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*shivers* If you MUST do spacers, measure twice cut once. So make sure you have the right distance to clear as Aaron said then order what you need. You MIGHT some local options, I've gotten some items from Pep Boys on Morse rd that I never expected to be able to pick up locally. Obviously you'll pay a bit more for local availability if time is an issue.

So what happens in the event of a UK vs US Part Deux? Will you be a colonial or royalist? I have always found it extremely sad how much people who WANT to come here and be a citizen know about our country versus the vast majority of those BORN here. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave... and lazy.

A general overall terrible return on investment in a genre that is seeing year over year constant contraction. If you look across the country how many race tracks are going out of business or barely holding on by their fingernails versus new ones being built? Unfortunately the reality of auto sport isn't a very pretty picture. Settle in for enjoying the occassional indoor karting day... because other than AutoX and the Mid Ohio events... that's probably all you're gonna get.

I ... Umm... I can't even... I'm never going to complain about custom work to make things fit again. HORRY SHEET!

Sharing some on camera time with Rich to start getting other people comfortable with production, just cut together a short 4 minute video. As always, feedback is appreciated!

That Coleman Grill black tho! Definitely coming along for some fun in 2019!

Sounds to me like they probably didn't have that wheel seated properly and you got some loose nuts which sheered off a stud. Either that or someone power tooled the one on and likely over torqued it snapping it. You likely shouldn't feel anything with 4/5 lugnuts properly tightened so there may have been at least 1 other that wasn't snugged giving you a wiggly rear end. As someone who's been in this exact situation I can certainly understand your anger and frustration. My wheel actually DID come off as I went around a 60mph turn, thankfully by the grace of whatever looks after me the bottom of my brake landed on the inside barrel of the tire and I was able to get it off the road safely. NOT a feeling I would ever want someone else to experience. As far as what you are going over to that shop for, is that just to get the stud knocked out and a new one installed? Did you look in the lug hole to make sure there's no damage to the actual wheel? Often times you get the hole wallowed out after situations like this. Also, keep in mind you DO have a friend in the business if you want to swing it out sometime I'm happy to toss it on a rack to give it a friendly once over. At the end of the day, glad you are safe!

You DO have a good point, while targeting our message to potential people we may end up with actual business connections is important, generally getting our content out there and viewed regardless of who's eyes they are always helps. At this point we have only been highlighting our fun car business, we have some content coming on the diesel world we do quite a bit of work in as well so reaching people OUTSIDE Ohio is certainly important. Most of our Hotrod/Fun car customers are from the greater Columbus area however our Diesel folks come from as far away as Michigan.

Ugh, don't really want to weigh in too much on these kinds of things but do we have any video of the sound it was making? Starters/Flywheels don't usually make noise and then "Go away" unless one piece of metal is finished grinding through another piece. When the clutch was replaced did the replace anything else with it or just toss a clutch disk in and partially bolt it back together?

On the partner side of things, the easiest thing there will be having the actual customer/owner with me to discuss the car and what's been done. Pulling one of the techs or even Rich out of the shop for filming unfortunately costs production time, and those guys aren't typically as on camera comfortable as I would like. The owner thing, well that's coming up in this new film I'm trying to cut together. Personally, quality over quantity is important but I also want to put out pretty regular videos and updates so spending a ton of time laboring over making this juuuusssst right is something I need to stay away from. Be honest with myself that I'm not trying to produce something akin to Roadkill or shows that have a camera crew and production staff. Make it interesting, long enough to me informative but short enough not to lose peoples interest. Also the idea here is to target people who are potential customers, if some dude in Bangladesh loves my video that unfortunately doesn't do me any good. This has definitely been a learning experience and in the Social Media is King age it's been more than a little annoying/frustrating. Facebook posting is still seemingly just pouring time/energy/work/money into a black hole that very few if almost anyone sees.

We stayed Iron heads on the Pontiac for much the same reason, they are pretty forgiving and can be used up to a pretty acceptable 450hp or so without much trying. High RPM flow isn't there unless you do a lot of porting but these cars won't be seeing 6,000+ so the low end grunt is what's most important. LS swap is something you will NEVER see me do personally, doesn't matter what badge is on the grill. Just not my kind of thing. We have absolutely learned a ton on how to build power, which is why we have gone the route of a 451 CI instead of the 500+ CI set up. More useful power can be found with good quality machine work and setup than just making holes bigger and strokes longer. Also, when you start getting into the REALLY large displacement you have to step up oiling systems and start worrying about breaking other items not built for the kind of torque these things will make.

Finding a comfortable video length is a challenge for sure, trying to make it long and informative enough but not overly long to lose peoples interest. The UPPER limit feels like around 15 minutes as long as it's content heavy, the 10 minute or under mark for smaller stuff. (Like the Mustang Exhaust Video) We are actually reshooting a video we spent quite a lot of time on because it ended up being nearly 20 minutes and while informative it just wasn't interesting the entire way through. Being "Married to your Content" is definitely a problem, it's hard leaving clips on the cutting room floor if they are good just not useful.

Ugh don't make me even start to think about doing an entire drivetrain swap, as it is finding the time to work on this thing over the weekend is going to be tricky. Motor swap should be a quick and easy process, we have a donor motor we will build while keeping hers whole then when it's ready to go... one out one in turn the key. (At least that's the plan) The heads are a later gen casting with bigger valves and hardened seats so they aren't a bad place to start from. With some trickery and high end parts will put those in the $1600 range, but, they'll be very well built with the best of the best and there won't be any worry. However, a drop on set of high end Aluminum heads is STILL realllllly tempting!

The weight savings would definitely be nice, also the added ability to run a point higher compression versus the iron heads. Unfortunately we have seen a lot of sub par aluminum heads coming with less than stellar parts in them and reasonably commonly guides being too tight. So even with a built set of Edelbrock heads they may need some additional attention. Iron Heads would rebuilt with the best stuff out there on the market so durability wise would be above the level expected from Aluminums. Added bonus point for the car still maintaining a little bit of a stock under hood look, although given how shouty this thing is in appearance that might be a moot point.

To follow up... Part of what is appealing with the staying "Old Iron Headed" is it will allow us to compare 4 motors we have done in rapid succession across the range of Big Blocks 455 Olds 454 Chevy 455 Pontiac 451 Mopar The idea of showing these all running essentially the same displacement with much of the same parts and same carb is appealing for the YouTuber in me.

So with "Build/Rebuild" season upon us it's time to get to work on a new motor for the ladies Charger and I'm waffling back and forth as to what to do heads wise. This build is going to be a "in most peoples budget" kind of build so nothing crazy expensive or exotic will be involved. Trying to prove that muslce cars don't have to be for just gear heads and old dudes. A few things to note before we discuss/argue.. * Street driven car, DDable and to and from car shows. * Will occassionally (2-3 times a year) see drag strip use * Is being based off the late 400 Big Block platform * Switching to a Holley Sniper EFI system with timing control with MSD handling spark * Pushing a rebuilt 727 transmission with a shift kit, factory rear end. * Long tubes to free flowing exhaust Now the decision to be made. Edelbrock E Street Heads $1200 Mancini Racing Heads $2000 Recon 440 Heads and port $1000 Now, short block wise all of these will be done with a 451 c.i. stroker kit with forged rods/pistons/crank more for durability than outright monster power. What would CR do?

Well I'm glad to hear you got it taken care of, and someone actually knew what they were doing! Sorry we couldn't get you in quicker than Monday, as the leaves start changing Build/Rebuild season has us crazy right now. On a side note, if you need my professional opinion on the balance of the tires feel free to swing it by and I'll warm them up just to check

Thanks for the feedback guys, I really appreciate it from both of you. Getting honest opinions is what will help me improve these and hopefully make them more engaging as we go forward. Production wise, this started out as kind of a little side project with a couple cheap Chinese GoPro knockoffs and has now progressed to a DSLR, various microphones and mounts, an entirely new editing computer and software.. So hopefully the improvements are helping the engagement. I realize the timelapse stuff is dull but I want to show behind the scenes of actually processes not stick the pie in one oven pull it out of the other and Presto we have pie! There are a few projects right now in the works that will be getting similar treatment to the Buicks, the one most likely to come out next is a duo video of the '69 Chevelle and the '02 IS300 however I'm battling length. Most people won't stay around for a full 15 minute video, much less 20 minutes where that one currently is. P.S. I wasn't in charge of the exhaust on that Wagon

Posting continues, this time did a little feature on Brian's Buick Wagon... if you haven't seen this car trust me you need to. Been upgrading audio/video set ups like I said so this should look a little better.

Unfortunately we hear that rather often Where are you in relation to us?

Indeed Lucore DOES do this How big is big? There's not much we can't handle

Part 5 of the Pontiac project just went live, still have a LOT of video to catch up on but getting it out there as we can. This was also before some serious Audio/Video upgrades so please forgive the quality of that

Soooo much photo and video work to catch up with but here's another little video we tossed together. Ahead of time, the audio on the mic was set improperly so some of it is quieter and more muffled than it should be. This whole process is a work in progress!

Other than the typical rocker rot those are excellent trucks you can get some serious use/mileage out of. Good pickup on the pickup!