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Rocky Mountain Race Week Day 3: Race Day in Pueblo! How Will Uncle Rob Handle The High Altitude Air?

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This project chronicles a drag race week experience, focusing on the challenges of racing a high-performance vehicle at high altitude. It details observations of car issues, temporary fixes like sealing a vacuum leak, and the ongoing frustration of poor performance despite efforts, leading to plans for professional tuning.

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[Applause] [Music] priority of concerns when am i supposed to run i don't know two where's the bathroom three does anyone know where to run dogs hot dogs four i still can't find the bathroom is it more powerful than you feel like it should be oh it's day three race day in pueblo it's ten o'clock we're gonna go get some food racing doesn't start until three but uncle rob is uncle rob it doesn't really need any preparations to do anything before we go race we're just gonna show up so we ate a bunch of pancakes ihop pretty good now it is one o'clock we're gonna head in the direction of the track but we're gonna go past the track um after we get some ice and stuff for the cooler make sure we're all good to go and we're gonna see if we can come across anything that is cool i want to find a cool abandoned gas station take some pictures something like that got to be something out there there's a couple ghost towns within a two-hour radius here but we don't have time to go look at those as much as i may want to it almost makes me want to take a trip back out here just for that if you're into that kind of stuff say something in the comments so i can justify doing that so we haven't found anything abandoned yet but we got up into somewhere that has cool looking roads which is i'm sure all we're going to be looking at yeah it's nice we're just taking some pictures taking it in logan's gonna drive uncle rob back to the track or gas station and we're gonna go until they get ice and stuff and i'm gonna answer comments on youtube so you should leave a comment so i can answer it all the ones on race week i can't keep up with as well as i normally do if you're new here but if you hang around after race week i answer almost every single comment that is on a video for the first day that it's live i think the altitude put this thing in a weird part of the map that it's like not tuned for and it doesn't want to idle right yeah you just put it back in neutral to start it you don't have to put it in park is it more powerful than you feel like it should be yeah it's weird why does it feel weird i don't know it feels weird it's a boaty yeah but like usually when you drive like a tahoe or suburban or something it that doesn't feel like grabbing this how so this feels more like driving elvis coolers loaded up ladders are empty didn't add any gas because uh weight savings i really want to beat uncle chat fill it up later i don't know how much is in there but i know we got enough to race them with what are your thoughts and impressions on driving uncle rob it was fun it was like the no effort moving something this big super like in like a regular tahoe or a suburban or whatever you would have to work to go that fast like push the pedal down yeah and you're just big toeing it yeah you're like damn now i have to use the brakes because i'm going too fast they're not even doing anything it's fun torque that's what happens when you have a properly sized turbo you have torque under the curve and it's awesome because this thing literally it drives like a diesel does it drive like elvis in that sense it does it's funny because it feels like you're just driving a diesel whenever you're just cruising the track entrance is super weird like does this look like a track to you it's honor farm park and open honor parm park honor farm park and open space so this in itself is like a mile along the tracks way over there it's pretty neat very weird this reminds me of those mx versus atv games talked about yesterday we pulled in here but just like this stuff i feel like that's you know the stuff you see in those video games uh both of us actually played the crap out of mx versus atv on playstation back in the day if you did too leave a comment let's say hi to robert from forced performance which is the guy that owns the company with this turbo yeah that's him right there does he look like a guy who would own a company he looks cool he's super cool turbo jesus you see his head man you know he's cool what's up mitchell this is uncle rob and all's glory pretty good good good good i'm glad you made it thank you too yeah it's a lot of driving how's the air conditioning hanging out this is the best ac of any vehicle i've ever had the beautiful thing about these chevrolets is you can keep the ac and still go fast really yeah my boost so i kept the acn too i put single cab air conditioner accumulator in it it's really small so i still fit my forage downpipe right past i don't have a lot of air conditioning but if you sit in the front seat it's fine you're still here we're still here still kicking yeah we're getting a little hot yesterday but we're here how has uh how was your week been going so far it's been going really good yesterday the only issues we had were the fuel got so hot and vapor locked and so it was two miles from the hotel so i switched over to the race setup and we drove it all the way there but garrett was having the same issue everyone's fuel's just so hot and trying to keep up with those guys i'm a running 4000 rpm in second gear and everything's like through the roof hot so we back down and then dropping back a little bit but uh those guys run hot and heavy and they go quick and so i was just trying to save the car and preserve the leak you know you got a power ride in this thing power glide yep is your first time out with this car no we did some passes at bmp before we left which went so as soon as we got here i overnighted a circle d converter it's a great band and we put it up on that portable hoist yeah and dropped the put the new converter in i guess the most important question is does it make you happy oh dude it's so fun that's all it matters you look like you've been working hard not really it's just really hot out here overall really hot i'm pretty much going to sit in my air conditioned hotel room all day which is probably why i look so hot yeah you just haven't adapted yet yeah you come outside oh man this is terrible this is miserable what are you looking at chad you got some tape this is famous derrick tape from my from my older brother yeah doppelganger yeah what is this i don't i don't see this we have black hats hair that flips out and facial hair i don't i don't know where it goes everybody i get compared to i got compared to borat in the comments yesterday so i don't i don't i don't think people really have their heads on straight it's your stash do they let you through tech with your stash that's the only reason i got through tech oh they just went they were like you have so many problems but you know i'm too distracted yeah stash how excited are you for you to go to a blueprint did you hear about this yet yeah yeah yeah we're going to blueprint it's going to be fun i'm pumped you're going to leave with another engine i don't know we'll still go to america i'm talking about one off the back it's just gonna happen i'll you know i'll help you you need i need to get you one for a suburban so we can have a suburban beat down that would be fun i am so down for that that would be a lot of fun whatever we could do to get one out of there we'll just make it happen you can create a bunch of promotion or something create a diversion down up front and then like oh she's having a heat stroke or something and we just start pushing right are you are you a country girl yeah yeah you should see all the sickness we added look at this one what is that one it's like a big girl [Music] who put that on there well every time we stop whether it's like a gas station truck stop or part store we've just been adding here we put a pinstripe on the door we added some horsepower then we got this there's like 40 eagles all over it and then i met a fan who was like a big star wars guy he gave me a star wars sticker book so we you know oh wow yeah hard hat area got another big evo i got stickers i'm going to bring you some stickers yeah bring them over let's get them on just don't take them we're getting all the ladies we want to line this all the way up with later i won't steal the lady spot or wherever else though let's go get some stickers stickers acquired we're about to load them up we got some stickers for you don't mind us we're just going to put them in convenient places not next to the fat ladies though or ladies [Music] nice cool [Music] 6.9 per one better be 17.76 i think he likes this one this one yeah he said this one's worth 1776. because it's extra beer 10.76 because it's miraculous sticker game man stickers are sweet let me see this this sticker pack yeah what down the tail hole how much are these six dollars and sixty nine cents still hotterworks.com he's like a pro i didn't even ask him to do that stapleton autoworks.com get your sticker sheets there and if you want cool sticker sheets project prime makes these for me they feel high quality they are they are the highest quality they survive dog vomit and multiple cleanings i don't know i haven't tested that yet all right there we go all of them he got one of everything now that's a good question because we were just looking for that too there's a lot of cars the reality of race week is priority of concerns when am i supposed to run i don't know dude where's the bathroom three does anyone know where to run dogs hot dogs four i still can't find the bathroom that's how this stuff goes at least in kansas you could just go in the field yeah get lost in some corn or something yeah go to the bathroom go get lost in the corn fields man i was looking for you yeah we're late to the party late yeah better late than never yeah well we're just going to play today but got family stuff going on so sometimes that's more important than cars just a little bit it's convenient that it's right in your backyard no exactly so we can make this and come out we don't even see what the track looks like yet so we're gonna go up here and check it out oh derek's about to run on this deal [Music] pizza cutters look at this this guy in the buick got nascar wheels on his car are those actually goodyear tires do you paint that on there are they circle track tires uh the wheels are circle track yeah that's what i was wondering what tires are some some guy bracket races and i've fought him off him for a couple hundred bucks i've been seeing this thing a bunch driving around like that thing's cool it's like it's like uncle rob and faster like uh still original engine and stuff oh it's ls it's lsx man that is jam-packed yeah this is this is sweet what transmission transfer case four l80 and the stock transfer really they held up before our ladies getting in trouble though trying to get your opinion on really what the hell can do with it what's it doing it just keeps going through uh different um the clearance junk is not right i'm guessing i just gotta get better you kind of build it i don't know oh yeah how much power is it making it's pro right now i'm guessing it's about 10 50 at the wheels all right though the rear wheels when i had it they shouldn't it shouldn't take a super radical 480 to handle that in something this small that's what i was thinking i mean if you're you're getting life out of them and you're just a lot more work than it should be that's when you're cramming all that junk into this little tiny and yet it's not i mean it's kind of all-wheel drive it's kind of a pain when you get going this fast yeah and you have i have all this weight and all this little tiny packaging so it's kind of like i wish it was easier i wish i had some more space or at least if it was this small at least it could not weigh 4 000 pounds you know yeah so what are you going to do my eyes fourth house is not bad at all it does seem like it would weigh less though it is really tiny it looks like yeah you got everything in here still which is cool i mean i had all the seats in here until a couple weeks ago my kids stopped didn't care about riding in it so i'm like all right well then why do i have a back seat i might as well save a hundred pounds and try to go a little faster so yeah you got to talk to lonnie at extreme automatics about the 4080 stuff yeah i might he is the man is that who you had luck with yeah he saved me i might have to do that because i'm just to the point where i don't know what to do anymore i think it's maybe comes down to the pursuit of the builder and not just the parts yeah all the details it's i mean i mean you've had a bunch of them out in apartments now i have to and it's like yeah there's got to be a way to i mean i don't want to i don't want to give up overdrive i don't want to give up my my lock up at the top end of the track i don't want me you don't have to yeah i shouldn't have to right i'm not going to film your pass i want to see this thing run hopefully it doesn't blow up man if i like a little trailer or something we can put this thing on a trailer behind uncle rob it'll be the coolest picture ever that would be awesome yeah we're basically the same color let's go watch doug run yeah we have a wild chad in his natural habitat he's just doing his thing just doing chat stuff get points always doing stuff pictures or video right now i was just gonna ask you where they find it at look at this storm it's impeccable farm [Applause] did you go to camera college or something that was incredible well uh uh no i'm home shot he can get that 60 foot down this track is gonna get only better so you're telling me you don't need years of school and a piece of paper to operate a camera and put on the internet i don't know if you get the joke but let's go start doing stuff that's all there is to it let's see if he does a burnout or not [Music] if he does i need to ask him [Applause] [Music] like i needed to talk to you because mine keeps having problems and i'm like all right get your notepad out i'ma help you today no shoot what happened i don't know he didn't like it though watches the typhoon makes it attention to the pit it's in the wrong direction that we anticipated but it's still making a pass but what happened trans wouldn't hold any power really as soon as like as soon as i was coming up on the two step it uh it just slipped and lurched forward and then i'm like oh that doesn't feel good i thought maybe i shut it off thought maybe i broke something and nothing was leaking and he pushed it off to the side and he lined me up along the side of the track there just to test it again and it did the same thing it just won't hold any power we took it on the road course a little bit over there and it won't hold anything over a couple pounds of boost before it starts slipping so i guess i'm calling lonnie's that sounds like uh band the intermediate band and direct clutches could very well be mine did that once i'd get on i'd get on the transit break and it would start to build up like it was you know resistance and then just go like it was just kind of like it wasn't there anymore yeah and you're like but it would still drive yeah and then it just slowly starts to get worse that's what i was thinking i'm gonna it'll drive fine so i'm gonna try to get as far back to great bend where the trailer is as i can before i gotta call the tow truck and then you know hopefully it makes it all the way is it cruising around it's okay i mean i know i could put a turbo 400 in it and switch everything around it just feels like giving up it is and that's that's the terminology i use too yeah you don't have to quit yeah i think there's a way to make it work it's a pain getting it in and out but i'm gonna i'm gonna make some modifications make it easier to get in and out i'm gonna bring a spare trans next time uh getting ready to get in line here just checking out kyle being all famous doing kyle stuff garrett and brent are over there doing stuff to the el camino i'm not exactly sure what we're just hanging out sun's going down a little bit it's getting cooler feels nice just talking to some people out here like subscribers and i really like hearing what people have to say in person because it's different than just reading someone's comment like i like to absorb perspective and feedback from you guys if i meet you in person so don't be surprised if i ask you questions because i will because i want to learn and i want to be better all the time i think it's time i think it's time it's time all right so we are we still doing finish line win or e.t the problem with the finish line windows let me tell you if it's close we got nobody to really tell us there's no wind light it should stay on the time slip oh we'll stay on time yeah it would say win no matter what i'm pretty sure it's not just a heat one yeah e.t if it was et win you'd probably beat me every day the only chance i have was to chop you down and get there first i know [Music] i got to do what i got to do let's do the same rules if i if uh if i can't get off the line again as well let me go let me go take a few things out of the box okay yeah i got some weight in there make sure you leave your dignity in there this time i got a couple hogs in the back seat i'll be right back all right what is going on under here there's a lot of plastic covers hiding a lot of goodness oh goodness let me just tell you i've probably opened this hood three times the two other times because i've been leaking windshield washer fluid and then just now to show you oh sweet i just wanted to flex on you a little bit i don't flex my huge turbo and leave my hood up all day if i had one i might you'll flex your plastic on everyone that's right there normally normally i'm like i can't i'm not good at it perfect good job i gotta do it to the back too you don't even look that focused i mean [Music] i gotta save it save the focus yeah it's gonna like fly off in the past strange rover against the yeah the yucco this is much better than the front i love it i love the style and it's a little uh pretty cougar yeah a little shredded yeah it almost looks like a tomahawk i am acting confident but i'm really nervous because that thing should launch harder than it did uh the other day he just didn't do it right if you actually figured out how to do it i think i may have a problem but we also have the altitude and we have the driver factor so oh here's derek derek's awesome damn look at that sticker that car looks like a freaking fast car now just because of that sticker that's just a fast looking logo i wonder who designed that oh wait it was me i designed my own logo on adobe illustrator fun fact oh my god it's chad let's run him over buddy thanks chad johnny what's that blazer run i i don't think it's anywhere close to it really a five-seven swap but that's it oh i'll race him oh i know i know let's see if we can make that happen we are gonna do all we can do around the water james is running that uh blazer thing that they just bought i wanna see what that thing runs [Music] damn it just is like it can't even get up there it's hitting some weird part in the map this is not making power we were going to get him too we were out on them and then this thing's just like ah i don't know if it was just cold or what that sucked man this is running like crap we're gonna have to go again because that's not acceptable that is unacceptable i don't know i got up to like 4 800 rpm and it was just like yeah it just it didn't want to get up there i don't know if i'm like i got bad gas or something or if it's low on gas last night um you know we went to old chicago i had some pizza smells all right but man like or if it was just cold and didn't want to do its thing but it was just like well you have problems yesterday driving no we had the output sensor go bad but that had nothing to do with it it was just like it was down i could feel it was down on power but it was just like not wanting to do anything up top yeah it was so weird i had a better reaction but it was a faster tree i noticed yeah well if you want to go again let me know yeah…

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