**A Wild Ride at Abandoneer Speedway**

It's been a day to remember here at Abandoneer Speedway, which is hosting the fourth day of Rocky Mountain Race Week. The event has been filled with excitement and unexpected twists, leaving drivers and spectators alike on the edge of their seats. As one driver recounted his experience, he was handed a time slip by the ticket booth lady and exclaimed, "Yeah! And she's like, I'm sure that's not the first time that's happened to her!" The driver went on to describe his own experience with the speedway, noting that they had originally intended to drive in sixes but ended up settling for five. He also mentioned that they found a hose from CSS and put it on, which helped them shave off precious minutes during their qualifying run.

**A Narrow Escape**

As the driver took to the track, he couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and nervousness. "We were trying it," he admitted, "and we found a hose from CSS and put it on...by that time they shut the lanes." He revealed that one of the rods in his engine gave way during the run, causing him to lose power. Despite this setback, he managed to keep going, even though he had initially intended to shift gears. The driver explained that he got underneath the car to click into third gear and tried to get up to a certain RPM for the governor to shift. However, two more rods fell out during his attempt to reach that speed.

**A Team Effort**

The driver's engine troubles were not his only challenge. His father-in-law had to make an emergency trip from their home in Loveland, Colorado, to Abandoneer Speedway, where a buddy of the driver's had pulled the engine out of another truck and was preparing to install it into his own vehicle. The father-in-law arrived at 2:30 am, after driving through the night, and managed to unload the engine onto the side of the road in time for the driver to take over.

**A Tough Mountain Drive**

After a grueling qualifying run, the driver and his team had to make their way back down from Abandoneer Speedway. The drive was not without its challenges, as they encountered sketchy moments with tire squealing and had to cut 13 minutes off of their original estimated arrival time. However, they managed to shave off enough time to make it to the track for the second day.

**A Look Back at the Day's Events**

The driver took a moment to reflect on the events of the day, which included a partial pass in the top three. While he admitted that his performance was not as strong as hoped, he emphasized that "that's all that matters – not a good one but yeah, that's amazing." He praised his team for their hard work and dedication, noting that they were able to fix the engine issues and get it running smoothly.

**The Standings**

As of this writing, the standings are still uncertain. The top three drivers, Cletus McFarland, Alex Taylor, and the driver in question, currently occupy the top spots. However, with only one day left in Rocky Mountain Race Week, anything can happen. The event will undoubtedly be filled with excitement and surprises as the drivers take to the track for their final runs.

**A Final Note**

As the article comes to a close, it's clear that this has been an unforgettable experience for everyone involved. From the unexpected challenges to the thrilling performances on the track, Rocky Mountain Race Week has truly lived up to its reputation as one of the most exciting events in motorsports. Make sure to subscribe to our channel for more updates from Abandoneer Speedway and join us next time as we explore the world of racing.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to one of the most beautiful tracks in the world vandamir dragway here in denver colorado we're here for the fourth day rocky mountain race week the third race day because all we did was drive yesterday through the plains and through the rocky mountains beautiful views trailer burnouts lots of carnage make sure to check that video out from yesterday but today we're gonna take out some of the racers see what it was like to get here there is soaking up the weather it's 75 degrees and beautiful today it's been so hot this week we're loving it so we're gonna see what's up in the pits and we have plenty of racing today we might see our first six of the weekend cletus mcfarlane and alex taylor both been in the sixes but not yet this trip so let's see if that happens today now we're gonna check it with brandon that's the guy with the c2x it's got a ls twin turbo and a c2 corvette and i like it a lot because i have a c2 he has a c2 and we kind of bond over that so i'm going to check it with him and see how he's doing today how we doing all right how are you not bad how was the rest of your drive after we saw you yesterday oh broke some more bolts on the wheels oh did you oh no i got through essex park and pulled up the hotel and started feeling a little bit of vibration like it's happening again got out the tire was low and a couple were off but i got planned i changed them out but we're going to go bigger bolts and drill them out and tap it for a larger size if it happens again so this is just a problem i didn't see you having either i guess that's how race week goes yep i thought my brakes were toast after last night because they're squealing but there there's still enough pad left to just make a noise because a little rough through the mountains there actually i think the mountains is what cleaned them up it was better than it was squealing so gotcha give me a quick 30 second rundown on what the setup on the c2 is right now okay uh 388 twin seventy eight millimeter turbos four l80 um nine inch in the back poly dominator what'd you what have you been doing et wise so far this week this week uh not what i wanted i did was running 855's in 2.0 last year and uh i've been nine one and eight nine so far gotcha so what are you hoping for abandonment today i don't know i've never been up here before oh really yeah i don't know how bad this air is gonna be and how hard it's gonna be to fight so okay well i'm gonna go out make a wastegate pass it'll be slow and disappoint everybody and then basically get some data see where you're at then go from there gotcha well good luck today glad to see you made it uh we'll see you up there first round thanks man later man in less than 24 hours since we saw on the side of the road guzzling down gas oil yep yep we got by briggsdale and we said forget this a buddy of ours had a motor in his shop so we bought it nice four grand nice so that's not bad for a roadside repair no kidding what energy do you put in here it's a 358 so the other one was a 355 this is a 358. nice three more cubes so but it's gonna run a heck of a lot better than the other one once we tore the other one apart a little bit that other one was we wouldn't have made it what was wrong with it valve guide seats rings had a couple broken rings it was bad so yeah we wouldn't have made it there's no way dang i'm glad it worked out so it was great to see you're rolling in early i was like oh they're not going to be here until later tonight we've been pushing it that's awesome so well welcome to bandam here have some fun thanks kyle if you missed it yesterday on the drive video we ran into these guys early on about uh it was a two-hour drive for us they left four in the morning we saw them about noon and they were pouring in two to three quarts every 20 miles i think that's what he said which didn't even compute in my head doesn't even make sense but their motor was screwed and they're back in competition and they're gonna have some fun today without burning oil the whole way now if you guys have watched our race week coverage before you'll know the name joe berry he's normally in a 56 or he's normally in an orange 56 chevy it's called creamsicle this year he didn't bring it this year he brought his mercedes-benz and i think he's leading the 14-0 class we're going to check in with joe and see what he's doing are you king of 14-0 right now you're still kicking 14. still what's your average 14046 really that's pretty how how much but we're second at 1407. okay close 400s close it's way closer okay so you're no stranger to altitude what changes are you making to the to the amg we're preparing to pull seats okay weight reduction okay okay and i'm on two gallons of fuel right now that's all that's left okay this is all by design this is by design what's your first what's your guess for first first pass on track i think it'll go 14-0 to 14-10 okay i think okay okay but we'll find out i'm excited you and me both you better if you win 14-0 i don't want to jinx it you got to put that you got to put that trophy high up on the shelf it's going to be top you know what i did this morning you want to talk about superstition i went to the gas station i got 14 worth of gas all right joe good luck first round hopefully we see a 14-0 something and you just put this one to bed for now and you're one and done right yes that's the plan one and done all right we'll see you later take care sir what's up how you doing good best trailer burnout of the week so far that was pretty epic wondering if you got that on video oh yeah she roasted we might have maybe one more in here they're they're purpose-built trailer burn out tires right there i'd say they're about done nicely done so leading 10-0 again i see yeah sharon first spot oh really 10.055 really you guys are you're both tied at that correct yeah wow i don't know i would like to see a little separation there so yeah of course i got the check out the setup on it here looks really good everything's tight yeah it is i was able to keep uh ac and crews um instead the radiator rip obviously under the radiator support there um 88 103 vs racing it's uh big boy it's enough turbo for me but i'm pretty much just running 10 pounds of boost around a 10-0 yeah what engine it's at 400. okay what does it run turned all the way up uh so i've only got enough injector to go about 19 or 20 pounds of boost so it ran a 9-1 at 148 at carney last year never uh holy crap sorry fly over don't see that every day at the track it's like we're in vegas that's right so nine one yep turned up and it's a four thousand pound car damn interior that's heavy yeah it looks really good oh it's she's filthy i took her down a dirt road yesterday long turn no that pavement oh oh yeah the road on the way i heard i heard the the warnings before we went through it i was pretty disgusted but i was like yeah it is what it is you're the one that bought a black car i'm just saying i would never start with a black i think pretty much everybody that buys a black car gets at once swirls except for the crazy guys so like i just barely wiped the front end of this yep it's just gonna get dirty put a ceramic coat on before i left so most of it wiped off without leaving a lot of scratches nice so who are you tied with for first right now uh picorney braden i think something like that oh that body camaro yeah okay a purple one well hopefully you get that magic number today just kick back and enjoy the weather yeah it would be nice hi friend how are we doing bill good did you sleep at your own house last night yes and happy birthday it's not my birthday bill quit spreading rumors okay yeah are you still number one at stick but yeah i think so what's your average right now what are we working with uh andrew what's the average nine oh no nine something nine so competitive bill all right guys what okay this is your home track what are we doing today what's the e.t what are we just no no no you shouldn't no we killed some parts yesterday oh no what'd you do so i wanted to get all spicy for old bread i've been working on the because i changed some parts i didn't quite know what the boost curve was i put 22 pounds on the dome okay and it made almost 20 pounds of boost which it's done that a lot in the past but a little bit different tune-up different cam i draw it it made so much more power than i've ever been used to like i forgot how to drive it i missed the second shift and so i just kept trying it and it destroyed the dogs on number two we had no second gear yesterday like it would go it wouldn't stay in seconds so so did you do a rebuild sort of yeah sorta i put new i put new second gear in it before this and we put the old one back in that i took out because that's all i have got she got it but we have second gear now okay so a to b pass but what do we think it et wise realistically bottom nine but i know it'll do eights here because it's done it okay you filmed it yeah i have i have yeah so uh yeah we'll see we'll see how we do okay well glad to see you made it all the way from your house thank you good luck missed you by the way oh yeah yeah i'll see you later thanks misses number one still right now yeah yeah how was the drive it was good the first like 250 miles sucked yep uh with all the rough roads and everything the last 250 miles going through the mountains we were actually ran cooler than with the first 250 so it got real nice up there yeah it was much better but um exciting stuff today so as you guys saw on like day one we had issues with our third member after the first pass and so we borrowed like somebody's here swapped it in but it's a little bit weaker and like you should hear the gear set already like it's just like just driving around it's hurting like it's not happy right now uh quick performance actually built one yesterday at 3 p.m overnighted it and we put it in this morning no way wow that's some customer service right there i can't even believe it's strange ultra case first time we've ran out of 10 inch gear so they put that in their 411 gear set and like it was here in less than 24 hours so that's in the car we did that everything i can't imagine that's cheap to ship either overnight hurts but wow yeah they were awesome i'm just so happy with that and then transmission we change fluid make sure that's all clean good to go we've changed the oil we've had fresh plugs in it we've gone through everything check the lash all of that so the car is in as good of condition as it can be right now so awesome and it's actually all up to par like it's not like we're compromised on anything so i'm just like a super paranoid person so the transmission makes me nervous just because like i'm like it looks a little off but we're gonna go with it i don't actually think there's anything so um yeah so the weather is perfect right now i was actually literally pulling my phone up right now yeah the air density and all that online the da's gonna be high regardless we're in denver i wanna see like the grains and all of that yeah really get an idea we're that's the last thing we have to do is pick a tune to put it on so can we you think we're going to see a 6 today no pressure by the end of the week yes today 20 degrees cooler right now than carny i'm just saying okay okay it's not bad i mean we'll give it our best you shot it's gonna be a hundred and great band okay so you put it like that yeah everybody actually you could dream pueblo if you want i know everybody always talks about like denver's like scary and all that and i get it it's high all that but i always i've actually read some of my best times up here yeah the cars travel through the air smoother and your car is not that aerodynamic i'm just saying it's not it's not it's a good node yeah actually so yeah we're ready pretty much i'm gonna go down and check it spool it a little bit can you believe it's like race hasn't even started for once we're actually together and ready i know it doesn't happen i know it's amazing i feel pretty good i hope you guys have a great day thanks i'm gonna go double oil so before we kick off racing today we have something special um one of our rocky mountain raceway family matthew beechler passed away recently while he was trying to get his car ready for rocky mountain race week so the family got the car finished and they were going to bring it up here and make a pass during a moment of silence before we get racing started we're here with nate and you've got this gorgeous car this old ford man can you tell me some stuff about it it's a 5'3 out of my buddy brady's car oh we had i did all this within the last three weeks and uh yeah it's been a battle to even get here but we're glad to be here and i think we're fourth in our class with struggling but we're doing it we're making it so yeah it's been fun it's a badass car thanks for bringing it out it's yeah definitely an eye catcher yeah thank you buddy yeah good luck to you today and safe travels i guess oh yeah we'll see you on the road all right it's time to hit the track all these cars that made it here today have driven over 400 miles yesterday i think over 600 total this trip certified street cars at this point let's see how they do here at mandamere so having some problems 101 with a 5 at 139 10 21. 1104 ain't bad no it ain't bad at all you gotta take that one and done uh we gotta keep running really okay all right go get it go get that double low with an o yep sound some fun man all right normally you'd think in an 11-0 class when you do it 1104 it's pretty good pass you want to turn that one in but these classes get so so close at the end that you turn in 1104 and somebody else turned into 1101 that little bit of difference could matter at the end so he's going to keep making a couple more passes trying to get that 11 000 with an o all right pass one to fours out of the way past one of five is out of the way this is punishment for beating me last year i made eleven passes around are you serious andy dalton and i what was your best pass that day it was a note once was it okay so it was worth it it was that tight all right yeah that number i just ran was not cool no i didn't i won't work i only made six pounds of boost at the line i should have had eight or nine but um yeah get it figured out all right we'll see you back up there yeah thanks man these index classes are a lot of fun but if you don't hit your number it can get really stressful some people have to run like you said 11 times here a couple years ago hopefully i'll ask you a couple of this time george yeah you're not supposed to be fixing your already uh jacob yeah but i am yeah we gotta look looks like we got a little leaks in our header flanges here so we're gonna bring him up to the old welding guy over there juggernaut he's getting fixed up thanks good to have a welder on site here very good how was your drive yesterday that was good dude you kept fouling clubs out but i thought this is live how is the exhaust going down the road that's as good as you can get i mean that's what you put in twelve oh you got headsets five sun roof dollars windows down we're just cruising that got me a nice little driving tank like a place nice oh yeah your left arm some blasted he got cooked yeah no it's going good yeah are they gonna go what's your production dude today's gonna go good now he knows you said that's the plan nice some ratchet straps on our hopefully i'm sure the nice soft suspension is good going down the road but not when you're trying to launch with bouncing around this thing it's a little scary i'm not going to run wilson on the left but we got brakes we got boost so we just got to go nine o'clock we're in third place trying to sneak into second and see what we can do that's what i like to hear yeah keep dialing her in all right buddy you got your 12. can you believe that that's awesome man come on down man it's a good track here the bite's good yeah and i think we're going to be on down there are you going to make a few more passes oh yeah oh how old do you think you're going to go i'd like to get like a 12 10 20 15. okay that's what i'm trying to anyway okay okay well good luck man congrats shop up north colorado and they stuff the motor in this thing and that's they broke it inside hey you made it that's yeah that's the really impressive part look at your hands all covered in oil burns burns oil a little bit everything yeah they did a good job nice work boys 45 minutes of sleep that's it oh my god it's yesterday at 4 o'clock in the morning you guys are crazy go get some sleep or something we got to get that go do 13-0 adjustments now good luck number one fourteen second class joe barry pulling up we gotta put some gopros on here get ready for your pass you ready you are serious oh yeah oh my god what's your prediction what are you gonna run i'm thinking 14-0 all right all right is this going to slow you down too much or rain okay all right cool what the heck what the hell joe i don't know it stumbled on the starting line oh okay that's why that was really weird i don't know but so it stumbled right after you launched it yeah that's weird so one tenth river gopro apparently well we're going to pull some parts off right now oh yeah i'm lighting it okay so it seems like you had a dialed in oh we are at elevation though that's the problem so what is it like 5500 feet up here or something like that yeah so i mean i was i was 46 something's 46 60 is what it weighs so i'm gonna we're gonna pull a little weight out i got two gallons of fuel in here i i notice you've got a lot of bugs on here let me i gotta hook you up here our our new bug remover yeah this is the best stuff you'll ever try so give that a shot let me know what you think i love this stuff actually yeah thank you you're welcome all right see you back up there you gotta maintain that first place lead i'm gonna i'm working on it all right good luck joe if you guys haven't checked out 1320 street shine you will not be disappointed i got rid of everything in my detailing closet for our stuff if you get a lot of bugs in your car like we do when we're traveling throughout the year our bug remover is one of our best products one of my top three favorites quick detailer is my favorite followed by wheel and tire remover check it out links down the description below yeah dude there is a problem so here at rocky mountain race week they do have a bike class there's all different kinds of bikes i think there's a busa there's a i think there's a kdm in the class there's a grom i think it's a grom matt just told me it's a grom there's a grom in the class and i think we passed him on the way here yesterday and i think the fastest he can do is like 55 miles an hour on the highway i'm gonna see if i can flag him down hold it's seriously a ground this is i i did not know there's a ground competing this is hilarious he just did a blistering 23 second pass i did not know there was a grom doing this that's what what did you just did a 23 second pass yeah 23 second pass yep what's the best pass you've had this week i ran a couple of 22 fives in uh carney okay okay blistering and carney there oh yeah i had a good tailwind what is th okay i think we might have passed yesterday what's the fastest you can go on the highway uh if i get a good downhill like 65ish but yesterday i was doing about 50 most of the way i think we passed it yeah wouldn't surprise me how long like this yeah how long was yesterday's drive for you it was 450 miles ish but how long did it take you to do it um from kearney to just after pinkies took me about 12 hours okay and then i stopped there and did like three today okay so wow so it took you 15 hours to do yep wow you're a freaking trooper dude that that's awesome i i knew there's bikes and the guys that had the trailers and stuff that you guys are crazy for doing this but this is just like why would you it's it's seriously like the dumb and dumber thing pretty much the two guys riding on the bike from nebraska to colorado you literally did that from barney and now i get to do almost the opposite well we appreciate you guys here that's awesome that you're doing this it's a lot of luck man hell that is a straight-up bra if you guys didn't know rocky mountain raceway is about 1400 miles when you get through the week and yesterday's drive was about 450 he said it took him about 15 hours 12 hours yesterday three hours this morning to get it done uh i don't know why you do that to yourself but he's having a freaking blast so as long as long as he's having fun it's all that matters turn that slip in and start heading down what's up are you number one right now yeah nice nice i've been trying to catch up with you guys yep congratulations yep keeping it tight yeah see how close were you to your uh your dial in yesterday so my first run at great ben was a 10-17 and then at kearney i ran a 10 21. she's trying to keep it tight that's really close how many passes did it take you uh yesterday took two really yeah that's pretty good no it was once just one pass one and done yeah she was one and done yesterday yeah that's really rare yeah this is my favorite class here i think it's gotta be it's so cool yeah it's a great one and in order to win your class you have to be the closest to the dialing you choose the first day based off one of the slips right yeah yeah closest average is what they're doing yeah it's kind of a dial your own sort of thing yeah yeah so it's been it's been unlimited yeah that's awesome i think you're getting it done in one pass today i hope so i'll usually slows it down a little bit up here at elevation but yeah we'll see this is the same oh it's your turn all right good luck what was it 10 10 17 and 10 21. all right cool good luck all right here comes junior street see how they do today if you missed the first two race day videos junior street is 13 to 16 year olds they have to have a parent or an adult passenger and they've run slower than a 9-0 and then the average whoever's closest to their diamond throughout the week is the winner very cool class 947 of the right hand for also back in the left 981. how did she get that much quicker we're at like 5000 feet elevation 11. where the heck did that come from um well my dad said that although it was going to run at 10 40 and we took everything out of it so it went a lot faster you took a bunch of weight out of it we picked the spare tire out the back seat's already out so we can put a cooler back there but there is like nothing in there that could possibly be in there and so we took it now you know yeah took it all out but now i can do what i was doing at the other tracks and just lift and coast through oh you were sandbagging now it's fine because they're almost identical in my times and so it should be fine just to lift how i was but okay cool i was like oh man that's gonna be a rough day i thought we were gonna go a lot faster but that's well a lot slower that's with everything and it's still you've got a game plan then yeah that was planned breaking out okay all right we'll see you back up there soon you want hello just as expected right yes and it's uh you know i expected it to be a lot cooler but the direct sun is oh yeah it's warm but very decent yeah not too far off what's that the lighting was kind of weird they pulled him all the way in and they were holding me back and then oh we're going to drop because i wasn't in all right sorry what that was about yeah everything went good good good as possible for the heat and the elevation yeah pretty pretty close to the same time you had kearney right uh that's pretty much the identical pass i made in um oh i'm sorry great bend yeah yeah completely different power levels of the vehicle still the trash pandas made it to the third track here good to see that after his accident on the first drive day let's see what he does here on the track today okay the trash panda lives on that mountain drive was almost about to kill me really just turning back and forth oh yeah it started to um tires it's like 31's on it just for cruising going back and forth the truck's leaning and it would just pull the tire smoke into the back window because it would rub the tire on each side oh no around the corner those switchbacks were wild there's back smoke are the tires still good oh it doesn't even look like a touchdown it just has like a clean strip of tread on it and that was it but they looked fine but yeah it did good so the new steering racks handled the mountains all right yeah it worked so beautiful it's yeah it's doing good and then i think you're gonna run here so with that 10 19 yesterday on 14 pounds of boost so i put it at 18 and added some fuel just to see if i can get like a 980 out of it but just because i mean obviously this is like our home track but the tune's all kind of wacky now if we try to tighten that up going down the elevation and everything coming back and then going through the mountains what's your best on the truck the outside uh that 10 19. nice so perfect hopefully you'll see your first night here yeah so cool that's the goal let's see if we can get it to watch out of the hole in 99 good luck thanks man you'll see that first nine 10-25 11 22. look at here we go unlimited class pulling up right now we've got holland ash the hearse the firebird it's number three overall with like a mid 750 and then we have the hulk matt frost who runs this event putting on exhibition pass he's lined up against cletus here he's probably looking for like a low seven cletus and him race the first day and it was a pretty epic race at the finish line make sure to check out that video if you haven't already let's see if they have a good rematch here quickly it'll cool off it'll get better right okay is so nice fire chicken fastest pass of the day so far hey go far we'll take that that's impressive yeah what'd you change uh nothing nothing well we put it first here were you launching in second before but no i accidentally forgot to put it in first gear and kearney on the second oh that's why it didn't make sense okay yep so yeah when i was like something's wrong with the system or something yeah about five minutes later brent walked over with the log and he was like uh did you get to put it in first dude yeah so well hey now you know got it figured out you make your other pass when the sign goes down oh yeah absolutely absolutely we're gonna see if we can get this thing over 200 today that'd be awesome yeah at our home track on the mountain what a great way to start the day yeah first day of work man congratulations we're retiring you're retiring all together okay properly so what's your plan um probably go see if they have a nitrous kit for sale or something we're just going to hit it with a 50 shot on the brake let's let it all right right up that'll work if there's one in denver if it's not here yeah you got a speed shot we're gonna do a really basic like the nitrous is gonna spray right in front of turbo i think that's the less basic than your bottle open in the intake uh mod but yeah yeah this will be the most higher tech this will be the easiest solution perfect all right that'll work we're gonna maybe think about a couple others but that don't sound the coolest exactly all right okay all right we got all this second gear oh you did yeah going ahead it's way too calm and collected for me was next time we'll leave it first okay yeah just a little tease or put way more power looks good to go there maybe yeah so no she's a next pass next pass is a good one really is a bummer we missed our first one but i feel like 10 95 red i was hoping to see this thing on the road i have a photo that i took that literally makes it look like uh like a digital glitch like it's photoshopped yeah i mentioned that in the on the on the picture it's so weird you just need matching set of wheels for the back that's why i like a plan we have one couldn't find another ah okay i tried nice well give me a tour of this thing go check it out i think it's proven to be a very consistent 10-second race driver so it has it has a velcro cover yeah on the front of it so the wifi the wife made this cover kind of just sits up and sticks on there we bought the little twist fasteners that you find like a convertible top yeah um but that stuff holds it so good that's impressive we got the trailer because everybody keeps asking what i paid for the car you can see a little bit of the welds left there that's travis nice um how much did you get it for 300 bucks nice that's a lot cheaper than a trailer 300 bucks the car was 800 bucks don't ask how long ago i just noticed the hatch works too that's amazing so you don't have to worry about having to get everything out of the front right you got options or the back how's all the brakes all that stuff works the hand brake is literally bolted in here the factory hand brakes that is genius you don't need a wheel chock don't need wheel chocks beautiful so secondarily tell me about the car yeah trailer's cool we uh kind of put it together of course last minute last year we saw um originally you know drifting you know knew what drag racing was obviously but this just it's different this is way different road trip drag racing and it's it's tough yeah what's the power plant under the head uh it's from an infiniti q45 uh oh okay i just glanced on it walking by i don't even realize i had eight cylinders in here right a lot of guys think it's a ford motor the intake does look like a well yeah they see a blank logo they think we're trying to fool somebody yeah uh they think it's some oddball 4 cam engine but no and everybody thinks it was from a front wheel drive car which it was not so they just opted to make the intake manifold look like this nissan developed the engine in the late 80s early 90s it was a indy motor and then nissan infinity nissan pulled out and then you put a bunch of money into r d's you got to use this intake does look very race inspired it does yeah is this your first race week this is the first time drag racing first time drag racing completely you just went balls deep yeah and you can drive 1300 miles and drag race right well yeah my dad always talked about it you know and talked about it so much that i wasn't you know you grow up with it you get a decade of hearing about it you don't want to do it so that was where drifting kind of showed up so what do you think hooked love it yeah well welcome to the family i appreciate it thanks for building something unique this is really cool the car and the trailer is something special for sure yeah i mean if it wasn't for you guys making your videos then we wouldn't be you wouldn't be seeing it you wouldn't know absolutely yeah don't don't stop well enjoy the rest of the week yeah thank you guys good luck man thank you look who it is the hum rod is back we didn't get to see him race the first two days let's find out why hey you're back where'd it go we got lost in uh nebraska working on a i'm working on a car oh no kidding yeah i'm excited to see what this thing's going to do i'll have fun here at vandermeer what a weird weird contraption also right on also goes 958.75 here comes the hot rod 1862 at 74 miles per hour for the all right we got minnie cooper and all for sale cos 63. hopefully this will be her first time going over 100 miles an hour on a drag strip and then hopefully joe here will get 140.12. there's one seat in that car oh my gosh here we go i don't know if that's gonna be a hundred mile an hour pass in the left point but 1443 he shaved seven hundredths off of his last time uh hey hmm oh what a race nice just manhandling that car 240 sx in 1386 nice working carny i didn't catch you before you rolled out yeah you gonna do it again we went eight five eight three let's see there's no eight five zero though no how many of those have you run like thirty yes it's harder it is all right hopefully this is one good luck drum one second alex taylor coming up for her first pass of the day four hours after we started they were chasing some sort of issues i haven't checked in with her to see what that was but let's see what alex does on her first pass for today shrimp not going to happen this time if he's under power for about seven feet and she gets it stopped at about 100. it gets cool great though that is one of the things i'm here at altitude i was hopefully it's not a struggle today too but uh he'll be back very shortly beautiful nice work man so 10 11. all right just taking them off three of five two more passes you'll be there oh man dude 9.95 not too much in it take but i also dropped my 60 foot from 147 to 141 and because i staged first and then had to wait on him oh building boost too long yeah left more boost i wanted normally i bump in last but anyways two more passes you're just in time you get the kit done oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah they're already spoiling my ears done dude right out here dude nasty that was perfect that'll do why didn't we do this months ago i'm happy but i'm a little nervous hey i'm right here dude i'm going to bump in nitrous no hold a bowl button yes all right what'd you do well it's just the traction control made a difference it did we went down on the highway or just over there just over there and uh it picked up two tenths in the eighth so if i could get three in the whole track we'll be back in the game perfect so well something that's the ticket yeah i can't believe this gotta get back at first comes matt frost and the hulk again let's see if you can get in that magic six second race it's been a 690 here at vandermeer once before hopefully do it here still all right that's what we need to see so i've been trying to catch up to you guys you're the last junior i've been trying to run into how's your week been going oh pretty good yeah yeah what's your dial in 10 63 all right yesterday that's pretty close so we went fast yesterday a little closer today it's had a couple of valves hanging in it so we've been doing the two-stroke seafoam trick trying to keep the guys lubed keep it alive yeah and how old are you uh 13 13. wow really youngest race weeker ever i think so that's a cool title all right well you guys have fun another about to run yeah good luck all right here we go junior street pulling back up for their third round of racing here abandonment 10 20 on the left i should have just kept with my nines was pretty good it's awesome but it doesn't do everybody else justice because oh no i'm not on the street pretty awesome if anybody could do it here banana mirrors you that's right we kind of dialed that in a little the crank driven blower helps a little bit up here it does not have to worry about that whole boost problem hence why we put it on there so and when did you let out like oh it was like 800 i think it started to do a little jig and i thought that i told brandon like i didn't lift and i go look at the computer you can see i did a whole bunch of pedaling down through there so wow i wasn't gonna lift i i lifted a few passes though so i'm like i'm gonna try to drive through this it looked pretty sideways at the finish line it was a little hairy so can you do it again at night we're going to try it yeah i guess a little bit better we're going to let it rip i think we have a i think we have a date with cletus so we'll see where he's at well that'd be perfect yeah he was not doing so hot with the nitrous on his first test guys so i'm sure i'll get it figured out oh yeah for sure nice run thanks buddy got the organ grinder that's at home nothing to see here oh you you see all my footage yeah dude stealing my footage yeah i'm going to send you an invoice for that hang on that babe and my wife son oh let's see here let's watch this together this is your footage copyright so um there was some problems it wasn't perfect yeah just want to see what happened here the gopro angle is pretty solid yeah i think i hit the butt like i held the button and that's when it did that big fire yeah the first attempt was really violent the right way oh no i thought that was the exhaust oh it is oh it's out the turbo out there wow wow maybe we should pinch the tip of that line earlier a little restriction 884 at least you didn't hurt it he's still running 1050s hopefully maybe i'll make it run just because we got a time slip now and then we'll come back hi fred hi is today your birthday uh no but that was that would have been a good birthday present 84. thank you 884 not bad very pleased not bad we've been we've been having some troubles we broke it yesterday yeah fixed it and had some troubles earlier today but it's running okay this is your home tracks i didn't expect you to do well here but at elevation thank you that's pretty impressive thank you i appreciate it how much does this thing weigh i just waited oh okay because i did some work over the winter okay and i dropped about 95 pounds okay because i was a really big guy um and it's like 36 60 36 70 right in there 36.70 and it's powered by what well gasoline oh come on now it's my lock board small block four twenty four there you go you've seen it i've i've seen it but for the fans at home don't know is small block 4 twin turbo 427 and it weighs 37 in excess of 3600 and you're doing 884s at elevation at 162 and i know we didn't have the boost up that high it's probably 17 pounds oh so are you going to go back up are you good with that okay because you know what i'm going to do you're going to send it i'm going to go home yeah okay some cold beer time there you go there you go well congrats i'm sure you just extended your lead a little bit thank you so number one going into pueblo nice we'll see you tomorrow i'm gonna crack it back now no no tomorrow or or the last day okay all right all right congrats bill see you oh bill kyle wanted me to tell you a good job not sucking because it's been a whole lot of stuff thanks kyle that hard motor seems to be happy yeah good yeah well it'll be more happy we just gotta put that intake on it ah all right i think it's got some sort of a vacuum leak inside there so but these guys are done while we're pulling off and that's a lot smaller issue than you had before all right no lifters no push rods beautiful no plugs but i just got my uh nitrous it's not like heads up cars this is gonna different for me it's just wired on a on a button yeah i'm just going to hold it here oh literally just holding onto a button yep and then as soon as i hit second gear i'm going to reach over and i'm going to whack it what do you think it'll run i'm hoping 13-0 i need to go now oh yeah because i'm i'm second point still as of right are you serious so yeah hell yeah that's been my goal every year we came with one of his cars to finish you know up and we never have but i'm not i'm not gonna not try your trophy right now you know that is we'll see what happens good luck with the spray all right hopefully it goes well thank you i've already got some but have fun man these guys have been rolling around throwing candy at people all week it's it's awesome the sugar is much needed on this trip wow got one tire going good this is the j this is the engine that came in that you know stock car 18-210 now we got to meet up with the other candyman band guy and toss out some candy i'll be getting out the face it'd be a great picture attention to the pitch attention in the pitch 11-0 come on down 6-7 11-0 come on down all right so i got to ask how the hell did the candy band come about we were uh threw out to breakfast and uh we were coming out of breakfast and this truck driver comes up to us he said hey man i gotta overload a candy you might take it off my hands so we backed our truck up to a semi truck and he had a pallet of candy it was a thousand bags of nerds and gummies landed in the truck and off we went and as we progressively thought through this the candyman van was born that's amazing what a great way to put them used we pick it up for 400 bucks 400 bucks man we had to throw a pipe on where we cut the cat off but you know she runs so you got the nerds for nothing we got him a thousand bags there's a thousand holy crap so did you bring all the nerds with you or you're still some at home that's great it's good time man nerds the rest of the week oh yeah that's great thanks for doing that guys it's hilarious huh oh 1009. that like on a normal day that would be perfect but his competitor that was tied with him i think he ran a 100 or 1005 or maybe 100 something here comes some more of the bike guys shout out to anybody racing a bike on raceway i think we have like 10 of them this year riding over 1300 miles who the hell does that especially on a grom the turbo one right here is really cool look at the intercooler sticking out of it hmm here comes blaine to make his first pass of the day he missed the first two videos his dad's actually running the stick shift class so once he gets the pass he's happy with he converts it over for playing the race then playhouse duran run somewhere in the 9 i think 917 says dial and he wants to run play that's going to do pretty good for blaine his dial is a 9 19 so he's not too far off of that the way the class works is whoever's closest to their dial in one of them the class you have to get as close as you can to the first slip you turn in each day he's only about a tenth off right now on today's pass compared to the first day nice run that was good but i can do better yeah i can do better what's the next run gonna be uh at least the 23 19 is your dial yeah 19 to my dial hoping maybe a 20 23 i'm just going to try to change it a little bit quicker in the third because it all right good luck on the next round lead us back up here give this nitrous a shot again let's go oh yeah there we go much better than what he in the first little had there but not in the 60s won't put any pressure on alex not this round the sound it makes i don't know if it sounds like that at the starting line but it's like like the jetsons there it is oh no it might be good enough it's got to be good enough this is number five pass so we'll see what the math looks like i bet he's got it all calculated out what he needs hey they made it yeah nice good work did you guys just get here yeah nice nice 9 56 and we finished running 11. we'll get right in the groove here right now good job ready get out of here so so this time that's what we were looking for yes sir that worked nice job boys nice job so don't do that get on the wheel eight there we go so i think that's a good way to end the day right there much better 204 back in the 200s traction control hitting a lot less on that one 10 30. they just announced that they're close they closed the track that's it oh man i was excited i screamed all the way back i bet you did adam did not uh say my number my past that time and i'm like what is it what is it i'm going around the corner and then the ticket booth lady there she hands me the the time slip and i was like yeah and she's like i'm sure that's not the first time that's happened to her i see their bus blower 9000 coming in absolutely clutch today no kidding fired up man fired up wanted to turn in the bottom seven so we got her down there i mean we wanted to go sixes but like even that tune i could feel the tires chattering radial life dude it definitely didn't cut it that hard on the track these tracks you know they're not prepped for radio so i can't blame them i don't know why i don't keep showing up on radials but they did throw a little spray down definitely helped got her down through there pumps time for the hard part got to drive yeah back through the rockies have fun yeah you died what happened on the track but did you die i was like and we were trying it we found a hose from css and put it on and by that time they shut the lanes ah dang though yeah hey you guys made it he did yeah that's impressive with six minutes to spare so after carney you made it how far do you make it to swap the motor uh 30 minutes yeah and then uh one rod gave way and then we tried to keep going since we couldn't play gears i got underneath it clicked into third and you have to get a certain rpm for the governor to shift so one of the times i was trying to get up in the rpms two more rods fell out really three rods there was half a rod in my oil pan yeah sounds amazing and we're not leaking oil so the head's pushed up into the cylinder heads and formed to the cylinder head so yeah we got pictures of all that stuff you see my timing chambers playing tiny chains in the old pan so we got the fixed shift legged fixed uh i had my father-in-law we live in loveland colorado and my wife's race truck was there so a buddy of mine pulled the engine out of her truck and put it in his truck to come up to nebraska land in nebraska oh okay and blue and tire oh no like 10 o'clock last night and then my father-in-law had to get ready go find him switch he had to go to my house and get the cherry picker go unload it on the side of the road into his truck and then he made it up there like 2 30 in the morning and by that time we already had the engine out of this and we were in bed so we woke up at 6 45 threw the rest of it in kind of got somewhat of it the her old tune in it but with the different injector setup and all the crap on this i didn't have time to update my laptop to get it done so yeah wow yeah but you made it yep you got a partial pass oh you got it got a pass in got a pass that's all that matters not a good one but yeah that's amazing so yeah how was the mountain drive the headlights on this are probably fast oh yeah you had to do it in the dark oh yeah it was gorgeous sunset uh got some good ones but uh yeah there's some sketchy moments just tire squealing so we had to cut some time off of the 1007 that initially said we were going to be here so we cut 13 minutes off of it so nice worked out pretty well carving the canyons yeah dang it well congrats on making it definitely thank you nice work take get some sleep take a deep breath tomorrow's gonna be a better day oh yeah yep gotta get a tune in this thing a little better and let's dial it back because this engine runs 12 8 on a pretty soft tune in a so i'd love to turn it down a little bit to run the nines well good job on getting here definitely probably like ten ones that's right twenty two we'll see you guys tomorrow enjoy the drive appreciate it well what a wild day here at the fourth day of rocky mountain race week abandonmeer speedway lots of wild events but the biggest thing is our top three got shaken up a little bit today unfortunately alex taylor not able to get her transmission in so our 10 second pass is gonna put here probably in third place overall maybe fourth i'm not sure we'll see how the numbers fall cletus mcfarland number one the firebird and number two but that could still change by the end of the week anything can happen on the drive anything can happen the next track we're just going to find out make sure to subscribe to our channel for more updates from rocky mountain race week and we'll see you tomorrow this is so ridiculouswelcome to one of the most beautiful tracks in the world vandamir dragway here in denver colorado we're here for the fourth day rocky mountain race week the third race day because all we did was drive yesterday through the plains and through the rocky mountains beautiful views trailer burnouts lots of carnage make sure to check that video out from yesterday but today we're gonna take out some of the racers see what it was like to get here there is soaking up the weather it's 75 degrees and beautiful today it's been so hot this week we're loving it so we're gonna see what's up in the pits and we have plenty of racing today we might see our first six of the weekend cletus mcfarlane and alex taylor both been in the sixes but not yet this trip so let's see if that happens today now we're gonna check it with brandon that's the guy with the c2x it's got a ls twin turbo and a c2 corvette and i like it a lot because i have a c2 he has a c2 and we kind of bond over that so i'm going to check it with him and see how he's doing today how we doing all right how are you not bad how was the rest of your drive after we saw you yesterday oh broke some more bolts on the wheels oh did you oh no i got through essex park and pulled up the hotel and started feeling a little bit of vibration like it's happening again got out the tire was low and a couple were off but i got planned i changed them out but we're going to go bigger bolts and drill them out and tap it for a larger size if it happens again so this is just a problem i didn't see you having either i guess that's how race week goes yep i thought my brakes were toast after last night because they're squealing but there there's still enough pad left to just make a noise because a little rough through the mountains there actually i think the mountains is what cleaned them up it was better than it was squealing so gotcha give me a quick 30 second rundown on what the setup on the c2 is right now okay uh 388 twin seventy eight millimeter turbos four l80 um nine inch in the back poly dominator what'd you what have you been doing et wise so far this week this week uh not what i wanted i did was running 855's in 2.0 last year and uh i've been nine one and eight nine so far gotcha so what are you hoping for abandonment today i don't know i've never been up here before oh really yeah i don't know how bad this air is gonna be and how hard it's gonna be to fight so okay well i'm gonna go out make a wastegate pass it'll be slow and disappoint everybody and then basically get some data see where you're at then go from there gotcha well good luck today glad to see you made it uh we'll see you up there first round thanks man later man in less than 24 hours since we saw on the side of the road guzzling down gas oil yep yep we got by briggsdale and we said forget this a buddy of ours had a motor in his shop so we bought it nice four grand nice so that's not bad for a roadside repair no kidding what energy do you put in here it's a 358 so the other one was a 355 this is a 358. nice three more cubes so but it's gonna run a heck of a lot better than the other one once we tore the other one apart a little bit that other one was we wouldn't have made it what was wrong with it valve guide seats rings had a couple broken rings it was bad so yeah we wouldn't have made it there's no way dang i'm glad it worked out so it was great to see you're rolling in early i was like oh they're not going to be here until later tonight we've been pushing it that's awesome so well welcome to bandam here have some fun thanks kyle if you missed it yesterday on the drive video we ran into these guys early on about uh it was a two-hour drive for us they left four in the morning we saw them about noon and they were pouring in two to three quarts every 20 miles i think that's what he said which didn't even compute in my head doesn't even make sense but their motor was screwed and they're back in competition and they're gonna have some fun today without burning oil the whole way now if you guys have watched our race week coverage before you'll know the name joe berry he's normally in a 56 or he's normally in an orange 56 chevy it's called creamsicle this year he didn't bring it this year he brought his mercedes-benz and i think he's leading the 14-0 class we're going to check in with joe and see what he's doing are you king of 14-0 right now you're still kicking 14. still what's your average 14046 really that's pretty how how much but we're second at 1407. okay close 400s close it's way closer okay so you're no stranger to altitude what changes are you making to the to the amg we're preparing to pull seats okay weight reduction okay okay and i'm on two gallons of fuel right now that's all that's left okay this is all by design this is by design what's your first what's your guess for first first pass on track i think it'll go 14-0 to 14-10 okay i think okay okay but we'll find out i'm excited you and me both you better if you win 14-0 i don't want to jinx it you got to put that you got to put that trophy high up on the shelf it's going to be top you know what i did this morning you want to talk about superstition i went to the gas station i got 14 worth of gas all right joe good luck first round hopefully we see a 14-0 something and you just put this one to bed for now and you're one and done right yes that's the plan one and done all right we'll see you later take care sir what's up how you doing good best trailer burnout of the week so far that was pretty epic wondering if you got that on video oh yeah she roasted we might have maybe one more in here they're they're purpose-built trailer burn out tires right there i'd say they're about done nicely done so leading 10-0 again i see yeah sharon first spot oh really 10.055 really you guys are you're both tied at that correct yeah wow i don't know i would like to see a little separation there so yeah of course i got the check out the setup on it here looks really good everything's tight yeah it is i was able to keep uh ac and crews um instead the radiator rip obviously under the radiator support there um 88 103 vs racing it's uh big boy it's enough turbo for me but i'm pretty much just running 10 pounds of boost around a 10-0 yeah what engine it's at 400. okay what does it run turned all the way up uh so i've only got enough injector to go about 19 or 20 pounds of boost so it ran a 9-1 at 148 at carney last year never uh holy crap sorry fly over don't see that every day at the track it's like we're in vegas that's right so nine one yep turned up and it's a four thousand pound car damn interior that's heavy yeah it looks really good oh it's she's filthy i took her down a dirt road yesterday long turn no that pavement oh oh yeah the road on the way i heard i heard the the warnings before we went through it i was pretty disgusted but i was like yeah it is what it is you're the one that bought a black car i'm just saying i would never start with a black i think pretty much everybody that buys a black car gets at once swirls except for the crazy guys so like i just barely wiped the front end of this yep it's just gonna get dirty put a ceramic coat on before i left so most of it wiped off without leaving a lot of scratches nice so who are you tied with for first right now uh picorney braden i think something like that oh that body camaro yeah okay a purple one well hopefully you get that magic number today just kick back and enjoy the weather yeah it would be nice hi friend how are we doing bill good did you sleep at your own house last night yes and happy birthday it's not my birthday bill quit spreading rumors okay yeah are you still number one at stick but yeah i think so what's your average right now what are we working with uh andrew what's the average nine oh no nine something nine so competitive bill all right guys what okay this is your home track what are we doing today what's the e.t what are we just no no no you shouldn't no we killed some parts yesterday oh no what'd you do so i wanted to get all spicy for old bread i've been working on the because i changed some parts i didn't quite know what the boost curve was i put 22 pounds on the dome okay and it made almost 20 pounds of boost which it's done that a lot in the past but a little bit different tune-up different cam i draw it it made so much more power than i've ever been used to like i forgot how to drive it i missed the second shift and so i just kept trying it and it destroyed the dogs on number two we had no second gear yesterday like it would go it wouldn't stay in seconds so so did you do a rebuild sort of yeah sorta i put new i put new second gear in it before this and we put the old one back in that i took out because that's all i have got she got it but we have second gear now okay so a to b pass but what do we think it et wise realistically bottom nine but i know it'll do eights here because it's done it okay you filmed it yeah i have i have yeah so uh yeah we'll see we'll see how we do okay well glad to see you made it all the way from your house thank you good luck missed you by the way oh yeah yeah i'll see you later thanks misses number one still right now yeah yeah how was the drive it was good the first like 250 miles sucked yep uh with all the rough roads and everything the last 250 miles going through the mountains we were actually ran cooler than with the first 250 so it got real nice up there yeah it was much better but um exciting stuff today so as you guys saw on like day one we had issues with our third member after the first pass and so we borrowed like somebody's here swapped it in but it's a little bit weaker and like you should hear the gear set already like it's just like just driving around it's hurting like it's not happy right now uh quick performance actually built one yesterday at 3 p.m overnighted it and we put it in this morning no way wow that's some customer service right there i can't even believe it's strange ultra case first time we've ran out of 10 inch gear so they put that in their 411 gear set and like it was here in less than 24 hours so that's in the car we did that everything i can't imagine that's cheap to ship either overnight hurts but wow yeah they were awesome i'm just so happy with that and then transmission we change fluid make sure that's all clean good to go we've changed the oil we've had fresh plugs in it we've gone through everything check the lash all of that so the car is in as good of condition as it can be right now so awesome and it's actually all up to par like it's not like we're compromised on anything so i'm just like a super paranoid person so the transmission makes me nervous just because like i'm like it looks a little off but we're gonna go with it i don't actually think there's anything so um yeah so the weather is perfect right now i was actually literally pulling my phone up right now yeah the air density and all that online the da's gonna be high regardless we're in denver i wanna see like the grains and all of that yeah really get an idea we're that's the last thing we have to do is pick a tune to put it on so can we you think we're going to see a 6 today no pressure by the end of the week yes today 20 degrees cooler right now than carny i'm just saying okay okay it's not bad i mean we'll give it our best you shot it's gonna be a hundred and great band okay so you put it like that yeah everybody actually you could dream pueblo if you want i know everybody always talks about like denver's like scary and all that and i get it it's high all that but i always i've actually read some of my best times up here yeah the cars travel through the air smoother and your car is not that aerodynamic i'm just saying it's not it's not it's a good node yeah actually so yeah we're ready pretty much i'm gonna go down and check it spool it a little bit can you believe it's like race hasn't even started for once we're actually together and ready i know it doesn't happen i know it's amazing i feel pretty good i hope you guys have a great day thanks i'm gonna go double oil so before we kick off racing today we have something special um one of our rocky mountain raceway family matthew beechler passed away recently while he was trying to get his car ready for rocky mountain race week so the family got the car finished and they were going to bring it up here and make a pass during a moment of silence before we get racing started we're here with nate and you've got this gorgeous car this old ford man can you tell me some stuff about it it's a 5'3 out of my buddy brady's car oh we had i did all this within the last three weeks and uh yeah it's been a battle to even get here but we're glad to be here and i think we're fourth in our class with struggling but we're doing it we're making it so yeah it's been fun it's a badass car thanks for bringing it out it's yeah definitely an eye catcher yeah thank you buddy yeah good luck to you today and safe travels i guess oh yeah we'll see you on the road all right it's time to hit the track all these cars that made it here today have driven over 400 miles yesterday i think over 600 total this trip certified street cars at this point let's see how they do here at mandamere so having some problems 101 with a 5 at 139 10 21. 1104 ain't bad no it ain't bad at all you gotta take that one and done uh we gotta keep running really okay all right go get it go get that double low with an o yep sound some fun man all right normally you'd think in an 11-0 class when you do it 1104 it's pretty good pass you want to turn that one in but these classes get so so close at the end that you turn in 1104 and somebody else turned into 1101 that little bit of difference could matter at the end so he's going to keep making a couple more passes trying to get that 11 000 with an o all right pass one to fours out of the way past one of five is out of the way this is punishment for beating me last year i made eleven passes around are you serious andy dalton and i what was your best pass that day it was a note once was it okay so it was worth it it was that tight all right yeah that number i just ran was not cool no i didn't i won't work i only made six pounds of boost at the line i should have had eight or nine but um yeah get it figured out all right we'll see you back up there yeah thanks man these index classes are a lot of fun but if you don't hit your number it can get really stressful some people have to run like you said 11 times here a couple years ago hopefully i'll ask you a couple of this time george yeah you're not supposed to be fixing your already uh jacob yeah but i am yeah we gotta look looks like we got a little leaks in our header flanges here so we're gonna bring him up to the old welding guy over there juggernaut he's getting fixed up thanks good to have a welder on site here very good how was your drive yesterday that was good dude you kept fouling clubs out but i thought this is live how is the exhaust going down the road that's as good as you can get i mean that's what you put in twelve oh you got headsets five sun roof dollars windows down we're just cruising that got me a nice little driving tank like a place nice oh yeah your left arm some blasted he got cooked yeah no it's going good yeah are they gonna go what's your production dude today's gonna go good now he knows you said that's the plan nice some ratchet straps on our hopefully i'm sure the nice soft suspension is good going down the road but not when you're trying to launch with bouncing around this thing it's a little scary i'm not going to run wilson on the left but we got brakes we got boost so we just got to go nine o'clock we're in third place trying to sneak into second and see what we can do that's what i like to hear yeah keep dialing her in all right buddy you got your 12. can you believe that that's awesome man come on down man it's a good track here the bite's good yeah and i think we're going to be on down there are you going to make a few more passes oh yeah oh how old do you think you're going to go i'd like to get like a 12 10 20 15. okay that's what i'm trying to anyway okay okay well good luck man congrats shop up north colorado and they stuff the motor in this thing and that's they broke it inside hey you made it that's yeah that's the really impressive part look at your hands all covered in oil burns burns oil a little bit everything yeah they did a good job nice work boys 45 minutes of sleep that's it oh my god it's yesterday at 4 o'clock in the morning you guys are crazy go get some sleep or something we got to get that go do 13-0 adjustments now good luck number one fourteen second class joe barry pulling up we gotta put some gopros on here get ready for your pass you ready you are serious oh yeah oh my god what's your prediction what are you gonna run i'm thinking 14-0 all right all right is this going to slow you down too much or rain okay all right cool what the heck what the hell joe i don't know it stumbled on the starting line oh okay that's why that was really weird i don't know but so it stumbled right after you launched it yeah that's weird so one tenth river gopro apparently well we're going to pull some parts off right now oh yeah i'm lighting it okay so it seems like you had a dialed in oh we are at elevation though that's the problem so what is it like 5500 feet up here or something like that yeah so i mean i was i was 46 something's 46 60 is what it weighs so i'm gonna we're gonna pull a little weight out i got two gallons of fuel in here i i notice you've got a lot of bugs on here let me i gotta hook you up here our our new bug remover yeah this is the best stuff you'll ever try so give that a shot let me know what you think i love this stuff actually yeah thank you you're welcome all right see you back up there you gotta maintain that first place lead i'm gonna i'm working on it all right good luck joe if you guys haven't checked out 1320 street shine you will not be disappointed i got rid of everything in my detailing closet for our stuff if you get a lot of bugs in your car like we do when we're traveling throughout the year our bug remover is one of our best products one of my top three favorites quick detailer is my favorite followed by wheel and tire remover check it out links down the description below yeah dude there is a problem so here at rocky mountain race week they do have a bike class there's all different kinds of bikes i think there's a busa there's a i think there's a kdm in the class there's a grom i think it's a grom matt just told me it's a grom there's a grom in the class and i think we passed him on the way here yesterday and i think the fastest he can do is like 55 miles an hour on the highway i'm gonna see if i can flag him down hold it's seriously a ground this is i i did not know there's a ground competing this is hilarious he just did a blistering 23 second pass i did not know there was a grom doing this that's what what did you just did a 23 second pass yeah 23 second pass yep what's the best pass you've had this week i ran a couple of 22 fives in uh carney okay okay blistering and carney there oh yeah i had a good tailwind what is th okay i think we might have passed yesterday what's the fastest you can go on the highway uh if i get a good downhill like 65ish but yesterday i was doing about 50 most of the way i think we passed it yeah wouldn't surprise me how long like this yeah how long was yesterday's drive for you it was 450 miles ish but how long did it take you to do it um from kearney to just after pinkies took me about 12 hours okay and then i stopped there and did like three today okay so wow so it took you 15 hours to do yep wow you're a freaking trooper dude that that's awesome i i knew there's bikes and the guys that had the trailers and stuff that you guys are crazy for doing this but this is just like why would you it's it's seriously like the dumb and dumber thing pretty much the two guys riding on the bike from nebraska to colorado you literally did that from barney and now i get to do almost the opposite well we appreciate you guys here that's awesome that you're doing this it's a lot of luck man hell that is a straight-up bra if you guys didn't know rocky mountain raceway is about 1400 miles when you get through the week and yesterday's drive was about 450 he said it took him about 15 hours 12 hours yesterday three hours this morning to get it done uh i don't know why you do that to yourself but he's having a freaking blast so as long as long as he's having fun it's all that matters turn that slip in and start heading down what's up are you number one right now yeah nice nice i've been trying to catch up with you guys yep congratulations yep keeping it tight yeah see how close were you to your uh your dial in yesterday so my first run at great ben was a 10-17 and then at kearney i ran a 10 21. she's trying to keep it tight that's really close how many passes did it take you uh yesterday took two really yeah that's pretty good no it was once just one pass one and done yeah she was one and done yesterday yeah that's really rare yeah this is my favorite class here i think it's gotta be it's so cool yeah it's a great one and in order to win your class you have to be the closest to the dialing you choose the first day based off one of the slips right yeah yeah closest average is what they're doing yeah it's kind of a dial your own sort of thing yeah yeah so it's been it's been unlimited yeah that's awesome i think you're getting it done in one pass today i hope so i'll usually slows it down a little bit up here at elevation but yeah we'll see this is the same oh it's your turn all right good luck what was it 10 10 17 and 10 21. all right cool good luck all right here comes junior street see how they do today if you missed the first two race day videos junior street is 13 to 16 year olds they have to have a parent or an adult passenger and they've run slower than a 9-0 and then the average whoever's closest to their diamond throughout the week is the winner very cool class 947 of the right hand for also back in the left 981. how did she get that much quicker we're at like 5000 feet elevation 11. where the heck did that come from um well my dad said that although it was going to run at 10 40 and we took everything out of it so it went a lot faster you took a bunch of weight out of it we picked the spare tire out the back seat's already out so we can put a cooler back there but there is like nothing in there that could possibly be in there and so we took it now you know yeah took it all out but now i can do what i was doing at the other tracks and just lift and coast through oh you were sandbagging now it's fine because they're almost identical in my times and so it should be fine just to lift how i was but okay cool i was like oh man that's gonna be a rough day i thought we were gonna go a lot faster but that's well a lot slower that's with everything and it's still you've got a game plan then yeah that was planned breaking out okay all right we'll see you back up there soon you want hello just as expected right yes and it's uh you know i expected it to be a lot cooler but the direct sun is oh yeah it's warm but very decent yeah not too far off what's that the lighting was kind of weird they pulled him all the way in and they were holding me back and then oh we're going to drop because i wasn't in all right sorry what that was about yeah everything went good good good as possible for the heat and the elevation yeah pretty pretty close to the same time you had kearney right uh that's pretty much the identical pass i made in um oh i'm sorry great bend yeah yeah completely different power levels of the vehicle still the trash pandas made it to the third track here good to see that after his accident on the first drive day let's see what he does here on the track today okay the trash panda lives on that mountain drive was almost about to kill me really just turning back and forth oh yeah it started to um tires it's like 31's on it just for cruising going back and forth the truck's leaning and it would just pull the tire smoke into the back window because it would rub the tire on each side oh no around the corner those switchbacks were wild there's back smoke are the tires still good oh it doesn't even look like a touchdown it just has like a clean strip of tread on it and that was it but they looked fine but yeah it did good so the new steering racks handled the mountains all right yeah it worked so beautiful it's yeah it's doing good and then i think you're gonna run here so with that 10 19 yesterday on 14 pounds of boost so i put it at 18 and added some fuel just to see if i can get like a 980 out of it but just because i mean obviously this is like our home track but the tune's all kind of wacky now if we try to tighten that up going down the elevation and everything coming back and then going through the mountains what's your best on the truck the outside uh that 10 19. nice so perfect hopefully you'll see your first night here yeah so cool that's the goal let's see if we can get it to watch out of the hole in 99 good luck thanks man you'll see that first nine 10-25 11 22. look at here we go unlimited class pulling up right now we've got holland ash the hearse the firebird it's number three overall with like a mid 750 and then we have the hulk matt frost who runs this event putting on exhibition pass he's lined up against cletus here he's probably looking for like a low seven cletus and him race the first day and it was a pretty epic race at the finish line make sure to check out that video if you haven't already let's see if they have a good rematch here quickly it'll cool off it'll get better right okay is so nice fire chicken fastest pass of the day so far hey go far we'll take that that's impressive yeah what'd you change uh nothing nothing well we put it first here were you launching in second before but no i accidentally forgot to put it in first gear and kearney on the second oh that's why it didn't make sense okay yep so yeah when i was like something's wrong with the system or something yeah about five minutes later brent walked over with the log and he was like uh did you get to put it in first dude yeah so well hey now you know got it figured out you make your other pass when the sign goes down oh yeah absolutely absolutely we're gonna see if we can get this thing over 200 today that'd be awesome yeah at our home track on the mountain what a great way to start the day yeah first day of work man congratulations we're retiring you're retiring all together okay properly so what's your plan um probably go see if they have a nitrous kit for sale or something we're just going to hit it with a 50 shot on the brake let's let it all right right up that'll work if there's one in denver if it's not here yeah you got a speed shot we're gonna do a really basic like the nitrous is gonna spray right in front of turbo i think that's the less basic than your bottle open in the intake uh mod but yeah yeah this will be the most higher tech this will be the easiest solution perfect all right that'll work we're gonna maybe think about a couple others but that don't sound the coolest exactly all right okay all right we got all this second gear oh you did yeah going ahead it's way too calm and collected for me was next time we'll leave it first okay yeah just a little tease or put way more power looks good to go there maybe yeah so no she's a next pass next pass is a good one really is a bummer we missed our first one but i feel like 10 95 red i was hoping to see this thing on the road i have a photo that i took that literally makes it look like uh like a digital glitch like it's photoshopped yeah i mentioned that in the on the on the picture it's so weird you just need matching set of wheels for the back that's why i like a plan we have one couldn't find another ah okay i tried nice well give me a tour of this thing go check it out i think it's proven to be a very consistent 10-second race driver so it has it has a velcro cover yeah on the front of it so the wifi the wife made this cover kind of just sits up and sticks on there we bought the little twist fasteners that you find like a convertible top yeah um but that stuff holds it so good that's impressive we got the trailer because everybody keeps asking what i paid for the car you can see a little bit of the welds left there that's travis nice um how much did you get it for 300 bucks nice that's a lot cheaper than a trailer 300 bucks the car was 800 bucks don't ask how long ago i just noticed the hatch works too that's amazing so you don't have to worry about having to get everything out of the front right you got options or the back how's all the brakes all that stuff works the hand brake is literally bolted in here the factory hand brakes that is genius you don't need a wheel chock don't need wheel chocks beautiful so secondarily tell me about the car yeah trailer's cool we uh kind of put it together of course last minute last year we saw um originally you know drifting you know knew what drag racing was obviously but this just it's different this is way different road trip drag racing and it's it's tough yeah what's the power plant under the head uh it's from an infiniti q45 uh oh okay i just glanced on it walking by i don't even realize i had eight cylinders in here right a lot of guys think it's a ford motor the intake does look like a well yeah they see a blank logo they think we're trying to fool somebody yeah uh they think it's some oddball 4 cam engine but no and everybody thinks it was from a front wheel drive car which it was not so they just opted to make the intake manifold look like this nissan developed the engine in the late 80s early 90s it was a indy motor and then nissan infinity nissan pulled out and then you put a bunch of money into r d's you got to use this intake does look very race inspired it does yeah is this your first race week this is the first time drag racing first time drag racing completely you just went balls deep yeah and you can drive 1300 miles and drag race right well yeah my dad always talked about it you know and talked about it so much that i wasn't you know you grow up with it you get a decade of hearing about it you don't want to do it so that was where drifting kind of showed up so what do you think hooked love it yeah well welcome to the family i appreciate it thanks for building something unique this is really cool the car and the trailer is something special for sure yeah i mean if it wasn't for you guys making your videos then we wouldn't be you wouldn't be seeing it you wouldn't know absolutely yeah don't don't stop well enjoy the rest of the week yeah thank you guys good luck man thank you look who it is the hum rod is back we didn't get to see him race the first two days let's find out why hey you're back where'd it go we got lost in uh nebraska working on a i'm working on a car oh no kidding yeah i'm excited to see what this thing's going to do i'll have fun here at vandermeer what a weird weird contraption also right on also goes 958.75 here comes the hot rod 1862 at 74 miles per hour for the all right we got minnie cooper and all for sale cos 63. hopefully this will be her first time going over 100 miles an hour on a drag strip and then hopefully joe here will get 140.12. there's one seat in that car oh my gosh here we go i don't know if that's gonna be a hundred mile an hour pass in the left point but 1443 he shaved seven hundredths off of his last time uh hey hmm oh what a race nice just manhandling that car 240 sx in 1386 nice working carny i didn't catch you before you rolled out yeah you gonna do it again we went eight five eight three let's see there's no eight five zero though no how many of those have you run like thirty yes it's harder it is all right hopefully this is one good luck drum one second alex taylor coming up for her first pass of the day four hours after we started they were chasing some sort of issues i haven't checked in with her to see what that was but let's see what alex does on her first pass for today shrimp not going to happen this time if he's under power for about seven feet and she gets it stopped at about 100. it gets cool great though that is one of the things i'm here at altitude i was hopefully it's not a struggle today too but uh he'll be back very shortly beautiful nice work man so 10 11. all right just taking them off three of five two more passes you'll be there oh man dude 9.95 not too much in it take but i also dropped my 60 foot from 147 to 141 and because i staged first and then had to wait on him oh building boost too long yeah left more boost i wanted normally i bump in last but anyways two more passes you're just in time you get the kit done oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah they're already spoiling my ears done dude right out here dude nasty that was perfect that'll do why didn't we do this months ago i'm happy but i'm a little nervous hey i'm right here dude i'm going to bump in nitrous no hold a bowl button yes all right what'd you do well it's just the traction control made a difference it did we went down on the highway or just over there just over there and uh it picked up two tenths in the eighth so if i could get three in the whole track we'll be back in the game perfect so well something that's the ticket yeah i can't believe this gotta get back at first comes matt frost and the hulk again let's see if you can get in that magic six second race it's been a 690 here at vandermeer once before hopefully do it here still all right that's what we need to see so i've been trying to catch up to you guys you're the last junior i've been trying to run into how's your week been going oh pretty good yeah yeah what's your dial in 10 63 all right yesterday that's pretty close so we went fast yesterday a little closer today it's had a couple of valves hanging in it so we've been doing the two-stroke seafoam trick trying to keep the guys lubed keep it alive yeah and how old are you uh 13 13. wow really youngest race weeker ever i think so that's a cool title all right well you guys have fun another about to run yeah good luck all right here we go junior street pulling back up for their third round of racing here abandonment 10 20 on the left i should have just kept with my nines was pretty good it's awesome but it doesn't do everybody else justice because oh no i'm not on the street pretty awesome if anybody could do it here banana mirrors you that's right we kind of dialed that in a little the crank driven blower helps a little bit up here it does not have to worry about that whole boost problem hence why we put it on there so and when did you let out like oh it was like 800 i think it started to do a little jig and i thought that i told brandon like i didn't lift and i go look at the computer you can see i did a whole bunch of pedaling down through there so wow i wasn't gonna lift i i lifted a few passes though so i'm like i'm gonna try to drive through this it looked pretty sideways at the finish line it was a little hairy so can you do it again at night we're going to try it yeah i guess a little bit better we're going to let it rip i think we have a i think we have a date with cletus so we'll see where he's at well that'd be perfect yeah he was not doing so hot with the nitrous on his first test guys so i'm sure i'll get it figured out oh yeah for sure nice run thanks buddy got the organ grinder that's at home nothing to see here oh you you see all my footage yeah dude stealing my footage yeah i'm going to send you an invoice for that hang on that babe and my wife son oh let's see here let's watch this together this is your footage copyright so um there was some problems it wasn't perfect yeah just want to see what happened here the gopro angle is pretty solid yeah i think i hit the butt like i held the button and that's when it did that big fire yeah the first attempt was really violent the right way oh no i thought that was the exhaust oh it is oh it's out the turbo out there wow wow maybe we should pinch the tip of that line earlier a little restriction 884 at least you didn't hurt it he's still running 1050s hopefully maybe i'll make it run just because we got a time slip now and then we'll come back hi fred hi is today your birthday uh no but that was that would have been a good birthday present 84. thank you 884 not bad very pleased not bad we've been we've been having some troubles we broke it yesterday yeah fixed it and had some troubles earlier today but it's running okay this is your home tracks i didn't expect you to do well here but at elevation thank you that's pretty impressive thank you i appreciate it how much does this thing weigh i just waited oh okay because i did some work over the winter okay and i dropped about 95 pounds okay because i was a really big guy um and it's like 36 60 36 70 right in there 36.70 and it's powered by what well gasoline oh come on now it's my lock board small block four twenty four there you go you've seen it i've i've seen it but for the fans at home don't know is small block 4 twin turbo 427 and it weighs 37 in excess of 3600 and you're doing 884s at elevation at 162 and i know we didn't have the boost up that high it's probably 17 pounds oh so are you going to go back up are you good with that okay because you know what i'm going to do you're going to send it i'm going to go home yeah okay some cold beer time there you go there you go well congrats i'm sure you just extended your lead a little bit thank you so number one going into pueblo nice we'll see you tomorrow i'm gonna crack it back now no no tomorrow or or the last day okay all right all right congrats bill see you oh bill kyle wanted me to tell you a good job not sucking because it's been a whole lot of stuff thanks kyle that hard motor seems to be happy yeah good yeah well it'll be more happy we just gotta put that intake on it ah all right i think it's got some sort of a vacuum leak inside there so but these guys are done while we're pulling off and that's a lot smaller issue than you had before all right no lifters no push rods beautiful no plugs but i just got my uh nitrous it's not like heads up cars this is gonna different for me it's just wired on a on a button yeah i'm just going to hold it here oh literally just holding onto a button yep and then as soon as i hit second gear i'm going to reach over and i'm going to whack it what do you think it'll run i'm hoping 13-0 i need to go now oh yeah because i'm i'm second point still as of right are you serious so yeah hell yeah that's been my goal every year we came with one of his cars to finish you know up and we never have but i'm not i'm not gonna not try your trophy right now you know that is we'll see what happens good luck with the spray all right hopefully it goes well thank you i've already got some but have fun man these guys have been rolling around throwing candy at people all week it's it's awesome the sugar is much needed on this trip wow got one tire going good this is the j this is the engine that came in that you know stock car 18-210 now we got to meet up with the other candyman band guy and toss out some candy i'll be getting out the face it'd be a great picture attention to the pitch attention in the pitch 11-0 come on down 6-7 11-0 come on down all right so i got to ask how the hell did the candy band come about we were uh threw out to breakfast and uh we were coming out of breakfast and this truck driver comes up to us he said hey man i gotta overload a candy you might take it off my hands so we backed our truck up to a semi truck and he had a pallet of candy it was a thousand bags of nerds and gummies landed in the truck and off we went and as we progressively thought through this the candyman van was born that's amazing what a great way to put them used we pick it up for 400 bucks 400 bucks man we had to throw a pipe on where we cut the cat off but you know she runs so you got the nerds for nothing we got him a thousand bags there's a thousand holy crap so did you bring all the nerds with you or you're still some at home that's great it's good time man nerds the rest of the week oh yeah that's great thanks for doing that guys it's hilarious huh oh 1009. that like on a normal day that would be perfect but his competitor that was tied with him i think he ran a 100 or 1005 or maybe 100 something here comes some more of the bike guys shout out to anybody racing a bike on raceway i think we have like 10 of them this year riding over 1300 miles who the hell does that especially on a grom the turbo one right here is really cool look at the intercooler sticking out of it hmm here comes blaine to make his first pass of the day he missed the first two videos his dad's actually running the stick shift class so once he gets the pass he's happy with he converts it over for playing the race then playhouse duran run somewhere in the 9 i think 917 says dial and he wants to run play that's going to do pretty good for blaine his dial is a 9 19 so he's not too far off of that the way the class works is whoever's closest to their dial in one of them the class you have to get as close as you can to the first slip you turn in each day he's only about a tenth off right now on today's pass compared to the first day nice run that was good but i can do better yeah i can do better what's the next run gonna be uh at least the 23 19 is your dial yeah 19 to my dial hoping maybe a 20 23 i'm just going to try to change it a little bit quicker in the third because it all right good luck on the next round lead us back up here give this nitrous a shot again let's go oh yeah there we go much better than what he in the first little had there but not in the 60s won't put any pressure on alex not this round the sound it makes i don't know if it sounds like that at the starting line but it's like like the jetsons there it is oh no it might be good enough it's got to be good enough this is number five pass so we'll see what the math looks like i bet he's got it all calculated out what he needs hey they made it yeah nice good work did you guys just get here yeah nice nice 9 56 and we finished running 11. we'll get right in the groove here right now good job ready get out of here so so this time that's what we were looking for yes sir that worked nice job boys nice job so don't do that get on the wheel eight there we go so i think that's a good way to end the day right there much better 204 back in the 200s traction control hitting a lot less on that one 10 30. they just announced that they're close they closed the track that's it oh man i was excited i screamed all the way back i bet you did adam did not uh say my number my past that time and i'm like what is it what is it i'm going around the corner and then the ticket booth lady there she hands me the the time slip and i was like yeah and she's like i'm sure that's not the first time that's happened to her i see their bus blower 9000 coming in absolutely clutch today no kidding fired up man fired up wanted to turn in the bottom seven so we got her down there i mean we wanted to go sixes but like even that tune i could feel the tires chattering radial life dude it definitely didn't cut it that hard on the track these tracks you know they're not prepped for radio so i can't blame them i don't know why i don't keep showing up on radials but they did throw a little spray down definitely helped got her down through there pumps time for the hard part got to drive yeah back through the rockies have fun yeah you died what happened on the track but did you die i was like and we were trying it we found a hose from css and put it on and by that time they shut the lanes ah dang though yeah hey you guys made it he did yeah that's impressive with six minutes to spare so after carney you made it how far do you make it to swap the motor uh 30 minutes yeah and then uh one rod gave way and then we tried to keep going since we couldn't play gears i got underneath it clicked into third and you have to get a certain rpm for the governor to shift so one of the times i was trying to get up in the rpms two more rods fell out really three rods there was half a rod in my oil pan yeah sounds amazing and we're not leaking oil so the head's pushed up into the cylinder heads and formed to the cylinder head so yeah we got pictures of all that stuff you see my timing chambers playing tiny chains in the old pan so we got the fixed shift legged fixed uh i had my father-in-law we live in loveland colorado and my wife's race truck was there so a buddy of mine pulled the engine out of her truck and put it in his truck to come up to nebraska land in nebraska oh okay and blue and tire oh no like 10 o'clock last night and then my father-in-law had to get ready go find him switch he had to go to my house and get the cherry picker go unload it on the side of the road into his truck and then he made it up there like 2 30 in the morning and by that time we already had the engine out of this and we were in bed so we woke up at 6 45 threw the rest of it in kind of got somewhat of it the her old tune in it but with the different injector setup and all the crap on this i didn't have time to update my laptop to get it done so yeah wow yeah but you made it yep you got a partial pass oh you got it got a pass in got a pass that's all that matters not a good one but yeah that's amazing so yeah how was the mountain drive the headlights on this are probably fast oh yeah you had to do it in the dark oh yeah it was gorgeous sunset uh got some good ones but uh yeah there's some sketchy moments just tire squealing so we had to cut some time off of the 1007 that initially said we were going to be here so we cut 13 minutes off of it so nice worked out pretty well carving the canyons yeah dang it well congrats on making it definitely thank you nice work take get some sleep take a deep breath tomorrow's gonna be a better day oh yeah yep gotta get a tune in this thing a little better and let's dial it back because this engine runs 12 8 on a pretty soft tune in a so i'd love to turn it down a little bit to run the nines well good job on getting here definitely probably like ten ones that's right twenty two we'll see you guys tomorrow enjoy the drive appreciate it well what a wild day here at the fourth day of rocky mountain race week abandonmeer speedway lots of wild events but the biggest thing is our top three got shaken up a little bit today unfortunately alex taylor not able to get her transmission in so our 10 second pass is gonna put here probably in third place overall maybe fourth i'm not sure we'll see how the numbers fall cletus mcfarland number one the firebird and number two but that could still change by the end of the week anything can happen on the drive anything can happen the next track we're just going to find out make sure to subscribe to our channel for more updates from rocky mountain race week and we'll see you tomorrow this is so ridiculous\n"