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Pit Stop: Petrol Heads of a Certain Age (with Bobby Parks) · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  We always have a blast chatting with our guests about all sorts of
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  different topics, but sometimes we go off the rails and dig deeper into
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  their automotive and motorsports pasts.
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  As a bonus, let's go behind the scenes with this pit stop mini sode
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  for some extra content that didn't quite fit in the main episode.
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  Sit back and enjoy.
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  Enjoy and remember to like subscribe and support break fix on Patreon.
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  Well, you already answered some of them.
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  Uh, the, like the, if you could buy any car on the market today to drag
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  race and stock trim, what would it be?
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  Tesla Roadster.
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  Yeah, sure.
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  We, we hit that.
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  We, we nailed that one.
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  I just want the fastest production vehicle ever made that would have to be in my
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  garage if I had an unlimited budget.
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  And then I got probably 50 other cars that if I had more garage space, I
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  would want to have, but we've all had the privilege of enjoying and
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  watching the fast and the furious.
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  So my big question is how many times do you actually
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  shift gears in a quarter mile?
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  13 over a period of 29 seconds or so.
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  Yeah, right.
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  Is there danger to your manifold, right?
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  So what was on your wall as a kid then, other than a poster of a large
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  chested woman in front of a Fiero?
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  I had the Lamborghini Countach.
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  I'm just going to put a picture of a Countach up on Instagram with the
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  hashtag that says men of a certain age.
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  And then that's it.
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  You just get it.
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  If you didn't have that poster, you weren't into cars.
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  If you didn't have that poster.
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  Matchbox car, then I don't know what you're doing.
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  What else was there?
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  And I can't remember if it was the Ferrari F one 50 is that was the
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  other one that that was super popular.
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  It might not have even been the F40.
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  So yes, yes, that's what it was.
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  And then it was funny because when I was in my early twenties, I saw a
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  guy in our area, driving one around fully restored, like brand new.
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  And I remember thinking, man, that's like the matchbox car I used to have.
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  And that's the poster I had on my wall.
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  70 year old man driving it around.
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  It was badass.
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  It was really a Fiero with a body kit, but we'll go on from that.
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  So it's okay.
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  That's my Ferrari.
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  That's what I have.
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  Since you're an LS guy, we bring this up a lot and I don't know
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  why we're so fixated on it.
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  Maybe because it just doesn't make sense.
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  I'm going to pose the question like this.
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  It's very simple.
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  C8 Corvette.
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  What do you think?
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  I like it.
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  The aftermarket following hasn't caught up much harder, much more expensive to
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  make the same amount of power right now.
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  There's pretty much nothing that beats.
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  The LS base motor in terms of dollar per horsepower, up to about
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  1, 500 wheel horsepower, once you get above 1, 500 wheel horsepower,
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  then it's just a money game.
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  You're going to spend money no matter what you have, but up to that point, and
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  especially up to about a thousand wheels.
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  There is just nothing that touches that platform for the money.
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  We are taking these things literally out of the junkyard, out of cars,
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  putting junk turbo kits together on our own and going out and making a
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  thousand horsepower all day long.
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  I mean, it's just that simple.
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  And that's why the drag racing world, especially the no prep drag
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  racing world has become so popular.
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  Just 20 years ago, when that motor first came out and nobody knew
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  anything about it, everybody at the drag strip was going so much slower.
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  Tens was incredible.
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  I remember that was my goal.
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  Like I could just break the tens.
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  I would be cool.
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  For example, we talked about Fast and the Furious earlier.
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  Dom was talking about that car running 10s.
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  You owe me a 10 second car and 16 gears and all this shit.
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  Trailer.
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  Yeah.
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  It's like 10 second car to everybody back then was like, that was fast.
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  Now you can literally take a shit bucket, put it together for like 15,
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  000 and you can run eights with it.
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  It is a legit thing.
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  And it happens all the time.
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  There's never been a time in all of hot rotting where your average Joe was.
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  able to build something that was even close to what the big dogs are
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  capable of, which I don't know if you consider eights nowadays, big
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  dog, but a thousand horsepower, it is just way above and beyond what your
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  average commuter car or even your average sports car is capable of.
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  There's no comparison yet.
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  There are a couple of motors that are close.
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  Coyotes are pretty good for the money.
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  And honestly, if you were to slap certain four cylinders into a Fox body
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  chassis, you'd probably give a couple of these VA to run for their money.
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  There's other stuff out there.
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  So everybody doesn't have to have an LS to go fast.
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  It's just nothing beats it.
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  Dollar per horsepower.
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  That's it.
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  And if you want to win, you do.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, for you, the car is a tool.
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  You want to go fast.
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  You want to win.
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  It doesn't matter.
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  Could be doing it in a Pinto.
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  Who the hell cares?
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  Ricky Bobby.
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  He's Ricky Bates.
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  I wanna go fast!
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  I wanna go fast!
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  Yeah.
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  First to last, buddy.
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  That's all that matters.
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  I don't care if you do it on a scooter or if you do it in a freaking hot
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  rod, it doesn't matter as long as you get across that finish line first.
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  So then you've already answered the question then the best motor
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  that's not an LS based motor.
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  Would that be the Coyote?
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  I would say Coyote would probably rank up there.
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  There's a couple other motors to Jay Z, the super motors, they do pretty well in
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  stock form, but because a lot of the parts have to be outsourced and I'm sure there's
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  a lot more companies in the U S now compared to 10 or 15 years ago, like when
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  I used to work at altered atmosphere, we were building those things and we had to
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  get camshafts imported from Japan or China or wherever that stuff got expensive fast.
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  And then the top dogs, they're all using billet blocks and billet heads now, which.
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  Again, crazy expensive stuff.
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  So like when you see these supers running six seconds in the quarter, some of them
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  are even running high five seconds in the quarter, which is just crazy out of
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  a six cylinder, but you know, they're not doing it with some junk ass super
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  motor that they got out of a junkyard.
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  That's a fully built high dollar deal, even in the LS world to go that fast,
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  it's going to be an all billet deal.
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  And that stuff is way out of my price range.
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  That's why again, no prep stuff is so popular.
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  It appeals to the masses.
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  Whereas this track racing stuff gets so expensive, so fast, if
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  you're not rich, you can't do it.
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  You know, they say about racing is it can make you a millionaire, but only
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  if you started off as a billionaire.
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  I mean, and to your point about motors, I mean, in German world, you
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  don't see too many Porsches, drag racing and stuff, but the VR sixes
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  are super popular for drag racing.
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  For whatever reason, those motors are overbuilt from the word go and guys
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  love boosting the hell out of them and building drag cars with those things.
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  And even the early motors, which don't flow that well, they'll take a 12
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  out and make a thousand horsepower.
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  And it's like, yeah, whatever, who cares, you know, for a little VW motor, right.
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  There was supposed to be in an econo box.
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  Yeah, we built a couple of those when we were at Altered Atmosphere.
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  They were pretty popular back then, too.
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  They still are.
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  I mean, I'm seeing stuff on Instagram and whatever where
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  they're putting VR6s in anything.
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  If it's got ignition, it's got a VR6 attached to it, you know?
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  There's more than one way to skin a cat for sure.
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  And I just can't even imagine myself personally ever being brand loyal because
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  there's just so much cool stuff out there.
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  Even like what I was talking about between the gas and electric stuff.
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  I hated electric stuff, but only because I thought they were just slow turds.
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  And it was like, you know, you think of electric, you think of like
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  a Prius or something, or a Volt.
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  You don't think of a hot rod when you think of electric cars, but if
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  you get in a Tesla that has ludicrous mode and you mash that pedal to
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  the ground on a regular street.
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  It'll change your mind.
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  They're impressive cars, especially for drag racing.
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  I don't know if they're real popular in the road race world I'd imagine
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  probably not for drag racing.
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  I definitely see the potential in them It's just nobody's really making the type
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  of car yet That would do well in the drag racing world, that's electric at least.
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  It's gonna happen.
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  It's coming.
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  So let me ask you as a, as a legit drag racer, what's your opinion of
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  fun wheel drive, what we like to call it around here, front wheel
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  drive, what are your thoughts?
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  Front wheel drive?
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  Ugh.
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  I mean, can it be competitive drag racing?
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  Yeah, like world cup finals is definitely a good showcase for front wheel drive
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  stuff, but at the end of the day, the front wheel drive is always going
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  to be a disadvantage, which is why now the civic guys, a buddy of mine.
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  He owns a shop called hub city performance, and he's developed an all
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  wheel drive unit for civics that he sells.
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  Now that he's using like parts of a CRV, I believe is what he's using.
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  And he's creating these all wheel drive kits that are just selling like hotcakes.
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  He used to race at world cup.
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  Front wheel drive and he did very well, you know, he had a
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  mid eight second car and those things they back half like crazy.
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  There's no other car on the planet that back halves like those things.
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  Yeah, they run mid eights, which might not be considered, you know, the fastest
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  thing out there at the track, but they're doing it at almost 200 miles an hour.
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  Some of those cars are going over 200 miles an hour in the
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  quarter with front wheel drive.
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  You know, we all know they don't leave the line that hard.
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  So they're playing catch up and it's cool to watch them.
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  Cause I used to race with them.
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  Like when I won my class at a world cup in 2012, my car, if I remember correctly, I
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  was only trapping in like the one fifties.
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  I might've went like a low one 60 at some point.
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  I don't really remember.
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  But the guys that I was racing that were front wheel drive, he trapped 194 in
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  that same class to run the same time.
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  So it's just different.
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  And I'd imagine if there was even another 200 feet onto the back of the track, those
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  things would be damn near unstoppable.
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  I mean, they're just crazy fast up top in terms of drag racing applications, simply
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  because the longest drag race that you'll ever hear of typically is quarter mile.
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  So they're not going to do real well there.
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  You know, my buddy that made this all wheel drive kit made those civics awesome.
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  And he's been racing in the no prep world also doing very well.
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  His car is awesome, man.
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  You should see that thing.
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  You could probably get Daniel interested in coming out and coming with us
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  to go out to that if we wanted to.
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  He'll bring a square body and a banjo.
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  That's what's going to happen there.
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  Well, what if it's fleet?
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  And the best part is.
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  He's a bowtie man through and through and you'll never convince
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  him to LS swap a square body.
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  I don't understand it.
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  I just don't get it.
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  Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me at all.
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  Some guys just literally refuse to LS swap something because it's been overdone.
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  And I get it.
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  Well, here, here's the best part as just a side note, just
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  because we got an extra minute.
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  He hates BMWs flat out.
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  Nuff said there, he has a three 25 is that he bought a 95.
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  I think it is.
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  And I was like, Oh yeah, LS swap.
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  Just do it.
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  He's like, no, I'm putting in a four, three.
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  I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
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  Oh, that's based on what was based for three.
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  I'm like, really?
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  You know, the problem, he had it lying around.
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  That's yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  At a four, three line around.
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  That's where a lot of terrible swaps come from.
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  Well, I had it.
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  Well, you know, I had a lot of things that, uh, you know,
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  sucked and I didn't use them.
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  The way he's looking at it is, and this is the justification, because I,
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  I get on his ass about it all the time.
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  He's like, well, it'll make more power than the stock BMW motor.
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  Yeah, but you're spending 10 grand to do, I mean, 50 more horsepower.
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  I shake my head.
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  A lot of these cars, I don't understand.
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  And especially the brand loyal guys, the Ford guys are the worst, even
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  in the no preps, they're like, Oh, I bleed blue, blue oval till I die.
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  And I look inside their car and I'm like, is that a two speed shifter?
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  And they're like, yeah, do you happen to have a power glide
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  transmission in this car?
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  And they're like, yeah, why?
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  Uh, Ford guy, you just said you bleed blue, blue oval till you die, but
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  you're running a GM transmission.
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  Oh, that doesn't count.
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  It's like, yeah, that definitely counts.
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  Yeah.
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  You're using what works.
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  Just admit it.
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  You know, you're an LS hater.
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  You probably got beat by one, which, you know, now you just
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  absolutely refuse to use one.
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  And you're going to die wanting to beat them with any other platform.
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