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(00:00):
I'm not at liberty to discuss the cool builds that we have
coming up, but I can't assure you there is some shenanigans
about to ensue. And if you thought the Drift
tassel was cool, hold on to yourshorts.
Welcome back to the Circle Driftpodcast presented by SIM HQ.
My name is Dawson and today we are here at the Drift HQ 4th of
July event sitting down with cricket.
I just like trying to improve, improve, improve.
(00:22):
They say you can't reinvent the wheel, but you sure can't make
it smoother. I can do almost a million
different things. Tire changing, any one of them.
I'll take your tires, your wheels off your car and put new
ones on all day, baby. Taking the tire off the rim.
Not for me, but I am working on something.
Those of you who are wondering when is Cricket going to build
something and working on it and it's not a car.
It's not a car. It's a spaceship cuz.
(00:44):
And we got plenty of more other than that on this episode.
So make sure you look below the video, hit that subscribe button
and without further. ADO.
Let's get into the podcast forever.
I've been in the field with wherever they throw out me,
brush it off, pick myself up, moving on.
Little better. Ain't no errors, baby.
It's a new friendly face. Of course, if you haven't seen
(01:05):
the old podcast for this exact same event, 4th of July here at
Drift HQ, this time at Carolina Motor Sports Park.
So how are we doing this weekend?
How are you? How's.
We're doing great. The the facility is amazing.
The weather is great. It's a little hot for us, but we
bring Florida everywhere we go, so it's nothing new to us.
(01:25):
You know, all the drivers here are doing spectacular.
We had a great driver turn out, had some great sponsors for the
event too. We've hosted two different
events here today so far. Fastest entry, which we got,
Adam got 124 mile an hour entry speed.
And then the second place guy, Jacob, he's only 16 years old.
(01:47):
He's 121 miles an hour for an entry speed.
Barely has a driver's license yet.
Yeah. What Car is he in he?
Was in an S13 hatch, a blue one with orange wheels on it.
OK, Yeah. Yeah, he had the really clean
entry, like stuck it almost wentfull back he on it and just
hooked into the corner and. That was down the street.
(02:07):
Right, yeah, turn 1 so and all three of his runs, they let you
do 2 practice run or one practice and then two real runs
and all of his runs were like first place runs.
He just. Didn't get he.
Had three more miles an hour to beat Ziggy and he almost had him
even in that big block car. That little 2:40 with the two J.
What they can eat? How did the team tandem stuff
(02:29):
go? Team Tandem seemed like it was
really wild. It was a lot.
So it came down to Team Monster and Hot Dogging.
So team Hot dogging was Chelsea,Nova, Nick Ward and Grant.
And then Booth, their buddy fromthe Uki forget his name, and Lee
Yearwood. And down in the finals, Booth
(02:51):
spun out on Turn 1 and hot dogging was just hot dog in the
track. They did so good, they decided
to loop around and go back for avictory lap afterwards, just to
show how good they were. So yeah, they all got a free
pair of tires. Yeah, they were all show offs, I
mean. That's cool.
Free tires is always nice. Yeah, Tire Streets hooked it up
so there's like up to three drivers.
(03:12):
You can do a three team tandem and we'll give you each driver a
set of tires or a pair of tires.Oh yeah, yeah, really nice.
It's perfect. Give them something to do.
Burn it off 2 laps for two tires.
That's worth it. Absolutely.
All day long. Only two laps.
You burn a set, you get a set. Or at least you get two or two
pairs, whatever. Yeah, you.
(03:34):
Get 2 tires, they're like 140 bucks a piece or something like
that. Yeah, $300 price for the 1st
place price begin at $300. We're doing drinking games
later. You're going to take place with
us or take partake. I am not a real drinker.
I'm not anymore. Either this is not an alcoholic.
Oh, look at you go. Yeah.
I'm six months, no alcohol. That's sick.
(03:54):
Thank you. I still will be hosting the
drink the drinking event. I'm in charge of it.
I came up with the games and everything so hopefully it goes
off really good. The finals will be real good.
I'm going to have a little obstacle course set up.
Might integrate the water slide into it.
No, no, depends on what they letme.
Get we'll definitely be there but yeah yeah I don't know if
I'll participate in the drinkingYeah, I'll.
(04:16):
Be talking crap the whole time, it's going to be fun.
Oh, that's awesome. Well, we're doing it obviously
at CMP this year. So what is why is it here?
What's the difference in AMP andwhat's going on versus C?
MPAMP only allowed us to have one day to drift and they have.
The 4th of July is a noise ordinance and so when they take
(04:36):
off the noise ordinance, it allows the track to let louder
cars in. So with the louder cars allows
drifting. So we were able to rent the
track that one day a year, but it's really expensive to rent
that track and we're limited to drivers, to spectators, to
everything just based off of howsmall the track really is, like
parking wise, because it is a private track, private
(04:57):
membership track, they're not open to the public or anything
like that, so. It's one of the nicest racetrack
facilities I've ever been to. Like totally honest.
They have a pool for their members.
Yeah, with a water slide. Like pull out all the stuff.
You got a locker room. Each of their members has their
own little garage that's air conditioned.
Like it's top notch next level stuff.
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But for this track, we get 2 days.
We're allowed to camp, you know,so our drivers get multiple days
of driving endless laps. You know, we have a tire changer
on site. You can do your camping, you can
bring a camper, you know, hang out with your friends, stay out
all night, you know, have a goodtime.
So you're not limited. We had to be out of the other
track at 7. Like everybody packed up cars in
(05:42):
their trailers. Get the hell out, Gates. .7.
That's it. So here we can party all night
and sleep all day if you can get.
Through and it seems like that'swhat's going to happen.
Oh yeah, we're going to have a good time tonight.
I'm really excited for this. We've been waiting to have a 4th
of July event that we could actually celebrate the 4th of
July. So this is the opportunity that
we can have so. How come we're not doing
(06:03):
fireworks, by the way? I don't know.
We're in South Carolina. This is where fireworks are
literally missing to blow. Off it's got to be I would
assume track insurance stuff probably probably the only thing
I. Could one or two go off later?
I ain't saying who did it, it's probably me, but yeah, I got to
find some. It's probably.
Beep. Yeah, yeah, it's probably beep.
(06:26):
Couldn't have been me ripping. I was doing the drinking games.
I couldn't have been lighting onfire.
Have you been out there driving at all today?
I. Haven't yet, actually.
I've been doing tech, doing the emceeing on the microphone,
trying to get all the drivers ready for the different drift
games. So I haven't got a chance to
drive, but I am going to go out on the Tesla later, maybe after
it calms down. There's a bunch of Cowboys out
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there right now, and I'm not that good of a drifter.
Contrary to popular belief. I build cars.
I don't drive cars. I can.
I just would rather build them. You know, people like, oh, why
don't you drive? Why don't you drive?
I really enjoy the aspect of building it versus driving it.
But why? I understand that.
Why? I like the creativity of it.
(07:09):
You know, I like doing somethingdifferent a million different
times. Like you can give me a 2 Jay-Z
and a BMW and it's going to be completely different than the
last 10 that we've done is because we've done so many
different things. I want to try something new.
I want to push the envelope and I honestly, I can't afford to
drive. It's expensive, you know, and
I'm really good at breaking everything.
So if I drive then I break things and I have to fix the
(07:32):
things and then I have to fix them myself as well as pay for
the parts. And you know, I'd rather build
somebody else's stuff and then them pay me for it.
You know, I like one of the few guys in Drifting that gets paid
to be in drifting and it's a pretty good gig.
And I still haven't changed the tire yet. 12 years of drifting,
I've never changed the tire on atire machine.
(07:53):
I'm probably the only one in theworld that can say.
That. Like day one Dwarth is like
here, change these tires. Like, yeah, I don't know how.
Hi. He's going to show you.
I'm like, no, no he's not. I'll go welder over here.
I'm a welder. I Weld like I can do it.
I can do almost a million different things.
Tire changing ain't one of them.I'll take your tires, your
wheels off your car and put new ones on all day, baby.
(08:15):
What? What What PSI you want?
I got you taking the tire off the rim.
Not for me. Well, you mentioned BMWs and two
J setups and obviously you just finished Duarte's.
Yep, we just finished Christmas too.
Well, Oh yeah, it's true, yeah. You know, 46.
So how? OK, so you mentioned you could
build them differently every single time.
(08:35):
What are different on these builds compared to the previous
ones? Just like the, the fabrication,
the the firewalls, the block OPSwhere we set up everything so we
might run hoses down one side one way and do different
fittings. And when we get to the track and
something breaks, we realize we have to get to it.
The serviceability of it isn't quite where we want it time
(08:56):
wise. You know, you're limited to like
a 5 minute timeout or a 10 minute.
If someone hits you and it's their fault, you only have so
much amount of time allotted to be able to fix the car and get
back on track because that's really where your team shines.
You can have the greatest driverin the world, but if someone
wrecks you and doesn't let you get back out there to finish
competing, it doesn't matter howgood a driver you are.
(09:17):
You're only good as your weakestlink or your weakest pit crew.
So you got to have a team there that knows the car, has built
the car, knows everything about it.
So it is like, oh, tie rod's blown all right, I need a 17, I
need a 22, I need the impact gunand I need everybody already
knows the job, it's already done.
Boom, we know what tools are done.
You know what needs to get done.So when you take do it
(09:38):
differently, we always trying toimprove, make the car more
serviceable as well as look good.
You know, like trying to bring sexy back to the game.
So you, you, you think that's important?
The looks and everything, even the fabrication side of it too.
For me it is because as a builder, I look at other
builders cars and like, Oh, yeah, you're either drooling
(10:00):
over it or you're thinking of that's not quite for me.
But you always find something that you didn't think of.
So it gives you that option to like, yeah, I'm going to try
that. Like, I walk around the pitch
all the time and I look at people's cars just to see what
they do and see if they found a better way to do something that
I haven't done yet. And I'll take their ideas and
(10:22):
I'll tell them like, yo, I took your idea.
The thing works so good, you know, And I'll sometimes I'll
ask Phil, I hit your mind like, this is really cool.
I want to implement this on one of our bills.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
So I just like trying to improve, improve, improve.
They say you can't reinvent the wheel, but you sure can't make
it smoother. What's the last like thing that
(10:42):
you've noticed on someone elses car that really like threw you
for a loop and like really impressed?
You probably Adams 8 to 4 to 1 headers.
Dude, those are. Those were intense, like they
had to like 3D print the mock upblocks for it to put all of the
the pipes in and then bolt them down to that to start your
(11:04):
welding. So it was like a whole thing
that went. Into how long did that take
total? Like how many hours?
Weeks 2 Weeks 2 weeks. Fucking hell.
Man, maybe 3 weeks because MM could tell from Canada.
He did all the headers into the merge collector and then Spoon
came down and finished the collector at the end and then do
(11:26):
the titanium exhaust. So it was like 3 weeks total for
the exhaust. But it's gorgeous.
They did a great job on it. Well, it sounded incredible from
what I can hear, and I'm not even really a must like an LS
guy, but it sounds great. Yeah, they did a really good job
on it. It's definitely a one-of-a-kind
sound and it's just a cool looking car.
(11:49):
What was the, I guess idea behind going LS on that specific
chassis, that platform and like,what's the goal on it?
I'm pretty sure the guy that putthe motor in with Adam told him
like you got to try this and like really sold them on it.
Like, let me show you what a bigblock can do 1000 horsepower NA,
(12:10):
you know throughout the whole incredible.
By the way, like. OK, sure.
Who's not going to say no to yesto that?
Give me 1000 horsepower with nothing, just straight naturally
aspirated. Yeah, that's there.
I got to try it at least once. So they're doing big blocks and
all sorts of other things. Drifting just wasn't one of them
(12:30):
yet. So I love the fact that we're
pushing the envelope and Adam put that in the car and I hope
that next year he's able to run it at FDI.
Don't know if he's planning on running it at FD but I would
think that's going to be his next move.
I would hope to. I hope he continues his season
in the current rig that he's in because he's in 3rd place right
now. Let's keep that.
He's an absolute weapon. Monster in that car.
(12:51):
So let's keep that good thing going.
Let's not change anything. You know If it ain't broke,
don't fix it. Let him finish out this season
strong and the next season go knocks and Dicks in the dirt.
You know, there you go. Damn right.
Well, since you understand the fabrication side of things,
explain to me a little bit more on the reason because they did
like a front motor mount plate type deal on that contract plate
(13:14):
on it. So what is like?
Why is that necessary? So most of the time you do an
engine plate like that is to allow for your headers.
Those headers are two and 1/4. Inch OK.
So trying to have the engine or the motor mounts come down right
where the headers are, it would have been a nightmare for the
fabricator to try and make that work, as well as a steering
shaft in there. So there's just not enough room.
(13:36):
So when it comes to that, an engine plate on the front of the
chassis is a way better option because it solid mounts it to
the chassis. You don't have to worry about
that. It gives you way more room
underneath the motor to wrap your headers around and just
give you that breathing room to fabricate.
So it's just a room thing mostly.
I would have expected it to be some type of maybe performance
(13:58):
gain or of any kind, or just a solid more solid mounted.
Because you have something mounted to the very front of
your motor and then something tothe back of your transmission.
So it's it's squared. And holding both sides, yeah.
It's not really. It doesn't have any other
performance thing minus you don't get any twist.
You know, you'll get more body twists and, you know, frame
twist from it than anything, especially with that motor.
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But otherwise, yeah, just to make room.
That's crazy. And he's got a new one coming
in. He's going to do a billet one
off the front so it looks, you know, beautiful.
It's just the aluminum cut one to make it work.
So they had the the guys cut that first, get it all fit.
So they'll send that plate out and get it real nice and machine
fill it, you know, just to finish it off.
It also looks good. You know, you have a car look
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good as well as perform well. Form and function do go
together. I will say it does look cool out
front of the again LS motors arepretty ugly in my opinion but.
You take that back right now. They're going to hate me for it,
but like, I've just never been an LS guy.
I don't know. I I blew up an RV and I'm still
going to put another RV in it. So people hate me.
(15:02):
Sounds like you hate. Yourself.
That's what that sounds like. Let's not talk about it.
Anyways, moving on. We were talking about this
earlier. The best RV is a running RV and
they're also the most expensive ones.
So sell your RV and then becauseyou can get money for a a window
to RV is worth nothing. You know you can probably.
Sell There's no window yet. So.
(15:22):
There's no God. You better find some wood to
knock on. Oh shit, yeah, you're you'll.
Figure it out. Middle of a field?
Good luck. We got sand.
That's all we got. Watch out.
And fire ants too. So good times.
I got lit up yesterday like right at the opening of the
trailer. There was a whole pile and no
one. Saw a girl walking in and I'm
(15:42):
like. Hi, my leg.
What's that clovered in? Fire ants.
I poured gas on them. Easy solution.
There you go. The smell went away finally.
Well, no anyways, but back to the the F80 or Adam's car, the
new car F22. Or F20.
One of those why are we going with the BMW chassis so much?
(16:03):
I have to ask that. It's really just what you like,
you know, what you prefer to drive to, the driving style of a
BMW versus the driving style of a Nissan.
They all have different type of suspension setups, you know, So
it's really driver what the driver.
Want even like the newer chassisthough, because like that's
crazy for like the average person you see, you know the.
(16:24):
Five link or whatever in the rear now, so it's a lot
different. Have a trailing arm like they
used to. Yeah.
So the BMW rear suspension is completely changed from E46 up
to what they are now. They changed to the E90 E 92 to
give you that multi link suspension and no trailing arm
and they've stuck with that since then and it's working
really good, especially for grip.
Duarte's F 30 is so dialed in ongrip no one could catch up to
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him in the Pro Am. Last round he was the fastest on
the track and he still was running higher tire pressure
than most of the other drivers, so it was just the way the
suspension was set up. Had Chelsea come in and set up
all of his stuff, counterbalanceand everything to all of the
alignment specs and everything. It was pretty fun to watch.
Do you think that's probably like the next more common
(17:08):
chassis to be dabbled into? I think.
It will be only because they're so damn cheap.
You can buy A320. How?
Because A320 blown up is like 2 grand bro.
Oh. OK, well, I guess yeah, if
you're buying a blown 1. Duarte's green one that we just
finished, that's A320. He paid like 2 grand for that
car. It had a blown up.
Not even been less. Are they any?
(17:30):
Are they useless? Stock fault or stock motor and
everything? The 320 motor is it's a 4
cylinder turbo they like to blowup.
OK. So anything the BMW motors I
like are the one like the 3:40 that has what is it called?
It's the one that B 58 has AV 58Gen. 2 Gen. threes in them.
(17:50):
Those ones I like. I'm a big diesel guy, so I have
AX535-D and I love that thing. That's kind of cool.
Horsepower. It'll tow my boat, you know,
like it'll tow a race car. So and they sell.
That's awesome. 45 miles to the gallon, can't go wrong.
Wow. You can tow your race car with
it and have your your kids in the back.
Whatever you need. And still save money on gas
(18:12):
still. Save money on fuel?
No, yeah, BMW, we just, I like the look of them personally.
I like how easy they are to workon.
This is a personal preference thing, I think.
You know, some people like Toyota, some people like Nissan,
some people like Ford's. I mean, not me, but you know,
each do his own. A lot of people don't like
BMW's, but it's it's whatever your driver preference is.
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You know, if you BMW and you love Nissan, drive a BMW.
If you drive better than a Nissan but you love BMW, maybe
drive the Nissan. You know, sometimes change the
arrow, Fairpoint. Maybe it's not the Indian, maybe
it's the arrow. Well, sometimes it is the Indian
and not the arrow. Sometimes it's not the car.
Oh my God. Driver mod.
(18:56):
What the fuck? I've seen people get into a car
and drive the doors off of it and then get into their own car
and drive like crap. Like what the hell is going?
On it's like they're holding thebag.
The car feels better for him, the feeling of it.
I ought to try ABMW someone else's car just to see the.
Car to drive that Tesla is. Easy Is it really?
(19:17):
It's like driving a SIM, you just don't have to press the
clutch it. Is that not weird initial video?
Game. The first initiation is kind of
weird, you really just have to flick it, but as soon as you hit
the gas it starts spinning out like more than half throttle.
It'll just light them up, so if you go into a corner and just
(19:37):
gas it, it'll automatically start drifting.
So there's no. Like, dude, I would love to try
it. Yeah, you got to just.
To see what I want to go out here after this on the Kart
track, I got to get some laps inbefore I get yelled at.
They always yell at me for not driving.
So if I can do it on my own, then I get back.
Yeah, yeah, I got some laps I got.
Some y'all got an extra helmet over there?
Yeah, we got we got helmets for sale, baby.
(19:57):
I'll give you a good discount. Shit, I don't give a discount.
Code sell the metal good for an extra. 5%.
Sell the metal. 5% off Drift HQ.Sell the metal.
Perfect. Yeah, what a plug.
Shameless plug, I'm trying to help you, you know.
Let me help you save money. No, I.
Don't just keep putting. Your helmet, though.
But I need a car that runs first.
(20:20):
Yeah, that's kind of priority, you know?
Hey. Got my magic man.
He'll be back later. Hey, go.
Drive your car, Sissy. They've been walking around all
day. Like, don't walk around.
You have a car now drive around,right?
Put some laps in. Chris no.
But the Tesla, though, so OK, how?
What all did it actually take tomake that car driftable?
(20:41):
Very little. It took us three days really.
We're never touching. I've never sat in a Tesla
before, like a week before we got that car.
They're pretty simple, aren't they?
Yeah, there's nothing to them. There's a big battery under your
ass, there's a big orange cord that you don't want to touch,
leaving that battery, and then that cord goes into this motor
that's in the subframe. That's it.
(21:04):
Get somebody who knows how to take and disconnect the power
and then take your motor apart. Put in either Weld your dip
because it's got a spider gears in it inside the motor.
The diff inside of it is just spider gears so you can Weld the
diff. Or you can buy a $2000 or $2200
LSD that bolts up. To.
So you can if you want to do a really cheap you can save 2
(21:25):
grand and just Weld the diff andtake it out of the motor, Weld
it put it back in the disconnection and take a part of
the motor and put back together is 2 hours takes nothing it was
like. 12 yeah. So did you, did you watch at all
the process of him taking that cable off?
What was it like? I kind of, I was scared.
I got away from it. That thing can make you blow up,
(21:47):
man. That's a lot of power.
I mean, I'm not saying I want totry it, I'm curious how simple
it actually is. It looked pretty simple, like
how he did it. He had like specific things that
he had to do. And there's like redundant
systems that make it so if something happens, it'll
automatically shut it off. So there's like one thing you
can disconnect like the battery in the front, They have two
(22:08):
batteries. They have a little tiny 12 Volt
battery in the front. That's like their actuator
battery basically to start. Every yeah like starts it.
So if you disconnect that, it basically will cut power to
everything and it makes it so you can disconnect it.
I ain't the one they're going toplay and find out though.
I'll let that dude figure it out.
Yeah, but we got don't do that. We do our likes that.
We're supposed to, Adam said. If we got 10,000 likes on our
(22:30):
video that. He did y'all.
We got over 25,000. Oh shit, he's got to build 2 he
got now. That's what I said like 20,000
likes, that means 2 Teslas, right?
So the guy that was actually with us, that helped us, Blake,
he's going to turn his into a drift Tesla too.
So we are technically going to have three of them, yeah.
That was pretty crazy. We hit our.
(22:50):
Likes and now Adam has to drive an electric car.
You think that'll start growing too, that side of it?
I hope so, just for the aspect of they're so cheap and they're
easy to work on. I like, you know, gas powered
engines first. I mean, I agree totally.
There's no replacement for displacement.
You know I love the smell. The age-old sane brother.
You know Chris, I'm going turbo with my setup that I'm working
(23:14):
on currently. I won't talk about it on here
because we're going to have a secret, but I am working on
something. Those of you who are wondering
when is Cricket going to build something, do something cool,
I'm working on it, said a littlepart of saving money and buying
stuff, putting my parts togetherand it's not a car.
It's not a car. It's not a car, it's a
spaceship, cuz it's going to go as fast as one, but it ain't a
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spaceship. Yeah, no.
No drift car. No drift car in my future.
They're too expensive. I don't want to pay for tires.
It's hot out here, you know? You just keep stealing see time
from everyone. Else's car I got everybody.
Else's car in that position might as well.
Yeah, I don't take them up on the offer because I don't like
driving other people's stuff, even if I build the car.
Like, I've never driven one of Duarte's cars except for like
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Blue Thunder and I think the F80, but all of us, like main
big cars. He's always offered, never taken
him up on it. I don't want to break something.
One part on that thing breaks. I'm out of work for a month just
working on the House. Yeah, the bumper on that thing.
I'm like, yeah, I'm just going to work for you and sleep in the
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shop for the next couple months.It's going to be fine.
Can you bring me some ramen? I don't like, I don't like
driving cars because when you break them, you got to fix them.
I like other people breaking their shit.
Then I can fix it. Yeah.
Isn't it still kind of the same?No, because I'm getting paid
when I break. Their car when I break that car.
I have to. I love you too.
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Have to fix their car and pay for it.
When they break their crap, I get to fix it and get paid for
it. It's different, you know.
It's almost always better when money's involved, yeah.
Yeah. Well, the newfound shot.
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Well, I guess not newfound shot,but the shop.
Refurbished. Shop that The newly refurbished
shop has gotten some major upgrades, obviously one being SP
Tool SP. Tools came in and hooked us up
and set up our whole shop. So we've been horrible, horrible
tool selection. We've been working with.
If you guys are watching any of our videos, you'll know we've
had hand me down tools for like 10 years minus Chris had his own
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toolbox. But the rest of it is all just
tools that we've acquired throughout the years.
None of it matched because all mismatched and wrenches, sockets
as a mess, toolboxes that the drawers fall out when you open
them. You know, like you saw what our
shop look like in the tools thatwe had.
He'd be like damn, y'all make miracles happen out of what you
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got? Same thing with our fabrication
equipment. So SP tools came in and gave us
a whole setup, helped us out andthe tools are amazing.
Like they made it so. Much they look at great quality.
My own set. They got me my own little cart
because I told them like I don'tuse a lot.
I use like wrenches, sockets, ratchets, screwdrivers.
That's it. I don't need anything, just that
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little set and some extensions. That's it.
They sent me up with a whole cart and it's perfect.
It's all I need. I can take apart any part that
Chris won't take apart for me. You know, a little monotonous
stuff I can get to. So it worked out really well.
And then we got Bailey Shop too.We got our new Bailey Shop for
fabrication equipment. I don't know if.
You. Oh yeah, Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so we got a new CNC plasmatable.
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They're integrated with Viper, right?
What's that? They're integrated with Viper
somehow, aren't they? Like.
So the owner of Viper Chair is one of the old owners of Bailey.
They helped start Bailey. It was a big that's.
What? It was OK.
So it was the owner of Viper actually started hammer press.
So they came out with the first movable hammer press that you
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didn't need a crane to lift. So it was meant for guys in
their own shop, hobbyists that want to do stuff, small
fabricators, you know, that wanted to get into metalworking.
But the, the, the artistry actually died out after World
War 2, after they stopped makingtanks and planes and all this
stuff from World War 2, all those big machines just fell by
the wayside and nobody wanted todo anything with them.
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So John from Bailey was like, I'm going to, I want one of
these machines. So he came up with a small 1.
He bought one of the huge ones, took it apart, figured out how
it worked, made a small one and started the company based off of
that Hammer press machine and went from there.
And now they make everything andthey have two different levels
of it. So they're big yellow machines
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are all made in America, hand assembled, hand welded,
everything done right here in the states.
And then there are other machines are made overseas that
are more affordable for, you know, the low your normal guy
like you or me just doing stuff in the garage or small shops,
not like full on MA Motorsports or HGK type places, just, you
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know, your smaller shops that are doing stuff.
So yeah, so they make all of thestuff that you need for a
smaller shop if you're an at home guy or whatever.
So they helped us out with our fab section.
And if you've ever seen me builda race car with the tools that
we had before, God, it was our break.
Everything that we had in our shop prior to Bailey coming in
and helping us out was Harbor Freight.
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And I don't have anything bad tosay about Harbor Freight.
For the money, it's a great setup.
You can make a whole race car with Harbor Freight.
Can confirm. Probably got 50 under the belt
with Harbor Freight tools. So you can build it, you know,
but having a better tool gives you a better product because you
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can repeat this process over again.
It takes a lot less time to do it and it's a lot cleaner.
So I'm very happy with what we got like my bandsaw, for
instance, my new one that I got it cuts a perfect like laser cut
line. My other ones, it was like a
snake has cut. Yeah, it.
Couldn't. Cut a straight line to save its
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life. It wouldn't no straight if it
hit it in the face, even afterwards I have to sit there
with the grinder and grind it down, put it on the top of the.
Thing the eyeball and the shit out of it too.
There's. Still a high spot.
Grind it down some more and thendeburr it.
All that stuff, My new bandsaw, nothing.
Just take it out, wipe it down, Weld it.
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That's awesome. Yeah, it made it made the whole
process a lot better. So I'm very happy.
I can't wait to see what we where we go with this.
We just want to keep building more, more cool stuff and just
try to push the envelope. Really what cool like metal work
have y'all already done with that stuff?
Other than that, like a. Lot of.
You mentioned bringing back likethe old.
We haven't. I haven't got a chance to do it
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yet. We're still finishing up, so
I've been using all the tools. Just some of the stuff I haven't
got to use, like the English wheel for one.
That's something that is one of the one of the lost art forms
that people are bringing back onhot rods and stuff like that.
So. Were they like, yeah, so they
bend the metal? Rollers too big metal rolling
and you roll it back and forth and if you don't watch your
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fingers, they'll go in there too.
And the English wheel don't move, your fingers will flatten
out like Wiley Coyote. So you have to be really careful
when you're rolling the thing back and forth and keep your
hands out the way because you will take and run your thumb
over and it's not a good time. So that's one of the things that
they gave us to work with and try to do.
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And basically all the English wheel is it's something that
rounds out the metal. It can shape the metal for you
by stretching it. So it's, you can either move
metal by shrinking it or stretching it.
Shrinking it will bring it in. Stretching it will push it out.
So and that's all that thing is doing is strengthening or
stretching. So then they gave us a shrinking
stretcher too that can make radiuses so you can make did you
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see the Viper Corvette over there?
Oh yeah, The wheel arches. That's all one piece of metal.
Those wheel arches are all one piece.
Of metal so. That was made by John, the guy
that owns. That.
So that was all done with the machines that we have at the
shop. So that's the kind of stuff that
we're going to be making. And Bailey actually sent me out
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the training about a month ago on all of the machines.
How was that? It was awesome.
It was really cool. I learned more on each machine
in an hour than I did 5 hours watching videos trying to do it
myself in my shop. So for instance, the bead
roller, I learned more on bead rolling there in two hours, and
I have bead rolling in five years of doing it.
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Like I've been bead rolling forever.
It's one of my favorite things to do on cars and make it look
good to dress it up. I was doing it wrong the whole
time. How do you?
How are you? What do you mean?
You're supposed to do, you're supposed to take bites out of
it, bites out of it. I would do like 2 rolls on it.
I'd do one initial one and then a second one and that was it.
And the guy that trained us, he actually does a Twisted Metal
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garage up in Canada. He does all of the artwork,
beadwork artwork. Like he has ACNC machine that
like cuts out like designs and then he'll beadroll the design
with his bead roller. So he showed me he's like, wow,
take 5 passes, take 10 passes, do it real slow, you won't get
any wrinkles. Do a nice and easy light
pressure and just show me all these little tips and tricks.
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And I was able to, I've never been able to like take a sheet
bead, roll it and put it back ona table like a level table and
it'd be perfectly flat. There's always some little like
it could even be just like a little bump here or there.
There's always something, can never get it flat back in the
day. He's got a slow massage.
Yeah, he's like rolling Fenders 1000.
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Remnants in that bad boy to holdit down.
Now I learned how to shape the metal properly in that class so
I can have it. Even if there's a bow down in
the chassis, I can massage the metal in the bead roller to
actually bend down and follow the contour.
Of it. Just by doing higher pressure,
lower pressure, so they actuallyoffer that class to anybody.
You can sign up for it. I have.
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No idea, I'm sure it's under a couple grand, but it's worth it.
The amount of information that you get and knowledge that you
get from these guys, They're in the field for 30 years of doing
it nonstop, and each one of themis specific for each tool that
you're going to learn. So they bring in a hammer press
guy that can make a whole damn car with a hammer press, you
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know, and show you how to do it.Like he'll give, he'll bring the
parts and be like, all right, today we're going to make a
Fender for a 1941 Ford and you're going to go home with
that Fender, like a whole Fender.
Here you go. Now go build the rest.
You know. The bead roller guy is going to
give you all his stuff and give you stuff to bead roll to take
home so you can take home some of your stuff that you applied
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and learn. So it's really cool.
Like I had so much fun in that two days that they had it.
It was worth everything. Out of all out of all of those,
if you if you could only have one machine for your home shop,
which one would it be? Damn.
I don't know. I mean the one I.
Used the 1 you could do the mostwith, you know.
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Personally for me, my plasma cutter, but I have a handheld
plasma if it was coming down to the the machines that I got from
Bailey right now my most used one is my magnetic brake.
That thing is awesome. I use it for.
Dude just having any type of metal brake would be nice.
Yeah, so I love the metal brakes.
The magnetic one for me is even next level game changer because
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you just slide the thing in, step on it and go.
They're like, you don't have to crank it down or do anything,
set anything, slide the piece in, step on the pedal, point it
clicks down onto it, lift it up.It has its own little
measurement tool right there to show you what angle you're at.
Stop for. It too.
So if you're doing like multiplethings like you're.
Building never jumps out of place.
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Every single one will be exactlythe same.
That's incredible. Oh yeah, the magnetic brake.
Me and Chris have been dreaming about one of those for probably
five years. Seriously, he could get any tool
he like. The magnetic brake was over top
of the CNC plasma gun. And I've always wanted one of
those. But when it comes to like, I can
hand cut something faster than Chris can program it into the
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computer and get it cut and do all the things I could already
have it made out of cardboard. Cut, drilled, put in the car,
polished. So for one off piece places, the
handheld plasma is where it's at.
Hey, once I make it out of that and it works perfect, then I
handed the Chris and like here you go, take your time baby,
make it perfect. And then he can put the pile
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together, create it, we can put it in the car and make sure it
works exactly how it's supposed to and then we can send the part
off to get manufactured. So our CNC plasma was meant more
for manufacturing parts or production of parts to initial
like R&D of it. That's what that whole shop is
mostly solely meant for. So when we build something,
somebody says, oh man, I like that hydro bracket, I wish you
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made it. Look how we make it.
Cool. It works out pretty good.
We're doing. I have quite a few hydro
brackets that we've done. Chris designed that water pump
delete bracket. So we're always constantly
building new parts that are Drift HQ parts that we sell.
We're the only ones that sell them.
We're the only ones that have them just because it's something
that we made on the fly. Like for a car like shit that
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works really good. I bet people would want this,
and they do. What's the, what's the one thing
that you guys have come up with that's been the most like, I
guess handy or has worked the best or not not necessarily work
the best, but there's been a couple.
Of them, that one of them my my Corvette radiator support
bracket. Really.
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Yeah, I do it for Corvettes C6 and C5.
It comes with the factory bracket for your factory
radiator or aftermarket radiator.
But the bracket itself come fromthe factories made out of
aluminum. And the salesman will tell you
when you buy the Corvette, and that is a curb stop that's meant
to protect your car from runningover curbs.
No, it is not. That is a radiator support meant
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to hold the radiator of your carin from falling.
Yeah. And they say that because they
actually dip down below the plastic skirts.
You'll see these two little square things come down and
people run them over. And I'll bet you you 5 out of 6
Corvettes on the road today havea broken bracket.
Wow, just from that they're so long.
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In the I didn't know they run into.
Them so I build one made out of Dom had an inch and a half steel
that has steel brackets on everything.
You can actually Jack the car upby it if you want to, like a
change of front tires you can just take it.
You say ask me how I know we've.Done the Savios way too many
times. I don't tell people to do it,
but you can, you know, it's 120.One you just did.
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Yeah, whatever. I stand by my shit.
I stand by my product. That's all it matters.
It's all TIG welded in. You know, we have oil cooler
brackets on it, power steering brackets on it for the drift
application. You know, the only thing you
can't do with it is I'm not willing to integrate the hookups
for your little plastic bumper tab.
So you just take a little snips and snip those up.
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Don't make me work that much harder.
If I work harder, you pay more. You don't want that.
That's very true. The less.
I have to do the less. You have to pay.
The less it cost. So the more your wallet.
Keeps going cost more money, so I try to make it as simple as
possible. A bolt ride up, you know, it's
available on the site. So that's one of the things that
we do that I think has changed for the better for drifting
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because they're all aftermarket.They're like 250 three $100
aftermarket one that's going to break again.
I think ours we sell them for three something.
Maybe four. Oh yeah, and it.
Comes with everything and it's you're not going to break it.
Yeah, good luck. I mean with how popular those
damn chassis are now. Into a curb and don't stop.
You're going to have more problems than that anyway.
The rear's going to come up, yeah.
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As far as cars though, not just for the channel or for Drift HQ
or anything. Are there any cars that you want
to start dabbling in at the shopand building those parts for?
I want to build a buggy. I want to build like a bug, like
a. For drifting.
Jumping you? Want to build like a bug.
I'm in a. Jumping buggy like we have that
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track Outback of the shop that we rarely ever use.
I want to build like a buggy with like some floating
suspension like long. Travel.
I want to get like in the air, you know, I want to mess shit
up. I want to build it from scratch
too. Like give me a bunch of Dom and.
That's it. Give me some Dom and some flat
steel and let me and Chris go totown.
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Let me go turn that. Plasma cutter on and make our
own control arms like this. Let us build it from scratch.
I want that. I I've always wondered why
nobody's touched a crown vape. What?
Are you talking about Cletus has1000?
Of them I know, but actually, no, not build parts for them for
drifting, because like a Mustangtransmission bolts right to IT
support for them, yeah. Support for them.
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It's like the American JZX 100 if it had the right body kit.
Of course, but the the Ford Marauder is a good looking car.
So the Mercury Marauder, that isa Crown Victoria.
He just has a little bit of a body kit on it.
So yeah, I can get behind that. I think it would be pretty cool.
I think more people should buildsedans.
Yeah, well, they used to until Cletus drove the price up, I
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reckon. Them.
All it's kind of like Adam Brooke drove the price up.
AE36 is him and Chelsea the Novayou know.
You get an. E92 cheaper than you can get an
E36, you can get an F30. Cheaper than you can get an E30,
you can get a running F30 cheaper than you can get a cheap
running E36. That's true too, yeah.
Don't make sense. No ground, Vic.
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Would be cool if they could get the parts, you know, for it.
You know, they're probably goingto start with modded knuckles
and go from there. And that's usually how it starts
for a chastity like, oh, let's let's cut the little knuckles
and just Weld them a little closer and get.
That I think the an angle kit isthe only thing that holds that
car back because you could just simply buy a cheap dumb cheap
Mustang and take the trans out. Well, yeah, but the Transit just
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comes out of a Mustang. Five in there and chilling.
Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know. I think it would be kind of
cool. It'd be fun.
I mean, she sure as hell won't care about running into shit.
Exactly. Fucking Dang.
Dude that is a USJZX. God damn he's getting the back
trunk to start kicking the dent out and dunking.
I saw a meme of that years ago and I was.
They do it, man, every time. They go out.
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And Jimmy and all them, they'll run the hell out of the back of
the JZX and next thing you see them in the trunk just kicking
the hell out of it. Boom boom and it pops out like
them things are tuna cans. And.
Nothing. Oh yeah, it could be the next
chassis. I mean especially for cheap
ones. I think if they started like a
little cheap drift series like that, it would be pretty cool.
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Like just have them as like an Expo event had a drift event
like hey boys, don't forget you're bringing your race cars.
Bring your cheap ass POS Ford Crown Victoria and bring them
in. We're going to have a multi car
tandem. You know, maybe change the
layout of drifting for it. Instead of doing one V1, you get
a whole class of them. Like everybody go out there and
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drift kind of like dirt drip, like dirt racing, like Sprint
car. You know how they get they're
all out there doing the same thing together.
Like maybe do that. Let's let's take drifting up to
the next level, not just two cars if you like. 10 of them
bastards out there and let's seewho makes it.
I still feel like the competition side would have to
be there, but like. Yeah, who comes in first?
Yeah, do it. Do it like the.
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The Funny Cars or whatever they are with the, you know, they're
going sideways on the dirt track.
Do that make it like all of themstart off and pass people.
Like specific turns you have to slide and stuff.
You have to slide every turn, you know, and play.
Put the Chelsea to no for rule. Don't mind you the straight,
that's where you're. Trying to pass.
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Yeah, that's where you would pass.
It'd be fun, it'd be interesting, it'd spice things
up. And who cares?
It's a $3000 Crown Victoria who gives a.
Shit. Oh yeah, At that stage, yeah,
you're just doing it with Crown Victoria's dog.
Who gives a shit? Spent the money on a cage.
I wouldn't even make them do like Dom.
How would you let them do like the cheapest crab there?
Cold rolled steel boys. Let's go.
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Hell 295 a linear foot. Wouldn't even do the manual,
just go out with the auto. Yeah, go.
Just throw a handbrake in it. We'll figure it out.
Yeah, everybody flick at the corner.
It'd be the first one to sign up.
Oh my God, it'd be amazing. So the next 4th of July we're
going to have a Crown Victoria. Yeah.
All right. Yeah, we'll put it in one of our
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videos that we can. Get the That would be the most
American thing ever. Yeah, the Crown Victoria and you
got to have, well, we got to have a Chevy in there too, like
put alumina in there or. Malibu, yeah.
Malibu. Well, they're from the right.
Oh yeah, that's true. Yeah.
They have the new Impalas out that are real drive.
They're still expensive. It's fine.
They're still expensive. Yeah, or whatever.
No, they have the Caprice now. The boys are coming back.
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We're going with the bubble Chevys again.
Just wait. Give it 10.
Years. We're going to see some Chevy,
some. Caprice is out on the track.
I'm waiting for that day. Let's.
Go SAT like OK. LS in it too, boy.
Sadly, that is probably going tohappen.
That's. Insane.
I want to see some dunk drift. Have you checked out any of the
suspension that's going to be that's on those yet?
I've only seen them like going on trailers to police stations
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or as a police car. Luckily I've never had one
behind me to find out what the front end really looks like, so
I've only seen the sides in the back of them.
That's good you. Know I try not to speed too
often. Oh man, that's awesome.
Well, I guess as far as the restof the year goes, is there
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anything that we can look forward to on the channel or any
crazy? Builds coming up?
I'm not allowed. I'm not at liberty to discuss
the cool builds that we have coming up, but I can assure you
that there is some shenanigans about to ensue.
And if you thought the drift tassel was cool, hold on to your
shorts. So they only tell me enough.
I didn't even know where we werestaying until about 10:00 last
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night. All right, Yeah.
Where are you guys staying, Cricket?
I have no idea. As long as I got a bed and a
pillow. I brought my own pillow.
I don't even care about that. As long as I got a bed.
Yeah. We don't know.
They don't tell us much. So.
Which is good, because I mean, I'm just as excited to find out
as you are. Oh yeah?
Well, what's the next event? Next event for us is going
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shoot, what is it? Oh, for me, it's going to be
Mexico. I'm going down to the.
Right, you are going to the. Mexican Drift Championship.
What do you expect that to be like?
Hopefully not a kidnapping. No argument what I mean
hopefully comes back. Yeah, hopefully that come back.
If not, we're going to find out how much I'm really worth to
Poppy freak. Yeah.
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How much pain in pesos dollars? No, I'm really excited about it.
So it's going to be their finalsfor the Mexican drift
competition and there's going tobe a huge car show there too.
So. And I've only been to Mexico
once and it was to a resort and I wanted to leave and I wanted
to go actually see everything because we've been to Brazil,
we've been to the Dominican Republic, we've been to a couple
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different places, but we got to experience everything.
So for me, I want to go to Mexico.
I truthfully would have never guessed there was even much of A
drift scene and. It's huge, it's huge.
They got flames like big fireballs going off and
everything. It's kind of like drift masters
but in Mexico, so. I'm kind of like, what's that?
Big indie? Big Indian drift.
Yeah. Big Indian drift, they do the
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flame throwers, yeah. They do flame throwers and
stuff. They got all.
Sorts. They're a wild yeah.
Big India is cool, guys. We stopped by there after one of
the LZ world tours. So we just went, yeah, yeah.
And I was like, we got to stop there and we went over and
checked them out. Joel's like, yeah, they've been
dying for us to come by. So they showed us their whole,
like, drift pit, which is really, it's a full track inside
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of there. And they actually had a house
for the longest time inside of the track for like, their guests
to come and stay so they could finish drifting, park the car
there and hang out. They had like a pool.
Inside the track. It's so cool those guys at Next
Level so they're always doing some random off the wall shit.
Jesus. You have to let me know how
Mexico goes. I will.
I'm very curious how the scene is.
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Are y'all doing a video? Out there, yeah, me, I think
they're going to do a video there.
We're supposed to. I'm the only person.
Oh, me, Brian and Raphael from Dominican Republic are going.
So there's only three of us going.
So I think I'm going to film with my phone and do some stuff.
There oh cricket blog. Cricket blog.
Good luck, there's going to be alot of beeps.
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Well, I really appreciate it andI like, I like that has come to
this for you. Me too do.
You ever expect this 10 years ago?
Hell no. You would have told me 10 years
ago that I'd be doing that. I would have laughed at you.
Wait, wait. What?
What are you going to do all day?
No. I would be building race cars,
build race cars. You would have told me this when
I was a kid. I was like, dream job, Yeah.
Absolutely. It's all done.
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Yeah, Clock me. In never happened, never
happened. Had it happened and it was it
was by chance. It wasn't forced like Duarte
called me back up one day after I I stopped working for Drift HQ
for a while. I went up north with my ex-wife,
did you know, stay with her and he called me.
He's like hey, I need you to build a cage.
OK, I'll be right back. Cool.
Take me a week, Yeah? It's cold up here.
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So I came back and started doingit again and it was just,
everything just fell into place.So even if you're in a spot
right now and you want to do it and it doesn't feel right, maybe
it's just not that time or it's the wrong spot for you, you
know? Maybe there's a different spot
for you to go to find, you know,where you're supposed to be.
If it feels wrong, it probably is wrong.
You know, you shouldn't have to work too hard at it.
It should flow. And you know, if it's not saying
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if you're not getting welding togive up on it.
I'm saying if the the spot that you're in, if you're not
comfortable with where you're working or if you're not getting
the where you want to go to, that might not be it just stick
out of welding is all seat time.It's like riding the bike.
Once you figure out how to do itand once you figure out how the
metal reacts, what the heat does, what the gas does, how
much to give it, how little to give it, it's easy.
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You know, it's just therapy after that.
Oh. That's like that.
It's therapy for me. It is.
Oh, cool, dude. I appreciate it.
Well, I'll let you get out of here.
I've taken enough of your time. That's so I got to hang out and
shave with you for about an hour.
I'm. Loving.
That's fair. Yeah.
It's not saving people. We're doing the Lord's work,
brother. I'm just trying to relax until I
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get to start hosting these drinking games.
There you go. I want to give somebody $300
tonight. Well, let's let's go do that.
Yeah, let's do that and then we'll take all their money and
dice afterwards. Now we're thinking I got to
learn first, so let's go do that, but I really appreciate it
dude. I hope you have fun this
weekend. I'm.
Going. To trust.
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No bitch can't catch, no feelings.
I'm going to take a long flight from the Bay to Ibiza.
Hit home, run. I'm a ball like Jeter.
I just want 444. Then I leave.
I'm a young pop star called a boy.
Justin Bieber got a little money.
If you want, I can teach a wholelife.
A movie. You can watch it in theatre.
Staying away to the center. Trust no bitch.
Can't catch no.
I'm not at liberty to discuss the cool builds that we have
coming up, but I can't assure you there is some shenanigans
about to ensue. And if you thought the Drift
tassel was cool, hold on to yourshorts.
Welcome back to the Circle Driftpodcast presented by SIM HQ.
My name is Dawson and today we are here at the Drift HQ 4th of
July event sitting down with cricket.
I just like trying to improve, improve, improve.
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They say you can't reinvent the wheel, but you sure can't make
it smoother. I can do almost a million
different things. Tire changing, any one of them.
I'll take your tires, your wheels off your car and put new
ones on all day, baby. Taking the tire off the rim.
Not for me, but I am working on something.
Those of you who are wondering when is Cricket going to build
something and working on it and it's not a car.
It's not a car. It's a spaceship cuz.
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And we got plenty of more other than that on this episode.
So make sure you look below the video, hit that subscribe button
and without further. ADO.
Let's get into the podcast forever.
I've been in the field with wherever they throw out me,
brush it off, pick myself up, moving on.
Little better. Ain't no errors, baby.
It's a new friendly face. Of course, if you haven't seen
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the old podcast for this exact same event, 4th of July here at
Drift HQ, this time at Carolina Motor Sports Park.
So how are we doing this weekend?
How are you? How's.
We're doing great. The the facility is amazing.
The weather is great. It's a little hot for us, but we
bring Florida everywhere we go, so it's nothing new to us.
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You know, all the drivers here are doing spectacular.
We had a great driver turn out, had some great sponsors for the
event too. We've hosted two different
events here today so far. Fastest entry, which we got,
Adam got 124 mile an hour entry speed.
And then the second place guy, Jacob, he's only 16 years old.
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He's 121 miles an hour for an entry speed.
Barely has a driver's license yet.
Yeah. What Car is he in he?
Was in an S13 hatch, a blue one with orange wheels on it.
OK, Yeah. Yeah, he had the really clean
entry, like stuck it almost wentfull back he on it and just
hooked into the corner and. That was down the street.
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Right, yeah, turn 1 so and all three of his runs, they let you
do 2 practice run or one practice and then two real runs
and all of his runs were like first place runs.
He just. Didn't get he.
Had three more miles an hour to beat Ziggy and he almost had him
even in that big block car. That little 2:40 with the two J.
What they can eat? How did the team tandem stuff
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go? Team Tandem seemed like it was
really wild. It was a lot.
So it came down to Team Monster and Hot Dogging.
So team Hot dogging was Chelsea,Nova, Nick Ward and Grant.
And then Booth, their buddy fromthe Uki forget his name, and Lee
Yearwood. And down in the finals, Booth
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spun out on Turn 1 and hot dogging was just hot dog in the
track. They did so good, they decided
to loop around and go back for avictory lap afterwards, just to
show how good they were. So yeah, they all got a free
pair of tires. Yeah, they were all show offs, I
mean. That's cool.
Free tires is always nice. Yeah, Tire Streets hooked it up
so there's like up to three drivers.
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You can do a three team tandem and we'll give you each driver a
set of tires or a pair of tires.Oh yeah, yeah, really nice.
It's perfect. Give them something to do.
Burn it off 2 laps for two tires.
That's worth it. Absolutely.
All day long. Only two laps.
You burn a set, you get a set. Or at least you get two or two
pairs, whatever. Yeah, you.
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Get 2 tires, they're like 140 bucks a piece or something like
that. Yeah, $300 price for the 1st
place price begin at $300. We're doing drinking games
later. You're going to take place with
us or take partake. I am not a real drinker.
I'm not anymore. Either this is not an alcoholic.
Oh, look at you go. Yeah.
I'm six months, no alcohol. That's sick.
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Thank you. I still will be hosting the
drink the drinking event. I'm in charge of it.
I came up with the games and everything so hopefully it goes
off really good. The finals will be real good.
I'm going to have a little obstacle course set up.
Might integrate the water slide into it.
No, no, depends on what they letme.
Get we'll definitely be there but yeah yeah I don't know if
I'll participate in the drinkingYeah, I'll.
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Be talking crap the whole time, it's going to be fun.
Oh, that's awesome. Well, we're doing it obviously
at CMP this year. So what is why is it here?
What's the difference in AMP andwhat's going on versus C?
MPAMP only allowed us to have one day to drift and they have.
The 4th of July is a noise ordinance and so when they take
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off the noise ordinance, it allows the track to let louder
cars in. So with the louder cars allows
drifting. So we were able to rent the
track that one day a year, but it's really expensive to rent
that track and we're limited to drivers, to spectators, to
everything just based off of howsmall the track really is, like
parking wise, because it is a private track, private
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membership track, they're not open to the public or anything
like that, so. It's one of the nicest racetrack
facilities I've ever been to. Like totally honest.
They have a pool for their members.
Yeah, with a water slide. Like pull out all the stuff.
You got a locker room. Each of their members has their
own little garage that's air conditioned.
Like it's top notch next level stuff.
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But for this track, we get 2 days.
We're allowed to camp, you know,so our drivers get multiple days
of driving endless laps. You know, we have a tire changer
on site. You can do your camping, you can
bring a camper, you know, hang out with your friends, stay out
all night, you know, have a goodtime.
So you're not limited. We had to be out of the other
track at 7. Like everybody packed up cars in
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their trailers. Get the hell out, Gates. .7.
That's it. So here we can party all night
and sleep all day if you can get.
Through and it seems like that'swhat's going to happen.
Oh yeah, we're going to have a good time tonight.
I'm really excited for this. We've been waiting to have a 4th
of July event that we could actually celebrate the 4th of
July. So this is the opportunity that
we can have so. How come we're not doing
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fireworks, by the way? I don't know.
We're in South Carolina. This is where fireworks are
literally missing to blow. Off it's got to be I would
assume track insurance stuff probably probably the only thing
I. Could one or two go off later?
I ain't saying who did it, it's probably me, but yeah, I got to
find some. It's probably.
Beep. Yeah, yeah, it's probably beep.
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Couldn't have been me ripping. I was doing the drinking games.
I couldn't have been lighting onfire.
Have you been out there driving at all today?
I. Haven't yet, actually.
I've been doing tech, doing the emceeing on the microphone,
trying to get all the drivers ready for the different drift
games. So I haven't got a chance to
drive, but I am going to go out on the Tesla later, maybe after
it calms down. There's a bunch of Cowboys out
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there right now, and I'm not that good of a drifter.
Contrary to popular belief. I build cars.
I don't drive cars. I can.
I just would rather build them. You know, people like, oh, why
don't you drive? Why don't you drive?
I really enjoy the aspect of building it versus driving it.
But why? I understand that.
Why? I like the creativity of it.
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You know, I like doing somethingdifferent a million different
times. Like you can give me a 2 Jay-Z
and a BMW and it's going to be completely different than the
last 10 that we've done is because we've done so many
different things. I want to try something new.
I want to push the envelope and I honestly, I can't afford to
drive. It's expensive, you know, and
I'm really good at breaking everything.
So if I drive then I break things and I have to fix the
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things and then I have to fix them myself as well as pay for
the parts. And you know, I'd rather build
somebody else's stuff and then them pay me for it.
You know, I like one of the few guys in Drifting that gets paid
to be in drifting and it's a pretty good gig.
And I still haven't changed the tire yet. 12 years of drifting,
I've never changed the tire on atire machine.
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I'm probably the only one in theworld that can say.
That. Like day one Dwarth is like
here, change these tires. Like, yeah, I don't know how.
Hi. He's going to show you.
I'm like, no, no he's not. I'll go welder over here.
I'm a welder. I Weld like I can do it.
I can do almost a million different things.
Tire changing ain't one of them.I'll take your tires, your
wheels off your car and put new ones on all day, baby.
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What? What What PSI you want?
I got you taking the tire off the rim.
Not for me. Well, you mentioned BMWs and two
J setups and obviously you just finished Duarte's.
Yep, we just finished Christmas too.
Well, Oh yeah, it's true, yeah. You know, 46.
So how? OK, so you mentioned you could
build them differently every single time.
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What are different on these builds compared to the previous
ones? Just like the, the fabrication,
the the firewalls, the block OPSwhere we set up everything so we
might run hoses down one side one way and do different
fittings. And when we get to the track and
something breaks, we realize we have to get to it.
The serviceability of it isn't quite where we want it time
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wise. You know, you're limited to like
a 5 minute timeout or a 10 minute.
If someone hits you and it's their fault, you only have so
much amount of time allotted to be able to fix the car and get
back on track because that's really where your team shines.
You can have the greatest driverin the world, but if someone
wrecks you and doesn't let you get back out there to finish
competing, it doesn't matter howgood a driver you are.
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You're only good as your weakestlink or your weakest pit crew.
So you got to have a team there that knows the car, has built
the car, knows everything about it.
So it is like, oh, tie rod's blown all right, I need a 17, I
need a 22, I need the impact gunand I need everybody already
knows the job, it's already done.
Boom, we know what tools are done.
You know what needs to get done.So when you take do it
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differently, we always trying toimprove, make the car more
serviceable as well as look good.
You know, like trying to bring sexy back to the game.
So you, you, you think that's important?
The looks and everything, even the fabrication side of it too.
For me it is because as a builder, I look at other
builders cars and like, Oh, yeah, you're either drooling
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over it or you're thinking of that's not quite for me.
But you always find something that you didn't think of.
So it gives you that option to like, yeah, I'm going to try
that. Like, I walk around the pitch
all the time and I look at people's cars just to see what
they do and see if they found a better way to do something that
I haven't done yet. And I'll take their ideas and
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I'll tell them like, yo, I took your idea.
The thing works so good, you know, And I'll sometimes I'll
ask Phil, I hit your mind like, this is really cool.
I want to implement this on one of our bills.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
So I just like trying to improve, improve, improve.
They say you can't reinvent the wheel, but you sure can't make
it smoother. What's the last like thing that
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you've noticed on someone elses car that really like threw you
for a loop and like really impressed?
You probably Adams 8 to 4 to 1 headers.
Dude, those are. Those were intense, like they
had to like 3D print the mock upblocks for it to put all of the
the pipes in and then bolt them down to that to start your
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welding. So it was like a whole thing
that went. Into how long did that take
total? Like how many hours?
Weeks 2 Weeks 2 weeks. Fucking hell.
Man, maybe 3 weeks because MM could tell from Canada.
He did all the headers into the merge collector and then Spoon
came down and finished the collector at the end and then do
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the titanium exhaust. So it was like 3 weeks total for
the exhaust. But it's gorgeous.
They did a great job on it. Well, it sounded incredible from
what I can hear, and I'm not even really a must like an LS
guy, but it sounds great. Yeah, they did a really good job
on it. It's definitely a one-of-a-kind
sound and it's just a cool looking car.
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What was the, I guess idea behind going LS on that specific
chassis, that platform and like,what's the goal on it?
I'm pretty sure the guy that putthe motor in with Adam told him
like you got to try this and like really sold them on it.
Like, let me show you what a bigblock can do 1000 horsepower NA,
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you know throughout the whole incredible.
By the way, like. OK, sure.
Who's not going to say no to yesto that?
Give me 1000 horsepower with nothing, just straight naturally
aspirated. Yeah, that's there.
I got to try it at least once. So they're doing big blocks and
all sorts of other things. Drifting just wasn't one of them
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yet. So I love the fact that we're
pushing the envelope and Adam put that in the car and I hope
that next year he's able to run it at FDI.
Don't know if he's planning on running it at FD but I would
think that's going to be his next move.
I would hope to. I hope he continues his season
in the current rig that he's in because he's in 3rd place right
now. Let's keep that.
He's an absolute weapon. Monster in that car.
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So let's keep that good thing going.
Let's not change anything. You know If it ain't broke,
don't fix it. Let him finish out this season
strong and the next season go knocks and Dicks in the dirt.
You know, there you go. Damn right.
Well, since you understand the fabrication side of things,
explain to me a little bit more on the reason because they did
like a front motor mount plate type deal on that contract plate
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on it. So what is like?
Why is that necessary? So most of the time you do an
engine plate like that is to allow for your headers.
Those headers are two and 1/4. Inch OK.
So trying to have the engine or the motor mounts come down right
where the headers are, it would have been a nightmare for the
fabricator to try and make that work, as well as a steering
shaft in there. So there's just not enough room.
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So when it comes to that, an engine plate on the front of the
chassis is a way better option because it solid mounts it to
the chassis. You don't have to worry about
that. It gives you way more room
underneath the motor to wrap your headers around and just
give you that breathing room to fabricate.
So it's just a room thing mostly.
I would have expected it to be some type of maybe performance
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gain or of any kind, or just a solid more solid mounted.
Because you have something mounted to the very front of
your motor and then something tothe back of your transmission.
So it's it's squared. And holding both sides, yeah.
It's not really. It doesn't have any other
performance thing minus you don't get any twist.
You know, you'll get more body twists and, you know, frame
twist from it than anything, especially with that motor.
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But otherwise, yeah, just to make room.
That's crazy. And he's got a new one coming
in. He's going to do a billet one
off the front so it looks, you know, beautiful.
It's just the aluminum cut one to make it work.
So they had the the guys cut that first, get it all fit.
So they'll send that plate out and get it real nice and machine
fill it, you know, just to finish it off.
It also looks good. You know, you have a car look
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good as well as perform well. Form and function do go
together. I will say it does look cool out
front of the again LS motors arepretty ugly in my opinion but.
You take that back right now. They're going to hate me for it,
but like, I've just never been an LS guy.
I don't know. I I blew up an RV and I'm still
going to put another RV in it. So people hate me.
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Sounds like you hate. Yourself.
That's what that sounds like. Let's not talk about it.
Anyways, moving on. We were talking about this
earlier. The best RV is a running RV and
they're also the most expensive ones.
So sell your RV and then becauseyou can get money for a a window
to RV is worth nothing. You know you can probably.
Sell There's no window yet. So.
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There's no God. You better find some wood to
knock on. Oh shit, yeah, you're you'll.
Figure it out. Middle of a field?
Good luck. We got sand.
That's all we got. Watch out.
And fire ants too. So good times.
I got lit up yesterday like right at the opening of the
trailer. There was a whole pile and no
one. Saw a girl walking in and I'm
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like. Hi, my leg.
What's that clovered in? Fire ants.
I poured gas on them. Easy solution.
There you go. The smell went away finally.
Well, no anyways, but back to the the F80 or Adam's car, the
new car F22. Or F20.
One of those why are we going with the BMW chassis so much?
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I have to ask that. It's really just what you like,
you know, what you prefer to drive to, the driving style of a
BMW versus the driving style of a Nissan.
They all have different type of suspension setups, you know, So
it's really driver what the driver.
Want even like the newer chassisthough, because like that's
crazy for like the average person you see, you know the.
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Five link or whatever in the rear now, so it's a lot
different. Have a trailing arm like they
used to. Yeah.
So the BMW rear suspension is completely changed from E46 up
to what they are now. They changed to the E90 E 92 to
give you that multi link suspension and no trailing arm
and they've stuck with that since then and it's working
really good, especially for grip.
Duarte's F 30 is so dialed in ongrip no one could catch up to
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him in the Pro Am. Last round he was the fastest on
the track and he still was running higher tire pressure
than most of the other drivers, so it was just the way the
suspension was set up. Had Chelsea come in and set up
all of his stuff, counterbalanceand everything to all of the
alignment specs and everything. It was pretty fun to watch.
Do you think that's probably like the next more common
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chassis to be dabbled into? I think.
It will be only because they're so damn cheap.
You can buy A320. How?
Because A320 blown up is like 2 grand bro.
Oh. OK, well, I guess yeah, if
you're buying a blown 1. Duarte's green one that we just
finished, that's A320. He paid like 2 grand for that
car. It had a blown up.
Not even been less. Are they any?
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Are they useless? Stock fault or stock motor and
everything? The 320 motor is it's a 4
cylinder turbo they like to blowup.
OK. So anything the BMW motors I
like are the one like the 3:40 that has what is it called?
It's the one that B 58 has AV 58Gen. 2 Gen. threes in them.
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Those ones I like. I'm a big diesel guy, so I have
AX535-D and I love that thing. That's kind of cool.
Horsepower. It'll tow my boat, you know,
like it'll tow a race car. So and they sell.
That's awesome. 45 miles to the gallon, can't go wrong.
Wow. You can tow your race car with
it and have your your kids in the back.
Whatever you need. And still save money on gas
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still. Save money on fuel?
No, yeah, BMW, we just, I like the look of them personally.
I like how easy they are to workon.
This is a personal preference thing, I think.
You know, some people like Toyota, some people like Nissan,
some people like Ford's. I mean, not me, but you know,
each do his own. A lot of people don't like
BMW's, but it's it's whatever your driver preference is.
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You know, if you BMW and you love Nissan, drive a BMW.
If you drive better than a Nissan but you love BMW, maybe
drive the Nissan. You know, sometimes change the
arrow, Fairpoint. Maybe it's not the Indian, maybe
it's the arrow. Well, sometimes it is the Indian
and not the arrow. Sometimes it's not the car.
Oh my God. Driver mod.
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What the fuck? I've seen people get into a car
and drive the doors off of it and then get into their own car
and drive like crap. Like what the hell is going?
On it's like they're holding thebag.
The car feels better for him, the feeling of it.
I ought to try ABMW someone else's car just to see the.
Car to drive that Tesla is. Easy Is it really?
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It's like driving a SIM, you just don't have to press the
clutch it. Is that not weird initial video?
Game. The first initiation is kind of
weird, you really just have to flick it, but as soon as you hit
the gas it starts spinning out like more than half throttle.
It'll just light them up, so if you go into a corner and just
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gas it, it'll automatically start drifting.
So there's no. Like, dude, I would love to try
it. Yeah, you got to just.
To see what I want to go out here after this on the Kart
track, I got to get some laps inbefore I get yelled at.
They always yell at me for not driving.
So if I can do it on my own, then I get back.
Yeah, yeah, I got some laps I got.
Some y'all got an extra helmet over there?
Yeah, we got we got helmets for sale, baby.
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I'll give you a good discount. Shit, I don't give a discount.
Code sell the metal good for an extra. 5%.
Sell the metal. 5% off Drift HQ.Sell the metal.
Perfect. Yeah, what a plug.
Shameless plug, I'm trying to help you, you know.
Let me help you save money. No, I.
Don't just keep putting. Your helmet, though.
But I need a car that runs first.
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Yeah, that's kind of priority, you know?
Hey. Got my magic man.
He'll be back later. Hey, go.
Drive your car, Sissy. They've been walking around all
day. Like, don't walk around.
You have a car now drive around,right?
Put some laps in. Chris no.
But the Tesla, though, so OK, how?
What all did it actually take tomake that car driftable?
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Very little. It took us three days really.
We're never touching. I've never sat in a Tesla
before, like a week before we got that car.
They're pretty simple, aren't they?
Yeah, there's nothing to them. There's a big battery under your
ass, there's a big orange cord that you don't want to touch,
leaving that battery, and then that cord goes into this motor
that's in the subframe. That's it.
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Get somebody who knows how to take and disconnect the power
and then take your motor apart. Put in either Weld your dip
because it's got a spider gears in it inside the motor.
The diff inside of it is just spider gears so you can Weld the
diff. Or you can buy a $2000 or $2200
LSD that bolts up. To.
So you can if you want to do a really cheap you can save 2
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grand and just Weld the diff andtake it out of the motor, Weld
it put it back in the disconnection and take a part of
the motor and put back together is 2 hours takes nothing it was
like. 12 yeah. So did you, did you watch at all
the process of him taking that cable off?
What was it like? I kind of, I was scared.
I got away from it. That thing can make you blow up,
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man. That's a lot of power.
I mean, I'm not saying I want totry it, I'm curious how simple
it actually is. It looked pretty simple, like
how he did it. He had like specific things that
he had to do. And there's like redundant
systems that make it so if something happens, it'll
automatically shut it off. So there's like one thing you
can disconnect like the battery in the front, They have two
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batteries. They have a little tiny 12 Volt
battery in the front. That's like their actuator
battery basically to start. Every yeah like starts it.
So if you disconnect that, it basically will cut power to
everything and it makes it so you can disconnect it.
I ain't the one they're going toplay and find out though.
I'll let that dude figure it out.
Yeah, but we got don't do that. We do our likes that.
We're supposed to, Adam said. If we got 10,000 likes on our
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video that. He did y'all.
We got over 25,000. Oh shit, he's got to build 2 he
got now. That's what I said like 20,000
likes, that means 2 Teslas, right?
So the guy that was actually with us, that helped us, Blake,
he's going to turn his into a drift Tesla too.
So we are technically going to have three of them, yeah.
That was pretty crazy. We hit our.
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Likes and now Adam has to drive an electric car.
You think that'll start growing too, that side of it?
I hope so, just for the aspect of they're so cheap and they're
easy to work on. I like, you know, gas powered
engines first. I mean, I agree totally.
There's no replacement for displacement.
You know I love the smell. The age-old sane brother.
You know Chris, I'm going turbo with my setup that I'm working
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on currently. I won't talk about it on here
because we're going to have a secret, but I am working on
something. Those of you who are wondering
when is Cricket going to build something, do something cool,
I'm working on it, said a littlepart of saving money and buying
stuff, putting my parts togetherand it's not a car.
It's not a car. It's not a car, it's a
spaceship, cuz it's going to go as fast as one, but it ain't a
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spaceship. Yeah, no.
No drift car. No drift car in my future.
They're too expensive. I don't want to pay for tires.
It's hot out here, you know? You just keep stealing see time
from everyone. Else's car I got everybody.
Else's car in that position might as well.
Yeah, I don't take them up on the offer because I don't like
driving other people's stuff, even if I build the car.
Like, I've never driven one of Duarte's cars except for like
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Blue Thunder and I think the F80, but all of us, like main
big cars. He's always offered, never taken
him up on it. I don't want to break something.
One part on that thing breaks. I'm out of work for a month just
working on the House. Yeah, the bumper on that thing.
I'm like, yeah, I'm just going to work for you and sleep in the
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shop for the next couple months.It's going to be fine.
Can you bring me some ramen? I don't like, I don't like
driving cars because when you break them, you got to fix them.
I like other people breaking their shit.
Then I can fix it. Yeah.
Isn't it still kind of the same?No, because I'm getting paid
when I break. Their car when I break that car.
I have to. I love you too.
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Have to fix their car and pay for it.
When they break their crap, I get to fix it and get paid for
it. It's different, you know.
It's almost always better when money's involved, yeah.
Yeah. Well, the newfound shot.
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Well, I guess not newfound shot,but the shop.
Refurbished. Shop that The newly refurbished
shop has gotten some major upgrades, obviously one being SP
Tool SP. Tools came in and hooked us up
and set up our whole shop. So we've been horrible, horrible
tool selection. We've been working with.
If you guys are watching any of our videos, you'll know we've
had hand me down tools for like 10 years minus Chris had his own
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toolbox. But the rest of it is all just
tools that we've acquired throughout the years.
None of it matched because all mismatched and wrenches, sockets
as a mess, toolboxes that the drawers fall out when you open
them. You know, like you saw what our
shop look like in the tools thatwe had.
He'd be like damn, y'all make miracles happen out of what you
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got? Same thing with our fabrication
equipment. So SP tools came in and gave us
a whole setup, helped us out andthe tools are amazing.
Like they made it so. Much they look at great quality.
My own set. They got me my own little cart
because I told them like I don'tuse a lot.
I use like wrenches, sockets, ratchets, screwdrivers.
That's it. I don't need anything, just that
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little set and some extensions. That's it.
They sent me up with a whole cart and it's perfect.
It's all I need. I can take apart any part that
Chris won't take apart for me. You know, a little monotonous
stuff I can get to. So it worked out really well.
And then we got Bailey Shop too.We got our new Bailey Shop for
fabrication equipment. I don't know if.
You. Oh yeah, Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so we got a new CNC plasmatable.
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They're integrated with Viper, right?
What's that? They're integrated with Viper
somehow, aren't they? Like.
So the owner of Viper Chair is one of the old owners of Bailey.
They helped start Bailey. It was a big that's.
What? It was OK.
So it was the owner of Viper actually started hammer press.
So they came out with the first movable hammer press that you
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didn't need a crane to lift. So it was meant for guys in
their own shop, hobbyists that want to do stuff, small
fabricators, you know, that wanted to get into metalworking.
But the, the, the artistry actually died out after World
War 2, after they stopped makingtanks and planes and all this
stuff from World War 2, all those big machines just fell by
the wayside and nobody wanted todo anything with them.
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So John from Bailey was like, I'm going to, I want one of
these machines. So he came up with a small 1.
He bought one of the huge ones, took it apart, figured out how
it worked, made a small one and started the company based off of
that Hammer press machine and went from there.
And now they make everything andthey have two different levels
of it. So they're big yellow machines
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are all made in America, hand assembled, hand welded,
everything done right here in the states.
And then there are other machines are made overseas that
are more affordable for, you know, the low your normal guy
like you or me just doing stuff in the garage or small shops,
not like full on MA Motorsports or HGK type places, just, you
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know, your smaller shops that are doing stuff.
So yeah, so they make all of thestuff that you need for a
smaller shop if you're an at home guy or whatever.
So they helped us out with our fab section.
And if you've ever seen me builda race car with the tools that
we had before, God, it was our break.
Everything that we had in our shop prior to Bailey coming in
and helping us out was Harbor Freight.
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And I don't have anything bad tosay about Harbor Freight.
For the money, it's a great setup.
You can make a whole race car with Harbor Freight.
Can confirm. Probably got 50 under the belt
with Harbor Freight tools. So you can build it, you know,
but having a better tool gives you a better product because you
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can repeat this process over again.
It takes a lot less time to do it and it's a lot cleaner.
So I'm very happy with what we got like my bandsaw, for
instance, my new one that I got it cuts a perfect like laser cut
line. My other ones, it was like a
snake has cut. Yeah, it.
Couldn't. Cut a straight line to save its
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life. It wouldn't no straight if it
hit it in the face, even afterwards I have to sit there
with the grinder and grind it down, put it on the top of the.
Thing the eyeball and the shit out of it too.
There's. Still a high spot.
Grind it down some more and thendeburr it.
All that stuff, My new bandsaw, nothing.
Just take it out, wipe it down, Weld it.
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That's awesome. Yeah, it made it made the whole
process a lot better. So I'm very happy.
I can't wait to see what we where we go with this.
We just want to keep building more, more cool stuff and just
try to push the envelope. Really what cool like metal work
have y'all already done with that stuff?
Other than that, like a. Lot of.
You mentioned bringing back likethe old.
We haven't. I haven't got a chance to do it
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yet. We're still finishing up, so
I've been using all the tools. Just some of the stuff I haven't
got to use, like the English wheel for one.
That's something that is one of the one of the lost art forms
that people are bringing back onhot rods and stuff like that.
So. Were they like, yeah, so they
bend the metal? Rollers too big metal rolling
and you roll it back and forth and if you don't watch your
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fingers, they'll go in there too.
And the English wheel don't move, your fingers will flatten
out like Wiley Coyote. So you have to be really careful
when you're rolling the thing back and forth and keep your
hands out the way because you will take and run your thumb
over and it's not a good time. So that's one of the things that
they gave us to work with and try to do.
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And basically all the English wheel is it's something that
rounds out the metal. It can shape the metal for you
by stretching it. So it's, you can either move
metal by shrinking it or stretching it.
Shrinking it will bring it in. Stretching it will push it out.
So and that's all that thing is doing is strengthening or
stretching. So then they gave us a shrinking
stretcher too that can make radiuses so you can make did you
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see the Viper Corvette over there?
Oh yeah, The wheel arches. That's all one piece of metal.
Those wheel arches are all one piece.
Of metal so. That was made by John, the guy
that owns. That.
So that was all done with the machines that we have at the
shop. So that's the kind of stuff that
we're going to be making. And Bailey actually sent me out
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the training about a month ago on all of the machines.
How was that? It was awesome.
It was really cool. I learned more on each machine
in an hour than I did 5 hours watching videos trying to do it
myself in my shop. So for instance, the bead
roller, I learned more on bead rolling there in two hours, and
I have bead rolling in five years of doing it.
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Like I've been bead rolling forever.
It's one of my favorite things to do on cars and make it look
good to dress it up. I was doing it wrong the whole
time. How do you?
How are you? What do you mean?
You're supposed to do, you're supposed to take bites out of
it, bites out of it. I would do like 2 rolls on it.
I'd do one initial one and then a second one and that was it.
And the guy that trained us, he actually does a Twisted Metal
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garage up in Canada. He does all of the artwork,
beadwork artwork. Like he has ACNC machine that
like cuts out like designs and then he'll beadroll the design
with his bead roller. So he showed me he's like, wow,
take 5 passes, take 10 passes, do it real slow, you won't get
any wrinkles. Do a nice and easy light
pressure and just show me all these little tips and tricks.
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And I was able to, I've never been able to like take a sheet
bead, roll it and put it back ona table like a level table and
it'd be perfectly flat. There's always some little like
it could even be just like a little bump here or there.
There's always something, can never get it flat back in the
day. He's got a slow massage.
Yeah, he's like rolling Fenders 1000.
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Remnants in that bad boy to holdit down.
Now I learned how to shape the metal properly in that class so
I can have it. Even if there's a bow down in
the chassis, I can massage the metal in the bead roller to
actually bend down and follow the contour.
Of it. Just by doing higher pressure,
lower pressure, so they actuallyoffer that class to anybody.
You can sign up for it. I have.
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No idea, I'm sure it's under a couple grand, but it's worth it.
The amount of information that you get and knowledge that you
get from these guys, They're in the field for 30 years of doing
it nonstop, and each one of themis specific for each tool that
you're going to learn. So they bring in a hammer press
guy that can make a whole damn car with a hammer press, you
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know, and show you how to do it.Like he'll give, he'll bring the
parts and be like, all right, today we're going to make a
Fender for a 1941 Ford and you're going to go home with
that Fender, like a whole Fender.
Here you go. Now go build the rest.
You know. The bead roller guy is going to
give you all his stuff and give you stuff to bead roll to take
home so you can take home some of your stuff that you applied
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and learn. So it's really cool.
Like I had so much fun in that two days that they had it.
It was worth everything. Out of all out of all of those,
if you if you could only have one machine for your home shop,
which one would it be? Damn.
I don't know. I mean the one I.
Used the 1 you could do the mostwith, you know.
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Personally for me, my plasma cutter, but I have a handheld
plasma if it was coming down to the the machines that I got from
Bailey right now my most used one is my magnetic brake.
That thing is awesome. I use it for.
Dude just having any type of metal brake would be nice.
Yeah, so I love the metal brakes.
The magnetic one for me is even next level game changer because
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you just slide the thing in, step on it and go.
They're like, you don't have to crank it down or do anything,
set anything, slide the piece in, step on the pedal, point it
clicks down onto it, lift it up.It has its own little
measurement tool right there to show you what angle you're at.
Stop for. It too.
So if you're doing like multiplethings like you're.
Building never jumps out of place.
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Every single one will be exactlythe same.
That's incredible. Oh yeah, the magnetic brake.
Me and Chris have been dreaming about one of those for probably
five years. Seriously, he could get any tool
he like. The magnetic brake was over top
of the CNC plasma gun. And I've always wanted one of
those. But when it comes to like, I can
hand cut something faster than Chris can program it into the
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computer and get it cut and do all the things I could already
have it made out of cardboard. Cut, drilled, put in the car,
polished. So for one off piece places, the
handheld plasma is where it's at.
Hey, once I make it out of that and it works perfect, then I
handed the Chris and like here you go, take your time baby,
make it perfect. And then he can put the pile
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together, create it, we can put it in the car and make sure it
works exactly how it's supposed to and then we can send the part
off to get manufactured. So our CNC plasma was meant more
for manufacturing parts or production of parts to initial
like R&D of it. That's what that whole shop is
mostly solely meant for. So when we build something,
somebody says, oh man, I like that hydro bracket, I wish you
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made it. Look how we make it.
Cool. It works out pretty good.
We're doing. I have quite a few hydro
brackets that we've done. Chris designed that water pump
delete bracket. So we're always constantly
building new parts that are Drift HQ parts that we sell.
We're the only ones that sell them.
We're the only ones that have them just because it's something
that we made on the fly. Like for a car like shit that
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works really good. I bet people would want this,
and they do. What's the, what's the one thing
that you guys have come up with that's been the most like, I
guess handy or has worked the best or not not necessarily work
the best, but there's been a couple.
Of them, that one of them my my Corvette radiator support
bracket. Really.
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Yeah, I do it for Corvettes C6 and C5.
It comes with the factory bracket for your factory
radiator or aftermarket radiator.
But the bracket itself come fromthe factories made out of
aluminum. And the salesman will tell you
when you buy the Corvette, and that is a curb stop that's meant
to protect your car from runningover curbs.
No, it is not. That is a radiator support meant
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to hold the radiator of your carin from falling.
Yeah. And they say that because they
actually dip down below the plastic skirts.
You'll see these two little square things come down and
people run them over. And I'll bet you you 5 out of 6
Corvettes on the road today havea broken bracket.
Wow, just from that they're so long.
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In the I didn't know they run into.
Them so I build one made out of Dom had an inch and a half steel
that has steel brackets on everything.
You can actually Jack the car upby it if you want to, like a
change of front tires you can just take it.
You say ask me how I know we've.Done the Savios way too many
times. I don't tell people to do it,
but you can, you know, it's 120.One you just did.
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Yeah, whatever. I stand by my shit.
I stand by my product. That's all it matters.
It's all TIG welded in. You know, we have oil cooler
brackets on it, power steering brackets on it for the drift
application. You know, the only thing you
can't do with it is I'm not willing to integrate the hookups
for your little plastic bumper tab.
So you just take a little snips and snip those up.
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Don't make me work that much harder.
If I work harder, you pay more. You don't want that.
That's very true. The less.
I have to do the less. You have to pay.
The less it cost. So the more your wallet.
Keeps going cost more money, so I try to make it as simple as
possible. A bolt ride up, you know, it's
available on the site. So that's one of the things that
we do that I think has changed for the better for drifting
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because they're all aftermarket.They're like 250 three $100
aftermarket one that's going to break again.
I think ours we sell them for three something.
Maybe four. Oh yeah, and it.
Comes with everything and it's you're not going to break it.
Yeah, good luck. I mean with how popular those
damn chassis are now. Into a curb and don't stop.
You're going to have more problems than that anyway.
The rear's going to come up, yeah.
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As far as cars though, not just for the channel or for Drift HQ
or anything. Are there any cars that you want
to start dabbling in at the shopand building those parts for?
I want to build a buggy. I want to build like a bug, like
a. For drifting.
Jumping you? Want to build like a bug.
I'm in a. Jumping buggy like we have that
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track Outback of the shop that we rarely ever use.
I want to build like a buggy with like some floating
suspension like long. Travel.
I want to get like in the air, you know, I want to mess shit
up. I want to build it from scratch
too. Like give me a bunch of Dom and.
That's it. Give me some Dom and some flat
steel and let me and Chris go totown.
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Let me go turn that. Plasma cutter on and make our
own control arms like this. Let us build it from scratch.
I want that. I I've always wondered why
nobody's touched a crown vape. What?
Are you talking about Cletus has1000?
Of them I know, but actually, no, not build parts for them for
drifting, because like a Mustangtransmission bolts right to IT
support for them, yeah. Support for them.
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It's like the American JZX 100 if it had the right body kit.
Of course, but the the Ford Marauder is a good looking car.
So the Mercury Marauder, that isa Crown Victoria.
He just has a little bit of a body kit on it.
So yeah, I can get behind that. I think it would be pretty cool.
I think more people should buildsedans.
Yeah, well, they used to until Cletus drove the price up, I
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reckon. Them.
All it's kind of like Adam Brooke drove the price up.
AE36 is him and Chelsea the Novayou know.
You get an. E92 cheaper than you can get an
E36, you can get an F30. Cheaper than you can get an E30,
you can get a running F30 cheaper than you can get a cheap
running E36. That's true too, yeah.
Don't make sense. No ground, Vic.
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Would be cool if they could get the parts, you know, for it.
You know, they're probably goingto start with modded knuckles
and go from there. And that's usually how it starts
for a chastity like, oh, let's let's cut the little knuckles
and just Weld them a little closer and get.
That I think the an angle kit isthe only thing that holds that
car back because you could just simply buy a cheap dumb cheap
Mustang and take the trans out. Well, yeah, but the Transit just
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comes out of a Mustang. Five in there and chilling.
Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know. I think it would be kind of
cool. It'd be fun.
I mean, she sure as hell won't care about running into shit.
Exactly. Fucking Dang.
Dude that is a USJZX. God damn he's getting the back
trunk to start kicking the dent out and dunking.
I saw a meme of that years ago and I was.
They do it, man, every time. They go out.
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And Jimmy and all them, they'll run the hell out of the back of
the JZX and next thing you see them in the trunk just kicking
the hell out of it. Boom boom and it pops out like
them things are tuna cans. And.
Nothing. Oh yeah, it could be the next
chassis. I mean especially for cheap
ones. I think if they started like a
little cheap drift series like that, it would be pretty cool.
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Like just have them as like an Expo event had a drift event
like hey boys, don't forget you're bringing your race cars.
Bring your cheap ass POS Ford Crown Victoria and bring them
in. We're going to have a multi car
tandem. You know, maybe change the
layout of drifting for it. Instead of doing one V1, you get
a whole class of them. Like everybody go out there and
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drift kind of like dirt drip, like dirt racing, like Sprint
car. You know how they get they're
all out there doing the same thing together.
Like maybe do that. Let's let's take drifting up to
the next level, not just two cars if you like. 10 of them
bastards out there and let's seewho makes it.
I still feel like the competition side would have to
be there, but like. Yeah, who comes in first?
Yeah, do it. Do it like the.
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The Funny Cars or whatever they are with the, you know, they're
going sideways on the dirt track.
Do that make it like all of themstart off and pass people.
Like specific turns you have to slide and stuff.
You have to slide every turn, you know, and play.
Put the Chelsea to no for rule. Don't mind you the straight,
that's where you're. Trying to pass.
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Yeah, that's where you would pass.
It'd be fun, it'd be interesting, it'd spice things
up. And who cares?
It's a $3000 Crown Victoria who gives a.
Shit. Oh yeah, At that stage, yeah,
you're just doing it with Crown Victoria's dog.
Who gives a shit? Spent the money on a cage.
I wouldn't even make them do like Dom.
How would you let them do like the cheapest crab there?
Cold rolled steel boys. Let's go.
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Hell 295 a linear foot. Wouldn't even do the manual,
just go out with the auto. Yeah, go.
Just throw a handbrake in it. We'll figure it out.
Yeah, everybody flick at the corner.
It'd be the first one to sign up.
Oh my God, it'd be amazing. So the next 4th of July we're
going to have a Crown Victoria. Yeah.
All right. Yeah, we'll put it in one of our
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videos that we can. Get the That would be the most
American thing ever. Yeah, the Crown Victoria and you
got to have, well, we got to have a Chevy in there too, like
put alumina in there or. Malibu, yeah.
Malibu. Well, they're from the right.
Oh yeah, that's true. Yeah.
They have the new Impalas out that are real drive.
They're still expensive. It's fine.
They're still expensive. Yeah, or whatever.
No, they have the Caprice now. The boys are coming back.
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We're going with the bubble Chevys again.
Just wait. Give it 10.
Years. We're going to see some Chevy,
some. Caprice is out on the track.
I'm waiting for that day. Let's.
Go SAT like OK. LS in it too, boy.
Sadly, that is probably going tohappen.
That's. Insane.
I want to see some dunk drift. Have you checked out any of the
suspension that's going to be that's on those yet?
I've only seen them like going on trailers to police stations
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or as a police car. Luckily I've never had one
behind me to find out what the front end really looks like, so
I've only seen the sides in the back of them.
That's good you. Know I try not to speed too
often. Oh man, that's awesome.
Well, I guess as far as the restof the year goes, is there
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anything that we can look forward to on the channel or any
crazy? Builds coming up?
I'm not allowed. I'm not at liberty to discuss
the cool builds that we have coming up, but I can assure you
that there is some shenanigans about to ensue.
And if you thought the drift tassel was cool, hold on to your
shorts. So they only tell me enough.
I didn't even know where we werestaying until about 10:00 last
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night. All right, Yeah.
Where are you guys staying, Cricket?
I have no idea. As long as I got a bed and a
pillow. I brought my own pillow.
I don't even care about that. As long as I got a bed.
Yeah. We don't know.
They don't tell us much. So.
Which is good, because I mean, I'm just as excited to find out
as you are. Oh yeah?
Well, what's the next event? Next event for us is going
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shoot, what is it? Oh, for me, it's going to be
Mexico. I'm going down to the.
Right, you are going to the. Mexican Drift Championship.
What do you expect that to be like?
Hopefully not a kidnapping. No argument what I mean
hopefully comes back. Yeah, hopefully that come back.
If not, we're going to find out how much I'm really worth to
Poppy freak. Yeah.
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How much pain in pesos dollars? No, I'm really excited about it.
So it's going to be their finalsfor the Mexican drift
competition and there's going tobe a huge car show there too.
So. And I've only been to Mexico
once and it was to a resort and I wanted to leave and I wanted
to go actually see everything because we've been to Brazil,
we've been to the Dominican Republic, we've been to a couple
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different places, but we got to experience everything.
So for me, I want to go to Mexico.
I truthfully would have never guessed there was even much of A
drift scene and. It's huge, it's huge.
They got flames like big fireballs going off and
everything. It's kind of like drift masters
but in Mexico, so. I'm kind of like, what's that?
Big indie? Big Indian drift.
Yeah. Big Indian drift, they do the
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flame throwers, yeah. They do flame throwers and
stuff. They got all.
Sorts. They're a wild yeah.
Big India is cool, guys. We stopped by there after one of
the LZ world tours. So we just went, yeah, yeah.
And I was like, we got to stop there and we went over and
checked them out. Joel's like, yeah, they've been
dying for us to come by. So they showed us their whole,
like, drift pit, which is really, it's a full track inside
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of there. And they actually had a house
for the longest time inside of the track for like, their guests
to come and stay so they could finish drifting, park the car
there and hang out. They had like a pool.
Inside the track. It's so cool those guys at Next
Level so they're always doing some random off the wall shit.
Jesus. You have to let me know how
Mexico goes. I will.
I'm very curious how the scene is.
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Are y'all doing a video? Out there, yeah, me, I think
they're going to do a video there.
We're supposed to. I'm the only person.
Oh, me, Brian and Raphael from Dominican Republic are going.
So there's only three of us going.
So I think I'm going to film with my phone and do some stuff.
There oh cricket blog. Cricket blog.
Good luck, there's going to be alot of beeps.
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Well, I really appreciate it andI like, I like that has come to
this for you. Me too do.
You ever expect this 10 years ago?
Hell no. You would have told me 10 years
ago that I'd be doing that. I would have laughed at you.
Wait, wait. What?
What are you going to do all day?
No. I would be building race cars,
build race cars. You would have told me this when
I was a kid. I was like, dream job, Yeah.
Absolutely. It's all done.
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Yeah, Clock me. In never happened, never
happened. Had it happened and it was it
was by chance. It wasn't forced like Duarte
called me back up one day after I I stopped working for Drift HQ
for a while. I went up north with my ex-wife,
did you know, stay with her and he called me.
He's like hey, I need you to build a cage.
OK, I'll be right back. Cool.
Take me a week, Yeah? It's cold up here.
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So I came back and started doingit again and it was just,
everything just fell into place.So even if you're in a spot
right now and you want to do it and it doesn't feel right, maybe
it's just not that time or it's the wrong spot for you, you
know? Maybe there's a different spot
for you to go to find, you know,where you're supposed to be.
If it feels wrong, it probably is wrong.
You know, you shouldn't have to work too hard at it.
It should flow. And you know, if it's not saying
(49:11):
if you're not getting welding togive up on it.
I'm saying if the the spot that you're in, if you're not
comfortable with where you're working or if you're not getting
the where you want to go to, that might not be it just stick
out of welding is all seat time.It's like riding the bike.
Once you figure out how to do itand once you figure out how the
metal reacts, what the heat does, what the gas does, how
much to give it, how little to give it, it's easy.
(49:33):
You know, it's just therapy after that.
Oh. That's like that.
It's therapy for me. It is.
Oh, cool, dude. I appreciate it.
Well, I'll let you get out of here.
I've taken enough of your time. That's so I got to hang out and
shave with you for about an hour.
I'm. Loving.
That's fair. Yeah.
It's not saving people. We're doing the Lord's work,
brother. I'm just trying to relax until I
(49:54):
get to start hosting these drinking games.
There you go. I want to give somebody $300
tonight. Well, let's let's go do that.
Yeah, let's do that and then we'll take all their money and
dice afterwards. Now we're thinking I got to
learn first, so let's go do that, but I really appreciate it
dude. I hope you have fun this
weekend. I'm.
Going. To trust.
(50:14):
No bitch can't catch, no feelings.
I'm going to take a long flight from the Bay to Ibiza.
Hit home, run. I'm a ball like Jeter.
I just want 444. Then I leave.
I'm a young pop star called a boy.
Justin Bieber got a little money.
If you want, I can teach a wholelife.
A movie. You can watch it in theatre.
Staying away to the center. Trust no bitch.
Can't catch no.
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