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First Laps and Car Adjustments

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I Tested an ARCA Car at DAYTONA! (It wasn't what I expected)

What happens here

Mitchell watches Willie Mullins take the first laps in the ARCA car. Brad Perez, a crew member, explains that the car is brand new and has some 'kinks' to work out. He describes an issue where a 'duck' (a small aero device) hit the floorboard, causing smoking from burning paint, which made Willie paranoid. Tony Furr, the Golden Era Crew Chief, provides further context, mentioning that the car has 'ghosts' that need to be worked out and that they're making small adjustments to the setup.

Goal: Observe initial laps and understand car performance issues.

Tools and materials

  • ARCA Race Car Mullins Racing — The car being tested and adjusted
  • Headphones with Microphone Longhorn — Crew communication

What they say

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What Willy was talking about before is this the a fresh car. They just redid everything and it's got some kinks they're working out. Hello. What are you doing? We're trying to create a dance. And we're I'm courting other cars to see if they want to dance with Bryce and everyone's like, "I don't want to do it yet." Uh, like draft? >> Yeah. Oh. Everybody's like, "Uh, I'm checking out my car still, you know, I'm doing this. I'll wait after lunch." I'm like, "Okay, that's safe." But, like, you know, let's get it going. What's going on with Willy? Um well, I'm pretty sure one of the ducts hit the the floorboard and it was like getting hot and that's why it was smoking. And also, the clip had fresh paint, so that might have been part of why it was smoking. Oh, it was burning off the headers. Yeah, so but he gets paranoid. Willy's paranoid. Dude, you have to be. If you're not paranoid, you end up with a a big problem. Yeah. You're Tony? Yep. I'm Mitchell. Yeah, about doing the O'Leary Bros stuff. The the guy who runs the place there wanted to do it, but the corporate legal team said no. I don't know. I was really excited about that. That sucks it didn't work out. >> But, when we found out you were going to be here, I was like, "Oh, hell yeah, that's awesome." We wanted to do something with you anyway. What have you been doing? I've been sorting out Today, uh, sorting out between the two cars trying to get both of them, you know, the best they can be. We got that one over pretty good with the, you know, guy who's running the car. We picked Willy up a little bit, but we need to get more. We got some still got some ghosts in the car. We're getting the ghosts out. Are you going in the right direction? Seems to be. We picked it up, but we're just chiseling at it right now. We haven't made no big gains. Couple small gains. Change in the balance is uh I think I had all the heights screwed up on it. I had a little wasn't making any RPMs. It's making about 9,200. What do you call those? Pre-diarrhea triangles. That's Mooresville talk down here. So, the first thing we're doing on the pull down rig is we're pushing each corner up to make sure the travel, the ball joint doesn't bind up, your tie rod end, everything works correctly on your travel of each independent component and then we pull the car down at that point. So what is the 10 mm in race world that always disappears? Is that going to be a 3 I thought you'd say 7/16 anything. I was going to say 9/16 or…

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