Mechanical

What Spares to Bring the Track

DwD 0498: What Spares to Bring the Track

Jeremy is stuck in the middle of a family squabble about what spares to bring to the track. Vicki is worried about space and weight. Bill is worried about losing track time or an event due to not having what we need and have but did not bring. Is Bill right? Does he end up sleeping in the bathtub? Again. Does Jeremy escape without losing a limb or blood? Of course, we also expanded the discussion into the area of tools to bring, since they are heavy and a personal pet peeve of Miss Vicki.

What do you think you need to bring?

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

DwD 0498: What Spares to Bring the Track

Air, Fuel, Spark – Plus Timing

DwD 0480: Air, Spark, and Fuel – Plus Timing

On this episode, we go into one of the areas that Vicki and Bill are worst at: Trouble shooting. One of the fundamental ways to diagnose a car not running is to look at the supply of Air, Fuel, Spark (and timing) to the engine. Once they are all present at the required quantity and time, it is almost magic how the car then starts making that happy noise we all desire. Jeremy tried to explain this to us during this episode. Some of it even seems to sink in.

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DwD 0480: Air, Spark, and Fuel – Plus Timing

GHIT Builds an Engine and a Trans???

– With a Ton of help

GHiT 0434: GHiT Builds an Engine and a Trans??? – With a Ton of help

Our engine gave up at our last race and we needed to (finally) start prepping for real for the upcoming 2023 season. As everyone knows, we started knowing (less than) nothing about car repairs and this week we took on our biggest challenge to date, pull the entire drive train in our 1993 Honda Civic EG Hatchback, build an engine and transmission, and replace it into the chassis for a rapidly upcoming test day. Hear how things went and a ton of learning was had by all, even Bill. Special huge thanks to Chris and Chrissy from the Everyone Racers Podcast and The Three Pedal Mafia for their help and guidance and another thank you to Scott McMichael for coming up and assisting and learning with us. Further proof that anyone can do this as GHiT builds its first engine and transmission.

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PS2 Please do not forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40. Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

GHiT 0434: GHiT Builds an Engine and a Trans??? – With a Ton of help

Turbo Charger vs a Super Charger

DwD 0433: Turbo Charger vs a Super Charger

On this week’s Dominating with Dawson, Ben and Bill go into what the differences are between a turbocharger and a super charger. We have received a few emails recently and seen some posts on the various social medias that indicate at least a few people seem to be confused about each and how they work. We thought we would take a shot at going into some of the key differences between each, especially pertaining to endurance racing. So on an episode with two of the non-mechanicals talking, we go into a mechanical topic. What could go wrong?

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PS Are you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with video? Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are in the midst of installing the system in two of our cars. If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, please use our discount code “GHIT“. This will give 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process.

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

Nik Romano – Suspension 101 – Part 1

GHiT 0430: Nik Romano from Fast Sideway – Suspension 101 – Part 1

Nik Romano joins us to start to dig into the aspect of the race car that we know the least about, the suspension and suspension adjustments. In this episode, we go into the most common different types of suspensions and suspension design and how they work and how these designs and adjustments can lead to some of the biggest gains on track. This is a great starting point if you know or understand nothing about suspensions and suspension adjustment (because we are right there with you). We learned a ton already in this part one and cannot wait until Suspension 101 part two.

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PS2 Are you looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system? If so, please use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems. The code will give you a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40. Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

Links:

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GHiT 0430: Nik Romano from Fast Sideway – Suspension 101 – Part 1

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