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- [Female Speaker] Where could he be taking them?
- So you want to daily your race car, you brave, brave soul.
There will be heartbreak.
There probably will be tears and then there's probably
gonna be times that you're gonna wanna rip your hair out.
Nevertheless, some of you will still try it
because well, there's nothing more
satisfying than driving around your race car
on the street and having everybody notice you
and want to take pictures and see all the cool
stuff that you've been spending months and
months and months on, because really, when you
go to the actual track to actually use the race car,
not a lot of people really care that much.
They just wanna see how fast your times are gonna be,
and you might be just living off ramen noodles
and you just want to have a race car
as the only thing that you drive
because you like just living life on the edge.
You may have a legitimate reason,
but more than likely, you don't.
The first thing you need to realize is that
you're going to get a lot of attention,
which is cool until you just wanna get gas
and not explain to 47 people your full build
spec sheet and tell all the old people
no, it doesn't have a V8 and yes, a four-cylinder
turbo does make a lot of power unless you have
a V8 or anything else, then people might not ask
you as many questions because a lot of people just
think all variants of V8 sound identical, right.
But the bottom line is you're gonna take your
car to places other than a car show
or a car event where most people aren't gonna
really know a lot about your car.
They won't know why you don't have an interior
or why you have a roll cage, a massive wing,
aftermarket wheels, which you can find on
our website at fitmentindustries.com.
(dinging)
So, you're probably gonna spend
a good amount of your time explaining your build.
I mean it's just how it goes.
If you have had a car and you stop at a gas station
that's anything that is extreme one way or the other,
you know what I'm talking about.
Everyone will ask the same questions,
so it's best to have a list prepared for you
so that you can answer it before they even ask,
maybe like a little card if you will.
Yes, it's stick.
Yes, it does burnouts.
Yes, it did cost a lot.
Yes, I do drive it on the street.
No, it's not street legal.
Yes, I do have insurance,
and yes, Stacy did leave me.
Not only that, but you'll probably see
people taking pictures of your car
oftentimes when you're in it,
which is extremely awkward because when you're driving
down the road and somebody's taking a picture,
what do you do?
Do you just keep looking straight?
Do you look at them?
Do you smile?
Do you not smile?
Do you send it?
Do you roll down the window?
And then what ends up happening is
while you're in the middle of deciding
what you're gonna do, they manage to take
a picture at the worst possible time.
Your windshield wipers are going off,
you downshifted by accident,
maybe you got this weird face going on
and it just is really sorta just (bleep sound).
No matter what, it's just never gonna work out, I promise.
But I mean, hey, if that's what you like,
then whatever floats your boat,
you know what I'm saying cause it's raining outside,
but you guys don't see that.
The moral of the story is unless you love
"you on, here bro?" posts, you probably
shouldn't daily a race car.
Have we mentioned fuel, because you're gonna
need a lot of it, and when you really think about
how much fuel your car probably takes,
it's a lot less than your Aurus
that you got siting in your actual garage.
It's kinda like your car is like
a six-year-old with his first grape soda
because you simply cannot keep
your lead foot off the skinny pedal,
and as a result, your race car's gonna drink a lot of fuel.
So, if you plan on using it to travel everywhere,
you're gonna need to fil it up pretty much all the time,
and you're gonna also need to keep in mind
fuel availability, cause if you're running E85
race fuel or anything like that,
you're gonna need to map out where all
the gas stations are and carry all those fuels
which by the way, if you are that one E85 guy
that doesn't switch tunes when we go on a cruise
that's more than 60 miles, I hate you.
Not every gas station carries fuel fit for race cars,
so it can be a pain in the absolute (bleep sound)
when somebody's like hey, can we find E85?
Can we go to a QuikTrip?
I know that we're in Texas, but QuikTrip has E85,
and that's what I need.
And then you go to QuikTrip because QuikTrip is the best,
hands down the best convenience store you can possibly find
and then you have to in, then you have to get yourself
the chicken sandwich, just a dollar.
You get yourself that prime rib thing that
you're not entirely sure is prime rib for $1.49,
then you gotta get the monster that's like
two for $3.43, then you get a pound of bananas
and a gallon of milk because everything is on sale.
Throw in your QuikTrip Rewards Card
and now you're gone grocery shopping instead of getting gas.
But hey, if you don't mind risking it,
why don't you just drive around the city,
take some notes on what locations carry all
the fuel that you need, cause that's pretty
much just gonna be the biggest pain in the
(bleep sound) whenever you wanna take a road trip somewhere
and I mean, most people are just
gonna get angry unless you have Flex Fuel,
but nobody really runs Flex Fuel anymore.
You'll just need to find stations
that carry E85 like a proper adult.
Something else to keep in mind
is the amount of maintenance that you're gonna
need to do to actually keep the car on the road.
So I know that we think that our race cars are
impenetrable because they have all the best stuff.
And then it breaks, like a lot.
You should probably keep a spare set of tires
in your garage, a spare set of everything in your garage.
I mean, when you're daily driving a race car,
everything's going to break, even the things
that you don't think are gonna break
are gonna break and you're gonna realize
that the nicer you are to the car, the more things break,
and when you're meaner to the car,
for some ungodly known reason, things don't break.
It's like you modify the engine, and the door handle breaks.
Or you drive it really nicely, and all of a sudden,
the rear axle shaft blows out or U-joint,
and you're like wait a minute, that's not cool.
I have a T56 trans.
Why doesn't that break?
That won't break, but don't worry,
that one wire that gives you your tachometer reading,
can't do it, buddy; not today.
And that doesn't even go along
with the fact that driving a race car
every day means that you're gonna wanna beat on it
and drive it the absolute (bleep sound) out of it.
It's just like how it works so with maintenance
comes money, so I hope you're all still
eating ramen and saving some money
because you're gonna be spending a lot of it.
And I hope you don't have a social life
because you're gonna be spending most of your time
in the garage working on it because it broke.
Breaks all the time.
Just never be confident in the fact
that your race car is in fact a race car.
As far as being a good daily driver
and being able to do normal people things,
your race car probably isn't going to be the best choice.
Typically a race car has no trunk, has no backseats,
it has roll cages and stuff like that.
So when you do need to make a quick
run to the store to maybe get yourself a case of TP,
you can do that as long as you don't have a passenger.
And you'll be that guy who's carrying his
MOMO Steering Wheel through QuikTrip,
and people will be asking you a million questions
like why are you walking around with a steering wheel
in your hands instead of in the car where it belongs?
Pull up to the meat and smack your head on the cage.
It can also be quite painful, which is just
another thing that happens when you have a race car thing.
Plus, let's say you got yourself an attractive female
or maybe a male, whatever it is, you wanna take her, him,
whatever for a ride and you have to explain
for four minutes how to actually get in feet first,
then your butt, then your head, and then
the other six things that you have to do
do before you get the harness on
in which time you're already put yours on,
and then you realize that once you're strapped in,
you can no longer reach the ignition
because it's a center-mounted toggle switch
and the push button, and you're 5'4"
arms can't reach the tiny arms,
so now you're trying to flex on the chick
that wants to go for a ride in your car
and you can't even reach the start button.
But finally you kinda get things going
and she's like wow, this ride's really rough.
But you won't hear it anyway, not due to your ignorance,
but just being the fact that with all the
rattles, creaks, turbo spool and scrape pipe exhaust,
you can't hear (bleep sound).
But hey, if you wanna daily drive your race car,
we won't judge you.
Most of us have been through it anyway
and it's probably one of the most
satisfying feelings in the world when you're going downtown
and you look in the windows to the left
or to the right or to the left and the right
because my things are messed up,
and you smile because it looks good.
And besides, other than the times that
you're sitting there beating your head
against the wall wondering why you're
spending so much money on a car when
you could be being an adult, going to school,
buying a house, maybe investing in a 401k.
Every once in awhile it's worth it because the amount of
effort that people put into driving
a race car is pretty substantial.
And if you can actually enjoy it for the
short period of time that it's not broken,
doesn't need gas, that you're not trying
to impress somebody and you can manage to keep the
steering wheel inside the car instead of
walking around with it cause it doesn't have any locks,
you'll probably end of smiling a lot more than you think.
So, let us know if you guys daily drive
your race car in the comments section below
and let us know what you wanna talk about next.
Boom!
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
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Peace.
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