Analyze Air Intake and Hood Modifications

once we got about 97 or so, that's when they started really locking everybody in and saying, "All right, this is what we're coming up with." So once Dodge actually got super involved, cuz that first year Dodge wasn't very involved. '95 they didn't have a lot of programs involved. At 96 they got really involved with it. Made a Dodge truck out of petties and a Mopar truck was actually with the 30 truck that year. Jimmy Hensley actually drove in 96 uh before he got the Dodge deal cuz um Rich Bickl was in the Dodge truck. So Jimmy ended up in the 30 truck and then he moved to the Dodge truck the next year and then we got the Mopar deal. >> Oh. So, but yeah, original design was based off early 90s >> Pontiac. >> Is that why it's got this little flat thing in here? >> I think that was just some of the styling from the Dodge bumpers. I'm I'm not sure if the the 99 truck was different. >> It was that was a little different. So, in 99 when we were running the the engineering team, um, we come up with this new nose working with the the Dodge engineers and we actually had a 99 truck and then a 2000 nose that would bolt onto the truck. Like, we could take the old nose off and put the new nose on at the racetrack. And it was a really kind of uh uh funny deal where it actually bolted in the middle of the fenders. That's that same year that Greg Moore died at at California. Um, so we ran the truck race on Saturday and then tested Monday and Tuesday, like right after he died on Sunday. So we were at the track the next days. Like we stayed there the whole time, but we ended up doing a ton of testing with this. We blew up like five motors. It was a mess. The whole test was a super big mess. But we landed on running this nose design. Even back then, they ran wicker bills on the trucks. So, these were actually optional. You had like an 18-in long one and a 24-in long one, and they had to be/ inch wide. So, they kind of had rules on all that stuff. And we actually ran that for quite a bit. And probably jeez, maybe 2000, like late 2000s is when they stopped running them, like 2008. >> What was the difference between the 18 and 24 in? >> Just the amount of downforce and drag you were going to have. A lot of times we ran the smaller ones on the intermediate tracks. Um, at one point