Midwest Drag Week FINAL DAY - Sick Seconds is HURT! Can it pull off an upset?

how many torques you got 20. all of it [Music] welcome back to vice grip garage today is a final day day four summit racing drag week a lot of discussion in the pits right now about what feller's leading the other fellers in each group right now sacks actually out front in this class everybody's going to be turning it up today it's going to get really interesting [Music] didn't have time for breakfast this morning so we did the right thing just rolled some hot dogs or may not be into the cold snacks waiting for the sun to come out pretty decent turnout look at this thing here huh all right tom so zack is currently winning what's the plan today plan is we'll go out there we did uh we did some of that math and the calculator so we think that or did we use an abacus it might have been on the abacus it was like bios whatever it was based on that we think that we might have a chance even with turning in a 977 slip yesterday so um goal is go out just make a conservative pass get it down the track because we still got to turn in two time slips see how all that is and then maybe we'll turn it up a little bit for a pass and then see where that puts the numbers at and then see if we make a third pass with it to see if we can somehow find a way to squeak it around so you might run a third if it takes it off so exactly yeah more than like i mean yeah more than likely right now the thinking is it's going to be a three pass today because like i said that first conservative pass then the second pass will be a pretty good pass and then the third pass we'll be uh hang the rods out pass and see if we can get this thing in place so the electrical is all straightened out was just a bad sensor uh yeah we had the egt module or whatever on the race pack went bad so then that corrupted everything caused us to drive with no gauges last night so you had to your your speed was by ear so you're like yeah that sounds like 70. that's so accurate temperature [Laughter] [Music] quite a bit of a late start but everyone's hitting the staging lane they got her down off the jacks getting prepped [Music] we're out of sodi pop gotta go get you know some ingredients for myself i'm actually really pumped up today pretty much everybody here said up arrow up arrow scattering parts today that's going to be pretty cool [Music] so [Music] 673 at 200. [Music] all right tom you said you needed a low 670. and you went out and run a 673 right out of the gate yeah except i stayed in it for like a fraction longer to just push it to run a 660 and i didn't run a 660 so oh you're aiming a little faster yeah so that's disappointment yeah i just stay i mean like we're just we're just picking how far we're running down the track so other than that like we're needing to watch the same but the low numbers are down so we're gonna look at that or whatever and i mean maybe give a little more time in it so troy martin so alex taylor showed up out of nowhere and she's going to try to get her license today potentially in tom bailey's car because she's building a 55 that's going to run sixes she needs a fast car tom said if he can get his time dialed then she can have at it we're gonna have to do some modifications to fit her in the car she's i don't know three foot two we're out of fuel though this is the fuel we need is this q16 there's a full one back here so i'm kind of just squatting in this pits we're gonna wait for this failure to come back and i don't know trade them some hot dogs and some cold snacks or something and see if we could pick up a pail she's gonna probably need 10 gallons actually but that's what we're doing right now is finding fuel found a nice filler and a really nice gold firebird and we did find this q16 so that's 116 octane it's commonly used in boosted applications you know like toms but he'll have enough fuel for what he brought i think he brought 10 gallons and then this should be enough hopefully for alex to make her passes but we still got to figure out how to get a shortie into that thing yeah i probably ought to grow you realize he's going to make you pack the shoots next time he comes back kids don't always deploy so tom's up in the staging lanes for his second pass i think he's going to want to try to get about a 6 55 on this and based on what sack has run that should secure the wind but we'll see what happens here to come through on that one but tower said it was a 672 on that i think he might want to go faster i don't know i don't know we'll have to talk to him see what he thinks some feller took this picture on monday brought it back framed and laser etched that's really cool and then a young lady stopped by and she made this all by herself all be dipped including the welds which by the way those are better welds than i could put down really really cool you guys are awesome keller stopped by gave me this gold sticker with the big tires or whatever when they wiggle it just means that they're not getting enough traction so they're just they're slipping and grabbing slipping and grabbing slipping and grinding so as that's as that's happening that's just a wiggle if it goes into a shake then yeah that's where your eyes rattle and like so but you got to be quick because it goes from one to the other quickly but uh shoots first so yeah no matter what like if something seems like if something seems weird then just get out of the gas but if something seems out of shape just throw the shoes so because then that'll straighten it out don't hit the brakes just hit the shoes i would throw the [Music] shoes [Music] all the way through and just leave it in third drive it off and then um then i keep the fans on turn off the intercooler go to the eighth and then let off the gas at the eighth some of us have such a fast car i don't even have to run okay we just made those two passes and looking at the data logger uh the one thing that i can really see is that my drive shaft curve is the same it's wanting to shake the tire and but the engine rpm is about a thousand rpm lower so it's but it looks like it's going to make the same kind of pass pretty close um so i'm either leaning towards it's got a converter problem or issue or we maybe do have a little bit of an engine problem because uh that pad the last pass in particular it had some oil come off the blow by here and it hasn't said it hasn't except for this morning we noticed it and then these last two passes has had a little bit nothing excessive but it's like it is maybe gotta hurt piston maybe a hurt ring i'm leaning probably a little more towards a hurt ring because it doesn't have any blow by when you just start it up and run it so i'm figuring it's uh probably a little more under load so i just told tom and said oh no here you run if you run if you want um i don't think it's not going to break it's not going to blow up or do anything stupid i think our worst case scenario is it probably has a hurt ring something like that what i'm kind of figuring um but the normal deal so we got you know 700 miles on it or something like that and whatever so we would normally go through and just do a freshen up on it anyways so it's before we would take it to drag week you're not gonna be able to get these this type of car to go to events uh back-to-back that's just ask to break something major so it needs to just go and get normal freshen up or probably put valves in it uh springs rings bearings that kind of bullcrap and uh just do a general freshen up make sure everything's all right figure out if it does have some kind of hurt hole well there you have it straight from steve i think that tom's only going to run again if sack somehow goes out and pulls off the quickest time he's had quite a while right now tom is three thousandths ahead which is just you know a little tiny bit but that also means unfortunately alex isn't going to get to run today they're not going to put more runs on the car than they have to but so now we sit here and wait and see what jason could pull off and then what tom wants to do from his end it's really really good close factory this thing's a dangled show car you gotta wear sunglasses when you're rounded so zach had a really nice run he's on his way back that actually moved him forward so tom's getting ready to run again right now we're out of ice for the box so you know guys just gonna use an oil drain pan and we'll scoop some out of here and uh get them some ice for this run so he just checked the website he's actually in the lead again now so tom's gonna make another pass it's gotta be a strong one basically he's just gotta run it out the back door he's uh if you look at the mile per hour you can see that he's been letting off and pulling the shoots early so yeah running all the way through the corner and see if he can bring back first place again was that your personal best that's my personal [Music] tom best as competitive as he is he said he's going to send it anyway see what happens elaine's literally just closed as tom pulled up so this is his one and only pass to beat zach we think it's a 660 or better there's a little bit different numbers coming from the tower and the website right now but we're going off of the website they have to do mathematicians really quickly and sometimes can make a mistake an honest mistake so bailey has been in the lead all week in the unlimited category but jason sack stepped it up today [Music] 679 at 220 maybe i should turn this in and let sack win by more but then i'll beat this mile per hour so these guys are talking about basically confirming what we were discussing when we were in the staging lanes is the number they were saying that bayley needed to win didn't make sense because he already turned into slips ever faster so if he turns in this slip it actually makes his average worse so cook is actually the winner and they're going to go up to the tower right now and get it straightened out what a race it's really fun watching these guys go back and forth they're such good friends they travel together they joke they have fun in the pits and then today it's really good competition congratulations to cook champion whatever year it is 20 20 no 20 21 whatever we're back in the pits which this was kind of the vehicle trailer quarantine area and this is where the award ceremony is going to be here pretty soon so these would be all the people expecting an award anybody that ran 10 49 and under it's in their house my sponsors is there anything you want to say i know there's a tremendous effort for you guys to have those big cars the camaraderie you have here that's the coolest part about it like these type of events that's what's different than anything i do a lot of racing like just go fast racing and it's awesome and everybody's cool but like here it's just different because you know what we're hanging out together for a week and we're seeing each other on side the road we're seeing each other everywhere and you can't bring everything so more than likely you're dependent on somebody else here that they brought what you needed because everything you needed you didn't bring it [Applause] what an amazing week i'll be back next year i don't know what we'll be driving maybe independence i don't know but we'll figure something out if you guys have never done or went to one of these events you really need to check it out even if you're just you know scooting around hooking your eyes on things it's the participation that makes these events happen and these are the kind of thing that we need to keep hot rodding alive and hopefully the younger generations get involved it's really cool seeing all the kids out here we handed out i don't know how many ice cream bars it was a lot it's pretty fun it is hot anyway we're gonna start unloading the ice cream truck get all the gear straightened out get the trailer into the trailer is that a thing i think it is do all that stuff and i think we're finally going to unwind uh cletus won his category i don't know what it is what it's called but he won and there were some other familiar faces but overall really cool this fella is trying to get out of here you know head home and well he's stuck and a little kubota i don't know why but they were trying to pull it backwards and that got stuck so they got another kubota i don't know what that one's doing over there but this is going to get interesting they already rip some plastic off the front of this nice rig this thing looks brand new there we go now we're coming in backwards did you guys bring some lawn get some i'm gonna get chairs inside well beans and onions the key was adding that horsepower that clearly worked [Music] [Applause] [Music] well that's going to do it for summit racing drag week what a spectacular week i met a lot of great people made some new friends big thank you to tom bailey for letting me take along right around his ice cream truck there's still some broken things you know just kind of ignored didn't fix but i did write him down on a beer box for him so at least he knows what's up thanks guys for watching hope you enjoyed we'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Vice Grip Garage

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Length: 18min 52sec (1132 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 06 2021