HOW TO START A SPRINT CAR! Breakdown & Step by Step Guide

[@marshockey99]

Great video. If you fire the car as soon as you have oil pressure it doesn't matter about the cockpit fuel shut off. If you push for a while after oil pressure is built and the cockpit valve is open then your fuel pump is filling the engine with fuel, which has been believed to cause them to grenade on start up (bad day). As a fellow sprint driver in the US, I would HIGHLY encourage you to use all your safety gear to fire off the car. I know it takes a lot of time to get into it all, but we had a fuel line come loose and cause a massive fire about a year ago and by the time I got the car stopped and got out (with all my safety gear on and the track fire crew right there) I still spent 19 days in the hospital with 3rd degree burns, requiring multiple surgeries. 20 minutes to suit up may save you weeks within the hospital. Also, always have a fire extinguisher in the push vehicle when you aren't at the track. Totally agree that driving a car is something everyone should do, but it is a dangerous activity (although totally worth the risk in my book). Best of luck! Go fast and may God bless you in everything you do!

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

thanks boss, stoked to get the tick of approval from an experienced driver. Just to clarify, you’re flicking your ignition as soon as the oil pressure goes up to try stop it from backfiring on startup? I’ll be sure to suit up properly from now on and make sure there’s an extinguisher nearby. Thank you for sharing that cautionary tale I think I was a bit excited to get the car started to make sure it was running after maintenance and naively disregarded the danger of doing even that. Appreciate you, thanks for reaching out and i’ll be clutching onto that luck when we go racing for the first time in a couple of nights 🤝

[@marshockey99]

@reyneleesonmotorsport I do what Greg Wilson says and get the oil pressure up, flip the ignition switch and then immediately turn on the gas valve. With that process it will never fill the engine with fuel and not be igniting it, which will in theory keep the engine from exploding (if it were full of fuel). I have had the mag wired wrong before causing it to never get spark and be loaded up with fuel, luckily once we found our wiring problem we were able to pull the spark plugs and push it around in gear with no plugs in to get it cleared out before trying to put fire back to it solving our problem with the correct wiring and fresh plugs. If everything is right on the car then the order on when you hit the switch and turn the valve on probably doesn't matter as long as you do it all quickly, which is always my goal.

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

@@marshockey99 copy that! will take it on board, thanks for the tip!

[@regenmeister9646]

Yep, get the start up wrong you'll "hydraulic" the engine

[@RussellAutosport]

Great video! Agree whole heartedly about everyone having a go in a sprint. I’m currently setting up to run micro sprints here in the US and hope to move into a 305 sprint after a year or so. Your video gives me hope!

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

that’s badass homie im stoked to hear you have a seat to strap into! I don’t know exactly what a micro is cause there’s so many more classes in the US and you can bet if we have it here we call it something different haha. I really hope you get into that 305, i’m rooting for ya!

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

and i’m glad this video can make you feel hope. that’s such a great thing to be able to trigger in someone, thank you for sharing

[@davidsallas7049]

I learned something I have been watching sprint cars for 45 years and never really understood how they put them in gear, thanks for video

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

THAT"S what I love to hear. This makes me so happy, I'm super stoked I could provide the answer and thank you for checking out the video I appreciate you!

[@jansondennis2438]

I love sprint cars thanks to my dad I'm Canadian my dad would take me to noxvill mile wow so fast . RIP DAD miss u mate

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

pouring one out for your pops!

[@fivecitydirttracker4776]

Same here friend.

[@wayupnort6271]

After running a lightning sprint with a 750cc GSXR bike engine for several years I got an opportunity to hot lap a friends 410 in Minnesota one night. Let’s just say that was 10 minutes that I’ll never forget! Smashing the pedal with 900hp in a 1600lb car is life changing for a gear head! Pure pissed off acceleration mixed with a pants pissing adrenaline rush is how I would explain it.

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

don’t doubt it! hopefully get to strap into a 410 for a couple laps one day

[@Daytona_Dad]

Living my dream mate. Enjoy. Every. Single. Moment. Racing a sprint car is something I have wanted to do since I was 4 years old. Looking forward to watching your growth. Glad I found this channel.

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

And I plan to boss. Has been the motto for the whole project, embrace every second. Thank you for coming along for the ride!

[@timothyrichardson4740]

AWESOME VIDEO, THANKS FOR EXPLAINING HOW TO START A SPRINT CAR. I LOVE WATCHING DIRT RACING BUT I DIDNT KNOW HOW THE START UP PROCESS WORKED!!!! KEEP THE VIDEOS COMING...

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

love the energy! so stoked this could be of help thanks for checking it out!

[@kurtstoutner2935]

Good day mate from usa I did work on my dad's ascs 360 for 17 years and from 93 till 2010 in that time I have had about 30 laps total and got to do hotlaps at Knoxville raceway ran a 17.98 lap time I've heard bout the ls platform but have not seen much about it here in the states

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

gday boss! hahaha that’s so sick you got to run knoxville, that’s one off the bucket list i’m sure!

[@kurtstoutner2935]

@@reyneleesonmotorsport yeah it was and I still want to go back if I had a 360 or the opp to drive someone's car but I am 45 now I hope to be able to go to the Knoxville 410 Nats to watch if I can budget for it

[@fivecitydirttracker4776]

👍👍 good luck and be safe.

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

can and will do, thank you boss 🤝

[@timboujos]

Good job on the videos mate. I turn the tap on once the wheels start turning but i honestly think it probably doesnt matter 👍

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

thanks boss! I think until I’m at least I feel comfortable in the car/been on the track more than once I’ll open it before the push, just one less thing I can forget in the moment haha

[@Corky3D]

You guys might do it a little differently, but like Greg Wilson, I don't open the fuel up until, being pushed so it's not putting fuel into the engine, before it's time to actually fire it up. I and a lot of people in the US also use the fuel to kill the engine, instead of the switch. Start slowly closing the fuel off, once it's close to dying, rev it a little to get the last bit of fuel out of the cylinders before it dies. Killing it switch and fuel open, I could see possibly causing fuel to be still in the cylinders and possibly hydro locking then engine. (Might be a little different, since you're not running a standard mechanical injection.)

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

this is great insight! i’m gonna ask some other drivers if they do this cause this makes a lot of sense. thanks again!

[@Kronik24971]

That's very interesting indeed, I figured was something to do with oil pressure before you would want to try and fire it, great to see you having a crack at sprinters, I don't get to Motorplex to much in a year being north of the river but a few times a year, hope to catch you there one day, good luck. Like and subscribe people as I did to follow the journey.

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

I cover that in there somewhere boss! not in great detail but it’s in there somewhere in the chapter “the process”. Looking for the pressure gauge to get above 50 before flicking the ignition switch to fire. I appreciate you thank you!

[@jimwhite7607]

Don’t turn the fuel valve on until you see oil pressure

[@MrAllenservice]

mate raced old steel bodied toranas at speedway in Brisbane would love to have a crack at a sprinter

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

hope you get the chance one day boss! even just once. it's pretty unreal being in the seat of a sprintcar. I am only one drive in that said, but it was like nothing i'd ever experienced and absolutely worth the wait.

[@lionteam]

So that's how to you start them. Well better late then never to learn more about them

[@80nodrog]

Loved the vid man.

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

love hearing that chief. I hope you got something out of it. Or if you knew it all and still enjoyed it that’s just as awesome haha 🤝

[@johnyoung8668]

👍great job on the videos 👍keep up the great work 👍GO GET THEM 👍👍👍👍👌😎

[@reyneleesonmotorsport]

appreciate ya boss thank you!