Aerospace Expertise and Career Shift

>> So, what was your background that made you think about wave pulses and firing orders to begin with? Cuz normal people don't think about that stuff. >> Yeah, I I have a degree in physics. >> So, you're like a rocket scientist. >> Well, actually I was. >> [laughter] >> You saw that picture upstairs. >> Yeah, well, we're going to ballistic missiles and stuff in the military. >> I worked for Hercules Aerospace. I loved that company, and if the uh Cold War hadn't ended, I'd still be there, and I have no idea about this if this this would even exist. >> So, thank god communism collapsed to save NASCAR. >> Yeah, yeah, the Berlin Wall helped NASCAR. There's a benefit there that you've never thought about. >> The butterfly effect is real. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, exactly. Yeah, chaos theory and butterfly in Brazil. [snorts] >> So, you plotted out these firing orders, and we're looking at the back >> plotted out these firing orders, and I and I realized on my own that somebody else had already figured this out. That if you take the inside two if you have your V8 and you take the inside two cylinders here here's here's four, and you cross them over to the other side, and you over here you have the outside two, and you cross them over to the other side, or excuse me, the inside two and you cross them to the other side, then you can actually balance the exhaust. And it does not matter whether it's whose firing order it is. It could be Ford, Dodge, Chevy. It could be an LS firing order or it could be a 350 firing order. By the way, the LS great improvement firing order. You know, everybody oh, I got to have the 5.7 swap. You know, the LS firing order it's just the 351 Windsor firing order. There's two firing orders. You know, you can you can flip them back and forth like that. Just that and that's it. The only way you could actually change the firing order is like they they try and do with the Corvette with a flat crank. >> So, you were trying to make your car sound like 180° headers without building 180° headers. >> Exactly. >> That's actually what you sat down to to do that specifically. >> Yes. >> Really? >> That's a fact. And that that idea I actually had that back in the '70s. And I thought about it for years and I had I had this great aerospace job that kept me really really busy and was making a nice a nice paycheck. And loved the work…