tiny bit more
what do you think
well here we are accelerated racing solutions in Rancho Cucamonga not too
far from my house actually and we're here to get the tri 5 by fire dynoed
and get one step closer to racing mike finnegan goals for today get the car on
the dyno make sure the rims great no leaks put up
a respectable number we're looking for the four digit number so that's what we
need to be competitive so that's what we're gonna do so no matter what it puts
out on the supercharger we're gonna spray on top to make sure we get that
number
I think this is bad we can't go wrong one step forward maybe
one back somewhat behind half step boys over at Haltech staying up late yeah
Back east checking all the settings to make sure they have everything set up
they're gonna change the input for the map that's under the hood and we'll see
figure it out I'm texting him right now so this is all the stuff that's unique to each
individual stand alone and just set up some a control the sensors or career it
properly stuff like though look at you getting all sciency yeah
I like how you're texting him and he's are loading into your computer
this up so he go
you through
so started the game all of a sudden it makes this weird sound
yeah
nope
now that's that's all bad that's all bad
nasty nasty nasty we're just trying to get the car to get
ready to go on the dyno everybody seemed to be going okay
Haltech wasn't in on the computer they remoted in no so it was running fine
sound good we're getting ready to get ready to move to the dyno and it started
knocking for no apparent reason like really bad like a knock not like
rod possibly there's oil in it we checked and yeah this is not good
so let's investigate some more
the stories are true this whole race is one big to show cuz everything I've
heard is that John doesn't have a license yet John has never made a pass
in the car with whatever horsepower it has these are big deals because I've
been through all this I've tried to get an NHRA license a week before a race and
a that's not easy especially if you're doing it near untested race car and B
that's a lot of stress because you don't just throw let's say he needs a thousand
horsepower let's be honest about this that dude needs a thousand horsepower in
a car that weighs similar to mine if he's gonna win right it's not easy to go
throw a thousand horsepower in a straight axle gasser and then make it a
hook and make it handle and go down a drag strip these are not normal things
you know so I blew up my car last September at hot rod Drag Week on the
very last pass trying to win my class and I had just run my first eight second
pass ever it went 897 at 151 miles an hour
fastest it's ever gone normal people would have been like let's throw a party
me I decided to throw the party pulley on the blower and try to go quicker
because I was only two thousandth of a second out of first place and when I did
that the car ran really great through first
gear in second gear and when I tried to put it in third gear I found first gear
which is never good especially in a Hemi because next thing I know the motor
revving 9,500 rpm went right past the rev limiter that should have stopped it
and broke a valve spring retainer dropped the valve in the piston number
one and destroyed the motor so uh motor was junk car needed to go to the SEMA
show in Vegas so we had to immediately hurry up and rebuilt the motor it came
back home and I just started changing things trying to make it faster but
because I live in Georgia there's no testing it's 30 degrees in Georgia right
now so I've changed the suspension the motor combo some stuff on the trans all
these things and I'm gonna hit the road next week for California and I'll have
maybe one day to test all this stuff before I light up a John
what's up Matt not much how are you that's vigorous Pacific Division Tech
director I'm here to certify the chassis on the car it's not really official I
guess I am brief overview of what you're going to be doing what I'll do is I'll
use a sonic tester don't check the wall thickness of the to be it sends a sonic
wave through and it sends a signal back that tells me how thick it is that way
we don't have to drill holes to see how thick it is make sure you have all the
bars you're supposed to the welds look good and if everything checks okay we'll
put a chassis tag on it it'll be good to go as quick as 850 on what we require
for 850 and slower is the main hoop the two rear braces a crossbar for seat
support and shoulder harness mount the halo a pillar bars and a dash bar our
upper windshield bar the dash bars is lower that's required when there's
modification to the fly firewall or floor on a car like this that's a full
frame car it has to be attached to the frame either bolted or welded now this
one's done is they've ran it down to the floor with a plate and then under the
floor there's another plate with an outrigger that goes to the frame so
technically it is attached to the floor per our rules with this type of cage at
concert' for 850 and slower in the quarter mile for quickly obviously I
need more stuff a minimum wall thickness for this particular material which is
chromoly is point zero eight three which it all came up that okay and and and the
welds look good so with that we can certify it 50/50
no it is Thursday there's one week before our big race between John and I
my friends and I are on the road in the new to me ramp truck bobbing through
Oklahoma we're on our way to Arizona cuz my buddy's got a dyno shop there we're
gonna finish putting my car together cuz it's in the back of this truck and it is
not all together fuel systems incomplete ignition system isn't connected new
shifter needs to go in I haven't driven it since Drag Week basically last
September when I broke it so it's untested it's incomplete it
needs a bunch of work we're gonna try to chassis dyno and find one drag strip
that's open and at least make one pass before next Thursday and then John chase
probably loosing that beer to his I've heard he's struggling to don't know
exactly what's going on with him but I hope he gets his car at least to the
starting line so you can get a great view of me
wheeling my way my quickest past I've ever been blessed
so we're here in Irwindale it is literally d-day this is the very last
chance we're gonna have for you to get a license right this is it because it's
gonna rain tomorrow and then all through the weekend - yes so this is my last
chance to get my passes to give my NHRA license this is it this is ridiculous I
can't believe it's come down to this tight but par for the course
really yeah anagen yeah our good friends we celebrate it brought down a variety
of automobiles yeah if need be so this one you guys have actually seen on bill
bio that buddy myself okay this is the one if we want jaundiced himself you
know so we'll turn this one up for them this is the last case scenario if we
need to this car is ready to go it's proven on this track LME 427 twin
precision 76 is makes about 1,800 horsepower on thirty thirty-five pounds
of boost nice and what's it run here 480 and 152 all right and what do we got
here Oh 440 LT one
dang and then this is an all motor with possibly some nitrous setup okay okay
what do we got going on here it's a 416 late-model engine Magnuson supercharger
LT one runs on C 16 eight-second car this one's a little bit more aggressive
though actually out of the three this one's this one's the ride this one might
suit its rear end out there nice I like that so these all street cars basically
get out of here it's here I've got one trailer what we're gonna do is go for my
license runs today and we're gonna start in the 2018 Camaro the accelerator has
provided for us today and that's we're gonna do first okay what is this car
normally run I believe it runs a 639 have you ever driven a car this fast
now put it in the drive
or I get shifted to the third okay
knocking right
hey real quick so we got 260 foot passes and then then what happens from there
two half passes and then we're gonna go all out on the last two oh yeah
yeah that was sick whoo yeah damn what they move at high you think that was
beautiful and hook that's what we were worried
about and put the power down and just keep doing that back to back nice now
you made me run the first four right now it looked really good okay oh wow
laughing it's good that's what I was meant for streetcars love these guys
he's getting it
oh okay 260-foot passes are in the bag John's looking good he's looking clean
now we're gonna run for a half past just keep high laughing it here we got a
little time so everything's looking good so far
he's gonna have two half passes and then two full big-boy passes here it's game
time baby
yeah buddy
all right John let's make a break time you ready yes I'm talking about get you
some
ah yes one down want to go let's get it
finally we have a win God man that's one good thing we got going for us right now
got a license so right now I got a license I got a car with a cage sort of
have a running car we have eight days
all right out slowly slowly
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