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#97 - Mike DeFusco of StanceCo. · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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Welcome back to another episode of After Hours podcast.
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On today's episode we have Mike Defusco of stansco dot JP.
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Oh wait, is it? Is it on now?
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Should we stop freestyle wrapping?
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Yeah, that's what we were doing right before the mics got hot
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mic Mike and Frankie were beefing and doing battle raps.
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We were. They were only you, but yeah.
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Well, welcome everybody to the Faction After Hours podcast.
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We were to bring you another episode tonight.
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We have another guest. We have Mike Stansko, also
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pronounced as Mike de Fusco, right?
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Yeah, yeah, phonetically correct.
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All right. Thanks for coming on.
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Yeah man. Thanks for having.
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Me, me and Mike have actually had conversations on Instagram
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before, and that's why I had to ask you.
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Are you Mike? I know you for the 3000GT and
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the CTS V not just a CTS. Sorry.
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Yeah, come on. Yeah, I definitely seen that
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drifting before at the track. The VS.
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Yeah, it's been here. It's been up north like three
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Times Now. OK, since I built it.
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Yeah, usually haunted moves. Where is it when it's not north?
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It's at our house in Florida. We live in Florida, my fiance
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and I, so we moved down there like 3 years ago but born and
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raised like Philly area suburbs word.
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And just so you know, earlier today, he said he misses it up
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here. I do, you know I do.
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And like from a drifting aspect, I didn't miss it until I left
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it. And now I really miss it.
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Is it, why is it? And I asked a few of our other
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the discord has some people from Florida Drift team risky
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businesses. One shout out to those boys, but
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they have so much land and I feel like no tracks.
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Like why is that? Dude, I don't know.
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And everybody loves old Oval tracks and skid pads.
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There's only so much you can build when the elevation changes
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1 foot. Yeah, dude, I.
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I just I wish somebody would build a road course with like
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elevation change. The thing is, is I feel like it
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doesn't even it. It always never entails it like
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a full Rd. course. It's like a go Kart track or
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something. And in my head in the like 90s
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and maybe like early 2000s when I was a kid and my parents were
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bringing us to Florida and stuff, they would always bring
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us to these go Kart tracks where it's like they were huge and I'm
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like where where are those at now?
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There was one where it was like, literally wheel to wheel.
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Like it looked like an IndyCar. Maybe they won't let Drifters
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on. Yeah, I feel like that's a thing
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too. Is really because I feel like
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Drifters have like that whole thing where people think that
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you're going to ruin the track. Yeah.
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Oh, well, we are. Yeah, kind of, a little.
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Bit, yeah. Not a little bit like this.
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There's going to be a lot of dirt drops.
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Yeah. So the grass is not going to be
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really grass anymore. Because Florida's got great
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grass. I'm just saying like what?
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Like track people that own tracks, I guess care about that.
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Yeah. I wish.
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I just wish somebody could like copy and paste Englishtown to
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like somewhere in Florida. Yeah, good.
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Luck and have that down there, That would be fantastic.
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Maybe some smoother pavement? Yeah.
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What it What would be called Where in Florida are you?
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At are you? So we are like just above Fort
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Myers, Venice area on the Gulf Coast.
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The Fort Myers Sports Complex? Yeah, a racing complex.
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And you you had that name ready to go, that's.
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Why? I was just asking.
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I was just asking, yeah. That would be cool.
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But yeah, is it? Why is it like, that's so weird?
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Florida's huge. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
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I don't know. And it's warm all the time, so
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like, the car's gotta be sick. How's the car scene down there?
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Car scene's alive and well. Really.
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Yeah, but. And because there's no
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offseason. But you know what I've kind of
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noticed, too, because there's no offseason.
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There's no time for people to rebuild their cars.
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Yep. So like things get banged up and
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they stay banged up whereas like when we were up here, you know
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you have what November to April to you know rewrap your car I
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potentially. Rewrap my car every.
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Year. I'm laughing because I'm like,
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yeah, I mean, I guess November to April.
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Crunched. I know it's like a.
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It's a pretty big. Time.
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And you wait until the two weeks before opening moves to, you
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know, start what you have to do for the winter.
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But. Yeah, of course.
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Yeah, I feel like we had that downtime to rebuild your car.
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So like, the scene's good and like, I mean, there's a lot of
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sweet cars in Florida. But I feel like from a drifting
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standpoint, you see a lot more of like the missile car kind of
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stuff because people just have like thrash cars, so that they
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just abuse. It's not like pothole down
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there, right? Like those, the roads are
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smooth. I remember going on there.
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And you, you definitely have a Sun Pass.
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Yeah, you're a Sun Pass user. What the fuck is a Sun Pass?
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Yeah. It's a fucking easy pass.
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The first time I drove down there we had EZ Pass and we're
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using EZ Pass the whole way down and then asked for something
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called the Sun Pass. I was like, what the fuck is
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that? Sounds like sounds like someone
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from Jersey moved there and then named it that they.
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Were like we got to make money down here.
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They got this thing up north called EZ Pass.
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Do you? Remember that photo of you're my
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age? So there was a meme or
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something, and it was like a photo taken at like an Oval
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track in Florida. And the cars are like all over
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the place. One of them has like a flagpole
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coming out of it. And then it was like drifting in
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Florida, and then it was like drifting in New Jersey and it
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was the blood masters all like door to door stacked up.
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And it was dude, I'll never forget that meme.
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I was like, what in the fucking Mad Max is going on down there?
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Like it just looked like some crazy shit going on.
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It's it's interesting. 'Cause it sounds like what
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you're talking about. Yeah, and like, I feel like a
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lot of it is just the way you know you.
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I mean, you guys know Club loose, it's strict, but like,
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it's strict, like you learn how to drive there.
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Whereas I feel like a lot of tracks, some tracks I don't want
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to generalize. I feel like some tracks is kind
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of just like go do whatever you want instead of like let's learn
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how to drift and like let's let's try and get better.
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The OK, the the whole strict thing is like, I don't know it's
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it's tough love, yeah. But but you need that sometimes.
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You need that so that when you go to other places, I feel like
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your standard is so high that you don't.
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You're not the person that needs to be talked to about acting
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like an idiot. Absolutely.
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I've gone to tracks not in Florida, like just elsewhere
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where we roll up in the tech and they see the club loose tech
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stickers and they're like, oh, is this a club loose car?
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I'm like, yeah. And they're like, Oh yeah,
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you're good. I'm like you're not going to
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look at it. And they're like, no, like if
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you pass club loose tech like you're good enough for here.
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That's because Hector already yelled at you once.
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Or maybe twice. That's convenient.
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Yeah, right. A little fast pass.
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Where else? Where else?
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How far have you taken your drifting around the country?
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East Coast, so like E Town, back when they used to run events at
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Dover, they did like a parking lot event there.
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Dover Speedway. They did parking lot events for
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like a year or two there. Where is that Dover, NJ?
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Delaware. OH.
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Delaware. Delaware.
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Yeah, Dover, DE. Yeah, it's a big parking lot.
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It's like the NASCAR track, like Dover, whatever it's called that
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they used to run like parking lot events there.
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I think it was for like 2 years and then something with
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insurance they ended up. Squashing.
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It I feel like I've seen a friend of mine that's a that's a
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pretty big lot. I think a friend of mine, when
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we first started getting into drinking, drinking, drifting,
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when he first started getting into drifting, he was one of the
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first people I've seen where they started going faster.
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His name was Farmer Dan. Dan, if you're listening to
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this, I miss you, dude. But he was.
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He would be moving. Dude, they're.
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All good people all my. Friends are good people.
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No, no. I met him and he's like, hey,
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I'm Farmer Dan. He helped me build my F13 with
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Chris. It's in one of my like old
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YouTube. Videos, tits there.
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No, I didn't know Tits yet, all right.
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But he was one of the first ones that I've seen.
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I think it was there at that event.
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And they started getting pretty big too.
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Like they would get good turnouts down there.
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Yeah. And then we would also go to
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Shenandoah. We've been there a couple times.
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Like right after COVID, we were going to Shenandoah a bunch
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because my 3000 wasn't caged and I wanted to tandem with my
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friends, So we Speedway. The, the old.
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Shenandoah Speedway, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I loved it there. I mean, like the scenery.
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Yeah, it was like the old vibe. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Where like little style hero
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was. Yeah, it does look crazy down
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there. Yeah.
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He was the one Frankie was going to tell me about that.
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He's like, you're just going to look around and it's going to be
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all mountains. It was, yeah.
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And it was like picture. You remember that, Malcolm?
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Yeah, Malcolm was there. I've forgotten, Princess.
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Especially like sunset when the sun starts going down behind
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the. Mountain.
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Oh, yeah. Dude, it was beautiful that day.
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Oh my gosh. Yeah, that was such a great day
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when we went there. If.
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Only it was a good track. It's an Oval.
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It's as good as you make it so. At least the thing I like about
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that is that they have the infield that's completely
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picked. So like you can kind of do
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something with that where it's not just like an X and you have
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to do like. Oh, I don't like the.
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Layout everywhere. Yeah, I don't like the demo
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Derby layout. Yeah, I don't like that that
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track was cool because I feel like that was like a clicking
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moment for me. I'm like hooking it cause 'cause
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we would do like a dry circle and then speed up like hell and
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then like dip down against the wall and then just throw it.
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Yeah, absolutely. Same for me.
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So fun because I was able to follow people.
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And like when I was able to follow people, I could kind of
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like mimic what they were doing and kind of figure it out.
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But then after COVID, I built an angle kit for my car and like,
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we went to Shenandoah a couple times and that's when like my
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drifting really, like, actually started coming together.
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How long you been drifting for? Haunted Moves 2017 was my first
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event. Oh, wow.
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Pretty new. Yeah, I mean, I haven't been
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pretty new. I've been around.
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What the fuck? That was seven years ago, bud.
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Pretty. New.
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Yeah, I've been around it since like 20/12/2013 and.
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Then OK, how is that pretty new Frankie?
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Haunted Moves was like 17. Been driving, I shot.
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I I helped, I was gonna. Ask you if you're a media guy.
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I was for a little bit and then I really kind of got exposed to
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it. A a friend of mine was, he's
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like, we were in like high school I think.
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And he was like, yeah, my buddy Chelsea drives and he like
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drifts and he competes and this and that.
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And so he starts sending me videos and I have like these old
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videos of Dinofa in his black E36 like on a hard drive
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somewhere that my buddy would send me like from his digital
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camera. And so then like I remember the
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one year Chelsea came up for FD New Jersey and all the guys,
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local guys that we all our friend group, they were like,
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yeah, we're gonna go help Chelsea.
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So we like stayed at the cabin that they rented and we just
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kind of helped around the pits during FD New Jersey and it
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turned into like a couple year thing and that was like the
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first time like Wall, NJ was my first time like ever witnessing
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drifting like. Seeing it, seeing it.
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No, you weren't. Like I watched option videos and
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got magazines and. I was a stance kid before.
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Stands go, yeah. I was a stance kid before and
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yeah, it just like once I saw drifting, I was like, this is
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way cooler. What kind of stance, kid are we
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talking here? Like what was your medium
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choice? Don't say Volkswagen.
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Don't say Volkswagen. No, my 3000.
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That was a stance car at. 1st that was a slammed like stance
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car, yeah. For for those, yeah, for those
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of you we mentioned, Mike has a 3000GT, yeah, he drifts that
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3000GT. Yeah, which is a whole nother
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conversation we. Got but now.
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But now you're telling me it was stance first?
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Yeah, that car's been through many different iterations over
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the last 14 years, OK? Is it on your Instagram?
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Yeah, it might be a little deep. Malcolm Malcolm's in the
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building. Thank you Malcolm.
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But no, I I questioned the 3000GT at first because I was
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like, well, one that's one of those cars where you look at it
15:47
and you're like, yeah, that would drift, 'cause it's like
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got big arches, fat butt on that thing.
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The engine's in the front, but it's transverse.
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Yeah, so is the transmission. It's also in the front.
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So that doesn't all sound that. Great for drifting.
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Nope. No, you would laugh if I told
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you the weight distribution, it's like a 7525.
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Oh, so that's that thing's oh, wait, what?
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Heavy. Yeah, wow.
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Yeah, it didn't help when I tube reared it either.
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And oh, YouTube reared it. So it's like 9010 Jesus?
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Christ. Yeah, not great.
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Have you weighed it after that? 3375 without me in it.
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But front to rear percent. Front to front to rear percent
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after the two beer I think was a 7525.
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OK. So currently it's 7520.
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Five. What the fuck?
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Oh God, he's got the Arizona can on the side.
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So that was during a stance phase, that's the car was still
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all-wheel drive then? OK.
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And yeah, RPM, wait, I like that though.
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That's the that's that's the stance that it was at.
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Yeah, yeah. That looks right.
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Yeah, it was. It was still like functional,
16:56
but it was just like more. Kind of like a Ferrari with the
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door vent on the. Bottom I know little Testarossa
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vibe. Hold on.
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I'm trying to look underneath. So that car was also a it was a
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base model when it started so it was non turbo automatic and
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front wheel drive. Oh no.
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There's no way that that that switching it to that was easy
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unless it bolts in. Easier than you would think.
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Really. Yeah.
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So Long story short, I grew up riding in the passenger seat of
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this car like my aunt bought this car new.
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My uncle had it. He Oh, I'd love that.
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So it's been in the family forever, and oh, when I was.
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Looking a little hurt now in that one.
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Yeah, that was E Town did a number in.
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The last picture, it looked beautiful.
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Yeah. That, that one.
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'S That's almost hard for me to see when you put them right next
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to each other. I'm so sorry.
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No. I got into the wall at E Town.
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I think it was. I want to say it was Haunted
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Moves. One year I got into the wall and
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it pushed the back right corner of the car and pretty good.
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Well now now the tube. The tube rear makes sense.
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Yeah, well, I bent the whole tube rear.
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Oh. It was already in there.
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It was already in there, yeah. So the reason I did the tube
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rear was 'cause they have a 19 gallon fuel tank that hangs real
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low in the back and anytime of a dirt drop the tank would get a
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new dent. So I was like, I need to do
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something about this. So we cut the back half off and
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there was a little bit of rest back there too.
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So we just got rid of everything, tubed it like 12
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gallon fuel cell and. I can't believe this car was in
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your family for that long. Yeah, that was about to go back
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to that 'cause you rode in the passenger seat.
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Yeah, like when I was younger, my uncle used to come down the
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shore with us on vacation. And like, highlight of my summer
18:35
vacations was riding in the passenger seat of that car.
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Yeah. It was white still originally
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it. Was Pearl White originally?
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Yeah. And an auto you said.
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And front wheel drive. Yeah, non turbo.
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I feel like a lot of the Volkswagen.
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I feel like a lot of the 3000 GTS that I see are that trim.
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What was the demographic that they were trying to target with
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this thing 'cause I thought it was supposed to be a flagship
18:58
sports car. Like what?
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What? Why are?
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I think it's just one of those things like, I mean the VR fours
19:03
weren't cheap for the time. They were like $55,000 I think
19:06
for AVR 4. Were they?
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Isn't that kind of what the twin Turbo 300ZX was?
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Yeah, I think they all kind of fell around the same.
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Place they're not the cheap cars.
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And whatnot. They weren't cheap, so like you
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had to. My aunt bought the car if I
19:17
remember correctly, because a Flyers player bought AVR 4.
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A Philadelphia fly. Philadelphia Flyers.
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So like a professional sports player bought AVR 4 and when she
19:28
saw it she was like I want that car and then she went and bought
19:30
the base model version. People really be making
19:33
decisions on cars that way. Like, like, isn't that crazy?
19:38
Well, like seeing someone. Yeah, yeah.
19:40
One time. One time.
19:41
I mean, I. Almost did that the other day.
19:43
I saw a GR86 drive down the street.
19:44
You say that every day. Shut the you like that.
19:47
Car you love. The car and I literally have no
19:49
money, but yeah, I wish I could. You will 10 years from now when
19:54
the car's a little cheaper. Yeah, we'll see.
19:55
And our dollar's. Less to be clapped out and I'm
19:57
like, oh, this is great. Then you're gonna buy a shell
20:00
from Kim Ryan Browns just. Don't say his name like that.
20:04
I'm mad you didn't bring me. That's bullshit.
20:07
We weren't gonna do a podcast. Yes, we.
20:08
Were. No, we didn't.
20:09
Have time. I had questions.
20:11
I did not have time for that guy.
20:12
I got home. I got here.
20:15
What time, Malcolm? 12 in the afternoon?
20:19
Yep, 12 in the afternoon. He's still dishevelled.
20:22
I'm not good right now. Dude, me and Mike are fine.
20:26
I'm fucking tired, man. Yeah, right.
20:28
Go to sleep uncle. But that's I don't, I don't
20:32
really understand that demographic that they were
20:34
targeting with that I don't. Know, but it got me hooked.
20:36
Yeah man, look, my my roommate's ex-girlfriend had one of those
20:40
and he said that that thing drove like a yacht, like, out
20:43
the box. Yeah, I mean even the non turbo
20:47
version, it was a very comfortable car heavy cartoon.
20:51
But yeah, I mean, they're just, they're great cars, but they had
20:54
like, they had, they're plagued with like the common issues that
20:57
everybody's like, oh, they do this, oh, they.
20:59
What are some of the common issues?
21:01
Spinning bearings. Oh, that's a pretty bad issue.
21:03
That's. But it's.
21:04
One of. Those things where.
21:05
Timing belts. That's a pretty bad issue.
21:07
But it's one of those things where like if you just take care
21:10
of it, it'll it'll be fine. But Mike.
21:12
I mean, you got the. Engine Bay in that thing, It's
21:15
tight. Let's.
21:17
Just simply take care of it. Is is a task?
21:20
Yeah, there's some recent ones on my Instagram, 'cause I just.
21:23
Yeah, I don't know what these. Redid the whole end.
21:25
It's. It's small in.
21:26
There, I know what it is, but I don't know like what it really
21:30
looks like. Yeah, that's that was like.
21:34
Exaggerated. Yeah, Mike.
21:36
Just slim. I'll take a 300 DX please.
21:38
Simply do the timing belt is a fucking.
21:42
Yes, it's not easy. I will say that.
21:44
I mean so. I gotta ask you, 'cause I had a
21:46
customer e-mail us and they were like, yeah, I got a 3000 GTI
21:51
wanna make it AVR 4. And I was like, goodbye, don't
21:54
do it. Yeah.
21:55
Did I ask you this already? You did OK, yeah, we were.
21:57
Well, we were talking about it outside, yeah.
22:00
So to make it AVR 4 engine bolt in, transmission bolt in like
22:04
everything is the same clutch pedal.
22:05
You can you drill the hole and you do all that.
22:08
The biggest difference is the front mounts for the rear
22:13
subframe. So on the non turbo, so rear
22:16
subframe non turbo it's a trailing arm style and the VR4's
22:22
the trailing arm is attached to the subframe whereas on the base
22:25
models it's attached to the body.
22:27
So you actually need the floor section from AVR 4 for with that
22:32
those front mounts. Oh, you're losing so.
22:34
You cut the trailing. Can you say rear subframe?
22:36
You have a. You need to have a call.
22:37
Need to change the rear subframe in order to do the twin turbo
22:40
well. So did they want it all-wheel
22:42
drive or they just want it twin turbo?
22:45
'Cause there's the all the twin. Turbo So like you can do the
22:48
twin turbo stuff. That's not that bad to do
22:50
because everything's kind of just like a bolt on situation,
22:53
but it's when you go all-wheel drive, that's when you.
22:55
Change the rear subframe, change the rear.
22:57
Subframe, you gotta add 2 mounts, yeah?
22:59
What about the trans situation? If you were to keep it from
23:01
wheel drive, does it just not go into the T case or something?
23:05
Yeah, it's a different trans, but like like it's the same
23:09
package, you know what I mean? So like everything.
23:12
Both shifter cables are like all the same.
23:14
You know all that stuff I. Thought it was really weird that
23:16
they like I I'm pretty sure it's like a completely different
23:18
engine or something or like it's like.
23:21
So they're both the six G 72, so it's a 3 liter V. 6 So it's the
23:25
same engine. Yeah, and then there's just the
23:27
Turbos turbo version. Turbo version.
23:29
Yo, that sounds so weird because it's like 4G63.
23:34
That's a Mitsubishi motor, yeah? And then or 4B11T Johnny.
23:40
And then what did you say it was?
23:41
A six. 6G72 it's. Just bigger.
23:44
Numbers. Bigger numbers.
23:47
Yeah. And I'm pretty sure they were
23:48
like initially like truck engines and they just kind of
23:51
turned them into these. That first comment still so wild
23:54
seeing a transverse engine in a Druke party, yeah.
23:56
So what? What was your you went?
23:58
What suspension are you? Wanting.
23:59
Well, it's. Like an Evo from Stance, I
24:00
guess. Well, were you static?
24:03
Yeah. Oh yeah.
24:04
Always. I don't do air running.
24:05
You like that word, you? Like that word?
24:08
So I just had, like, Megan racing coilovers and then some
24:13
adjustable arms in the back just to get the camber right.
24:15
And then once I started drifting it, I swapped out the springs.
24:19
I just had like ibox springs on the Megan Coilovers and 'cause
24:23
there, there isn't like a huge product offering out there,
24:26
especially the drifting stuff, you know?
24:28
So, like it was, the more I started drifting that car, the
24:31
more I just kind of had to start figuring it out myself.
24:34
BC doesn't make coilovers. They do just the BRS though, so
24:37
I'm like. Yeah, yeah.
24:40
And what are you on now? Same.
24:42
Same like same suspension, same coilovers, just springs.
24:46
Just raise it up, raise it up. Yeah, cuz once I did the angle
24:49
kit, we extended the lower control arms and then I did like
24:52
a carbon my body on it. And even with that, though,
24:57
wheels. They did.
24:58
They did, Yeah. Who just yeah, just did a carbon
25:01
wide body. I'm like.
25:03
I have carbon fiber front fenders that are wider and then
25:06
rear over fenders that are OK I thought.
25:08
You. Made no rear over fenders.
25:10
They did. They don't anymore.
25:12
There was like this company that was around and I managed to get
25:15
a set of rear overs from them and then they shut down,
25:18
disappeared and then a guy in Jersey, he actually traded me.
25:24
I had a Tanabi Medallion exhaust on it and it was too quiet and I
25:28
traded him the exhaust for the front carbon fiber fenders so I
25:32
was able to piece together the full kit.
25:34
Wow. Yeah, and that's part of the
25:36
reason now why too is I wanted to stop drifting the car because
25:40
if I damage that stuff, there's no, like, I can't just go online
25:44
and order another set. Damn you, you're not interested
25:47
in, like recreating them. Like, I know a lot of people
25:51
right now who are. The only reason why I ask is
25:52
because including myself, I find fun like in making stuff like
25:58
that. Like I've been doing like
26:00
fiberglass repairs on the side and stuff.
26:02
That sounds fun to me. Well I I feel you on that
26:05
because like with the stance Co stuff like I would love to do
26:10
more 3000GT stuff but like the V consumes all of my time now and
26:13
like making parts for that. I want to delve into that 'cause
26:17
you you're obviously drifting the 3000GT less.
26:21
Is that what prompted you to buy the CTS?
26:23
Yeah, so ultimately I wanted an ash chassis after the 3000 and.
26:28
So CTSV perfect match well. So let me let me preface this.
26:32
So I have. I had an O6 CTSV that was my
26:36
daily. It still is my daily.
26:39
And so I had the 3000 and the V and then I was like, you know
26:43
what, I want to build another drift car.
26:44
I want like an S14 way overpriced.
26:48
At that point I missed the boat on those.
26:51
And so then I was like, all right, maybe a Corvette.
26:54
Corvette missed the boat on them.
26:56
I was just like, it's not happening.
26:57
Like it's just I can't justify how.
26:59
About your CTS VS hold. On.
27:00
Well, now they're hold on one moment, OK?
27:03
We're we're being told to hold on.
27:04
Two of them? Like what?
27:05
So first gens as well. So they're like the either 57LS6
27:09
or A6 litre LS2 T56 manual. So they're both the cause
27:15
everyone assumes all they're all the supercharged ones.
27:18
These are the naturally aspirated generation.
27:21
So I was like I missed the Corvette boat.
27:24
So right before we moved to Florida in 2021, this kid hits
27:29
me up on Instagram and he's like, I made a joke.
27:33
Like I posted my my black V and I was like, oh, cruising Copart
27:38
to find acts. The cage just messing around and
27:41
he messages me and he's like, dude, I have the perfect car for
27:43
you to put a cage in and drift. And I was like, all right, what
27:46
are the details? So he sends it to me.
27:47
It's a 05 CTSV and has like 237,000 miles on it and he's.
27:54
Like, a lot for that car. He's like, it's my daily.
27:56
He's like I've had it for a few months, but he's he races like
27:59
stock cars. So he's like I want more money
28:01
to put in my program for next year.
28:03
So he's like, I'm just selling it.
28:05
I was like, how much do you want for it?
28:08
And he's like, I think he told me like $8500 and I was like OK,
28:12
I mean it's got a ton of miles on it.
28:14
But I was like, listen, I'm like we're moving 1200 miles away in
28:18
like 2 weeks and I already got to move like 5 cars.
28:21
So I was like, I can't just can't swing it.
28:24
So we moved to Florida and then like two weeks after we moved to
28:27
Florida, he posts it in one of the CTSV groups for $5500 and.
28:32
Oh, wait, wait. Whoa, that that's a $2000 price.
28:35
Drop 3003. 30 sorry 85 can't man.
28:39
Yeah, he's so and he's just like, he's like, I'm just trying
28:41
to dump it off. Like I'm done with it.
28:43
I don't need it. So he.
28:46
So he posts. And immediately when that post
28:48
goes up, like within minutes I see it and I walk over my fiance
28:52
and I, we both work from home. I work over her, walk over to
28:55
her desk. I'm like, here, look at this.
28:57
And she's like, what is it? I'm like, think I should buy it.
29:00
This is me asking for her permission.
29:01
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, I was about to ask.
29:03
Yeah. Like what do you think about
29:04
this? And she's like, you ever going
29:05
to find one cheaper? And I was like, no.
29:07
And she's like. WW.
29:10
Wife. Well, that's why I'm marrying.
29:11
Wow. Hey, he's geared to bag.
29:15
So, so I messaged the kid. I was like, how much do I have
29:18
to send you right now to pull that post 'cause everyone's
29:20
tagging their boy and like, everyone in it.
29:23
So we ended up, I sent them money and then we drove up to
29:26
North Carolina the following weekend to go pick it up.
29:29
North Carolina, that's you're you're you're under half a day.
29:34
Well, it was. It was 10 hours.
29:35
Yeah, just under half a day. Yeah, So we drove up the night
29:37
before, stayed in a hotel, grabbed it first thing in the
29:40
morning and shot back down and. It was everything you needed.
29:43
Oh yeah, dude, the car ran great.
29:45
It just had a boatload of miles on it.
29:47
Every rubber bushing was blown on it, you know, just as you
29:50
would expect. Reverse didn't work, Which was a
29:53
easy, relatively easy fix. And then it's.
29:56
The fix for that reverse didn't work.
29:58
Well, I I replaced all the gears in the transfer.
30:01
I don't know if that was the easiest.
30:02
Fix. No, I mean.
30:03
It's yeah, that's that's not the easiest fix, but.
30:07
Simple. Yeah, you're.
30:08
Starting to. Sound like Carl.
30:09
That's what Carl would do. You know, I got this car for
30:11
cheap. You know, I just got it's only
30:12
need a it only needs a motor. But it's easy.
30:15
I I got one. Good ass deal.
30:17
Good ass deal. Yeah.
30:18
So I literally, I got it. I taught Morgan how to drive
30:20
stick in it, and then I took it apart the next day.
30:23
So yeah, And then it took me like a year, year and a half to
30:26
build it. And then now I've been driving,
30:30
it did. You go directly into making
30:31
parts for it and like, what's your background that you were
30:34
like, yeah, let me just make this angle kit really quick
30:37
because let me tell you, I can't do that and I would like to
30:41
think I'm a normal person. I was an engineering student for
30:43
a semester. Oh, you're really smart, OK.
30:45
That was a bit, no, I mean that was about the extent of it.
30:47
And then no, I mean I like, I like engineering and things like
30:51
that and I just like building things myself and figuring out
30:55
how things work. So it just like, again, I bought
30:59
another weird car that there was no drifting aftermarket for.
31:03
But at least for this one I started seeing guys that
31:06
actually were starting to try and drift them.
31:09
So I was like, I made the first thing I made was like adjustable
31:12
toe arms and just for the rear suspension centre adjuster,
31:17
super simple. And then I made the dual caliper
31:21
bracket. That was like the biggest thing
31:23
at that point that I had done because it took a lot of like
31:26
test fits and work to make it work.
31:29
So it mounts another Brembo on the rear, another factory
31:31
Brembo. And that's when people were
31:34
like, started asking me for like, hey, like are you going to
31:37
make these? Can I buy them off of you?
31:39
And I was like, hmm, so. You weren't selling this stuff
31:42
at the time you're making these for like personal use.
31:45
Just I didn't. Get a.
31:46
CNC machine well. So I didn't sell anything myself
31:49
until I drove my car. So I didn't want to sell any
31:52
parts until, like, I used it and made sure it worked.
31:54
OK, Fair. And then, yeah.
31:56
So then once I did the first event with that car and kind of
31:58
shook it down, that's when I was like, all right, this stuff
32:01
didn't fall apart, so we should be good to go.
32:04
Yeah. So far, everything's held up so
32:06
far, but like it just kind of, it just kind of, you know,
32:09
rolled one thing into another and then it started turning into
32:13
OK, people are buying this stuff.
32:15
I started making some parts for just regular V owners so like
32:18
they didn't have to be a drift car.
32:20
And then. Like what?
32:22
What are you making for a regular V owner?
32:24
So. On the first dice.
32:26
So on the first Gen. VS, the factory air box is
32:30
actually one of the best intake options for the car.
32:33
So you can get like AK and N intake that has the open cone
32:35
and guys have dyno tested it and they actually lose a couple
32:38
horsepower by going from the stock intake to that.
32:40
That's facts. Yeah.
32:41
So I mean heat soak is a thing and GM like to put LSS in the
32:45
tightest engine bays. LSS fit best in cars they didn't
32:48
come into. That's kind of what I always go
32:50
by and interesting statement. They just shoehorn them in their
32:53
factory cars. The fact that intake is always
32:55
like too close. Yeah, there's like no room for
32:59
anything. So I ended up making somebody
33:02
back in the day did a test, same test.
33:05
They dynoed with replacing the stock intake pipe, which has
33:09
like weird baffling and stuff in it.
33:10
And they picked up like 12 horsepower on the dyno 1212.
33:13
That's a moderate amount. That's a good amount.
33:15
And they had AK and N panel filter and a like a round metal
33:20
tube instead of the factory pipe and just like a 90° silicone
33:23
coupler and then the math and all that.
33:26
So one of my buddy of mine from the 3000GT world, he works and
33:31
he does carbon fiber for a living.
33:32
So I was like hey, I'm like what if we made like a cool looking
33:35
intake and we did like a carbon fiber tube and we kitted it
33:40
together with couplers, clamps and all that stuff And people
33:42
that want to keep their factory air box instead of using like an
33:46
aluminum pipe or something that'll heat soak, we can use
33:49
carbon and little better heat soap properties and stuff like
33:53
that. So I did that and like people
33:55
jumped all over it and it looks nice.
33:57
It's like a really nice piece 'cause you know, there's like
34:00
the Sunday cruiser guys that'll go to Cars and coffee and pop
34:02
their hood and it looks good. So that's like one of the parts
34:05
for, like the regular guys that I make.
34:07
That's sick. Yeah, that's a good.
34:09
Product. Yeah, no, that was.
34:11
Now you're a smart guy, dude. You're you're a smart guy 'cause
34:14
like the market isn't just buying CTS VS.
34:19
They have acts no V. Well, no, I'm saying these are
34:23
four VS. Oh.
34:24
Yeah, all my stuff is 4 VS. It's just not for like, Drifter.
34:27
I mean, it could. Be but.
34:29
Oh, right, right, right, I. Mean I run them on both of my
34:31
cars, yeah. I mean, nonetheless, like, not
34:33
everybody's drifting, right? Exactly.
34:34
Yeah. Yeah.
34:35
And like the tow arms guys pick those up with regular cars
34:39
because the factory ones CS up real bad and they're like pencil
34:43
thick, so as soon as you try to adjust them and their CS, they
34:45
just snap. Happened to me twice.
34:47
Wow, what? Kind of design is that.
34:49
It's terrible. Come on, Cadillac.
34:50
The the first Gen. CTSV was like 100% of parts bin
34:53
car and they just threw a bunch of stuff at it and they're like,
34:56
yeah, this should be good, let's get it out.
34:58
So that's kind of how we ended up where we are.
35:00
I actually, when I first saw the CTSV, what game was that?
35:02
It was probably Midnight Club 3 Dub edition or something like
35:06
that. Might have, might have been like
35:07
that. Isn't that game over there?
35:10
What the game is right over there?
35:12
It. Is that's Midnight Club 2?
35:14
That was a fire game though. This one, Midnight Club Two was
35:18
a heater. That's literally what I want my
35:20
car to look like right there. I never played it.
35:23
Look, Frankie, there you are. That's a girl.
35:30
But, but I I did like the CTSV when I first saw it because it's
35:35
proportionate. Like it's got a long hood, it's
35:37
got a short trunk, it's got 4 doors.
35:39
Definitely interesting. But it's it's like it was a
35:41
proportion. It's a pretty well balanced car
35:43
too. Like, yeah.
35:44
It's not 7080. It's not 70. 20 or. 7070. 307030
35:48
because I can't math for shit today.
35:51
What the fuck? Yeah, it's definitely a a way
35:54
better balanced. Car you happen to know what it
35:56
is? I haven't gotten mine on scales
35:59
yet. I want to, but like from the
36:01
factory, they're around the 3800 mark.
36:03
But no like it's. It's a oh weight.
36:05
Distribution. I don't know if this is better,
36:07
better. Definitely better so.
36:10
You made like angle kits and stuff too and like.
36:13
Yeah, so we do like the handbrake mounting plate that
36:15
goes around the shifter. We do all the handbrake lines
36:18
that'll run to the Brembos in the back.
36:20
So you like you can do a full setup aside from the handbrake
36:23
itself like off of our website. Hell yeah, dude.
36:27
And then right now I'm working on, we're getting really close
36:29
to ordering a test run for my car of like bolt on angle
36:33
blocks, kind of like how SLR does for the beamers so.
36:37
Dude, you you're you're doing some really cool stuff.
36:41
Yeah, 'cause like, no one, you know, no one's making it.
36:44
No one's making it, yeah. There's no other not.
36:46
There's one other person out there that makes an angle kit
36:50
for it. I'm not a huge fan of what you
36:52
have to do. It's like a permanent thing, so
36:54
you have to actually cut the pickup point off the knuckle to
36:58
bolt their kit on. So I don't like that So and
37:01
right now I have cut knuckles on my car but I want to have the
37:05
the bolt on angle block will be like removable so.
37:09
Like you can serviceable like you could replace.
37:11
You can replace pieces on it. You can go back to stock if you
37:14
want and it'll have Ackerman Adjustment, Roll Center
37:17
Correction, and. Dude, you what?
37:21
Mike Fab. Carl's wondering how the fuck
37:23
are? You.
37:23
Well, because OK, now, now I want to ask more.
37:26
This is for the people who are out there who have these kinds
37:28
of dreams to make stuff like Mike.
37:30
But when you're. I don't know how do I put this
37:33
when you're trying to make something right.
37:35
Let's say we'll just use the angle kit as an example.
37:39
Like what? Where do you go first?
37:42
Like do you do you think of a design and then just ship it out
37:46
to somebody and like is there? Like what?
37:49
What's that process like? So like for the angle kit I'm
37:53
fortunate enough to have my streetcar which is bone stock
37:58
from a like steering suspension wise.
38:01
So like I use that's all a part in the air in the garage right
38:04
now. And like I'm using that as my
38:05
template for everything take measurements off of because the
38:08
Drift car, the Drift V already has cut knuckles so it's all out
38:12
of whack already so. So you took your daily driver,
38:16
put it up on Jack stands, yes. As a reference.
38:20
Now you walk everywhere, yeah. As a reference.
38:24
So we. So from there I kind of just, I,
38:27
I start making taking measurements and just like
38:30
trying to figure out like I'm using my cut knuckles as a base
38:33
point of where like the tie rod pickup point is then versus how
38:35
much angle it gets and things like that.
38:38
And I mean, I've definitely been inspired by, there's a lot of
38:43
guys out there that make angle kits for like, niche cars and
38:46
things like that and just see what they do and how they go
38:48
about doing it and kind of take that and be like, all right,
38:51
well, let's use this concept and make it fit this car.
38:56
Oh yeah. And yeah.
38:57
And then I have a good group of friends too that have helped
38:59
along the way. One of my friends, he's an
39:02
engineer. He helped me out with a lot of
39:04
3D modeling for the block itself.
39:06
So we've gone back and forth with just adjustments and
39:10
measurements, and he's 3D printed me like test pieces and
39:12
things like that. I was just about to ask what
39:14
kind of electronic aid are you? Like, 'cause I'm I'm over here
39:19
thinking like you maybe took a scan of your daily and then you
39:24
bring it inside and then you put the daily bag on the ground.
39:26
With 3D printing it's like. 3D printing helps.
39:29
So easy. Time but the.
39:30
Scanning thing does. I wish I had the capability of
39:33
doing that 'cause it would speed things up.
39:34
But me it's a tape measure and a pad of paper.
39:36
Somebody get M1 of them scanner things please.
39:39
This guy is working in an analog fashion.
39:42
And then all the two-dimensional parts, so the handbrake plate,
39:45
the dual caliper bracket, like I would make cardboard templates
39:49
and stuff I. Was I knew you were going to.
39:50
Say and then I would Morgan, my fiance, she's a graphic
39:54
designer, so I would go in and inside I would scan it into the
39:57
computer. She would trace it and make a 2D
39:59
file. And then I would send it out to
40:01
like send, cut, send to have them cut it out of steel.
40:04
And then I would use that as like test pieces until I had it
40:06
like figured out. Send, cut, send is a godsend
40:09
for. It really is that.
40:10
Godsend for a lot of things, 'cause we some of some of the
40:14
pieces in our products are made through them too.
40:17
They're great, so. Like it's.
40:18
Amazing the things. And like, I feel like having a
40:21
resource like that opens up a whole another like world of
40:25
possibility for people. Like they just I just got the
40:29
Ackerman adjustment plates for the the Angle kit in the other
40:33
day from Sankatsand and they're like beautiful I.
40:35
Love them. Like, I tell you're so happy
40:38
about those. Like, yeah, yeah.
40:40
I tried not to talk about the angle kit too much because just
40:44
leading up to this point because like we haven't actually tested
40:46
it yet. It's just been all like in the
40:47
works, but like I have pictures on my phone of like it all
40:51
assembled and I'm like. Talk your.
40:53
Shit, bro. Talk your shit.
40:56
Sounds like there's a lot of work that went into these.
40:58
Like like we. Yeah, I mean, I'm out in the
41:01
garage a lot. I mean, I work till 5:00 and
41:03
then like there's been nights where I'm out in the garage was.
41:05
COVID A blessing for you guys is that when work from home
41:08
started? Yeah.
41:09
So I actually used to work at Turn 14.
41:11
We both used to work at Turn 14. And when we start working from
41:16
home, I was like, man, I never want to go to an office again.
41:19
And then from there, it was kind of just like we decided we
41:24
wanted to move to Florida. So then she found the job and I
41:26
found the job. And then we dipped.
41:28
And. But that was like the big COVID
41:32
was the big point that I was like, oh, I kind of like working
41:34
from home. And it definitely, you know,
41:37
gives me the ability to. Do the side work.
41:40
Yeah, I had a feeling that that definitely helped the whole
41:43
situation a little bit. What do you do, Mike?
41:46
Don't you don't don't mention the company or anything, but.
41:49
Like I work in marketing. OK, yeah.
41:51
All right. There's hope for me.
41:54
I I do the desk job thing and then the moment I clock out,
41:57
like, I think it's I I've I gotta get my YouTube channel
42:01
started. I wanted to do like, I wanted to
42:03
do like a day in the life thing, 'cause someone that my days are
42:05
freaking weird, dude. And really weird.
42:08
And you should. Why have we not even thought?
42:11
Of like I don't know. But I wanted to do like one
42:13
where I I go to work and I take you guys to work with me and
42:17
then I get out of work and then I'll show the clock.
42:22
I had this idea where I'd show the clock and be in my workloads
42:25
and then right into my muddy ass clothes and then right into the
42:28
garage. It was really good with like
42:29
editing a little. What did you do that one video
42:32
where it was like you dropped a bolt or something and then a
42:35
fucking bomb went off that? Was just that was like just dump
42:39
slapstick order or slapstick editing, dude.
42:42
I just like doing it. I don't know it was, but I I I'd
42:44
want to like put a little bit more effort into it.
42:47
I don't know. It's hard.
42:48
It's. Hard to find the time.
42:49
Our listeners let me know if you listen is.
42:51
What takes time? And like, sometimes it's hard to
42:53
find the time for sure. I mean, because like, I mean, we
42:55
we moved like two months ago and like we're always coming back
42:59
and forth up here. And there's definitely times
43:02
where it's just like, holy crap, like, we got a lot going on and
43:04
I don't know when I'm going to be even do it.
43:06
How you How do? What's a tip that you could give
43:09
people to balance because you look pretty happy.
43:12
I'm not going to lie, you're probably like like for after
43:14
talking to you about all the stuff that you're doing, like,
43:17
you should look like that. You don't.
43:20
Want to know? You don't want to know.
43:21
My blood pressure is at the moment.
43:24
Blood pressure, dude. I'm Filipino.
43:25
I eat. Fuck, I just pork regularly.
43:27
It's easy I made. The mistake of checking mine the
43:29
other. Day.
43:30
Yeah, but I'm. But like you guys are just.
43:33
We're just. Old You're just casually
43:34
checking your blood record, Old Mike.
43:36
We're not. Old.
43:37
I know you got one of them. 40 years old. 40 Yeah.
43:40
Yeah, we're not there. Not even 45 years old.
43:44
That's. We're not talking about blood
43:46
pressure right now on this podcast.
43:47
I. Think I think.
43:48
The biggest what was your question?
43:51
What's your blood pressure like? No, but the balance 'cause like
43:57
there's, there's and fortunate for me what I do after work is
44:01
like fun for me. That's like my fun time.
44:04
Yeah. Oh, I definitely enjoy it.
44:05
Yeah, you get out of work and you have a business.
44:07
Yeah, I guess if you want to call it that.
44:10
It seems like it is one I know I.
44:12
I try to downplay it, but I do it, 'cause I enjoy it.
44:14
I like, I almost don't see it as like work.
44:16
I see it as just like making cool stuff.
44:18
And you know, but like, you got to be disciplined with it, but,
44:23
like, you also got to separate yourself from it when you have
44:25
to. So like, if there's a day where,
44:26
like, you just don't feel like doing it, I'll just be like,
44:28
I'll do it tomorrow and like. I mean that.
44:31
Exists. There are certainly times where,
44:32
like, you can't do that. But, like, usually, like, I'm
44:36
just like, you know what, tonight, like we're making
44:38
dinner sitting on the couch. Like I'm not doing.
44:40
Anything. God bless you.
44:43
Dude, you've been doing that? Right.
44:45
Malcolm. Malcolm, He's been doing that
44:47
right. Yeah.
44:48
Yes, The doctor said. You should.
44:50
At like 10:00 PM, yeah. Well, that's when.
44:52
I never said what time you actually get.
44:54
On the couch, yeah. You get a little bit of couch,
44:56
yeah. But no, I mean, I feel like you
44:58
just got to make time for yourself and make sure you know
45:00
you're just chilling and like you have your chill time.
45:02
Because I've seen too many people, even just from like a
45:05
drifting standpoint, I've seen too many people go 110% non-stop
45:09
at it and then they get burnt out and then it's like.
45:12
I know people are doing that right now.
45:14
Yeah, and then they just like. They just waiting.
45:16
Yeah. And they just like lose interest
45:17
in it. And then, like, I mean my
45:19
drifting progression between the 3000 and then moving and
45:22
building the V was definitely slower than most.
45:26
But like, there was never really a point that I felt like I was
45:29
burnt out because, like, I don't do events every weekend like I
45:32
do, you know, four or five events a year.
45:34
And you know, I just, I go there to just hang out with people.
45:38
Like, I love coming back up Bring like we try and bring the
45:40
car up in the summers to like club loose just to see.
45:43
I like, I'm more am interested in like seeing people and like
45:46
hanging out with people and then like, I'll go drive.
45:47
But there's been times where people like, have you been
45:49
drifting? And I'm like, yeah, yeah.
45:51
But I'm like, I'm hanging out like.
45:52
Yeah. That's.
45:55
That's honestly really, really nice to hear because I I feel
45:59
like. I mean, Carl is one of those
46:01
obsessive people that will push it far.
46:05
Until he has that mentality of it and then I'm like, like, I
46:09
can't do this. Shit.
46:09
And I am too. Usually I just.
46:11
But then you back. It going on, but Josh is the
46:14
same way. But then you back up.
46:17
You have to back. Up back.
46:18
Up. But you're supposed to, Yeah.
46:20
And honestly, honestly, one of the reasons why I feel like I'm
46:24
able to back up is 'cause, like I have such great friends.
46:27
Like they will. They it, it doesn't even feel
46:29
like I'm backing up. It's it's them like being there
46:32
to support me and tell me. Like it seems like you're always
46:35
working on your car or something, but lately you've
46:38
been a little bit less. Yeah, well, my pockets are empty
46:42
'cause well. That might be the reason.
46:45
I I mean, I'm like, I'm trying to save up.
46:47
I don't. I'm trying to.
46:48
I want, I want wheels really bad.
46:51
And guess what? Wheels are fucking expensive.
46:55
The ones I like are like fucking 3 grand 2500 bucks.
46:58
What the fuck? I want some big.
47:01
Chrome 3 spoke wheels. Yo, me too.
47:03
Wait, what was the last part? For the V.
47:05
The three Tri spoke. Tri spoke's on the V on the
47:08
drifty. Dude, T ES on the V Wait, that's
47:11
a six lug car? No.
47:12
Not anymore. Wait, they come six.
47:15
Lug Oh yeah, let me. Yeah, why?
47:18
Because for some. Reason They think it's a
47:20
Silverado. He said.
47:22
Partsbin car. Yeah, Partsbin car dude.
47:24
GM for some reason was like, oh, this car makes 400 horsepower.
47:27
It needs another lug nut. Wouldn't they say it should be
47:31
like the Corvette? You would imagine, yeah, the
47:33
same drivetrain, and then they come out in 09.
47:36
They come out with a supercharged V that makes 550
47:39
horsepower. Another 150 horsepower. 7 lug.
47:42
It's always 7 lug. Like, you know, let's drop a
47:43
lug, we'll go back to five. We'll match the Camaro.
47:47
This is the dumbest shit I ever heard in my.
47:49
Entire life. It's terrible.
47:50
So it's five. It's 6 by 115 too, so it's not
47:53
even like a the only other like car one. 15 Viper.
47:56
Viper is like the only other car that shares yeah.
47:59
Did you know that I don't know them?
48:01
No. So what?
48:02
Where did they get this? There's like like the SRX like
48:05
SUVs use. What the?
48:07
Fuck is a SRX. That's the SUV.
48:09
Like the Cadillac SUV, the little mid size crossover.
48:12
Oh, I do know what an. SRX Yeah, so like the SRX is
48:15
around the same generation with the same Why do people?
48:17
Like me, angry. Dude.
48:19
I want to know why. But did you know?
48:22
Did you find out or no, you don't.
48:23
You didn't find out? No, I I literally think it's
48:25
because of like they're like we're building a performance car
48:27
and like people might see this as like performance.
48:30
Like we we we took care to make sure your wheel.
48:33
And then they got some feedback and they fucking fixed their
48:36
mistake. Yeah, so back in my stance days,
48:40
my black V was like low like on the ground though, and I want to
48:45
see that. Where's the photos is?
48:46
It all there, you give it a goo. Give it a goo.
48:51
So there was one here I I managed to find a set of three
48:55
piece. We was like God.
48:57
Is that the drift one though? That's the drift.
48:59
That's the drift one, and then that's the black one behind it.
49:02
But the black one was raised up by then.
49:04
Oh, let's see. It slammed the ground.
49:06
Yeah, I like, first of all, those are Anki's, right big anke
49:12
guy. I like Anke's lately.
49:14
I like the PFO 5. Me and my friend Brad were
49:17
talking about him on the Discord.
49:18
Yo, that's the Cam. Yo.
49:20
That's the cat, yo. That's a.
49:21
That's a. That's a.
49:23
Now that right here, the one on the top, that's a vehicle,
49:26
right? Second.
49:27
Gen. Toyota Camry.
49:28
That was the high school. With 22 R.
49:31
No 3 SFE. 3 SFE OK, that's also Javi says bring back Cam.
49:36
Can't read Mike. There it is.
49:40
Yeah. And that was like that was still
49:41
raised up. Bro, keep going now.
49:43
Yeah, you. Just gotta scroll fast.
49:45
You'll find it if you scroll. I like the color on the V2.
49:49
Like it that yo that CTSV keep going.
49:54
If my brother were ever to get into drifting, I feel like
49:56
that's probably the kind of car he would like, Like he's, he's,
50:00
he likes the weirder cars and stuff.
50:02
Right there, yeah. Yeah, dude, that shit is low on
50:06
the RSO 5, Yeah. Got the windows perfectly than
50:12
that, yeah, yeah. That was that was danced that
50:14
was right after. I put they they have to be
50:15
level. They have to be level.
50:17
Is that what we were talking about?
50:18
Sorry, I was just doing my selective hearing thing.
50:21
Yeah, they have to be. Level.
50:22
They have to be level and call me call me.
50:24
Weird, but right here the window matches like that line and so
50:34
that's where I lower the window. Oh yeah, I know what.
50:36
You're saying it like flow is down there?
50:37
Yeah, you got to put it right in the corner.
50:39
It has to be cool. Yeah, that's it.
50:40
Who cares about the ventilation? Yeah.
50:42
Shout the stone back though, because stone back's the reason
50:44
I have like a bajillion Anki wheels.
50:46
Oh, really? Really.
50:47
Yeah, I gets. Rid of them every week.
50:49
Yeah. So he was, he was working with
50:50
Anki for a while and then he was start working with other wheel
50:54
brands and stuff. And I was over to shop the one
50:57
night and he had like a pile of the Anki's and he's like, yeah,
51:00
you want these. And I was like, Jeff, I'm not
51:02
buying anything right now. And he's like, he's like, not
51:04
too. He goes, I'll give you a deal.
51:06
He gave me a smoking deal and I ended up with like 17 Yankees.
51:10
What? The fuck.
51:11
Bro. So it was like.
51:13
Jeff, I need the deal. Give me the deal.
51:15
It was like a stack of RSO fives and like the five spoke Cojuns
51:18
that I have on the Drifty. I see another vehicle back
51:21
there. Is that yours?
51:22
Oh, that's, that's Judy. That's my girl.
51:24
Yeah, that's. A real vehicle back there.
51:28
Not the 1500 in the back. Don't disrespect.
51:31
Her. What is it?
51:32
What is it? 2500 with A8 .1 liter.
51:35
Whoa, whoa. Whoa, it does say. 25 on it,
51:38
dude. What's a 8/1?
51:40
What are you Boeing 747 engine? Is that a 10 cylinder?
51:43
No. It's a V8, yeah, yeah, but it's.
51:46
Jeez, it's big. Why have I never heard of that?
51:50
It's 81 Vortex. It's a Dale Earnhardt engine 81
51:54
Vortex 8. One that doesn't, yes.
51:56
What kind of MPGS are we talking in in in Judy back?
52:00
10 No matter what Empty, No trailer.
52:02
Trailer with a car enclosed trailer.
52:04
I think that. I think it just that's.
52:07
Big booty, Judy. Just be fucking moving.
52:09
Big booty Judy. It's sad, though.
52:11
Judy rotted out, 'cause she she's a GM, She's she's a she's
52:14
a GMT800. So do these rot out like like GM
52:19
trucks? What the the VS Yeah I.
52:21
Thought you were talking about the truck.
52:22
They. They have their issues.
52:23
Yeah, Judy. There she is, Yeah.
52:27
Lifted. Hashtag.
52:28
Sheesh. How many lug nuts?
52:31
Got 8 lug nuts 8. Lug.
52:34
Nuts #sheesh. Dude in red.
52:39
Yeah, the red dude in. Red dude that I only know one
52:43
other person with a red Chevy and and it's Diego.
52:45
Diego has a red Chevy. So what did they, what did they
52:48
call this car when they sold it, 'cause you said, So what?
52:50
There's a 1500 version? There's a 2500.
52:52
Or the Suburban. So what did they call it when,
52:54
like it was it Were they both called Suburbans and then
52:57
there's just an engine change? Yeah, it's just suburban 2500
52:59
just like a Silverado 2500, yeah, but then they came with,
53:03
so they came with the 4L80, the bigger trans and then it was 8
53:06
log, 14 bolt rear and the 25 hundreds or even a either a six
53:11
liter LQ4 or A-81 big block. And the eight one is kind of
53:18
like the seven four like the 454 they used in the 90s, the Chevy
53:21
trucks used and they kind of they up it's like cylinder head
53:25
changes and some other. Things It probably sounds sick.
53:28
It's throaty and they added like all the LS ignition stuff to it,
53:33
so they kind of just made it a little smarter.
53:35
So it's reliable. Dude, the thing was dead
53:37
reliable. It just rotted out to the point
53:39
where I couldn't drive it. Anymore, I know a place you can
53:41
get some frames again. I need more than that.
53:44
I need a. Body place.
53:45
They got a lot. They got a lot of.
53:47
Stuff. You need a frame and a body, so
53:48
just a new truck. So yeah, I actually I'm saving
53:52
the drivetrain in it for I want to buy like a late 80s square
53:56
body, 2500 Suburban and put the whole drivetrain into that and
54:01
then. Oh look, that guy said he could
54:03
make your car cartoon with no issue.
54:06
Would you love to get one? Done.
54:07
Please buy. What the fuck?
54:11
Yeah, that guy. That dude always did that
54:14
person, like, comments on so many people.
54:15
Shit. Know that.
54:16
Person No, I I don't know them but they comment on people they.
54:18
Should do that, but. The new one sounds cool, though.
54:22
The coolest time I ever heard it was we were in the Poconos 1
54:25
winter. Coolest.
54:26
Time. Coolest.
54:27
Hi coolest I ever heard. It yeah.
54:29
Yeah. No.
54:30
I noticed it ever sounded. The coolest it ever sounded.
54:32
The fact that you can pinpoint. It oh, no.
54:34
Because it's the only time. Like I really need the crap out
54:36
of it. We we were drifting.
54:40
Me and two of my buddies were. They were drifting in their
54:43
pickup trucks like power strokes.
54:44
And it we got like 2 feet of snow that night, and we're
54:47
drifting up a mountain in the trucks.
54:49
What is that engine over there? Let's stand right?
54:53
There. Oh, that's that's in the drift
54:54
car, The drift? I thought that was Judy for a
54:55
minute. I.
54:56
Was God damn no. Judy sauced.
54:58
I need to I need to buy a bigger engine stand if I want to know
55:00
their iron block, iron head oof. Oh, that thing probably weighs a
55:03
building. Oh my gosh, I'm.
55:05
Going to need a heavier duty engine, but yeah, we were
55:08
drifting up the mountain in the snow and I just in the trucks, I
55:12
just locked locked it in the 1st and I'm just like definitely
55:16
floating some valves or something in that thing like it
55:18
was. I mean red line's like 5000 RPM
55:21
in that. Thing.
55:22
Dude, those trucks don't see Red Line often.
55:27
So sometimes for some trucks, I've heard if you bring it up
55:32
there, you're just asking for trouble.
55:35
Absolutely. I've been in plenty of
55:36
situations where I'm asking for trouble when it comes to driving
55:38
cars. I'm like.
55:40
I mean, what? Yeah.
55:41
It is what it is. But so you put it in first.
55:44
Yeah, we were just, we just let it like drifting in the snow up
55:47
this mountain and. Motorcycle.
55:52
Yeah, that. Was Judy.
55:55
How are you talking about Judy and now all?
55:57
Of a sudden sound, like so much just a burnout.
55:59
Yeah, yeah, dude. No, but does it at.
56:02
First, I thought the lips were falling down.
56:04
I thought the train derailed and was coming into the shop.
56:07
It was like, OK, yeah, damn. But does it, does it do the like
56:12
one Dun Dun Dun. You know when people do this
56:15
shit? What?
56:16
Yes. In.
56:17
Florida, yes, it has. They do that down there at.
56:19
Some point they do do that down. There.
56:20
Yeah, I knew. It but it loves.
56:22
Doing that up here. So I I bring it over here.
56:24
Don't worry, man. I'm doing it.
56:25
I'm, I'm, I got you. Tell all the Floridians, I got
56:28
them. Yeah.
56:28
And then last year last like December 22, I was up here and
56:33
rear shock mount broke off and I had to drive 1200 miles at home,
56:37
so. That happened to me, but you
56:38
have three other ones. So it's OK shocks.
56:41
Yeah, well, I had the airbags in the rear, so I just bumped the
56:44
airbags up and drove back quick. Think.
56:46
Yeah, mine was. One of mine was broken off and
56:48
the strut was just sitting on the truck.
56:50
Bed hitting the floor. Yeah, that's what mine did.
56:52
And I'm realizing now, Malcolm, that that's probably why my
56:54
truck bed is broken and disconnected 'cause I was using
56:57
it as suspension. Yeah.
56:59
So that makes a lot more sense now.
57:01
How was that like a just now realization?
57:03
'Cause we were like, what is this noise?
57:04
And then I eventually someone came here and said it's probably
57:07
the bed lifting and we still haven't gotten to physically
57:10
lift up, but we just think that's the.
57:12
Problem. That's OK, you only just built a
57:13
whole nother shop. I just went to Michigan and back
57:17
and it's fine as usual. That's the thing.
57:19
If my truck wasn't routed away to nothing like I would drive
57:22
that thing across the country, no problem.
57:24
My truck always makes it everywhere, no issues.
57:26
It makes no sense. All right, well I had a couple
57:28
of issues here and there, but nothing I couldn't fix.
57:30
What kind of issues do Chevy people run into?
57:33
I mean, I had like a wheel bearing go bad on 95 in like
57:35
Virginia coming up here. Experience.
57:37
That how bad did the wheel bearing have to be?
57:40
Dude. Bad.
57:42
It was. Bad.
57:43
So. So it was leading up.
57:45
You already knew. No, no, no.
57:46
The weirdest thing is I didn't hear it like the wheel bearing
57:49
was making no noise and then all of a sudden like we were towing
57:52
a car up from Florida to. PA You were.
57:55
Loaded. Too all of a sudden it just like
57:58
I start hearing this crazy like noise and then I start turning
58:01
the wheel and it's like going away, coming back.
58:03
So we were like 5 minutes from the hotel we were stopping at.
58:06
So we stopped pulling the parking lot and I Jack it up and
58:09
when I Jack it up the wheel like does one of these and just like
58:12
falls out and I'm like, OK, put it back down and like just put
58:18
this back down and like drive. It to a shop and you go.
58:20
Let me know when it's done. Yeah, well that's the, the worst
58:22
part about when we drive to and from Florida, it's always on the
58:25
weekend. So like nothing's ever, nothing
58:27
would ever be open in that sense.
58:29
So there was like an AutoZone down the street, bought it,
58:33
drove it over there and I had to do like 15 the whole way because
58:37
the wheels like gone like this while we're trying to drive.
58:39
It's like Jeep. It's like getting ready to head
58:42
back to Florida. And yeah, I had to do a little
58:45
parking lot. Damn.
58:47
Are those hard to do? I always bring tools with me.
58:50
Oh wow, 1200 miles. I always have like my bag with
58:53
like all my battery stuff and then like just some hand tools
58:55
and. I definitely know I had tools on
58:57
my last trip, but I remember grabbing my bag and I was like
59:00
impact gun, 22mm socket screwdriver.
59:04
We're good, yeah. I'm.
59:05
Like I'm going to be fucked at. This are those hard to do a
59:08
wheel bearing on that? I don't know.
59:10
I've never done one. No, they're not too bad.
59:12
It's a four wheel drive so thankfully the axle wasn't
59:15
seized in the wheel bearing, so other than that.
59:18
It's just a bolts on the back. Bolts on the backside.
59:21
Boom. Yeah.
59:22
Hell yeah, I could do that. No problem.
59:23
Yeah, I mean, I just, I ordered it that night on Advance or
59:26
AutoZone, went in, grabbed it, grabbed like a thing of grease,
59:29
some rags and like just all the little things that you need.
59:32
And we knocked it out in like 1/2 hour.
59:34
Hell yeah, That's pretty good. Damn.
59:37
That was probably such a nice ride going home you were
59:40
probably like. Well, here's the thing.
59:43
No, no. So, Mike?
59:46
So wheel bearings, 4 wheel drive, you got to torque that
59:49
axle nut. So I just.
59:50
I hate it with the gun. But okay.
59:52
I hate it with the gun. We're back on the road.
59:54
By the time I got to my parents house, that new bearing was
59:56
already making noise. So I go.
1:00:00
Like a couple days later, I pull it out again.
1:00:02
I go to AutoZone. Like, I don't know.
1:00:03
It's not working. It's not working.
1:00:04
Yeah. And they're like, OK.
1:00:05
Here's one that that's a that's a torque, the axle situation.
1:00:08
Yeah. So if you over torque that axle
1:00:10
nut it will I guess like squeeze the bearing too much and it puts
1:00:14
like pressure on it. It also could just do that
1:00:16
shitty bearing. Also possible.
1:00:18
It could have been, yeah, the shitty bearing.
1:00:19
Definitely also. Possible.
1:00:20
I was gonna know. If you don't put it tight
1:00:22
enough, it's definitely gonna. Yeah, that's a different.
1:00:24
Problem. That was one of those things
1:00:25
that where I was just like, hit it with the gun, like I'm making
1:00:28
it home, yeah. Yeah.
1:00:29
Once you said you had the batteries on you, I was like,
1:00:32
yeah, that thing ain't coming undone.
1:00:34
That thing ain't coming undone. Big Milwaukee.
1:00:37
Yeah, too, you know. I just got tired of like having
1:00:40
the like little roadside fixes and stuff with that too.
1:00:43
So then we ended up getting the Escalade last.
1:00:46
Year, yo. That was our first conversation.
1:00:48
That was our first conversation. Yeah, yeah, 'cause I reached out
1:00:50
and like that Generation Escalade, I have another buddy
1:00:53
of mine, Jabbar, who also has one.
1:00:56
And. His is the third Gen.
1:00:58
Is that newer than yours? Older.
1:01:00
It's the one right before. Right before.
1:01:01
Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
1:01:02
So but then I see yours too. And you're also towing with it.
1:01:05
So I'm like, that's kind of a sick.
1:01:08
Little so you're bow tied till you die.
1:01:10
Hell yeah, brother. Alright.
1:01:11
It kind of just turned into that by accident.
1:01:14
I love 3000. By accidents you have. 4.
1:01:17
GM vehicles. I know.
1:01:20
Oh, and I mean my. Well, you got a cobalt too.
1:01:23
Or something. Morgan has an Audi S3, so like,
1:01:25
that's really random, but also like, not my cup of tea for
1:01:30
working on. I feel like if you get her to
1:01:32
get rid of that and get a Chevy, Chevy might just start paying
1:01:34
you. I'm pushing for AV wagon.
1:01:37
Oh, OK. Yeah.
1:01:38
Oh, hell yeah, I forgot that existed.
1:01:41
Yeah, yeah, dude. Forget.
1:01:43
Everyone needs to forget. Yeah, well, the.
1:01:45
Problem is, you're making parts for these cars now, so.
1:01:47
Yeah, yeah. And then people.
1:01:48
Are going to buy them. Scotty D who makes the Mustang
1:01:51
angle kits. He is building ACTSV drift
1:01:55
wagon. Currently you're late.
1:01:57
Hurry up, hurry up. MM the, the, the, the, the
1:02:00
clock's ticking. Right now, I'm not drifting no
1:02:02
wagon, That's no but. You just gotta get one.
1:02:05
Because yeah, I remember. How those boats left like the
1:02:10
boat's. About to leave?
1:02:11
I know wagons are are. Would you say that that's.
1:02:15
No. I feel like it's not dying.
1:02:16
I've seen some new wagons lately.
1:02:18
I think BMW is bringing one next year.
1:02:20
I don't know. That one looks cool.
1:02:22
I don't pay enough attention to new cars.
1:02:24
I I really don't to know like I don't care about.
1:02:26
I me neither. Is that bad?
1:02:28
I don't know. Are is that like the boomer?
1:02:30
Are we? Is that like Boomer energy right
1:02:32
there? Is that what boomers?
1:02:33
Hold on, hold on. Think of a think of a think of a
1:02:37
Think of your dad, Frankie. OK, OK would.
1:02:39
Talk to him today. Yeah, Would he?
1:02:41
And I said, is he? Just still obsessed with the
1:02:43
cars from his era. He doesn't know anything.
1:02:45
I was like, yeah, uncle, Uncle Bob had that Ford Escape.
1:02:48
He's like, I don't know, we're talk.
1:02:50
What Car? Oh, I'm like, fuck, he had a
1:02:52
Ford Escape. I was like, you don't even know
1:02:55
what a Ford Escape is, do you? He's like, no, I'm like, OK.
1:02:57
'Cause I I'm, I'm over here. I'm thinking of of my dad who is
1:03:01
kind of like he's a boomer. But cause see I'm saying he's he
1:03:06
I'm, I'm confused because some days I swear to God, he's a
1:03:08
fucking kid but he still cares about the cars.
1:03:13
Your dad's a car guy too. Though yeah, that's why I'm
1:03:15
talking about him specifically, 'cause we are of the car people
1:03:19
community, but he still cares about the cars from his era and
1:03:23
doesn't really know about these new cars, so I'm scared that
1:03:25
that's happening to us. Maybe.
1:03:28
Because I don't really, I don't really like, look at that whole
1:03:31
EV stint that we just went through, right?
1:03:33
And then now. I feel like it turns into like
1:03:36
you start to focus on like what's useful for.
1:03:39
You. Yeah.
1:03:40
Like we we drive the Escalade 95% of the time because 100% of
1:03:45
the time it's going to do what we need it to do, like bring
1:03:47
home whatever we buy, like get us up and down the coast and
1:03:51
comfortably. So I feel like eventually you
1:03:53
start looking at it, I guess is it maturing?
1:03:56
I don't know. It is, I guess.
1:03:57
It is. You look at it from like, I need
1:04:00
something that's practical. Yeah, I.
1:04:03
Hate saying. It, he said.
1:04:04
That's. Like 7 cars?
1:04:05
No, I know. I guess it's not.
1:04:07
No, that's that's a practical guy.
1:04:09
I hate how I hate how my car sit.
1:04:12
And like when when we moved into our new house, I made it a
1:04:14
point. I was like, I need to start
1:04:15
driving my cars because I like, I hate how much like since we
1:04:19
moved to Florida, like I barely touched my cars driving them.
1:04:22
Like I'll always work on them and stuff, but then like I'll
1:04:24
take them out one day like a month if that, and then just be
1:04:28
like OK back in the garage. One day a month, Mike, what are
1:04:30
we doing? I know I'm working on it.
1:04:32
I'm working on the numbers. If my part barely works, I drove
1:04:35
that shit yesterday. That's not good though.
1:04:37
That's a road hazard. I got to figure what.
1:04:40
It's. The funny thing is is is I
1:04:42
posted it on my story at a gas station and people are like
1:04:45
looking good and I'm like, this shit looked exactly the way it
1:04:48
did last year. At the end of the season, nobody
1:04:51
gave a fuck about it. Just has a different engine.
1:04:53
I'm getting to that point where like we see like 1/2 put
1:04:55
together, car go by down the road I'm like.
1:04:57
Damn kids. Yep.
1:04:58
Oh, I'm there. I've been.
1:05:00
There unless. It's something cool, like a 90s
1:05:03
car. Like we see a lot of S chassis
1:05:05
down by our house and if it's like a like an S chassis or
1:05:08
something like, oh, that's sweet.
1:05:09
But like you got some newer cars that are kind of clapped.
1:05:12
But like, hey, it's the project car.
1:05:14
I'm just like, man, get that? G35.
1:05:17
I was just arguing. So, Morgan.
1:05:19
Calls the 350Z the state bird of Florida, the.
1:05:23
State. Bird.
1:05:24
Yeah, because every drift event you go to, they're everywhere.
1:05:29
And even on the road, VQS, noises.
1:05:31
I know like you just hear the hum in the I.
1:05:33
Haven't been to Florida in a while now I'm scared.
1:05:35
They're everywhere. I don't know why.
1:05:36
I have no idea why. A friend of mine, I don't even
1:05:39
know if I could call this kid my friend Bryson.
1:05:41
Fuck you, Jesus Christ. But he he he has a broken car.
1:05:45
I'm just. I'm saying fuck you because he
1:05:48
is my friend, kinda. But he has a 350Z and we're all
1:05:54
he's buying like coilovers for it because in the meantime, in
1:05:57
the interim, his car is broken. So he bought this 350CI guess.
1:06:00
But I know, I know Bryson can make this thing cool.
1:06:04
Like, it's it's gonna be cool. And I jokingly said like, you
1:06:08
could show all those other kids that, like, you can make it cool
1:06:10
if you just fucking just tried like a little bit.
1:06:13
Dude, if you did. Like a, they're great cars.
1:06:16
All you do is you buy a Nismo Z and you're done and.
1:06:18
Then I'm like, wow, that's really nice.
1:06:19
Yeah, those are 40 grand now, I I thought.
1:06:22
You know, they're actually buy it just.
1:06:24
Oh, by the Duraflex kit. Not that.
1:06:27
Or the KBD kit. No one said KBD.
1:06:32
That would be how you make it. Fucking retarded.
1:06:35
That's how you do that. Dude.
1:06:37
There you go. There's the R word.
1:06:38
All right, I used. It there's a kit that I like on
1:06:41
the Z, what was the one that I liked on the Z Ings?
1:06:45
Vertex. Ings.
1:06:46
Yeah. Ings I like that name.
1:06:50
It's a dumb ass name. That's what I like.
1:06:54
It kind of just sounds Japanese. But I mean, like, that's what
1:06:57
I'm saying is like just using Bryson as a poor example, but
1:07:01
like the 350Z is such a great car and it sucks that that's the
1:07:05
Rep that it has. It's such a great car.
1:07:07
It's because of the the people that do the intersection.
1:07:10
They got a lot of that down there.
1:07:13
Yeah, Really. Yeah.
1:07:14
They had to really start cracking down on it in like
1:07:16
Tampa. They start start shooting them.
1:07:18
Oh God. Whoa.
1:07:19
Until they start. Doing that I don't want to hear.
1:07:21
Anything. I was at task force at first.
1:07:24
No, just start shooting them. Yeah, they start cracking down a
1:07:26
lot down there with like street racing and takeovers and stuff.
1:07:29
That sucks for the street racing guys who actually put some sort
1:07:31
of like etiquette. That sucks for the street.
1:07:34
Racers that are going fucking 120 down the yeah what?
1:07:37
They got just. Got.
1:07:38
Everybody over here, they shut down.
1:07:40
You know what I mean? They're not fucking.
1:07:42
Doing this, it's crazy. We're out of time now where
1:07:45
we're like, oh, the poor St. Racers.
1:07:48
Get the Takeover guys out of here, though.
1:07:50
I guess that was fucking dumb ass statement but like.
1:07:53
That's what's what it is. Right now though, street racing
1:07:55
guys fucking got money on the line sometimes and like like
1:07:58
thousands of dollars. Like I don't give a fuck if some
1:08:01
G35 is doing a donut hitting a chick on the side, like.
1:08:05
It's more dangerous than street racing right now.
1:08:07
Yeah, it's crazy though, street racing, like there have been
1:08:09
times we had. We would go down to the racism
1:08:12
Philly, all the time and like guys start throwing money around
1:08:15
and I'm like, I got 20 bucks on a side bet, if any, nobody's.
1:08:19
Even gonna probably match your 20.
1:08:20
They're like. 20 bucks. Right.
1:08:22
It'll literally be like our group of friends and we'll be
1:08:24
like, all right, we'll just do side bets around like.
1:08:26
Dude, that used to be. Oh man, do you remember?
1:08:29
Were you at E Town for Ratchet Fridays?
1:08:31
Oh, I had gone to like one of. The OK, so.
1:08:34
I heard it was a good time. They were kind of.
1:08:36
I went to like 1-2, maybe 3 tops.
1:08:39
But by the second time I was kind of like more familiar
1:08:42
Nemo's nutcrackers. Excuse me?
1:08:45
What do you what is? This, that's the alcohol that
1:08:47
they would sell in the bottles. Like a little bottle.
1:08:50
Yeah, it was so good. Weird.
1:08:51
He knows the alcohol. Yeah, kind of weird how that
1:08:55
works. I'm never drunk on the pod, by
1:08:58
the way. If you want me to get drunk on
1:09:00
here, I. Would fucking get drunk.
1:09:03
But those those times, there would always be people in the
1:09:07
crowd, like a big group of friends.
1:09:08
I always thought it was awesome 'cause they would just be like
1:09:10
yo 10 on the, EG 10 on the. EG.
1:09:14
Fucking shit would go that's and they would always they just pay
1:09:17
right up. That's cool.
1:09:18
Like they just turn around and fucking like that was.
1:09:20
Would go to that shit. Yeah, but The thing is I I was
1:09:23
young and like our group of friends was dude, I think Chris
1:09:26
had to have gone with me like once I.
1:09:29
Remember when it was going on and we just thought, I just
1:09:30
thought it was funny. It was called Ratchet Fridays.
1:09:32
Bro, there were girls like dancing on the fucking.
1:09:34
It did get a lot of ratchet. Yeah, it was Ratchet I fucking.
1:09:36
Wish the drag strip was still there, man, that's just fun.
1:09:39
Yeah. Dude, I wanna now.
1:09:41
I got the power, baby. I'm gonna drift that fucking who
1:09:43
you see grizzo competing? Grizo's competing.
1:09:49
No, I'm not, dude. You're such a.
1:09:51
Whore. Through that fucking track.
1:09:53
Man, Rizzo Rizzo's competing. For those of you who don't know
1:09:56
speed and stance, Anthony Rizzo, our favorite towing connoisseur,
1:10:01
competed in The Gambler. How do you do?
1:10:03
It looked like he did pretty sick for somebody who drove the
1:10:06
car for like 2 days, 2 days and was has been drifting for like 2
1:10:10
years. He just buys a new car all the
1:10:12
time to he's like, Oh my, my one car's down, let me get Jay ZX,
1:10:16
then he's like Jay ZX. Rebuilt the Jay ZX.
1:10:18
Are you even following his fucking YouTube channel?
1:10:21
He redid the Bay. We watched it.
1:10:23
That shit is sick. We watched it at lunch.
1:10:25
I miss Rizzo. But he always gets another car
1:10:29
to do something else, so now he's doing competitions with a
1:10:32
pretty proper competition. For his fucking pro car.
1:10:36
Yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty intense.
1:10:38
It's A S13 with LS. With a pro charger, Yeah.
1:10:43
What is a pro charger? Rear mounted radiator all this
1:10:45
shit. That'll do it.
1:10:46
What's a pro charger? Is that supercharger?
1:10:48
It's just a supercharger, it's the brand, it's pro charger.
1:10:51
But like pro charger has like their it's like their own style
1:10:54
of like the supercharger. I don't know the technology of
1:10:57
it or like the technical names of it, but like the pro chargers
1:11:00
are the ones that kind of look like an alternator and it's it's
1:11:02
like next to the motor and it's all belt driven.
1:11:05
It's trying to be a turbo, so it.
1:11:06
Kind of looks like a turbo, Yeah, it's kind of not a twin.
1:11:09
Screwed Supercharger. There is.
1:11:12
There is a there was AI, can't remember the car, but at final
1:11:17
bout there was this crazy sounding car and I could have
1:11:20
sworn maybe that's what was on it.
1:11:22
Or maybe it was do people turbo and supercharge something?
1:11:26
Twin charge. Is that what that's called?
1:11:29
It's Mini Coopers. Sick that probably that shit
1:11:32
would probably blow up right away.
1:11:34
Sick dude. I'm telling you, Mini Coopers
1:11:35
are sick. You're the only person I know
1:11:37
who's geeking about. One of my Do you?
1:11:40
Have Kevin Lawrence. He's drive FD for in Juku and
1:11:43
no. All right.
1:11:44
So Kevin loves Minis and he has like two or three of them right
1:11:47
now. They're cool, man.
1:11:48
Yeah, that's a. Cheap all about.
1:11:50
Them. They're cheap right now On
1:11:51
Facebook, You probably. Buy like and he got it's like I
1:11:53
think. I think it's like the first Gen.
1:11:56
ones that have Superchargers. Yeah, yeah, he's.
1:11:58
They but, but I want the turbo one.
1:12:00
There was a turbo one too. The turbo one was better.
1:12:03
You get you get the first Gen. and then you twin charge it.
1:12:07
You put a turbo on it before the supercharger.
1:12:10
That's wild. What was this like, 300
1:12:12
horsepower? The way that was.
1:12:16
Probably no. Possibly up to 400, I think.
1:12:18
Really. Yeah.
1:12:19
Get. The fuck That's, I swear to God.
1:12:21
400 horsepower Mini. This is I had a first Gen. mini
1:12:24
by the way, so yeah. Were they were they front wheel
1:12:26
drive? Or yeah, they are front wheel
1:12:28
drive. I actually really liked that
1:12:29
car. My car probably made like, I
1:12:32
don't know, 250 or less at the wheels.
1:12:35
It was pretty fast. I mean that's a good number for
1:12:38
that's. Yeah, it was insane.
1:12:39
That's. Literally what Chris Car makes
1:12:41
right now. Do you understand?
1:12:43
And my shit was lighter than that.
1:12:44
No, same about the same. Yeah, I would say same.
1:12:47
Dude, you probably thought. You were in the Italian Job?
1:12:51
I did. I I went on a lot of sidewalks.
1:12:53
And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pulled over once.
1:12:55
You probably drove on a high school track at some point.
1:12:58
Yeah, actually, probably did. I fucking knew it.
1:13:00
There was a kid in my school who did the exact same.
1:13:02
When you get a Mini Cooper, you're just like, oh, I gotta, I
1:13:04
have to put this places where it doesn't belong.
1:13:06
They're like, yeah, let me park an ice cream shop did.
1:13:07
You do like the like the cart stall at the shopping center
1:13:10
type of thing. Wait, what's that?
1:13:12
Like, you know, in the parking lot.
1:13:13
Oh, were you the carts? The cart return.
1:13:15
Oh, I didn't do. I don't think it fits.
1:13:17
I don't think it'll fit there. It definitely.
1:13:20
Fits. I remember back in high school a
1:13:21
friend of mine had like a Mark 3G and he used to park it.
1:13:24
Oh, then a car returned. That might be scary, but.
1:13:28
There was this one car. There was this one build on.
1:13:33
I don't fucking remember the name of the website.
1:13:35
It was like NA Motoring or something, but it was a Mini
1:13:37
Cooper forum and it I forget what they called it, but it was
1:13:40
a blue R53. That's the name of the chassis
1:13:44
and it was twin charged. This motherfucker made 400
1:13:47
horsepower with his Mini Cooper and it was just like the Mini
1:13:49
Cooper from hell that. Sounds terrifying.
1:13:51
But see, that's like totally not unless you're just drag racing
1:13:56
it. I feel like it's not even used
1:13:57
like a. Highway car like that shit.
1:13:59
If you throttled that mid corner, you're going to die.
1:14:03
But the noises, do they come to that thing?
1:14:05
Oh yeah, who gives a fuck about? If you throttle that mid corner,
1:14:07
it's immediately just driving straight off.
1:14:09
The whatever off the road you get the wine from the front like
1:14:12
the stock one and the right when it passes you sounds like a
1:14:15
turbo fucking car like dude. Speaking of straight off the
1:14:18
mountain, did you guys see drift?
1:14:19
Dude, everyone at Drift Appalachia, If you missed it,
1:14:23
the Instagram coverage was all over their Instagram.
1:14:27
Everybody actually had a bunch of media and the weather was
1:14:30
nice. Yeah, so instantly everyone
1:14:32
drove better. So is this like a new course
1:14:35
every time? No, I don't think it this.
1:14:37
I don't think this one was new. So I think it was a different
1:14:40
part of the same Rd. I think OK.
1:14:43
We don't. Because they they run it in that
1:14:45
way. Yeah, kind of.
1:14:47
And yeah, I think I was with one of my buddies last night that
1:14:50
drove it. And he was saying, I heard him
1:14:52
say he's like, yeah, this part of the road.
1:14:54
And I was like, oh, maybe they drove a different part.
1:14:56
So it's me putting the pieces together, trying to, yeah.
1:14:59
But look I. I tapped into.
1:15:03
Josh is live. When he went live at first,
1:15:05
'cause I really wanted to see, yeah, he was kind of sick like
1:15:09
you were. In the fucking.
1:15:10
Car you're just seeing Josh there, Josh there, do it.
1:15:12
He always shoves his phone like somewhere he was in the.
1:15:15
Seat. That's literally what he did.
1:15:16
He shoved. The phone in the chair, the
1:15:19
passenger seat, and he's like mad calm.
1:15:22
He's just and I'm like, dude, I look more.
1:15:26
Hectic in. My SIM chair than the way you
1:15:28
look right now and he's like telling us his setup not to
1:15:31
mention Josh is from Chicago they.
1:15:34
Don't really have mountains. Yeah, right.
1:15:36
So this is really his first time and he didn't.
1:15:38
Really. He doesn't really.
1:15:39
SIM. So.
1:15:41
And he's looked very comfortable.
1:15:43
He looked wild. Comfortable.
1:15:44
Yeah, he just. Got to go out and do it.
1:15:46
Yeah, we're. Talking about Rev. Gasm.
1:15:48
Josh Yeah, the Red 240. The older brother, I would say.
1:15:51
He really looked. Comfortable in that car and I do
1:15:53
you. Want to know why?
1:15:54
Why 'cause he was telling us his.
1:15:56
Setup like. When we were on the.
1:15:58
Live. I'm like, I'm like commenting.
1:16:00
I'm like, yeah, go Josh. Yeah, hopefully he saw it.
1:16:03
I don't know. Probably doesn't care.
1:16:04
But he was like, yeah, fifty PS60PSI, cold rear everyone.
1:16:10
What? Yeah.
1:16:11
What? Yeah, dude.
1:16:14
Because like if you. Look the.
1:16:15
Car. Isn't really scooting, like,
1:16:18
really fast, You know what I mean?
1:16:20
Like, and Josh is from an era where I feel like that front PSI
1:16:27
high and the rear low wasn't a thing.
1:16:29
No, definitely not. So, like, I feel like he just
1:16:31
played it save. And it paid off.
1:16:34
You said 60PSI in the rear, I think it was 60 or 50.
1:16:37
It was something high. But nonetheless, like it was, it
1:16:40
was spinning. Them like.
1:16:41
Nice. Well, yeah, of course.
1:16:43
But and then now at that point you're just strictly relying.
1:16:45
On the tower compound and. Then hoping that they last.
1:16:48
Yeah, but Nah, man, it looked. So cool over there it did.
1:16:52
They Why did they did you hear from anybody on Front St.
1:16:55
Why is Tom having a Body Shop on the side of the road like I see
1:16:57
mountain or something? I saw fiberglass.
1:17:00
Out do they? Understand, fiberglass doesn't
1:17:02
cure that fat. I was trying to figure out how
1:17:03
the Hayes guys knew how to fiberglass anything.
1:17:06
Because that's what was going on, Matt, Craig and Mike and
1:17:10
Jeff. Are some of the nicest fucking
1:17:12
people they are smart enough to. Figure out a.
1:17:17
Prehistoric fiberglass resin combo on a bumper.
1:17:22
They're cool people, man. They are.
1:17:24
They are awesome. Did you see?
1:17:25
Matt's car. The interior.
1:17:27
No. Dude, yellow carpet, purple
1:17:29
matching dash, purple matching center console.
1:17:31
I was like, yo, you look fucking D boy as fuck in that day.
1:17:35
That's so cool. I gotta see it.
1:17:37
Shout out Hayes, man, I hope. They're doing.
1:17:39
You know what's fun about? Special stage this weekend,
1:17:41
right? Yeah, you.
1:17:43
Oh yeah. You have no fucking idea.
1:17:45
Me, Daryl Joe, my buddy. You wanna do a podcast?
1:17:49
But I know you don't wanna do. We're going.
1:17:51
You wanna do a podcast? Let's do a podcast.
1:17:53
But you didn't. Want you didn't want to go.
1:17:56
I mean, I shouldn't but. I mean, I mean.
1:17:58
I kind of wanted to commentate on the whole thing.
1:18:00
But. You'll see it on the.
1:18:01
Faction video What faction video?
1:18:03
Me and Ricardo are gonna shoot a faction video.
1:18:05
Because. We wanna shoot a faction video
1:18:08
content out of it too. Well, we gotta prove that, but
1:18:10
yeah. Gotta run it by I, I.
1:18:11
We I just, I'll, I'll get it made.
1:18:13
In it. We we will.
1:18:14
Make it and then. I'll play it on the TV in that
1:18:15
room. I'll be like fact.
1:18:17
Frankie, I'm gonna sell this pitch to you.
1:18:19
I'm sure it'll get approved. Yeah, you gotta pitch it to the
1:18:20
top off. Yeah.
1:18:21
Yeah, I'm sure. It'll get it.
1:18:22
What would I? Call it.
1:18:27
Frankie faction, How about you just call?
1:18:29
It. Final bout.
1:18:30
Carl, how about. That Nope.
1:18:32
Gotta be some crazy shit. Frankie list Frankie List
1:18:36
Faction. Yeah, always some fucking weird
1:18:40
shit. Look out for me at final.
1:18:41
Belt I'm gonna be What are you doing down?
1:18:43
There, just drinking, being blown out of my mind.
1:18:46
Excuse me, whoa. Not like that pause hanging out,
1:18:51
kind of. We had such a good time last
1:18:53
year. Do you even wait?
1:18:54
Did we? You weren't even.
1:18:57
I wasn't there. Right.
1:18:59
Yeah, I wasn't there. You weren't even there.
1:19:00
Almost. Went and then Carl.
1:19:01
Said. Honestly, dude, I don't.
1:19:02
Want to do a podcast? I.
1:19:03
Just want to hang out, I said. OK, cool.
1:19:06
Yeah, we got like a Sig. Airbnb.
1:19:08
Was it at Summit? Last year, yeah, for some
1:19:10
reason, Didn't they? Do one at Thompson.
1:19:12
One year. Yeah, yeah, like three years.
1:19:15
Ago. Possibly for three to four years
1:19:18
ago, but no, that one. I wanted to hang out and.
1:19:21
We same track this year. Yeah, we parked right at the top
1:19:24
of like 123 probably. Like the 4th corner, like that.
1:19:28
Crest thing at Pistol, which is like the track that they used
1:19:32
last year and we're just parked right there, dude.
1:19:35
Everyone else was like lined up against the wall and like we
1:19:39
were we had the koi. So like, I was just standing on
1:19:42
the koi, like watching Spiley or John from Clifton Cole our other
1:19:50
friend, he was he was grilling. He was grilling burgers.
1:19:54
Everyone's watching Final Bout. We're grilling.
1:19:56
Burgers drinking Modelo. 'S like having a good time.
1:19:58
It's a good vibe. It was a good vibe.
1:19:59
The sun was shining again, yet again.
1:20:02
But remember the time when we all went three?
1:20:04
Years ago. What the The first time we
1:20:07
really met? Yeah, I like the way Frankie
1:20:10
brought me. No, I'm talking.
1:20:11
Final bout, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, when the car
1:20:13
died. Wait.
1:20:15
That was three years ago. Whose car?
1:20:17
Died my car. Did it SUV?
1:20:19
Is this when you? I remember.
1:20:21
Yeah, we. Ditched the.
1:20:22
Car ditched the car somewhere in the United States?
1:20:23
No, I'm. I'm.
1:20:24
Talking about special stage but. I wasn't there.
1:20:27
I wasn't there for that monsoon. No.
1:20:30
What the fuck? No, I wasn't there.
1:20:32
I think I had something. That weekend it was fun, but you
1:20:36
ever drive? Summit.
1:20:37
Mike No, I've been there. I've crewed.
1:20:41
There, but I've never driven myself.
1:20:43
I would love to. Rapper Dan always asked me to
1:20:45
come up, 'cause like, when we would go to Shenandoah, he'd be
1:20:48
like, dude, you're driving past Summit.
1:20:50
And I'm like, I know, 'cause they do like the drift Nirvana
1:20:52
stuff there, you know, there's a Shenandoah in there too, yeah.
1:20:55
Yeah, yeah. But I'm like, dude, I'm like you
1:20:58
always do. Drift Nirvana.
1:20:59
It's. Always on Sundays, mostly.
1:21:02
I think it's mostly on Sundays. So I was like, I can't, I'm, I
1:21:05
got well, I just don't feel like driving 3 hours and then
1:21:07
drifting and driving and then going to work and yeah, so, but
1:21:10
you work from home, so just bring the computer.
1:21:11
Well, things are different now. Yeah, they're cracking.
1:21:15
Down on, you aren't. They they got like.
1:21:17
Productivity trackers and shit before Before I was working from
1:21:20
home was when, So now you can. Do it now.
1:21:22
I have a little more flexibility, honestly.
1:21:25
Now, like, the place I work is great.
1:21:28
They're very flexible in that, 'cause I could be like, yeah,
1:21:30
like, like today I was just like, yeah, I'm going on a
1:21:33
podcast and I'm like, cool, Have fun, like sweet.
1:21:35
And I'd let you like, yeah, they don't.
1:21:37
They don't mind. It's pretty very they have a.
1:21:39
Team under You we. We're like a collaborative.
1:21:43
Marketing team, Yeah, that's good as long as, but like The
1:21:46
thing is. It's one of those.
1:21:48
It's kind of like. As long as you get your work
1:21:50
done, like you can take care of whatever else you have to do.
1:21:52
So, like your job going? Yeah, it sounded, well, I like.
1:21:55
It so like if. If we go to the track, if we
1:21:58
have to go on like a Friday. Leave early.
1:22:00
It's just like, yeah, I'm dipping out early for the track
1:22:02
and it was like the first week I was working there, the owner of
1:22:06
the company texted me and he's like, be careful drifting this
1:22:09
week. He's like, we need you next
1:22:10
weekend or he, he's like, we need you on Monday.
1:22:12
That makes you feel valuable. It does.
1:22:14
It does, Yeah 'cause. Like they actually pay attention
1:22:16
to what? I do and then usually when I do
1:22:19
events I'll just like send a send a video to them.
1:22:21
They all love seeing it cause like I'm a pretty like mellow
1:22:26
like low key person I guess. And then they see you doing this
1:22:29
stuff, and then they see me drifting.
1:22:31
And they're like, yeah, what the?
1:22:33
Fuck, what are you talking about?
1:22:34
I'm like, yeah, I guess I'm a different.
1:22:36
Person. Outside of work, yeah.
1:22:37
That's that's yeah, what? About you, Carl.
1:22:40
That's pretty like, fucking relatable, actually.
1:22:42
You. Could say are you like normal at
1:22:43
work I'm. I'm pretty normal.
1:22:47
Up until recently, like I've just the the line was starting
1:22:50
to get a little blurry. But now I, like, dialed it back,
1:22:53
'cause I would talk about what I do outside of work.
1:22:55
And then now people ask how XY and Z is doing.
1:23:00
And then I'm like, oh, I don't like, yeah, I mean, it's it's
1:23:03
it's OK. You know, and then I like.
1:23:05
Dial it back. I'm like, you shouldn't know
1:23:06
that much about my life. I think the biggest thing too,
1:23:09
like going from Turn 14 where like everybody knew.
1:23:10
Cars. And everybody was in the cars to
1:23:12
a company where like, nobody's in the cars.
1:23:15
And like I don't talk about cars with people at work, but then
1:23:17
I'll just like fire off a drifting video and it's like
1:23:19
holy crap that's crazy, that's insane.
1:23:22
Like I sent them a video the one day it was like a in car video
1:23:25
and I blasted off track at tree turn and everyone was just like,
1:23:30
how are you so chill? Like during that cause in the
1:23:33
car I'm just like handbrake, hit the brake stop, get back on
1:23:36
track and they're just like, all right, what?
1:23:38
Like that doesn't make any sense that you.
1:23:40
Crash, that's what. Happens.
1:23:41
Yeah. Like you're literally flying off
1:23:42
track at 80 miles an hour. I was scared.
1:23:45
'Cause I missed? When you come around tree.
1:23:47
Turn if you go off in the grass. There's the jersey barriers
1:23:50
there with all the barrels. I miss the barrels by like 5
1:23:54
feet and I just like right by them.
1:23:56
And I was like, man, that was close.
1:23:58
So you guys can note. Do you guys find yourself?
1:24:01
We might have talked about. This once, do you guys find
1:24:03
yourself like when you're doing normal driving everyday you will
1:24:08
kind of like if someone, like, fucks with you or cuts you off
1:24:12
or or does something weird, you'll like kind of just push
1:24:14
the limit, 'cause you're like, you know what I mean?
1:24:17
Yeah. Oh for sure.
1:24:18
It's weird, yeah. Yeah, like you'll.
1:24:21
Let them get close. Or like if I.
1:24:23
See someone that's like about to do something stupid.
1:24:26
I'll like, I'll, I'll scare them.
1:24:27
I'll get close to scaring them. I'm like, I know I'm not gonna
1:24:30
hit them or anything's gonna happen.
1:24:31
Like, I'll get closer 'cause I know that like, I was like, is
1:24:34
that 'cause we are so used to crashing?
1:24:37
And everything. Else where.
1:24:38
It's like I have, I know where the limit is.
1:24:40
Yeah, it's. Knowing where the.
1:24:41
Limit is. I think it's the big one.
1:24:42
Yeah, you're a. Little desensitized, I can never
1:24:44
think of an example when I bring this up, but like.
1:24:48
It's usually like lane changes or someone like coming over and
1:24:50
they don't see you. And then like, I'm here and I'm
1:24:53
just like going right next to them, but I'm leaving like 2
1:24:55
inches and I'm like, hey, I'm, I'm still here.
1:24:57
And then they see you last minute and they're like, oh
1:24:59
shit. And they like put the wheel back
1:25:00
and then they go into the other barrier.
1:25:02
Yeah, they like, go into the jersey.
1:25:03
Barrier. And I'm not hitting my horn for
1:25:05
some reason. I never hit my horn, dude.
1:25:06
Me neither. You're crazy.
1:25:07
Are you from New Jersey? I'm in there.
1:25:09
I. Literally.
1:25:11
That fuck actually is the best example.
1:25:13
Say I'm like. Out there, quarter panel.
1:25:14
They're in the fast lane. I'm in the middle lane.
1:25:16
I'm going. They don't see me.
1:25:18
I'm just being a blind spot or something.
1:25:19
They start coming over. I just start moving with them
1:25:21
and then I keep going forward and then eventually I'm next to
1:25:24
their window and I'm like barely in the other lane or whatever.
1:25:27
And then they see me and they fucking.
1:25:29
That's what I end up doing. I don't even hit the horn.
1:25:30
I'm just like, it's funny like the next time, like when I if
1:25:33
I'm coming up. On somebody and I'm gonna go
1:25:35
around them and like my front bumper will get very close to
1:25:38
the rear bumper. Oh yeah, that's shave off the
1:25:41
corner there. Yeah, but like the.
1:25:42
Escalade will start beeping at me and like.
1:25:43
Freaking out. Oh, it's got sensors.
1:25:45
Yeah, for like, crack, because things are going to crash.
1:25:47
Into the car beep when it beeps. Like that.
1:25:49
It's like it's telling you good. Yeah, it's telling you.
1:25:52
Throw something out the window. Immediately.
1:25:55
Another thing What? You threw something at the.
1:25:57
Window. No, but since we're talking
1:25:58
about kind of. Reckless driving, even though
1:26:00
that. Wasn't the point, but we've also
1:26:02
never done any of this. Yeah, we don't.
1:26:04
I'm just saying like. I'm not trying.
1:26:06
To put myself, allegedly. We've driven like this before.
1:26:08
I didn't start the situation. But.
1:26:11
I'm not going to just slam, basically.
1:26:13
I'm not going to slam on my brakes.
1:26:15
That's the end of the conversation.
1:26:16
That's what I'm trying not to do.
1:26:18
You don't wanna warp those rotors.
1:26:19
Exactly. I'm not since you since.
1:26:21
Since. You're the.
1:26:22
Idiot that's not. Doesn't know how to drive.
1:26:24
I'm not gonna slam on my brakes. I'm gonna make you crash before
1:26:28
I'm gonna teach you a lesson before I crash.
1:26:29
I'm gonna. Teach you what?
1:26:31
That's what he wants to. Do I'm gonna teach you a less
1:26:33
brakes dude before my. Ladders get warped and that's
1:26:36
happening all I could think about when somebody.
1:26:38
With an expensive. Car does that.
1:26:39
Bullshit with me is like try me and look at my shit.
1:26:43
I'll hit you. Do you think I fucking?
1:26:45
Care. Yeah, I'll stay right here and
1:26:46
let you. My shit is paid off.
1:26:48
I will run you the fuck. Over.
1:26:51
Yeah. I could always go for a little
1:26:52
fresh paint. Yeah.
1:26:53
Oh dude. Yeah, exactly.
1:26:54
I'll write you my own. Estimate and then so the other
1:26:58
day on the way, on the way to. Work Well, I don't know if I
1:27:01
was. I don't know what the fucking
1:27:02
day was. I don't know what day it is now.
1:27:03
Anyway, on the direction to coming here on 17.
1:27:06
It was at night, actually. You got these fucking like, no
1:27:09
hesi fucking guys dude here on Route 17.
1:27:13
So I'm like the. Most heavily patrolled highway
1:27:15
in New Jersey, so I'm just like driving in the middle lane.
1:27:19
Maybe And you just hear the, hear the VQS like coming from
1:27:22
the distance and you're like Florida and then fucking.
1:27:27
Right, right. Next.
1:27:28
To me, I'm like, OK And like, when this happens, I just don't
1:27:33
move. I stay where I'm going and I
1:27:34
stay, 'cause I'm like, that's the safest thing we can do right
1:27:36
now. When these fucking retards are
1:27:38
fucking cutting everyone off, it's like when bikes come by
1:27:40
you, you should not. So you know, they're fucking
1:27:44
like, what do they? Call it white line, white lining
1:27:47
fucking people. I'm like.
1:27:49
Jesus and I'm watching. It happen.
1:27:50
I was like, and every time it happens in my mind, I'm just
1:27:53
like, all right, I'm just gonna crash.
1:27:54
Got it. What lane, What exit am I gonna
1:27:56
get off at? Because there's gonna be an
1:27:57
accident right there. Like I the shit they're doing
1:28:01
looks so stupid. There's no way they're not going
1:28:04
to crash. It's crazy like when we when we
1:28:07
drive up here. Usually because we'll hit DC and
1:28:10
Baltimore at night, like 9:00 at night.
1:28:12
God help you, God bless. Especially when Baltimore,
1:28:16
that's especially. When we're towing the trailer
1:28:18
with like the car and. Everything.
1:28:20
I just sit in the middle lane and I like, I'm just like, dude,
1:28:22
I'm gonna do the same speed and I'm gonna hope everybody else
1:28:25
just goes around because and then like, I'm going the speed
1:28:27
limit. But like, people are nuts and
1:28:29
like all different directions. You got all these crazy, like
1:28:32
random off ramps and they're going from the far left, all the
1:28:34
way across. So I'm just like, I'm gonna stay
1:28:36
here, those guys that like, you know, the rate quote.
1:28:39
UN quote racing. But they're just trying to cut
1:28:41
each other off. Oh yeah, we've we see that all
1:28:43
the time. They they come in.
1:28:44
Clusters. And then they just like all over
1:28:47
the place and I'm like, dude, like just go over it, please see
1:28:49
me and go. That's why I put Underglow on
1:28:51
the trailer. Yeah, dude, Dang.
1:28:53
And that's probably. Fly as.
1:28:55
Fuck, actually just some some amber underglow.
1:28:58
But like, my trailer's actually like visible.
1:28:59
At night now. And so it's just like the couple
1:29:01
marker lights are like, they don't care about that, they're
1:29:03
still gonna crash. Yeah, true.
1:29:05
Like I don't. I like to do everything I can.
1:29:07
To try and prevent. It but like.
1:29:09
Literally driving through Baltimore.
1:29:10
I was with Nick. Front St.
1:29:11
Nick and. This guy brake checks us and
1:29:14
we're we're just driving dude, me, Nick and our the.
1:29:18
Other guy. Gabe, we're ready.
1:29:20
Dude. I I want.
1:29:22
I went to, I went to go. Grab.
1:29:24
Something. And so did Nick, allegedly.
1:29:28
And and we held our cool 'cause like, yeah, that's why you never
1:29:32
know nowadays, bro. And unless I'm packing two, I'm
1:29:35
not making no noise, especially in New Jersey concealed carry
1:29:38
watch. Out.
1:29:40
What else was I? Gonna say Oh yeah, I don't know.
1:29:42
But then some parts of me think, like, what if that?
1:29:44
What if? What if they try to cuss someone
1:29:46
off and their rear bumper taps your truck?
1:29:48
Is anything even gonna fucking happen to your I'm flowing it
1:29:50
like us. They're probably just gonna fuck
1:29:53
themselves up and then fishtails, go do something else.
1:29:57
I'm not. Hit maneuver.
1:29:59
So what's more whack that? Or takeovers, I guess.
1:30:02
I guess you just. Have to say they're the same.
1:30:04
Kids, they're rushing to get to the takeover.
1:30:08
Yeah, for sure. Collectively, they're just.
1:30:10
The worst. It's just weird 'cause like I.
1:30:12
Remember doing dumb shit like. I remember being in my friends
1:30:15
WRX and doing something similar one one day.
1:30:22
And in my and he was a. Crazy driver, like very good at
1:30:24
driving, but he would like push the limit with, you know, like
1:30:27
we were talking about getting close and stuff.
1:30:30
So he was just kind. Of making a joke of it like.
1:30:33
We're going up route. 17 and it's, it's.
1:30:34
Like rush hour and there's a lot of traffic, but it's not
1:30:36
stopped. And he's like, he's like fuck
1:30:39
this. And he's just like fucking like
1:30:40
weaving in and out like bumper to bumper.
1:30:43
And I'm like, dude, dude, dude, I'm like fucking freaking out
1:30:45
and he's like kind of making a joke of it.
1:30:47
He's so calm. It's like, we would do dumb shit
1:30:51
like that occasionally, but we do not do it with multiple
1:30:55
people and go in between cars. You know what I mean?
1:31:00
I had a Mini Cooper. I thought about going in between
1:31:02
cars, but I still was like, Nah, that's.
1:31:05
You're just an asshole. I feel like when I was in like
1:31:07
high school and stuff, I never had anything fast.
1:31:09
Enough to do that? Yeah.
1:31:10
So yeah, you just had the fucking the camera.
1:31:13
The Camry. Yeah, the Camry was turboed for
1:31:14
a week. What do you mean for a week?
1:31:17
Literally a. Week.
1:31:18
Did it blow up? No, I took it off.
1:31:20
So I. I ran out.
1:31:22
Of money. I was in college.
1:31:23
And I had to start actually commuting like 45 minutes to
1:31:28
class because we were supposed to move into a college house and
1:31:31
it got pushed back a month. So I was like, crap, I can't
1:31:34
drive this like Turbo Camry. Why not?
1:31:36
I just don't get into Boost. Nah, I just.
1:31:38
It was. It was.
1:31:40
It was not. Good.
1:31:41
It was a it was a stepping stone to learning more things.
1:31:45
You ever put nitrous on something?
1:31:46
No. Never have.
1:31:47
That's one. Of my dreams still.
1:31:50
I I. Don't know.
1:31:51
Contemplated. I wanna try.
1:31:52
It. I I've contemplated on the
1:31:54
Drifty because it has like 238,000 miles on it.
1:31:57
So I'm like maybe a little like a little Hunter shot.
1:32:00
Yeah, could be cool and I feel like it wouldn't do much damage,
1:32:03
I don't think. It would.
1:32:04
Yeah, I feel like on that. Yeah, I feel like it would take
1:32:07
like a hunter shot. Pretty OK.
1:32:10
I wanna build a second Gen. eclipse and put Nitrous in it.
1:32:13
Dude, really bad. I love Eclipses, Yeah.
1:32:15
Yeah, I really. Want that?
1:32:17
And yes, that's. 'Cause they're fast and furious.
1:32:19
Hey, you know, Yeah, I don't. I don't blame you.
1:32:22
I had one day, yeah. The Camry was like a.
1:32:24
It was like a weird. Like stroke of confidence that I
1:32:28
had and I was like I'm running with this, I'm doing it and it
1:32:32
was like all the turbo stuff off of an MR2, like a turbo MR2.
1:32:36
And so it was like factory turbo but it was a OBD one car.
1:32:42
And like I was also poor and I I did like you know like those old
1:32:48
rising rate fuel pressure regulators.
1:32:50
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had like one of those on there.
1:32:52
So it's like 1 to. 1. Like it bumps the.
1:32:54
Fuel pressure up per pound of boost?
1:32:55
Like a certain amount. And yeah, it was real sketchy.
1:32:59
I also might have had what was it?
1:33:04
Oh, PVC intercooler piping. What?
1:33:06
Yeah, dude broke college kid. Oh no.
1:33:09
What are we talking about? You were the Meme Camera.
1:33:11
It'd. Be like.
1:33:12
Literally, Turbo kid. Yeah, 40 bucks.
1:33:15
Yeah. The camera, it was Turbo.
1:33:17
For like a week. And then he took it off and I
1:33:19
took it. Off 'cause I had to start
1:33:20
driving. At the school, I had no money.
1:33:21
I had no money left. I had no money and.
1:33:23
You know what's the? Craziest thing.
1:33:24
Gas mileage I I sold the entire turbo kit to a dude in Saudi.
1:33:28
Arabia. What?
1:33:29
Wait, with the PVC piping everything, what?
1:33:33
Everything. I sold two dude in Saudi Arabia.
1:33:35
I don't know. I put it on eBay.
1:33:36
Dude, we're talking Oh. I knew it.
1:33:38
I knew it. We're talking 2000.
1:33:40
And 8:12. Pieces whole thing together and
1:33:43
then. Yeah.
1:33:45
Dude, pre 2014 eBay. I mean, like, trust me.
1:33:48
I Full disclosure. Of everything like.
1:33:50
I'll never try and screw. Anybody over, but like he knew
1:33:53
what he was getting and like he bought it and I don't know what
1:33:55
he did with it, but he he did something with it, he said.
1:33:58
Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia. So it's one of the cars.
1:34:01
In those videos, that thing was definitely.
1:34:04
On its side at some point. Absolutely, Yeah.
1:34:08
It could have been on, Yeah. You know those Camrys?
1:34:10
Are built really fucking well. Like every Toyota is fucking
1:34:13
insane. That's you're damn right so.
1:34:16
Since I still want one Morgan's. Going to kill me when I say
1:34:19
this, especially because she's watching this right now.
1:34:21
Wait, why do you want that? OK, so I want that same car but.
1:34:24
You know, Have you ever heard of the All?
1:34:26
Tracks. Yeah, the four wheel drive, one
1:34:27
or all-wheel drive. So they made a Camry all track.
1:34:29
Yeah, and they made a. Manual Camry all track, so I'm
1:34:33
going to get a base model and convert it.
1:34:35
No, no, no. I'm done with that.
1:34:36
I'm done with that. So I was like if the perfect.
1:34:40
Manual Camry all tracked. Ever pet popped up.
1:34:43
I'm like, I need it. It has to be done.
1:34:44
It has to be done. It has to be done because then
1:34:47
guys will take the three SGTE from the Celica GT4 and it bolts
1:34:50
right in, uses the same trans everything engine mounts.
1:34:54
The whole another. Car that people do crazy shit to
1:34:56
We did my. My old roommate had an Mr. Two
1:35:00
that had a third Gen. 3S GTE in it.
1:35:03
Those fucking motors. Bang dude.
1:35:07
They're they are. So.
1:35:09
Fast. What's the red line?
1:35:10
I have no fucking clue. But when Tyler?
1:35:13
Shifts. That thing, when Tyler shifts
1:35:14
that thing, it's like at a rate of of like we're going to the
1:35:19
grocery store and it's like. What?
1:35:22
Like it's it's very, very. Fast like that car got.
1:35:24
That air shifter in there, it's sick.
1:35:26
Nah, Nah, he'd be. He'd be.
1:35:28
He'd be really. Shifting that shift, like,
1:35:29
really shifting it that Camry taught me a.
1:35:32
Lot that was like. My first car.
1:35:34
And it definitely taught me a lot, you know, high school sound
1:35:36
system neons. Oh, Slowering Springs.
1:35:39
Like they had a They had a woofa in it.
1:35:41
Oh, yeah. Hi, Stevie Fresh.
1:35:42
From Walmart, you know, Yeah, that's.
1:35:45
It I was telling him I I wanna build a second Gen.
1:35:48
Eclipse with Nitrous. One day, no, you don't shut the.
1:35:53
Fuck up dude, you have. Way too much.
1:35:56
Shit. Now if someone.
1:35:57
Was like, would you rather have a?
1:35:58
4. What do you call it?
1:36:00
Mark 4 Supra or a Gen. 2 eclipse with Nitrous.
1:36:05
Eclipse. Eclipse.
1:36:07
That's where my head's at. A what?
1:36:09
Supra. Mark 4 Supra.
1:36:11
Like you can you can take this. Or you can go this.
1:36:15
I would be like the Eclipse supers are sick.
1:36:18
Yeah, there's they're cool. They just.
1:36:20
Don't like, but they're not an eclipse unpopular opinion.
1:36:23
There's a couple. Cars that.
1:36:23
Everybody loves that. Just don't deal for me.
1:36:25
Give me. OK, Let's hear something a why?
1:36:27
OK, give me. A Why of the Super though.
1:36:30
I don't know Jay-Z. No, I'm kidding.
1:36:31
I'm kidding. Coral.
1:36:32
No, that's. The Jay-Z Why?
1:36:33
I love the way Jay-Z sounds, don't get me wrong.
1:36:36
I don't know. I just feel like when it's like
1:36:38
when you hear a song on the radio and like you hear it over
1:36:41
and over and over $1,000,000 time.
1:36:43
Yes, dude, I hear. Dude.
1:36:45
Every swipe. I hear that song and I'm tired
1:36:47
of. Hearing it on.
1:36:48
Instagram, I don't do it four times on the way here, so
1:36:51
that's. The thing with the supra I feel
1:36:53
like it gets. Jammed down your.
1:36:54
Throat so much and everyone's like losing their minds over it.
1:36:56
Then I'm just like, but the second Gen. eclipse.
1:36:59
Yes, only fast. And Furious really did it right.
1:37:01
And like what? Other 1001 and that's it.
1:37:04
They're like. We're gonna give.
1:37:05
This to you here, Yeah? And then no one else, really.
1:37:08
But then. When I think of the eclipse.
1:37:11
And I also just like it 'cause I.
1:37:14
I have a history with working. On that car when I was younger.
1:37:16
And I like those cars, yeah, But I know you have a connection
1:37:19
with that and know you like that car.
1:37:21
Even though for some reason in my head I think of that car as
1:37:24
one of the more least desirable. Cars because.
1:37:28
Of like reliability issues one. They got a four.
1:37:33
G6 here. It's one of those things,
1:37:34
though. You take care.
1:37:35
You just gotta take care. Of it Like dude, the
1:37:37
Mitsubishi's. They're they're touchy, but you.
1:37:39
Just treat them right. I'm not worried about that rust
1:37:41
situation. That's what I'm more worried.
1:37:42
About you just want that bubble butt looking fucking.
1:37:46
The. Rainbow Wing, there you go with
1:37:48
the hood bubble. Yes, with.
1:37:50
The hood bubble was sick that had.
1:37:52
Did have like a hump in him, but no talent, no talent for me.
1:37:55
I don't like this. That's the.
1:37:56
Same fucking thing, Malcolm. 1994.
1:38:01
Eagle. Talon.
1:38:02
Is it a 94? Should it be like a newer one
1:38:05
should? Be there are TSI on the other
1:38:06
the. TSI.
1:38:09
So the TSI was a turbo. Drawn.
1:38:10
No, that's that would. Be that's the first thing that
1:38:13
right. There looks like a car from
1:38:15
Grand Theft Auto. Would six be the same?
1:38:18
Or six should be. The second.
1:38:20
Job. OK, so that.
1:38:21
Look at the rear of that car. The white right there.
1:38:24
Look at that. Now next to open another tab and
1:38:28
do a 1996 Eclipse and then what's?
1:38:32
What's the? GSX.
1:38:33
That's the one. With the it's already perfect
1:38:36
look. It's the red one with the black
1:38:37
carbon fiber hood. Oh my God.
1:38:40
The red. Now the down there.
1:38:42
The red. One, Yep.
1:38:43
Yep. Right there.
1:38:44
Compare him How do you How do you want Malcolm to come?
1:38:48
On bro. Well, that's.
1:38:49
Like how they did the Dodge stealth.
1:38:50
And the 3000? GT The Stealth just got all the
1:38:53
ugly qualities that the 3000. I mean look at that dude.
1:38:57
Like look at the wing. Yeah.
1:39:01
The. Talent looks so bad, I.
1:39:02
Don't know what bro. Yeah.
1:39:04
I it's 'cause I'm looking at. I'm looking at quarter.
1:39:06
Windows. I'm looking at the Fender and
1:39:09
like the front of the car looks similar, the front looks.
1:39:12
Probably the worst, but. I'm.
1:39:14
Saying it looks comparison. Look at the GSX.
1:39:16
Front and the and the. Talent.
1:39:18
Even the front bumpers are better, like the Eclipse are
1:39:19
just better. I'll show.
1:39:20
You a good one, Malcolm. On the left window, there's.
1:39:23
A red car with the doors up there.
1:39:25
That right there is the best talent I've ever seen I ever
1:39:28
met. I remember this car from like
1:39:30
when we were. Younger.
1:39:31
Really. Do you remember, like, Car
1:39:34
Domain? Like, back in the day?
1:39:36
You might be too young. Yeah, that sounds.
1:39:38
Like something that I've. Clicked car.
1:39:39
Domain was like a website. It was like Myspace.
1:39:41
But for. Cars and like you could go on
1:39:43
there and make like a profile and have your cars on it.
1:39:45
Like pictures of your car. Look at the hood.
1:39:48
Fuck. And I definitely remember
1:39:49
having. This on like one of my.
1:39:50
Like binders in like elementary school or something.
1:39:53
Really. Dude, you were a binder guy.
1:39:54
You were lucky. You.
1:39:55
Probably. Had so many cool like pictures
1:39:57
to slip inside. You gotta, you gotta, yeah, you
1:39:59
gotta do the make a little thing for the front of your binder.
1:40:01
And I'm like, yeah, I'm in the, I'm in the cars.
1:40:04
I hate Lambo doors, though, I will say.
1:40:06
Dude, I'm about to put Lambo doors.
1:40:07
On the whip they. They are if they if they
1:40:09
actually worked. Well then maybe I wouldn't hate
1:40:12
em. That body kit is amazing.
1:40:14
I need those wheels. Who's got those wheels?
1:40:16
The Axis. Fucking look at the SO, Stan,
1:40:19
Mr. Sansko. Look at the fitment back then.
1:40:21
Yeah, it was a different time. Look at the kit.
1:40:23
That thing looks molded. Onto the car which is.
1:40:25
Dumb as fuck. I don't think it is, but it.
1:40:29
Definitely is. I don't see.
1:40:31
You got your body. Oh, there.
1:40:32
Is right there. The wing is.
1:40:34
Perfect. It's just a giant.
1:40:35
Bumper. So is that like a?
1:40:37
That's a replica. There you go, right there.
1:40:38
That's me. Hell yeah.
1:40:40
There you go Now the not the swan neck, swan neck.
1:40:44
Wing What? This is what I mean.
1:40:46
Like no one rear cars and the the air.
1:40:50
Suspension. You're losing me.
1:40:52
Yeah, oh. Wait, it's purging shit out of
1:40:54
the little? Nitrous.
1:40:56
That shit is. That's Frankie when he gets his
1:40:57
nitrous on his There you go, right there with the.
1:40:59
Neon. Yep.
1:41:01
There. It is that sounded like.
1:41:04
A fart that you were holding any more?
1:41:05
Real than that. That right there, that's.
1:41:07
How you do it. That's what real neon looks.
1:41:09
Like, just everyone knows, yeah. Not little LED lights.
1:41:12
That's literally what it looks like when a car's rolling down
1:41:14
the street. It doesn't.
1:41:17
No, it does not, dude. That's real.
1:41:19
Neon I know, but shit. Looks I don't wanna bang my
1:41:22
fucking. Car on the.
1:41:23
Ground. And then I gotta worry about a
1:41:24
gas explosion. It would be a bad idea to put
1:41:26
that on a drift car. Yeah, yeah.
1:41:29
So that's why you just don't do any of that.
1:41:30
We're gonna try. Damn, what a fucking
1:41:33
wildtangent. 1st of. All Talon sorry, butthole.
1:41:38
I hate that car. That car, I don't.
1:41:40
Like it either? I told you the I told you guys a
1:41:41
story where my buddy was pushing one bumper to bumper.
1:41:46
He was in between the two cars. He was pushing it.
1:41:47
Why? Because it wouldn't turn on
1:41:49
Shocker A Talon that didn't turn on with with.
1:41:53
Bolt on what? Year was it second Gen.
1:41:55
It was that one, the bubbly. One.
1:41:57
They fucked it. Up and they always got Evo 8.
1:42:00
Wheels. It was a maff.
1:42:02
That's all it was, dude. Honestly.
1:42:03
Just unplugged the maff and he just started now.
1:42:05
I'm thinking about. It it was.
1:42:08
Cranking. It was cranking crank, no. *
1:42:14
Seriously, 1st 20 G on that? Thing it was.
1:42:16
Just puffing. Fucking smoke like if.
1:42:19
You did get it to turn on turbo, right?
1:42:21
Right in front, Yeah, right next to the.
1:42:23
Radiator. You know, sometimes you get the
1:42:25
small radiator 'cause you can't fit mm Hmm.
1:42:27
Did you just drive? Did you?
1:42:29
Did you just describe? A turbo Honda Civic, pretty much
1:42:32
'cause that's what you Yeah, that's 20 wheel drive.
1:42:35
Yeah. Yeah, you got a GSX and because.
1:42:37
It's a four. G63.
1:42:38
Dude, even looking at those like 2. 1000 Era's cars.
1:42:42
That's what I like. That's why I feel like I don't
1:42:44
pay much attention. To new cars anymore.
1:42:45
'Cause. I'm like stuck in the yeah,
1:42:47
that's what a boomer I I just want to do like, stuck in what?
1:42:50
You like? Yeah.
1:42:51
Yeah, but I like the new GR86, so.
1:42:53
I guess I'm not a. Boomer, sorry, they literally
1:42:55
made that car for. Boomers, sorry.
1:42:57
Car. Yeah, it is a main car rear
1:42:59
wheel drive. Car that car is going to.
1:43:01
Turn into like what S chassis? Are to us.
1:43:03
It's going to be that car for it's just crazy When you see
1:43:06
like AGR 86 then you then you see an FRS.
1:43:08
And you're like, wow, that was a big upgrade, right?
1:43:11
Yeah, Holy shit you didn't like the FRSI loved.
1:43:13
It I. Liked it?
1:43:14
And then this car. Came out it makes it.
1:43:16
Look dated, yeah. Like it makes the FRS look
1:43:18
dated. It not even dated.
1:43:19
It makes it look like a toy, like like.
1:43:22
It doesn't even look like it looks ricy.
1:43:24
That's what it looks like compared to the new one.
1:43:26
Which is crazy because when I saw when I see Fr s s.
1:43:29
Or prior to seeing the GR86, I was like that car looks still
1:43:34
pretty new like that's a good buy and then and then the new
1:43:37
one comes out and you see next to it and you're like.
1:43:40
Whoa, yeah, yeah. Big upgrade.
1:43:43
It's a. It is a nice.
1:43:44
Car it is a. There was a point where I was
1:43:45
gonna. Trade my CTSV in for Afrs.
1:43:51
Thank God you didn't do that. Yeah, so I.
1:43:53
Used to work down. In Philly and I was driving.
1:43:55
Like 150 miles a day in the V and it was killing me on gas.
1:43:59
And I was like, you know, I'm like I need a more fuel
1:44:03
efficient car. So I I went and I test drove.
1:44:05
It was a BRZ and I went to the Super dealership and the guy was
1:44:08
like, oh, you gonna do like a trade in?
1:44:09
I'm like, yeah, that CTSV. That's right.
1:44:10
There he goes, Well, I just want to warn you, it's not as fast.
1:44:14
It's fast, he goes. But it's gonna take.
1:44:15
The corners faster. I was like, OK, it probably
1:44:18
would, Yeah, I mean it definitely.
1:44:20
We. He had me.
1:44:21
Go to like some on ramp and he's like OK, floor it all the way
1:44:24
onto the onto the highway. Dude, my brother's the salesman.
1:44:29
That's why. I'm like, did you go to Sioka?
1:44:31
Subaru in Philly. 'Cause that's where my brother
1:44:33
went. Imagine getting beans.
1:44:35
Imagine a random. Stranger getting in the car and
1:44:37
driving. You around?
1:44:38
Floor it. Yeah, no nuts rear wheel drive,
1:44:41
but and I did and like it. Hugged the on ramp.
1:44:44
But then I was at like 80. You'd probably scare this right
1:44:46
out of this guy's baby and. I was just like, OK.
1:44:49
Cool. I'm like, I'm good.
1:44:53
I like thank you. And then?
1:44:55
I found another. Job and I.
1:44:56
Start working with turn 14. That was 10 minutes from my
1:44:58
house. Yeah, I was like, yeah, I'll do
1:45:00
new job and keep the V instead of the CTSV is a is a pretty
1:45:05
practical vehicle. Though if I'm good, moderate,
1:45:08
you got a trunk. It was my daily for probably
1:45:11
like 9 years. And yeah, I mean, honestly, it
1:45:16
was intake exhaust coilovers. Like nothing crazy up until what
1:45:22
is the equal gas mileage on that?
1:45:27
Dude, So Morgan and I drove it to.
1:45:30
Florida in 2020 from there, from Philly, Yeah.
1:45:34
And it was still like stock motor and everything.
1:45:37
Didn't do the camera or anything.
1:45:38
And we were getting like 26 miles to a gallon on the
1:45:40
highway, what 20 and like? I teens if you're.
1:45:45
Like easy on it around town or like average.
1:45:48
Now it's it's worse with the Cam, 'cause it has like a fat
1:45:51
Cam in it. What is like a BRZ?
1:45:52
What is like a BRZ Malcolm? MPG See that thing?
1:45:56
Shops. It's like a new. 1.
1:45:57
Yeah, it's like 30. Right is it?
1:45:59
30 Is that like what? The.
1:46:01
The. New one, yeah.
1:46:02
I don't know 'cause I drive a. Truck that gets 8.
1:46:05
So yeah, dude, the thing that the Escalade like, blew me.
1:46:08
Away 24 yeah. See, that's what it is that was
1:46:11
that was sparked our. Conversation.
1:46:13
What the BRZ? 2222 what?
1:46:16
Yeah. MPGI think so, I think.
1:46:17
It's all gearing like the V put that.
1:46:19
Thing in six and you're just chilling at like 1800 RPM going
1:46:23
T56. Yeah and yeah, the.
1:46:25
Escalade It has a 8. Speed.
1:46:27
And it like blew me away. And how does it shift?
1:46:30
Is it good? I'm like like from a dead.
1:46:32
Stop it. It'll like shift.
1:46:34
Quick, quicker through the gears and sometimes it's a little
1:46:37
clunky. But yeah, like on the highway
1:46:41
without a trailer or anything, like 24 miles to go on 25
1:46:44
sometimes average, like coming up here.
1:46:46
I heard the new 10 speed transmissions in the trucks are
1:46:49
not doing. Too hot?
1:46:50
Me neither. Yeah, the 8 speeds, The 8 speed
1:46:52
that. I have, LIKE, also didn't have a
1:46:55
great reputation, but there's a couple fixes to do.
1:46:59
It's like one of those things where, like for my particular
1:47:02
Escalade, if you undo everything that EPA made GM do, it's a much
1:47:06
better track. Give me some examples here aside
1:47:09
from a test pad. So I disabled.
1:47:12
I shut off the. Cylinder deactivation.
1:47:15
So they're known for dropping lifters on the cylinders that
1:47:19
deactivate. It's like what?
1:47:20
What, what, what? What are we deactivating here?
1:47:23
So it'll one cylinder's not firing.
1:47:24
Yeah, so it'll go into like. AV4 mode instead.
1:47:27
Of AV eight. Oh no, I don't.
1:47:29
I definitely don't like that's. Awful and it's like super jerky
1:47:32
when it goes from. One to the other.
1:47:34
Oh God, it's not good. And what happens is like the
1:47:38
whole system just sucks and basically it'll like lifters
1:47:42
will partially activate and like shit and it will like wipe a
1:47:47
lifter, wipe a Cam, and it causes a whole issue.
1:47:51
So deactivate that system on the computer and then I blocked off
1:47:54
the oil passage that feeds the solenoids to activate those
1:47:58
lifters. So, like, that'll buy me some
1:48:00
time. And then with the transmission.
1:48:05
So I broke everything I broke. Everything.
1:48:09
And. We're good.
1:48:11
And then with the transmissions on those, they.
1:48:13
Come with transmission thermostats so they won't open
1:48:16
till 195 to cool it To cool it so it has to be 190.
1:48:21
Five is kind of high. Yes.
1:48:23
And they're like, Oh no, we use a.
1:48:25
New fluid that's it's good. And I looked at like the data
1:48:28
sheet for the fluid. Do you think it was an EPA?
1:48:30
It's a squeeze that helps squeeze.
1:48:32
Out a couple more miles per gallon, so they.
1:48:33
Can meet certain requirements. Yeah, for like ASUV that big.
1:48:38
So like I I looked at the data sheet for the fluid and they
1:48:41
were basically said down to -75, it'll maintain viscosity.
1:48:45
But then for the on the on the hot end they just said extreme
1:48:50
temperatures. So I was like, so you don't know
1:48:53
when this fluid breaks down under heat cause with the
1:48:56
Suburban like the older trucks like when you're in the two
1:48:59
hundreds in the transmission temp, it's not good, like you
1:49:03
want to keep it under 200 usually.
1:49:06
So I took the I had this huge trans cooler from the Suburban
1:49:12
and I. Put it on the Escalade I.
1:49:13
Made-up like AN lines and deleted the thermostat and now
1:49:17
it runs it like like on 100° day towing it's at like 135.
1:49:21
That's a significant drop, yeah. Crazy drop.
1:49:24
What is that? A 4L8?
1:49:27
In the. In the Escalade 8L90.
1:49:30
What the fuck is that? It's.
1:49:32
The oh, it's that. Newer.
1:49:33
Yeah, it's a newer. You should have.
1:49:34
Put the fucking. Trans cooler I'm not.
1:49:36
Shit, a long time ago. Dude, wow.
1:49:39
I would never been trans. Yet I don't.
1:49:41
Know how? Yeah, dude, Hey.
1:49:42
If any brokes. Don't touch it.
1:49:43
Yo 'cause let me tell you a six. 50 Eisen Trans in 2004 Toyota
1:49:50
Sequoia Enough with this car, bro.
1:49:52
You you're. Over it.
1:49:54
We all know you're over. It on the last hot lap.
1:49:57
Let it be clear. I didn't say I was sick of it.
1:49:59
I just said I didn't even know that that existed.
1:50:01
But I'm not surprised. I watch it.
1:50:03
I watch every single. One, I put a like on it if you.
1:50:05
Don't like the videos? Make sure you like the videos
1:50:07
because Malcolm works hard on them.
1:50:08
I'm just saying I didn't. I didn't know you said that I
1:50:11
did. But I get the vibe I did.
1:50:13
You stop screaming Sequoia every five.
1:50:14
Minutes. It's just 'cause it's.
1:50:15
A part of my life now. Like it really.
1:50:17
Is like but the reason why I ask about the trans is cause in the
1:50:21
Sequoia unlike you guys bow tie gang shit my trans you can't
1:50:27
even feel it shift and I'm sure Malcolm's is the same exact way.
1:50:31
Oh really? Malcolm will chime in.
1:50:34
What? What's?
1:50:34
Wrong with. Malcolm.
1:50:37
My girl's a little tired. What his shit?
1:50:41
Bucks like a donkey, dude. No, I.
1:50:43
I did that. I did that, the thing I said.
1:50:45
Drain and fill The other day the video and it No, I did it drain
1:50:48
and fill yesterday and it feels a lot better.
1:50:50
So can I eat the egg roll? Yeah, I'm not.
1:50:54
I'm not going to tell. You what to do but look up the.
1:50:55
Video from Toyota, Tim. Toyota, Tim.
1:50:59
Toyota, Tim. Yeah.
1:51:00
Where where you. This is what I did for my
1:51:02
Sequoia. I've when I was, thought it was
1:51:05
a trans, but it was actually. A.
1:51:06
Misfire. I pulled off the the return
1:51:11
after the cooler. You did a fluid swap?
1:51:13
Yeah, and I was putting it into a bucket.
1:51:16
And and I marked. The bucket where a quart is at.
1:51:19
So then I would turn the car on, it would spill out, it would
1:51:23
fill up to a quart. I'd have my buddy turn off the
1:51:25
car and I'd fill it up a quart and then do it again.
1:51:29
And I did that 12 times because that's how many quarts were in
1:51:34
there. And then it was Mint, and then
1:51:36
it was Mint. What's the?
1:51:38
Tow capacity of that Sequoia, I think it's like. 6000.
1:51:41
Pounds. All right.
1:51:42
It's not terrible. It's.
1:51:43
Not terrible, I I use it. I'm.
1:51:45
I'm not. Towing all the time.
1:51:47
So in my opinion it's fine because it's not a, it's not a.
1:51:52
It's on AV64 runner sometimes. Sometimes I wish I could just
1:51:55
get like. A Kia Telluride.
1:51:57
Or something. Just what is that like?
1:51:59
Just like a crossover, like a normal.
1:52:01
Nice. Normal.
1:52:02
Comfortable crossover, but at the same time, like I always
1:52:04
have to have something like a tow trailer.
1:52:07
I wish I didn't have to tow shit either.
1:52:09
Like I. Would either get a Jeep Wrangler
1:52:11
or some Toyota. Truck like they got.
1:52:13
Yeah, but like when I. Yeah, I said it.
1:52:17
Now clip that. But when I'm.
1:52:19
When I'm driving around. With the trailer the.
1:52:24
Whatever. The, the, the.
1:52:25
The. 7% of the. Time that I have a trailer with
1:52:27
that car, that's when I wish I had like a Chevy or like a
1:52:31
bigger truck truck. Because on the highways on in
1:52:36
you guys's trucks, either my alignment's fucked up or
1:52:39
something. Like that but.
1:52:41
It feels borderline like we're not even towing anything.
1:52:44
I was telling my dad that today. I was like, yeah, we I do about
1:52:46
90. In a truck, when we're towing,
1:52:48
he's like, what? I'm like, yeah, it feels better.
1:52:50
Yeah. No, it does.
1:52:51
Frankie's true. They're my Suburban.
1:52:53
Same way like the faster you go, the smoother it fell.
1:52:55
Yeah, but then but then in a normal like like your.
1:52:58
Run-of-the-mill. I guess you would call that like
1:53:01
ASUV, but like a big one like mine.
1:53:06
When you go faster, the danger increases like crazy.
1:53:10
A gust of wind hits that thing. And I'm like.
1:53:13
It's also 'cause my truck's really long.
1:53:15
Yeah, you do. Have you do have the the 8 foot
1:53:18
bed? Yeah.
1:53:19
Yeah, wheelbase will help, but man, dude, that.
1:53:22
That's when I get jealous. Because then if it would make
1:53:24
those drives smooth. But I also just think it's the
1:53:28
alignment of the truck too. The alignment of the truck is
1:53:30
fucked. You'll see the light someday.
1:53:32
Yeah, OK. You'll see the.
1:53:33
Light. We'll see.
1:53:34
You'll join the bow. Tie again.
1:53:36
Where would I align your truck? It is, you guys.
1:53:39
Already said no. 'Cause it's too tall, Chris is
1:53:43
gonna be. Chris's gonna be over there.
1:53:47
He's going to hate. That with the with the new.
1:53:49
Faction Motorsports. Expansion that can handle.
1:53:52
Your with the with the with the new Faction Motorsports
1:53:54
Expansion Pack. And 2nd floor, we're going to be
1:53:58
able to align trucks. We got the DLC.
1:54:04
Damn. Did we get questions?
1:54:07
Hell yeah. Sorry, Frankie's fucking
1:54:09
housing. Done.
1:54:10
Frankie has had. A day?
1:54:11
Yeah. He really has egg.
1:54:13
Rolls hitting, dude, I'm having. So much fun right now.
1:54:15
Dude. If you guys have enjoyed.
1:54:17
This so far. Make sure you guys are
1:54:18
remembering to like the stream. I know it's hard to remember but
1:54:20
it really helps us out. We got pork fried rice if anyone
1:54:23
wants. I'm good.
1:54:24
I'm. Good.
1:54:24
And you shut the fuck up. We got Budweiser over here.
1:54:27
We. Don't need that.
1:54:28
Oh, did. You see that?
1:54:33
I missed it. Frankie just shoved the last.
1:54:36
Half of a fucking egg roll. You missed it.
1:54:41
Anyway, yeah, I'm sure you know Mike.
1:54:42
But we get these questions, I got a disclaimer you I don't
1:54:47
know what some of them are. Sometimes they're a little
1:54:49
silly. But no, I was telling Frankie I
1:54:51
was like, 'cause he's like, you ever listen to the?
1:54:53
Podcast. I'm like every one of them.
1:54:57
I was like, yeah. Literally Wednesday night, it's
1:54:59
like we'll be cooking. Dinner and like the podcast is
1:55:01
on the. TV in the living room.
1:55:02
It's so interesting what people are doing like while the podcast
1:55:05
is. Playing some a lot of people.
1:55:06
Thank you. A lot of people have it on, like
1:55:08
in the garage. I literally put ATV in the
1:55:11
garage. I just need to get a fire.
1:55:12
Stick for it but. Maybe I'll order that later.
1:55:15
We've also like, we've been on the road on like.
1:55:17
Wednesday nights like 2 hour drive and we'll just like I
1:55:20
remember what are you doing on Wednesday nights that's taking
1:55:23
you 2 hour drive I'm. Always on the road.
1:55:24
You guys are always on the road. Yeah, I I.
1:55:27
Appreciate that, but when are you going to get the camper van
1:55:31
and you know? The toters thing.
1:55:34
They say I need the van life they work for.
1:55:36
They work from home. Yeah, dude, it ain't.
1:55:39
Always about that. You gotta hurry up before.
1:55:41
The kid comes. You guys gonna have a kid one
1:55:43
day? You better, you better get this
1:55:45
out of the way now. You travel to Yellowstone
1:55:49
everywhere. Just work right there, dude,
1:55:52
That's it. Don't work.
1:55:54
Yeah, but I got the. Hotspot.
1:55:55
Set up in the truck. The other day too.
1:55:57
I felt, I felt pretty cool when I did that.
1:55:59
Van lifing. You've never done that?
1:56:01
No. I'd be taking meetings.
1:56:02
When I'm fine, but I got 'cause we got.
1:56:06
Morgan got me like a magic box so we could watch TV and also
1:56:08
while we're driving. And hell yeah, I didn't.
1:56:12
Even know this, but apparently I could.
1:56:14
Hit the truck can be like. A mobile hotspot?
1:56:16
Yeah, I I know that's a thing with newer Chevy.
1:56:19
Trucks, yeah. It's like a OnStar thing.
1:56:21
And yeah. So I set that up the other day.
1:56:23
I felt pretty cool. I was like, oh man, we got
1:56:24
Internet. That's cool, but I was like, you
1:56:26
know, we could probably work in here too if.
1:56:28
We had to. Dude, when?
1:56:29
When I'm in the shopping, right? Now.
1:56:32
Oh, he's. I'm looking up a magic box.
1:56:35
Oh. You got him.
1:56:36
You got him buying it already? Yeah, What?
1:56:39
Yeah, it lets you watch. Like if you have Apple Car.
1:56:41
Player like. Android Car player or whatever.
1:56:43
Like you can watch Netflix, YouTube and like all that stuff
1:56:47
while you're driving, obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:56:50
Yeah. I was about to say.
1:56:51
Obviously. Like see I will.
1:56:53
Never do that 'cause I will crash simultaneously.
1:56:56
I'll do it, but like, I'm not really watching, I'm.
1:56:58
More so listening, I need to watch.
1:56:59
If I'm watching a show, I need to watch it.
1:57:01
That's. Right.
1:57:02
So I'll. Crash right into that guy that
1:57:03
was trying to be you, but I'm over here.
1:57:06
I got. I would do it for a show car.
1:57:08
Or like a drift car, so like it. It's playing something cool
1:57:11
while while it's sitting there. Yeah, that would be cool.
1:57:13
I just rock like the $20 Walmart head unit in.
1:57:16
The drift car, yeah. And the drift car I have.
1:57:18
I have a head unit but the speakers are.
1:57:19
More important, because I want my shit so fucking loud that you
1:57:22
can hear it to the outside. I need to up my speaker game.
1:57:25
You do in. The VI have two.
1:57:27
They're like patio speakers that like hang out the back.
1:57:30
What? The V literally came with a good
1:57:32
sound system, did it not? When I did the when the cage got
1:57:35
done, I had to cut the. Door panels and like, it went
1:57:37
right where the speakers were. So I got to my game and that
1:57:40
'cause it looks like it looks like I have like desktop
1:57:42
computer speakers, like behind the scenes, like on the rear
1:57:45
deck lid. I see a lot of people getting
1:57:47
that one that mounts on the cage.
1:57:49
It's like. A gigantic fucking JBL speaker.
1:57:51
Oh yeah, you could do that. That kind of works, but oh,
1:57:53
it's. Probably a side by side.
1:57:55
Speaker. Kind.
1:57:56
Of Oh, yeah, maybe to me. Like after playing with the
1:58:00
fiberglass stuff. I'm like.
1:58:03
Toying with the idea of making something for my trunk, I just
1:58:05
don't know what it's going to look like yet.
1:58:08
But better not move. You're going to fail tech, Yeah.
1:58:11
It's got to be. Fucking fastened to death.
1:58:13
Or it's going to fail Tech. Hector's going to be What the
1:58:16
fuck are you doing in here, dude?
1:58:17
Hector's. Going to love that shit.
1:58:19
What are you talking about? I'm going.
1:58:20
To have fucking speakers and fucking waterfalls back there,
1:58:24
It's going to be sick. I did always want to put a fish
1:58:26
tank in the back. There you go.
1:58:27
No, I just. I just want the.
1:58:29
I want the one sub. And then like a bunch of like
1:58:31
other accessories like around it, I wanted a living animal in
1:58:35
the back and it's and. It and it and it.
1:58:37
Here's the Here's the best part. Here's the thing that that gets
1:58:39
me the most is it? It has to be like, painted
1:58:43
fucking sick looking. You're crazy if you think you're
1:58:45
doing any of this. I'm literally.
1:58:47
Going to do it next week. Watch me find.
1:58:49
About 2025. Dude, it's going to be so cool.
1:58:53
You see all the. Teams like getting all together
1:58:55
because the the weekend is here. Yeah, that was the one thing
1:58:59
like, I wish. Like my friends would put
1:59:02
together like back, we were able to put together A-Team.
1:59:05
What do you, what do you mean back?
1:59:06
Back then, you're doing so great.
1:59:08
Right now, yeah. But I don't live here.
1:59:09
Anymore. So like I'm only here for.
1:59:11
Like, I come back for Haunted Moves every year, 'cause it's my
1:59:13
favorite event. And then like you're October in
1:59:17
Jersey is better than Florida too.
1:59:18
So yeah, I love fall Fall. Fall is a.
1:59:22
Is a good season come up for? Fall.
1:59:24
And then like we come up for a. Summer vacation.
1:59:26
So like we'll bring the car. And I brought it to pro bro down
1:59:29
last year and it like, downpoured it like monster.
1:59:31
Yeah, I remember and shit dude, I took the car off the.
1:59:35
Trailer went through tech and then.
1:59:36
Put it right back on the trailer.
1:59:37
I'm like, yeah, we're going home.
1:59:38
I was like, I'm not driving. It was.
1:59:40
It was. Insane.
1:59:41
And I was like you guys drove. So far off the floor with you.
1:59:44
Seriously. But like we.
1:59:46
Come up for summer vacation. So like the car just comes with
1:59:48
you know? And then I ended up leaving the
1:59:50
car up here for the summer at my parents house and I did like a
1:59:54
private day with Chris Knapp and at the drift school and then I
2:00:00
left it up here for haunted moves and then brought it back.
2:00:02
Do you ever, do you ever fly anywhere?
2:00:03
I hate flying. I knew you were.
2:00:05
Going to say that dude I. Would much rather just.
2:00:07
Jump in the car. Here you go.
2:00:09
If it doesn't make sense, yeah, yeah.
2:00:12
Like it like I understand. Because like some of my friends
2:00:16
will fly everywhere and like my non car people friends, they'll
2:00:20
fly everywhere and I'm just like no, I'll drive.
2:00:22
Like we went to a trip in Savannah, GA a few weeks, like
2:00:26
two months ago and they all flew and I'm like, no, we'll drive.
2:00:29
It's like 6 hours. By the time I go to the airport,
2:00:31
get on the plane, fly, get in an Uber, get to the air, I'm like,
2:00:34
I'm just, I'm justifying it. In my head, let me justify it.
2:00:39
This is making me want to fly right now just like.
2:00:42
Describing that motion, it's like going to the airport.
2:00:44
I also don't like not being in control like I don't.
2:00:47
Like roller coasters, like I'll go, I'll drive a drift car.
2:00:51
But like, even when I'm a passenger in a drift car, I will
2:00:53
not be. I get like car safe.
2:00:54
I I get freaked out as passenger like, I'm like, whoa.
2:00:57
I won't get in the car. Yeah, I were literally in Japan.
2:01:00
Last week and I was like, I'm good.
2:01:02
Here's here's how I make. It OK, I don't.
2:01:06
Know if this is helpful to. Any of you guys.
2:01:08
But if I'm in the passenger seat and I'm uncomfortable like that,
2:01:10
I know what you gotta do. What?
2:01:13
Grab the wheel. Just give it the same thing you.
2:01:14
Do when you get. Into an airplane, you go.
2:01:16
I'm not in. Control anymore.
2:01:17
So let me just relax, Yeah. No.
2:01:19
What is what it is? I try and fall asleep that.
2:01:21
Doesn't that doesn't. Yeah, me.
2:01:22
Falling asleep before I. Get off the the runway.
2:01:26
Like I'm but yeah, you you really.
2:01:28
Don't like flying? That's, yeah.
2:01:29
We. Put 30,000 miles on the Escalade
2:01:31
last year. And we work from home.
2:01:34
Yeah, I I was. I realized.
2:01:36
Dude, no way. That is not enough. 30,000 miles
2:01:39
I put. 50 on mine. Last but you drive.
2:01:42
To here you. Drive to work I.
2:01:45
Do I do not? Drive to work.
2:01:47
My job is 12 minutes away. From my house, 30,000 is a.
2:01:49
Lot. That's impressive.
2:01:50
It's the drive. It's the drives.
2:01:52
To here. Weekly.
2:01:53
And like, and also and also like, when I do get around to
2:02:00
using the truck to something, it's usually not for some.
2:02:03
That's why I bought the Sequoia. I went on one road trip with my
2:02:07
buddy Daryl on it in his, and it just felt like a rolling brick.
2:02:13
So I was like, whoa, this is kind of cool.
2:02:17
And they were cheap. But now I hear about your
2:02:20
Escalade and like that entices me 24 miles per gallon.
2:02:26
Not complaining about that. The trans.
2:02:28
That's why I asked about it, because if putting a trans
2:02:32
cooler on it is all that it needs to.
2:02:33
Do delete the thermostat. Thing.
2:02:34
That's my theory. That's my theory.
2:02:36
It's dummy. You're a smart guy, Mike.
2:02:37
I would trust any theory that you give me.
2:02:42
Like. But these kinds of?
2:02:45
Interactions and this is like my source of information.
2:02:47
So, like, I like hearing. That's what I like.
2:02:50
I love. I mean, I like.
2:02:52
Sharing information, you know, I'm not going to gatekeep
2:02:54
anything, you know? Yeah, who's keeping fucking
2:02:56
Chevy trans info even? Just from the car stuff too
2:03:00
though, dude, like. With.
2:03:01
With the VS, like people like, you know, like when there were
2:03:04
people that would like gatekeep their wheel specs.
2:03:06
Oh yeah, you. You're probably one of them.
2:03:09
Literally there's somewhere, there's somewhere Stands.
2:03:11
Coke. Come on, 10.
2:03:12
And 1/2. Plus 15 it was you for like an
2:03:14
hour at least an. Hour of your life, you were.
2:03:15
Like I'm not for fucking. Wait, wait, wait.
2:03:17
Well, here's. The thing with the three Do your
2:03:18
research with the three. Thousands people will.
2:03:20
Ask me like, oh, I want the same fitment.
2:03:21
I'm like I have extended lower control arms spacers like this
2:03:25
is the wheel size and like it's a wide body.
2:03:27
I'm like, you can't mimic this unless What's your specs bro?
2:03:30
Well, I got Origin 30 mil over. Vendors, yeah.
2:03:33
It's more than just the wheel size.
2:03:35
It's like you're not. Gonna get it.
2:03:36
So I'm just not gonna. Say it and I also forgot it so
2:03:40
dude. The 3000.
2:03:41
I put that car together so long ago I do forget.
2:03:43
Things yeah. I'm like, I don't remember what
2:03:46
where this came from or what the what size this is.
2:03:48
Isn't that nuts? I wrote it down once because I
2:03:50
knew I'd forget it and. Then I don't know where.
2:03:52
The paper is it's somewhere in there.
2:03:53
But why'd you call it Stans Co right away?
2:03:57
So we're only like in two hours to an hour and a half of this?
2:04:00
Podcast. But I figured I'd ask, so back
2:04:02
in 2011, I was in college. And I was like reeled into like
2:04:08
media just like shooting cars and shows and like all that
2:04:11
stuff. And I was, I was like oh I want
2:04:15
stance something and literally I saw it.
2:04:18
The Co stands for coalition and that was like the full name.
2:04:22
I dropped the coalition part. Now it's just Stance Co No way
2:04:26
I've yeah, I definitely. Seen that stance coalition I've
2:04:29
definitely. Seen so like back 20 from like
2:04:33
20. 11 to like 20, I would say 2015 or 16.
2:04:39
Like we went heavy with media and I feel like we really
2:04:43
covered the Philadelphia area in this time.
2:04:46
And then like Flipsco and Los Goonies had like Jersey and we
2:04:50
all kind of just like were around the same time frame.
2:04:53
Dang. So you're friends with?
2:04:55
Justin. I do know.
2:04:56
Justin Yeah. Dude, he's a Floridian.
2:04:58
Shout out Justin. He is a Floridian.
2:04:59
Yeah, yeah. But Justin likes Florida.
2:05:01
Like he'd be fishing. Yeah, he.
2:05:03
Looks like a Florida guy. Shout out Justin, man.
2:05:05
Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, like.
2:05:06
We. We kind of did like the Philly.
2:05:07
Area stuff. And then Goonies and Flipsco
2:05:13
were really big into like apparel and stuff like that.
2:05:16
I couldn't afford to do that, 'cause I was in school and I was
2:05:18
like, I can't buy like, runs of T-shirts and stuff.
2:05:21
So we strictly did photos. We hosted some meets.
2:05:24
We actually had a meet. Probably our biggest meet was in
2:05:27
spring of 2013 at FDR Park in Philly, under 95.
2:05:31
And we like, shut the park, like the park got shut down to like,
2:05:35
the public. The cops came.
2:05:37
We had like hundreds of people there.
2:05:39
It was pretty insane. Like, people travel pretty far.
2:05:41
Like New York City and stuff from it.
2:05:44
And a park is sick. Yeah, and well, FDR Park.
2:05:47
I don't know if you've ever seen it.
2:05:48
But it's like a skate park underneath 95.
2:05:50
That's the skate park. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:05:52
You shut that. Down.
2:05:53
Yeah, so. Yeah, the skateboarders.
2:05:55
Probably couldn't have been happy.
2:05:56
About that. Heard, Heard.
2:05:58
I got a lot of interesting messages.
2:06:00
Oh my God, you did like that park.
2:06:02
So that's. When I was like, all right,
2:06:03
like. I'm not doing another meet like
2:06:05
this. Again.
2:06:06
So then I started drifting in like 20-17, and I like, I didn't
2:06:12
have time to go shoot media at Club Loose 'cause I was like
2:06:14
going to Club loose and shooting media and stuff.
2:06:16
So I didn't really have time to do that anymore.
2:06:18
So 'cause I was building my car, I was drifting.
2:06:21
So like, Stance Co kind of fell off.
2:06:23
Stance Coalition kind of fell off.
2:06:25
And then in like 2020, I was like, all right, well, like,
2:06:29
let's kind of bring it back as like drifting, because now,
2:06:31
like, the 3000 is drifting and I'm getting better at it and
2:06:34
figuring the car out. And then, like our group of
2:06:37
friends, we just identified as Stance.
2:06:41
Co at that point and. Sorry, I know with the with the.
2:06:48
What do you identify? As identify as stance, So what
2:06:52
would? Your.
2:06:52
Pronouns be. Stance and Co.
2:06:57
So yeah, and. Then.
2:06:58
Once I started with the V stuff, that's when I kind of and like
2:07:01
we moved to Florida. It was just like a lot of life.
2:07:03
Stuff was getting in the way and I kind of lost interest for a
2:07:07
while. But then once I started making
2:07:11
the parts, that's when I was like, you know what?
2:07:13
Maybe I can actually turn Stansco into like a parts
2:07:16
manufacturing type of thing and actually make money off of it.
2:07:19
So you're using that name as the.
2:07:20
Yeah. So because like I feel.
2:07:22
Like over the last since. 2011 So how many years is that?
2:07:26
Like 14 years, 13 years? 1313 years?
2:07:30
Like over the last 13 years, I. Feel like people.
2:07:32
Just started associating me as like Stansco.
2:07:35
Yeah, like people I don't. That's how we heard.
2:07:36
We got like 3 suggestions for you and they were all like yeah.
2:07:39
It's Mike Stansko. Yeah.
2:07:40
What the fuck is that? I'm I'm convinced, like some
2:07:42
people don't even know my last. Name and it's just.
2:07:43
Like, yeah. Just like Mike Stansko.
2:07:45
Yeah. I don't know why I remembered
2:07:47
your last name. Like.
2:07:48
Yeah, you're pretty good with that.
2:07:50
I don't. I don't remember.
2:07:51
A lot of people's last names, probably.
2:07:53
Because of the day. Because like, my last name has
2:07:56
that in it and I'm like, yeah, they probably fuck his up all
2:07:59
the time. Yeah.
2:08:00
So, yeah, I mean that's kind of where like it kind of came back.
2:08:02
As like a whole new thing and like we used to do like features
2:08:06
and stuff back in the day and like I'd like move the website
2:08:09
over and like brought all that stuff with me and so like that's
2:08:12
very, very blog. It used to be, it was.
2:08:14
It was strictly A blog and like we.
2:08:16
Would. Shoot features.
2:08:17
We would cover events and stuff like that.
2:08:18
Me too, dude. I really do.
2:08:20
And like when we switched the website over to like the store,
2:08:22
I made sure to like carry all that with me.
2:08:24
So like, it's all still up from like I just never been found
2:08:27
time to like sit down and type some shit.
2:08:29
But I I know there's. Time to do it.
2:08:31
It's just I've tried to like start doing it again.
2:08:34
But like I just. I don't have time to like, yeah,
2:08:36
you take pictures, We don't have time.
2:08:37
But I know there's time. And then?
2:08:39
I also like. I also try and do the YouTube
2:08:41
thing too. So like, the YouTube thing takes
2:08:43
a really long time if you're not.
2:08:46
Quick like that with it, Yeah, it's a long time, but.
2:08:52
Even. Us talking about this, like,
2:08:53
remember that project that we wanted to do a while back?
2:08:55
The magazine? Like, I'm thinking in my head
2:08:57
like, God damn, I really wanna do that.
2:08:59
Me too. I do like writing.
2:09:00
I forget about it. I love writing.
2:09:04
I. Forget that, I love writing.
2:09:06
Because it's not. Something that I get to do often
2:09:08
do something where you have to write.
2:09:10
You'll write and. Then I literally said this
2:09:13
episode 3. Here we go.
2:09:16
I'm getting yelled at again. I want to do a magazine.
2:09:18
And I and I like made an. Half ass in it.
2:09:20
So we got. I literally made an example I
2:09:22
had. Templates on it you.
2:09:24
Had a Zine. I was ready.
2:09:26
We're going to make Super Street.
2:09:30
Super. Faction, yeah.
2:09:32
Oh, it's got a name. Don't worry.
2:09:34
It's coming. Hey.
2:09:35
Dude faction, let me finish this quarter shot 1st and.
2:09:38
Then we'll. Talk about the magazine, dude.
2:09:39
No, if you're all of them at the same time.
2:09:42
Quarterly. Quarterly.
2:09:44
That was quarterly that would be.
2:09:45
Quarterly. Faction Quarterly.
2:09:47
That would be really cool. I think like.
2:09:50
I just feel like we need more of that because like the Instagram
2:09:53
like reels like to stay relevant, like you have to do it
2:09:57
and I feel like no one wants to do that shit.
2:09:59
No one wants to do it. No one wants to do this like.
2:10:01
I don't enjoy really. Anymore.
2:10:03
Like making a? Reel, no one does.
2:10:05
I'm just like, I have to. I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I
2:10:07
just, I have. To do this.
2:10:08
To stay in front of people. Everyone's like that, that that
2:10:10
is our age. Is that why?
2:10:12
No, no, no. No, no, no.
2:10:13
No, get out of here. Don't do that shit, Your little
2:10:16
kid. Dude, when was the last time I
2:10:17
made a? Post on Instagram it's.
2:10:19
Probably weeks. Ago, right?
2:10:20
I do. You do.
2:10:21
I make. Reels when?
2:10:23
You have a video of your car driven.
2:10:24
I have videos to make. The reel with. 1/2 I make reels
2:10:29
because I want to make the reel so that I can remember the trip.
2:10:33
I'm making the reel for myself. And then like, when I'm making
2:10:37
it, I know it's for myself because I'm sitting there
2:10:39
watching it like 30 times. Like I'm like, oh, that was so
2:10:43
cool. That was so fun.
2:10:44
Take a good photo and. That's the best way to promote
2:10:49
your Instagram. You know what I mean?
2:10:50
Like I. Feel like anymore my.
2:10:51
Instagram is just pictures 'cause.
2:10:53
I'm like and like they don't do as well, but at the same time
2:10:56
like this is all I got time for. So you need now you need a
2:10:58
little bit more skill and time. You gotta make it real.
2:11:01
Yeah, that's how you're gonna, that's how you're gonna build
2:11:03
your Instagram, that's it's like, but make it for yourself,
2:11:06
dude, if you wanna just do pictures.
2:11:08
Just do pictures, 'cause, like, how?
2:11:09
Yeah, but we're talking about like the success.
2:11:13
And the promoting or like. Cause Instagram used to be you
2:11:15
take. If you have a.
2:11:16
Really good photograph. It's going to do well, yeah, but
2:11:20
it's not like that anymore. You got, you got.
2:11:22
You got. Algorithms you got to play with.
2:11:24
You got this, you got that. But it's TikTok ruined it.
2:11:28
Honestly, I'm saying like if you want to post something, post it.
2:11:32
If you wanna, if you wanna like, line them up for weeks, do that,
2:11:37
do what you want to do so that we don't have this cookie cutter
2:11:40
mold of what people are doing nowadays, 'cause that's what
2:11:43
happens. But those people, those people's
2:11:45
accounts are gonna succeed. They're gonna go up.
2:11:46
They're gonna. Succeed.
2:11:48
But like if we're talking. About this a business.
2:11:50
Yeah. Yeah.
2:11:51
But what happens is I. Feel like you have a friend
2:11:55
telling another friend? Yo my.
2:11:57
Instagram's doing real great right now.
2:11:59
You need to do a real everyday, and that's how you succeed.
2:12:03
Which is true. But I feel like then you have
2:12:07
everybody trying to post something every day and then you
2:12:09
have this massive yeah, But we're not gonna be able to
2:12:11
change the whole thing. We're just you're never gonna be
2:12:13
able to. Change the whole thing, but I do
2:12:14
miss when it was. Like that, right?
2:12:16
I mean, it's kind of like too I do YouTube.
2:12:17
I'm like, I don't do YouTube to. Become like LZ or something like
2:12:21
that. But my YouTube channel more so
2:12:24
like, captures a lot of the memories that like, me and my
2:12:26
friends have made over there. So, like, there's been times
2:12:28
where, like, I've gone back like a.
2:12:30
Couple years and like. Watched videos of like just
2:12:31
think about YouTube and stuff like that.
2:12:34
You can do more of what you guys are saying on that because.
2:12:36
As long as you're putting content out that is pretty good,
2:12:39
that's they're gonna show it to people.
2:12:40
I wanted to, yeah. I wanted to say.
2:12:42
That too is. That just 'cause these people
2:12:44
are on a schedule with posting doesn't mean that their content
2:12:49
is not good, but YouTube and. Instagram are.
2:12:51
So totally different the amount. You gotta do on for YouTube is
2:12:54
already crazy, you know what I mean?
2:12:56
Instagram used to be. Click Edit it Filter.
2:13:00
Cool. You know that's, yeah.
2:13:03
And then YouTube was like, where you've had to fucking.
2:13:05
Put a lot of work into it, yeah, but now you got to.
2:13:08
Put a lot of work onto the reels.
2:13:10
And again, if your if your content is good and you're doing
2:13:14
these like you're posting regularly and stuff like that,
2:13:17
who am I to say that that's bad? I just do miss the kind of bit
2:13:21
of like organicness where it's like I went to this event, I
2:13:25
made this and like my dude, all the Japan content dude that.
2:13:28
I saw oh it. Was so great like from good
2:13:31
things my friend Andrew or Diego or or Brad or any any or or Jet
2:13:36
Davis's content yo Jet get to New Jersey so we could do a pod
2:13:41
brother and put the city on standby.
2:13:45
I just. I just wish I.
2:13:47
Could see all my friends stuff. Just my friends.
2:13:50
Oh my God, don't get me started. On that how do you?
2:13:52
Do that? How?
2:13:53
Do you do that? You know where I'm going.
2:13:54
You don't. You don't.
2:13:56
There's no. Way to do that?
2:13:57
No, because like, where's the filter?
2:13:58
Turn off the ass and tits, that's what.
2:14:00
I need to do. That's just no, it's not.
2:14:02
I've seen it. On other peoples not.
2:14:04
Mine. And I'm the horniest
2:14:06
motherfucker in this room. It's weird, right?
2:14:08
They're targeting because you're.
2:14:09
Watching so much. Of that nudie vision that you
2:14:15
are, you ever heard of Incognito?
2:14:16
Mode Brother. Give me your fucking social
2:14:18
media. I need to see this.
2:14:19
That's. That's crazy, though.
2:14:21
He took it out the other day, and he was.
2:14:22
Going through it and I was like, holy shit.
2:14:24
He really doesn't have a lot of ass and tits on this thing.
2:14:27
It's weird. Boom there.
2:14:31
It is. Oh my God, it's.
2:14:33
Me. I'm on Your discovery.
2:14:35
Page. Holy shit.
2:14:37
What? What do you know?
2:14:39
What's the account? What's the account?
2:14:40
Archive 180 Oh, that's you. And it's Camry on Bronze.
2:14:43
It's Cam Ryan. That's funny.
2:14:46
He's just looking at me, that's why, yeah.
2:14:47
Yeah, oh. There's there's bitches today.
2:14:49
There you go, see. It's just.
2:14:51
Madeleine Klein, my love. Of my.
2:14:53
Life. OK, well, what's that little
2:14:55
Otter? Banks.
2:14:55
Yeah. Yeah.
2:14:57
I am John B I'm trying to be. I'm trying to get a.
2:14:59
Shirt. There you go.
2:15:01
You're you're halfway there. Just missing a foot of.
2:15:04
Height and like you. Know maybe.
2:15:06
You know it's Arthur name. John B would.
2:15:09
Frankie like Outer Banks? I don't, Isn't John?
2:15:12
B. In a Beach Boys song.
2:15:14
Malcolm. I I don't know.
2:15:16
Dude, you're old as fuck. No, we're talking about.
2:15:18
TV shows, My dad. My fucking dad is a loser.
2:15:22
Dude, wait. John B, Malcolm, You think?
2:15:24
You think? Frankie would like would Frankie
2:15:28
like Outer Bang? I do not.
2:15:29
I don't think that he would. I don't.
2:15:31
I don't know. Do people get murdered?
2:15:33
Yeah. Yeah, actually.
2:15:36
Not not like. Yeah.
2:15:37
I mean. They do.
2:15:38
It's in APG. 13 sense Yeah, Nope.
2:15:41
All right, well, we lost them. Bro dude.
2:15:44
One look at Sarah. Cameron and you would change
2:15:46
your mind? I doubt it, she brunette.
2:15:50
No. Wait.
2:15:51
Yeah, she is. Yes, she is well.
2:15:53
Yeah, she got blonde hair are. You sure about that?
2:15:55
Well, I mean it's. Like, I feel like I trust Carl
2:15:57
on this one. It's.
2:15:57
Like in the middle. That's even better all.
2:16:01
Right, well. We'll stop talking about.
2:16:02
Girls now 'cause you're gonna get yelled.
2:16:03
At Yeah, We're horny. Yeah, we we do.
2:16:08
Mike, you already fucking know every single episode.
2:16:14
Ironically. There's no this first one to
2:16:17
Frankie. Make Frankie buy a SIM rig for
2:16:19
the shop and write it off. It's totally a business expense.
2:16:21
Simple, Smith. I've tried.
2:16:23
He said. No.
2:16:23
I don't know. Maybe in the future.
2:16:25
Not right now. Fuck.
2:16:26
Marry. Kill These are my favorites.
2:16:29
US Air, Englishtown and Pat's Acres.
2:16:36
I never got to drive Pat's. Acres and I still haven't
2:16:38
driven. US Air.
2:16:40
Oh, US Air's on there. Yeah, this is bad, dude.
2:16:42
US. Air the roller coaster of love,
2:16:44
yeah. I've never, I've never been to
2:16:46
US air. I would.
2:16:47
I would kill Pat's Acres. I'm just gonna kill it.
2:16:50
Because I've never been there. Yeah, and they already.
2:16:52
Killed it and it's already dead. Yeah, Damn.
2:16:55
I literally. Was just telling somebody.
2:16:57
That I would love to drive. Pat takers me.
2:16:59
Too, but I think. I think I would marry E Town.
2:17:03
Yeah, that's the love right there.
2:17:05
Yeah, that Turn 1 E Town gives you, it gives you like the.
2:17:10
Best of a. Lot of different things, yeah,
2:17:13
but you can fuck the shit out of E Town.
2:17:15
I'm just saying. Come on, Carl, you can fuck that
2:17:19
shit up. US air is more like a nice.
2:17:23
Casual. Yeah, yeah, but I can marry E
2:17:25
Town. Because yeah, 'cause you want.
2:17:27
To He wants to be around, I'd cheat.
2:17:29
On E Town a few times. But I'd but.
2:17:33
I'd but I'd probably apologize. And and we'd get back together
2:17:37
like a toxic relationship. I feel that.
2:17:40
I feel that. Heavy.
2:17:42
The Brendan Wiley asks. I want to make a body kit.
2:17:46
What's the best thing to do to get started making products
2:17:49
Brendan. He's making products though.
2:17:52
He's making products. So maybe what's your?
2:17:56
Standard thought process. Maybe design send to send, cut,
2:18:00
send. Yeah, just try.
2:18:02
Just just do it like I. Just tell like, I've had people
2:18:05
tell me like, oh man, like I wish I could do that too.
2:18:07
I'm like, you probably can. You just have to do it like,
2:18:10
just take the time to like really think it out and be
2:18:13
organized about it. You know, like be strategic on
2:18:16
how you're gonna approach it. Like, what effort?
2:18:18
Yeah, put some effort into it. Because I feel like a lot of, a
2:18:20
lot of people, like they had the skill set.
2:18:22
Like, I mean, I went to school for accounting and I work in
2:18:26
marketing. I don't have any kind of crazy
2:18:28
background in like what I'm doing on the side right now.
2:18:31
Yeah, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
2:18:33
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
2:18:35
I thought you said you were an engineer, were you not?
2:18:38
You missed the for one. Semester part Oh, right, right.
2:18:41
Right. That's selective hearing.
2:18:42
Yeah, my dad's an engineer. So like I think it kind of just
2:18:45
it's. It's still in my head, Yeah, you
2:18:47
think that way, 1000%, IA 100%. Think that way.
2:18:51
So yeah, I. Would say like come up with an
2:18:54
approach and like a like a strategic approach.
2:18:56
That's a good piece of advice right there.
2:18:59
Come up with the approach you. Remember when we flew?
2:19:01
I flew a plane. The approach.
2:19:03
You can't rush it either. I mean, like some of these
2:19:06
things I've been. Making has taken months, like
2:19:08
many many months to to make. So that's that's months of like
2:19:12
trials and tribulations. Like spending money?
2:19:14
Yeah, but that. Jibu you can't get.
2:19:18
Discouraged with it 'cause you know it won't work.
2:19:20
It might not work the. First time my dual caliper
2:19:22
bracket. Definitely didn't.
2:19:23
I got like five of them hanging on a on a shelf.
2:19:26
Yeah, and I'm over here thinking in my head.
2:19:28
I'm like a a caliper. Bracket.
2:19:30
But if the caliper bracket is like a little thicker, it's
2:19:34
gonna offset the caliper, like then you're gonna get pads,
2:19:36
you're gonna wear down, definitely.
2:19:37
And so originally. I wanted to be able to use a
2:19:39
base model rear. Caliper, 'cause they're like 20
2:19:41
bucks and I was so hyper focused on getting it to fit over the
2:19:47
bigger V rotor. Finally got to work, got the
2:19:50
caliper like got the bracket bolted up.
2:19:52
I go to put a wheel on and it won't clear an 18 inch wheel.
2:19:55
It's the barrel. Yeah, so I was like 19.
2:20:00
Time to order some Brembos. And now we're.
2:20:01
Going to a Brembo caliper. And I had to like change it up
2:20:04
and you know, do all that. It's a factory V caliper though,
2:20:07
right? Which is?
2:20:08
Shared with like the Camaros. And all that so the Brembos can
2:20:12
be had pretty like 150 bucks each on Rock Auto.
2:20:15
I'll never get over the six lug thing.
2:20:18
Yeah, well. I mean, you can ditch it.
2:20:19
It's easy to ditch it it. Sounds like a hub.
2:20:21
I can't believe it. Like you just base model.
2:20:23
Hub is 5 lug base model CTS I. Just I feel like it's one of
2:20:27
those things. If someone does, and then you
2:20:30
can never look back, 'cause you're like, you really did that
2:20:32
shit, didn't you? Dude, we will not forget.
2:20:34
Well, that I guess how I look at Chevy right now.
2:20:35
You really? Put a six lock.
2:20:37
On a fucking car for no reason. Well, that.
2:20:38
That's why I'm thinking in my head.
2:20:40
I'm like. I knew the Viper because.
2:20:43
I'm that guy. Right now, for some reason I
2:20:46
want new wheels and tires for the coil.
2:20:48
Was that why you think they were copying the Viper?
2:20:50
No, no. That's why guys get all jazzed
2:20:52
up too, 'cause they're like, oh, Viper wheels.
2:20:54
Will fit and I'm like no, no no they don't.
2:20:56
They won't. Factory wheels on AV are like 8
2:20:58
1/2 with like a + 45 offset like you really a Viper wheel is.
2:21:03
It's like an 11 it's. Sick though.
2:21:05
It's insane. It's sick, don't get me wrong,
2:21:07
but like my RSO. Fives are 18 by 9 1/2 + 22 and
2:21:11
they poke like crazy. Oh, that's such a good IS spec.
2:21:14
That's cool, dude. But that Viper?
2:21:19
I don't know. Why but?
2:21:20
On Facebook Marketplace. There's this set of like SSRS
2:21:24
that are 6 lug and I thought they were going to fit the koya
2:21:28
but then it said in the description and the description
2:21:31
only will only fit Viper. Do you know what the fuck you
2:21:36
know somebody paid big money for?
2:21:38
Yeah, dude. Like SSR, Like the six.
2:21:41
Spoke like a type C looking wheel but 6 lug.
2:21:44
Only time I like seeing Vipers is when the supers fucking.
2:21:46
Destroying them super from hell. Yep.
2:21:51
Yep, smokes the shit out of a Viper.
2:21:52
Like do you? Remember, so this is.
2:21:54
This is totally a tangent. Do you by any chance remember
2:21:57
back in like the early YouTube days, there was a video and it
2:22:00
was the Snake Bite Cobra and it was a black Cobra Mustang with a
2:22:04
Kenny Bell supercharger with like A and it was doing like
2:22:07
burnouts. I remember like, no, I remember
2:22:10
like the Terminators. Remember the?
2:22:12
Yeah, it was. It was a Terminator Culver,
2:22:13
yeah, but it had a Kenny Bell. Supercharger on it.
2:22:16
And it was like whining. And the thing was he was doing
2:22:19
Donuts in a cul-de-sac like down the street, and you could hear
2:22:22
the whines. And he did.
2:22:23
He just ripped up the street and it sounded like a screaming
2:22:25
child. Really.
2:22:27
Yeah, I feel like that was one of those videos.
2:22:29
From back then 'cause? You said the Super from hell,
2:22:31
yeah. And do you remember the Super
2:22:32
from hell? Yeah.
2:22:33
Getting on the highway I. Brought up the other night, no.
2:22:35
One knew what the hell I was talking.
2:22:36
About really. Dude, super from hell.
2:22:37
That's me. Too young.
2:22:39
Yeah. Yo, bring it up now.
2:22:40
It was like the early. YouTube Super From Hell oh.
2:22:43
Malcolm It's the second one down.
2:22:45
Oh, that's the one He's. Talking about the snake, but
2:22:46
let's watch this shit. Don't put the audio, though.
2:22:49
Maybe Jesus Christ? They'll put it louder.
2:22:54
Where was the? Audio.
2:22:56
I don't know, maybe the TV. It came out of my ear too.
2:22:58
A little bit. Don't blow our eardrums.
2:23:00
Out. I won't.
2:23:00
I won't. What is this?
2:23:03
Wait, you know what? Here Click.
2:23:04
The oh, this will be. Fine.
2:23:05
I think it's the. One bad SVT.
2:23:08
It's the same car, but I think. The video is the one bad.
2:23:10
SVT oh, hell yeah, hold on, 18. Years.
2:23:14
Ago. Is nuts.
2:23:15
This video is no longer a minor. Please don't have music.
2:23:21
Oh, no, this does not have music, Frankie.
2:23:23
Oh, we're. Good, then.
2:23:25
What's he about to do? I think this is the.
2:23:27
One where he goes down does. Donuts.
2:23:30
Dude this this is what all my videos.
2:23:32
Are going to look like because I got.
2:23:33
That camcorder. Oh, no.
2:23:35
Oh no. Yeah, this is the one.
2:23:39
Oh no. No, this is before.
2:23:42
Mustangs were killing people, yeah.
2:23:43
Yeah, this guy looks like he's going to.
2:23:46
Yeah, this has got a posse. Right here.
2:23:53
I made this song. Listen.
2:24:02
Oh, he's got to warming him up. Oh, you heard it for a second.
2:24:05
I hear it. What?
2:24:07
Yes. Yes.
2:24:20
Holy fuck. Super from.
2:24:21
Hell, dude, for 18 years, that video's been putting.
2:24:23
This bow on my face because. That's some shit my friend would
2:24:26
do. How does that?
2:24:27
Really have 612,000. Views after 18.
2:24:30
Years I don't. Know you know though, that like
2:24:32
a second time. Yep, that one calls me.
2:24:36
What the fuck? Is this?
2:24:37
16. Years ago, this one.
2:24:38
'S got 5.7 million. Wait, this was me when I was a
2:24:46
kid riding in the back of the Super at a White Castle?
2:24:47
He's lagging. He's lagging.
2:24:53
He's about to. Go get.
2:24:56
Up and. Kind of next to him.
2:25:02
Yep. Yep, got to.
2:25:02
Get a nice dude. This was.
2:25:06
Recorded, Gus recorded. Oh my God.
2:25:21
Dude, OK? Dude, my friend.
2:25:23
Blasted that shit in class one day because they brought the
2:25:25
team, remember, they bring the projector in or some shit.
2:25:28
He he got on it and he put that video on full blast and
2:25:31
everyone's like, what the fuck is this dude that camera?
2:25:35
Took away. A little.
2:25:36
Bit of like. What that probably looked like,
2:25:38
Yeah, and made it better. Insane speed.
2:25:41
Was probably coming out. Of that thing.
2:25:43
And 16 years ago, they didn't have fucking every single car
2:25:49
going to zero to 60 in under 4 seconds like that shit was nuts.
2:25:53
That's like moving like that cobra probably made what, like
2:25:55
5-6 hundred horsepower maybe. Maybe 600, I would say like 500,
2:25:58
I would say 500, but like that was a lot of power back then, I
2:26:01
feel like. Dude, he was lining about.
2:26:02
The third Yeah, that was a lot of power.
2:26:04
I mean, think of the FD cars back.
2:26:05
Then yeah. Seriously, I miss.
2:26:09
That 2000 and. 7 Formula Drift Video Man, that shit was 6-7.
2:26:16
Yeah, G4 TV. It's on YouTube.
2:26:18
Go check it out. But.
2:26:20
Turk has a Kat car. There's an S2000.
2:26:24
Kangushi isn't a Mustang Like it was cool back then.
2:26:28
Dope shit, it was cool back then.
2:26:29
Really different. Now it's just.
2:26:30
NASCAR. I mean, I find it entertaining
2:26:33
now though A. Little bit.
2:26:35
A little. It's still entertaining, I
2:26:37
guess, to watch, but it's not. Relatable, whatsoever.
2:26:39
And that kind of makes it lame for me after after watching.
2:26:44
After watching it a little. Bit more.
2:26:47
Seriously. Like, kind of figuring out the
2:26:49
rules. Obviously we do this podcast
2:26:51
now, so we have stuff. We have people like Farooq,
2:26:55
dude. That guy competes crazy like and
2:26:58
and I get to. Watch him now and I'm like I.
2:27:00
Had conversations with this guy. I don't know if Farooq's ever
2:27:04
going to watch this again, but man, it was a pleasure having
2:27:06
you on the pod, dude. It was fun.
2:27:08
And yeah, just just seeing all of that and recognizing some of
2:27:13
the Mike Power, unfortunate mishap, but you'll be back out
2:27:17
there. Yeah, they're already putting
2:27:18
the car back together and everything, or it's ready.
2:27:20
Already. But but that's just nuts.
2:27:22
And then and then I go in the. SIM and I'm on Long Beach and
2:27:25
I'm like, yeah, look at that. I wouldn't crash into.
2:27:28
The wall that's. Kind of cool.
2:27:29
I guess you could SIM, dude. Long Beach, That's kind of cool,
2:27:33
that shit in the game. Is still hard I.
2:27:38
Like that I. Like that FD round?
2:27:40
That's one of my. Favorite rounds there's.
2:27:41
Not really any. I think that's one of my least.
2:27:43
Favorite. Really.
2:27:44
Yeah, anything that. Involves a street is going to be
2:27:46
my favorite the street. Part of it.
2:27:47
Is cool, yeah. I just I think the track is.
2:27:49
Too short it is. And it's all, it's all turn one,
2:27:53
turn 2. And then like, the end is kind
2:27:54
of just, yeah, it's terrible. I love the street.
2:27:56
So yeah, you got me. About the street, I do.
2:27:58
It's literally. Just the main.
2:27:59
Part of the Street F1. I was like, damn, I want to go
2:28:02
and everyone's like, that shit sucks.
2:28:03
And I was like, yeah, but it's cool because it's on the street.
2:28:05
The Main St. is on the street. And the rest of it is.
2:28:08
A parking lot? Oh, in Long Beach I.
2:28:12
Hate to yeah, like the. End of it for you.
2:28:15
That which? Part is on the street, the first
2:28:17
the. Straightaway.
2:28:19
And then as soon as you make turn 1.
2:28:20
You're going into a parking lot, OK, Yeah, yeah.
2:28:23
But they use that. They use that.
2:28:25
Layout for another. Thing, right.
2:28:26
They do other racing. It's part of a circuit, I think.
2:28:28
Yeah. They do other things there,
2:28:29
yeah. Last time I did anything on a.
2:28:31
Street. I got caught.
2:28:33
So how'd that go? I got out of it.
2:28:36
No, I don't really know. Why we were How recent was this?
2:28:40
This was 20. This was 2020.
2:28:42
It was right after. We finished the angle kit on the
2:28:45
3000. We were in Philly at my buddy's
2:28:47
shop, his dad's shop, and we aligned the car, put it on the
2:28:52
ground and there's a spot that was pretty well known in Philly,
2:28:59
Philly, We hear about the spot all the time.
2:29:00
Well, it was the steam fitters. Lot.
2:29:05
It's fenced off now. They actually like a year.
2:29:07
Or two ago. They actually fenced the whole
2:29:08
back parking lot off so you can't get there anymore.
2:29:10
So we we Jarred to the steam fitters lot and allegedly we
2:29:14
were testing the car and it was like right after COVID, like
2:29:17
things were starting. To.
2:29:18
Kind of open back up. So I come running down the back
2:29:22
of the building and I handbrake enter as a like past the corner
2:29:27
of the building and a cop is driving in the building and I
2:29:31
enter in front of them and I'm like.
2:29:34
God and I like drift the. Turn and.
2:29:36
Then his lights are on and then like, I'm doing like the little
2:29:38
sweeper in the back of the lot. So you're just keeping it going.
2:29:40
I kept it going because I didn't see them.
2:29:41
And I see lights. I'm like, so I like shut it
2:29:44
down. And I like, stop.
2:29:46
He comes, he jumps out of the car, tells all my friends that
2:29:49
were there, he's like leave. And they're like, OK.
2:29:52
They said they said fuck yeah, like we're out, so.
2:29:56
I mean, hey, I'd. Be like, get out of here.
2:29:58
Don't get in trouble. So he jumps out of the car.
2:30:00
He grabs my license. And he's like.
2:30:03
He's like, what are you doing down here?
2:30:04
I was like, whoa, we're at my buddy's shop, like, and he's
2:30:06
like, where is it? I would have been like, you saw
2:30:08
what we were doing. I'm like, I'm like, it's right
2:30:09
down the road. And he goes all cause like.
2:30:12
We're from like the suburbs. So it's like Bucks County.
2:30:14
And he's like, why do I always find all these Bucks County kids
2:30:17
down here doing this shit? And I'm like, well, 'cause we
2:30:20
have nowhere to do it up there. And he like looks at it and he's
2:30:24
like. I never want to see this car
2:30:25
back. Here again gives me a thing
2:30:26
back. So I'm like, all right, cool.
2:30:28
So you get out of here. He's like, I could because he he
2:30:30
said he's like, I could take your car.
2:30:32
I could do that. I'm like, hey always say that.
2:30:33
Yeah, we know. We know.
2:30:34
I know. I'm like, I know.
2:30:35
I assume. That risk.
2:30:37
So we go to. Leave.
2:30:39
And my headlights on the 3000 weren't plugged in.
2:30:43
Oh no. So I like turn my.
2:30:46
Headlights on and. They like pop up.
2:30:49
But then they weren't turning on because the sun was up when we
2:30:52
went to the spot. Now it's now it's dark.
2:30:55
Yeah, so. I'm like leaving this.
2:30:57
Industrial park, like flying. And my friends are still at the
2:31:00
exit of the industrial park. And my buddies like, dude, I
2:31:03
look in my rearview mirror and I see your car with no headlights
2:31:05
behind me. He's like, I thought you were
2:31:06
running. Yeah, he thought I was running
2:31:08
and he's so. And then I.
2:31:09
Followed them into like a Wawa across the street.
2:31:12
And he they were, he was like losing his mind.
2:31:14
He should have kept it going. He's like, dude, I thought you
2:31:16
were running, yeah. I should.
2:31:18
Have I was so, like thrown off of what just happened.
2:31:21
I'm like, wait, this dude just let me go.
2:31:23
Like I was like, I just gotta get out of here before he like,
2:31:25
has second thoughts. And yeah, that was the last time
2:31:28
I ever did anything on the street.
2:31:30
I don't trust Florida. Like since we've moved.
2:31:32
Down there, that's. So weird, 'cause I feel like in
2:31:34
Florida, I feel like, yeah, but. Like, probably try to get away
2:31:37
with more Florida. Has like they.
2:31:39
Have undercover like. Mustangs and Challengers and
2:31:42
like, dude, they'll have undercover like Ford Escapes,
2:31:46
like just any SUV, like mom, car, anything they could waste.
2:31:49
They're not trying hard enough. They'll put like soccer magnets
2:31:52
on the. Back and then pull you over.
2:31:53
It's like something that's not entrapment.
2:31:56
No, no, that's not. Entrapment So.
2:31:57
That's why I like I don't. Trust.
2:31:59
Anything. Down there to like do.
2:32:00
Something like that. So both the budget on a bunch of
2:32:03
two 40s for the fleet and I'll. I'll I'll throw an application
2:32:06
in there because that's how you're going to get nobody
2:32:09
guessing who the fuck you are. Imagine getting pulled over by
2:32:13
S13. There's.
2:32:15
Got to be S. 13 On blitz O threes pulling over.
2:32:19
Some really hot. Boy S fucking.
2:32:21
Drift car and it's a cop yeah there has to be be so mad they
2:32:25
they they wouldn't have a origin budget they'd.
2:32:27
Go for the. KBD they yeah, moving on.
2:32:29
KBD is approved by. KBD is approved by the budget.
2:32:32
Because it's made in the. USA it's not though.
2:32:35
But it's not. I mean, it goes wild.
2:32:38
By the way, asks. Do you know Kyle goes wild
2:32:41
because? They asked a couple.
2:32:42
Questions. I do.
2:32:42
Kyle's going. He was there that night of the
2:32:44
drifting. That's so.
2:32:45
Funny, I I planned that I was gonna actually funnel it into.
2:32:48
The Kyle's question Eva, if you could go back?
2:32:51
And tell your 16 year old. Self Something car.
2:32:53
Related What would it be honestly to?
2:32:57
Get into a rear wheel. Drive, stick shift car.
2:32:59
Sooner. It took me.
2:33:02
It took me. A good couple years to finally.
2:33:05
Get into a rear wheel drive car. I wasted a lot of time.
2:33:08
The Camry was awesome, but I feel like I wasted a lot of time
2:33:10
with a front wheel drive car that like, I feel like if I had
2:33:14
a rear wheel drive stick shift car, I probably would have
2:33:16
gotten to drifting maybe a little sooner.
2:33:17
I think so too 'cause I had an Integra or no, I had an.
2:33:21
I had a A4 AB 5 Audi 1st and then I had an Integra that was
2:33:25
my tuner experience and I wish that that one.
2:33:30
Was a 2. 40 If it was a 240, and it was at that time when my
2:33:34
brain was so fucking malleable. Oh, and then I might have
2:33:39
accidentally met Frankie. Earlier on in.
2:33:41
Life that would have been terrible fucked fucked.
2:33:44
Then you have Miyagi and Mini Yagi He.
2:33:46
Would. Have been like, oh that.
2:33:49
Would have been so fun. That's what I did to Miyagi.
2:33:52
Yeah, I know, that's why I called it.
2:33:53
Miyagi and mini Yagi, yeah. Literally, I miss Miyagi.
2:33:57
Can you get him back on here? It's hard, man.
2:34:00
He's just a busy guy. Yeah, he doesn't care.
2:34:02
About us anymore, it's. Crazy.
2:34:03
That's false. If I call Miyagi and you
2:34:06
Miyagi's. Answering the phone you maybe
2:34:08
one or two times to let you know it's an emergency.
2:34:10
Yeah, see Miyagi once a year. What else would that have for
2:34:16
us? Pros and cons?
2:34:17
Of trying. To run a small automotive slash
2:34:21
drift business. Also from Kyle.
2:34:25
Well, the pros are. Let's go with the cons first.
2:34:29
The cons. Big veggies first.
2:34:32
Yeah, the cons are trying. To like I just it's.
2:34:34
A struggle? With time and resources.
2:34:36
And like we talked about, not having time priorities and
2:34:40
whatnot, but like resources too. Time is all you got.
2:34:44
Yeah. And it's kind of like, cool I I
2:34:45
want. To do this thing but I'm like.
2:34:47
Dude, I don't have like the tools to do what I want to do.
2:34:51
So it's kind of like what you were saying, like 3D scanners,
2:34:53
like stuff like that. Like that stuff is so out of my
2:34:56
price range to like jump into. It's it's a limiting factor.
2:35:02
I would say The pros are that, like, I like going to events and
2:35:08
having my name on things and just being like like the reason
2:35:12
that this car is here is because you know, of the parts that I
2:35:16
make and more so seeing other people run.
2:35:19
I get really excited when people send me like Instagram stories
2:35:21
and stuff of like them running my parts on their car like
2:35:25
drifting. It's really cool to see because
2:35:27
I feel like it's opening the door for like another chassis in
2:35:31
drifting and surprisingly the V isn't that bad of a chassis and
2:35:36
is it solid rear? No independent, really.
2:35:39
Trailing ARM independent. It's actually kind of similar
2:35:41
to, I want to say. It's kind of similar to like
2:35:44
BMWs, Yeah, an E36. It's a trailing arm rear, yeah.
2:35:47
Trailing arm, rear. Don't say that too loud.
2:35:49
No, I'll say it now because I have.
2:35:51
I have. Two of them.
2:35:52
So, like, let the prices run. OK, yeah, I'm a stakeholder.
2:35:56
Now, yeah, yeah, the drift tax. Can hit, it's fine.
2:35:59
Yeah, he. Saw parts for him, so yeah, so
2:36:01
but like. I get excited when I see.
2:36:03
Like another caliber bracket, it gets sold because I'm like cool,
2:36:06
like another person is going to try and drift the car.
2:36:09
So it's like rewarding to see my stuff out there.
2:36:11
Hell yeah, to hear that from somebody who has their own
2:36:13
company selling. That believing in the product,
2:36:15
like you do. Kind of like how Frankie does
2:36:17
too with their products. I love you.
2:36:20
I love that, Yeah. Yeah, you're really opening.
2:36:22
Up the doors for a lot of a. Lot of people.
2:36:24
Yeah, yeah. And that's all like, I like.
2:36:26
I just want people to have a good time.
2:36:27
You know. I mean, and a lot of you've
2:36:30
inspired me. Scotty D, who I mentioned before
2:36:32
watching what he does with Mustang, inspired me.
2:36:34
I see the stuff you make, the Lion kits and stuff like that,
2:36:38
even like your packaging. I've noticed that you have,
2:36:42
yeah, the branding and stuff like that.
2:36:44
Kind of shit that I. That I'd like to do, you know,
2:36:46
like. I would want that if I was
2:36:48
buying something, yeah. And that's the kind of stuff
2:36:50
that like, makes an impression on you, and it's pretty simple
2:36:51
once you. Figure it out.
2:36:52
So it's like, yeah, thankfully. I live with a graphic designer
2:36:55
too, so like, Oh my. God, that's the biggest.
2:36:57
It really helps. It's the biggest thing.
2:36:58
Yeah 'cause I can be like. 'Cause when it comes to.
2:37:00
Design stuff, I'm not. Good.
2:37:02
So I can be like more glistened. This is what I'm this is what
2:37:04
I'm thinking and then she'll like kick something out.
2:37:07
That's yeah. Graphic design is probably.
2:37:11
For a small business, that was, that was my biggest like, like,
2:37:16
Achilles heel. Like I didn't have someone too
2:37:19
dependable. I had people along the way that
2:37:22
could do certain things, certain friends that could do certain
2:37:25
things. But then it would always be like
2:37:26
a block. Like, I can't do that.
2:37:28
I don't know how to do that. Oh yeah, If you're ever looking
2:37:30
for another one, you let me know.
2:37:31
I will. Yeah, definitely.
2:37:34
Last one from. Kyle, why did you ruin a?
2:37:36
Completely, perfectly good. I knew this was gone.
2:37:40
All-wheel drive VR4. 3K. So Kyle was there.
2:37:46
The. Night we.
2:37:46
Cut the whole back half off. The car Oh.
2:37:48
Right. You mentioned that you needed
2:37:50
the back. Half of a car.
2:37:51
To make this happen, yeah. Well, no, no, no, no.
2:37:53
When we did the tube rear and the over.
2:37:55
Fenders. He was there when we cut the
2:37:57
quarter panels out and everything.
2:37:59
Does he like those cars? 3000, I mean.
2:38:02
He's. He's.
2:38:03
No, he's an Evo guy. He's trolling.
2:38:05
Yeah, he has a killer Evo. Oh yeah, Evo guy.
2:38:07
He's just trolling me. Yeah, but like.
2:38:11
One of my. The first quarter panel that cut
2:38:13
not the best. And there's a video.
2:38:17
There's a video. Looking at me.
2:38:19
Sitting there with. The saw with like this.
2:38:20
Big mask on and then it cuts the Kyle and he's just like, that's
2:38:25
cool, yeah. Yeah, I I.
2:38:28
Saw Why wouldn't? Well, like like one of those
2:38:31
like. Little little blades.
2:38:32
On them and was it a disc or was it a It was a it was.
2:38:36
A The little little blade, It was a disk.
2:38:38
It was a disk, OK. Cut off.
2:38:40
Yeah, it was OK. I was gonna say with the little.
2:38:42
Blade. That's a.
2:38:42
Fucking I. Would like some body saw.
2:38:45
Body saws are the best. That's what I was thinking of a
2:38:47
body. Saw but no.
2:38:47
It was actually, it was a cut off.
2:38:49
Disk. Yeah, that's what I would use.
2:38:50
That's what most of us used to destroy our cars, yeah.
2:38:54
Body saw would have been a lot nicer.
2:38:55
I do regret it A. Little bit.
2:38:57
The way. So like this past winter, I
2:39:00
redid the whole motor engine Bay and everything.
2:39:02
I'm kind of working front to back now, so I want to redo the
2:39:05
tuber since it got all bent up and I never fixed it and I
2:39:09
almost want to like drop the fuel cell a little lower and
2:39:12
then wasn't that the whole purpose of this?
2:39:15
Yeah, but I I have room. I got room to drop a little.
2:39:18
Sure I. Don't even want to drift the
2:39:19
car. Anymore but like.
2:39:20
You know I'll. Drop the fuel cell a little
2:39:22
lower and then make like a sheet metal floor in the back.
2:39:25
Just. To like kind of seal it in
2:39:26
better to make it. I want to ask you a question
2:39:29
before. He gets to more of these.
2:39:31
Did you enjoy drifting that car? Did it feel weird?
2:39:34
Did it feel normal? So I learned how to drift on the
2:39:38
car. So, like, it was all I knew,
2:39:40
Yeah. And but now you have a pretty
2:39:43
proper front engine rear. Yeah, like when I go back.
2:39:46
To it and I I feel. Like I hit the limit that the
2:39:48
reason I wanted to build another car is because I feel like I hit
2:39:50
the limit of that car. I did AUS Drift Street legal
2:39:53
comp in it at Shenandoah in 2021 and like that was when I was
2:39:57
really just like this car. Is not it for like trying to do
2:40:01
Y consistency or something? So street legal.
2:40:05
Had like a tight technical track.
2:40:07
That car's gearing wise. It's way better for like E Town
2:40:11
or like big sweepers and stuff like that.
2:40:13
So like second gear will go up to like 89 miles an hour or
2:40:17
something like that. It's insane.
2:40:19
So the gearing's super long. So like at when I did the street
2:40:23
legal, I kept falling out of boost and it was like low.
2:40:26
It was like bogging. It just it looked terrible.
2:40:28
So it's probably a drivetrain issue, you'd say.
2:40:30
Yeah. And like, there's.
2:40:31
No better like. Rear diff option or diff.
2:40:34
Even even trans. There's no better gearing option
2:40:37
that would like. I have the most ideal gearing
2:40:39
set up in there and like it has its limitation, but if I caged
2:40:44
that car I wouldn't fit in it so like I'm too tall like I'm
2:40:48
almost. Too tall for it?
2:40:49
With the racing seats in it, so like once I put it like my my
2:40:52
head was like touching the roof almost.
2:40:55
I'm over here. I'm like gearing.
2:40:56
OK, so switch. Trans CD Trans.
2:40:59
And then I'm like, wait a minute, you can yeah.
2:41:02
So I have a 5 speed and a 6 speed option, the six.
2:41:04
Speed would have made it longer. What the fuck you know so.
2:41:08
First of all, well, good thing you have the.
2:41:11
The the V. Now that one makes more sense
2:41:15
and like the first event I the Haunted Moves 20. 17 I showed
2:41:19
up, the car had stock angle, which for an all-wheel drive car
2:41:22
is like none. And then I had a welded diff and
2:41:24
a handbrake that barely worked and I was on backtrack having a
2:41:28
terrible time. But Reese jumped in the car and
2:41:31
I was like, dude, drive this, see if you can do it backtrack
2:41:34
no problem. I'm like, fuck, that was your
2:41:38
first. Event 1st event.
2:41:40
First drift event with that car just ever.
2:41:42
And Reese drives it. And he's like, dude, he's like,
2:41:45
it's got power, He's like, you need angle, you need a
2:41:47
handbrake. And I was like, cool.
2:41:50
So I experimented with some. Angle things.
2:41:52
Like I did. Like tie?
2:41:53
Rod spacers first and then I did like a cut knuckle and then I
2:41:58
did a further cut knuckle and like that's where I'm at now.
2:42:00
And then I did the extended lowers and I built tie rods for
2:42:03
it and stuff like that. It was turboed, but it was rear
2:42:05
wheel drive. Yeah, so right.
2:42:06
Now it's yeah, it's Twin turbo. But you still had to do the
2:42:09
conversion with the subframe and everything, yeah?
2:42:11
That all came before drifting. I drove it for like a year.
2:42:14
And 1/2 as all-wheel drive. Oh OK yeah, 'cause I wanted to
2:42:17
make AVR 4 and then all my friends started drifting and I
2:42:19
was like, well, I can't build another car.
2:42:21
I don't have room at my parents house.
2:42:23
So I'm like, oh, I'll try and do this, 'cause there were guys in
2:42:25
like the like the DSM world that have done like welded center
2:42:28
diffs and stuff like that. So I was talking to a DSM friend
2:42:31
of mine and he was like, yeah, if you Weld it and pull the
2:42:33
front axles, it'll it'll work. And I was like, OK, It's cool,
2:42:38
man. It worked well.
2:42:39
It worked better. I like.
2:42:40
That you asked. That cuz like.
2:42:41
Imagine you did all that. Work to hate it?
2:42:47
Yeah. And like, honestly too.
2:42:48
Like I'll bring. The V to the track.
2:42:49
Now, and like it draws attention.
2:42:51
Cuz like you don't see a Cadillac driving drifting often.
2:42:54
That just still looks elegant, like the way that it looks.
2:42:57
You're like, that's a Cadillac, but like, the 3000 had like a
2:42:59
different vibe. To.
2:43:01
It it was more of like the Japanese car vibe that I was
2:43:04
just out of the ordinary dude. Yeah, yeah.
2:43:07
And it was like the low. Flat car like.
2:43:09
Wide car that like the V just isn't.
2:43:12
So I'm trying to like I'm trying to get the V to be a little more
2:43:15
vibey or GT wing. Yeah, I don't know.
2:43:20
I don't. Know how to make those cars look
2:43:22
good? Yeah.
2:43:22
GT wing and. BN Sports.
2:43:25
Actually no GT wing and an origin.
2:43:28
Racing. Line Kit 2024 formula.
2:43:31
It's pretty weird though. This one's from Tyler.
2:43:34
Say what? It's.
2:43:35
Mike comma the. Best meets are the invite meets.
2:43:38
I promise I'll make the next one hobby also.
2:43:42
Oh, wait, sorry, let me touch. On that, so, yeah.
2:43:44
Yeah. When I said we stopped doing.
2:43:45
Car meets. So we started doing meets at the
2:43:48
Dairy Queen in Warrington, PA and that's what I say.
2:43:52
So we would do Dairy Queen meets.
2:43:54
And no. Well, yeah, it's a little far
2:43:56
for you. Yeah, it's very far.
2:43:58
Yeah. So.
2:43:59
So what we? Started doing is we had a meet
2:44:01
there. We're close with the owner,
2:44:03
Dairy Queen and her husband's a cop in the town, so like pretty
2:44:06
good connection there, kind of sick and we would have like
2:44:09
public. Meets like Stansko meets.
2:44:11
And it got to the point where like they the, the last one we
2:44:16
had the road, the main road in the town was backed up for miles
2:44:20
for people trying to get in the lot was already full.
2:44:23
So and then there were like a lot of kids there that were just
2:44:26
screwing off. So I was like all right we're
2:44:27
doing invite only meets. So then we start doing.
2:44:29
Whenever I come home I'll do an invite only me and it's neat
2:44:33
because you get a lot of quality stuff.
2:44:35
So like Stoneback will bring out some cars and like a lot of it's
2:44:39
interesting because more Club Loose guys come like local, like
2:44:44
Club Loose guys will come up and it's a good time, good vibes.
2:44:49
It's just like it's chill. We just hang out.
2:44:51
It's not like a ton of people. It might be.
2:44:52
I do want to do more shit like that too, man.
2:44:54
Yeah, it might be like had a meet.
2:44:55
In a while it might be like 50. Cars.
2:44:58
And like we just still have some ice.
2:44:59
Cream and oh hell yeah, that wasn't in it until now.
2:45:03
Now I'm totally for IT. People, if you like, they start
2:45:05
drifting. They're like, oh, I don't fuck
2:45:07
car meets. Yeah, you need.
2:45:08
Fuck car meets, you got to have the car meets with the drift
2:45:10
cars and then yeah. I remember the one night like,
2:45:14
you know Seb, right? So like Seb came and he was he
2:45:17
has like 3 hot dogs in his hand. So I'm like, you can't like
2:45:20
Dairy Queen for the hot dogs. And he's like, hell yeah.
2:45:26
But it's cool because then like you know.
2:45:28
Like the other night, it was a little chilly.
2:45:29
We had one and people still came out.
2:45:32
But like on a Wednesday night, the line's to the door in Dairy
2:45:35
Queen. So, like, they love it for that
2:45:37
too. So it really everyone wins, you
2:45:40
know, as I feel like smaller. Businesses would.
2:45:44
Always appreciate that. So as long as the crowd isn't
2:45:46
fucking destroying the property, so it's like, OK, that's that's
2:45:51
why I wanted to have a cars and Coffee called Carl's and Coffee.
2:45:53
It's going to be sick and it's only for Carl's.
2:45:56
It's just. All the Carl.
2:45:57
'S Carl's and Cars No, but it's. Carl Apostrophe.
2:46:01
S. Yeah, if you if your name starts
2:46:03
with AC, you're not invited, not.
2:46:04
Invited. You're actually stoned.
2:46:08
Stoned. Holy shit.
2:46:12
Fuck you, Carl with AC. Yo, Lachlan is in here.
2:46:18
I haven't heard this name in a while.
2:46:20
This is Malcolm's secret lover. What?
2:46:24
What's so funny? Malcolm what did he say?
2:46:27
What's? Your shoe choice or.
2:46:29
Casual wear? Oh.
2:46:30
Wow. That's normal.
2:46:32
Vans. Vans.
2:46:33
Yeah. I feel like I've never seen what
2:46:35
what what do you? Guys.
2:46:37
I'm a big for casual wear. I'm not wearing them right?
2:46:39
Now, But you're not wearing any shoes right now.
2:46:42
No, I'm barefoot. Yeah.
2:46:48
Shit, Frankie grabbing me with his toes.
2:46:52
We're holding toes under the table.
2:46:54
I guess Vans? For me, it's always Vans.
2:46:56
Mine stuff. Nads like.
2:46:58
Adidas Nads. You like the I had NMD.
2:47:01
They're just like a good like do.
2:47:02
Whatever shoe, yeah. That's grass I have, nads I.
2:47:07
Cut the grass. In.
2:47:08
Garage Nads. That's how I am with Vans.
2:47:13
Your your. Multiple shoe is like our vans
2:47:16
'cause I have multiple vans, I have work on the car vans, I
2:47:19
have Look Cool vans and I have go to work.
2:47:20
I feel like Carl always stays looking fly I.
2:47:23
Don't know how 'cause he spends all his money on his car.
2:47:25
I just wear the same thing every day to this fucking podcast.
2:47:28
No, you kidding me? I.
2:47:30
Literally wear. You just said you have multiple
2:47:31
vans. I have orange, I mean.
2:47:33
You got that John B shirt one. Tonight I.
2:47:36
Dude, I got the John B shirt on. They.
2:47:38
Loved this this. Was a hit at the office today.
2:47:41
They were like, Oh my God, nice shirt.
2:47:42
And I'm like I. Wear one.
2:47:43
Shirt because our dryers, our dryer.
2:47:47
Is. Broken.
2:47:48
And this? Shirt.
2:47:50
Malcolm knows this was from when we were doing reckless shit in
2:47:53
the clubs, you know, I was going to say that looks like.
2:47:58
That type of fucking I was. Going to say it looks like.
2:48:00
Something you're going out Friday night with?
2:48:02
And I had to wear it to the office.
2:48:06
What? What he makes fun of you because
2:48:07
you go. Ha ha ha.
2:48:09
But. Now he's doing it every day.
2:48:11
We do it all the time like and now he just does it and it's.
2:48:14
Yeah, like now he. Just does it.
2:48:16
Yeah. But Malcolm was making fun of
2:48:18
you, and now he's like. Committed.
2:48:19
Now you got to put a little extra.
2:48:21
Fent on it you have to like. This side note that.
2:48:28
That Photoshop of Malcolm. And wait, wait, in the video.
2:48:32
Yeah. And then somebody on the
2:48:33
comments. Was like I'm literally.
2:48:35
Blocks from Kensington right now as I'm watching this and I'm
2:48:38
like, you're on the hair on. If you don't know what we're
2:48:40
talking about, you got to check out that new YouTube video
2:48:42
fashion. Yeah, make sure to.
2:48:43
Check out the hot left. Like, Share.
2:48:44
Subscribe, Leave a comment, Stop making.
2:48:45
Malcolm do weird shit. I didn't do anything.
2:48:48
Dance. I'm.
2:48:48
Not even involved in that. They they come.
2:48:51
You probably haven't watched a single one.
2:48:53
I watched some of the. First ones that he made to make
2:48:55
sure he wasn't doing anything. Suspect.
2:48:57
But the the hot take ones that he's doing or hot lap or
2:49:01
whatever, I'm not even involved. I I'm in there and they're like
2:49:04
sitting next to each other like you wanna do a hot lap right
2:49:06
now. Malcolm's like looking around,
2:49:09
yeah, yeah we could do it. Now they they try to do it in
2:49:11
one take. Yeah, people love that stuff.
2:49:13
People love that behind the scenes kind.
2:49:15
Of stuff. It's.
2:49:16
I mean, they're they're making them do weird things.
2:49:18
I don't. Like that, Yeah, they are.
2:49:19
Malcolm, you gotta stop the the. I mean, it keeps them coming
2:49:22
back, so fucking OK. His.
2:49:24
Motherfucker said I'm not a skater.
2:49:26
Next comment. Do a kick, flip, do a kick for
2:49:28
it maybe. Next week, all right.
2:49:32
Does a kick flip. Poop and then.
2:49:33
It's like I'm. Not a skater though.
2:49:35
Sometimes I land it, sometimes I don't.
2:49:37
So the the AN line fitting dances were pretty.
2:49:40
Decent. I don't know what that is even.
2:49:42
Oh no. What kind of dumb?
2:49:47
Shit. Are you?
2:49:48
Doing Frankie, you got to tune. Into the fact that I just
2:49:50
watched too. Wait, wait, wait.
2:49:51
What was the what? Was the other one.
2:49:53
It was the. Distrait.
2:49:56
Push on fitting and Malcolm just said I.
2:50:00
Was like what the? Fuck, how did he even come up?
2:50:03
With doing that. Malcolm.
2:50:05
Like what was the whole? I don't.
2:50:07
No, I. Look, I grabbed something off
2:50:08
the. AN line supply.
2:50:10
And I said Malcolm, how would this dance be?
2:50:16
Why is that? Oh, oh, oh.
2:50:17
Oh, there was. This old lady on.
2:50:19
Instagram who was showing how the.
2:50:21
Different pastas would dance. Oh yeah.
2:50:24
And I was like, Malcolm do this for AN lines.
2:50:26
And he was like a push. 90 should have made a real of that,
2:50:30
Malcolm. Oh yeah.
2:50:32
Clip when it went viral. Yeah.
2:50:33
Wow. Wow.
2:50:34
Should. Have.
2:50:34
Should have. Could have, would have.
2:50:36
Malcolm We missed that boat. It's 0. 70. 7 David.
2:50:43
You gave? Everyone on the podcast You're
2:50:45
past Crazy Malcolm. I can't believe you just gave us
2:50:49
your passcode. Don't change that.
2:50:51
Right now the real JDM Will says Mike's 3000GT is on my top five
2:50:57
drift cars that has hit Club Loose.
2:50:59
Wow man, I appreciate that. Gotta be memorable.
2:51:01
Imagine. Like, how many times have you
2:51:03
seen it? You're probably, I mean, Will's
2:51:04
been on backtrack when I was out there struggling, you know?
2:51:06
I appreciate all those dudes on on C track that like, helped.
2:51:11
That's what I was kind of saying with like Florida like feel like
2:51:13
I don't see that as much. Whereas like E Town Club loose
2:51:17
guys like they actually care especially when you're learning
2:51:20
like they'll help you. They'll tell you what to do.
2:51:23
I've had, I've had plenty of people tell me what to do, but
2:51:26
then I've had plenty of people be like, dude, I don't know.
2:51:28
What to do with this car? Isn't it crazy to think that
2:51:31
though, like. You mentioned Reese, bro.
2:51:34
Reese is a formula drift judge. Yeah, when I when I watch that.
2:51:39
Now. I want to wash it now and they
2:51:42
and that's why Yo Reese, just so you know again shot in the dark.
2:51:47
You hear this, but is he ever like, on the mic?
2:51:50
Yes, he jumped on it long. Dude, he does.
2:51:53
He does and it'll. Be like.
2:51:55
First of all, the. Fucking MCS.
2:51:58
Get your shit right? Because you guys keep directing
2:52:02
or defaulting over to actually, they probably know what they're
2:52:05
saying, but they want to default to a judge so that people get
2:52:08
more credibility, I feel like. So I take that back.
2:52:11
I'm sorry, God forbid. But then.
2:52:15
They give the mic over to. Reese, Mike.
2:52:18
Or they give the the. Mic over to Reese.
2:52:21
And hearing Reese talk and know that it's at a formula drift.
2:52:26
Event. It's funny with the Philly I
2:52:28
love the Philly accent too. He's like, yeah, he's like.
2:52:32
Yeah. Looks like he came into turn
2:52:35
one. Oh wow.
2:52:37
You know, type type of deal. Like it's literally Reese on TV.
2:52:41
But yeah. Thank you, Will.
2:52:42
I appreciate that. Yeah, Shout.
2:52:44
Shout out to club leaders, man. They really made us who we are
2:52:46
today, true. Ahmed.
2:52:51
Man, you gotta stop asking why I'm so hot.
2:52:53
Because I am ugly, All right. Beastie Boy E46.
2:52:57
Why Did I know Why did I buy a car?
2:53:00
Yeah, Can you tell? Everybody 'cause it was a good.
2:53:03
Deal. OK, tell French.
2:53:05
Tree, Josh. That.
2:53:06
Because, he said, can't wait. For him to get scolded by the
2:53:09
Internet, for buying another car without finishing, it just
2:53:12
happened. Josh.
2:53:13
There you go. I miss.
2:53:15
Josh And guess what, I don't give a 5 about what any one of
2:53:21
you? Says.
2:53:23
Keep the comments coming, dude, Can we get?
2:53:28
Josh back here, please. I miss Josh, man.
2:53:32
He makes me happy. When he messages me though.
2:53:37
OK, Beastie boy, it's. Called crab Rangoon.
2:53:42
Not crab, raccoon, but crab. Rangoon or.
2:53:48
Egg Roll. Damn raccoons.
2:53:54
Do you see it? Do you like crab?
2:53:55
I can't see it. I can't see.
2:53:57
It or do you like oh. Oh, wait, sorry.
2:53:59
It literally says crab. Raccoons.
2:54:00
I mean, I know, I know what a Rangoon is.
2:54:02
I've never seen one of them. Crab if it.
2:54:03
Was a cheese Rangoon. Aww.
2:54:05
Do cheese. Rangoon all day, 'cause I can't
2:54:08
eat crab, even the imitation crab gets me a little bit of a
2:54:11
little of a of a reaction. I don't like testing it.
2:54:13
I was a big imitation crab guy and then I saw a video on how
2:54:16
it's made. Dude, it's already plastic.
2:54:18
Done. Wait, it's plastic?
2:54:20
It's not good. I thought it was.
2:54:21
Shrimp paste. It's not good.
2:54:22
It's it's like Alaskan Pollock base but it it turns into a
2:54:27
paste at some point during the production and it's just they
2:54:30
blast it out like a two chicken Nuggets from.
2:54:33
McDonald's and you're still eating them?
2:54:35
No, no. No, I eat them.
2:54:37
All day I will too. It's just.
2:54:39
Ground chicken. I won't eat them all day, but
2:54:41
it's ground chicken and a. Big KitchenAid.
2:54:44
I do that at home and the answer is cheese Rangoon for you.
2:54:50
Shellfish. Allergic people?
2:54:53
Subi 664 asks. You.
2:54:57
Got to say it now. Yep, I do.
2:54:59
Fuck. Marry.
2:55:00
Kill. I'm going to make Mike answer.
2:55:02
This one. OK, fuck.
2:55:05
Marry. Kill.
2:55:06
George Bush senior oh. Geez, why is it senior?
2:55:10
Oh, it was. Specified unless that says.
2:55:12
George Bush SR20 George Bush. Senior.
2:55:18
Weird Al, Yankovic and the Kool-aid Man, None of those have
2:55:23
any affiliation whatsoever. Maybe George Bush and Weird Al,
2:55:27
because maybe maybe Georgie listened to Weird Al.
2:55:30
But man, this is the weird one. I guess we're doing the
2:55:33
kool-aid. Man, you're.
2:55:34
Doing the Kool-aid. Man, I guess we're marrying
2:55:37
weird. Al.
2:55:39
You're marrying. Weird Al and we're.
2:55:42
We're killing weird. Al.
2:55:43
Back up. I don't even.
2:55:45
Know. Dude, what?
2:55:46
I don't even know where. I mean you.
2:55:48
Might get the most money. I'm with the Kool-aid.
2:55:50
Man though, because I'm tell them all about.
2:55:52
That money you're killing George Bush.
2:55:54
That's crazy. You're.
2:55:55
Fucking the Kool-aid, man. I think he is dead, yeah.
2:55:58
George Bush senior's dead, yeah. He was dead.
2:56:00
Parker was. Dead naming a lot of dead
2:56:02
things. For the kill, not the kool-aid
2:56:04
Man. That's forever, Kool-aid, Man
2:56:06
is. Forever Rich and Rebo Flavin, Do
2:56:08
you miss? Or is he dead?
2:56:10
No, George Bush senior, I think. He's deaf.
2:56:12
You gotta be. You gotta be dead.
2:56:13
I'm pretty sure he's deaf. We got a.
2:56:14
Factor Are we dying? Yeah.
2:56:16
Malcolm, can you correct us please before we fucking?
2:56:18
Go down the wrong hole here. He's like 98.
2:56:20
If he was alive, he. Died in 2018.
2:56:23
Oh, at. 94 Damn. Yeah, you'll get that.
2:56:26
How about that math? No Fucking.
2:56:30
I was literally like. 11 number number off, right?
2:56:33
I said he would be 90. Eight right now that's 494
2:56:36
numbers. Yeah, but he would be 98 right
2:56:38
now. Oh, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:56:40
Yeah. Good job, kiddo.
2:56:41
Holy. Shit.
2:56:42
Oh, you meant like? Today, yeah, he'd be 95, I
2:56:45
think, Or 99. 6 whatever. It is 96 all right.
2:56:50
Do you miss? Working in marketing.
2:56:53
Do you miss working in marketing?
2:56:54
This is Subi 664. I think this is a Turn 14 guy as
2:56:57
well. No.
2:56:58
Yeah. Oh, it is.
2:56:59
It is, yeah. Mark, Mark so?
2:57:03
To an extent. I think part of the real reason
2:57:06
why I wanted to leave Turn 14 marketing was, let me rephrase,
2:57:11
automotive industry marketing, because it was kind of ruining
2:57:14
it for me, really. So like, I spent a lot of time.
2:57:17
I spent a lot of time working. Event.
2:57:20
Booths and doing like things like that, PRI and whatnot, and
2:57:24
like it. Just that shit's whack.
2:57:26
It killed it for me. I get that, you know, like.
2:57:28
It just, it kind of killed it. I stopped.
2:57:30
Going to events like myself for fun on the weekends because I'd
2:57:33
be like, oh, I'm not working this weekend, like, yeah, I get
2:57:37
that. Yeah.
2:57:38
So I I don't really miss the marketing and the automotive
2:57:42
industry. I still work.
2:57:43
In marketing. So I haven't gotten away from
2:57:46
it. I enjoy marketing for.
2:57:47
Sure, but. Like from a automotive industry
2:57:49
standpoint, I now enjoy marketing myself as opposed to
2:57:54
you're basically doing that, yeah.
2:57:55
Yeah, as opposed. To like work in booths.
2:57:57
And stuff like that. That makes sense.
2:57:58
I I that would make me lose. It as well.
2:58:02
Yeah, that's why I don't ever really want to work work in the
2:58:04
faction booth. That's just 'cause I'm hanging.
2:58:07
Out. I know it's way different but.
2:58:08
But then. Like but then but then you have
2:58:11
that other side. Of the sword.
2:58:14
Right where it's like you could have fun while working.
2:58:18
Yeah, the faction shit. Is different.
2:58:20
PRI and shit like that. Like those kind of events.
2:58:23
I just fucking yeah. Like I we went to SEMA last year
2:58:25
and I'm good on that. Yeah, like I did.
2:58:27
PRI in 2019. And it was exhausting, don't get
2:58:31
me wrong, but like when you're working a booth, you really
2:58:35
don't get to like experience PRI.
2:58:38
So that's like Morgan and I are going to try and go to PRI this
2:58:42
year, like me, for myself and her for herself, and like, just
2:58:47
experience it at the same time. Just because, like when you're
2:58:52
working a booth, you're tied to that.
2:58:54
Like I was tied to the booth from 6:00 in the morning.
2:58:55
That part, that part is true about the faction booths when we
2:58:58
do it, Yeah. You don't really get to see
2:59:00
anything, no, but you're there. You're under that tent even
2:59:03
though. But we see a lot of friends we
2:59:05
talk to a lot. Of people but.
2:59:06
But then I do this, come to you and whatnot.
2:59:08
Yeah, I do this and I. Make sure to.
2:59:10
Do this every time. Yo, Frankie, can I please walk
2:59:13
around, please? OK.
2:59:15
And then I'll walk around, force them to go, walk.
2:59:18
Around Well, Carl. Does it by himself, so he's
2:59:19
good. And then Then they'll be like,
2:59:21
don't. Yeah, they don't.
2:59:22
And they'll. Just sit there the whole time
2:59:23
and then they don't. That was that was make them.
2:59:25
Make them shit that was boring. You didn't.
2:59:28
Fucking do anything. Yeah, yeah, but that's you being
2:59:31
a fucking. Old man.
2:59:32
Though because you're like, go out and go play.
2:59:35
I'm going to sit here. Yeah, It's hard though too.
2:59:38
Because I mean. You got to figure that's his.
2:59:39
Business. Booth breakdown That's just
2:59:42
annoying. Yeah.
2:59:43
Like and then like the trade. Shows.
2:59:45
Like. The I remember at PRI, like
2:59:48
after the event, the carrier, the car transport guy was like,
2:59:52
yeah, I'm like down the block, like it's as close as I can get
2:59:54
to the Convention Center. Oh no.
2:59:56
So like me and two other guys had to push, dies.
2:59:58
AE80. Six, 'cause it didn't run, we
3:00:00
had to push it like four blocks, like out of the Convention
3:00:04
Center onto the street and like four blocks down the road to
3:00:07
meet the reliable media right? Yeah, I'm like, oh man.
3:00:11
We kind of just pick the running car.
3:00:15
Oh yeah, it's. The damn cars.
3:00:17
Never. Run.
3:00:17
It's demanding. It is demanding.
3:00:19
That's for sure. Yeah, that was all the questions
3:00:21
we had. And why do I feel like?
3:00:25
This one was kind of. Professional cuz he is
3:00:28
professional and Nah. We had good.
3:00:31
Conversation. We were laughing this whole.
3:00:32
Time. I don't laugh at work, talk and
3:00:34
everything. You're in a marketing position.
3:00:36
I can. Yeah, it's it's hard.
3:00:38
I know somebody. Works in corporate.
3:00:41
Can you see my? Can you see my screen?
3:00:43
Yeah, let me, I'm going to. Jump on the screen.
3:00:45
Morgan gives me a hard time. She'll be like.
3:00:46
Yeah, I just hear. Yeah, let me grab the screen
3:00:48
real quick and. Our lives are a joke.
3:00:52
But people like isn't. That yeah, I I feel like a.
3:00:55
Lot of people don't. Understand if you're not.
3:00:57
Involved with what we're involved with.
3:00:59
A lot of people just don't get it.
3:01:00
No. And it's.
3:01:02
It is, kind of. Mundane, wacky work sometimes
3:01:04
'cause you're sitting at a desk, but nothing rots your brain
3:01:08
faster than when you're just sitting there looking at the
3:01:12
fucking screen, getting your tax.
3:01:13
People don't get car stuff. Oh, like.
3:01:16
People at work don't like. I feel like they don't like your
3:01:20
Co workers don't understand. That you have.
3:01:22
A life outside of it, Yeah. I mean like and my Co workers,
3:01:25
they. They know they're like, yeah, he
3:01:27
goes out and he races cars. But like, they don't.
3:01:30
I feel like not so much my Co workers, just anybody, like they
3:01:33
just don't understand like family, friends or whatever.
3:01:36
They don't understand like what it means.
3:01:38
You're into cars. That's it.
3:01:40
Yeah. And then it's more than.
3:01:41
Just like a money waster. I mean, it's kind of a, well,
3:01:44
yours. You managed to.
3:01:46
Turn it into not a money waster. Ultimately I would like Stance
3:01:49
Go to get to the point where it will.
3:01:51
Support like Cover My Drifting completely.
3:01:54
That's all we're trying to do, Mike.
3:01:56
We're literally. Just trying to make, just trying
3:01:58
to do. Drifting.
3:01:59
Sustainable. Those tires got stopped getting
3:02:01
expensive. That's literally the Front St.
3:02:03
Josh methodology because we had him on here when Last year?
3:02:09
No, two years ago. His was a good episode probably
3:02:13
was to you and when we had. Him on and.
3:02:16
And. That was kind of when we started
3:02:17
kind of talking a little bit more.
3:02:19
It's he's doing the same thing. That's the formula.
3:02:21
How can we do this? Or cheaper?
3:02:24
Or cheaper? Yeah, and while.
3:02:25
Also you gotta do it within your.
3:02:27
Means like you need to. Recognize what?
3:02:29
You can responsibly spend, Yeah. You don't.
3:02:32
Don't ruin your life. Don't.
3:02:33
Yeah, Don't. Drive yourself in the debt.
3:02:35
And like, tank your credit score just 'cause you needed, you
3:02:38
know, a pallet of tires for next weekend.
3:02:40
Like I feel like you need to just recognize the scope in
3:02:45
which you can do it to like. Jump into it.
3:02:47
And that's why I like, I don't drift a lot every year because,
3:02:51
I mean, we got a lot of stuff going on outside of car stuff
3:02:53
with like the house and all that, that it's just not
3:02:56
realistic. So it sucks sometimes, but I
3:02:58
know it kind of does suck because I'm you got to look.
3:03:01
At all the positives of the other stuff you have going on I.
3:03:03
Know. I know, I know.
3:03:04
I mean, we just we built. This house and it's beautiful
3:03:07
and like. So, like, there's that.
3:03:10
And like, so, like, I'm not as upset that like, I can't go to
3:03:13
the track as much as I want. I feel like right now I'm not
3:03:16
upset, but. I'm frustrated because I managed
3:03:20
to build the car and like the car isn't done, but yet like I'm
3:03:25
at my wits with like how much I wanted to spend on it, which
3:03:30
isn't even a lot to most people. You spent like $2.00 on it.
3:03:33
I spent like $4.00 on it, yeah. You can't even complain.
3:03:37
Like I don't. Know to me I don't spend money
3:03:39
like. That I also don't make like a
3:03:42
you don't have a 1JZ. Yeah, it's pretty fucking sad.
3:03:45
IS300 you're there. I mean, you're there.
3:03:46
I'm like you have. A lot of it's almost.
3:03:49
Done. Whenever I get to the point that
3:03:51
like, you're at, I'm just like, all right, I'm just going to
3:03:53
blow the. Money now, 'cause I'm going to,
3:03:54
I'm about to, Literally. As we get out of this podcast, I
3:03:56
got a little buzz. Going I'm about to start fucking
3:03:58
running off the wheel. Like the only things you really
3:03:59
need to do ever again. Replacement.
3:04:01
Body kits or arrow wheels, I know, but I I feel like maybe
3:04:06
just 'cause? My life's just been like I'm
3:04:10
conditioned to think this. Way like I'm going to.
3:04:13
Drive this thing and it's going to blow up.
3:04:15
No, it's not. I hope not.
3:04:17
See, I was conditioned. To save money like.
3:04:19
My parents did a. Really.
3:04:20
Good job raising me to, like, save money.
3:04:22
So like there'll be time. Like I'll act like.
3:04:25
Like I'll act like I'm broke. You need to.
3:04:28
You have to act like. No, that is so.
3:04:30
Real. You have to act.
3:04:31
Like you have no money. But like, put your money away.
3:04:34
When you have that extra money and that's kind of how you can
3:04:37
save money, you know what I mean?
3:04:38
You hit like a transaction that goes into your other account and
3:04:41
it was like. You spending money and then
3:04:43
you're like, oh, OK, that's scratchy itch a little bit.
3:04:45
Yeah. So, like, what?
3:04:46
I have like a minimum for my bank account.
3:04:47
Like. I have a minimum number and
3:04:49
it'll give you an, it'll give you an alert, so like I treat
3:04:51
that. Number as zero.
3:04:52
Yeah, that's the first. Thing you can do that's like on
3:04:55
it, I feel. Very broke talking to you guys
3:04:57
right now. You have to.
3:04:58
I never said I have a lot of money.
3:04:59
Yeah, I just. No, no, no, no.
3:05:01
No, I try to watch my spending. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
3:05:03
That's not what that. Means no, no.
3:05:06
It's just the bottom dollar. Is like what I.
3:05:08
Need to have for rent, like an emergency?
3:05:12
Yeah, like if anything happens like.
3:05:14
Shit hits the fan. Like, I I know I have that
3:05:15
little buffer. Yep.
3:05:17
But yeah, it's just recognizing what you can do and what you
3:05:19
can't. And like, don't overstretch
3:05:21
yourself. I just love driving so much,
3:05:23
dude. I love drifting.
3:05:24
And if it was up to me, I'd be at every fucking event drifting
3:05:28
the piss out of my car. And growing up, I guess, is just
3:05:32
realizing that if I drift the piss out of my car, I have to
3:05:35
work 10 times harder. Because if I want to keep
3:05:37
drifting, I got to work so that I can make money, so I keep
3:05:39
drifting. It's all part of the game.
3:05:42
Like I, well, not. Really.
3:05:44
I literally got like that I. Was just like it was.
3:05:47
We did haunted moves in October and then with the house stuff
3:05:50
all winter, didn't touch the car and then like 2 weeks before we
3:05:53
came up here I was just like, I gotta grow the track.
3:05:55
Like because I can't, I won't be able to go until like.
3:05:58
At least May excuse me. So like I look for an.
3:06:02
Event. I'm like, there's an event
3:06:03
Saturday night. I like this garbage track.
3:06:06
And I texted one of my buddies, I was like, yo, you going to
3:06:08
this? He's like, I'll go, if you go.
3:06:09
I was like, all right, cool, we're there.
3:06:11
So, like, we went track's terrible, but I'm like, I itched
3:06:13
the itch for a little bit buy me some time and then I'm just, I'm
3:06:17
getting bored with like skid pad stuff in Florida.
3:06:19
Yeah, I would fucking like, which sucks is I see.
3:06:22
Like a bunch. Of hope cars.
3:06:25
Really good looking cars, yeah, for sure.
3:06:28
And really good looking driving. And I feel like if they weren't
3:06:31
on skid pad they'd look awesome. Yeah, hey.
3:06:34
But. Drift team, risky businessman.
3:06:36
That's my. Florida folk right there.
3:06:38
Chris Sarkar, Chafee Conkling and what's the last one?
3:06:43
Matt Gallon. How can I forget them out?
3:06:46
They were funny at Mid Pond when I met them.
3:06:49
Fucking yellow cars and that one, JIS.
3:06:53
That Chris has is the. Reason why I have my one J
3:06:56
'cause I drove it for like 2 minutes and I was like yeah,
3:07:02
this is pretty sick. Thing was at fucking. 235.
3:07:08
Coolant temp and we're still going.
3:07:12
Mint. And LS will do that for.
3:07:14
You too. Yeah, my, my.
3:07:16
See a good buddy of mine, Brad. Also has an LS and he's bored.
3:07:21
I know if Brad listens to this he's going to agree.
3:07:23
I will say turbo cars have a little.
3:07:26
Extra pizzazz. Just a little when you're
3:07:28
driving, you know. Was there anything else you
3:07:34
wanted? To close on Mike, I feel like we
3:07:35
fucking. Yeah, anything you want to shout
3:07:37
out or website? Yeah, I mean, how do people
3:07:40
order these parts that you just spent?
3:07:41
All this time making. Well, we didn't.
3:07:45
Even talk about a very specific. Niche.
3:07:48
Group of people it's. Just www.stansco.jpor.us Wait,
3:07:53
you can use both? Yeah, I got both.
3:07:54
I got both, Yeah. Because ultimately what?
3:07:56
I want to end up. Doing is put dot.
3:07:58
JP on the 3000 and dot US on the V That's cool.
3:08:01
Yeah, so I grabbed both domains. Damn, I didn't know you could do
3:08:04
it. Dot JP and it would work.
3:08:06
Yeah, wow. Why didn't I fucking know that?
3:08:09
What the fuck? Yeah.
3:08:10
And then we were here with that.com.
3:08:11
We literally. I remember we.
3:08:12
Didn't do that because I mean whatever.
3:08:15
And then I mean Instagram Mike under score Stansco.
3:08:18
If you want to see me do on work on unpractical cars for
3:08:21
drifting, sounds good. Thank you for coming.
3:08:25
Out. Yeah, So you're.
3:08:26
So you're in Philadelphia tonight And yeah, till next
3:08:29
weekend. So you still got a fucking long
3:08:31
drive home? Yeah, that's like an hour and
3:08:32
40. Five What's your cheese?
3:08:33
Steak spot closing message here. So I mean, I know everyone says.
3:08:39
Gino's is like a tourist spot. Oh no.
3:08:41
Huh. Gino's is a tourist spot.
3:08:42
Gino's is always my go to like growing up, but then I'm a big
3:08:46
Steve's guy on like Calmly Rd. in like Northeast Philly.
3:08:49
OK, that's one I haven't heard of.
3:08:51
So Steve's I feel. Like I've definitely I've.
3:08:54
Steve's steaks. Yeah, I like the one with the.
3:08:57
Seeded. Roll the seeded.
3:08:58
Bun. Like the brown bread?
3:09:00
Yeah, I think it's called Del. Dalesandro's.
3:09:05
Dalesandro's, yeah. That's Morgan's favorite.
3:09:07
One. So here's the thing.
3:09:09
Dalesandro. 'S they chop their meat and they
3:09:11
put the cheese on top. I think I like slice meat.
3:09:13
I like when the whiz goes down first so it soaks into the
3:09:16
bread. I'm getting hungry.
3:09:17
Yes, dude, OK. Whiz whit is that?
3:09:22
What you say I go whiz without no onions, just.
3:09:26
Steak and whiz I need the. Onions on there I need.
3:09:28
That hot bread but. All right.
3:09:34
Well, go to Steve. 'S and go check out
3:09:37
Dalessandro's if you want the bread that I like.
3:09:39
Thank you guys so much. Mike, thank you so much for
3:09:42
coming on. Yeah, thank you guys.
3:09:43
That was probably one of the more fun podcasts that.
3:09:45
I feel like are more. Enjoyable to listen to.
3:09:47
Very informative. Buy buy a CTSV if you.
3:09:50
Haven't got one yet? Yeah, I highly recommend, Yeah,
3:09:52
bump the prices up. So.
3:09:53
That parts for him. Yeah, you can.
3:09:54
Get parts from Mike and also boost his equity.
3:09:57
Yeah you can get you can get ALS powered car for. 10 grand.
3:10:02
First, Envy. It's pretty nice.
3:10:04
Kind of do that. That's my younger.
3:10:06
Brother. All right guys, thank you so
3:10:08
much. This has been faction after
3:10:09
hours. Frankie's going to eat.
3:10:10
What the fuck is in that? And his baby.
3:10:13
Good night. Bye.
3:10:25
That was a. Great episode.
3:10:25
Thank you, Mike. For coming out, that was very.
3:10:27
Professional. Yeah, it was.
3:10:29
He was. Probably our most professional
3:10:32
guest, but it was still really funny at the same time.
3:10:36
Yeah, very. Informative and I don't.
3:10:39
Know why? Why did it seem professional?
3:10:40
I don't. Because he didn't act like an
3:10:42
idiot. I don't know.
3:10:42
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. He just.
3:10:45
He was just very informative and I don't even know why it.
3:10:47
Seemed professional, but it did. But he was very casual at the
3:10:49
same time. Yeah.
3:10:50
All right. Well, now that I just called
3:10:52
Oliver. I was like, yes, idiots.
3:10:53
I guess we'll we'll do the rest of the outro, yeah?
3:10:57
So if you need CTSV parts, make sure you check out his website
3:11:01
stance Co dot JP. He's got a lot of stuff on
3:11:04
there. I think he might have other
3:11:05
products on there as well, right?
3:11:07
Yeah, I think like BC stuff I saw.
3:11:09
Yeah, C. Coilovers, so I guess if you.
3:11:10
Need that stuff for for those cars.
3:11:12
Check those out. If you're looking for a a
3:11:14
different drift car to get into the sport, then I would say
3:11:18
Cadillac CTSV is I guess a good option.
3:11:22
Yeah, get the LS and your and six lug wheels.
3:11:25
And then get the six lug, yeah. I'm sure.
3:11:28
No one makes them, but yeah. Definitely not.
3:11:31
That was ridiculous. Yeah.
3:11:34
So what else we got going on right now?
3:11:35
Well, we just released a new product.
3:11:37
Yes. The why I never.
3:11:40
Think you're going to remember the name of this?
3:11:41
The SR20. Ventilation.
3:11:44
Nope, the SR20. Crankcase.
3:11:49
Ventilation. Hose retainer, yes, I got it.
3:11:52
That's it for S13. SR20.
3:11:54
Yeah. So you guys.
3:11:55
Got to check that out. There's a YouTube video out.
3:11:58
And there's stuff on our Instagram.
3:12:01
It's really just a piece of metal that bolts onto the
3:12:02
cylinder head to hold the crankcase hose out of the way of
3:12:06
the exhaust manifold. So it's pretty simple, but kind
3:12:09
of necessary. And it's better than just
3:12:11
cutting metal from Home Depot and spray painting it black and
3:12:13
then it chips and then, you know, it looks like shit.
3:12:16
So this is a stainless piece, so it's it's pretty nice, nice to
3:12:20
look at on the engine. We already have one here that's
3:12:22
on an engine and it looks right at home.
3:12:24
So yeah, in other. News Our alignment rack is
3:12:30
almost finished being installed, so we should be back in full
3:12:33
swing next week. So yeah, definitely next week.
3:12:38
Hit us up for those. Alignments get in here the.
3:12:40
Drift season's here, so come through and I guess I would like
3:12:43
to say thank you to everyone who tried to.
3:12:46
Get an alignment and is postponing it because our
3:12:49
machine isn't up and running. That means we're doing our jobs
3:12:52
right and I apologize to the people who we've had to push.
3:12:55
Back because there's been some delays with the machine.
3:12:59
So yeah, but it's almost done. The shop is finally.
3:13:03
Looking like a shop, we have another lift up.
3:13:07
Josh took some photos last night.
3:13:08
Oh my God, the shop looks amazing.
3:13:11
So I'm getting pretty happy now, but the lighting has to get done
3:13:15
and everything. But yeah, it's looking pretty
3:13:17
good in here so make sure you check it out on Instagram and
3:13:19
YouTube. Malcolm and Eddie have been
3:13:21
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3:13:27
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3:13:41
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3:13:47
There's content almost every week, thanks to Eddie.
3:13:51
He's been kind of getting busy with the stuff here.
3:13:53
So but you know Faction Weekly, Yep.
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3:14:01
There are some, there's some stuff there.
3:14:03
There's not too many, like body kits, but fenders for sure.
3:14:09
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3:14:12
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