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Shop Talk: It's Time To Go Racing! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, everybody, I got the doors open.
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  Race season is starting this weekend here across the river at
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  Highland, IL. I cannot race there.
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  I'll be out in Vegas, but it's time.
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  It's time to go racing. So just a quick tour around the
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  shop. I'm getting my tires ready.
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  My first race will be April 4th, Tri-City Speedway, Granite City,
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  IL. That's Friday April 4th.
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  Of course we're always looking out for rain.
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  Rain, Rain's a an ugly 4 letter word for dirt racing.
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  And then the next night, April 5th right here in Peabody,
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  Missouri at Federated Auto Parts Raceway.
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  It appears to me that the name is going to stay the same even
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  though Kenny Schrader and Ray Mahler do not own the racetrack.
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  So yes, congratulations to Josh Carroll.
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  He bought the racetrack. Josh Carroll is now the new
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  owner of the the Federated Auto Parts Raceway right here in
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  Pevely, Missouri. So all right, make sure
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  everybody goes out to Highland. What is it?
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  March 15th, this Saturday night? Darn it, I wished I was there.
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  I like Highland. It's been good to me lately.
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  So all right, let's take a quick tour around the shop.
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  We'll go in and out, and then I'll, I'll end with me starting
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  to grind tires and all right, here we go.
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  All right, everybody. So the shop is occupied by
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  myself and Brody pomping out. So Brody's got the outlaw carts.
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  He does not have the wings on them right now.
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  Brody is out there in Oregon right now.
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  He's racing. And so, yeah, All right, I got
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  these lights. They're motion censored.
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  So when I walk in, in that, it sees me come and watch this.
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  See. All right, that's different.
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  So we got a new trophy to start out the 2025 season.
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  I am a Hoosier hero. I am a Hoosier hero now.
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  Yeah. Pretty cool.
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  Yeah. I like that.
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  So we all know about all that. The the little burl Max is ready
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  to rumble. She all charged up.
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  That's how I get around the race tracks.
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  My little burl Max. I love my solvent sink.
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  That's where I put on my used oil.
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  My used oil filters go over there.
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  And yeah, we're looking good here.
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  Got the trailer backed in. I am excited that the trailer in
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  about two weeks we'll be headed out.
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  No, actually next week I'm going to head down to Willie's to get
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  the the motor Dynode, because this motor has been rebuilt.
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  Want to make a couple of Dynode pulls to make sure that each
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  cylinder is turned right. So here it is.
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  There it is. And Yep.
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  What's the first thing you notice, everybody?
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  Yeah, it's back. AJ.
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  Mother boy right there, baby. It's always been my it's always
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  been my lucky, lucky decal AJ mother boy, right?
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  I love AJ so couple new decals to start the year out shout out
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  to the NASCAR alumni. Want to thank everybody there.
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  I ran that towards the end of last year and of course, the
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  Hoosier hero, there's about 12 of us.
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  So we're looking good, car looks good.
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  We're ready to go racing and obviously this is my car.
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  Super excited about this year, super excited about that look.
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  So all right, most of you have seen these doors before, but we
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  got the doors open. It's showed up, baby.
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  Look here. Daddy got his little getting
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  right. Do some tire grinding.
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  Open the open the door up over there.
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  I got the grinder back there. Got the door open up here.
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  Come on, kick it back. Look at there.
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  There it is. There it is.
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  Yes, Sir. That's the used one.
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  That's the used generator. I got the new one.
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  I got the new one out there in the shed.
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  Remember, it only cost me $300.00 because they had a deal
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  going that day at Harbor Freight.
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  But we're going to keep on using the old one.
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  The hell? I think that baby's going on
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  three years now. So this trailer, if you look,
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  oh, we might be able to see it. This is one of Rusty's old show
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  car trailers. I don't know.
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  Can you see that you it's got a no, I guess not.
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  You can see top flight and Durrell flying this little Jamie
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  McMurray show car trailer. I told Rusty I didn't pay for
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  it. I said, hey, I got one of your
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  trailers If you ever need it, just know I got it.
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  I'm a cheap ass. I used to own the double
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  stacker. Hell used to go up and down the
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  road with two race cars ready to race and a motor.
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  I was scared to death that I wouldn't have something I need
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  now. We just raced local.
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  So yeah, we got this. We got this trailer that I stole
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  from Rusty. So yeah, 28 footer and it works
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  perfect for me. So we'll come back here in just
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  a minute. We'll end up right here.
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  I got got it set up, got my tires all set up ready to grind,
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  going to grind the titties off of them.
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  See that those are titties. We got to get those titties off.
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  This is these are, this is what we call them right there.
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  See those things? You want to get those off?
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  That's the nickname for those. So yeah, then we want to thank
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  my buddy Tim Love right there at Tire Demon.
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  Everybody got to have themselves a tire Demon machine.
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  Of course I got got all my stuff here.
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  Check my tire circumference. I'll write that on the tires,
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  what everything is. And yeah, so let's go up beside
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  the trailer, see where we're at. Let's let's see what's up up in
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  here. Let me see turn the lights on.
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  All right, All right, we're looking good.
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  So everybody's already seen the trailer.
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  We're looking good. Waiting for impact to send me a
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  new helmet. Until then, I'm still going to
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  run my Jags helmet. Hey, Impact, where are you at?
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  Still got my that thing's ready to go.
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  She's got my tear offs. I'm ready.
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  I'm a freak. I'm a freak.
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  I don't I don't wait till it's time to race.
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  Like I'm getting ready like right now, like the the tow set
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  on my car. All right, so we got the snokel
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  fire suit, my my Hans. And then of course, I run a
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  little skeleton cap just to keep the sweat from rolling down the
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  head. I got a spare nose up in here.
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  He does something got a spare nose up in here.
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  I just bolted up in here just in case I knock the nose off All
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  right, then let's get out of here.
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  Little got a low ceiling because this is an old trailer.
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  I'm a cheap guy old trailer. So it's only it's only 7 feet
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  tall. I got to watch your head.
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  I've knocked my head on that thing.
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  All right, let's go on let's go grind some tires real quick and
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  then we'll end the video. Let me get it down here.
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  I'll tell you we're going to knock the tits off these tires
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  get them race ready. So let's get a good video right
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  here. All right, let's lower it.
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  Here we go. Everybody.
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  We're going to show you how we do it.
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  All right, let's go. Let's get a good one.
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  Let's get a good view right about here.
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  OK, let me get in. Let me get it turned down.
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  Oh, look at there, huh? Look at there.
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  All right, this should be a good view for you so I can control
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  this speed. I've got it pretty much set
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  right now. We're going to knock all the
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  tits off there. So here we go.
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  All right, I'm not going to do the whole tire with you, but
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  you're going to see what we're talking about here.
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  So this that way when we hit the racetrack, it's ready to go.
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  You can see how I've already cleaned the tire up right in
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  this area and we're we're we're going to keep on going right
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  across. So this this is for Jamie
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  McMurray. Jamie McMurray said.
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  Hey Herm, I really like those videos where you show me what
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  you're doing to the tires. So this year no grooving UMP
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  said no grooving this year. We can psych the tires if we
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  want. So don't really know why I'm
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  happy though, because grooving takes a lot of work.
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  It's better on this old man with the the two torn tendons right
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  here. So I'm glad the grooving is
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  gone. Hell, I like if you didn't have
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  to do nothing to the tires. So all everybody I hope you like
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  the little just something something to show you.
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  The doors are open. Highland Speedway this Saturday
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  Highland IL Saturday night I start racing April 4th Tri-City
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  Speedway Granite City, IL April 5th.
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  On that Saturday, peevely, Missouri Federated Auto Parts
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  Raceway.