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#194 - Kevin Martinez of Essence Garage · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  The thing destroyed the front bumper, ripped off half the rear
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  bumper and the right skirt was gone.
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  I didn't even find this. Took me like 4 years to put
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  together. Like we were scraping pennies to
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  build this. I saw drifting on Forza and I
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  was like, that is the coolest thing ever.
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  It looks like ballet. It looks like the cars are like
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  figure skating. And I was just going and going
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  and going and then and then eventually I just start hearing
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  like this, like, Oh no, what the hell is that noise?
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  And I get out and yeah, the tire is just.
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  Gone. It's shredded.
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  There's like shards hanging off of it and everything.
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  I'm like, dude, I got to get this home.
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  I got to school tomorrow like I'm 17.
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  Welcome back everybody to another episode of the After
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  Hours podcast. This is episode 2 of our Texas
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  series we just recorded down in Houston, TX.
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  This is with my friend Kevin Martinez of Team Essence.
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  This podcast was one of one of my favorite ones.
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  I mean, it's it's been a long time coming.
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  I've known him for anywhere from 6 to 10 years now.
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  He's got one of the most beautiful 240 SXS in the country
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  in my opinion. It's styled, it's got the
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  perfect 180 style to it's got BN sports, Koguchi, power Hood,
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  Gannador mirrors, TE 30 sevens. He's got the whole thing.
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  So we pretty much go through his whole story during this podcast
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  with how he got into drifting, meeting Jimmy and everyone else
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  from Team Essence. And yeah, just there was one
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  point where he had three SRS, three different engines, then he
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  lost all of them. Then he he went through multiple
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  cars. This, that, the other.
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  It's definitely an interesting story to see, you know, to hear
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  where he's come from and to see what he has now is it's
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  definitely awesome. So yeah, make sure to check out
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  our car check we did on his car while we were there.
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  That's going to be up on our YouTube channel when this drops.
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  And also thank you to Kevin's parents for welcoming us into
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  their home and making us breakfast and everything else
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  they did. And it was, it was definitely an
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  awesome experience recording this one on a cold Texas
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  morning. Just to let you guys know, we
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  were freezing to death when we recorded this.
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  But I think we, I think we played it off pretty well.
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  And don't forget, if you guys want to check out the rest of
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  these Texas series podcasts, we do have them on our Patreon.
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  So they're up there right now. They will be dropping over the
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  next couple months, but if you want early access check out our
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  videos. It's like, dude, what?
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  Like then why? Then why did you say anything?
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  Oh. My God.
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  Oh my. Goodness.
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  Thank you. Thank you.
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  So much. Oh, wow.
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  OK, no, it's all right. It's all right.
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  Holy shit. Thank you.
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  This is sick. We got to come back.
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  What are these? Is it eggs?
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  Yeah, it just looks like eggs and pretzel buns.
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  Damn. God damn, are we hot now?
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  Fuck. Damn.
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  Oh wow. You just got the food delivery.
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  OK. Well, welcome everybody to the
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  Fashion After Hours podcast. We just did a little bit of like
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  a rules explanation, I guess with Kevin.
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  But today we have another guest. We have Kookie Kev, a long time
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  180 owner. Welcome, Kookie Kev.
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  Thank you. Thank you.
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  Thanks for having. Me live audience at the at the
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  studio is nuts. Wow, dude.
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  He's got the sticks. Thank you for driving all the
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  way here. I.
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  Didn't know that you drove 4 hours to be here.
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  Yeah, that's like. Yeah, well, yeah, full time
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  student. I go to school in UT Arlington.
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  The car stays here in Houston at my folks house and yeah, glad to
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  be here. Dude, I think you mentioned that
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  you're mech. Yeah, yeah, mechanical.
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  But you also mentioned that we're kind of close in age.
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  Yeah, I kind. Of wanted to get that out there
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  because a lot of people don't do that.
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  Yeah. And you're at the end of it, so
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  you're about to finish. Yeah, I'm I finish this summer.
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  So finally it's it's been a long time.
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  You know how long ago we graduated high school?
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  So no. That's don't you don't gotta.
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  So yeah, no, it's been, yeah, it's been, it's been long.
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  I pretty much kind of did on and off.
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  Like I was saying earlier, I did, I was a mechanic.
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  I worked at Ford for a little bit.
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  I worked at Nissan and then I've just done like side gigs here
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  and there to prepare for like a final bad event and what and
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  whatnot, so I didn't. Know you worked at Nissan?
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  I did. I did for like a month dude.
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  Oh, OK, yeah, so not too long. Yeah, I'm fun.
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  With this. I'm fun, dude.
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  Well, they were they were paying me 10 bucks an hour.
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  And yeah, is that what it? Is this is recent?
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  No, this was now like 4-5 years ago.
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  That's still, I still think that's.
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  Kind of recent. Yeah, well that was a loop tech
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  only, so it wasn't like a main. Well, their minimum wage is
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  well, federal minimum wage is still $7.00 an hour somehow.
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  Yeah, 7:20. Is that one like the going rate,
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  let's say if you were a mechanic in this area, it's like that's
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  kind of what you you're getting like as a loop tech, Is that
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  like an entry level right? Yeah, well, I was getting 14 at
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  Ford. And so I I start, I started at
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  Ford after I had dropped out the first time, worked there for a
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  little bit and then I decided, all right, I'm going to go back
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  to school. I tried that, flunked out again.
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  And then I decided, well, I want to maybe do some Nissans or
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  something that I'm like more, you know, into.
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  I thought working at Nissan would be cooler.
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  So I showed up, did the interview and they're like, all
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  right, you're hired. 10 bucks an hour.
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  I was like, wait a second, That's that's like 40%.
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  Damn. It Wait, wait, wait a second.
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  So, yeah. So then, you know, I, I spoke to
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  my old boss at Ford and he was like, yeah, I'll, I'll hire you
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  back for 14. So I was like, all right, put my
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  two weeks in. I think they just make less
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  money than we do over there right now.
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  Like that's. Dude, that's so fucked.
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  I'm just trying to think of because like, I whenever we go
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  somewhere, I'm trying to get a hint of like what it's like if I
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  was to have my own car here and be a part of the community here
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  and everybody's super welcoming and all this stuff is nice, like
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  really nice. Yeah.
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  And then when I hear how much money somebody could possibly
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  make if they're into this stuff, yeah, at the age or whatever,
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  that they're into it and it's like how dude, like you're,
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  they're blind and so fucking hard to get.
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  Yes. No I remember man, I had a
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  buddy, we worked at 4 together and just to put things into
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  perspective, when I bought my first BN kit we would.
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  So we both lived at home with our parents and stuff so we
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  didn't really have like an overhead and we would put our
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  checks together. Cuz like I remember Mastermind
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  was doing like a Halloween sale one time and it was like, I
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  don't know, 15% or something. And you could buy the type 3
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  Landed for like 1800 bucks and our checks for like 980 bucks
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  every every two weeks. So we're like, hey, let's put
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  them together and then I'll pay you.
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  I'll give you mine next next time.
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  So I like order the kit. Stagger the arrival date.
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  No, you. Didn't.
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  Yeah, because I was going to miss the I was going to miss the
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  sale, man. It was, it was like October 30th
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  and then. That makes sense, yeah.
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  Is that was that the real? Was that the way to get BN like
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  is mastermind? Yeah, Mastermind is the one that
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  brings it in. And then like we sell through
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  them like we're a dealer. Do that.
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  Yeah, but they sell direct too, so.
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  Yeah, they're like the official, like North American, Yeah,
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  quarters or whatever distributor.
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  Dude that because the type 31. When I see the type 3 BN I feel
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  like a lot of people you guys did a video on the differences
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  between like the. Kids.
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  Yeah, the Type 3 and Type 2. That was a pretty informative
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  kit or a video about the kids. I wish we had more shit there so
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  I could do that because yeah, I agree with you.
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  That was a good. Video.
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  I didn't know that there were differences like that.
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  And then you see it and it's like, unseeable.
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  Yeah. Because right after that, Ethan,
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  one of my friends, bought a Type 3 kit.
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  And then I kind of understood why I.
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  Kind of regret the video because I feel like I should have gate
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  kept more kept. More.
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  Yeah. Is this what this?
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  Is well, is this a gate? Keep well Type 3 has always.
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  Been yeah. The thing about Type 3, though,
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  is that you can't buy a Rep here.
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  Yeah. So if you want it, you gotta
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  spend so. There was a there was a Rep Once
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  Upon a time, yeah. Chaser arrow.
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  It was right. It was Chaser Arrow.
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  OK, we were talking about that, remember?
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  Yeah, wait, why is that company sound mad familiar?
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  They were. We talked about this.
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  Yeah, I was bringing it up because they're gone.
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  Honestly, I mean I think I don't know, but it was like chaser
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  arrow dynamic. I heard about it through Kevin
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  Fan actually. Yeah, because that's how he got.
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  His That's what he had. Yeah, I remember that and he, he
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  was fixing that bumper for years.
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  Yeah. Like, and I'm pretty sure that's
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  still the same bumper possibly on that.
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  Oh, OK. Yeah.
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  Because knowing him, he would probably just keep fixing it so.
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  Yeah, he's got that fancy splitter to.
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  Protect it so but yeah, type 3 was always like the one and then
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  being mastermind started selling it here so we can get it in like
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  2015 sixteen and I was like shit, I can finally get.
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  All of all of you. Because we used to import it.
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  You did this at the same time. This is hilarious.
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  I imported it cut in half, that's how I got it originally.
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  Did how did did yours also have to come?
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  No, I did my first one. I did container with mastermind.
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  Yeah, you were probably putting this together right at that
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  time. Probably, yeah.
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  All separately and you had no idea what the.
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  Well, when I saw this car, you did.
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  No, I didn't know. But then I.
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  So you were way before me. I put this together like 2018,
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  OK. And you were like, already have
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  done final bouts and stuff. Yeah, 15 or 16, Yeah, 1514 or
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  15, yeah, for sure. But but his car and my car are
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  like, we're really similar. But the only thing that he had
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  that I wanted so bad was fucking metal quarter panels because I
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  had overs and then he ended up doing overs anyway.
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  I remember like messaging you. I was like don't do it, don't do
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  it. Yeah, yeah.
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  And I was also, I was a big advocate for him.
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  I remember making jokes and like, you know, stock metal
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  forever, this and that, like never cut, say no to overs and
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  all that kind of stuff because I would get hit in the quarters
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  all the time and I'd go to a Body Shop and get it pulled out
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  and. You're nuts.
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  No, yeah, this quarter got repaired so many times, dude.
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  That's the way you got to do it. Both of them because I refused.
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  I was like, I'm not cutting this thing up, It's cool.
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  Yeah, dude, the fenders are probably so soft, dude.
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  When we cut them, it was just like all like Bondo.
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  It was all white powder coming off.
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  That's exactly why I was saying. Don't, because that Body Shop
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  was probably like fucking yeah that.
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  No, and I took it to just like a regular, you know, like cosmetic
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  shop. And obviously it had like the
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  really crazy pull on the fenders.
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  And so, you know, they're like, did this was this happening in
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  the wreck? Like how did you get this
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  defect? Like and I was like, no, no,
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  that's like I meant to do that. That's how that's supposed to
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  be. Just pull it back to how because
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  they had like hammered it back down flat.
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  I was like no, no, no, bring it back, bring it back.
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  Oh. Because.
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  They pulled that was from like some sort of impact.
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  Yeah, I thought it was damaged. So I was like no, because the
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  other side when I pulled him, I had a buddy do one side and then
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  I got impatient did the other side.
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  That's yeah. And they were never the same
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  like left to right the. Kind of shit that hurts this
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  guy. You have, yeah.
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  You can't have one person do one and then.
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  The other Yeah. That hurts this guy so crazy.
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  I mean mine were fucked up too when I.
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  Pulled. Yeah, yeah, because.
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  Usually that's something you do when you just get the car and
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  you don't know what you're doing and you're like, oh, I got to
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  pull the quarter panels and then you're like, yeah, I fucking did
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  this wrong, but. Man.
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  Why is it the BN people that are super it's it's the BN guys that
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  and or girls. I don't know if that exists, but
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  the the ones who make the car that are BN and stuff and
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  appreciate stock quarters and do this and that in the 3rd, it's
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  like a little different of a mentality that you guys carry.
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  I don't know why. Yeah.
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  Well, well, Frankie and I are a little unique in that we we do
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  have that sort of like keep it clean.
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  Like it's sort of we have our like ideology roots kind of in
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  the same place in that we both like really love the Cokie arrow
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  thread. You know, we really love like
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  Damon's car and stuff like that, like really well executed S
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  chassis and then on top of that we just happen to choose BN.
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  Yeah, I I like and so big body kits and breaking fiberglass.
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  I think it's cool like while drifting.
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  Oh yeah, but I love the Cokie 180SX style right?
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  It's the same shit. Right.
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  And you want it to be nice. Yeah, that level where it it's
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  not too much. I think that's why the Type 3
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  looks fire in the front. Yeah, since it's it is a big
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  body kit. It doesn't have like you have a
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  lot of 180 magazines here on the table, but like it doesn't have
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  like events or like that. I feel like that would take it
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  too far. You know what I mean?
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  It stopped right there and it's clean.
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  Yeah, there's definitely a line that I'm sure you know what I'm
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  you can relate to this. But there's a point where you
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  don't want to make it too nice because then you don't want to
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  go out there and have fun with your friends because you're kind
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  of skittish about it. But you don't want to go the
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  other way either. So you want to have like
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  something that's presentable and you know, looks good, but you
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  don't mind having fun with your friends.
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  That's kind of nice about. Like it's tough that.
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  That fine. Line.
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  It's a fine line. Especially with people like
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  Logan that we did a podcast with, right?
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  You can tell he's very meticulous.
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  He cares a lot about every aspect of the car.
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  There's always like a fine line. Like how like Chris Kachesi, I
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  find him the same way. Like they're very anal.
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  They want the car to be perfect, but then it's like, OK, now I
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  want to go out and drift and it's like, we all know what's
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  gonna happen. Right.
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  So early on I was like that and you quickly kind of realize like
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  you gotta ease off on it a little bit if you wanna have fun
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  with the car and use it how you intended to use it.
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  It's interesting, though, that lime.
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  How many people towed it? Yeah, you'll care about certain
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  things. And then people are like, why
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  are you? Why do you care about that?
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  Your front end is smashed. And it's like, well, this isn't
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  so it needs to look good. Yeah, but.
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  Once, but once it hits that line a little bit like right now
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  there's a, there's a tire mark. I love it like right, right.
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  And and normal person might be like Oh no, like yeah, what
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  happened? Yeah, but to me now I'm like
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  this thing, this thing, kind of. Yeah, I love when VN Sports has
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  a fucking mark back because usually the bumper comes.
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  Off. And swings and then.
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  That's my that's self-inflicted. Yeah, exactly.
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  What do you? What is the?
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  So the bumper, the bumpers hang so low that they just inevitably
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  always come off and because just from hitting the ground.
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  And so my bumpers have always just been zip tied on.
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  They're not held with anything else, so if I lose 1 zip tie on
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  one side, the bumper will just swing itself out and wedge
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  itself behind the tire. No.
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  The body of the car and then it's just like burning out on
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  the paint. Yeah.
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  So it looks like someone like. Yeah, I thought it was you.
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  Body was rubbing on it because. Yeah, it does look like that.
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  I have marks on my car. I don't have BN, mine is fucking
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  Modelo, but I have marks on my car there and it's a really
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  common place there because at least on A on like the style of
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  body kit that BN is, it's such a big surface area.
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  Right, and it can get wedged too.
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  And on a transition dude, that's like.
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  It's a huge. Kit right there.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's a it's AI don't know the
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  zip tie thing. I like because when it when it's
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  sorry I didn't when it, when it's what is this wrong here or
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  something So nice when it when it swings off like that, it
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  could be braking instead, like if you mounted it full.
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  It would just explode. Yeah, when I first got the kit,
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  man, yeah, we we got a lot to unfold.
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  So this is actually my second kit, my first kit that I got
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  through Mastermind. I did mount it like with bolts
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  and like actual hardware like how you're supposed to.
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  Oh, you were probably so excited.
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  Oh yeah, dude, everything the car was like.
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  The car was like a grandma car when I bought it.
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  I saw it. And so a bone stock hood gap was
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  perfect, you know, metal fenders, everything original.
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  I just sprayed it and just got it done, mounted the kit and I
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  was like dude this fits really good for being aftermarket
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  because BN does fit good when your car is straight.
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  Oh yeah. And I had just gotten it
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  painted. It was 2019 when I sort of did
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  finish the car for the first like version, I guess.
• 18:14
  And like a week or two later, we were going to go to final bout,
• 18:20
  I think, I guess gallery would have been 19.
• 18:24
  And I was like, yeah, I'm going to drive it over to Jimmy's
• 18:26
  house and then we're going to leave from there and, you know,
• 18:28
  have a road trip. It'll be fun.
• 18:31
  And I pulled out. I pulled out and you know,
• 18:35
  because Jimmy lives like across the city, so I got to take
• 18:38
  freeways and and whatever I get on the freeway.
• 18:42
  The things like so low at this point because I was just like, I
• 18:46
  didn't even know how low. I really should have made it.
• 18:49
  For it was more than this. It was way lower than this.
• 18:51
  I'll show you pictures later. It was undrivable stupid.
• 18:55
  It probably looked. Awesome.
• 18:57
  It was crazy. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
• 18:58
  Imagine if you saw I. Saw it.
• 19:00
  I I was that person that saw it at random.
• 19:03
  Yeah, I was. I was.
• 19:04
  It got posted everywhere. No, but you were at a, you were
• 19:06
  at the gas station and final bout and I was leaving like the
• 19:09
  hotel. I remember this.
• 19:10
  And I was driving down and I look and I go, I'll do like a
• 19:13
  double take. I was like, God fucking damn it,
• 19:15
  that car is good. It was, like, perfect.
• 19:17
  And it was at the gas station, you know, like looking.
• 19:19
  Yeah, perfect. It was slammed.
• 19:20
  And then Frankie or boom right into a fucking inner.
• 19:23
  I think I pulled in it's. ABN.
• 19:25
  I was like, yeah, he's pulled in, yeah.
• 19:27
  Yeah. I did the double take, almost
• 19:29
  crashed that shit. So you're.
• 19:31
  Driving So yeah, so I'm driving and it's like it's like evening.
• 19:36
  So it's kind of like after sunset, it's getting a little
• 19:38
  dark and you know, I'm just kind of if anyone, anyone with being
• 19:43
  S thirteens or being anything knows like you, you're so it's
• 19:47
  such a nerve wracking experience to drive on the street because
• 19:50
  the things made out of egg shells, right.
• 19:52
  And you know, so I'm just driving behind a car and I'm
• 19:59
  kind of I'm not that close to him, but I'm kind of maybe 3 car
• 20:02
  lengths behind him and I see him swerve, like just swerve out of
• 20:06
  the way. And there's like AI don't know.
• 20:08
  It looked like a bumper, like a just the the bumper cover to
• 20:12
  like a camera or something, just like the plastic.
• 20:15
  And so I thought, OK, I mean, I, I didn't have enough time to get
• 20:18
  over because I didn't, I had ganadores.
• 20:20
  I can't see out of them. So.
• 20:23
  So to, to turn, to make a yeah, to make a lane change, it's a
• 20:26
  whole ordeal. You got to like, lean over and
• 20:28
  look around, turn your whole head.
• 20:30
  Yeah. So I was like, I don't have time
• 20:31
  for that. I'm about to hit this thing.
• 20:33
  It's probably just like plastic. It'll just like bounce off and
• 20:36
  and it'll be fine. Well, I couldn't be.
• 20:38
  I couldn't have been more wrong. The thing destroyed the front
• 20:42
  bumper, ripped off half the rear bumper and the right skirt was
• 20:47
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  I hit this thing and I'm like, dude, no way.
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  Like that's the worst. This took me like 4 years to put
• 22:03
  together. Like we were scraping pennies to
• 22:05
  build this thing. And yeah, I just pulled over,
• 22:08
  got out of the car, looked at it and just like, no way, dude.
• 22:11
  Where were you like around here? Yeah, I was on my way.
• 22:13
  I was on 290, the highway where you guys probably.
• 22:15
  Just did. He didn't even get to Jimmy.
• 22:17
  'S not even getting. Bro he didn't.
• 22:18
  Even he was about to start a trip.
• 22:20
  I didn't even get 1/4 of the way there.
• 22:22
  And you said you were missing the right side skirt.
• 22:25
  Frankie saw that car from the left.
• 22:27
  Me. No, I was going to say like I.
• 22:28
  Could this? Was Frankie.
• 22:29
  You did this motion. Way after way after this is what
• 22:33
  I'm talking about is the very first time the car came out like
• 22:36
  2019 because I did see you saw it at final bout which would
• 22:42
  have been 2021. Oh shit.
• 22:45
  So you had. You saw it at four OK Yeah.
• 22:49
  You saw it at final bout 4 that. Shit was perfect though.
• 22:52
  You lost the skirt. You didn't even find it.
• 22:54
  Yeah, it was gone. Oh.
• 22:56
  My God, there's ABN side skirt somewhere.
• 22:58
  Woods. Yeah, somewhere.
• 23:01
  No, Someone probably ran it over like immediately.
• 23:03
  Yeah, damn. So I just pulled it over, limped
• 23:05
  it back home, put the car in the garage and then just went to
• 23:08
  Jimmy's and we went to the gallery and whatever at.
• 23:12
  Least you still went. Yeah, we went and it was, you
• 23:14
  know, it was fun. But then, yeah, I got home and I
• 23:19
  don't even remember if I was. I might have like had just quit
• 23:22
  my job. This is all sounded not great
• 23:26
  this. Is not.
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  Great, this sounds like literally a shit store.
• 23:30
  It was rough. I would be, do you know what
• 23:33
  that like? I don't know if anybody else has
• 23:34
  felt like this, but do you know what that makes you feel?
• 23:36
  Like, Oh yeah. Yeah, the defeat had such a low.
• 23:40
  Feeling. The fact that you still went to
• 23:42
  the event. Yeah, that's what I was about
• 23:43
  to. Say it's a good sign.
• 23:44
  It's a good thing that you went, and I hope that it was still
• 23:48
  fun. Yeah, yeah, I mean, but.
• 23:49
  Now you don't have your car, which fucking sucks.
• 23:52
  But yeah, I think I, I wanted to bring it up, like drive it up
• 23:56
  there. But yeah, no, I mean final bout
• 24:00
  since the first one you go to, it's always like a life changing
• 24:03
  experience because you see stuff that you only see on the
• 24:06
  Internet and then you see it in person and you're like, oh wow.
• 24:08
  Like this is the coolest thing ever.
• 24:12
  Because my first final bout was final bout 3/20/17.
• 24:17
  And up until then I was wanting to do like Cokie Arrow and like
• 24:22
  just build the standard like cookie cutter 180.
• 24:26
  And then I get up there and everyone's got these huge kits
• 24:29
  that's on the ground and, you know, big Sr. 20s and
• 24:32
  everything. And I was just like, dude, that
• 24:34
  I'm scratching all that. And plus at this point Cokie
• 24:37
  Arrow had started to go up and it was so expensive.
• 24:41
  I remember you could buy full BN for like I think it was like
• 24:47
  half of what it would have cost to like buy full Type X like
• 24:51
  Cokie Arrow. I was like, oh dude, this
• 24:53
  easiest decision ever. I'll just.
• 24:54
  Coqui Arrow went up that much? Yeah, like the OEMOEM ones,
• 24:58
  yeah. If you're going to get the whole
• 24:59
  thing, you know what I mean. Yeah, like side skirts are like
• 25:02
  800 bucks and front bumper, I mean with the lip, the lips were
• 25:07
  like 1000 bucks so. Yeah, I don't.
• 25:12
  That's such a hard one for me because I do like Coqui Arrow
• 25:14
  car, but when I think of a Coqui Arrow car, I'm like I just want
• 25:19
  to drive it normal. Yeah.
• 25:20
  You know what I mean? Like, like Damon's car is like,
• 25:23
  I would just love to drive that. Yeah, let me.
• 25:26
  Try to move this mic real quick. It would be like, it'd be like a
• 25:31
  a Street car, more of AD car for me.
• 25:34
  Yeah, because I just want to look at it all the time.
• 25:37
  But I can't believe BN was really the cheaper option.
• 25:40
  For you that's. Why you're?
• 25:42
  Here is it is. It like is it over 2 grand now
• 25:45
  for that shit? Well, I mean it.
• 25:47
  It really depends on how you ship it.
• 25:49
  Yeah. That's where they get you, I
• 25:51
  think. The like this kit, I actually
• 25:55
  started going through Tweed, who goes to BM directly and then he,
• 26:00
  you know, receives it and I was having him cut them in half and
• 26:04
  just ship them. What is it?
• 26:06
  EMS. But they're not really doing
• 26:08
  that shit anymore, are they? No.
• 26:09
  Yeah, no, they. The work tells me that it
• 26:13
  doesn't anymore. Well, because I I bought another
• 26:16
  bumper and it was being held hostage in Japan for a few
• 26:20
  months because Tweed was like, yeah, we EMS just they put out a
• 26:24
  newsletter or whatever saying that they, you know, seized all
• 26:27
  operations in the United States. So we we were just kind of like,
• 26:31
  all right, we'll just wait until they resume, I guess.
• 26:33
  So was that because? Of the tariffs, yeah, it was
• 26:36
  right. Did.
• 26:36
  You end up getting it. Like, yeah, it's here.
• 26:38
  OK. Well, it's it's in, in Georgia
• 26:41
  right now. Nice.
• 26:43
  Well, no, it's with Jack. I don't know if you know Jack
• 26:47
  Dunlop, but he's, yeah, he's making it mold for me.
• 26:53
  Yeah, that's so Jack and I became friends because he has is
• 26:58
  and Jack is young. Yeah, yeah.
• 27:00
  And like at first he was asking me like fiberglass questions and
• 27:05
  I don't know why he even bothers me asking questions or asking me
• 27:08
  questions anymore because he picked it up so quick and is
• 27:11
  somebody who likes to do that stuff.
• 27:13
  He's a meticulous guy too, so that's really nice.
• 27:16
  But yeah, that mold shit is really nice.
• 27:18
  So that you can and he doesn't do it just as a disclaimer.
• 27:22
  He doesn't do it so that you can reproduce this shit, it's so
• 27:25
  that you can repair in the future and you're saving
• 27:27
  yourself. Yeah, I right after I got this
• 27:31
  car, this arrow painted with the overs and everything, I went out
• 27:36
  to another event. I can't remember which one it
• 27:38
  was, but dude, I like ran over the front bumper in like my
• 27:43
  third lap or something, crash out.
• 27:45
  I'm, I'm turn that thing into like a million pieces.
• 27:50
  It got sucked under the car. It just exploded.
• 27:54
  I was like, oh, OK, I'm going home.
• 27:55
  I don't want to do this anymore. I was like in school still.
• 28:00
  I mean, yeah, it was just not fun.
• 28:03
  So then I had a buddy, my buddy Nick Perry, shout out Nick Perry
• 28:06
  in San Antonio. I just gave him like, here, take
• 28:11
  all of these pieces. I had like 100 pieces and he was
• 28:14
  like, yeah, I could put that back to you.
• 28:15
  I had no problem. I was like, all right, what?
• 28:17
  Are you sure? I already ordered one.
• 28:18
  But if you can make it work, then I mean, the more the
• 28:21
  better. And yeah, it was like missing
• 28:24
  pieces because that's some of them I couldn't like find and
• 28:27
  and all kinds of stuff like the upright.
• 28:29
  I remember one of the uprights in the middle like where the
• 28:33
  intercooler vent is was missing and he grafted the one that was
• 28:40
  there, flipped it upside down and that was what he made us the
• 28:44
  other side my. God, dude.
• 28:45
  Yeah, the thing was trash and he, yeah, he brought it back
• 28:50
  together. I got it painted.
• 28:51
  Now it's on the car. I feel like you spent.
• 28:52
  Years are you? This is the.
• 28:53
  One. That's the one, yeah.
• 28:55
  Yo, Nick Perry, I feel. Like you spent years just trying
• 28:58
  to get the BNS. That Oh my God, dude.
• 29:02
  The million pieces thing. Oh, God, Somebody pulled up to
• 29:07
  me and was like, yo, here's the kit.
• 29:09
  I I I thought I sent you pictures, but here it is.
• 29:12
  Yeah. And then it's actually.
• 29:14
  Yeah, it's a lot of work, dude. I, I there's like a cool
• 29:18
  appreciation for like making it, not making it, but like
• 29:22
  repairing it to keep going like with the existing one, which I
• 29:25
  like about the fiberglass. KBD doesn't do that for me.
• 29:29
  KBD is like a OEM for me, you know what I mean?
• 29:32
  Yeah, KBD, you know, when you order like a like ALKQ bumper or
• 29:35
  something, something for like a like a normal car.
• 29:37
  Yeah, that's what I picture. KVD.
• 29:39
  At yeah, KVDS is tough. Man, it's it's like you can't
• 29:43
  repair it, you can't sand it after it gets gouged.
• 29:46
  You can't really do anything with it.
• 29:48
  Oh really? I didn't know.
• 29:49
  That when you sand it, at least my experience and anybody else
• 29:52
  out there with KVD is, there's probably somebody out there
• 29:55
  who's. Oh, there's a lot of them.
• 29:56
  That's. Wrong.
• 29:57
  Like are you kidding me? I do it all the time.
• 29:59
  Well, this is what happens to me.
• 30:01
  Like you sand it because a lot of the times with body work, you
• 30:04
  have a little bit of an area where you can flatten it.
• 30:07
  Everybody doesn't. You don't have to grab the bondo
• 30:09
  right away. You can flatten that without and
• 30:12
  make it back to what it was. But with KBD, once you start
• 30:16
  rubbing it, something comes out and is omitted.
• 30:20
  I think from that, no matter how many times you prep salt, clean,
• 30:23
  dry, what is Borax or whatever on it, it just doesn't.
• 30:28
  The paint doesn't lay on it nice and I've tried to hard prime it.
• 30:31
  The primer doesn't stick to it because it's fucking bendy.
• 30:34
  Yeah, or something on it. So I don't know when you start
• 30:36
  to grind it, it's tough. It's like trying to paint a
• 30:38
  rubber band. Dude I love painting fiberglass
• 30:40
  kits it's so good. People have problems painting
• 30:43
  that shit. The KBD stuff.
• 30:44
  I mean, you can still make it work.
• 30:45
  You buy a good product, like a good paint product.
• 30:48
  I don't know. We used Tamco on Bobby's and you
• 30:51
  didn't even have to put the flexi stuff in it.
• 30:52
  Yeah, that stuff, the flex, whatever additive.
• 30:55
  Or something. Yeah, but I don't know, a lot
• 30:56
  more people are buying fiberglass, I think with just
• 30:58
  the availability of it too. Unfortunately.
• 31:00
  It's all like Origin stuff. Not unfortunately, but yeah, we
• 31:03
  were. Yeah.
• 31:03
  That's your cup of tea. Like dude, I fitted AAZN 6 kit
• 31:08
  on a like it was. What kit is that?
• 31:12
  I guess it's a streamline. It's a newer one, it's skinnier
• 31:15
  than the original one that came out that by origin for the ZN 6
• 31:19
  and dude. That was the best.
• 31:20
  Thing like it like sucked up into the bumper like headlights
• 31:24
  under the little, you know how like OEM headlights have that
• 31:26
  little shelf for the bumper to go in just like went right in
• 31:31
  And I was really shocked because I had I had my I had my torch
• 31:35
  ready and I have my Sander and my grinder and a marker like
• 31:39
  because cut it up. I don't know what you guys
• 31:41
  process is, but I'll like mark it around, make a couple of the
• 31:44
  cuts, try to put it on because like I don't want to fucking put
• 31:47
  more fiberglass on it. I just got a little by little,
• 31:50
  but dude, it just went. Yeah, it's a really weird
• 31:52
  scenario of the origin. You think the aero quality is
• 31:55
  going to get better or do you think it is going to just
• 31:57
  progressively keep getting worse?
• 32:02
  For what company? Just everybody.
• 32:03
  I guess like because I guess it really does matter what company,
• 32:08
  right, because. Yeah, I mean if they're they're
• 32:12
  using the same molds right over. And over.
• 32:14
  That's the problem. To just print these things out.
• 32:17
  And those things have a shelf life.
• 32:18
  I mean, you can't. You can't just keep using it.
• 32:21
  Eventually, the NTH kit won't be the same as the first one.
• 32:26
  Yeah, Like there will come a point where it's almost not even
• 32:29
  recognizable anymore. So.
• 32:31
  So then why is BN so good? Are they making molds still
• 32:34
  like? Probably.
• 32:35
  They probably are. Probably, and there's probably
• 32:38
  not much demand. They don't make that many.
• 32:39
  Yeah. And they're very expensive
• 32:41
  compared to other stuff in Japan.
• 32:42
  So it's like. It's good quality.
• 32:44
  Yeah, it's good quality. So I.
• 32:45
  Wonder why they're not like why is that not so freaking popular?
• 32:48
  Where people price banging on the door for BN.
• 32:50
  Just the price. I mean, and like if if you think
• 32:54
  about like worldwide, how many Type 3 cars do you know at the
• 32:57
  top of your heads? Not that many.
• 32:59
  Yeah, yes, still not that many. Yeah.
• 33:01
  So maybe. Yeah, I don't really see a lot
• 33:03
  of pictures of them. Either I bet Fukuda at one point
• 33:06
  owned more than exists right now in circulation.
• 33:08
  Yeah. Probably.
• 33:11
  I mean, yeah, yeah, we spoke too much already about Type 3.
• 33:15
  No way. No.
• 33:17
  We're gonna have to edit this out, dude.
• 33:20
  I mean like, all right, Type 4, yeah.
• 33:22
  What is it? Type 4 is like the big version
• 33:25
  of Type 3, yeah. It's larger.
• 33:28
  It's like kind of larger, Yeah, it's bigger in different ways
• 33:31
  like it. Comes with a door piece.
• 33:33
  It is supposed. To come with the door piece,
• 33:36
  it's like. Blending with the side skirt.
• 33:38
  Is that what Josh had? No, he had a No, he had a IKEA.
• 33:45
  Formula. Yes, the side scripts.
• 33:47
  IKEA also have the door pages. Yeah, but same idea.
• 33:50
  No, if you know Darks Dave, he has type 4 on the blue 180 in
• 33:56
  Chicago. Yeah, I've seen that.
• 33:59
  I think we did it. We did a type 4 video too
• 34:01
  though. We had yeah cuz Anthonys car had
• 34:03
  type 4. Yeah.
• 34:06
  Yeah, it is definitely a little taller, but dude, in the
• 34:08
  weirdest ways though, I like definitely.
• 34:10
  It's very weird how they. Yeah, we don't like Type 3
• 34:13
  actually. Sorry, there's.
• 34:15
  No, because I'm looking at the side skirts.
• 34:17
  I'm like I swear to God these side skirts are the same but.
• 34:19
  I don't think two and three are the same.
• 34:21
  Yeah, but four too. 4 is pretty close.
• 34:23
  OK. I was like, maybe it's just
• 34:25
  three with a with a door piece. I know.
• 34:27
  I was like, I can't fucking tell, dude.
• 34:28
  I mean, I guess it's different, but it's it's weird.
• 34:31
  And then the front is like, yeah, it is a little taller.
• 34:33
  I feel like type 4 is for like D1 type.
• 34:37
  Right. Because it's like for Kaguchi
• 34:38
  and the red car that it was like all D1, Yeah, just to be a
• 34:41
  little. Just to be a little taller.
• 34:42
  Yeah, I, I think, I think the rear bumper had the body line
• 34:47
  too, right? Yeah, that was the only
• 34:48
  difference really. Yeah, it's.
• 34:49
  More square. I wanna say this ones got the
• 34:53
  edges of two and three kind of hang down.
• 34:56
  Yep, and always. Yeah, they have the.
• 34:59
  Same stuff on the road. The same look and the only
• 35:01
  reason that no one here really wanted the type, well us didn't
• 35:06
  want the type 2 is because everyone had it.
• 35:08
  Because Duraflex and Vis made that kid.
• 35:11
  Yeah, that was the big. That's the only.
• 35:12
  Big push was. Big because.
• 35:15
  Yeah, what's crazy to me about I didn't know about what BN Sports
• 35:21
  was or anything like that when I was younger, but when you asked
• 35:24
  me what a body kit for these cars would look like it you
• 35:28
  picture BN, That's the thing I picture like I guess people call
• 35:32
  it bell bottom, I guess lately. It does, kind of.
• 35:34
  Like that, but it's not even really like a big when it's ABN
• 35:37
  sports kit, it's not a like a out.
• 35:40
  It's like it hovers, dude, because it's in my opinion, it's
• 35:45
  like the car that you saw with underglow so that it would have
• 35:48
  the float like it would float rather than you put underglow on
• 35:52
  like a stock Altima like we see at home all the time.
• 35:55
  Yeah, that's probably my favorite part about it.
• 35:56
  When it's on the road, it looks like a hover crowd.
• 35:58
  Dude, it just floats over the ground.
• 36:00
  So that is what I pictured was a body kit Duraflex VIS all of
• 36:05
  that shit when they came out and as a as a person who didn't know
• 36:09
  what that was, it was like, oh, that's just the same.
• 36:15
  That's like what it's supposed to look like.
• 36:16
  Yeah. And we had like.
• 36:18
  Look with angles. We had VIS kits like that's what
• 36:21
  we ran, so I always had like a Type 2 front and I was like I
• 36:25
  have a picture. Everyone had that shit.
• 36:26
  Nah, I had a picture of Frankie multi coloured as fuck.
• 36:29
  The primer, the plan was always like Dereflex or VIS sides and
• 36:34
  rear and then just like save the front, like protect the front as
• 36:38
  best as you can cause you're not going to get another one unless
• 36:41
  you wait six months. Damn too.
• 36:44
  So. Dude my front bumper had so much
• 36:46
  bondo. Oh my God my my paint guy was
• 36:50
  like this is the last. Time yeah, I'm fixing oh so
• 36:52
  heavy too. Just.
• 36:53
  Like he was like, I can't, I can't do anymore with this
• 36:56
  thing. It's.
• 36:57
  That's our our one buddy bought. My second bumper, yeah.
• 37:02
  This. All the BN cars are like this
• 37:05
  too. I think this is so weird because
• 37:07
  my buddy bought the bumper, it was broken as fuck.
• 37:11
  We didn't want to repair it and he's like dude, we need to
• 37:15
  repair this and now it's fucking 50 lbs.
• 37:19
  Yeah like it's when it comes off on the on track, it's so heavy.
• 37:24
  It just slides like this now. Yeah, like will never flip on
• 37:27
  its front or like it's just. The worst was when you got them
• 37:31
  cut in half or whatever and then you got to put them together and
• 37:33
  I'm like, I remember one time I did it, I was like, what kind of
• 37:35
  fucking blade did they use to cut this thing?
• 37:37
  Because now I have like a fucking half inch gap in between
• 37:40
  here and so now I filled that whole thing and I'm like just
• 37:44
  adding weight to this thing already.
• 37:45
  Yeah, you don't know how thick the.
• 37:46
  Yeah, you don't know how thick the blade they use.
• 37:49
  That's actually a good. So you would have never.
• 37:51
  Thought of that. Imagine you put it together.
• 37:54
  Yeah. And you're like, I should be
• 37:54
  able to just put this together, but it's like, yeah, you're like
• 37:57
  fitting it up. You're like, you got to make it
• 37:59
  wider. I.
• 37:59
  Don't know if you get them the touch, then you've already got
• 38:02
  too narrow. So you got to, you got to leave
• 38:03
  a little bit of Yeah. You have to fill it.
• 38:05
  And it's like, I mean, those case fits so good
• 38:08
  out-of-the-box, but like your car, our cars are fucked up.
• 38:11
  So it's like you get confused. You're like, oh, I'll just make
• 38:14
  it bigger. And then you're like, wait, I
• 38:16
  have 1/2 inch gap. That's can't be right.
• 38:18
  My second one and this third one, we're both cut in half and
• 38:22
  they never fit like that first one.
• 38:24
  Yeah, that first one fits so good.
• 38:26
  Yeah, it's crazy. Why is this a high for?
• 38:28
  You no no like a high, no bumper guides, no nothing literally
• 38:33
  just the the piece in the middle and then it just sits on the
• 38:36
  shelf and then hugs the fenders and it was.
• 38:39
  Yeah, yeah, nothing's better than that, dude.
• 38:41
  Fresh BN PS2 fits, fit it used to, it's gone out.
• 38:45
  But dude that shit fits so good. A JS.
• 38:48
  Yeah, out-of-the-box. It did.
• 38:50
  It did look like. And it was relatively cheap.
• 38:53
  That's why it was kind of crazy. Yeah, I hear M Sports fits
• 38:56
  really well too. I've heard that too, yeah.
• 38:58
  So. There's OK, you've had this
• 39:01
  thing for 10 years now, right? 10 years, yeah.
• 39:04
  Like, do you think you're? Ever going to get tired of
• 39:08
  because it's 10 years of BN Kelly?
• 39:11
  It's not like you changed it midway to be like, I want this.
• 39:15
  Yeah, something else now. So I did kind of try something
• 39:19
  else. Wait, you did you?
• 39:21
  Yeah, I had GT one on the car for a little stint.
• 39:24
  Wait. What?
• 39:26
  That's a nice. I never got it painted.
• 39:29
  It was just like the Duraflex black.
• 39:33
  It was when I did the overs and everything I was trying to go
• 39:35
  for like the the ITO sort of like taller look with the overs
• 39:41
  and the GT wing and everything. That's why I got the M Sports
• 39:44
  Canard sitting on the shelf over there.
• 39:46
  Oh, you were. About to I was about to do it
• 39:49
  yeah, the whole thing. And then GT Wing too.
• 39:52
  No, no, that that that was what I needed next.
• 39:55
  OK, so yeah, and then I was like, I just wanted something
• 39:59
  like taller that because I enjoy driving the car on the street
• 40:03
  and BN is is not forgiving on the street.
• 40:06
  So I I wanted something that I wouldn't be as like white
• 40:09
  knuckling when I'm driving around.
• 40:11
  So I thought, OK, GT1I look like I've always liked it and what
• 40:14
  not. So yeah, it was just I was back
• 40:19
  in school and so I just didn't have the money.
• 40:21
  So you got to wait. And then Chico hit me up.
• 40:24
  I was like, hey, sell me that kit.
• 40:26
  And I need some money. So I was like, yeah, all right,
• 40:28
  come get it. And so that was it.
• 40:30
  I never Back to BN. Back to BN.
• 40:32
  Yeah, here we go. Dude, that was a blessing
• 40:35
  because now you can just keep like, look, look at what I just
• 40:39
  assumed. Dude, you've been at BN for 10
• 40:41
  years. Yeah.
• 40:42
  No, but you actually tried it. Almost relapse.
• 40:45
  Yeah. I mean, there's so many options
• 40:46
  you can go with with with this car, yeah.
• 40:48
  You know what I mean? Like.
• 40:50
  If you ever do get bored I feel like.
• 40:52
  I don't know man at this point, like OK, we're all up there now.
• 40:59
  3030. Yes we are bro.
• 41:01
  I'm not changing up anything I'm doing anytime soon.
• 41:04
  Carl turned 30. He was like, we're it's over.
• 41:06
  It's done. Not that, not that it's done,
• 41:08
  but like, dude, I switched cars so much when I was a kid or not
• 41:13
  a kid I guess, but when I was younger, I switched cars so
• 41:15
  much. It was just such a regret
• 41:17
  because now you look back on 10 years of ownership, you've
• 41:21
  improved on things and when you switch cars a lot, you don't get
• 41:26
  to really improve. And I feel like I missed a lot
• 41:29
  of I wish I improved long, like for a longer period of time.
• 41:32
  No, I wish, I wish I could have bought five of these and then,
• 41:35
  you know, just build all the things that I like because I I
• 41:38
  like more than just this. But once you've sort of like, I
• 41:43
  don't know, I feel like this thing has like a soul and
• 41:45
  personality to. It you don't want to talk smack
• 41:48
  about it because then it might break.
• 41:49
  Like not only that, but it's just like it's been being red
• 41:53
  for so long. It's just kind of, I remember
• 41:56
  Logan was like, dude, you got to go back to PN.
• 41:58
  It just doesn't. It's not the same, you know,
• 42:00
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• 44:15
  else I just, I need another chassis dude.
• 44:18
  That's crazy. Gotta buy another one.
• 44:19
  This one has a stamp. Yeah, this one's like.
• 44:22
  BN stamped BN sports only. Yeah, dude, it's it's I don't
• 44:27
  know that that's what are you going to build if you got
• 44:30
  another one, just out of curiosity.
• 44:33
  I mean like, what's the kit? What's this?
• 44:35
  Motive too. Yeah, no, I mean, well, I got
• 44:38
  that S14 just to like put around.
• 44:41
  It's just like a bone stock grandma car and I was like, man,
• 44:44
  I really wish this were 180. Like it's cool.
• 44:48
  It's it's stock and it's like minty but I wish this were an
• 44:50
  S13. But you could make a cool S14
• 44:54
  too. You definitely could, yeah.
• 44:56
  They have a lot of S14 stuff that's cool I feel like.
• 44:59
  Is that it's a zenki, Yeah. Dude 95.
• 45:01
  I have a thing with zenkeys like me too.
• 45:03
  Yeah, just that vertex kit too is.
• 45:07
  Dude, you're speaking my language, Yeah.
• 45:08
  It's like we like the same shit, obviously.
• 45:10
  It's like, it's almost like you guys like everything the.
• 45:13
  Same dude. Matt Power's car like that?
• 45:15
  Yeah. Or Danny Ressa power moves.
• 45:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That car's good, obviously, but
• 45:20
  it's a little bit more like. Yeah, Blitzer 3 vertex eyelids
• 45:24
  the whole 9 the. Eyelids on the Zenki I like
• 45:26
  because it it makes the headlight pretty much like an
• 45:29
  inch of viewing light. It's cool.
• 45:33
  It's like kind of like putting sleepy eyes.
• 45:35
  Yeah, and like the eyelids in general are just any car dude.
• 45:39
  I'm going to make eyelids for the koi.
• 45:42
  I had this idea on the plane on the way.
• 45:44
  What? Are you doing bro?
• 45:45
  Why? I don't know for.
• 45:48
  The Sequoia. I wanted to make eyelids for
• 45:51
  Daryl's car. My roommate has has ASC 3 or but
• 45:56
  he has a sore and like you know like that middle light.
• 46:01
  What is that the high beam or fog?
• 46:02
  I don't know what that is, but I thought it was going to be weird
• 46:05
  because I would had to make four islands.
• 46:08
  Like I was like, damn, I got to kind of like make this whole
• 46:12
  thing to go in here and yeah, I do.
• 46:13
  I don't know. I lost.
• 46:14
  I lost. Which you also have an SC300 as
• 46:17
  well. Yeah, yeah, you have a lot of
• 46:19
  stuff. There's a car show out here,
• 46:20
  right? Now, Oh my gosh, yeah, line the
• 46:22
  whole street. Frankie was like, there's a lot
• 46:24
  of cars here, you think these are all his?
• 46:26
  I was like, damn, I can't believe he got all his buddies
• 46:28
  to come by. This is so early in the morning
• 46:30
  on a Saturday. And yeah, no, they're all his
• 46:32
  cars. It was just because when we
• 46:34
  pulled up I made the assumption that since the 180 or well the
• 46:37
  13 was so fucking perfect in the middle, I was like, dude, that
• 46:41
  was by design. Frankie, you did this.
• 46:45
  Yeah, thank you for accommodating us so.
• 46:46
  Dude, no problem. Yeah, I mean, I would have
• 46:48
  turned it around, but the car's dead, so I just pushed it out.
• 46:53
  Just rolled it. Yeah, we definitely got to do a
• 46:55
  video on this thing. I can't believe that you 10
• 46:59
  years. Yeah, man.
• 47:01
  Yeah, it's a, it's is it a? Weird or good?
• 47:03
  Is it a bad or good feeling sometimes when you think?
• 47:05
  About it, dude, in a way it feels like I'm just getting
• 47:07
  started because like we were talking earlier, I just sort of
• 47:11
  like have done the, I did it backwards, like you're supposed
• 47:16
  to go to school, get the career, get a job and then build the car
• 47:18
  once. You're like on your feet, says
• 47:20
  who, though? Well, says you know, you know
• 47:22
  it. Says normal people.
• 47:24
  Yeah. And, and so like I said, I I was
• 47:27
  a tech and, you know, living at home and then I built the car
• 47:32
  and then, you know, comes 25 comes around 26 comes around and
• 47:36
  you just. I kind of looked and I was like,
• 47:37
  dude, I've just put main. I put the main life like the
• 47:42
  main mission campaign like on hold and I was just been doing
• 47:46
  side missions the whole time. I need to like focus on life so
• 47:48
  I can buy a house and move out of here and yada yada.
• 47:51
  So yeah, that's really the main reason why I decided to go back
• 47:57
  to school. That and summers get really hot
• 48:00
  down here as a tech. I don't want to be a tech in the
• 48:02
  summer. Yeah, we were just talking
• 48:03
  about. That last night, because I've
• 48:05
  been here in the summer and we went into a shop, it was Texas
• 48:09
  Tire, I think. Is that what it's called, Rudy's
• 48:11
  Place? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 48:12
  We went there and the door was shut but it's hottest balls out
• 48:18
  and back home if it was shut it at Faction and it's 90° out.
• 48:22
  There would be bodies inside. Yeah, there would be Chris would
• 48:25
  be a rotisserie in there, dude. So then I we walk in and the
• 48:29
  first thing that I felt was like cold air.
• 48:32
  And I was like, is this place air conditioned?
• 48:36
  Yeah. Because all I could think about
• 48:37
  is if you were doing something like, imagine a blowing out a
• 48:42
  subframe bushing with a torch, and then the air conditioning is
• 48:45
  running. And I feel like it would make it
• 48:46
  smell so bad. Like I'm just, I need the fact
• 48:50
  that there's a vent. Yeah, but that is the opposite.
• 48:52
  Like, we have heat. They'd have AC Did.
• 48:55
  Your shop have AC. Or no, no, it didn't.
• 48:58
  When I worked at when I worked at Nissan, it did.
• 49:00
  It was a really nice shop. It had like tile floors and
• 49:02
  everything, but at Ford it was it was a little older and yeah,
• 49:07
  it was like just concrete floors, just open bays.
• 49:11
  Yeah, that that was it. And your summers are like how
• 49:14
  bad is it here in the summer like temperature wise?
• 49:17
  We'll get the triple digits, OK, Yeah.
• 49:19
  So it's definitely worse than fucking.
• 49:21
  Not 180 weather. Does this have AC?
• 49:25
  It does. It does actually.
• 49:28
  That's a flag. Everyone here still has that.
• 49:31
  Because you will die. You.
• 49:33
  You will die. I didn't have it for the longest
• 49:35
  time. And last summer when I was doing
• 49:39
  my internship, I had a little bit of money and I took it to
• 49:42
  Rudy and I said, hey, I have all the stuff, make it work.
• 49:46
  Like because it's got the digital climate control in there
• 49:49
  and everything with all the sensors and everything.
• 49:53
  And he did. And yeah, it was great.
• 49:56
  That's awesome with the digital. Yeah, that this thing has
• 49:58
  automatic climate control. Dude, I got one of those units,
• 50:02
  Chris, one of our, one of my best friends in the tech ad
• 50:06
  faction does or has a Sylvia. And he had this like climate
• 50:10
  control and he gave it to me for my birthday one year.
• 50:12
  And I was like, oh dude, I can't wait to put this in.
• 50:15
  I go on, go on like Google and the first couple threads that
• 50:19
  pop up or like how to do it. Yeah.
• 50:22
  And it was not a plug in plug. No.
• 50:25
  There is a way though to do it without all the harnesses and
• 50:28
  stuff, as long as you have the sensors.
• 50:30
  Yeah, originally I had it just kind of hooked up to power and
• 50:34
  like a couple of the sensors and I, I was told by this dude
• 50:39
  Lawrence, who did like the wiring diagram and put it on
• 50:42
  Sylvia and stuff. I was talking to him and he was
• 50:44
  like, yeah, you don't need all the sensors.
• 50:46
  You just, you can just have it run off power and like the blend
• 50:50
  or actuator and you know the temperature door and it should
• 50:53
  work. So I wired it and that did not
• 50:57
  work. I was gonna say.
• 50:57
  How the fuck is that supposed? To work I.
• 50:59
  Was so hopeful it turned. On and stuff and it and it it
• 51:03
  would blow air and everything but I couldn't like change the
• 51:05
  settings at all. Oh, but hey, it got a little.
• 51:07
  I would just manually go down there and turn the knob so it
• 51:10
  was set to heat and then I just turned it on in the winter.
• 51:13
  I remember doing that shit when those when those motors would
• 51:16
  break. Yeah.
• 51:16
  And you just go and you're like, hold on, let me let me put the
• 51:19
  defroster on. Right.
• 51:20
  Like because it's like a mechanical little knob that you
• 51:22
  can turn and it opens and. Closes on the bottom like by the
• 51:25
  foot. Well, like if it.
• 51:26
  Breaks. It's like.
• 51:27
  You have the goal, Yeah, Behind, above the pedal, in the corner.
• 51:31
  You know what I mean? What the fuck?
• 51:34
  The blend door, all the doors, one of those fucking things
• 51:37
  always snaps. Yeah, because adjust the
• 51:41
  factory, it's just a cable that you're.
• 51:43
  Yeah, the cable. Why did I have the other one?
• 51:45
  No, but there's multiple doors. There's at least two of those,
• 51:47
  actually. Yeah, there's the blend door
• 51:49
  that actually changes where the air is coming out of, and then
• 51:53
  there's the one that changes the temperature.
• 51:55
  So I think mine with the cable was broken.
• 51:56
  I think that's what it was, yeah.
• 51:57
  Yeah, it must have been. My cable broke and then that's
• 52:00
  why I was like, all right, I'll do the digital.
• 52:01
  When I had the three years ago, I know my technique was like,
• 52:05
  cuz I had a 13 Once Upon a time and I would like, there's a way
• 52:10
  you would hold the, the lever to change the temperature and you
• 52:13
  can't, I couldn't do it like too quickly.
• 52:16
  So I would just be like this a little bit and then once it gets
• 52:19
  up the threshold over you can move it.
• 52:21
  Oh yeah, yeah. Somebody was like, yeah.
• 52:23
  I always thought that that was. Was by the cable, yeah.
• 52:26
  I didn't know any better, dude. I was like, my mentality was
• 52:30
  don't break this because I don't want to have to go find another
• 52:32
  one. Yeah, but dude, I had an S13 in
• 52:36
  like 2014, Yeah. And then just got got out of it
• 52:39
  after a few years. This is my third one.
• 52:43
  Oh yeah, I was going to ask you. I was going to ask.
• 52:45
  You how did the 14? How did you get?
• 52:46
  Into drifting, a jump drifting. I guess the shortest answer
• 52:53
  would be like Forza, right? When I was a kid, middle school,
• 52:57
  high school, you can't afford a car, but you can play video
• 53:00
  games. And I remember hopping in, you
• 53:03
  know, because I was just originally, I was just into like
• 53:06
  Ferraris and stuff, you know, like just cool, good sounding
• 53:10
  cars. And that's why you got a 180.
• 53:12
  Exactly. Yeah, it's really the answer,
• 53:16
  dude. And it's.
• 53:16
  Red. And it's red.
• 53:18
  And but I also did like the Japanese cars because I just
• 53:23
  loved how turbo sounded. And so my first love was R34.
• 53:27
  I think like everyone. Yep.
• 53:29
  And you, you know, you play with that in the game and you're
• 53:32
  like, oh, this is so cool. It's so cool.
• 53:34
  And then you you try to drift that and then you see people
• 53:36
  drifting. And I remember the first time I
• 53:38
  saw drifting on Forza and I was like, that is the coolest thing
• 53:41
  ever. It looks like ballet.
• 53:43
  It looks like the cars are like figure skating, you know, Like I
• 53:45
  saw people tanning me and I was like, I want to do that.
• 53:48
  Is that where you that's where you literally first saw
• 53:50
  drifting? I think.
• 53:52
  You probably saw Tokyo Drift or some shit.
• 53:54
  Yeah, I must have but as like a child when it came out.
• 53:58
  Yeah. So you don't really remember
• 53:59
  that. So it's really.
• 53:59
  Yeah, no, cuz yeah, that movie came out.
• 54:04
  I was probably like 8 years old maybe so.
• 54:07
  Impressionable brain there. I thought it was cool.
• 54:10
  Yeah, that's what it. Is.
• 54:11
  I didn't know what I was looking.
• 54:13
  At you weren't going to be like, dude, that's a fucking HRZ and
• 54:17
  it's supercharged or whatever the hell that one is.
• 54:19
  It's like pro charge or some shit.
• 54:21
  Yeah, but that's interesting. Some people assume you're just
• 54:24
  into magazines or something off the RIP.
• 54:26
  Or no, I've got a little unconventional way of getting to
• 54:30
  where we are now. I'd say cuz a lot of people do
• 54:34
  like nowadays, especially you can just find that niche sort of
• 54:38
  style that you like and you can have an idea of what you want to
• 54:41
  do before you buy the car and then you just build it.
• 54:45
  But I, I went through all kinds of phases, dude.
• 54:47
  My first car, my first S 13 that I bought like straight out of
• 54:51
  high school. I like stripped it out and I was
• 54:54
  trying to do the Drift Garage thing because that was had just
• 54:57
  came out. It was that network a show with
• 55:02
  Ryan Turk and Chris. Ford 00.
• 55:05
  Where they you were going to make it?
• 55:07
  Yeah. Missile car.
• 55:08
  Oh, I was like, this is what I want to do.
• 55:10
  This is awesome. Dude as soon as you said network
• 55:12
  AI was like he's not talking about like offseason.
• 55:15
  No, dude, no. It's.
• 55:16
  Or like the farm. Videos dude, those are I got.
• 55:20
  Like. Yeah, I got turfed and all that
• 55:22
  stuff. Damn you were like an East Coast
• 55:24
  dude dude. What was about to happen there?
• 55:27
  Well, because you're, you're like, OK, I want to do drifting,
• 55:30
  right. I want to see more drifting.
• 55:32
  So you just YouTube it. You just YouTube drift and all
• 55:35
  you would get would be like network a videos and and you
• 55:38
  know, blood masters and all this kind of stuff.
• 55:41
  And you would never get like D1 or like option videos when you
• 55:44
  YouTube it. Yeah, unless you typed it in in
• 55:47
  Japanese or something. But I didn't know any better.
• 55:49
  So I was just, you know, in high school and I remember Ryan Turek
• 55:55
  had like this nice black one with, with A1J.
• 55:59
  And I was like, dude, that's like.
• 56:00
  With the fat works on it. Yeah, that was a.
• 56:03
  Really cool car. Yeah, you guys remember that?
• 56:05
  That one was. That one was I feel like.
• 56:08
  We see that shit at the track too.
• 56:09
  Yeah, and no, I saw there's a clip of it like on the island
• 56:13
  somewhere. Yeah.
• 56:14
  Oh yeah. And it just, I don't know, Turk
• 56:17
  was like crazy with that shit on YouTube early on at least.
• 56:21
  No, he was. That was the clips.
• 56:22
  Those are the clips that we would see or.
• 56:24
  Cuz this is 2013. 2014 this is possible.
• 56:27
  I don't know what Zilvia is yet. I don't know like anything yeah.
• 56:31
  So I just know Forza and I know I can't afford an R34 and a lot
• 56:35
  of people are driving S thirteens in this game.
• 56:38
  So like, let me, you know, look around.
• 56:40
  And that's what is like the sort of affordable like I I was like,
• 56:44
  this is like reasonably affordable.
• 56:46
  I could probably buy one of these one day.
• 56:49
  And so yeah, that was what I like.
• 56:51
  My initial influence was like, yeah, the network a stuff and
• 56:56
  then I'd go to drift events. At the time, really all we had
• 57:01
  here was Lone Star Drift and so I'd go to these events and
• 57:05
  they're like pro AM events. You say it fit right in while
• 57:08
  you were. Watching exactly, you found this
• 57:10
  exactly. What you wanted this?
• 57:11
  Is like every this is sick, this is perfect, this is where I'm
• 57:14
  going. And then I think it was maybe my
• 57:18
  second one that I went to just like as a spectator, I saw this
• 57:22
  group over in the corner just off to themselves and they had
• 57:25
  really clean like low cars and they were all like polished up
• 57:29
  and everything. I was like, dude, that that's
• 57:31
  kind of cool. Oh, what, what what's going on
• 57:34
  over here? And I and I go over there and it
• 57:37
  and it turns out it's the essence garage guys.
• 57:40
  And from then on, it's just kind of downhill.
• 57:44
  That's crazy. And who?
• 57:45
  Who was Essence then? Essence was Jimmy, our our
• 57:51
  teammate Andrew, he has an IS and then Justin Rogers was like
• 57:56
  the biggest big guy at the time for us.
• 58:00
  So it, it was that car specifically, I think Justin's
• 58:04
  S14 was what really kind of flipped the switch for me
• 58:09
  because I looked over at my pile like rattle canned and, and all
• 58:13
  stripped out and I was like, oh, this I, this is not what I want
• 58:16
  to do anymore. Yeah.
• 58:18
  Like this is this is it right here?
• 58:20
  That I would not have even thought that you were going to
• 58:24
  take a even glance at that path. Yeah, that's kind of wild.
• 58:29
  Yeah, it is. There was a quick growth there
• 58:31
  that. That's a very interesting story.
• 58:34
  Imagine you didn't see him there, I wonder what would have
• 58:36
  happened. Oh God, you didn't see a single
• 58:39
  cool drift car ever for the first few, you know what I mean?
• 58:42
  Because now you're super impressionable.
• 58:43
  You have a Corvette right now. Yeah.
• 58:45
  Oh shit. Yeah.
• 58:47
  Well, because I I started drifting like as soon as I got
• 58:50
  my license. Did you try when you bought the
• 58:53
  240? Right away.
• 58:54
  No, no, the 240 actually wasn't my first car.
• 58:56
  My my first car was a 370Z because like my parents weren't
• 59:02
  about to like they didn't have like.
• 59:04
  Cash a fucking. Yeah, They weren't going to like
• 59:06
  go, you know, buy one off Craigslist.
• 59:08
  Like what is that? I'll just go finance you
• 59:10
  something like. That's a lot of parents were
• 59:13
  like that. So, so yeah, I was like, all
• 59:15
  right, well, rear wheel drive manual Nissan that that's what
• 59:18
  they offer right now. So I'll just get rid of those.
• 59:21
  And so it had the LSD and everything and, and you know, in
• 59:25
  high school I met like some buddies that also had ZS and,
• 59:27
  and there was another kid who had a 89 coupe, a gold 89 coupe
• 59:34
  with brown interior. 13. Yeah, it was an S13.
• 59:38
  They were seniors when I was a junior and so I kind of just
• 59:42
  like hung out with them a little bit and and I saw this S13 like
• 59:45
  up close in person for the first time and you just get in it and
• 59:48
  you just get a whiff of that like old 80s nineties, like S13
• 59:54
  musty smell. And.
• 59:56
  You're like. Oh.
• 59:57
  Like smelling it. Yeah, I'm used to like my car
• 59:59
  smells like brand new plastic still and all this stuff.
• 1:00:02
  And I'm like, oh, this is different.
• 1:00:04
  Like I want this. But some reason it feels homey
• 1:00:07
  though. Do you know what I mean?
• 1:00:08
  Feels like home. And if it wasn't so cold right
• 1:00:11
  now, like and you get in the car and it.
• 1:00:12
  Was I know what you're saying? Yeah.
• 1:00:14
  It's like a not super hot day. Like that is the most homey
• 1:00:18
  smell that isn't probably. Good.
• 1:00:21
  Yeah, you can't. You can't describe it unless you
• 1:00:24
  have you sit in one. Yeah.
• 1:00:26
  For sure, I just always think like the door cards and the
• 1:00:28
  seats that's creating that smell.
• 1:00:30
  It's got to be the glue in there.
• 1:00:33
  Damn, so you didn't? Like you didn't, dude, because
• 1:00:35
  like. Yeah.
• 1:00:35
  Do you like the Z? Because.
• 1:00:36
  The 370 is kind of a nice call. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:39
  Like that's a really good guy. Yeah, well, and so that's what I
• 1:00:44
  with these, you know, buddies in high school, we would go out on
• 1:00:46
  rainy days and go, you know, do doughnuts and figure eights and
• 1:00:49
  stuff. And I actually another buddy
• 1:00:52
  from high school said, hey, you should come to these meets every
• 1:00:55
  Wednesdays we do. Like there's like drifting and
• 1:00:57
  stuff going on. I was like, huh, like I know how
• 1:01:00
  to do doughnuts. Like I'll go out there.
• 1:01:02
  That sounds like fun. And so here I am with like this
• 1:01:05
  brand new thing with like warranty and everything.
• 1:01:09
  Parents have no idea where I'm at and I really.
• 1:01:12
  Hope this doesn't enter bad way no?
• 1:01:14
  No, no, no, it's yeah, it's fun. So we go to this meet, it's like
• 1:01:21
  at a JCPenney and it's essentially A takeover.
• 1:01:26
  Oh, OK. Before that was a thing.
• 1:01:28
  Yeah, right. It's just a giant circle with
• 1:01:30
  people like swinging like trucks and whatever.
• 1:01:34
  Yeah. Like little.
• 1:01:35
  I was like, hell yeah, let me go in there and try some out.
• 1:01:38
  And I did and it and it was great.
• 1:01:40
  Like I, you know, that I was like drifting actually, like on
• 1:01:45
  a, you know, I wasn't just doing like spin outs, you know what I
• 1:01:48
  mean? Like I was actually controlling
• 1:01:50
  the car. And people were watching you.
• 1:01:51
  Yeah. And I was, you know, I was
• 1:01:53
  learning and the things got like nineteens with 270 fives on it.
• 1:01:57
  And I was just going and going, going.
• 1:01:59
  And then and then eventually I just start hearing like this,
• 1:02:02
  like Boo, Boo, Boo. Oh no, Boo Boo.
• 1:02:04
  Oh no, not the tires, bro. No, what the hell?
• 1:02:07
  Is that noise? And I get out and yeah, the
• 1:02:10
  tires just gone. It's shredded.
• 1:02:12
  There's like shards hanging off of it and everything.
• 1:02:15
  I'm like, dude, I got to get this home.
• 1:02:16
  I got to school tomorrow like I'm 17.
• 1:02:21
  So yeah, I get home, tell my parents they're pissed and I'm
• 1:02:24
  like, well, let's just go buy some used tires.
• 1:02:27
  Like it'll be fine. And yeah, it, it was a, it was,
• 1:02:30
  that was like where I started. It was just kind of like out on
• 1:02:33
  the street messing around with this thing with with my high
• 1:02:35
  school friends. And I was like, OK, I can't
• 1:02:38
  afford these tires at all. Like there's no way I'm going to
• 1:02:42
  be like drifting this thing. So I need to get like a 240.
• 1:02:46
  And so yeah, that was the first thing I did after I graduated
• 1:02:50
  high school. I I had a job at a Honda dealer
• 1:02:54
  where I was a Porter and making 10 bucks an hour.
• 1:02:58
  What's a Porter? A Porter is like a valet like
• 1:03:00
  person who greets people at the service line.
• 1:03:03
  Oh, OK. Yeah.
• 1:03:05
  And. 10 bucks an hour. I know I'm trying.
• 1:03:08
  To there because then years go by and he still gets $10.
• 1:03:11
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• 1:03:13
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  Graduated high school that right around then 20/14/15. 2015 yeah,
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  2015 you could. I was buying two 40s for like
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  700 bucks still back. Then yeah, so then my first one,
• 1:05:48
  you know, I just saved up like 2 checks.
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  I had like 1100 bucks on me and I just found one on Craigslist
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  because Facebook wasn't a thing at the time.
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  Some dude in San Antonio had one for like 1100 bucks and me and
• 1:06:03
  my buddy, the same buddy from high school, we worked together
• 1:06:06
  a Honda. We just went one night after
• 1:06:08
  work with his truck and trailer and went and saw the car.
• 1:06:13
  I didn't know what to look for. I just saw an S13 with pop ups.
• 1:06:17
  And it was like you got excited. I just bought.
• 1:06:19
  It yeah, I just, I just bought it.
• 1:06:20
  I was like, yeah. Cool dude.
• 1:06:22
  That shit was fun though back in the day.
• 1:06:23
  Buying car. Buying two 40s when?
• 1:06:25
  It was. Yeah.
• 1:06:25
  Well, no, I was about to say like.
• 1:06:26
  Especially your first one. You just like, don't care what
• 1:06:29
  this is, Craig. Just kind of banged for that.
• 1:06:31
  Yeah, and everyone would get them.
• 1:06:33
  So like, yo, someone going to pick up to 40?
• 1:06:36
  No, let's go with him. Yeah.
• 1:06:37
  And it's like, not a big deal because they're not a lot of
• 1:06:39
  money. Yeah.
• 1:06:40
  But now it's like it's there's just.
• 1:06:43
  Like an excitement too. Like I still get this excitement
• 1:06:47
  when you see a cool car and you want to like be around it like
• 1:06:50
  this, like you and all the other cars that we get to see.
• 1:06:53
  But like back then there wasn't really a lot of places for me to
• 1:06:58
  do that. Like aside from like going to a
• 1:07:00
  car meet or whatever. But like when your friend goes
• 1:07:03
  to go buy a car that you guys have been looking at and looking
• 1:07:06
  for. For a while.
• 1:07:07
  You get to see it in person and like maybe you might own it.
• 1:07:11
  Like dude, we were like friends at this point.
• 1:07:13
  We had watched the mighty car mods like 180 the green, the
• 1:07:17
  green one. We had watched that video over
• 1:07:19
  and over and over. We were like, dude, we we can't
• 1:07:21
  wait to get SRS and it's gonna be so cool and red top and I had
• 1:07:25
  never even seen an Sr. They had the.
• 1:07:27
  Muffler that would like open up dude.
• 1:07:29
  All kinds. Of stuff I.
• 1:07:30
  Need this. Shit, why?
• 1:07:32
  Because there was like there was like 4 videos at the time on
• 1:07:35
  YouTube where that you could just watch.
• 1:07:37
  So I just cycle through them. It's like, it's like Drift
• 1:07:39
  Garage and like Mighty Carmas and then Turt, you know?
• 1:07:44
  Yeah, dude or so. Yeah.
• 1:07:44
  That really was the early YouTube cycle.
• 1:07:46
  That was it. Yeah.
• 1:07:48
  You guys are the same like era of drifting.
• 1:07:51
  Exactly. Well, because dude, it, it's
• 1:07:54
  nice that you said that's how you kind of got into drifting
• 1:07:57
  because like I kind of have a similar thing where I didn't
• 1:08:01
  really get into drifting until I had like I saw the cars.
• 1:08:08
  I knew I wanted to drift after I saw that and then never got into
• 1:08:11
  it. And then, you know, high school,
• 1:08:15
  all of this shit, I'm just playing the games before as I
• 1:08:17
  play Need for Speed, all that shit.
• 1:08:20
  And you don't really understand what drifting is or how it works
• 1:08:23
  or that it's even something that you can go do yourself in real
• 1:08:27
  life, 'cause like, I just wanted to go to school.
• 1:08:30
  I wanted to get a job. I wanted to do this.
• 1:08:34
  Then after the school shit, I got out of the house, like I
• 1:08:37
  stayed on campus. So now I have my car there.
• 1:08:42
  I had a Honda and then now that I was away from home, I traded
• 1:08:46
  the Honda for an S13 and then that was it for me because that
• 1:08:50
  now I had then I was discovering everything after the car like I
• 1:08:54
  was like, what is that like 2016 ish still around that area
• 1:08:59
  still. So it's like you Google it.
• 1:09:01
  Zilvia was would come up and then now I'm like, what is this?
• 1:09:05
  And then Chris is feeding me information like slightly.
• 1:09:07
  And then you find people like Frankie and then you need a
• 1:09:10
  mentor, find other cars like Frankie cars.
• 1:09:14
  And then all of a sudden this world is busted open.
• 1:09:17
  And then you have a fuck load of credit card and it's like really
• 1:09:21
  bad escalated. It happened.
• 1:09:22
  So my goodness, it happened so so quick though, because one
• 1:09:25
  blink of a night, that little adventure seems like it was so
• 1:09:29
  fast. Yeah, no, you, you.
• 1:09:31
  I feel like you need someone to kind of red pill you.
• 1:09:34
  Yeah. No, down the rabbit hole, Yeah.
• 1:09:36
  And then you're like, oh, OK, this is.
• 1:09:39
  Yeah, we all, we all have. We all know when that moment
• 1:09:41
  was. Yeah, for ourselves, absolutely.
• 1:09:43
  Dude, I had my Integra for a little while.
• 1:09:45
  I see the the time I'm talking about when Frankie had unpainted
• 1:09:48
  Rep arrow. Dude, actually, I Yeah, well, it
• 1:09:51
  was a long time. It was a long time it.
• 1:09:53
  Was one of my favorite iterations in my car with.
• 1:09:54
  Like it was it was on VS X XS I yeah white and it was multi.
• 1:09:59
  Colored tan of a dye. Those were.
• 1:10:02
  They were big. Like really big, that was the
• 1:10:04
  thing. And like I was driving down
• 1:10:06
  Route 17, like it's like the one highway in Bergen County where
• 1:10:10
  we're from and I'm in my, I'm in my Integra.
• 1:10:14
  I see this thing and it's really low and really wide.
• 1:10:18
  And I was like, what is that? And then disregarded that memory
• 1:10:21
  for years. Like I forgot that that existed.
• 1:10:24
  I. Don't even know about this.
• 1:10:26
  It was our first DMI literally sent it to you like like
• 1:10:29
  somebody, somebody was like, I, I remember weird shit like that,
• 1:10:32
  but like somebody was like, dude, because I showed this
• 1:10:36
  picture to somebody, like I was like, dude, look at this car I
• 1:10:38
  just saw and they were like, oh, that's Frankie Bovino.
• 1:10:40
  So then I just sent it to Frankie on Instagram, like early
• 1:10:45
  when DMS were new. Dude.
• 1:10:47
  Yeah, yeah. Like down in the DM the song.
• 1:10:49
  Was out. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:50
  So, like, that was my, I saw it, hid the memory for a little
• 1:10:54
  while, and then it just like, came back and now I'm here.
• 1:10:57
  Yeah, but it was on. It's nuts.
• 1:10:59
  Like, again, it's like what you picture a body kit to look like.
• 1:11:02
  So I just thought that's what they all looked like.
• 1:11:05
  Yeah, for the longest time. I mean that that is like if
• 1:11:09
  you're gonna have an idea for a body kit like like you're
• 1:11:11
  saying, like when you think of a body kit on 240 like that, that
• 1:11:14
  is. The one that is kind of the one.
• 1:11:15
  That's the one that should be, honestly.
• 1:11:16
  And it's just interesting that like, I don't know all the paths
• 1:11:19
  you can possibly take and now we're all still happen to be
• 1:11:23
  here. Yeah, like.
• 1:11:25
  Yeah, Hold, yeah. That's been a while, yeah.
• 1:11:29
  I think we cut your story off though too.
• 1:11:30
  Yeah, my bad, my bad. Yeah, I think.
• 1:11:31
  It was me. I fucking went on a tangent.
• 1:11:33
  No worries, didn't we? Was that a tangent?
• 1:11:35
  I think I did, yeah. We're on S 13 #1 still.
• 1:11:40
  Yeah, so I bought that thing 1100 bucks to just scrap money
• 1:11:43
  from together from working at as a Porter.
• 1:11:46
  I get it home here. It's like because San Antonio's
• 1:11:49
  like 3 hours away. We had work the next morning.
• 1:11:52
  Yeah, that's why we went on a tangent.
• 1:11:54
  We thought about buying two 40s. Fuck.
• 1:11:56
  Dude, because that's such a. Feeling.
• 1:11:58
  It really is like I can feel. I don't.
• 1:12:00
  Remember the last time I had fun buying a car?
• 1:12:02
  Because like, it's such. AI can feel the emotion, like
• 1:12:05
  just you're telling me the story and I'm putting myself in there.
• 1:12:08
  You. Get out of the car at the same
• 1:12:10
  time you're like. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:12:13
  All right. So you get this.
• 1:12:14
  I'm fine, sorry, damn it. You know, I go to work next day,
• 1:12:16
  I come home, start looking at it, start tinkering with it and
• 1:12:19
  I look at I, I for some reason look at the title I have.
• 1:12:24
  And I, I think I might have read somewhere like, hey, you know,
• 1:12:28
  if you want to insure or register a car, make sure the
• 1:12:31
  title has matching VIN to this. And this it's like, OK, let me
• 1:12:35
  just double check. The firewall stamp has one VIN.
• 1:12:41
  The plate is a different VIN. The title is yet another VIN.
• 1:12:47
  The sticker on the door is like painted over.
• 1:12:50
  This thing was just destined for the scrap pile.
• 1:12:54
  Like from the get go I was like, oh I got shafted, I got finagled
• 1:12:58
  here. And 1100 kind of a lot for that.
• 1:13:02
  Yeah, it was on like Steely's. It was Rattle Can Black had
• 1:13:05
  massive dents in the quarter from because they had pulled
• 1:13:08
  them so crazy. I'm not going to lie though,
• 1:13:09
  I've done the exact same thing. Yo, we're going to get a car.
• 1:13:12
  We're talking about all these emotions, everything.
• 1:13:14
  You go get the car. Yeah, yeah, we got it.
• 1:13:16
  You bring it home, you go to Jack it up and the whole fucking
• 1:13:18
  thing crumbles and you're like, wait.
• 1:13:20
  Dude, it's an absolute. Piece.
• 1:13:21
  And then you're like, yo, the sunroof aftermark, What the
• 1:13:23
  fuck? Yeah.
• 1:13:24
  Like you get a clarity, Yeah. Yeah, someone cut a hole in the
• 1:13:28
  roof. Yeah.
• 1:13:29
  So what'd you do then? So, well, I was, I was 18.
• 1:13:32
  I was like, I don't care, whatever.
• 1:13:33
  I'm just gonna drive this thing and drift it and, you know,
• 1:13:35
  drift garage and all that and put AK and put an ISIS turbo kit
• 1:13:39
  on it. Oh yeah, I'm gonna put an ISIS
• 1:13:42
  turbo kit on it. Put like Awesometron 5000
• 1:13:46
  knuckles from MA Motorsport or whatever.
• 1:13:48
  I want to do all this stuff and square wheels and everything.
• 1:13:52
  Dude, that's what the name was. Awesome, that's.
• 1:13:55
  True, that's such a what? What's the guy Who's that MA
• 1:13:59
  that is such AMA type of name You.
• 1:14:02
  Fuck it, we'll name. It.
• 1:14:02
  Awesome, yeah. Yeah, that's.
• 1:14:05
  Tough, yeah. And so I just like immediately
• 1:14:09
  like I just me and my buddy just ripped out the interior.
• 1:14:12
  It had like decent interior. It was all in there and if you
• 1:14:15
  just ripped it out, broken, broke everything, didn't take
• 1:14:18
  out a single bolt, we were like, dude, hell yeah.
• 1:14:20
  Like just like the video. So cool.
• 1:14:23
  Dude, no, you're laughing. And we were all laughing about
• 1:14:26
  it, but that was probably so fun, dude.
• 1:14:28
  Yeah, you're making it happen. That's what we would do.
• 1:14:31
  Like we're like weight saving. Yeah, dude, the dry eyes.
• 1:14:33
  This is what they did. So we got to do this and now you
• 1:14:36
  get to that was like. But it like now looking back,
• 1:14:40
  like I'm so glad that that was my first 240 and not like this
• 1:14:43
  one, because then I would have done it to a way nicer car.
• 1:14:48
  I like that thing. For some reason I never figured
• 1:14:52
  out why it just like it had like it felt like it had 40
• 1:14:56
  horsepower. The thing was so slow, like so
• 1:14:59
  like like something was wrong, right?
• 1:15:01
  It's a stock KA. Yeah, it was a stock Ki, think
• 1:15:04
  it was a S14. KA had like a header straight
• 1:15:07
  piped. Yeah, that was broken.
• 1:15:09
  That was broken. Yeah, and the thing would never
• 1:15:14
  self steer like after I would like do a drift or something.
• 1:15:17
  I had like a welded diff and it would just stay.
• 1:15:20
  It'll just like like it had E like electric steering or
• 1:15:22
  something like it felt that way. Obviously it didn't, but it
• 1:15:25
  would never correct. And I was like, are this just
• 1:15:27
  how like S thirteens are? Like, is this just how it's
• 1:15:30
  supposed to be? So you had a really bad
• 1:15:32
  experience? I had a really bad.
• 1:15:34
  Experience, but what kind of saved me was I had the Z and so
• 1:15:39
  driving a new car gave me a bit of a unique the experience in
• 1:15:44
  that I know what a car should feel like.
• 1:15:46
  Like when everything works, it feels like this.
• 1:15:49
  Oh, OK, so this thing is clearly like either this thing's wrong
• 1:15:52
  or like I don't want to do S thirteens.
• 1:15:55
  So then I drove a buddies and and it it counter steered like
• 1:15:58
  fine. Then I was like, oh, OK, so my
• 1:16:00
  car is just something's wrong. So like the rack is broken.
• 1:16:03
  Did you ever figure that out? That problem.
• 1:16:04
  Dude, no I didn't. I didn't.
• 1:16:06
  Dude. I I went and got like a an ISIS
• 1:16:09
  hydro installed into it. Oh, that'll that'll fix it.
• 1:16:13
  Yeah, for sure. Like I put like a like a toggle
• 1:16:16
  switch for the fan. This thing was so jank dude.
• 1:16:19
  This sounds just like a Turk car, though.
• 1:16:21
  So like, if this was the motive, like the shitter cars that they
• 1:16:25
  made for those serieses, Yeah, I just don't know how because
• 1:16:30
  they're all, they all ran forever.
• 1:16:33
  Yeah. I don't know, like if that's
• 1:16:36
  what they like the cars, but once they're seasoned in that
• 1:16:39
  way. They never had it had it had
• 1:16:42
  Hoonigan sprayed with the stencils on the quarters.
• 1:16:46
  Yeah. And this is.
• 1:16:47
  Getting better. Yeah, it was great.
• 1:16:49
  Kevin, this is. It was so.
• 1:16:51
  Good. Not what I thought.
• 1:16:52
  And this is what I pulled up in to Lone Star Drift and then saw
• 1:16:56
  Essence there and I just looked over at what I had and like what
• 1:17:01
  their cars looked like. And I was like okay like I
• 1:17:04
  totally don't want to do this anymore at all dude.
• 1:17:07
  I had never seen it before. Like a clean looking drift car.
• 1:17:10
  He's like trying to talk to them.
• 1:17:11
  They're like turning their back. Yeah, no, yeah.
• 1:17:13
  No, at this point I was. Yeah, at this point I was like,
• 1:17:18
  I can't approach. Approach it I cannot yet and
• 1:17:20
  then you. I knew I wanted to get into that
• 1:17:23
  crowd, but I didn't know how how I was going to.
• 1:17:25
  And then you go home and reflect.
• 1:17:27
  Yeah. And then I was like, OK,
• 1:17:28
  immediately looking for like another car that's like cleaner
• 1:17:32
  to, you know, build off of that because this thing was like
• 1:17:36
  beat. I was like, there's no way I
• 1:17:38
  can. So was that the end of 1?
• 1:17:41
  Was that you saw? You saw that?
• 1:17:44
  Was the end of like wanting to pursue that, right?
• 1:17:48
  But did you get to? Get the hydro once at least.
• 1:17:50
  Oh hell yeah. I reckon that thing, it was
• 1:17:52
  awesome. It just wouldn't counter steer.
• 1:17:55
  I'd have to like, yeah, I'd have to like run the wheel.
• 1:17:57
  So. You already, but you already
• 1:17:58
  have one hand right here, so you've got a.
• 1:18:01
  Feeling. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:18:03
  Yeah, at least you got to live that dream out for a minute.
• 1:18:05
  Yeah, it was. Yeah, you know.
• 1:18:07
  But then now you're out. Did you go?
• 1:18:08
  So then so then at the time I was going to to school at
• 1:18:12
  another school in Dallas because I was playing baseball there.
• 1:18:16
  And so I was like making trips down and you know, going back up
• 1:18:20
  every weekend and looking on, I think at this time Facebook was
• 1:18:25
  starting to, you would see, you would see groups on Facebook.
• 1:18:29
  It wasn't like marketplace, but there would be groups.
• 1:18:32
  Oh, that was kind of a good era. It was so it was so we had
• 1:18:34
  Houston 240SX you know group and I see this red S13 with like
• 1:18:42
  missing a bumper. It had a a red top Sr. in it,
• 1:18:47
  but it looked like So what I was looking for was a clean exterior
• 1:18:51
  and like at least have the interior there so that I can
• 1:18:54
  like make it better. Now you're hell yeah now full.
• 1:18:57
  18 we were. Yeah, now I'm like, alright, let
• 1:19:00
  me find something like that's at least one piece, you know, and
• 1:19:04
  that has a good title in the Vin's match.
• 1:19:07
  Like I just the bar is set. It's so.
• 1:19:09
  Crazy how? Yeah, how you change, I feel.
• 1:19:11
  So bad for that younger. You.
• 1:19:14
  Yeah, that sucks, but. You change like you change
• 1:19:16
  drastically pretty fast. Yeah, you're already like I need
• 1:19:19
  interior. Cuz I, cuz I like, I like the
• 1:19:21
  JDM stuff and I like like stance cars and like good looking cars
• 1:19:26
  and I like drifting and I didn't know you could mesh them
• 1:19:29
  together something. And so when I saw that it was so
• 1:19:32
  eye opening for me. I was like, OK, this is what I
• 1:19:34
  want to do now. So I find this car and I'm up in
• 1:19:40
  school in Dallas and I, I text my dad.
• 1:19:41
  I was like hey it was only like 3 grand or something or like
• 1:19:47
  2800 bucks. Red top Sr. by the way.
• 1:19:51
  Red Top Sr. Yeah, I just want people to
• 1:19:53
  remember that that existed. Had like a a Pixie SAFC.
• 1:19:59
  Oh, of course it did. Yeah, it had like little
• 1:20:01
  trinkets like that. And I had him like go, I think I
• 1:20:07
  had him just like, hey, just go like could you go buy it?
• 1:20:11
  Like he doesn't know it. Like he's like a tech bro.
• 1:20:13
  He's he's not, he doesn't know like anything about two 40s and
• 1:20:16
  he just went from work one day. I saw the car, handed the guy a
• 1:20:20
  check and I was like, all right, yeah, it's ready for you to come
• 1:20:23
  get it whenever you get into town.
• 1:20:25
  So me, I come back in for the weekend.
• 1:20:28
  The next weekend, I hit up that buddy from earlier who I went to
• 1:20:32
  get the 1st 2:40 with and we go over to where this this Sr. car
• 1:20:37
  is. And you know, I, you know, talk
• 1:20:39
  to the guy, grab the title, hop in and I drive it home.
• 1:20:43
  This car is in east Houston. I live in northwest.
• 1:20:46
  So it's about it's like straight across the whole city.
• 1:20:49
  The thing like is sputtering so nasty there's.
• 1:20:54
  No trailer this time. No, I straight drove it.
• 1:20:57
  Oh, you were excited? Yeah.
• 1:20:58
  I was like, dude, this is like, this is the car.
• 1:21:01
  This is it. Oh fuck.
• 1:21:03
  It's Sr. swapped and it's. Clean and it's nicer than the
• 1:21:06
  first. One, it's way nicer than the
• 1:21:08
  first one. It like counter steers a little
• 1:21:10
  bit, you know, like this thing's fine, it'll drive no problem.
• 1:21:16
  And then the guy's like, yeah, I think it just needs a tune.
• 1:21:19
  Oh bro, they all just for. One excuse when something's
• 1:21:23
  actually. Wrong.
• 1:21:24
  I I get on the freeway and the thing just starts spitting
• 1:21:27
  flames. Pretty sick.
• 1:21:29
  Yeah, super sick. Here we go.
• 1:21:31
  Super sick and pretty sick. Dude, we had to pull over and my
• 1:21:38
  buddy was like, dude, I don't know what's wrong with it.
• 1:21:39
  It's just like just blowing smoke and fire.
• 1:21:42
  And I was like, all right, let's just limp it home.
• 1:21:45
  Whatever. We'll just look at it tomorrow.
• 1:21:47
  So we do, you know, Sunday comes around.
• 1:21:51
  We, we get out there and I'm like, all right, dude, this is
• 1:21:54
  so sick. I have, I finally have like the
• 1:21:56
  clean slate. This thing is this is it.
• 1:21:58
  This is what I'm going to, you know, spend my time and money
• 1:22:00
  on. And I open the Hatch, lift the
• 1:22:04
  carpet, and there's a giant hole I can see straight to the bottom
• 1:22:07
  of the floor. I can see, I can see the road.
• 1:22:10
  Fuck. Dude, I was so happy for you
• 1:22:13
  already. I mean, wait, it's just a spare
• 1:22:15
  tire. Yeah, the spare tire, OK, it's.
• 1:22:17
  Gone. But I mean for like in Texas and
• 1:22:20
  you're like 19, you're like, I'm not gonna this is.
• 1:22:22
  Total. That is, that is true.
• 1:22:25
  Garbage. I can like grab pieces of this
• 1:22:28
  and like, you know, is it, was it rust?
• 1:22:30
  Yeah, yeah, it was rusted. It was rusted.
• 1:22:32
  Oh, you thought somebody just cut it out?
• 1:22:34
  Because I'm like, we're in Texas.
• 1:22:35
  Like is this? Even rusted?
• 1:22:36
  No, it was, it was probably we we do get a lot of like rust in
• 1:22:40
  that area because that's where like the the drain leads to
• 1:22:43
  right from the roof. And if you have like the the
• 1:22:48
  little, what is it like a little grommet?
• 1:22:50
  Yeah, the grommet in there, it'll just get a puddle in there
• 1:22:54
  and then it'll just sit because no one knows that there's water
• 1:22:56
  back there. Yep.
• 1:22:57
  And so, yeah, what we do, that's like the only place where where
• 1:23:00
  I'll see like some rust on on S thirteens.
• 1:23:02
  But yeah, I had no idea what to look for.
• 1:23:04
  I was just like, I saw an Sr. car that was like shiny red.
• 1:23:08
  So I was like, oh, this isn't, you know, taken care of.
• 1:23:10
  Did. You fix the misfire.
• 1:23:13
  Hell no, dude. I was like, I was like, all
• 1:23:15
  right, plant new plan for sale. All right, new plans.
• 1:23:20
  This is this is not, this is not the car.
• 1:23:24
  Yeah, I was like, this is not the one I'm going to pursue.
• 1:23:27
  I had the same exact story which is fucked up.
• 1:23:29
  Yeah, with my S13. Yeah, so I was like, if I'm
• 1:23:33
  going to like really, you know, go down this rabbit hole and
• 1:23:36
  build like a really, really clean, like show card drift card
• 1:23:39
  type thing. I want to start with like a
• 1:23:41
  grandma car, like a bone stock, you know, well taken care of a,
• 1:23:45
  you know, car with, you know, one color full interior the
• 1:23:48
  whole night. And so I was like, this is not
• 1:23:50
  it, but it's got good parts. It's got the Sr. it's got
• 1:23:54
  coilovers, it's got the exhaust. It's got some some things.
• 1:23:57
  I was like, yeah, I'll just I'll just rebuild this Sr.
• 1:24:01
  So I'll have like a built Sr. for my car whenever I find a
• 1:24:05
  good one. So I like pull the motor, you
• 1:24:07
  know, pull the parts off of it. I basically take everything that
• 1:24:12
  I thought I wanted and then just kind of sold the shell like
• 1:24:16
  rolling for like 700 bucks. Some do local bought it and then
• 1:24:22
  so yeah, I'm back on Facebook looking for like this forever
• 1:24:26
  car, which is this one right here and.
• 1:24:30
  Wait, that was the quickest 2? Yeah.
• 1:24:33
  That the turn around on on car 2 is pretty nuts and.
• 1:24:36
  Also, now you're. Farting out like you had like
• 1:24:41
  the idea to be like, OK, no, no, no.
• 1:24:43
  No. Well, by this point, by this
• 1:24:45
  point, I had already kind of, I had met Jimmy and I had been
• 1:24:49
  kind of more integrated. They have corrupted that they
• 1:24:52
  were. Kind of trying to like they were
• 1:24:54
  kind of like trying to coach me up, like, you know what I mean?
• 1:24:57
  That's what you did, you motherfucker.
• 1:24:58
  Oh yeah, you always need Jimmy's the.
• 1:25:00
  You need a red pill. You need someone a red pill.
• 1:25:01
  Dude. Oh.
• 1:25:02
  My God. And yeah, that was that's
• 1:25:04
  another crazy story. I we met through a mutual friend
• 1:25:07
  and it and you know, it was awesome.
• 1:25:09
  But yeah, so I found this 93 TK 3 sapphire blue hatch with a
• 1:25:19
  sunroof that was like bone stock with just like wheels and a
• 1:25:23
  radio. Like it had stock struts and
• 1:25:25
  everything. I was like, oh dude, that's,
• 1:25:27
  that's it. That's the one.
• 1:25:29
  But it had a blown motor. But I didn't care because I had
• 1:25:31
  an Sr. sitting here that I was going to build and it was going
• 1:25:34
  to be forged and all kinds of stuff.
• 1:25:35
  And I was like, yeah, I don't care.
• 1:25:38
  And I messaged the guy and he's like, yeah, come get it.
• 1:25:41
  It was, you know, it's here, whatever.
• 1:25:44
  And I was talking to him and then he just ghosted me out all
• 1:25:46
  of a sudden. And I kept messaging him and I
• 1:25:50
  got nothing, nothing, nothing until I eventually sell the car,
• 1:25:54
  like get sold. I was like, oh dude, you like
• 1:25:56
  sold it out from under me from to someone.
• 1:25:59
  And then I was like, hey, who'd you sell that to?
• 1:26:04
  And I don't know why, but he told me.
• 1:26:06
  He told me the kid, so I found that kids profile and IDMD him
• 1:26:11
  and I was like, hey, I know that thing like is like blown up and
• 1:26:15
  and has like a rod knock and like the motor's no good.
• 1:26:17
  I have one that runs the black one and he was like a he he was
• 1:26:24
  like a younger kid. He didn't he didn't know much
• 1:26:26
  about anything either. So.
• 1:26:27
  Car One. Car One.
• 1:26:29
  You still had car. Car.
• 1:26:30
  Yeah, I had car two and one here.
• 1:26:32
  OK. Oh, this was starting to look
• 1:26:34
  like a problem, Yeah. Like.
• 1:26:36
  Yeah, here, here, both of them right there.
• 1:26:39
  Yeah, this was starting to look like a problem.
• 1:26:41
  That HOA was sending letters. Yeah, this is without saying
• 1:26:44
  this is a, it's a nice, you know, neighborhood.
• 1:26:47
  Yeah, maybe not too. Yeah, that's when the HOA letter
• 1:26:51
  started. Yeah.
• 1:26:53
  Parents were probably. Oh yeah, yeah, fuck.
• 1:26:58
  And and the kid goes, hey, you know what, bro?
• 1:27:01
  Like that does sound like a good trade.
• 1:27:05
  That does sound like a good idea because he he don't know
• 1:27:08
  anything about any like I don't care about the engine.
• 1:27:11
  I just care about the condition of the shell and he cares that
• 1:27:14
  this one runs. And it drove.
• 1:27:15
  And it drove like crap, but it drove.
• 1:27:18
  Hey, it had a hydro, hydro. Hey, it's got a hydro.
• 1:27:21
  It's got a welded diff. Like it's ready to go.
• 1:27:23
  Easy. And he, he agrees to the trade
• 1:27:29
  sight unseen. He never came and looked at it.
• 1:27:31
  I never saw his car, but I, I saw it and I from the pictures,
• 1:27:34
  I was like, that's good enough. It's like 1 Christmas Eve, I hit
• 1:27:40
  up a buddy that I had met from like that takeover world who was
• 1:27:44
  like, Hey, you ever need something towed?
• 1:27:45
  Hit me up like hey, I need something towed that that day.
• 1:27:50
  And he showed up dude like with his girlfriend and stuff like in
• 1:27:54
  this flatbed. I was like, oh, I mean I'm like
• 1:27:56
  18. I don't I'm like, I don't I know
• 1:27:58
  I'm inconveniencing you, but like I want this car and I don't
• 1:28:01
  really care. So he shows up we load up my
• 1:28:06
  black car car one onto the flatbed.
• 1:28:09
  We go over to the kids house, like 20 minutes away, unload my
• 1:28:13
  car on the street, load his up. And I think he was like, yeah, I
• 1:28:19
  left the title or I left the, the keys in there, like just
• 1:28:22
  just grab it. It's fine.
• 1:28:24
  I don't want to wake my parents up.
• 1:28:25
  So just, you know, leave the other one there and we'll trade
• 1:28:28
  titles later. So we did, I grab it, take it
• 1:28:32
  over here, bring the car, unload it.
• 1:28:35
  And then like the next day, he's like, hey, man, he's like having
• 1:28:38
  doubts. He's like, hey, man, I'm I'm
• 1:28:41
  looking at this thing and, and I'm not so sure about it
• 1:28:44
  anymore. It kind of needs a lot of work.
• 1:28:47
  And mine was way nicer, bro. And, and all this was like,
• 1:28:50
  yeah, but it runs, dude. Like you want one that runs,
• 1:28:53
  right? It's like, yeah, but my dad's
• 1:28:56
  tripping and and everything and I was freaking out, dude,
• 1:29:02
  because I don't have the title yet.
• 1:29:03
  We haven't exchanged titles, we just swapped cards.
• 1:29:06
  You're going to lose it. Yeah, I was like, oh, do you
• 1:29:08
  know it's going to slip from right under me.
• 1:29:09
  Like, and I looked it over that day, like in daylight, and this
• 1:29:12
  thing was pristine, dude. Like everything was there.
• 1:29:16
  It just had rod knock and some way or another I just like,
• 1:29:21
  tricked the kid. I kind of like convinced him
• 1:29:25
  with like just word play and, and just convincing him.
• 1:29:28
  I was like, dude, this is like a way better.
• 1:29:29
  Like you can drift it and whatever.
• 1:29:31
  And he's like, all right, I'm coming over there with my dad.
• 1:29:36
  So he comes over and the dad's like pissed, dude.
• 1:29:39
  The dad's like standing behind him, like man, you gave us a
• 1:29:42
  messed up car and. What?
• 1:29:44
  And all this stuff. And I was like, hey, you know
• 1:29:45
  what, like it runs. Your son wanted one that runs
• 1:29:49
  like what do you want? And.
• 1:29:52
  Wait till they find out about the title.
• 1:29:53
  Dude, yeah. So we switch.
• 1:29:55
  We switch over the titles and, you know, like he goes on his
• 1:30:00
  way. And yeah, I think it was like a
• 1:30:03
  week or two later. Oh no, he.
• 1:30:05
  DMS me. He's like hey bro, like these
• 1:30:07
  numbers don't match dude dude. And then, and then I just like,
• 1:30:12
  I don't even know what I said or how I did it, but I wiggled my
• 1:30:14
  way out of that one too. I don't know how you got out of
• 1:30:18
  that. One I was like that would have
• 1:30:19
  me plugging out. Because I'd be like, damn it.
• 1:30:22
  I was like, no, no, no, It it matches the plate on the on the
• 1:30:26
  firewall, don't you don't, don't worry about the stamp.
• 1:30:28
  Like look at the plate. Did it?
• 1:30:30
  Actually, yeah, it did. What the fuck?
• 1:30:32
  Yeah, it's so strange they took the.
• 1:30:33
  Plate off of some other car and just.
• 1:30:35
  Like they got the plate, they got the title and.
• 1:30:37
  Swapped it, scraped that car or whatever.
• 1:30:39
  Yeah, which, to be completely honest, allegedly, that doesn't
• 1:30:43
  really fucking matter at all. Oh, really?
• 1:30:45
  I'm like, I'm just saying like cops ain't popping the hood in.
• 1:30:48
  China, at least we're. Oh, yeah.
• 1:30:49
  Yeah, That's what you're saying, Yeah.
• 1:30:50
  Yeah, they're not. They're not doing that shit like
• 1:30:52
  we used to do that all the time, like.
• 1:30:53
  Dude you buy a shitter with No title, you buy another one that
• 1:30:56
  was like literally that. The car that has a title might
• 1:31:00
  be the one that's in the field, being one with the earth
• 1:31:03
  already. Dude, I remember my buddy
• 1:31:05
  fucking Justin would have 1240, he would sell it and then he'd
• 1:31:08
  get another and he would just keep the registration.
• 1:31:10
  And I'm like, bro, that's not how that works.
• 1:31:13
  Totally different car. And he's like, it's a 240
• 1:31:16
  though. I did.
• 1:31:16
  The same thing the other. Day and they get pulled over and
• 1:31:18
  they wouldn't even notice. No, yeah, I drove past cops and
• 1:31:21
  shit. Me and me and my roommate
• 1:31:22
  Darrell, we went to go buy a Sequoia and I have a Sequoia and
• 1:31:25
  I was like, dude, I'm fucking taking the plate off of my truck
• 1:31:28
  and we just drove it home. Yeah.
• 1:31:30
  Yeah, like that was the most not nerve wracking ride home.
• 1:31:34
  So he finds about the title, you tell him that you get out of
• 1:31:36
  that. I get out, I wiggle myself out
• 1:31:38
  of that, and then we're good. He, you know, doesn't hit me up
• 1:31:42
  again and I'm like, all right, I'm in the clear.
• 1:31:44
  Like I got the car, I got the title, I signed it over or no,
• 1:31:49
  the kid before him who sold it out from under me bought it from
• 1:31:54
  someone who hadn't changed over the title yet.
• 1:31:57
  So the title is still like 3 names back in that kids name and
• 1:32:01
  that kid signed it. So I don't know how it works in
• 1:32:04
  New Jersey, but if like if someone signs it like you have
• 1:32:08
  to go through with that guy, you can't like whoever's name is on
• 1:32:12
  the title is the person who has to sign it.
• 1:32:14
  Yeah. Yeah, OK.
• 1:32:15
  Yeah. So I now I had to go hunt for
• 1:32:18
  this guy. But why you have to hunt for
• 1:32:19
  him? If he already signed it already,
• 1:32:21
  yeah. Oh no, no, no, he he signed
• 1:32:24
  under buyer. No, he fucked.
• 1:32:27
  He fucked up bro. He signed under buyer.
• 1:32:30
  I mean I need him to sign under seller.
• 1:32:31
  Oh my. God, but then you don't have to
• 1:32:33
  get a new type and New Jersey if you sign in the wrong spot they
• 1:32:36
  they make you jump through. No, no, I had to get like a like
• 1:32:40
  a affidavit, like I had to get this whole other form that would
• 1:32:43
  like that was like omitting that title.
• 1:32:45
  Oh, OK. Yeah.
• 1:32:46
  To get like a new one, like a temporary, it was, it was a
• 1:32:48
  whole ordeal. But you.
• 1:32:50
  Didn't find him or you did? Yeah, I.
• 1:32:51
  Found the kid because he was like, he was like a kid.
• 1:32:54
  He was like some other 240 kid like my age who lived like
• 1:32:57
  around the corner and who like a friend of a friend knew the kid.
• 1:33:02
  So I was like, yeah, that's, that's so.
• 1:33:04
  And so, so I just like messaged him and he was like, he was cool
• 1:33:07
  about it. He's like, yeah, just come over
• 1:33:08
  and then I'll sign the, the new one and wow.
• 1:33:10
  And you're good to go. Oh dude.
• 1:33:12
  So And that's this car. And that's this car.
• 1:33:15
  Oh. Shit.
• 1:33:16
  Yeah, this was only. Three tries.
• 1:33:19
  Yeah. And I mean the second one was a
• 1:33:21
  quick try, but the the second one, is that the engine that you
• 1:33:25
  ended up? No because like this car I think
• 1:33:30
  I might have Dude no light. Probably 6 or 7 engines went
• 1:33:37
  through here. What the fuck, dude?
• 1:33:39
  That I like didn't put in the car or got convinced not to run
• 1:33:45
  or. Whatever I thought.
• 1:33:47
  No, no, no, no. Only like.
• 1:33:49
  All that cars. No like like 5 KS and.
• 1:33:53
  OK. 2-3 SRS or something like that.
• 1:33:56
  Yeah. So the original motors blown,
• 1:33:59
  pulled it out, sold that. And then I've got the red top
• 1:34:02
  here and I was like, yeah, I'll just rebuild it myself.
• 1:34:05
  I know what I'm doing. It can't be that hard, can't be
• 1:34:07
  that hard. So I start, I start breaking it
• 1:34:10
  down. I got like tables and stuff set
• 1:34:12
  up here and I was like putting all the parts out, put all the
• 1:34:15
  Cam caps, Cam caps in a bag, set them aside.
• 1:34:19
  Oh, is that bad? He, he knows where I'm going
• 1:34:21
  with this. Oh, and I just keep tearing it
• 1:34:24
  down till I get to the bare block and then like, you know,
• 1:34:28
  I'm like, alright, yeah, I'll just like I'll buy cams and I'll
• 1:34:30
  buy Pistons and valve springs and I'll buy the the gasket kit
• 1:34:34
  and, and everything and I'll do it.
• 1:34:36
  And then I don't remember who it was, but someone was like, hey,
• 1:34:39
  you kept those in order, right? Those, those Cam caps, I was
• 1:34:42
  like, what are you talking about?
• 1:34:44
  He's like, yeah, those those have to stay in the order that
• 1:34:47
  they came out in. If you're if you're going to put
• 1:34:49
  them back together and they're not marked, they just have like
• 1:34:52
  I or E. And so if you mix them, you have
• 1:34:55
  to get them like. A line honed, yeah.
• 1:34:57
  You have to get them line honed again.
• 1:34:59
  And I was like, oh, OK, like I don't know anything.
• 1:35:04
  I don't know what I'm doing. And I just have an Sr. that was
• 1:35:07
  running in a million pieces in my garage right now and I don't
• 1:35:10
  know how to put it back together.
• 1:35:12
  So yeah, at this point, you know, Jimmy and all them were
• 1:35:15
  like, dude, what are you like, what are you doing?
• 1:35:18
  Just get a stock KA, put it in the car and just go drive like
• 1:35:22
  enjoy it. So man, to to sum up, like, I
• 1:35:28
  don't know, four years of me like going back to school and
• 1:35:32
  back to work and back to school and trying to like get this
• 1:35:34
  thing to run and putting, you know, marketplace K as in the
• 1:35:38
  car and then they'd be blown up. I put AI put AKA in here.
• 1:35:42
  That was like blowing smoke. When I like accelerated it, it
• 1:35:46
  would leave a cloud. The biggest cloud ever.
• 1:35:49
  After you just bought it, yeah. Swapped it in, Yeah, someone
• 1:35:52
  told me that. A motherfucker.
• 1:35:54
  A buddy of mine said, yeah, we just rebuilt it, it's good to
• 1:35:57
  go. So I bought it.
• 1:35:58
  It was like 1000 bucks, Threw it in.
• 1:36:02
  I bought like an XTD clutch on eBay The eBay 1 the red one man
• 1:36:07
  it immediately slipped because I I I must have like not cleaned
• 1:36:10
  it or something when I put it in the.
• 1:36:12
  Flywheel or something? Or, or like the, the I didn't
• 1:36:14
  adjust the, the clutch pedal enough or or whatever.
• 1:36:18
  I didn't know anything at the time.
• 1:36:20
  And yeah, I just billowed smoke and I was like, OK.
• 1:36:24
  How? How long was that moment?
• 1:36:27
  I was like. After you bought the car it.
• 1:36:29
  Was like 3 years. What?
• 1:36:31
  Yeah. So you had the car here for
• 1:36:32
  three years working on it? Yeah wow Yeah OK, I bought like
• 1:36:38
  well cuz I had bought like when I was working instead of like
• 1:36:41
  fixing the motor and stuff I would go like buy Tees or I
• 1:36:45
  bought like I bought Type XI bought yeah dude I bought like
• 1:36:50
  the red Zeta 2. Did you have a Zilvia thread?
• 1:36:55
  By then, yeah. By this point, yeah, by this
• 1:36:57
  point I, I had I. The first thing I saw was
• 1:37:00
  Damon's blog. I.
• 1:37:01
  Was gonna say you're the next Damon now.
• 1:37:02
  Like just. Put in the car the first thing,
• 1:37:05
  yeah. Driveway.
• 1:37:07
  Yeah, dude, the first the. Famous driveway photo that I
• 1:37:10
  see. I took one too from over there.
• 1:37:12
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:37:15
  It's kind of a lot of parallels there with with Damon, Yeah.
• 1:37:18
  Believe it or not, you saying that and that I'm not, I'm not.
• 1:37:23
  I'm not knocking the method or the Strat because I would have
• 1:37:27
  done the same thing, but there's a lot of people out there who
• 1:37:30
  are probably like oh fuck, like I also would have done the same
• 1:37:35
  thing as dumb as it sounds, now that we're older, you know what
• 1:37:39
  I mean? Dude, because you just want to
• 1:37:40
  have something cool to look at. Yeah.
• 1:37:43
  While in the meantime, like I can't drive it and I want to
• 1:37:46
  like at least look at something cool and take pictures of it
• 1:37:48
  and. It's just funny because you
• 1:37:49
  could have fixed that cylinder head pretty easily, yeah.
• 1:37:52
  The. Sr.
• 1:37:54
  Yeah. So I ended up like selling that
• 1:37:55
  Sr. for parts. Yeah, it was.
• 1:37:58
  It was cooked so. Then you got another KA.
• 1:38:01
  And I got another KA from a buddy who was like, yeah, it's
• 1:38:03
  rebuilt, it's ready to. Go again.
• 1:38:04
  It's rebuilt ready. To go, oh, no, this, this is
• 1:38:06
  that one. OK, so then I bought a stock
• 1:38:09
  S14KA. And then you were, I think you
• 1:38:14
  needed like, you needed an S13 intake manifold and like
• 1:38:18
  something else to get those to work in a 13.
• 1:38:21
  And I just like couldn't find one for the life of me.
• 1:38:24
  So I was like, all right, I'm gonna sell it.
• 1:38:27
  God, I'm going to sell this because I'm going to just look
• 1:38:30
  for an S131. And yeah, by then, like I, I had
• 1:38:35
  met Damon and and Jimmy and they're kind of like telling me
• 1:38:39
  like, hey dude, just get like a stock Sr.
• 1:38:42
  Stop trying to like, oh, I guess I, I skipped a step here.
• 1:38:47
  Then I bought a like built Sr. in Kentucky that was like it
• 1:38:54
  needed to be assembled. Oh my God.
• 1:38:56
  But see, that's where you were before.
• 1:38:58
  That's exactly where I was before, but this one had the
• 1:39:00
  parts. Had the Cam cabs.
• 1:39:01
  On there labeled yeah, this. One had them.
• 1:39:04
  They had. I was like, are they in order?
• 1:39:05
  He's like, yeah, what do you mean?
• 1:39:06
  Of course they are. I was like, well, OK, perfect.
• 1:39:09
  And I was like, Oh well, if those are in order then.
• 1:39:11
  Yeah, everything else they would.
• 1:39:13
  Be Yeah, it had like Pistons, rods.
• 1:39:15
  I was like, all right, cool, now I'll have like what I wanted to
• 1:39:17
  do originally, but you know, and, and we knew of a of an
• 1:39:22
  engine builder who we still use today who, who's pretty good
• 1:39:24
  with Sr. So I was like, I'll just hand it
• 1:39:26
  off to that guy, have him assemble it and, and that'll be
• 1:39:30
  it. So I ended up doing that, paid
• 1:39:35
  the guy to assemble it and had the motor here on that stand
• 1:39:39
  right there ready to go. And Jimmy and Damon were both
• 1:39:43
  like, dude, do not run a built Sr.
• 1:39:47
  Like you need to have a like a stock Sr. is the most reliable
• 1:39:51
  thing because that if like you remember at that time, it was
• 1:39:54
  like you can't let the magic out.
• 1:39:56
  Yeah, you can't open. It up stock Sr. time.
• 1:39:58
  Dude, that is my mentality today.
• 1:40:00
  They're. All expired.
• 1:40:02
  Yeah. It doesn't hold it fine.
• 1:40:04
  Yeah. Yeah, I guess it has.
• 1:40:05
  They all all the valve stem seals.
• 1:40:07
  Are 2026? I thought it was 2019.
• 1:40:09
  I'm I. Mean it was still even back then
• 1:40:11
  it's like yeah, they're still old as fuck yeah, but it just.
• 1:40:15
  You had a better shot at one that was built by Nissan than
• 1:40:18
  by. Some whoever you know, so
• 1:40:21
  building engines is not no The thing is a lot of people just
• 1:40:26
  throw them together. They don't have the right tools.
• 1:40:28
  They just use, you know, whatever they got and then.
• 1:40:31
  Yeah. And then you know.
• 1:40:32
  People, yeah, it only takes 1 little thing and then it's going
• 1:40:35
  to keep getting worse. Dude, my stock Sr. got like 28
• 1:40:38
  miles per gallon, Yeah. Or like something high like that
• 1:40:42
  where I had to be like, is this right?
• 1:40:45
  Because it was a highway trip. I just was like, I'm going to
• 1:40:47
  see how many miles I could get out of this.
• 1:40:49
  Thing, yeah, stock I saw was like that was it.
• 1:40:51
  It was amazing. So they did convince you.
• 1:40:53
  Yeah, they convinced. Me.
• 1:40:54
  What'd you do with the built one?
• 1:40:56
  I sold it. Yep, I sold it on Facebook for
• 1:40:59
  like 2 grand. But USM?
• 1:41:00
  Oh no, you had someone to assemble it.
• 1:41:02
  Yeah, I paid someone. I paid someone to assemble it
• 1:41:04
  and then an importer here who they don't operate anymore, but
• 1:41:08
  they needed it for one of their cars that they had imported.
• 1:41:11
  So I just sold it to them. So then I what did I do?
• 1:41:17
  I at this point, I had seen like the ITO video with the red car
• 1:41:25
  when he's getting interviewed by tiny Gucci and he has an S15
• 1:41:29
  Senior and it looks so cool in there with the little hump on
• 1:41:32
  the yeah, the valve cover. And I was like, dude, I want
• 1:41:34
  that one. That one's cool.
• 1:41:35
  That was the. Is that the extent of?
• 1:41:38
  What? The little hump on the valve
• 1:41:39
  cover is 1. Yeah, it looks, it looks more
• 1:41:41
  muscular. You know, OK, yeah, all right.
• 1:41:44
  And. The valve cover has a little
• 1:41:45
  like drop. Yeah, it's like it's the most
• 1:41:47
  desirable one because it's the newest one in it and, you know,
• 1:41:50
  it's got like the whatever. So I was like, yeah, I want a 15
• 1:41:52
  one because I want a copy of this car.
• 1:41:55
  And so I went to an importer and they had a 15 motor, but it was
• 1:42:01
  like modified, like it had cams, it had like a spray painted
• 1:42:06
  valve cover. And so I wasn't stocked and we
• 1:42:10
  compression tested it. And all I knew at the time was
• 1:42:13
  that they needed to be above like 140 or whatever the factory
• 1:42:17
  service manual calls for. I didn't know that not only do
• 1:42:22
  they need to be above a certain number, but they need to be
• 1:42:23
  close to each other too. And so this thing was like 157
• 1:42:28
  one 84160 170. I was like, oh, this motor's
• 1:42:32
  great. Like it's like really good on
• 1:42:34
  some of them and it's good on all of them.
• 1:42:36
  You know, so I bought it like an idiot.
• 1:42:40
  And I, I, I talked to Mike, fat cat Mike, he's like, dude,
• 1:42:45
  that's not good. Like, let me let me leak down,
• 1:42:48
  test it. So we take it over there to his
• 1:42:51
  shop and he leaks it down and, and it's like, it's, it's
• 1:42:54
  screwed. It's it's not good.
• 1:42:57
  It's like 60. Percent yeah two of the
• 1:42:59
  cylinders were like yeah this low and yeah yeah fuck he was
• 1:43:03
  like dude yeah you should not have bought this so I was like
• 1:43:06
  dude this is like my 5th engine and.
• 1:43:09
  The car hasn't moved yet. There's.
• 1:43:10
  No way, dude. It's been years, dude.
• 1:43:12
  Yeah, there's no way. So I was like, dude, I just.
• 1:43:17
  So I took it back and the guy didn't want to accept it.
• 1:43:20
  Of course not. No, he was like, the engine's
• 1:43:22
  good, I sold you a good engine, blah blah.
• 1:43:24
  Every engine. It was an engine depot.
• 1:43:26
  Yeah, yeah. Every engine depot in the United
• 1:43:27
  States is the same exact place. It doesn't matter what state
• 1:43:29
  you're in. You walk it through the door,
• 1:43:30
  it's the same exact one. It's like NPC.
• 1:43:33
  Yeah, literally depot guy. Pallet racks from Home Depot,
• 1:43:37
  just with all the engines around it and on it.
• 1:43:40
  And they're just yelling at you at that.
• 1:43:41
  It's the same one. No, it's the same one.
• 1:43:43
  It's the same. Yeah, it's a good engine, good
• 1:43:44
  transmission. That one, yeah.
• 1:43:47
  So at this point Jimmy was like at the peak of his part out
• 1:43:53
  like. Oh yeah.
• 1:43:55
  You know, phase. So he was parking out cars left
• 1:43:57
  and right. He would come across he would
• 1:44:00
  come across Sr. as like like nothing.
• 1:44:02
  They I was like, dude, how are you finding somebody?
• 1:44:05
  He's like, I just basically like buy them, take them apart, sell
• 1:44:08
  them. And he had just bought a car,
• 1:44:12
  luckily that had a it was an S13.
• 1:44:14
  It was a hatch that had a S14 Cokie Sr. in it and it had like
• 1:44:21
  the wiring specialties harness and basically like everything
• 1:44:24
  that I needed for it to be a drop in ready to go thing from a
• 1:44:29
  running driving car. We compression tested it and it
• 1:44:32
  was like 156 one 55156. It was like great.
• 1:44:37
  So I was like, oh, OK, like this is it, this is the one.
• 1:44:40
  This is the forever 1. I finally just found. 1 So I
• 1:44:44
  took my 15 motor and I think Jimmy was like, yeah, the guy
• 1:44:50
  said the transmission was bad on this one.
• 1:44:53
  So we just swapped the transmissions and I took mine
• 1:44:56
  back to the depot and paid the restock fee because he wasn't
• 1:45:00
  going to take it unless I paid the restock fee.
• 1:45:02
  Yeah, OK. Yeah, it's the same trend.
• 1:45:06
  It's the same trend it. Feels like 10% or something.
• 1:45:11
  OK. That's not even that bad.
• 1:45:13
  Like if you were to choose a loss, you know what I mean?
• 1:45:15
  Pick your battles or whatever. You were just at first you were
• 1:45:17
  like. I was so frustrated.
• 1:45:18
  I just I was like whatever, I don't care, just get it out what
• 1:45:22
  it takes. I just found the good motor.
• 1:45:24
  I got this like turd sitting here, get this out of here, I'll
• 1:45:27
  pay whatever. So I did, I got the motor from
• 1:45:33
  Jimmy's. It had like a sparkly painted
• 1:45:36
  valve cover. I just sprayed it black so it
• 1:45:38
  looks stock again. And you know, I had like painted
• 1:45:40
  the Bay. I was finally like making this
• 1:45:43
  car nice and I had good decent parts to go together.
• 1:45:49
  So I threw it in and it works. It's like perfect.
• 1:45:55
  You know, I was buying like all the cool supporting stuff like
• 1:45:57
  the Gretty intercooler, you know, 'cause I'm a catch can the
• 1:46:01
  ephexy intake Z32 math, damn all all kinds of like I'm.
• 1:46:05
  Super cool. That is like the coolest I'm
• 1:46:07
  picturing. If you were to drag over a table
• 1:46:09
  with all the parts on it, it probably was awesome.
• 1:46:11
  Like the? Friends through shiny dude.
• 1:46:14
  Yeah, right hand drive Japan and this is sick.
• 1:46:16
  Too You were that that was such an uphill for you that this is
• 1:46:20
  probably so light. Yeah, this is like 2018 now and
• 1:46:24
  I'm like, Oh my God, dude, I finally have like an SRS 13
• 1:46:29
  after all these years, like one that actually runs and drives
• 1:46:31
  because they had like Rs enthalpy tune.
• 1:46:33
  It was like ready to go. We just put like a manual boost
• 1:46:37
  controller and and a wide man gauge on it.
• 1:46:42
  And I was just monitoring that and and then I bought deafies
• 1:46:45
  and it just, it just finally took off.
• 1:46:47
  You know, I had something worth putting money into.
• 1:46:51
  What did you feel like when you drove the car finally?
• 1:46:52
  I was about to ask, was that a good feeling or?
• 1:46:55
  Now you're a proper. Yeah, no, it was, it was so
• 1:46:58
  sick. I, I remember when it first
• 1:47:00
  started up, I had like a brand new coil in there, like
• 1:47:04
  everything was brand new. And, and, you know, just hooked
• 1:47:07
  up the fuel lines, put a battery in it, turned it over and the
• 1:47:10
  thing just sputtered up and it was just making that turbo
• 1:47:13
  whistling noise in here in the garage echoing.
• 1:47:16
  And I was just like, oh, dude, like this is the coolest feeling
• 1:47:19
  ever. And I I'll never get that again.
• 1:47:21
  Dude, the neighbors are probably watch the progression of your.
• 1:47:25
  Life, yeah, it's sat out there for like 3 years.
• 1:47:28
  That's what I'm saying. Like the fact that this gets to
• 1:47:30
  sit here now and yeah. Yeah, they saw that all
• 1:47:32
  happened. I'm I'm assuming a lot of these
• 1:47:34
  people that live here maybe have lived here for a while.
• 1:47:37
  Well, a little bit maybe. Or do they?
• 1:47:39
  Switch in and out. Yeah, a lot of the neighbors
• 1:47:42
  have moved, moved out of here. Probably you.
• 1:47:45
  Yeah, No my. Yeah.
• 1:47:48
  I would move too. The neighbor across the street
• 1:47:51
  had an S13 actually. Wow, that's crazy.
• 1:47:53
  Yeah, like in there like at the same time where you're saying at
• 1:47:56
  one point. Yeah, I have a picture of both,
• 1:47:58
  like he was standing like here and so I can see both of them
• 1:48:01
  and I take a picture. Spider man meme.
• 1:48:03
  Yeah, he's like what? His was like a daily though.
• 1:48:05
  It was nice. Yeah, that's like what I was
• 1:48:07
  picturing is if like, Oh yeah, I got one of those.
• 1:48:10
  Yeah. No, no, mine was like a totally.
• 1:48:12
  Different guys. Like, I've been staring at yours
• 1:48:13
  for fucking three years, so I figured.
• 1:48:15
  Dude that I don't know because there's there's some neighbors
• 1:48:19
  of mine. You ever you ever like drive the
• 1:48:21
  same way so many times you're you're going to look and notice
• 1:48:25
  things. I don't mean to be looking at
• 1:48:26
  somebody's house, but then you like see a project or they're
• 1:48:30
  working on it and then months down the line you also see the
• 1:48:33
  project move because they're doing stuff too, You know,
• 1:48:36
  they're on their own little timeline or whatever.
• 1:48:38
  And then that car drives. My neighbor had like an old
• 1:48:42
  truck one day I heard it, I heard something turn on and then
• 1:48:46
  I also saw something drive by. He comes by, he's just big ass
• 1:48:50
  smile on his face, just like right back in the garage.
• 1:48:53
  We're not. What are we going to talk about?
• 1:48:55
  Like, so I don't know. I used to be happy for somebody
• 1:48:58
  else and if I saw that after seeing the multiples, it would
• 1:49:03
  be like, oh dude. Yeah, it would that.
• 1:49:06
  Guy was building a thing. Four years.
• 1:49:08
  Yeah, it was like 4 years I think from like when I bought it
• 1:49:12
  to when it got painted. And in that time, most of the
• 1:49:16
  time was spent just sitting there and like, putting cool
• 1:49:18
  wheels on it. Just switching to wheels.
• 1:49:20
  I literally just think of Camry on Brown.
• 1:49:22
  I think of Damon. Yeah or just like I put like the
• 1:49:24
  seats in it yeah, You know what I mean like nice stuff like
• 1:49:27
  that. I bought like arms for it.
• 1:49:29
  The car doesn't even have a motor.
• 1:49:31
  You know the T ES over the. First time?
• 1:49:34
  When did you drift it for the first time?
• 1:49:36
  It was that year when I when I got the Sr. in it.
• 1:49:41
  Like the thing steered, finally. Yeah, I was like, Oh yeah.
• 1:49:44
  That's right, you, you literally.
• 1:49:45
  This is my first time feeling like a proper S13.
• 1:49:48
  Oh my God. Yeah, 'cause I had put when when
• 1:49:54
  I put the KA in it, that was like smoking really bad.
• 1:49:56
  I put a welded 46IN it too. So with when I had the Sr. and
• 1:50:03
  it had that 46 welded, so I it was ready to go.
• 1:50:06
  And yeah, I remember taking it out to like Jimmy's old job.
• 1:50:12
  He used to work at this place that had like a big kind of
• 1:50:14
  warehouse. And I took it out and it was
• 1:50:17
  like riding a bike. I picked it back up like like
• 1:50:20
  nothing ever happened. And it was probably so easy
• 1:50:22
  compared to. Before.
• 1:50:23
  Oh yeah. Dude like I've been waiting 4.
• 1:50:26
  Years for this, this thing. This finally feels like the Z
• 1:50:29
  did. Yeah, like a new car, Like
• 1:50:31
  everything works and the brakes work, the steering works,
• 1:50:34
  everything's like perfect. Did you still have the Z when
• 1:50:37
  this was started running or? Yes, but but not when I got the
• 1:50:42
  Sr. By then I had traded it for a
• 1:50:46
  Titan because I needed a truck to go get the motor and all that
• 1:50:49
  kind of stuff. Did you ever take the Z to a
• 1:50:52
  track? Yeah, I did.
• 1:50:55
  I took it to Lone Star one time. But no, it wasn't.
• 1:50:58
  It was someone else who had like rented out.
• 1:51:00
  We used to drive at Gulf Greyhound Park, which is a dog
• 1:51:03
  racing track, what with a massive parking lot and that's
• 1:51:07
  where all our events were. And I took it out there one time
• 1:51:10
  and and yeah, it was it was tough because it had the VLSD
• 1:51:15
  and like the 270 fives and it's just not a good time.
• 1:51:17
  The DIF would just open up because of how much grip the
• 1:51:21
  tires had that yeah, it couldn't hold a corner unless I was
• 1:51:26
  borrowing my buddies like 240 fives then then yeah, it would
• 1:51:29
  it would RIP. But no, it, it, it was great.
• 1:51:32
  It was like, dude, this is finally like I'm finally here.
• 1:51:35
  I can, you know, this, the car works.
• 1:51:38
  And then I think it was so that was like November of 2018.
• 1:51:44
  And then in 2019, it might have been, it might have been also
• 1:51:50
  2018, there was a club loose event in San Antonio because we
• 1:51:53
  had the, Oh yeah, the Texas club loose guys.
• 1:51:56
  I was about to be like you did not.
• 1:51:59
  Yeah. No, no, we buy this there.
• 1:52:02
  No, Yeah. Like, is this another chapter
• 1:52:04
  that's about to be like, I wanted to see Frankie?
• 1:52:07
  Like, yeah, yeah. No, they had they had the Texas.
• 1:52:10
  Yeah, I forget about that sometimes.
• 1:52:13
  Yeah, I took it out and up until now, like I had told Jimmy that
• 1:52:19
  I knew how to drift because because I had practice like in
• 1:52:23
  takeovers and stuff, you know, and he and he never like he was
• 1:52:26
  like, yeah, I was like, whatever, you don't know what
• 1:52:28
  you're talking about because I because I'd be in the chat and
• 1:52:30
  they'd be talking about like, oh, like when I do this, it like
• 1:52:33
  it doesn't feel good or like my, I keep spinning out because of
• 1:52:36
  this. And I, I wanted to be like,
• 1:52:38
  well, like try like this or try this, but I didn't because I
• 1:52:40
  didn't, I'd be talking like out of my rank, you know what I
• 1:52:43
  mean? So I just kind of had to keep my
• 1:52:46
  mouth shut and just kind of whatever.
• 1:52:48
  And then yeah, I go to the club loose and you know, they do like
• 1:52:53
  the AB and C, I start in CI, think they just wanted like
• 1:52:57
  figure eights. I just immediately do like 4
• 1:53:00
  figure eights or whatever it was.
• 1:53:01
  Then I go to B and then I just link the whole thing like
• 1:53:04
  perfectly like blowing smoke, tire smoke everywhere like it
• 1:53:07
  was. Sick geeking inside too.
• 1:53:09
  This thing it was like AT28 turned up to like 12 lbs.
• 1:53:13
  Like. It was ripping.
• 1:53:14
  It was like 260. Wow, and the car was slammed.
• 1:53:18
  With the 462, so you're you, you can like really be a part of.
• 1:53:22
  This experience, right? Yeah, I drove, I drove it out
• 1:53:24
  there to San Antonio, which is like 3 hours.
• 1:53:29
  But yeah, that that was like the first, first like real event
• 1:53:32
  that I drove the thing and it it was, it was so good.
• 1:53:34
  What did it look like then? It was still blue.
• 1:53:39
  It was like I had I had just bought XR ones and I just rolled
• 1:53:43
  those things all the way down. It was it had 17 inch TS in the
• 1:53:48
  front and then Jimmy let me borrow some white LMS for the
• 1:53:52
  rear and the fenders were pulled and it was just missing a front
• 1:53:57
  bumper, no skirts, no valances. It had type X tails, the Kevlar
• 1:54:02
  centerpiece and just like a clean uncracked dash with deaf
• 1:54:07
  ease and A and a Zeta 2. I read Zeta 2 and a Nardi and it
• 1:54:12
  was like it was like the beginnings of building this.
• 1:54:17
  I think it's awesome. I was the first time Frankie
• 1:54:20
  ever saw me drift. I have it on tape.
• 1:54:23
  Like I go down the street and I enter and I'm like, I hit two
• 1:54:28
  corners and Frankie Detaz goes, huh, Carl knows how to drift.
• 1:54:33
  Fucking guy. I was like, dude, I've been
• 1:54:34
  drifting before, like. Yeah, that's how it was.
• 1:54:38
  That was just like, oh, you like, you know what you're
• 1:54:40
  doing? And you don't want to be like,
• 1:54:41
  I've been trying to fucking tell you, right?
• 1:54:44
  Because. You don't want to be that guy
• 1:54:46
  that's like, yeah, I know what I'm doing like and they're like,
• 1:54:48
  yeah, shut up, dude, You don't know.
• 1:54:49
  You've never done, now I'm. Telling Frankie I know what I'm
• 1:54:51
  doing now better than. Me.
• 1:54:53
  Dude, it's just because like I want Frankie to experience
• 1:54:55
  because okay, dude, you're the first early events 2016 with car
• 1:55:01
  one. Yeah, I I bet that car was on
• 1:55:04
  fifteens. Yeah, they were like.
• 1:55:06
  Steely's like with whatever tires you could find and and
• 1:55:11
  thus forth. But now in 2026, dude, I want
• 1:55:16
  him to like, feel like a Valeno tire.
• 1:55:18
  Yeah, I never, I never drifted on good tires also.
• 1:55:20
  Or like something where you feel the car like fucking like.
• 1:55:23
  You ever drifted on a Kenda? Yeah, I think that was the last.
• 1:55:28
  I really don't know. Honestly, I might not have.
• 1:55:31
  He does not care, he just lost the drift.
• 1:55:34
  Like that's because. But now I, no, now I care more
• 1:55:36
  about the tire because everyone's so like, you know,
• 1:55:39
  right when I stopped was when everyone started like Front
• 1:55:42
  Street and everyone started. Carrying fast.
• 1:55:43
  Yeah. And I was like, I was like, I
• 1:55:46
  just started like thinking about, like, I remember I got
• 1:55:49
  good front tires. Yeah, I was like, finally I
• 1:55:51
  bought nice front tires. Yeah.
• 1:55:53
  And then I was like, OK, oh, I went to a 245 rear instead of a
• 1:55:56
  2:35. I was like trying to fit
• 1:55:58
  something bigger, but it was still a shitty tire.
• 1:56:01
  I still haven't like tried a real tire yet.
• 1:56:03
  And I can't wait because I remember having no fucking grip.
• 1:56:06
  Yeah, ever. And that was always the thing,
• 1:56:09
  like I'm trying to keep up with people pulling away from me.
• 1:56:13
  Yeah, no, that was the formula for a while.
• 1:56:14
  Like I remember I would just especially man, during the
• 1:56:17
  pandemic, like West Lakes were like $60.00 a pot for a 22540.
• 1:56:23
  And then I would just have like a pair of the Falcon RT 615 KS
• 1:56:28
  in the front. And yeah, like we, we drove so
• 1:56:32
  much 2020. We were driving once a week for
• 1:56:37
  like 4 months or something. Holy shit, something like that.
• 1:56:39
  Dude because during COVID the spots were blown.
• 1:56:43
  Out. Oh no, no, this is at Speed
• 1:56:44
  Sports. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:56:45
  The owner was like, hey, no one's coming.
• 1:56:47
  Like I'll do like a membership thing if you guys are down.
• 1:56:50
  Like you just pay X amount. I think it was like 100 bucks or
• 1:56:54
  something. What?
• 1:56:55
  That's crazy. I think you could come up
• 1:56:58
  Wednesdays and Sundays. See, that's what we fucking need
• 1:57:00
  at Club Lose. Like Raceway Park in general.
• 1:57:03
  That's actually really not a bad idea.
• 1:57:05
  Maybe more expensive. Yeah, maybe not 100 bucks,
• 1:57:08
  Maybe. Well, the 150 bucks is hard.
• 1:57:11
  Yeah. Like you won't hit a Yeah,
• 1:57:12
  that's smart. You'll go.
• 1:57:13
  For COVID times, yeah. That too, but by us what ended
• 1:57:17
  up happening during COVID was like the cops weren't outside.
• 1:57:22
  Oh yeah, so and neither were the people.
• 1:57:23
  The cops were like worrying about the people that were
• 1:57:25
  outside. So the drift spots like dude.
• 1:57:28
  That's when kind of takeover. Started that's when it really
• 1:57:31
  the drift spots were getting occupied by not just people who
• 1:57:33
  want to drift them, but then people who were trying to do
• 1:57:35
  takeover shit. So then that's kind of when it
• 1:57:38
  all started to go bad in our area.
• 1:57:40
  Yeah, yeah. But at the same time it was so
• 1:57:43
  good. Dude I just sold my 2:40 when
• 1:57:45
  COVID happened unfortunately and then I was like damn.
• 1:57:48
  Yeah, I kind of skipped ahead, but 20/19 was I was still
• 1:57:52
  working at Ford and then that was when I ordered the kit I
• 1:57:55
  think like November of 18 and then it showed up like February
• 1:58:01
  or March or something. And no, I ordered it in October
• 1:58:05
  because it was the deal the. Halloween the Halloween deal and
• 1:58:08
  you combine the checks. Yeah, combine checks and I got
• 1:58:11
  it in like February or March, and my buddy was a painter and I
• 1:58:16
  had him paint it and he wet it up.
• 1:58:18
  And on Cinco de Mayo 2019, I remember the day because it was
• 1:58:22
  Cinco de Mayo. That was when I like we fat
• 1:58:26
  cats. In essence.
• 1:58:27
  We did like a private day at the Houston Police Academy and that
• 1:58:30
  was kind of like where I like debuted the car.
• 1:58:33
  And I remember, no, I didn't tell anyone the colour that I
• 1:58:37
  was going to do. And Jimmy at the time had the
• 1:58:41
  red sedan, the R32 on BN I. Love that car.
• 1:58:44
  Yeah. And I didn't tell him.
• 1:58:48
  I didn't tell anyone at all. At all.
• 1:58:50
  Damn, it was a secret. Hard.
• 1:58:52
  Oh I love this for. You fresh BN Fresh car no.
• 1:58:55
  One's ever seen for you, yeah. And was it the same colour that
• 1:58:58
  he had? Yeah, yeah, I thought so.
• 1:59:00
  Yeah, we, yeah, we all did AR2, which is the Nissan S15 Red R34
• 1:59:05
  S 15. Red dude that and what was Do
• 1:59:08
  you remember Roland? Did you dude?
• 1:59:10
  I pulled up and he he just there's like a video of it.
• 1:59:13
  He goes, it's red. He I get out of the car, he runs
• 1:59:18
  over and like hugs me and everything.
• 1:59:20
  It was it was such a cool. It was awesome man.
• 1:59:22
  That's funny. Yeah, that at that time, like
• 1:59:24
  we, it was really just like us, like Essence and Fat cats and we
• 1:59:27
  were just help like hosting private days and we were just
• 1:59:31
  going out there and driving and having fun.
• 1:59:33
  It was. It was great.
• 1:59:35
  Dude that was probably honestly a fun ass time.
• 1:59:38
  And like, yeah, and then final about came the next year 2020,
• 1:59:44
  like February was final about South because I remember because
• 1:59:49
  it was just before the pandemic happened.
• 1:59:51
  Yeah, I was like. When we were first, right?
• 1:59:54
  We're we're all, we always go first.
• 1:59:55
  I think it's because of the weather.
• 1:59:57
  Yeah. So we were like February.
• 2:00:00
  And everyone's, it was our first time driving speed sports.
• 2:00:04
  Like a lot of people, a few of us like Jimmy and Zach had
• 2:00:07
  driven it like once or twice before, but totally new
• 2:00:11
  experience. So a lot of people were like
• 2:00:14
  really struggling. And I remember like that event,
• 2:00:19
  a lot of the Lone Star guys showed up and we're just like
• 2:00:22
  going crazy on Facebook. Like you guys suck.
• 2:00:25
  And all they do is build like nice cars and no one can drive.
• 2:00:30
  And yeah, that that was anyways. So they they drive where they
• 2:00:36
  drive, like not around here, they drive somewhere else.
• 2:00:38
  No, yeah, they, they drive mostly.
• 2:00:41
  Well, they used to, the police Academy is no longer a thing
• 2:00:44
  anymore, but they, it used to be police Academy and Texas Motor
• 2:00:48
  Speedway up in Dallas and some other, some other big parking
• 2:00:54
  lots there. There used to be a an abandoned
• 2:00:57
  airport called Mineral Wells where a lot of it would happen.
• 2:01:00
  That sounds awesome. Yeah.
• 2:01:02
  Yeah, I was just about to ask where it is now because I did
• 2:01:05
  hear that HPA closed. So at least for drifting,
• 2:01:08
  they're using it for other stuff.
• 2:01:10
  Yeah, for police stuff. Yeah, they close it off to the
• 2:01:15
  public, so it's just for them. But them hating on on you guys
• 2:01:21
  because of that, that's that that happens.
• 2:01:23
  All across the country, dude. Yeah, it's always, it's the same
• 2:01:26
  conversation everywhere, Yeah. It's like the same shit like at
• 2:01:29
  Club Lewis, they'd be like, you know, yo, if you just like raise
• 2:01:32
  your car a little, it'll be good man.
• 2:01:34
  And we're like, no, it looks cool.
• 2:01:36
  Why not? It's like because I then I don't
• 2:01:38
  care about drifting anymore. Don't tell them to go take a
• 2:01:41
  shower. Yeah, that's.
• 2:01:42
  My. Favorite fucking response?
• 2:01:43
  Because I got red pilled. Because I'm trying to do.
• 2:01:47
  Something. But like it, it depends on the
• 2:01:49
  people, you know, some, yeah, a lot of people at least club
• 2:01:53
  loose like Hector and stuff. Like they're like, oh, OK.
• 2:01:57
  Like they don't, they're like, they know that you're not going
• 2:02:00
  to change because you like the way it looks, you know, so.
• 2:02:03
  Yeah, there was, there was a lot of friction.
• 2:02:04
  I remember in those days it, it eventually just kind of fizzled
• 2:02:08
  out and, and, you know, we kind of hashed it out.
• 2:02:10
  But yeah, it was rough at first. I remember like a lot of drama
• 2:02:15
  and so kind of stuff. Just because the cars look good.
• 2:02:19
  Yeah. Look, man, it was like style
• 2:02:21
  versus driving and well, that was the thing.
• 2:02:24
  Disease. When final bout started too, it
• 2:02:26
  was like, they're like, Oh, no one can drive up there, this and
• 2:02:28
  that. And I'm like, OK, I mean, I
• 2:02:30
  don't. I don't know and now it's
• 2:02:32
  depends. On what you care about, you
• 2:02:33
  know, like a lot of people just care about the driving.
• 2:02:35
  Back then, a lot of people just cared about the driving.
• 2:02:37
  A lot of people didn't give a fuck about driving.
• 2:02:39
  Kind of like me, right? And then they kind of meshed
• 2:02:42
  over the last 10 years. I feel like now a lot of the
• 2:02:45
  people that cared just really looks is yeah, they care a lot
• 2:02:47
  about the driving. And it's like, yeah.
• 2:02:49
  Yeah, imagine the shit you went through like that journey 1-2
• 2:02:52
  and three, right? But imagine you had to go
• 2:02:56
  through it today. Oh yeah, I couldn't do it.
• 2:02:59
  My wise, I don't. Think I no, not even not even
• 2:03:01
  money wise dude. I'm talking about like, OK, you
• 2:03:05
  found you found car three that had the sign title off off of
• 2:03:14
  another page, but then you happen to know another car
• 2:03:17
  through like through a friend of a friend of a friend.
• 2:03:20
  You were able to do this. But now if you want to do wanted
• 2:03:24
  to do anything like that, you'd probably have to travel and that
• 2:03:27
  connection wouldn't be as, I don't know, like access, not
• 2:03:31
  accessible, but like the way that that happened.
• 2:03:34
  I feel as is more unlikely for you for kids nowadays to get
• 2:03:38
  into a 240 or S13 is probably if.
• 2:03:41
  Unless you're paying out the ass it's probably such a pain.
• 2:03:45
  Yeah, you you really have to get into it because you love the
• 2:03:50
  car, Like you, you just like, if you just want something to
• 2:03:53
  drift, there's way better options like today.
• 2:03:56
  Like, I hope, I hope kids are having the same stories but with
• 2:03:59
  ZN Sixes, you know, like, yo, we're going to go get that.
• 2:04:02
  Yeah, that would be great. You know what I mean?
• 2:04:04
  Dude, I'm. Picturing.
• 2:04:05
  I'm picturing if I was a kid too, like 'cause now the ZN 6
• 2:04:09
  has that presence. Kind of like people.
• 2:04:11
  Style them up and then and they look sick.
• 2:04:13
  Like, yeah, it has a presence where somebody may look at it
• 2:04:17
  and go, wow, I'm going to build something that looks like that.
• 2:04:21
  Cause a lot of people can't envision right off the rib,
• 2:04:24
  which is fine, but then you see one thing and then it's right
• 2:04:28
  down the slope. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:04:30
  That's. What I feel like that opens that
• 2:04:32
  door up to which will be awesome.
• 2:04:35
  Once you see like a properly styled car and it just clicks in
• 2:04:39
  your head, you're like, oh, this is what I want to do.
• 2:04:42
  And you see a car that's like low, it's on some shiny wheels
• 2:04:45
  and it's out there drifting, and it's just like, dude, that's
• 2:04:48
  attainable. You know what I mean?
• 2:04:49
  It's it's like even being around cars that aren't even
• 2:04:53
  necessarily necessarily the same as yours too.
• 2:04:57
  You just take stuff in and like just having our even this
• 2:05:00
  conversation that we're having now, like I, I'm going to go
• 2:05:02
  home from this and literally fucking be like, oh, OK, I kind
• 2:05:06
  of understand where I want to head a little bit better and
• 2:05:10
  just, I don't know, it helps out Like yesterday, the conversation
• 2:05:12
  we had with Logan, that guy's car is.
• 2:05:14
  Beautiful it is. Like the color, the paint and
• 2:05:17
  everything. And that's somebody who also
• 2:05:19
  takes really good pride in their work, just like you do with
• 2:05:21
  yours. And like, I just really hope
• 2:05:24
  this shit don't fucking go away dude.
• 2:05:26
  Yeah, yeah, no, I think, I think there's enough of us who are
• 2:05:29
  just obsessed with these things too, that that they'll be alive
• 2:05:33
  for a while. Because unless they like stop
• 2:05:37
  making parts, I don't see these things going away.
• 2:05:39
  Dude, I don't think they're making parts for new cars.
• 2:05:42
  I think they're just making parts for old cars.
• 2:05:45
  Like didn't you say that the other day because.
• 2:05:48
  What were we talking about? Like the like the OEM stuff?
• 2:05:50
  Well, like, OK, I had a friend tell me like, I like when they
• 2:05:56
  work at a dealer. It's kind of nice when you talk
• 2:05:57
  to a tech because you could figure out what cars are shitty.
• 2:06:00
  Like they're like, I don't really see those come in often,
• 2:06:02
  right? That's kind of cool.
• 2:06:03
  It's a good car then. And like, I don't know, just
• 2:06:08
  where the fuck was I going? With that with the parts.
• 2:06:10
  Where the parts or Yeah, the, the parts that they're getting,
• 2:06:13
  they're never at the dealer. They're like always somewhere
• 2:06:16
  else. Yeah.
• 2:06:17
  And like, I feel like, wouldn't you want?
• 2:06:19
  Isn't that what that's for? Like, don't you need to have
• 2:06:21
  these parts here so that you can repair the vehicles that come
• 2:06:25
  in? But I just don't think that
• 2:06:26
  they're repairing them. They toss them or they put a new
• 2:06:28
  motor in it. Oh.
• 2:06:29
  Dealerships always. Yeah.
• 2:06:31
  And then it's then it's like the next car, get another car, get
• 2:06:33
  them in another one. And then dude, I don't know
• 2:06:35
  where what they're doing with them, but like that's going to
• 2:06:38
  be a problem in the future. Dealership would rather you get
• 2:06:42
  new cars then yeah. Always.
• 2:06:45
  There's no more. But then they go to the, then
• 2:06:47
  they go to the fucking auction, and then, yeah, someone finds
• 2:06:51
  it. That's probably what's going on
• 2:06:52
  with the ZN Sixes shit, honestly, because that's what I
• 2:06:54
  would be doing if I wanted that car.
• 2:06:55
  Yeah, I'd be like looking at the auction or something like that.
• 2:06:58
  Be like, oh, here's one with like a bad quarter panel for
• 2:07:00
  fucking 2 grand. Like, all right, I'll get this
• 2:07:02
  car. Dude, even the Copart ones
• 2:07:04
  nowadays too, because whatever we do right now, it's it's not a
• 2:07:08
  competition, but it's kind of PvP.
• 2:07:10
  You're going against another buyer.
• 2:07:12
  Yeah, like there's someone out there who will buy that shit for
• 2:07:16
  four grand. Yeah, that's for no.
• 2:07:18
  Reason and you're like, why did you just buy?
• 2:07:20
  That. Yeah, that's why the prices of
• 2:07:22
  the two 40s go up and up and up and up.
• 2:07:23
  It does, but also just yeah, the demand is up and the supply is
• 2:07:28
  low. That is textbook money.
• 2:07:32
  Money right there. Damn.
• 2:07:34
  Economics, one O 1. Economics.
• 2:07:36
  Yeah, one O 1. Did you do a questionnaire for
• 2:07:38
  Kev? I can look at it.
• 2:07:40
  We literally put it up right before we got here.
• 2:07:43
  Yeah, so. Did you have anything you wanted
• 2:07:45
  to share? Man, we've just been berating
• 2:07:47
  you with questions and I was like.
• 2:07:48
  Damn, no I love it man cuz I didn't know what I was gonna
• 2:07:50
  talk about. We.
• 2:07:52
  Just no. This is cool cuz we actually got
• 2:07:53
  to hear about the car. An actual chronological story
• 2:07:56
  like which? We haven't done that in a long.
• 2:07:57
  Time we rarely have those because then we'll go on a tan
• 2:08:00
  we almost fucking. Did.
• 2:08:01
  Yeah, we almost did. We caught ourselves.
• 2:08:02
  It was that feeling, dude. I'm still remembering that.
• 2:08:05
  Because again, like getting out of the car, you see the car, now
• 2:08:10
  you're about to question, is that a piece of shit?
• 2:08:14
  Like, is this bad? Should I be here?
• 2:08:16
  You look at the car, you buy it, you bring it home.
• 2:08:19
  Yeah, no, the car eventually got to a point where it was just
• 2:08:22
  like, I'm having fun with it. I'm just buying tires and oil
• 2:08:25
  changes. That's perfect.
• 2:08:27
  And it was so good. Did you keep the engine the same
• 2:08:30
  like since? Then yeah, well, no, it's built
• 2:08:31
  now. It is built.
• 2:08:32
  It's built now. By you?
• 2:08:34
  No, I remember OK, You had. Some same guy, actually.
• 2:08:38
  And it's been running good. Yeah.
• 2:08:40
  So that built one would have probably been.
• 2:08:43
  It's pretty good, yeah, Probably pretty sweet.
• 2:08:45
  So the guy. Jimmy like it probably would
• 2:08:48
  have been awesome. That guy I sold it to, they put
• 2:08:52
  it in some Sylvia and they made 500 horsebacks.
• 2:08:54
  Oh yeah, yeah. I was like Dang dude, I missed.
• 2:09:00
  It not messed up, but you took you took like a really long out
• 2:09:04
  Rd. But it was an S13 Sr., So at the
• 2:09:07
  end, at the end of the day, I was, I'm glad I got yeah, you
• 2:09:09
  got the notch stuff because I wanted the notch stuff.
• 2:09:11
  You know why'd you end up building this one?
• 2:09:13
  This one, I think it was last year.
• 2:09:18
  Yeah, I think it was last year. I did a lap with the GT 1 and I
• 2:09:23
  finished the lap Yeah, it is why I I finished the lap and my oil
• 2:09:27
  pressure gauge is pinned at 0. Yep.
• 2:09:30
  I was like the car was. Like I don't like this.
• 2:09:32
  I just shut it off and coasted and we took the engine.
• 2:09:37
  I I took it out, put it on the stand, took the oil pump off and
• 2:09:41
  it was shattered. Wow.
• 2:09:43
  The oil pump, it's the whole front cover was cracked and
• 2:09:46
  shattered. Holy shit.
• 2:09:48
  So something the outside of it, the outside, the inside.
• 2:09:51
  Wow, Yeah, I've. Never seen that.
• 2:09:52
  Like the like, it's like a big cover.
• 2:09:55
  On the front cover, like behind the crank pulley.
• 2:09:57
  That is because the oil pump's right behind there.
• 2:10:00
  Damn. Yeah, yeah, the the like
• 2:10:02
  powdered Metal Gear inside, Yeah, cracked in like 5 pieces
• 2:10:06
  and then the actual front cover also was cracked.
• 2:10:09
  Maybe from the gear splitting? Yeah, it probably.
• 2:10:12
  Being up in there, yeah. That that makes sense, but why
• 2:10:15
  did the gear break? That's the I.
• 2:10:17
  Didn't know those were expensive now too.
• 2:10:19
  I I bought a OEM oil pump. I don't know why we did this
• 2:10:24
  because Chris was like these hardly go.
• 2:10:26
  Why do you want to replace this? But it was making a whining
• 2:10:29
  sound and I was like, no, I think this it has to be this.
• 2:10:32
  No, we need to do this. And I bought it for 250 bucks.
• 2:10:36
  It was OEM or under 300 shipped. I think.
• 2:10:40
  I think they're pretty annoying now.
• 2:10:41
  Maybe to get, I don't know. Yeah, I don't think the S141 is
• 2:10:44
  cheaper. The S13 one is really expensive
• 2:10:46
  now for. Some reason, right, Right.
• 2:10:48
  And then all you would have to do is like drill out a dowel or
• 2:10:51
  put 1A dowel. So now no one's buying the S13
• 2:10:53
  one you just you just modify the S141.
• 2:10:55
  But someone said what's the best motor and why is it a VQ35DE?
• 2:11:00
  No. Dude, I was scared.
• 2:11:02
  I was scared you were going to say like some outlandish motor
• 2:11:04
  one after the other would be like I so I got AKA.
• 2:11:07
  But then I actually. I put ALS and then it didn't
• 2:11:11
  work. Like, I was really scared that's
• 2:11:15
  where you were going. Because at this point I was
• 2:11:18
  getting coached up, right? So it was either AKA or an Sr.
• 2:11:23
  It was really all the choices that there.
• 2:11:24
  Were that they gave me the red. That was it.
• 2:11:29
  I'm gonna keep no RB, no RB not allowed.
• 2:11:32
  No, not an S chassis. That's a don't open the magic
• 2:11:35
  motor that RBI, don't know why, but when you take it out of the
• 2:11:38
  R3233, whatever it started every single one of our friends that
• 2:11:43
  hasn't had an RB, yeah, had some weird gripe with it.
• 2:11:48
  Yeah, I don't know enough about those things to really.
• 2:11:50
  I get nervous because I'm like I don't what what is this?
• 2:11:52
  It's also massive compared to Sr.
• 2:11:55
  And like, at the time I was like, God damn, this is a lot.
• 2:11:58
  I don't know what I'm looking. At what is your opinion on the
• 2:12:00
  VQ35D? You know, I had AG 35.
• 2:12:05
  Wait, OK, what happened? The story of this fit?
• 2:12:07
  Yeah. Where did that?
• 2:12:08
  Oh, this is like the most recent.
• 2:12:09
  This is before that S14. Oh, OK.
• 2:12:12
  So recently just. Recently, yeah, because I wanted
• 2:12:15
  to do the thing where like Mazda guys will have like an RX7, an
• 2:12:20
  MX5, something like that, and then they'll daily like an RX8,
• 2:12:24
  and I always thought that was really cool.
• 2:12:26
  Because they match. No, no, no.
• 2:12:27
  I'm on that. Because it's like, it's like the
• 2:12:29
  newer version of that car. So it should be like more
• 2:12:31
  reliable, right? And stuff.
• 2:12:32
  So I was like, yeah, I'll do that.
• 2:12:34
  Like with Nissan, you know, brand loyalty and stuff.
• 2:12:36
  I also, yeah, that's the point. That's the one.
• 2:12:39
  Like if they were all next to each other at your house and
• 2:12:41
  they parked really nice, you could be.
• 2:12:43
  Yeah. Like that guy?
• 2:12:45
  But I guess to answer the question, no, it's it has its
• 2:12:48
  place like it's a good stout engine.
• 2:12:52
  It doesn't belong anywhere near an S13 though.
• 2:12:54
  I agree with that. Kind of.
• 2:12:55
  Yeah, not kind of. I agree with that.
• 2:12:58
  It doesn't fit the hood doesn't close I think or something.
• 2:13:03
  You got to put risers. You can make a 350Z cool but
• 2:13:08
  most people for some reason don't.
• 2:13:10
  So yeah, like 95% of everyone, yeah.
• 2:13:13
  And that's such a shame because that.
• 2:13:14
  I'm on a mission right now. Like you see when it came out to
• 2:13:17
  in Tokyo Auto Salon and it was. Cool.
• 2:13:19
  Yeah, like O2, all the companies were like on board.
• 2:13:22
  Oh yeah, like making cool stuff for.
• 2:13:24
  It I have like photos on my desktop right now of like those
• 2:13:26
  old cars. I'm like this car looks good, so
• 2:13:28
  promising. I'm like it can be done.
• 2:13:30
  Yeah, there's so many options. In stock and we have a DVD where
• 2:13:33
  they had Ken Fuji dropped off a DVD where it was the IT was like
• 2:13:38
  a Nissan meet at Nissan like the headquarters or something on the
• 2:13:43
  West Coast. And the Z was silver with this.
• 2:13:49
  I guess they were the enthusiast wheels where it was they were
• 2:13:52
  kind of big and multi spoked and it was just sitting there and
• 2:13:55
  compared to all the other cars it just looked so good.
• 2:13:58
  Yeah that was such an awesome car when you were a kid.
• 2:14:02
  Small windows, everything was like.
• 2:14:04
  I think what kind of killed it was all of the parts in in
• 2:14:08
  Aftermarket support was really expensive for that car.
• 2:14:11
  Tell me about it. I'm trying to buy an exhaust
• 2:14:13
  right now and I'm like what the? Fuck, I thought that.
• 2:14:15
  Was Strand. It's like what?
• 2:14:16
  Who is this? Now remember the, well, it
• 2:14:18
  depends on what you get, you know, Yeah, like you could
• 2:14:20
  probably get an ISR cat back, but it's going to sound like a
• 2:14:22
  VQ and you're trying to make it not sound like that.
• 2:14:24
  Yeah, yeah. So yes, the aftermarket is like
• 2:14:27
  somewhat the death of that car too.
• 2:14:29
  But like, nice Japanese parts. Oh forget about it.
• 2:14:31
  It's so expensive on a 350Z for some reason.
• 2:14:34
  Like compared to an S chassis. Yeah, like a turbo turbo kit.
• 2:14:36
  Like a greedy turbo kit. It's like 10 grand.
• 2:14:38
  Yeah, dude, you're only going to make 300 horsepower.
• 2:14:41
  That was still a nice car. I feel like there until as of
• 2:14:43
  recently, like people still treated it like a normal Fair
• 2:14:48
  Lady. And then now I see them a lot
• 2:14:51
  more and I'm like, they're. Just clapped out man.
• 2:14:53
  Here it comes. That's that's a problem like I
• 2:14:56
  don't know we just seen we never saw too many really nice ones
• 2:15:00
  around us. We only got to see clapped out
• 2:15:02
  ones at the track. That is true.
• 2:15:03
  So that's why it's like, that's just our mindset now we.
• 2:15:07
  Got a bad rap? Yeah, for sure.
• 2:15:09
  And the engine really, really, really sounds like shit to me at
• 2:15:11
  least. I sorry it's like hard for me
• 2:15:13
  to. Stout's a nice word.
• 2:15:15
  That's a very kind word for that motor.
• 2:15:18
  Yeah. It's like strong, like a bull.
• 2:15:20
  Like we, we got one and I drove it down the street like the like
• 2:15:24
  he dropped it off whatever, fixed some things here and there
• 2:15:27
  because we were going to go drifting.
• 2:15:28
  Pulled it out the next day, like going to put on the trailer,
• 2:15:31
  ripped it down the street. I was like, this thing's kind of
• 2:15:33
  fucking fast. Like I was like not expecting
• 2:15:36
  it. I was like, yeah, I was like,
• 2:15:37
  this feels like an Sr. with like the boost raised and like
• 2:15:40
  everything's modified, but it's stock.
• 2:15:43
  You know, it had like a stock exhaust on it.
• 2:15:45
  It had, I think he's, he must have like an eBay cat back on
• 2:15:48
  that or something. You know, so yeah, I the, I had
• 2:15:51
  the the G and it had a stock exhaust and it was not bad.
• 2:15:54
  Yeah, Nissan did a pretty good job of the.
• 2:15:56
  Stock exhaust is. Fine, everyone says the Nismo
• 2:15:59
  exhaust is one of the best exhaust you've got in that car
• 2:16:01
  because it's like just enough. You need to resonate it.
• 2:16:03
  Yeah, and you need cats too or something.
• 2:16:06
  A big resonator where they go. At least I realized from like
• 2:16:10
  look going on YouTube and stuff like because people will put the
• 2:16:13
  exhaust on and then they'll do another video where they're like
• 2:16:17
  with cats without and the second they take it off it's like holy
• 2:16:21
  shit. There's like a certain band of
• 2:16:23
  RPM where it. Just has this.
• 2:16:25
  Weird resonance and it's super ear piercing and annoying.
• 2:16:29
  It hurts like it gets to that point.
• 2:16:31
  I know exactly that tone or pitch or whatever it is where
• 2:16:35
  it's like. But it's like, and you can do
• 2:16:38
  that with a lot of cars. Like, I mean, I'm looking at the
• 2:16:40
  SC300 here. I'm not a fan of that car at
• 2:16:42
  all, but I know they can look good like fucking Darryl's car.
• 2:16:47
  Darryl's car, You ain't know his car.
• 2:16:50
  You know, so like they can look good even if you're not a fan of
• 2:16:52
  them, you know, same thing with the Z like they can look good.
• 2:16:55
  It was just oh, you don't get to see it that often.
• 2:16:57
  I feel like, you know, but what happened to your G?
• 2:17:00
  You got rid of it. Yeah, it was costing me too much
• 2:17:03
  money to fix really, because I because I was like going to
• 2:17:06
  school like this is recently I was up in Arlington, so I had no
• 2:17:10
  time to work on it. And that thing was like, I
• 2:17:13
  replaced the radiator, the fuel tank, the engine.
• 2:17:17
  My God, the yeah, I had Rudy do all the work on it.
• 2:17:20
  The. Hell no.
• 2:17:21
  So. I was like Nope I sold it and I
• 2:17:23
  think it was the last internship or the one before that.
• 2:17:28
  I found this S14 on Facebook and I just bought it with the cash I
• 2:17:32
  had from selling the G. And at least, you know, like you
• 2:17:34
  could fix. This.
• 2:17:35
  I know how to work on it. Yeah, I can, yeah.
• 2:17:37
  That's the best. And it was like low mileage,
• 2:17:39
  like super clean cars. And it's like that first theory
• 2:17:45
  where this is your toy. Yeah. 14 would be a day, right?
• 2:17:49
  Right next to each other. It looks sick.
• 2:17:51
  Yeah. And then you, dude, you said you
• 2:17:53
  had a Titan 2. I bet it's because you had a
• 2:17:55
  Nissan already. And you're like, OK, I got to
• 2:17:57
  get. Yeah.
• 2:17:57
  I had a Nissan like I only want to buy Nissans.
• 2:18:01
  And then and then I think it was last summer, me and Jimmy got
• 2:18:04
  super hyped on full ton trucks and Dooleys and we went to like
• 2:18:08
  a a trip to I think it was mid pond and we were just looking at
• 2:18:13
  trucks on the freeway, like coming, you know, oncoming
• 2:18:16
  traffic. We're like, dude, yeah, let's.
• 2:18:17
  Let's do it. Yeah bro, big ass.
• 2:18:22
  I only fuck with American trucks.
• 2:18:24
  Though yeah, I was like, what's the biggest one y'all got?
• 2:18:25
  Crew Cab Long bed, Dooley. Yeah, dude, my brother is the
• 2:18:28
  one who was who put that in me. He was like, why would you buy a
• 2:18:34
  truck from somebody who did not originate the thought process of
• 2:18:38
  what this truck is for? Yeah.
• 2:18:42
  Dude I want something like that. Yo mid pawn going on again.
• 2:18:46
  You saw that? What are your wheel specs?
• 2:18:50
  No way. That's that's that's actually an
• 2:18:54
  inside joke I used to do like. It is an inside joke, that's why
• 2:18:58
  I'm asking. So I used to do a lot of like,
• 2:19:03
  like ask me anything stories and I'd do like a lot of like
• 2:19:06
  answering people's questions and do a lot of like, tech tips and
• 2:19:09
  stuff. And I would always tinker with
• 2:19:11
  the car and post like, videos of me like fixing this rattle or
• 2:19:14
  fixing that thing. And people would be like, oh,
• 2:19:16
  that's so cool. I'm saving this for later.
• 2:19:18
  And yeah, one of the questions I would always get is what are
• 2:19:22
  your real specs? Every single time?
• 2:19:28
  So I started getting creative with it and yeah, it was funny.
• 2:19:31
  Just telling some outlandish shit.
• 2:19:33
  Yeah. I would just say like, you know,
• 2:19:35
  14 by 7 that's. Even worse.
• 2:19:41
  Like wait, dude, what? No, they're not. 14 by 7 dude,
• 2:19:45
  come on. Yeah, but no, actually I did.
• 2:19:47
  I did the that's funny you you mentioned that because I did
• 2:19:52
  change the wheels out. It's not it's not the what I
• 2:19:54
  used to have before, which was the 17915 eighteen nine and a
• 2:19:58
  half 12 formula that everyone follows because I did the overs.
• 2:20:03
  I went up to 17 nine and a half and 1810 1/2.
• 2:20:07
  That's. Cool.
• 2:20:08
  Yeah, so they're like the biggest.
• 2:20:09
  That's what I basically would have, but oh, but I don't think
• 2:20:11
  I did. Yeah, I had 9 and 10, but yeah,
• 2:20:13
  that's what that makes sense. Yeah, 17, nine and a half, 12
• 2:20:16
  and 1810 1/2 fifteen. Yeah.
• 2:20:18
  So like GTR spec one size up for the overs.
• 2:20:23
  Yeah, and they're still the OG ones and everything.
• 2:20:26
  Yeah, they're O3. I don't really know much about T
• 2:20:29
  ES, but I know that's like the thing look at.
• 2:20:31
  You. Just saying right now what?
• 2:20:33
  You know, you know Johnny Minako from our area?
• 2:20:35
  Yeah, Yeah. So he's all about T ES.
• 2:20:37
  Oh yeah. He's Johnny knows everything.
• 2:20:39
  Love this shit. Yeah, dude, I went down a rabbit
• 2:20:41
  hole. It's I think it's like O5 or O6.
• 2:20:44
  They started putting stamp like rays on the lips and everything.
• 2:20:47
  Yeah, yeah, that's and before that it's there's nothing on it.
• 2:20:51
  It's just a sticker. And so yeah, I was like, I want
• 2:20:54
  them matching, I want them pre stamp.
• 2:20:56
  And there's different colors too, even the old ones.
• 2:20:59
  Yeah, yeah. There's like two different or
• 2:21:00
  something like that, yeah. It's a lot and you can't match
• 2:21:03
  it. Someone asks are people over
• 2:21:06
  using Origin lab and super doof on S chassis?
• 2:21:12
  Super doof. I feel out of the loop on this
• 2:21:14
  one. What?
• 2:21:17
  Which one is a super Duke? Super dufe is formula D like big
• 2:21:21
  arrow right? I call super dufe the D Max ret
• 2:21:23
  but taller. Yeah, it's like, oh, like Forest
• 2:21:27
  wing and stuff like that. Kind of like it's got like a
• 2:21:29
  little yeah, yeah, yeah. But then the bottom line is
• 2:21:32
  thick. Yeah, it's the it's the area you
• 2:21:34
  run when your entire car is like made out of tubes.
• 2:21:38
  It's so fucking accurate. Right There we go.
• 2:21:42
  And they have the rear. They had the rear, the whole
• 2:21:45
  yeah, Josh Delete put that on his coop and then you put Origin
• 2:21:48
  over fenders on that. That is right, yeah.
• 2:21:51
  Which is amazing. But yeah, are people overusing
• 2:21:54
  it? I don't know.
• 2:21:55
  I think it's just accessible and it's fiberglass.
• 2:21:57
  I don't even see it where I drive, really.
• 2:21:59
  So yeah, I mean, you guys are super we.
• 2:22:01
  Were talking about this last night.
• 2:22:02
  The cars down here are fucking like epic proportion now.
• 2:22:06
  Like, yeah, you guys are like the new Chicago.
• 2:22:08
  That's what I'm saying. That's exactly like, where are
• 2:22:10
  they? Where would they just be buying
• 2:22:12
  Origin anyway? You know what I mean?
• 2:22:13
  They would have to go to JET. Yeah, Jet is not very close to
• 2:22:16
  here, I thought. Well, it's a lot easier than
• 2:22:18
  just, you know, waiting 6-9 months for that, you know what I
• 2:22:22
  mean? Like it's more accessible,
• 2:22:24
  that's for sure. But Super Duke's also more
• 2:22:26
  accessible because I don't know where they produce it, but it's
• 2:22:29
  easy to get. Like they stock it?
• 2:22:31
  Pretty easily, yeah. I don't know anything about
• 2:22:32
  Super Duke. Yeah, I just know that you can
• 2:22:34
  get it relatively easily. That's about it.
• 2:22:37
  But yeah, I mean, I don't know how do you feel about that
• 2:22:41
  question because you you paint a lot of cars with origin lately,
• 2:22:45
  I feel like. I don't really it's accessible
• 2:22:48
  dude. It's like it's like when
• 2:22:50
  Duraflex and VIS of your early times too like.
• 2:22:54
  Literally that's. What it was a it's an accessible
• 2:22:57
  body kit and like, what do you expect people to run if they
• 2:23:02
  don't have a lot of money and they have they still want to
• 2:23:04
  drive. Like not everybody has the the
• 2:23:08
  discipline and and the idea to go that extra mile to get the
• 2:23:12
  nicest thing. But then in my mind, when they
• 2:23:17
  do get to see nicer things like this, it like opens up the
• 2:23:21
  question of like, damn, would I like to just like work my way to
• 2:23:25
  that point? So I don't know the the sport's
• 2:23:27
  just evolving and shit has to be disposable.
• 2:23:29
  You know that. And we have a lot of origin
• 2:23:32
  kids. It's.
• 2:23:32
  Funny you mentioned the Houston Chicago, yeah, similarities
• 2:23:36
  there because it, when we went to our first, like when I went
• 2:23:41
  to my first final about 2017, it was final about 3.
• 2:23:44
  Jimmy had already gone to 2 and I remember having the
• 2:23:47
  conversation with him that like, this is what we want to bring
• 2:23:51
  home. If we can grow, if we can plant
• 2:23:54
  the seed and have it grow down here with what we've learned and
• 2:23:58
  seen up here, then like we will never have to leave.
• 2:24:01
  Like this is perfect. Well, you guys literally did it,
• 2:24:03
  so congratulations. Yeah, like it's.
• 2:24:05
  Like 100%. All by just leading by example
• 2:24:08
  and having people see it and be like, I want to participate.
• 2:24:10
  Yeah. And it's, it's infectious.
• 2:24:12
  And I would say we tried to do the same thing by us and didn't
• 2:24:16
  really work as not as well as it did here.
• 2:24:19
  This is like crazy, you know what I mean?
• 2:24:21
  But like you'll, you'll have some people that see it and
• 2:24:23
  they're like, oh, I want to build a cool car, but not like
• 2:24:25
  this. And it reminds me exactly of
• 2:24:27
  Chicago area, because when you go there like for final bout,
• 2:24:31
  you get the same feeling. You're like, Oh yeah, all these
• 2:24:34
  cars, fucking Immaculate. Incredible.
• 2:24:36
  Yeah, and they're all styled the same way that we all like.
• 2:24:38
  You know it's weird. It's like, how did you guys
• 2:24:40
  convince so many people to to buy in?
• 2:24:43
  That's how it feels, you know what I mean?
• 2:24:44
  Yeah, and it's like Houston's the same thing now.
• 2:24:46
  It's so strange, but in a good way.
• 2:24:48
  Yeah, I think a lot of that is is due to Knuckle Up and its
• 2:24:52
  development down here because without having a playground,
• 2:24:56
  it's hard to to grow it. Yeah.
• 2:24:58
  So yeah, shout out to Jimmy for planting that sea.
• 2:25:01
  Yeah, I. Can't wait.
• 2:25:01
  We're going to talk to him and I'm.
• 2:25:02
  Going to learn about all that. You know what the red pill is,
• 2:25:05
  Jimmy? Do you know what the red pill
• 2:25:08
  is? Dude?
• 2:25:08
  How many of them did you give? Kevin, dude, it was so funny,
• 2:25:11
  Like when we, when I first started, like interacting with
• 2:25:13
  him, he'd be like, you know, BH, right?
• 2:25:15
  You've read the blog like you've studied up.
• 2:25:17
  Studied. Up I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 2:25:19
  yeah, I know. I know what that is, dude, I had
• 2:25:20
  no idea. Yeah.
• 2:25:21
  You were just lying. You were like lying.
• 2:25:22
  Oh. Yeah, I went home and like,
• 2:25:24
  searched it up and like all the pictures are gone and it was
• 2:25:26
  like, oh, no, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll.
• 2:25:29
  But yeah, that's so funny. When someone says I know what
• 2:25:32
  you mean, like someone cooler or above you so and you're like,
• 2:25:35
  you gotta act like you know. Yeah, of course.
• 2:25:36
  Yeah, I read the whole thing. Yeah, dude, you, you did you do
• 2:25:39
  it, Yeah. And then you'd go home and check
• 2:25:41
  it out. Like, fuck, fuck yeah, that's
• 2:25:43
  funny, dude. Sylvia.
• 2:25:45
  Arrow, thread, all of that. God, rest in peace, Sylvia.
• 2:25:47
  That's so a bummer. That's the craziest thing ever.
• 2:25:49
  Yeah, I'm hoping something. The craziest thing is when that
• 2:25:52
  found. When we found that out, it was
• 2:25:55
  on a pod. Right 180.
• 2:25:56
  The 180 pod we were. Looking up something and when it
• 2:26:00
  didn't come up, it was actually kind of shocking.
• 2:26:03
  You're like, that's strange. What?
• 2:26:04
  Yeah, we were like, oh, I guess it's just down.
• 2:26:06
  And the next day it was like, yeah, we're done.
• 2:26:08
  Yeah, we got that. I was like fuck.
• 2:26:11
  Man, does a straw have one or hole or two holes?
• 2:26:15
  One hole. It's a through hole, yes.
• 2:26:19
  Yeah, it is. It is A1 hole.
• 2:26:20
  Dude, and this guy's a MEC, MEC engineer.
• 2:26:23
  That's the guy. Yeah, it is a through hole.
• 2:26:25
  Boom one. OK, I believe you.
• 2:26:29
  That was like the cleanest answer ever.
• 2:26:32
  Last question is Matt Degroot asking about, he said talk to
• 2:26:35
  him about RB transmissions, which we did want to talk about
• 2:26:38
  anyway. So dude.
• 2:26:39
  Nice. And if this is all the way at
• 2:26:40
  the end, you're kind of safe. You're kind of safe.
• 2:26:43
  Here. Yeah, I guess we should talk
• 2:26:45
  about the elephant in the room. Yeah, in the room, the brand new
• 2:26:48
  RB, Transit, everything. Yeah.
• 2:26:51
  And now you got me thinking about shit.
• 2:26:52
  If I ever fucking finish my car, I'm like, yeah, I need one of
• 2:26:54
  those. We kind of think of like I've
• 2:26:56
  noticed. Oh yeah, I'm not.
• 2:26:58
  Yeah, yeah, it's the same shit, but dude.
• 2:27:00
  I want things to fit. Yeah.
• 2:27:02
  Yeah. And I want it to look factory
• 2:27:04
  and I want it to work and yeah. And is this like the same?
• 2:27:08
  Someone's last night said it was the same gear ratios as Z32.
• 2:27:11
  Oh, it's the same transmission. Same transmission, just a better
• 2:27:14
  shifter. Different tail housing and
• 2:27:16
  different bell housing. OK, cool.
• 2:27:18
  So the so yeah, the transmissions are just the
• 2:27:21
  center like piece is the exact same, OK.
• 2:27:25
  Did you have AZ 32 trans before? No, this is the first time
• 2:27:28
  you're upgrading. Yeah, I blew up to 71 CS in 2
• 2:27:32
  events. I was like, that's it, I'm not.
• 2:27:34
  Doing it again, yeah, I I know how you feel, but let me know
• 2:27:38
  when you do it. I want to hear your reaction.
• 2:27:41
  Not so much because it's an RB, just the Z 32 gearing
• 2:27:44
  transmission in general like. Yeah.
• 2:27:46
  Well, it's the same or very, very close ratio to a 70.
• 2:27:50
  One, I know it's weird, but like my experience is I don't know
• 2:27:55
  how to explain it. I don't want to like ruin your
• 2:27:58
  mind right now. I want you to do it yourself and
• 2:28:00
  tell me because I'll tell you a little bit like.
• 2:28:02
  Josh has one. Yeah, Josh had one.
• 2:28:04
  Yeah, we all did it around the same time.
• 2:28:06
  And I just remember thinking I was like, OK, it's the same
• 2:28:11
  ratio, it's a 5 speed, it's the same fucking thing.
• 2:28:13
  It's just stronger. And the shifter sucks because,
• 2:28:16
  right, you have to make it work. It's like tripod it's.
• 2:28:18
  Bigger like compared to dude Sr. trans is like come to like this
• 2:28:21
  yeah and I feel like the Z ones are like straight.
• 2:28:25
  So then like this one, not only did I hate the shifter and Josh
• 2:28:28
  hated it and. I hate it too.
• 2:28:30
  Yeah, I went the other way. With the drill like.
• 2:28:33
  Dude y'all are like rolls around.
• 2:28:36
  Yeah, they've rolled it's. Twist.
• 2:28:37
  It's a really strange feeling. It's not like a standard H like
• 2:28:40
  where the neutral just shifts this over left and right it
• 2:28:42
  like. Sweeps, which is like I could
• 2:28:44
  deal with it. I was like, if that's the only
• 2:28:46
  thing I have to deal with, I'm not worried about it because one
• 2:28:48
  no one can see it. So I'm like that's OK.
• 2:28:51
  But then I would drive the car and I'm like, first gear feels
• 2:28:54
  so weird to me, dude. It feels like longer.
• 2:28:58
  OK. And it's, it's not, but like
• 2:29:01
  every time I would drive that car after I did that swap, I'd
• 2:29:04
  go lights. In your head.
• 2:29:05
  You just RIP down the street or something.
• 2:29:06
  I'd be like, why does this feel like, yeah, different?
• 2:29:09
  Every other gear is kind of whatever, but that first gear
• 2:29:11
  would just feel longer or like I added weight to the car, which I
• 2:29:16
  probably did, but like, you're not, you're not talking a lot of
• 2:29:18
  weight. Yeah, So it's weird.
• 2:29:20
  Have you driven Josh's car with the RV 25 box and the Alpha kit?
• 2:29:24
  No. OK.
• 2:29:25
  Yeah. What did he say about it?
• 2:29:27
  Did he say it was good? He said it was the best thing
• 2:29:29
  he'd ever done in the car. OK, so yeah, well, he really
• 2:29:32
  fucking hated the shifters situation, I know that.
• 2:29:35
  Some of the GAL gear set of speed, whatever.
• 2:29:37
  What is it? Speed tech, speed, speed tech.
• 2:29:40
  Gears. Yeah, wait, that's, that's a
• 2:29:42
  different thing though, right? Yeah, those are the straight cut
• 2:29:44
  gears that you can rebuild. And I thought that's what did
• 2:29:47
  Josh not? I think maybe he wanted to do
• 2:29:49
  that and then. Tom is the fucking one that did
• 2:29:51
  that stuff where you split up the trans and put the gears in
• 2:29:54
  that are rebuilt and stuff. I don't want anything speed tech
• 2:29:57
  stuff. But the thing with the trans is
• 2:29:59
  isn't the problem like the center shaft or something like
• 2:30:02
  the bearings? Like I feel like it's not the
• 2:30:05
  gears really, it's something else that's shifting and
• 2:30:08
  breaking. Yeah.
• 2:30:09
  Well, I mean, stress is stress, like no matter how you look at
• 2:30:14
  it, if you're applying a load on a smaller area, you're going to
• 2:30:17
  have some trouble. So I mean, having the bigger
• 2:30:20
  gear, the physically bigger gear is, is enough to distribute that
• 2:30:26
  load better, you know, because you've got teeth pushing against
• 2:30:29
  other teeth and if you shock them with a with a clutch kick,
• 2:30:33
  you're going to shear them right off.
• 2:30:34
  So I mean, yeah, I think, I think the biggest benefit in my
• 2:30:37
  opinion would be just the that, that contact surface area being
• 2:30:42
  larger. I think I'm going to get some of
• 2:30:44
  these and sell them out of the shop.
• 2:30:47
  You should, man. Dude, one day they'll be gone.
• 2:30:49
  And yeah. That's the part.
• 2:30:50
  And also CD prices went up too as soon as we mentioned about
• 2:30:56
  it. So maybe you'll get on your
• 2:30:57
  horse about that. CD.
• 2:30:59
  Yeah, CD. 'S like it's our luck that it's
• 2:31:00
  our. I would.
• 2:31:02
  Hang too low though. They dude it is that's.
• 2:31:04
  Yeah, that's the only reason. It is my worst under the frame,
• 2:31:06
  right? It's low, Yeah, like we, I
• 2:31:08
  remember fucking, It's crazy. One of the dudes from fucking
• 2:31:12
  Rd. Party, remember Long Island Rd.
• 2:31:13
  Party, those guys, I forget which one of them it was, but he
• 2:31:16
  had one and his car was low. And Speaking of which, Rd.
• 2:31:21
  Party was like one of the only other cool low style cars at
• 2:31:26
  Club Loose back then. So.
• 2:31:27
  But yeah, he would be like, yo, this thing's fucking like
• 2:31:29
  hitting the ground like this transit is getting like shaved.
• 2:31:32
  Yeah, mine is flat as fuck. It's like super smooth on the
• 2:31:36
  bottom of it and it's got to be. And it depends.
• 2:31:38
  I mean, I'm sure it depends on the car too, like depending on
• 2:31:41
  where it's sitting in the. They're all like.
• 2:31:43
  The problem is it's the transmissions that though like a
• 2:31:47
  lot of cars uses has that shape. Like it's not like a big beefy
• 2:31:50
  trans, like the Z trans tunnel is huge and it goes up in it
• 2:31:54
  pretty. Far Kevin Fan has one right CD.
• 2:31:57
  Does he fucking really? Yeah, that blows my mind because
• 2:32:00
  that car is like one of the lower ones, right?
• 2:32:02
  Huh. But it's also Kevin Fan.
• 2:32:05
  Yeah, he probably fucking redesigned the whole center.
• 2:32:08
  Like I want to ask him now. Cut it, welded it shut like,
• 2:32:11
  raised it like. I don't.
• 2:32:12
  Know tilted the transmission? Yeah, tilted the drive shaft
• 2:32:15
  down. Yeah, some crazy shit, dude.
• 2:32:19
  All right, well, it's freezing, so I'm so.
• 2:32:24
  Cold. I've been so cold this in.
• 2:32:25
  Fact. I know we all are.
• 2:32:26
  I've been like, there's no way. He's not cold, but he's not
• 2:32:29
  cold. It was too perfect with the car.
• 2:32:31
  And crazy. It's pretty good.
• 2:32:33
  Yeah, man, thank you for doing. You so much for letting us do
• 2:32:36
  this. Man, you guys came all the way
• 2:32:37
  down. Going through that just now,
• 2:32:40
  yeah. In the cold and still able to
• 2:32:42
  share, like the good stuff that you've been, yeah.
• 2:32:44
  And most importantly, thank you for buying this table.
• 2:32:47
  For Are You serious? I was looking at it.
• 2:32:50
  I was like, this looks brand new.
• 2:32:50
  He was like, Oh yeah, I got this for you guys.
• 2:32:52
  Yeah. Just when you did not.
• 2:32:54
  And those two chairs, Yeah. I knew it.
• 2:32:56
  I knew the chair too. When I was sitting on it, I was
• 2:32:58
  like, wait a minute. Dude.
• 2:33:01
  Yeah, we, I think we owe you some money.
• 2:33:02
  Yeah, thank you. Now thank you so much.
• 2:33:04
  Man, I'm sure we're going to record some video or something
• 2:33:08
  about the. Guard I want to do 1 before we.
• 2:33:09
  Do it real quick. And then let's get clean it up.
• 2:33:11
  Thank you so much. And thank you for.
• 2:33:14
  Your parents for the food because I'm about.
• 2:33:15
  To eat one. Yeah, I was going to say Carl's
• 2:33:17
  going. To down that shit.
• 2:33:17
  And then yeah, we'll see you on the next one.
• 2:33:19
  This has been the second one of the Texas journey with Kevin
• 2:33:22
  from Essence and see you on the next one.
• 2:33:26
  Bye. Peace.
• 2:33:30
  That was fun bro Oh. Man, I'm so.
• 2:33:52
  Cold. All righty.
• 2:33:54
  That was a very cold podcast. Yeah, I was shivering.
• 2:33:59
  Is that why we ended it? Or did we just?
• 2:34:01
  I don't remember why. Yeah, it kind of was.
• 2:34:04
  Yeah, everyone was fucking freezing in that garage, but it
• 2:34:07
  was a really good one. When we weren't thinking about
• 2:34:10
  the freezing cold. It was great and it was a nice
• 2:34:13
  day outside. It was just, it was very sunny.
• 2:34:15
  It was just. It was a.
• 2:34:17
  Cold Breeze. Yeah.
• 2:34:18
  So thank you, Kevin, for doing this podcast with us and thank
• 2:34:22
  you for the hospitality. Your parents are amazing people
• 2:34:27
  and I feel like I used your bathroom 7 times so thanks for
• 2:34:30
  that too. That sandwich was really good.
• 2:34:33
  Oh yeah, I got AI got a hit him up to ask his mom recipe because
• 2:34:37
  I want to make that. Yeah, but hope you guys enjoyed
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  that one. If you didn't know already,
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  there is a car check we did on Kevin's car that's on YouTube
• 2:34:46
  right now, so check that out as well.
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  And don't forget that if you want to hear the rest of the
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  Texas Series podcasts, they are over on our Patreon right now.
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  I believe there's another 3 remaining, two or three
• 2:34:57
  remaining, so check those out every.
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  What is it, 5? It's $5.10 dollars, $15 on
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  there. Yeah, there's three different
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  tiers. So the $5 tier gets you access
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  to pretty much everything, and the $15 tier gets you merch
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  bundles. The $10 tier gets you What was
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  it? Uncensored YouTube videos and AD
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  free YouTube videos. OK, so there's levels to this
• 2:35:20
  stuff so check out our Patreon to get more info.
• 2:35:23
  And don't forget we are doing a raffle this month.
• 2:35:25
  It is to win a Thrash Racing bundle, basically a seat,
• 2:35:29
  steering wheel and harness. Every $5 spent is 1 entry.
• 2:35:33
  Faction Motorsports products is double entries and Thrash Racing
• 2:35:36
  products are triple entries. So check those out on our
• 2:35:41
  website. You'll see the banner when you
• 2:35:42
  go there to see what you can win.
• 2:35:44
  And yeah, we do raffles every month on our website.
• 2:35:46
  So just spend $5 and you're entered automatically entered
• 2:35:53
  and there's always parts being added to that site.
• 2:35:55
  So what have we been doing recently?
• 2:35:58
  I think, well, we're about to do some wheels.
• 2:36:00
  I think we're about to throw a lot of wheels up on the website.
• 2:36:02
  So definitely stay tuned for that.
• 2:36:04
  But always, always OEM Nissan parts going on there.
• 2:36:08
  We're stocking more and more VQ stuff everyday, 350Z parts.
• 2:36:14
  So keep your eye out for those. Not to mention the thrash is the
• 2:36:20
  Thrash container is arriving soon, so we do have remaining
• 2:36:24
  seats. Check out our Instagram to see
• 2:36:26
  what seats are available from Thrash Racing and grab the ones
• 2:36:30
  you need before they sell out because we all know these are
• 2:36:32
  going to sell out really fast. And if you can't afford what you
• 2:36:34
  need, don't worry, a firm's got your back.
• 2:36:36
  We got a firm on the website so you can finance the parts you
• 2:36:39
  need now and pay later. How's that YouTube doing, Eddie?
• 2:36:43
  It's doing pretty good. We're almost at 13 K
• 2:36:46
  subscribers. Do you have a number or
• 2:36:50
  percentage of how many people, you know what I'm saying, right?
• 2:36:55
  How many people are not subscribed that watch our
• 2:36:57
  content? Because that I feel like that
• 2:37:01
  that number is always shocking when I hear other channels talk
• 2:37:04
  about it that he's currently trying to find this info.
• 2:37:08
  YouTube is taking a minute. Let's see, I.
• 2:37:12
  Feel like they should tell you that right on the front.
• 2:37:14
  It should be in the front, but it's usually not.
• 2:37:18
  Huh. New viewers?
• 2:37:20
  Oh wow. But yeah, guys, if you if you
• 2:37:22
  check out our YouTube. Here we go.
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  Content and you're not subscribed.
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  Please subscribe because it does help. 61% not subscribed.
• 2:37:30
  Oh wow, That's actually a pretty big number.
• 2:37:33
  Yeah, I think anything, anything over 50 is is pretty big.
• 2:37:38
  But it could be worse though I will say that 61 is not too bad.
• 2:37:43
  But yeah, guys, it definitely helps us out if you subscribe to
• 2:37:47
  our YouTube channel. So please do that if you're
• 2:37:49
  trying to figure out a way to help support us.
• 2:37:51
  If you don't need car parts or anything, that would be the by
• 2:37:54
  far the easiest way. And then the second way would be
• 2:37:56
  joining our Patreon. But no matter what, check out
• 2:38:01
  our videos. We Eddie's posting them every
• 2:38:03
  week. He's, I mean, spring is here.
• 2:38:05
  So now it's going to increase a lot.
• 2:38:07
  There's probably going to be at least three to four videos every
• 2:38:10
  single week coming out, so check those out.
• 2:38:14
  And last but not least, do not forget our sponsors.
• 2:38:18
  We got East Coast Drift School. If you're trying to get some
• 2:38:20
  seat time in, check them out, give them a follow on Instagram.
• 2:38:24
  They release schedules on there as well.
• 2:38:27
  But if it was me, I'd probably just DM the East Coast Drift
• 2:38:30
  school page and see when you could set up an appointment to
• 2:38:33
  go get some seat time in. Chris Nap over at Raceway Park
• 2:38:36
  in English Town, New Jersey. He's the one that does all that.
• 2:38:39
  So check them out. Chase Bays.
• 2:38:41
  Don't forget about chase bays for all your fluid transfer
• 2:38:43
  products. They sell a lot of different
• 2:38:45
  parts for these cars. BMWs 2 forties, 350 ZS,
• 2:38:49
  everything. Make sure to check them out at
• 2:38:50
  chasebays.com. Ramstead MFG.
• 2:38:53
  They sell an amazing wheel fitment tool.
• 2:38:56
  We actually sell these in the shop.
• 2:38:57
  We use them in the shop. I think they're about $100.
• 2:39:01
  They're up on the website. Easiest tool to use and you can
• 2:39:04
  find out what size offset and width wheels will fit on your
• 2:39:08
  vehicle. Limitless auto fab, As you guys
• 2:39:12
  know, our last raffle was a set of front and rear bash bars.
• 2:39:15
  They offer the best best bash bars in the game right now.
• 2:39:18
  Front St. uses them. I think animal style uses them
• 2:39:21
  pretty much every everyone in the grass roots scene right now
• 2:39:25
  are using these bash bars, so make sure to check those out as
• 2:39:28
  well. They're up on our website.
• 2:39:30
  AG One, Where do I begin my AG One journey for the last three
• 2:39:38
  to four months? It's basically a daily immune
• 2:39:42
  support drink. I could call it.
• 2:39:45
  Supplement. Supplement.
• 2:39:47
  Yeah, you could call it a supplement.
• 2:39:48
  I mean, it's basically everything in one probiotic,
• 2:39:50
  prebiotic, multivitamin. Functional mushrooms are in
• 2:39:53
  there as well. One scoop every morning of eight
• 2:39:56
  to 10 ounces of cold water and you're that's it, You're good to
• 2:39:59
  go. It's really helped my gut
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  health. I will say that I've also
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  realized that that is the proper way to say.
• 2:40:06
  It's made my shit a lot better. So hopefully AG1 doesn't listen
• 2:40:09
  to this. But guys, if you want to get
• 2:40:11
  your health in order and we all know that you car guys are not
• 2:40:14
  the best in shape and especially all the all the time you spend
• 2:40:18
  wrenching on your car trying to get your car ready for events
• 2:40:20
  this and that. God forbid you have a family
• 2:40:23
  that you have no time at all. So the the easiest thing you can
• 2:40:27
  do, hop on AG one start your health journey the easiest way.
• 2:40:33
  We have links in the description below and yeah, it's just a
• 2:40:37
  great habit to get into. And last but not least, Wrecked
• 2:40:40
  Magazine. If you guys are trying to get
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  all your drifting information in one easy place that you can hold
• 2:40:46
  onto for the rest of your life, Wrecked Magazine is the best way
• 2:40:49
  to do that. Check out Wreck magazine.com to
• 2:40:52
  get a subscription or come to the shop.
• 2:40:54
  We actually have these in store, so we will be selling them here
• 2:40:57
  now. I think issue 3 is released
• 2:41:00
  already, is it? Yeah, it's on their website I
• 2:41:02
  saw. Oh, shit.
• 2:41:05
  How do I get them to give me a subscription to this thing?
• 2:41:08
  We should have that here right now.
• 2:41:10
  All right, I'm going to contact them.
• 2:41:12
  Yeah, that's it guys. So hope you enjoyed it.
• 2:41:14
  Leave a comment if you did and if you made it this far.
• 2:41:19
  Thank you. Thanks.
• 2:41:21
  See you.