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Personal Project Motivations and Monte Carlo Update

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What Happened to LSXcalade?? "State Of The Union" (Bonus: ALL Project Car Updates & Spoiler Alerts!)

What happens here

The vlogger discusses his decision to temporarily sideline the Escalade to build other projects, like his Monte Carlo. He mentions the Monte Carlo's recent transmission failure (a broken tail shaft) just two miles after being driven. His current plan for the Monte Carlo is to perform a manual transmission swap, but he is waiting for parts to arrive, which are currently on backorder. He emphasizes his desire to get more diverse projects running.

Goal: Showcase ongoing personal projects and explain their current status

Tools and materials

  • Monte Carlo Chevrolet — Personal project vehicle with a broken transmission, awaiting parts for a manual swap
  • Transmission — New manual transmission for the Monte Carlo

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before I put this back together to I'm just trying to explain stuff and you're over there choking on your dick. Like, can you not? I had to go put him in the office. It was too distracting. Anyway, yeah, I wanted to build other stuff. To have more stuff going. And yeah, it was kind of taking like, you know, taking a step back to take four steps forward by leaving that thing apart. And I I I don't think that was the wrong move. The channel is more than double the size it was when that thing was my focus. And now, I'm finally able to work on other stuff, like the Monte Carlo, which in and of itself had been mothballed for 2 years because the Escalade absorbed my entire life. So, I just felt it was time to shed the light on other stuff. As far as technical mumbo jumbo, why haven't I just fixed the heads? Well, they could be fixed, but they're going to break. The castings are just not dense enough to handle the kind of horsepower that this thing is making now and it's definitely not equipped to handle the power that it's going to make because when it broke I was roll racing a ZR1 Corvette that made a thousand wheel horsepower and from a 60 roll and I went around him. I beat him. And he was out on me in the beginning. This thing was making some serious freaking power like over 2,000 at the crank. All day and twice on Sunday, over 2,000 at the crank. That's a lot. That's a lot to ask of a cylinder head casting. And the ones I had just couldn't hang. So, not going to run those again. Uh I'm going to get different ones. I just don't know exactly when. I think I have something in the works, but you know, with the weather last week, everything's delayed again. So, they could be a month out. I don't know. I'm trying. I am putting pieces in play to get this thing put back together. I'm just going to say it in all honesty with you guys. I could have bought heads for this thing months ago, but I didn't because I know if I apply myself and pick up the phone and sit down and type some emails and actually try I can find a cylinder head sponsor.

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