Kevin's from salvaged to track FRS

[thekevinvo]

Originally Posted by redSerpente

Love watching your content on yt, helped me learn a lot when I first picked my car up. Hope you're getting a harness setup to go with that seat soon

Thanks for the support! Happy to hear I've been of some assistance

Schroth ASM harness probably in the future.

[thekevinvo]

New Tomei Expreme Ti Type-60s catback

[NoHaveMSG]

Okay, that is a dope looking exhaust.

[Cephas]

Originally Posted by thekevinvo

New Tomei Expreme Ti Type-60s catback

Are you running a header on that as well?

[thekevinvo]

Originally Posted by Cephas

Are you running a header on that as well?

Every other exhaust component is currently stock right now other than the catback.

[thekevinvo]

Made it our to our first event of the season at NCM Motorsports Park for Gridlife.

[thekevinvo]

Did a quick test to see how well the ceramic coating on my wheels works

[thekevinvo]

[Swift]

Please tell me you have real brake rotors now... Don't even need a big brake kit, just get some DBA rotors or something.

[thekevinvo]

Originally Posted by Swift

Please tell me you have real brake rotors now... Don't even need a big brake kit, just get some DBA rotors or something.

I must've missed something. What's wrong with the rotors on my car??

[thekevinvo]

Made a trip back out to the local track with a new suspension and wheel/tire setup to see if we could improve upon our personal best.

[Cephas]

You weren't kidding about the bumps, that looked like it could've knocked a filling loose. Great video, and congrats on the PB!

[thekevinvo]

Originally Posted by Cephas

You weren't kidding about the bumps, that looked like it could've knocked a filling loose. Great video, and congrats on the PB!

Yeah, I'm just happy the car didn't rattle itself apart

[rice_classic]

All of this seems to tick all the proper youtuber-as-business boxes:
Clear video (likely shot on DSLR)
Good B-Roll
Clear audio and clean edits and cuts
Anxiety inducing background music (for us older folks)
Large font, catchy thumbnails.
"Like, Comment, Subscribe!"

The only thing missing is the duration. Unless something changed, the YT ad algorithm lets you stuff more advertising into 10 minute videos so you can monetize your content more effectively. Said another way - 10 minutes videos make more money.

Not complaining though because it sucks to watch 8 minutes of fluff for something that takes 2 minutes to explain. Just sayin' if you want to increase monetization....

What I'm really interested in knowing is the intent of such well polished videos for such a small (and saturated) target market. Getting "enough" traction on YT ad revenue could be a good way to offset your hobby costs assuming the channel is operated by an LLC, the LLC owns the asset production operation (Car, camera, computer etc) and therefore a lot of the cost of what you're doing can be written down against your business taxes since it's being used to legitimately generate revenue. Are you expanding to become a youtuber full time, or a way to mitigate the cost of the hobby? SavageGeese did that here - he started off making videos of the twins (mostly negative) to kick off his YT career and now he's reviewing everything under the sun with pretty good viewer counts.

As a racer of cars, I am very interested in a way to A) generate ancillary revenue to fund my hobby, B) find legal ways to write-off much of the expense of my hobby and C) definitely both A and B!

Is something of this nature taking place because I would be curious to know more. I'm also curious about how many labor hours go into each video. Back when I was playing with video editing I was around a 1-2 minutes of footage edit per labor hour on average (I was not good at it though).