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Please do an episode on your cool shirt system with a parts list! My next project for the car is build one. The whole Coolshirt/FAST merger has me in a bit of a quandary as to what do do with connections/hoses.

Hi, have you ever known the pickup oil mesh to have a silver shaped coin inside. Just wondered cus ive got one. Thanks

This is such a great example of how to make small improvements to your racecar!! I do have to ask though, does it have to be purple playdough?

You fancy MF with your playdough

So, you can lease a Lightning for what it would cost to get a Maverick. I have a Maverick; wouldn’t wanna swap it for a Lightning, thanks.

Forums: I still troll the celica-supra forum as the Cressida forums are ghost towns.

You know, Mental, 352 looks a lot like B52…

We are finally doing the thing. Its time for a cool suit! Can you pleaee do a refresher for what you would recommend, and what to avoid? TIA

I have no idea how many laps the MAXX will do, but if they don't do a TJ Maxx theme and fill it with factory second Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirts, then they really missed a golden opportunity.

The MAXX is going to do a lot of laps limited mostly by the fact it will be 45 minute stints with mostly newbies driving it. It is BONE STOCK except safety and has a paltry 272,000 miles on it. What could possibly go wrong? It will be over 200 laps.

I've found that if I'm looking for one of my tools in the paddock, there's a 90% chance that the Vannonball guys have it.

1 frame per hour video for those who are conscious of their data usage.

FYI, the various Chrysler I6 flatheads run in Lemons from a 1947 Plymouth Special Deluxe to a 2000 Ford Mustang all had the PTO port. At one time a certain team planned to run a supercharger off theirs but turbo-charging it was easier and made more through the hood protrusions.

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Argh. Please not everything that crawls out of Elon's head is gold. The Hyperloop in particular. You can tell because he dropped it as soon as he could. For all we know, he saw a pneumatic tube lobbing money from cash registers at Costco and thought "what if we make one to ship people".

Hey y'all! Just checking in. We had a great time hanging out with everyone at NJ. We finished 25th overall with the 85th Fastest lap. 2 stop on Saturday/ 1 stop on Sunday with only two drivers! We snapped our throttle cable but got it fixed in 40min on day 1. 2nd in C! P1 at Thompson? We have the pace as long as we don't weinerstomp.

EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MENTAL HIT THE RECORD BUTTON LAST WEEK BUT THE GOVERNMENT IS SHADOW BANNING ERIC ROOD FROM PODCASTS TO KEEP THE AMERICAN PUBLIC FROM LEARNING ABOUT HIPPOS AS A FOOD SOURCE.

There is a food concession stand on the track side of the General Store building which offers breakfast and lunch. Um, it’s food. There are also vending machines inside the base of the scoring tower; available while supplies last and I don’t think they restock those during the weekend.

1:10:04 Mental says Jagoff in a jersey accent? MY CULTURE IS NOT A COSTUME.

Cheesebolt Enterprises was just Watkins Glen and Sahlen's is the OFFICIAL HOT DOG of Watkin's Glen. They have billboards everywhere, including the coveted bridge banner. At the snack stand they were the only listing to have their own trademarked signage rather than just black and white letters. I had one. It was ok.

As Bad Decisions has a lot of newbies cycle through as part of our team "charter" and part of that is we really want to meet them at least once before we put them in our car so invariably most end up at one or more build days. More than 75% say something like "Don't expect much from me as the most I have ever done is XYZ." Many of them have more skills than they think but invariably they lack the hard won skill of approaching a problem from a creative angle. Watching that lightbulb go on in their head when they watch you use a 24" extension, breaker bar, 4' piece of roll cage tubing and jack stand to remove a harmonic balancer bolt that only requires 85 ft lb of torque to put on but a 3/4" air impact gun cannot remove...priceless! Similarly, showing them the 36" wobble extension and deep socket for upper bell housing bolts causes an aha moment. More than one DIY car maintenance addict has resulted including two former teammates getting their own race car.

As usual, the most important parts of a Gingerman race happened off the track. -The team with the Austin showed up with an Irish priest who ran the Irish Car Bomb stand at the potluck. I've never seen a grown man get blasted exclusively on car bombs in broad daylight, but I'm better for having witnessed it. -A team brought, and I shit you not, about 5 gallons of macaroni salad to the potluck, but they were like an hour late. I told them to wander around the paddock that night feeding the drunks macaroni salad since that would honestly be pretty sick. -THE GODDAMN NORTHERN LIGHTS. Only in a Lemons paddock will someone dressed as an astronaut come grab you at midnight to look at Aurora Borealis. -Do you have any idea how confused you can make a Jersey Mike's employee when you pick up a few crates of subs in a Jersey Mike and the Boys shirt?

I, too, drive an early-aughts F350 crew cab long bed 2wd, and I feel I must defend the honor of all Super Duties. Mine has the 5.4 two-valve (so no spark plug nightmares), and a sweet extra tall Leer camper cap that I snagged for $200. Aside from needing cam chains (bad tensioner) and a trans rebuild (leaking front seal), it’s been great. I get between 12-13 mpg. Or something like that. It’s best not to check. It’s great, it’s white, and we call it The Meg.

The spark plug extractor tool will indeed be needed if you do the sparkplugs. However to greatly lessen the chances of them breaking I would suggest either squirting some Kroil or Marvel mystery fluid down the spark plug holes and then drive the truck for a week. Then when you go to change them get the engine good and hot and work fast to crack them all loose. Running a decarbonizing combustion chamber clean also helps according to some so that may be worth a try as well. In either case you are almost guaranteed to break at least one so just accept the misery if you decide to do that job.

As some might imagine if they have met me, it is hard to pick just one janky story. Probably the worst is a favor to the co-owner of our race cars to go 8 hours away to pick up not one, not two, but THREE 1960's 3-door Suburbans plus two engines, a transmission and parts enough to fill the back of all of those 'Burbs. The comedy of errors that ensued coming home are all funny now but not at the time. One was driven (lost a wheel), one was loaded on my trailer (with both engines and the transmission) so the trailer promptly lost all running lights with the return trip 100% in the dark and the third was on our chief mechanic's trailer...slightly overloaded...we found out the integrated compression brake on his new truck could not be fully turned off causing epic trailer sway on each downhill.

FYI: Lucky Dog at PittRace is on my schedule but I need to make sure I still have a functioning racecar by October. I do drive a Nissan, after all.

Not to be pedantic, but Lemons limit is 24 gallons...not 22. Mental must have written that one. I can almost guarantee you were in Tucumcari, NM...don't care what you say. It is the vortex of car collapse on I40.

Might make it all the way through this one before going to Gingerman but I have to give you some required watching on the utubes. Super Fast Matt on his forged carbon fiber episode.

The few times I've tried to use fiberglass it didn't go super well so I'm definitely not an expert. I know plenty of airplanes are built with foam core fiberglass construction, and all the airplane builders I know use West Systems as well. Far down my to-do list is making a foam core wing for the MX-3. As far as I know (but we've established that isn't very far) I should be able to make the foam core out of housing insulation cut with a hot wire, but we'll see how well that actually works.

First person at NJMP on the team to get a black flag has to organize the nuts and bolts bin.

So, along the thoughts of "They won't let me do the fuel"... We have 2 people we let do the fuel during a race. This is because when you are moving that much fuel that fast, we want to be careful. The dry breaks are very good, but they require you to correctly insert, and remove the cans, and then, even more important, when you pull one out that is not empty, it has to be handled correctly until is is back and sealed to prevent spills. For Grant (he was not there that weekend) or Blair (he was fueling at MidO) this stuff is now second nature. When we started the endurance game, this was not always the case, and penalties suck. Car-b-ques suck even more. Had you wanted to be the fire bottle guy, I am sure that should have been able to be worked out.. As far as working on the cars, anyone is allowed to clean the cars.. Now, when Ben and Carl start replacing engines. as you know, it's just best to get out of the way. Just make sure there is available beer, tools, and food. And it gets done. On the primary car, and most weekends on both, the guys from BimmerSpeed are doing the after race prep, and they have a system down, they know exactly what to check, what order they do it, and who is doing what. And since we are putting people other than ourselves in the cars, we choose to listen to the professional mechanics when they tell us what needs to be done to do it safely. On a side note, I am sure you have seen the sign: Mechanic rates: $45 per hour $55 per hour if you looked at it $65 per hour if you tried to fix it $75 per hour if you have an idea how to fix it $125 per hour if you help

For the record, we need to update the website, as the cars for gp1 spec were making much closer to 250 hp instead of the 200 when the cars were in ST5 spec.

Mental gives me shit for suggesting airplane-based numerical tie-ins, then uses an Air Force document number? When did this turn into Everyone Airmen?

I truly appreciate how you are now using this podcast just to bark out lunch orders to me. Don't worry, I got you. Next year at PittRace lunch is on me. 😂

Great episode, as is always the case with TBizzle!!! That was a great weekend even with the weather and other issues. Although I am repeating myself, I love that Theme!!! The only change suggested would be to tie in the car livery… … but that Midori is too nice to change!

"Sausage theme" Tim, my boy, that's the Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe and it's a Beaver River Valley delicacy. They make cups with anthropomorphized hot dogs that absolutely break all kinds of copyright laws and we love them for it. Come to Pitt next year and we're gonna eat chili cheese dogs and chocolate peanut butter shakes until we puke.

Around 2AM on Saturday night, Bish and I found a box of Chrissy mom's peanut butter and jelly bars in the garage. I'm not sure I've ever experienced a more joyful occasion at a race track. Please give her our regards. She is a saint.

[OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD]

I'm so bummed I couldn't watch you guys live. Looking forward to seeing you all at Pitt!

This week on rationalizing unsafe behavior, Chrissy won't ride on a dolly but will get pulled behind a scooter in a fuel cart.

If you're going to rally the Century, you have to move all car controls to the rear seat and put a chauffeur mannequin in the front seat. Mirror tint the rear windows. Step out of the back door in style.

The dirt track car that "promotes education". 😂 Never has there been a more ringing endorsement of the public school system.

Sooo, very curious that data my 1995 Toyota Previa is sharing with the world. I am 100% sure if it could talk to the world around it, the van would beg for mercy to any worldwide database that would listen. Something, something slow car fast.

Everyone Racers? More like NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE!

Such lies!!! Dean conveniently forgets his ultimate hustle is to sell the Fisker so he can have my i8!

The hand pump story has a more critical, life-safety application from my time in Iraq. Short version: a Russian designed, Rolls Royce turbine-powered (built under license in Poland) helicopter I regularly flew in had a 20L oil drum with a foot pump operated by the door gunner's left hand when commanded by the copilot. The engine in question, if built in England, was recalled for a leaky oil seal...Polish-built and operated, not so much.

the fact that mental knows or really that anyone knows what veggie tales is, should be an obvious indicator of a theme to be used at a later date. also christian horner is a perv

What!?! C&C has never been to Thunderhill?? We MUST change that next year

Oh, only 9 gallons an hour for the El Camino... Our super pessimistic burn rate is 5 haha