Rowdyssey Goes to the Track for the First Time! (In Front of THOUSANDS of People)

We've Got Two Runs Under Our Belt Now That We've Figured Out Some Issues with the Van's Boost Controller

We started off the day with a couple of runs, and unfortunately, we had some issues to work through. The boost controller was being a bit finicky, with its readings fluctuating up and down. It was like it was having an identity crisis or something! We weren't too keen on that, so we decided to swap out the boost cylinder and see if that would help stabilize things. And you know what? It did seem to make a difference. We even managed to squeeze in a second pass after the first one, but we didn't bother filming it because we were just focused on getting the van dialed in.

We also decided to take the van out on the street and see how she handled. To our surprise, she was running pretty well! Even with the boost issues, she seemed to be performing well, even better than expected. So, we took her back to the staging area, and Brent started practicing his launch techniques. However, things didn't quite go as planned. The clutch just wouldn't engage at all. We couldn't get it to shift into gear no matter what. It was like the clutch had developed a mind of its own! Brent suggested that maybe we could try breaking the clutch free by using the starter motor to disengage it, but even that didn't seem to work.

The problem persisted, and we realized that we needed to take a closer look at the transmission. We decided to pull it off and figure out what was causing the issue. It turned out that there was something rattling around in the transmission when we idled, which suggested that maybe the disc had gotten too hot and stuck together or maybe there was some kind of mechanical problem going on. Whatever it was, we were determined to get to the bottom of it.

We ended up spending most of the day hanging out with the other competitors and spectators at the event. It was a great opportunity for us to mingle with the racing community and show off our van (albeit in a somewhat limited capacity). We even managed to win over some fans, who were enthusiastic about seeing our little van in action, despite knowing that we had our fair share of issues during the competition.

One of the highlights of our day was running into an old-school street outlaw. It was like stepping back in time, and we couldn't help but geek out a bit when we saw him. We ended up chatting with him for a while, swapping stories about racing and the events scene. He even told us that he'd won some national championships back in the 80s! Talk about cool.

Despite the setbacks, it was clear that we were determined to get our van back on the road as soon as possible. We're talking fix or replace, one of those two options. We know we've got the skills and expertise to get her running smoothly again, so we'll be keeping a close eye on things in the coming days.

As for the bigger picture, it's clear that this event was all about having fun with friends and family. While our van didn't quite live up to expectations, we knew that everyone had a great time watching us compete, even if we didn't take home any trophies. And who knows? Maybe next year will be our chance to shine.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI guess so yesterday we were over here yesterday was the first day of the street outlaws' event and today is the second day of the event and farmtruck an Asian on having their daily driver duel class and the minivan mayhem class and we got the rod to see right here behind me and we just got her tucked in and right now we actually have to go see farmtruck and he's gonna look over each and every car to make sure they are good for the challenge technically the minivans are supposed to be stocked that we just found this out so at least we got the hubcaps over the slicks we're gonna try to see what we can do try the sneaker in I'm sure if they if they find out which they probably will they're gonna they're gonna let something happen for us so we're gonna go over to his boobs right now and see what they think you can definitely hear the straight cut gears a lot louder in this way than the hatch engine noises in the hatch kind of muffled out the van so quiet I got so we just got the minivan pulled over here by a farmtruck Keynesians booth I guess we have to bring all the daily driver cars that are gonna be in the daily driver dual class and all the minivans are gonna be in the minivan class over here slowly to look over them right now there's not too many people but we do have the strategy parked right here and since we're technically not supposed to use slicks or radials we're gonna see if we can draw some tread on the tires maybe get away with then I think it's something they would do so they might be ok with it and we got some silver sharpie that we're gonna draw some squiggly marks on the slicks right d-o-t on the side and it will be like we have the other tires that we have - ok yeah all right there - yeah just literally put Adira DOD approved that's that's legit that's as good as a good did you write a number on your side that's from a DoD approved bro do you approve I was gonna put a little dash in a number way well erase or never will do 393 98 all right now I need some tread they never said approve by who in the wrong spot the whole thing up well we were in the right spot but they just asked us to move over to the top of the staging lanes so hopefully our trend doesn't get too worn off it should the tread on the tires yeah we can be sharp beat it in there pretty good so yeah right now we're going to a different spot where they're gonna go look it over all the cars and yeah we're just gonna running back and forth well we're getting there again tight oh my gosh oh yeah it's trying still but it's not nearly as bad as it was Oh way worse than that this whole side was like hey it's way better now now this sides trying to pick up shine want to get the other side too well I went over him out there right and then I we last sewed that mount and went to the frame so bulliraju strapped down in there and thrown the frame hey that's all I can do now she's ready to roll yeah she's tuned alright guys so we're still waiting on farmtruck to come by and check out all the cars he has to come make sure that they are all ready to race we have a couple more mini vans posted up next to the Radice II don't know this guy but uh this is actually the van we came and this is my daily driver and Brent entered it in and he's actually gonna race it the main reason we entered it is because it has all of our spare axles all of our tools and everything in it and we figured it might not just enter it so we can get it into the event made it a lot easier and we actually ratchet strapped the engine down because if you guys remember my motor mounts are completely blown in this thing and the whole motor like lifts out of the car every time it shifts and you can hear it clunk so we wrapped it strapped it down really tight so you can race it a little bit without it being too sketchy but uh yeah right now everyone's just chillin inside I mean I was taking a nap in the route to see and Brent's chilling in the passenger seat it's pretty hot out so we're just trying to stay out of the Sun but farmtruck will be coming over here soon to check everything out and we will be going from there those are two Asian of fruit but they don't beat red where it has to be at red were driven out so you got to put do Keith check it out Andrew look at it look at family right and it's a stock minivan class yeah completely stock you can't change the air filter either I'd like you been working on any right you can't can't thing you know what the last thing we want is people to come out here and do what we do and beat up and bully first-time racers exactly we want it to be fair we just want this to be fun exactly blast if you guys want to bully someone goalie us we gots all shoulders we can cry let's do we just smile and we know how to lose we've done our fair share of that so well we're gonna we're gonna you know take our time look at each vehicle you know awesome and and make sure that everybody fits it in and when we and everybody gets a chance to race very cool just be patient with others and there'll be more people that enter it will have to do the same thing with yeah this will take a little bit just go through him alright so they just had everyone who is gonna be in the minivan there's a back rail right here trepanation they're gonna look at all the bands and make sure that they are good for the class they're technically supposed to be stock but they said in the meeting that there are cars out here they could see that their cars out here with some slicks and cars that are obviously faster than just the daily driven minivan or whatever it may be and they said they still want to try to get everyone to race even for those guys so we know either way that we're gonna get a run but we're gonna have them look at the minivan come and check out the route to see you see how they like it try to play it off for a little bit but they're gonna know right away that it's not a normal minivan okay all right should we let him get away with that Asian host plant all right watch funny he does Heiser that's just the alternator guys oh man you regular heart yeah y'all didn't really place everybody back here has no cold tires our season and it says 300 trailer right so it's free right now what you could do is walk thanks off the rear to the front we do have some we do have the other night also it's a bone stock bones drive which you guys know it Boston cops oh you're building I got nice did we respect what you've done yeah it's cool totally have and we want you guys to race absolutely but I think that you guys have stretched the limits of stock over the limit just a wee bit and we're proud of you for that yeah you know cuz that's what we do but this class is all about novice racers stock vehicles that have never raced before yeah did you guys took a lot of time with this we were we respect that but we just have our own solo hit we're not racing anyone it was just kind of like just for show you know everyone what if there what about that we bloom in the daily drug we don't even we don't care about the contest we do something with vinegar because it's so heavily modified we also we have to tell my co see you know or that he's switching so we're about that lightning or that dude though now you guys could do some grudge race okay now here's the other okay we could instantly just won't find nice to get a big massive we can do that right there's a lot of guys we have to so no matter if you win or lose you're just fine and then you have to tell that person they want you know go find them they'll say hey we'll figure out a place to put your policy all right what does that little draw what do you want to do you want to run race do you want it why don't you just let draught yeah and then they're but they're instantly lot names and I was but if we can guarantee you at least it'll pass down the track other than that in the lightning graduates to be pretty good but also you could do both you could do both right because you could make that passengers time you could still grudge race you don't want to you don't want to quit pissed yeah right so if you quit now and then it never happens then it never happens but you could lease race gets qualified and then go grudge yeah cool pride right you try good job with this thing man we loves really cool it is and it's exactly perfect right upper eyelid for sure I've seen it I I knew it was coming yeah how does that sound if you guys make a pass you let the guy win and then if you can grudge race it there's time you do it okay that's a good compromise I like that thank you okay so there's a guy down here that pulled up on the end I think two guys that pulled up on the end over there then we got to go back down and grab them up right Clark guys you're in its a DQ but it's a potential grudge as well right so you're still interests all chip and very time to tell you righty yeah good enough she lease gets one so yeah that's good okay let me just get a sawed-off who makes this man oh this thing is for a dude I love it damn dude it's just interesting to look at a carburetor 5-speed Wow the job dude I hope this thing wins good job I mean next to mrs. farmtruck we need a prayer we can't trust this guy that's gross water is that VTEC yo your mind in a row yeah did you see her get yeah I didn't catch you who did viv is awesome she was totally they sprayed farmtruck nodded twice look she got him twice oh you're spraying oh yeah together the first time I got in the second time her so if you race me you're out thank you I'll move on so let's do that yeah I mean try to go a couple rounds yeah so a lot of cards out the first round yeah yeah so they're letting the route to see run but no matter who we line up against I'm getting automatically DQ'd in it because of the modifications but if we line up with Brent that means he's a gets an automatic win so we're gonna try to line it up so let's move on yeah just keep going yep yeah they are only racing eighth-mile as well which kind of sucks so we wanted to see what time the minivan could've ran but it's just what we're gonna have to do we get some data on it anyway anyway and then we don't want just attune yeah yeah yeah fun day to be here either way it is fun day to be here and we got to beat farmtruck occasion yeah and they were all about yeah mr. snow they're like you guys are making it hard on us trying I thought it was cool though later don't got to squirt farm drugs g-god though 30 wonder we still have all that seats in it is that less than the Honda was the hundred way like three thousand without me in it without you it's not bad but the minivans way bigger so it's like makes the hundreds were kind of back the honey is dense yeah just like the owner got the shoot on now not even use the shoot but it looks cool I think you should use it to definitely try to have an opportunity I will if you can still see bring the bracket or the mounts to the handle so we just pulled our chips me and Brent paired up together so that means Brent is gonna move on because I'm gonna be eliminated after my first run but I'm gonna purposely let him take off and I'm gonna try to chase him down try to make it look good that was that's crazy that won't do to you so you better lie no you're gonna leave you're gonna be gone I will I know I wish we had another GoPro for your car - I do - now I don't know where my other one went but that's okay damn oh that's gonna be sick yeah cuz I want if I do end up flying past yeah the GoPro from yours would be like but it's gonna be good awesome so Brent moves on no matter what and we haven't even raced yet yeah so we know that so yeah they're finishing up the what class is up and they didn't like small-tire we're doing big guy right now so after these guys finish up they're gonna be running all the minivans you see how the route is he does I mean that's the first time my dailies been down the track - yeah - the straps are all full effect you should be good yeah oh yeah Jamie and never back there watching behind the gate I'm gonna give him a jump so it's up to you they're placing their bets already improvise a little bit ladies and gentlemen get allowed to not any vans in this thing you're the rabbit strategy here ego boosters lightly let's make this plane my way and you guys are my socks all right guys we're about ready to go up we have a huge crowd watching so hopefully the rata sea puts on a good show I got Brent right next to me and like I said before we are only doing eighth mile so I am gonna let out early but uh we'll see how she does this is her first time trying to launch at the track trying to do anything serious so we'll see how she does I think I got a live one she was not running very good guys first was way down well that was our first time ever making a hit and it made it down with no problems as far as mechanical issues but she was so slow guys I think it was only making like the same like 10 15 pounds so not sure what was up there that's how good and we still be Fred even though he did be cute and the ebrake works really really good so that's some good news and honestly guys honestly that was so nerve-racking because I have never gone down this track with the stadiums just completely filled I wasn't really really nervous so but she made it I think Brent did set it up to log so we can go back and look at the log hopefully see how much boost it made and see if we can make any Corrections there and they said if they have time that they're gonna be doing grudge races tonight so we might be able to get some more test hits later on just depends if they have enough time or not so we'll see Asian loves this thing yeah they were really hype they were so hyped it made it down I'm still happy with the screaming was the burnout pretty good Brunei was awesome there Burnett was awesome yeah see what she did on that one yeah we're gonna check it out didn't seem like a lot I mean I was the first pass ever when I was wouldn't and you ran by me I got sparks go gear was that this fourth to you that's fourth yeah the boost is just all over the place yeah we got only seven pounds yeah she was barely doing anything yeah bug so hard cause like right when it started to go it just lost all of it yeah I just turned it all the way down you know it's outside so long the solenoid could be junk where it is or got weather yeah she's just been sitting forever yeah he won you won he said Asian was running next to it all the first year yeah yeah then he was cute he was keeping up to so oh yeah Brent's still in the race banking on him redlining to victory coke Oh Jay series last Godby yeah and and by Leroy it's good time though it was a crew member from Lars Nelson when we won to monetize an 86 Oh awesome so yeah that's good time oh yeah I just needed more motor get a rain away from me yeah no it's good time though it was awesome yeah I'm afraid of that yeah I know I was I was - I was hoping I draw the little the little the little fondant yeah yeah yeah all I can do is hope through the by this time yeah yeah cool cuz she knows she doesn't heal right now but you we both kind of really good light so we left almost together need some nitrous or so it is pretty laid out now we got two runs in the route of see today the first run had a couple issues the boost controller was like a little up and down and really yeah so that was really weird we ended up changing the boost cylinder out and that seemed to help it a lot and we actually made a second pass after that first one and we didn't even film any of that because we were just focused on trying to get the van figured out and it really didn't seem to help too much I feel like the what we all we also took it on the street as well we took it out on the street street tuned in on the street it seemed really good and even on the second pass the boost was a lot more steady it wasn't all over the place so I think the solenoid definitely helped a lot but it still was bogging off the line and after we did the second pass we brought it back over here and I was practicing the launch just over here in the lot and the clutch kind of just went out on me right now you can't even put it in gear anything the clutch does not engage at all we did get it to start we put it in first gear and then just started it and like you use the starter to get it running and Brent was saying that maybe we could like break the clutch free if the disc might have got too hot and stuck together but that doesn't seem to be the case and also when it's idling you can hear something rattling around in the transmission so we're definitely enough to pull the transmission off and figure out what's up with that and we could probably drive it back but obviously we're not in a Triscuit since Jamie brought his trailer and we're gonna be turning it back we'll get her figured out we ended up just watching the big tire finals and we went in the stands and just hung out how'd a good time doing that but it was really awesome because it seemed to hype everybody up and we got out there everyone was super excited to see it so like yeah they were they were going crazy yeah so honestly I was a little bummed because I wanted to put on a really good show but it turns out like a lot of we have a lot of fans out here and they're coming up to us and they're saying like you did awesome it was great and that's awesome to hear I'm glad people really enjoyed it even though they don't even know what it could have done right still they still enjoyed it they still enjoy it at least I didn't lose to Brent the jump I like what you let them use I said I was gonna do that always said never like chases a race so yeah and he ran me down like I was parked so yeah still fast for that I mean if you put minivan against me like oh good test right yeah we know what it's supposed to well we know it's most yeah we know what she's capable of for sure so obviously had some issues with it but you know is what it is that's just racing and we're gonna get her loaded up and be taking my other van home the ratchet strap seemed to hold up pretty good on that they held up also made it to the semi-finals yeah yeah and it was Lee right and he won the whole thing he won the whole thing back in the eighties he won like a bracket national team all night like he was an old-school race at night that's cool yeah guys is what it is at least she we got her back up and running though yeah at least we did get her back up and running we're kind of determined to finish it now so like we're gonna solve this problem and get back out so oh yeah it's not so it's not the last of the raddest see I know a lot of you guys wanted to see her out so I don't have to figure out something for the hatch though because it that's just me sitting with no trainee for a while working but yeah I'm swapping it back and forth okay you're something out yeah unfortunately have some issues with there but we'll get her sore it was also really cool that we met a farmtruck an agent as well yeah he was like all the street outlaw guys like it was a good it was a good event for sure it's awesome really long weekend and we're kind of all over the place so filming was kind of tough and like yeah and with how strict the event was like Emilio couldn't get down there to film they wouldn't let anyone up in the like yeah up in the staging lanes or anything everyone had to be up in the stands so we did our best stuff yeah we came out had fun that's what it's all about and it seems like everyone enjoyed seeing it even though we had some issues yeah so he'll be back out for sure\n"