Mike, Tom and Tad in studio.
Mike went to a Bernie Sanders rally to check the situation out. The guys did not get real deep into, but it sounds like Mike was not impressed.
Marco Passante of Magnus Motorsports is tonights guest. Marco got his start with the Mitsubishi 4G63 engine, and went from there. After 20+ years of being involved with this industry there are many stories to be heard. Everything from 4G63 to GTR dry sump systems, Magnus does it all. The best way to understand the business model is "if it needs to be fixed, we will fix it" (although it was a little more colorful than that). I am sure most people who follow the GTR scene certainly know Ekanoo Racing. Listen in to this one, lots of good stuff for the GTR and 4G63 group and of course some healthy ball busting.
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Mike, Tom, Tad, and Fireman Jeff in studio.
Thank god things are back to normal, well as normal as they get anyway. It's an unfortunate fact of life the guys have to work, and have things come up. Tom and Mike both had travel plans. Tom headed down south the see customers, Mike went on a 36 hour trip to Vegas for the NAB show. The guys should be good for a while here moving forward.
Tonight the guys had a great guest. Brian Lohnes from Bangshift.com. Every car guy ends up surfing bangshift during their daily surfing routine. Brian has a damn good story about getting from where he started to where he is today. It seems like most of the things that really grow have no real formula for success, and as Brian said "Bangshift came out of a bunch of failures".
Brian is much more than co-founder/owner and editor in chief for Bangshift. Announcing at NHRA events, NHRA on Fox pro-mod analyst, and also running a land speed sanctioning body makes for a lots of good conversation.
Poor Jeff got left out of the intro. (Mike a little out of practice?) This guy has a cool ride. A very nice 2014 SS that just went through a transformation into an undercover LSA powered sleeper. More on him as tuning progresses.
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Mike, Tad, and some guy named Tom in studio.
Well everyone is finally back in studio after leaving Mike hanging last week. He's not pleased.
Tom was away for like 27 days in Abu Dhabi at the Custom Show Emirates. The engine build and dyno shootout sounds like it was a great show and a really good time. The people of the Emirates have a very serious group of car guys, and some of the stuff they do sounds straight up crazy. Tom fills us in on the dyno and build shootout as well as some two wheeled fun. Not what you are thinking... you will have to listen.
Tonight's guest Scott Clark and he is to say the least a very accomplished tuner. Scott has worked on just about everything. From Larry Larson's worlds fastest street car to NHRA Stock and Pro Stock. Scott has even been involved in the Engine Masters Challenge. That is a wide range to say the least, and there is lots of good information in this episode. (Street Outlaws fans, something in there for you too.)
Sometimes you end up with some preconceived notions without knowing enough about it. We are all guilty of it, and the best we can hope for is keep an open mind. If anyone thought DIY Autotune was not something serious, you should listen to Scott Clark in this episode. The guys learned that DIY Autotune has some things going for it that deserve a very serious look. If you are looking for a platform, DO NOT skip over this one. Give them a look, you will be quite surprised.
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Mike, Tom, and Tad in Studio.
Our very own "Hollywood Tom" visited the Royal Purple raceway this past week for the Texas 2K race. This is a fairly interesting event in comparison to straight up drag racing. If people do not know what this is all about, think "roll racing" but at a drag strip. For most of the old school drag racers this is a little strange, but the numbers are very impressive.
GM's fails can be debated and argued forever. The guys on the show are all GM guys for the most part. (Tad is sort of a Chrysler guy) It's really hard to understand from the outside why GM does what it does. Mike has a love hate relationship with the Excursion but at this point there is nothing to replace it on the market. Why can't GM make a Duramax Suburban? Diesel performance interest is pretty high, and lots of people love trucks/SUVs. GM are you listening? Mike has an idea, try not to get arrested.
EPA and politicians, two very dirty words in most car guys vocabularies. Is this why we don't have the cool rides that seem like no brainers to build? It's hardly an excuse for GM's designs, but could explain the lack of vehicles people want to see.
Nest week is up in the air. Tom is traveling to Abu Dhabi for the "Custom Show". He might call from the plane being the high powered celeb he is. Follow on Facebook to get updates on the plan for next week.
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Mike, Tom, and Tad in Studio.
Hollywood Tom will be doing his traveling again. Abu Dhabi (with Howard), TX2K, and others are in his schedule. Please if you are anywhere he is, ask for his autograph. Mike and Tad have a bet weather or not his head will actually inflate enough to explode.
Howard Tanner from Redline motorsports called in tonight. Updates on direct injection are always welcome. Like or not, just like carb guys had to, embrace the newest tech that powers our toys. DI has quite a few advantages but at the same time needs the aftermarket to grow some new products. This entire method of fuel delivery gives a new set of parameters that must be taken into consideration.
Shelby, Roush, and other factory purchasable hot rods have been available for a long time. Shouldn't GM have this too?
We could go on about this here, but let Howard explain.
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Mike, Tom, and Tad in Studio.
Keith Jones of Total Seal Performance Piston Rings is tonights guest and we have yet another guest that absolutely MUST return. Consider this as a part 1 of several parts on piston rings, hones, and overall ring seal discussions.
The guys know the listeners wanted more technical guests, and these are getting better every time. Mike said it best, not everyone needs to know all the ins and outs of ring seal, but everyone needs to know if the engine builder they are talking to knows his stuff. Listen to shows like this, and you will be able to weed out the BS and make sure you get the most for your money. If you are an engine builder who already knows the ins and outs of this stuff, listen anyway. You can always learn something,,, even from a podcast.
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Mike, Tom, Tad, and Crunch all in studio tonight.
Tonight we have JC Beattie from ATI Performance Products. Listeners have said more tech talk. You got it.
Very few times can you say a show is a must listen, well...this is one is a must listen. The guys did, key word here is DID, have a game plan on what to cover subject wise over the hour. That plan went right out the window once they started talking about dampers. If you thought you knew anything about the thing that is on the motor in the front that has timing marks, think again. We are not going to spoil this with a big long description... Just listen. JC will for sure be back to dive even deeper into transmissions and converters. I personally think the guys need at least two more with JC, one for converters and one for transmissions.
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Mike, Tom, and Tad in studio, Crunch could not get in because we had more wonderful snow.
Well, the good news is NHRA Pro Stock had a full field, bad news is Tom won the pool with a guess of 209.50 and an event mile per hour record of 210.34. Poor Tad had 210.5, in the words of Maxwell Smart.... Missed it by that much.
The NHRA Pro Stock field was, in Mike's eyes, somewhat surprising. In an effort to overturn Tom's victory he looked up altitude corrected MPH to see how fast they would have gone at sea level. The altitude was like 3000FT and that would make a good air pass of 218 ish. That looks as if they do not lose anything at all, and maybe in the end picked up some.
There were some interesting notes. 1 pass was "Disallowed" and at the time of the show there was no further information as to what exactly "Disallowed" means. Hogan's Manifolds are the manifolds on all the fast guys so they found something for sure in the R&D side. They are all pretty sure injector placement has something to do with this. Hat's off to Hogan's, they have had some very good stuff over the years and it's nice to see them back on top. With that being said, it seems that a fair amount of stuff is still covered. That would mean to the guys that there is something in that area they felt was worth concealing.
Tom said, and we can see from the pictures, the cars look great. It brings back the real look of a car even if somewhat exaggerated in the front end area. In the end, the guys think it overall worked out better than NHRA could have hoped for.
Guest next week, and keep your Trans, converter, and harmonic balancer questions handy.
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Mike, Tom, Crunch, and Tad in studio tonight.
Tonights Guest Don Summerton of Accelerated Performance.
Shows like this are always nice. There is nothing like talking to regular car guy who has made a great business for himself. That is exactly Don Summerton. Starting from his college hot rod days with his Firebird to his Supra of today, the guys discuss Don's journey to get to where he is now. The Toyota 2JZ market is a busy and competitive place. These engines have so much potential locked away inside waiting for someone like Don to bring it out. (and put it in a very serious Supra) Some of you might remember our very own Tom going to a Street Outlaws taping, and this Supra was the car Tom went with. Suffering a transmission failure took Don's chance away, but he is more than willing to give this another shot. Toyota 2JZ is not Don's only special, can you imagine a 7 second GTR?
Give this one a listen, regular guy just like us
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Mike, Tom, Crunch and Tad in studio tonight. No guest, but schedule starts next week. Watch for mixlr events and our Facebook for Details.
Well, you will have weeks like this. It's crappy out, snow is melting and making that snowy mess that is so familiar to people in snow prone regions of the country. Translation, not much of anything going on... except for Hollywood Tom.
Tom was invited to a distributor ssponsored event in the Dominican Republic to talk to customers about the products and how to better sell them in the motorsports market place. Must be nice to be "swimmin wit da fishes" while we were all dealing with melting snow.
The Pro stock debut is very close. We are all waiting and watching to see how this shakes out. Soon enough we will see where this ends up for the first race. It's looking like from the info we have seen the Pro Stock teams are on it, and might not be off a whole lot.
Mike did next to nothing all weekend except watch the 24 hours of Daytona. I have to agree with him, quite a race. Real car guys are not focused so much on the overall winner, but the classes of real cars. This year GTLMS and GTD. GTD was newly populated with Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Aston thanks to changes in the GTD rules to allow FIA GT3. It's pretty clear the Lamborghini guys sand bagged and need a little adjustment since they seemed to pass higher up class cars at will at times. Much to Mike's amusement, Ford kind of flopped with the new GT car. Trans, Brakes, electric, all sorts of stuff going on. In the end Corvettes, yellow no less, were 1 and 2 in the class.
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