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You Won't Believe How MUCH My Dirt Racing Motor Costs! | Kenny Wallace Classics · Kenny Wallace Media

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  We are in the shop and a lot of people always say, hey, Wallace,
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  you got all that NASCAR money, Where's your team at?
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  Let's do a 360. Charlie, this is the team.
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  It's a me or as we used to say, Moi.
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  That's all there is. I had a guy roll up here one one
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  day. He didn't like me, had enough
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  nerves to come up the driveway. I had I had the door open.
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  He's looking around. I said, Sir, can I help you?
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  He says, where's all your help? I said, it's just me.
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  This man now this my hands on the Bible.
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  This is an accurate story. The man was so disappointed that
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  I didn't have all this NASCAR help.
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  I said, buddies, Wallace's grew up building our own race cars.
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  We do everything ourselves. Now.
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  You'll see my my help with me on the weekends.
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  And there was a time when I lived in North Carolina that
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  Billy Smith or Joey Walsh, you know, they were my crew chiefs.
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  But it's me and that's it. There's nobody else.
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  So with that being said, I put all the motors in and out of the
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  car by myself. Hey, Walls, without our NASCAR
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  money, you are handsome. I do that for you.
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  I make myself laugh. All right, so one of the other
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  questions I get all the time was how much these motors cost.
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  OK, so this is a very high end modified motor.
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  So this motor did not cost what I'm going to tell you, but these
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  motors can cost anywhere from listen, before you all start
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  being smart ass to me, you you're going to spend what
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  you're going to spend on your motor and I'm going to spend
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  what I spend on my motor. You can get a used motor, cobble
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  it together, get a set of heads from a buddy.
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  Hey buddy, how much you want from them heads and you know
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  they're welded up. I get that and I respect that,
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  but the herminator don't operate that way.
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  I, I worked hard my whole life to get to where I'm at.
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  So these motors can cost anywhere for me, anywhere from
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  18,000 to 35,000. So once again, these motors
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  right here can cost 18,000 to 35,000 and you say well, why the
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  price difference? Well, if you get a 13° head, you
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  know, 1113, the less degree, the more power and the more
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  volatile. This is a 23° head motor.
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  So you know, the less degree, the heavier the heads are, the
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  more power it makes. But the heads get heavier,
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  right? If you go 11 degree, 30, all
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  those degrees, the less degree, the heavier the head.
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  I want a light motor. So that's when you say, well,
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  why the price difference? You know, what degree headed
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  motor do you want? So that's why 18 to $35,000,
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  depending on how much horsepower you want.
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  I want just enough horsepower. I don't want all that
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  horsepower. So this is a, a Daryl Hoffman
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  motor. You're saying who's Daryl
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  Hoffman? Well, this is Nick Hoffman's
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  dad. And Daryl built my motors when I
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  first started racing in 1986. So Daryl Hoffman, a very good
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  friend of mine, so is Nick Hoffman and and Daryl Hoffman
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  just I got lucky. Daryl was back here and he
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  delivered this motor. Now, this is a Hoffman motor
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  built out of Morrisville, NC Charlie, let me show him my Chad
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  Mullins motor. All right, White City, Illinois.
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  So we're ready to go. We set all the loads on the
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  springs. We've checked the tow.
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  Let me see. Here, take this little bolt off.
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  But I want to show you this motor.
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  Hey, Wallace, let me see your motor, man.
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  So there you go. This is a motors motor, Charlie.
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  Go ahead and get down in there showing it off.
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  So, yeah, I'm not a I'm not afraid to show you anything
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  because pretty much we all kind of got the same thing.
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  You know, It's just where you get your speed and your race
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  cars in your shocks, your springs, what they call the
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  weights on your springs. But anyway, this is a this is
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  the motor I'm going to start the year out with.
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  And listen, I understand that none of you can have two motors.
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  I get that. Don't don't jump my ass.
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  OK? I'm sorry.
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  I used to have three motors and before speed week started, I had
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  two people call me up, actually, Clayton Bryant and Ricky Lemons.
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  Herman, we can't get a motor. We want to go to speed weeks
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  evolution. I said I got a wonderful Mullins
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  motor and sold it to him at a right price.
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  Part of my right sizing was going to two motors.
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  Herman is not the type of person.
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  Now listen, I know local racers when they blow motor out, I get
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  that and you can see my face. I, you know, I'm very, very
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  Privy. I'm very humble to that
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  situation. But Herman don't like to be off
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  6 months, you know what I mean? So I work extra hard and I was
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  trying to have a spare motor. I do my very best.
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  Listen, I changed my oil and my oil filter every four races
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  because not because of the oil. My my mobile one oil is the best
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  oil around. I run zero 50.
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  Yes, zero 50 is a very good oil, but the reason I changed my oil
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  every four races is because of the dirt.
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  Now listen, I got Walker air filters.
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  They're the best filters in America and I clean these
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  things. I wash them and then I put this
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  over. But the reason I changed oil
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  every four races is that dirt, some of that dirt's going to get
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  in all right. It's going to.
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  And the only reason I changed my oil is not because we're ruining
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  it. It's just because it's that
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  oil's going to get a little dirty when you race dirt.
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  Now, if you're an asphalt racer, probably go a lot longer.
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  But here's there's an old saying, brother Rusty taught me
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  better safe than sorry. So anyway, my headers are built
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  by my childhood friend, the Schoenfeld family, Don, the
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  owner, Doug and Dennis. I run Schoenfeld headers.
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  I run Mullins or Hoffman motors. I now listen when I when I
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  started racing, you know. Hey Herman, can you build a
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  motor? No, I know my limit.
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  Now, however, I can dress a short block.
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  I can change valve springs. And once again, I do everything
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  myself. And the reason I remind
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  everybody I do myself, I do everything myself is because
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  there's an education. People saw me on TV and they
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  just, they got this vision that he got an AT car money.
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  And so it's it's important for me to let you know that we did a
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  360. It's just me in the shop.
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  So I put the motors in. If I got a just valves, I just
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  the valves myself. I checked the timing.
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  One of my most prideful moments was Chad Mullins, I don't know,
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  six years ago, he said, who plumbed this car means run the
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  hoses. And Buddha was helping me at the
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  time. Buddha looked at Chad Moles
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  said, Herman does all that. Oh, Chad Moles went.
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  I said, damn, Chad, I'm still educating you to go back through
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  our history. So anyway, really, that's just
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  kind of a story and I hope you enjoyed it.
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  I gave you the price of the motors.
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  I give you the degree of the headers.
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  And why the price difference motors, headers, timing, you
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  know what I do to maintenance? You know, we even take the
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  radiator out every once in a while.
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  I take the radiator out about every 15 races.
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  I flush the dirt out of the radiators.
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  So all right, love you all hope you enjoyed their our motor
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