I know how crazy this must seem but I know skip personally and my dad used to know his brother. He’s also a very avid hunter

Can you turn this into a 20 part series? I've watched it 10 times and loved every bit of it.

This is crazy interesting!

ive never even seen a car that looks like this

I think a dirt late model using Drift tires could allow a race similar to racing on dirt

Call me crazy, but I'd love to see a symmetrical late model car for road courses.

lack of inovation is what kills ALL FORMS OF MOTORSPORTS !!!!! they all end up being cookie cutter spec cars.. and the true fans just quit caring and move on to other things ..

I wish you would make a video on just programming the load cell , I bought the set up to build a spring smasher but there is no info on setting up the system

Cool of you to share, I'm impressed of your mindset! Innovation is what drives civilisation forward, those who don't have the skills to adapt to change will push back against any improvement in technology. However any civilization though history that has failed, to stay on top of innovation in any part of technology in society, they domed themselves to the junkjard of history. You never know what advantage in technology that will save the day, life or death, for you as an individual or as a society. So anyone, everything & anywhere needs to be aiming for improving technology. That's the mindset of winners as opposed to the looser of the Darwin race for life.

Nice work. The racing world is full of Karens. Hell, the world is full of these petty types. Racers are a good bunch otherwise.

Damn really cool, especially the telemetry stuff. I had no idea the acceleration that dirt pulls.

This was really good 👍

HAH, I shimmed a flex plate that had 4 out of the 5 lobes broken for 1500 miles!

awesome job Austin ! youve done what every great engineer thrives to doing ....changing the course of technology and getting that edge at the most costless basis of practicality and simplicity. God bless you Austin and your team. I used to race R/C cars back in the late 80's and early 90's and was 1/10th scale late model dirt oval Ventura Roadrunners series champion 1988, track record holder stock ,then the following season 1/10th scale late model dirt oval modified track record holder and series champ 1989. little scale compared to your life scale. makling my dreams reality. thankyou sir

Yes there's always the backroom political angle ( no PUN intended )😂

Well its not a racecar for a person with OCD. I like the hostory and engineering tho

Well its not a racecar for a person with OCD. I like the hostory and engineering tho

I have watched this 4 times and still love it

🤔 Cross beam?

we would get several dirt cars at the open comp weekends at the local 3/8 asphalt track. They were fast running alone but either broke or were taken out by the locals in the main.

IQ over 140 😑

I'd love to see more about data acquisition and telemetry off the car. How you get it, what you're looking for, how data influences decisions. Really cool to see modern R&D stuff in this application.

Having been a tech inspector the rule "interpretation" was hilarious. Been there and fought that- read the rules, not what you want them to say. BTW a interpretation outside of written text can be actionable in court. You may win but never be accepted back.

I did not expect to see my local dirt track in this video, the mention of ultimate motorsports park freaked me out

Can you attach a brake bias handle to the top to make it adjustable while one track?

Thank goodness you didn't go with hydraulic steering! You throw a PS belt; you have *no steering!* And at race speeds, too! There's a reason that no cars with either hydraulic or electronic _assisted_ steering have ever deleted the mechanical connection entirely. It's simply too dangerous as a "fail-deadly" system. At least a conventional PS gives you (heavier) steering control in the case of loss of assist. I'd like to think full hydraulic steering wouldn't pass tech inspection.

great work Austin , congratulations on your continuing research . Pity that your " merch. " , isn't for ( Sydney , Australia ) , no prob , keep pitchin' & I'm watchin ' , bye C.S.

hi there , from ( Sydney , Australia ) , just " found " your presentation . Keep on trying ( Winners never quit , QUITTERS ; never win ! ) , keep the faith , your life is much more eventful , than a ' lounge lizard ' : )

I need to know how/why it works though!!! What is the advantage? Lol. This is gonna drive me nuts!

Love This Video! One of my all-time FAVORITES!❤❤❤

Needed beter shroud for the fan you had.

Super fun video! I think the reason why you are getting higher sustained g's on dirt is because the car is effectively wider while due to being at such a high yaw angle.

Dirt track cars > asphalt cars

Knew a guy back in the late '90s who took an IMCA/UMP Mod run on dirt to 5 Flags in Pennsicola one time, and just had some very old McCreary IMCA tires (back when the local tracks in south Louisiana and Mississippi switched away from IMCA so the regular tire was the Hoosiers) and didn't bother changing the suspension setup at all (old GRT or i forget the brand, Texas made iirc. Used a Gremlin style roof, very dirt oriented chassis, 5 link, pull bar) and did surprisingly well even hiking the inside front well off the ground. My buddy with his '91 Dirtworks (Chevelle frame, 3 link/lift bar) had an easier swap, but was not going to buy the IMCA rims to be legal ("She's saving me money by forcing me to pay twice as much for rims as I normally do, then the sticker comes off the first time my kid pressure washes the car.")

No! Just no!

I mean they do have asphalt super late model classes where the cars built for asphalt

Dirt cars are crazy. Anyone that has never seen one would look at it and say who ever made this car was on a ton of LSD. It makes zero sense, but damn it works and makes for something fun

I was at this race it was awesome seeing how fast these supers were flying,I absolutely loved it.the sounds of the engines was absolutely astounding

reinventing the box

We’ve done this before about 15 years ago

Just knowing that you created something that was better than the norm has to make you feel good and knowing that the rules were changed because of something you created. It's really messed up, tho, because what you created is better and should have taken off where others would use it too. Sad to hear but liked hearing your story. Was interesting to watch. Thanks.

ok so how about asphalt late models on dirt

I'm a bit perplexed about the "tire frequency" bit. Humans can't hear much below 20 Hz, some as low as 12 Hz but 2-3? I think the sound we're hearing is an artifact of the engine RPM against available traction.

Keep them coming. Thoroughly enjoyed!

Failure is essential for success.

We did that thirty years ago , your radio is way off

A guy brought his dirt mod to Owosso Speedway in the late 2000's (I think) to the season ender. Drove it like he was still on dirt and smoked out the heat race. It was awesome!

great job

Hawkeye Downs speedway in Cedar Rapids has been running IMCA Sport Mods as a class. they also run dirt tires iir tbh.

In reference to wheel spin and speed… How much stagger did it have?