Planned Maintenance and Upgrades

To do that, I need to make new downpipes out of thicker aluminum cuz that one's messed up. I got to check everything. I got some weird oil leak out one of the head bolts on the on the valley. Like every day before I make a pass, I have to like stick a paper towel in there, like absorb it. It's the weirdest thing. Like I'll show you. It had been like this for a while. Like I noticed it driving around cuz before race week, I daily drove this thing for like a week just to kind of like feel out, see what it was going to do. It's It's really weird. Like when it when it gets warm, I'll get like see down in there? There's like this little oil puddle. I think uh I've had like a perpetual oil leak on this thing forever and I couldn't I could never figure out where it was coming from and I think that's it cuz I think it builds up there and then runs down the the valley cover between the head and the valley cover and then drips down off the block. It doesn't actually drip like on the ground, but just like the bottom of the pan and like it's all just kind of soggy under there and I could never figure out why. So, I'm going to fix that, which may require the heads to come off, which won't be the worst thing ever cuz I haven't touched this motor in two years, which is crazy. Like the driver side header and valve cover, I have not touched the bolts in two years. That that's how awesome this setup has been. It's pretty much just been a year of working out transmission issues, which once I made the switch from Rossler to Extreme Automatics, that changed the game completely. Lonnie at Extreme Automatics is like the 4L80 wizard. Like Carl Rossler couldn't figure out how to get a 4L80 to hold 1,100 horsepower in this thing for more than like five wide open pulls. It was freaking ridiculous. And I actually called Extreme Automatics after Rossler told me to get bent, he couldn't figure it out. Meanwhile, he told me that it would hold 2,000 horsepower, no prob no problem when I bought it. And it didn't even hold 1,100 for freaking five runs. Stupidest thing ever. So, I wasn't going to buy a 400 from him, which is what he told me I needed. So, I called Extreme Automatics and Lonnie picks up the phone and I'm like, "Yeah, I'm going to get a quote on a 400." He's like, "Oh, what's it in?" You know, blah blah blah. I was like, "Yeah, I got this 4L80. It's not holding up." He's like, "Who built it?" Rossler. "Well, well, what's happening to it?" And I explained it to him, you know,…