Hollywood Hot Rod's Troy Ladd provides an in-depth discussion of his 200-mph Bonneville racer 1929 Ford pickup roadster.
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00:00All right, I am here with Troy Ladd from Hollywood Half Rods, and you just got off the Bonneville
00:07Salt Flats with this car, which I was following the build on Instagram.
00:11This is a really cool 29 model A roadster pickup with sort of like what I would call
00:19a track tee.
00:20Sure.
00:21Yeah, it's a little pointier and sleeker for Bonneville.
00:25Yeah.
00:27We're allowed to change anything from the forward of the cowl.
00:31So yeah, this is our car this year.
00:35I mean, we've had it a few years, but this was the first year that we actually got to
00:40do it.
00:41Yeah.
00:42Right.
00:43The first year, it rained out.
00:44It totally rained out.
00:45And the second year, it halfway rained out.
00:46And then we had this car with a different engine and blew the engine on the first run
00:50so that we're done.
00:51Right.
00:52And what was that engine?
00:53Because I remember seeing pictures of the whole.
00:54Yeah.
00:55You had the thing actually turn.
00:56Yeah.
00:57Yeah.
00:58It was great.
00:59It blew out the rods on cylinder one and four.
01:02And there was four holes in the block and you could see through it.
01:05But two and three were still working so I could still run it.
01:08And we drove it off the trailer and you can look in the block and you could see the crank
01:13turn.
01:14And it was really cool.
01:15It's like one of those educational things where you can see how it works.
01:20Yeah.
01:21Like the cutaway.
01:22It was an actual running engine.
01:23That was a ZTEC, which would be Ford Focus.
01:26Yes.
01:27So Ford Focus engine with a turbo.
01:29And it was mostly stock.
01:31Now, that configuration, like even the car originally was built by Kev Elliott, who was
01:37an editor for, I think it was Street Rider and Rod and Custom and he was with all the
01:41magazines.
01:42Yeah.
01:43And so there would have been, I think, probably a few build articles on this and that was,
01:49I'd have to check with Kev, but probably 10 or 15 years ago.
01:53So the first version of it was built by Kev and then he did the ZTEC engine in it.
02:00And then when we blew it up, I talked to the owner because the reason we bought it and
02:07didn't build one is because we wanted to see if we liked it.
02:12I mean, this was a ready to run, you know, here.
02:17He was tired of it.
02:19He didn't really want to race anymore.
02:20And so we bought it to see if we liked it, blew it up.
02:22And then I asked the owner, so do you want to continue with this or are we done?
02:28He's like, let's continue, but make it fast.
02:32So that's this configuration.
02:36The ZTEC, what was the, how did it run with the ZTEC?
02:39Like what mile an hour?
02:40I believe he did 154.
02:42Okay.
02:43I believe.
02:44And then what class was it running in?
02:46So it's the same class.
02:47So it's blown gas modified roadster is our class.
02:52And then the engine designation is G.
02:54So G is 122 inches, which is roughly two liters.
02:59So it's one.
03:00You're kind of stuck with a four cylinder engine then, right?
03:03Yeah.
03:04And when we were thinking about redoing it, or actually we blew it up and think about
03:09redoing it, the G class is really great because it had a soft record, it had a 186 record.
03:15And so we thought let's stick with that.
03:18But as Hot Rod, you know, V8 Hot Rod guys, like what do you do?
03:23So I did research and talked to guys and the choices were like Honda or Acura.
03:29And then we went with Honda because like the K20 Honda is like the LS of the tuner world.
03:37And we use a company called 4-Piston Racing and they advertise that their engines are
03:43good for 1,800 horsepower, 1,800 horsepower.
03:49How does that even work?
03:50Right.
03:51For the two liters.
03:52That's 450 horsepower per piston?
03:55Yeah.
03:56That's amazing.
03:58So I remember seeing the pictures that you had posted on Instagram and it's basically
04:02this is like a billet engine block.
04:03Yeah.
04:04It's like a race version of a.
04:05It is.
04:06And so once I talked to those guys, you know, they said 1800 capable.
04:11And then that's on the far, far end.
04:16They can do it out of regular, like a regular block as well.
04:21But there's an option for a billet block.
04:22So like if you're going to do it, you might as well do it.
04:26So we opted for the billet block.
04:29And yeah, and it turns out that they built the basically the long block assembly.
04:36And then I still had to figure out how to do the rest to make it to make it actually
04:41have that kind of horsepower because they build it to withstand that.
04:45But it doesn't.
04:46It doesn't.
04:47Yeah.
04:48Yeah.
04:49So does it use their own cylinder heads or is it a yeah.
04:52So it's not a production.
04:53No.
04:54No, I don't.
04:55There's probably nothing Honda on the entire engine.
04:57I would think.
04:58Yeah.
04:59And what's really neat about modern technology and stuff is like they make their own heads
05:02and they're CNC ported.
05:04And I bought a from a company called Skunk 2 Racing that makes a lot of high performance
05:10stuff for for Hondas.
05:12And so I found the intake manifold that I wanted to use to go to the turbo.
05:16And it turns out like the guys at Ford Piston already have a CNC program for that manifold
05:21so they can match port everything.
05:23And it's just it's just I mean you got to hand it to like like modern technology and
05:28the ingenuity of guys that want to go fast.
05:32So that's what we ended up for the engine.
05:35And then again then we had to figure out the turbo and turbo manifold and a lot of other
05:44intricacies of of a car like this because it was more or less almost a street car before
05:52and now it's a dedicated race car.
05:54So we we ditched the the radiator.
05:56We ditched a lot of things like that just to make it a dedicated race car.
06:02So a lot of that stuff was just guesswork and research and we made up systems like the
06:08cooling system and the intercooler system and there's an oiling cool system and all
06:13of these things that we just kind of made up and fabricated the parts and then you go
06:17run it to see if it actually works.
06:19So it's I keep telling everybody it's a big science experiment.
06:22Yeah.
06:23And that's what people I think don't understand about Bonneville Racing too.
06:26We were talking about that a little bit earlier is you have all these ideas in your head but
06:32the only way to actually prove it is to go race and that only happens once a year.
06:36Yeah.
06:37If something small goes wrong or it rains or it's sure you don't know until you get
06:42there.
06:43It's really frustrating because you can you can put on the dyno.
06:47You can roll it on a dyno but that's about it.
06:49Yeah.
06:50Like you can't you can't test it.
06:52I mean I drove it up and down the street once.
06:54Right.
06:55But you just don't know if all these things that you're that you you planned worked.
06:59Yeah.
07:00And I was really excited to see that most everything that we planned did work.
07:06I mean like the the cooling system there's no radiator there's just a single 30 gallon
07:11tank and I have a electric water pump that runs off the computer so the computer can
07:15sense temperature and send water through and I also have a mechanical thermostat.
07:22So all of that is the only thing that cools the engine.
07:24So it's 103 degrees out there.
07:27Does that work.
07:28Does it heat up after one run.
07:30Do we have to.
07:31We have a big lid on it so I can put ice in it.
07:34Like we don't know.
07:35We don't know.
07:36Right.
07:37And that's and that's the other thing people.
07:38It's not like drag racing.
07:39These are full throttle full you know at full power full load on the engine.
07:44Sure.
07:45For four minutes three minutes.
07:47You know it's not it's not.
07:48It's faster than you think or the time.
07:51I didn't even know that.
07:52I'm like OK.
07:53So we need to we need it to last five minutes before it overheats.
07:57And then in reality it's like two and three.
08:01Yeah.
08:02But it also the other thing is to you have the three mile course and the five mile course.
08:06So everything changes if you if you're able to to level up to the five mile course it
08:12changes everything too.
08:13So we are we are happy to see that like that cooling system the engine never got over 150
08:21which is like OK.
08:22So we don't have to worry about that.
08:23Yeah.
08:24And then we have this ridiculous intercooling system too which is full of ice and electric
08:28pumps and things and we're excited to see that that works.
08:32You know.
08:33So just a lot of neat things like that that you yeah you once you get there it's just
08:40like you said it like anything goes wrong and you're going home.
08:44I mean the silliest thing could happen and you could just go home after a year's worth
08:47of preparation.
08:48Yeah.
08:49I can't imagine how frustrating it is.
08:51So real quick then how big is the turbocharger and how much boost.
08:56Currently we're at 25 pounds of boost and we're way way under tuned.
08:59So we're we're pretty sure the 1500 is a reasonable level for this based on the tuner and the
09:09engine builder and what we have.
09:12We went with 700 just because we didn't know.
09:15Sure.
09:16You know we want to try it out.
09:17So 25 pounds of boost.
09:18It's good for 50.
09:19So we're going to crank that up.
09:22I believe we're a 79 millimeter turbo.
09:25It's a big big Garrett water cooled big turbo and a huge intercooler.
09:35So the whole nose is basically an air to water intercooler.
09:41We have an ice tank in the trunk.
09:43So so yeah.
09:47And one of the things we did learn is our turbo is a little big and it was too lazy.
09:52So yeah we were we decided to redline at ninety five hundred.
09:58Originally we started redlining at eight then we did ninety five.
10:01The guys that built the engine said we could go to eleven.
10:03But they said if you can keep it less the engine will last longer.
10:08So the turbo starts to get there but since we're we're shifting a little early we also
10:12discovered that in the dyno that the power band of the engine is is down there.
10:17It's more like the six to nine.
10:19So we don't really want to go past.
10:20So sadly that was one of the things of our science experiment is that turbo needs to
10:25spool up sooner.
10:27So we're going to try to change the the exhaust housing to a smaller housing.
10:32It's a 128 AR right now we can go to a 101 which should spool it up faster.
10:36But it's still big.
10:38We'll see.
10:39We're going to go to dyno and and try and we don't want to go back out until we have
10:43like a thousand wheel horsepower is the goal.
10:47Okay.
10:48So rear axle gearing is a big deal for land speed racing to match the wheel speed with
10:54the power band of the engine.
10:55So I heard you when you were trying to move this thing around you really have to rev.
10:59You do.
11:00So it's pretty numerically low rear axle ratio.
11:04It's actually not.
11:05But the first gears the first gears in the trunk of a shooter because we got 343 gears
11:12which isn't I mean that's streetable.
11:14Yeah.
11:15But oh and we're using a Jericho a Jericho dog box you know with air shifted.
11:22So our fifth gear is a one to one.
11:24So if you calc out the one to one with the 343 the key that we have working for us is
11:30the RPM.
11:31So on a street car 343 gears and you're redlining at six it's fast but not that fast.
11:38But if you're redlining at nine it makes a big difference in fifth gear.
11:43Yeah.
11:44So but we have the nice a nice big quick change so we can swap them because that's the thing
11:49that you can it's really important to be able to just to just get there.
11:53Yeah.
11:54I'm not you don't want to waste any extra or you know RPM you want it to kind of match.
11:59Yeah.
12:00Sure.
12:02So getting to probably what most people want to know is like how fast did you go.
12:04So do you want to describe the process of like when you go to Bonneville you don't just
12:09get in the car and go as fast as you can.
12:10Right.
12:11There's a whole process of being certified for first of all the car has to pass a really
12:15stringent tech inspection.
12:17And then you as a driver have to also go through all that's tough certification.
12:23It's really it's really tough but I mean but it's good because they're trying to keep you
12:27safe.
12:28Yes.
12:29Absolutely.
12:30So I mean I'm not I'm not I'm not knocking it.
12:31It's great.
12:32Like so when you're first a rookie you have to go through like a rookie class and they
12:36have to tell you what to do and all of that.
12:39And then also when they check the car they check all the safety and it has to fit within
12:43the rule books.
12:44There's lots of like a lot of rules like crazy not crazy things but things like like we have
12:49steel pipes that protect the fuel lines as they pass where the plane of the flywheels.
12:57Things like that.
12:58Yeah.
12:59So you have to go through that but then also you have to do a bailout and I've seen that
13:04and the bailout was was pretty was pretty sketchy because we we practice it.
13:09So this car has like this flap that opens up so you can pull these cables and this thing
13:13flips up.
13:14Yeah.
13:15So we practiced pulling that and jumping out.
13:18So part of the bailout is that you have to have your full suit on all of your harnesses.
13:23I mean we're talking you have to have a Hans.
13:25The Hans.
13:26Yeah.
13:27The Hans sucks.
13:28Yeah.
13:29Yeah.
13:30Yeah.
13:31Because it doesn't let you turn your head and it locks you in.
13:33You feel like Frankenstein.
13:34Yeah.
13:35So you have all your stuff and within 30 seconds you have to be able to shut off the car, put
13:40it in neutral, pull the parachute, pull the fire extinguishers, unlatch yourself and get
13:46clear of the car in in 30 seconds.
13:49And so it's it's it's tight.
13:53So I had practice open this and so when we first went to do this, they said, OK, what
13:59are you going to do?
14:00And so I'm going to I want to do this and do that.
14:01I'm going to pull this.
14:02He's like, you can't pull that.
14:03I'm like, why not?
14:04He's like, you can't open anything.
14:07You need to just get out.
14:09Oh, wow.
14:10Oh, wow.
14:11I don't even know if I fit out there.
14:15This was the previous version of the car where the window is even tighter.
14:18OK.
14:19Yeah.
14:20Like, OK, let me I'll give it a try.
14:22And then when I got in there, I don't know if they're just messing with me, but they're
14:24all and you need to do it with your eyes closed.
14:27Like, really?
14:28Yeah.
14:29So I did it.
14:30So that was just that was just some of the pre the pre-training that they give you as
14:41a rookie.
14:42So then as a rookie, you have to you can only go see it.
14:49Gosh, I already forgot.
14:51So you can't go over one hundred and fifty like one twenty five.
14:56Shoot.
14:57I think I'm already in trouble.
14:58It's already in trouble.
14:59I see.
15:00Yeah, I remember.
15:01Trust me.
15:02There's certain mile an hour milestones.
15:04I think the first one you can go over a hundred but under one twenty five.
15:08And then once you once you do that, then you go over one twenty five, but below one fifty.
15:14And then once you do that, you go over one fifty below one seventy five.
15:18And then there you can go over one seventy five before two hundred.
15:23And then so that's a B and then an A is over two hundred to whatever as fast as you can
15:28go.
15:29So.
15:30So you have to do all those in increments.
15:31The only one you can double up is is rookie and first first license like because you can
15:40just go and you're allowed to go over like below one hundred twenty five just with the
15:44driver's license.
15:45So but I think that was the one I could double up.
15:48I could go over one twenty five on my rookie run and you can do get rid of rookie and do
15:53your first.
15:54Yeah.
15:55So that's how that works.
15:56And then for the car, if you can get the car over one eighty five before the two and a
16:05quarter mark.
16:06Yeah.
16:07And then that qualifies to be a long course car.
16:10And that changes everything is long course is five miles.
16:13Yes.
16:14And then short course is three.
16:15Yes.
16:16So and I think even the rookie run, I think that's what I think your rookie run, you're
16:19only supposed to go to two.
16:20You're supposed to pull the chute after two miles.
16:23And I think that's where you where you can double up because I I only went to two but
16:27also went over the first license level.
16:30Yeah.
16:31Anyway, it's it's a whole thing.
16:32And they're really looking out for you.
16:33And those guys are so good out there.
16:37They're so nice.
16:38The starters are cool.
16:39Everybody is so cool.
16:41It's a good community and they've been doing it for years and years and years.
16:45And they are.
16:46Seventy five.
16:47I think this was the 76th one.
16:48I want to say.
16:49That's right.
16:50Yeah.
16:51So kind of amazing.
16:52It is.
16:53It's like such a unique experience.
16:56Like it's just I don't know how to describe it.
16:59I mean.
17:00Yeah.
17:01It's different.
17:02Yeah.
17:03It's very much so.
17:04And the driving is not what you think.
17:05No.
17:07Yeah.
17:08I was just going to get to that.
17:09So you personally went 186.
17:10Right.
17:11Or.
17:12186.
17:13OK.
17:14Yeah.
17:15No.
17:16185.
17:17185.
17:18Because the record was 186 and I was one off.
17:19I was one off from the record.
17:20How frustrated are you?
17:21At that point, I was just happy to get it done.
17:24Right.
17:25Because you were saying the car's the car's kind of sketchy.
17:28Yeah.
17:29My.
17:30It was when I think it was my 186 was at the end of the day and the track changes throughout
17:33the day.
17:34And it just seemed to be like really solid, almost like asphalt.
17:37And then at the end of the day, it gets loose.
17:39And I even noticed that the cars that were leaving in front of me were leaving a cloud
17:43of salt.
17:44But in the morning, there wasn't.
17:46So yeah, right after like 170, the car just it just four wheel drifts.
17:53It goes sideways a little bit.
17:54It goes this way.
17:56And I was using most of the the track.
17:59Right.
18:00And you can't do anything about it.
18:03Like you can't.
18:04You just kind of nudge it, you know, help big corrections at that.
18:08Yeah.
18:09No.
18:10And then, you know, and and at one point I was starting to kind of go this way at that
18:14speed and I was getting a little scared.
18:16So I just had my hand on the parachute and just figured just ride it out.
18:21If it spins, just pull the parachute.
18:22It'll be OK.
18:23And then I remember seeing the three mile marker like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
18:28I was like, go, go, go, go.
18:31So, yeah, you get that.
18:33You can't help the competitive adrenaline, too, because, yeah, I wanted to when Bruce
18:39and I were trading up versus the owner, it was like he'd go and I go a little faster
18:44and he were doing that kind of thing.
18:46So it was it was fun to try to to try to beat the other guy.
18:50Competitiveness among you and the owner of the car and then just within the class and
18:54in the class when you when you get when you get your slip and you say you see you just
18:58went one eighty five and there was the records at one eighty six.
19:01You're like, oh, yeah, let me do the licensing up was pretty fun, too, because there's all
19:06these goals.
19:07So and yeah, and to do one eighty five within the two and a quarter was that was that was
19:13took a lot of took a lot of driving every every shift was like, oh, go, go.
19:19The car is starting to yeah, because it was it was really more like that was kind of more
19:22like drag racing than a lot less because I try to get it done in a certain amount of
19:26time.
19:27So.
19:28Yeah.
19:29And you described that.
19:30I've never raced at Bonneville.
19:31I've been to Bonneville before, but you described it as like almost like driving on ice or snow.
19:35Yeah.
19:36It's snow.
19:37It's kind of slushy feeling.
19:38And it is.
19:39And again, I don't have that much experience.
19:42But you know, from what I understand, the track can change dramatically.
19:46And just in the same day that I did two runs, the morning was solid and the night or in
19:51the evening, it was just, you know, it's it's it's.
19:56It gets you a little a little bit.
19:59Oh, yeah.
20:00And you can't then that's the kind of thing you can't really train for or practice out
20:04here.
20:05No.
20:06Right.
20:07Right.
20:08I know.
20:09That's so weird.
20:10I mean, you're not even allowed to like you can't even drive the car.
20:15It has to be towed and pushed everywhere.
20:17The only time this car can be under power is on the track.
20:20So that's a lot of it's a lot of pressure.
20:23Like the first time this car will ever move under its own power is with people in the
20:27starting line and like pressure and it's wild.
20:31So the car did end up going a little bit faster than one eighty five.
20:35It did.
20:36That was just me.
20:37I sadly I ended up having a family emergency and I left.
20:42I had to leave early.
20:43But the owner continued to to move ahead.
20:46So he ended up getting a record breaking the record at one ninety six.
20:51So on a one eighty six we broke at one ninety six.
20:54And that takes in case anybody doesn't know it's it's two runs back to back averaged.
21:00So you have to always back up your run.
21:02So we did it broke the record then backed it up.
21:05So that's in the books.
21:07I think it's been might have been already broken again because there was a fast car
21:10out there.
21:11But that happens.
21:12But all I can tell you is we broke the record.
21:13Whether it's still in the books I don't know but we did it.
21:18So then the goal was Red Hats where we were both the owner and myself where the goal was
21:24to get Red Hats.
21:25I left so I couldn't.
21:26So he was still after his Red Hat.
21:27So he then did a two hundred point oh two.
21:30Yes.
21:31And that's a Red Hat and a record.
21:34Yes.
21:35And so then when he went to back it up we he failed to back it up.
21:39And and so he didn't didn't bump the record and didn't get the Red Hat.
21:43So Red Hat means over 200 and breaking a record.
21:48Right.
21:49So back up.
21:50Then you back up.
21:51Yeah.
21:52Yeah.
21:53So you're you're this close.
21:54Yeah.
21:55And he could he could have done it.
21:56It was just it was just an error.
21:57The cockpit error because he didn't turn on the intercooler pump.
22:01And you know that cool the cold water makes all the horsepower difference.
22:06It does.
22:07Yeah.
22:08You wouldn't think so.
22:09But we were talking about that.
22:10Yeah.
22:11I mean unbelievable.
22:12So the first setup that we have were 25 pounds of boost with one hundred and three degree
22:16ambient temperature.
22:18And it was measuring at 80 degrees.
22:19So we were putting 80 degree compressed air into the engine which is fantastic.
22:23Amazing.
22:24When he forgot to turn on the intercooler that went up to 230.
22:27Yeah.
22:28So it got and we just watched the graph on the computer like oh yeah there goes all your
22:33power.
22:34Yeah.
22:35There goes all the power.
22:36And of course we have their safety things set into the computer so it backs off timing
22:40backs off boost if that thing sort of starts to happen.
22:44So one last thing I wanted to ask you about too.
22:46We talked about the car's weight before and the things you had to do like people may not
22:50understand land speed racing.
22:52You want the car to be heavy.
22:53You want the car to be planted because you don't typically put a lot of aero on.
22:59No and there's restrictions on that too depending on the class and all that.
23:03And part of the problem with with aero if you're adding downforce and things is it's
23:08drag.
23:10The whole what we learned more science is the whole name of the game is horsepower being
23:16able to push through the air.
23:19And so when we look at our data logs like in fifth gear you can see everything climbing
23:23climbing climbing and it just sticks straight even for like on the five mile course three
23:28four and five three miles straight.
23:31The gas pedal is floored but the RPMs cannot rise because there's not enough horsepower
23:36to push the wall of air.
23:38So what are the solutions?
23:40Make the car slipperier.
23:42That's one.
23:43And then or add more horsepower.
23:44But then like aero like you said that maybe gives you downforce but it makes the wall
23:50of air push against you harder.
23:52So I mean some guys I mean a little wing and stuff works because they can push you down
23:57but it's not dragging too much.
23:59You can do it.
24:00So weight.
24:01So this car was like twenty six hundred pounds before.
24:05And then we drilled holes in the frame rails.
24:08They're model A actually original model A frame rails.
24:11Drilled holes in them and filled them with lead shot.
24:14So both frame rails are full of shot.
24:16And then we made little boxes under like the seat and under the water cooler.
24:22And bought a crucible on Amazon and bought lead at the metal supply and just melted and
24:30poured lead into boxes.
24:33And that added oh gosh those were one hundred and fifty pounds.
24:39Lead is heavy.
24:40Yeah.
24:41One hundred and fifty pounds for a box like that.
24:42Yeah.
24:43And then we have a thirty gallon water tank here that's like two hundred pounds which
24:48is roughly equivalent to the driver on the other side.
24:50So all in all we got it from twenty six to thirty six.
24:54It's not enough.
24:55It's amazing too.
24:56Yeah.
24:57It's a thousand pounds.
24:58It's like antithetical to what you think about like I'm going to add a thousand pounds to
25:02my race car.
25:03But I don't need to do.
25:04We were talking to other people and you know they got roadsters and things that are five
25:09thousand pounds.
25:10Forty five hundred pounds.
25:12So I think we're going to try to get to like over four thousand pounds and figure out the
25:16weight bias because right now we're about seventy thirty.
25:21And from what we've researched and talked to people sixty forty or a fifty fifty is
25:25best.
25:26Some guys say sixty forty so you get a little bit more on the driving wheels.
25:30Yeah.
25:31Makes sense.
25:32So last thing then.
25:33So in pursuit of a red hat possibly next year.
25:35Oh yeah.
25:36Do you think lessons learned what do you think you're going to change for next year.
25:40Well we'll go back to dyno and we'll get we we're going to get we want a thousand horsepower
25:46wheel a thousand wheel horsepower will be what our goal would be.
25:51And then maybe a thousand more pounds of weight.
25:56And we may hear some talk about like scanning it and you can do they can do like a digital
26:03airflow.
26:04Oh yeah.
26:05I think that which isn't a lot of money or effort and so that that could be a way just
26:10to see if maybe we could get rid of a few things.
26:14So we'll see.
26:15But the first thing would be more because we did 200 with this and it's less than 700
26:22horsepower crank.
26:23Yeah.
26:24So we got to 200.
26:25So double that or at least get to a thousand.
26:28Yeah.
26:29And then add some more.
26:30That'll be a good start.
26:31Makes sense.
26:32Well you've proven this thing will go 200 miles.
26:33Yeah.
26:34That's crazy right.
26:35That's a good start isn't it.
26:36I would have never thought.
26:37You know I mean I would have because that was the goal.
26:41But still when you actually do it right and it actually becomes a reality.
26:45And I'm still I'm still good.
26:46I'm American hot rodder guy but this engine I mean a little this little Honda thing is
26:52it's wild.
26:53It really is.
26:54It sounds good and I think we'll get a sound clip right before the before we wrap everything
26:58up.
26:59Oh yeah.
27:00But it's it's yeah it's weird for us V8 guys that a huge cam or cams huge cams in a four
27:06cylinder because it's got a bunch of overlap.
27:09It's it's just different than a V8.
27:11Totally.
27:12Yeah.
27:13But you can almost you can almost count the pops like when you count the cylinders.
27:16It's so it's so rough but it's fun fun stuff.
27:19I just like cars and things that go fast so I'm not going to hate on Honda.
27:23I mean this thing's great.
27:25Yeah absolutely.
27:26Love it.
27:27Well thank you very much Troy for your time and look for this on hotrod.com