Latest / After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports / #62 - Michael Lynch of Lock City Drift
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- 0:00Welcome back to another episode of After Hours podcast.
- 0:03On today's episode we have the founder of Lock City Drift,
- 0:07Michael Lynch. This has been kind of a long
- 0:10time coming. I've been trying to get him on
- 0:11here for a minute. We just so happened to set
- 0:15something up where he ordered a hood from us so he was able to
- 0:18come down here, do a podcast and pick up the hood.
- 0:21So it was a really good episode. Me and Carl learned a lot about
- 0:26Lock City Drift because we unfortunately have not been up
- 0:28there yet. So yeah, I hope you guys enjoy
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- 2:47It started it. Goes like this.
- 2:49What the fuck was that, dude? Frankie's headphones just fell
- 2:54on his head. It was crazy.
- 2:55It was like it was time to start.
- 2:56Yeah, you know, I hate the sound of my voice this week.
- 2:58Why? It sounds like I'm going through
- 3:00puberty because my nose is all clogged.
- 3:03Well, I don't know what you did to yourself.
- 3:05You're right. Why are you all congested?
- 3:06Do I? I don't know.
- 3:07I feel like I've worked in office where a lot of people are
- 3:10sick with COVID. No, no, no.
- 3:13What are you trying to say to us right now?
- 3:15You're all infected. Really happy to be on the
- 3:18Fashion After Hours podcast. Welcome everyone.
- 3:20We have another guest tonight. We have Michael Lynch, the
- 3:23founder of Lock City Drift. Thank you.
- 3:25Mike or Michael. Hello.
- 3:27It's finally Malcolm got it on point with that.
- 3:29I've been waiting for him to nail that, but he's always like
- 3:32way too late. Yeah.
- 3:33It's we're like Yep we're all yeah yeah I just do it for extra
- 3:38long amount of. Time, but thank you for coming
- 3:39on. You drove far.
- 3:41And wide to get you, dude. That is not a fun drive.
- 3:43I didn't realize how far it was so.
- 3:45I apologize. Well, no.
- 3:47When I looked at it last night, it was 40 minutes quicker.
- 3:51Oh really? Yeah.
- 3:52Oh yeah, just cuz all the. 40 whole minutes worth of traffic?
- 3:57Yeah, I believe it. Every single time we go to go to
- 3:59connect. This is actually a good reason
- 4:00why we've never been to your events.
- 4:02I hate going to Connecticut. I've heard you say that, yeah.
- 4:04And yeah, you know why? Because you just experienced it.
- 4:07So yeah. Well, no, that is, I mean, we're
- 4:10going. To go, yeah, I want to go.
- 4:12It's I'm, I'm an hour South of year, so that means, you know?
- 4:16Yeah. Yeah, tack it on.
- 4:18But are you really an hour away? Yes, take a Friday off.
- 4:21Come up for a Friday event. Stay for the Saturday.
- 4:24Two days. Made it worth it.
- 4:25Yeah, that's what I would definitely do.
- 4:27I like, I don't know. I just like the vibe over there.
- 4:29I like all the cars, yeah, and it looks really fun.
- 4:31All the cars are the cars over there are usually always good
- 4:34and they've always, they always have been good too.
- 4:37I. I feel like that.
- 4:39Way I came from the. Car show world, right when I got
- 4:42into drifting, that's what it appealed to me was, so I'll say
- 4:44pretty cars, but yeah, I like that.
- 4:47That's that's, you know, I and I don't push it, but I think
- 4:51people understand that totally. Yes.
- 4:53And I I completely resonate with that.
- 4:55Absolutely. Like, nobody really wants to.
- 4:59There's like a time and place for like a battered car, you
- 5:01know, like it's like a it's like 20 car tandem back.
- 5:05Back then when you were starting though, it was probably like
- 5:07club, like what year was it started?
- 5:08Yeah, how long is last? Year 2012. 12 OK wow.
- 5:12I started renting a parking lot in Hartford, CT Then we rented
- 5:15it. We had booked it for a season.
- 5:18It was like 3 third event in they cancelled it on us.
- 5:23What auto crossers? They're like they're going to
- 5:25ruin the blacktop. They're they're making it so we
- 5:28can't auto. Cross well, like, yeah.
- 5:30I had a year long insurance policy, that's, yeah.
- 5:33So it's my first time losing money and drifting.
- 5:35Oh my God, that's terrible. Wait, why?
- 5:36How can they? Just that's weird.
- 5:39It's their parking lot. They didn't want you to do it
- 5:41anymore. But it was like the people that
- 5:43went, it was memorable. So it's right next to the
- 5:47highway, like a raised highway okay.
- 5:50We had everybody from general Passer Byers to state do dot
- 5:54trucks. With their cameras videotaping
- 5:57us drifting. From above.
- 5:58Yeah, And it was like, dude, it's cool.
- 6:00So it's like it's almost inner city, right?
- 6:02So there was people coming on their dirt bikes.
- 6:06There's a walk, I want to say a walking path, a bridge, a
- 6:09pedestrian bridge across the highway, riding their dirt bikes
- 6:11over the bridge just to come and watch.
- 6:13And it's like, it was really cool.
- 6:15Isn't that I've heard like okay that reminds me of like your
- 6:18drift days. But also remember when Alexis
- 6:21King talked to us, talked to us about like.
- 6:24The fairgrounds and stuff, how it was like that too, I don't
- 6:26remember where. What was that place in Long
- 6:28Island that they did it at night in Queens?
- 6:31Queens. That's what they would look at
- 6:33the overpass, Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of when you're
- 6:35saying that. Yeah, same thing.
- 6:37Just not a turn, you know, a curve, right?
- 6:39It was a straight, paralleled and super illegal, yeah, but for
- 6:42some reason, it. Yeah, because it looked
- 6:46structured and that's that's, I don't know why is it always
- 6:48cool. It looks structured, but it it
- 6:50was fucking illegal. I remember watching those
- 6:52videos. So it did.
- 6:53It did look structured right everybody, Which is weird
- 6:57thinking back because I don't know how it was structured.
- 6:59What was it? What was it like back then in
- 7:012012? Like, did you have a lot of
- 7:03people? Like I think we had grid and
- 7:05stuff? We had like 30 drivers, 25 to 30
- 7:08drivers, half of majority of them.
- 7:11I got into this JC here. Right.
- 7:14He took me. We went down to E Town East.
- 7:17It wasn't East Coast Bash, It was one of the earlier ones.
- 7:20One ride along I was done. I I was a big, I was a big
- 7:24Volkswagen person. I had a Mark 2 Jetta TDI
- 7:29swapped. Very clean, nicely done.
- 7:31As soon as I was on my way home, I listed it for sale and that
- 7:35was it. Yeah.
- 7:37And I love. I love JC here.
- 7:38By the way, I'm. Glad he's brought him up.
- 7:39He is a great individual. Yeah.
- 7:41I feel like I've met him and in 2012 ish, probably right around
- 7:45You got that when you got that ride along.
- 7:46Maybe you're well, he was coming.
- 7:48I I believe he was coming down to E Town before that he would
- 7:51drive down. This is stories here that he
- 7:55used to say still says he would drive down and they were still
- 7:58on the car track at times And it you know, because there's
- 8:01nothing else around us and that's that's basically why why
- 8:06I rented the parking lot, right. Because.
- 8:10Club loose, right? I didn't want hey, I didn't want
- 8:11to embarrass myself, right, First of all, but it's same
- 8:15reason you don't drive to Connecticut driving down to
- 8:17English Town, because I used to do Waterfest.
- 8:19It was a big Volkswagen show there.
- 8:21I've been there. That's the one that I know that
- 8:22is a Volkswagen show. Yeah, like.
- 8:24Waterfest. So So I knew the trek and I was
- 8:26just like I had bought an E30. No way.
- 8:31You know, low boy. I like low cars, you know, and
- 8:34you're trying to do something local.
- 8:36Yeah, and. I had already done car shows,
- 8:39right? Yeah.
- 8:39So staggered. I started that in like 2008 and
- 8:44I was like, can't be that much different, right?
- 8:47The only big difference was I had to get the insurance policy.
- 8:49Yeah. And that was like, they wanted
- 8:52barriers between the the pits and that.
- 8:54And I was trying to think of it. I went out, me and my buddy
- 8:56Bear. You have a buddy named Bear?
- 9:01Yeah, Yep. That's sick.
- 9:04We. We're searching Craigslist at
- 9:06the time. We bought a.
- 9:08No. 50 blue barrels to fill them with water, right?
- 9:13Because they said we have concrete barriers or you could
- 9:16do plastic filled barriers they call you know.
- 9:19Like the Jersey little things, yeah.
- 9:21Yeah, those are like 400 bucks apiece.
- 9:23Are they really? Yes.
- 9:24OK, good to know. I'm going to try not to destroy
- 9:26one of those. Yeah, they're very expensive.
- 9:29So I was like, hey, I'm just going to buy these food.
- 9:31They we ended up buying food grade barriers smell like BBQ
- 9:34sauce. It's.
- 9:35Like it's a W and we had the, you know, there was a gas
- 9:38station next to the parking lot. We I worked out a deal with them
- 9:41and paid them 50 bucks to use their water, fill them all up.
- 9:45I take two trips down there. It's not easy to stack these
- 9:48barrels on a trailer. Yeah, what?
- 9:51Filled. Yeah, water.
- 9:52Well, no, that's. No, we've filled them with at
- 9:54the gas station on on premise but and then we would drain them
- 9:57each day or and yeah, yeah. And then for like 3 years, water
- 10:02man. Yeah, for like 3 years I had
- 10:04these blue barrels in my backyard.
- 10:07Probably a lot. Of them too.
- 10:09Yeah, it was, yeah, it was about 30 because I got rid of a bunch,
- 10:12but I'd like it slowly dwindled down.
- 10:15And those were the parking lot days.
- 10:16Yep. That was a creative solution,
- 10:19actually, if you think about it. Yeah.
- 10:21How much, how much they rent that to you for that parking lot
- 10:23I. Think it was.
- 10:25I think it was around 2 grand. OK.
- 10:27Yeah, if I recall correctly, 1500 bucks, 2 grand.
- 10:30Yeah, and even. Carl's like how we do know.
- 10:34I'm just like even stuff like that that is not probably
- 10:36nowhere near what you could do that for today.
- 10:39You know, like try to rent a lot for X amount of time.
- 10:42Well, now drifting is bigger too.
- 10:43So expensive. I feel like to do any of that.
- 10:46That's why it's also hard for people as an organizer, my,
- 10:49like, I have so much respect for that because because of you, we
- 10:53get to enjoy this stuff. Yeah, it's a big deal.
- 10:55Like, that's a huge deal. Like, you're a huge part of the
- 10:57community and that's amazing. I, I, I've people tell me that
- 11:01and they thank me and stuff. But I it's all the people.
- 11:05It is the community. It's the staff it.
- 11:08And I'm not saying that to be, oh, humbled, right.
- 11:11It it is true. Because without that it wouldn't
- 11:14be what it is 100%, you know. Yeah.
- 11:18But still, yeah. Thank you.
- 11:20Thank you. So much, yeah.
- 11:24Like, it is true, though, because I a lot of, not too many
- 11:27people want to go down that path of starting it themselves.
- 11:31You know, I've noticed that, like even me being a business
- 11:33business owner, Carl brings it up all the time, Oh, let's do
- 11:36our own event. And I'm just like, that doesn't
- 11:38really sound fun to me. That sounds like annoying.
- 11:40It is work, yeah. Don't get me wrong.
- 11:41It it, it I, well you know I'm building a car now but I have
- 11:46stopped driving for past few years because well.
- 11:49Stop driving. My own car.
- 11:51That's that's the key word right there.
- 11:53You guys here are going to bond about this.
- 11:55Right now, yeah. Yeah.
- 11:55Yeah, stop driving his own. Car this.
- 11:58What is going on? Yeah, I'm the same.
- 12:00Yeah, but I I do. I say it's work, but I enjoy it.
- 12:07It's walking through the pits, you know, the paddock spaces,
- 12:09talking to the parents, right? The dads, the moms.
- 12:13It's because we get a lot of people like we our drivers.
- 12:18That are young. Yeah.
- 12:19Oh yeah. I know one of them, Andrew, I
- 12:22think. Di franzo di frenzo.
- 12:25I I couldn't even tell you. He's like an Internet friend of
- 12:27mine, like. We just followed John.
- 12:29What Car do they have? So white, white hatch.
- 12:31With a Origin thing on the side. Yep, he has a Hot Wheels
- 12:34looking. It's a long 240.
- 12:37So his dad, his dad builds, his dad has builds hot rods and
- 12:42actually has like two or three Hot Wheels cars made after his
- 12:45cars. So that's where that trailer
- 12:47comes in. What?
- 12:48Tough? Yeah, I think, I said.
- 12:49That but he goes to lock city like that's.
- 12:51What the fuck? That's so cool.
- 12:54It's just a style factor over there.
- 12:56I feel like at your organization is great.
- 12:59Yeah, all the cars. If you see a video of that
- 13:01place, that's how it's. I mean, dude, you had drift
- 13:04action too. So that was like the.
- 13:05Key Yeah, for me. Landers Dave, right.
- 13:08You know, they're, yeah. Like great friends of mine when
- 13:12we were starting and we saw those, like those are the only
- 13:14cars generally in this area that we're.
- 13:18Hot, right. Yeah, you know I and that.
- 13:20And that's other than like Chicago and stuff like.
- 13:22That I remember. So Derek, right.
- 13:24I this staggered car show we had at a golf course when they were
- 13:28rolling in, I was just like mind blown.
- 13:30I'm like, yeah, these guys are coming to my show, you know,
- 13:32like I can't believe this, you know.
- 13:35You know green S14 on the white Regas.
- 13:37I was just like, yeah, bam, yeah, you know it's an
- 13:41inspiration. Yeah, definitely.
- 13:43You know and and so that's kind of like.
- 13:46What I try to endorse, you know, or like, if you have.
- 13:54A I think you're getting it to grow more, which is great.
- 13:57If you have a bashed up car, me personally, if someone behind me
- 14:00is bashed up, I don't want to drive with that because you
- 14:03don't respect your vehicle. But I'm like, yeah, if you don't
- 14:05care about yours, you're definitely.
- 14:07Not going. To give a shit about mine.
- 14:09But I support, you know I do support them And you know I'm
- 14:12not like I don't let. That in there, it's just it's a
- 14:15time. And there's again.
- 14:16There's a time and place I feel like.
- 14:18Yeah, like a demolition Derby now.
- 14:21I'm just kidding. Yeah, Quan.
- 14:23Well, just, yeah, I mean, right, Look at your screensaver.
- 14:26Yeah, you know that is always good looking car.
- 14:28It's not. Yeah.
- 14:29Not it's usually when they can drive it too, right.
- 14:31I get like some people are like, Oh yeah, it's pretty car, but
- 14:33they can't drive, sure, but there's.
- 14:36You can say about any car, you know?
- 14:38Yeah. To me it's always just like, you
- 14:40got to be a special kind of stupid to have a really nice car
- 14:42and be a good driver because then you're just fucking
- 14:44spending so much money. But like, I mean, I was the same
- 14:48way. So, like, I would break my car
- 14:51and then I would spend a lot of fucking money to fix it, and
- 14:53then I'll break it again. And eventually I'd be like,
- 14:55dude, what the fuck am I doing? Why are you?
- 14:58I can't wait to get back in that cycle.
- 15:00Like why are you telling you? Because you should it, I mean.
- 15:05I don't know. Yeah.
- 15:05Don't you think that there's other ways, Carl?
- 15:09Because at the same time, like it's, I want to say a sport, but
- 15:14it's like. It keeps you going, keeps you
- 15:16out of trouble, right? You know it makes.
- 15:18My it makes. You work harder, right?
- 15:23To take pride in something to where it's like you're really
- 15:25going to take pride in a car that looks like shit.
- 15:20You know, to achieve what you want.
- 15:22Yeah, it's. Yeah, and and that's what makes
- 15:28the events cool because all these people are taking pride,
- 15:31right? You know, and they're, it's a
- 15:32common ground and from different backgrounds, right?
- 15:34Everybody's got different backgrounds and that's something
- 15:37they call Bond, you know? Or have a common ground on.
- 15:41Now some people are actually into cars that look like shit.
- 15:45This is the. Thing that is.
- 15:46That's true. Yeah, like they like it when
- 15:47their car looks. Broken but more or like good.
- 15:51There's a, there's a, there's a line there because if it is like
- 15:54broken and shit and looks horrible and the driving is also
- 15:58still horrible. That's just like, yeah, that's.
- 16:00What's the point? But usually the driving is good
- 16:02and they don't care. But they could.
- 16:04Sometimes people like the theme, right?
- 16:03But. You know whether it's like a.
- 16:08Haggard car that looks like a police car or you know, they
- 16:11kind of like that's their personality and which which I
- 16:15respect and I enjoy. Because yeah, some of those guys
- 16:17are the funnest guys I've ever met, man.
- 16:19Drifting or cars in general is like an art in many ways.
- 16:22And that's how you portray yourself, right?
- 16:26So not yourself, but you. You bring it out.
- 16:29That's how you're expressing. It.
- 16:30Yeah, expressing it perfect. That's your expression, Yeah,
- 16:33yeah, I like. I don't know.
- 16:35I see it from both sides, you know, with everybody's got every
- 16:38something tickles somebody's fancy, you know, So don't know
- 16:42like don't look at me like. That and I'm going to be honest,
- 16:45like, so I had my E30 right and I was getting into it.
- 16:49I I knew it was going to, so I didn't like paint it nice right
- 16:51away. That was my first drift car in
- 16:52E30. Yeah, I petited the hood and
- 16:54petited the trunk. That's that water fest.
- 16:56And yeah, yeah, that's that Volkswagen in you.
- 16:59Well, so my first I did, I ended up putting a Volkswagen 180 in
- 17:03it. That there was a big turbo it.
- 17:06I'm sorry, Wait, wait, the vote. The motor.
- 17:08Yeah, yeah, the one. 820 Valve One 8.8 TW 58 behind it and like
- 17:13a Lexus trans. Yeah well I got it from a 2
- 17:15wheel drive to it to pick up but yeah yeah and oh dude you're it
- 17:20was a love dreamer I think I love you dude.
- 17:22It was it was like 335 hundred RPM's and below nothing and then
- 17:26it would just. Smack you in.
- 17:28The face. It was such a fun car and I
- 17:31ended up painting it, you know, very nice.
- 17:34You know, nice and clean, except for the hood in the trunk.
- 17:36No, no, no. I got rid of all that.
- 17:37That was, you know, my learning. I never understood that.
- 17:41Can you explain that to us? Volkswagens.
- 17:43That was perfect explanation. Yeah, I don't know.
- 17:46And it wasn't rusted. It was a copper patina and the
- 17:48car was already like a tannish color, so.
- 17:52OK, so I could see, yeah, there is a part.
- 17:54Of it. And I had like very polished
- 17:55BBSR S's on it. So like, it was kind of like I
- 17:58had super rare Ricarro seats in it, you know, so like.
- 18:02It kind of works. That is literally a BMW, VW, the
- 18:05confetti seeds. These are not.
- 18:08These are I I've only found like two or three pictures of them.
- 18:10They're red. They have a bunch of black,
- 18:13orange and gold. It says Racaro all the way down.
- 18:16You see a lot of the black version of it, like the black,
- 18:19white, and Gray says There's a bunch of stripes down to the
- 18:21center, but. I'm just still blown away by the
- 18:23fact that it had a Audi or no, it is Audi.
- 18:26Well, yeah. Pissat 1/8.
- 18:30Saw a Volkswagen engine. Yeah, in a BMW powered by a
- 18:33Toyota transmission. And if anybody had done it
- 18:35before me, they did not put it on Internet.
- 18:38Yeah. So that's that's my claim.
- 18:40That's the self proclamation. Yeah, you are the only person.
- 18:43People. No, no.
- 18:44There are a couple. People have have done it since
- 18:46then. I've seen to this day one.
- 18:47The the six cylinder one. I've seen the VR6.
- 18:50Yeah VR6. Yeah too heavy for in my book.
- 18:53I was a big one I did like. Street racing and stuff like
- 18:57that. So, yeah, allegedly, yeah.
- 18:59Allegedly people, yeah. So I had a Mark 2G TI that that
- 19:03did you know, with the same swap.
- 19:04So I knew I was going to get 300 wheel out of it.
- 19:06Yeah. You know, I knew that shit.
- 19:10Yeah. Versus working on a BMW engine,
- 19:14which I had no idea, right. So I was going to put an SR20 in
- 19:18it. That that was that was one of my
- 19:20original ideas at the time. Sr. swap.
- 19:23Wheel or the engine and stuff was like 1700 bucks, right?
- 19:26Engine depot or whatever, and I don't know how to work on that,
- 19:31you know? No, that's such a that's a such
- 19:33an interesting way to think about that.
- 19:36It's like, yeah, I'm familiar with this and like that's great
- 19:39because now it's in this too. Yeah.
- 19:40I mean, that's a pretty serious swap because they don't make a
- 19:44rear wheel drive. No.
- 19:45And that motor is not. Well, and the facades.
- 19:48Nowadays, this trend. Yeah, so, so the so we actually
- 19:52did. I actually did it twice.
- 19:54It like did it once and then like a year and a half later I
- 19:56moved it back three more inches because I didn't.
- 19:59It was my first time doing it. Did it feel?
- 20:01Way better to drift that way it did.
- 20:03Yeah, that's sick. Yeah, I'm this my buddy.
- 20:06I hit him by trade. Yeah.
- 20:07Oh, it makes. A lot of sense.
- 20:09Yeah, yeah. Because I'd be like we're not
- 20:11doing. I would be like we're This is
- 20:13not happening. This is not.
- 20:14And I liked unique stuff like that too.
- 20:17But love that. Yep, I still have friends in
- 20:19Canada. This kid Danny just talking the
- 20:21other day that he did the same swap.
- 20:23I helped him out with it and yeah, it was pretty cool.
- 20:26Is that for for the time that you would say is feasible for
- 20:30like most people do, they do. You have to do stuff.
- 20:33Yeah. If you can make your own engine
- 20:35mounts and learn how to modify your pan.
- 20:37Their company in Washington state that makes it's called
- 20:41Acme adapters. So that's how you get.
- 20:42That's why I use a W 58. They did take Suzuki samurais
- 20:46and they put. TD I's in them, right?
- 20:48And so they and they use it, yeah.
- 20:51So I knew being a Volkswagen guy, right?
- 20:53Had just, I've done the TDI swap and stuff like that, that the
- 20:56bell housing and stuff was the same for a 98 Passat.
- 21:00So that's why. Volkswagen engine?
- 21:06But the this what the same right?
- 21:03Toyota transmission? Yeah.
- 21:04BMW car? Yeah, well, because the TD I's
- 21:09are a lot you might that TD I I sold thanks to JC here.
- 21:13It just injector nozzles. Upgraded pump and a a tune.
- 21:18I was like just over 504 pounds of dork, dude. 4/4 banger Yeah.
- 21:24I I followed a lot of people who kept that motor in their Audi
- 21:28that would they would just be so fast, like they would always be
- 21:30posting the same video. And it suited like a big watch,
- 21:33right? It would sit like, yeah,
- 21:35tomorrow, crazy soot out the back.
- 21:37It's a wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- 21:39This whole time I thought this engine was a fucking.
- 21:42No, One 8180 is gas. I'm talking about.
- 21:44It's a yeah, yeah, the car I sold the 1.9.
- 21:47Yeah. No, no.
- 21:49The 180 was like they did like 3 and 3 smoke though.
- 21:54I don't know why the 180. Don't they have a notorious
- 21:57problem of doing something like gunking up the valves or some
- 22:01shit? Like I think the later, I think
- 22:02the later ones did or is it the two O that I'm thinking of?
- 22:05Two O's are terrible. OK, that must be the OK.
- 22:08Yeah, they sound like a diesel too, like blah blah blah blah.
- 22:10OK. So I think the YPR tune on it.
- 22:13Yeah. No, I worked with a local guy,
- 22:17yeah. That's all I remember.
- 22:19What's that other Audi thing that I know?
- 22:21Audi Zine was the spot for me. That's where I was.
- 22:23At the forums, Yeah, yeah, Audi, Zine.
- 22:25They had everything for that I was looking for.
- 22:27Audi. Giving me anxiety just thinking
- 22:29about them. I just don't like that they
- 22:30require special tools like torques.
- 22:33Yeah dude, I've never used a torques bit.
- 22:35I don't on my. Is there was another thing.
- 22:36I had all these tools, right. You know?
- 22:38Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right.
- 22:40You came from that world, right? Yeah.
- 22:41I think that that was a really smart move.
- 22:43Just makes sense that you're an engineer.
- 22:44All engineers have rotaries and for some reason you have a
- 22:47Rotary too, right? I do, yeah.
- 22:49Now I have about that. I have a 88 FC.
- 22:53Yeah, I want to know how you went to the Dark Side.
- 22:55Yeah. Wait, why are you calling that
- 22:56the Dark Side? Because that's the dark side.
- 22:58No, it's not. That's where intelligent.
- 23:00People, not not just rotaries. I'm talking to all Japanese cars
- 23:03like you were just like, yeah, fuck.
- 23:05This I I mean, I liked them, right?
- 23:06I'm not like drift action, right?
- 23:08That look at their cars, big hearts, right?
- 23:11You know I had a I end up trading the 180 with a good
- 23:14friend of mine, Josh. He traded his Jetta some guy in
- 23:18Vermont with A95M3. Just so he could trade me.
- 23:21And I'm like, Hannah Mckees, you're messing up right now.
- 23:23This is a a sweet car. And then after that, when I, or
- 23:28maybe when I had that, this FC went up for sale in my town and
- 23:32only had 40,000 miles on it and I bought it.
- 23:36Yeah, and that was like 8 years ago.
- 23:37Seven or eight years, seven years ago.
- 23:39So that was the car that really it just happened to be in your
- 23:42town? Yep.
- 23:43But that was never really drift car.
- 23:44That was more like a cruiser. It was a I had an older person
- 23:48or just. He was an electrician who bought
- 23:50it off of got it from some older ladies garage.
- 23:53Yeah but and then I had a couple other BMW's one or two and I
- 24:00just didn't really like them. You know the I didn't really
- 24:03like the M3I enjoyed it was a great car.
- 24:07I just didn't drive like the E30.
- 24:10Who and I drove This kid, Schmidt, he he let me drive his.
- 24:13I think it was a TDO 6S13 and I was like, here we go again.
- 24:21You like Boom? Yeah.
- 24:22And. Yeah, that's cool.
- 24:25So, but I haven't owned one until last, maybe last, I think
- 24:29I bought mine a year and a half ago.
- 24:31OK, but you had your FC though? Yep.
- 24:33I had my FC and then, but then that's when I stopped driving,
- 24:35right? I drove all the I've driven a
- 24:37lot of cars. Yeah.
- 24:38When were you, When were you drifting and what were you
- 24:41driving it? Was the was it the BMW?
- 24:42Yeah, right away. Yeah, 2012.
- 24:44That's when I started running the events right back in the
- 24:46day. I was able to have my own car.
- 24:48Drift and run the event, you know, and then they kind of like
- 24:52then we did Lime Rock after the after the parking lot we went to
- 24:57Lime Rock. We ran ran Lime Rock for a year
- 25:00and a half, two years almost. I remember it was short lived
- 25:03because then they try to kick everyone out of there pretty
- 25:04much. Is that the butterfly course?
- 25:06Yeah, damn that they let another club also run and.
- 25:11I went to one of those events. Yeah, and.
- 25:14It didn't work out like I say that.
- 25:16Yeah, that was the best way to put that, yeah.
- 25:19It didn't work out. Yeah.
- 25:20So I remember that actually, yeah.
- 25:22I was definitely. I was already one of those.
- 25:24Didn't work out of the live and breathing now in the community.
- 25:26At that point, I think I was like, ooh, I like drifting.
- 25:29Lime Rock was great though. Lime Rock was amazing, dude.
- 25:32That track looks so fun. It was amazing.
- 25:34I wish I was able to. Probably one of my most favorite
- 25:37tracks have drifted on. Yeah, it was.
- 25:40It was a fun place. I'll lap it too, right?
- 25:43Like it? Just we did both.
- 25:44So so he ran it differently. But I did, you know you, we
- 25:48separated the two butterflies so we people get more sea time and
- 25:51then we ran it full, full at like the end of the day or
- 25:54something. Well, we just did.
- 25:55An hour one way. An hour another.
- 25:56You know, back and forth, you know, So that way.
- 26:00Because I'm kind of really big on learning it.
- 26:02Right. Not just let's go out there and
- 26:04bang doors and shred, right. Yeah.
- 26:06There's a car control behind drifting.
- 26:08Yes. And that's what gets the respect
- 26:10of the race tracks in my opinion, right?
- 26:13You know, teaching, teaching that stuff.
- 26:17And then I took about a year off and then Thompson approached me
- 26:25and here we are. We ran Cannon.
- 26:28We ran events at Cannon for for a little while.
- 26:31Where is that New Hampshire? OK, that's that's like 4 hours
- 26:34from me. So it's probably 10 hours for
- 26:35you or Frankie. Pretty Frankie's drifted there
- 26:38before. Just that final.
- 26:39Bet final belt. Yeah, I never.
- 26:42That place looks cool. That place you felt like, I
- 26:45don't. I don't know.
- 26:46I felt like you couldn't fuck up or else everyone was going to
- 26:48get kicked out. That's how I felt.
- 26:49We had a lot of, yeah, that and and so I'm still, I'm still
- 26:53talking terms with the track manager, you know, open
- 26:56invitation if I ever want to go up with my friends and stuff.
- 26:58I would never run events there again because because yeah, he
- 27:02he respects his facility, right. And.
- 27:05Very, very like, you know, you go off, you're fixing the
- 27:08fucking. Track but and we did a lot of
- 27:09shame. You know the Boston guys Drift
- 27:12action, we we all went up there. We did a lot of work with him
- 27:15too. Painting walls, cleaning stuff
- 27:17up. Track maintenance.
- 27:19We got some private days out of it which was really cool.
- 27:22But we just realized for the public.
- 27:27Right. Because then because then he
- 27:28really helped us out. He wasn't really into it for a
- 27:30lot of money. Like, I mean, getting a lot of
- 27:32money from us. Yeah.
- 27:34But then he's like, all right, we got to kind of like start
- 27:36turning some money, right. So then I started letting more
- 27:38people in. And then that's when we have 350
- 27:41Z's climbing the hill. And, you know, mud faction, we
- 27:44would call it, you know, because it would go off and it's super
- 27:47muddy because there was no grass, right.
- 27:49Even a final ball. There was, it was dusty, right?
- 27:52Yeah. It was dusty.
- 27:53Yeah, I remember that. But that first section was.
- 27:57Just I don't know what track it is in Japan, but it reminded me
- 27:59of something I see in videos. Of can you get the wall right
- 28:01there and you come around? Well, it's not even the wall.
- 28:03It's like right after that that that tight turned and then that
- 28:07little like. In the back, yeah, yeah.
- 28:08That back part by the woods? Yeah, I don't know what track I
- 28:11was thinking of, but it reminded me of of that.
- 28:13And then it got fast as fuck. Very like and so like we did, I
- 28:17remember I was doing to the very back section, 4th gear entries
- 28:20to this really tight S and it was the sickest.
- 28:23It was just like, yeah. 11 corner was slightly.
- 28:26They had two corners that were slightly banked because it used
- 28:30to be two Oval tracks, a dirt track, and then there was 2 dirt
- 28:33tracks. And I think they paved one Oval
- 28:34eventually. And then it was actually a
- 28:37professor at Dartmouth that bought it.
- 28:39Oh really? Yeah.
- 28:39And and because he kind of got into Porsches and stuff and he
- 28:42wanted a place to play, yeah. So fuck yeah, what?
- 28:45Do they? What do they do with it now?
- 28:46Still, they're still, Yeah, they have.
- 28:48Do like Rd. racing. Road racing and stuff.
- 28:49Yeah, that's all time. You just described a bunch of
- 28:53cool shit, so I'm like. Dude, it's a very And the ride
- 28:56up there was so beautiful. Yeah like enduring final bout.
- 28:59Like it was fall and the leaves were changing.
- 29:02I was like, this is literally where you're supposed to go when
- 29:04the leaves are changing like and we're just going up here to go
- 29:07to drift event like I was a helicopter.
- 29:09Remember the helicopter? Yeah, what?
- 29:10My buddy came from name. Yeah, he's like, hey, do you
- 29:14think they would mind if we show up with so and so And his
- 29:16helicopter? I was like.
- 29:17Dude, that whole time I thought it was the owner.
- 29:19No, it's your buddy. That's no.
- 29:21No, it's my friend. Yeah, friend.
- 29:22I don't know the helicopter owner, but, you know, it was a
- 29:25buddy of mine, and that was the sickest.
- 29:27Yeah, it still was really a copter chasing the car.
- 29:32Dude, it was so incredible. Just here in the car.
- 29:35Chasing the cars around the track, you.
- 29:37Could probably find a video, Malcolm.
- 29:39It took like 6 years from the release.
- 29:41Anything about that? Yeah.
- 29:43And it apparently no. Apparently they lost half the
- 29:45footage, I think. Yeah, yeah, I thought that the
- 29:49F. A That was to the point like
- 29:49when we finally saw it was like, oh man, they're releasing the
- 29:52chopper footage. I mean, it was a it was a low
- 29:55flying fucking yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- 29:58Or 40 or. Something like that.
- 29:59It was a FA probably all over your butt for doing that.
- 30:04It was so now we might be out of the the people.
- 30:06That were there. Know how cool it was, You know?
- 30:08Sick fuck. You were there.
- 30:10You say you saw this? Yeah.
- 30:12Right, it was final. Yeah, it was final.
- 30:14Bell. Yeah.
- 30:14You never tell me any of this shit.
- 30:17I mean, I. Wait for these moments.
- 30:19Yeah, helicopters chasing a car. Yeah, it was pretty crazy.
- 30:21That sounds sick. Yeah.
- 30:24That was definitely one of those things that like, well, I'm glad
- 30:26we all got to experience it, but I guess it might not ever
- 30:28happen. Again, yeah, so I still had my
- 30:29M3 at that point it was we had three BMW, so we we did them all
- 30:34like DTM era, you know, livery and stuff, you know.
- 30:40Versus like everybody does like the Japanese stuff now.
- 30:43So it's kind of we thought it was really cool, you know?
- 30:46I I for some reason I don't remember, dude, I was in such a
- 30:49daze. That whole.
- 30:50I mean, you know how? Final bout stuff goes It flyed
- 30:53by, right? Yeah.
- 30:54We were, we were up every night the week before getting this car
- 30:58ready and then we literally drove all them up and like.
- 31:01My one friend, almost fucking total the other guy because his
- 31:04brake lights didn't work or some show like yeah it was.
- 31:07Yeah, my buddy Nick, he the debut, the practice day.
- 31:09He put it through the fence. Oh my God, yeah, yeah, I
- 31:12remember the fence situation. Yeah, you don't want to break
- 31:14anything over there and I don't want to break anything, period.
- 31:17Yeah, come on. I was like, he's gonna buy that
- 31:19fence, I guess. Yep, I think that's.
- 31:22Two people went to defense that weekend.
- 31:24Crested up from Florida, Guy from Florida.
- 31:25Oh yeah, I know it was. Yeah.
- 31:27Fucking break shift. Yeah, breaks.
- 31:29What's his name? Yeah, Florida to new hand.
- 31:31Brent Brandon. Brent, Brandon, I think.
- 31:33I think. I think that's ringing a bell, I
- 31:34forgot. His name?
- 31:34Wait. He was driving with a broken leg
- 31:36from. The leg or a?
- 31:37Broken arm. Yeah, yeah.
- 31:39Yeah, he had a broken arm and a caster since.
- 31:41Yeah, he was driving the event. Yeah.
- 31:45Yeah you don't miss final bout so I guess that's that's.
- 31:47From Florida, yeah, I was just like.
- 31:49Line blown. That was crazy, man.
- 31:51Bro, if you're driving around like this.
- 31:53It had to be an horse. Holy crap.
- 31:55But yeah, that track was. Great.
- 31:58So you did Lime Rock, You did parking lot Lime Rock and then
- 32:01Thompson. Yeah, it was fun to.
- 32:02Thompson Yeah, And and Cannon, we ran both those at the same
- 32:05time. Yeah, Okay, that was like
- 32:0820/17/2018. Because I feel like oh wait.
- 32:13What's the event in the parking lot like?
- 32:15Is that the event you were talking about before with the
- 32:16over pet? No, right.
- 32:17That's a different spot. What parking lot like that we?
- 32:20Might be talking about it might be Thompson.
- 32:22Thompson Well, we have a road course and a skid pad.
- 32:25Yeah, there's a skid pad at Thompson.
- 32:26Did you? Was the skid pad more used
- 32:29usually than the road? Back in the day when I first,
- 32:33when my Landers and I first meeting at Thompson, the general
- 32:37manager, he's not, he's not there anymore.
- 32:39But he looked at us. You're never getting on my Rd.
- 32:41course. OK then this is what I'm
- 32:43thinking. About yeah and and so our
- 32:45parking our skid pad days were just like fine.
- 32:48About was his own thing. It the element of those was
- 32:52incredible because like we were, I would see videos all the time
- 32:56because you guys have like this weird.
- 32:57Big hill, Yeah, there's a big hill in the back like
- 33:00overlooking the pad. And yeah, it was just, it was
- 33:04because we just jam everybody in and we had a bunch of different
- 33:08layouts and stuff and then we started doing the night events
- 33:11and. I'm more interested in in that
- 33:13parking lot event like that's. I remember seeing those videos
- 33:15and I was like, oh, I got to get up there.
- 33:16Yeah, we ended up never getting up there, but.
- 33:18It was a nice smooth. It's a smooth skid pad and and
- 33:21I'm I'm kind of it, the skid pad doesn't get the credit it
- 33:24deserves anymore because everybody's about right because
- 33:26in 2019 they paved the whole section that I designed for us
- 33:30to we call it clubhouse circuit and that's so that's that's a
- 33:34Primo spot now right. And so so even when I try to do
- 33:38a group advanced group on skid pad like wants to do it.
- 33:40They don't. Yeah.
- 33:42Some of the respectful guys like that look of warm up and
- 33:45shakedown on skid pad, but. Yeah, that facility is really
- 33:48nice too. The only time I was there was.
- 33:50It looks final. Final bout Yeah.
- 33:52And I was like, damn, this place is really fancy pavement, dude.
- 33:55Yeah, the pavement looks so dark and smooth.
- 33:57Like it looks like it wouldn't fucking shoo at my tires.
- 34:00It's very good on tires, yeah, yeah.
- 34:02But the clubhouse circuit, I've actually played it on a Seto a
- 34:04lot. Nice.
- 34:05Like a lot of people play it on a Seto.
- 34:07Yeah. Is that the track?
- 34:09That's a truck. Yeah.
- 34:10And it doesn't even. It's that the final factory guy.
- 34:13Damian. Damian.
- 34:14Yeah. Yeah.
- 34:15So he made that. Yeah, we had him on the pod.
- 34:17A few remember. That, yeah.
- 34:18And so he came and drove that final bout and he's like, yeah,
- 34:23it's way different. So because it doesn't get, it
- 34:25doesn't catch capture the elevation changes and stuff like
- 34:27that. It's very flat in the game, but
- 34:29in even in the videos it captures it.
- 34:31A lot better. You're talking about the track
- 34:32final bout was taking? Place correct.
- 34:34Yeah, that track. Because it does go up like I
- 34:37forget. The final bout they were in it.
- 34:39Uphill or downhill, uphill they. Started from the.
- 34:42The Access Rd. Yeah, yeah.
- 34:44And then they were in it clockwise.
- 34:47So when I thought when I drew it up, it we were initial thought
- 34:52was to run it. Counterclockwise, so downhill,
- 34:55which we do on special occasions, but there's kind of
- 35:00like one spot that there's like an open hard point, right?
- 35:03So if somebody goes off too hard, you can straight a car,
- 35:06you know. So we have to put tires in front
- 35:08of it. And then it's just a little bit,
- 35:12a little bit more. Yeah.
- 35:15But it is so fun. People that don't know what it
- 35:19is, it's a I would say it's like a. 15 to 20 foot elevation
- 35:23difference, right between the top and the bottom.
- 35:26So even going up it right, there's kind of like a dip in
- 35:28the middle. You go up it and as soon as you
- 35:30Crest onto the main portion of the track, again, your car kind
- 35:33of unloads, but you have to stay on it because now you're on a
- 35:35street. You got to push forward and then
- 35:38go to the first turn. And people don't realize that
- 35:40first turn is downhill as well. So if you're not on throttle,
- 35:43you're going to float off into the rocks.
- 35:47It's just it's really cool. Yeah.
- 35:48I invited you guys up. Yeah.
- 35:50We know we got plenty of invites.
- 35:52Yeah, we had. I want to get up there.
- 35:54I think cars will be my car that makes it there.
- 35:56Works. Yeah, unlike anybody else's.
- 35:58You could. Probably Get up there with
- 35:59Anthony, bro. Me and Rizzo Will St. drive up
- 36:03there. Yeah, because I'm out of money
- 36:04for my trucks. Yeah.
- 36:06On Fridays, right, we have. On grid we have a DJ Radio One O
- 36:1055. So you turn the radio, everybody
- 36:12is bumping the. Same shit, yeah.
- 36:15That is pretty. So cool.
- 36:17What? Yeah.
- 36:18One of those dots is the mini the mini Truck K truck.
- 36:20There's one guy that shows up to watch and he does.
- 36:23He's got 3 recliner chairs on the top of his dahut 2.
- 36:28That's where he sits and just watches the track and.
- 36:31It's a it's a vibe like, it's really cool.
- 36:33Easy boy. Yeah, Yes.
- 36:34On top of on top. Of yeah.
- 36:36He has a ladder rack on it and he puts it, puts boards in
- 36:38plywood and his three friends, they all sit there lounged out
- 36:41like Rick Clown and just checking it out and we got you
- 36:45know there's a good amount of that's a pretty good amount of
- 36:48spectators. So it's it's really cool.
- 36:49Fuck yeah, I want to drive up there.
- 36:52If it's on Fridays because like, it's hard for people to get
- 36:55turned. Off, Yes.
- 36:56So. So you do you do how many events
- 36:58a month usually? Public events, So they're
- 37:03they're technically it's two, but it's a Friday, Saturday,
- 37:05right, You know, So you can count that one event.
- 37:08But it's usually different drivers.
- 37:09Some drivers drive both days, but it's not.
- 37:11So on Fridays we do the clubhouse circuit, the Oval and
- 37:15the skid pad, and Saturdays it's just skid pad and clubhouse
- 37:19circuit because they have stuff going on in the Oval.
- 37:21So you do about one a month, you say?
- 37:23Yep. And then we also me personally.
- 37:26So I do we have a. Driving school or drifting
- 37:28school? Oh wow.
- 37:30And then we do private parties, right?
- 37:31So. Oh, so people could contact you
- 37:34to have their own, like Private Day or?
- 37:36Yep. Yeah, we do like we just did a
- 37:37bachelor party for a street heat a couple weeks ago.
- 37:40That was really cool. That's actually sick as fuck.
- 37:43Yeah. God, God bless the day I get
- 37:44married. Frankie, you know what we're
- 37:45doing. What are we doing going to
- 37:48church and then going to? Yeah, but.
- 37:54That's pretty cool, man. So you basically have your own
- 37:57English town right now that's like you're doing the same
- 37:59stuff. It's it's pretty cool.
- 38:01Yeah. It's it's like a yeah, but it's
- 38:02like a separate thing. You it.
- 38:04I don't know why, but it is. English Town has its own vibe,
- 38:07and then I feel like Locke City has its own vibe too.
- 38:09Yeah. So I've never, I've never driven
- 38:11all this road. Course you haven't.
- 38:13Well, you've never. Driven it.
- 38:15Dude, you should totally drive Block City boys.
- 38:16We're we're on cue for BMI, so oh, yeah, that's why I'm that's
- 38:20what OK, cool. That's why I'm finishing the
- 38:22car. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 38:23Oh. Damn, that's baby.
- 38:26Yeah, Frankie. There's got to be a fucking
- 38:29deadline. Somebody give you a deadline and
- 38:31then. No, not obviously.
- 38:32Work on it. I mean, my deadline was in May,
- 38:34like ideally like I was done with my.
- 38:36Car today. Yeah, mine.
- 38:36Mine was May too. God damn, that's.
- 38:38Funny. What?
- 38:41No, this year, right. I was like, yeah, ECB, I'll be
- 38:44there Literally last year you said maybe in November.
- 38:48I did say maybe that winter, I'll work on it.
- 38:50Yeah. No, you said it was going to be
- 38:51done. That's crazy by November.
- 38:53That's hearsay. I'm I'm very close though like
- 38:56so I. Hope you reach.
- 38:57I hope you reach it dude, please.
- 39:00It's like I said, it's off the paint on Thursday and then so
- 39:03yesterday I tried starting it for the first time on the link.
- 39:07I have to reset the. I didn't do the timing.
- 39:10Like in the ECU? So Nick, Christopher is going to
- 39:14help me out tomorrow. Talk to Mama right here.
- 39:17You're going to walk me through a couple of things and yeah it
- 39:20start like so I have it started on the ECU that came with the
- 39:23car. Yeah, so.
- 39:25And it's got SR20. R20 Yeah, got its engine.
- 39:29Got its engine. No, I was just telling Frankie I
- 39:32was like, yo, I was hot lapping my car for like an hour.
- 39:35Like to see an Sr. do that. Yeah, he's like, well, I see an
- 39:37Sr. do that. I was like, I did that all the
- 39:39time. Yep, thank you.
- 39:40And I'm, you know, S15T28, right?
- 39:43The new new Gen. one. Yeah, I'm doing it right.
- 39:47You know the only thing like that's crazy is I'm trying to
- 39:49run E85 so I got 1050 inject. That's good though.
- 39:52So keep I'm trying to keep the engine temps down and.
- 39:54Yeah, if you're running anything that's not a Power FC, you might
- 39:58as well just run E85, yeah? So like that's, that's the plan,
- 40:02yeah. Yeah, that's how it seems at
- 40:04least, but. I mean, it sucks getting it.
- 40:06Maybe not for you, but for us. Is it accessible up there?
- 40:09What's that, 85? No, not at all.
- 40:11Okay. Yeah, so.
- 40:12But I am looking the New England Race Fuels.
- 40:14They're a Sunoco company and I'm trying to offer it trackside,
- 40:20right. So I'm trying to be a wholesaler
- 40:21and yeah, and and sell it trackside because a lot of
- 40:24people run it. And no, the closest place to me
- 40:26is either the Mass. Pike or an hour away in southern
- 40:29Connecticut. Yeah, yeah, you'd be a perfect
- 40:32place. I mean if they just come to the
- 40:33track and get the fuel then. Right.
- 40:35It's like, yeah, I gotta fill and they already have tanks at
- 40:37the track, right? Big tanks for regular fuel.
- 40:39So it's like, hey, we got this account, let's try to get.
- 40:43Yeah. I mean, they should have been on
- 40:44that already. Yeah, so.
- 40:46One time I had to get gas at Pocono Raceway.
- 40:50Oh God, they don't have tanks. No, it was just very 8 bucks.
- 40:51There it. Yeah, I mean, that's what.
- 40:56Gas was cheap, like I think it was like that's usually it would
- 40:59be like $5 or something like that.
- 41:01I don't remember them having 93 there.
- 41:03I remember them having like some race gas.
- 41:05That's what our track is. Our track is like 9893, yeah,
- 41:08with 90, three, 98100 and 110. They had 93 there.
- 41:12You. Got to put the 1:10 in.
- 41:14In my KA, yes. Yeah.
- 41:17I run the, I run the the 98. I've done the 110 in the my RX7.
- 41:22Yeah, yeah. Premix that shit.
- 41:24Yeah, yeah. Just fucking advance the timing
- 41:28and you see what happens. Yeah, I'm going to get go to go
- 41:32to the mood real. Yeah, but so how many, how many
- 41:37courses are there in Thompson, you because you mentioned the
- 41:40parking lot, skid pad, you mentioned the other one.
- 41:44So we have clubhouse, but then we'll also run the road course
- 41:47like 1234. There's two turn fours, there's
- 41:51an inner turn 4 and then the far turn 4.
- 41:53Clubhouse is considered turn like that first turn of
- 41:55clubhouse is considered the far turn 4.
- 41:57So we'll run on a Saturday in the morning, we'll start out
- 42:01with just the clubhouse and then we have about a two hour session
- 42:04that we'll do, maybe it's like an hour and a half the road
- 42:07course itself and we'll either do it to the inner turn 4 which
- 42:11is that inlet on the other side of the hill or we'll run it to
- 42:15the far side. So they do the whole thing and
- 42:17the clubhouse and then come back in the Access Rd.
- 42:21And there's a there's a bridge over the one section that would
- 42:25be turned 5, yeah. That's the one I always remember
- 42:27seeing videos of, but that was like.
- 42:28The the bridge is cool, but we can't, we can't.
- 42:31We usually only get that done like earlier March and April or
- 42:34November, because you know, if they're not renting the track,
- 42:38they're not making money. So they rent to like arrive and
- 42:41drive your NASCAR, you know on the Oval track on Saturdays and
- 42:44they have a wall there. So before clubhouses done, we
- 42:49are paved. We would run 1234 and half of
- 42:52five and then they would turn in, go through these awful
- 42:55rocks, have to go all through the paddock, get back on track
- 42:58and everyone's sticky tires and. Whipping all of this.
- 43:01Stuff around SO. I remember hearing that that was
- 43:05like a layout that was very rare to do the one with the overpass.
- 43:10So this is a plug, I guess, but staggered Motorsports festival.
- 43:14Next weekend we for the first time publicly we are running the
- 43:18entire Rd. Course Jesus like every under
- 43:21the bridge, the Oval, the whole back section behind the hill.
- 43:24Yeah, it's pretty. Crazy, Yeah.
- 43:27That's going to be a lot of we've done cars on a hot track I
- 43:31think of 20/18/2017. Ryan Turret came down.
- 43:34We did a private day video shoot was all the Boston drift action
- 43:37guys couple other people and so we got to run all the different
- 43:43sections. We've we've ran other the other
- 43:46sections on private days and stuff too.
- 43:47But what's really sick is reverse.
- 43:50You come from the Oval under that bridge, go back around that
- 43:55is like turn 3:00 to 1:00, which we normally run the regular way
- 44:00is awesome because it's all uphill.
- 44:01So now you're just like powering up the hill.
- 44:03It doesn't seem like a hill, but we were able to run it one it.
- 44:07Looks tall, yeah. We were able to run it one time
- 44:12publicly and like the fourth person did it hit the hit the
- 44:17wall. His R32 at least four feet.
- 44:22His are you going to say passenger side right, but the
- 44:27left hand side of the car he hit it with the right hand side car,
- 44:29the square square hit to the barrier probably 3 or 4 feet of
- 44:33air caught. That's how because turn one on
- 44:37the road course is I want to say 110 degree turn right.
- 44:41It's an increased radius turn. And so that the way we were
- 44:45running, it's a very tight turn coming out and he's like, I was
- 44:50cruising of cranking third gear or 4th gear.
- 44:53I don't know what he said because it's all uphill.
- 44:54So you're just using the power and going and he had to slow
- 44:57down. He didn't.
- 44:59He didn't. Yeah.
- 45:00All right, Yeah. But that was probably like one
- 45:03of my favorite things. So on Saturday, we'll typically
- 45:07let people do the clubhouse and then they exit to the left up at
- 45:10the top of the hill onto the road course and then you do 3
- 45:14and and then we have to shut them down because we don't want
- 45:16that to happen. But I'll sneak in a 321 over
- 45:19here and there, you know. What I was that that's going to
- 45:22lead me to my next question which is kind of like do you
- 45:25have like a fond like what it it doesn't even have to necessarily
- 45:29be like now but like do do you have like a fond memory of like
- 45:32this process because I would say like you've you've built quite
- 45:36an organization like it's. Do you have any step along the
- 45:39way that's like, notable to you that a change that happened or
- 45:42like, I'll go back down to the community, so we do a driver's
- 45:47banquet every year, right? Because it's like.
- 45:49Oh, I heard about these. Yeah, yeah, I heard about.
- 45:52You what? Yeah.
- 45:54So last year I went to PRI, right, for the first time, just
- 45:57to check it out. And I'm not really into FD
- 46:01drifting. I respect it.
- 46:03It's cool. Neither am I.
- 46:04Prospect, it's we're all on the same page here.
- 46:07But I cried at the driver's banquet because at PRI this kid
- 46:10Trevor Root was there. He took.
- 46:13So we do clinic days and stuff like that.
- 46:15His first clinic was with us. He, I would consider it a lock
- 46:19city driver because that's what he did.
- 46:21Now he's a pro spec FD. He's fulfilling his dream,
- 46:24right? And that was just like a a
- 46:29moment, right? You know, like, damn, like.
- 46:31If I, if I. If you didn't start that event.
- 46:35Yeah, that wouldn't have. Probably not happened, right.
- 46:37And it wasn't just right. We all the A group drivers that
- 46:39was that's who teaches the clinics, right.
- 46:41You know. So it's like the community did
- 46:45that. So I tried to explain that and
- 46:47and then I just like, I didn't like shit, you know, But it like
- 46:51it was like, I get it. It gets it in your throat, you
- 46:53know, And like I'm trying to give a speech.
- 46:55There's 150 people you know. Before you know it, yeah, the
- 46:59tears are flowing, but and then on.
- 47:01I would fucking not know what to say.
- 47:03Carl would be a mess. Like I would not be able to talk
- 47:07and then the the track trusted me enough to pave my idea right
- 47:12that. You mentioned that earlier and I
- 47:14was like he just got that. He just kind of glazed over
- 47:18that. So I guess and and they've
- 47:20really embraced the sport right they they that's amazing.
- 47:23The general manager there Scott he's a great person.
- 47:27He's knows the drivers of a new person show.
- 47:31That's a new guy, huh? You know, at the same time we're
- 47:34doing our job, you know, we're big on track etiquette.
- 47:36He's keeping on the track. Mine the grass, right?
- 47:39You know sooner. Or later he's going to start
- 47:41drifting. I just trying to get him in.
- 47:43The car. That's how it That's how.
- 47:44It happened that wasn't like a racing facility, right?
- 47:47And that to hear that they're taking to the sport that that's.
- 47:52Drifting is not what it was 10 years ago, No, not like.
- 47:56That's a. That's a very.
- 47:58That's like a road course, dude. Yeah, people race expensive cars
- 48:00on there. So I say this every drivers
- 48:03meeting, not every well. This year, if all goes well, you
- 48:07come to the banquet and you'll find out.
- 48:08But there's more to come. All right.
- 48:12That's sick. Frankie, finish your shit.
- 48:13Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I know.
- 48:15Yeah. Do you think drifting's taking
- 48:17over the world right now? Because the drivers beings are
- 48:19kind of tough. I have to be that guy, right?
- 48:21You. Have to be work, Michael.
- 48:22Yeah, 100%. Don't do this, do this, you
- 48:26know? But I again takes a certain
- 48:27level of respect. People have to listen, otherwise
- 48:30you wouldn't have, you wouldn't be where you are now, right?
- 48:32If you didn't have the rules as bad.
- 48:34Yeah so I heard tech is also just that, if not as strict if
- 48:39not more maybe than E town and E dot.
- 48:42Tech is very indepth they they will check and that's your
- 48:44stuff. If it's one thing I took from
- 48:48them, right, you know or not took, but like learned, you
- 48:51know? Tech is important.
- 48:53It's very important. Hey, you don't want to mess up
- 48:55your day. And then if you're every failure
- 48:58that's out there and my the people that work for me, the
- 49:00staff that they get it too. So we're out there clearing it,
- 49:04you know, as fast as possible. And if we weren't as strict on
- 49:08tech, it'll be 10 times worse, right?
- 49:11So we do. We Jack up the cars.
- 49:12We literally, we check everything.
- 49:14So it is more involved? Yeah.
- 49:16Oh yeah, well, we make them Jack up the car.
- 49:18But yeah, yeah. And tech's?
- 49:19Got to say, how many, you know, tech, what you decide it takes,
- 49:24you know, we're talking 150 cars, but I mean probably we
- 49:29start driving and there's still probably 1520 cars.
- 49:31Yeah, you know, haven't been tacked at least.
- 49:33And we're starting at 73715. And that was done for final bout
- 49:36two. I not.
- 49:38I don't think so. OK.
- 49:39No. I remember that something was
- 49:41taking a. While, but maybe I do remember,
- 49:43I do know that somebody said, well to me what that tells me is
- 49:46that OK, maybe I'm going to check my shit more.
- 49:49You know, like it. It encourages you to, like, not
- 49:52have a car that's already fucked up and then you're going to go
- 49:54drive knowing it's fucked up and then you ruin, then you.
- 49:57Have to get. Towed off.
- 49:58We all know the that guy that fucking, like didn't tighten
- 50:01that clamp and then before you know it, there's coolant and oil
- 50:03all over the track and you're like, OK, well, I guess I'm not
- 50:06drifting this fucking. Round well, yeah.
- 50:08No, I mean sometimes that can save somebody.
- 50:10Like what if they were about to go drift and like like Rizzo,
- 50:14he's done so many things with that front wheel setup.
- 50:17Did you see he broke a controller as well?
- 50:19Like what if Michael and team were?
- 50:22Checking it and. They're like, hey man, that
- 50:24shit's fucked, yeah. And then you don't drift that
- 50:27day. He could have.
- 50:27He could have saved you and the same with like oil leaks and
- 50:29stuff like that. So yeah like from Cannon and
- 50:31when just when we just had the skid pack we would grid on the
- 50:34road course and that was one of their biggest gripes is like you
- 50:37get this all the drips, right. You know and you have a, I don't
- 50:42know, you have a breakdown and they're sitting there even
- 50:44longer and. Then the oil.
- 50:45Is just piling it up. It's kind of like an educational
- 50:47thing too. Yeah, I've learned from my
- 50:49mistakes because I didn't really check my car, you know, like
- 50:53when I was going to other driving, other events and stuff,
- 50:56and I would be the first person out there and first person to
- 50:59break, right? You know?
- 51:01So it's like I don't want that. We got to get your tech sheet
- 51:04here. So culmination of like like what
- 51:07you've taken, right. Yeah.
- 51:08And and so the the tech. So John Grus, like one of my
- 51:13head tech tech inspectors the the whole team Garrett, all of
- 51:17them. I say out of it because like,
- 51:20I'm kind of like a sucker write someone someone.
- 51:22It's like, yeah, I just, you know, shine.
- 51:23Can you let me slide by? I'm not in charge of tech,
- 51:26right. Yeah, yeah.
- 51:28If they're not going to pass it. Then it's not going to happen.
- 51:30Yeah, that takes a good person to admit that.
- 51:33Yeah. Because I would probably be
- 51:35like, yeah, just go get it fixed or whatever, right?
- 51:41Yeah, and there's some stuff. We'll let Okay get it.
- 51:44Let's get it fixed for the next time.
- 51:45Yeah, I mean that happens at every that happens at every
- 51:47track. Every You have that person who's
- 51:49like, man, I drove here for, But it has to depend on what it is
- 51:51though, right? I don't want this person to risk
- 51:53their life. Yeah, driving it just cuz they
- 51:55drove it far. Yeah, but you know, the
- 51:58beginners forget about fire extinguishers, right?
- 52:00But OK, that's we get fires, right?
- 52:01It happens. You know, a large extinguisher.
- 52:03Is a good example of something that's not going to pass.
- 52:06Do you know, though, that road racers don't?
- 52:08That's not a requirement. Seca Track Night, America.
- 52:11All that interesting. You don't need that.
- 52:12Do that stuff and none of them have.
- 52:14You don't need it in their car, yeah.
- 52:16I wonder why it's a drifting thing.
- 52:17Because so you're rad. Like, we are way more abusive on
- 52:20your cars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,
- 52:22you're, you know, limiter. So.
- 52:25It's definitely a smart idea. Where did you how did you go
- 52:28about setting your tech inspection up?
- 52:31Did you take stuff from Club Loose or were you just on your
- 52:34own? Borrowed, borrowed, right.
- 52:37Yeah, I don't mean taking it, but I think it just evolved,
- 52:40right, You know? And plus when I say that, when I
- 52:42say that Club Loose wants all these people to take their yeah,
- 52:45it's tech sheets anyway, yeah, I I'm sure my base, I don't
- 52:50remember 100 but I'm sure the baseline I took from different
- 52:53clubs just to get a, you know, a general idea but.
- 52:57Maybe you learned it along the way too.
- 52:58Like yeah, it just evolved of you know what we saw failures in
- 53:01and and stuff like that and. I'm sure the track has its own
- 53:05requirements as well, right? Like, do they?
- 53:07They don't. It's it's on a club.
- 53:10Basis type of deal. Yeah.
- 53:11Cuz S ECA will show up and you're just a piece of paper.
- 53:15Sure. I teched my car.
- 53:16That's it. It's that's their tech.
- 53:17Right. Wow.
- 53:18So yeah, sometimes like the coming here.
- 53:20With the sheet and they're like, oh, you got to sign off on this.
- 53:22The liability is on me as a promoter, right, you know and
- 53:25sure, yeah, as it grew popular we learned more and got more
- 53:30strict on certain areas and like cages we've we've never required
- 53:37cages, you know, until this past year we made and I got a lot of
- 53:41flak. For it, Yeah, of course I would.
- 53:42Have been one of those people if you, you know, so we're kind of
- 53:46like if you're already in a group driver, you're kind of
- 53:49grandfathered in for a certain amount of time, you know, type
- 53:52of thing. Because like if you're a good
- 53:55driver, I get it. Shit happens.
- 53:59You know there's risk in everything.
- 54:01But if you're a good driver and you're tending with somebody,
- 54:07there's less risk than if it's like you're more worried about
- 54:10another car going off and sliding across the track and
- 54:13coming into your line or or something like that.
- 54:15Or the skid pad, right, The skid pad.
- 54:19It's when when a car's coming from afar, that's where the
- 54:21greater risk is, right? Because the harder impact, if
- 54:24it's two cars just bump in and they spin out, yeah, yeah.
- 54:27Because you guys kind of both have the same momentum.
- 54:30So it's like you know a little 4 car train though, right?
- 54:32If that 4th person's. You know, already smoked out and
- 54:35he can't see anything. And then the guy spun in front
- 54:37of him and now he's trying to catch up.
- 54:39Yeah. So the the amount of drivers
- 54:41that we're getting and how fast everyone's going now.
- 54:45I mean, it's I had to make, I had to make the call, yeah,
- 54:47yeah. And then and then like to set
- 54:49the tone. I'm not a cage guy.
- 54:51I caged my S13 right it. You know I didn't.
- 54:54Want kind of had to. I truly did not want to.
- 54:57But I knew like going into it. I wanted to I wanted to drive
- 55:00you town. I want to drive other places.
- 55:02OK. I still can't drive my events.
- 55:04Yeah. You know because it's.
- 55:05I have to work right? I mean, the same shit happened
- 55:08to English Town too. So like they they required cages
- 55:11and they would let some of their own guys slide and then they
- 55:14would get shit for it all the time playing favorites.
- 55:16And then, before you knew it, all them started had to.
- 55:18They had to cages. So because they, you know, they
- 55:20don't want to see it. I was checking out Tom's car
- 55:22though I want to figure out how to get all.
- 55:24I did most of my plastics. I got my most of my interior in
- 55:27but how he got those the rear panels in I'm like.
- 55:30That's those are the ones. That took me a while.
- 55:32He's like, I cut here and I cut here.
- 55:33I was like, sick. Yeah, yeah.
- 55:35I actually don't know what you're talking about.
- 55:38Like the panel, the B pillar panel, I guess, yeah.
- 55:41On the S13. Yeah, like with the cage there.
- 55:44Yeah, you have to. Impossible.
- 55:46You have to slip the plastic and get it clipped in, but.
- 55:51There's a page on my car. It was like, I did the same
- 55:54thing. I mean, I made a notch and I
- 55:55like, pushed it through and it it fell into that notch.
- 55:58But no matter what you do, I mean it's pressing on something.
- 56:01You're not going to get all those clips in, right?
- 56:03I think the next time I'm not putting my interior back in
- 56:05straight. Up, Shut and stop.
- 56:07You can't come block city. Then yeah.
- 56:09I stopped. Last week, every week, he said
- 56:11he wasn't going to paint the rest of the car.
- 56:13I'm not painting the outside of the car, I'm leaving the way it
- 56:15is. The Fender's red.
- 56:17No, that Fender's not going on there.
- 56:19That was just just straightened out everything.
- 56:21I would paint it. This was the guy.
- 56:24I'm not well. It's it's a little better
- 56:26knowing that I. You know what it is.
- 56:27It's not the red. It's like everyone always used
- 56:29to say like, oh, I love the interiors and this and that, and
- 56:31I'm like, yeah, it's cool, I guess, but it's just kind of.
- 56:34You'll. See, when you put all the
- 56:35interior in and nothing fits, right?
- 56:37Well, that's what I made a point.
- 56:38I got. I got the door cards in, I
- 56:39notched them perfectly. Yeah, it may not fit right, but
- 56:43you get in a car that has the interior.
- 56:45Versus not, it's. Oh yeah, a little different.
- 56:48I love the, I know that. So we have St.
- 56:50Series. It was our competition.
- 56:52And that's a rule. You have to have 75% of your
- 56:54interior from the rear shock towers up, right?
- 57:00I'd lose. I'd be dequeued.
- 57:03Yeah, my, my rule and my my head is I want everything in the
- 57:06front to be there. Yeah.
- 57:09Nothing. Yeah.
- 57:09Nothing in the back. That's a great.
- 57:11Yeah, that's the kind of the Gray area.
- 57:13And I have the exception if it's caged and you know, if there's
- 57:17something hindering you getting your interior in because of the
- 57:20cage, that's the exception to the rule.
- 57:21But you got to be in the spirit. So, like, you know, so some
- 57:25people are like they have heel plates and other things.
- 57:28And I kind of get, OK, that's kind of cool.
- 57:30Some people give me Flack for it, but got to start to comp
- 57:32with all your bumpers, all your body panels.
- 57:34That should be right forming the drift rule too, so.
- 57:37Yeah, I would be like, where's your radio?
- 57:40And then like the really competition type.
- 57:42Yeah, the competition type mind says like, well he only is 1/2
- 57:45bumper. It only goes down to his bash
- 57:47bar. Yeah, but it's in the spirit
- 57:49dude. Like.
- 57:50It's yeah, yeah, you had to. If you had to require some
- 57:53effort to put it on, then I'm going to count that as a bumper,
- 57:57yeah. It's in the spirit of the rules,
- 57:58yeah. If you got enough people signing
- 58:00up for it, then all those people that don't like the rules can.
- 58:02I also if I have enough to make 16 drivers.
- 58:06That works. That sounds like a cool.
- 58:09I like what people put it back on.
- 58:11So we did the comp and we actually did it on both
- 58:14clubhouse and skid pad. Like we each round we did a
- 58:16different spot and a different layout, right.
- 58:19So nobody's hitting the same. We haven't done our original
- 58:21layout yet like the way we typically run events.
- 58:24So that way it's changes it up on people.
- 58:27And the final round is in October.
- 58:28So let's see how it goes. Yeah, yeah.
- 58:32When do you guys run the season till NN?
- 58:35Yeah, yeah. Might just make it in there.
- 58:38Two years ago we had an event in snow.
- 58:41It was a snowstorm in October. I kind of remember.
- 58:44Oh, it was. That was horrible.
- 58:45I remember that October, but it was epic.
- 58:48It was. So the pictures are phenomenal.
- 58:50Like, yeah, because like the the blacktop, it was warm enough so
- 58:54the blacktop didn't accumulate. Yeah, but all the grass did.
- 58:56We were hucking snowballs at people are they're drifting by.
- 58:59The pictures of just watching the snowfall and watching people
- 59:01drift, it just that happened. Is really cool, loose And then I
- 59:04saw. A deneli.
- 59:08Drifting on the track. I was like, wow, yeah, we had
- 59:12three of us, had me, Dave and Laners all had Tacoma.
- 59:14So we were drifting to Tacoma. So you were made of Class
- 59:18Malcolm? That's awesome.
- 59:19Yep, you got that done. But yeah.
- 59:24That. I'm not ready for it to be cold,
- 59:27to be honest, because I was already asking about the last.
- 59:29I was already asking about the last event, but I'm a huge
- 59:32snowmobiler. I love snowmobiling.
- 59:33So I'm ready. That's so cool.
- 59:35I love the snow. Fuck.
- 59:36I just hate. I've got snowmobiling a few
- 59:38times. One of them was on a 2 stroke.
- 59:41Most of them were two strokes. The the ones that my buddies got
- 59:43were like 4 strokes, 4 stroke. Yeah, I think that's the more
- 59:46beginner friendly one, Yamahas. I I don't know.
- 59:48I'm billing. Once that shit was fucking
- 59:50crazy. I was doing 90 miles an hour and
- 59:52a lake. Oh yeah, yeah.
- 59:53Dude, that's. I'm sick.
- 59:55This shit, yes, that's how you blow a belt, but yeah.
- 59:57Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we rented them.
- 1:00:00And I was like, how fast do you think we can go?
- 1:00:01And we just started going. I was like, this is really
- 1:00:03fucking dangerous. You rented it.
- 1:00:04On your main bed, where were you?
- 1:00:06Yeah. I wish I could tell you New
- 1:00:07York, NY. OK Upstate.
- 1:00:09Yeah, probably like Old Forge or something.
- 1:00:11Like that maybe? Yeah, it sounds familiar.
- 1:00:13Yeah, you were in new. Hampshire and did it it was it
- 1:00:15like Bartlett or something? Dude, I would love to go back.
- 1:00:18My friends are just lame. Yeah, I like Maine's got no
- 1:00:21speed limits. You just gotta be in control of
- 1:00:22your sled. You could go five years on
- 1:00:24trails and never hit the same trail twice.
- 1:00:27That's pretty sick. You know?
- 1:00:28Restaurants. Gas stations, You pull up on
- 1:00:30your sled, you know, wherever you want.
- 1:00:32Hotels. Airbnb's.
- 1:00:33I thought that that was the most crazy shit ever, that that is
- 1:00:36their economy, yeah. That's that's how they get
- 1:00:38around for real like. Dude, I would do that shit, I
- 1:00:41You got to get me a lake, though, because I I can't go
- 1:00:43back to anything after that experience.
- 1:00:45I need that. No, no, stop.
- 1:00:46Stop. When we went through the trails,
- 1:00:48we we rented these and they just was like, all right, go, go to
- 1:00:51groom trails go up. You're going to see shit.
- 1:00:54You've never seen mountain views like you're going to come up on
- 1:00:58Moose. You're going to come up, Moose.
- 1:01:00Oh, seriously? For real.
- 1:01:01Holy stuff. The spot there's think they're
- 1:01:03called Canadian Jays. You put your arm out like this
- 1:01:05and they land right in your hand.
- 1:01:06Where is this? In Maine, I'm sure.
- 1:01:08In New Hampshire, northern New Hampshire and Vermont, you
- 1:01:10probably get the. Same type of.
- 1:01:12It's like togay dude Vermont. You have to have insurance and
- 1:01:15all this other stuff. You have to register your sled
- 1:01:16wherever. New Hampshire is like very
- 1:01:18strict on speed limits and. Isn't that the state that says
- 1:01:21live free or die? Yeah, what kind of bullshit is
- 1:01:24that? That's what I'm saying.
- 1:01:25What? Yeah.
- 1:01:26Well, anyway, we got to go there.
- 1:01:28Main. The main is the place to go.
- 1:01:29Where do I see a moose, Maine? I'll be going there.
- 1:01:33I would Rangely, Maine I. Would preferably not want to see
- 1:01:38a moose. I'm going to regret it when I'm
- 1:01:39seeing him in person, but if you see a moose or a deer, right,
- 1:01:42it's important. You kind of just stay back.
- 1:01:44You even they're walking down the trail, you don't follow
- 1:01:46them, they start running. You could actually kill them
- 1:01:49because they'll start huffing and puffing, running from you,
- 1:01:51and they freeze, depending on the temperature.
- 1:01:53They'll freeze their lungs. Wow, that's good.
- 1:01:59Sounds like dinner, too. Yeah, but usually they just jump
- 1:02:01right off the trail. And yeah, they're.
- 1:02:03Huge, dude. They're huge.
- 1:02:05Yeah, I want to see it. They're huge.
- 1:02:06Huge. It's terrifying.
- 1:02:07Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:02:08And and then you're on the sled too.
- 1:02:10Yeah, like. But my dad actually went off the
- 1:02:13the trail once. We were going with that.
- 1:02:14We were going. He did.
- 1:02:16When you turn it, it's very weird, especially off trail.
- 1:02:20Yeah, if you're I don't. Know I didn't notice it being
- 1:02:22weird. He just he just turned it out
- 1:02:23from. Get caught, so and.
- 1:02:25He flew right out. If if you're riding in powder,
- 1:02:27like deeper snow, that's not a groom trail.
- 1:02:31You got to turn left to go right.
- 1:02:33You know, you kind of leap, put your foot in, turn your ski.
- 1:02:35You got to hang your ski up a little bit.
- 1:02:37It's like drifting in a way. And yeah.
- 1:02:39And then use your power to turn, yeah, because if you're just you
- 1:02:44turn turn left, you're trying to go left.
- 1:02:45You're just going to sink. I remember there were some
- 1:02:47sketchy moments when we went out for my friend's bachelor party.
- 1:02:50Like we had to get back on this one section and there's this
- 1:02:52skinny fucking little bit of snow, like the side of a bridge.
- 1:02:56It was like a busy road. And then, yeah, they kind of.
- 1:02:59Yeah, I'm like, dude, I don't know if we can do this.
- 1:03:01And then he starts going and I was like, OK, and it's usually
- 1:03:05whooped out and stuff. Yeah, that was the only scary
- 1:03:07part for me. I was like, I got to go on the
- 1:03:08skinny little fucking path right now.
- 1:03:10Everything else is fine, right? In lakes is weird, right?
- 1:03:12I I kind of like you don't want to do it early season or late
- 1:03:15season but because feels sketchy if you get a halfway across and
- 1:03:20there's no snow, now you're riding on ice, especially at
- 1:03:23night. It's like if it's fresh ice and
- 1:03:25it's black, it's a trip. It's like is that water or is it
- 1:03:29not? No, no, that your sled is cooled
- 1:03:31by snow, right? So you got to pick the snow up
- 1:03:34to hit your radiator which is under your seat so you can
- 1:03:38people over overheat their sleds all the time on lakes.
- 1:03:40That's if they don't have snow, good to.
- 1:03:42Know I also didn't know that about the snow thing, but that
- 1:03:45makes sense. The sickest thing.
- 1:03:47I just went like a month ago with water skips.
- 1:03:50What is that? Snowmobiles on water.
- 1:03:52Oh, I've seen that. It is so sick.
- 1:03:54It is just. When I would be there would be
- 1:03:55snow. Same same mindset of like.
- 1:03:58What happens if you slow down? You'll see.
- 1:04:01After the podcast, I'll show you some video.
- 1:04:03That's. Exactly what I'm talking about.
- 1:04:04That's the scary. But that's how snowmobilers have
- 1:04:06fun in the summer. But just like drifting, it's
- 1:04:08their own community. They know you know, how to get
- 1:04:11someone in and out and pontoon boats with cranes.
- 1:04:14And when it goes down, is it you just pull it out.
- 1:04:17They will turn back on. Well, they're all two strokes.
- 1:04:20Yeah, you don't write. All the water out, they have a
- 1:04:24flotation device. Yeah, like, right.
- 1:04:27They hit this thing, they rip the pull cord and and it lets it
- 1:04:31sink and they're just their bottle will float and that's
- 1:04:33where the sled is and oh. My God, yeah.
- 1:04:36So that's like a real thing now. Oh yeah, don't know the rate.
- 1:04:38It's a. What is it called?
- 1:04:40Water skips. Water skips?
- 1:04:42OK, I would have skips. Because I see videos of that all
- 1:04:44the time, I never understand it because if it sinks, what
- 1:04:47happens I. Seen it happen in person, but I
- 1:04:49was like 12. They do wheelies on the water.
- 1:04:51That's the Wheelies stuff, yeah. People see people ride dirt
- 1:04:55bikes on that as well. Yep.
- 1:04:56That's crazy. Yes.
- 1:04:57Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:04:58No. See the video.
- 1:04:59No. Bro.
- 1:05:00That sounds way crazier to me than snowmobiles.
- 1:05:02Well, the snow. No, Wheeling is way more, dude.
- 1:05:05Oh yeah. Dirt bike.
- 1:05:06Yeah, yeah. But it's like, well, it feels
- 1:05:08feels more right. Because it's got like a paddle.
- 1:05:11It's got like that big belt and. Stuff like it makes more sense
- 1:05:14to me track. Yeah, track.
- 1:05:15Yeah. All right.
- 1:05:17Well, do you have drinking podcasts?
- 1:05:19Oh yeah, Drifting we got. We got Did you break?
- 1:05:22Did you do a question prompt? At all we got questions and.
- 1:05:24Did you? OK.
- 1:05:25Well, before we get into the questions, did you, where do you
- 1:05:28see, where do you see Lock City taking you in the next 5 years?
- 1:05:35I think I want to make it full time.
- 1:05:38Right, right. That's right.
- 1:05:39It is not your full time occupation.
- 1:05:41Correct. Okay, do solar by day.
- 1:05:43Okay. I think I want to make it full
- 1:05:45time. I want to expand the school
- 1:05:48aspect of it. Okay and see how it works, yeah.
- 1:05:52So drifting's drifting's big enough that you think this is a
- 1:05:57I think it will be. I think I'll have to do like
- 1:05:59merch and stuff, right. To really like go to car shows
- 1:06:02and and stuff like that. But yeah, I got, I got to try,
- 1:06:07right. Yeah.
- 1:06:08You know the big thing, I think the difference between like
- 1:06:12Chris Knapp, that's his name, right.
- 1:06:13Yeah. Chris I don't know his his deal
- 1:06:17but I believe he's his family owns the track, right.
- 1:06:20So I would have I have to rent the track right.
- 1:06:23You know. So I'm I'm sure his right, his
- 1:06:25income has to go towards that. I'm not saying it doesn't.
- 1:06:27Yeah, I don't know the ins and outs, but.
- 1:06:29Definitely different though. Yeah, so, so right.
- 1:06:32I have 6 year old daughter, 22 year old boys, wife house,
- 1:06:36right? Yeah, it's a lot.
- 1:06:38It's a lots of risk, right? But I think you got.
- 1:06:40You're thinking that you can do that I.
- 1:06:41Think you got some good. I might have to have a part time
- 1:06:43job, right? Doing something else.
- 1:06:45But I'm going to push. I'm going to try to.
- 1:06:48Yeah you got to try like you said you got you and then and
- 1:06:49that and I want to drive more I that's I.
- 1:06:52That's school. I'm very thankful.
- 1:06:54Like I get to drive a lot of cars.
- 1:06:56You know, people ask me, come up to me, hey, can you drive my
- 1:07:00car? I think in one event I've driven
- 1:07:0213 cars in one day, which was really cool.
- 1:07:05Yeah, and but it's not the same, right?
- 1:07:09I you know. Definitely not the same.
- 1:07:12So I really want to drive more and go to other events, other
- 1:07:17stuff and. Yeah, I want to talk to you
- 1:07:19about staggered Is this, this is a car event that you've been
- 1:07:23putting on for years now, right, 2008?
- 1:07:26And it's before you were drifting.
- 1:07:27Before I was drifting. OK.
- 1:07:29So. So then it's kind of to.
- 1:07:30Incorporate drifting. Is that where you were going
- 1:07:33with that? Frankie Yeah, I was.
- 1:07:34I'm just interested in it because I heard about it.
- 1:07:36It started off as a a get together, right.
- 1:07:38It wasn't even like a full car show.
- 1:07:42And it was we did at State Park for free, right?
- 1:07:44Yeah, come me and my wife and friends, we all bought burgers
- 1:07:47and stuff and accepted accepted donations.
- 1:07:49Like a car meet in a way, yeah. And then we did a People's
- 1:07:52Choice award. Then we got kicked out of State
- 1:07:56Park and I started renting a golf course and that's when it
- 1:08:04kind of evolved. I made it a show, right?
- 1:08:06We did actual awards. I had to charge like 5 bucks or
- 1:08:09something because I've now had a rental fee.
- 1:08:12Did that for a few years. There's this big thing called
- 1:08:14the Big E Near US Eastern States Exposition.
- 1:08:18It's a fair. It's like a three-week fair.
- 1:08:21They'll get a million people on one day.
- 1:08:23Oh, wow. Right.
- 1:08:24It's like, it's huge. So I moved from the golf course
- 1:08:29to the Big E fairgrounds, which is, like I said, it's a notable
- 1:08:32thing. It was big.
- 1:08:33And that's when we started doing.
- 1:08:36So we started doing drifting there, incorporating staggered
- 1:08:39with drifting. Yeah, because at that point I
- 1:08:40was doing both, you know, the I had already started running Lock
- 1:08:45City, I was doing the car show and that was really cool.
- 1:08:48The people that got to drive that, you know, it was just a
- 1:08:50demo, right? We.
- 1:08:51It wasn't like a track day, right?
- 1:08:53It was a demo with my friends and one year it was a tractor
- 1:08:57trailer. Trailer that they couldn't move.
- 1:08:59We were drifting around and under the nose of the trailer.
- 1:09:03It was like. Why do I think I've seen a video
- 1:09:06of that? Probably did.
- 1:09:07There's a big yellow slide next to it and stuff like, you know,
- 1:09:11with the you ride the rice bag down or whatever.
- 1:09:13Yeah, yeah, we did that for a few years.
- 1:09:17I stopped doing stagger for a year, I think.
- 1:09:20And then the tracks, like what do I got to do to have you bring
- 1:09:22it here? And I was like, I don't know,
- 1:09:25yeah, they wanted to do their own kind of show.
- 1:09:27And I said, well, if, if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do
- 1:09:30it right, you know, and because we do so, like they're attracted
- 1:09:36to other car shows and we do demos for the car show, right,
- 1:09:41those car shows. So then I was like, okay, We'll
- 1:09:42just make it staggered and we'll have a demo on Clubhouse because
- 1:09:46all the demos are typically on the skid pad.
- 1:09:48But it's like, if we're going to do it, I want to set my own
- 1:09:50element. I want to make it, you know, my
- 1:09:53event not, you know, not the same thing as Honda Fest or the
- 1:09:57other shows. So that's why we we did did it
- 1:10:00on Clubhouse. And then this year where given
- 1:10:05my dates and it was like you could do Staggered on September
- 1:10:093rd. And then I also had the 1st and
- 1:10:112nd for Lock City. So I was like, well let's make
- 1:10:14it a Motorsports festival, right?
- 1:10:16Let's make it. A party?
- 1:10:19Yeah, it was my way of getting full Rd. course drifting, I
- 1:10:24said. Well, if I will, you guys let me
- 1:10:26do time attack or track attack stuff, right?
- 1:10:29And then we have all the corner workers in place.
- 1:10:31Yeah. And then I can get some people
- 1:10:33out there, full Rd. course drifting.
- 1:10:35And I've never, I've never invested this much into an event
- 1:10:40before in my life. So this is a big.
- 1:10:42Big week for you. I got a huge stage paying for
- 1:10:48like a he's like a local DJ, but he's a resident at Foxwoods or
- 1:10:54yeah, Foxwoods, he's a resident at some place in Boston.
- 1:10:57Like he's a notable DJDJ. Costa is his name.
- 1:11:03We do a BMX, we have team EBMX, they come, they do a stunt, you
- 1:11:06know, stunt stuff. So it's a whole literally
- 1:11:09sounds. Like a party?
- 1:11:10Yeah, it sounds like that's what I mean, that's what we're we're
- 1:11:12shooting for. Yeah.
- 1:11:13So then we have drifting on skin pad.
- 1:11:16We have the time attack stuff. I also do.
- 1:11:18It's called New England Overland Rally.
- 1:11:20It's a overlanding event. So we're the track had made a
- 1:11:24overland like an off road course.
- 1:11:26So we'll be demoing the off road course during the event, yeah.
- 1:11:31Are you going to take the Lexus? Yeah, yeah, calls.
- 1:11:33Like we have Malcolm at like like we got, Yeah, Malcolm,
- 1:11:36what's up? Yeah.
- 1:11:39And you like off roading? I mean, the final bout wasn't
- 1:11:42this weekend. I know.
- 1:11:43It's said we're going to be. You know how many people said
- 1:11:45that, right. Yeah.
- 1:11:46We also like so typically during segregate front streets coming.
- 1:11:48Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, they so like most of like
- 1:11:52a good amount of my team on my teams.
- 1:11:54The local teams got, you know, night call and night style and
- 1:11:57they're all going out the final bout.
- 1:11:59So yeah, kind of a that's OK, the true homies are coming to
- 1:12:02stagger. It sounds so sick, team.
- 1:12:06Ideal. Thank you guys an.
- 1:12:07Over landing court or off road course.
- 1:12:09Yeah, like it's literally. All.
- 1:12:12Everything you want, car, it's a motor.
- 1:12:14Everything. You want car?
- 1:12:15In one spot. Literally everything.
- 1:12:17So hot dogs, maybe? Yeah, you probably have.
- 1:12:20Yeah. We got some quizzies.
- 1:12:21Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:12:23Yeah, yeah, we got food trucks and and stuff like, and it's a
- 1:12:25car show at the same time, right?
- 1:12:27You know so. So which one is this?
- 1:12:29Is this like your 10th, 10th. Staggered?
- 1:12:32No, We're 2814. Fifteen.
- 1:12:38Yeah. God damn.
- 1:12:39Yeah, Ted was low Frankie. I thought maybe he took a couple
- 1:12:42years. Off I did.
- 1:12:43I took a took a year off, but right, 2008 if I'm doing my
- 1:12:45math. Yeah, so I thought 14.
- 1:12:47Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, Don't.
- 1:12:49So don't make it final bout weekend next year and we'll
- 1:12:51we'll be. Yeah, I think we're stuck with
- 1:12:53it. Yeah, yeah, that's the one
- 1:12:55thing, right? I don't make my own schedule.
- 1:12:56I get. I get.
- 1:12:57Handed the date it has to be by the track and I think because
- 1:13:00next year is 10, year 10 for final.
- 1:13:02Bout, I mean, to be honest, it's actually a good date in general.
- 1:13:05Yeah, it's Labor Day. Labor Day weekend, right.
- 1:13:07Yeah, So nobody's got to work on Monday, right.
- 1:13:10You know so. It's just the final bout thing,
- 1:13:13which I mean. Is it every year?
- 1:13:15Final bout No I. Don't really remember.
- 1:13:17I think this year, next year is their 10th year.
- 1:13:19I don't know, PJ. Oh yeah, he did a pick right up
- 1:13:22of why he won't. He's never going to stagger it
- 1:13:24again because there's always on final bout weekend now or
- 1:13:26whatever. Oh he's probably.
- 1:13:27I like PJ a lot. But yeah I talked to him at
- 1:13:29great life about it. He's.
- 1:13:32A Die Hard final bout guy too. Yeah.
- 1:13:33So, yeah. Yeah.
- 1:13:35Authentic at school, yeah. The white car from Boston.
- 1:13:38The white. And that's right.
- 1:13:39It's a sexy night. Boston guy.
- 1:13:40Yep. Yep.
- 1:13:41Yeah, he's got to get on. Podcast too.
- 1:13:44Pendergas. Pendergas.
- 1:13:45Yeah, Pendergas. I fucked that up, Patrick.
- 1:13:48Yeah. I I I'd like to meet him one
- 1:13:50day. But yeah, so Friday and Saturday
- 1:13:52is the full Rd. course, drifting the grip, racing the car, the
- 1:13:57mini car show. And then Saturday Connect has
- 1:13:58got this silly law where you can't do a more sports event.
- 1:14:01You can't start racing until noon, so.
- 1:14:04Yeah, what in the fuck yeah on a Sunday.
- 1:14:07So and that's our main car show date and this when we do the
- 1:14:10demo, right you know so it's just the a group guys that are
- 1:14:13going out. And I want to know how they had
- 1:14:14to make that loss. Someone fucked up and we're
- 1:14:17doing a K car race. Oh, that's.
- 1:14:20Yeah. So we have we have 6K cars or 5K
- 1:14:23cars in a Fiat. Is it door to door?
- 1:14:25Like it's wheel to wheel? Yeah, on club, on club out.
- 1:14:29So what? Kind of Fiat.
- 1:14:30Is it like a 500 thing? Yeah, Function Auto, they have a
- 1:14:34no, it's not that fast, he says. It's very slow.
- 1:14:36And we're going to start him way back.
- 1:14:39And then because I'm a I'm a showman in some ways.
- 1:14:42I haven't cleared it with the track, but the idea is I start
- 1:14:46way in the front on a golf cart. Right, Yeah, yeah, right.
- 1:14:49You know, and we do 3 laps. Yeah, I.
- 1:14:51Haven't cleared it with the track yet, but they're amazing
- 1:14:53ideas. But originally I want to do a
- 1:14:56not a go cart, A golf cart. Did I say golf cart, golf cart?
- 1:14:58Yeah, I wanted to do a golf cart race.
- 1:15:00That sounds cool too. Yeah, and they kind of weren't
- 1:15:02they. Weren't feeling that, Yeah.
- 1:15:04So some Jackass shit's going to. Let's move.
- 1:15:06Yes, let's use the K cars instead.
- 1:15:09Yeah, no, that's a really cool idea.
- 1:15:11That's there's going to be a lot of videos if you do that right?
- 1:15:13I I hope so. At least if the show doesn't
- 1:15:16draw people, at least we get good content for next year.
- 1:15:18Yeah, definitely. Yeah, that would be.
- 1:15:19No, I think you're going to draw a lot of people.
- 1:15:21I mean, it's literally just the final bout nerds.
- 1:15:23You're not going to get like, well and then, yeah, yeah,
- 1:15:25that's true. But.
- 1:15:26Everyone else, it's a great weekend.
- 1:15:28Well, I tried to like team, you know the blue boys for Blue
- 1:15:32Masters, Fable in them. The blue What are they?
- 1:15:36Do they have a fucking name? Because that's the first time
- 1:15:38I've heard. Yeah, yeah, somebody commented.
- 1:15:41Wait, the Blue Masters? Somebody just commented that on
- 1:15:45one of Fable Fable's. That's a real thing.
- 1:15:48I don't know if it's real, but it's something along those
- 1:15:50lines. Yeah they've been they've been
- 1:15:52rolling the joke right and so but so he came off to an event a
- 1:15:56couple things ago and I I expressed my I was going to say
- 1:16:00man crush but like I've he came to our very first comp Fable.
- 1:16:06Fable he did. I think he he qualified first
- 1:16:09I'm pretty sure he did really well he's but his driving style
- 1:16:14is I I I love it right. It's really cool.
- 1:16:17Who else did I meet? Oh Brian Hop.
- 1:16:20I met him at Red Life and I expressed the same thing.
- 1:16:22Yeah, Brian, you just named two of the most interesting drivers
- 1:16:26from Club Lewis. So I was trying to get them to
- 1:16:28come up, but they're like, oh, somebody just moved back from
- 1:16:31Colorado or something and they're all can see the the E
- 1:16:34Town homies and stuff like that. So yeah, I tried.
- 1:16:38Brian, hop up there. Would be fun to see him.
- 1:16:40Crazy that they came up one all the blood masters.
- 1:16:43Most of them. I think Petty asked them all to
- 1:16:45come up. They came up for one event.
- 1:16:47I think I remember this. Yeah, they made, it was like 7
- 1:16:49or 8 of them. It was really cool.
- 1:16:50It was before Clubhouse. Yeah, yeah, they may all made a
- 1:16:55trip up. Yeah.
- 1:16:56I mean, I have to remember that because that's probably the only
- 1:16:58time they left that track. Yeah.
- 1:16:59So, and I've, I've been bumped like none of us have had cars
- 1:17:03since then. So, you know, so that's why I'm
- 1:17:05pumped on BMI, right. Or returning, Making a return a
- 1:17:09trip, Yeah. That's crazy, dude.
- 1:17:11That's cool. Are they going?
- 1:17:12To bet to do you know if they're going to have, is it going to be
- 1:17:15the Figure 8 again or it it's all three so I am most excited.
- 1:17:19I want to do the car track. The car track is sick.
- 1:17:21Yeah. Yeah, I am pretty nervous for
- 1:17:30for the road course you're gonna.
- 1:17:22I hope they do the Figure 8 the way they did it the first year.
- 1:17:24Like the entering from the other side where the.
- 1:17:32Love that shit. You're gonna do that?
- 1:17:33That's easy for you. We don't have a left hand
- 1:17:36entries. It's fine.
- 1:17:38All our entries, all our entries are to the right.
- 1:17:40Oh yeah, so because that term, yeah, I I do one left hand when
- 1:17:44I run clubhouse reverse. I'll do that, but everyone says
- 1:17:47you can't. Everyone says you can't faint
- 1:17:50into into turn one. You should.
- 1:17:52Because you could accidentally go into the tire wall.
- 1:17:54Yeah, you. Can do some cool shit though.
- 1:17:56It's not going to be like, really cool, but it it's.
- 1:17:58I'm sure you'll make it cool, mess around.
- 1:18:01And so I had right. I'm into cool cars, low cars,
- 1:18:05right. So I I have to run.
- 1:18:08I'm a 1718 staggered, staggered, yeah, right.
- 1:18:11Yeah. So staggered to do it, it had to
- 1:18:14do with the with the way cars were parked, it was before like
- 1:18:16staggered wheels was a big. Thing It was like just coming
- 1:18:19out because we we staged everything for pictures, right?
- 1:18:22Instead of going to car show side by side, we staged the
- 1:18:24whole show. Is like supposed to be for cool
- 1:18:26pictures. Makes sense?
- 1:18:28But so it's not the wheel. No, it was kind of the wheels
- 1:18:33were just coming like 2008, right?
- 1:18:35Staggered wasn't really, you know, Staggered wheels wasn't a
- 1:18:37huge thing. Just on Corvettes.
- 1:18:38Yeah, that. Was that was sick.
- 1:18:41That's just I like the name too so so I'm a little bit higher
- 1:18:44than I want to be ride height wise for this event, you know
- 1:18:47because. That's probably for the better.
- 1:18:48So I put it yeah, put a 445 series in the front, got the
- 1:18:51Eighteens in the back and. Yeah, but it but I'm running
- 1:18:55sexy style, so it's like, yeah, you want to be lower right to
- 1:18:59you. Need that 40 sidewall on the
- 1:19:00Yeah, Frankie did. It all the time.
- 1:19:02Look, yeah. Where's the There.
- 1:19:03There it is. But that's like 10 years ago.
- 1:19:06Five years ago. That's the tallest my car has.
- 1:19:08Been No, no, no. But this one is, yeah, yeah,
- 1:19:11that one, right. One time the race, yeah.
- 1:19:12One time I saw. That's the not the and.
- 1:19:15But how bumpy has it gotten since you've driven last?
- 1:19:19I don't know, Frankie, when was the last time you drove Rd.
- 1:19:21Course last year and it wasn't your car and it was in the front
- 1:19:24track? It's.
- 1:19:25It's so it feels the same to me. Yeah.
- 1:19:26OK. Yeah.
- 1:19:27I don't know. Let's see how it goes.
- 1:19:28The bumpiest sections in the middle, Yeah.
- 1:19:31That shit will launch you into the air.
- 1:19:32Yeah, I don't think you're gonna mind.
- 1:19:34I mean, it's not gonna be what you're used to, right?
- 1:19:37But it's gonna be exciting. I'm excited.
- 1:19:39No, Yeah, yeah. But like I said, that one turn
- 1:19:42left hand entry. You'll like it, yeah.
- 1:19:45It's fun, trust me. Yeah, because it's the speed
- 1:19:47that makes up for it. Nice.
- 1:19:48So yeah, you're going to be like this is and I like I'm a
- 1:19:51shallow, fast driver. That's right.
- 1:19:53That's what we like to do. So you know Jesus Drift, the
- 1:19:56racing line. What they're talking about with
- 1:19:57that turn is it's just like, I don't know if I can call it
- 1:20:00double Apex, but it's like, you know, it it, it kinks before it
- 1:20:04goes into the turn, right? Yeah.
- 1:20:05So where the tire? Wall Yeah, it doesn't really
- 1:20:08feel right. Oh, OK, yeah.
- 1:20:10Is that what that's called? Yeah, a double apex.
- 1:20:12I mean, I don't know if you can consider that one, but it's got
- 1:20:16a pretty significant, like, kink in it where it's like and then
- 1:20:19it's blind, right? Yeah.
- 1:20:20It is blind, Yeah. In pictures I feel like it
- 1:20:23doesn't even really look just same thing.
- 1:20:25It doesn't look like there's a crazy elevation change there.
- 1:20:28But from the bottom, from what I remember there is.
- 1:20:30From the bottom, looking up like you're like like sick.
- 1:20:34Yeah. I mean, I haven't driven
- 1:20:36Thompson, but I haven't driven on too many tracks.
- 1:20:40But my favorite track is still Raceway Park, for sure.
- 1:20:42By a mile. Greatest place on there.
- 1:20:43Greatest place on Earth, right? Yeah.
- 1:20:45Yeah. It it trust me, after you do
- 1:20:47that, we got to do a podcast after you do that.
- 1:20:49OK, yeah. No, we got to drive.
- 1:20:51Oh, wait, yeah, yeah, wait. Because it's BMI.
- 1:20:53You're not going to be driving for whatever.
- 1:20:55Neither am I. But we'll be there.
- 1:20:57But I'm, I'm, I'm super excited for it.
- 1:21:02You got questions? And yeah, I can't wait.
- 1:21:00It's going to be going to be pretty.
- 1:21:03Paul, I got it. I got a couple of them, all
- 1:21:06right. Aiden Warneck.
- 1:21:08Does Lock City require bucket seat fart facts for tech
- 1:21:12inspection? What is a fart fact?
- 1:21:14Aiden I. Don't know.
- 1:21:15I don't. Know how that is?
- 1:21:16Bucket seats? What's the bucket seat situation
- 1:21:17for you guys? We don't require a bucket seat,
- 1:21:19no. No.
- 1:21:20But when they do use a bucket seat, seat belt routing, it's
- 1:21:25OK. Yeah, they got to be, you know.
- 1:21:28It has to work, yeah. It's a seat.
- 1:21:29If you're an A group, it might be a little bit different,
- 1:21:32right? Right.
- 1:21:32Then you're doing the right thing.
- 1:21:34I'm big on getting a bucket seat and a steering wheel right to
- 1:21:36hold you, especially if you're like, IS300, right?
- 1:21:39Yeah. You get a 200 seat, yeah.
- 1:21:40Dude, you need a bucket seat, man.
- 1:21:41That's like the first thing. Yeah.
- 1:21:43So yeah, we're cool with that. You don't have to have a harness
- 1:21:46and harness bar yet, right? You know, But it's got to be
- 1:21:49proper, right? You can't just be like, yeah,
- 1:21:52you know, like super slush. Shit.
- 1:21:54Yeah. It's like, right?
- 1:21:56Yeah, none of that. All right.
- 1:21:57Why does that say fart facts? No.
- 1:22:01I don't know. I thought it was going to be an
- 1:22:03inside joke or something. Sometimes we find out here
- 1:22:05sorry, he didn't don't know. Lachlan 8 Malcolm's favorite.
- 1:22:10I thought you were going to ignore it.
- 1:22:11No, I'm going to read them because Malcolm's been quiet
- 1:22:13tonight. There's this guy.
- 1:22:14Or is he a guy? He's a guy.
- 1:22:18Lachlan 8D ME Malcolm Real upfront about it.
- 1:22:23He has a few in here slide into it.
- 1:22:25Are you more of a turbo flutter or a blow off valve type of
- 1:22:28fella, Malcolm, That's to you. Are you sure?
- 1:22:32I don't know. I don't know.
- 1:22:38He just loves Malcolm. I don't know why.
- 1:22:40This guy's weird, but like it's. Really.
- 1:22:42I love it. Why show yourself?
- 1:22:44Lachlan, you need to reveal who you are.
- 1:22:47Because you're fine. But here's here's one.
- 1:22:49Sometimes we we like the the nondrift ones for the questions.
- 1:22:52What's your favorite flavor of anything?
- 1:22:54That's actually a pretty good question.
- 1:22:56Favorite flavor. I got to think real hard about
- 1:22:58that. What am I tasting right now?
- 1:23:03Pizza dude? Pepperoni like that?
- 1:23:05Saltiness of pepperoni. Is why we don't get along.
- 1:23:08What are you going to fucking say?
- 1:23:09Definitely not that. OK.
- 1:23:11Well, do you have one of my favorite flavor of anything?
- 1:23:13Yeah. Like what?
- 1:23:13What? I'm a salty guy.
- 1:23:16That's why my friends will make fun of me, because I like the
- 1:23:21grapefruit, truly. Or white clothes.
- 1:23:25Oh, you have a different palette, no?
- 1:23:27You have a. You have a different.
- 1:23:29To you, though, they're like they're like you could drink.
- 1:23:31You're the only one in the world that likes.
- 1:23:32That yes, you are. You need OK No, you're that
- 1:23:35friend group. You're that friend group that
- 1:23:36you need. You're that friend in the group
- 1:23:38that you need. Yeah, because they hand them.
- 1:23:39Because yeah, no one's going to drink this.
- 1:23:40No one take. No one takes that one.
- 1:23:42Yeah. Oh, these are Michaels.
- 1:23:43Yeah, perfect. Now come, what about you?
- 1:23:45Flavor of anything? Yeah.
- 1:23:52I like tart things. What I don't?
- 1:23:55Know, dude, I like sour tart things.
- 1:23:58Tart. Tart.
- 1:24:00Yeah, tart. Like grapefruit.
- 1:24:02You said grapefruit. I fucking love grapefruit.
- 1:24:04That ass. Yeah, I love grapefruit.
- 1:24:06I love cranberry. Cranberry is good, yeah.
- 1:24:09I do tart my crab. There's my tart boy right there.
- 1:24:12I like Oreos. Nice.
- 1:24:13All you were gonna say, dude, That's all I knew.
- 1:24:15You were gonna say I just think of ice cream.
- 1:24:17When you say flavor, I just think ice cream you like.
- 1:24:19That was the first thing I went in my head.
- 1:24:21You know flavor. Chocolate is probably your
- 1:24:23favorite flavor. That's your flavor of choice?
- 1:24:25Yeah, it might be. Yeah.
- 1:24:26Let's go with that. OK, what's a?
- 1:24:28All right, this is from. I'm gonna say this wrong.
- 1:24:33This is from. Is why I don't read.
- 1:24:34Necros. Excuse me?
- 1:24:36Loves you. OK.
- 1:24:38That's NEKROS. Loves you?
- 1:24:42No idea. OK, why is the JCG 10 the next
- 1:24:44big drift car? What's a JCG 10?
- 1:24:47I don't know. I don't.
- 1:24:48Know what is that? Let's.
- 1:24:49Look it up I. Have a feeling it's not the next
- 1:24:50biggest. Drift car CG10.
- 1:24:53Is it Toyota? What is that shit?
- 1:24:54What do I What the fuck is that? What is it?
- 1:24:57It's a big car here till your till your monitor, Malcolm.
- 1:25:01I don't think that's going to be it one day.
- 1:25:03What is that? Looks like a gigantic Figaro.
- 1:25:05Maybe it's cheap to import, I don't know.
- 1:25:07What's it. Is it wait is.
- 1:25:08It is it A1J? Is it an imported vehicle or is
- 1:25:11that a stateside vehicle? That's got to be imported.
- 1:25:14I don't think Americans would buy that.
- 1:25:16Yeah. I've never.
- 1:25:17Seen this? Thing I think he's trolling us.
- 1:25:18Yeah, for sure. All right then.
- 1:25:20Definitely not the next big drift car, but I think an LS is.
- 1:25:24I've seen more and more of them being drifted, which to me, I
- 1:25:27feel like that's daily law. Dave O'Leary is now drifting
- 1:25:30one. I used to follow this guy for
- 1:25:31the longest time who had one. His name was Reid.
- 1:25:35Read Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a red one.
- 1:25:39Freeze. He was one of the first ones
- 1:25:40I've seen that had that, like, lace stuff on the pillar.
- 1:25:43And I was like, that's cool, like a VIPs, yeah.
- 1:25:45But he was drifting the shit out of it, yeah.
- 1:25:48Yeah, this is Artie Woo Cakes. I'm wearing the shirt Art.
- 1:25:54How many Mcchickens can all of you eat in one sitting?
- 1:25:58No mayonnaise. No mayonnaise.
- 1:26:00Oh, you. Because you are you.
- 1:26:01I don't do mayonnaise. I don't do ketchup shit.
- 1:26:03You got it. I I'm going to struggle.
- 1:26:05For you, would you? I don't.
- 1:26:06I don't find that that weird. Would you still eat it?
- 1:26:08No mayonnaise on it. I would have to, I yeah, but if
- 1:26:13it was a contest. Do you have another sauce of
- 1:26:15choice you put on it? I would allow that as well, no.
- 1:26:18No, OK. You're a no dry guy.
- 1:26:20Yeah, I'll get my chicken Nuggets dry.
- 1:26:22I'm OK with that, yeah. Frankie is.
- 1:26:24Actually, OK, McDonald's chicken Nuggets taste good with nothing.
- 1:26:27Sure. I mean, aside from the Mcchicken
- 1:26:30thing, me and my friend Nikoloff, we at one point.
- 1:26:38How many? I just got the Facebook reminder
- 1:26:3510 years ago, eight years ago, between the two of.
- 1:26:39Oh no. How many?
- 1:26:39100 Easy. I think I had over over 50.
- 1:26:44No, I had over 50. My carry the team well, and he's
- 1:26:46a big guy, but yeah, I'll do. 50 right now, alone.
- 1:26:49Yeah. Stop.
- 1:26:49I can house. No, you would not go get them.
- 1:26:51I can house them. No no get Sir, why are no gets?
- 1:26:53It's so nice to eat. It's just like.
- 1:26:55Throw. I could get 220 pieces and down
- 1:26:57that shit like it wasn't even. That's what I'm driving, dude.
- 1:26:59I'm just. Oh, when you're driving, is it?
- 1:27:01Frankie doesn't allow driving and eating, which is going to
- 1:27:03suck. Final bout keeps.
- 1:27:04Bringing this up because you got to driving to final bout.
- 1:27:07He was like, I'm going to prep food and bring it in the car.
- 1:27:09I was like, no, you a sandwich? Yeah.
- 1:27:13Pot roast? No, dude, no.
- 1:27:14I mean, if I'm driving, I'm not going to prep food for her.
- 1:27:17I might stop and get something. Yeah, he said.
- 1:27:19I'm like, you can get out, Yeah, Yeah.
- 1:27:22I'm like, all my favorite things to do is like, just eat goldfish
- 1:27:24while we're driving. Like that's a little different.
- 1:27:26That's what I mean. Now you said prep.
- 1:27:29Prep food, what do you? Have Prep a gold.
- 1:27:30That's what I mean. Yeah.
- 1:27:30But in zip put it in the. You were, like, gonna make
- 1:27:33sandwiches and just pull them out.
- 1:27:34I just said to have a baloney between my fucking center
- 1:27:36council taquitos. Baloney sandwich, but make In
- 1:27:40terms of make chickens, I think I could have maybe.
- 1:27:43I maybe had to make chicken one time in my life.
- 1:27:46Because you're not a Mayo person.
- 1:27:47What's the time? Person the the the time limit of
- 1:27:50of make chickens. What's the time limit?
- 1:27:48I'm a. No limit.
- 1:27:51Let's say. Let's say.
- 1:27:52All right, let's say an hour, because if you give anybody in
- 1:27:54anytime, they could eat as many things as they want in an hour.
- 1:27:57How many new chickens can you have?
- 1:27:58I think I could have three or four without getting sick after
- 1:28:01without getting. And I have like if this is like
- 1:28:05a like the Nathan's hot dog contest type thing that.
- 1:28:08Shit's discussed. No, no, I want you to get in the
- 1:28:10water. I want you to sit there and and
- 1:28:12just eat it normal. You don't have to.
- 1:28:14Shove it in the water and shove it down your gullet like I'm I'm
- 1:28:17naturally a fast eater. I can.
- 1:28:19I can probably eat 10. I'm saying 1010.
- 1:28:21I'm saying an hour. Yeah, I'm saying easily, Yeah,
- 1:28:23I'd probably get through five of them in the 1st 20 minutes.
- 1:28:26I'm. Agree.
- 1:28:27That was not the vibe I was getting from you, Michael.
- 1:28:29I'm. Shocked.
- 1:28:30I think we could get 10 big chickens in an hour is.
- 1:28:33Crazy dude. I would try if you ate 10.
- 1:28:36Don't give me a reason to eat McDonald's.
- 1:28:38I wouldn't feel good after. I would sit there and I would be
- 1:28:40like, all right. I got to try to keep going.
- 1:28:43Go get the Nuggets right now, Carl.
- 1:28:45No. I would love to though.
- 1:28:48Dude, I would eat so many Nuggets right now.
- 1:28:49It. Hears me out about McDonald's
- 1:28:51nugs though recently because I like get.
- 1:28:52The poison. No, there's like a piece in
- 1:28:54there and I'm like. Yeah, it's a bone.
- 1:28:55It's part. Of piece of the beak.
- 1:28:56Yeah, that's beak. Great.
- 1:28:58It's good for your teeth. They you saw how those are made,
- 1:29:02right, Carl? Yeah, I watched it.
- 1:29:03I watched a dock. Yeah, I didn't.
- 1:29:05I watched a dock in high school and each day we went to
- 1:29:08McDonald's. I think that's horrifying, yeah.
- 1:29:10So it's not going to change anything, like they wouldn't
- 1:29:12sell to me if it would kill me hopefully.
- 1:29:14Oh, yes, they will. Yeah.
- 1:29:18This is from Tyler. Say what?
- 1:29:19What's your favorite car you got the chance to drive?
- 1:29:22This is a good question. Actually, yeah, I'm going to
- 1:29:24take the word favorite out of there.
- 1:29:26Maybe just because it's hard probably to pick a favorite, but
- 1:29:28so one of my most cars is Jordan Threlfall St.
- 1:29:31Heat. Oh yeah, S13 Coupe.
- 1:29:35I just he you know we we set up a course hey can I take a lap or
- 1:29:38two his seat he's taller than me his seat is far back and I've
- 1:29:42I've said this to him before it's a it's well put together
- 1:29:44it's kind of I think he said it's older turbo and stuff like
- 1:29:47that but like a period corrector or whatever but I feel like it's
- 1:29:51just rough rough enough around the edges for me where it rips
- 1:29:57right and and it just got it's got a little bit of chatter and
- 1:30:00stuff. It's like what you thought that
- 1:30:02it would be maybe like that's what I would get from that, like
- 1:30:05I'm getting from. Your Yo.
- 1:30:06What was the name of his team back in the day?
- 1:30:09Magnificent, yes. Yes.
- 1:30:12Dude, Casey. Yeah.
- 1:30:13Yeah. Was Roy in it or?
- 1:30:15I don't think so. Yeah.
- 1:30:16I mean, I don't remember they're all from the same area, but I
- 1:30:18know Casey and enjoy. Yeah, I remember the two of
- 1:30:21them. Yeah, dude, I remember.
- 1:30:22Yeah, those cars were sick, but I've driven, I've driven M fours
- 1:30:26colon 4M and our BMI video. I drifted on McLaren's 600.
- 1:30:33What the fuck? Very, very difficult.
- 1:30:37I spun out. A lot.
- 1:30:38Yeah, don't get me wrong. But I I drifted.
- 1:30:40Full disclosure, I was able to drift it.
- 1:30:42Yeah, that's pretty silly. Then I spun out.
- 1:30:46There's not a lot of angle in those kinds of cars.
- 1:30:48I really, Zach Foss used to have a FC with A1J in it.
- 1:30:51That was really cool at Canon. I drove an S this kid Mike Wing,
- 1:30:54had a S13 One J. That was really cool car.
- 1:30:59How do you how do RX Sevens Drift FCS?
- 1:31:02So mine is stock angle. I just have bushings not not
- 1:31:07turbo two. It's it's NA.
- 1:31:10You have to be moving and I have to really like.
- 1:31:13Like what's about the We were looking at the rears.
- 1:31:15You have to be moving. Yeah.
- 1:31:17Like, momentum is key. Yeah.
- 1:31:19But I'm doing Turbo Two. My buddy Joel, his Turbo Two, it
- 1:31:22rips. It, does it.
- 1:31:24It's fun. It's very fun.
- 1:31:26The rear suspension on those cars, but I was like what in the
- 1:31:28fucking ancient technology were we doing back there?
- 1:31:31Mine had flex bushing so I had to take them out for drifting
- 1:31:35because it counteracts what you're trying to do, but under
- 1:31:38load it would self sear. What?
- 1:31:41Yeah. Yeah, there's some weird shit,
- 1:31:44but the cars grip like they're really fun sporty cars, like
- 1:31:48truly a way better than S13 sporty wise.
- 1:31:50Like if you're just cruising back roads and stuff, wow.
- 1:31:53Didn't I say this? I said I'll you never said that.
- 1:31:56Yes I did. But they're more they would be
- 1:31:58more they are a little bit more technical to drive than an S13
- 1:32:01drifting wise, right. So S13, right, you get in and do
- 1:32:05your thing. You kind of have to know what
- 1:32:07you're doing in FC, you know to to really accomplish.
- 1:32:10It like a Miata, yeah. Yeah.
- 1:32:13A little less snappy, but yeah. One day recently I drove a SN95
- 1:32:20Mustang. Right solid axle.
- 1:32:23I was amazed. I I've been saying I like those
- 1:32:28recently, which is weird, Yeah, but.
- 1:32:30Which one is this? I don't really know the years.
- 1:32:33If I if I saw one driving, I'd be like, oh, I like those
- 1:32:35actually. It's like it's not like the
- 1:32:38newer body style or the. One right before, not right
- 1:32:41before. It's kind of got the slated
- 1:32:42headlights. You talking about your 90s
- 1:32:45Mustang 98? Kind of. 98 to 2000 exactly on
- 1:32:48it. Yeah, 4.6 liter, right?
- 1:32:51It's after. Is the one we had an argument
- 1:32:53on. Yeah, 22 body styles after the
- 1:32:55Fox body. But I was very, did you say?
- 1:32:58Two after the fox body, Yeah. Yes.
- 1:33:01Then right, because you have the you have your fox body, then you
- 1:33:05had the one that came right after the fox.
- 1:33:07So I thought the one that came after was the one we're talking
- 1:33:09about. No, maybe I'm wrong.
- 1:33:11This is the next one. After that I got very similar
- 1:33:13chassis like. Looks wise does not look like
- 1:33:16the more modern ones. It was kind of its.
- 1:33:19Own shape? Well, this is what I want to see
- 1:33:21if I'm missing one. Yeah.
- 1:33:22So the body style after that do it at 2000.
- 1:33:27Is my favorite Mustang. Boom.
- 1:33:30Oh yeah, I am missing one. OK.
- 1:33:32Yeah, really. That's Malcolm.
- 1:33:34I was missing a body style when we had that argument.
- 1:33:37Yeah, so you were wrong. I like that.
- 1:33:40Thank you. I don't actually think I was.
- 1:33:42I like that one, Malcolm, but I was.
- 1:33:44I was pleasantly surprised by that.
- 1:33:43I was that. So they drift well.
- 1:33:48Oh wait, no, this is the one I'm thinking of.
- 1:33:49This is the second time I drove the same car and he did a bunch
- 1:33:53of changes and yes, it was it was pretty good.
- 1:33:57You drove it the first time and it wasn't.
- 1:33:59Yeah, probably. Just maybe wasn't prepped,
- 1:34:01right? Because I have heard good things
- 1:34:02about that car, like and Frankie.
- 1:34:08Your favorite company is making a body kit for it.
- 1:34:11Wait, what? Oh cool.
- 1:34:12KBD fuck out of here with that. Bullshit, dude.
- 1:34:14It's like a BN looking body kit. Oh yeah.
- 1:34:17It's a escort, dude. It's a I shit you not.
- 1:34:20It's an escort. Dude, it's like that blind guy
- 1:34:22from fucking Mr. Deeds. Look, it's being sports.
- 1:34:25Hold on, because I will say like I like the kit that he made.
- 1:34:29If you're going to Rep a kit, actually Rep it.
- 1:34:32Don't make it uglier. It it's how many people make
- 1:34:35body kits for an SN95, you know, I don't even know what we're
- 1:34:38talking. That's what I would probably,
- 1:34:40yeah, right is. That how you pronounce it.
- 1:34:42I've been saying Celine this whole time.
- 1:34:43I have no idea. I'm like bad with those.
- 1:34:45I would have trusted you. Yeah, I just realized there's a
- 1:34:47whole another Mustang I was forgetting.
- 1:34:50Let's see. Wait.
- 1:34:50We got a couple more here. I was still writing on them.
- 1:34:53I. Thought you weren't.
- 1:34:54That was from Tyler. Say what?
- 1:34:55So he also said SR20, God's motor check funniest incident
- 1:35:01that's happened and some tips for first timers before going to
- 1:35:05your local track. Funniest incident.
- 1:35:10I don't know. We have a lot of good times, a
- 1:35:12lot of funny stuff. My mind goes right to the most
- 1:35:20dangerous thing that happened because.
- 1:35:21That's not funny. Oh wait, so mine was going to
- 1:35:24bowel movements. I was like somebody probably
- 1:35:26shit themselves. I mean, I guess that's possible.
- 1:35:29Because why do I feel like? People shit themselves.
- 1:35:32Because this is if a track is very far.
- 1:35:36Yeah, paddock or paddock to pit to paddock to grid if it is very
- 1:35:41far and you have to go to the restroom and you're having a bad
- 1:35:43day, bro. You shit in.
- 1:35:45Your car the next time the the the The time it takes for you to
- 1:35:49go back down and find a bathroom and go to the restroom is long.
- 1:35:52How many times have you? Why?
- 1:35:53Why weren't you just going to the bathroom before?
- 1:35:54I never. Have shit my pants while driving
- 1:35:56every OK it just comes out of my mouth.
- 1:36:00Feel like you might have a story?
- 1:36:01No, I I actually never have. I have a story where I was in in
- 1:36:05traffic once and it was it was to that point where I'm sweating
- 1:36:09my nads off bro. I'm like I'm about to squirt.
- 1:36:13Like here it is. But I there happened to be a
- 1:36:18live no there had to yeah out of my butt I was there happened to
- 1:36:22be a live construction zone going and they had a Portage on
- 1:36:26like right by the highway. So I parked my truck, the car,
- 1:36:29get out, use the porta. Pod No, you didn't.
- 1:36:32Bro, I just walked right on the site, got in the porta potty.
- 1:36:34I was asking on the site on the construction.
- 1:36:37Site Yeah, we were bumper to bumper traffic.
- 1:36:38I was going to shit myself. You got your hard hat on.
- 1:36:41You're like, what's up boys? And then, yeah, let me, yeah,
- 1:36:43let me put a hard you write my number on the porta potty.
- 1:36:45I just. Walked.
- 1:36:46I just walked like I had a fucking mission into that Porta
- 1:36:50Jones they. They.
- 1:36:52They were probably like they understood they were.
- 1:36:55Like, all right. Like we're not using that one.
- 1:36:57Like do? Holy shit like like sweating to
- 1:36:59the bone. I've never done that.
- 1:37:01We have Porta potties at Grid. So perfect.
- 1:37:02Yeah, we're ready to go. All right.
- 1:37:06So, no. So no.
- 1:37:07Funny, funny. There's so I can't.
- 1:37:09There's too many of them. Yeah.
- 1:37:10Yeah. Things.
- 1:37:13What was the second part of that?
- 1:37:14Things. Be prepared.
- 1:37:15For first time, check your car. Tech your own car before showing
- 1:37:18up. Yeah, right.
- 1:37:20I don't think anybody's read the rules to get.
- 1:37:22It not one person has ever done that.
- 1:37:23And then and drive a big thing. I say drive 80%.
- 1:37:27Like, don't go all out. Right, Yeah.
- 1:37:30For your first event. You don't want to fuck your shit
- 1:37:32up on the first one, You know that would.
- 1:37:34Be pretty bad. That's actually a good word of
- 1:37:35advice as well. But if you're having a good
- 1:37:38time, my dumbass would be like Yep, but then you keep like you
- 1:37:43keep going, right? And then that's when you're
- 1:37:45going off or you have mistakes you're having because you're
- 1:37:47like your car is getting more tired by the end of the day.
- 1:37:50Your your grip is getting lost and.
- 1:37:52You break more stuff, yeah, but your energy level is dropping at
- 1:37:57the same time. But your adrenaline's going up,
- 1:37:59right? So you're more prone to make
- 1:38:01mistakes. You got to know when to call it,
- 1:38:03but don't call it. So if you stay, you never say,
- 1:38:06yeah, if you stay 80% you're you're kind of level, right?
- 1:38:10Yeah, I have to. I don't.
- 1:38:12I don't follow what I practice most, Practice what I preach.
- 1:38:14Right. Yeah.
- 1:38:15Yeah, most of us don't. I bring some for a car ride and
- 1:38:18I'm trying to show off and I go off, yeah, you know.
- 1:38:20I feel like you realize that as time goes, so then you could
- 1:38:22just tell people that because you're like, you know what, I
- 1:38:25fucked up doing this, so hopefully you'll do it this.
- 1:38:28Way, I mean taking your own car before you go to the event is.
- 1:38:30That's like the best thing ever. Great.
- 1:38:32I'll find some broken stuff and be like, yeah, not bolt check
- 1:38:35all the time. Yes, not bolt check and last
- 1:38:38one. This is from Boosted 92 coop.
- 1:38:41Favorite dinosaur? I think we went over this.
- 1:38:43I'm a Stegosaurus. Guy, we've answered this
- 1:38:45question like 7 times pterodactyl.
- 1:38:46That's a good one. See, No one ever goes right.
- 1:38:49I like the Stegosaurus. Because of the height.
- 1:38:50I said mobile. Noble.
- 1:38:53Yours is what Yours is what, Malcolm?
- 1:38:56I forget what I said. Some dumb shit, yeah.
- 1:38:58Trigosaurus. A fucking bronchios, I think, I
- 1:39:00said. Triceratops.
- 1:39:02Yeah, Yeah. All right.
- 1:39:04It's aggressive, the funniest, back to the funniest thing.
- 1:39:08I got. I got I just it just clicked.
- 1:39:12The triceratops is what the pterodactyl, actually, I'm
- 1:39:15giving a lesson to this girl right 350 where it's 350Z1 of
- 1:39:20school cars and she's getting it.
- 1:39:24She's getting pretty good. A flock of geese start flying
- 1:39:27over, bombarded the car, she got shit on everything.
- 1:39:31Yeah, but it's geese. It's bigger than a softball.
- 1:39:35They just flew up. Oh my God.
- 1:39:37Just dropped. She got shit on her arm.
- 1:39:39No, I'm like cracking me up and I'm big on Jay.
- 1:39:42She needed normally a trajectory for that.
- 1:39:46Wait, she was out of her car and they just no, no, she was in the
- 1:39:49car, right? her and I were in the school car
- 1:39:52and it it landed. Hood windshield mirror
- 1:39:56splattered in the door all over her arm.
- 1:39:59Dude, we had to stop. She had to go.
- 1:40:00I had to wash the car. It smelled so bad.
- 1:40:02Oh my God, these are a flock of geese right from they took off
- 1:40:05from the infield of the Oval. Aerial strike, yeah.
- 1:40:08Holy. Fuck.
- 1:40:10That is definitely pretty. That was pretty fine.
- 1:40:13So that brings me to another question.
- 1:40:12That was like 2 months. You got your own cars over
- 1:40:15there, yes? That's pretty nice.
- 1:40:17We have your favorite an FRS, right?
- 1:40:20Turbot FRS. Okay, I like that car.
- 1:40:22Yeah, why do you? Know that.
- 1:40:25I listen to podcast. No, I know I'm not.
- 1:40:27I'm not just here. Have you said that enough?
- 1:40:30What do I like where? Well, people know this.
- 1:40:32And I was watching your page. You were recently rebuilding one
- 1:40:35and you did some killer bee stuff, I believe.
- 1:40:37What are you doing? So so that text me I did the
- 1:40:41killer bee pick up tube and and stuff.
- 1:40:43On it we were talking about. That maybe it was talking.
- 1:40:45About, Yeah. But because, yeah, we were.
- 1:40:47I mean, we're getting more and more GR86 people in here too.
- 1:40:50So it's an upcoming chassis, yeah?
- 1:40:52Dude, there was a. New one at.
- 1:40:54Evergreen that's great this past weekend.
- 1:40:56Props to that guy. He was driving the shit out of
- 1:40:58that thing. He was.
- 1:40:59Drifting and we have 350Z Z HP330I BMW.
- 1:41:05I have Kyle Linder's old purple car and we're going to put a VQ
- 1:41:08in it. Oh my God, he he retired that
- 1:41:10thing. Because of the.
- 1:41:12Quarter panel shit. Yeah, yeah, he hasn't driven.
- 1:41:15He has a RX7. But yeah, we we were at a demo
- 1:41:20and him. What are you going to put in
- 1:41:21that? A VQ dude.
- 1:41:23Now we're going to put 4 mufflers on it, but.
- 1:41:26Here's why I liked you before. That it is a listen.
- 1:41:28It is a school. I also have a S14SR.
- 1:41:31But a lot of people are mad at you, right?
- 1:41:32Now it is a school car. So I'm going for the reliability
- 1:41:35aspect. Of it.
- 1:41:36If it wasn't that car, yeah, I wouldn't have said anything.
- 1:41:39Well, hey. Which car is this?
- 1:41:41Kyle Landers from Drift Action. The purple hatch?
- 1:41:43Yeah, he did he. I've already told him, I've
- 1:41:46already told him he's he's OK with it, so.
- 1:41:48He's OK with it. He under it's.
- 1:41:50Times are changing. It's a school car, right?
- 1:41:52You know, So like, literally, my school cars drive for seven
- 1:41:56hours. Yeah, straight.
- 1:41:59Because I do. I do 2-3 and 1/2 hour sessions,
- 1:42:01right? So like.
- 1:42:03One time this husband bought his wife lessons for her 60th
- 1:42:07birthday party. Holy shit, right.
- 1:42:09So that that was a lot of like she got it, but that was a lot
- 1:42:13of just driving and learning to you know, you know that.
- 1:42:16And then right after that was a 19 or 20 year old kid who grew
- 1:42:20up racing quads. So he picked picks it up.
- 1:42:24So you get in all these different aspects of people.
- 1:42:26So that's a lot on the car. And if I'm going to build an Sr.
- 1:42:31it's going in my car, it's. Pretty crazy in it.
- 1:42:33KA is not. I feel like KA and there's so
- 1:42:35many easier answers. But I can get you know you to
- 1:42:39put a KA and everything back in there.
- 1:42:41I can get a full VQ swap with the transfer like 2 grand,
- 1:42:44right? So.
- 1:42:46And that's what's reliable. Just because you can.
- 1:42:49Do It doesn't. Mean reliable about a power.
- 1:42:52An old school thing I preach. You want to learn a under power
- 1:42:54car? I think the biggest thing I say
- 1:42:56is it's like learning baseball with a marble and a broomstick,
- 1:43:00right? I get that.
- 1:43:02Same time you want that aspect of success, right?
- 1:43:06So. The car belongs in a museum,
- 1:43:08Michael. It is.
- 1:43:11It's in the corner of my shop. God damn it.
- 1:43:15I will show you pictures of my car and you'll see what parts
- 1:43:18have made its way to my car from that car.
- 1:43:20So he always tried to buy over fenders for me and I said no.
- 1:43:23No, I was like you. Have to rebuild a quarter panel.
- 1:43:26Yeah. He's like, I don't really want
- 1:43:27to do that. I'm like, yeah, but.
- 1:43:29He has a couple times too, you know.
- 1:43:30Yeah, he do. It once and then.
- 1:43:33Yeah, yeah. Oh.
- 1:43:34My God. Dude, so.
- 1:43:36Fuck yeah, Well, if you. Have another If you have another
- 1:43:40chassis, I'll trade you. How's that?
- 1:43:41I. Don't want that smashed fucking
- 1:43:43car. My car's probably been through
- 1:43:46hell. Yeah, but so I'm on hunt for.
- 1:43:48I want to build, you know, two other cars after that.
- 1:43:50That makes sense. Fuck.
- 1:43:52What? Oh, wait, no.
- 1:43:53It's just a video of, like, a Land Cruiser.
- 1:43:55Is that his Land Cruiser? Does he have a Land Cruiser?
- 1:43:57Landers. No, I'm with this guy.
- 1:43:59I love this guy. I think if he has a Land
- 1:44:01Cruiser, who you talking about? Kyle Landers.
- 1:44:03Oh, this car. Yes, yes.
- 1:44:06OK. See Carl's kind of like newer
- 1:44:10drifter, but not new new. The only.
- 1:44:12Not, not a. Video I saw was like.
- 1:44:14Okay. I don't.
- 1:44:16I still might follow them. I don't know.
- 1:44:17But it was a red car. Yeah.
- 1:44:19Yeah. And they were streeted.
- 1:44:22Yeah, they were streeted, the professor.
- 1:44:23And it was like I had my S13 and you know you.
- 1:44:27S13. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:44:29On YouTube and it was like an old video.
- 1:44:30In the rain and shit. It was fast and it was like into
- 1:44:34like a Culdesac type of deal. So the car, Dave is a legend.
- 1:44:36And I would watch these videos I did, they're in 3rd and it's
- 1:44:39like right into the Culdesac. He is fantastic.
- 1:44:46You come to one of our so we do beginner clinics on Fridays.
- 1:44:50He is the lead instructor. You go to our YouTube, he's got
- 1:44:53YouTube videos on how to hit our tracks and and stuff like that.
- 1:44:55Really. Yeah, that's cool.
- 1:44:56I didn't know he was instructing that.
- 1:44:58That makes sense. He is a vital part of the
- 1:45:02community. He was one of the part like I
- 1:45:04would watch those. And it kind of helps sets the
- 1:45:06tone of right what what we strive for, you know?
- 1:45:10Because that car. Was red.
- 1:45:12Does he still have that car? Yes.
- 1:45:14Yep, he's getting a little overhaul right now.
- 1:45:17He's got a Lexus LS, so it's. Been driving that.
- 1:45:21You come to an event after, you know, Friday night?
- 1:45:23Get a couple of them. I'll tell you how great Lexuses
- 1:45:25are. Won't stop.
- 1:45:28That's funny. But you like, so you watch him,
- 1:45:32Miata. Rob is like super kamikaze on on
- 1:45:36Instagram. You watch those two drive
- 1:45:37together and you're just like. Wow.
- 1:45:40Like I, I I love watching them drive.
- 1:45:42Those are some of the older videos from the United States on
- 1:45:46YouTube and shit for drifting. Yeah, dude, I'm telling you, I
- 1:45:48know what that video It might have been raining, actually.
- 1:45:51I remember seeing one in the rain.
- 1:45:52Yeah. Yep.
- 1:45:53And he slid out and into the grass.
- 1:45:55He didn't hit the pole, but it was kind of close.
- 1:45:57Yeah, that one. Drift faction was in like the
- 1:45:59top. Yeah.
- 1:46:01Yeah. Of the windshield?
- 1:46:03Yep. Totally.
- 1:46:04Remember, they are like, yeah. Yeah, man.
- 1:46:07That's so anybody that wants to thank?
- 1:46:09You know that tries to think me should think them because if it
- 1:46:11wasn't for them. Yeah, that's why I asked you
- 1:46:14when when we started the OR right before we started this, I
- 1:46:16was like, so are you the founder?
- 1:46:18And you were like, yeah. And I was like, OK, but the
- 1:46:20reason I thought that was I was like, I thought Drift Action
- 1:46:22started this shit. Like Drift Factor.
- 1:46:23So they ran events at Lebanon Valley and 100% hit them up.
- 1:46:29Like Dave O'Leary was at the very first parking lot event,
- 1:46:32you know, and yeah. Is that New York State?
- 1:46:37What's a yeah? OK, I never been there either.
- 1:46:40It's up near Western Mass. It's a parking lot.
- 1:46:42There is a lot. I know I met another guy who
- 1:46:45drifts Lebanon Valley, but he also drifts Lock City as well.
- 1:46:49But there's a lot of the reason why.
- 1:46:51I know that is because there's a that SC community that Darrell's
- 1:46:54a part of. Oh yeah, like there's a lot of
- 1:46:57Sc's. Atlock City.
- 1:46:59There's a couple, we got a couple, we got a lot of
- 1:47:01cressida's, you know? Yeah.
- 1:47:03A lot of Justin's Cressida goes there.
- 1:47:05Yeah, it's still. Around.
- 1:47:06Yeah, it's Gray still. Like bolt styles too, right?
- 1:47:09Yeah. Like the the earlier body style
- 1:47:12in in the I Don't Know the years.
- 1:47:15But yeah, yeah, yeah, there's there's two of them, right?
- 1:47:17One of those boxier than the other.
- 1:47:19Yeah, one of them is like. They all take a lot of work I
- 1:47:21feel like to turn into a good. To make them look good.
- 1:47:24We get a lot of cool teams, like, everyone's in and not just
- 1:47:27like. Didn't just, they didn't just
- 1:47:29make teams to enter events, right?
- 1:47:30Like, yeah, like like Blue Brothers or whatever.
- 1:47:33Yeah, first of all, that name's way better.
- 1:47:35That name is way fucking better than whatever the fuck the other
- 1:47:37one was. Blue, I said.
- 1:47:39Blue Masters. Blue Masters I.
- 1:47:41Don't know the true name, right? There is it.
- 1:47:42Oh, there isn't a name that's not.
- 1:47:44Blue Brothers. There is because they are
- 1:47:45driving BMI, so they have there is a team name and so there's
- 1:47:49there's neat Drift Club, right. So the the big running drunk
- 1:47:51there's Neat Drift Club. It's got like 50 members.
- 1:47:53I don't know. Oh really?
- 1:47:54Yeah, they got a bunch of koi fish on the side of the car.
- 1:47:57They're good people. I'm friends with them and so.
- 1:47:59They're hoping the teams up there, right?
- 1:48:01Yeah, and so two of the members, Benny and Derek, they're
- 1:48:06running. Joke is, because they're friends
- 1:48:07with the the Blue boys, when they go to B, MB, MI and Blues
- 1:48:12win and neat loses, they're going to peel off their wrap and
- 1:48:15they're blue underneath or something.
- 1:48:17They got a big funny running joke going on about that, yeah.
- 1:48:20They got to change their name to Blue Brothers.
- 1:48:23Let's let's take a look at this big pile of merch.
- 1:48:26You brought us in. Yes.
- 1:48:27I didn't know sizes. I know you got, you know, people
- 1:48:30out here working too, so yeah. Are we?
- 1:48:33Yeah, you're saying. All these are ours.
- 1:48:35Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn.
- 1:48:37All right, make sure you got mediums.
- 1:48:38Largest and extra largest, right?
- 1:48:39Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing,
- 1:48:40dude. Thank you so much.
- 1:48:41No problem. Take a look at some of them
- 1:48:43because they look like they're pretty sick.
- 1:48:45Yeah, this year we really tried to push for the merch.
- 1:48:47I feel like God damn that is sick.
- 1:48:50Yeah, I feel like I can't wear this until I go to the event,
- 1:48:52but. Yeah.
- 1:48:53Yeah. What?
- 1:48:54That's pretty awesome. That is sick.
- 1:48:57Yeah, awesome logo. Thank you.
- 1:48:58I do like the logo. I love me a good.
- 1:49:01Well, you know what's funny? Frankie is that the font looks
- 1:49:05kind of like. Which one like how that one?
- 1:49:09Where it's like the sharp little L at the bottom, like it's like
- 1:49:12times new. Robe, the one that I just did
- 1:49:14right. Yeah, that one no over there on
- 1:49:16the. Shop tease bit your style.
- 1:49:18That's what I did. There, that was one of our
- 1:49:20drivers, Mitch. He's a tattoo artist, so he drew
- 1:49:22that. That's cool, yeah.
- 1:49:24Oh, I love that. Yeah.
- 1:49:27Yeah, these are awesome, man. There's a lot.
- 1:49:29Of yeah. Why?
- 1:49:30Why did you break so many? I feel so bad.
- 1:49:32We have a variety, right? Variety.
- 1:49:34But what is that? Can only you can prevent
- 1:49:36takeovers? This shirt is sick.
- 1:49:39So a vital staff member of ours, Megan, Her parents were.
- 1:49:44The victim of a takeover. Oh.
- 1:49:46No, we. Mrs. MR2 Spider, yeah.
- 1:49:49Fuck, that's the one. So, so we made those to make
- 1:49:53like a contribution of the, you know, to help help that.
- 1:49:57But I didn't want, I didn't want copyright infringement, so we
- 1:49:59didn't put Lock City on there, yeah.
- 1:50:02Yeah. No, it's but it's really cool.
- 1:50:03Like somebody we did two colors. Somebody had a green one and
- 1:50:06went around at like FD and a couple other things.
- 1:50:08Got a bunch of autographs on it and stuff like that.
- 1:50:10But. Dude, yeah.
- 1:50:10No, that's very unfortunate that that happened to, yeah.
- 1:50:14And like how how that? Video How often they call it,
- 1:50:17they call. It, Mrs. Right, right.
- 1:50:19What? Yeah.
- 1:50:20That's a person of a car community.
- 1:50:22And. Somebody.
- 1:50:23Yeah, those people. Aren't part of the car.
- 1:50:25Right. Isn't that so?
- 1:50:26Right. But isn't that so weird?
- 1:50:27Like that happened to somebody's parents who is a vital role in
- 1:50:31our in what we do you know, and they're calling oh, it's a
- 1:50:34drifting blah, blah, blah. But you know, yeah.
- 1:50:37So night stage, that's what we call our Friday night's night
- 1:50:39stage. That's why we we did that.
- 1:50:43These. Are some pretty cool shirts,
- 1:50:45Dude, What the? Hell, you just gave with these
- 1:50:46all at us. But no big deal.
- 1:50:48So. That's our mascot.
- 1:50:49We're looking for our name this. Is for Carl.
- 1:50:51Yeah. Why go fast?
- 1:50:54Take chances. Yeah, I do like that a lot.
- 1:50:57Last year, Sackard's driver's meeting, I had my she was 5 at
- 1:51:00the time. That's my daughter came with me,
- 1:51:03and that's what she said to at the driver's meeting.
- 1:51:05Last words for everybody to go. Go fast, take chances.
- 1:51:08That's what she said. Yeah.
- 1:51:09Really. Yeah.
- 1:51:10What the? Fuck, that's amazing.
- 1:51:12That's amazing. That's like the best thing you
- 1:51:14could say. Yeah, that's why I teach her,
- 1:51:16tell her all the time and she's on, She's riding dirt bikes and
- 1:51:19and stuff. I was going to say is, are your
- 1:51:21kids? Do you think they're going to
- 1:51:22also? I feel like it's just inevitable
- 1:51:24since. You are the same.
- 1:51:25Yeah, I my twin boys. I'll be away, right?
- 1:51:32My wife will send. They have a little like a little
- 1:51:34car. And they went to the snow.
- 1:51:35This water skips with me, right? And so I have a video, I can
- 1:51:38show it, They have it sending wheels up and they go brap,
- 1:51:43snow, be on the water, brap, you know.
- 1:51:46It's so impressionable. Yeah, they they come to the
- 1:51:50shop, they all they want to do is go in the cars.
- 1:51:53That's, you know, and it's not brainwashing.
- 1:51:55It is just like. Hey, even if it is.
- 1:51:58Yeah, and it's them. Yeah.
- 1:51:59You know, my daughter is like, way into it.
- 1:52:01She loves coming to the events. Last one.
- 1:52:03I took her for right in the Z, you know, put the booster seat
- 1:52:06in there. She has her, you know, it was
- 1:52:08not a approved helmet, but it was a her motocross helmet.
- 1:52:12Yeah, yeah. That's awesome.
- 1:52:14And she loves it. It probably was.
- 1:52:16Dude, if I felt that as a kid, do you imagine?
- 1:52:19Your dad was a fucking tracker organizer and shit like what?
- 1:52:22My dad drove a post office. Truck and you know at.
- 1:52:26Least it was right hand dry man you can't ask for.
- 1:52:28Too much. And part of the move right is
- 1:52:30because thinking a few months back, it's like, what am I doing
- 1:52:32this for, right? Yeah, you're like.
- 1:52:35What? What?
- 1:52:36What? You're a role model, dude.
- 1:52:38So I'm I'm getting older, somebody's going to have to
- 1:52:41start doing the driver's meetings because.
- 1:52:43Stop. You'll be doing that when you
- 1:52:45should be old. Yeah, stop.
- 1:52:46Yeah, you'll be doing that with a cane and shit.
- 1:52:48You. You.
- 1:52:48No, you have. It's going to give.
- 1:52:50Off such a good like work ethic that I feel like I don't think
- 1:52:53you you you seem to enjoy what you're doing, so I don't think
- 1:52:55you're going to go anywhere. You're going to be doing these
- 1:52:57drivers meeting for a while. And you, you definitely still
- 1:53:00enjoy it. I can see it, yeah.
- 1:53:01Yeah, because I know I don't look like that when I talk about
- 1:53:03cars. And you really fucking don't.
- 1:53:09Yeah, man. But they yeah.
- 1:53:07On that note, thank you so much Michael, for joining.
- 1:53:09Thanks. Thank.
- 1:53:10You. For bringing the merch, yeah.
- 1:53:12Yeah. And now we we definitely, 100%
- 1:53:14need to come up there. Your car is the only one.
- 1:53:17You're you. I know, Carl.
- 1:53:18Chris's doesn't work. I don't get aggressive.
- 1:53:20I'll let you drive a S13 VQ. If you want to come I.
- 1:53:24Will not drive the fucking car. Or Okay FRS Oh no, no no.
- 1:53:29Three weeks is 2 weeks. We're not going to do easy 2.
- 1:53:31Easy. Two weeks you.
- 1:53:33Could only go Fris is weird. The electronic steering.
- 1:53:35Yeah, like. Wait, David, Bob has a?
- 1:53:38Yeah, there is that thing. Yeah, I was talking to him about
- 1:53:40it. Yeah, I didn't even or no.
- 1:53:42It's like somebody else back there.
- 1:53:43I. Didn't know what the hell that
- 1:53:44was. Dude.
- 1:53:45But I don't have that yet. And it is.
- 1:53:48It is real. It's real weird.
- 1:53:49Yeah, real weird. What?
- 1:53:50What? What happens like when you drive
- 1:53:52it? So say you're trying like a hard
- 1:53:55flick entry and just to scrub your speed and get through it
- 1:53:59clutched in, it locks. The steering wheel just locks
- 1:54:03and you have to like man it out and I'm a big on revving, you
- 1:54:08know, you really have to Rev it thinks it's crashing.
- 1:54:11The car, right? Right.
- 1:54:12So it's electronic. Steering and it's.
- 1:54:15It's not, Yeah. That's a different problem than
- 1:54:16I thought it was going to be. Yeah, yeah, that's totally.
- 1:54:18But now that I can anticipate it, I've It doesn't.
- 1:54:21If you're not an aggressive driver, it doesn't.
- 1:54:24If you pull the APS fuse out, does it still do that?
- 1:54:27I don't know what APS. Abs.
- 1:54:30I don't know. I don't know what an APS.
- 1:54:32Is it was already like? Because I remember I would try
- 1:54:36to drift my mom's in Prezzo when she had one and I and every in
- 1:54:40the snow and when the wheel would turn all of a sudden.
- 1:54:45The wheels would lock up. Or some weird shit.
- 1:54:47Like some weird shit. Would naturally you pulled out
- 1:54:49your Bob's APS exactly, so that's crazy.
- 1:54:52Nick from Subimans. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:54:54His M4, he's taken a few lessons in that and he's now at the
- 1:55:00point where he's doing faints and stuff.
- 1:55:02The car knows if he's not getting the faint right, and I
- 1:55:04know he's not getting it right as an outsider because the
- 1:55:07windows start going up. His seat belt locks in.
- 1:55:08Excuse me? Yeah, what?
- 1:55:10The windows go. Up.
- 1:55:12Yep. It's like a rollover protector,
- 1:55:15yeah. But when he's getting it right,
- 1:55:18he's getting right so. The windows stay down, right?
- 1:55:21Yeah, that's crazy. And.
- 1:55:22It's so weird. He needs to get a real drift car
- 1:55:24now because yeah, now he kind of, well, he wanted to know he's
- 1:55:27doing real good and he's doing real good in it.
- 1:55:29But he scuffed the cone right on the headlight.
- 1:55:31And I'm like. They're three grand.
- 1:55:34No, he was able to get all out and stuff.
- 1:55:36But I'm like, yeah, but you're at that point, dude.
- 1:55:39Well, let's do it. Yeah, yeah, he's.
- 1:55:41Mechanical. Sympathy trying to get someone
- 1:55:42to help him out. Yeah, that you're bringing a car
- 1:55:44down. I would like to think that.
- 1:55:46OK, thank God, because we haven't, we haven't had space or
- 1:55:49time, but like maybe in the near future we will have enough
- 1:55:52space. There was an idea where that
- 1:55:54newer would that newer chassis, but as a drift car, not the
- 1:55:57newest one, but the one before that.
- 1:55:59I think that's what he loves, yeah.
- 1:56:01That's what he has, right? And I would love to see that.
- 1:56:04Yeah. We have a few Subaru's that
- 1:56:06drift our events. Yeah, Twan.
- 1:56:08Obviously Twan's got the H 6 and that's a sweet carved.
- 1:56:11That's a really good car to drive.
- 1:56:13That's a red one, right? Yeah, yeah.
- 1:56:15Really. Yeah.
- 1:56:16I'm trying to tell my brother to do that.
- 1:56:18He's got a bunch of subars. Yeah.
- 1:56:21But. Fuck yeah.
- 1:56:22Thank you guys. Yeah, thank you so much.
- 1:56:24Yeah, no problem. Check out Alcox.
- 1:56:26Good to talk with you. Yeah, way to chitchat with us.
- 1:56:29Here ass. Next time I wanna play the drift
- 1:56:33game. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:56:34Yeah. I think we'll probably.
- 1:56:35Invite you down with Yes, it sounds photo shit.
- 1:56:38Yeah, actually a better idea. Why don't we go up to one of
- 1:56:40your events in one day? Yeah, and we'll do a drift game
- 1:56:43at night or something. We could do that.
- 1:56:44I would have try to make that shit.
- 1:56:46Is that? Crazy or I got the spot for it.
- 1:56:48Let's do it. When do your events usually end?
- 1:56:50On Friday nights we end at 9:45. Perfect.
- 1:56:53So at 10:00, that's when the drift game starts, yeah.
- 1:56:55And Carl will drift that day and then, yeah, party it up.
- 1:56:58Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:56:59Do you guys do camping overnight?
- 1:57:00Oh yeah. Camping.
- 1:57:01Oh yeah, we got showers. Yeah.
- 1:57:03Ooh, yeah, really. That's that's a.
- 1:57:05They're like, you gotta, hey, definitely wear like water
- 1:57:08shoes. Yeah.
- 1:57:09And it's push, right? So you got to push and then
- 1:57:11it'll stop and you got to keep pushing.
- 1:57:13That's cool. Well still you got you got
- 1:57:15showers. Yeah.
- 1:57:16But thank you so much at Lock City Drift to make sure to check
- 1:57:18about. If you're in that area in
- 1:57:20Connecticut, where in Connecticut is Thompson again?
- 1:57:23Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut Corner.
- 1:57:25So that's you farthest spot you can get from here.
- 1:57:28Okay. Well, thank you guys.
- 1:57:32Malcolm, queue us out, all right?
- 1:57:34All right, let me figure out how to do this.
- 1:57:37He never It's always either late or early.
- 1:57:49That was a good time. That was very, very mellow.
- 1:57:52But it was it was a deep cut. Yeah, no, I think that, yeah,
- 1:57:56the podcast listeners will like that one.
- 1:57:58I think will let us know. Guys, we know you can leave
- 1:58:00reviews. I thought Spotify got rid of
- 1:58:03reviews the other day. You saw that?
- 1:58:05Yeah, they didn't. They they didn't, OK, but they
- 1:58:10did for a minute. Cuz you saw it too, right?
- 1:58:12Yeah, I saw it too. Maybe they're doing a little
- 1:58:14maintenance on the. I was like, here we go, no more
- 1:58:17reviews. It doesn't matter cuz we know
- 1:58:18where we stand. But yeah, they came back at the
- 1:58:21end of the day, so I was like okay cool.
- 1:58:23I guess they're back. So give us that five star
- 1:58:25rating, guys. Yeah, give us five star rating
- 1:58:27on iTunes, Spotify, whatever. You're listening to this on.
- 1:58:31Yeah, iTunes or Apple podcast. iTunes is a new thing anymore.
- 1:58:34ITunes is a thing, motherfucker. It is my computer.
- 1:58:37But nobody says iTunes. Stop with the old joke.
- 1:58:39You trying to make an old joke out of nothing, man?
- 1:58:42Alright, that wasn't an old joke you were trying.
- 1:58:44I would just say nobody. I haven't heard anybody say
- 1:58:46iTunes. On my computer right now.
- 1:58:48OK, sorry. And it comes on every single
- 1:58:50iPhone. OK, Sorry.
- 1:58:51So when are you leaving for final belt?
- 1:58:53Few hours, huh? Hit the road, Jack.
- 1:59:00At like 5 in the morning tomorrow.
- 1:59:01Nice. You excited?
- 1:59:04Yes. There you go, yeah.
- 1:59:08No, I'm. I'm excited to do the podcast.
- 1:59:10Yeah, we got a whole arsenal of podcast.
- 1:59:12This is going to be a whole final bout series.
- 1:59:14Coming up, we got. Five podcasts to do in the three
- 1:59:17days. Carl looked a little stressed
- 1:59:20out about, yeah, he doesn't know how many drugs to do before we
- 1:59:24get to the first one, so he's going to have to.
- 1:59:28You know, go through his bag of drugs and try to figure out
- 1:59:30which one's best. Where's the uppers?
- 1:59:32Yeah. But yeah, so stay tuned to
- 1:59:36those. So here's the deal with the
- 1:59:37podcast. I think the first one we do with
- 1:59:42team breaking is going to be released next week, I think.
- 1:59:46I don't know if this is true yet, but I think that would make
- 1:59:50the most sense. And then all of the other ones
- 1:59:53are going to be released on Patreon when we get back.
- 1:59:56Oh, Tuesday, Monday Early access type shit.
- 1:59:59Yeah. So if you're, if you're a member
- 2:00:01of our Patreon, you're going to get access to about, I don't
- 2:00:04know, five, at least five, at least four podcasts, probably
- 2:00:08more. And those will be on there
- 2:00:11indefinitely. So you can just go back and get
- 2:00:13those whenever you want. And then as the next two months
- 2:00:17happen, we will release the rest of the podcast.
- 2:00:22We'll probably throw some current ones in there too, so.
- 2:00:25But it's nice because this is my favorite season.
- 2:00:28I love September and fall, fall, October, everything.
- 2:00:31Autumn, autumn. Yeah, if you want to call it
- 2:00:34that, be a weirdo. Why is Chris screaming?
- 2:00:40Sorry, Background noise. Yeah, so it's like perfect
- 2:00:44timing for for me. I get to actually enjoy and not
- 2:00:48have to do a podcast every single.
- 2:00:49When you come alive. This is when I come alive.
- 2:00:51This is when I start working on my car.
- 2:00:53No. Spooky season.
- 2:00:55This spooky season, maybe I'll work on my car.
- 2:00:57I don't know. It's a lot better than the
- 2:00:59fucking summer. That's for sure.
- 2:01:01Fuck that dude. Oh my God.
- 2:01:04Every time I try to work on my car, I'm like, I'm not.
- 2:01:07I'm not doing this. Fuck this shit.
- 2:01:10Anyway, hope you all are enjoying your summer.
- 2:01:12I'm not. So what do we got on the
- 2:01:15website? I don't know.
- 2:01:17Oh, you added a ISR Performance oil cooler kit for a G 35350?
- 2:01:21Z that's new. They just came out with that,
- 2:01:23just came out with it. OK, what are you now?
- 2:01:26Looks pretty good. It's got everything you need.
- 2:01:29Yeah, no experience with that. Oh, here's something cool.
- 2:01:32I always like the the Nissan parts.
- 2:01:36Man, because those are the things that, and that's what
- 2:01:38Michael Lynch said on his way out yesterday, he said.
- 2:01:40I appreciate you guys. Have he said you guys have so
- 2:01:42many things that other people don't have?
- 2:01:44Yeah, so like 2 new things that are very weird to have and are
- 2:01:49mislabeled. I see Malcolm is the the Nissan
- 2:01:53distributor O-ring for RB engines, RB engine.
- 2:01:58It is for an RB engine and might fit a CA, but we.
- 2:02:00Don't know. I saw it labeled as a CA.
- 2:02:02You did, Yeah. Okay.
- 2:02:03So if it's both, it should fit both, just like order for an RB.
- 2:02:07So if you're leaking oil out of that distributor O-ring, might
- 2:02:12want to grab one of those. Also, Nissan parking brake cable
- 2:02:17lock. So this is that little clip, EU
- 2:02:19shaped clip that goes and holds your E brake cable to your
- 2:02:22caliper for S13, S 14. Yeah, we got those in stock now,
- 2:02:27so you can grab those. And yeah, I mean, we got a new
- 2:02:32shirt out. Please check out the new shirt,
- 2:02:33the SR20D ET as in T-shirt. Yeah, Malcolm came up with that
- 2:02:38many. Yeah.
- 2:02:39So check that out. What else we got going on?
- 2:02:43We got a lot of stuff going on. We have a just a reminder, we
- 2:02:45have a fully functioning automotive shop here actually.
- 2:02:47Motorsports. We can work on your daily
- 2:02:49driver, we can work on your race car.
- 2:02:50We can. We're not going to work on your
- 2:02:53motorcycle, but. Maybe one day, maybe one day, we
- 2:02:57can do alignments, installs, diagnostic work.
- 2:03:02Yep, we do not do body work. We do not do tuning other than
- 2:03:07that we can probably help you out.
- 2:03:09Yeah. So just a friendly reminder and
- 2:03:12another reminder. It looks still looking like
- 2:03:15we're going to expand the shop. I'm.
- 2:03:17Still scared? I haven't pulled the trigger yet
- 2:03:19because it's a lot of money. If you get this far into this
- 2:03:21outro, DM us and say scare money, don't make no money.
- 2:03:25Don't say that please. But I guess it would help to
- 2:03:30know how many people are listening to this shit.
- 2:03:33Yeah, so we might be storing cars.
- 2:03:35So if you're interested in storing your car here, we will
- 2:03:39be offering a lot of things, honestly, transport to and from
- 2:03:45the track or wherever you need to bring the car.
- 2:03:47Probably most likely because we have Anthony's towing who's
- 2:03:50going to be involved. We're about 45 minutes away from
- 2:03:54English Town Raceway Park. This is not only car storage for
- 2:03:57race cars or drift cars. It's probably going to be the
- 2:03:59opposite, actually, for the most part.
- 2:04:01But if you do have a track car and you don't want to trailer it
- 2:04:04to the track all the time, and all you do is go to English
- 2:04:07sound, it might be a good opportunity to store it here.
- 2:04:11So we're going to be doing that. We're going to be offering
- 2:04:14maintenance and everything else. Obviously it's the cars that are
- 2:04:17stored here because they're right next door.
- 2:04:19So you can have us build your car, work on it, store it,
- 2:04:23transport it to and from the track, detail it, you know,
- 2:04:27anything like that, Yeah. If you're interested in this,
- 2:04:30please shoot us an e-mail sales of factionmotorsports.com and
- 2:04:34we're just trying to get a head count.
- 2:04:36See if anyone's interested. If people are interested then we
- 2:04:39are going to probably pull the trigger and make this happen.
- 2:04:44We've had a few people interested in it already.
- 2:04:45So yeah. Now keep in mind this is not a,
- 2:04:48you know, you and your buddies keep in your car, in your garage
- 2:04:51or something like a shed. It's not like that.
- 2:04:54It's going to be a very clean environment.
- 2:04:57Cars are going to be stored properly, they're going to be on
- 2:04:59battery tenders and. They're going to be cared for.
- 2:05:00They're going to be cared for. They're going to be started
- 2:05:02every month, at least once a month.
- 2:05:04Tires are going to be moved around so they don't get flat
- 2:05:06spots, stuff like that. This is not going to be like
- 2:05:08we're just throwing cars in the back of the building, you know,
- 2:05:11to save some money. So the price will you know?
- 2:05:15To retreat for your car, Yeah. But the price will reflect what
- 2:05:20I just said. Yeah.
- 2:05:20So it's not going to be 100 bucks, no.
- 2:05:22No, no, it's not going to be 500 bucks either.
- 2:05:25So that's all I can say. You're saying no more than 500
- 2:05:28bucks? Yeah, no more than 500 bucks, no
- 2:05:31more than $400.00 probably. But it's we're in the range, you
- 2:05:34know, we're in the middle of that range, 2 to $400.00
- 2:05:37somewhere in there for per month.
- 2:05:40We'll also have deals, you know, if you want to have it, if you
- 2:05:43want to sign a six month contract or something, 12 month
- 2:05:46contract, something like that. We'll have price breaks, but
- 2:05:49yeah, so. I mean that's best advertisement
- 2:05:52I've given for this yet. So hopefully if you guys hear
- 2:05:55this you'll shoot us a message if you're interested.
- 2:05:58If you got too many cars, yeah if you have a problem like we do
- 2:06:01and we just have a lot of cars around then here's somewhere to
- 2:06:04storm. Let us know and enjoy the pod
- 2:06:10Well the future podcast if you if you join our Patreon, enjoy
- 2:06:13the final bout podcasts and hopefully we will have one next
- 2:06:16week. Not hopefully we will have
- 2:06:18definitely one next week. Yeah, Tuesday or Wednesday.
- 2:06:22All right. Bye.
- 2:06:24Bye.