Parts Manager's Office (Ed Pink's Former Office)

Infiniti Indie Engine. And this is the pan we designed for it. And this is a water pump with the oil filter assembly. And this is a dry sump pump. And y'all manufactured all of this here, right? We made every piece here. Yeah. Everything was made here. And we had this as a display so that uh we could show people. That's crazy. I feel like I say the same five things every time we see something neat. But like I I don't know what else to say. Should I just say nothing and then you think I don't care or should I I don't know. People watching this stuff are like, "You say wow" a lot. Yeah. There's a lot of stuff to say wow about. There's a lot of wow moment. Exactly. Yeah. No doubt. Well, I I do know this is a true story, right? That I remember one day Ed called me when I was still working at Gibbs, and we had the oil thing. You ordered some XP1, which is a 520. You ordered some XP3, which was a 1030, and you ordered some XP6, which was the 1550. And I was like, "All right, what what you doing with all the different of those?" And he's like, "Well, I have three different types of customers. I've got the guys like the Steve Lewis's of the world with the nine racing that would preheat everything and do everything right." So, you could build the engines with tighter clearances and you could run the thinner oil to make more power, right? But then you had some other guys who were they would do that some of the time, but not all the time. So, you had to make those engines a little bit looser. So, you had to run the 10W30 for those guys. But then you had other guys like, I don't know who these people are. They're new to it. They're probably not going to do anything right. I got to build in safety margin. So, you got to make everything looser. So, you got to run the thicker oil. And that's the kind of stuff that this guy taught me is that you you got to think about the customer and the environment you're going in and just not think about, well, what's the trickst piece? You got to think about it as a system, not individual components. Yeah. Back in the drag racing days, we built our own superchargers. And here, this is a rotor out that uh and we machine the groove to put Teflon strips in to help it seal. Do you have to change these strips out every now and then? Yeah, usually about every 10, 12 run, you got to change the strips. Huh. And they just peel out and new ones slide in cuz the groove is a dovetail groove. I mean, I don't know if you can see it. Yeah. Yeah,…