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After some much needed time off for the drag cars, it's time to get back to it! We've got some sick events coming up so we need these cars ready to rip!!
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Foreign YouTube channel if anyone was wondering. My hovercraft injury is recovering nicely. This bruise got pretty bad for a minute there and it was getting real red and swollen, but it's good. I Survived a hovercraft crash with a decent sized leg injury so you know I Feel on top of the world but I appreciate the concern to those who emailed me.
Let's get to the video. All right guys! Well we are back from Bristol and usually after a big event everything is a disaster. So I wanted to do a quick shop update and get you guys up to speed on what's coming up because we have a couple big drag races coming up. We've got FL 2K which is a month away and then we have World Cup We have the Christmas Tree Drags December 22nd and then there's a couple races in between that we'll be hidden so we got to get everything back up and going.
We'll start with the Turbo F-150 This thing's actually good in running, but we're getting that bigger turbo put on the Ty's doing that. This is also getting a new battery too because it has that stupid golf cart battery aerial. Adam's good Leroy Junior's good. This gets picked up in about two weeks.
Neighbor is good. Great issues out of this unit. We have anything to do besides the bumper. Oh yeah, we need a speed controller for the electric power steering, but other than that this is done.
Oh it needs a throttle cable but I am really happy you guys did a great job on Neighbor. That sucker is down most important car probably to talk about as we get back into drag racing season is our boy Mullet. So Mullet has been down for probably two months now ever since the sixth summer deal when we heard the thrust bearing sent the motor out Steve Morris that's now fixed. We sent the transmission out to Eminem that's now fixed because we're having the converter lockup issues and then we send the turbos out to Precision to get refurbished so it should be 100.
You see that double M on there? you know it means business I Guess there was a rough spot on the input shaft for the torque converter and that's what we kept wiping out that O-ring yeah, which seals in the converter for your lock up? Yeah, yeah, and that's why we're losing the lock up. It's never good dude because that lock up is like hitting Overdrive Gotta Have Luck there she is. huh? All cleaned up, ready to go out there. What's that piece open up there? Oh, it's one of their funnel kits.
Oh nice. All right, cool, very nice. And then our table over here. that's our Steve Morris Any box sits here too long it becomes a storage unit covered and stuff for Fl2k.
We got bumped out of the Streetcar class and now we're going to be extreme 28s, which is that one actually just has more money to win and you can only run one class. Last year we won both classes. Now there's a rule against running Bulls So we're gonna join the class that has a bigger prize so Mullet can stay the same for that. Now for World Cup We got knocked out of the Warriors versus Trace Quattro's class which I really loved because it was so fun racing all the rotaries. They bumped us out of that class to the faster class an hour. With cars that run like 580s and 590s, that sucks just like a weight loss challenge. This thing's got to go on a weight loss challenge too. That's gonna be really the only thing we can do.
We have a great Powerhouse so we're gonna try and dig some weight. Is there any option to pull some weight out of this thing? There is a lot of weight that can come out of it. but for it to come out and our percentages to be right I'm pretty sure we have to Slide the motor back. which is a really weird problem to have because most cars you want to slide it forward.
so the challenge is pulling a lot of weight out of the front. It's not someone the back I can cut like hundreds of pounds out. Yeah, because you already pulled the back apart to try and get to I Thought it was gutted this whole time. Oh, the tailgate's full of stuff.
It's a real thing. We could also cut the bed out. yeah because we don't actually use it. Yeah, and then we have that huge fuel cell which we don't need for.
World Cup Because we'll just run methanol the whole time. Yeah, let's talk about what the easiest things are. Easiest thing is the glass. The quickest, easiest glass.
So yeah, we don't have to have glass for the classes we're gonna be running. We could leave glass windshield just for ease of cleaning and keeping up with it. but like that rear window is probably really heavy the side windows. thinking maybe go lexan for the the doors in the back window.
I would like to leave the engine where it's at. That sounds like a project and a half. Yeah, New drive shafts alone. pretty fast.
Yeah, so maybe we just look at can we take the radiator out and can we take out enough weight in the back to equalize that? Yeah, and then we just go like that. and from there we just turn up the Boost if you really want to. We could do a one piece front end on this thing and we cut a lot of weight and these things pretty rough anyways. So yeah, they are there.
It's up to you. Yeah I Don't know if I can get a one-piece front end in time. Do you think we can get a front end that quick? You probably can question the uh, depend on if someone if someone has one ready to go. Yeah, there's two companies on the other side of the state on the other coast that do yeah this stuff so they might have have one because it's a it's a common chassis, it's a G body so there's a lot of.
G Body I can call around. These front grills are like quarter inch thick. Really really heavy fiberglass. Like old school heavy stuff.
Well, that'd be nice if we could ditch some weight. I'm all for it. but other than that, we have everything to go back together. So Zach you're gonna start working on piecing it back together? Yep. I'm gonna let Ty start cutting some things first and then we'll get it all painted up and thrown back together. All right. Yeah, it is looking rough. I mean we got dents on fenders on both sides front bumper speed.
Maybe doing a front end would just kind of fix a lot of that up. Yeah, but that's a project that yeah is not a small task. Yeah, we could get it painted all right over here. Mystery Machine That's a secret project.
Toast 100 Good to go I Mean how many events can this thing do? I Mean he's killing it. Oh, maintenance is key. It's killing it. James Let's go over to the storage shop and we'll see what else we got on the list.
Yeah, all right. Twisted Tea No more. that engine's coming out. You can see it's already almost ready to be pulled out.
it's time for a new uh show or something which I think I know exactly what it needs to. Yeah I think it needs to go in that? that's one problem solved right there. after. uh, bending his fifth axle.
he's done. dude. So in here we got Leroy chilling Leroy is okay to run FL 2K as he sits. but we really want that engine from Pete soon.
So yeah, it should be soon. We've been. if we get it before, Fl2k will get all the parts have that thing in there. Yeah, if not, we definitely need a good day of testing before.
FLT Yeah I think he does have all the parts so we should be able to get it in. Donnie is okay. it has a hurt bearing. we probably need to pull the oil pan and off and slide a bearing in it.
and we need to put the power steering pump back on and pull it back on. Oh yeah, we stole the power steering pulley for Leroy Junior she's got to put it on and then I have a nice piece for it to change up the inside. Yeah, we need to do that. So till the B is good to go.
This just had a little issue before we left and we need to tune it. We need to get it out on the burnout pad. Yeah, read the Egts, make sure it's 100. You need to get the fueling right for this motor.
This motor is a little bit different than the motor that came out of it, so the fueling's a little off. It was shooting a lot of fire. We don't want to risk uh, hurting the boat already. Mountain Dew Boat: We're looking for an engine for that which BRP Just released that new 325 horse engine so I might hit them up for one of those.
The Jet Truck The jet is getting serviced needed a new bearing. This jet boat it was wrapped for a Red Bull commercial or Alphatory commercial. That's Chad's jet boat. It's uh, it's good to go Dude, the big question is Ruby everyone's been wondering what the hell is going to happen to this waiting for the museum to open up.
and yeah, right. Uh, it needs a motor and guess where its motor is coming from? right there right there. So yeah, this Ruby's waiting on this. This is waiting on Pete So hopefully this will be the most motor that this car's ever had because we've always ran. uh Texas Speed sleeve stock block stuff half inch studded before ball head stuff. So finally six bolt motor going and Ruby went there. He'll be able to make a lot of power a rewire. We never were at the limit of their back, but we're going to find the limit of their backgrounds.
You're right, Yeah, exactly. So she should be back soon. It's just kind of depending on the domino effect of Leroy's new engine. the Blazer is good to go right now.
that will race that Fl2k for sure. The Christmas tree race for sure and probably not World Cup And then over in the dark corner we have McFlurry which is 100 good to go. Maybe we get this Hood painted and a couple other things, but yeah, it's styled. yeah still the exhaust back from old Georgie Yeah, but this is racing World Cup Dude, we're getting ready.
Yeah I got you in the world? Yeah, we're going to have to um. welding gauge shot? Yeah, we're gonna turn out the booth so we gotta do some testing with this. It needs a new rear gear ratio. probably sooner than later.
but McFlurry is racing World Cup so that is very exciting. It's gonna be sweet all right guys. Well hopefully that does it for everyone's update. Drag racing season is finally back! Upon Us Today's probably the first day it hasn't been 100 degrees in a while.
We got a lot of mosquitoes though from the storm, which kind of sucks. they're so bad. so bad last night. Yeah, we're uh, finally getting that drag racing weather back.
Fl2k is coming up! I Think we're gonna hit A Streetcar Takeover? We've got World Cup We've got the Christmas tree drags. We've got a bunch of great stuff coming up so stay tuned for all that. That's it for now. Thanks for watching.
Do it for today! We'll freaking see you later! foreign.
Be neat to keep the 4 bolt head theme with Ruby and get an L8T block and find the limit on that
Youโve done really well mate. Always smiling ๐๐
Ginger, Billy. Hit him up
When I heard them talking about ditching the radiator I got scared that there was gonna be another drag and drive car no longer drag and drive
Sounds like Cletus and texas speed cut ties. Glad heโs out sourcing motors now.
Ruby is gonna be nasty with Leroys engine, I cant wait to see that thing go.
What about Rocky Mountain Race Week…. did I miss it!
tortilla clown was not missed is all i can say.
Ye old Commodore ute has some potential, its not the most exciting thing to me but if done right will get people talking.
So uh No Final Bandimere Rocky Mountain Race Week???
I'm a simple man, I see the name Ruby I watch the video.
Please get her running asap, that car is my Goodluck charm
Those are probably Bill Gates mosquitoes. careful out there!
Drag racing season is back!!!!