Your Helmet Expired. You Probably Didn't Notice

In this Ferrari Episode 458; Mental channels Ozzy Man reviews, Chrissy snipes a cat on the counter, Chris congratulates former himself for caring, and Tim is just drunk and giggablasting from paradise.

Really, this week we encourage you to actually take care of your race items for the winter so it doesn't get gross. From race gear, to trailers and RVs, to propane tanks and grills, just think about it and clean it before it goes away.

Two races left in the season, then nothing until Barber in February. What you do in the next two weeks decides whether spring starts with a race car or a project. We've gotten every one of these wrong at least once, and thats why we know.

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WHAT WE ACTUALLY TELL YOU TO DO

• Check the date on your helmet. Most manufacturers say five years, most orgs allow ten, and plastics get brittle either way. Mental's is a SA2015 and it now lives on a desk at work as decoration.

• Wash your suit. Cold, delicate, garment bag, hang dry, no bleach, nothing synthetic in with it. Do not dry clean Nomex: the solvents and the heat shrink it and compromise the fibers. Sometimes it isn't that you got fatter.

• Sewing on patches? Nomex thread, not iron-on. Pegasus sells 100 yards for $10. You are worth $10.

• Trailer seam sealer has an expiration date and nobody tells you. Tim's let water run down the inside of the front wall on an empty cross-country tow.

• Fuel stabilizer in everything. Buy the marine formula, it goes much further for the same money.

• Antifreeze in the race engine even though you'd never run it. A cracked block costs more than a jug. Drain it into an old washer fluid bottle in spring and reuse it in the fall.

• Propane never goes indoors. Not the shed, not the garage, not "just under the porch for a minute."

ALSO IN THIS EPISODE

• Waymo recalled the software that let its cars blow past stopped school buses, and the feds say most of the reports came in after the fix

• A Chevy dealer in Arkansas added $400,000 to a ZR1X and named the line item "Hypercar Demand Premium"

• MSR Houston had 94 passes under yellow on Saturday. Class B won overall by simply not getting black flags.

• A Veterans Day PSA at the end, from the four of us to everyone listening who served

TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Why this is episode 458 3:40 Tim's flight breaks, so he renovates a yard out of spite 20:17 Waymo's recall of a recall 22:01 A $400,000 markup with a name 29:55 94 passes under yellow 40:25 MAIN TOPIC: storing everything for winter 41:58 The wheels were never bent 46:19 Check the date on your helmet 51:46 Never dry clean your Nomex 55:23 RVs and trailers 56:33 Your seam sealer has an expiration date 1:03:23 The coffee cup full of German cockroaches 1:05:30 Buy the marine fuel stabilizer 1:16:16 A Veterans Day PSA

LINKS A kit to swap a dirt-cheap flat-six into a Subaru BRZ — Thomas Hundal, The Autopian: https://www.theautopian.com/some-lunatics-are-making-a-kit-to-swap-a-dirt-cheap-flat-six-into-a-subaru-brz/

Waymo robotaxis kept illegally passing school buses after the software fix — Kirsten Korosec, TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/waymo-robotaxis-kept-illegally-passing-school-buses-after-software-fix-feds-say

A Chevy dealer thinks the Corvette ZR1X is a $696,445 car — Adam Ismail, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-chevy-dealer-thinks-the-corvette-zr1x-is-a-696445-car

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In this Mercedes Episode 457; Mental Shreds time, Chrissy rocks the pink hair, Chris blows a head gasket, Tim bends a wheel, does sketchy stuff and gets a hammer to the head.

Then we spend half the show on the real topic: every piece of questionable planning and every sketchy repair we've ever done, watched a teammate do, or seen in the paddock next door. Thirty-five minutes of hard-won, expensive, occasionally bloody lessons. If you're about to do your first endurance race, or your fortieth, put this on while you pack the trailer.

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THINGS WE LEARNED THE HARD WAY

• Tape a printed checklist to the front of the car on Friday and Saturday night. Don't announce it, don't make rules about drinking. People do the jobs they can do and initial them. It's usually finished by 11:00, before anyone gets stupid.
• Do it now. A 99-cent plastic GM clutch linkage part snapped two minutes before the green flag at Summit Point because we rushed a starter in overnight and never tested it. The eventual fix: the closed end cut off a wrench, welded to a socket, zip-tied in place. It worked for years.
• If your car does the same thing for every driver, it's the car. A sway bar set full hard on one side and full soft on the other, STI rear brakes with stock fronts, a brake bias adjuster labeled backwards — we've seen all of it.

ALSO IN THIS ONE

• Mental fed a Tag Heuer into an industrial shredder
• Chrysler's answer to "we need a tank engine": five straight sixes bolted in a circle. 30 cylinders, five carburetors, one mile per gallon, and somehow the second most reliable engine in the Sherman fleet.

SHOW ME YOUR JUNK — AND IT'S ACTUALLY OURSWe don't just joyscroll Racing Junk, we use it. The Sorry For Party Racing 1973 El Camino SS is for sale. $6,000. LS-swapped, turbo 400, six-piston front calipers, QA1 coilovers, Hotchkiss arms, 24 gallon fuel cell, spare wheels with new tires. Built by IOE legend Cory Dickman. California registered and insured, so you can drive it to the track and tow your broken daily behind it. It's won IOE and class C and has a real shot at B. Needs belts and a fire bottle.

TIMESTAMPS0:00 Why this is episode 4573:44 The Range Rover blew a head gasket9:35 STORY TIME WITH TIM19:06 The hammer to the head24:43 "We can't balance the tires. Both rear wheels are bent."30:58 Temu small block Chevy heads34:36 Thirty cylinders, five blocks, five carbs38:13 SHOW ME YOUR JUNK: our El Camino47:23 Mental shreds time54:07 MAIN TOPIC: sketchy repairs and questionable planning1:00:47 The checklist that fixed everything1:02:17 The 99-cent part that ended a class C lead1:13:38 Radios, properly1:19:37 Nobody shares a driver's suit1:24:37 Check your alignment. Then check it again.1:29:24 Make a well-informed bad decision

LINKSTemu small block Chevy heads — Stephen Edelstein, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/buying-temu-small-block-chevy-heads-is-an-even-worse-idea-than-you-thoughtA fix for the Hemi tick after 17 years — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/modern-hemi-v8s-make-a-horrible-ticking-sound-this-guy-mightve-found-the-fix-after-17-yearsChrysler's 30-cylinder star — Mercedes Streeter, The Autopian: https://www.theautopian.com/one-of-chryslers-most-complicated-engines-had-30-cylinders-5-blocks-5-carburetors-and-was-shaped-like-a-starThe El Camino on Racing Junk: https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184840107/1973-el-camino-ss-with-ls-swap.html

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Mustang on Mustang ViolenceIn this Ferrari 456 Episode: Mental explains that adulting is playing in the sand with RC power equipment, Chris does baseball signals while people talk, Eric magically makes balloons appear, Jeff violently eats sandwiches out of Randy's hand, and Chrissy dies laughing from all of the balloon effects.We weren't at Summit Point, so we did the next best thing and got the two people who were. Eric Kritzler and Jeff Wakeman join us for the full hangover recap of the 24 Hours of Lemons at Summit Point, the race where this entire show was formed sixteen years ago.New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE. We do this every week for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture, and we're chasing 1,000 subscribers.WHAT HAPPENED AT SUMMIT POINTMustangs. So many Mustangs. Seven of them in the top 20, and a troubling amount of Mustang-on-Mustang contact. We have proposed an awareness ribbon in the color of a tire mark left on a show-and-shine.Jeff spent the weekend dressed head to toe as a seagull, in a Firebird painted as one, and took a ham sandwich out of judge Randy Bush's hand with his mouth from a twenty foot run-up. Then did it three more times because Nick Pond missed the shot.Garage Heroes ran a full Monty Python theme: seven-plus skits, the Bruces' song, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life sung at a team sitting out three black flags, the Hells Grannies working the potluck and stealing food into their purses, and a cheese board with signs for every cheese and nothing but meat on it.Tom Lomino led commandingly and lost it to a CV joint with a six lap lead.The overall win went to a borrowed Fox body Mustang whose track bar broke off the third member an hour earlier.PLUSA Baja trailer engineered around the parts inventory of a counter in a town you expect to break down near.Twenty-one Previas, three quarters of a million miles, one mountain pass, zero popped hoods.TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Why this is episode 456 3:34 Adulting is a sand pit and RC construction equipment 16:50 A trailer built around a parts counter in Baja 20:13 Twenty-one Previas go to Oktoberfest 30:49 SUMMIT POINT 31:29 Mustang. Mustang. Mustang. 33:12 Mustang on Mustang violence 36:44 The Monty Python theme 38:38 Tom Webb invents "bring out your dead" 40:19 The Shitbird: a Firebird painted as a seagull 44:19 This show was formed here, sixteen years ago 47:09 The ham sandwich incident 50:00 Send us your "return your transponder" song 53:38 Eric's first contact ever, adjudicated live 57:34 The Shitbird gets hit on the straight 1:03:00 Eric accidentally summons balloons 1:06:06 Sunday: nine laps in and the top ten is in penalty 1:10:12 A six lap lead, undone by a CV joint 1:13:10 The awards 1:19:31 I Got Screwed: the Escort that got rebuilt twice 1:24:34 "Bad news, people are listening"LINKS The best trailer — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/totally-overbuilt-race-car-trailer-made-to-withstand-baja-can-be-fixed-with-chevy-truck-parts A truck that runs errands without you — Joel Feder, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-wants-your-truck-to-run-errands-without-you Twenty-one Previas to Oktoberfest — Annie Keller, The Autopian: https://www.theautopian.com/you-meet-the-nicest-people-at-the-worlds-largest-previa-cruise/ Show Me Your Junk — 1990 Nissan 300ZX with tons of spares: https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184836720/1990-nissan-300zx-lemons-car-with-tons-of-spares-.htmlEveryone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.Email: everyoneracers@gmail.com Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracersSend us your "return your transponder" song. Country, blues, death metal — we don't care 👇#24HoursOfLemons #SummitPoint #EnduranceRacing