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Acquire Low-Cost Vehicles and Implement 'Cheats'

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Jimmy Means Shows Us His Historic NASCAR Race Shop! 40+ Years of Racing Under One Roof

What happens here

Begin by acquiring the most affordable, yet functional, chassis and engine components available. In this case, a used chassis was purchased for $200 and an engine for $500. This initial investment forms the core of the race car. The next crucial part is identifying and implementing clever, often 'illegal' or 'cheated' modifications within the grey areas of racing rules to gain a competitive edge. This includes optimizing components like valve springs, camshafts, and cylinder heads for maximum performance. This approach emphasizes outsmarting the competition with ingenuity rather than outspending them.

Goal: Build a competitive race car using minimal financial investment and clever modifications.

Tools and materials

  • Machine Shop Equipment Various — To perform precise modifications on engine parts, chassis components, etc., Used Chassis Unknown
  • Used Engine Components — Powering the race car, often sourced from auctions or other teams
  • Camshafts — Engine performance modification
  • Cylinder Heads — Engine performance modification
  • Valve Springs — Engine performance modification

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it's 3 380 ft long wow and it's full of uh memorabilia racing J so I don't never throw anything away you might need so we like to hear that cuz we like to look at old things with stories what was this room one time it was a dino room um now with our gear room and actually the dyno has been probably three or four different places in the building as we expanded and had more room uh we just put it in a different place cuz it was just simpler to do it that way and just like I said we had more room we made it a little bit better so you built this addition onto here after you moved in yeah that's that's an apartment up there it's got a shower and stuff uh I I got it for some of my guys that you know that work for me cuz it's hard to move somewhere you know and get sell and then you got to pay your uh deposit for utilities and all that sort of stuff so they come here and just go right to work and I had to work about getting all that stuff done so it's helped out yeah that's that's a big help and what kind of cars are you working on right now when I walked in here you were welding on this thing that's going to be a road race car I've just got so much stuff for to build a road race car so that's why we're going to make it and it's probably be I don't know where we use it or I sell it or whatever but there's a big demand I think for road race cars this year because we got seven races on on road courses so and I think two of them are back to back on the west coast so you better have couple cars when hit that way so you don't have to come back tear something up I just think it's so cool that you're in this spot you've been in the same place the whole time and there are still current cars coming out of here you kind of got to you know uh evolve with the times too you know because what we used to do in the cars we used to have you know they're no longer so you got you got to keep up with what's going on so and we've been been able to do that so but only way that I was able to maintain and still be here was that we made chicken salad out of chicken poop all these years you know we might had a crash car that we bought fixed it and uh went to the racetrack actually back when I still driving we sent uh Jimmy Spencer home from Bristol with a used card that I paid $500 for the chassis from Junior Johnson and I ined that I paid $500 for the cylinder heads and we sent Jim spener home and Jimmy had a McDonald's sponsorship at the time wow so I didn't go brag about it cuz they…

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