Eagles FIRST Race! Yellow Bullet Day 1!

Hey everyone, welcome back to CJRaceCars YouTube channel and we're here at Yellow Bullet Nationals 2026 for our first ever race with Eagle and I am super excited but before we get to today's video I do want to remind you our current giveaway is live right now. $100,000 Dream Build or C706 plus $10,000 cash or $75,000 cash. All you have to do is go to CJRaceCars.com every five dollars equals one entry into that giveaway plus tomorrow is the last day for the bonus plasma cutter so don't wait go over and get your order if you haven't and I got some kind of bad news this is definitely going to be our last Dream Build giveaway for at least this year and maybe a little bit longer. I really want to make sure that we don't water these down these are really important to us so if you're interested in a Dream Build this is going to be the last one for at least a little while. 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I had this video edited and uploaded already to YouTube and we went up for our first qualifier and on the live feed they said some really cool stuff the announcers did and I wanted to share it with you guys because it is 100% accurate if it wasn't for you we wouldn't be here with this car we have no business having anything this nice I've never had anything as nice in my life and I can't thank you guys enough I know getting into the giveaways some people like them some people don't we try to get back as much as we can by adding to the budget giving stuff in random orders and we greatly appreciate it and what we do make we put right back in this content to do the best we can for you guys and we want to do good with this car we've tested it a ton of times as much as we can before this race if we had more time we would have kept testing because we want to do good we want to make you guys proud you guys are part of the team and I feel like you guys are here riding along with me on this ride and it's a pretty cool feeling locking security sponsored eagle machine here in the left hand side of the racetrack enough people out there that is powered by t-shirts right there powered by t-shirts yes t-shirts koozies stickers all the good stuff all the good stuff camera johnson was like boys if y'all buy enough t-shirts I can buy this race car and they're like brother we got you all right we are here yellow bullet nationals 2026 we finally made it long drive the weather is not great we had some stuff we're going to change to eagle and we thought we could maybe do it last night but it got late weather was bad ac went out in the motorhome you guys thought I was just driving this guy told me I got a driving job for you yeah he did you drove you got to drive the motorhome here drive the motorhome here all the way to florida fix the motorhome fix the motorhome well we got ac now when we left we got it we got ac we're ready so we're going to do some modifications of this in just a little bit that will show you hopefully we can do something this weekend they have testing today and we are paid for testing today as long as the weather holds out we'll get some passes it is day one yellow bullet nationals wednesday uh 9 19 a.m it's a little bit overcast a little spritz I looked at the radar there's no rain on the radar but it did rain here last night pretty good but uh the good thing about our pit is we're on this like grade where it's all going like this way I think if it does rain one of these nights that's just gonna right off it won't it won't pile up in our pit awesome all right we got all the lines loose the cage off the fuel cell here and we're getting ready to pull the fuels out it's mostly drained so hopefully we don't leak a bunch on the ground here a little bit in there but a little bit i'm actually gonna have to uh i'm not gonna pull that number 20 line off because it won't make a because the blower is so close to the chassis on the bottom i'll pull it off and drain the rest of that fuel out all right we don't have a whole lot of room on this fuel cell which we talked about when we were building it ideally you put this fuel cell in front of the blower you could take the blower the gears for the blower everything off without taking a fuel cell off unfortunately for this car that's not possible so we got to get the fuel cell off and drain the fuel is probably the worst part of that well we got the gear drive apart and basically what this gear drive does is it multiplies the engine rpms into blower rpms the blower spins a lot faster than the engine i don't know exactly what that gear ratio is but jamie said it needs to go faster because when we're locking the car up down in low gear or or early it kills the rpms which it needs to be locked up to be fast but when you kill the rpms with a blower that's driven by the crank it kills the boost so we need to boost and we need to lock up so he sent us this here box from harts with some new gears and hopefully the blower will now spin faster cameron's here trying to film me while i'm trying to put on these these fire locks fire locks anybody that's a car guy knows they're a pain in the butt this is the first time i've done a gear on one of these parts chargers so i'm uh let me spool it up first time i've done one of these on on this so try not to mess it up honestly try not to cut my hand you know if anybody's ever messed with spiral locks knows you got to be careful because you will cut your hand trying to mess with them this one of the things is like uh they're almost like a and hoses right when they get the little prickly thing and it hits you and it stabs you and you're like oh my gosh yeah same yeah same same concept so what it basically is just a piece of wire uh flat that they take and they coil up and when it goes it's just like a c-clip or anything else when it goes down in there bunches together like that goes in the groove that's there this one i uh mangled just a little bit coming out you should never take in you know a lot of people when they put pistons together they pull the spiral locks out you know so it kind of like will start here and it's sticking up and you push it in you're not supposed to do that the right way so you just want to work it around there and try to get it on without damaging it uh this here this gear set i've never done this with a harsh target before but like i said i've done plenty of them on pistons and stuff like that so just trying to work it on there this stuff is ultra hard as you can see this stuff is all uh micro-polished here these gears which cuts down on a lot of the friction and i don't know that to be true you know as far as like a and congo hey we're seeing micro-polished gears like as far as that goes but these are you can see they're oh yeah they are you know they didn't tell me i'm just looking at it i can identify that um so they're nice and micro-polished uh this thing gets a one bottle of the gear oil that goes in here which is basically like a rear end type fluid that goes in there keeps all that lubricated as you can see you see these big ball bearings in here so just think about it this heart's charger turns i don't even know i don't know what this gear set set the it's fast it rides on those ball bearings there you can just see the brute size of these gears you know that that is what turns the heart charger off the crankshaft so what happens this is hook this is the crank gear here what i'm holding so basically this is the crank gear and that goes to the blower drive you also have two other gears in here one behind here this one goes to this idler that goes to your fuel pump so your fuel pump fuel pump is mechanically driven off the crankshaft the last setup used to be off the camshaft this one goes off the crankshaft so what happens is it has its own gear set there so it turns at the proper rpm and everything for the fuel pump so so the good news with this is we're getting ready to test as long as we can get this back together and jamie's gonna leave the tune-up the same i think the air is a tad bit better than before and he said with the same tune-up obviously with the blower spinning faster it should go faster the way it was or at least that's a goal get that on time what missed it see you got it on there i rely on here the the base portion is on see the spiral locks on here and uh just gotta take here and i'll put the last part in there it is look at that and so that's it snapped in there i won't tell anybody that there was 30 minutes cut out of this video yeah we work on this car a lot you know like we didn't leave the house i didn't pick you up until 10 30 yeah it was late yeah 10 30 11 monday night which we wanted to leave at seven o'clock so we drove straight here and a little bit of sleep last night camera was doing some editing i was watching the video that he put up i honestly don't watch stuff i do watch the stuff that you put up make sure you're doing your job right yeah i try my best you guys think he does a good job with that stuff i try my best i hope they do some stuff in the comments they really like you know you're doing the editing stuff i'm doing my best lately you know with these races and being out of town i got to do some of it so they love it they love it so that's why i'm not up here unfortunately i can't be in a video and video and edit so sad part is you're real close you're gonna catch all these race today i know that's not nearly as bad as mine no heck no look at the top of my head i don't know if you can see that there but it's rough dealing with camera the last two days and that semi-truck driver a lot more grace oh yeah but um drop in the comments what you guys want to see more of try to do our best here while we're at the track we're just working on things trying to get ready the boys will be here in a few hours we're really struggling without them though yeah you know that they're they're a big part of this team for sure they'll be here at about two o'clock they've got me doing a lot of stuff here i normally don't do this stuff i like to let them do it just because that's what they that's their job and that's what they normally do if i mess this up they'll be on because it's holy smokes i have to get the crocs out to go holy cow like a river oh man i'm gonna need to cry they got these oh no they got the tall that's pretty high over here yeah what's great oh no no no that's no good well unfortunately day two here yellow bullet is so far pretty similar to day one it's wet in the pits it's about 11 o'clock and there may be some more rain coming so we're waiting to see if it does it looks like it might be breaking up hopefully it misses us because we really need to test i think they said they'll run late tonight if they can get the track drive either way we need to make some passes if possible you can see the pits is it's pretty wet thankfully it's not pouring it was literally coming through here yesterday josh you missed it but it was coming through here rough like whitewater rapids through our thankfully that's over yeah it's pretty wet out here bud it's pretty wet so hopefully it's the last of the rain they're trying to fix the generator right now and if the rain does dissipate we're gonna get this thing out and all we have to do really is warm it up and we're ready to pull it up to the lane so hopefully cross your fingers that it don't rain well it's 9 30 and they just called us the lanes we've been here two full days nothing they could do they're running their best they can it's just rain it happens mother nature nothing they can do about it we're just glad that we're hopefully gonna get this past test pass tonight maybe some test fast tomorrow i think they may shift qualifying to half a day tomorrow so that'd be great if we get some more test passes still get three qualifiers but we're getting ready to head up to lanes now 9 30 the air is pretty good the track's pretty good it's all coming around so we'll see what we can do you guys saw we changed the gears and the blower so we got supposedly some more boosts we got some more boost pounds out there some more boost maybe it's maybe i can't say the number but i heard some more horsepowers and it's we had like a kia solar this unit so we got some more horsepower under there too so if that all changes again we don't know about the track it's kind of an error but we're running out of passes so jamie left it basically the same as it was when we went to 998 so pretty fast pretty spicy and we added some more horsepower so let's see he said it should pick up a little 60 a lot of 330 we're going to shut it off at 330 so you're not going to see a three nothing we're going to cut it at the 330 he wants to make sure everything looks good because more power we want to make sure the plugs look good we don't want to go out the back if the tune-up's not right and have an issue so we're going to go up there see what we do well that was good we uh we waited all day we were here and uh we were here and it started raining early this morning it's been the weather's been so hit and miss here and uh basically had the car ready this morning it's been we've been sitting for like 12 hours uh last class to run so we're only getting one hit today sorry about that for you guys trust me i wish we got more than one hit today it felt really good uh everything was just like it was supposed to be jamie told me i could run it as far as i wanted to i ran it down there maybe 400 feet or so just past the 330s want to make sure it went through all the shifts correctly make sure the lockup worked correctly we did take the lockup apart after the last time of the track and we uh did some stuff with the torque converter and lockup to try to help the car when the air is not so good so just trying to verify that everything worked the boys did a great job with the car nothing fell off everything felt really good so we'll go back look at all the data and uh try to see if we can do something tomorrow it's going to conclude thursday here yellow bullets day two for us sorry we only got one pass guys i wish we would get more passes i would like to have had two or three today i'd like to have had two or three yesterday on wednesday but just wasn't in the cards but i think we're close enough to make some stuff happen and uh we'll just pick away at it do the best we can do in between this weather and the time that we've had to go test and uh it's all we can do appreciate you guys following along on our journey and uh stay tuned for friday yellow bullet nationals i believe that we're going to go into q1 tomorrow so stay tuned q1 tomorrow i was it coasted to that that's pretty good waiting on troy and the guys to come back we missed the golf cart ride because there was another one of the cars we built a long time ago was behind us so we we waited there for that saw that pass but jamie miller said it looked good he said look super smooth super happy with it and i think over the recording what they said for the 60 foot was a personal best 60 foot so unless i heard things which is 100 possible because this year doesn't work as good as that i was turned that way so there's a chance but i think we want a new personal best after two days of sitting here we plan to shut off at the 330 that's what troy did in the 330 i think was really similar to our best pass so we're going in the right direction and we're here to race everyone's got to race on the same track a lot of people spun in that lane there was three or four cars in front of that lane and we still went down so i think we got something here josh yeah i think we got i think we got something i know hey we we didn't spin first pass we possibly went pb yeah like i'm happy i couldn't be happier i know i turn around and went to that nova quick i gotta get better about yeah that was the first time i get fired up and i just i don't know i lose focus that was the first time i've seen that car make a pass in person the nova yeah yes never really made it it's made like four let's say maybe 10 passes in like four years yeah that's still my favorite car so it's been kind of sitting i love that car i love it it's crazy it's no eagle but it's great it is it looks good all right let's see what troy thinks about that fast yeah it looked good i mean it looked good unless he saw something we didn't see i'm happy all right celebratory soda pop oh celebratory we're out of town oh yeah yeah and he said best i had it it was cold he said best 60 foot snap i wasn't gonna drink it if it wasn't just so you know that 994 not oh okay the 258 what do you think jamie was seemed super excited like it looks smooth everybody in the left lane spun butt up i think i know like one other person got down other thing i'm turning screws it's time he said it's going to hit that every pass yeah the little flames coming out of the pipe so you can see it yeah the car like in the car i was telling them i haven't raced here in a while so like in a few years like i was in the car and it'd be pointing straight but like it feels like looking at the groove it looks like you're pointing left yeah it looks great right oh yeah it looks it looked really good like in the car it's just deceiving yeah oh i just thought the rain dropped yeah it just seems lightning too oh boy oh yeah man we have been fighting i swear we went from florida to northern florida yeah we drove 18 hours to be back in florida the same heat humidity oh it's about rain well after that pass too many fast we haven't arrived we're only halfway there as long as we don't have any issues we still got a lot of passes left on those rods all right well that's going to do it for today's video we still have a ton of racing coming hopefully three rounds of qualifying and then maybe we can even make it a few rounds in our very first pro 275 race legal i just want to thank you guys again because without you supporting watching this video liking this video following us on facebook buying the merch during our giveaways we can't be here i just want to thank you guys again for that so go to cjrscars.com every five dollars gets you one entry into our dream build which will be the last one for a while so let's make it big you guys support it we're going to keep raising a budget we're going to make even better content it all just goes back into the dream builds the content all for you guys i hope we get to make a lot of people's dreams come true in the future plus let's talk about the sponsors they were also here to support this and we want to show them some love the sponsors for eagle during our first race here at yellowbolt nationals are locker security harlow and co done right insulation right trailers hurricane motorsports alpha fiber flow safe john doc recovery avco spray pro u-bank enterprises anr development tree mark 30 innovations and fish racing thank 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