's a couple different ways you can
do it. Um but you do need to be a member of the PRI
organization um to get a pass to get in there. Gotcha. So, um
as long as you're like within the industry, it's pretty
easy. Gotcha. Yeah. I would take it most people probably
haven't gone. So, like what are a couple of your favorite
either booths to see or just things in general that you
see down there? I think for me personally, I love I love the
dirt world that's there. There's so many like uh Rico
Abru had his sprint car there last year. That's cool. That's
cool. Um there's always one or two late models there. I
know. You know, I think just the variety of builds
overall is really sick. Justin Ziggler will have his his
pro mod truck there. Um which I think he went four, four
thirty-five or something in the eighth mile. I mean just
stupid fast for a truck. Um but that stuff is there. I
think that's really cool. I think booth wise, honestly,
the booths are very minimally stated there. Like it's it's
not very showy like SEMA is. Right. It's more so just like
here's all the cool stuff we do. Um but like like uh usually
OMP is there and they'll fit you for suits or that's or K1
speed gear will have all their suits and things there as
well. You better come back with a suit. I'd like to. Yeah.
Because you're going to be racing. To be honest, I need to
get um I need if racing electronics is there, I need to
get them to fit me for a set of um earplugs because they do
like custom molded ear inserts or um for helmet setups and
things like that. So, I'd like to get that fit so I can I can
get a pair of those next year because air pods when you're
in the dome, not cutting it. No, not cutting it boys. I had
listen, Tinnitus is real and my ears was ringing. Oh, I
didn't even think of that. It's so loud. A bunch of thousand
horsepower race cars in a dome. Yeah, you you figure the
feature was 20 cars. So, that's you know, conservatively
18,000 horsepower. I guess yeah, it does make sense. I
remember seeing some like monster truck shows and yeah,
that that shit's loud. Yeah. Yeah, PR is really cool. I
enjoy it. So, what is um because it's not open to the
public and stuff, what are the companies like main goals? Why
are they going to this? What's the point? So, a couple of
couple things for for us that on the Meta Martini side, it's
all about connecting with brands and helping them kind of
you know, drive their businesses forward. Um for those of
you that don't know, I actually spend most of my time on on
the partner business here, Meta Martini which is a digital
marketing agency. Um so, I get to meet with a lot of my folks
there which is rad. Um but from a like a uh like Holly is
there for example, it's usually to debut products or to to
work with race teams directly because race teams will come
in, you know, talk about next year, um connect with all
their various sponsors and look at new products and things
like that. That's dope. Yeah. Yeah, it's really cool. It's
very low key, much more laid back than a than a SEMA is which
I think you need. Yeah, especially this time of year,
dude, it's like, man, we've been wide open since since
October. So, it's nice to have something a little bit more
low key. Yeah, back to back, SEMA's would be crazy. So,
yeah, I always thought it was like opposite time of the year
but it's like within. No, it's right there. Yeah. Hop right
back into it. Yeah. But no, it's a lot of fun, man. I I
really enjoy the event. Um yeah, it's just a a good way to
kind of round out the year and then kick off 2026 for the
bank. You just drive down there, right? Yeah, it's only like
six hours for us. So, to typically. Such a Midwestern
thing. Yeah. Alex Lars and I'll drive down. Ah, it's only
and uh then there's this cool little barbecue joint. We
stop out on the way back every year. It's just north of
Indy on I-65. I forget what the hell it's called but it's a
really nice place. Mom and Pop owned. Um the food's
incredible. We stopped there every year on Saturday when we
come back. Oh yeah. Famous Dave's. No, it's not famous
Dave's. It's better than famous Dave's. I'm just kidding. We
had the original famous. I tell you it's better. Yeah, right.
I would tell you guys it's better than Dave's hot chicken
but I wouldn't know because Brent didn't bring me any. When
did Brent have Dave's hot chicken? Uh the same day we all
had ice cream. Oh, we got all right. Never mind. I'll let
you guys know there's a day that Dustin brought in ice cream
for everyone but I use everyone loosely because everyone
got to accept me. Yeah. He got to me. He's like, sorry, I'm
out. I'm like, what? Everyone's like, oh, yeah. You want to
buy you to mine? I don't know. I want to fucking buy you.
It could be fair. It could be fair. I offered to give you
mine and you said no. It's not the same Dustin. I know. I
know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm a terrible human. And I
would have never brought that up. No one. No wonder you
hate me. You called out Brent. Yeah, who's just sitting
there. This is why Brent or this is why Dakota hates me.
No, I love Dave's hot chicken though. I've never been. Dave's
hot chicken. You've never ever been to Dave's hot chicken. No.
We have one in town. Yeah, but I was supposed to go with you
guys and then I got busy and then I texted Brent and asked
him to bring me some back and then he said no. Yeah, you
should have just gone. I know. Well, I have to go. It's
really good. It doesn't like me though. I love Dave's. Dave's
doesn't love me. Dave's don't love me. I should hurt my tummy
every single time. The Reaper, you gotta sign a waiver. It's
so hot actually. It's like it blew me away because like
typically like, you know, you're like fast food places
like the Reaper. So gimmicky. It's so gimmicky. It's like,
okay, that's yeah. Oh, I gotta sign the waiver. Okay. That
shit murdered me. It was it was just crying at the table so
bad that the lady brought ice cream out to him. Oh my god.
I'm so sorry. That's how you can get your ice cream. That's
how you get your ice cream. He's going to someone's given you
ice cream. Maybe if you would have maybe if you would have
cried, I'd have brought you. I was crying. She was an
absolute angel. I was trying to hold it together. I was
literally like just like no joke. Here's we're coming out
man. I was like, it was so fucking hot. I was like, and
she's like, I can just bring she's like, you're you're not
having a good time. I'm like, no, I'm not. I've seen gels
react to that. He took a pretty I would say respectable
bite. So then I'm like, holy cow, that must be like crazy.
So I took like half a bite probably what you did. And yeah,
dude, dude, we bought one and we like shared it with all the
table. Yeah, we're like, everyone's oh, we're gonna try
it. Everyone's like this. Everyone's like, you know,
trying to get their food. There's just a table like five of
absolutely dying in the middle of this restaurant. Jesus.
Absolutely gnarly. But I think that about wraps it up for
this episode. Thank you guys so much for listening. Thank you
to Dustin. Thanks for having me boys. Thank you to Joe's for
not leaving us like the other Alex always seem. Anyway, thank
you guys so much for listening and a huge thank you to
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About this episode
A candid discussion about the hosts' car builds and motorsports experiences, focusing on the similarities and differences between drifting and dirt track racing. They share insights from a recent event, the Gateway Dirt Nationals, highlighting the electric atmosphere and the unique challenges of indoor dirt racing. The conversation also touches on personal projects, plans for 2026, and the importance of attending motorsports events for inspiration. The hosts reflect on their own builds, the struggles of car maintenance, and the thrill of racing culture.
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Looking for car mods? Support the podcast by getting them here https://martiniworks.com/Some of our car builds have hit the back burner.. Today we talk about the reality of our builds going into 2026 and what needs to be done. Also, we have a familiar face, Dustin, who talks about his recent experience going dirt track racing. #cars #podcast #automotive Pick up our limited Coffee run here! https://martiniworks.com/products/other/show-merchA HUGE thank you to Continental & Fortune Auto for being the official tire and suspension of the MartiniWorks Podcast! Let us know if you need a set of tires or coilovers. 🏎️Check out the main channel!🏎️: @MartiniWorksOfficial 📦We also have an unboxing channel 📦: @MartiniWorksUnboxed Follow Dustin @dusti.lbzFollow Dakota @dakotastoneFollow Gels @akagels
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