Speedway Stories: Talon Hamm

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Speaker: What's up, everybody? Welcome to another edition of Speedway Stories. How's everybody doing on this fine Monday night? um Only complaint I got is Ohio weather's bipolar, and I'm sure it is that way everywhere else. We were 80 degrees here yesterday and 35 today.

Speaker: But other than that, I hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. What's up, Corey? What's up, Daniel? What's up, Pat? Thank you guys for tuning in tonight. I have a special guest, Talon from Florida.

Speaker: bring him on up here. What's happening, them buddy? What's going on? Oh, not much for a Monday night, man. Thank you for joining me to fly solo tonight, for doing an interview and stuff on the show tonight, man. I appreciate it. course, of course.

Speaker: Happy to be here. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Kind of gave everybody a little tease and tuned into the Wally's Motorsports World that night. My very first one, you you and Mark were up and Kind of gave everybody the keys you guys being on the show. so Yeah, we gave a little bit of stuff, but you know it's okay.

Speaker: We've got plenty stuff to talk about. Definitely. So first off, so you end up staying and watching the whole race and seeing Billy win that race down there? when you Yeah, yeah we we did end up staying and watching the entire race. It's a good race.

Speaker: actually, the ugly duck, I don't know, the C4 Corvette, that teal one, is he's actually done some work on my car. Really? So he's little boy for us. Yes. Nice. Yeah. um So we were kind of rooting for him, honestly, but we kind of figured Billy was to him down. It's just, so it was a horsepower difference at that point.

Speaker: i did billy's car Billy had that car riding that night, man. I was watching your life i was watching the live feed. I was kind of hoping the way the live feed I was watching, that guy was like scoping everywhere. and I was trying to see if I could see you and your wife kind of catch a glimpse anywhere, but he moved the camera so damn fast. It way down to the track.

Speaker: We were about three quarters down the track. so Nice. If you saw that Miata that spun out, we were... ah about where we that miata was heading towards the right wall that's about where we were yeah i seen yeah i seen that that's crazy so hi go so you want to let everybody that didn't tune in give give everybody a little bit about insight about yourself and uh your car hobby and like the florida car culture that you have where you live at down there yeah yeah so name is talon hamill I have a YouTube channel with Towns Garage. We just started, just me and my brother. Me and myself, I have a 69 Nova that's been LS swapped. It's got a single turbo on it.

Speaker: We've been doing Dragon Drives with that. Oh, we did one. We're planning on doing some more. And then my brother, worse what which what we've been recording is his SN95 that we're putting a 6.0 and a big turbo in. And same thing, we're going to set up to do Dragon Drives. Actually, little bit of information that most people don't know is we actually just picked up another SN95 that we're going to be building instead of his original red one that you may have seen that we were going to blow up.

Speaker: um We just found of one a better shell that was going to be a better candidate to actually build. and Nice. yeah let's say Well, that and most those shells around, especially up here in Ohio, man, ah the torque boxes and the towers, just like on Fox bodies, they're notorious for rotting out pretty bad or getting scale rotting in its more work sometimes than what it needs to be.

Speaker: Yeah, no that was ah we found a GT car that already had some of the LS swap parts in it, so the key member, the caster plates, all that kind of stuff, and it just saves us some money, some time, too.

Speaker: I can't beat that, dude. yeah Oh, yeah. It's a mess, Jason. It's a mess. Oh, not not in Jason's eyes, Snoop. Better watch it.

Speaker: the hammer was on one Friday night in here with everybody hitting on Jim, all that stuff. So he had everybody going. So if you don't mind me asking what the setup you have in your Nova, uh, what LS motor and turbo are you running in that car?

Speaker: Yeah. So right now it is just a stock bottom end five, three. So LM sevens, so gen three, um, Only thing that's really got done to it is the you know typical sloppy stage two cam springs and just freshen it up.

Speaker: It does have air to water intercooler in the intake. So it's using the Texas speed Titan intake and it's got one of those brick intercoolers from sheer fab.

Speaker: um And then turbo wise, it's just a small 7875 from bs racing. um Honestly, really small turbo. We're goingnna need a little bit more turbo here soon, but I haven't really turned it up enough to max it out, so I'm just to see where it goes.

Speaker: Corey's asking where the boss is at. Hayley's in the bedroom watching. She doesn't really want to be on right now, so... And then Corey, she's prettier. I'd hope so. I'd hope so. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. um Jason, you got some competition for Money Wise, man. He's got a Texas Speed intake on that on that car. that's yeah That's kind of a baller ballhler intake there, buddy. I was just going to say, the intake and intercooler setup is worth more than anything else under that hood by almost two times, if not more. i mean, it's kind of insane. But those Novas of Jason, we'll find out if he goes boosted here with turbos. There's really no room for intercoolers without cutting them up.

Speaker: and or making them look really weird so that's just kind of what we would end up doing is doing the intake style and i'm happy with it one buy once cry once i guess you could say cory closet millionaire i wish buddy actually if anybody's a closet million millionaire it's freaking jimbo jesus christmas no that man just knows how to wheel and deal but he falls it he falls into some deals and stuff so Yeah, he's one of those that gets the deals, and he can do a lot the work himself, so that helps, too. yeah.

Speaker: But, hey, I've seen Corey turning his freaking blazer into a pro mod over there, so I don't know really who's got money who doesn't over here. because Yeah, that's coming along freaking nice, man. for I know.

Speaker: I remember, you that's said november oh it's just going to be a little NA setup with a six liter. Now here we are with a 80-millimeter turbo but bigger than mine.

Speaker: Then Haley's in the comments. She said she's waiting on her perks, so if you're a corporate millionaire. Oh, geez. Yeah, we all are. Hey, there's nothing wrong with that, Corey.

Speaker: If you can find the good shit the junkyard, man. i don't think that ah motor plates are all from the junkyard. I think that's all being custom made for you. Yeah. I know you're guinea pig here, but come on.

Speaker: Come on. I'll tell you what. They did a damn good job with that motor plate for being their first time doing one. That's pretty sick. Well, yeah, I mean, it's definitely a nice piece, but... speak Speaking of big baller, what's up, Jason?

Speaker: Complete Texas Speed 416. You're not helping your case, big money. Yeah, Corey, it's nice when, you know, yeah i mean they're giving you their product and you're showing how it works, man. That's the way it's supposed to be, bud.

Speaker: That's the nice thing when you get sponsors. you Unlike some of these people that... We've talked on the garage talk when you and Mark were up with me and we had Corey and them up. It's not what the sponsors does for you. It's what you can do for your sponsors. And Corey's a prime example.

Speaker: Corey's one of the prime examples, especially with hot shots for the last nine years. I mean, they've really, they really put it out there. And I mean, it's awesome to see you'll get the ones I've seen on Facebook. So where,

Speaker: you might get a shout out here and there, but there's, there is some out there, man. It's like every time they do something or anything new, they're always shouting their sponsors out.

Speaker: Oh yeah. hundred percent. Only buy new parts from team or Amazon. Oh, you get some pretty nice stuff off Amazon. Just saying. Yeah. You got it made there with, with with Kelly. cool Jason being a nurse, especially where she's working at and stuff, man.

Speaker: It helps. Yeah. but yeah there But yeah, the ah we were talking backstage a little bit. Get to see you venture up here to Ohio here soon. What's that?

Speaker: couple months ago. That is, want to say, for a while. In a week, in one month.

Speaker: It'll be here before you know Yes, we are leaving from our house the afternoon of April 30th, and it is currently March 23rd, so about a week and a month.

Speaker: So yeah, we'll be up there for about 10 days. Come up here and play with the Pro Mod guys Dragon Drive events. Yeah, we're going for that cruise for a cure, and we're going hang out with the in-laws too and stuff, but

Speaker: that would be my dad. under my account. Your dad's like, yep, I want my car back now. Well, no, it's too late. Well, it's not too late. you still have the title, actually. Holy shit.

Speaker: Yeah, you better watch yourself, bud. Yeah, yeah. That's okay. I have a title to the Mustang, though, so I can take that, I guess.

Speaker: It's all right. But, yeah, dude, and it's awesome, too, how that Nova's got family history, man. It's freaking awesome. Oh, yeah. We were talking about that. So um on the garage talk and everything else, you don't mind sharing that a little more with people that haven't been.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. So basically the story goes is my dad drove 1970 Chevy Nova. It had the 307 in it. That was his high school car.

Speaker: um He ended up selling it for, reasons and basically i think it was 99 if we we date everything back he picked up what's currently my car it was a inline six car just a roller that there was no interior and all that kind of stuff rough on the outside it was paint but I mean it was relatively straight just surface rest stuff like that um and then He basically built it. I came around and we would go to Turkey Rod Run like we talked about in that car.

Speaker: I remember we were driving to the grandparents' house and he's like, do you want me to a burnout? I was like, yeah. I think I was maybe four or five I want to say at this time.

Speaker: and He goes to do a burnout and timing gear basically slipped. Bent all the valves in the motor. And it got put in the shop for a while.

Speaker: um And then right when I was probably about 13, 14, we started getting another 350 together, small block, and just put it together. And we got it together, but it just never ran right. I forget what he found was wrong. But anyways, I wanted a car. i was coming up to that age. So I was in my second gen Camaras myself.

Speaker: But rollers, especially down here in Florida, or anything that's worth building, They want two or three grand for those and you know, for a first high school car, just for a shell, two or three grand ridiculous.

Speaker: Yeah. So he basically was like, you know what? Here's the keys the car. It's yours. Um, so from there on out, it was my high school driver. Um, it had the three 50 small block in it.

Speaker: Um, and then, uh, my senior year in high school, I remember exactly how it was. It was Christmas actually. And I had just got a bunch of Christmas money, you know, like everyone does that about that age.

Speaker: And I was scrolling Facebook marketplace. you know, most people would be, know, on Amazon something buying electronics or whatever it would be. Oh yeah. Gaming stuff. Yep. I was scrolling Facebook marketplace and I found a O2 Silverado that had the five, three in it. It was running, but the car was arrested or the truck was arrested all the way around it.

Speaker: Um, it I sent the guy an offer and he took it. So I went up there with my Christmas money. I bought that thing. and I started L.S. swapping it. I literally, it was so rusted that the leaf springs were probably about a foot through the bed.

Speaker: Like, the bed does not holding anything anymore. That sounds like the trucks and stuff up here in Ohio. Yeah, I don't know where the truck came from. It didn't even have a title. i was like, I don't even care. just I want the motor. It's all I care about. So I got that, and by the time I sold the small block out of it and scrapped the truck, I actually made money on the motor.

Speaker: Nice. So where we at now with the car? Yeah, so it was it was just a bone, not a bone stock, but just a cammed 5.3 for about two years. i drove around and then put a turbo on it, started going to the racetrack, and I was like, huh, I kind of like this. And that was, yeah, stipulation is it can't be sole, has to stay in the family, which is always the idea. That's why, oh yeah not to jump, but not to jump around, but When I got the cage most recently, earlier this year,

Speaker: um I decided not to go too crazy because I still want it to be something that people can get into and drive. You know, it's just a basic 850 cage. You still have the back seat in the back.

Speaker: So when the kids come around, whatever that time is, um we'll be able to actually, you know, use it as a kid's or family car, let's say.

Speaker: Be like riding Disney with a little harness bar in front of them. you know Oh, yeah. that's That's cool, though. I mean, like I said, with the being a family history, I mean, that's that's awesome. That's like Corey with the Farrell Lane and everything else it and tied into his family and everything.

Speaker: It's neat to see the stuff, you know, where guys has actually got something like that. so Yeah, i'm I'm sure we'll end building another car that'll go faster, but, you know, the backseat. What's that, Jason?

Speaker: jason I thought you had a backseat.

Speaker: Jeez. oh No, it's still backseat, full interior, Jason. That's the way to have it. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, everyone's here.

Speaker: Built-in baby seat. I love it. Love it. Yeah, I think we'll just take the passenger seat out and we'll just put it in the baby seat and right there. It'll be great. The wife can ride in the back. It's fine.

Speaker: You better watch it. She might come out of the bedroom and smack in the back of your head. At least they'll be on camera this time. I'll have evidence. Everybody will get in a witness. and He did it. you honor her told her Told her she was going to ride in the back seat, so she smacked him for guys. We all heard her here.

Speaker: But yeah, man, i it is... Speaking of Ailey... ah Oh, don't put that juju on me, Corey.

Speaker: Got some years. Got some years. ah Yeah, we've all been there. We've been there, man. So you to watch yourself because it can happen before you know it.

Speaker: ah Dad, dad's getting in here now. You guys, you and your brother are trouble now. Look out. I don't know about all of that. He better learn how to tune some stuff or get some electronics put in He's a little scared of fuel injection.

Speaker: might to go the Jason route and do a big block with a blower. might Be careful. i mean, he can probably do that. I mean, they're down there.

Speaker: Yeah. So with the, with the car scene, I know we dabbled in it on the, day um, I know your area where you live, that's kind of a, you know, older,

Speaker: older population and everything boomer central boomer central i can i can only imagine what it's like in the winter time down there when all the ah ohio peeps and everything else comes in bathing down in florida but and the so with the car culture down there i know you you said you had to drive a little ways and everything else from where you're at um yep But yeah is it is there a good mixture of imports and hot rods and stuff like that? I know there's... um Yeah, I would say there's a good good mix. um

Speaker: You do have, like I said, your old your old heads that, you know, carbureted, you know, three-quarter cam, those kind of guys. um And then you have definitely the import scene.

Speaker: um We're not far from Miami. I mean, that just tells you everything you to know there is... it It bleeds over here quite a bit. So you'll see a lot of your, you know, Hondas, Toyotas, all that kind of stuff. And like I said, it's it's weird down here. I mean, the racing scene is not what I would like you to see, especially when you go other places. It's just, don't me wrong, we do have local racers here, certainly.

Speaker: um But like I said, with Immokalee getting ready to shut down and stuff, a lot of people are considering they're selling their shit and going on somewhere else. you know Whether that be you know like boats or something like that.

Speaker: Is that your brother calling you out there? That's my brother, yes. What's up Jimbo? Good to see you the chats, man. ah Go work on your Goldwing.

Speaker: Jesus, chat's pumping tonight. We got everyone in. Everybody said they were going to be here for this tonight, man. oh yeah I'm excited for it. I love it. But yeah, yeah that that's the scene, I mean...

Speaker: like with the Miami, you ever venture down to Miami to see if anything like that by any chance in your lifetime or see what it was like that way? or we avoid Miami. let's I'm going to be just I do not go to Miami unless I have to go to Miami. If I find a good deal on Marketplace, I don't go to Miami.

Speaker: It's not a good deal. It's a setup. It's a setup. Don't get me wrong. There could be a gym there. I mean, honestly, his express van that we bought for the S95 to get the 6-liter and the 4L80 out of came from the Miami area. Not Miami, but still a little sketchy.

Speaker: No, I can't stand it over there. The way people drive over there and the way people just just deal with you. Really? It's just not my kind of thing. I mean, it's definitely, well, there's reason they call it Little Havana.

Speaker: I trust him as much as I trust a taco book. Oh, God, Corey. Yeah, we normally more north. That's what we do if we do anything like that. Come up north? Okay. Yeah, the Tampa area, I mean, any. Corey's been to Leadfoot City, so that's a smaller eighth-mile track, and that's little bit north of Tampa.

Speaker: You have Bradenton, which is going to be south of Tampa. That's probably going to end up being our home track because with Immokalee closing down, that's the next closest one. That's still two hours away. um And then I guess you have in St. Pete, you have Showtime. And other than that, I don't really – I don't know any other tracks besides Orlando or Gainesville.

Speaker: So you sound like most of the kind of situation, me, Corey, and Jason and all of us around us. We got to go travel at least an hour or more to hit a track now because of the shit we gotta we're dealing with. Thanks to a damn promoter that thought he was hot shit. so Yeah, I mean, the like I said, it's it's about two hours to Bradenton.

Speaker: But like my brother just said in the chat is parts or deals are about three hours away. So... In the past, maybe my wife can speak into this, but I believe in the past month we've put 4,000 miles our truck just going to get shit.

Speaker: Damn, man. That's crazy you gotta do crazy to do, you know, to make get decent deals. You guys got to put that kind of miles on your shit. It's one of those things where you find a deal, you better get the guy's information, see you can get there as soon as possible, get the truck and trailer, and you got to fucking But...

Speaker: but Yeah, I've seen what you guys had on Facebook. You guys were almost to to your destination couple weeks ago, and the guy fucking ghosted you and your brother. I was like, what the hell?

Speaker: So that was three weeks ago, three weekends ago. um And it was a similar thing. It was another SN95 that had all the parts that we wanted to put on his car. So we were either going to part it out or we were going to swap to using that one.

Speaker: So that guy, we got to right below Tampa. He said, come over. we had his address and everything. And we're getting there and he blocked us. And we're still an hour and a half away, mind you.

Speaker: um so That's shitty, dude. and We were like, oh, the thought was like, oh, let's just go over there and confront him. but i'm like, it's only an hour and a half. It's not fucking worth it. I mean. there you're now you're Now you're definitely in trouble. it's It's online. Everybody's seen it now. Now you're you're in a doghouse now.

Speaker: The wife spoke. No, no.

Speaker: And a new truck. You don't need a new truck. You didn't even want a truck. But yeah, well, I've seen where your dad posted in here. From what he heard, there's supposed to be at least two more before that shuts down. so There's another one happening, I want to say, April 11th.

Speaker: ah forget what that one is, but that's a bigger race they're going to do. It's the first time doing it. i think it's the same people who did the no prep event. Okay. good didn' risk Nice. I'll tell you what, that was for, for the live feed, the guy that covered that, the local guy that was covering that man, he actually did pretty damn good.

Speaker: And his old lady was right in the middle of everything up around the starting line. Even yeah when they said that fight over a fucking $10 bet. Is that what it was? Honestly, I didn't even hear what it was about. yes He ended up reposting the video of it. and it Yeah, it was over.

Speaker: She said it was over a freaking $10 bet. And it was a bunch of people that he knew that it was involved in it.

Speaker: That's ridiculous. Yeah, we saw that from... Well, we didn't really see it from where we were sitting. we just We just heard about it. And then we went on the live feed and we're like, well, let's see what we can see. and honestly, on the live feed, you see a little bit of shoving, but The 1320 video, I don't know if anyone watched that. Yeah, you got the whole deal. They're right there.

Speaker: I'm with you on that, Corey. We can all give him a list and send it down to him before he comes to Ohio to bring a transport, have the transport set up for us. Yeah, see, you got the wrong guy. So you actually want to hit up Jason Carter. I heard he's buying new vehicles um for everyone. And, you know, you can get whatever you want.

Speaker: Pro-mob, anything. Him and Jimbo. Jimbo's the main guy because he's always coming across these vehicles. so Jimbo would be the man to hit up.

Speaker: well i mean Yeah, but he might take it all back you know into pieces and then rebuild the entire car. so i don't know when you're going to get it. you know yeah but Yeah, man. It's going to be cool to having you guys up here. and I know what' your wife's actually from up in this area and stuff and her family's up this way.

Speaker: oh yeah It'll be nice up there. It'll the first time ah Farthest north of Nova's been. Farthest north of four were Smokies in Tennessee. It'll be interesting. I just hope gas prices come down before we drive because I'm not looking forward to paying $4 a gallon while towing that thing. Uh-oh.

Speaker: Jason can't buy no more cars now. He's got a new trail bought a brand new trailer. so We're all shed out of luck on Jason's side right now see See, his new trailer, my new trailer would be an open car trailer. His would probably be a stacker. so It's a whole other...

Speaker: you know, ball game. I'm going to buy Corey. Corey, what'd you do to Jimbo since he won't let you do that, man? ah He was all gun ho for you doing that Friday night and now all of a sudden he changed his mind. What an asshole.

Speaker: I think he should strap that gold wing on the back of that Nova and take it to him, take it with him on the dragon drivers and act like it's a scooter for the tracks. Yep. Oh, Jason's got him in open. Yep.

Speaker: So it should be no big deal then. Ain't no open trailer that's going to make you broke. I don't know, man. i oh yeah I'm sorry, Corey. He doesn't like to share?

Speaker: he's He's cheating on everybody. That's what it is.

Speaker: Tell him sharing is caring. And that's even words that Jimbo's used before. Sharing is caring. But he he doesn't follow his own advice. But yeah, with the six Smokies deal, um oh boy, ain't making it to no events. There's your sorry gun. You're a fucking liar, dude.

Speaker: Don't give me that shit.

Speaker: oh So what was the experience like for your first Dragon Drive at the six Smokies when you were down there recording all them? Yeah, so honestly, the best thing i've ever done in my life, actually. Hold on here one second. I'm going to grab this real quick.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: So never posted nothing. Corey knows about this, but hold on here. So this is the sick magazine. So this is the smokey's edition.

Speaker: Um, we actually made it in here. No shit. So, tutiji chi two, two, two. I should have bookmarked this before, but I didn't. That's all good, man. We got however long you want.

Speaker: Here we are. Here we are. i don't know if you can see that. Oh, nice. so You're famous. because Yeah, something like that. I'm

Speaker: ah just scrolling through here with the what he said. so The quote I gave them was... it was one of the best things I've done in my life.

Speaker: Whether you were cruising your hot rod down the strip in Nashville or driving up the mountains in a convoy of your fellow racers, it's like a fever dream. We are hooked and will definitely be returning here for future events.

Speaker: Watching through a screen doesn't do us justice. So that right there. I mean, we always watch this stuff online. I mean, i Oh yeah. I, um, it's no secret. I, I, I watch Cletus lot. That's what got me into all this stuff. Really? And then from there, obviously you venture around, you know, I watched a lot of Tom Bailey, other stuff like that.

Speaker: Um, but watching the dragon drives, it was one of those things where it's like, i I was always scared to go do it because I was like, well, what if this happens? Or what if that happens? You know, don't know. I didn't know anyone really in the in the scene. So it's like, well, I'm on my own doing this.

Speaker: Well, I finally got the, uh, the nerve. between my brother, my brother started getting a little older and he's starting to you know get around the car stuff so I can ride him more to help as opposed to just being a one man show.

Speaker: um It got to the point where I found, i was looking through Dragon Drive events and I was like, six Smokies. was like, let me look into this. I'm like driving through the Smoky Mountains. I'm like, that's perfect. That is, that would be the best experience to do You know, and it was a one time event. So i'm like, I have to get into this one. So time came for registration.

Speaker: I got in luckily. Um, Corey knows that stuff sells out in 30 seconds. Um, so I got in as a racer and at that point I was like, you know what? All, all chips in, we're going, I'm making this work no matter what.

Speaker: Um, so we basically just put all our chips in the bag and crack down the car. We got it all running squared away. We went through two transmissions during that event, technically.

Speaker: Um,

Speaker: Yeah, Corey talked to you. Yeah. Yep. It's the best thing ever. But no, so we were getting ready for that event. And a little tidbit information was I was about a week out.

Speaker: I go to test the car, get you know, drive it around a little bit. And so before the car had a turbo 350 in it, my brother was driving it because his truck was broke. I don't think it was broke. It was in it had in a small thunder bender was getting repaired is what was happening.

Speaker: So he was driving my Nova to work or in school. And he found a BMW on the streets that he wanted to race. And he then in turn, turned my first gear into another park.

Speaker: Oh, nice. So I pulled that transmission out and I was like, well, we gotta do something better. So it was between 400 or a power glide. Um, honestly, it was one of those things where I was like, I'm going see whatever I, uh, whatever I can put in it, whatever's cheapest.

Speaker: Um, it works best because the 400 for me to do a 400 in that car, I would have to do a new, uh, cross member and new drive shaft power glide right back in. So found a power glide, put it in there.

Speaker: We're doing a bunch of other upgrades. It turned into one of those things where every car guy knows, Oh, well, while I'm there, I'll do this or do that. Yeah. That turned into a whole nine month project. Um,

Speaker: A nine-month project, though. So I finally took the car out to get ready for six Mokies, and we drove it up to get dinner, actually with the wife. And i came back, and I was on an open road, and I was like, well, let me see what this trans breaks about. So I got up on a little bit, and I was going to a roll-and-burnout, see what it happens.

Speaker: I did my roll-and-burnout. I got back to the house, and lo and behold, my low gear and my power glide also became a park. And we're supposed to in six days.

Speaker: So I put a SOS post out actually on the Sixth Mag Facebook group. um And another Dragon Drive family that I've talked to quite a bit since this whole thing happened is the Tacketts. So Robert and Michael Tackett reached out to me. They're out in a we Wesley Chapel, Florida.

Speaker: And they have a badass blue twin turbo LS Camaro. Um, but they were like, we have a power glide. And I was like, but they're like, it's probably more than you're, you're wanting. I'm like, well, who what do you got? Like what's going on? I mean, we're probably want to pay for some of it's the right thing, you know? And he's like, well, I got this aftermarket case with a built converter. And was like a very similar setup to what my car used to be or is.

Speaker: And he was like, it's yours. You want to come get it? So I drove up to Wesley chapel, bought that trans. We threw it in there and I don't even think, No, we didn't even drive the car. We pulled it out of the garage, put it on the trailer, and went to Tennessee, or Alabama.

Speaker: Pulled it off. We're driving around Alabama because they still have a bunch of miscellaneous things they need to do. Oh, you know what? Here's a good story, too, not to get a little sidetracked, but my tires were shot on that Nova. The the front tires.

Speaker: So i was I had the great idea of, oh, let me just go and I'll pick some tires up from summit on the way up there. Cause it's ah around Atlanta area. We had to drive right through there. Right. And I'll just get them mounted. No big deal. Right.

Speaker: And I was like, while I'm there, I need to have steel valve stems installed because technically tech wants that. And it would, it would have only slowed me down like three tents, but I was like, if I can do it, might as well do it.

Speaker: Um, Well, we got up to the Atlanta area, got my tires. We called some tire shops. They're like, oh yeah, bring it down. We unload the car, bring everything down.

Speaker: My brother isn't driving the car. I'm driving the truck and trailer. He pulls in. He's like, oh yeah, we're not doing any more appointments. It just stopped 20 minutes ago. I'm like, what? We like just called and you said, bring it on down. No problem.

Speaker: And um they were like, no, no, we can't do any more appointments. So I should try calling around more and more places like, yeah, no, can't help you. So now it is one day until tech on six smokies or well, 12 hours actually.

Speaker: And I have no tire or I have tires, but they're bald as shit in the front. And I called or one of my buddies in the car called another shop up in, uh, Huntsville and, uh,

Speaker: And they're like, yeah, yeah, we can put you in in the morning. No big deal. I'm like, what time you open? they're like, I think he said nine, I want to say. So I was at their place at 830, ready to go. you know, I wanted to be there a little early.

Speaker: These motherfuckers didn't open the doors till 945. Almost fucking 10 o'clock. ohock And so we were panicking again. I'm like, got to find another place. I got to find another place. I got to go.

Speaker: And finally, the guy opens it up. I should have kind of, uh, should have, uh, been a little bit more sketched by what happened there.

Speaker: But, um, the guy lets us through. He's like, what do need? I'm like, i need these tires mounted. It was, it was actually three tires mounted. I needed, um,

Speaker: And I wanted the valve stems in. He has no clue how to put those valve stems in. He's like, I only do the rubber ones. So i'm like, okay, well, I can put them in. Just pop the pop the bead, pull the tire off for me. I'll put them on the new on the rims and you put the tire back on. No big deal.

Speaker: So with those, it was a billet specialties valve stem and it's like a double, so you have to secure the nut on the backside. That's what holds the valve stem in because it's a steel one.

Speaker: And so I hand do it. And I'm like, oh, he doesn't have any hand tools in there like to do that. So I go out to my my truck and I grab like my wrench bag.

Speaker: And I come back and he's mounting the wheel with the tire. And the thing's still loose. And I'm like, no, like i you need to pop that off. And he's like, no, I won't do it. I'm like, what do you mean?

Speaker: he's like, you're doing too much. You're doing too much. And I'm like, no, you said this was okay. I out to get tools. And then I pulled the card. I'm like, okay, don't do it. When I go down the road and get in an accident because this valve stem blows out and I have a flat or a blowout, I'm coming for you. And he's like, no, just leave.

Speaker: And I'm like, I'm not leaving. you had We had this whole deal set up. Don't act like this is an inconvenience to you. you know I'm getting like mad. like My brother is looking at me. He's like, just calm down. Just calm him down.

Speaker: um but Because it's like I have nowhere else to go at this point. like you were my I had my chips all in on you, and now you're trying to fuck me like this. And eventually the guy calmed down and he was, he's like, you know what? Fine.

Speaker: I'll do it. He pulled the tire back off and got everything done. Then he started asking, like oh, why do you need all this stuff? And I'm like, well, we're doing this dragon drive. And then he started being cool. But I'm like, i don't know what happened, but it was, I was really like bright red tomato when that was happening. yeah But we made it. Tires were all on.

Speaker: And that was pretty much what it was. But back to the transmission thing. Um, we ran four days into six smokies. Like i said, best thing ever. The car was running, the best I've ever had.

Speaker: We, it's a new combo and losing that first gear out of the turbo 350 and going to a power glide was hurting us because i just didn't have, I had 308s in the car. i still do right now.

Speaker: Just don't have the mechanical advantage that did getting off the line. So I was slowly and slowly, um, putting more power at it at the starting line just to get it off to go.

Speaker: um And funny enough, we were knocking literally half a second off every single day. Like exactly, not like 0.49, not 0.53. Exactly. The five ah half a second, every single day up until day four, day four comes. And I'm like, you know what, Chayden, I'm going to put the two step in here.

Speaker: So I was messing with the wiring in the car, the pits. in the pits I got the two step working. and I'm like, I'm gonna let her eat. I'm going to see what she makes on the two step and whatever she makes them, let it go. So I think I said it's 4,000 on the trans break.

Speaker: Um, the log said it made six pounds of boost. Still, honestly, it was gutless out of the hole. I mean, it launched harder on the foot break with the turbo three 50 than it did it on six pounds, but ran down there. It was like a change. You correct me in the chat, but I think it was seven 50. we ran a seven 50 there.

Speaker: um which we were trying to push it down to a seventh. Basically, we were trying to run at the bottom of what we were teched into, so 735 the entire time. um But obviously, we've messed it up the first couple of days just trying to get things dialed in. So my goal for that week was to hit a seven-second average.

Speaker: So hitting that 750 was huge because basically if we ran, i think it was 770s at that point onwards, we would have seven-second average, no problem.

Speaker: What? Yeah. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. Yeah, I'm just going yeah, I don't believe that. We'll just leave that one alone. so yeah, best pass ever. We're like one and done.

Speaker: Great. So we get everything loaded in the car and we're driving down the road.

Speaker: And then we got to, i think, the third checkpoint. So it was a distillery. I think Corey can, i think it was the third checkpoint. There you go. 758. Yep. So, brother yeah.

Speaker: So, yeah, we we got to the third checkpoint of the day, which was the distillery. And I... it's Basically, we're cruising in high gear almost the entire time. So, I put it down in low gear when we got stopped and pulled in there. And I just started hearing this howling noise, like a... whoa roll rope say Transmission sounds.

Speaker: And... the The trans I have in it has straight cut gears, so it is loud, but it's not that loud. Right? So, I pop underneath the car, and I'm literally watching the converter while it's idling. Just do this. Just back and forth. Just back and forth. Entire time. And I'm like, motherfucker. It backed off.

Speaker: Well, don't know when or how or what happened, but the flex plate broke. Cracked. Oh, shit. So, it was just letting it basically flop, and had nothing really holding So I basically, I was like, we're in the furthest away from our trucks. Mind you, the furthest point we are in this event, it's almost night. And I'm like, fuck, literally the one thing I didn't want to happen was have it happen in the mountains, furthest away from our trucks and everything. And it happened.

Speaker: Well, I made the decision. i was like, well, there's nothing we can do right now. I'm just going to drive the fucking thing. It still drives. It's making noise. That's all I was doing was just making noise.

Speaker: So i was like, you know what? I'm going to drive it. We're going to go wherever we can go.

Speaker: No, we didn't just pop it in the car. I had it on jack stands and things, but you shut up. really depend and you're giving you allenes

Speaker: Anyways, we basically start cruising down. We get we had to go through Gatlinburg at that point because this is right before killed the dragon. So we, um, it was not an SFI flex plate.

Speaker: And I'll tell you why I was trying to have one on order. Didn't get it in time. And it was one of those things of, well, fuck it. It's been in the car this long. What can happen?

Speaker: Well, it can happen. Anyways, we got through Gatlinburg and I bombed it down to the next city. We had someone reach out to us on Facebook. and he was like, Hey man,

Speaker: I got go to work, but if you want to use my lift in my shop, feel free. I'm like, okay, now it's doable. Because we were talking about pulling the transmission out in the fucking hotel parking lot and put a new flex plate on this thing.

Speaker: And we get all the way down. He's like, all right, cool. O'Reilly's in that town said they had an SFI flex plate in stock.

Speaker: So we made a whole game plan. We're like, we're gonna wake up. We're going to go get this flex plate. We're to guy's shop. We're going to pull a trans, put new flex plate on. We're going back in there. We're going to go. We're going to be back in this. So we go down the O'Reilly's.

Speaker: I pick up the flex plate. They had it. Like, cool. We to this guy's shop. Now, mind you, the noise is only happening when the transmission was in low gear, not high gear.

Speaker: So I thought in my head, I'm thinking, oh, I need to keep this thing in high gear.

Speaker: Great mistake because the guy told didn't. explained to me that his shop was about ah half a mile up on a mountain. And I'm talking and like, we're climbing like this the entire time in high gear with 308s.

Speaker: I don't know what the trans temp was, but I can tell you synthetic transmission fluid was boiling when we got to the top. Holy shit. And I had a... You only had that hot.

Speaker: Well, the entire climb, I was making about 10 pounds of boost, making up this thing, doing probably 20 mile an hour. It was lugged down. So, we get up there, though, get in the shop.

Speaker: I pull the flex plate off. Well, no, I didn't pull the flex plate off. I was pulling the bolts off, and I found that one of the heads of the bolts were stripped. I'm not going to name any names. Chayden, he stripped it when we put the old trans back in there.

Speaker: I think it was Ultras. Either way, he piece the bolt was stripped. So now I had to go find an extractor.

Speaker: I found a extractor. It came off. I don't know if I figured this out before or after this the extractor situation, but I opened the box with this flex plate that said it had an SFI flex plate in it.

Speaker: It didn't have an SFI flex plate in it. It had some fucking Pontiac random flex plate in it that does not work at all for an LS. So now my car is in pieces on a lift.

Speaker: with no way to get anywhere.

Speaker: Luckily the guys, i think he said father-in-law was there and he's like, well, I'll take you somewhere. So we go back to the same O'Reilly's we return it.

Speaker: And I'm like, do you have an SFY one? And he's like, no, I have a stock one. And I'm like, well, give me the stock one. Cause I can't, I gotta put it back together. Right. So we get it all put back together. Get it put back in the car.

Speaker: Back on the ground, it's like 6 o'clock at this point. So it's about sunset. And we, everyone else has done Tail the Dragon at this point. We have not done shit. see we put it back in there. I start the car.

Speaker: It's still making the same noise. But it wasn't doing, me like when I looked underneath, it it wasn't wobbling. So I'm like, all alright, well maybe some of the trans is hurt, but it's still running. So we'll just keep going.

Speaker: So then, yes, proceeded to my brother be a rally co-driver because it's in the mountains. Even the Tail Dragon bypass is still a really curvy mountain road in the middle of the night.

Speaker: I luckily had the forethought to put LED headlights in this car before we left because I was like, you know, if we ever get stuck somewhere and I got to run this in the middle of night, I would like to have a better light source than these stock halogens. Yep. So I had LEDs at least, but it was literally him on maps, look at the route and you would be like 45 left, right? 90 slow down.

Speaker: All right. You could pick it back up. Oh, damn. Bombing this corner by myself in the middle of the night, not knowing what the hell's on the other side, but we fucking made it. Oh, we pull over to just stretch our legs and get a checkpoint photo.

Speaker: We mounted the trans fan. Um, the trans cooler, but it has a fan on it. And we mounted it on these Nova's Jason probably knows. Basically there's that, a, a hump in the trunk pan kind of where the rear end would sit.

Speaker: My car is still stock height. So we put it up in there and everything looked fine. It should have been fine. But when, I guess when you load everything down on a mountain pass, three people tools, all this shit, It wasn't hitting the fan, but somewhere along the lines, I never had an issue before those couple of days, we nailed the trans cooler.

Speaker: Oh, shit. It didn't puncture it, but the fan, you could see the fan, like the plastic, which snapped, and it was getting sucked into the fins. So I pulled over, and i started hearing... I'm like, what the fuck is that? Popping under there, the fan pushed in there. I'm like, all right. I pull it back out. All right, we're good to go again. And it kept driving.

Speaker: So we finally made the whole drive... And like I said, that it still wasn't right. But we're like, you know, it is what it is. So I was limping it down the track for the next couple days.

Speaker: um Oh, and then we found out that using rubber hose and O-ring styled fittings for your trans cooler is only good for certain temps. So we cooked the O-rings out of them. So I was leaking trans fluid like a sieve and no way to fix it really.

Speaker: Um, so it was last day. i basically designed a diaper system for my trans lines to make it down the track again. So it wouldn't leak fluid down the track.

Speaker: Worked flawlessly. Just bunch of shop towels zip tied around it. Um, but that was about what made it work. Basically. that was pretty much the experience as far as what the car did. Like I said, we never really went and did anything else. Cause it was, it was just hurt. It was just hurt.

Speaker: I feel like when he did did his first sick week down there, the issues they had with the motors and everything else. But, I mean, it sounds like other than the car issues, it still sounds like you had a decent time.

Speaker: I mean, 100% was still the best thing ever. I mean, the trans being hurt did hurt the morale a little bit, like especially my brother. i won't i won't lie. on that On that day, it was fixed, and we came back, and it still not right. It was...

Speaker: you know He was like, oh, let's go to the start line. how are we going to make this faster? Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, we're doing stuff. And at that point, he was just like, all right, I'll see you later. I'll see you when you get back in the pits. That was kind of a bummer. But we kind of got back in the spirit. I was like, listen, there's nothing to be bummed about. We're still on vacation in the mountains driving these cars.

Speaker: Like, we might be hurt, but who cares? Yeah, because it's one, like you said, it can be it's sometimes some people aren't lucky enough to experience what you guys have done.

Speaker: what Exactly. And like Jason said, with Corey talking him into it, him and him and Kelly, like when he was on the show, they were talking about it man, how much fun they actually had and actually enjoyed themselves instead of just the whole racing. Yep, you're right, Corey. You got me to the point, and you know, it's just living through you guys. That's the thing is you're making memories.

Speaker: Oh, yeah, 100%. Racing for these from what I've been watching. And I mean, I got to go to ah the drag week one time when it was here in Ohio and stuff.

Speaker: Got to meet Lutz and Tina Pierce and a bunch of them and some of the Aussie guys. um But I had a buddy of mine at the time I was real close with before he moved out west. We actually followed follow them on to the tracks and stuff. We took a week off of work. And I mean, it was cool just to see the routes that they were doing that back then for drag week, but now seeing through Corey's eyes and, you know, everybody else, the pictures and the videos from, from these other things, is man, I, I'd love to do it.

Speaker: but Yeah. no i say that a rough trunk ah I'd say, like I said, I'm looking forward, cause we'll be going to drop the hammer in North Carolina. And that's hopefully gonna be with Corey and a bunch of other people.

Speaker: I'm looking forward to that event because Smokey's was great, obviously, just because of where you're at. I mean, the location was the best thing it could have been, in my opinion. Besides maybe doing Rocky Mountain Race Week, but that's a whole other story. Yeah, that's that's another one.

Speaker: But for you know for me, you know living in Florida, you know mountains, I like mountains and stuff like that. So driving my you know my high school car my family car, through these mountains with my friend and my brother, just...

Speaker: enjoying life was one of the best things ever. I mean, I like the racing side of stuff, but you know, we're not competitive quite yet, but we're trying to be, you know, I want to do more actual racing events than just, um, dragon drives as well with my car at least.

Speaker: Um, but yeah, it's definitely like if you can do it, I don't even care if it's in a, you know, 15 second third gen Camaro with a three Oh five in it, go do it, you know? go right there's nothing better than it. But you get a couple of buddies together. That's what we're looking forward to. It's just having more of a convoy. We go hang out. Cause well, know, I just met Corey during six monkeys, you know, we weren't bantering like we were here now, you know? so yeah And I was so, i was so worried about making it to places that I wasn't really, some of the after party stuff I was kind of avoiding because I was like, I need to, I want to sleep. I want to get there. I want to, you know, whatever it may have been.

Speaker: i just wanted to get through the week. But now that I've done one under my belt, I feel more confident and I can go, you know, all right, let's go let's go hang out with some people, you know, have some fun. It'll definitely be, it'll be cool when you come up here and everything else for, for that and everything to get to hang out with everybody and stuff and oh yeah i enjoy it.

Speaker: And I like what Corey has here. That would be the cat's ass to do the Route 66 Dragon Drive. That would be sick as hell to do. That would all depend on when it is for us, but. right interesting yeah um oh so that trans damage i actually just couple days ago got off the phone with my trans guy and bad news all around i cooked that motherfucker it is done huh so what oh he thinks i fucked it up no dragon drive just cruise

Speaker: That'd be cool still just to go cruise route 66, man. That'd be badass. um But no. So what he thinks happened, and I don't know if 100% agree with it because it's not my first time putting a trans in, but he doesn't think the converter was set in all the way.

Speaker: So because of this, what was happening was the converter didn't have enough slop is what he's thinking. So that's what's cracking the flex plate. But it also was pushing so hard on the thrust bearing in the transmission that it actually ate the aftermarket case alive.

Speaker: um So the case is fucked. I mean, they're trying to fix it. It's going back to BT to see if they can fix it. But that's a $1,400 case. Holy shit.

Speaker: It killed the... Xampius. Oh.

Speaker: But it killed the front pump on it, and then the converter, which was a pretty high-dollar converter, is basically completely toast. They're having to redo the entire thing. So we're going to bring it up to his shop when we go put it back in there and see what's going on. Because, like I said, it was a used setup.

Speaker: It wasn't a brand-new setup. Right. I did my measuring. There should have been clearance. But we're just going to double-check everything and see if there's something going on this.

Speaker: It never hurts to go over. oh and i mean, and that's the thing, too, bringing up about you know some of the secondhand stuff. I mean, you can go through it with a fine-tooth comb, and there could be just that one little thing you miss, and you end up with a situation. mean, it could have been something something simple that you and your brother and stuff didn't know about, and was just after the wear and tear and getting hot like it did.

Speaker: It could have caused the problems, but we'll never know. so Yeah. Oh, and that flex plate we installed in Tennessee, I actually just pulled it off last weekend.

Speaker: it cracked? Hold on here. Uh-oh. Yes, it is cracked, but I'll show you what it looks like right now.

Speaker: Let's see if it'll pop up here. You're right, Zach. It does. It's the truth. Does that show up? Yeah, it does. Oh, nice. That looks wonderful. So something's definitely going on, but, um, luckily the motor, the crank still seems fine. There's no play or slop in the crank, which i was a little worried about with all of that happening.

Speaker: Um, but going to bring it up there. See what he says. Like i said, Hey, if I didn't set the converter all the way in, like, I'm going to feel like a fucking idiot, but show me, you know what i mean? Like, um,

Speaker: um It just sucks, though, because you drop all that kind of coin on something, and it's just right back to repurchasing it again. Never fun.

Speaker: Zempius, that'd be fun as hell, man. He's over in Missouri at one Lucas Oil Speedway. They're bringing the stadium trucks. yet we Everybody in the chat, he always and it's always it's been an open invite. We're ever out that way. Just let them know that it's from the network and everything else.

Speaker: and he said he'll hook us all up with hospitality out there, so forever out that way. That's awesome. Yeah. Hell, Pat, that's cool as hell, man.

Speaker: Half a block off around Route 66, that's cool as shitting out that way. Oh, yeah.

Speaker: Thanks, Shaman, for the comment, too, buddy. i appreciate it man. But, yeah, dude, that, yeah, I mean, there's, it just depends.

Speaker: yeah you Yeah, stop over. um Stop over. Give Pat a shout and stuff, man. He raced his rough truck out there and stuff. You can check out his modified and everything else. Hang out with him. You guys out that way.

Speaker: Yeah, I know. I never leave my house. Fire me.

Speaker: It's all good. It'll be all right. It'll be different this year. so And I make And it's on record. I promise. I will, once the weather hits and everything, I'm getting the hell out of here.

Speaker: I'll bring the family with me if I have to I don't care. There you go. There you go. You just to say it out loud. Yeah. And there's like, like Corey, like Zempia said, he, um he absolutely will. So that's for anybody. He's been, been a loyal supporter ever since the network started and stuff and everything.

Speaker: Plus he followed my buddy Glick before he started the network up. So, He's been been one of the OGs with what this YouTube channel. Oh,

Speaker: my God. I'm going to slap the fuck out of you, Corey.

Speaker: Oh, shit. Okay, I'm going to have to make a point just so it'll end this. ah yeah Yeah, you might have to.

Speaker: no and there And there, Pat, there you guys go. Stop by anytime you said you're not that way. We're have to do a squeaks night with Corey over there. So he's get that all situation. Tell us when we're going to be there and we'll be there.

Speaker: Yeah, he said he when you guys come in.

Speaker: Feisty ones.

Speaker: It's my little instigator. Fucking ankle biter. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. May 1st? May 1st. Yep. That's what Corey said, so.

Speaker: May 1st. Yeah. That's the first day of the cruise, though, right? Or no, that's Friday. That's Friday. Hey.

Speaker: Man, Corey, you're really going fuck me up there. You know, that I'm driving in on May 1st. Okay, that's fine. Let's do it.

Speaker: It's fine. Enough Red Bull and my system will be okay. Grab you a couple four-pack cases of it and rock and roll. but We'll see. I don't know if I'm going to keep up with Corey. Corey puts them down. oh Yeah, and he wonders why he has problems.

Speaker: yeah We're all... or're all yeah i'm guilty of it too, man. i can The energy drinks, the Red Bulls and shit, man. like I'm bad about it.

Speaker: We'll be there in time, Haley. It's just a matter of do that friday That too. guys

Speaker: we'll We'll talk about it. Cause I, I'll have to figure it out. i I think the fall on Friday, we're planning on leaving. So I don't think that will work. I think the best bet was probably just that May 1st, like you're thinking and whatever, just say, fuck it.

Speaker: If I don't sleep, I don't sleep. very But yeah, man, it's, it's going to be an interesting summer. Besides that, um,

Speaker: oh Jesus Christ dude C4 yeah

Speaker: Eight or ten monsters dig holy shit And that's not including the fucking whiskey to be drinks on top of that shit either That's crazy. Yeah, no I There you go Haley's got the answer for you I don't think she can reach the pedals with the new seat.

Speaker: It's not on a slider no more. It's it's it's a solid amount of seat. That's okay. we get get her Get her something to boost her up towards there where she can reach. A couple encyclopedias. yeah That and some pillows.

Speaker: aya Oh, yeah. the yeah um Between monsters and Red Bulls, those are my two i can't I can't drink the monsters anymore. That's what I used to drink all the time, but they run through me like crazy. So I switched to Red Bulls and it seems to be a lot better. So i don't know why. Uh-oh.

Speaker: Your dad's in here telling secrets on Haley now. it's Not the way she drives. Oh, boy. ah I could tell secrets all day long. we were just starting dating and she took my truck.

Speaker: Uh-oh. The bird's coming out. two Two weeks later that she's like, oh, by the way, I hit the, ah you know, like the arm that comes down for like a gate for a community.

Speaker: yeah I hit the gate, your your gate for your community with your truck. And I'm like, well, why would you do that? And she's like, well, it wasn't opening. So I just kept creeping up. and I'm like, well, why don't do that?

Speaker: Then your brother smacks boat prompts. Oh, Oh, Haley, they're, they're teaming up on you out here. Yeah. That's also true. She did have a She got up her first brand new car. It was a 23 Corolla.

Speaker: And six months into having it, I believe, she was driving to work and smacked into the back of a boat in the middle of the morning. And it was standing still. It wasn't like it was, you know, she just went down to grab her water bottle and she didn't stop and nailed it.

Speaker: Hey, look who's here. What's up, Bubba? Hey, fellas. What's going on? Yeah, yeah, man, it's... There you go.

Speaker: Like Corey said, get you to move to Ohio. I don't know about Ohio. I'm going to move further north, but not Ohio, I don't think.

Speaker: And you tapped it. do you want me to pull up the photo of what it looked like?

Speaker: Yeah, Corey, I think that's the couch is not going to be banned outside. The couch ain't even going to be this thing after this. We'll get a message in the group chat.

Speaker: Talon's sleeping in a truck outside in the driveway because of tonight. I'm going cut on up on my backseat to Nova. At least I can do that like Jason. Yeah.

Speaker: But yeah, man, it's going to be cool. Yes, Corey, I'm definitely going to quit saying it. I'm going to show up so that everybody can get off my back about coming over to your shop and

Speaker: Oh, geez. But yeah, i'm I'm looking forward to getting with everything arranged around where I can at least meet up with you guys at least once or twice while you're up here with everybody. Oh, yeah, we'll be up there for a little bit, so.

Speaker: I don't see anything being an issue like that. I don't even know what our plans are besides the cruise. I think Haley's, obviously we're hanging out with the in-laws, but I don't know quite what's happening.

Speaker: But the offer does stand, Corey. If you need me to drive the truck and trailer with the water tank in the back and stuff, I'm down. I'll do it.

Speaker: That was her just a tap, by the way, on the on the boat. Ouch! Like said, brand new vehicle. And she didn't get the guy's insurance or file a claim.

Speaker: Street race. Stop sign. What stop sign? Wait a minute. If I remember correctly, besides Jimbo in on this with with Jason, I think there was something between you and Jason, too.

Speaker: with the Nova ordeals on the streets. I don't think there's anything official, but there was something talking about a tramp stamp.

Speaker: I know Jimbo was gung-ho about lining up with Jason, on and lining up a little bit and seeing them having a little fun. Well, Jason's going to have to Flintstone the fucker. right Not Jason, sorry. got it Not ah he Jason. Jason, he just got to call you Jimbo. No, Jimbo is going to have to fucking Flintstone the fucker.

Speaker: Jason better hope he hooks up. That's all it is. Careful, Jimbo just slapped the Goldwing in and throw the Nova body over it. yes That would be something you would do, yeah.

Speaker: Just put it in the middle. You'll never know the difference. Well, Corey, at least you got leastsh you got a hookup on LS motors because once Jimbo's done driving, you'll need another motor in it probably. Because he'll hold it to the wood.

Speaker: There you go. I'll jump in on it with the black wing. You got to go to Ohio first if you want to get in on it. You don't want to leave Florida. oh But yeah, it should be a good time. Hopefully we don't have any more of our bipolar fucking weather up here when it comes time for that shit, so.

Speaker: Yeah, i'm right. but I'm just hoping it won't be as hot as it's going to be down here, which obviously shouldn't be, but I'm getting tired of 85. I know Corey will give me shit of it, but I don't know, man. It was 80 here in Mount Vernon up here in Ohio um where I lived yesterday, and then, of course, it the if fucking today was 35. I was like, holy shit.

Speaker: excellent no Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot you weren't running the blower motor. Yeah, but it's still a big block, though. Oh, you know what?

Speaker: You're mini-tubbed, aren't you, Jason? What what size tire are you on? both Both you and Jimbo are pretty sure have tubs in your car. At least mini-tubs.

Speaker: I'm still on stock tubs and everything. hi That's okay, man. Okay.

Speaker: Scale of one to two I'm going to say a one because it's pretty high probably. Just getting his night started. Yeah. yeah i tub Okay. Yeah. I woke up.

Speaker: I've been taking care of sick family. Yeah. yeah So that's what I was telling. Tell him when we first started that your family deal. If I get a cam and converter, I'll race Jason with my half buddy Jimbo, just throw the body over those gold wings and call it a day. You got it made there, man.

Speaker: I'm sure if he really wanted to, he'd probably do something like that. i we I think we all can agree on that. Yeah, if he gets fed up with it enough, I guess he's just to say, fuck it, huh? Yeah.

Speaker: But yeah, um I really don't have anything else for tonight. Unless you got any more stories or anything else, Actually, no, there is something since you brought it up.

Speaker: but So is your brother's Mustang since he... Would... Is he going to... Is this his going to be strictly a track car or is it going to be basically both?

Speaker: It's going to be just like the Nova. It's going to be drag and drive car. He just... As a little brother, he wants to beat up on his big brother. So he wants to build everything bigger and faster.

Speaker: Now... boom here's That's not always how it works, though. but Exactly this. He's rolling it real fast. that The money to make it bigger and faster is not available for all that. So we'll see. But right now, yeah, he's got a bigger motor. he's got a bigger turbo, but he don't have a cage. He doesn't have any safety. He doesn't have a rear end. He doesn't have anything. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. I mean, it takes time, and Jason can jason can vouch for the way his name has been built and everything else, too, to get it where he's got it. so And Corey, it's I mean, anybody that builds their cars themselves and shit, you know, the all-high-mighty dollars is going to make or break you. Oh, yeah. yeah And then when you have your brother wire your car, you know you might want to watch your shit talk. I'm just going to say that.

Speaker: Well, he already did make the comment in there about you'd probably sabotage him. So, I mean, he's already thrown that out there to everybody. Hey, if he talks his shit, he talks his shit. I don't i don't know what happened. i don't know why his trans break, why he bumped right through. I don't know what happened.

Speaker: It was What we're doing you got under that? What under it right now is yeah an 8.2 10 bolt with a Not what I want.

Speaker: Now, I have a nine inch sitting right next to it. so I just got to get a third member Ford and some axles and we're putting it in there. For the cruise, I will still be on the 10 bolt because it's got a 308 gear and we're just cruising.

Speaker: So whatever. I'd rather have just a little bit less gear. The nine bolt will be in or nine bolt nine inch will be in by ah North Carolina. That's the next upgrade. Nice. What, uh,

Speaker: what brand of gear and are you going to up running it? You're going run like strange Mosier. Uh, that's honestly, I think axles are probably a quick performance. And then, uh, I've been looking at third members. Honestly, I keep looking at like secondhand and see if I find any third members that pop up for a good deal. But if not, I'll probably end up going stranger something like that.

Speaker: Nice. Nice. And that's all for drop the hammer at North Carolina, you said, right? Yeah. yeah cause i done I'll have to do a new drive shaft and all that stuff. So drive shaft, all that, and then I'm going to do new brake lines all across the car.

Speaker: um

Speaker: Yeah, but Zach, the sad part is, bud, the Chevy guys also have to have the Ford body to go fast. you guys I mean, it's it's one of those deals, you know.

Speaker: They got to have the car body to go fast. Oh, yeah yeah. Buying up all all the Foxes and putting putting the GM drive turns in them. I wouldn't mind of putting a 12-bolt in there like Mr. Jason has, but 12-bolts are not cheap at all. It is cheaper to put a 9-inch under it and stronger.

Speaker: Well, and the thing is, is the 9-inch is like, you know, it's like the Fox bodies. Everything and their brother's out there. um that they have, the it's so common now for the parts and everything for them because everybody's going that route.

Speaker: Yeah. I mean, when you're building a dragon drive car too, that's another good point is you want to make sure you're building, well, you don't have to, but I mean, it's a smart idea to build similar things. So that way there's parts available.

Speaker: Um, I mean, obviously if you want to do a fucking Ford Barrow with some random rear end, good luck. Yeah, it's fun. That's cool. But, um, You parts for You're not getting them.

Speaker: Huh.

Speaker: Yeah, guys, make sure tomorrow night, too, shout out to Corey and stuff on Rebroke. He's got that Zachary Blasey plus Glick over here. So it's a double dip thing. If you got a computer and phone, oh yeah and in tune into both both channels and everything else and get your car fix and get your music fix tomorrow night.

Speaker: So, and then Then old Jimbo. Hell, there you go. You can load it in the back of the Nova. well not he's No, no. I got my 9-inch now. It's already in the garage spot. I don't need nothing We're okay.

Speaker: I got a great deal on it. Yeah, you're not you're not wrong on that, Greg. I'll be honest with you, man. yeah mut on the On the performance side, over all the years I've been around stuff, I mean, I get it. and i know Zach's a diehard Ford guy and everything else too.

Speaker: But balling on a budget, you can't go wrong with the GM stuff. I mean, it's honestly, it's sad to say, but it's there. I mean, yeah yes, the faster you, like you said, talent, the faster you want to go or more horsepower you want to go, yes, it's going to cost you more.

Speaker: But bang for your buck, you really, out of the door, you can't go wrong. good Well, hell, I mean, i would like, honestly i think when my ls gives the ghost i would like to go into the gen 5 lt stuff that's where i think i want to go nice they're strong i mean they're good mean everyone gets here by the direct injection but i mean a you could delete the direct injection that's probably what we'll do on my car i mean not really don't need that but the the 6.6 liter so 400 cubic inch stock motor from these 2500 trucks

Speaker: They all have forged bottom ends from the factory. So they're looking like serious contenders. And then i don't know how much you guys have been paying attention, but the new, I guess, gen six small blocks are coming soon from Chevy.

Speaker: They're ditching the five, three and the six, two and their half ton pickups. they're going to go to a five, seven and a six, six. It looks like. up Yeah. They're, They're between all three of them. I've seen their chains and a lot of their between Ford and mope or chryler Mopar and all them and GM. Yeah, all their new stuff. so Yeah, I mean, I'm curious. I mean, it's always good when these new stuff comes out, though, because it just brings on the price. So, I mean, like I said, Gen 5 LT, i would I would like to start messing with that. I think here soon.

Speaker: And it's it' not everything's interchangeable, but there's a good amount of stuff that's interchangeable. Right. Hell yeah. Yeah, Zach, that would actually be kind of, that'd be kind of cool, man, to do an LS swap and stuff on that, so.

Speaker: What's up, Nate? What's up? Have you seen the four LY6 engines they're doing? Guy just made 1,600 horse with an all-aluminum 4.3. Holy shit. Hmm.

Speaker: it four point three I know, uh, Finnegan has that old aluminum four three that he's probably put on that Rotson. don't know if you guys follow that at all. Yeah. I've seen, I've seen where he was doing that. Yeah.

Speaker: But I don't know what's going on with that anymore. yeah That car has been lent out so many times recently. Hell, I know Corey was with them. I think when they were wiring the two step up in the parking lot, I think that's what it was, but, but yeah, man, it's, it's going to be, it's going to be neat. Um,

Speaker: There's a lot of the Dragon Drive events coming up. and i mean Oh, yeah. Besides the Buckeye skips deal, Corey's ordeal for his Cruise for the Cure that he's got coming on. yeah so Nice.

Speaker: Uh-oh. Yeah. soon See you, Jimbo. You have a good night, buddy. Yeah. Good one, Jimbo. Good one, Jimbo.

Speaker: But, yeah, it's going to be neat to see. I mean, it's going to be awesome. Two, just this past weekend, I i was glued to the IHRA YouTube channel watching the racing this weekend down there. Oh, yeah. That was a pretty damn good show that they put on for the first race of the season of the New World Order of IHRA, man.

Speaker: Saw a little bit of that stuff. I was watching the Texas UK myself, but which actually, did you see that Pro Mod Stick Shift car? Which one? It's a C7 that they built. It's a brand new car. It just literally, this was their debut event.

Speaker: It's Black C7 is what it's based off, but it's a Pro Charge. is it I don't know if it's a big block or what it is, but i think it's a big block. but it's a pro-charge, big block. mean, it's a pro-mod car underneath. It's chassis, everything.

Speaker: But it sticks you. He just blew apart the record for sticks you. He ran a 655 and won the event. Damn. Oh, I did see where... Nice. Oh, yeah.

Speaker: That nice... scene I got to watch the video, Clueless... Walking me into the real redneck world of Chuck and Tracker pulling over the weekend. I just finished that video today. That was fucking cool as hell to see. I mean, remember he acted like I was when I was five years old. The first time I ever went to a Chuck and Tracker pull. Him like a little kid. He's like, holy shit. And I'm like, yeah, man. welcome to the Welcome to the real horsepower. I mean, it i mean yeah it's not drag racing or anything like that. But yeah.

Speaker: That's why it's called the heaviest motorsports on earth. Yeah. i've been I've been following all that stuff. and well I'm sure you guys have been kind of watching his NASCAR stuff. and I'm liking how much people are getting pissed at him.

Speaker: The amount of drama. Dude, I love it because in a way, we a lot of us get to live through him. Yeah, 100%. He's exactly what any of us would do if we made it and had that kind of money and the opportunity to see it. Yeah, he would do what he does. And it's freaking awesome.

Speaker: But at the same time, it's i think it's good for NASCAR. We needed something like this in NASCAR because quit. You need personalities. Well, I quit watching NASCAR once Dale Jr. basically hung it up. But my opinion for me, because I'm an old dog compared to you,

Speaker: NASCAR died when Dale died at Daytona in 01. I'm sorry. That's when it got away from him what NASCAR was all about. That was the end of that, in my opinion.

Speaker: but yeah I definitely can see that. I just love watching all these clips from all these podcasts and all these old NASCAR people that are just... Oh, yeah, whining and crying. They're whining and crying. Listen, i i don't I will agree to that I don't think he should have been in that truck in Daytona.

Speaker: He did not have the time or seat time. That was too but quick for something like that. But he did. I mean, look what he did. I was just about to say, though, it's if me or you were – if someone came to us and said, hey, you want to drive this truck at Daytona?

Speaker: I'm not going to say no. I might suck. I might crash. But if you're giving me the seat, yeah. look Yeah, so sign me up. What do I got to do to do it? Hell yeah. So I can't blame you for going out in the trucks, but, I mean, you know,

Speaker: ostensibly wasn't a smart idea but you're not wrong on that one's empty yes the the restrictive yeah race and yeah that really hurt but i but just being the avid nascar yeah i haven't even i really haven't watched nascar until that night that i actually got to watch him race the truck and everything because i was excited to see that oh yeah

Speaker: i'm gonna guess all billets and aftermarket blocks Oh, man, that's ah that's the other thing. Those billet blocks, man, you you want to talk about getting into the money. Holy shit.

Speaker: Yeah, and they're a maintenance item. That's the crazy part. But back to the Cletus deal with the NASCAR, i loved I finally got to watch the whole sit-down with Dale Jr. on his podcast.

Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And for Jr. to... say yeah it was kind of crazy for him but at the same time gave him mad props for stepping out of what they said it was his comfort zone so i mean and to prove basically he just proved everybody wrong that's the thing hell yeah 100 but i'm with everybody else too that's a cletus fan you give that man seat time yeah dude he's gonna yeah he could be a contender he really could I mean, yeah, I mean, he went and bought a late model. hick he's He's putting in the time now.

Speaker: I mean, i like clearly he's got the itch for it now. Whatever happened, he's got an itch. Well, and that, and then, what is it, the Arca Series? I mean, he's been doing damn good down there in the Arca Series.

Speaker: Yeah, the Arca Series, he's learned a lot there, and he's doing pretty good. and Like I said, the fact that RCR comes out and offers him an O'Reilly car, yeah,

Speaker: yes Yeah, do I think that RCR, I know why RCR did it, it's obviously for publicity. is They're going to make money off this deal. But, I mean, like I said, does it really make sense for him to go into RCR car right now in an O'Reilly series? No, but if he's got the opportunity, you might as well take it. I mean, you're not going get a better team out there.

Speaker: No, that and that's one of the next and that's one of the best best in the business right there, man. For NASCAR, you can't go wrong And like you said, for a team like them to step up and say, hey, here, here you go. We're going to give you the wheels and stuff.

Speaker: Go for it. And i mean in his training his training video or practice video, was is he's got yeah he's got pra or potential. He just really just needs to learn. He needs more seat time, just like we just said. I mean, it's going to take some time and just do win it.

Speaker: I mean, you can't just expect the guy to go out there and just immediately be perfect at that. Nobody was that way. I mean, no no no one was. They'll all say, oh, no, everyone was this, that, or that. But no, I mean, everyone starts somewhere. And unfortunately, he's 30 years old and didn't start as a toddler like all these other guys have.

Speaker: Well, and that's like Tony Stewart's a prime example, man. I mean, the the guy... you Smoke. I mean, he started from the dirt tracks and worked his way up the ranks like a lot of them. yeah Jeff Gordon, exactly believe it or not, a lot of people didn't know. Gordon used to race super late models and stuff. Matt Kinza, he came out when he started racing.

Speaker: He came right off the dirt, right into a NASCAR Cup yep for his rookie season. They picked him up because he was dominating you know on the dirt tracks and shit. But yeah, well some of the people are...

Speaker: kind of shoehorned in because of their name. Like the, hundred percent like fucking Haley Deegan. If it wasn't for dad and metal militia because of the name, she's one that I don't think really deserved a shot. A hundred percent.

Speaker: So, but, but Cletus, man, I mean, he's he's, he's our, like I said, we're living the dream through him and, I've seen videos of personal people that's met him down there at the Freedom Factory and stuff.

Speaker: They tell you that's who you get. You get the live wire, Cletus, and down home. he yeah I love to meet the guy just because he's just just from watching the truck and tractor pulling video.

Speaker: Oh, yeah. yeah one Doing that, I would love to see him in person because you got the real him. You're not getting somebody ah behind the camera. Yeah. I mean, he definitely puts on ah a little bit of a personality on the camera, but it's still him.

Speaker: You know what i mean? Right. it's

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. That's how most of them were. Worked their ways. And that's where a lot of people with Cletus are complaining about this. You know, we got heavy hitters out there in the dirt, dirt series and stuff that, yeah you know, that,

Speaker: may that's their dream one day is to be up and he's kind of jumping ahead of her everybody. Yeah, I get it. I mean, so. But still, I mean, like you said, if somebody walked up to me and said that you're going to race for RCR or race at Daytona, man, you know, during Daytona, I'm definitely going to be like, do I need a driver or get a plane ticket? when When do I get, what do I need? 100%. mean, you can't.

Speaker: can't blame anyone for taking the opportunity in my opinion i mean and and he's being really you know he's not just going out there and disrespecting the field he's being very conscious of yeah he is i mean that's the reason why i mean he wrecked himself in the truck series but that could have been a lot worse i mean he took half the field with him right then and there but like he said in the interview he thought he knew he was losing control and that's why he went to the bottom of the track so he didn't hurt everybody else um I'm sure there's plenty of other people that would be shoehorned in one of those cars or trucks and just, you know, that, Oh, whatever. It's bumper cars. If I hit you, I hit you. It is what it is. Oops. Sorry.

Speaker: Yep. I mean, he's really taking interest in the sport and putting in time. So, I mean, I feel like everyone, you know, should, you know, have more appreciation for it because at the end of the day, i mean, you look at the viewership numbers, even alone. Oh yeah. He's helping. It's,

Speaker: I mean, obviously, when he did the truck series, the only thing that you could argue was Tony Stewart raced during the day telling for the truck. um So those numbers could have skewed something, but I don't think Tony Stewart was pulling numbers the way would pull numbers. No, they were just using that as a ploy to to avoid the all the negative shit. Oh, 100%.

Speaker: Instead of the positive of Cletus being there, you know, Garrett being being in that race and stuff. I mean, he had... was going to say a great example is my wife.

Speaker: She never watched NASCAR. I don't really watch NASCAR, honestly. I mean, i walk I follow along kind of, but I don't, it's not been my thing that I sit there and, you know, laser focus on. She was watching, we were watching the Daytona race and she's been watching every single NASCAR race ever since.

Speaker: She enjoys it now. Now, part of it is because her grandfather watches it and they'll FaceTime each other and he lives up in Ohio and they'll just watch the race.

Speaker: um so But it's awesome, though, because you just... She would have never watched it if it wasn't for Cletus and me watching it, and then now she watches it all the time. So... Oh, yeah.

Speaker: Cletus for president. Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Definitely. But yeah, like Zempia said, i mean, that's the thing. He had the two greatest comments there is you know, the jealousy and then you only get haters if you're doing it right.

Speaker: And I mean, that's... It's 100% right. I mean... Yes, Corey. We get it. Left turn, left turn. But this is this has always been a motto I've heard for all my life being around dirt racers and everything else.

Speaker: Dirt's for racing and asphalt's for getting there. boom That's the truth. but But yeah, I mean, it's cool. I love it, what it's bringing. And then then on top of that, you add his pulling experience, bringing in his fans that are always... Yep.

Speaker: to our world because i've always been that was my first true love for motorsports is truck and tractor pulling and then everything else so and it and to see that and then his camera guy how excited i think he was more excited than cletus was watching oh yeah well he's said he's racing arc uh this weekend yep nice that'd be his first debut is so ls george

Speaker: Now that I did think was a little interesting him getting into that, but I mean, hey, if he goes to the proper channels, and he'd have have to say again, why not?

Speaker: There we are. But yeah, man, I mean, it's cool. It's cool to see see the new, and with that too, it's back to what I've said on this show, even without guests, we've got to have the younger generation getting in, and why not better person than have cletus the you know do that as much as i i mean he's you're exactly right i mean literally like i said it before it's he you could basically almost i don't want say blame him entirely but he was what got me into racing i mean we i always grew up around old cars and stuff like that right my dad never raced the car i mean he went wait to car shows oh but you know like i said i'm only 23

Speaker: You're still a young whirper snapper. I got you by 20 years, man. You're still getting... You're the new generation that I consider part of the up and coming. We need more.

Speaker: No one likes these old cars. or any oh Cars like that, i mean especially down here. i mean We get your your occasional... you know I'm going to say Honda guy. i mean, that's fine, Danny. If it gets them into it it, gets them into it. But they don't seem to follow it. And honestly, you know what I blame?

Speaker: I blame law enforcement and local laws. Yeah. Well, not only not only that, got to blame the the other thing is, yes, they're part of the blame. But you've got these dumb fucks that don't have respect for what we were brought on. Sure, yeah, 100%.

Speaker: i So these law and that's where that's where these lulls end up coming into effect. Yeah, you're right. Because of that shit. so One bad apple is for everyone. just like Yeah, and i've lost that's why we lost the cruising up here in my hometown that we used to do Friday, Saturday nights.

Speaker: That's the reason we lost our spot to go street racing. Why the cops sat and watched you do it because of dumb asses. And now you've got even more people out there now going to these meets and nobody's controlling it, being fucking retarded and getting killed just recently.

Speaker: That father and his kid are just getting killed over shit, man. I mean, ah like one thing I was telling my brother the other day was what's crazy is here locally, you know, Florida is notorious for like, they don't care. you do whatever you want.

Speaker: You know, as far as modifying your car goes. Right. Here, where I live, They actually have a department dedicated for modified exhaust now.

Speaker: Oh, sounds like you got a mini California in your area. Yes. Now, I've never been harassed, and I'll be honest with you, they send to give the older cars a break.

Speaker: But with this Mustang being built, I am guaranteeing you he's going to get harassed. yeah, because it's a newer. because it's new It's a newer, newer-style car. It's not the older.

Speaker: yeah Like my Nova, you can't clock it and be like, oh, that was obviously, ah you can't say i was emissions all that stuff. It didn't have emissions back then. so yeah But as soon as you have you know a newer 90s or up car, oh, sure that guy clearly modified his car. let's Let's get some money from this guy. Yeah.

Speaker: He don't have converters with O2 sensors and all the smog shit on it, so we're going to ticket his ass to death and take his car on top of it. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, they, and the law was used to be really vague too, cause it was well not vague, but it was really hard to enforce because it was, I think the law used to state you had to be, so they would measure 20 feet away from the car. i don't remember the actual decimal reading, but if it was over a certain decimal reading, that's when they could ticket you.

Speaker: But the argument was like, how do you enforce that? Because a, if I'm in an overpass, underpass that's gonna be a lot louder first of all yeah because it's number two off the walls exactly and number two is okay well that's fine and dandy but like my car if you're standing on the passenger side it's louder if you're standing driver's side it's quiet because the exhaust is the passenger there's really no way i mean engage that to do that but now they're trying to make the law more vague so it's up to cop's discretion

Speaker: So now i think the new law, I don't know if it ever signed, but it was going through all the channels, was anything that sounds unusual. Oh, Jesus Christ, man, he So it's one of those things where it's up to the cop's discretion, so if he wants to be a dickhead, yeah, you're getting a ticket.

Speaker: But the the The fight back to that one is, well, now, you so you went to one that you can quantify, but it's hard to quantify to having something so vague that how do you, how do I actually, like, in court, how can you enforce that?

Speaker: Right. It sounds like they're making people just jump through hoops. Well, my guess is they're just hoping they're going ticket you and just hope you pay it and not have to worry about going to court. You know, they'll probably, whatever. yeah Right. Or just a way to pull you over. Let's...

Speaker: Well, and that's like up here when we were doing the cruising, where we used to be able to cruise on the weekends. They'd nail the guys trying to say we had a lift low up here. I mean, yeah, there was certain things kind of keep it kosher. But they were trying to measure guys on an incline on their back bumper, pull them over on an incline and say, oh, you're over a hike instead of on on level ground. we have i had a guy that used to hang around with. He had a...

Speaker: I think he's still got it, but he had a Ford Ranger that had built motor. It was lifted sitting on 38s, and he had the drop bumper by law with the drop bumper, 10-inch drop bumper and everything. They'd pull him over at least once a weekend.

Speaker: Oh, you're over bumper. high he goes He finally took him the cord over, it and it –

Speaker: They never messed with him again, but yeah, they kept having him on an incline trying to measure his back bumper saying he was over height instead of on like a level surface in a parking lot or something. Right.

Speaker: yeah Yeah, I can believe it. Like said, it's just getting ridiculous. It's just certain areas. i mean it's Like I said, it's a culture. It depends on where you live. I don't think, like I said, the car culture here is go park your car and go walk around and look at them.

Speaker: It's not let's run them, let's even driving places. It's sitting in people's driveways. i mean, hell, at work I'm working in a place that's literally, I'm working at mansions every single day.

Speaker: Everyone in there, your 600 homes has Bentley's with Clarins, but they just sit there. They just sit there.

Speaker: yeah that's Yeah, some of them are like that. It varies too. Some of that stuff too, Zempia, it varies from town to town too. in the States too. oh yeah they They can do that shit with. It's it's ridiculous. and Yeah. i it's nice long is Thanks Greg for coming in the chat, supporting your son and stuff tonight. It was great. You being in here and everything. Thanks for supporting the show.

Speaker: Yeah, Florida's one of those. It just depends on where you're at. i Like Corey said earlier, is i live where the millionaires live. They get to really just do whatever they want. We get the old ladies going to brunch at 11 o'clock and have nothing better to do and get drunk. and They get pissed off they hear one inconvenient noise.

Speaker: that That's who they are. so That's the thing. well that and Like you were saying, trying to stay out of Miami, you've got that stuff down there that they've got to deal with besides the kind of like the cartel shit and the gangs and everything. and yeah But you got people down there down there in the car scene that makes it bad for the other people too.

Speaker: Miami has like the takeover scene, which is obviously what everyone hates as a car guy because that's what gives us a bad name. um But honestly, if driving through Miami is like the wild west of cars.

Speaker: They do not care. I just don't think there's enough law enforcement out there that they can actually stop what goes on over there. I mean, the amount of just highway racing that you see and they're darting in between cars. Oh, yeah.

Speaker: but Almost bumper to bumper traffic. They just do not care. That's why I don't drive over there because I'm too worried about getting collected in an accident like that. Well, that's like you see the 1320 videos and shit there out in Texas over there in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. they Those big roll racing the deals that they have with those high horsepower vets, vipers, and Lambos and shit, man. It's yeah it's insane.

Speaker: hu Well, typically it's a Dodge Hellcat down here, but you know. yes Yeah. yeah But yeah, I mean, it it the call culture is...

Speaker: We just got to keep the younger generation going. And like I said, fortunate that me and Corey, Jason and stuff like that and everything, you know, we got kids that are shows the interest in the hobby and hopefully continue how respond when we're gone and eventually down the road, you know, you and Haley, Zach and earlier Zach and them and Katie and them, you know, having family to pass it down to as well.

Speaker: But if we don't, like you said earlier, We'll be turning over in our freaking graves, you know, not the not having that anymore. Yeah, I mean. We've to have this generation carry on, but be smart about it, not stupid.

Speaker: i was going to say the biggest thing I can see happening, and I can see happening my lifetime, is government shutdown of what we do. I mean, you go to states, I mean, you know, like California and stuff where we have smog testing. What's that going look like for us?

Speaker: Yeah. I mean, how, i mean, sure. The drag racing might stay alive, but is that going to be enough? Like is just your bracket racing or something like that at a local track going to be enough? I don't think so.

Speaker: No, we knew what we got, but they just, the, like you said, the takeovers, if it's well organized, if it's well organized, I get it, but it still gets out of hand afterwards when it's away from,

Speaker: And it's the crowd that goes away from the takeover shit that are causing these problems. It's not actually Adam, but it's just ridiculous. Yes, Zempious, we can all 100% agree with that right there.

Speaker: 100%. 100%. That's like I've been reading online. You been brought up about California. That state's what brought in the death fluid ordeal, pushed it for all across the country, so truckers and stuff.

Speaker: Now they're trying to get rid of it because if they say it gets spilled on the ground. It causes... pollution and stuff in the soil and stuff. So, yeah, now now they're trying to get rid of it after all this bullshit bitching and crying about it. Now, oh my God, it's actually bad, so we need to get rid of it now. Now they got all the manufacturers and stuff putting this shit in their trucks.

Speaker: Oh my God. Yeah, I mean, hopefully we just get the... please Leave us alone. That's that's the best thing. I mean, obviously, we can hope that they lighten up on certain things. We all know it's not going to happen. Like your diesel trucks, they're not going take away emissions on them. Like everyone's like, oh, it's been suspended, blah, blah, blah. They're not They're not going get rid of death. You're going to have death in your truck.

Speaker: It is what it is. Obviously, you can delete it. That's on you. but right But as long as that if they left us alone at this point, it'd be a win. But I just don't see it. I mean, I'm not saying it's going to happen you know in five years, ten years. But it would in 50 years, why not we're old as shit.

Speaker: Yeah, I'll be pushing 100. I doubt I'll make it. But if I am. But yeah you see what I'm saying, though. like yeah i don't I don't know if in my lifetime if drag and drive events will be able to exist just because of government laws.

Speaker: if like Well, and that's the whole reason we got this shit on the cars as it is now. It's because the government stuck their nose in with all the emissions bullshit. yeah. yeah

Speaker: I mean, yeah, like Jason said, it'd be a new game to see who could cruise and not get caught. I guess if you all go, yeah they can't pull everyone over at first. You would hope. right Basically, game of hide-and-seek to go cruising.

Speaker: That's what it is. But hell, yeah they probably just have a camera on the street and they'll just send you a fucking bill and that'll be that. yeah yeah but be beyond like when it comes that time that's that's honestly my biggest fear is that you know government shutdown will be what will cause issues but we're just gonna keep doing our thing until something happens and fuck them if we right we can keep doing it we'll do it hell yeah but Jason would get pulled over. Everyone else is fast enough to get away. um

Speaker: Jason will be the decoy. That's basically what Corey's saying. So we can all get, everyone else can get away. Oh yeah. boy But yeah, man, it's just crazy. It's, and I mean, look, and that up here when we, with everything, like I said, with them taking away the cruising and shit and then,

Speaker: And then also on top of that, my town, they took away shit for kids to do. And then they're wondering why kids are constantly in fucking trouble and all this shit. yeah Oh, yeah. So. Yeah. Like, I guess they want to enforce things, they ain't going about it the right way.

Speaker: Well, that's all because of the greed. it's It's the government greed for money. Yeah, man. it's It's ruining something that was going very good. Yeah. I mean, yeah I'm glad to see.

Speaker: I'm glad to see they, it seems to be they're like or laying off Raiden's shops. I mean, yeah great example, TFI Speed. I'm sure you guys kind of know his story a little bit. Yep, I remember that. I mean, um that's, that was crazy. I mean, the fact that they even did that, that was a turning point, honestly. I mean, luckily it seems to, I forget exactly what happened, but I think they found that they were out of jurisdiction to be doing what they were doing. Um...

Speaker: so that's why they They literally raided him like he was a fucking chop shop. yeah i mean and i but they basically I believe what it was is they found that they just they were misusing the law. i mean They were using the Clean Air Act as way to do these raids and I think they found that they can't do that. They're not an FBI agency or CIA agency. They don't have the ability to go raid your shop. But yeah, they tried it. Yeah. And he was the he was the big that was the biggest name that got hit with that shit when they tried to pull that stuff. I mean, yeah, you had the PF because I mean, I mean, we heard diesels doing it, you know, diesel shops getting raided. That was happening all the time. But oh, yeah. Well, he went after the gasoline side and aftermarket. And he was saying, hey, these are just these are race cars, not street cars.

Speaker: Right. Yeah. And that's, and I mean, that's what he, and he was known for. It was the building a race cars and exactly yeah for that. And they were like, that's what happened. Cause the argument was at the time, I believe you, they, so they were saying if it had a VIN number, you cannot modify emissions off any car that had it from the factory. So it had a VIN number. It doesn't matter if you take it off the road and you say it's for, you know, um race use only, it doesn't see the streets. It doesn't matter if it had a VIN number.

Speaker: and it had emissions equipment, they're saying that was not legal to modify, which is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard. ah it was this It's just their way. They were trying to trying to flex, and it ended up kicking them in their own dick when they fucking won the battle with it. so yeah But yeah, it's just crazy that how they'd stick their nose in.

Speaker: But yeah, man, but it it comes down to, like back we'll go back to where you're talking with them being lax, but we gotta get the... We'll always have the fucking idiots yes you know that'll do.

Speaker: But if we can avoid in our groups that we had and stuff that we... I mean, the people I ran around with, we didn't have that problem. It was always somebody on the awful wall away from that shit that caused this.

Speaker: And we're always, like you said, the bad apple, it fucking the rotten fruit in the bag just spread to everybody else that wasn't doing shit. Yeah, it's sad, like I said.

Speaker: Ah, gotcha. Okay, well, either way, still crazy.

Speaker: I thought they went to his shop, though. I thought he read his shop. they I think there was something. They were pulling stuff for everything. Yeah, it's because of the what Jimbo said with the emails and stuff. I think they were getting his computers and all that shit he was doing, too.

Speaker: Yeah, maybe. like Either way, though, still fucking insane. I mean... yes Oh, yeah. You know how to do the illegal shit, Jimbo. We all do here, but, you know. Yeah.

Speaker: Ah, I see. so up I got you. yeah audit so it was It was a trigger thing. but Either way, for them to come in there for that is fucking crazy. she don't Hey, Corey can vouch for this. We actually, when we worked at Donley, we had a diesel 7.3 that came in that actually was ran on vegetable oil.

Speaker: Whoa. Vegetable tank, fri yeah have french fry oil tank and everything on the back of it when we worked at Donley together that was there. Man, was that the smelliest motherfucker ever. Dude, that shit stung.

Speaker: Yeah, times were really hot back then. But like I said, it seemed to have cooled off. But then again, who knows what happens during the next election cycle and whatever happens later. Right. Well, and and the bad part is is there they're feeding off of California and New York and shit, man. that yeah That's the problem. When someone sets a standard, that's the problem.

Speaker: Mm-hmm. That's the problem. As soon as someone makes a standard and they make it legal or however they do it, it just sets a precedent that they can do it anywhere else. i mean Right.

Speaker: Then anything below that standard gets immediately excluded and exiled. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you are right about that, Zepheus. It does smell better than the being on propane injection.

Speaker: It smells like a McDonald's frying up. No, Corey, you're not playing a Jimbo. yet.

Speaker: When I heard you like your bubble, though, brother, so you like California? but How are you going to eat your chicken wings, bro? No. big He made it clear. He graduated now. It's whole turkeys. Whole turkeys and chickens now. graduated. I think we skipped a step of rotisserie chicken first, but okay.

Speaker: Jimbo's graduated graduated from the chicken wings, man. He made that clear. Next time we check it's going be a whole hogs, huh? Probably.

Speaker: Jesus. ze zeia Penny Pitchers tried to smell a vision a couple weeks ago on the talk one time. Oh,

Speaker: oh shit. Oh, shit. You can park a Cadillac in this garage, boy. Jesus, Jimbo. I think that's how you carry around your gold wing. You put it up there and you just pop it out when you're ready.

Speaker: but but

Speaker: oh yeah Good shit. Yeah. Yeah, you could. That night. I was surprised he actually even popped in, but I wouldn't expect nothing less Jimbo couple weeks ago to do that, though.

Speaker: But yeah, man, it's it's going to be an interesting to see for the you know for the rest of our lives how things play out in the cult culture with everything yeah going on. so hilly I mean, the biggest thing I feel like is you just got to keep trucking and don't worry about what's going on. And if something happens, obviously something happens, but can't let it affect us. I mean, we just got to fight for what we want to fight for and keep doing what we're doing.

Speaker: Well, that's the thing is bringing that up. That's funny how you see a lot of that shit on Facebook. Everybody bitches about something, but yet you get 25 people that actually goes and stands their ground in the area of this stuff's going on.

Speaker: But you don't do nothing about it because you've got some lame ass excuse when you got these guys got these people out here they're leaving work or and missing work because they don't want to lose this shit, you know? And I mean, I mean, the best thing we can do those, like you said, get younger people in here, get more numbers behind us. I mean, like i said, I feel like as a whole, we're declining yeah in numbers. And i wouldn't say in numbers, we're probably like, if you've took it, the whole number, we're probably increasing, but the,

Speaker: rest of the population proportionally is like i said the percentage is different so the percentage of car guys or car people because let's be honest there's a lot of girls now that are in the indola yeah that's i know fitting into the whole culture the the percentage as we go along with time i feel like of car people versus your general public is getting smaller even though the number is increasing Just because the population is growing so quickly. I mean, <unk>s up it's sad. i mean tune in Oh, it is. And I mean, I love it now from the time where I was like in high school and out in my early 20s.

Speaker: There was a few women dabbling in the motorsports world, you know, stuff like that. Now seeing it, though, that gives my daughters, especially my second oldest, people to look up to, especially drag racing, dirt track racing, any of it. I mean, Jason's daughter, I mean, look what, did I mean, he prime example, his daughter following suit.

Speaker: She's got her truck and everything else. So, I mean. and that's awesome. I mean. Yeah. And that's what we need. and that's what we're And that's what we need. I mean, and like I said, with you being as young as you are, you're,

Speaker: kind of like we're passing a torch down to you guys, you and your brother and shit like that, your dad, and then us older guys, well, you're part with us and that to continue to carry that torch on if we're not here and then just continue trying to pass it down.

Speaker: But yeah, if we can't get people in, in any of these hobbies, it's, it's going to die quick and it's going to die hard. Yeah. Unfortunately. i mean, Like I said, growing up, everyone was talking about, going to play Y games or whatever it is. And I'm like, I'm going to put this hand in the car.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. was I mean, that's the thing. Honestly, is I put nitrous on that stock 350 in high school. So probably asking for it blow up. But yeah. Oh, there's the call out. Jimbo's calling you out now.

Speaker: You ain't doing nothing, buddy. You ain't going to be ready. You got to be ready by May 1st. I know that Nova's not going to be ready. And I'm not coming back for a while unless you come to North Carolina.

Speaker: So you're about to miss opportunity. I'm calling Zempheus. You're fucking old. Yeah, Pat, where he said about Route 66 and stuff, where you guys are out that way.

Speaker: Yeah, he's in Miami, Oklahoma. So out there, if you guys ever go out to cruise. Ha, ha, Talon's only three years older than my oldest. My son's 20.

Speaker: Between my older two, they're they're into the car scene. so i mean It's nice to see. yeah I think ultimately, for as far as me and my family, we just need to get out of where we're at. and We're in a retirement central. We just need to get somewhere that's more more our style.

Speaker: Somewhere smaller. Embraces our car scene and stuff. i said i yeah i like this This is not a safe space. You know this. Not here.

Speaker: was going to say, like, going to these smaller towns, like, I love driving through them and stuff like that and just seeing their... It's just more friendly, honestly. rome And the other thing, too, is I can't drive my car around here. I mean, I can, but it's like, it's standstill traffic constantly. That's not fun. Jesus, Jason. yeah You are an old fucker. You're really dating yourself. Yeah. You're showing your hand real quick there, bud.

Speaker: Wow. So my older brother's 30. How old is he? 31. So.

Speaker: But yeah, man, it's, but yeah, as long as we can pass it on and then continue the show and just keep doing things. I mean, that's what I love with the whole, I go to a race.

Speaker: My wife, all of them go with me. to kill All three kids go enjoy themselves. yeah when We go to car shows. They enjoy themselves. I mean, it's neat to need to see. And then, of course, if I can't answer the questions about what they're asking, I i know enough people that I can hit up and everything else. so Yeah, no, I mean, said, that's what's to suck about Immokalee Colism 2. I mean, when we went to North versus South, it was actually fresh to see

Speaker: There was a lot of families and kids out there watching the race. how there was From what I've seen on the starting line, there was a lot of younger kids standing up there too with their families and stuff. which I mean, i get I get it, but that was kind of cool to see. i mean, theyre even for adults, that's kind of sketchy. But I mean, to see the younger kids in between the rounds standing up there with their parents and shit or their dads or whatever, it was cool to see. From a safety perspective, I know you're saying it is sketchy, but I promise you that kid will remember that day.

Speaker: Oh, yeah. That will stick with them, and they will want to – they'll probably like, I want to be the guy in the car. You know, that's how it is. There it is, guys.

Speaker: Jason Carter is calling Jimbo Finch out. Uh-oh. Corey's in YouTube jail. Dude, I don't know what's going on with that, Corey, but here lately on a lot of them, they have – It just randomly happens. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: like like it's Like the one time I was in your guys' this chat when he had Jimbo and Corey on, I was on one, and it let me through. And then i go join Corey's, and I'm like, hey, what's up, fuckers? And it's like, yep, you're not getting seen anymore. Goodbye. but yet But yet when you did it on Facebook, it fucking came through. i was like, what the hell?

Speaker: And that's what it is. And Facebook is usually the one that will smack you on your pecker quicker than anything and hear YouTube. Oh, yeah. Yep. Well, what pisses me off about YouTube is it'll let you post a comment. Like, you'll send it, and on your screen, it shows that it sent.

Speaker: But then over here on your chat box, you'll never see it, and you're like, yeah oh, I guess I'm just invisible now. i'm we We all have it March 23rd. We'll bookmark it 9.58 p.m. Monday night.

Speaker: Jason Carter called out Jim Bell Fincher. Penny Fincher's performance novo on Nova at Skips.

Speaker: Yes, yes. I am young and can be all your guys' as kids. I get it.

Speaker: Yeah, Zach, I remember when you said that. yeah i remember about that too. We made that comment. Yeah. I'll see you anytime too, but I will get in practice where I can finish. No, I'm laying boats across the asses.

Speaker: Oh shit. Uh-oh. Uh-oh guys, look out.

Speaker: Jason, go get those turbos on. Get those pro mods. 88's twins.

Speaker: You can go hang out. We're going to get the old Jimbo from the Marion County days and shit when he had a car. Look out. It's coming back. that We're all in trouble now.

Speaker: Everybody hold on. Hell yeah. So, all righty, Callum, we'll go ahead and we're going to wrap up the show. Thanks all right for coming on. Um, yeah, no, it's great being here.

Speaker: It was awesome having you. Um, looking forward to meeting you when you come up here and stuff. I am going to, I'm still going to beat you to Corey's before you get here. so you' leave me alone ah But yeah, I appreciate, appreciate you taking the time and, uh, see you later, Corey.

Speaker: See you, Zach. Thank you guys again in the comments and stuff for hanging out with us. It's been a blast as always. And of course, ah Friday nights, if you're available, man, I mean, when it's, you know, like I said, not racing or anything like that going on. oh yeah Later, Nate, I'm going to try to do that Friday night shop talk. I'll send out the links to everybody.

Speaker: If you got time and you want to see a link in your email, jump in, man, if I'm on. Sounds good. You're always welcome, dude. So,

Speaker: All righty, fellas. Like I said, thank you for having me on. and Oh, any time, man. Good conversations. Yes, sir. yeah Good night. I'll drop you down. and All right. you later on, buddy. and like Yeah, thanks again, Johnny.

Speaker: Hopefully things get taken care of your family and stuff. God, Zampius, dude, thanks again, man, for coming in as always. I love it when you're in the chat with everybody, buddy. Haley, thanks for being here, too.

Speaker: Look forward to seeing you guys here in a month. ah he yeah Tonight was an awesome night on Speedway Stories. I had a blast with talent and everything. Everybody in the chatterbox. It was great having everybody.

Speaker: um It was awesome. and Tomorrow night, Glicks got a special guest on Glicks House of Music, like I said earlier. And then Corey on We Broke Garage.

Speaker: has a guest on his show. If you got a computer and laptop or in your phone, double dip tomorrow night. Watch, support both channels here on the network yeah and Webroke Garage.

Speaker: Oh, I get it, Zampius. Well, that and you're coming into your busy season, dude. We'll hardly see you with racing coming up out there, man. You've got some big shows coming up, so I get it.

Speaker: But, yeah, I appreciate everybody supporting me. And this network plus my own personal channel and everything else. And everybody in here that's got their own channels.

Speaker: Talon, like he said, Talon's Garage. Go over and give him a follow and a like and share. Webroke Garage, Corey and his family. Go over and give them a shout and stuff. um Dirty Curr Workshops. Good old Nate Frazee, man. He's just starting up his YouTube channel.

Speaker: Go give him a follow, like, and share. They support our network and everything else and support us. yeah Go show them some love. But other than that, Wednesday night, Glick's got a guest for his comedy show.

Speaker: And speaking of truck and tractor pulling, this Thursday night is a special edition of Speedway Stories. I will have Jason Brommer, a four-time Grand National modified pulling, four-wheel drive pulling truck champion on my show from elot the state of Illinois, his pulling trucks corn-fed.

Speaker: Uh, you tune in eight o'clock Thursday night. He will be up here on the show, uh, talking truck and tractor pulling, um, his experience besides being a driver and owner of a pulling vehicle.

Speaker: He's also a sled operator at some of these truck and tractor pulling events. So he's going to give us the inside of, of the sled operations and the maintenance and everything and talk about his pulling career and stuff that he has, a Been a longtime fan of his. I got to meet him at a meet and greet before Bowling Green one year that he won Bowling Green Ohio. He was here.

Speaker: I've actually still got the signed shirt of his original corn fed truck. So I hit him up the other day and I was pretty impressed when he said yeah he was more than welcome to come up here for the show this Thursday. So I'm going to have him up on the show Thursday night.

Speaker: Um, Friday night, depending on weather, everything else, and what I got planned, I'm going to have Wally's Motorsports World where it's the shop talk. I'm going to send out links to everybody that wants to be involved and come up on the panel and talk cars, motorcycles, boats, anything else. so And then Saturday on the network is our nonsensical nonsense six hours of anarchy. Everybody come in have a good old time and hang out and stuff.

Speaker: excellent And we'll have the link, drop the link in the comments. um Other than that, you guys all have a great rest your week. Thank you for tuning in. And I'll catch you on the next one.

Speaker: Bye. Johnny, stick around. Yes, sir.