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Driving the Route & Addressing Minor Issues

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Rocky Mountain Race Week Day 4: LSXcalade Going For The 9 Second Average! (OKC to Great Bend KS)

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What happens here

Begin the driving portion of the event, navigating through rural highways and small towns. Monitor the vehicle's vitals, particularly coolant temperature. If temperatures rise unexpectedly, pull over and check the coolant level, adding water as needed (the driver adds water from a friend's cooler after noticing high temperatures during a previous dyno run). Be aware of weather changes; the driver encounters rain, which can be problematic for racing slicks. The route takes participants through various small towns, sometimes appearing semi-abandoned, highlighting the historic routes once vital to local economies before major interstates.

Goal: Navigate the route and manage unexpected minor vehicle issues.

Tools and materials

  • Cadillac Escalade — Primary drag vehicle and tow vehicle
  • Racing Slicks Hoosier — Specialized tires for drag racing, perform poorly in wet conditions
  • Water/Coolant — Replenishing radiator fluid in the Escalade

What they say

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and get some real food just demolished the waffle house and we are good to go follow doug and oh wally i'm excited for the drive day today because we're gonna cover some ground it's rolling steady through oklahoma smells like cow patties this is what we're dealing with here the wide open yonder we're cruising oh no pit viper's down okay i'm back the roots take you through a lot of small towns like this one that are kind of like half empty almost it's cool to see but sort of sad at the same time like at one point these places were like you know busy and then all the interstates happened and no one used state highways anymore also i added a little bit of water to the radiator at that gas station because uh on the dyno pfi we got a little hot and spit some cooling out and i never added it back i forgot and i was running you know 198 202 the whole time just driving i'm like man it's not very it's not hot outside it shouldn't be running like that so i added some water from doug's cooler and now we're back to like 180 while we're sitting and it'll drop down to 174 while we're moving that's all good guys it's kind of like a standard thing whenever you drive by somebody's pulled over if they put their thumb out the window like thumbs up then they don't need any help and if they don't or look like they're having a problem stop anyway try to help him it's just the camaraderie of this group we've never met we don't know who that is it's just anybody who's a part of the event is treated as if you know like your boys on the side of the road that's just how it is that's what makes this stuff cool well this is not good there's raindrops there's raindrops on the windshield and i have bald tires i really really hope that this is just a random cloud because it looks to be okay up there uh fingers crossed um okay knock on wood it stopped that could have been really really inconvenient because uh i may have had a lot of these guys continue while i waited if it actually rained hard on me but i think we're good so onward now we made

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