Penske X-Pipe Features and Aftermath

of an iridite or something, but it's it's it's not anodizing cuz anodizing is only for aluminum. But it's Goldtronics and it's some sort of an iridite, a phos- phosphorescent coating or something like something like that. >> Is that just a Penske thing? >> Yeah. They Well, they found that the durability, the corrosion resistance was was very good with it. >> Ah. Yeah, they usually turn out brown and dusty. >> that other system which came from uh Kyle Busch was uh black. And the uh the the Goldtronics one still had the Goldtronics coating even though it had been hot. >> So, how much was Penske paying for one system back then? >> Oh, the same price as everyone else was. It was their uh retail end user price was uh around $700 a piece. So, it was about uh 14, 1500 dollars a week just just from Penske. >> For the whole like for the Y pipe and boom tube? >> two car team, yeah. Yeah, they they'd buy uh different ones for Daytona and Talladega. >> Was that just for the X pipe part or the boom tube part or >> Well, they they they got to where well, the X pipes were uh very popular uh in uh the uh restrictor plate tracks. >> Like just for that piece, the Rusty Wallace exhaust you had on your floor. >> Oh, that was a >> unit, how much would that cost? >> Seven seven 750. >> And then they probably spent >> Yeah, they >> like several hundred more to get it with that stuff and then just threw away. >> Well, the labor to somebody uh you know, they'd throw it away. >> [laughter] >> They they had some budget. You know, they they had the money. They were they were just so professional. You know, I'd go there and they'd say they'd say uh Woody Butler from knocking out the door, yes, sir. How may I help you, sir? And just just the politest the most professional amazing team that I ever worked with. I just wish rest of world could be like that cuz they were they were they were professionals. And I I don't think you got a job there unless you were you were that way. I invited uh several times some of the fabricators from uh from Penske to come to my condo and watch watch the various races. Um one time we were watching I think it was Ryan Newman. I thought that guy was a pretty amazing driver when he was young. The one fabricator said about Ryan, he said well, if he doesn't wreck, he'll win. >> [laughter] >> He was he was really >> His car…