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My New & Improved Race Shop Tour | The Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What is going on in Kenny Wallace's race shop on this cold
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  January night? Oh, it's warm in here.
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  All right. Got the trailer in here.
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  We got a big snowstorm coming. Got all the tires unmounted and
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  the trailer's looking good. What's up in here?
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  No race car. All right, Got the toolbox in
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  here. Looking good.
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  Yep, that's my pit lift that lifts the race car up.
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  This is my Weirs machine that measures the stiffness in my
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  rear springs. That's my nitrogen for my
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  shocks. Corsa.
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  I keep a spare nose for the front of the car and this is
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  amazing. This thing right here will carry
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  carry some parts. We got motor parts, we got
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  shocks, we got rear suspension front suspension, brake parts.
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  We got lots of tire accessories there.
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  This is where I keep my helmet, my Hans device, and my fire
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  suits usually hang there. Yeah, we're right.
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  Hey, what's in here, Herman? This is where I keep all my tire
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  equipment. That's my grinder to grind the
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  tires. Got got some good looking stuff
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  in here. All right, I'm good.
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  What else is in here? I think that's it.
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  We're going to keep on rolling and people say what's going on?
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  What do you do during the winter?
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  Well, we got we got the Tulsa shoe down on like any race shop
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  would be. So yeah, we like watching our
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  racing here on TV. We're always locked and loaded
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  on flow. Let's see.
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  Oh man, that guy just bought him right out, got right up in and
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  just wouldn't let off. And actually Ibach sponsors me
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  too. So this was great timing.
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  All right, everybody, so you're saying, what do you got going on
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  in here? Well, you know, my, my
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  son-in-law, Brody, he's a big story.
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  He's a big story. We're going to get to Brody in a
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  minute, but my race car is looking good.
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  It's all fresh there it is the legendary generator that I
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  bought Yep, got that from a Harbor Freight.
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  I paid $365 total got we got the motor, got a spare motor here.
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  Just got it all fresh. Got my headers.
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  So Yep, just got this rebuilt from Shad Mullins.
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  So that cost me $10,500 to be rebuilt.
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  So that's a $10,500 rebuilt. That's all new valve springs and
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  Pistons and and that motor was really good to me.
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  I got 47 nights. Can you believe that?
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  Praise the Lord, 47 nights out of that motor and not one oil
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  leak. That was probably one of my best
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  motors ever in my history. So, yeah, that's pretty cool.
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  All right, the the headers for next year, those are Schoenfeld
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  headers. They're awesome.
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  I went with a new muffler. I wasn't, I wasn't happy that
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  that muffler, I had it mounted wrong.
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  So I put a new muffler on. We got the motor cabinet here.
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  What's in the motor cabinet? Well, let's see what I got.
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  All right. I love my I love my air filters.
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  Those babies are just awesome. And of course, Wix right there.
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  Yeah, I got nice little odds and ends, but, you know, I run AI,
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  run Willy's carburetors. Got some, got some spare stuff
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  here, another carburetor in here.
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  These are my flywheels. But yeah, things all cleaned up,
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  ready to go. Man, love these damn header
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  gaskets. Those things are so bad ass.
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  They're metal, kind of like a metal.
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  They work so good on my headers. I got my safety clean tank here.
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  Yep. And oh boy, can't do without
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  that. Can't do without that.
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  Love that little pit bike. It's pretty awesome.
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  Brody. We're going to get the Brody.
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  There's some of my sheet metal from the Dome.
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  We're going to show you what we're doing there in a minute.
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  I just got a quarter panel left from the Dome.
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  Looks like sold both the doors. Brody and all his carbon fiber.
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  Boy, you definitely want a Fusion Outlaw cart from Brody.
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  He's got it going on. He sure does.
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  All right, everybody, we, we got the car with the dyno headers on
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  on the 15th of January. We're going to go to we're going
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  to go to Willie's and we're going to dyno the car and we got
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  the sensors ready. We will.
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  They'll put sensors in each one of these and we'll measure the
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  temperature. We're going to measure the
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  temperature. We're going to make sure that
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  the cylinders are tuned just perfectly.
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  We, we do not want to burn a piston, but we're race ready.
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  And Brody being the great son-in-law he is, he's going to
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  finish the body for me when I go to Italy.
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  I'll be going to Italy January 17th through the 27th.
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  And you're saying, well, where's the body?
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  Well, it's over here, actually. So where is the body?
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  It's over. It's behind.
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  There's all our plastic. And we love the bot, believe it
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  or not, that's the body. This stuff is fantastic.
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  Everybody use it now. Very flexible.
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  Love that. Oh, I'll never forget that.
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  Following one Highland. Look at that, huh?
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  Highland, IL Isn't that something?
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  And then that's their trophy. And then, of course, you got her
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  kind of like a did you know those are the same colors as if
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  you would have won the Indianapolis 500.
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  Those the exact same flowers and everything.
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  Yeah, I got us went up there in Quincy.
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  But all right, so let's go on over to Brody.
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  I've told you I'm looking good. I'm race ready, but Brody's
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  going to go ahead while I'm going to Italy and he's going to
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  put the new body on the car for me.
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  All right, So what we got is my son in law's over here.
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  This is Fusion Carts. We got a good picture right
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  here. Brody, you got your wings over
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  there. We got.
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  Things everywhere. Tell me about this cart.
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  This is a cart that I'm. Building for.
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  My brother Briley, he came and drove for me last year and did
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  really well down there. So hold on.
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  Where you going? Shawnee, OK manufacturers throw
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  down. Manufacturers showdown.
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  When is it? Next Thursday, Friday and
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  Saturday I think it's the 9th through the 11th.
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  So this is your best cart. Let's talk about it.
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  This is unbelievable. The wing.
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  So those wings right there, those wings go right up on top
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  here, right? Yeah.
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  Tell me a little bit about this cart.
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  This is kind of the sister cart to the one we had a PRI so Gage
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  Stevens card. It's got all the upgrades
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  updates. Gage Stevens, he your ace
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  driver. Yes, he is.
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  He's our open driver. He's up in Iowa, races at
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  English Creek Weekly. Great kid.
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  So I just built one just like his for my brother.
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  So Briley Pompe, where did that name Pompe POMP?
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  Where that Pompe name come from? No.
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  Idea. I think you know more about it
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  than I do it. Is I watch the Netflix, I watch
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  the Netflix and you guys are like warriors.
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  Yeah, something like. That if you go to Netflix,
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  there's some type of gladiator movie.
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  Pompeii, yeah. I always use Briley as like a
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  dummy for R&D stuff. Stupid.
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  Things he's a good. Driver that I don't want to try
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  for me because I'm not as good as he is.
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  So this one I kind of stuck to the normal stuff like what our
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  customers always get, and there's no fancy weird tubing in
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  it or anything. So this is your most high end
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  cart? Everything is carbon fiber?
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  Yep. Yep, this is if you order a
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  fusion, you can order all the same stuff so.
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  So that is your company right there.
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  Yep, Fusion carts dot Pro. Is that where they go dot?
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  Pro Yep, it's pretty self-explanatory once you get
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  there. There's some good pictures and
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  whatnot. But yeah, like that.
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  Yep, very nice. So what?
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  What? I know everything, but we want
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  to teach everybody what is this? That's the.
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  Radiator keep this cool. That's the radiator and this is
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  what do you call this honeycrone?
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  Keeps the mud from getting in there.
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  And tell me about this badass motor and this good looking
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  header. What is all?
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  This so this is a 1987. Whoa, say that again. 1987 CR 5
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  Honda CR 502 stroke motor we typically run like pretty stock
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  engines, but this one is not stock yeah, it's kind of our big
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  race engine so. So tell me about these outlaw
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  carts. Is this where Kyle Larson and
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  Rico Abreu started? Yeah, they're, they're
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  definitely the most known ones, but yeah, it's kind of where
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  everybody gets their start and it's my true love.
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  So we enjoy building them and helping our coast.
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  Build fast. I like all these light a nice
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  little titanium bolts. Oh my God that spins so easy.
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  Look at whoa, that's crazy. Really good looking race car
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  right here. How much lighter is your new
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  cart than you know the ones previous?
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  So like our original first cart, this is about 17 lbs lighter
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  than our original cart, so. And I talked to Kyle Larson
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  about this. When you guys spin out, this is
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  the clutch, right? Yeah.
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  You grew up, so if you spin out, what do you do You.
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  Snag the clutch and. Pull the clutch in.
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  Gas and turn left or right or whatever direction and hammer.
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  You start to spin out, you pull this in and wing, wing.
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  Keep it going. Yep.
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  And when the engine, like some engines are built for a ton of
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  top end so they kind of have a dead spot on the on the bottom
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  end. So you every corner you'll see
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  some guys feather the clutch, keep it up in the RPM so they
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  can get off the corner too. Wow.
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  That's a you learn a lot. Yeah, it's a lot of work.
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  So tell me about this one over here.
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  I I've seen you guys had a couple already go out the door.
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  Who's that one for? Was this for?
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  John Warner, he was our. First, John Warner.
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  First Fusion customer outside of Building 1 for my brother and I.
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  He had never raced anything ever, and he's come a long ways.
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  I'm confident that he's going to win one or two or maybe even
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  more races this year. So you're always, always
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  building carts? There's always 3 or 4 here.
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  Horse the Midler. The most incredible tubing
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  notcher of all time I built. 6 cages in the time it took me to
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  build, 1 before. So like.
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  It was incredible. So all right, we got some new
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  tires. These are the tires that go on
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  it. Good looking tires.
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  New the new Vane K wheel. Oh, you helped design that?
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  So rather we always have an issue getting the tire on the
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  wheel with these bead locks and it's kind of a wrestling match.
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  We inverted the design so you can just put the bead lock on
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  there and it seats just like the.
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  That's a big deal. You've you've really helped
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  develop this whole outlaw cart here in the Midwest out of
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  Arnold and Missouri. And this is a cart I was trying
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  to find some speed with for Briley and it didn't work, so
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  it's just. The R&D research and developing
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  course you use Max Papa steering wheels.
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  Really nice. Oh yeah, that's what we all use.
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  I call those the anti arm pump steering wheel.
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  Yeah, how come? Because they're handful and
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  these things, they have big grips and they these granny's
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  into them so. Yeah, nice grips.
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  I like that grip. Good stuff.
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  All right, so I think that's the look what's going on and here's
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  the cages. So when you when you look at a
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  car like John's, that's the start of the cart.
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  Then you I watch you build these and these are the cages and you
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  are you literally do everything yourself.
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  I watch you bend the tubing starting from scratch.
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  And I won't cut the tubing in the shop because it stinks the
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  shop out. So even when it's 15° outside, I
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  was out. Oh man, so 15° and you're
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  outside cutting, cutting all this tubing.
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  Right 'cause it make it too dirty in.
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  Here, Yeah, so there's all the tubing laying on the floor.
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  Yep. Future.
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  Cages and nerf. Bars, future cages and nerf
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  bars. And yeah, and you're doing
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  everything yourself. Literally everything.
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  I love it. And look at those.
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  Here's what I like. These incredible titanium bolts.
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  Let's get a good look at these bolts.
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  So man, oh, man, look at those bolts.
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  Those are some badass tight. Are those titanium or what are
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  they? Wow, so light.
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  Those are so light. All right, Brody.
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  Well, I appreciate it, buddy. And so when, when are you going
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  to put the body on my race car? As soon as I get back from
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  Shawnee, we're going to sleep when we get back because I don't
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  like to stop on the way home and then start bending sheet metal.
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  All right, everybody, we hope you enjoyed what's going on here
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  in the the winter. Brody's my youngest son-in-law.
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  You got Brooke and Jacob, then you got Justin and Brandy, and
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  then Brittany and Brody. And this is Brody.
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  All right then. Well, I guess that's it.
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  That's what we got going on.