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Test Drive Troubles, Hole-in-One Controversy, and the Power of Exhaust Manifolds · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:02
  Don Armstrong: Welcome to another In-Wheel Time Podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In-Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning, 8 to 11 am Central.
• 0:10
  Don Armstrong: Hello, hello, hello.
• 0:15
  Konrad Delong: Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: Hello, hello.
• 0:39
  Konrad Delong: Subscribe to WCGR on the app called.
• 0:44
  Jeff Dziekan: WCGR channel.
• 0:53
  Don Armstrong: WCGR в нcession.
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: Gardener you run long, well then?
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: okay, well, let's just talk about that right now, was it?
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: a good experience or a bad experience?
• 1:05
  Jeff Dziekan: It was a weird thing.
• 1:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh yeah, he called me.
• 1:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, i called Conrad to ask Conrad if there was some secret, handshake, magic thing that he did So I was showing off the car I was driving.
• 1:20
  Jeff Dziekan: I was showing it off to something.
• 1:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Was the handshake like this?
• 1:22
  Jeff Dziekan: No, it was more like So.
• 1:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Anyway, i was showing it off and so I hit the remote start to start it so they could hear it and all that stuff.
• 1:34
  Jeff Dziekan: The guy was sitting in the seat saying, oh, this is so nice.
• 1:37
  Jeff Dziekan: You know, he was really digging it and liking it.
• 1:39
  Jeff Dziekan: So I hit the remote start and we were talking.
• 1:41
  Jeff Dziekan: So he got out and we finished talking and I got in it to leave And I put it in gear.
• 1:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, you got to hit the start button.
• 1:49
  Jeff Dziekan: I put it in gear And the car went stupid.
• 1:53
  Jeff Dziekan: And the car went stupid.
• 1:54
  Jeff Dziekan: What does that mean?
• 1:55
  Jeff Dziekan: It means that the engine died.
• 1:58
  Jeff Dziekan: There was no alarms, no bells, no whistles or anything like that going on.
• 2:02
  Jeff Dziekan: The radio was still on, the lights were still on, the windows would go up and down.
• 2:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Everything worked except the motor, and I couldn't get it to stop.
• 2:12
  Jeff Dziekan: I could push the off button.
• 2:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Nothing I did would get everything to turn off.
• 2:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Nothing.
• 2:18
  Jeff Dziekan: I hit on star, on star.
• 2:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Hey, i got a problem here.
• 2:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Can you reset me or do something?
• 2:23
  Jeff Dziekan: That department left three minutes ago.
• 2:26
  Jeff Dziekan: It's 8.03.
• 2:28
  Jeff Dziekan: That's department, yeah, so that's what I call Conrad.
• 2:32
  Jeff Dziekan: I said Conrad, is there some secret handshake to?
• 2:35
  Jeff Dziekan: It must be a general motor.
• 2:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes, you know, push the brake pedal five times, turn around twice in the driver's seat, or some nonsense.
• 2:43
  Don Armstrong: Stick your finger up your nose, yeah.
• 2:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Nothing.
• 2:47
  Jeff Dziekan: So I called the press fleet manager.
• 2:50
  Jeff Dziekan: She was at her mother's birthday party.
• 2:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you know she couldn't hear me.
• 2:56
  Jeff Dziekan: She had to go into another room and she said And I told her party and at her mother's Yeah, and I told her, you know, the only thing I know to do is disconnect the battery on this press car, but I don't want to do it without telling you.
• 3:08
  Jeff Dziekan: She said you want me to call a tow truck.
• 3:10
  Jeff Dziekan: I said no, i don't want to call a tow truck, you know, because they would do the same thing or else they're going to take it.
• 3:16
  Jeff Dziekan: What kind of car was this?
• 3:17
  Jeff Dziekan: It was a GM, but no.
• 3:19
  Jeff Dziekan: But what was it?
• 3:20
  Jeff Dziekan: It was a Tahoe.
• 3:20
  Jeff Dziekan: The Tahoe on, fix the review.
• 3:22
  Don Armstrong: Oh, my God.
• 3:24
  Jeff Dziekan: So.
• 3:24
  Jeff Dziekan: So I met a buddy's house.
• 3:26
  Jeff Dziekan: I get out and you know he's got no metric tools, so we're trying to find a wrench that will fit on the battery.
• 3:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Anyway, long story short, got the battery disconnected, the negative post because the positive is buried.
• 3:39
  Jeff Dziekan: So I pull the negative post off.
• 3:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Conrad say just leave it off a few seconds.
• 3:44
  Jeff Dziekan: I put it back on.
• 3:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Nothing Work perfect.
• 3:49
  Michael Marrs: Just reset everything.
• 3:50
  Michael Marrs: Yeah, it didn't lose anything either.
• 3:52
  Konrad Delong: Like playing pinball.
• 3:53
  Konrad Delong: You tilt it, yeah, yeah, so the only thing.
• 3:55
  Jeff Dziekan: I didn't lose anything, i didn't lose the radio memory or or any of the driving the seats.
• 4:01
  Don Armstrong: No, you remember that you screwed up and and and.
• 4:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Now it, let me get in it and start it.
• 4:06
  Jeff Dziekan: I didn't want to try the remote thing again until I got home, and then I tried it and had a real right If you push the button like you're supposed to work, perfect.
• 4:15
  Jeff Dziekan: It's almost like Conrad mentioned something about it's almost like it went into an Anna theft mode.
• 4:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, you know that I didn't do it right, so I thought maybe I was trying to steal it so it wouldn't let me drive it away, but it wouldn't lock the doors or anything like that to keep me from getting no, because it doesn't know that it might have been a child in there.
• 4:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Right, you know.
• 4:33
  Jeff Dziekan: so I thought in a way I thought it was pretty smart.
• 4:35
  Jeff Dziekan: but the other ones I've tried that on you put it in gear, you just locked you out.
• 4:39
  Jeff Dziekan: I mean everything stopped, but this didn't.
• 4:43
  Michael Marrs: I mean the radio kept blaring and lights were still on and just like Well, if you think about it, you know I'm pretty sure it went into some kind of anti theft that default, one of the first things on remote start is always locked the car.
• 4:56
  Michael Marrs: That's one of the functions you're supposed to do Yeah, always to lock the car and then remotely start it.
• 5:01
  Michael Marrs: So in this case, I guess you know it didn't do that, so the car went into something's up.
• 5:07
  Michael Marrs: Let me go into anti theft Yeah And shut down.
• 5:12
  Michael Marrs: But you can always clear that by pulling a battery.
• 5:14
  Jeff Dziekan: So long as you got a 12, a 10 millimeter, you have to lock it with the remote, then if you want to the idea is that you leave and you come back an hour later and you remote start it.
• 5:27
  Don Armstrong: Start it, unlock it, open the door, put your foot on the brake, hit the start button, because you've got the key in your pocket, bob in all as well.
• 5:38
  Konrad Delong: You know who does that a lot.
• 5:38
  Konrad Delong: Kathy does not like you, turns it on, so the air blows cold.
• 5:41
  Konrad Delong: No.
• 5:41
  Jeff Dziekan: And that's kind of what I did, because when I got there I locked it Now, went in, we were to for a little while and then when I came back out, i unlocked it and I was showing him your liquor store Now.
• 5:53
  Jeff Dziekan: I was in the guy's driveway, so you know.
• 5:55
  Jeff Dziekan: he said, can I sit in it?
• 5:56
  Jeff Dziekan: and I said sure you did, but did he own the liquor store?
• 5:59
  Jeff Dziekan: No, i think his cousin does, though, but then so.
• 6:04
  Michael Marrs: I hit the remote.
• 6:05
  Jeff Dziekan: So the sequence was right up to that point.
• 6:07
  Jeff Dziekan: You know, i unlocked it, started it remotely, only you only Well.
• 6:13
  Jeff Dziekan: I surprised me that it did that.
• 6:15
  Jeff Dziekan: whenever I put it in gear, it just normally.
• 6:18
  Jeff Dziekan: just my truck just stops.
• 6:21
  Jeff Dziekan: You just forget it, you ain't going to do nothing.
• 6:23
  Jeff Dziekan: So I just thought that was rather interesting the way it.
• 6:28
  Michael Marrs: You were pretty frustrated on the phone.
• 6:30
  Don Armstrong: Did you happen to look inside the book?
• 6:33
  Michael Marrs: No, There's nothing in the book.
• 6:36
  Jeff Dziekan: There's nothing in the book about that, Because you're supposed to be doing it the right way.
• 6:40
  Jeff Dziekan: you're not supposed to be doing it the way I did it.
• 6:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, don't do that.
• 6:46
  Michael Marrs: That's what AI told them.
• 6:47
  Michael Marrs: Don't do that.
• 6:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Exactly.
• 6:49
  Don Armstrong: Actually, it said you, dumb donkey, don't do that Dumb donkey, texas, cadillac dealer is the new owner of a 1966 lowrider known as the Snoop DeVille.
• 7:02
  Don Armstrong: All right, yeah, i think I saw that The car was customized by rapper Snoop Dogg and appeared in 50 Cent 2003.
• 7:10
  Michael Marrs: 50 Cent.
• 7:10
  Michael Marrs: 50 Cent.
• 7:11
  Michael Marrs: 50 Cent.
• 7:11
  Michael Marrs: 50 Cent, not 50 Cent.
• 7:14
  Don Armstrong: The car was customized by rapper Snoop Dogg and appeared in 50 Cent 2003 music video PIMP remix.
• 7:23
  Don Armstrong: PIMP remix.
• 7:25
  Michael Marrs: What's the car called.
• 7:26
  Michael Marrs: P-period I-period M-period, p-period P-I-M-P Which means it's probably worse than the word PIMP.
• 7:33
  Jeff Dziekan: So what's the Cadillac called?
• 7:34
  Jeff Dziekan: again, i missed it Snoop DeVille.
• 7:38
  Don Armstrong: Snoop DeVille.
• 7:38
  Don Armstrong: Now it's a conversation piece in the nearly open showroom for Frank Cadillac of Arlington, texas.
• 7:45
  Don Armstrong: According to TMZ, the dealership bought the car from previous owner, christian Bonilla, who put it on the market in December for an undisclosed price.
• 7:56
  Don Armstrong: Of course, snoop Dogg had sold it to Bonilla with a blown engine.
• 8:00
  Don Armstrong: shortly after the 50 Cent video was filmed, bonilla replaced the engine and upgraded the audio system, but he kept the teal upholstery and three chandeliers.
• 8:12
  Don Armstrong: that reportedly secured the top interior award at a 2006 General Motors car competition.
• 8:20
  Michael Marrs: Three chandeliers.
• 8:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Had to brace the roof to hold the weight.
• 8:24
  Don Armstrong: At Snoop DeVille's new home.
• 8:26
  Don Armstrong: Visitors can admire the car while sipping a selection from the dealership's in-house wine bar called Cadillac Wines.
• 8:36
  Konrad Delong: Every Cadillac you need that, what a waste of money.
• 8:40
  Don Armstrong: Incredible.
• 8:41
  Don Armstrong: I thought that you would appreciate all of that That's a Jeffrey story.
• 8:45
  Michael Marrs: Anything Cadillac, everything Cadillac.
• 8:47
  Don Armstrong: Everything Cadillac.
• 8:49
  Konrad Delong: I got something real quick.
• 8:50
  Konrad Delong: Ok.
• 8:50
  Konrad Delong: Arkansas man is suing a country club after they refuse to give him the truck they promised him.
• 8:55
  Konrad Delong: As a whole in one.
• 8:56
  Konrad Delong: Buckle up, folks.
• 8:57
  Konrad Delong: We have a whole in one car controversy brewing in Arkansas.
• 9:02
  Konrad Delong: A whole in one, or a whole Whole in one?
• 9:04
  Konrad Delong: Whole in one Car controversy brewing in Arkansas.
• 9:06
  Konrad Delong: Long time ago, a Conway Conway, Arkansas man by the name of Austin Glaggett filed a lawsuit against the Moralton Country Club.
• 9:16
  Konrad Delong: Gaggett played in the country club's tournament of the century.
• 9:19
  Konrad Delong: His name is Gaggett.
• 9:20
  Konrad Delong: No Claggett, Oh, Claggett.
• 9:22
  Konrad Delong: C-l-a-g-e-t-t.
• 9:24
  Konrad Delong: Claggett This is Arkansas.
• 9:25
  Konrad Delong: Get your act together.
• 9:26
  Konrad Delong: Tournament of the century on Saturday, a three-person scramble format in the buy-in of $375 for the folks to go play.
• 9:33
  Konrad Delong: Before the tournament, The Moralton Country Club promoted a 2022 Ford F-150 4x4 super crew as a prize for the first person to hit a whole in one on the course's 10th hole.
• 9:47
  Konrad Delong: The truck had a sticker of $535 and was allegedly donated by the Ford dealership, and so far, so good.
• 9:54
  Konrad Delong: But there is a problem because, against all odds, the guy hit the hole in one on the 10th hole.
• 10:00
  Konrad Delong: According to reports, it was a good, clean ace.
• 10:02
  Konrad Delong: Everybody saw it.
• 10:03
  Konrad Delong: It didn't happen on a provisional dropping a ball or anything like that.
• 10:07
  Konrad Delong: It didn't happen out of a turn, So everything was legit.
• 10:09
  Konrad Delong: Letter of the law.
• 10:11
  Konrad Delong: So when Claggett went to claim his new ride after the round, however, a Moralton Country Club wouldn't turn over the keys.
• 10:18
  Konrad Delong: Claggett's lawyer said that the statement on behalf of the client is that he did make it legitimately.
• 10:24
  Konrad Delong: I've got to turn the page, guys, Sorry.
• 10:26
  Konrad Delong: And the dealership they was accused of crawfish crawfishing walking backwards sideways In Arkansas.
• 10:34
  Konrad Delong: That's how you know.
• 10:34
  Konrad Delong: Someone means the business.
• 10:35
  Konrad Delong: J Hodge Ford Conrad's doing it right now says that they were unable to secure the necessary insurance for the vehicle in time because they believe the vehicle was for display purposes only.
• 10:46
  Konrad Delong: So in other words they shouldn't have put it out there, They shouldn't have promoted it.
• 10:49
  Konrad Delong: The guy wanted it and they were not going to give it to him.
• 10:51
  Michael Marrs: Yeah, i've done golf tournaments before and played in them where there's a hole in one car, but also organized a couple of them with a hole in one car.
• 10:58
  Michael Marrs: And that hole in one insurance is all calculated based on how many players you have, how far is the hole.
• 11:06
  Michael Marrs: You know a lot of other metrics to come up with.
• 11:09
  Michael Marrs: You know, maybe $300, $500, $1,000 insurance for a hole in one car.
• 11:14
  Michael Marrs: You know you got to think.
• 11:15
  Michael Marrs: Golf tournaments around the country.
• 11:17
  Michael Marrs: You know tens of thousands of them have a hole in one car in them.
• 11:20
  Michael Marrs: So the insurance companies are making a killing selling hole in one insurance.
• 11:25
  Michael Marrs: They should pay out.
• 11:27
  Michael Marrs: Well, the Now the dealership didn't finalize the contract with the insurance company in time or correctly.
• 11:34
  Michael Marrs: That's their responsibility.
• 11:35
  Jeff Dziekan: They should pay out.
• 11:36
  Jeff Dziekan: It comes down to who had the contract.
• 11:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Did the country club have a contract with the dealership?
• 11:41
  Jeff Dziekan: who was supposed to get that insurance?
• 11:43
  Jeff Dziekan: or was the country club?
• 11:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Because the ones that I've worked on the tournament people got the insurance for that Same thing.
• 11:52
  Jeff Dziekan: It's just the dealership didn't do it, the group that was organizing the term and we had to do that.
• 11:58
  Michael Marrs: Yeah, I've seen it where the dealership gets the contract.
• 12:02
  Don Armstrong: I don't think it makes any difference as long as there's insurance on the car by somebody.
• 12:06
  Don Armstrong: Well, i think it is Well it's not Go ahead.
• 12:09
  Jeff Dziekan: It's not insurance on the car, it's insurance to pay for it.
• 12:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Get the car.
• 12:13
  Don Armstrong: I understand, but as long as there's insurance, it shouldn't make any difference Who has the contract, Either the country club, the dealership or the organized.
• 12:24
  Jeff Dziekan: I agree Somebody needs to pay.
• 12:26
  Jeff Dziekan: But if the dealership's saying they didn't have time to get the insurance, that's telling you there is no insurance.
• 12:30
  Jeff Dziekan: That's on the dealership.
• 12:31
  Konrad Delong: Well, in this case, i think the dealership went into it as a display.
• 12:34
  Konrad Delong: The country club promoted it without the dealership knowing it, i think there was a little bit of communication to put out on the call.
• 12:41
  Jeff Dziekan: That's where the lawyers get involved.
• 12:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, and the only people who make money are the attorneys?
• 12:45
  Jeff Dziekan: And this guy will probably end up getting his truck, And the guy that sells the crawfish too.
• 12:51
  Konrad Delong: But it may be an old model by the time.
• 12:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, this is an old story too.
• 12:55
  Jeff Dziekan: It's Arkansas.
• 12:57
  Michael Marrs: It takes a while to get down here out of the mountains, i got relatives up there, i can say that What do you call 32 straight white teeth in Arkansas.
• 13:06
  Jeff Dziekan: A beauty pageant.
• 13:07
  Jeff Dziekan: A beauty pageant A beauty pageant.
• 13:11
  Konrad Delong: So anyone in Arkansas, send your It's Conrad Conrad.
• 13:15
  Michael Marrs: No, no, no, No, no no.
• 13:17
  Don Armstrong: No better yet send it to Info at Inwheel Time so we can all share on that story, because if you send it to Conrad, he'll just delete it.
• 13:25
  Jeff Dziekan: He'll never read it.
• 13:28
  Michael Marrs: Yeah, he'll never read it.
• 13:30
  Michael Marrs: Call our toll free line 1-8-7-6-5-3-0-9.
• 13:36
  Don Armstrong: It's kind of getting old.
• 13:36
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it is, there's a lot.
• 13:39
  Don Armstrong: There is a lot of Tesla electric vehicle news.
• 13:44
  Don Armstrong: Yes, there is Shocking.
• 13:46
  Don Armstrong: Tesla has stepped up its US sales incentives to move new inventory out of its high-end Model S sedan and Model X crossover, with discounts reaching $7,500 plus free use of its supercharging network for three years.
• 14:03
  Don Armstrong: According to the company's website, additional perk of three years of free supercharging on Tesla's extensive network is potentially worth a few thousand dollars.
• 14:11
  Michael Marrs: If we say that's a good deal.
• 14:13
  Don Armstrong: Depending on charging frequency.
• 14:14
  Don Armstrong: the free charging also comes for non-inventory Model S and Model X vehicles ordered on the website for June delivery.
• 14:22
  Don Armstrong: Well, you better hurry up.
• 14:24
  Don Armstrong: The EV maker is also offering discounts and inventory of the Model 3 for buyers who take delivery before June 30.
• 14:31
  Don Armstrong: according to its website, tesla added three months of free supercharging for inventory Model 3s last week.
• 14:39
  Michael Marrs: Enough of that, Elon needs more money for his fight with Zuckerberg.
• 14:42
  Michael Marrs: Remember.
• 14:43
  Don Armstrong: Rivian Automotive has reached an agreement to access Tesla's supercharger network starting next year.
• 14:48
  Don Armstrong: to incorporate the charging port design into its future electric vehicles, rivian said it will provide a charging adapter as early as spring of 24 for its current vehicles next year so they can access the 12,000 superchargers contemplated in the deal.
• 15:03
  Don Armstrong: Ford is again increasing the price of some models of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup, with the base model now starting at $61,869 including shipping, up about 50% over the initial starting price when the truck launched in April 2022.
• 15:22
  Michael Marrs: It's good advertising at $42.
• 15:24
  Don Armstrong: The price hikes come as the automaker reopens retail order banks for current reservation holders, resumes vehicle shipments and returns to full production at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center following a February battery fire.
• 15:37
  Michael Marrs: So I wonder if people who got the pre-orders in are still going to have the price that they had when they ordered it.
• 15:45
  Michael Marrs: They should have it, or are they going to crawfish on that?
• 15:50
  Don Armstrong: Who knows?
• 15:50
  Don Armstrong: Back to the electric thing for a second.
• 15:55
  Don Armstrong: Hyundai will consider making its vehicles more readily compatible with Tesla pushing for North America, the South Korean automaker CEO said on Tuesday.
• 16:04
  Don Armstrong: So everybody's climbing on board and that will no longer be a news story before long, because everybody's going to go to the Tesla charging mode.
• 16:13
  Don Armstrong: Oh, because there's one more Tesla stations out there than anything else And that's why, and because this two charger plug thing is way too much.
• 16:21
  Don Armstrong: It's kind of like Betamax and VHS.
• 16:24
  Don Armstrong: What happened to Betamax Cause everybody went to VHS.
• 16:28
  Michael Marrs: Well, and Elon's going to make billions on it, cause it wasn't the deal.
• 16:32
  Don Armstrong: Three billion, i think, is the estimate.
• 16:34
  Michael Marrs: The deal with GM.
• 16:37
  Don Armstrong: GM Ford Rivian remember.
• 16:38
  Don Armstrong: Carlos Ghosn.
• 16:39
  Konrad Delong: Yeah, what a guy Yeah.
• 16:40
  Michael Marrs: He's a bag man.
• 16:42
  Don Armstrong: Former Nissan Motor Company chairman, carlos Ghosn, sued the automaker for more than $1 billion in a lawsuit filed to Lebanon's public prosecutor.
• 16:54
  Don Armstrong: He's got colonies.
• 16:55
  Don Armstrong: The lawsuit accuses Nissan, along with two other companies and 12 named individuals, of crimes including defamation, slander and libel and fabricating material evidence.
• 17:06
  Don Armstrong: Ghosn wants a leading light of the global car industry was arrested in Japan in late 2018 in charge with financial misconduct.
• 17:14
  Don Armstrong: He denied the charge and said his detection was part of a plot by Nissan executives to block a merger with Alliance partner Renault, which Ghosn also led.
• 17:24
  Don Armstrong: Ghosn fled to Lebanon, his childhood home, in late 2019, hidden in a box aboard a private jet.
• 17:32
  Don Armstrong: He said he was escaping a rigged justice system in Japan.
• 17:37
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 17:38
  Jeff Dziekan: He knows he didn't come to the US either.
• 17:41
  Don Armstrong: No, because in Lebanon they don't have an extradition treaty with anybody.
• 17:45
  Konrad Delong: Come on in.
• 17:46
  Konrad Delong: Well, if he wants his money, you have to come come get it.
• 17:49
  Konrad Delong: Get him out of Lebanon, and then they can throw him in the clinic.
• 17:52
  Don Armstrong: We'll see if that happens.
• 17:53
  Don Armstrong: At any rate, i just thought that you would enjoy those stories.
• 17:58
  Don Armstrong: Time now for Conrad's car clinic.
• 18:01
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 18:01
  Don Armstrong: So why don't we go ahead and do the car clinic?
• 18:04
  Don Armstrong: because we know that it usually takes you longer than the allotted time.
• 18:07
  Don Armstrong: So I'm going to allow for that right now.
• 18:10
  Don Armstrong: Well, aren't you thankful?
• 18:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Thank, you, thank you.
• 18:13
  Michael Marrs: Well, you were talking about, you know, let's keep it, you know, kind of technical on the vehicles themselves.
• 18:18
  Michael Marrs: So this week we're going to talk about exhaust manifolds.
• 18:22
  Michael Marrs: Okay, you know, an engine a gasoline or diesel engine is basically an air pump.
• 18:27
  Michael Marrs: How much air can you get in and how much air can you get out, and how loud is the bang in the middle to push the piston down, to create power?
• 18:33
  Michael Marrs: So one of the cheapest ways to make more power is improving the air flow of the exhaust system.
• 18:38
  Michael Marrs: Hence, that's why so many hot rodders put headers on car.
• 18:41
  Michael Marrs: The first one here is what's called the Chevrolet Ram Horn, very popular exhaust manifold was used on millions of Chevrolets through the years, from the early sixties all the way through the mid seventies.
• 18:53
  Michael Marrs: So you know, very, very popular but not good flow.
• 18:57
  Michael Marrs: So that's why you see so many people throw headers on a small block Chevy.
• 19:01
  Michael Marrs: It really increased the power.
• 19:02
  Michael Marrs: It's free power is what it is.
• 19:05
  Michael Marrs: It's ultimately free power.
• 19:06
  Michael Marrs: Didn't Beerman sell?
• 19:06
  Michael Marrs: Didn't he get his start selling headers?
• 19:11
  Don Armstrong: Not start, but he made a fortune on them.
• 19:13
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, Headman headers, Was it?
• 19:14
  Don Armstrong: headman Had been dug.
• 19:15
  Don Armstrong: But either way, Headman headers.
• 19:18
  Don Armstrong: And just to interrupt and just say this that I'll never forget the first time I went to his house.
• 19:22
  Don Armstrong: He says come on in Regular three bedroom single story house right Over in the meadows meadows place now.
• 19:29
  Don Armstrong: Walk in in every room.
• 19:31
  Don Armstrong: You walk in the dining rooms to the right.
• 19:34
  Don Armstrong: Every single room in this house is floor to ceiling, wall to wall.
• 19:41
  Don Armstrong: Headers stacked everywhere for every make and model of car that you could possibly do.
• 19:46
  Don Armstrong: He was shipping them out And so and he ran a little bitty box ad like a one and a half inch by one inch box ad in the back of carcraft and hot rod and all the car magazines And it was, I think it was 49 or 59, 95 for a set of headers for your car.
• 20:04
  Don Armstrong: It was cheap, Shipped to you, Lifetime guarantee, Boom, Lifetime guarantee.
• 20:11
  Don Armstrong: And later on in the afternoon the truck would come to pick up the end of the day orders and fill up the truck with headers.
• 20:27
  Don Armstrong: So he was just moving them in and out of his house all day long.
• 20:30
  Michael Marrs: Smart guy.
• 20:31
  Michael Marrs: So you know manufacturers recognize this free horsepower available to them So they started building their own exhaust manifold that had a header-like look.
• 20:42
  Michael Marrs: So if you kind of look at the next one, but they're cast iron In most cases they're cast iron.
• 20:49
  Michael Marrs: Now they're actually doing tubes.
• 20:50
  Michael Marrs: This one was for the max wedge.
• 20:53
  Michael Marrs: You know you can see even in cast iron that's pretty complex casting there.
• 20:57
  Michael Marrs: That created the header look of cast iron And through the years different manufacturers did it Kind of.
• 21:06
  Michael Marrs: The next one out after the max wedge was Pontiac and their Super Duty.
• 21:12
  Michael Marrs: You got to remember Pontiac Super Duty started as a 421 back in the early 60s and evolved into the Ram Air of the early 70s and stuff.
• 21:22
  Michael Marrs: So again it has that long tube look and that length of that tube was worked on by the engineers to create the most power, as well as the way that it scavenged where it came together, at the connection where all four of the tubes came together.
• 21:39
  Michael Marrs: That was an important part of the design of the header or the exhaust manifold.
• 21:43
  Michael Marrs: And then Mopar again did it with the street hemi with clearly what looks to be headers on the street hemi And you got to think that was cast iron, pretty heavy but it took some work to create that casting to do that, but very creative And they would glow a brilliant orange.
• 22:03
  Don Armstrong: when you really got that feeling, when you were really banging on them.
• 22:06
  Michael Marrs: And then you know Carol Shelby building hot rod cars.
• 22:09
  Michael Marrs: He recognized the importance of it and he had his own exhaust manifolds that were cast for the.
• 22:14
  Michael Marrs: You got to remember he had a 289 that was putting out what?
• 22:18
  Michael Marrs: 305 horsepower at the time.
• 22:20
  Michael Marrs: Well, a big chunk of that was the exhaust system on the vehicle as well as the carburetor in the tune.
• 22:26
  Michael Marrs: But you know just how much power can you create just by changing the exhaust manifolds to a better flowing exhaust manifold 10 to 20 horsepower, usually That was pretty significant in the day, So that would have been the small block.
• 22:40
  Michael Marrs: and then Ford said, Hey, I can beat that.
• 22:43
  Michael Marrs: And then they built these headers for the 428 Super Cobra jets.
• 22:46
  Michael Marrs: Again, some of these are pretty rare to find and very expensive to find originals.
• 22:52
  Michael Marrs: So again you can see that they're trying to create that exhaust flow to get the air out of the engine.
• 22:58
  Michael Marrs: Next week we're going to talk about intake manifolds and getting air into the engine.
• 23:03
  Michael Marrs: And then you know, finally, today, you know, everybody says you know, put an LS in it, tub it out, or Jeff says put an LS in it, tub it out.
• 23:10
  Michael Marrs: So this is what the exhaust manifold looks like on the LS to Chevrolet engines.
• 23:17
  Michael Marrs: What does it?
• 23:17
  Don Armstrong: look like on my Corvette, because I can't see it.
• 23:21
  Michael Marrs: Probably not too far from this, but yours is an LS one, so it might have been a little bit shorter runners, but you had headers on there.
• 23:28
  Don Armstrong: No, Oh no, it has a Corsa catback exhaust.
• 23:32
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, go ahead.
• 23:33
  Michael Marrs: So what you can see in this.
• 23:34
  Michael Marrs: You know there was quite a bit of work put together to create that flow range to get the air out of the inside of the engine.
• 23:40
  Michael Marrs: You want them to be long, you want them to be smooth, you don't want a lot of really sharp bends in them.
• 23:46
  Michael Marrs: So you know, all the manufacturers recognized, as the hot rodders did, that a set of headers that look like this are pretty important.
• 23:55
  Michael Marrs: So they were building basically cast iron headers in production.
• 24:00
  Jeff Dziekan: So why did the factory once they realized this?
• 24:03
  Jeff Dziekan: why?
• 24:04
  Jeff Dziekan: what was the advantage of staying with cast iron versus building a header?
• 24:09
  Don Armstrong: Well, not just that, but why didn't they all change it to a scavenging header, like the late model LS motor?
• 24:16
  Michael Marrs: Because the cast iron is cheaper than welding together tubes.
• 24:19
  Michael Marrs: Seriously, Yeah, manpower, Just in manpower Labor.
• 24:22
  Michael Marrs: Yeah, You know you can.
• 24:23
  Michael Marrs: How big are you?
• 24:24
  Michael Marrs: You know, once you had the sand casting you could build, you know thousands of exhaust manifolds where a header requires somebody to get in there and take it together and piece it together.
• 24:35
  Don Armstrong: That was the first thing I did on my Corvette put a set of headers on it And I don't know what they were.
• 24:40
  Michael Marrs: And it'll wake the car up.
• 24:41
  Michael Marrs: Yeah, you know, definitely will wake the car up.
• 24:43
  Michael Marrs: My oldsmobile's got headers on it.
• 24:46
  Don Armstrong: Wonder what the number one header maker seller is these days.
• 24:50
  Jeff Dziekan: I would think Hooker, yeah, that's what I would think.
• 24:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Hooker headers Hooker, yeah, that's what I would think.
• 24:55
  Michael Marrs: Hooker Headman Doug Thorley.
• 24:58
  Konrad Delong: Yeah, Headman's good.
• 25:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Thorley may be good, but I don't, volume-wise, honestly.
• 25:03
  Michael Marrs: No, no, i would say, volume-wise would be Hooker.
• 25:05
  Michael Marrs: I think Edelbrock makes headers now.
• 25:06
  Michael Marrs: Well, when?
• 25:06
  Konrad Delong: we watch the NHRA races this afternoon.
• 25:08
  Konrad Delong: Look on the side of the car because it's going to be heading for Hooker, that doesn't mean anything.
• 25:13
  Michael Marrs: That just means he gives them money, that's right, Run the sticker.
• 25:16
  Don Armstrong: we'll give you some money if you'll win.
• 25:18
  Michael Marrs: But again, you know it's easy horsepower by getting the air out of the engine.
• 25:23
  Michael Marrs: Next weekend we're going to talk about getting the air out of the engine.
• 25:26
  Don Armstrong: So a possibility, if you keep your foot out of it, of getting a little bit better gas mileage.
• 25:32
  Michael Marrs: Yeah, well, that's not why you put headers on it.
• 25:34
  Konrad Delong: Of course not.
• 25:35
  Konrad Delong: So anything, so anything.
• 25:35
  Konrad Delong: We talk about port and polish.
• 25:38
  Michael Marrs: Yeah, I'm not really going to talk about port and polish.
• 25:41
  Michael Marrs: There's an aspect of that, and that is when you put two pieces of metal together, you want that air flow to be smooth over that mating surface, Right?
• 25:50
  Michael Marrs: So the only thing is making sure that mating surface is exactly the same as the two pieces of metal going together, And polishing is smoothing it out.
• 25:59
  Michael Marrs: So it's not a rough surface to create a boundary layer air turbulence.
• 26:06
  Don Armstrong: Okay, i did have one.
• 26:08
  Don Armstrong: I don't have time to read all of this.
• 26:11
  Don Armstrong: I'm going to read this separately.
• 26:13
  Michael Marrs: Candice is watching.
• 26:15
  Don Armstrong: Is she?
• 26:16
  Michael Marrs: So be nice.
• 26:17
  Don Armstrong: Is she reading her text messages?
• 26:18
  Don Armstrong: I hope so.
• 26:19
  Don Armstrong: Oh, she texted me back.
• 26:21
  Don Armstrong: I see, i gave her a hard time Blank.
• 26:23
  Jeff Dziekan: you may not be able to read her text messages.
• 26:24
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't think they want to.
• 26:27
  Don Armstrong: She says sorry, buddy, i sure tried.
• 26:30
  Don Armstrong: You didn't even call or text, no, because I didn't know this was gonna happen.
• 26:35
  Don Armstrong: It was a surprise.
• 26:35
  Don Armstrong: It was a surprise Mars kept it a secret All right moving on.
• 26:38
  Konrad Delong: It's all Mars' fault.
• 26:40
  Don Armstrong: Always is, It is yep, and we're all of his wives.
• 26:44
  Konrad Delong: Okay, how are we?
• 26:45
  Don Armstrong: Mars.
• 26:46
  Don Armstrong: Oh yeah, kind of a sick way.
• 26:47
  Don Armstrong: Alrighty, all right, quick break.
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