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WORLD'S FIRST Stick Shift GM In The SEVENS! Leroy's Most INSANE Pass!

Feb 22, 2020
Since the beginning of the Leroy project there has been someone standing on al

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every corner we have turned saying no you can't do that that will never work and it has only made us work harder oh my god guys I got a nine when Leroy We put turbos on Leroy, we knew he would go fast, we didn't know how fast he would go, but we were going to give it our best shot from the moment I ran my nine-second

pass

. I dreamed about running an age that I knew would happen. It won't be easy with a

stick

shift

car, but we were all willing to make everyone happy.
world s first stick shift gm in the sevens leroy s most insane pass
Oh, at this point it was on, we were going for the

stick

shift

Corvette

world

record, which at the time was out of our league, but we got on board, we tuned in. We got the car up and did our best. No way, the last box. You have to be joking for the record. Thanks for getting me back down there, buddy, so after 848, which was about ten months ago from now, we've been doing everything with Leroy, from getting into drive-thru mischief to picking up Christmas trees, doing half-mile events and even drifting with other youtubers, a visit to Las Vegas with the hoonigan boys, riding on the road with Leroy at Daytona and Sebring, but we knew it was time to get back to business and when we got to Charlotte we finally started Seeing some improvements, we were finally in the 80s and going over 170 miles per hour in the quarter mile, but it seemed like we were stuck in the 80s after running 826

pass

es in the same day.
world s first stick shift gm in the sevens leroy s most insane pass

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I felt like we were very limited aerodynamically after seeing what happened in the wind tunnel. It seems like we were stuck, but last week Texas Speed ​​told me to send it to the motion controller and, while blowing a head gasket in the process, this pass put us just 1/10 out of 7th, OMG, oh yeah, eight 100 178 guys, we got the

world

record that we lifted up ahead in the process, well, we got the world record. Leroy was down, but he wasn't out. We had the Corvette world record, but with competitors very close to us. Heels going for the seven we knew if we wanted to be the

first

GM car with a stick shift in the seven it was crunch time we had to fix this and in today's video we get down and dirty and beat up the ladies and gentlemen we did.
world s first stick shift gm in the sevens leroy s most insane pass
You happen to be on the YouTube network please get on James you had a baby this would be the second head you'll have to pop out this week yeah amazing even though I didn't get my 7. No so I couldn't hold on. my end of the deal, but I had a 7 pound baby, yes, 1 7 pound notes, ounce, 2 ounces, yes. Wow, now I was able to get around my 7 to hold up my end of the deal, okay guys, we got some sleep and We're back in the shop today and we're going to go ahead and rip these heads off right now, get to work, get in there Hollywood boys, it's another scorching heat today, I'm already sweating through my shirt, we'll have the cool.
world s first stick shift gm in the sevens leroy s most insane pass
The bosses started and a minute, but everything to drain fluids doesn't really work that hot, so we brought it here, guys, well, you have to remove both heads. You know the head gasket on one side of the driver's side is the only one I had the problem last night, but we're going to take both heads off, check both gaskets, probably put new bolts on them, we have to mill the heads and get them level again, Tomorrow we'll get new gaskets and put this back together. We have a search for

sevens

, yes, so the entry came out immediately and I think we managed not to scratch it.
That's all the collectors, you know, the squeaks. The keys left them and then we'll finally get it. Come on, strong man, use your father's strength. Your newly gifted father has strength so we have no more problems and everything looks good so you don't have to worry about anything on this side, but it's worth cleaning it up and putting a new gasket on it along with some new bolts. eyes, moment of truth, you can actually see that the gasket is completely taken out down here, look guys, that's our damn head gasket over there. Wow, look what we're working with, oh man, she shot him, I mean they usually turn out pretty bad.
Oh, baby, the important thing. Part I want to make sure there are no burn marks on this and it doesn't seem to have any. I think we're good, man, okay, so I pushed right here so that's where we had our burn mark, yeah. be a big old space, from what I can feel, we're ready to break up, so that just shows that our timing marks were perfect, perfect, I take a little more, oh man, that's the best news I've ever heard the day when it comes to the The block says this all looks absolutely perfect, yes, this is the other concern.
Being here on the block where the gas was really emotional. I think it's totally fun and since you can see the rings there, I guess they did their job and had dinner burning off any aluminum. Let's go well guys, well, we are ready, this is very good news, the bottom is good, the heads are good, there is no need to burn, everything that should be there is there, nothing is missing, no material is missing, yes, like that here is the plan, guys, we are preparing the head. together they spent the night at Texas speed, we're also going to get head bolts from them, we'll replace them, we've got a nice new head, we set up some strong bolts, we'll tighten these puppies up and we'll be right back.
Let's take our heads to fast-forward racing engines, which for us is a local machine shop. Let's get these babies cleaned up. We'll throw them in there again and fill them with sand if it's not bloody raining tomorrow. or even on Tuesday we go out again we're going to use we'll do this as fast as we can there are a ton of shops trying to be the

first

GM car with a stick shift the seven of us want to be the first ones we have To do it, we have to try harder than ever . Alright guys, welcome back.
We are now on the second day of fixing Leroy in the quest for seven. The Texas Speed ​​guys flew out this morning and brought with them some new head gaskets. that we're about to put on Leroy James, dad, the machine shop, milling the heads, all those guys, we've got a rented track tonight and we're going to go out and run seven, getting under the percentage, I could do it with the first come in, ready, Casey, yeah. calming down, it's happening today, we got this right guys, things look good, the heads are back on the new joints, they're on the new bolts, where things are coming back together, this side is done, gotta finish that's with the valve covers on once the rockers are tightened and we're ready to put the intake back on Louie.
Things are looking good. I just tightened James' manifolds. You are doing the power steering bracket. I just put plugs on all the connected spark plug wires right now. We have to put. the input is on, then there's a bunch of stuff that builds up to that point, at that point we use coolant oil, we get this going, we go to the track for

sevens

and then we run this room and then we run a seven, we're good guys, Leroy is starting to look like a race car again we've been racing all day it's al

most

over and we're hitting the track alright folks we're cleared for a fire we're maintaining fuel pressure we've got water.
I have seen that the radiator is overflowing. If it absorbs a lot of water and it will probably be ready, baby, are you ready? Trevor, can you take it to the trash? Well guys, we're here in a big way thanks to Bradenton Motorsports Park who put this together today. Some last minute stuff, you're ready. around seven we go Holly is ready, we run in the right lane, she's fine, come on guys, this is it. I've never felt closer, I've never felt more ready, here we go, oh guys, we just have Holly flashing at the hot tip, she's pulling away, she knows it.
It's going to be a seven, so when we go out what we're going to do is hit it from the start and since there's no one else here, if it doesn't feel like a good pitch, I'll go out in the eighth mile at the latest, you know, even earlier if I can, If it doesn't get tough, I'll just get out of there, cool down, one car, go ahead, again, we're not going to run out of the big end until we absolutely have to because I got it going and we don't want to take another gasket out of it, we just have to get out and if it comes out hard once the pocket man for seven sixty four it was an 85 85 yes 158 I felt very lazy it looked good early and it looked like you had pumped twice, have faith and decided what you were going to do.
I felt like a good left, well, but I felt really lazy up there, we thought maybe you'd be like what was it or something, figure it out guys, obviously. We've dropped 20 miles an hour in the past, when we took the whole car apart today we think we have a boost as we only gained eleven point eight pounds and like I said it was the same tune up we did at the track. the other day, so something is wrong, we have to solve it right now. Let's put these boot leak checkers on your charts. A system will see where our leak is.
Hopefully it'll just be a simple escape and we'll be good to go guys. We think we've solved our momentum problem, what can you expect when you completely strip down a car and rush to get it together and head to the track? If it's not 60 feet, I have to let it go. The last one is really nice. well it was 131 in that 85. I can't believe we ran that with 11 pounds of boost now let's see what we can do. I have 27 in the clutch, yeah I don't know, I immediately released 144 and they spun the clutch. so bad I wouldn't have done it anyway, it's funny, the clutch was so bad in the order it was done, it did a ton, it felt faster than ever, guys who were 17, it turned the clutch at first, must have done a lot. of power that was crazy at ten for the eighth guy 10 miles per hour the clutch we have to cool the clutch we just won 5:15 today it leaves at 5:15 at a hundred and forty-four that's a seven 75 785 3 2 1 36 5 3 at 136 at 8:10 and it wasn't my clutch spinning, it was water under my tires because I had pushed it out of the head gasket right under my left tire.
I mean, that's crazy, that's scary, this thing is getting. a keel as soon as possible, we're done for today definitely ruins because the sevens on the line and we've got it on the back, I mean, if I had held on for a second longer, I mean, I probably would have, but we're talking about a 4 on the 8, although like you might have if I hadn't let him out, there's a good chance he would have slammed into the wall at 160 170 miles per hour. I'm heartbroken though, for sure. that hits we got the little head bolts in the scar and I think it's time to upgrade to the half inch ones damn guys I'm so bummed I mean I'm excited because it's awesome to see the car do that but shoot me. and water under the tires so fast and if I had stayed in, I mean, that could have been, that could have been it for the car and me putting so much power into a car, your founding friend, 28 pounds of boost, push the head gasket outward. in the same place, I'm really bummed, but it could have hurt me really bad, it's so soft and scary it's definitely putting a keel in the picture again, well 5:15 I'm so like, I don't think I'm excited because the car did that. but man it's scary to think that's what he did yeah 129 515 144 840 to 120 so yeah the guys ate at 120 miles an hour 515 today 144 miles now you gotta be kidding me Wow dude that was it , that was the seventh, yes, absolutely.
It was seven o'clock and that was a long time ago. I was about five minutes after we lowered the cameras and prepared to load the car onto the trailer. I turned to Casey and said this might be the craziest thing you've ever heard, but have you ever driven one of these cars with no water down the block? Everyone looked at me like I was crazy, but he said, "Hell yeah, let's send it." The Texas Speed ​​driver said, "Do it, let's do it now or you'll never melt the thing." go ahead so get ready guys we're going to do it with a damaged engine okay guys so here we are this will be our chance to do this so what we're going to do and this may seem crazy to some of you, as you know this engine has water running through it to keep it cool and when we push in a head gasket water comes out of the engine and that's what got in my tires, very sketchy so we'll give this a last resort .
With effort, we are going to drain all the water out of this thing, it will completely melt at the end of that last because it will be very hot without any cooling, but that could be what it takes to have this seven tonight and be the first ones in do it guys, we're back on this, we're getting fans, we're cooling this, we're not going to have water on this road, Todd shows up with an extra fan, we've got the high end crew on board on this. I just sounded like the lowest of the low. I feel good.
I just had the feeling that it will be tonight. We're going to get this if it's even close to what they just made and ate it. HEguys and the last thing I want to thank is all of you, you who support us is incredible and I thank you, I think Cooper thanks you that you would like this to be the The greatest achievement of my life without a doubt seven eight what seven ninety yeah, this one It is without a doubt the greatest achievement of my life 100% thanks to you, it could happen, so thank you all very much for what I got.
I finished there. I'm going to go, I think we need to have a drink and not into the bottom of this thing and thank you guys, I love you all day. I'm sleeping on the run mate, past Lee, could I have been more dramatic? No, it was like we did a More Dramatic, that was all we had like pushing it, starting it, putting it back on stage, the last run, a long day, obviously, I felt like coming here so we could do something with this , yeah, we were so close last week that I just needed some things to go away in five fifteen. before, how it's like, dude, we went from the lowest of the low, like after he got back in the water, we were like, let's load him up and the cameras were rolling.
I was like, wait a second, this might be the stupidest idea. I turned to Chasey. I'm like killing it without cooling, he could do it too, so we drained the coolant well, the water sent it and we put it in five passes later, it worked, yeah, I got through it pretty good to get here, but, but, we got a good one out of them beat this up. car today Phil driving the trailer that's what counts yeah keep it ready for the next race so tell them I think we traded this puppy before we went to the LS I mean everything else is ready to go yeah you're probably hanging around and laps Last night we threw heads and got flights with those guys and I stayed up most of the night like I couldn't even think straight or like your left foot was going hard.

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