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#117 - Zach Esteve of ES Fabrications · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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Hello everybody, Welcome back to another episode of the After
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Hours podcast. On today's episode we have a
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good friend of mine. Zach is Steve from I believe Wes
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Patterson. He said he was from, I thought
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he was from Clifton, but I guess I got that wrong.
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Zach is a local fabricator and pretty much just creator of
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awesome things made out of metal.
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So me, I didn't even know Carl knew him.
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But apparently Carl met him this year, I believe.
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And when I sent him his page, he was like, Oh yeah, I know Zach.
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Yeah, he makes awesome stuff. And it just was perfect.
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So Zach came by in his 1966 Volkswagen Beetle, and let's
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just say I think I need to get a Beetle now.
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So you guys are going to enjoy this conversation.
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He's a really awesome dude. If you need anything done,
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fabricated, and you're local to New Jersey, I would definitely
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check him out. We're going to probably have
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some stuff made here for the waiting area and the showroom.
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We need some tables and stuff made.
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That's it. Has that like noise in it?
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Dude, you, you haven't ever need a wizzle to know I got A1J car
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in there. But welcome everybody to a
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Yeah, turn my. Mic on.
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We have gymnast Frankie Bovino, I mean, and then we're here to
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bring you another guest. First and foremost, we have Zach
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as Steve. Yeah, you got it right.
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Our favorite fabricator, one of our favorite fabricators.
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Welcome, Emmett. I appreciate.
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That thank you. I've known you for a little
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while from Instagram and mainly because you built Josh's tie
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rack. And I loved the tie rack because
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it just looked cool. So you Weld and stuff.
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That's really what you do. Yeah, basic fabricating,
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predominantly TIG welding. I I just saw like we I I mig
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Weld some stuff but like bread and butter is TIG welding like
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super neat OCD getting after the detail type stuff.
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That's what I like doing. That definitely shows because
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you drove here in your Beetle. Yeah, the beetle looks sick.
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Beetle. If if you follow us, if you
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follow us on Instagram, you would see the beetle.
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Did you post it on? I posted on mine.
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I don't know if Eddie. OK, well if you follow Frankie
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on Instagram, you'll see the beetle.
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But that is the beetle is that thing is fly.
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Thank you for letting us drive it.
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Yeah, dude, yo. I drove it too.
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He was like, he was like, yeah, I did the same thing you did
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when when he gave. I was like, I didn't want to
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drive. Like I need to drive.
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Yeah. And then I was like, you know
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what kind of want to drive this thing but.
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How often do you get to drive a fucking air cooled car?
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Dude that's the oldest car I ever drove in my life.
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Probably drive it. And it's the thing it's like
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it's makes 36 horsepower new. What it makes now, who knows,
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but like dude. But it's fucking moves.
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Because it's geared correctly, because it's like the German
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engineering, but like most people like I'm around it all
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the time and it's in front of my house 24/7.
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I drive it to work all the time. All my direct homies know me for
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those cars. And it's like I'm so like numb
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to the fact like when you guys go to events that like caters
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into the car scene, sees like one of your cars and you're
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like, and that's what like. That's what it's all about.
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Yeah, You know what I mean. Like, what are you gonna do?
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It's 30 horsepower. What do you need to do?
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You're gonna break it. You're driving it with 30
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horsepower regularly and like I I did give it some beans like in
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2nd and it it felt like it would be normal to use.
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Up until you. He says running out of.
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High just around town. I don't know about that high.
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Straight up like a pizza gutter, ice cream gutter.
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And then like like I was telling him anything you take it to,
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it's an adventure. Like you take it to English town
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like it might. It's a 40 minute drive if you're
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taking the beetle bro it's straight up like.
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I mean, it was an. It's like an hour and a half
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like dead ass. It was an adventure to go around
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the block, yeah. Dude, yeah.
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It's slammed. It's one, it's one, it's, it's
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dumped on. It's nuts.
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It's like this high off the ground.
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It fucking but it how bad does it take a bump?
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Like when you hit a bump, what happens?
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Does it like like you're in the air?
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It's designed pretty well where like the floor is kind of flat
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and then where the passengers like in the back their feet go,
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there's like a sweep in the floor.
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So like if it's the hit behind you, the motor's safe because
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it's way tucked up. What hits is like the main part
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of the frame. So when it hits, bro, you feel
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it. Yeah, like it'll pop out of
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gear. Like me and my girl drove it.
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I bought the car at Maple Grove Raceway like two years ago and a
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year in I just did all the suspension work.
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Everything's fresh and powder coated and pretty.
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I'm like, it looks fucking sweet.
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Let's drive it back. So I drove it like 3 hours one
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way, normal to an hour 15 minute drive.
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But I was like, we're taking it there and we left like 4 in the
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morning to go and we're driving to PA and PA highways were
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terrible. Like they're concrete.
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And then like between the the bridge, Trussell's is like just
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a hunk of steel. Yeah, we hit something so hard,
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my girl Pat jumped out of the passenger seat and the thing
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popped out of gear so instantly, like you don't like, oh, it
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popped out. It just like free Revs.
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And I was like, Oh my God, I put it.
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Up. That was probably the most
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serious series of like noises. Oh dude, because.
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I think. I I think I like tapped it a
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little on that right. Because it's not like a teeny
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like touched it. It's like, and it's like you
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feel the car like slow down. Dude I grinded the gear right up
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because I thought it looked like it was in first.
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Of all the gearbox I got. I got to do shifter Bush.
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The gearbox is is like it's. It's that car.
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It's. It's, I feel like it's, it's
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very, it's very like reminiscent of an old, old car.
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Like you, you're going to hear these things like and like you
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got to know about some of these things like.
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When was the first year that they built the Beetle?
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Malcolm? Or you probably know.
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The the real beetle like the the war production stuff.
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Like the stuff? That Hitler made.
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Hitler made is like 47 and it's called the KDF.
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Oh. Really.
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It's that late? What the fuck?
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Yeah, earlier than that. Well, like there's like
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prototypes and shit, but like something you'd look at and be
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like it's a beetle is like 47 and I believe it's a KDF is what
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they call it. Like Jesse James has one and
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shit like that. But like at that point, like
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that's like 10 grand, you're looking at a KDF.
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OK. So that's the 38, yes, Yeah.
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So, but it's a war vehicle, OK. But like go to the photos of
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that one that's. Like a 401K emptying type
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purchase? Like what is that?
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That's what I'm saying. That's a KDF.
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I can curse, right? Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I can. Curse.
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See, like there's no back window because it's a military vehicle.
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And then what I was telling you, the earlier one, see how does a
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smaller window? I don't even know if that's like
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30. 7 I feel like that's just how shitty.
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Cars were yeah, but like it was like given to my knowledge, like
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like the ranking officers and like the Nazis and shit.
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To get around. They weren't like for you to
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bring artillery. Yeah, I don't use it.
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Yeah, yeah. They weren't publicly sold.
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But then, OK, so what's, what is a thing like, you know what I'm
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talking? Is that a war vehicle then?
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This one, yeah. So that is early like 52 see
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though. So it goes to my back window to
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an Oval and then it goes to this.
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If you actually see a real one of these on the highway, it's
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like the it's like gold. So a split window A.
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Split window is it? Just like how a vet kind of like
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that's like, don't you want to split?
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Window. Vet first Gen. cream of the crop
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beetle right there because like the tail lights are so low.
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It's not the OT approved. So like over the years people
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raise up the tail lights. So like now when you even find
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them, they're like molested so much that tail lights are
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raised. So everyone's like back dating
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them to how they previously were.
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But like, I went to an air cooled show that was just air
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cooled cards, Beatles on Sunday and there was like two of those
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there. And like everyone there was
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like, Oh my. God, I think I'd like yours
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more. Yeah, dude.
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Yeah. But it's like one of those
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things. It's like.
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We're not in that. Yeah, we're we're not in that
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scene though. That's why thing you'd get
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though like my car is like the most you'll get and like it's
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usable. Mm hmm dude that's probably my
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favorite part about it is that you do drive.
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It it's but no, it's like dumped on.
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It's nuts. And it's low, but like 36 is
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still usable. Like dude, that thing like you
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cannot, you could highway it, but that's like maybe 40.
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And I'm telling you, what's the Autobahn like bouncing on the
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limiter? Like you need to like do 40 and
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then like slow down for a little, let the motor relax and
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then like pick it back up. That's how 60 is in my Beetle.
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To me, when I see that, I just think of Nazis.
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So I. Don't know.
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Oh it is 100%. Versus like more normal?
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They actually sell hubcaps that like the imprinted is the
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Volkswagen logo. It's it.
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Look up to early Volkswagen logo.
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Oh yeah, it's some sauce. I need to see this hold.
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On it is you're. It is a cuz I'm gonna just like.
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Ho yeah, like like some people won't see.
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It and then there's that. Like that's what I mean.
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Like so when it spins it looks like a swastika.
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Yeah. But Even so, like you'll delete
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these two fingers and like, yeah, yeah, you know, it's it's
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SUS. Well, they.
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Said I love how we're. Like 30 seconds in and we're
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already talking about like Nazis.
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No, it's fine. You have a Volkswagen.
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We could talk. About no, I know what I'm
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saying. It's funny, but yeah, like you
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can see the production years or what it is.
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But yeah, like how crazy is that?
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So I have hubcaps of those at home that could go on that car
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and I'm just like, yo, these be cool to rock.
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But like any like normal dude be like what the fuck knows.
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I heard that I don't my car get vandalized.
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When the wheels would be spinning, it would.
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Yeah, it would look. Yeah, I thought that.
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Was a I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to get my car like
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assaulted in the shop by parking.
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Lot. No, no, no, you're fine.
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Yeah, hey, it's a different. Time.
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It was a day, but even like our car. 39 not our car.
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Cog is like kind of SUS too. Yeah, let's go with that.
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We we a different time. It's a different.
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Time. I don't own one, that's that's
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for sure, yeah. I don't know, I would love to
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own that car for like the aesthetics.
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Definitely not the history of the vehicle.
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You got that. That car that you got right now
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is just like, I love looking at that car.
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I saw it for the first time when I met up with Josh because he
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was dropping off the trailer. Yeah, that's when we.
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Met and that like when you see it like on the versus the photos
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it like you know how like you see a car in a picture and it
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doesn't really like look like. That in person throw me down a
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photo. I don't even care.
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No, but like, but he drove it here and I was like I was.
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Thinking so No, no, no. But The thing is, is like in in
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person you see it. I'm trying to think of a car AGS
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AGS in a picture looks. Really big GS no matter what,
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but. It looks really big in a photo,
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'cause it's just like huge, but then you see it in person and
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you're like, oh, this looks like the same size as like a fucking
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normal car, Yeah. Well, what I was saying was I
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don't know shit about those cars.
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So when I see it online, I'm like, whatever, what?
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But then I see it in person and I learn all this shit and I'm
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like, yeah, there's a it's now I want to buy a Volkswagen Beetle.
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Dude, no, I hold. I wanted to build something that
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for. Sure would love to build
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something old one day just cause How much of that is like you in
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there right? Like you, you went out of your
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way to go do some shit because it probably wasn't.
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Like, was it the whole when you bought it from SO?
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That's the 8th one I've owned and the first I've owned a lot
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of them. So like Long story short, I
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wasn't even in the market. I was out of air quotes.
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I'm restoring a Carmen gear right now.
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That's like my friend. Yo, I love.
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Man gear bro like. I went to the show.
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I don't know. What that means?
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That's the car that was behind Chop Chop.
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That's. The one I was looking at chop.
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That's like my die hard like future wannabe car.
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We were my. Own one but like.
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We were at Final Bout and Shawno doing a podcast with CHOP.
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If you just go check it out, I think it just released.
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I got the GS, yes. Yeah, he followed.
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Yeah, I followed him and he. Followed that, he said.
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He was like, do you know this person?
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I'm like, yo, he's like one of my favorite fabricators, dude.
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He was like, Oh yeah, But behind their shop was a Carmen Ghia.
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And there's all this cool shit in the shop and I just walked
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straight to the back. I don't know anything about him.
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Carmen. I hit me up.
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I just. Know the fun luxury Volkswagen
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back that day? That is what was behind that,
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right? There, that's what I have.
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That's a Volkswagen. That's a that is the premium.
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Look at the green one. Look at the green one.
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Look at the. Green 10, that's a terrible
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color though. See.
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No, that's 70s. Oh, it's got ugly bumpers on
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Fuchs. They never came all Chrome, damn
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it. But see the bumpers how they're
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all like dot and the turn markers are big.
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That's when dot got involved and they got all icky.
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That is an early car in which like what I have see the little
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like nipple shaped turn signals and the cool bumpers like my
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beetle. That's the ish right there.
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That's I own a shell at one of those and I'm.
15:39
Currently body dropping one. What year do you not want to
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like? Anything Volkswagen like if
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you're on a budget, the 72 ones are cool and they'll drive and
15:48
they'll work, but like. What's the good shit pre?
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66 is 66 in priors. Oh 'cause.
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If you you're such. A fucking slut.
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Which one is the cool one to have?
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Like you don't want to do. 67 that might be a 67 they
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backdated, but that ain't a 67. They stop with these turn
16:04
markers in 69. To my knowledge, yeah.
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So 60. 6 is the 6066 in beetle is like the bread and butter
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'cause it is the first year they got away from the kingpin which
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is like a semi front knuckle design and they went to an like
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a modern ball joint so that thing still rides decent.
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Like the early Beatles bro. Or rough bone stock.
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Like you're like, what am I driving?
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Can you show the back of this thing?
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The back of it is probably my one of my favorite.
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There was one by my great uncle's house and when he would
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babysit us, like that's the only car that I would, that's my I
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would see it. I can't believe it's a Volt.
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Yeah, I'll look at that. Look at that.
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Look at that. That's the 70s.
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That's terrible. That's what I have.
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That's a 69. Look at them tail lights,
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brother. Yeah, that's that shit is
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fucking. You have the same exhaust.
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You're gonna have to block that whole fucking thing, so you.
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Actually see the difference? So like that's 69, that's a 71,
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and then the bigger one before was like later 70s.
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They get just terrible. Looking so the engines in the
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back. They're all in the back.
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Yeah. OK, so a Beetle, a Karman Ghia
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and a Volkswagen thing the body on bolts from like the biscuit.
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And it's a biscuit. That's what they call the floor.
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Like frame a biscuit. Yeah, I don't.
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It's the terminology. It probably looks like maybe.
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It looks like like you could with a little bit of work, like
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take a Karman Ghia just off the frame and then just like drop a
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beetle on like they're really similar.
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Like they all on Bolt, right? Right from the rocker.
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Are you German? A little bit.
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I can tell. Yeah.
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They're cool. That's.
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What is well, like I appreciate everything I'll.
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Be what is, what is. I I don't know, I have this
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weird that. Was so fucking.
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I have this weird thing where I can tell if someone's.
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German. Well, I appreciate.
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The show anything so bovino. Yeah, I don't know.
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It's this weird thing like when when Eric Ryan comes in here,
17:43
I'm like, oh, like I. That's that's.
17:46
Wrong. Bro he look Eric Ryan if I if I
17:49
just. I don't even have to do.
17:51
I don't. Have to do much.
17:52
I just have to put an outfit on him and he is a Nazi.
17:54
No, first of all, look. Crazy.
17:56
He has the look. I am not going to let you bad
17:58
now. Eric is one of the nicest songs.
18:01
Yeah. And as I'm.
18:02
Talking to you, I'm like, I'm sorry.
18:04
As I'm talking to you, I'm like, oh, there's the eyes.
18:06
I'm like, oh, you. Know what's crazy is you
18:07
actually just described Eric like pretty.
18:09
Oh, he doesn't know Eric. No, he just.
18:11
Described it right now. He described it right now.
18:13
You and Eric would be great friends, not because you're both
18:16
Nazis, but. Knowledge between you 2 would be
18:18
crazy. Is Eric the yellow S13?
18:21
No, he doesn't have a I'll show you.
18:22
I'm thinking of Eric like. No, You think about Erica
18:25
Sanjimino. Yeah, that Eric.
18:27
Yeah. No, this, this Eric.
18:28
Eric Saggy minnow this. Eric is in the choppers and old
18:31
shit and like. Dude, you, I probably know who
18:33
he is, but like yo. You.
18:34
You. Actually got a lot of followers
18:36
but like. We're playing fucking matchmaker
18:38
right now for friends, that's crazy.
18:39
He moved here from not Detroit, but Wisconsin.
18:43
Yeah, Wisconsin. Area like recently.
18:46
Who was the dude that was just here?
18:48
I met him at a show recently. That was the electrician.
18:50
Oh, Mike. He's talking about Mike.
18:51
Yeah. Young Mike.
18:53
Young Mike. Young Mike.
18:54
Dave's brother. Mustache.
18:55
Mustache. When the hell?
18:56
Did you mean when did you he? Was here 'cause he was.
18:58
Doing oh oh. Chopper Mike, Yeah, or that
19:02
Chopper? Yeah, no, what what?
19:05
Dude, I just I got a shirt. There's just photos of Mike when
19:07
we were at final bout that he was wearing just like outfits
19:10
that are very Mike is that. Mike and Erica are like.
19:13
I just went to a car show really so like my dad, like an old
19:16
school thing and I had one of your shirts on and I was
19:20
watching. He's like, yo, like your boys
19:22
with them. I'm like, I know Frankie like
19:23
through the years and stuff. And he was like his boy on this.
19:26
Like it was like an 88 like 2500 GMC something just bagged on his
19:32
nuts. Like the ones you see on the
19:34
Internet. You're like that right there.
19:36
And it's like this dark brown. It's on marketplace I think
19:39
actually. But I found it and I was like
19:42
this dude. It's like you look at it and
19:44
you're like, and you're like, I'm I'm thinking about emptying
19:47
the four O 1K for this. It's it's fucking mint.
19:49
I don't know why Eric doesn't have a picture of himself on SO.
19:52
My Instagram is straight up just like.
19:54
Eric is a beautiful man. I was trying to find a photo of
19:56
him. Oh, you got one?
19:58
Yeah. I just want to see if you
20:00
recognize him. But you guys would be great
20:02
friends. Now the Beetle is not your only
20:04
car because you have another car that I also like.
20:07
Oddly enough, my dad also owned one of these as well.
20:09
I don't know if I said that but my dad had a bunch of Beetles.
20:12
So like I like the Beetle but he owned Rabbit as well.
20:17
That man look familiar? No, I don't.
20:20
I was thinking someone completely different that he
20:22
does. Yeah.
20:23
Was that about he was about his sleeper?
20:26
Was about to get activated. He gives that sleeper so long I
20:28
won't be anything bad. I'm not trying to roast you, but
20:31
like I can see what Frank is saying for.
20:32
Sure. No fucking way.
20:34
We love you, Eric. God damn it.
20:35
Clean him up, you clean and he's always now you don't have to
20:37
clean him up. He literally how he looks is
20:39
like he looks like he's from the 50s first.
20:41
He'd be in some saving part of Ryan.
20:43
Yes, exactly. Like, that dude's playing a
20:44
role. Yes play.
20:46
Yeah. Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge.
20:48
Yeah. Shit.
20:48
You're like, this dude's a time traveler.
20:49
Dude, one of the most calming parts of the trip was when I got
20:52
to hang out with Eric. When Malcolm walks in here, it's
20:54
awesome. When Malcolm walks in here with
20:55
his shirt tucked in, he goes. I'm trying to get those Eric
20:57
Ryan vibes going right now. She's always shirt tucked in.
21:02
I don't know, dude. Eric's cool.
21:03
Man I can't pass a shirt tucked in vibe.
21:04
I just look like a square. Yeah, I look like I'm.
21:06
Built too much like Gumby to be like that bro.
21:09
Start up there was Malcolm was wearing this this weird shit at
21:14
final but he had a cropped up on.
21:15
Did you notice that he like cut it?
21:17
That mid drift. Imagine if, OK, imagine if all
21:21
of us were wearing that. None of us.
21:23
Would look cool. But Malcolm D belly tat.
21:26
Yeah, maybe if he had a you. Got a belly tat, bro, You pull.
21:28
That's wrong, Malcolm. Yeah, dude, you got like a
21:31
Panther or something. He does have a Panther.
21:34
On a leg. There we go.
21:35
I got Tiger on my name but that's it.
21:37
Nice, yeah. But yeah, no, you have a rabbit.
21:39
Is or is it a GTI? Yours is a.
21:41
It's a. Miyagi can pull that off.
21:43
Miyagi Hat can pull that off. It's pre GTI so it's it's a
21:46
Volkswagen Rabbit. Rabbit.
21:47
My dad had that one with the red stripe around it.
21:50
Is that significant at all? There's.
21:52
Like Gtis have the stripe around it, OK?
21:54
It's also one of those things that like in Europe, they're a
21:57
GTI to the fucking 78. So like, people geek out and do
22:00
the conversions and shit, but like, there's also like 1000
22:04
grills people sell and you could put that little red Insignia
22:07
around the grill for sure, yeah. What What year Volkswagen does
22:10
your interest completely drop off?
22:14
Out of respect for Adam, that one of the cars I I sponsor and
22:17
help drag racing mark one GTI that.
22:21
What? What if he didn't exist?
22:24
In respect to my clientele, there's Mark on GTI.
22:27
How? Many NDA's have you?
22:28
Signed none. It's just like he's my he's one
22:31
of like my best friends and there's a difference in mark
22:33
one's that the corner markers. It gets like all dot Ed and like
22:37
weird. So the turn signals are
22:38
different and I'm not into it, but like people are into it and
22:43
it's a GTI so I it has. What year is that?
22:47
8281 and a half 8283 just a mark one GTI will come up.
22:52
Is that a big deal 'cause we always bring, we're bringing up
22:54
Dota lot here and like well. That's like right when it's not
22:57
era is when shit gets weird 'cause like bumpers got bigger,
23:00
they come like. Well, you can't like just like
23:02
buy like a pre, like, you know, buy a chooky fucking bumper,
23:05
like a backdated bumper, like how a 180 comes right?
23:08
You want it to look like a Type X, so then you switch all the
23:10
shit up. It's.
23:12
But is it like more? It's so it's different in the
23:14
terms of like you have a flip up front end and you want to go
23:18
like a silver front end. You have to physically cut the
23:20
front of the car off and back date it almost.
23:22
It's not like ohh just put a a. Grill that, I think it's like
23:26
it's more of metal. Work like the most not majority
23:30
there's like in in Mike, like Volkswagen community.
23:32
I'm not really into the big show cars or whatever, but a lot of
23:36
the big like show cars are actually the late model cars
23:39
because you can't. You could find an early one, but
23:40
like why would you jump into the shell for like thousands more
23:43
because it is vinned an early one when you could just buy the
23:46
later Model 1 and just like buy the past panel of a 75 and put
23:50
it in and the same thing with the front end and be like it's a
23:52
75. No one would know other than
23:54
you, the one who welded it together because you're going to
23:56
tell everyone it's a 75. That's so you're saving a buck.
23:59
That's interesting just because there's so many like I'm I'm I'm
24:03
in taking this information and I'm comparing it to like our
24:06
world where it's like, OK, so that's like that's like if
24:10
somebody don't think so that's that's it's not that here we go.
24:13
Here we go here we go here we go.
24:14
Bayside Blue R34 GTR Frankie, one of your favorite cars.
24:18
I know this it is it is we we did a dating show and I got that
24:22
answer right. He was like, what's what's
24:23
Frankie's favorite color? Bayside blue.
24:27
But I thought it. Was going to be silver.
24:28
No, I you you would think it actually.
24:30
Is he actually the Ed conversation?
24:31
I thought it was going to be some weird silver grey knock.
24:33
Along that's just like my safe side where I'm like I'm not
24:35
going to hate it if it you know he.
24:37
Caught that shit. I'm into weird colors, like I
24:40
got a beige car. That weird blue is dude, I love
24:42
it, but I don't know like to to if you give me like your car and
24:47
you're like, I want a silver front end and you just let me do
24:49
my thing. I would put a good buck on like
24:53
other than if there's a way to chase the vintag around and be
24:56
like it's non Sylvia front end, like there's a way to date that
24:59
I you wouldn't be able to. Know I have a Sylvia Red Sport
25:02
on my car. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
25:03
But is it, is there like a part number that is Sylvia versus the
25:06
standard? Probably.
25:08
Yeah. Like is anyone at that point
25:10
with these charities where? They're like No 4 versus.
25:12
Five, yeah. So you could do.
25:15
It the only first of all I don't even know if it's stamped on
25:17
there and second of all it's like the only things that are
25:20
different is on a 180. It's like the holes are there
25:23
for to mount the headlight bucket.
25:25
Yeah, but can't you just like? You can drill them.
25:27
You can drill. Them or just like a tiny little
25:29
just. Hide it.
25:30
Yeah, like that's what like that's what these cars are like.
25:32
Like no one know like you would someone who probably did.
25:34
It's getting bodywork, Bondo painted, skim coated, the whole
25:37
9. So you ain't going to know it
25:38
is. But like but you but you would.
25:41
See, I'm anal about it, so I'm like, I want a new one that's.
25:44
How I am I knew it. But you also have a original
25:46
paint job on the car, you know what I mean?
25:48
That's why I bought that car, because yeah, like I was saying
25:51
they that car was inherently cheap before like.
25:54
How long you had that thing? That.
25:56
Can we bring up a photo? Yeah, bring.
25:57
Up people, but also while you're bringing up the photo R34 GTR
26:01
base side blue right you're going to you need a drift car.
26:04
You need a drift car. That's it.
26:05
But then you turn that into a drift car rather than getting an
26:10
R34 GTT or some bullshit like that, one of the other ones and
26:15
and turning that into a drift car.
26:16
That's where. Because one is $200,000, but
26:19
yeah. That's a good example.
26:20
That's good. That's exactly what we're
26:21
talking. About but I'm not going to turn
26:22
that into a fucking drift car, obviously.
26:24
You'll like by like by me right away.
26:28
It's a good car I fucking love. It's got that good.
26:30
Stance it's got that huge tire in the back so I get that mile
26:33
per hour out of it dude, get that full mile per.
26:35
Hour gain when we were when we took it on the little round the
26:38
block, you said that and I was like, wow, you really have to
26:43
think like kind of a little. He was like I, I got a bigger
26:46
tire back here and gained some speed.
26:49
Oh yeah, dude, it's 'cause like my girl's gym is in Rockaway and
26:53
when I first got it I was like, I'm just like everywhere and I
26:56
did it and I put 6000 miles on that car in two years pretty
27:00
much exactly. I put like 2000 on it before it
27:02
was dumped on. Its nuts.
27:03
And now I kept driving it obviously, but like at some
27:06
point I got really tired of driving all the way up 80 and if
27:08
you know 80 when you hit Denville there there's a hill,
27:11
that hill. So like that hill, and if you
27:14
know it's Route 23 by the Walmart, if you're not
27:16
approaching that hill, like foot to the floor, you're going to
27:20
slow down. By the time you get to it, like
27:22
the car's fighting you, you're like, I'm slowing down.
27:24
Oh my God. Yeah, like you're losing
27:26
compression in like a motor and you're like, Oh my God.
27:28
And then like you hit the flat and you're like, oh, it's going
27:30
again. That's how that's.
27:31
How slow does it go down to? Yeah, when you're, you'll lose.
27:34
Maybe like like the Denville Hill, you'll probably lose 5
27:37
mile an hour. Yeah, but you're already like,
27:40
not at 80. Five, But if you're driving it
27:43
and you're like, I'm just putting at 55 and you're like
27:46
trying like it won't speed up even if you're flat to the floor
27:48
it it's just like we're going up it.
27:50
Now, now, how about this? How about this?
27:53
You have more than you. Let's say you have your girl in
27:56
the car. Oh, you're mad now.
27:58
Now it doesn't. It doesn't change.
27:59
And. Then you got a dog in the back.
28:01
You got three people stuff in the back, dude.
28:03
I had three people. I had three people stance just
28:06
like this and I went to a cult classic and it was me, one of my
28:10
best friends, Carlos Perdomo and my lady brother.
28:15
This thing is slow. Damn.
28:18
I like I was like this is mint. And then we got on the highway.
28:20
I was like. This is a problem.
28:21
This ain't it. Instantly I was like this might
28:23
have been a mistake. Oh my God.
28:26
I got a cool trophy from it though, that was pretty sweet.
28:28
Dude, that is. Yeah, it's cool.
28:31
It's it's not for everyone because like I, I can't even
28:34
express you have to just be in it and feel how fucking slow.
28:37
I loved it. But like aesthetically, bro,
28:39
like come on, look at that thing.
28:41
Look. At that thing, dude, yo, that's
28:42
your car. For real, he had he had Eddie do
28:45
the. Pinstriping, yeah, so the back
28:46
windows like old school hand pinstriping and it says ES
28:49
fabrications. All my, all my cars have that.
28:51
That's so good. It's such a flex because most
28:54
people are like, oh, nice sticker.
28:55
I'm like, touch it. Yeah.
28:56
And they're like, then if you look at it, the inside is inlaid
29:00
and it's don't yell at me. And it's like gold.
29:04
Leaf. Or like it's spun leaf.
29:06
It's spun, you know, you paint shit.
29:07
Yeah, something inside out. And you're like she.
29:10
Yell. Way what?
29:13
Yeah, the gas tanks in the front.
29:15
No, no, no, not not that I knew that, I knew that.
29:17
But I'm saying like he laid it on the inside of the glass.
29:20
Yeah, so the I. Can't keep looking at this.
29:22
I'm going to fucking. My Facebook marketplace is about
29:23
to get fucked up. I can't.
29:25
I can't be looking. At this, look at the little the
29:27
little fog lights or the. Truck see I.
29:29
Forgot that's my dad's truck. Yeah, that's been a family like
29:32
30 years. He built that the garage.
29:33
I do all my welding work out of He built and painted that thing
29:36
in the garage. Shout out dad.
29:38
He's the reason I don't believe so.
29:40
Maybe. I mean, you're welcome to come
29:42
because it's, it's a. Wait, we met through James
29:44
Morales, right? We met through James Morales
29:47
like. I was just about before.
29:49
You expanded at all? I came here and he was put, he
29:53
approached me and he's like, I want to put a recorder in my car
29:56
and I straight up because I am boys with James, I'm like.
29:59
No. Because I think that was right.
30:01
That was like, no, but like, it was right before the crazy, like
30:04
bubble of these cars. And I was like, bro, spend the
30:07
$3500, go get another one. Yeah, 'cause you're gonna pay me
30:09
4 grand to put a quarter on this car and someone you're gonna be
30:13
like, yo, the cutter, the quarters, cut off this car at
30:15
some point. Yeah.
30:16
I was like, yo, just yeah, yeah, 'cause.
30:19
I watched him take a. Fucking that was battery.
30:21
Yeah, I'm all for, I'm all for like taking big jobs on and
30:25
doing all the sheet metal working and stuff.
30:26
But like, I still have a normal gig and I have a good job, so
30:29
like, OK, yeah. What do you do?
30:31
I work for the power company. I work for the local power
30:33
company. We got crazy HR and partners
30:35
launch. What is I'm not I'm not a
30:37
lineman. I work in the substations on the
30:39
high voltage Transformers and Breakers.
30:41
We got a crazy HR department. So I try not to post about it
30:44
because like. People, you know, fuck, that's
30:45
all you got to say. That's all you got to say.
30:47
It's annoying as fuck. That's it's whack yeah, and
30:49
shout out all my work home user listening.
30:52
A bunch of my coworkers were like podcast.
30:54
I was like, yeah. They're probably listening like
30:56
right now. They're like, damn, I thought
30:57
this was going to be professional.
30:59
Not at all. We're scumbags.
31:00
But yeah. Dude, you did some work the
31:02
other day that was fucking crazy.
31:04
Malcolm if you go on his Instagram.
31:05
Not a desk. Can you please explain this
31:07
fucking desk to me? Can you pull up that desk?
31:10
It's not on my Instagram. I have photos on my phone but
31:13
it's. Been building this desk and like
31:15
it's one we were just talking. Yeah, when we were talking about
31:17
with the yeah, fuck it, it's yeah, no, someone put a bunch of
31:21
soda cans on it, 'cause we had, we had the open house for stuff
31:24
and all the kids were there and they got a couple stains in it.
31:26
So I had like an aneurysm. That's the desk.
31:29
That's the So the desk was built while my girl was opening her
31:33
new gym. We couldn't post about it
31:35
because, like, it wasn't official.
31:37
It was official. But yeah, she was in an old gym,
31:39
leases and stuff, you know? Yeah.
31:41
So I was building it and I like took like a month and a half to
31:44
build this thing. And I was like, I need to get
31:46
done. He needs to get done because I
31:48
was holding up welding work and I was spending money on it.
31:50
And it was, it was a crazy amount of detail, what I spent
31:52
on it. And I love how it came out.
31:56
It came out sweet. But all the kids, you know, all
31:57
the kids are not. Oh, I got to put it on a
31:59
coaster. Yeah.
32:00
Put a ring in the desk. And like, they, they didn't.
32:02
And then I was like, the day was done.
32:04
I was like just having like an aneurysm to myself.
32:07
And you can't be rude because you have to open.
32:08
I don't have that. Post it up.
32:10
No I got mad photos of it on my phone now but.
32:12
That thing is cool. But yeah.
32:13
I couldn't post it because of the situation.
32:15
And again, you're just. My stories and stuff.
32:16
Your your work doesn't Yeah bro OK I mentioned a table and we
32:20
were just talking about beetles. So like your work really has no
32:23
bounds. We talked about this like
32:25
fabricating doesn't really have I'm.
32:26
Telling you we need something like that.
32:28
Like a line. Yeah, I know.
32:29
Yeah. But like.
32:30
There's no line or boundary for. You go like deep on my Instagram
32:36
page. I actually started kind of doing
32:37
furniture. So like, really?
32:39
So like when I remember that that's a long story how I got
32:42
into the whole fabricating world.
32:44
We have your business, but yeah. There's mad beer and at some.
32:47
Point I left what I was doing, I did it full time as some As for
32:50
a company, I was like the main fabricator and I got like
32:53
stomach problems and stuff and I need like good health insurance
32:56
and they didn't have it. And I was like, oh, I'm gonna
32:58
apply to get into union. So I applied to get into the
33:00
company. Started like a low ranked
33:01
position. I took like a 13 hour pay cut.
33:04
That's when I don't know if you remember, I built that crazy
33:06
mini truck, the hard body. Yeah on the R34 wheels.
33:08
It was all wide bodied. It was fucking beautiful.
33:10
We. Need to find that photo.
33:11
Too. And I was going to Cody
33:15
Mcmanus's open house. I was coming back on Route 3,
33:18
and I spun a bearing in the motor, lost oil pressure, drove
33:21
it home relentless anyway. And I literally couldn't afford
33:25
to fix it. I couldn't have had 295 ^2 on
33:28
it. I literally I was like, wow,
33:30
that's it. So then I actually I think this
33:32
is How I Met Josh because I put up because whatever I bought
33:36
because I was making bread and I was like 18.
33:38
I just bought 2 of. So when I bought an adjustable
33:40
arm, I bought 2 because I was like, oh, if I'm going to go to
33:42
the track, people bend them. I'm.
33:43
That's some. Fucking.
33:45
But like that I do everything over the top.
33:47
So that's the way I did it. And then like I blew the truck
33:50
up. I took a 13 hour pay cut and I
33:53
was like I can't feasibly even own this thing because it had it
33:56
had a weird motor and it had a 351 Windsor out of a retired
33:59
drag racing car. My dad's an old school hot rod
34:02
guy and I was like 18. I didn't understand how like
34:06
fuel injection worked nor did I care.
34:08
I just wanted to Welch it together.
34:10
So I bought old brac racing car out of West Milford, took the
34:13
351 and the T5 trans and I smacked it into the hard body.
34:17
I shoved the motor vac inches S13 front and subframes.
34:21
It was wild. I did all this work to it Yeah.
34:23
And I changed careers and it was like.
34:26
Did you find it, Malcolm? It's way down.
34:27
Just keep going. This is like peak mark one.
34:30
There's Steve Stevens car. This, this is like, this is the
34:34
thing I remember when I met you, you were building.
34:35
That this is that was like me peek into being drifting into
34:39
drifting well, like not peek. I'm still into it 'cause I have
34:41
a lot of customers to do it and I love like I know about final
34:44
bout like I just helped Josh get there and I know all the details
34:47
of that. But like yo, it's like I spent
34:50
so many years trying to grow the business cuz I told myself
34:52
whatever money I made. No, that's.
34:54
That's sick too. Though that was cool.
34:56
There's a turbo manifold I made for myself.
34:58
It's gonna be crazy. Keep going, yeah you'll see it
35:00
instantly. See I started making furniture
35:01
in the beginning cuz I needed to make a buck cuz I was.
35:03
Broke. We're gonna need your help.
35:04
And what is that? There's a soft tail that was
35:08
mine, that was yours. Yeah.
35:09
Well, go back to that, go back to that.
35:10
How are you going to just pass that right now?
35:12
I actually just sold that like I sold.
35:14
Soft tail one. It was a 2018 St.
35:17
Bob. Yeah, St.
35:18
Bob. Yeah, that painted that
35:19
motherfucker too. Yeah, I, I, I.
35:21
Can low rider I can also tell. That painted that thing.
35:23
It's a good bike, you know, I bought that thing.
35:26
I was so salty. If you're listening, when I
35:31
bought this bike and it was through a friend at the dealer
35:34
and I was like, yo, like the lower arrest was the thing for
35:36
years, yeah. Mine wasn't an SI, spent all
35:39
that fucking. Yeah, so I I was like, I did my
35:42
little bit of research, 'cause I didn't have any debt and I
35:44
needed to put money on something to build my credit score.
35:46
So I wanted to buy a house, yadda, yadda, yadda.
35:49
And I was like, yeah, it was a low rider S coming back and the
35:51
guy was like, I swear, it's not, no, I bought this, I bought this
35:55
bitch. And like three months later
35:57
they're like the 114 crate mortar low rider.
35:59
I was like. Yeah same bro, same thing
36:01
happened to. Me, I wanted to fucking bang my
36:03
head against the wall. I was so aggravated.
36:04
And then I was like, no, because no matter what you do to it, Cam
36:07
all that shit, it ain't going to equal what that bike was
36:09
actually. So has the inverted forks and
36:11
all that shit. This thing, this thing was it
36:14
looks cool though. What is it?
36:15
What was it? That was a 10, 08 or something,
36:18
108 or 107. 11 yeah 10. Eight, yeah.
36:21
What I did the Harley stage four thing or whatever and that bike,
36:24
my bike rips apart of low Rider S.
36:27
Yeah, no, but the Low Rider S has got like the inverted forks
36:30
and all that shit. I mean, which I actually don't
36:32
even like so. I don't like the look of it, but
36:34
like, could I tell you there's a difference when you ride it?
36:36
I don't know. But like it's got the option, I
36:39
guess it's. Fine, I don't know that looks
36:41
that shit was hot from from further away.
36:43
It looked like a little bit more of an older type.
36:46
No, it's a brand new bike and that.
36:47
Yeah, but now I see the headline and shit like.
36:50
It was a good bike, same as mine.
36:52
You know what's crazy? Yeah.
36:53
Do you like? Can you comfortably ride yours?
36:56
Yes. Bro, I would ride that thing and
36:58
I bought like that was like a Salomon seat.
37:00
Like it wasn't cheap. I don't know, like 3-4 hundred
37:02
bucks. Yeah, I would.
37:03
I drove that to Poconos one day, dude.
37:05
My lower back what was numb dude my thighs were not I literally
37:10
couldn't even walk the seating position.
37:11
I was like fuck this bite. Like after a while I was like,
37:14
this thing looks sick. You gotta.
37:15
Push your pelvis out a little. Fuck dude, it was so bad.
37:18
Like it was terrible. It was probably the seat cause
37:19
the stock seat. And then I put that Saddleman
37:21
on. I was like, this is the wave,
37:22
'cause I didn't do the the little passenger bubble.
37:25
You just did a regular old school.
37:27
Yeah, like an old school single. Seat, I'm not gonna lie that
37:29
little the step up. Dude back there with so bad, it
37:31
was the main reason I got rid of it.
37:32
It was, it was unbearable, 'cause then you look at it,
37:34
you're like, oh, the big step up seat was like 600 bucks or
37:38
something, something like that. And I was like and to maybe not
37:41
be good again. And I have like back problems
37:43
from MMA so like. That's probably the majority of
37:46
the probably, yeah. Not in skating but like it.
37:49
It looks cool, but. It looks like the bars.
37:51
Are set I'm I'm not I. Mean it was lucky Dave's tease
37:54
and then it had the little LELCDS explain yeah their billet
37:57
like little mount. It was awesome.
37:59
I loved it. It's just I built a shed for all
38:02
my tools and the business kept growing and growing and it was
38:06
in the way and I almost dropped a full stick of roll cage tube
38:09
on it and I was like. That was it.
38:11
And I was like, that's it. And I put it up for sale.
38:14
And dude, the first dude who came, I was like, I want export.
38:16
And he was like, yeah, I have cash.
38:18
I was like, huh, Dude, I was really like, huh, wow.
38:21
He was like. A lucky Facebook transaction
38:23
that's. Dude, he was like, all right,
38:26
wait. And I was like, OK, did.
38:27
You sell it for more than you bought it for.
38:30
Yes, yeah, yeah, that gives me hope.
38:32
Dude like I was like I don't even know what.
38:35
I thought Lowrider S was out already.
38:36
Yeah, but like, The thing is, I'm off on numbers.
38:40
It's been forever. But that's like olive gold.
38:42
That was a launch color of the Street Bob because the Dyna
38:44
wasn't made anymore and that's a rare color for that bike and
38:47
that. Wasn't a painted?
38:48
Color. So that's the stock color.
38:50
The only thing we did is edge shaved off the Insignia for like
38:53
the actual badge on the side that said Harley-Davidson and
38:56
then the little battery cover box above the exhaust that was
38:58
painted and then the whole front fairing was added and then.
39:01
The pinstriping. The pinstriping shit, yeah,
39:03
that's all that that. Looks.
39:04
Nice. It was a good bike.
39:05
It rode great. It's just it was uncomfortable
39:07
for me because. Yeah.
39:10
Yeah, So that's your bike. Well, I think it's throwing me
39:13
off because yeah, I don't like the maybe the colors.
39:15
Same frame, yeah, but it has a swing arm like.
39:17
That that rear end is skinnier than mine.
39:19
That swing arm still does the holes through the trans no no.
39:21
No, this is a soft tail. So this is what replaced the
39:24
Dyna. Fuck yeah, I don't want this
39:25
one. This is the nice one.
39:28
It's a nicer motorcycle, yeah, but it's they're more expensive.
39:31
Yeah, all right. This is not the one for.
39:32
Me, that was, that was a good buck, that's for sure.
39:35
That was that was like some people's dailies, I'm not going
39:37
to lie. Yeah, that that looks like
39:39
something that I could. Like I had like I like that was
39:42
before I changed careers and I like bought that.
39:45
I'm like like 300 dollar $400.00 payment.
39:47
Fuck it. And then I took the crazy pay
39:49
cut and I was like whoa bro I need fucking money.
39:52
Like my parents gave me like a loan and shit they get but I was
39:55
broke. Let's try.
39:56
Now the business is. This car, Malcolm.
39:59
Dude, we went on. There's.
40:00
Kev's front end. I did.
40:01
We went on that that ride the other night and that shit was a
40:04
few hours. From there's that boom riding
40:06
that was that is not Jesus the. Wheels.
40:10
The wheels are crazy. Jesus that shit was hot.
40:12
S13 front rear subframes, extended lowers.
40:15
I did it all. It was on a Holly EFI bro.
40:18
Just watching that. Like that is not the not the old
40:21
Snapchat video hold. On what color do you think that
40:23
is? That it looks familiar.
40:26
Hold on. I was going for a Porsche color
40:28
and then I thought, and then I got a price for a Porsche color
40:31
pricing and I was like. That's a Ford Pinto color.
40:34
No shot at all. If you can guess it bro I'll
40:36
give you 100 bucks. OK.
40:39
I don't know. There's it's it's pretty.
40:41
Do you think we would know it? It's it's.
40:44
Shockingly obvious what it is. I had a feeling dude that color
40:46
looks. Cool bus.
40:47
Yellow it is. School bus Yellow.
40:49
Yeah, Daddy, I'll give you 100 bucks.
40:51
Dude, I'm not kidding you. I went to the paint shop.
40:53
I was like, you know what? I'm.
40:56
Saying, yeah, I want signal fucking yellow 72911 signal
41:01
yellow. The guy goes, are you, are you
41:02
out of your mind? Yeah, 'cause a a gallon was like
41:05
$700.00. Yeah.
41:07
And then he was like, you know, it looks like it.
41:08
And he's like, and he slapped on the table.
41:10
He's like, this is 40 bucks. I was like and I was like.
41:14
Yo. Berler and yeah, it's school bus
41:15
yellow Yeah, pulled it off fucking well.
41:17
I. Only I I have a customer right
41:19
now at my house who wants yellow and I was love.
41:23
I was perusing the yellow color swatches and I I was one of them
41:27
was. I was at work yesterday and we
41:28
pull in through like this crazy gate and there's the gas side
41:31
and the electrical side and someone had a Dakar yellow 4
41:34
door E36 with a little wing extension.
41:37
I was just driving to work. I was like, I was like, who's
41:39
got the tail? I was like, I was like damn.
41:41
I was like, who got tasted? Here.
41:43
Like dude it was the cleanest E36 I've seen in the year.
41:45
Older, no bullshit he was building.
41:46
It Yeah, dude, you could. It's a full Chapel like.
41:50
Right there stands. Go go up.
41:51
That's that's mini truck shit right there.
41:53
There's a frame right there. That's the bed.
41:55
The bed. Was caught oh holy hell it's got
41:56
trick suspension in the back because.
41:58
Of the S13. Wow, that is that.
42:00
Back there's a photo of it sitting on Jack stands in the
42:03
middle of my. Look at that photo right there.
42:05
No up one. That's right there.
42:07
That's how I remember. It that that was probably the
42:09
coolest thing I ever built and ever will built because I was a
42:12
dumb kid with too big of a bank account.
42:14
And thanks to my parents for letting me be an idiot and make
42:17
something like that. The yeah, yeah, bro, I painted
42:22
that in a Harvard freight carport.
42:25
I put, I bought 2 tarps. I laid it down, built the
42:27
carport on top of it, then flipped the tarp off and like
42:30
bungee cord them up. And I painted that bitch right
42:32
where I was. Frank.
42:33
Frankie. Frankie did.
42:34
Yeah. Same thing bro, that was the
42:36
coolest thing I've ever built and.
42:38
You sold this thing? No, you took it apart.
42:41
I saw sawed it in half. So it was this weird thing with
42:45
me. No.
42:47
So yeah, it took me a couple 100 hours to build.
42:49
I sold off all the parts. Some dude bought the motor out
42:52
of it, some dude bought like the three spare Transit I had in the
42:55
rear end and this and that. Wait.
42:57
Oh, nevermind, I remember. Yes, the engine was crazy.
43:00
It was a 351 Windsor. It's nothing crazy for those V8
43:02
people. It's the like OBS for truck
43:06
motor, but it had like aluminum heads on it and like all this
43:09
shit. So like it was a 5.8 liter V8
43:11
on, like it was carbureted and then it went a Holly EFI sniper,
43:15
all that stuff. But yeah, I sold that off.
43:17
I sold the suspension components.
43:19
And then there was like a part of me that was like some dude
43:23
hit me up, he's like, I'm going to put AK series.
43:24
And I'm like, that's cooler than what I wanted to do.
43:26
And I ain't going to give you that because it's probably going
43:28
to blow up on the Internet. And he's going to be like, I
43:30
built it and you didn't fucking build it.
43:32
So then, yeah, I sawed it up and I threw it away and the only
43:36
thing I have left of it is the plate.
43:39
That's I don't want. To get I didn't want to give
43:41
anyone the satisfactory, the fast satisfaction to say they
43:43
did anything with it. So I I threw it away.
43:46
That's interesting. Yeah, it was it was very I still
43:49
stick by it because like I somewhat it was too wrecked.
43:53
It wasn't too reckless to say, but it it was so weird.
43:56
Like if that pulled up to E town, it was working and it
43:59
actually had S13 suspended like it would travel like an S13 and
44:02
it was all that. It was all properly set up and
44:04
it was just Wheeling like your car could wheel or any like
44:08
you'd be like what the fuck? And then you'd be like, well
44:10
what is up with that? And it would gain traction or
44:13
something. Now why didn't you just?
44:14
And you didn't get that? Credit and put it in the shed
44:17
back there. Well, because your boy was
44:21
broke. Broke.
44:22
And but you cut it in half. Yeah, but I didn't want someone
44:27
having it. That was the biggest thing.
44:28
And it was just like. I'm so mad you didn't just put
44:31
that something in a corner somewhere.
44:33
Yeah, but The thing is now is like when I did it, the level of
44:39
fabricator I was because if you actually go back, I, I back
44:41
halfed it again and then I was balls deep, you know, go up.
44:45
Up. So keep going you might be able
44:48
to see something I made like a cool rear bash bar.
44:50
And then if you look up the next photo, I changed the rear tube
44:54
structure and I had the the cage go through the cab and all this
44:57
shit and I solid mounted the diff and got rid of the
45:00
subframe. I did all this shit and then
45:02
changed careers and it was it just.
45:05
You weren't happy with it? I was happy with it that looks.
45:07
Fucking nuts. What the fuck?
45:10
Yeah, it was a rear mounted rat and everything.
45:11
It was cool but like. That looks.
45:15
I didn't want someone having it like it.
45:16
It was mine. It's mine.
45:18
Like I did that. And then there's a couple dudes
45:20
who drifted hard bodies and we were like all like cool with
45:23
each other. Like see the diff was solid
45:25
mounted. The subframe was gone.
45:26
It was all too mounted, but it kept S13 geometry.
45:29
Like I used the stock S13 arm and sat it where it would be
45:32
proper and then put the adjustable arms in.
45:34
So like it would accept S13 arms off the frame itself for hell is
45:39
having. A fucking crazy.
45:41
Dude, yeah, it was cool. It was.
45:42
It was definitely one of the craziest things I ever built
45:45
personally for myself did. You get to.
45:46
Drive it. I drove the shit out of it.
45:47
Yeah, like I did a couple street street drifting with it.
45:50
I did a lot, I did a lot with it.
45:52
I never drove it in this configuration because that's
45:54
right when I changed careers. But yeah, like I probably put a
45:58
couple 100 miles on it. It was it was great.
46:00
It's just dude is changed career and I couldn't afford it like
46:04
with when I wired in the bed had AI bought the wheels from Zach.
46:08
Well, as one of my good friends and they're there's my Buck.
46:12
I saw the different. Pic of it was it was like an 18
46:16
by 10 1/2 negative 18 with a 295 tire and the tires were shot
46:21
because I was ignorant and doing Donuts and shit.
46:23
And I was like yo, I need a pair of tires and they're like 1200
46:26
bucks. And I was like I can't even
46:27
afford to do that. I was in my bank account is -40
46:30
dollars. I have a truck that needs 6
46:32
grand worth of motor work. And I also was looking at it
46:35
like yo it's got 15 grand worth of parts in it.
46:38
And I was like, I I need to make my Harley payment and I was
46:42
like, I need I and I just had to like adult up and not adult up,
46:46
but like I needed to pay my bills.
46:47
So like, yo it. Yeah, I sold all the shit off of
46:50
it. And then it was that was it.
46:53
I was like, I can't really keep going.
46:55
So you think? You'd make another one.
46:56
Eventually I would love to make another one, but I would
46:59
probably start with a different chassis.
47:01
What would you? What would you go with?
47:04
I would probably, I would used to if you asked me like 6 months
47:07
ago, I probably would say K series.
47:08
But everyone's having those crazy vibration problems.
47:10
Yeah. I wouldn't do AK.
47:13
Honestly if I also do anything I would really like to push my
47:16
rabbit to being like a serious Rd. like Rd. time attack car.
47:21
What's in the rabbit motorized now?
47:23
It's a 2 liter ABA out of a mark three.
47:25
That's a golf. It's just a straight up NA an
47:28
ABA swap. It's an ABA so it's a single Cam
47:32
I. Don't know everything about
47:34
everything, isn't that I? Knew you were going to fucking.
47:38
Know everything about I knew. You were going to fucking ask me
47:41
this? My first car was AAB 5 Audi A4.
47:44
You don't think I looked into fucking Volkswagen?
47:47
Fucking rabbit. That was the worst car I've
47:49
ever. But but when I wanted, when I
47:51
got my A4, I wanted Mark 2. I wanted a mark three.
47:54
What goes on a Mark 2? ABA.
47:56
It's just the fucking motor that's.
47:57
The engine code for the two liter back down, Yeah, I see no
48:00
everything. Well, The thing is with like
48:01
mark one, if you have a 75 all the way down to someone wanna
48:06
mark one, dude is going to chew me out for this. 74 is like the
48:09
swallowtail which is the early mark ones all the way up to the
48:12
mark 3, the two liter ABA, the casting for the block.
48:16
Was the same. Was the exact same, they just
48:18
went from a 1.4 they bumped it up to a 1/6 and a one eighth
48:21
then A2. Liter Oh, but they're just
48:23
taking material. The physical casting of the
48:25
block and the engine mounts is the same.
48:27
Yeah, so you. Could take it with the.
48:28
ABA and just there's 10s of guys to do a TDC.
48:32
Dave does a really good job. He sells a harness.
48:35
You just he simplifies the harness.
48:37
You put the two liter in and you go from an 80 horsepower car to
48:40
140 horsepower car, whatever. Feels like and it's.
48:42
Instant and you're also going from A4 speed to a 5 speed with
48:45
an OverDrive. So it's like the mark one ABA
48:48
swap. It's like having like a the
48:51
truck KA and going to like boosted Sr.
48:54
Yeah, it's like boom, a weekend, you're done and you're like this
48:56
thing rips. Yeah, no, that that.
48:58
But my car is hopped up from that point, yeah.
49:00
That was the that was the thing that people would talk about in
49:03
those like forums for the Mark 1 and 2.
49:05
They were like ABA. Get with it, Frankie.
49:10
But the like, the vRS are cool, but the vRS are fucking
49:13
terrible. I will die on that hill.
49:14
VR is bad. VRS are terrible.
49:16
Well, vRS are inherently a good motor.
49:18
But they sound good. I like to do it, but like if
49:22
you're the guy with a Mark 4A, Mark 3A, Mark 2 and you're like,
49:26
I'm trying to seriously drag race, there's a lot of really
49:29
fast vRS. But if you're just like, I own a
49:32
Mark one, I'm going to put a VR in it and drive.
49:35
The problem is it's not it's not engine mount to hood height you
49:39
lose it's engine mount to like floor and there's no way around
49:42
it. You straight like you'll just
49:44
lose like 4 inches oil pan clearing like your car will be
49:47
like. You can't like run like dry sump
49:49
or some shit like. Bro, these are Volkswagen kids
49:52
and they're peasants and they're poor and I'm.
49:54
Well, what did you mention Dry Ryan?
49:56
Dry sump? No, I'm talking about like the
49:57
daily driver, like VR swap of mark 11.
50:00
The motor is inherently way heavier.
50:01
Oh no. So the balance.
50:02
Gets all weird, No? Same thing with Mark.
50:04
I'm not in the Mark twos, but the vRS are weird because
50:07
they're heavier. I just don't.
50:09
And you? Use you lose ground clearance to
50:11
pan and they're aluminum pans, most of them.
50:14
And then you're like, oh, I'm just going to buy the shortened
50:16
pan with the plate welding on it.
50:18
And it's like some dude in his garage makes it and it's like
50:22
like a $900 modification there's and you're like, why the fuck
50:25
would I do that? There's something with the mark
50:27
one and two where I where you're at and what you have the ABA
50:30
swap in there and everything like that.
50:32
That's it. A VR I feel like is just.
50:34
Too. It's too.
50:35
Heavy, they're from different. Gets off.
50:37
Yeah, they're from different. Bins.
50:38
That's why I'm good. My beige car is like period
50:42
correct. A lot of the Mark one dudes are
50:44
gonna hate me for that cuz I just took it off Thirteens.
50:46
I was like gonna die on that hill and I just went racing with
50:49
it and it was fucking terrible. So now it's on Fifteens.
50:54
Mark James is gonna hate that I said that.
50:56
But yeah, but like, I put Fifteens on the car.
50:58
I was a one. I went from A1 8560 R 13 R 888 R
51:04
like a good. How much is a tire?
51:06
Yeah. Wait, what?
51:07
How much is that? It was. 13 like a fucking $1000.
51:10
Almost $1000 for four sets. For. 13, yeah, it was insane.
51:13
So Long story short, I jumped up to a 15 and I jumped up to a
51:16
205-5015. Oh, so the stock.
51:19
Tire was 40. No.
51:21
Of a 240. Of a 240.
51:23
And it's $40 less a tire. And that's basically the only
51:28
mod I did going into my next track.
51:30
Like track day, I went 5 seconds faster.
51:34
That's a more I feel like a 13 in this day and the.
51:37
Deflection of the tire? Dude is a 60 sidewall.
51:39
Like yo that thing looks sweet on M13 but the deflection of the
51:42
tire was insane. And like, if I break one of
51:46
those BBSS, the only dude that have one is me.
51:50
And you're like, well, it's in my collection.
51:52
So you're paying the me price because who the fuck else has
51:55
it? And I'm not, I'm not doing that.
51:57
Like it's like if you were to sell one of the wheels or your
51:59
cool valve covers hanging on the wall, you're going to have to
52:01
pay the price for you to be like, well, this is what it's
52:04
worth to me. And.
52:06
So you got a wheel collection. I used to, I thinned out a
52:09
little bit. It's pretty bad.
52:10
Well because I'm building AI, have a couple cars.
52:12
So like The Beatles 1. I used to have like 6 sets, but
52:17
then I thinned out. Now I just have the thirteens
52:19
are on the car, I have another set for the Beetle, I have a set
52:23
for the Karman Ghia. And then that's bad about it,
52:25
yeah. OK, so you.
52:27
I used to collect pretty heavily.
52:29
So how many projects you got going on right now?
52:31
Just. I got 3, three, yeah, OK, three.
52:33
And there's a customer car that's constantly like revolving
52:37
in and out. Yeah, like.
52:39
There's do you like things like that, like a customer that like
52:43
you just get rid of it and then it comes back again?
52:45
I actually prefer it because over the years there's a couple
52:49
you go from when I first started, you're like, yo, I need
52:52
this in your cooler piping made and you'd be like, yo, OK, I
52:55
made this. And then you have like lack of a
52:58
better term, like a threshold. You like your work to be.
53:01
And then you're like the throttle body side will be like
53:03
Helen Keller welded it or like you would look at it and be
53:06
like, why is that a 90 to a 90 when you could just do like a
53:09
smooth 45 to a 45, you know, and you'd be like, yo, if we did,
53:12
it's here, like I could do it. And they're like, now it works
53:15
because a lot of people are under the mentality like, why
53:17
would I pay you extra couple $100 to just like change that?
53:21
But like I'm, I kind of pushed into the direction of like, just
53:26
give me the swap when it's done and I'll like give me these,
53:28
I'll do the exhaust, I'll do everything out the back, I'll do
53:30
the Intercolor piping and I'll do it all.
53:31
And it's like, you want to do a yeah.
53:34
But like you, there's a lot of times I've worked on cars and
53:36
you're just like you've probably seen on customer cars, like like
53:40
a Bolt's facing the wrong way. Now you can't take the
53:42
alternator off or like something stupid.
53:44
You're like, Oh, you got to take all this shit off to get that
53:46
off. And you're like, yo, dude, if
53:47
you just like Riv nutted that versus putting a through Bolt,
53:50
it would be way nicer. And this it's the things you
53:53
like I've built a lot of not that I've built a lot of cars,
53:55
but you've I've been doing it for a minute now.
53:57
So like you, you pick up on some things you're like, yo, this
54:00
would just be so much easier if you just like let me do this and
54:03
like next time you swap the motor out, if you heard it or
54:04
whatever, it'll be like twice as.
54:06
Fast that's every shop owner though.
54:08
It's like right, that's fucking Frankie that is on a regular
54:11
fucking basis. It's like stop bringing me this
54:14
or keep bringing me this and never bring it.
54:16
I keep. It simple.
54:17
I just go, we're going to do it our way.
54:20
That's kind of how I'm at this point now.
54:21
Like it's just like, yo dude, like.
54:23
And if you don't want that, then go somewhere.
54:24
Yeah, like I since I still have a great career, I have not to
54:28
brag or anything, I have people that hit me up for work and
54:30
they're like, yo, you want to do this?
54:31
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they're like, well, I'm
54:34
like, I'm this an hour and it's probably going to be this.
54:36
And it's just like, so all right, so when you want to drop
54:38
it off and they're already inherently fighting for what the
54:41
price would be. And I'm like, you know what?
54:43
Yeah. These guys could help you out.
54:45
Just go to them. Yeah, because I have a great
54:47
career. I have like no, like I'm set.
54:51
I'm not set off like I'm not like well off or anything, but
54:54
like I, I could live off my job and it's like the, the welding
54:57
business is like a passionate project pretty much at this
54:59
point and like I want to work on shit that's cool to me and it
55:02
could be anything as. Long as more of a reason to not.
55:05
Yeah, exactly. And it's like, I've worked on a
55:07
couple things where I was like, like you like I would make my
55:11
piece mint. And then you would like, look at
55:13
the front end and the ball joints falling out of it.
55:15
He's like, I'm gonna drive this to the track on Sunday and
55:17
you're like. You're like, huh?
55:20
And then you see him, you're like, yeah.
55:21
And I was like, you ever do that ball joint?
55:23
And it's like, no, two years later and you're like, huh?
55:26
That's exactly how I feel when Derek comes over my.
55:29
House. Bro, I know so it's.
55:32
Crazy. That's crazy.
55:35
Are you kidding? That's crazy, Derek.
55:37
I know, Derek. Smith, Derek.
55:40
On the bicycle on Instagram. That's exactly how I feel
55:42
sometimes. That's crazy.
55:44
But but he just does it, bro, our friend be more.
55:48
Malcolm knows him. I don't know if you've met him,
55:50
but but he said they should they should ride.
55:53
He's Derek said something in the chat and Brandon said man,
55:58
they're going to write a book about you, bro.
56:00
That's. That's fucking crazy.
56:03
That's the people you remember, though.
56:05
Sometimes you got to fire customers.
56:08
Dude, I've had a couple couple people that like like.
56:13
I'm not talking about Derek, by the way, Derek.
56:14
I'm not talking about you. That was Carl, that was.
56:16
Talking shit a good customer. Yeah, not me.
56:18
I have a list of a couple people I've dealt with over the years.
56:24
It won't inherently affect you because you're not like you
56:27
don't. I predom a lot of Volkswagens or
56:29
whatever and like people I know like if they don't go to me I
56:32
know they're going to the sky and I'll be like yo this dude
56:34
just did this. Just a heads up.
56:38
Well this is the number. Just so everyone knows, this is
56:39
the number one reason to not work on someone's car when they
56:42
come to you and they go, yeah, I was going this other shop but
56:46
they fucked me over so you know, I'm here now.
56:48
It's the biggest thing you deal with.
56:50
They were the problem. Yeah, so.
56:52
I mean, not not every time, but yeah, sometimes.
56:55
But there's also like the thing that it's, it's hard in my world
56:58
because or like you guys probably deal with it too 'cause
57:00
you're doing like a full on builds for most people, not like
57:02
swaps and stuff. Yeah, we do swaps, yeah.
57:04
But like there, there's like time management involved on on
57:09
it. Like you like, oh, you're
57:09
putting an ass on your car and then you, you're posting online
57:12
like, yo, this took me a weekend and then the car's here for two
57:14
years and you're like. Yeah.
57:17
There's shit like that too. You need to be like on your P's
57:19
and Q's and like progressively make progress on stuff but like.
57:24
That's why it's. It's so annoying a business.
57:26
I won't accept a car like there's a couple in in the
57:29
emails right now that are like trying to bring their cars here.
57:31
One of them is 1/2 done project. It's actually a good example.
57:36
There's 2S thirteens, 1 is 1/2 finished.
57:39
One J swap more than half finished, which that's a.
57:42
That's a big red flag. Yeah, it's us.
57:44
And then there's another one which is not even started. 2J
57:48
swab or 1J. Swab and it's the same guy or.
57:50
It's two different people, and it's like, OK, well, I'm
57:52
definitely doing this one. Yeah.
57:54
Because he's like, you know, budget's not really an issue.
57:58
I have this, these parts, but I need all the other ones.
58:00
You know you can source them. It's like OK.
58:02
That's a perfect customer. This one, it's like, I'm going
58:07
to say yes because Malcolm talked to him on the phone and
58:09
he said he seems pretty legit, but I probably shouldn't, you
58:15
know what I mean? Because then I'm going to get
58:16
that car and then it's going to be like, oh, well, you don't
58:18
have this, this, this, you did this wrong.
58:19
We have to redo this. We have to do this.
58:21
And now it's going to be $5000. You know what I mean?
58:23
Absolutely. It's going to snowball so fast.
58:25
Well, that's like this. The shit I I we talked about
58:28
right before we started Like I like I, I go off hourly yeah,
58:31
I'm 85 an hour and it is what it is and I just punch it on
58:34
QuickBooks. But like it's, it's for me, it's
58:36
different because there's there's so much mess involved or
58:39
like I could bend a bracket and I'm like, it'd be a little
58:42
better like this and then that and I'll stare at it for 10
58:44
minutes and you're going back and forth walking to the break
58:46
and this and back and you're sitting in the middle drilling a
58:48
hole this and that. I couldn't it adds up like, yeah
58:51
shot like I did a bus for one of my Co workers shout out Griz.
58:54
I put like 200 hours into this thing Yeah and like it was so
58:58
much of it because he's one of my really good friends.
59:00
It was like, yo, my to shops doing it.
59:02
They're taking too long. It's been 7 years.
59:05
I got the bus within six months it was done.
59:08
Yeah. Because I would leave work 7:00
59:10
to 3:30. I would punch in by 4:15 by the
59:13
time I'm done, walk my dog. I would work until it was 9,
59:15
till my lady gets home. And it was like five days a
59:18
week. And then I'll do six hours on
59:20
either Saturday or Sunday. But like there's people that be
59:22
taking on like like business. And then they're like, yeah,
59:25
like I do this, I do that. And they're doing like as their
59:27
second gig. You're doing like 4 hours a
59:29
week. Yeah.
59:30
Yeah. Do you need to build a name for
59:31
yourself and like hustle? It's it's a little, it's it's
59:34
it's odd, but like. It's a lot.
59:36
It's a lot of work when you have a full time job.
59:38
It's hard, but like I love living in like the chaos of like
59:42
1000 things going on. It's it's something I
59:44
something's your. Brain has to.
59:45
Be my therapist should find out about it because it's fucking
59:47
nuts. I do I when you're like and then
59:50
you're like I need to finish Adam's car.
59:52
I need to go here and then this is getting off Sunday that car
59:54
and then I just I like. I mean, it's good to be busy, I
59:57
agree with that. Love it, the chaos it's.
1:00:00
Cool, but it I just love it. That's.
1:00:02
That sounds. Fun fucked.
1:00:03
It's fun, yeah. You're gonna hit that point
1:00:05
where your paint. Paint.
1:00:06
I think he is doing that right now.
1:00:07
I have so much fucking. I'm so sorry everybody.
1:00:11
There's there's. I respond to the my DMS like
1:00:14
once, maybe 2-3 times a day or something like that.
1:00:18
But like, I have a lot of work. A lot, but like, I can't, I
1:00:22
can't take you all at once. So pause, yeah.
1:00:25
That was. That was a little weird, but
1:00:27
like, not that I'm saying that I pick things that are cool, but
1:00:30
so far the ones the the people who have reached out to me,
1:00:33
thank, thank you to all. Of you got that super life.
1:00:35
The the one that have, the ones that have reached out to me are
1:00:38
all like really cool cars. Yeah.
1:00:40
So like that's what you want to do because like you still have a
1:00:42
normal job like you're like. Dude, I come out of work.
1:00:44
I also try to be transparent. I don't try.
1:00:46
I am transparent about it. Like I when you drop off a car
1:00:50
to me, I tell you I have a full time job and there are days
1:00:52
where I just don't feel like working on this and like, but at
1:00:56
the days that I do work on it that I can find time to work on
1:00:58
it, not can. But when I do have time to work
1:01:01
on it, like I'm on it and it comes out my turn around time
1:01:04
isn't crazy and like I only have like one bait.
1:01:06
Yeah, I think it. Same way here I have I do one
1:01:09
car at a time and it's just like that and it's surely focused on
1:01:12
that and it's. I started.
1:01:14
I started stacking. Kind of good.
1:01:16
I like it like that I used. I'm not I can't even do 2 cars
1:01:19
at once, but like I've done once like car was in the garage.
1:01:22
I'm waiting on a part it's like a week out and I do something
1:01:25
fast on the driveway. That's what sucks.
1:01:28
Because then you have one car, one project.
1:01:30
And but see the thing what I did is a couple times when I first
1:01:32
started. This is a good tip for some
1:01:34
people, but like I would I would like material and what I do is
1:01:39
expensive like I just built like a couple intercooler pipe in
1:01:43
this and that. I spent $700.00 on material.
1:01:46
I do not order it anymore. I got full hosed on two jobs and
1:01:49
I was like no. So I would be like hey, if you
1:01:52
want me to do it, come to the house, we'll have a conversation
1:01:55
how I want to do it, how I would see fit.
1:01:57
This would be done and then bring the car or like I will go
1:02:02
to the car, we'll talk over the project.
1:02:04
I will physically write down in my notes in my phone or a
1:02:06
notepad. Be like we need 44440 fives, two
1:02:09
90s. Because like when you're buying
1:02:11
a four inch 90 elbow, it's like a $60.00 piece of tube.
1:02:15
Yeah. So you don't want to buy two of
1:02:16
them because then like then you're eating into the profit
1:02:18
margin or whatever. Yeah.
1:02:19
So I'm hourly plus material. So the material is just on top
1:02:23
of the bill. But like I will be like I have a
1:02:25
software on my computer. I'm like, this is the cart.
1:02:29
Order the cart when it shows up, drop the car off because like
1:02:34
I've I've ordered shit and then they're like, I wish I had 3 1/2
1:02:38
inch and I was like, you told me 3 and I'm just like, dude,
1:02:41
you're buying more material. I'm not just gonna yeah, what
1:02:44
the fuck? It's like, yeah.
1:02:45
I do have deposit of the cost upfront that usually.
1:02:49
Would be another way around that too.
1:02:51
Yeah, I'm just, I'm just material.
1:02:53
Yeah, you're giving me the material.
1:02:55
Cost. Thankfully with P, it's like,
1:02:57
OK, you gave me this. I kind of gauge my deposits off
1:03:01
of that and the cost of the job off of that and how many hours
1:03:04
it takes me to turn a car out. And then at that point, I can
1:03:07
like, order the fucking paint. Like I said, you send you some
1:03:10
color swatches, you tell me what you like, I'm going to tell you,
1:03:14
OK, This they say, yeah, I order.
1:03:16
It shows up at my house. The car's already there.
1:03:19
Done. You know what another thing is
1:03:20
that you could do that we that we do on bigger projects is
1:03:23
well, I try to invoice every week.
1:03:27
I've done that, like the I've done a few builds that I've had
1:03:30
like over like the one was like over 201 was Neogam 200 and then
1:03:35
like that. But like I don't really try to
1:03:37
be like that. But like a lot of it now, it's
1:03:39
because it's such a small shop and it's, it's like I end up
1:03:42
being boys with these guys. Yeah, like, but it's.
1:03:44
Also awkward because you're like you owe me 200 hours.
1:03:48
And you're like, yeah, that's a lot.
1:03:50
And you're like, yo, is this like so at on those jobs, I will
1:03:56
be like, Yo, you should be paying me because to have that
1:04:00
sum and just be like, it's because you're going to the
1:04:04
shell shock of it is going to be nuts because like, especially
1:04:07
for what I do, that's why I started putting like 1/4 on a
1:04:09
car. You're like, wow, this
1:04:10
Volkswagen bus is a little less rusty.
1:04:12
I'm like, yeah, but I'm 85 an hour and we talked about it the
1:04:15
way it is. So like it adds up very fast.
1:04:18
But like if you go to a someone who has an outfit like this big
1:04:21
that's not on their own property or doing that like there's 120
1:04:24
an hour or 140 an hour doing the same and do to put a rear cord
1:04:29
on a car, you could be looking at like 10 grand.
1:04:31
Yeah, it is what it is. You know it matters, but.
1:04:34
I mean, he just told me his hourly rate before and I was
1:04:36
like, well, that's very fair, so.
1:04:38
There's. Especially for like you said,
1:04:40
you don't have a huge shop or. Anything No, I have no overhead.
1:04:42
I, I, I, I've phenomenal parents.
1:04:46
We own like a nice two family with like a nice garage.
1:04:48
I put up, we put up a shed by house.
1:04:50
Most of my stool, my tooling and everything's on wheels and I
1:04:53
just bring it in and out of the shed and I have like a little
1:04:55
wheelchair ramp and I just every tool I need I bring in and then
1:04:59
out. I have two TIG machines, a MIG
1:05:01
machine, a mill. The only thing I don't have is a
1:05:03
lathe, sheet metal brake, bead roller.
1:05:05
I got all all the tools. Yeah, but like.
1:05:07
Adding some of the stuff that you make with that shit too,
1:05:10
like, and it's that was what Josh made sure he was like.
1:05:12
He just does this stuff out of his garage and I was like, damn,
1:05:14
he does that shit out of his like that.
1:05:17
Well, I wanted to show that thing before.
1:05:20
What? Remember that floor pan you made
1:05:22
or some shit? Oh, that.
1:05:23
So that's the Ghia I'm building that that's the.
1:05:26
Should be recent, somewhat recent.
1:05:27
Yeah, somewhat recent. I haven't touched it in about
1:05:29
like six months, but you there's, there's crazy sheet
1:05:31
metal work everywhere. Or maybe you put it.
1:05:33
On the that was a hybrid S you probably put it on the story.
1:05:35
No, if you go keep going down, because I had a couple of reels
1:05:37
that popped off like that's a piece of it and then keep going
1:05:40
down that like that. That is for probably saying this
1:05:45
wrong. It's in garage or GTR shop out
1:05:47
of Sussex. They're building.
1:05:49
I don't know if I could. I don't know if this is like
1:05:51
public knowledge. They're building a sweet
1:05:53
Mustang. I had the privilege of putting
1:05:54
floors in. It was amazing project.
1:05:57
It's actually getting a case. There's AK that's a 6069
1:06:01
Mustang. It's, you know the movie gone in
1:06:02
60 seconds. Eleanor, that's an Eleanor.
1:06:05
Look at it. You've made the dimple.
1:06:06
It's an Eleanor, but it has AK series in it and it's a boosted
1:06:10
K series on a Haltech and the floors were fucked.
1:06:12
That made a lot. I made the entire floor.
1:06:15
Well, I didn't make the floor, but I put whole new floors in it
1:06:17
and then I love this panel is like a structural piece.
1:06:20
I had to make that completely from scratch.
1:06:21
This video right here is why you're doing a podcast tonight,
1:06:24
because I saw this shit and I was like, this guy's a fucking.
1:06:26
Genius. Yeah, like you can see I got a
1:06:28
little tiny shot, but I do it. But The thing is when I started
1:06:30
taking on business, up until I'd probably say this is my first
1:06:34
serious year like I do, it does well, the business does well,
1:06:39
for sure. I've never at some point been
1:06:42
like, I'm just gonna go buy something.
1:06:44
Gangster doesn't help the business.
1:06:46
Any dollar I made like that bead roller was like $4500.
1:06:49
My bandsaw was like $6500. Like the end to do what?
1:06:53
The precise stuff is expensive. So like whenever I made money, I
1:06:56
just pocketed it and I put it in a safe and I was like, I'm
1:06:59
buying the tool because you can't.
1:07:02
You could do this stuff with grinders and stuff, but you
1:07:05
can't mimic the high grade stuff that the stuff you'd want to do
1:07:09
as a fabricator to bring. You know, you need the tooling
1:07:12
and the tooling is a crazy buy in.
1:07:13
Like you, you run a shop now you can imagine.
1:07:15
Yeah, like that band saw is almost like a month of rent.
1:07:18
It's crazy when you're have like crazy.
1:07:20
So my idea is I'm going to do it all now because I'm gonna end up
1:07:22
buying a house with property and putting up a pole barn.
1:07:24
Yeah, and that's the wave. But I want to go there and be
1:07:27
like, I got it all or I have damn close to all the tooling
1:07:31
because I have the majority of the expensive, like my TIG
1:07:33
welder was like like over 7 grand.
1:07:37
Like who has that to just throw? And you're like, I hope the
1:07:39
business comes. Yeah.
1:07:40
So like you kind of just keep steamrolling it into it, you
1:07:43
know? Yeah, it's there's a lot of cool
1:07:46
shit I've built over the years for sure like that.
1:07:48
That's an FCRX 7 for one of my buddies at Duns car.
1:07:51
I was straight up just a A1 off cat delete hump that I spent a
1:07:55
good amount of detail on how. Do you do the dimples like with?
1:07:57
That that's with the beat roller.
1:07:58
Yeah. OK, So it's just one die and the
1:08:00
one has an L in it and the other one has an L and it's that the
1:08:03
machine is so strong that it imprints it, it'll put the shelf
1:08:07
in it. And you acted.
1:08:08
The real concept of it is if you take sheet metal, just plain
1:08:11
sheet metal, you had like a 4 by 4 square or anything larger, you
1:08:14
know how you could do like the Thunder noise with it?
1:08:16
If you put a bead in it and you do it properly, it stops that.
1:08:18
So you can theoretically lose weight in the chassis by taking
1:08:23
like a panel that's eighth inch and drop it down to like almost
1:08:26
16 gauge, which is a much thinner material.
1:08:28
But putting beadwork into it and it'll it'll be just as rigid has
1:08:32
eighth inch. That's how them drag cars be
1:08:34
getting all the way out of them for sure.
1:08:36
That's why Nissan's are built with Play DoH or.
1:08:38
Whatever. Yeah.
1:08:39
Yeah, everyone, everyone be saying that and I'm gonna I do a
1:08:42
lot of sheet metal work, that whole thing that like, oh,
1:08:45
American cars have better steel. No, it's not real.
1:08:49
You're a bad fabricate. You're not a bad fabricator.
1:08:51
You need to learn what heat settings are.
1:08:53
It's all it's it's that's the difference.
1:08:55
You need to learn what's good. Yeah, but even everyone says
1:08:57
thin like I did panels on a 60 on Buckley's panel bus.
1:09:02
I well, the whole rear quarter on that was equally as thin
1:09:04
because you're like, oh, this the metal was was thick then I'm
1:09:07
like, bro, this thing's from the 60s.
1:09:09
It's had 40 paint jobs. It's not the thickness it was
1:09:12
back then. It's just as tinny, you know.
1:09:15
Do you do? Those what?
1:09:17
What do you call that dimple? I don't know what you call.
1:09:19
It the temple dies, would you? Would you?
1:09:21
Do that by hand, like freehand, or you draw it on like how you.
1:09:24
You can actually kind of see my Sharpie marks.
1:09:26
It's a good rule of thumb so. Because the other panel was
1:09:30
multiple. Well, doesn't.
1:09:32
Have like a set radius that it would go then I would just
1:09:34
figure. Out the radius of it is is the
1:09:37
if anyone would like to learn a trick, but the die is like a
1:09:41
three inch circle. You need to go off a three inch
1:09:43
circle 'cause when you loop the corner, it'll like, yeah, it'll
1:09:47
look fucked, like it'll look odd because the die is the the die
1:09:51
size doesn't change. You need to be that radius.
1:09:53
So it like pulls fluently. But there's like, I've made so
1:09:57
many of those panels, like I think I actually made this twice
1:10:00
and you can't book it because the first time I did it and the
1:10:04
I put the design in the floor the other way and I was like, it
1:10:08
just looked off. And I'm like, so I threw it away
1:10:10
and then I had to make a whole another one.
1:10:11
But I didn't charge a dude for that just because I'm anal.
1:10:13
And I liked it like a good product.
1:10:15
But yeah, like that's a one piece piece of sheet metal.
1:10:17
It's just bent in a box. Yeah, you can see how I did it
1:10:20
right here. And then you're stuck.
1:10:22
Instead of doing a 40 inch Weld, you just have that tiny
1:10:25
vertical. Get a metal brake like that so
1:10:27
bad. Eastwood baby that Yeah, I have
1:10:28
600 bucks. I've been getting a lot of
1:10:30
Eastwood stuff. I like their stuff.
1:10:31
I'm just trying to no, but dude, yeah, I built the day I bought
1:10:36
this or like a week after I bought it.
1:10:37
My buddy Ryan Bayman, he is building a square body S10 that
1:10:42
was a serious bracket car. And he's like, yo, I got a, a
1:10:45
tunnel for it 'cause he put has like a turbo 400 or whatever in
1:10:48
it. And we're like, you bring a pot.
1:10:50
I got the break for it. We bent it day one.
1:10:52
I bent that fucking thing like I had it like the jaws that like
1:10:55
clamp it shot to make it work. We just like, we're both like
1:10:58
yanking up on it. And I was like, it could do it.
1:11:00
And I like, yeah, I bent it, but it's fixed now.
1:11:04
But like it took hours of fixing it.
1:11:05
But I was like, it could totally do it.
1:11:07
But you. Know that's that tool right
1:11:08
there. The nibbler, yo, I got that
1:11:10
thing. The whole what?
1:11:11
It's called a Nibbler Facebook Marketplace.
1:11:15
Fine. Some dude in Verona in some
1:11:17
bougie white neighborhood had it, totally stole it from work
1:11:20
100% 'cause I was like, why do you have like, why would you
1:11:22
even have? It's, it's literally meant to do
1:11:24
the work I do. Just like any random dude with a
1:11:26
house without a garage or even a car guy.
1:11:29
Why would you have that? Yeah.
1:11:30
And he was like, he's like, I just can't, you know, I just, I
1:11:33
got it. I was like.
1:11:34
Got it. And it was like.
1:11:35
Hey, mind your business. You got it.
1:11:36
You got. It was a.
1:11:37
Quarter like that thing's like 600 bucks new he it was like
1:11:40
$1.50 and I was like dude, I'm not even bet and I.
1:11:45
The nibbler man. Dude, yeah.
1:11:47
I love that thing, I. See how the eyes are shaped so
1:11:50
it puts the fucking handles. Of course the handles, right?
1:11:53
Yeah, you could see it's just an L and the other one's the
1:11:55
opposing shape L, So when you tighten the draw down, it
1:11:58
imprints the metal. That's all it is.
1:12:00
Damn, that's. Cool, I love that.
1:12:03
Damn, that's my bread and butter right there.
1:12:05
You guys need any of this shit. Bang my line I'm trying to buy a
1:12:08
house for. Real.
1:12:09
This guy needs a pole barn bro. I'm trying to put up like a like
1:12:13
a big motherfucker. So how many years you've been
1:12:15
doing this? Have you counted?
1:12:17
I got my first job in the fab industry sophomore year of high
1:12:21
school and then I've been in it. I'm 27 now.
1:12:27
I've been doing it professionally as a shop.
1:12:31
I started in I in 2020. I was like, I think it was my
1:12:35
dad was like, do you realize how much you're bringing in and out?
1:12:39
And like, because I was just like taking a child and then
1:12:41
some dude hit me up like, you want to do this?
1:12:43
I'm like, and then I was like, yeah, I got some, some, some
1:12:48
money. It's like I just had, because it
1:12:50
was like you get lost in the sauce, like the OCD ADD like
1:12:54
zone out. And it was like 2 years in
1:12:56
probably. And I was doing like what some
1:12:58
people make at their jobs in the garage.
1:13:00
And I was like, he's like, you should keep track of what you're
1:13:02
doing. And I'm like, Oh yeah.
1:13:03
And then from that point on, I like from the fresh year, I
1:13:06
tracked every dollar and I was like, oh, so I now I keep track,
1:13:10
but I officially I started keeping track of 2020, but I'd
1:13:13
probably say like 2018, like COVID is when I really like
1:13:16
started getting after it. Yeah, for sure.
1:13:18
And then there, there's some cool shit like that.
1:13:20
I'm working on a buddy at one of my really good friends cars,
1:13:22
Adam, It's a mark one GTI. It's like the first post.
1:13:26
We're trying to be one of the first dudes in a mark 1 chassis
1:13:28
in the 9 seconds and a quarter mile and it has a shit load of
1:13:32
cool work into it. It's got a 20 valve, which is
1:13:35
the 180 out of like a mark 4. I don't know, but it's all built
1:13:38
in. Aluminum piping tig welded.
1:13:41
That shit never looks good to me.
1:13:42
I. Don't know, it doesn't look good
1:13:43
and pie cuts don't look good either, but this is cool because
1:13:47
it's such a tight radius. It's not.
1:13:49
Keep scrolling through the photos you can.
1:13:51
See that looks better. That is that.
1:13:53
The cast or something? No, that's actually a solid
1:13:55
piece. They just started making these.
1:13:56
It's not even. It's two pieces of aluminum.
1:14:00
It's called a doughnut. Go to the last photo in this
1:14:03
post. I think I posted it.
1:14:04
It's physically 2 pieces of metal and then they Weld this
1:14:06
edge in the inner and it that. What?
1:14:10
So you cut that into four and it's the tightest way you can
1:14:13
get a 90 because you know how Remember like years ago
1:14:16
everyone's like pie cut this and it was like 1,000,000 little
1:14:18
welds. That's a doughnut.
1:14:19
It's literally a doughnut, so you bang.
1:14:21
That thing. You bang it in four and you have
1:14:23
that's the tightest radius 90 you can get.
1:14:26
And you get away from that crazy pie cut design thing, which if
1:14:29
you do them inherently, if you do them well with the great
1:14:31
bandsaw, they float just as well.
1:14:32
But it's so busy looking where that it looks great, you know?
1:14:37
Yeah. Luck with that.
1:14:37
That's a that's an interesting. As soon as you said bang it out
1:14:40
into fours, I was like. Yeah, so you can see like the
1:14:42
one's a 90 and then the one on the bottom is the 90 banged in
1:14:45
half. So it's a 45.
1:14:47
So it our it goes off each other to put a spacing in it.
1:14:50
But we're trying to make this thing fast and the thing makes
1:14:53
I'm not going to say the number it makes over 8.
1:14:55
So it's it's fast. Yeah, yeah, it dude it.
1:14:58
Powered by that 1/8. Well, yeah, last year of stock
1:15:01
bottom and just ahead it was making it was making some sauce
1:15:05
making like 7 dude. It lost a turbo last year at
1:15:08
Maple Grove Raceway June bug. I drove the Beetle to and it
1:15:11
wiped the motor out. A brand new top shelf turbo,
1:15:16
like ones that like like my rabbit cost when I first bought
1:15:21
it. That's how much a turbo was.
1:15:22
And it was just it it failed and it sent metal sand through the
1:15:25
motor and wiped the motor out like that.
1:15:27
Like it, it hurts your brain to think, but like, that's part of
1:15:29
racing, you know? Yeah.
1:15:30
Just like you, just like your experience last weekend or
1:15:33
whatever. Yeah, but I can't even be bummed
1:15:35
about that. Like so the the beige car before
1:15:38
it was here, it's on Weber's now and it's like old school race
1:15:41
setup. It was turboed forever and it
1:15:43
had a crazy turbo setup in it. And I was trying to be like, all
1:15:47
cool and use the original like chiptune that everyone does, but
1:15:51
I was like porting the manifold. I was doing all this extra shit
1:15:55
and it would never run right. And that is the bottom end from
1:15:58
when I was doing all that nonsense.
1:16:00
And it overheated twice, the 260, all this crazy shit.
1:16:03
So the fact that it even lasted one event and eight laps into
1:16:06
the second one, I was amazed. Yeah.
1:16:08
And it blew at 80 lbs oil pressure, 230° oil temp through
1:16:13
a turn. It started knocking.
1:16:15
It didn't window the block or anything.
1:16:16
It just started knocking. And I was like, well, it blew up
1:16:19
in like good condition. So like it had to just be tired.
1:16:23
Yeah, like it had great. It had VR one in it.
1:16:26
And that was after you converted.
1:16:27
It whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It had VR one in it.
1:16:31
I don't know remember that podcast with JPVRV R1 in the
1:16:37
motor? The majority of the motors that
1:16:39
he gets run VR1 and that's why he runs shape right now.
1:16:42
Not Shaffer's. He runs driven.
1:16:44
Who makes VR1? Valvoline.
1:16:47
But driven, driven oil or whatever is there's.
1:16:51
So many, I feel like that's the same thing, like the tuners,
1:16:53
like what ECU they want to run. There's difference in that.
1:16:56
But. Like I know, but he has a.
1:16:57
Preference. I'm not an engine builder.
1:16:58
I'm not. I don't know what this guy like.
1:17:00
He knows this shit more than me. I'm I'm a welder.
1:17:03
This is this is what I got from it and this is what stuck on me.
1:17:05
So like bear with me here, but just like how OK Pennzoil.
1:17:11
This is why I run Pennzoil on all my vehicles.
1:17:13
Pennzoil. He only likes to use red.
1:17:15
Oil. Here's why.
1:17:16
Where the fuck do you buy that, Penns?
1:17:18
Or an oil field. From an oil field in
1:17:20
Pennsylvania because they have a lot of zinc content in the area.
1:17:24
Well, that's the oil natural he has.
1:17:26
Added zinc. Added zinc.
1:17:28
But zinc is zinc. No, I don't know.
1:17:29
I don't. I have no idea.
1:17:30
I want to talk to your boy because I would love to know
1:17:33
because that's why yo you be. Watching this on the podcast
1:17:36
with JP. You watch, you'll be watching
1:17:37
some Rob Dom videos and they be doing a stupid like outtakes or
1:17:40
like we're going to the VR1 factory and they show the
1:17:42
differences and you're like. That's.
1:17:44
Like 2 right, Yeah, they're getting paid.
1:17:46
That's just like when I'm at the counter and I'm playing with the
1:17:48
little Lucas Oil treatment. Yeah gear.
1:17:50
And I'm like oh I think I might need this.
1:17:53
That really gets you. Yeah, because it gets you.
1:17:55
They're like normal motor oil on the left.
1:17:56
It's not doing anything. And then Lucas, you go like this
1:17:59
and then the oil travels all the way up to the top.
1:18:02
I. Think we could just all agree
1:18:03
that ain't no one putting Fram in a motor?
1:18:06
That's no one uses. Every time we order oil filters,
1:18:09
I'm like, yeah, cheapest 1 you got, not a Fram.
1:18:11
Yeah, go. OK.
1:18:12
Do you even like? I've heard of Fram oil filter
1:18:14
before tour that's. That's crazy.
1:18:17
That's. All they got, that's all they
1:18:20
had. You know what's?
1:18:21
Crazy, I put a Fram on the the beige cars and I just ordered it
1:18:24
'cause I think. And then it blew up.
1:18:26
No, this is like. You don't use like that that
1:18:29
German ass brand, Malay or no? Now I do mail.
1:18:32
But like I bought it for some reason 'cause it's the only
1:18:34
thing they had and I was like I gotta change it.
1:18:35
I put an oil cooler on it. I'm like alright I need let me
1:18:37
just do a filter. So I ordered a filter and most
1:18:39
of the filters have that stupid like stamps, not at the end.
1:18:43
The Fram didn't have it and I just put it on and like, I, I
1:18:47
don't know, I guess I ate my fucking Wheaties that morning
1:18:50
and I put it on and do when I want to take that fucking thing
1:18:52
off, it's a it's the car's got a half rad, the engine base tight.
1:18:56
The it's front wheel drive. Dude.
1:18:58
I had to fucking stab the thing with a Flathead and like, fuck
1:19:02
yeah. And I was like never again.
1:19:03
Just because it didn't have the little nuts that like that.
1:19:05
You can go from the bottom and just loosen.
1:19:07
I don't know why everyone hates frames, but I know they do so I
1:19:10
never. Do so shitty.
1:19:11
Coloring. The product design.
1:19:14
I I don't even fucking try to undo an oil filter with just my
1:19:20
hand anymore. Oh, I got some grip string.
1:19:21
I'm in the rock climbing. Like I, I, I, I used to, and
1:19:24
that's fine. But I'm in this mode right now
1:19:27
where because in the auto body realm, everything to make your
1:19:31
job easier exists. So if you do it that way, then
1:19:35
you can do more jobs. And if you do more jobs and you
1:19:37
can have more money. Yeah.
1:19:39
Like. You just don't want to fuck
1:19:40
your. Hand up too.
1:19:41
Because like right now I upgraded DAS to like a different
1:19:45
one because mine was shaking so. Fucking much compressed ones or
1:19:48
battery pack. Yo is the compressed air DA
1:19:51
vibrate less or more than I? Don't fuck with the any air tool
1:19:55
because one my compressor setup is kind of weird.
1:19:58
It's in my house. It's in the basement underneath
1:20:00
the stairs in like a, a no a noise proof thing.
1:20:03
But like when my compressor runs, it's annoying as fuck to
1:20:05
the entire house. Oh, yeah, OK.
1:20:06
And I'm like, and I I just like plug it in like my welding.
1:20:11
I have a surge protector at the base like right here, and I just
1:20:14
plug it in and I'm right here. So the cords don't get all
1:20:16
twisted. It's like the best thing I've
1:20:17
ever. Done.
1:20:18
But does it vibrate like hell like an air one?
1:20:21
Because I can run my compressor all day long.
1:20:24
The problem that I have with my electric 1 is that I'm the other
1:20:28
day or last week I was fucking sanding Chris's stuff, my buddy
1:20:34
Andy's stuff, and that was 2 hoods, 2 bumpers, side skirts,
1:20:39
the panels for the side skirts, trims, a vent.
1:20:42
Like that's a couple hours of me sanding my hands.
1:20:46
When I take a cigarette break from that, it's like, it's like,
1:20:50
I think you're still like Carpal.
1:20:52
Tunnel brother like no, no. Like it's, it's the vibrations,
1:20:55
it just shocks like my head. You're probably just like.
1:20:57
My hands are still good. It's just like they're still
1:21:00
shaking and I'm like, damn, I just saw Milwaukee guys about
1:21:04
that now. The Facebook groups are the body
1:21:05
shops. They fight on there.
1:21:06
It's hilarious. Dude, the Facebook groups and
1:21:09
some things like. You.
1:21:10
They're so funny bro. I can't even like.
1:21:12
They're helpful. But like sometimes I get thrown
1:21:15
in the mix because like I fabricate on some stuff and
1:21:17
they're like, what's your opinion?
1:21:18
I'm just like, don't do this and like not even like don't like,
1:21:22
don't, don't at me and shit, Yeah, I don't want to put my, my
1:21:25
subject, my idea into stuff. I don't want to do any of that.
1:21:27
Like, but like, it's just mindless arguing constantly.
1:21:30
I just don't. I just watch.
1:21:32
I have. I love watching.
1:21:33
You like, it's none of my business.
1:21:34
I'm not a I'm not a specialist in that realm yet.
1:21:37
Like that's oh, dude, let me just watch.
1:21:40
Like so then the number one thing in in The Body Shop groups
1:21:44
is when somebody you can clearly see they laid the filler on like
1:21:48
bare metal and then every the fucking comments like he's gonna
1:21:52
why the fuck would you do? Really do.
1:21:54
That come up and fuck. Dude, hell yeah.
1:21:56
People do that shit that are in groups.
1:21:57
What? For a Body Shop.
1:21:59
What they lay the filler on the? Like they don't know.
1:22:02
But shit, I wouldn't have known if I.
1:22:04
Didn't I was probably like, I know my shit and he's like, you
1:22:07
know, Dick swinging and everyone else is like you.
1:22:09
Fucking dried it all off blah blah blah.
1:22:11
I always. Dried it all.
1:22:12
In case if you ever bring your shit to me, if I see bare metal
1:22:15
on there, no filler going on there, that's gonna get sealed
1:22:18
up first. Shameless blog, dude, you want
1:22:22
to talk about the favorite thing?
1:22:23
I like seeing one of my buddies, Tyler Patton's own.
1:22:25
I have no idea why. I don't even think he lives in
1:22:27
my town, but my town has like the W Patterson Woodland Park
1:22:31
Facebook group and we have a roundabout and it they just
1:22:34
added it like five years ago. Right by Route 3.
1:22:37
Yeah, by like 5 where the McDonald's is and five Brothers
1:22:39
diner. They just added that.
1:22:40
So like you'll have this random ass Karen be like, I don't
1:22:43
understand why roundabouts are used.
1:22:45
It's stupid. I almost got and my buddy Tyler
1:22:48
is just ripping them apart yo. 'Cause.
1:22:51
They were like misspelling shit and they're like what this and
1:22:54
that and it's just like this 6 year old mom and this dude's
1:22:56
like what are you an idiot? Yeah, we and then they're just.
1:22:58
Arguing and I'm just sitting there like in my work truck,
1:23:01
like. My brother loves you Ty dude my.
1:23:03
Brother, you never stop being who you are.
1:23:05
I love that shit so much. My brother used to be like I
1:23:08
have the time so I'm going to fuck.
1:23:10
You I love people and I'm just sitting there like.
1:23:12
Yeah, you watching? Yeah, I'm just.
1:23:14
Like watching his story and you're like, nice.
1:23:16
I love it. I got banned off Instagram
1:23:18
again. Why I got into an argument?
1:23:20
I know so many people would be arguing over the dumbest shit
1:23:22
dude Like there's this dude in the mark one community and
1:23:26
there's this another guy who was in the mark one community.
1:23:27
But then he got into early Fords pre war, like World War 2 Fords
1:23:32
are worth an insane amount of money now.
1:23:35
Long story short. And he he made out like how Adam
1:23:38
LZ made out in the drifting community.
1:23:40
Like he's like the dude with like a bank account.
1:23:42
Just a way to preference this for people like in your
1:23:45
community. Oh yeah, thank you, thank you.
1:23:46
And like that guy got fucked over by this one dude and it'll
1:23:51
be like a random ass Tuesday. Ain't no one talk about this
1:23:54
dude. And then someone will Photoshop
1:23:56
like clown makeup on him because he posted like a selfie on
1:23:59
Instagram. Like look at this fucking clown
1:24:01
and I'm just like didn't this beef happen like 8 years ago?
1:24:04
But everyone's so clicky in the Mark One community I'm.
1:24:07
Just like how did someone fuck him over?
1:24:09
Long story short, the guy was like importing parts from
1:24:12
Germany to my understanding, and and someone didn't get paid and
1:24:16
then a a car got painted and then, you know, something like
1:24:18
that. I don't know a story.
1:24:19
I'm not going to act like I know it, but like people will just
1:24:21
bring this dude up. And now that like he has a
1:24:24
YouTube following, like Volkswagen endorsed the dude and
1:24:28
they gave him like a YouTube series.
1:24:31
No, the the dude that no one likes.
1:24:32
Oh so like on the Volkswagen post, you'll see like this
1:24:35
fucking and they'll just be like like calling him out.
1:24:38
And then you're like, how is corporate Volkswagen not seeing
1:24:41
this? It's crazy dude, like instantly.
1:24:44
That's dude the car. Community is great.
1:24:47
Well, that's like. But also can be bad.
1:24:49
I'm so scared because I know I'm not.
1:24:51
I know there's no way where everybody's cup of tea, you know
1:24:53
what I mean? There's got to be somebody out
1:24:55
there and that's fine. It's just like me.
1:24:57
Yeah, I would. Fucking yeah.
1:24:59
I would hate me. Yeah, I hate myself.
1:25:01
But that goes back to the Fram filter thing too.
1:25:03
It's like they can't unfix that. Yeah, they can't fix that.
1:25:07
Oh, brand recognition. Yeah, you can't.
1:25:09
Right away I'm like furniture, don't use it, you know, I mean.
1:25:12
Merger. Talk about merger.
1:25:14
Did you see how the fucking Hoonigan billion dollar debt
1:25:17
thing? What's going on with that?
1:25:18
Well, apparently. Wheel much about I don't know.
1:25:21
Wheel, probe wheel. Probe bought them out and then
1:25:23
they change name to Hoonigan, so all that debt is in theirs.
1:25:26
But a billion A B with a B billion?
1:25:30
That's fucking crazy dude. That's what happens.
1:25:32
When you just keep buying cars and like dude, but.
1:25:34
No it's because wheel Pro is loading.
1:25:36
It owns rota form and shit. No Wheel Pro owns Yeah.
1:25:39
They own like. A lot we have a huge teggy is
1:25:42
one of them. But like dude.
1:25:44
Billion bro, I guess, but they're a billion.
1:25:48
They were. Think about what a billion is.
1:25:49
I know, but I'm also just thinking about just because I do
1:25:52
that right now in industry where ten of these towns in my office
1:25:55
job is like people are very dispensable.
1:25:58
So like. Whoa.
1:26:00
No it's the same in my normal gig because like people just get
1:26:02
walked off property it. Sucks when I think about that,
1:26:04
I'm like, damn, Hoonigan went under.
1:26:05
But then I think about like all the other car people that are
1:26:07
part probably working at Hoonigan or we're working at
1:26:10
Hoonigan and now no longer have jobs.
1:26:12
Yeah. So then it's like.
1:26:13
Fucked and then Hoonigan was gone.
1:26:15
That's all I know. That's.
1:26:16
All I see that's that's what I think about.
1:26:18
I'm like damn dude. Like I I cuz I reached out.
1:26:21
I listen to a lot of I listen to A1 podcast with Ken Block,
1:26:25
probably the one of top five podcasts I ever listened to my
1:26:28
entire life. Everything he was saying, I was
1:26:29
like, damn, this guy is is fucking smart.
1:26:32
And then like the how many years has it been since he died?
1:26:35
I don't know like 2. 3 maybe? And then all of a sudden
1:26:38
Hoonigan goes on there and everyone quits and I'm like.
1:26:40
That's the crazy thing too. But like, I'm not talking down
1:26:43
on Ken at all. If you have a business of that
1:26:46
size, it will never just be like and flip over like the Titanic.
1:26:50
I know there's a slow roll, so it had to be going down at that
1:26:54
point. There's no way that they're like
1:26:56
Ken died and within two years, 1.2.
1:26:58
It just doesn't that like, I don't know, it's so impossible
1:27:01
because dude, that's like one LS crate motor.
1:27:04
Maybe it's 40 grand, bro. How many of those equal $1.2
1:27:09
billion? Shit must they must have known
1:27:11
shit was going South for a. While I don't know man it's just
1:27:13
crazy when I saw the BI was like.
1:27:16
They, they, there was definitely some really cool people over
1:27:19
there. The people that I did e-mail
1:27:21
exchange with about like possible sponsorships and shit
1:27:24
like that. Like especially at Motegi.
1:27:26
I think his name is Scott. Wait, so that's for the same
1:27:30
company now? It's Wheel Pro.
1:27:32
But like, again, all I could think about is the fact that all
1:27:36
of those car people who are into cars, maybe they have their
1:27:39
project cars and now they're going to have to make that
1:27:41
decision where they're like, fuck, I need to find a job right
1:27:44
now or I got to sell my project. Car.
1:27:46
Yeah, because there's not a lot of like.
1:27:47
That kind of sucks. There's not a lot of crazy, like
1:27:49
if you're the Internet guy, like if you if you were the face in
1:27:53
Hoonigan and you're like, oh, OK, I'm just going to go do my
1:27:55
own thing. You won.
1:27:55
You're starting a YouTube channel and then now you're
1:27:57
doing everything. If you're just a face, you got
1:27:59
to do video. You got to do all that.
1:28:00
Yeah, that ain't easy, bro. Only imagine, dude.
1:28:02
Yeah, I can only imagine, but. I gotta look into that shit.
1:28:05
I don't. Know it's I like did a brief
1:28:07
Tony Angelo did a great breakdown of it.
1:28:09
Oh, he did. He did a phenomenal breakdown.
1:28:11
Of it mad cool. He's the fucking shit.
1:28:12
I've talked to him like twice and he's the most 'cause he's
1:28:16
like a he started drifting. But his like hot rod knowledge
1:28:19
is wild. Like I saw him Atlas like random
1:28:21
swap me and my dad. I'm like, aren't you Tony
1:28:23
Angelo? He goes like, yeah, dude.
1:28:25
And he like fist bumped me and like talked to me in my dad
1:28:27
truck. He's like all right, dude, be
1:28:28
safe. And like fist bump me walked
1:28:29
away. My dad's like who's that?
1:28:30
I'm like one of the guys, like the guy that that was like it
1:28:35
was I've. Never met him.
1:28:36
I just know of his like, I don't know, like what he's done in the
1:28:40
drift community, I guess with Forsberg in the earlier stages
1:28:43
of English town. And like to me, like, that's
1:28:46
fucking sick. And I don't know.
1:28:49
Remember, he backed into my friend's trailer and then didn't
1:28:52
do anything about it. Fight him up dude.
1:28:55
You wanna fight a guy named? Tony Angelo, every time.
1:28:58
That is straight up like a WWE. Wrestler that name is sick like
1:29:01
you're gonna you're I'm bouncing on it but like fucking.
1:29:04
Justine trailer his truck or something.
1:29:05
He's like, yeah, I don't know, Tony hit it and then that was
1:29:07
it. I never you never did anything.
1:29:10
You could at least be like 100 he.
1:29:12
Didn't even care. He was like, whatever, I.
1:29:14
Get dude, I dude, I trailers, bro, I don't know.
1:29:16
I love how car guys are like cars got to be meant for the
1:29:19
event. Then you look at their trailer
1:29:21
and it's like, bro, it's like you're at.
1:29:25
It's crazy. What about me?
1:29:26
Mine's good. Yours too.
1:29:28
No, not yours. I just know Ethan is number one
1:29:32
that I'm thinking of right now. My partner.
1:29:35
My partner for Tandem this Saturday.
1:29:38
This worst fucking trailer in my opinion.
1:29:41
Dude, it's crazy. His car barely fits on there.
1:29:44
Not talking my trailer was like $1800 brand new or trying to
1:29:47
convince. You put tires on that thing.
1:29:49
No, all my friends did 'cause they use it all.
1:29:51
You ever do like you ever grease the bearings for the?
1:29:54
I feel like he would one time. Dude, I remember I when the
1:29:57
first time I did work for Josh, I built a tire rack for the
1:30:00
front of his trailer and I was like, yo, you ever grease the
1:30:03
wheels? He's like, like it was straight
1:30:04
up. He's like, yeah, that's how it
1:30:06
works. I'm like, I got you.
1:30:07
Yeah. And then like I just sat there
1:30:09
like pumping and I was like, is it?
1:30:10
And I like, actually when I was like, is the grease coming out
1:30:13
somewhere? And it was just like dry, just
1:30:15
drop. And I was.
1:30:16
Great, I took that fucking trailer forest.
1:30:18
Mick, but he was going to do the.
1:30:19
Maintenance time. What the hell it's?
1:30:21
Got I just did some sweet tail light mounts and shit for it so.
1:30:24
So you not loaded on that shit in your story too?
1:30:26
Yeah, it was shit. It was legit.
1:30:27
Looks fucking tits now, but Josh is.
1:30:29
Yo, I had AI, had a guy. No idea who you are, buddy, nor
1:30:35
if you're listening to this, but I was in Alabama for Mid Pond
1:30:37
and out of all things for somebody to stop me and ask,
1:30:41
they're like, we were just looking at the Tire Rack.
1:30:45
I swear to God, swear to God, Ricardo, Kenny, Ethan, we were
1:30:49
all there. I don't know if any of you
1:30:50
remember that, but middle of mid pond Alabama that's.
1:30:54
You know, it's wild. He dropped that off.
1:30:56
I might be facking up to it was like a 2 1/2 day turn around.
1:31:00
He drops it off and I was like, because it was like, hey, I'm
1:31:04
dropping off a customer project Sunday.
1:31:06
Josh is like, I could be there Friday night and I was like.
1:31:09
Oh yeah. And I was like, I was like, you
1:31:11
know what, does Zach have an axis scene?
1:31:13
And he was like running numbers. I'm like, I could do it.
1:31:16
And I, dude, I did like 2-16 hour days and I was like, it's
1:31:19
done. And he was like, what?
1:31:21
I'm like, it's done. And I dude, I work till like
1:31:22
4:00 in the morning one day and he's like, yeah, as well that
1:31:25
it's done. And Josh was like, so can I come
1:31:26
get it? I was like, and he was like,
1:31:28
dude, I don't even think it was at my house. 48 hours and I
1:31:32
built that entire rack dash. It's actually on my Instagram.
1:31:35
For a little bit. It's got the sweet laser cut
1:31:36
logo. Yo, I've just be fine.
1:31:38
That's what yes, that's it does have a logo on it.
1:31:41
Yeah, that's that's why, because that matter works At that time
1:31:44
we weren't we weren't like I didn't we weren't really talking
1:31:46
on Instagram, but at that time I was like, it's this dude right
1:31:49
here, like it just says ES somewhere you.
1:31:51
Know it's right there. You could see an Exodus 6
1:31:53
series. I built that bitch in like all
1:31:56
weekend. Even the spare tire man, look at
1:31:58
that. It's even braced.
1:31:59
It's TIG welded. Obviously it's nice.
1:32:02
Come on. It's got ramps for the low cubby
1:32:05
for the race ramps and shit. Oh, is that what that's for on
1:32:07
the front? Fuel jugs, race ramp, whatever
1:32:08
you want to put. Yeah, whatever you put on there,
1:32:10
I put the race ramps on there. Now do you paint this or you
1:32:13
just go? You steal it and then you like
1:32:18
steal it. I've never used it yet.
1:32:20
I could have sworn it was like the best shit ever and then Josh
1:32:23
did it to this and it turned to shit in like a week and I was
1:32:29
like I guess I'm not using this anymore.
1:32:30
And steal. It's supposed to be like you
1:32:31
just spray it on steel. Yeah, it's supposed to be like
1:32:34
steel, and it's like it's supposed to be.
1:32:37
Fire, fire, fire, fire that that shit is.
1:32:39
Fire them. Shit's a fucking it's, it's
1:32:41
engraved and. Dude this thing looks sick
1:32:44
behind the coil. Bro this.
1:32:46
Getting done in two days is kind of crazy.
1:32:48
Got a hustle brother? That, that shit was cool, man,
1:32:51
And I had the IS right there and all the wheels were right there
1:32:55
for a fire. Yeah, it's cool.
1:32:57
Josh's trailer's sick too 'cause it's a tilt deck.
1:32:59
So then you fucking eat. You know, you know, it's
1:33:02
actually funny. You don't.
1:33:03
When I first started doing the welding business dude it was
1:33:05
like the years ago now. I had Justin from Flipsco do the
1:33:10
logo. Oh yeah.
1:33:11
I didn't know anyone. I don't know.
1:33:13
I'm not. Talking to Justin, the other
1:33:15
not. Go with computers and I was
1:33:17
like, I made a post. I'm like who can design me a
1:33:19
logo and I like crayon ES and then the tig torch and I was
1:33:23
like, I want this and he like did one.
1:33:25
I was like, can you just change this And I was like mint and I
1:33:28
just that was it. I've been rocking the logo ever
1:33:30
since. I I love my logo.
1:33:32
I I literally just was Speaking of Justin the other I didn't had
1:33:35
no idea that you 2. In a minute, he's no.
1:33:37
Each other, yeah. He mentioned that he was coming
1:33:40
back up here and he was like, I got to watch you drive the IS.
1:33:42
And I was like, you don't think, you don't think I would let you
1:33:46
just drive the IS 'cause then 'cause then you know what would
1:33:49
happen? What the bug would bite again?
1:33:53
Yeah, the bug would bite again. And all the boats, all.
1:33:57
He's a Dalton and Dalton. Yeah, but Gray is going to get
1:34:00
like. Older.
1:34:01
Gray's probably driving now. Yeah, No, he's actually like, I
1:34:04
don't think 1. Yeah, I was gonna say, but like
1:34:07
is. He walking.
1:34:07
But but he's what? Yeah, Justin's here.
1:34:10
How long ago was that, Malcolm? Before I lie.
1:34:14
A few months. That was not the other day if
1:34:17
you asked. Me the other day you.
1:34:19
Asked me to tell you when that. Was a winner I would tell you
1:34:21
no, but but he was I was like, bro, you mean when you drive the
1:34:25
car like that's fine, I don't care like what bro, I'm gonna
1:34:30
get I don't get him I'm gonna get him and we're gonna get him
1:34:32
back 'cause Justin was a good driver and I would like to drive
1:34:35
the. Money.
1:34:35
That's that's what I was talking about.
1:34:37
I remember his S13 with the 15 front end.
1:34:40
He had an IR, ISIS, whatever you want to call it, blue blast
1:34:44
pipe. Yeah, and dude, it had the most
1:34:46
insane pitch to it. No, that thing's those those
1:34:50
pipes sucked. Cause but always the whistle, it
1:34:51
had that crazy whistle and you would hear dude, it would be
1:34:54
like coming out of entry like. Is that what you were?
1:34:57
Where you. Start and it would be like, what
1:35:00
the fuck is that? And dude, it sounded like
1:35:01
someone doing a train whistle. I fucking hate it was in it was
1:35:04
preposterous. It didn't make any.
1:35:05
Sense the one Jay-Z doesn't need none of that that.
1:35:08
You don't. Know what?
1:35:10
It is it. You're just you would hear and
1:35:11
be like. We were trying to figure out
1:35:12
ways to get it to not do. That yeah dude one J it would be
1:35:15
like the pure 1J sound was there's there's a video hobby
1:35:19
took one video away. Now the one J is in my opinion
1:35:22
the converted to T Yeah, that is.
1:35:24
Two JS are insane now, yeah, but Dart makes a block for him now.
1:35:28
But that's the way past that. Fortunately I would manage to
1:35:31
get my 1J and now I have it. So now the most expensive thing
1:35:35
you ever bought? Life is so.
1:35:38
Dude it's insane what y'all are paying for these motors.
1:35:40
It's ass. No, no, no, don't.
1:35:43
I'm not being a Dick. Yo what when I like just got in
1:35:47
the car. $7000 on a welder fuck out of here.
1:35:51
My welder makes me money. Mine doesn't, yeah.
1:35:55
That welder has in fact almost bought me a house now that.
1:35:59
That is, that is. True, but that Sr. on a pallet.
1:36:02
No offense SRS or even K series offended here.
1:36:04
It would just be $300.00. No I respect them.
1:36:07
I. No offend it because they
1:36:09
shouldn't have what? Is going on with these fucking
1:36:11
prices bro we. People are.
1:36:13
It's insane. People are spending.
1:36:14
Like yo, like, like fight the market, like stop buying, don't.
1:36:17
Please. Do that.
1:36:18
It's insane bro. When we were at Alex.
1:36:20
Adam LZ. Adam LZ today.
1:36:22
Adam LZ's fault, bro. It's Adam LZ's fault.
1:36:25
Also, no, I don't know Tom well enough.
1:36:27
I know Josh a little. Bit it's not Tom.
1:36:29
You'll be blowing up some good amount of SR's.
1:36:32
No, Tom. Did.
1:36:33
Adam, LZ. Tom blew up like influence of
1:36:37
being important is what skyrocket the price.
1:36:39
Because he got all these kids and they're drifting and all
1:36:42
their parents are just buying the engines at whatever price.
1:36:44
It's true, yeah, but isn't it a double edged sword?
1:36:47
Because don't we all like growing the community and making
1:36:49
sure the community goes and now? For me right now, my car doesn't
1:36:52
run, so yeah, I don't need to buy anything and.
1:36:54
There's a There's a couple in. The back until.
1:36:57
Until I have to buy. Until you have to buy another if
1:37:00
you. Hit the point where like yo I'm
1:37:02
not spending 10 grand. Like what motor would you do?
1:37:04
Would you start doing like like Kat's?
1:37:06
I already have a plan. I'll always fix an Sr.
1:37:08
Yeah, he's gonna. Fix it.
1:37:09
Be a point like no, there's not. You know who we should invest
1:37:12
in? Who's gonna like Reman?
1:37:14
Recast the block. That's gonna happen.
1:37:16
You know what's bullshit? I just did a a hybrid valve
1:37:19
cover for a CJ OG sweet tea on Instagram.
1:37:22
The next the day I finished it TF works posted we make one.
1:37:26
Yeah, dude, the day. Yeah.
1:37:27
The day and I. CJ.
1:37:29
Texted me like you would not believe.
1:37:31
I made a whole joke and everything.
1:37:32
To happen and I'm like what? And he goes it happened and he
1:37:36
got the link for the pre-order job done.
1:37:37
I was like me, here's me I put I made I edited a whole ass reel.
1:37:42
I was like, I can do these bitches and it came out great.
1:37:45
And then dude, the day I was like, hey.
1:37:48
Saks by like faxing. You, hey, it's done.
1:37:50
And then they're like the pre-order starts today.
1:37:53
I'm like, I'm like, dude, literally.
1:37:56
I was like, bro, hey, bro. Hey, but what if if we get any
1:37:59
of those jobs, they go in? Yeah, but now with the valve
1:38:02
cover. But the TF works thing, yeah,
1:38:05
it's wack. It's not not not TF works in
1:38:07
wack. The fact that it's stamped TF
1:38:09
works like I'd rather I agree, say Nissan.
1:38:11
I agree. Like I'm going to do one for
1:38:12
James Morales soon be just because he's on the.
1:38:15
James has been buying James fucking shit man.
1:38:18
Always got more T ES than. Buying things.
1:38:21
Dude, I know James. Have you seen his collection
1:38:24
recently? We.
1:38:25
Talked to him recently but I haven't.
1:38:26
Seen it. You talked to him recently?
1:38:28
James, slow the fuck down, first of all.
1:38:30
I haven't talked to James, dude. I've went dude, I don't know
1:38:34
James. I don't know.
1:38:35
What he's doing, he's. Restoring a fucking.
1:38:38
Pain. What's he doing?
1:38:39
He works for not the power company, but he works for the.
1:38:44
Is that the same place? He worked for.
1:38:46
Con Ed. He works with Miyagi.
1:38:48
I don't know. Miyagi works like you don't even
1:38:51
fucking know where your own friend worked.
1:38:52
As a loser, I'm sorry I know a lot.
1:38:55
I might be wrong James, but I believe that's what he does like
1:38:57
I think. He always worked there, right?
1:38:59
I believe so, yeah. Yeah.
1:39:00
But like, dude, come on. That came out great.
1:39:02
Yeah, it did. It's lagging.
1:39:03
Next. Next fucking day we make him
1:39:07
now. Yeah.
1:39:09
Dude, I was actually like, it'd be sweet because like I do like
1:39:12
the whole cars, so sometimes it's nice to just sit at the
1:39:14
welding bench and be like and just.
1:39:17
We did install these headphones and stuff.
1:39:19
Dude the TF? One is.
1:39:20
Good. No, it's good absolutely.
1:39:22
I great property props for making it, but like it was like,
1:39:25
damn, I could maybe do like maybe four of these, you know,
1:39:29
like make a buck and then it was like.
1:39:31
We would have been hitting you up.
1:39:33
There is. What now?
1:39:35
There is. There was a time where I went to
1:39:38
James's house and I forgot what the fuck I was buying.
1:39:42
Fuck that was years ago that when he had the white 180 before
1:39:45
it got. When he was with Keith Henning
1:39:46
and Davis. Before.
1:39:48
Keith, I love you. Keith.
1:39:49
Keith is fat Keith. Skinny Keith.
1:39:52
I love Keith so much. He's I haven't seen him in a
1:39:54
minute. He's my boy.
1:39:55
I responded to a Facebook ad after years of not seeing James
1:40:00
and I go to the house. The kid comes out that I'm
1:40:05
buying these wheels from they're SSR GT7 or Volk GT Sevens.
1:40:09
Sick. Wheel.
1:40:10
Yeah, yeah. That's like the need for speed.
1:40:13
On it. Oh yeah, no, yeah, the Volk
1:40:14
Racing GT Sevens, they were so nice.
1:40:17
But that kid comes out, but then James also comes out and I'm
1:40:19
like what the fuck, Like yo. And then that day he also
1:40:24
managed to convince me to buy his Type X tails.
1:40:27
So then I bought the Type X tails and then my one my 240 was
1:40:30
done. Speaking of Type X tails, Keith
1:40:32
lended me a center garnish once because I didn't have 1 and I
1:40:35
was going to final bout or something.
1:40:37
I just want to let Keith know on this podcast, you're never
1:40:39
getting that back because I. I saw many times way the other
1:40:42
way no? I.
1:40:43
Asked him so many times to take this thing back, take it back
1:40:45
and now it's gone. I don't know where it is and.
1:40:48
Is that at the shop that is not to be named?
1:40:52
Did that ever? Was that that?
1:40:53
One that's another tail light center garnish that I got
1:40:55
screwed. No, that's I got screwed on
1:40:57
that. Keith gave me this because he's
1:40:59
a genuinely nice. Just crazy because that current
1:41:01
prices were not the prices back to him but like.
1:41:04
Yeah, but now I'm like, dude, you ain't getting that shit
1:41:06
back, man. You had so many chances.
1:41:08
Oh, is that on your car? I don't know where it is.
1:41:10
I don't know if it's the one on my.
1:41:12
Car. It's the one on your car bro.
1:41:13
If it was one that was laying around, I think it was laying
1:41:16
around somewhere and I was like, yo, come get.
1:41:17
This. Yo Keith, I'm crashing into that
1:41:19
shit. And he never got it.
1:41:20
Well, do you know, remember Keith's white car?
1:41:23
Yeah. Yeah.
1:41:23
So James's car he's currently restoring is Keith's white car.
1:41:27
Yeah. Yeah.
1:41:28
Dude, Keith James is like messaging me.
1:41:31
He's like, yo, why? Is James doing all?
1:41:33
Is James? What's going on?
1:41:34
Fucking respect it and get after her brother 'cause he's always
1:41:37
wanted a mint S13. Yeah, he's hitting me up.
1:41:39
He's like, yo, how do how would I go about TIG welding 1/4 on?
1:41:43
I'm like, well one, I wouldn't TIG Weld it because that's like
1:41:46
here we go back. It's not like master crap like
1:41:48
it's it's it's it's not like for the faint of heart, like it's a
1:41:50
shit load of work. And he goes like I'm gonna do
1:41:53
it. I'm gonna do it right.
1:41:54
And I'm like, buddy, that's all out of here.
1:41:55
And I was like, buy this, that and this.
1:41:57
He bought the welder. He bought the plasma cutter.
1:41:59
He bought a whole roof quarter. He bought dude.
1:42:02
I'm against this one. You're a sunroof car.
1:42:04
He's a non sunroof car. He bought a roof clip because
1:42:06
he's gonna convert it to sunroof.
1:42:08
Yes, bro, and it's actually like the spot welder drilled and he's
1:42:12
prepping to do it all. I respect this shit.
1:42:14
No, it's easy Where the. Quarter panel.
1:42:16
James, where the fuck are you at?
1:42:17
Because if you're still. At that same house, I'm pulling
1:42:19
a man that's. Just crazy.
1:42:21
I think they sold that house and he's not.
1:42:22
No, he's not there anymore. I don't know.
1:42:24
He he got a new house. I'm I'm I'm a I'm a be in
1:42:27
contact. Wage 180.
1:42:28
SX I miss you bro. I I only only ever like it when
1:42:32
y'all doing your thing at final bout and it's.
1:42:34
Popped, yeah. But when it's just in a parking
1:42:36
lot? No, I need to.
1:42:38
Open it all when? When we drive my shit, by the
1:42:40
way. You have an IS300.
1:42:42
It doesn't matter. 180 is 180 is 180.
1:42:47
It's in you. I drive any.
1:42:50
You're not a 180 guy any. Fucking drift event I'm pulling
1:42:54
up. So many cars.
1:42:54
I'm pulling up a photo right now.
1:42:56
Any photo of the IS that shit tilted always?
1:43:00
I have a. Genuine question for your IS why
1:43:02
do why do front bumper be doing that?
1:43:04
It does that. The other thing, I think it's
1:43:06
an. Actual serious question.
1:43:08
I think it's fiberglass. Thing I think it's a mix of a
1:43:10
shit mold and the fact that I painted it silver so it like
1:43:13
goes up like. I bumper is a piece of shit
1:43:16
photo. And I was like, that's it.
1:43:17
I straight up did the. What?
1:43:19
The bumper's a piece of shit. RIP that's.
1:43:20
Why? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:43:21
Not everyone. 'S got expensive fiberglass.
1:43:24
Yeah, you see it, Pop Pop popped up.
1:43:26
Or I got a. Vertex you gotta you guys gotta
1:43:28
figure out how. To do like buying a Vertex.
1:43:30
So did somebody else buy this Vertex one 'cause I don't have
1:43:33
money for the Vertex one? Frankie could fucking tell me
1:43:37
all he wants. Bro where you're running car at
1:43:40
my boy. That's true.
1:43:41
Dude where you're running car at you?
1:43:43
Have two shells here where you're.
1:43:44
Running car. Rack.
1:43:45
Well, there's. That one and this one I know of.
1:43:47
I got another one. Loves.
1:43:48
With. The S14.
1:43:50
No, actually there's an S14 outside.
1:43:53
But that's. Yours you Technically, yeah.
1:43:55
Soon to be Malcolm's. No.
1:43:59
Damn, damn. No, I got another.
1:44:01
I got a Black S Thirteen 240SX hatch, but it's all done except
1:44:06
there's no engine in it. Everything else is done.
1:44:09
Bunch of paperweights if you ask me.
1:44:11
But there's no engine in it. My bumper could point up a
1:44:13
little. Bit like it's kitted and
1:44:15
everything like it's done. No, it's Type X, but it's got
1:44:20
the type X front, but it doesn't have the valances or the rear
1:44:23
spats or the lip on it, but. I love type X.
1:44:27
Why is the wing so small? The wing is not small for a
1:44:31
stock body car. Because sometimes you'll be
1:44:33
seeing them and they're like the stands are in the right spot,
1:44:36
but the wing proportionally to the quarter you're.
1:44:38
Probably looking at a car with over fenders on it.
1:44:41
Maybe, but like sometimes I've seen.
1:44:42
His car forever. That and then I think Morales
1:44:46
had a Type X wing or a Type X Rep or whatever it was.
1:44:49
And I remember even years ago, when I was 18, I was like, why
1:44:52
is that so small? Did he ever?
1:44:53
It's like. I don't think he did because.
1:44:55
Because I feel like any piece of OEM arrow is always like just
1:44:59
one step below. What I personally?
1:45:02
Think the Type X wing is perfect for stock.
1:45:05
If you're doing the whole type X thing, it's the best looking.
1:45:09
It is. But but if you get 55 mil overs
1:45:12
and all this that and the third, then I want AG Corp wing, yes,
1:45:15
yes, which is a type X wing wider.
1:45:16
You know what, if I was ever to build an S chassis I want a 2
1:45:19
tone pig nose S13 on like 13 inch or no 15 inch long champs.
1:45:24
That's cool. That's long champs is that's the
1:45:27
tiny wheel gang on S S is it? Dance Nation My.
1:45:32
Oh, the guy who owns Dance Nation?
1:45:34
Yeah dude, actually speaking, LZ just bought one awesome dude
1:45:37
with AK series in it and it's got the big the it's like a duck
1:45:41
bill, but it's not and it goes. But when you wave the whole pig
1:45:44
nose front, the 2 tone and the little wheels, the small wheels,
1:45:47
it kind of like it had the wing I saw like that it.
1:45:50
It came out the box. When you get it out the box, the
1:45:53
B wave wing, you're like. I don't know the B wave wing.
1:45:56
Damn. The B.
1:45:57
One that's what that is. It's like a big yeah, it's like
1:46:00
a long silhouettes huge yeah. I think my buddy Niche has one
1:46:03
of them sitting in his garage bought.
1:46:04
Put on his car. I bought it, never put it on
1:46:07
because I was like, this just looks fucking wild.
1:46:09
But then you look at it in a photo and you're like, that
1:46:11
looks cool you. Gotta have the whole aesthetic.
1:46:13
The whole. Thing I had A at the time I had
1:46:15
a pig nose front Sr. car. I love pig noses.
1:46:18
I don't know. That's that's the fucking look
1:46:19
for me. I saw it and I thought that's
1:46:22
what I wanted. No, it just makes me think of
1:46:24
like when I started drifting. But that's what kind of I like
1:46:28
about it 'cause it's like, it's like bare bones, like like grass
1:46:32
rooty, like a it's not yeah, 'cause like when I got, not that
1:46:35
I was ever in the drift, like I didn't drive.
1:46:36
But like, when I started going to events in media, like,
1:46:39
everybody was like, you know, Kevin Hagley, he had the Pabst
1:46:43
Blue Ribbon. Thing on his hood.
1:46:44
OK, Yeah. Well, yeah, I know, I know.
1:46:47
I too fronted that car and I like him and Niche Lewis and
1:46:51
like Josh Roloff, they had like those before everyone started
1:46:54
figuring out like kits were. At least I did.
1:46:57
And I was like, that's it. I just liked it.
1:46:59
And then I saw one car somewhere on small wheels.
1:47:01
I was like, yeah. I want to do that one.
1:47:03
I mean our friend you met Chris outside the technician here, he
1:47:07
had small wheels on his 2 tone isn't.
1:47:09
He on a. LMGT twos 2 Yeah.
1:47:13
Yeah, now, now he is they. Were mine before.
1:47:15
Dude to be honest I liked his car with a small.
1:47:16
Chris sells that car. They're coming right back to me,
1:47:19
just know. Well, those are expensive,
1:47:21
aren't they? I know.
1:47:22
Yeah, now they're. Expensive.
1:47:23
They were not. Chris is selling.
1:47:24
All this stuff, Chris, just sell your wheels.
1:47:27
To me, I got cash ready in my pocket.
1:47:31
He's not. You're not going to pay that.
1:47:32
Amount dude. No, I'm going to request that he
1:47:35
sells them back to me at the same price.
1:47:37
He's more than the. Wheels for the he fucking.
1:47:39
Better. He fucking better.
1:47:41
Is he out of his mind? That was the agreement.
1:47:43
Yeah, I'd be honest. Are you out of your fucking
1:47:45
mind? You really you got.
1:47:47
Inflation now brother, a dollar ain't worth a dollar no more.
1:47:50
I bet $5000 you. Know what I'm saying?
1:47:53
It's not the same anymore. How much you buy them for?
1:47:59
Oh my God. You're tripping if you think.
1:48:04
That I wouldn't. Pay for them.
1:48:06
I'm not going to tell you. I'm Chris.
1:48:08
You're on the pod. Hello.
1:48:10
OK. Hello.
1:48:12
You sell your. Hypothetically, you sell your
1:48:14
car. The wheels are not for sale.
1:48:16
You're selling me the wheels. At what price?
1:48:19
At what markup? Wait.
1:48:23
If I sell you. The the nismo's right now.
1:48:26
Yes, are are are you going to mark it up or are you going to
1:48:31
sell them to me at the same price?
1:48:33
If I sell them to you, I'm giving you the same.
1:48:35
Price OK, Thank you. That's a.
1:48:37
That's a boy right there. Thank you.
1:48:39
I want a champ. I'll talk to you.
1:48:41
I just want an argument. If it's not someone that you're
1:48:43
immediately. Love you.
1:48:44
Bye bye. Bump that price up.
1:48:47
Blood runs. Thicker.
1:48:49
Then water. There's no blood out of here.
1:48:52
It's a steel wheel. What's aluminum?
1:48:53
Technically, but Chris is an idiot.
1:48:55
Are those wheels more than what we said the wheels were outside
1:48:57
were worth? Yeah, I'd assume so.
1:48:59
Like what? Are they right?
1:49:00
I'm just happy. So what did you pay for them?
1:49:03
I'm not going to tell you you fucking idiot.
1:49:04
I paid $500.00 for them when I bought.
1:49:06
Them Chris is retarded. When I bought them, I drove to
1:49:09
the Canadian. Chris, I don't know you.
1:49:11
That's retarded. That's straight up our word.
1:49:13
I. Drove.
1:49:14
Nah, you get that. Three and a board, I think. 14
1:49:17
hours round, I don't. Care if you drove to Australia?
1:49:22
I respect your hustle but yo Chris, you make a buck bro.
1:49:25
You're trying. You're trying to sell shit off
1:49:26
to buy a house or whatever. Good for you, Carl.
1:49:29
They're not gonna. Go.
1:49:30
Good for you, Carl, but like, also not good for you.
1:49:32
Why'd you sell them? To Chris at a cheap price.
1:49:35
Why? 'Cause I was in a pinch.
1:49:38
But they weren't worth that much money back then.
1:49:40
They were still worth a lot of money back then.
1:49:43
That fucking? They're not cheap wheels. 17 by
1:49:46
9 + 23 squares. Is the reason for that.
1:49:49
I believe so. No, COVID was.
1:49:51
COVID was COVID fucked up blame. COVID for every COVID.
1:49:54
Was during COVID they were $11,000.
1:49:57
I've watched those wheels. $11,000 yeah, they're.
1:50:01
Not 'cause there are 32 GTR spec like tits.
1:50:03
Isn't that like the wheel? Yeah, mine was the plus 23 so.
1:50:07
You're telling me that is worth and you paid 5 Chris sell them
1:50:12
to someone else. I'm still Yeah, I'm still
1:50:14
thinking back from mine. Bottling.
1:50:15
Y'all boys Fist bump. Buy them 10 packs of beer if I
1:50:19
was. You, I would be like Chris, sell
1:50:20
this. Girl, don't pay me through a
1:50:21
truck. Law blood is thicker.
1:50:24
There's no blood. There's no blood.
1:50:26
Not with Chris. I respect that they're doing
1:50:28
Nah. I'm sorry bro.
1:50:30
I'd have to sell them to someone else, that's all.
1:50:33
That's the whole beetle. It is what it is.
1:50:36
That's. A whole car.
1:50:37
That's a whole ass car. Bro, I'd do you a favor.
1:50:40
I'd do you a three grand, nuts. Maybe like 45?
1:50:42
100 maybe give him more money like in in this.
1:50:45
Aspect. I don't think you would, but you
1:50:46
should. Like 150% maybe more than what
1:50:51
he I. Don't know what you would even
1:50:52
give him. I don't know.
1:50:54
It doesn't matter. If I was.
1:50:56
You, If I was you and he was selling him, I'd be like Chris.
1:50:58
Honestly just sell him to someone else.
1:50:59
What was said was said, and that's all I care.
1:51:03
About now I know my employees brain power.
1:51:08
That's wild. Did not point.
1:51:10
It God damn brother. This guy just can't believe that
1:51:13
I have friends that loyal to me. Because I'm not just as loyal.
1:51:17
Because I don't know if I got any friends.
1:51:18
Actually, that is loyal to all my friends.
1:51:21
You make that bag, you send them to someone else.
1:51:22
I fucked up selling you to begin with.
1:51:24
No, no, no, no. Chris could sell them for some
1:51:27
crazy number and pay you. I don't care.
1:51:30
I want the wheel. I'll never have the wheel again.
1:51:34
$11,000. No one's paying $11,000, so how?
1:51:39
Much are they? They're definitely not.
1:51:40
They're probably like 3456000. Dollars bougie with like gold
1:51:44
hardware and. Shit, now they are Chris like
1:51:46
powder coated them and shit. They're not original finish.
1:51:48
They came original finish. Does that hurt?
1:51:50
Silver old old logo. I don't know shit.
1:51:53
About it kind of I don't know. People see it like it could be
1:51:58
it could hurt the value, it could increase the value.
1:51:59
It all depends how well it was done and it was done really,
1:52:01
really well at by Regal back when and yeah, yeah, they they
1:52:07
look good. They're cool looking wheels.
1:52:09
I would pay about 500 bucks for them.
1:52:11
I'm not into the whole crazy three piece thing.
1:52:13
I wasn't either. I I wanted a wheel.
1:52:16
Everyone I know is such. A hassle.
1:52:17
I bought those and had no idea what the fuck I got.
1:52:21
I drove that guy 7 hours. 7 hours.
1:52:24
Went into a sketchy apartment, came out with wheels.
1:52:27
My girlfriend at the time also was just like this is really
1:52:30
fucking sketchy. We drove home.
1:52:32
Done. We actually stopped to see
1:52:33
Niagara Falls too. In my S. 13 Have you been to
1:52:37
Niagara Falls recently? No.
1:52:38
Why? What's going on?
1:52:39
Bro I went there like so last midwinter I went because some
1:52:45
dude at a hot rod shop was selling a tool I could use and I
1:52:48
was like this is a fucking good deal.
1:52:50
I'm going to leave Friday, get an Airbnb, then drive back
1:52:54
Saturday morning, call my best friend Carlos.
1:52:57
We go to the shop, the hot rod shop, pick up the tool and we're
1:53:00
like, oh, what are you doing after this?
1:53:01
He's like, oh, we're going to the falls.
1:53:02
And the guy was like, good luck. And I was like.
1:53:06
What? Dude, I was like, OK, and I like
1:53:09
let it alone. And then he had a business
1:53:11
partner and my buddy was talking to a business partner and he was
1:53:13
like, yeah, like I wouldn't go there.
1:53:15
And I was like, all right, that's probably just because
1:53:17
he's local. He's seen the stupid falls the
1:53:19
whole time. This and that, bro.
1:53:21
We drove to the falls. I'm not kidding you.
1:53:24
And I work in like Irvington, Newark in the middle of the
1:53:27
night for my normal job sometimes it was by far worse.
1:53:30
What are you talking about? It was just like sketchy the
1:53:33
neighborhood, dude, I'm not kidding you.
1:53:35
Like the worst part of Patterson, Irvington and Newark.
1:53:38
Niagara was way worse, no? Yeah, that's why I was like the
1:53:42
wheels, it was really sketchy. Is going on you It was sketchy
1:53:45
because. When the guy said it, he looked
1:53:47
at my buddy. He was like, you're fine.
1:53:49
He goes, you're not so not so good.
1:53:51
I was like. Did your buddy look more like
1:53:53
Malcolm? Yes.
1:53:54
OK. And I was like low key I was.
1:53:57
Like dude, I swear to God. And I looked and I was like,
1:54:02
that's crazy to say. And I just like kept the
1:54:04
conversation rolling. And then he like the other guy
1:54:07
doubled that, not doubled down, but he almost did the same
1:54:09
thing. And I was like, where the fuck
1:54:11
are we going? And then we just like, well,
1:54:13
those guys are fucked up. And then we started like driving
1:54:16
my Tacoma into the fucking fault, like near the falls.
1:54:19
Yo, bro, it's crazy cause the Canada border is like right
1:54:23
there. Yeah.
1:54:23
And there's like the big beams in the sky on the Canada, you
1:54:26
know. And shit and you know.
1:54:27
Yeah, that is looks like a blast.
1:54:29
And then you're here like there's an old like.
1:54:31
On the US side, you're on the. US are pad, the windows are
1:54:34
broken out of the building, there's a crackhead sleeping on
1:54:37
the floor and it's like 40° outside.
1:54:39
No dude, I'm not. Making it up, I said that yes,
1:54:42
it was really insane. It was really fucking Airbnb. 10
1:54:46
minutes from the fall. So again like.
1:54:47
We're gonna see the falls. We're gonna do.
1:54:49
Some. Tourists do shit.
1:54:51
We got to the Airbnb, sat down and we're in the Airbnb and it
1:54:55
was like a motor, not a motorhome, but like a, a double
1:54:57
wide or whatever. And we're sitting there like
1:55:00
watching Netflix, and I heard a cough.
1:55:02
And I was like, and then I heard a cough.
1:55:05
Again. And the bitch split.
1:55:06
The the the rental piece in half and it was like a room that was
1:55:09
herself. I was like, and I read the fine
1:55:11
print of the thing. She's like, sometimes I'm there
1:55:13
just sleeping in the alone room and I'm like, Nope.
1:55:16
And then we left. Like 11 what?
1:55:18
Dude, swear to God, it was A and then we left like 11:00 at
1:55:21
night. I got home at like 7:00 in the
1:55:22
morning. I drove there and back.
1:55:25
Yeah, I told you, dude. When I when I got to this guy's
1:55:28
spot, it wasn't even the guy that I was talking to.
1:55:30
So then I thought that I was getting kind of fucked over
1:55:33
'cause this is Craigslist days. This is not Facebook Marketplace
1:55:36
Craigslist. This is so I have a phone number
1:55:39
and an e-mail address and on normal physical address and a
1:55:42
dream. And this fucking guy when I show
1:55:45
up I'm talking to him for like an hour bro.
1:55:47
And then I'm like oh so like where are the wheels?
1:55:50
And the dude was like what wheels?
1:55:53
And I was like fuck. Mainly because I got to go tell
1:55:58
my now ex-girlfriend like, hey. We wasted the.
1:56:03
Day. Like remember, you know.
1:56:07
Yeah, but then thankfully the kid like, walked up behind that
1:56:12
dude and he was like, hey, like, what are you doing here?
1:56:15
Like blah, blah, blah. And he's like, hey, I'm, I'm
1:56:17
here to sell you the wheels. And I'm like, thank you.
1:56:20
Well, actually really nice dude. Definitely a little strung out,
1:56:24
but gave me free gear oil, like anything he had for the 240.
1:56:28
He was just giving it to me. And then I I went home with a
1:56:31
bunch of shit, stopped at Niagara Falls and.
1:56:34
Not good. Dude, yeah.
1:56:35
No, I'm not kidding. I'm telling you, it was.
1:56:37
Really. Falls is almost just as like.
1:56:40
Big. I'm not fucking around, bro.
1:56:42
Like if I had someone's like, oh, we're thinking we're going,
1:56:44
don't go. It's going to batters we got, we
1:56:47
got. Niagara right here.
1:56:48
Not that fucking good. Like New Jersey, go there and I
1:56:52
was like, this bitch is going to be your big as fuck.
1:56:54
Because all I've ever seen is it as a kid.
1:56:56
I've haven't been there ever in my adult life.
1:56:58
We get there and I was like, like more than just me and my
1:57:02
friend were looking around like that's it dude.
1:57:05
It's like. Were you, did you go after like
1:57:07
a fucking dry season? When I went, I swear I was like,
1:57:10
I get in there, I'm done. Because you see the water like
1:57:13
running up it. Was not that fucking?
1:57:15
Cool. I mean, the Canada side was
1:57:16
pretty cool. Yeah, it looked.
1:57:18
I heard that. That's how it is.
1:57:19
Right. You ever go on to Maid of the
1:57:20
Mist? Was that when you do that on a
1:57:22
little trail? No, because it was like middle
1:57:23
of winter. I watched.
1:57:24
People do that. I've done it.
1:57:25
I've done it, yeah. I was like, oh, look at them
1:57:27
down there. Look at them.
1:57:28
Look at those Americans, dude. Idiots.
1:57:30
I got on. I, I was in there as a, as a
1:57:32
kid, yeah. Yeah, when I was a kid.
1:57:35
Yeah, I was. I was a young kid, My parents I.
1:57:38
Mean my mom looking over, I was like, yeah, this side probably
1:57:40
is the better side. Yeah, because you're looking
1:57:42
things like at it, where the other side you're like, yeah,
1:57:46
it's weird. So from the Canada side, you're
1:57:47
like, damn, look at that crackhead over there.
1:57:49
Yeah. Dude, it's it's a shockingly
1:57:54
bad. It's like I was amazed.
1:57:56
I wonder if it still is. I don't know if I.
1:57:58
Just dude, this was this year. Oh God, this.
1:58:00
Was this year, Yeah. So you can cross that bridge
1:58:02
that's right there, right, and go from Canada to.
1:58:03
The other yeah, you just need your like passport and shit.
1:58:05
You ain't getting back in. I went like a different way.
1:58:07
I got in a different way. That's why I was not legally.
1:58:10
Legally not a. Secret.
1:58:13
Legally. On the defense.
1:58:16
That can under the. Canada on the defense.
1:58:19
That is insane. The what about that dude who
1:58:23
went? Wasn't there a guy that went
1:58:24
down in a barrel? Oh yeah.
1:58:26
It's not like every waterfall ever.
1:58:29
Did the guy die? I think so.
1:58:30
I think, isn't that like a thing?
1:58:31
It's all like the cartoons and shit.
1:58:33
Yeah, but. Eddie, can you?
1:58:34
You got you had to have been dying.
1:58:36
You had. You can ask us a.
1:58:37
Question. You had to die.
1:58:38
Like if you did that, I'm going to find this.
1:58:40
You had to die. There's probably 1 dude who
1:58:43
lived but like I think his ribs aren't okay or he doesn't walk.
1:58:47
Anymore like. You know, like you can't take
1:58:49
that impact and not break. Every rib have done it and
1:58:52
survive. Yeah, like, but it was like
1:58:55
recently like during like a metal designed engineering.
1:58:58
Barrel, probably back when that's all they had to like fuck
1:59:01
around in. Dude that bitch was probably
1:59:03
like mahogany like 2 layers and like it was like hillbilly
1:59:06
ingenuity but like it worked. Someone's like, yo, I bet you
1:59:08
won't go in that barrel and let us push you down.
1:59:10
This. Water, if you think about it,
1:59:12
the barrel with him in it would probably like into the water and
1:59:14
like bounce back. You're basically it needs to
1:59:16
survive the hit. That hit is the hit is the hit
1:59:19
that's gonna kill you. You're basically just hoping
1:59:21
that and the. Water is broken because that's
1:59:23
how you die when you fall off a bridge, because the water
1:59:24
surface tension isn't broken. Yeah.
1:59:27
And the Yeah. 'Cause you're hit the wall,
1:59:28
basically. Yeah.
1:59:29
So it's like disturbed. Yeah.
1:59:31
So it's no idea. So it's easy.
1:59:33
It's easy. Bro not, let's try.
1:59:35
To get that faction, don't. Try it.
1:59:37
Look, look, look. Niagara Falls, NY There's my
1:59:39
coop. That shit fucks.
1:59:41
Yeah, yeah. What happened to that core?
1:59:43
Yeah, Yeah. No.
1:59:43
Yeah, that's. Yeah, well that.
1:59:46
There we go. There we go.
1:59:47
Sometimes you win, some sometimes.
1:59:49
You got T boned by Mini Cooper. All right, Zach, we got some
1:59:51
questions from Instagram. We did, yeah.
1:59:53
Eddie's going to help us read these off.
1:59:56
There it is that that was the car.
1:59:57
With that I was going to put the wing on.
1:59:58
Pig nose. LM GT2.
2:00:00
I thought. Where is that?
2:00:02
That's at Bear Mountain. Yeah.
2:00:05
Pig nose, man. Look at this shit.
2:00:06
That shit fucks. You want to read it?
2:00:08
Yeah, you got some good. Questions.
2:00:09
Yeah. You, you, you, you, you Pick
2:00:10
them out. Don't.
2:00:11
Read all of them now, yeah. You, you got to scream them
2:00:13
because. Do we even get any?
2:00:15
Yeah, I had one friend say he made a crazy joke into it.
2:00:18
So like. It's going to be hard to
2:00:20
decipher that through the other crazy jokes.
2:00:22
I didn't even know what he said and he was like just wait.
2:00:24
And I was like, I'm cool, let that one roll.
2:00:27
I'm sorry I got to point this out.
2:00:28
If you close your eyes, Frankie, tell me you're not hearing Josh
2:00:31
Roloffs. Well, and he talks.
2:00:33
Yes. I talked to Josh today,
2:00:35
actually. Yeah, a little bit.
2:00:38
God, I cannot hear it. I cannot hear it.
2:00:39
I must be missing similar. I must be missing Josh.
2:00:42
I love Josh. Josh.
2:00:43
Josh is. I knew I met Josh through Niche
2:00:45
Lewis. He used to drive the purple car
2:00:47
and a Miata for a while. I put a tube front end on the
2:00:50
car and dude, he's he's a great dude.
2:00:52
Josh is a fucking dude. He's hit me up about doing a
2:00:55
cage today. This is this is my favorite
2:00:57
scene I ever have of Josh. He's he's got like his fucking
2:01:01
hat on the Marlboro hat on. I don't know if he's still
2:01:03
wearing the same fucking hat, but Josh get a new hat like we
2:01:06
got fashion ones or I don't know if we have any more.
2:01:08
We ran out. But he was about to get on
2:01:11
track. And Josh, I'm like, yo.
2:01:12
And he goes, I don't know what's.
2:01:15
And that's the look of Josh that I just know Josh.
2:01:18
It's just like, I don't know what's about to happen.
2:01:20
Like, you know what's about to happen.
2:01:22
You're about to go drive. Like, like, like.
2:01:24
All right, Eddie, why are you looking so concentrated right
2:01:26
now? Eddie's waiting to speak.
2:01:29
Advice for those wanting to learn how to fabricate Elijah
2:01:33
Blue. Oof, that's a.
2:01:36
That's my boy who moved here from Hawaii, you know, Elijah.
2:01:38
Genuinely you got to not be scared to fuck shit up.
2:01:41
Not that like don't take customer work, but like take the
2:01:44
initiative and try to do shit for your own car like I did back
2:01:48
in the day, like when I built that hard body, you got it.
2:01:50
You can't be scared to like fuck something up and then look at it
2:01:55
and like genuinely be like, I can make it better by doing X or
2:02:00
Y. If you, if you don't have that
2:02:01
in you, it's very hard because I did years of just using like a
2:02:05
grinder and a cutting wheel on a Polish wheel and you could get
2:02:08
through and figure out you can get a lot done with that shit.
2:02:10
Like I that hard body, the first version of it was straight up a
2:02:13
cutting wheel and a a flapping wheel.
2:02:15
That was it. Yeah.
2:02:16
I didn't have any tooling at all.
2:02:17
I didn't buy tooling until COVID hit.
2:02:19
So like you could get it done with the barrel?
2:02:21
So all the fitting of like the pipes and shit that you're just
2:02:24
sitting there going like this. Yeah, getting it like when I
2:02:27
built. That way I bought it.
2:02:28
Yeah, that it was. I didn't get any of.
2:02:30
Matching. That's the fucking word.
2:02:32
Is that it? The.
2:02:32
Bell Mail thing? Technically, yeah.
2:02:35
But that's that's where you fit the pipe onto it.
2:02:37
Yeah, God damn. Just with a.
2:02:39
Flap disk, yeah. Well, there's, there's some
2:02:41
tools that get around with like 3D printing, like blew up.
2:02:44
They sell like these little slide over the tubes and there's
2:02:46
like that thing's crazy, you know, like when you like go over
2:02:48
to like, I don't know, liberty science.
2:02:49
I mean, you put your hand into it and it like, it's like that.
2:02:52
Yup. But around the tube and you're
2:02:53
like, oh, it's coming in on a 45 and you like push the little
2:02:56
needles out and then you pull that off because it fits the out
2:02:58
of them and to put it on and then you just like Sharpie.
2:03:00
Those things are crazy, yeah. There's also a lot of come up
2:03:03
you can do like I dude go to a flea market or a swap meet my
2:03:07
old files files don't go bad. Use that type of shit.
2:03:10
Use a big round file. I use that for a lot of my tube
2:03:13
coping. Fuck wait, I need to go to
2:03:15
fucking flea market and buy some files.
2:03:17
Hershey is where it's at. Yo, my dad used to take me to
2:03:20
that. Hershey Flea The.
2:03:22
Hershey air cooled flea market that was there.
2:03:25
Hershey is like peak summer I believe and then Rhinebeck is
2:03:29
beginning of summer and then Island Drag Away has them every
2:03:31
so often. English town used to be
2:03:33
phenomenal. My dad used to sell them all the
2:03:36
time and then they they're still happening, but they're not as
2:03:39
great as they used to because all the all the butt hurts all
2:03:42
the IT does not drag track anymore.
2:03:44
I ain't going. There.
2:03:45
Yeah, fucking. Fuck, damn it, I need to.
2:03:47
I need to hit some of those up. Fuck.
2:03:50
We should go any any fat question.
2:03:51
You could just bang my line to electric.
2:03:53
I'll I'll help you out. I'm not great by any means, but
2:03:56
I could help you put you in the right direction for sure.
2:03:58
That's. That's very generous of you.
2:04:02
Top favorite fabricators Whose work inspires you the most?
2:04:06
Who? Pinstripping by add.
2:04:10
Oh, as my boy Cornfields Customs, he's a wild fabricator.
2:04:15
He does shit that you guys aren't really into but like.
2:04:19
No. What kind of stuff?
2:04:21
Because. You never know some dude who has
2:04:24
some weird old Tri 5 Chevy, some round car and he's like do it
2:04:31
and he's like changes a roof line, chops it, drops it like
2:04:35
and like the entire it starts as like a 55 Chevy and then you
2:04:38
have a cornfield custom car. Like it's like nothing will
2:04:43
mimic a car he did before. And it's just like you pay him
2:04:47
what he gets an hour and in like X amount of money and like five
2:04:50
years, you just have a car. Like you don't even pick color.
2:04:53
It's just you're literally like you're paying to have like a car
2:04:57
with his name on it. Yeah, that's like, did you see
2:04:59
my story Friday? I went to Rob Ida's shop.
2:05:04
Where were you? That's down right by English
2:05:07
town Rob Ida. He's he's like a phenomenal
2:05:10
fabricator. He's he's someone I really look
2:05:12
up to. He does the same concept.
2:05:14
It's like blank check. Like he is a Type E Jaguar,
2:05:18
those long hooded ones and some lady who owns it.
2:05:22
I was talking who owns it and he's like, yeah, she's like 6-4.
2:05:25
I'm making her fit in it. But like they like brought, but
2:05:28
they like brought the whole roof.
2:05:30
Like it's like kind of like a fastback.
2:05:32
They like brought the whole, they left the quarters where
2:05:35
they are and then brought the Hatch back and then all the
2:05:38
aluminum is like made from scratch and formed in the proper
2:05:42
tools and then welded. It's not if you pull up any of
2:05:45
these Instagrams. It's wild to even understand
2:05:46
what I'm saying. I feel like it'd be easier to
2:05:48
just chop her legs and like read.
2:05:49
But dude, like it's not even like that.
2:05:51
Like it's just you're paying for having like an Ida car or a
2:05:55
Cornfield Customs car or like it's, it's crazy.
2:05:58
There's so many great fabricators that it's really
2:06:00
hard to even like Cornfield Customs.
2:06:02
Yeah, he's great. Dude, I he.
2:06:04
Doesn't like instructional stuff.
2:06:06
What I I would want a cooler name?
2:06:08
But the thing he like my. That sounds cool, whatever that
2:06:11
is. I know corn, I know he has a
2:06:13
better last name. I just know his instagrams,
2:06:15
cornfields, customs. But The thing is, I'm not, if
2:06:18
I'm not mistaken, he owns a farm, His family owns a farm and
2:06:21
they put up a pole barn and like the whole back of his car is
2:06:25
like the shop is just like if you go down, you could pull up
2:06:29
one of his roadsters he's made. Yeah, this shit is crazy.
2:06:32
Dude like keep going, there's so much science behind it, but.
2:06:39
Damn that seat. Mike Wagoner.
2:06:42
His name? Yeah, so that car with the hot
2:06:45
rod keep going down. I can find a better.
2:06:47
One, it's a fucking GT. 4:00 So that right here.
2:06:48
He's in Ohio. No wonder.
2:06:50
It's cornered that so that car isn't anything.
2:06:53
It doesn't. Exist, you're saying?
2:06:55
That it is. It's here and it exists.
2:06:57
That is straight up a tube chassis and just aluminum he
2:07:00
formed and just made. And how fast is he going in this
2:07:03
bitch? Good question.
2:07:06
But like, straight up, that's just like, Oh yeah, I made that.
2:07:09
I want to know how fast he's going in a car he just built in
2:07:11
his. Garage.
2:07:12
But dude, if you go to the photos of the chassis, you'd be
2:07:14
like huh? Like they're on the salt flats
2:07:16
right now. That guy's probably going over.
2:07:18
I want to take 2. Oh, he's going over 2, I'd say
2:07:20
200 miles. Yeah, that's a I'm pretty sure
2:07:22
that's like either a Flathead V8 like Dole Model A motor or a
2:07:24
small block Chevy bike. And I go down the highway and
2:07:26
I'm like, damn I. Really.
2:07:27
Yeah. Like go.
2:07:27
Yeah. I'm kind of scared this guy
2:07:29
built the whole car. Look like so look at that photo.
2:07:32
Every inch he did. And like this dude, he's not the
2:07:37
type of guy to be like, oh, I'm going to pull up my CAD
2:07:40
software. Like he'll do basic design, but
2:07:42
dude, that's like off the Dome, just like that's crazy.
2:07:45
The whole thing that's not started as a model, a Model T or
2:07:49
anything. Like it's, it takes design cues
2:07:51
from it. But he just like, yeah, I made
2:07:53
that. And then people pay him like,
2:07:55
yeah, I want one. And he'll just be like, you make
2:07:57
me something and he'll like do like with some Sharpies And then
2:08:00
that's that. That's the shit that like I love
2:08:03
all the weird cars I fuck with. That's the shit I want to do
2:08:06
because you he's they're literally just like build me
2:08:10
something because your name's on it.
2:08:11
I just. Picturing the fact that he
2:08:13
everything on there is probably built by them.
2:08:15
So like dude no it's hemps and like the front part.
2:08:19
He's a single man garage. Low nose piece?
2:08:22
That's one fucking piece of metal like that.
2:08:25
That's probably not. Dude, it's it's, it's nuts.
2:08:28
There's the first comment. What roll cage is that?
2:08:31
Dude, like exactly. And you're like, it's a tube
2:08:34
chassis I made off my jig table and it's just like, what?
2:08:38
Yeah, you see the florist, Frankie?
2:08:40
That's what I'm going to have in my shop right now.
2:08:42
The checkered. Yeah, it has to be checkered.
2:08:44
Almost. We almost did that in the shop.
2:08:45
Dude, that'd be fire. What the fuck?
2:08:47
Would you guys do epoxy? No, we just grinded and sealed
2:08:50
the fucking concrete. Dude the black.
2:08:52
And white checkered floor that. Just no.
2:08:53
The shop is epoxy but in here we are going to do checkered floor.
2:08:56
That shit looks like that. Just screams.
2:08:58
Feed shop, yeah, but that like, does that take oil?
2:09:01
Well, you go stain that way. No, but they were saying like in
2:09:04
here, yeah. Like, I mean, he's yeah, you're
2:09:06
doing it because storage it's. Cool, that's his.
2:09:08
That's like his showroom, I believe.
2:09:10
Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah.
2:09:12
So the equivalent of that would be like right there and
2:09:14
Frankie's. Car just right in a.
2:09:16
Minute I wish I could fit a car in there, but.
2:09:17
You remember that photo, that dude?
2:09:19
OK, don't, don't be kicking yourself.
2:09:21
But fucking Chris sent us a photo of like what the shop
2:09:24
looked like years ago and. Oh yeah, dude, it's wild.
2:09:26
I came here before any addition 'cause you guys have started in
2:09:29
the the one single Bay, right? It was basically just that.
2:09:31
That's when I came, when I did James's quote for the Fender and
2:09:35
I was like, don't do this. Yeah, yeah, that's.
2:09:37
And then I didn't realize it went that far.
2:09:39
That's we. Just knocked that wall down.
2:09:41
That's awesome space. Yeah.
2:09:43
That's so sick, dude. That's kind of crazy.
2:09:45
I remember you had your car was like it came around and it was
2:09:47
like in the front where by itself.
2:09:49
And that's where the big faction logo was.
2:09:50
Yeah. Then it sat there for a while.
2:09:52
Yeah. Still is.
2:09:55
I mean. Which one of these is?
2:09:58
On Carl's just spinning around. I love it.
2:10:02
Left up, left, left. Yeah, that was Faction.
2:10:07
See, to me it just feels the same way.
2:10:08
But I know it doesn't. I know it's something.
2:10:10
Are you? Shitting me.
2:10:11
This looks like my garage. Now that's.
2:10:15
That's four of my garages. I guess it's because I just, you
2:10:19
know. Built a dealership.
2:10:21
Like, yeah. That's awesome, man.
2:10:24
All right, let's get another one out here.
2:10:27
Pinch Stripping by AD and Evan Finch Fitch have asked about
2:10:32
your hair care routine. Hair care routine.
2:10:34
Is wild. Yeah, because thumbnail.
2:10:36
That thumb dude props with a thumbnail.
2:10:38
I look way too good at math. Mad people tell me to like what
2:10:41
the fuck's up with that? I was like because 90% of the
2:10:44
time I have my hair back. And.
2:10:46
Bro it's like down to here now it's.
2:10:47
Wild, I got to check that thumbnail or whatever.
2:10:49
Dude, I look like fucking. Shit.
2:10:52
So any, any justice, any hair? Yeah, fucking clean your hair.
2:10:57
I can't stand. Yo you do different metal.
2:11:00
Shavings and shit probably. Go do I I conditioned my my
2:11:03
girls gonna stab me but I conditioned my hair like every
2:11:05
day because it's just metal dust or this and that.
2:11:08
Like I have to wear bandanics when I take my welding helmet on
2:11:10
and off I get broken baby hairs and it frays my hair and it's
2:11:15
annoying as fuck. That photo is crazy.
2:11:17
Yo dude, it I got it. I love it.
2:11:21
It was crops. Crowley, Mike.
2:11:26
What's been Zach's favorite projects so far and why?
2:11:31
That's a hard. One dad, It's going to be a
2:11:32
hard. One, I probably got to say it's
2:11:34
the car I'm working on right now because it's like once one of my
2:11:37
best friends and it's like I saw there's two rabbits right now
2:11:42
that are fighting for a 9. I had the privilege to work on
2:11:45
both of them. Oh wow yeah.
2:11:46
So the one guy works the power company with me, if you go to
2:11:52
there's one where I'm welding a Fender arch onto it and there's
2:11:54
a lot of crazy, weird engineering in this car that we
2:11:56
like. Did some hillbilly ingenuity
2:11:58
with. It's a white mark one.
2:12:01
And I've started doing some tube work on it, like intercooler
2:12:05
piping. And then it left, it went a
2:12:07
little faster, came back revision #2 and now it's on
2:12:11
revision. Like I don't even understand how
2:12:13
many times it's been in my garage, but like every time it
2:12:14
leaves it just gets. Better rabbits are competing.
2:12:17
You could actually see them right there.
2:12:18
So there's the one on the right with the black Fender.
2:12:20
That's Rooster's car. That's not Adams his.
2:12:23
Yeah, Instagram's rooster on the Hill.
2:12:25
Right there is on the Hoosiers. There on.
2:12:27
Competing and you're fabbing both of them.
2:12:31
That's so crazy. That's the biggest, that's one
2:12:33
of the biggest flexes of mine, right?
2:12:35
Yeah. So like that's, that's the
2:12:36
parachute mount. And actually go back one photo.
2:12:39
Did either one of. That's Adam's car when I'm well
2:12:41
in the shoot mount the Roosters and they're both fighting for
2:12:44
it, are they? Friends.
2:12:45
Yeah, we're all boys, but it's also weird in the world of, like
2:12:49
drag racing, 'cause everyone's like, I ain't telling you my
2:12:51
numbers. Yeah, like, not this, Not that
2:12:53
you can't tell secrets, but if you go.
2:12:55
So that was like the first time I did intercooler piping.
2:12:57
I did a sunroof delete because he wanted it had some crazy.
2:13:01
These cars were so cheap back then they would put like RV
2:13:03
windows as so I made that from scratch.
2:13:07
It was cool. Just someone off panel dude.
2:13:10
It was so crazy because the way they did it was like 2 inches
2:13:13
back. So when you drive it would just
2:13:15
be like like the sun would be in your face.
2:13:17
It was so stupid. If you keep going up, go the
2:13:21
other way. There's a part where I well, so
2:13:23
we just did a shit load of cool work to it keep going.
2:13:26
Where is it keep going down on down.
2:13:38
You can go to either one of those with the quarter so up 1.
2:13:41
I did that click that yeah. So I put I made one off front
2:13:45
arches for it to fit a 25 inch slick so.
2:13:47
The Fender flare even notice that it's.
2:13:49
Metal, so it's thicker, it's actual metal and I I re I like
2:13:53
adjusted the air dam so it could fit the bigger flare and then go
2:13:55
to the next photo. So it used to have the go to
2:13:59
cool thing for mark once is euro bumpers, which were plastic.
2:14:02
We reapplied or put on the aluminum GTI bumpers and then I
2:14:06
plated the back of it and then go to the next photo.
2:14:09
I welded a billet cap onto it and sealed the bumper.
2:14:12
Is that the fucking intercooler? No.
2:14:16
What is that OK? No, so the fucking.
2:14:19
So when you look at civics when they're pro front wheel drive,
2:14:22
which is a really fast front wheel drive cars, you know the
2:14:24
big fiberglass front end and they have the big air dam.
2:14:26
That air dam is a like half inch plate.
2:14:30
It's it's a weight plate. So when you launch launch a
2:14:32
front wheel drive car, it tends to just bounce off the ground.
2:14:36
You Add all the weight to the front end to physically hold the
2:14:38
car to the ground because the launch is so aggressive when a
2:14:40
25 bytes, it wants to like Pulpus.
2:14:44
So what we did is I made the aluminum backing plate with the
2:14:47
bill of cap and then we filled it full of lead, like lead to
2:14:50
like shotgun shot. So the bumper weighs a lot.
2:14:53
I'm not telling the number, but a lot drag racing.
2:14:56
And then we put a bill of cap on it and then like chiseled it
2:14:59
shot and dowled it so it can't come out.
2:15:01
So when you actually go, go to the next photo.
2:15:03
Can't wait for a Body Shop to take this off.
2:15:06
Yeah, with brackets it's over. It's well over 100 lbs Keep
2:15:10
going and it's mounted to the car like a tow hitch.
2:15:12
That is fucking dope. Yeah, like quarter inch thick
2:15:16
mounting brackets just because we wanted more weight in the
2:15:18
front end. That's sick dude.
2:15:21
It's just cool little details like shit like that and then
2:15:23
look the bumpers mounted and you really wouldn't even know.
2:15:25
I I modified the stock air dam, the fit, the big flares and all
2:15:28
that. I'm over here.
2:15:29
I thought that you sealed it up so that you could fucking
2:15:32
essentially. You could see the bill of cap in
2:15:33
there. So the bumper weighs a shit load
2:15:35
of weights. So when it launches it'll 60
2:15:36
foot better or not like pulp us the wheels it hugs of car to the
2:15:39
ground, Yeah. You should do a quick release so
2:15:42
you just dump all that lead all over the track as.
2:15:43
After you get off the, that was the thing because we did.
2:15:45
It get off the line and. Because it started through our
2:15:48
job, we have the access to just get lead strips because it's
2:15:51
used in the industry. And we're like, we're going to
2:15:53
use this. And they're like, how do we
2:15:54
safely attach this to the car? And then we're like staring at
2:15:56
it because it had the time, it had the plastic bumpers and
2:15:59
we're like, let's put the aluminum ones back on and then
2:16:01
fill the bumper. And we're like, and then like a
2:16:05
week later, Rooster did the same thing.
2:16:08
But yeah, like it's cool. And then the the cool donut
2:16:11
aluminum is the same car. And then now it got a bigger
2:16:14
turbo and it went over with the motor and it got a bunch of
2:16:17
work. But like it's cool to have a car
2:16:19
like 3 renditions now and it leaves and it gets faster and it
2:16:22
gets more influence. The same engine builder working
2:16:24
on both these. Two, it's had the same motor the
2:16:26
entire time. I only lost one motor.
2:16:28
You know, competitors. Well this one has a 2180
2:16:35
Roosters car. I'm sorry you told me this 1000
2:16:38
times. It's like a weird it's a 16
2:16:41
valve motor out of a mark 2 with the head and then it's like this
2:16:44
Frankenstein motor like people do A1 JS how you could do a 1
2:16:48
1/2 his is like that where Adam's like now this works.
2:16:50
I'm leaving this thing 'cause it's you could put a 16 valve
2:16:53
which is like the mark 2 GTI motor is like the like Sr.
2:16:57
It's a stupid amount of money for yeah, yeah, it's very odd.
2:17:02
They're expensive as fuck and that's what.
2:17:03
These things make over 800 horsepower.
2:17:05
Jesus. Christ and dude like that car
2:17:07
has like 60 hits on it last year.
2:17:10
Stock rod just works. I like when you take one thing
2:17:16
and also repurpose it into something else.
2:17:18
Hidden dude. And that is what that is.
2:17:22
Full interior, yeah, full cage, full interior, back seat, the
2:17:26
whole 9, everything. Fire Love.
2:17:28
That dude, you know why it stays together?
2:17:30
Fuel tech, fancy ECU. I I that's all I thought about
2:17:33
was when I turboed my car. I was like, that shit's furred
2:17:36
up birds. And then you're like, I'll use a
2:17:38
chip tune or like you're like the apex or whatever you guys
2:17:41
use. No offense.
2:17:42
No, but like you hear people go, OK, Josh and Tom have been on a
2:17:46
fuel tech. Their shits been working.
2:17:48
Not fuel tech. They're on a link.
2:17:49
Link, dude. The standalones and the tuners,
2:17:52
everything like I never would. Have he's a standalone 3.
2:17:56
It's a piggyback, isn't? That no, it's a stand alone.
2:17:58
Is it? It's a.
2:17:58
Full. It's just was made in 2004.
2:18:00
Yeah, it's like it's a little. Thing, but I'm telling you the
2:18:03
tuner is everything like that thing's got trash control on all
2:18:07
four corners. You know, the wheel speed of the
2:18:09
front to the back, So you know, hey, it's spinning.
2:18:12
Like that's crazy, that GTI. He's got sensors and stuff like.
2:18:16
Yeah, dude, that thing is it's, it's, they're both like that.
2:18:19
So you have a wheel sensor on the back wheel, on the front
2:18:21
wheel, and when it leaves, you're like, oh, the front's
2:18:23
going faster, it's spinning and you know, you're like, oh, well,
2:18:26
we need to either drop tire pressure or like go about to 60
2:18:29
foot better. Yeah.
2:18:30
That's how crazy drag racing is. It's not like this.
2:18:32
The science behind it just makes me like nerd out and you're like
2:18:35
just to be a part of. It's cool because he's like, I
2:18:37
guess you'd call him my company car when we go to the track,
2:18:39
like, yeah, that's cool. It's cool.
2:18:41
Yeah. Now it's got like it used to
2:18:43
have A and when it. Blows up.
2:18:44
It doesn't really matter, it's not your car.
2:18:46
I got to go drag racing and I get to be the whole experience.
2:18:48
Sorry, Adam. It's very cool.
2:18:50
But yeah, like now it's got like a hood exit exhaust because we
2:18:54
wanted to like take 30 lbs out of the car and then you turbo
2:18:56
manifold dude, it's. Not and you shoot us with
2:18:59
another. One yeah, Matt Rad asks.
2:19:02
How many more track days with the rabbit till you go full race
2:19:05
car? I told myself if I get through
2:19:09
this year without blowing up this another ABA bottom end,
2:19:12
it's coming apart to get a full cage.
2:19:14
Now it blew. Up yeah, but no, I'm saying if
2:19:16
this I'm picking up a bottom end tomorrow, I'm saying if this
2:19:20
bottom end does not in fact last like a few events and I can get
2:19:24
the ABA, the 8 valve to like work, I'm not trying to go there
2:19:27
and be like I putted around. I'm trying to like literally be
2:19:31
like if you're going there. You're.
2:19:33
Right there. I'm here.
2:19:34
It's a fun time. No, like I'm pushing it like 10
2:19:37
tents. I'm singing it to 7500, like all
2:19:40
of it. If it can't handle that, I can't
2:19:42
make it handle that. Maybe a different motor platform
2:19:44
I'll figure out like just maybe AK series or something else.
2:19:47
But like I I that car will is destined to be a track car for
2:19:51
sure. It's going to get fully caged.
2:19:53
It's going to get all that, but it has like the period correct
2:19:54
for Carl's which for sale soon if anybody wants them, are
2:19:58
expensive. Help me fund the cage.
2:20:01
I know somebody, that guy Elijah, folks with BMWs and
2:20:05
those recaro's. Yeah, but the backseat, the
2:20:07
front seat was reupholstered to match the backseat, so it fits a
2:20:09
mark one perfectly. OK.
2:20:12
Hey, Elijah. Still man.
2:20:13
Bang my line if you want. You're taking the backseat.
2:20:17
All right, Eddie Kylo, what was your worst fabrication related
2:20:22
mistake and how did you fix it? Dude, I, fuck it.
2:20:30
I got a good one when I was in high school.
2:20:32
So I worked for this shop for this dude named Bruce.
2:20:35
This fit fabrications. I fucking hate this dude now.
2:20:38
But Long story short, no, there's a long story with this.
2:20:41
So we used to work in the city and we worked on real, real,
2:20:45
real bougie shit. Like we worked in the Hershey
2:20:47
house. The people like the era of
2:20:49
Hershey. It was physically their house.
2:20:50
They had a Picasso in the house, all that shit.
2:20:54
When you went into the job site, you had to take your boots off,
2:20:56
you had to get through a metal detector.
2:20:58
You had to come through a metal detector.
2:20:59
When you leave, it was like they went through your bags.
2:21:01
Like why do you need this hammer?
2:21:02
Why do you need that? Dude?
2:21:03
It was wild. Long story short, me and my
2:21:05
brother were doing on a job and when you went up it was an
2:21:09
entire apartment building they bought that was converted to be
2:21:12
their home. But when you went up the floors,
2:21:15
the flat parts between the stairs was glass and it was
2:21:19
thick layered glass that was like 3 inches thick and it was
2:21:22
tempered and it was like eighth inch layers, but it was like
2:21:25
laser engraved polka dots offset each other.
2:21:28
Can we? Find the Internet.
2:21:30
Maybe, I don't even know, it was probably but so dude, it's
2:21:34
happened. We were working there.
2:21:35
We're hanging brass or bronze trim, some crazy expensive
2:21:39
piece. My brother was like the foreman.
2:21:41
I was like a dumb dipshit 18 year old on a ladder with a pair
2:21:44
of dikes cutting shims. The dikes.
2:21:47
I cut the dykes, put them on my ladder.
2:21:49
They fell off the ladder, hit the glass, shattered the glass.
2:21:54
Listen to this on God this happened.
2:21:56
My brother would love to tell the story because he almost lost
2:21:59
his job for it. They had to shut down.
2:22:01
Is it Madison Ave. the crazy part of the city where all the
2:22:04
stores are? They had to shut that down.
2:22:06
Shut the street down, pull the siding off the house, pull the
2:22:10
floor up. Which was like some crazy bamboo
2:22:12
from Japan. Repay that dude.
2:22:13
It it literally I'm pretty sure the guy declared bankruptcy from
2:22:17
the shop and worked at and then he like reopened up because at
2:22:20
that point my I left because he was two weeks behind on pay and
2:22:25
my brother left him. He was like 6 months in, I'm
2:22:27
behind on pay like he's not getting paychecks.
2:22:29
And then I I left a minute the writing.
2:22:30
Was on the wall from all this. Shit.
2:22:32
Oh, it stems from it for sure. I dude, it was the worst thing
2:22:34
I've ever done. I swear to God that's a true
2:22:36
story. And it was like I remember it
2:22:38
happened. It fell and my ladder like
2:22:41
tipped into the broken glass. And I like, looked at my brother
2:22:43
and he was like, what the fuck? I was like.
2:22:46
And it was literally he was like, just leave.
2:22:47
And I just like being like, I was like, that's not a big deal.
2:22:51
And then like I left because I was a dumb kid and I was just
2:22:53
walking the streets of the city. I stopped like a bodega, grab
2:22:56
some Pringles. And my brother was like dealing
2:22:58
with the boss, getting yelled at, getting chewed out, all this
2:23:00
shit. Brother kind of like.
2:23:01
Oh yeah, my brother saved my ass.
2:23:03
So my brother used to do the fabrication shit with me.
2:23:05
We used to do like contracted work and then he he works, he's
2:23:09
a phenomenal job now does really well, but like we used to do it
2:23:12
a little bit together. Nothing car related, but yeah
2:23:16
dude, my brother is a fucking demand.
2:23:18
Yeah, he 100% saved my ass. Yeah.
2:23:20
That is the terrifying. The craziest dude and you just
2:23:24
the tip just fell into the glass and I remember that kind of
2:23:27
stood up and I was like, and it was like one of those things
2:23:30
like we looked at each other and we looked down.
2:23:32
I was like, and it was like, oh it's going to take us 30
2:23:36
seconds, let's just bang it out. Fuck it, put fuck.
2:23:38
Put movement blankets down to protect the glass.
2:23:40
Dude, they had to RIP the floor, pull the siding off the house,
2:23:43
shut down the street, hire a crane, do all that shit, get the
2:23:47
new piece of glass they had. To pull it out the side of the
2:23:50
house. They had to physically pull the
2:23:51
window out of the house, pull the siding off the house.
2:23:53
Dude, the the sheet of glass was bigger than this table.
2:23:55
It was probably two of these tables wide and like, maybe too
2:23:58
long. Yeah, I'm not.
2:24:00
I stood. It was like this thick and it
2:24:02
was tempered glass. So when you look through it,
2:24:03
like approaching it, you would see the dots.
2:24:07
You would see through it. But when you came to it, it was
2:24:09
not transparent. It was the craziest fucking
2:24:11
house I've ever been in. And it was in Manhattan.
2:24:14
And I broke the floor, he broke the floor.
2:24:16
Yeah, that's a crazy. I love that story.
2:24:18
We're going to top that. Story.
2:24:19
No, you ain't topping that, bro. Yeah, I'm borderline bankrupt
2:24:22
somebody. Yeah, yeah, it was over.
2:24:25
It was. It was over 100 G's.
2:24:27
To fix it. Yeah, it was like.
2:24:29
I'm almost bad a crane shut down the street because the crane was
2:24:33
probably. Over 50 OH.
2:24:37
My God. All right, Eddie, I know you're
2:24:38
in shock. I.
2:24:39
Bet he loves that story. Yeah, yeah, I fuck some shit up.
2:24:41
Roddy's right along. When was the moment you realize
2:24:44
that fabrication was your thing? Too many Legos as a kid.
2:24:49
That's interesting dude, that, that I had, I was that nerd.
2:24:52
You know how people have train sets?
2:24:53
I had those white fold out party tables.
2:24:55
And once I found out you could buy the, the city roads, I dude,
2:24:59
I had to, I had the city set up all this and that.
2:25:02
And then probably the biggest thing is my dad's a hot rod guy
2:25:05
and that orange Plymouth he built in our garage when I was a
2:25:07
kid. So I instantly knew, like you
2:25:10
don't need to leave the motor. That's in it, and in it you
2:25:12
could do whatever fuck you want because my daddy's truck is a 41
2:25:15
Plymouth on an 89 Dakota chassis.
2:25:18
And then progressively as we got older and got through high
2:25:20
school, like he put a V8 in it and I was like, how the fuck did
2:25:23
you do that? He goes, it's a fucking
2:25:25
carburetor. He goes, you hooked that wire up
2:25:27
and it runs. And I was like amazed.
2:25:29
And I was like, no, and it would work.
2:25:31
And then like he did that and then the trans blew up.
2:25:34
And then he's like, yeah, so like that bell housing is the
2:25:36
same as like an XJ Jeep and everyone builds those.
2:25:38
So I just went on marketplace or Craigslist and I found that.
2:25:41
So that's what's in the truck. And then we put a rear gear in
2:25:43
it. And he was like, yeah, they're
2:25:44
all the 9 inches and 9 inch. And you're like so instantly I
2:25:48
was bit by like, you don't need anything stock or dumb, just
2:25:51
make it. Yeah, your dad was a gear head.
2:25:54
So oh 100% like my first car in high school is a 72 bug.
2:25:57
We bought it with the front caved in and me and my dad put
2:25:59
it back together. Drove to high school every day.
2:26:01
Well, yeah, it was cool. I could say this is probably the
2:26:06
last good question. All right, Beastie boy.
2:26:08
E46, our boy from Missouri. Favorite Volkswagen.
2:26:14
Carmen Ghee 100% it's I don't know, I really do.
2:26:18
Yo, I can really. I'm a peasant.
2:26:20
I won a 9/11. I'm probably never realistically
2:26:23
getting a 911 and one because I look at them and there's a lot
2:26:28
of times or like if you have a customer or a boy or someone,
2:26:32
he's a yo, I'm gonna get into these chassis.
2:26:34
Is there any point you look at like S13 and you're like, yeah,
2:26:36
these things are 40 grand and you're like it's not 40 grand
2:26:38
worth of driving experience. Yeah, you know what I'm trying
2:26:40
to say? Every day, every day.
2:26:42
So like we do that like one of my buddies, one of the mark one
2:26:44
and they're in like the teens now for a good one.
2:26:46
And I'm like, yo, dude, what? No.
2:26:48
Mark 1 is in the. Teen like a really good one
2:26:50
you'd be very proud of. Yeah, they're expensive now, but
2:26:53
like so like and he's like, yo, I want one.
2:26:55
That's what I'm looking. I'm like, any worth that or like
2:26:57
an E30 shell is like 6 grand. You're like, no, because I'm
2:27:00
used to shipping sheep and then a Carmen Gear 100%.
2:27:05
I want a 9/11. I can't afford a 9/11.
2:27:07
It looks like a 911 because it has the cool fenders and it's
2:27:10
fucked up because no, no, it does because if you're in it,
2:27:12
you have the silhouette of the fenders.
2:27:14
If. You're in it.
2:27:15
It's air cooled motors in the rear silhouette of the front
2:27:18
fenders, front fronk. It's all it's all 9/11.
2:27:21
Well. You told me.
2:27:21
It was 9. 11. It was the guy who designed
2:27:24
designed the 9/11 and 356 directly designed the beetle.
2:27:28
Yeah, but one doesn't really look a. 100% pull up a 356 and
2:27:31
pull up a beetle. 3566 the first, not the first.
2:27:35
One. Yeah, this is what made the
2:27:37
9/11. That's all that.
2:27:39
That's a fucking beetle. That one right here.
2:27:41
Yeah, that is a beetle. Look at the wheels, look at the
2:27:44
wheelbase. That's a Beetle.
2:27:45
Thing. It's.
2:27:46
Fucked up because it's most people's dream car.
2:27:48
I would own a beetle over. That now, now hold on after the
2:27:51
word, after the numbers 356, we take that speedster well.
2:27:54
That's what that is. Now the yeah that the black one,
2:27:57
but I want more of them. I want more of them.
2:27:59
I love the speedster, not the new shit.
2:28:01
Delete 911. Delete 911.
2:28:03
Yeah. Not like that.
2:28:06
That bitch is right there. Fire that silver one right
2:28:10
there, the silver 1 so that. One right there.
2:28:13
Go back up one no, whatever 1 you were on 1st that went all
2:28:17
the way to the left, the bottom 2, that's a an Emery car.
2:28:20
You would have no idea what that fucker is worth.
2:28:23
That guy builds Porsches out of out of California and he's got
2:28:26
like a six year waiting list and he builds a car and you're like,
2:28:29
I want a 356. He's like, OK, you don't pick
2:28:31
color, you don't pick anything. You just get a car.
2:28:33
That's what I. Want, but that's how.
2:28:36
Much you pay for that. That's a lot.
2:28:37
The thing, yeah, that the thing with that is they're flat fours.
2:28:41
He takes a weird block and there instead of being a six cylinder,
2:28:45
he takes a six cylinder block and then bores it out in his
2:28:47
machines and makes it a huge 4 liter A4 cylinder.
2:28:51
It's very weird. It's throaty.
2:28:53
It's got huge carburetors or fuel injection on it.
2:28:55
He makes AV6A4 cylinder and it's got a gangster motor in it.
2:28:59
That's what he does. And it's just looking at like
2:29:01
that rear cow that's probably all metal.
2:29:05
I don't think I don't think I like 9 elevens until the 80s.
2:29:08
72911 single green 9/11 RSR right there.
2:29:12
RSR. You're an RSR guy.
2:29:14
Hell yeah. RSR America.
2:29:15
I need a 9/6. Four, that's all that's it no,
2:29:20
that's a stock car that's a stock car 9/11 Rs.
2:29:23
That's what they look like they came without a radio, they came
2:29:25
without crank up windows, they came with the whale tail.
2:29:28
That's borderline a factory look.
2:29:29
It was the fact if you in 72, if you wanted to go racing, you
2:29:33
would buy a 9/11 RSR and it would be like OK, like it goes
2:29:37
to the race shop to become a race car.
2:29:38
Like the kit car the the GT cars are now like poor cells with the
2:29:43
Cajun. That's basically where RSR was
2:29:44
to my knowledge. And they came, you know, like
2:29:46
the cool fuchsias with the big dishes on them and shit.
2:29:49
My dad had those nines. There's 9 wides and there's 8
2:29:53
wides. He had a set of nine wides and
2:29:55
that was the car I learned how to drive a stick on.
2:29:57
Damn fucking wheel expensive bro.
2:29:59
You it would blow your mind. You bring up bring a trailer,
2:30:01
you type in fuchsias and you're like.
2:30:04
Yeah, dude, blow your mind. He would drive very, very far to
2:30:07
go get these pairs. Dude.
2:30:09
He he had a lot of them in the shed at one point.
2:30:11
Because back then people didn't know what it was worth.
2:30:13
Yeah, no, they even back then it was.
2:30:15
Still a couple. The Porsche bubble wasn't
2:30:17
happening. Not not yet.
2:30:18
Dude, everything's like, I'll try to tell you, I like Mark
2:30:19
once. They're pieces of shit.
2:30:21
They're tinny. They're garbage.
2:30:23
But there's only a crap. There's a.
2:30:24
Finite of them. Like my buddy worked for DPW for
2:30:27
a minute, found a mark 1 GTI in someone's backyard, paid under a
2:30:32
grand. OK, paid X OK, no need.
2:30:36
No need. No.
2:30:37
Buffed. It went to Patterson, had one
2:30:39
seat reupholstered, charged the AC, changed some belts, put some
2:30:43
tires on it. It went to bring a trailer.
2:30:45
It sold for almost $14,000. All right, the fucking designer.
2:30:49
Bro, the designer for SpaceX bought it.
2:30:52
Really. Swear to God.
2:30:53
He was telling me here, he's like engine, he's fucking.
2:30:55
He's up there in a company. Yeah.
2:30:56
Did he talk to the guy? He's like, yeah, I want to come
2:30:58
out there. My dad, he lives in Ohio.
2:30:59
I want to come in to look at it. And he, he look up the guy's
2:31:02
name. It's what it is.
2:31:02
But like, no, Mark 1 is worth that money.
2:31:05
I'm sorry, Volkswagen. People bite me.
2:31:08
I saw 240 it's crazy for 30 grand once on bring it to.
2:31:11
What are we doing? What?
2:31:13
Are we doing? What are we?
2:31:14
Doing too much. It's on a commuter car Get.
2:31:16
Done. He's like 2. 40 shit.
2:31:18
Dude, it is, but like yo, the valve cover on my car is cool.
2:31:22
It's expensive. I don't want to say what I meant
2:31:23
to it because my girl ain't going to find out what I paid
2:31:25
for it, but like yo, it's it would fucking hurt your chest.
2:31:28
But like you look at it and you're like, that's cool looking
2:31:30
to me. It's fucking gangster, but to
2:31:32
you, you. But you paid for it.
2:31:33
Oh. I paid for it, Yeah.
2:31:34
I actually traded a bunch of welding work for it, OK.
2:31:37
And it was, but so you will. Pay for something.
2:31:39
I will pay for some stuff for sure, but like I try to like,
2:31:42
you know. But not the cars.
2:31:45
Yeah, I do. I don't know.
2:31:46
I like, I don't know, maybe it's when my parents instilled in me.
2:31:50
I'd rather spend the money on the tooling and let the cars
2:31:52
come. And the other thing too is I'm
2:31:53
so anal with stuff. Most car you've seen cars that
2:31:57
are built. You want to Oh, it's like, oh,
2:31:58
it's a 2J swapped car. You know if if like MA
2:32:02
Motorsports or someone reputable didn't build it, you're going to
2:32:05
chase your tail with that fucking car endlessly and you're
2:32:08
going to end up putting 4 times into it than you did.
2:32:10
You're better off just buying a shell and doing the work
2:32:12
yourself and figuring it out because then you know what the
2:32:14
fuses the hell is going on. Yeah, it's true.
2:32:16
But you don't like if you if we're to do it, you know, like,
2:32:18
oh, this fuses that that wire is green because it goes there and
2:32:21
then that. Yeah, they should.
2:32:22
They should build. They should get the stockest car
2:32:25
they can and then give it to someone and have them build.
2:32:27
It I agree that's how it should be yeah, yeah, if you're not
2:32:29
comparable to do it, yeah, it's. But because then you buy someone
2:32:31
else's project, it's like dude. It's I've seen some shit through
2:32:34
the years. I'm just like.
2:32:36
How did you lower the beetle? Did did you?
2:32:39
Is that like shocks and torsion? Because 911 is torsion ball.
2:32:44
It's torsion front and back. It'd almost be better to
2:32:47
honestly pull up a picture and I can explain it 'cause they just
2:32:50
like, say it out loud. It's so odd to compare it to.
2:32:53
Like, it's not McPherson, it's not a coil over or a shock.
2:32:56
Because the way that my dad lowered his shit was.
2:32:59
Really far just Googling like. Torsion bar 66.
2:33:03
Beetles front beam, it'll come up OK so.
2:33:08
Pull up. It's fucked up, no?
2:33:10
No, no, I definitely understand. OK, so go to this photo or like
2:33:14
this one with the little dressers.
2:33:16
So if you look at this, there's torsion bars in the horizontal
2:33:18
tubes. The horizontal tubes hold the
2:33:22
torsion bars. The torsion bars fit into those
2:33:24
little adjustables with that set screw that holds the torsion
2:33:29
bar. The set screw that goes vertical
2:33:32
is biting on the torsion bar and setting the height because
2:33:34
you're gaining an eighth in the center and the wheels are so far
2:33:37
out off the leverage point of the arms.
2:33:39
When you take like an eighth inch there, because of leverage,
2:33:43
the wheel goes up like 1/2 inch. So that's your height adjustment
2:33:47
like a coil over like your threaded body is that.
2:33:50
And then the other thing you do is you buy a drop spindle.
2:33:53
The spindle is just like a PBM drop knuckle for like not
2:33:55
correct geometry. It's not doing correcting
2:33:58
geometry because it's all the same, but it just brings a
2:34:00
spindle point up 2 1/2 inches to give you the drop, yeah.
2:34:04
It's if you hit bug narrowed beam right there that with the
2:34:07
little circles that'll show you like the end of like.
2:34:09
A torch, yeah, see. See how see that's that your.
2:34:12
Arm goes. Into the and the arm has a
2:34:14
square hole it goes over that there's a dowel pin that goes
2:34:17
through those rods and then that gets unjusted and those teeth
2:34:21
are the height adjustment because you do 1 little click
2:34:24
where the arms are and how far out it is.
2:34:26
It's, it's a lot of adjustment because it's just you're going
2:34:29
like 2 feet out versus where it is I.
2:34:31
Have it's bunch of those torsion bars at my house right now.
2:34:35
Just the bars. My dad like gave me all his
2:34:39
bins, his car shit 'cause he's like kind of just done.
2:34:41
And like I picked one bin up, totally normal, went to go pick
2:34:45
up the other bin. It's like a billion pounds.
2:34:46
And I was like. Yeah, it's like, it's like AR
2:34:49
Harden steel. Fucking open it.
2:34:50
Just fucking random. Porsche Torsion.
2:34:52
Bars and in the back is like it's a it's like a I don't even
2:34:56
know. It looks like a nine inch rear
2:34:58
axle. It's tooth on one and tooth on
2:34:59
the other, but it's spring steel.
2:35:01
So like this side is your wheel and then when the wheel like
2:35:04
travels, it's twisting the rod because this side is locked into
2:35:08
the chassis. You're just playing off the
2:35:10
twist of the rod because it's it's.
2:35:14
It's a torsion. Bar, it's 100% torsion bar.
2:35:17
It's just the rear end is a torsion bar, but it's a little
2:35:19
different and that's why they get so cambered out in the back
2:35:22
because there's no control arm. It's literally the one that goes
2:35:25
to the wheel and then there's just an axle.
2:35:27
That's the pivot point. So when you lower it, the axles
2:35:30
like fold in. That's what gives you the crazy
2:35:32
camber. And there's no way to correct
2:35:33
it. There's no control arm.
2:35:34
It's just a torsion bar. It's just two on each side and
2:35:36
then just go like this. It's so simple.
2:35:39
If you look underneath it, you'd be like, oh, it's so stupid.
2:35:43
It's something. The front is.
2:35:44
That's fucking nuts. Yeah, but like you actually work
2:35:46
on it and it's like the easiest thing ever.
2:35:48
Yeah, but it's actually kind of scary cause the way that the the
2:35:50
control arms dude, it's literally just it's not even the
2:35:53
set screw doesn't go through the torture bar.
2:35:55
It's like a point and then it's like countersunk and that just
2:36:00
touches that and then there's a set screw that locks and that's
2:36:02
what keeps the control arms on the car.
2:36:04
Like if those loosen up the the wheel, just go, let's go.
2:36:07
Yeah, dude, it's it's like a common thing.
2:36:09
It's. You gotta keep looking at.
2:36:10
Oh yeah, red locks tight and just drown, drown it.
2:36:13
It's crazy that. Shit was crazy.
2:36:14
It's so different compared to what y'all fuck with, but it's
2:36:17
cool. Definitely.
2:36:19
And like a different era. So like, I I appreciate that.
2:36:23
I thought you were going to say another thing again.
2:36:24
Like, how the fuck did you know that, Carl?
2:36:26
Yeah, I fucking know about this shit, my boy.
2:36:29
But is there anything else that you wanted to end off with?
2:36:33
We're reaching like the 940 mark.
2:36:36
I don't know if we all I. Don't know whatever, I'm good.
2:36:39
Your Instagram. What's your Instagram?
2:36:41
It's ES fabrications on everything.
2:36:43
Hit them up for your fabrication needs and that jersey area Cool
2:36:48
shit only. And you're close by.
2:36:49
I'm just. Kidding.
2:36:50
Yeah, I'm in Woodland Park right near Wayne.
2:36:53
Used to be W Patterson. If they change the name of the
2:36:54
town, if you need anything down, if you need anything, let me
2:36:57
know. I'm down to pretty much work on
2:37:00
anything. That's cool.
2:37:02
Dude, thank you so much for coming.
2:37:03
On I love it. This was rad.
2:37:05
This was cool. I fucking need to not, you know
2:37:10
what's going to happen? I'm going to open up my Facebook
2:37:12
marketplace. It's going to be.
2:37:13
Right there. Yeah, it's going to be very
2:37:14
cool. Facebook Marketplace and those
2:37:15
of you. Actually, if you go on Facebook
2:37:17
Marketplace right now, this exact vehicle is on Facebook
2:37:20
Marketplace. No, no, wait.
2:37:22
Which one? Yours.
2:37:22
Yeah, it's for sale, Yeah. Why?
2:37:25
Why? No, Long story short, no, I have
2:37:28
a good reason. So my dad's in the drag racing
2:37:31
and he's in the hot rods. I want to do a build with my
2:37:35
dad. He's I always wanted a 62 Ford
2:37:38
Falcon. I always want to do something
2:37:40
with an LSI. Think it'd be cool to just build
2:37:42
something. That's my 8th 1 and like not to
2:37:46
be that guy I went to shows with this year.
2:37:48
I always wanted one dumped on. Its nuts.
2:37:50
That looks cool. I went to like 4 shows this
2:37:52
year, I won a couple of awards and now that I did it, I'm like
2:37:55
yo, 18 year old me is so fucking stoked. 27 year old me is like,
2:38:00
can we do something fucking different please?
2:38:02
Because like yeah, it's you know, like I want to build
2:38:05
something they like me and my dad would be really into and
2:38:07
like maybe he's go do bracket racing or whatever.
2:38:09
Fucking spend some time my dad. I'm moving out soon and like.
2:38:12
Family support you. That's sick.
2:38:14
Yeah. Yeah.
2:38:14
So buy that if you want it. Yeah, bang my line.
2:38:17
There you go. Yeah, it is.
2:38:18
Volkswagen. You never know where that's
2:38:20
going to end up. There's tons of listeners.
2:38:21
Everywhere. I'm not going to sell it to any
2:38:22
random dude. You got to be a good person.
2:38:24
That's important. Yeah, yeah.
2:38:26
All right. Well, I'll end on that I guess.
2:38:27
Yeah, buy it. Well, thank you again for for
2:38:29
for thank you again for spending our time, spending your time
2:38:32
with us and and having a conversation.
2:38:34
If you've enjoyed this episode, make sure to like the Spotify
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2:38:40
favorite part about this was. We're hungry.
2:38:43
Good night all. Right, everybody, that was
2:38:58
another episode of the After Hours podcast.
2:39:00
What Malcolm? That's it.
2:39:02
That was it. That's how we're going into
2:39:04
this. Oh, that's a lift in the
2:39:07
background and a car starting and a train and a train as a
2:39:11
trifecta is going on right now. So you guys, yeah, if you hear
2:39:13
anything in the background, that's what's going on right
2:39:16
now. Yeah.
2:39:16
Thank you, Zach, for coming out doing this podcast.
2:39:19
I know you're local but still, thanks for making the trip out
2:39:23
here and kind of ruining a whole night of yours to talk to us
2:39:27
about Nazis and whatever else we talked about within the 1st 10
2:39:31
minutes. Yeah, talking about Nazis.
2:39:33
I was just trying to set, just to clarify, since Carl doesn't
2:39:36
really let me speak. I was.
2:39:38
What I was trying to say was Eric Ryan would be a good extra
2:39:42
in a World War 2 movie. You know what I mean, 'cause he
2:39:44
looks like he has that look. That's all I was trying to say.
2:39:49
He's obviously not a Nazi. Moving on.
2:39:54
What's going on lately? What we got going on?
2:39:58
We just put up a post for our origin.
2:40:01
List what's in inventory. Not much, but it's a few things
2:40:05
you could pick-n-pull fenders. That's what we're talking.
2:40:08
About tonight Fenders. All right, we got fenders up the
2:40:11
gazoo. All right, It's wazoo I want.
2:40:14
Yeah. I was hoping you would correct
2:40:15
me. I was like, I don't know what
2:40:16
I'm about to say, but I'm hoping Malcolm's just going to know
2:40:21
Wazoo. Wazoo up the wazoo.
2:40:23
Yeah. Yeah, up the wazoo.
2:40:25
Such a weird saying. Anyway, we got a lot of fenders,
2:40:28
we got a lot of roof wings, we got a lot of trunk wings.
2:40:30
We have somebody kits. If you have a 180SX, we'll
2:40:33
probably have a body kit. For you, there's a couple,
2:40:35
there's the Fusion and then the racing line kit.
2:40:40
If you have a J ZX100, we'll probably have something for you.
2:40:43
Yeah, there's some fenders. JZX 100 Mark two.
2:40:49
Yeah, there's some fenders in there.
2:40:51
Yeah, yeah. So we definitely have some stuff
2:40:52
for that. I know just Snowback was trying
2:40:57
to buy something. Yeah, those fenders, the rear
2:41:00
fenders. So you better, you better hope
2:41:01
if you have a JCX that he doesn't come and scoop the stuff
2:41:04
up. But yeah, so we got some origin
2:41:07
stuff. I'll give you guys a little, a
2:41:09
little, a little secret. Apparently there's more origin
2:41:14
parts coming in before the end of the year.
2:41:17
Oh, Malcolm's about to sneeze. I'm holding it in.
2:41:19
He did it. He did it, yeah.
2:41:24
So there's more origin parts coming before the end of the
2:41:26
year. So that's going to be awesome.
2:41:27
That's that's kind of different. Usually we're waiting every six
2:41:30
months, but now we we got this shit on lock.
2:41:33
It looks like. Yeah, getting it pretty fast.
2:41:37
Yeah. So that's that's that.
2:41:40
As far as other stuff we got going on the shop, honestly, the
2:41:42
shop's kind of dead right now. So if you have anything, if you
2:41:44
guys are local to New Jersey, you need alignments, you need
2:41:47
wheels and tires mounted, you need suspension work, coilovers
2:41:51
installed, anything like that, now is the time.
2:41:53
Please hit us up, bring your cars to us.
2:41:56
It would really help us out because now is the beginning of
2:42:00
the offseason. I know it's technically not the
2:42:03
offseason yet, but. It's winding down to that.
2:42:06
So now is when the shop gets really slow.
2:42:09
So that would help us out. I I would say order parts on our
2:42:11
website, but you guys are killing it right now.
2:42:13
We this month might be one of the best months as far as sales
2:42:18
go on the website that I've seen.
2:42:19
So thank you guys for ordering parts.
2:42:22
Yeah, I added a couple more parts on there.
2:42:24
There's some SPL Miata suspension parts.
2:42:29
I don't know if you guys know those K Fab S13 steering racks.
2:42:35
K Fab actually started making right hand drive S chassis or
2:42:40
S13 steering racks. So we have one of those
2:42:43
available. They're readily available.
2:42:44
So if you need them, hit us up. And also got a couple of naughty
2:42:49
wheels in stock just just because.
2:42:51
Some 340 mils and 3:30 mils, some black black ones.
2:42:56
Yeah. So that's that's pretty cool.
2:42:57
We are trying. We are in the middle of setting
2:43:01
up the showroom. So we are kind of buying things
2:43:03
now in excessive amounts like we got exhaust gaskets the other
2:43:07
day. We usually order two of them.
2:43:09
We ordered 25 of them. So we're trying to make sure
2:43:11
we're going to have a lot of stuff here for you guys to come
2:43:13
by this, the shop and showroom and check everything out.
2:43:17
We're still, we're still crossing our fingers that this
2:43:19
will be done sometime in October.
2:43:21
But you know, we'll just have to see.
2:43:25
There will be a big announcement wherever it is.
2:43:28
Let us know what you guys think about this.
2:43:29
We're thinking about doing an open house grand opening in
2:43:31
November. Kind of weird, but that is when
2:43:35
most likely everything is. Yeah, we'll have some hot
2:43:38
chocolate. Hot chocolate, coffee.
2:43:40
What are what are they like pumpkin spice?
2:43:43
Oh, pumpkin spice Donuts. I can get Donuts like from the
2:43:46
farm or whatever where Lexi works and get nice Donuts.
2:43:50
Nice, so that. 'D be nice.
2:43:52
Yeah. So we we could we could do
2:43:54
something like that. If you guys think that's too
2:43:56
cold, cold and we should do it next year.
2:43:59
Let me know what you think. Shoot us Adm, if you'd listen to
2:44:01
this. That pretty much covers that.
2:44:06
Not too much else going on in the shop right now.
2:44:07
I mean, I'm sure there's other parts and stuff.
2:44:09
Malcolm's been adding a lot of parts to the website.
2:44:11
And like I said, we've been ordering.
2:44:13
I I just placed the order for like work spell quick releases
2:44:18
every type they have. The the flip up.
2:44:20
Ones too flip up like I, I just want to get all of them.
2:44:23
We got multiple colours. Those are coming in.
2:44:26
We have more KTS coming in soon. KTS parts are coming in but
2:44:31
like. It's going to take a while.
2:44:33
No, it's not even that. They discontinued a lot of
2:44:35
stuff. I wonder why.
2:44:37
Yeah, I don't know why. Maybe they're making different
2:44:41
models or versions. Versions I mean.
2:44:43
I did order RX8 suspension arms because those are very rare in
2:44:48
the States. Like, I know Megan makes some
2:44:50
stuff, but like, no one wants Megan.
2:44:53
Yeah, so nobody likes that bitch.
2:44:56
So that was retarded. But yeah, don't cut that out.
2:45:01
So we got those coming. And there's another thing.
2:45:07
Vertex body kits. We just officially opened an
2:45:10
account with Vertex finally after five years of me running
2:45:13
these guys around. And then, dude, they thought we
2:45:16
were. They thought I was just a
2:45:17
bullshitter at this point, like they really did.
2:45:19
Because the emails they would send me, like I was like they
2:45:22
just don't order. Anything.
2:45:23
Yeah, sure, buddy. And I was like, what are your
2:45:26
top five selling kits? They're like these.
2:45:27
I was like, I'll take all of them, Let's go.
2:45:30
So we got some body kits coming in from Vertex and then
2:45:32
hopefully we're going to place a stocking order for some your M
2:45:36
sports car modify wonder. We're trying to place that order
2:45:39
before the end of the year, so that one will take some time,
2:45:42
but the Vertex stuff I think will be here in four months
2:45:45
about something like that. But yeah, guys, we're going to
2:45:48
be stocking a lot of Arrow, so make sure you check that out.
2:45:52
As far as merch goes, me and Malcolm just got one of the
2:45:55
designs back that we sent out and shit looks pretty sick.
2:46:00
I like it. I like it so far.
2:46:02
So it's go, it's going to the final stages now and then I'm
2:46:06
I'm hoping we can get those shirts or hoodies or whatever we
2:46:10
do. I'm hoping we can get that made
2:46:12
before mid-october, but we'll see.
2:46:15
It's kind of late into September already.
2:46:16
But yeah, I'm trying to get that shirt out in October because
2:46:19
that would be cool. That pretty much covers it.
2:46:24
I mean, obviously, obviously we have a Patreon account, guys,
2:46:29
the Patreon has been going crazy.
2:46:31
Yeah. Like I don't know what, I guess
2:46:33
it's just from those podcasts we have.
2:46:35
We have. Yeah, unreleased podcasts.
2:46:38
Yeah, we have final bout. Yeah, final bout unreleased
2:46:40
podcasts are up there. There's still a couple that need
2:46:43
to be released, right? There's at least 4.
2:46:46
Yeah, 3 or 4 I think. Yeah.
2:46:48
You keep saying 3, but I'm pretty sure this because we only
2:46:50
released 20, OK. And there were so four.
2:46:53
Yeah. So there's still 4 podcasts on
2:46:56
there and we are pretty loaded with guests for the next month
2:47:00
or two. So I don't know when those
2:47:02
podcasts are actually going to be released to the general
2:47:05
public. So if you want to get, if you
2:47:06
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Patreon. Our lowest tier is $5 and that
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Or subscribe to us on YouTube. Or YouTube, yeah, YouTube would
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So we're, we would I'd love to get to 10,000 before the end of
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the year, so that would be cool. Yeah.
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anything, make sure you hit up Chris when you're when you're
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going to the drift school. Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's
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some type of, you know, good deal since you're doing 2 and
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one, I guess. Yeah, definitely.
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All right, guys. Thanks for listening and let us
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