Edelbrock Corporation

They didn't even put it on there.

I looked underneath where the squirter bolts to it and that pad isn't even machined it's still got like casting lips on it and everything like what a piece of shit this thing my god it worked this time it just didn't really work you just couldn't drive it down the road it would sit there and idle and I could rev it up but that was pretty much it other than that it was a complete pile of shit and I bolted on a 20 year old Edelbrock that I had hanging around my garage and it worked fine So, anyway, I'll defer to Adam because I think he got into a race car this weekend.

I did get into a race car this weekend, and it was a very bad one.

We had high hopes going in because we've been pretty good the past two weeks, and the car's been good even at the end of the shows, and we were just off all day, and Heat race was running third-ish.

Like, the 5N was probably the best of the vehicles I've driven just because there weren't so many nannies.

I guess there are a ton of nannies in the car, but there was I was able to defeat a lot of them and make them work so you know that was one of those things where it was uh you know it was cool to be able to you know like drive that car and be able to slide it around but um I think that you know everyone's talking about Lucid Air Sapphire being like the ultimate so when I got to the airport it was there waiting for me to drive so I picked it up I drove it home last night I don't want to give my initial feedback because like I just sat in traffic on the 405 I will say this I hit the throttle just to kind of get around a car and scared everyone in the car including myself like I could not believe how fast that thing gets up and out that part was impressive but I don't know if that's going to make it a driver's car I'm about to drive it today uh up to Monterey for grid life and um you know I'll have it up there it'll be I'll put like six hours on it so one question is is like will the battery last long enough which is like one of my biggest complaints is like they don't really make good road trip vehicles and two is it thrilling or not um I don't know comment let me know if this is something that you want me to maybe do like a hybrid podcast on a lot of people said hey can you know can you do car reviews again obviously it's how I started in this business was writing car reviews for magazines um I don't know maybe I'll do like a little hybrid car review slash pod maybe I'll bring some other people on who've driven it maybe I'll let some friends drive it in the next week and we can all kind of talk about it um I know the car is old a lot of people have driven already but really my perspective is like the newest thing I own is built in 2004 and it's a van so um most of my cars and the cars I love like the car I pulled out that's sitting behind me you know the smart that would be sitting behind me this morning is a 1994 Audi RS2 and like that's what is exhilarating to me that's what like driving feels like will this car deliver I don't know we'll get to that so um I also have one more piece of homework to do uh or I should I should say housekeeping to do before we get into like some actual engagement right because the whole point of a live isn't for you guys just to sit here and listen to me it's for me to you know take your questions talk through topics we all want to discuss and all of that this is a test one if this works we'll try maybe bringing other people on for lives um but again let us know uh in the live chat Troy our new producer is watching the live chat so he's noticing if there's any sort of technical issues or anything like that call out Troy so so he sees them um so I actually have another piece of um of me of like kind of big announcement big news um so you know I do a lot of other stuff other than this podcast and no I didn't retire to become a farmer I actually had someone text me right before the podcast went live that said wait I thought you were like doing the Clarkson farm route and just not working anymore it's not true uh I left Hoonigan I went I did a year at an animation company where I was a full-time employee as a chief creative officer at Super Plastic like you know just doing all of that and then I left that to start my own production company called 321 Action Action and a lot of the stuff we do there is like a little bit more behind the scenes it's consulting work it's doing productions for you know for commercials different things like that obviously you guys know stuff like the last Gymkhana with Travis Pastrana um but you know I I actually felt like I was um I I was missing something in my life because one of the things that was really rad about the days I had at Hoonigan was that there was always this like um what do I how can I call it like North Star like there was always a place for the ideas to go all of my ideas were like how do I move Hoonigan forward how do we do something new and cool for Hoonigan how do we like any idea was always shaped around the concept of we could go do this with Hoonigan we could go make this cool thing so um you know I I was you know in kind of like thinking in the past you know six or seven months while I got to work on some really good projects and you know just transparently I was making enough money to make a living um I just didn't feel like I was doing enough of what I wanted right I traded this world at Hoonigan where I was making content every day right even if I wasn't in the content I was involved in every single thing that got made and you know I think that this is a big piece of like what I felt was missing was just this constant ability to to make something and to kind of like work on the craft and all of that um I'm really just driven by I love making stuff I love like it getting out there I love people being able to enjoy it and then continuing to fix it and make it better so um I started talking to a bunch of other sort of people saying hey can I come and help make content for you and I actually started talking to a lot of creators and you guys have heard a lot of those conversations you know on the pod here where I'm going back and forth saying hey wouldn't it be rad if you and I could put a project together we could do this we could do that but I quickly realized that uh the kind of one man or kind of one man plus a bunch of freelancers show I was operating at 321 Action Action wasn't really going to be enough so here's the big announcement the big announcement is I have joined forces with the team over at F equals MA or FMA group which is force equals mass times acceleration if you're into physics and you probably don't know who they are but they are the group that um is currently running Grid Life uh Racer and also uh ID Agency so like they're the ones kind of sitting over top of that whole group um I'll just start by saying they're not a private equity group because we've been there we've done that we're not doing that again they're a they're a good family office group that is ran by a bunch of actual race car drivers uh the Dyson family uh who if you're as old as me you remember the Thetford Porsches uh that Dyson ran uh back in the ALMS era and stuff like that so a really great group of guys ran by a guy named James Schiefer who actually has a ton of history um With me because he was running the Edelbrock account, which was the first project that Hoonigan ever did outside of Ken Block.

Um, that was what really...

And that was around Power Tour, when we did Power Tour in 2015, and if that project hadn't have happened, we would have never have launched a YouTube channel.

It wasn't just outside Ken Block, but at that point, any project we had done was associated with an athlete, whether it was Ken Block, Ryan Tuerck, BJ Baldwin, Chris Forsberg, right, like Vaughn Gittin, all the different guys.

Anytime we did something, it was with an athlete/whatever, a driver.

The Edelbrock project was something that was about us, with me and John Chase building cars, and, and that was sort of the impetus for us to start making content and eventually make Daily Transmission.

Um, so that being said, I've worked with James for a long time.

That's all the factory carburetors now.

And usually if you put two Edelrock carburetors on, it's the same thing.

Almost close the problem completely off as far as the adjustments.

I love two four-barrels.

And then for that, just our brand new carburetor, we always back the choke off electrically, the screws.

We don't want to mess with the choke being rich and lean.

And the adjustment screws, we're talking about an Edelrock carburetor, I would give them a turnout, the screws, and we're ready to start it up then.

Got water in it, got full of oil in it, fire it up and run it by 1200 RPMs, hold it up there, make sure it's not leaking somewhere.

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Let me tell you what Melbourne Toast is packing right here, all right? We've got 4.11 posi track out back, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intake, scored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo jet, 390 horsepower.

We're talking some fucking muscle.

What does that do? Does that blow

Why do you know all of those? Why do you know that?

Don't you remember that scene where he's looking at the engine of his car and he's like, 4.11 positive track out back, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intakes, board over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons.

I mean, I

guess I do.