[00:02] Garrett: "Are you coming to the pits?" Garrett: "He's gonna have to  wait for a tow from the track" Ah shoot that looks like oil.
[00:18] Do you know what happened? Aaron: "I have no clue" Garrett: "That wasn't important, right?"
[00:31] Jay: "Come onnnnnn, oh that's so not good" Jay: "Alright so who's got an engine?"
[00:43] So as some of the team went out to go pick up the engine we found at a local junkyard   the rest of us got the car in the garage and started to disassemble the car   just removing parts so we could get to the engine
[00:56] And finally by the end of the day we were able to remove the engine, but unfortunately it was too late... while we cheered on all the  teams finished the race.
[01:13] I want to see our car finishing the race and be a part of this parade... But we have a lot of work we need to do. We need to get our car sorted...
[01:25] And we left pushing our car into the trailer and this isn't how anybody wanted  our first endurance race to go...
[01:41] Hey guys ChrisFix here and today we are making our big comeback! for the 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race But before we get on the racetrack I want  to bring some good luck to the team...
[01:57] All right team, so last year, as  we know we had some pretty bad luck  And then not having enough  time to swap out to a new one. so I got this...
[02:11] and it goes to the guy who was  unlucky enough to be driving it  So hopefully this year we do much better.  Ok, more than 15 laps this year and we'll go 
[02:28] Our big goals to go to the finish line and finish, and do that parade lap... So there we go hopefully this  brings us a little good luck! So with the car ready to go before we could race we needed a pass tech inspection.
[02:41] And you can see we have an actual theme this year for the Soapy Wooder Racers . So again this year we should pass no  problem and we made the car even safer. Tech inspector Dale went over the car thoroughly and couldn't find any
[02:56] problems so our car passed and we are now allowed to go on the track and race. Next up something we've all been dreading the infamous BS inspection and if not he'll add penalty  laps to even the playing field 
[03:11] Judge Eric: "So this is the  motor you bought last year?" This is the junkyard motor that we  got last year, after we blew up. So the common failure points we tried to make a little more reliable.
[03:25] Judge Eric: "Well it's good to see you back" Judge Eric: "The car looks...  nice? Which is weird... " Judge Eric: "but you know... it's  not just silver which is good."
[03:39] Judge Eric "That's good. So being a BMW you're  gonna stay in class A which is the fast class." Judge Eric " but uh you know....
[03:54] All right so with a safe car and no penalty laps, not only are we racing against 136 other teams,
[04:06] First we have Team BisforBuild  and their 2004 Mercedes CLK 320! And next we have Team RichRebuilds  and their 1993 Volkswagen Jetta!
[04:19] All right and then finally  the Soapy Wooder Racers!  My team, my friends, and we're  gonna kick some butt today!!!   could start is the driver's meeting
[04:31] the rules for the race and to start the meeting lemons always has a charity with a great cause and this time it's Alex's Lemonade Stand which raises money for if we can hit five thousand dollars this weekend we will hit 100 000 dollars that
[04:48] we raised just from women's races so anyway thank you again for coming out to support us and let's hope we get that being so generous thanks again and when I heard there this post to reaching
[05:04] just wanted to say
[05:16] and I want everybody pretend you didn't see that man's face all right all right let's get down to the semi-important stuff general advice for
[05:31] the different rules how to get on and off the track what the different flags mean the speed limit in the pits stuff like that
[05:49] your daddy issues by t-boning and elbowing and trying to step on a guy's head to show how awesome you are right right all right now with the driver's meeting over we have about 30 minutes until race
[06:08] time the team decided I should race first so I'm suited up and I'll get us us have ever raced door to door before except for the 15 laps last year which doesn't really count we have a legit race team everyone has their own jobs to
[06:23] connecting the cool suit and the communication radio and everything in between we good is our expression's good good
[06:38] well here it goes thank you all right hand on track
[06:55] there we go so the star of the race is a rolling start which means we have a few minutes until the green flag so real quick this track is the Thunderbolt Raceway which
[07:10] is a two and a quarter mile long track it has 12 turns and a half mile straight where we could hit 120 miles an hour that's also where the finish line is getting onto the straight and the green flag drops on bees for build who's three
[07:25] at the end of the street is a tight right turn where we'll definitely be can see B is for build right up there if you can't tell I'm very very competitive
[07:39] those guys are good friends of mine but today we're taking no prisoners warmed up yet so I'm being cautious but bees for build is in my sights and I
[07:51] just can't help it now the race is broken up into two days today is eight hours of racing and
[08:05] tomorrow's another six hours for a total of 14 hours there's over 130 cars on the could cause traffic jams which makes things tricky you just never know what into another car and at the same time you want to try to follow a good racing
[08:22] accident could end our race so everything was going amazing I was passing people left and right putting
[08:35] down great lap times but just five laps in we had our first major problem I'm flying down the street at 110 miles an hour passing a couple cars and then this happened
[08:47] and used my left foot to hold the pedal in place that way I could nurse the car back into the pits the problem was the pedal was stuck behind the brake so if I press the brake the car could accelerate now it got so bad that I almost shut the
[09:01] behind bees for build so I kicked that gas pedal from under the brake and I got and make it into the pits at the pits my team was anxiously waiting to try to fix
[09:15] driving like this because the gas pedal fell off good so I was like that and then breaking and
[09:27] which would waste time Garrett Dove right in and I gave him as much room as I could and what happened was the plastic clip that the gas pedal walks into on the floor broke so to fix it we used everybody's favorite track day tool
[09:41] zip ties it's good now and with that the gas pedal was repaired
[09:53] will zip ties hold we'll find out but it's done oh unplanned that pit stop took six minutes which was about three laps so not bad we fixed the problem quickly and I was able to get back on track and make
[10:05] up for that lost time
[10:17] on average each lap takes about two minutes for a pretty decent land sometimes there's traffic or a yellow flag so it's more than two minutes and little less than two minutes and at this point two minute laps wasn't good enough
[10:31] I needed to go quicker so I was passing car after car putting down amazing sub two minute laps over and over and over and I was really cooking out there and it felt absolutely incredible the whole team was getting excited as we closed
[10:44] the gap on bees for build we went from 15 positions behind to one position ahead and I was pushing the car harder than I ever knew I could their nerves of understand why people love endurance racing this is a blast but with the
[11:01] fading nerves I got too comfortable too quickly and I really wanted to get past move to pass but my inexperience quickly proved otherwise
[11:16] I had too much speed and since I didn't want to cut the guy off I kept on the power and I had a horrible race line so I slid off the track and unfortunately when all four tires go off the track you need to come in for a penalty so I
[11:28] headed back to the Penalty area in the pits happens so what you do now when I got in for the
[11:40] defensively that way I don't drive off the track again and since this was the it sounds like he said
[11:59] exactly what he said luckily our first penalty wasn't bad and it didn't take a out our Rivals were in my rear view mirror pulling right behind me because little more than just a warning so this is the Bart Simpson which is a classic
[12:19] so you can take the Sharpie and you're gonna ride on the car 100 times that's this for sucks
[12:36] so as their team rushed to write out 100 s's for sucks at this point we're behind in the standings and this was my chance to pull ahead so I went all out pushing the car to the Limit but being smart where I passed people and after about an
[12:49] hour I was killing it I was having a blast but I wanted to get my friend some seat time hey so it's been about an hour and I want you guys to get some seat time too
[13:01] so let's switch out drivers I'll do another lap so you guys can get ready and I have to be honest after an hour I was exhausted I never thought race car drivers were real athletes but boy was I wrong just in this 500 BMW the
[13:15] g-forces from the turns and the heartbreaking over and over was exhausting even just 110 Focus you need at all times was mentally taxi so now I had a new respect for race car drivers so now with me out of the car it's
[13:30] Garrett's turn to race but before Garrett got in we did a quick underhood we all got to work to fix it as quickly as possible I'll show you guys in a tank and if we didn't address this we could lose all our coolant on the track
[13:48] zip tying the radiator in expansion tank right up against the front core support so hopefully it won't rub so you can see our fix for the race zip ties pulling the expansion tank away from the engine you can see how close the tank is to the
[14:04] pulley and we're thinking and high speed turns the car might Flex or maybe the engine moves just enough so that the pulley hits the expansion tank so I'm overheated the engine ending our race so with Garrett all suited up and strapped
[14:19] into the car he was off and unfortunately this Pit Stop took us over and driving car but B is for build was putting down laugh after lap and now they're 10 laps ahead of us so Garrett has a lot of catching up to do and
[14:34] catching up he did sure for his first few laps he was slow and cautious building up his confidence and learning the limits of the car and while a lot of cars passed him when he
[14:48] first started Garrett got comfortable real quick and started putting down consistent sub two minute laps over and over just watch his Focus as he passes these cars at 120 miles an hour like it's
[15:04] nothing not only that but he caught us up to be his rebuild and we were only one lap
[15:18] behind but every time we get close to them something always happens so Garrett the straightaway and Watch What Happens
[15:38] uh the engine just cut out on the last turn guys copy I just made it I'm coming in now
[15:52] fuel pump Aaron thinks it might be a fueling problem and we'll meet you over there and check it out heading over even at the track so we had to wait for the guest attendant to do it for us
[16:09] so just under half the tank if you're heavy in the turns you're gonna cut thing but the reason for this is because the fuel tank is split into two parts since the drive shaft runs under the tank and the fuel pump is only on one
[16:23] side of the tank with a slower transfer pump on the other so for the rest of the which is going to hurt us time-wise now after we filled up Garrett got back out on the track and finished up his hour of driving he was looking good out there
[16:37] lines and teaching him good strategies of getting around traffic after about an hour Garrett's time was up he got out of the car and this is
[16:50] where the whole team needs work our driver changes are clumsy and slow on for this driver's change we checked the coolant reservoir seems like the zip ties are working to keep the reservoir off the pulley and we also check the lug
[17:04] on the track okay so now it's Ari's turn at this point we're still behind bees for build by five laps and we're an 83rd Place overall so hopefully Ari can make
[17:16] up some time thank you sir and just like everybody else this is and to add to this challenge it started raining and this is actually a good
[17:28] thing for our heavy all-wheel drive car now we had the advantage on the slick drive so they can't take turns as fast without losing grip and while drive to our advantage and Ari got us from 83rd place to 74th Place after his
[17:47] half a tank was up Ari came to the fuel pump and we filled her up we did a driver change so Ari got out and now it's Aaron's turn good luck out there remember we're here to race for two days I just wanted to
[18:01] give Aaron a friendly reminder because I know he's able to push this Beamer the last and this was Aaron's first time in the car since piston 2 decided to make Redemption and Aaron was ripping our lemon's car around the track harder than
[18:19] she's ever been driven before we're only a couple laps behind bees for build and speaking of trouble if you're wondering where team Rich rebuilds has been well fueling problems and fuel leaks which has been keeping them off the track
[18:36] with Aaron blasting away on the track he was pushing the car very hard to catch B chance I'm not sure who is driving but they spotted Us in the rear view mirror
[18:50] and they aren't going to let us pass without a fight so Aaron made his move and we were just barely ahead of beers for build and
[19:04] with only half a tank left after this left he headed in the fuel up and switched drivers back in the car and as I was getting strapped in I was happy to see that team
[19:22] Rich rebuild was making their way out on the track and even though we were racing definitely no fun sitting on the sidelines working on your car while everybody's racing I raced the car for about an hour and a
[19:36] need a really good race car driver or race coach to teach me how to race properly but for now figuring it out on the Fly I think I'm doing pretty good day
[19:55] for tomorrow but he was gonna have to make these last for our final hour on is our last pit stop for the day on the track even though the top
[20:12] he was putting down some great times and not only that the car was doing awesome but unfortunately the same couldn't be said about some of the other cars that we're racing against endurance racing takes its toll and even though it's a
[20:24] long 14-hour race you're still pushing the car hard every lap and for many cars now because the time we spent fixing the car and testing it and fixing and testing this past year our car was running great and then finally after
[20:40] eight hours on the track we finished the first day of our endurance race it was awesome to actually have a running and driving car and we did a total of 187 laps and that put us in 52nd Place out of 136. way better than the 15 laps last
[20:54] year fees for build did awesome as well they are 10 laps behind us in 68th place with 174 laps and even Rich rebuilds was able to get on the track today which was awesome to see so day one is complete and our team morale is higher than ever
[21:08] I couldn't be more proud of our team and how far we've come and our lemon is racing and get to the finish line so it's our final day racing and Ari's
[21:22] car and it's ready to go just one last thing to do fire suppression's going hot okay and now we're ready to race so this is it six more hours of racing left yesterday was great but now we're all a
[21:37] there and be safe dude we have six hours until the checkered flag so let's kick we make it to the checkered flag and finish the race we're about to find out
[21:52] and as Ari comes around the bend with a pack of cars the green flag drops and we are off green flag green flag green flag it is race time go get him Ari foreign
[22:08] happens in six hours but here's the highlights to keep things interesting Ari did an awesome job with consistent sub two minute laps and we got down to 49th Place and this made it so we're no longer neck and neck with B is for build
[22:20] he just ran his best lap of the race at 149 1 but on his last lap before switching drivers this happened
[22:36] I have no clue where that cone came from but in a split second at 115 miles an hour that took out our under tray and our fog light hopefully we didn't damage luckily Ari was able to bring the car into the pits and we had to do a
[22:52] race distracted us and we got hit with an inexcusable penalty unfortunately with the adrenaline going Ari accidentally went too fast in the paddocks the speed limit's 10 miles an hour but we went 32 miles an hour so we
[23:07] got pulled into the Penalty Box Jay gave us a Stern warning not to speed and we 110 agree and we want everybody to be safe so it wasn't going to happen again so we took our penalty which took about 20 minutes and it was time to switch out
[23:19] drivers anyway so now it's Aaron's time to drive while Aaron was getting strapped in the team inspected for damage from hitting that cone and there was no visible damage besides the missing under tray so we were good to go
[23:31] now out of all of us Aaron is the most comfortable in a BMW because he drips them determination to make back as much time as possible he consistently lapped under
[23:46] 155 and for his timeout he got the best lap of the race for our team putting down a 147-6 Aaron is great at pushing the car to a limit but maintaining control right after his best lap this happened
[24:04] and even with that contact Aaron was able to maintain control of the car and safely keep the car on the track and keep us in the race which is impressive speaking of contact Aaron wasn't the only one who had a little bit of contact
[24:16] Slow Down slow down slow down crash on the straight Aaron be careful there's a crash on the street pretty bad horn is definitely down it's uh got a wheel broken off doesn't look
[24:31] like they're going to start moving anytime yeah it doesn't look good now might be a good time to pay so as the whole track was under a caution Aaron's been out for over an hour and a half so it was the perfect time to come back
[24:43] fuel up and switch out drivers yeah come here come here I just had big contact with me on an alignment is like a hair off we just need to watch the alignment on this tire so Aaron explained the steering was off
[24:56] upon inspection the tie rod is definitely bent a little but it should and I guess we'll see how she handles with a bent tie rod
[25:11] and just like that I was off because of our strategy we didn't fall behind in the standings since we pit during the caution and now the track is green so I out the door-to-door race thing just clicked for me I felt like I knew how to
[25:27] more speed than ever before yeah I was in control and looking pretty smooth out there passing cars that were blowing by me yesterday driving on the Ragged edge of the car's limits is a lot of fun
[25:44] then after unknowingly putting down my best lap time of the race a 148 one Garrett jumped on the radio and he let me know Chris can I get a copy I hear you I'm clear Chris congratulations on 300 laps in the
[26:00] soapy water race car 300 successful laughs and a personal best of one minute 48.103 seconds
[26:12] keep on the course and let us know we use fuel we're standing by I can't even begin to explain to you guys how amazing it felt at this moment this is the laps we struggled the entire race to swap a junkyard engine in it was
[26:27] tortured today we just finished putting down 300 laps and we're actually a only had an hour and a half left in the race and it's now Garrett's turn to go
[26:40] out and finish up the race just like everybody else on the team Garrett was putting down his best laps running sub 155 laps over and over and over and getting his best lap time of 147.9 at this point I could safely say
[26:53] we're all just clicking with our lemons BMW but with everybody doing so well and with us pushing the car harder than ever before there was only 30 minutes left until the checkered flag and disaster struck right at the end of the street
[27:12] Jared are you okay yeah I'm okay I don't know about the car though
[27:27] try to drive it and be careful if it doesn't feel right you can always get it towed off the track Garrett's first priority was checking on the other driver he got back on the track and headed in
[27:50] check it out and as Garrett heads in here's a replay from another angle I'm straight with plenty of room and then he followed the expected race line there's
[28:03] comments I'm just trying to see if there's anything we did wrong so that we car and all four tires went off the track we had to go to the Penalty Box so
[28:16] Garrett made his way in and this was our second penalty of the day since our only so he gave Garrett and the team General racing advice on how to avoid contact while racing luckily this was a pretty quick penalty and in less than five
[28:31] minutes we were good to go now upon inspection our rear wheel had red Miata paint on it and a slight Bend to it but the suspension wasn't bent which was good news our poor car was taking some abuse from the Miatas today
[28:43] and Garrett went right back out and made up that lost time from our penalty at this point we're in 38th Place way better than our 138th place from last
[28:56] year and as we neared to the end of the race Ari asked if he could jump in and finish up the last 20 minutes Garrett was cool with it so Garrett got out and Ari got in you're good to go and the rest of the race was in his hands
[29:11] after our wreck this was an intense 20 minutes because Anything could happen at any time and we were so close to getting to the finish line and when that Checkered Flag dropped all we needed to do is finish the lap we're
[29:23] on across the finish line and we completed our first 14 hour endurance race I can't
[29:35] put into words how amazing this felt all the hard work that we put into this car paid off and we made our comeback so we made our way over to the track exit and we cheered on all the teams that finished the race and I gotta say Team B
[29:49] us for a lot of the first day and they finished in 52nd Place with a total of 321 laps which is very impressive so nice work guys and finally what we've
[30:02] all been working so hard for not only did we finish the race this year but we came in 42nd Place with a total of 346 laps foreign and that's just under 800 race miles that's insane what a race and
[30:19] unfortunately team Rich rebuilds had a similar lemons experience to our first after the parade Ari headed back to the garage spot and we met him there to do one more important thing since the engine was still hot
[30:34] now real quick before the award ceremony I want to get an oil sample while the oil is still hot so we could check the condition of the engine and oil after 14 hours of abuse so let's get the hose and the bottle to collect the sample then we
[30:46] can remove the oil dipstick and check it out we didn't burn any oil this entire race so we have a pretty good junkyard engine in here next we want to push our you have to do is turn this nozzle and since the bottle has a vacuum in it all
[31:00] the air is removed that vacuum sucks the oil into the bottle and this is great because you don't have to drain all the oil to get a sample all right so with the bottle pretty much filled our sample is done I'll pack this up and get it in
[31:12] I'll show you guys the results in a second all right and like I said I didn't want you guys to wait on this so here are the results you can see right off the bat we have a 9.4 out of 10 which means we're in good shape we only
[31:26] categories that we're going to cover real quick first we have our signified by silicon or maybe any coolant or water from like a head gasket
[31:39] leak or even fuel dilution from running too rich but overall we are good to go here we are in the green none of these numbers are high so next we have our wear Metals now wear metals like copper lead and Tin could mean that our
[31:52] numbers look great so we are good to go here everything looks awesome we're in the green and then finally we have our last category this tells us the health of the oil and after 14 hours of racing unfortunately the oil viscosity is low
[32:08] and that's not good so if we take a look at the summary from their analysis you can see they tell us that viscosity is lower than acceptable for our 10W-60 oil running the engine at high RPMs high temperatures for extended periods of
[32:23] down those long chains of molecules into smaller molecules and that changes the very bed so we're going to try out a different oil brand if you guys have any
[32:37] think this is a really important information so I'm glad we took the oil all right now it's time for some awards the quest a an overall winner was a 91
[32:52] BMW 318i with 414 laps the class B winner was an 88 Ford Thunderbird with 407 laps and the class C winner was an 82 Dodge Omni with 384 laps and while we
[33:06] didn't win anything at the awards ceremony for us we won by finishing this race and being able to share that with friends was incredible hey guys I'm one two three ready one two three hey guys and to finish it off unlike last year
[33:19] where we had to push our car into the trailer this year it could drive in under its own power now I hope you guys enjoyed our great comeback and remember no matter how badly you failed at something if you really want it don't
[33:31] give up learn from those mistakes and come back stronger next time it'll make that Victory even more special