all right so with the nmr air race coming up i'm gonna do some maintenance on the car
today we're gonna just basically put a little plugs in it change the oil
um i have to put a new set of belts in the driver's side harness
uh i'm gonna get the car up on ride height stance a couple things i want to do i want to check
uh front end stagger which i'll talk to you about what that is and then nut and bolt the car just
normal normal maintenance stuff nothing too crazy uh if time allows i want to wire the fuel level
gauge because if you watch my last video i ran out of gas at the track and try to avoid that and then
i need to work on something for the gear selection switch to the ecu so yeah check it out we'll work
through that stuff and i'm curious to see what the plugs look like i haven't changed plugs in
this thing in about a year and i haven't changed the oil in about a year either so i'm a little
behind on my maintenance stuff so we're going to go through do that and first off and move on
so
all right so a couple things you guys might be interested in um so i had these brisk uh
these are the rr-12s's in it um i actually put the ngk iridium i can't remember the i can't
remember the part number it's a stock number 6510 it's basically a one heat range colder than stock
i put those plugs in it i usually put these wrist plugs in it when we're trying to make a bunch of
power uh just because it's a colder a colder plug sorry i know this thing doesn't focus real well um
but we moved to the ngks that said just taking a look at these obviously these have like
almost a seasons worth of runtime on them um so you can't really learn a ton from them aside from
like looking down at the porcelain and again this thing doesn't do this very well um and looking for
any signs of detonation which i've done they all look good they all look clean which is expected
because i leave the tune up so conservative in this thing all the time um but uh yeah so the
ngk plugs are in it we're gonna get this thing up on the ride height stands and get the oil changed
quick see if uh make sure there's no material and anything again i haven't changed the oil on this
thing in a long time so that meaning that when we went that 859 and broke the stock engine record
it was still on like nine month old oil you know i had like 30 passes on it probably
and i haven't changed it since so be curious to see if there's any material in there i'm assuming
there's not because if it would have started eating itself it'd be in pieces already but
you know it's always good to just confirm that stuff so that's what we're gonna do next
okay so got the oil out of it got the filter sitting here one of the things i like to do is
when i'm looking for material i'm just gonna drain the oil out of the filter over a clean
white piece of paper into my drain pan here which you know because i didn't drain the uh
the drain pan so we're gonna just dribble this on here let it run down
and anything that's uh left over and you know any kind of metallic stuff in there usually sitting
on the paper um you can tell that two things uh there's really nothing in the oil it looks pretty
good and yeah check it out it's perfect nothing in it so that means uh i didn't turn it up enough
i'm just kidding but uh yeah so i'm gonna get uh putting the new oil in it oh everybody on
facebook and stuff facebook groups and whatever everybody's always asking what kind of oil do you
use what kind of oil should i use i'm a big fan of uh well kind of do your own research
but uh we run schaefer's stuff so in this in this car we run this this is just schaefer's uh there's
7000 2050 oil and i put a bottle of rev-x or oil additive in it uh yeah the oil out of things kind
of a snake oil a lot of people think um we did some testing on the dyno gosh three years or
so ago with a uh it was like a it was a spec iron i think was the class it was called for a
road race car and it's like a sealed engine like the only thing you can do is modify the
programming and like an air filter and uh i spent all day tuning this thing and then we put a bottle
of rev-x in it and you have to like work the rev-x into the combination basically you have to like
do three hits let it sit let the car cool down the room temp do three more i repeat that like three
or four times anyway long story short the three valve sealed engine thing i was able to make like
eight or nine horsepower from the programming the rev-x was worth 12. so that kind of made
me a believer and i've just been putting it into my personal stuff ever since so yeah anyway for
whatever that worth for you guys asking what oil to run that's what i do in the fastest gen one
coyote in the world so well the fastest stock gen 1 coyote in the world whatever you want to call it
the blue car behind me anyway yup so for you guys that are wondering that's what i do
that's real quick uh so how i had the burnout thing set up or the i'm sorry not the burnout
thing i was having issues with the car thinking it was in second or even third gear when i go
to stage after doing the burnout even though i didn't have the shift commanded and unless
it was like above x throttle position well what i had done and i forgot about that i had done this
so i had a table over here set the 5500 this is a shift to the table to explain
this a little bit this is one two shift two three shift here's throttle position right
so i basically took that and i made it like this now my thought with doing this
was if i had to pedal the car i could basically roll out of the throttle it would shift i could
get back in it because the gear ratio change would hopefully negate the tire spin right
anyway uh so i forgot this was like this and i feel when i was coming out of the burnout box
out of high gear and i would lift off the throttle the rpm was on its way down
it would trigger something in in this area here and that would cause it to uh command the shift
and thus lead to when i go to stage the car was in second or third and then it wouldn't command
the shift going down track so i'm going to try to just set this all to 7 500 to combat that and then
i think that'll fix the issue as long as that's what the problem was that should take care of that
the other thing that really tune related i said in the beginning of the video i was gonna check
front end stagger i did that uh basically front end stagger is if the left front tire or the
right front tire is ahead of the opposite tire um this you do this to help like control your uh
your reaction time stuff and adjust the car for where you leave on the tree
it's it's a it's a thing that happens it's not it doesn't make significant changes but it does help
anyway i checked all of that and uh the car was straight was square was straight
squared up so i'm going to leave that go and uh yeah i think that's about it
all right now that the maintenance still allowed on the car we're ready to go to the nmra race
um that's this video was really short i get it um but uh yeah keep following along i'm gonna do a
bit for the nmra race we're in three classes there we're in true street open comp and bracket open
and uh yeah i uh it's gonna be a cool cool video i think i didn't do a very
good job of narrating stuff while i was at the track obviously we are after the event
currently as i'm talking to you um but uh yeah so make sure you subscribe follow along look
forward to that one it's pretty cool we did really well in the true street class the bracket classes
aren't really my thing we didn't do good there but the video is cool to check out regardless so
uh yeah keep an eye on that one it'll be out here in a week or so
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