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Engine Overhaul Planning and Performance Benchmarking

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We SENT IT on an F1 Track! LSXcalade Roll Racing on 2,000+ HP!! (Never Been Pushed This Hard Before)

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What happens here

Following the engine failure, the presenter expresses a surprising sense of relief. He states that he's 'totally fine' with the blown head gasket because he had already planned to pull the engine for an overhaul. He sees this incident as the catalyst to 'freshen it up' and reassemble it to be 'perfect, clean, and mean.' He drives the damaged Escalade off the track, highlighting its resilience despite the failure. Later, he interacts with fellow racers, including the owner of a ZR1 Corvette, discussing performance figures. The ZR1 owner mentions his car's speeds of 154 MPH with a blower and nitrous, and nearly 159 MPH with a 100-shot. The presenter reflects on his own truck's performance, noting it hit 149.8 MPH and an unprecedented 29 pounds of boost, which ultimately led to the head gasket failure. The conversation helps benchmark the Escalade's performance goals and provides useful information for its upcoming rebuild.

Goal: Plan the engine overhaul and benchmark performance against other high-performance vehicles.

Tools and materials

  • Cadillac Escalade — The vehicle requiring an engine overhaul
  • ZR1 Corvette Chevrolet — Reference vehicle for performance benchmarking

What they say

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filming now iblue and gaskindale literally as well as soon as literally we were talking about that yeah i kind of knew it was coming son of a that's what she said yeah well hey i drove it back here didn't i you did you know what get me you know we get to do now when y'all get back you're number one today out there man thank you sir awesome hey i laid it all out for the people literally pull it out like oh we thought you locked your brakes i almost did dude i had to stop hard i was going what did i trap 49 yeah i was cooking dude i was like he's gonna have to put parachutes on for the first and like half a second was it 29 pounds dead that's most he ever made this has never seen 29 pounds before this head gasket will never see it again as i guess 149 i think i got him though look you didn't get it i won dude freaking zr1 we were trying to figure out if it was zero one or zero six that's a zr1 i know that was the one with nitrous i didn't want to race you know me i'm a corvette guy through and through but can you imagine having a zero one of me literally talking on the side he literally weighs like three on the side we're like he needs parachutes dude i was pulled out up there and there's this coolant pouring out of the v-band up there and i'm like well guys i think we cooked the head gasket here i think this head gasket's been pushing for a long time yeah because even on my best passes from earlier this year like in tucson you could see a little bit of the fog it would get hot when i come back and man i probably made 15 20 runs on this all like you know probably how many dino poles made 1700 wheel it's all a race week it's lived a hard life yeah it just made two passes well over 1600 wheel wow i bet the la that last run it was probably putting down 18. well you know what i'm sad to say that this happened but you know what i'm happy it happened because i knew you were going to give me a ride and i was going to go home and i was going to hate myself so i'm thankful that this happened so i didn't get to ride it well i'm glad i spared you yeah thanks man do you feel what did you see that boot in the movies where are you going we're going on the road i don't want to get some food you know my car is broken i need to get some food we're not contesting what you do when you want to go eat some food all right i'm down are you going to run out contest right now no road rally and then it's at 6 30. okay you coming back here first yeah okay let me know the burnout…

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