The Thrill of Radials: A Street Racing Experience Like No Other

For the past, I was probably running at full throttle for very long at all. Okay, so the launch is better, but now the back end is a little greasy. Well, no, I wouldn't even say that the thing that sketched me out on that pass is I have my front end loose and usually I don't. Whenever I'm on power, it's coming up and I'm thinking it's riding a wheelie because I have this thing smacked closed pinned tight. So, if I know if it has any movement upwards in the front, I'm on a wheelie right. The whole time I was like oh shoot, it's coming up a wheelie. You know what I mean? So I'm in and out of the throttle and it was a mess but I got out of the 60 foot, I went down so now I'm gonna make a front end adjustment and hopefully next round a lot better.

Moving on to the second round, we're moving on to the Radials track right okay. Not bad, what am I doing? Racing's racing right. I'm pretty sure they both spun pretty bad but uh, the Z was able to collect it and get back in all right two rounds down for the Z. Yeah, you know it. It knocked the tire right away, but it recovered it and fairly decent. And I drove it, luckily got the win. But my competitor, he had a tough run so next round, I'm gonna loosen the front end a little bit where I know it's gonna set back on the tire and uh, I think it's gonna be a really good race between whoever is racing you know it's gonna be my car should go down really good.

Oh yeah, how many cars are left? Three. Oh there's three this we're in the final. Oh you got to buy yes oh no are you serious? Yeah, you got to put this one down in the book I know I know you're now a fan of radials. You like prep tracks now what's going on. I'm telling everybody, I don't do it. I got a fever that's why. What a lucky duck that's a street race and no prep. Oh car never been on a prep track he never used radios before and now he just pulled the buy for the finals so he's gonna make a pass here in the semifinals under power try to get a tune up for the fast guys but he's on the finals about who he is man it's been a hell of a freaking last couple days. I'll tell you that, uh did a few changes. Okay, because the last pass before that I tried to leave super super soft and it still hit the tire and I knocked it off so I'm like, "You know what? Besides the tried and true, you know so I'm gonna try to go back to it and see if I can't pull it off with a slick.

All right, you know that's right. How much weight did you put on? Oh boy, a couple hundred pounds at least 270 pounds. Damn good luck we're gonna see if see if we can get down thanks man yeah all right. No, you went second. I did a little bit. You went to the finals yep never racing on a prep track and never racing on the radio. Yeah, how was that last pass? What happened there it was slow I think. Uh I had a few little issues with the car. You know it. It dropped like 10 mile an hour. 20 almost 20 mile an hour oh wow it was crazy but um does it hurt issues I noticed this I don't know I don't even I don't know if this there's like a crack or something going on but it was like bubbling or something.

But anyway, so what's going on. But but I don't know what it was you know maybe the slickness gave me a little too much wheel speed or whatnot but I was down about uh about two tenths and about 20 miles an hour on that run so uh ain't much I could say you know I just live and learn and try to dial in better next time. Is this your last prep track race for a while? Really yeah just going back to the streets oh yeah all right all right well hopefully we see you on the streets again soon oh that's a that's a definite all right man we'll see you soon buddy thank you congrats you're great you made the finals congratulations way better than I thought I was gonna do it right. Hey, we're doing something there you go we'll see you next time all right have a good trip oh my god this is so ridiculous

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up 1320 fans we're out here at sacramento raceway for bodies no excuses final chapter race the invite is out here there's a couple cars on the property the car here behind me you guys might recognize from some of our mexico filming we're gonna talk to him see what he's doing at the track and uh show you guys some race here a little bit all right so we're used to seeing you in mexico not normally at a time that's right that's right uh what are you doing here you know i just figured i'd come out and try my hand with these guys i know i'm not as fast as these guys on their plate playing field but uh i said screw it i'm gonna come out and give it a give it a shake and see what we can do with this old girl it's not the prettiest but i think i'll hold my own well cars don't have to be pretty go fast i know that for a fact and so what are we looking at here what year what model it's a z c car you know you see them all the time there's a 72 dobson 240z um 427 single 118 clyde fab 9 on tom b85 nothing special you know well the 118 is kind of special i mean that's not a normally i'm used to hearing like pro mighty one that's a little big yeah never can't have enough you know what i mean well that's just fair never can't have enough what kind of power are you making with the car right now i was here like probably somewhere around like 18 1900. okay you know if you've done a test hit on the job so i came yesterday i did a couple tests i'm not used to the radial you know that's just not me the first test hit was on a slick it did good moved around a little bit like i'm used to and a to b right right everyone's like hey you need to put a radio on it because you're gonna gain a couple tents i put a radio on the car and the dead hooks the tire and i stand up in a power wheelie pedal it go back up and slam down it was a it was a mess have you have you ever had the car hooked like that before never really i mean never never an instant power hook like that you know you're not used to anything prepped pretty much no with this car no i'm i'm i'm as virgin as you get that's that's my that's where i'm comfortable right if it's moving i'm comfortable this dead stuck is it it's crazy what class are you doing today so this is going to be all steel all glass okay the whole car has got factory panels on it all the way around the only reason i changed my doors is because i did have legs and windows in it these have factory roll-ups so i just threw another set of doors on but other than that everything is factory um that's it factory floor pans all the way through the car uh nothing crazy really you know what is the game plan today is it just to go around playing the game plan is to take this home okay first time out okay but that's the game plan i like i like how i don't come to lose so i'm gonna give everything i got and see if we can't bring the w home all right welcome to a track there are a few more rules here on the street i'm dreading the tech line i'm like i'm gonna go up there sweating well i'm glad to see you here trying out the track stuff yeah good luck today we'll see you up there man appreciate it hell yeah so how bodies race works here is between noon and five all the racers are gonna get between two and three hits then at five o'clock we're gonna run first round eliminations possibly get into the second round and then finish it up tomorrow but the z is up here for his first i guess test hit of the day he did test yesterday first time on the track and he said it was pretty surprising especially with the radials on it so let's i'm gonna check it with him real quick see what kind of tune up he's gonna run on it and uh go from there man you nervous no no you passed tech right no hey hey cross your finger me and this guy don't don't really see out yet but yeah i just took almost 300 pounds out of it so just now out of the ass in yeah okay so yesterday uh-huh you ran the first time on the track really first time on radio's first time ever now you just took 300 pounds out of it you're gonna do it again yep that's gonna be like a whole different car it is it is i do have a buddy that kind of does this radial stuff so he's been kind of giving me a couple pointers and things he said take the weight out so i'm like okay i'll take the weight out so well this is a test hit we get two of them so i said screw it i'll swing for it i'll pull the weight i'll try it i'll leave a little slow i'll hopefully hopefully it'll hook the tire then i'll just bring power in real hard and fast and hopefully it don't power willy on me well at least you do get what two or three passes i think at least get two yeah before so i'm gonna try this if this don't work we're gonna we're gonna go back to the drawing board and figure it out all right well good luck thanks man i appreciate it once he figures out that launch i'll tell you what that car car is gonna be doing real good out here hey guys just wanted to take a second to tell you about a new hot merch item that we just released our horsepower club shirt is live on 1320video.com we have hats shirts hoodies stickers and other accessories for you guys so head on over there 1320 video.com check it out chances are there's going to be something that you like once you're done there head on back here and let's finish out some of these amazing races here in sacramento so i wasn't up there but matt was he said yeah dude he spawned but once like you pedaled it and then once you pedaled it it was just gone it was gone dude it was mile an hour and really hard had a little bit of tire shake up on the bigger end and then uh i just i just kept it floored and it kind of just drove through it nice and smooth this next pass i have a few ideas on what to do to make the car go faster obviously and make it hook so we're going to take it round by round we get one more test hit to dial this thing in so we'll see how it goes 300 less pounds right now how did that feel compared to yesterday it felt awesome you know once once i uh pedaled and left the tire bite and then rolled back in it it felt great so um i like it a lot everything reacts faster you might be a track guy at the end of this don't say that he's like don't do that oh man all right we didn't know you were going to get a third test hit today i didn't know either right and to be honest i had a grudge race set up anyway so they said we can grudge if we had something set up so i was like well duh i'm going to go to good you know get a little extra data and stuff uh but i'm gonna take i'm gonna take advantage of it and try one last time on these damn radials and see if i can't get down so you try if if the radials don't work on this hit you're gonna switch the slicks for elimination tomorrow i'm going right back to slicks yep because i know i could run a decent time consistently with this with the slit it might not be the fastest but i will be consistent so i'm gonna guess the yellow z is gonna switch back to slicks now that's the third time in the row he's had to pedal it it went aft like it stuck after he pedaled it but he's pretty sick and tired of pedaling we're gonna check in and make sure that's what he's doing but i'm pretty sure that's what he's doing all right so you had to pedal it again hey it's it's stuck it's stuck right after you pedaled it but yeah so what's the what are we doing i know you like the radials i know you're trying to like i do just because when they're stuck the feeling is you know it's such an awesome feeling these things the mile an hour is just ridiculous and i love the speed but it's killing me in the 60 foot because i can't figure it out you know i can't get it to bite right away i have so much power pulled out of this car on the hit it's ridiculous so at this point man i don't know what to do like like i'm fighting with myself you know one half of me wants to keep it on and try it again and the other half says get that you know and go for what you know and it's just i don't know i really don't the only thing i know how to do is if i ever have this problem i throw some weight in the car you know but if i did stick that tire man you know this car likes the wheelie you know so i'm playing with fire well we'll check back with you in a little bit please do because when i get ironed out she gonna run oh yeah yeah you know all right buddy thank you hell yeah it is elimination day today here at sacramento raceway for boaties no excuses race it is elimination day yesterday they did a bunch of testing uh they ran out of time so we're starting basically all the eliminations this morning i saw your back on a slick no i'm not oh you're not no i couldn't give it up you you like you like the hit too much no i don't like this i like everything but the hits you like how it sticks yeah when it does so at one time i tell you what right now if it don't leave i don't know what the hell is going on because i am going to leave so soft your grandma's volkswagen hey hey do you know who keith keith zabo was he's i don't think so he's called the shootout king he would leave the line the softest you've ever seen and then ramp the moose in and he'd destroy everybody so that's what i'm trying to do bro well there you go you try to keep zebo this thing right there it was called the shootout king really yeah that's what i'm trying to do keith zabo these there you go all right man good luck to you thanks bro appreciate it he got something worked out looks like he's peddling it a few times but the blue fox had a little bit more trouble than him and he's moving on the second round right there bro huh huh i mean we're making progress okay so so my guy at the lion matt yeah said that was the best he's like he's left all right all weekend but then where were you fighting down where you kept having peddled it i blipped it a bunch of times never once in that past was i probably full throttle for very long at all okay so the launch is better but now back end it's a little greasy well no i wouldn't even say that the thing that sketched me out on that pass is i have my front end loose and usually i don't so whenever i'm on power it's coming up and i'm thinking it's riding a wheelie because i have this thing smacked closed pinned tight so if i know if it has any movement upwards in the front i'm on a wheelie right so the whole time i was like oh shoot it's coming up a wheelie you know what i mean so i'm in and out of the throttle and it was a it was a mess but i got out of the 60 foot i went down so now i'm gonna make a front end adjustment and hopefully next round a lot better yeah so moving on to the second round moving on the second round here on radials track right okay not bad what am i doing racing's racing right i'm pretty sure they both spun pretty bad but uh the z was able to collect it and get back in all right two rounds down for the z yeah you know it it knocked the tire right away but it recovered it and fairly decent and i drove it and luckily got the win but my competitor he had a he had a so next round i'm gonna loosen the front end a little bit where i know it's gonna set back on the tire and uh i think it's gonna be a really good race between whoever whoever i'm racing you know it's gonna be my car should go down really good all right man we'll see a third round oh yeah how many cars how many cars are left three oh there's three this we're in the final oh you got to buy yes oh no are you serious yeah you got to put this one down in the book i know i know you're now a fan of radials you like prep tracks now what's going on i'm telling everybody i don't do it i got a fever that's why what a lucky duck that's a street race and no prep oh car never been on a prep track he never used radios before and now he just pulled the buy for the finals so he's gonna make a pass here in the semifinals under power try to get a tune up for the fast guys but he's on the finals about who he is man it's been a hell of a freaking last couple days i'll tell you that i uh did a few changes oh you added weight to it or oh yeah i added weight change tires oh come on click you decide so you you made it to the finals on radials and you decided to go slick yes i did okay because the last pass before that i tried to leave super super soft and it still still hit the tire and i knocked it off so i'm like you know what besides the tried and true you know so i'm gonna try to go back to it and see if i can't pull it off with a slick all right you know that's right how much weight did you put back in oh boy a couple hundred pounds at least 270 pounds damn good luck we're gonna see if see if we can get down thanks man yeah all right i don't care what everybody says that was that was a good performance sorry man no you went second i did a little bit you went to the finals yep never never racing on a prep track and never racing on the radio yeah how was that last pass what happened there it was slow i think uh i had a few little issues with the car you know it it dropped like 10 mile an hour 20 almo no almost 20 mile an hour oh wow it was crazy but um does it hurt issues i noticed this i don't know i don't even i don't know if this there's like a crack or something going on but it was like bubbling or something but anyway so what's going on but but i don't know what it was you know maybe the slickness gave me a little too much wheel speed or whatnot but i was down about uh about two tenths and about 20 miles an hour on that run so uh ain't much i could say you know i just live and learn and try to dial in better next time is this your last prep track race for a while really yeah just going back to the streets oh yeah all right all right well hopefully we see you on the streets again soon oh that's a that's a definite all right man we'll see you soon buddy thank you congrats you're great you made the finals congratulations way better than i thought i was gonna do it right hey we're doing something there you go we'll see you next time all right have a good trip oh my god this is so ridiculouswhat is up 1320 fans we're out here at sacramento raceway for bodies no excuses final chapter race the invite is out here there's a couple cars on the property the car here behind me you guys might recognize from some of our mexico filming we're gonna talk to him see what he's doing at the track and uh show you guys some race here a little bit all right so we're used to seeing you in mexico not normally at a time that's right that's right uh what are you doing here you know i just figured i'd come out and try my hand with these guys i know i'm not as fast as these guys on their plate playing field but uh i said screw it i'm gonna come out and give it a give it a shake and see what we can do with this old girl it's not the prettiest but i think i'll hold my own well cars don't have to be pretty go fast i know that for a fact and so what are we looking at here what year what model it's a z c car you know you see them all the time there's a 72 dobson 240z um 427 single 118 clyde fab 9 on tom b85 nothing special you know well the 118 is kind of special i mean that's not a normally i'm used to hearing like pro mighty one that's a little big yeah never can't have enough you know what i mean well that's just fair never can't have enough what kind of power are you making with the car right now i was here like probably somewhere around like 18 1900. okay you know if you've done a test hit on the job so i came yesterday i did a couple tests i'm not used to the radial you know that's just not me the first test hit was on a slick it did good moved around a little bit like i'm used to and a to b right right everyone's like hey you need to put a radio on it because you're gonna gain a couple tents i put a radio on the car and the dead hooks the tire and i stand up in a power wheelie pedal it go back up and slam down it was a it was a mess have you have you ever had the car hooked like that before never really i mean never never an instant power hook like that you know you're not used to anything prepped pretty much no with this car no i'm i'm i'm as virgin as you get that's that's my that's where i'm comfortable right if it's moving i'm comfortable this dead stuck is it it's crazy what class are you doing today so this is going to be all steel all glass okay the whole car has got factory panels on it all the way around the only reason i changed my doors is because i did have legs and windows in it these have factory roll-ups so i just threw another set of doors on but other than that everything is factory um that's it factory floor pans all the way through the car uh nothing crazy really you know what is the game plan today is it just to go around playing the game plan is to take this home okay first time out okay but that's the game plan i like i like how i don't come to lose so i'm gonna give everything i got and see if we can't bring the w home all right welcome to a track there are a few more rules here on the street i'm dreading the tech line i'm like i'm gonna go up there sweating well i'm glad to see you here trying out the track stuff yeah good luck today we'll see you up there man appreciate it hell yeah so how bodies race works here is between noon and five all the racers are gonna get between two and three hits then at five o'clock we're gonna run first round eliminations possibly get into the second round and then finish it up tomorrow but the z is up here for his first i guess test hit of the day he did test yesterday first time on the track and he said it was pretty surprising especially with the radials on it so let's i'm gonna check it with him real quick see what kind of tune up he's gonna run on it and uh go from there man you nervous no no you passed tech right no hey hey cross your finger me and this guy don't don't really see out yet but yeah i just took almost 300 pounds out of it so just now out of the ass in yeah okay so yesterday uh-huh you ran the first time on the track really first time on radio's first time ever now you just took 300 pounds out of it you're gonna do it again yep that's gonna be like a whole different car it is it is i do have a buddy that kind of does this radial stuff so he's been kind of giving me a couple pointers and things he said take the weight out so i'm like okay i'll take the weight out so well this is a test hit we get two of them so i said screw it i'll swing for it i'll pull the weight i'll try it i'll leave a little slow i'll hopefully hopefully it'll hook the tire then i'll just bring power in real hard and fast and hopefully it don't power willy on me well at least you do get what two or three passes i think at least get two yeah before so i'm gonna try this if this don't work we're gonna we're gonna go back to the drawing board and figure it out all right well good luck thanks man i appreciate it once he figures out that launch i'll tell you what that car car is gonna be doing real good out here hey guys just wanted to take a second to tell you about a new hot merch item that we just released our horsepower club shirt is live on 1320video.com we have hats shirts hoodies stickers and other accessories for you guys so head on over there 1320 video.com check it out chances are there's going to be something that you like once you're done there head on back here and let's finish out some of these amazing races here in sacramento so i wasn't up there but matt was he said yeah dude he spawned but once like you pedaled it and then once you pedaled it it was just gone it was gone dude it was mile an hour and really hard had a little bit of tire shake up on the bigger end and then uh i just i just kept it floored and it kind of just drove through it nice and smooth this next pass i have a few ideas on what to do to make the car go faster obviously and make it hook so we're going to take it round by round we get one more test hit to dial this thing in so we'll see how it goes 300 less pounds right now how did that feel compared to yesterday it felt awesome you know once once i uh pedaled and left the tire bite and then rolled back in it it felt great so um i like it a lot everything reacts faster you might be a track guy at the end of this don't say that he's like don't do that oh man all right we didn't know you were going to get a third test hit today i didn't know either right and to be honest i had a grudge race set up anyway so they said we can grudge if we had something set up so i was like well duh i'm going to go to good you know get a little extra data and stuff uh but i'm gonna take i'm gonna take advantage of it and try one last time on these damn radials and see if i can't get down so you try if if the radials don't work on this hit you're gonna switch the slicks for elimination tomorrow i'm going right back to slicks yep because i know i could run a decent time consistently with this with the slit it might not be the fastest but i will be consistent so i'm gonna guess the yellow z is gonna switch back to slicks now that's the third time in the row he's had to pedal it it went aft like it stuck after he pedaled it but he's pretty sick and tired of pedaling we're gonna check in and make sure that's what he's doing but i'm pretty sure that's what he's doing all right so you had to pedal it again hey it's it's stuck it's stuck right after you pedaled it but yeah so what's the what are we doing i know you like the radials i know you're trying to like i do just because when they're stuck the feeling is you know it's such an awesome feeling these things the mile an hour is just ridiculous and i love the speed but it's killing me in the 60 foot because i can't figure it out you know i can't get it to bite right away i have so much power pulled out of this car on the hit it's ridiculous so at this point man i don't know what to do like like i'm fighting with myself you know one half of me wants to keep it on and try it again and the other half says get that you know and go for what you know and it's just i don't know i really don't the only thing i know how to do is if i ever have this problem i throw some weight in the car you know but if i did stick that tire man you know this car likes the wheelie you know so i'm playing with fire well we'll check back with you in a little bit please do because when i get ironed out she gonna run oh yeah yeah you know all right buddy thank you hell yeah it is elimination day today here at sacramento raceway for boaties no excuses race it is elimination day yesterday they did a bunch of testing uh they ran out of time so we're starting basically all the eliminations this morning i saw your back on a slick no i'm not oh you're not no i couldn't give it up you you like you like the hit too much no i don't like this i like everything but the hits you like how it sticks yeah when it does so at one time i tell you what right now if it don't leave i don't know what the hell is going on because i am going to leave so soft your grandma's volkswagen hey hey do you know who keith keith zabo was he's i don't think so he's called the shootout king he would leave the line the softest you've ever seen and then ramp the moose in and he'd destroy everybody so that's what i'm trying to do bro well there you go you try to keep zebo this thing right there it was called the shootout king really yeah that's what i'm trying to do keith zabo these there you go all right man good luck to you thanks bro appreciate it he got something worked out looks like he's peddling it a few times but the blue fox had a little bit more trouble than him and he's moving on the second round right there bro huh huh i mean we're making progress okay so so my guy at the lion matt yeah said that was the best he's like he's left all right all weekend but then where were you fighting down where you kept having peddled it i blipped it a bunch of times never once in that past was i probably full throttle for very long at all okay so the launch is better but now back end it's a little greasy well no i wouldn't even say that the thing that sketched me out on that pass is i have my front end loose and usually i don't so whenever i'm on power it's coming up and i'm thinking it's riding a wheelie because i have this thing smacked closed pinned tight so if i know if it has any movement upwards in the front i'm on a wheelie right so the whole time i was like oh shoot it's coming up a wheelie you know what i mean so i'm in and out of the throttle and it was a it was a mess but i got out of the 60 foot i went down so now i'm gonna make a front end adjustment and hopefully next round a lot better yeah so moving on to the second round moving on the second round here on radials track right okay not bad what am i doing racing's racing right i'm pretty sure they both spun pretty bad but uh the z was able to collect it and get back in all right two rounds down for the z yeah you know it it knocked the tire right away but it recovered it and fairly decent and i drove it and luckily got the win but my competitor he had a he had a so next round i'm gonna loosen the front end a little bit where i know it's gonna set back on the tire and uh i think it's gonna be a really good race between whoever whoever i'm racing you know it's gonna be my car should go down really good all right man we'll see a third round oh yeah how many cars how many cars are left three oh there's three this we're in the final oh you got to buy yes oh no are you serious yeah you got to put this one down in the book i know i know you're now a fan of radials you like prep tracks now what's going on i'm telling everybody i don't do it i got a fever that's why what a lucky duck that's a street race and no prep oh car never been on a prep track he never used radios before and now he just pulled the buy for the finals so he's gonna make a pass here in the semifinals under power try to get a tune up for the fast guys but he's on the finals about who he is man it's been a hell of a freaking last couple days i'll tell you that i uh did a few changes oh you added weight to it or oh yeah i added weight change tires oh come on click you decide so you you made it to the finals on radials and you decided to go slick yes i did okay because the last pass before that i tried to leave super super soft and it still still hit the tire and i knocked it off so i'm like you know what besides the tried and true you know so i'm gonna try to go back to it and see if i can't pull it off with a slick all right you know that's right how much weight did you put back in oh boy a couple hundred pounds at least 270 pounds damn good luck we're gonna see if see if we can get down thanks man yeah all right i don't care what everybody says that was that was a good performance sorry man no you went second i did a little bit you went to the finals yep never never racing on a prep track and never racing on the radio yeah how was that last pass what happened there it was slow i think uh i had a few little issues with the car you know it it dropped like 10 mile an hour 20 almo no almost 20 mile an hour oh wow it was crazy but um does it hurt issues i noticed this i don't know i don't even i don't know if this there's like a crack or something going on but it was like bubbling or something but anyway so what's going on but but i don't know what it was you know maybe the slickness gave me a little too much wheel speed or whatnot but i was down about uh about two tenths and about 20 miles an hour on that run so uh ain't much i could say you know i just live and learn and try to dial in better next time is this your last prep track race for a while really yeah just going back to the streets oh yeah all right all right well hopefully we see you on the streets again soon oh that's a that's a definite all right man we'll see you soon buddy thank you congrats you're great you made the finals congratulations way better than i thought i was gonna do it right hey we're doing something there you go we'll see you next time all right have a good trip oh my god this is so ridiculous\n"