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#46 - Jean Paul "JP_S14" - Engine Machinist · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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Welcome back to another episode of faction after hours.
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Podcast on today's episode, we have John Paul better known as
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JP underscore s. 14 on Instagram JP has been The go-to Machinist
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on the East Coast for Sr 20s and RV's pretty much any other JDM
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engine you have for a few years. Now, most of you have probably
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seen his black vvl SR20 S14 before on Instagram, or his
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super informative story posts. But if you haven't, make sure
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you give him a follow. I was glad we were able able to
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We're going to turn the mic sin. He said the silence is so loud.
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What do you think this operates on its own?
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He got a real fresh now. Yeah, he's getting real fresh.
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You went to one final bout? He thinks he's cool.
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Welcome everybody to the faction after-hours podcast.
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We have another guest. I feel like there are always
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guessed. We haven't had a normal one in a
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while, but I'm glad you're here. Thank you.
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We have JP one of the most. I feel like I personally every
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time I see an engine that's an Sr.
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I'm like, JP, probably built that.
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Yeah, for right now. Definite, are you would you say
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that that is? I don't know.
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You said you like to stay humble, so you can say what you
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want, but I feel like you're definitely one of the, more
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reputable engine, builders specifically in the SR20 realm.
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Yeah, yeah. Now, I mean, I definitely take a
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lot of pride in what I do. And I always strive to shoot for
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the best. Yeah, I never cut Corners.
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Everything has to be done better than my own standard better than
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my own personal work. So, so far, everything has
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worked out great and Everybody's been super happy.
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So it definitely boosts my confidence.
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I can say that Ike. Yeah, I can do really good work
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and stuff so over time, it's definitely I've been nice, like
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mostly like my arms are friends have been supporting us so
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that's like the same mentality we had to when we started.
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I feel like you guys both when we visited your, where you do
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your work, which if you haven't check that video out, it's on
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the YouTube channel, the faction YouTube channel.
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But when we went there and you guys were talking, I was I was
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like what the fuck are they even talking about?
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Like I'm I don't even know what the hell is going on but I mean
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like he said like he does things like better than his own
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standard. Yeah.
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Or like up to his standard. Like for example if you were
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going to work on your own car or something like that and you were
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working on your own engine, you'd do the same things that
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you're going to do to a customer and yeah if not better, if not
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better. Yeah, I could take chances with
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my own engine because if something happens it's in my own
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like I can't I'll be mad at myself that I got.
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I whatever I took that chance using that bad part that I knew
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was probably going to be bad. Yeah.
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But with a customer, I'm never going to be like, oh, like lets
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it fly or something because like I know if something bad happens
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that customer is going to be so upset and I don't want to deal
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with that. Yeah, I want to make sure that
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they're as happy as I am. I mean, that's, yeah, that's,
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that's our mentality to. I mean, my mentality is like,
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like, I would rather spend the money.
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Whatever it is spend the time, you know, then have one person
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out there talking shit about something that went wrong, you
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know, I mean, like absolutely, it's like dude, customer service
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and like red. Mutation is way more important
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than making money who reviews. Yeah, yeah, that's way more
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important to me than making money.
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So it's like it's like the same mentality.
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And with engine work. It's like you got to be real
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anal engine work. I feel like because like one
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thing absolutely it right. It could snowball.
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Absolutely. It's not like a like a paint job
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where it's just like you did with some orange peel and it's
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whatever if you miss like the valve lash then you're cooking a
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valve on the track or something that's gonna ruin somebody's day
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like that or like something with a bearing and then Yeah.
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Cleanses weren't right? Absolutely crankshafts fucked.
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Now you got to take everything apart again and to a lot to a
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lot of people what you do is not something that like oh yeah I'm
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going to just learn this shit in my garage and caught me one of
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these. I don't fucking know what you
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use. Yes I'd like one of my CNC
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machine by CNC machine. I'll just do this in my backyard
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like no you can't. So it's like yeah people trust.
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You is what I'm kind of getting. Yeah.
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I mean what it's like, paint paint shops.
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Fabricators. I'm thinking like roll cages and
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machine shops. Those are like the three things
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that most people that build their own cars are like not
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capable of doing. Yeah.
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Like I wouldn't personally, trust the cage that I built
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exact for myself your pocket. You don't think that would work
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out. Absolutely.
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And the wiring to, that's the other thing.
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I just got a new chassis harness for one of my spare cards
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because I just did not want to deal with her harness.
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I was gonna ask you about that. So that company is what chat.
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It's called. Chassis harness.
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Chassis harness. Yes.
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Oh, they're not as chassis. Specific.
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He's more of a E36 guy BMW. So ventured into the chassis
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world. Yeah.
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Because I was watching your story and I was like, okay
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because you know, we used to make those, you know, it's
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probably like four years ago. Now, the heights mahara.
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Yeah, three, I didn't even know you that was when I first saw
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that on the do there such a market for that though, there
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is. Yeah, absolutely, and it's
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growing because these cars are getting old, the harnesses are
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getting brittle and I'll pay anybody that's good with wiring
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to give me the quality product because I'm just like I said
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like my engine I was gonna say that's how people feel about
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your engine work. Absolutely.
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Yeah. So, it's like they're watching
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the stories. I mean, I'll tell you how I
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mean, I knew you for a long time, but I didn't like, I don't
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think we really met met until I brought that engine over there.
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Yeah, I don't think, like I said, I knew of you through
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social media and I've gone English down a couple times and
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stuff, but like, I never actually formally met you up
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until that time. And then I saw you like start
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doing more and more machine work.
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And like, I'd watch the stories and, you know, learn a lot to
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while washing them. I was cool.
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And then I think, I think my engine blew up then and then I
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was like, oh fuck, like I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to
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send this out. Who am I going to send it to?
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I was like, well JP honest. This is my first thought I was
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like it's like, well, JP works on SRS.
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I was like, I don't know how much experience he has because I
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know I saw you like just started doing that stuff and I was like
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iffy but then I was like I was like at the end of the day this
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guy cares about what he's doing. It's like very obvious that you
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care about what you're doing. So I was like, I was like, let
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me take a chance and then we I sent everything to you.
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You gave me Me my engine back. You built engines for our
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customers and everything's been going well, so far.
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And I was like, all right, cool. So I just, I went off of you
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literally based off of like your passion and how much you were
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like explaining the people on Instagram and stuff like that.
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I appreciate that. And I remember you mentioning
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that when you brought it, because I was like, dude, like
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thank you for trusting me with your build, your extremely
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expensive, HKS, entire setup. Yeah, because that's like a mask
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works. You could have gone to anywhere
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else big names because Usually, that's what I did back before.
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I did my own stuff. Yeah, yeah, I trusted the big
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names because I was like, I want the best of the best, there's
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nobody else doing it. But if I knew that there was
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somebody doing this and being as transparent with it, as I am,
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and the work proves itself, like my car runs perfect.
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Everybody else's cars that we've done runs perfect.
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So yeah, you know, why not? Give him a shot.
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Yeah, that's what it was. How long have you been doing
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what you're doing now? So, or like, just, I mean, I
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guess how'd you get into this? Like, I guess like engine
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building. Mmm.
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So it starts way back. Like in high school.
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Take it away by. Yeah, we'll take it way back.
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I feel like I'm a boomer, like, I'm 32.
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Yeah, I'm 1382. I'm 32 as well.
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Yeah, perfect, nice. And the fact, like, I really
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took Frankie is the grown-up table, okay.
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Sorry. It's all right, all right.
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All right. We got our fancy drinks and
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stuff over here. Yes, you got water.
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Wetter, got a new again. We got water will help it slide.
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So you were in high school. Would you have like a machine
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shop or Something like that and in high school we had one but it
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sucked like, no one ever was told wanted to take that.
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Ya know, we had, we had absolutely no machine Chef.
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We had a wood shop. We had a wood lathe that was the
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closest thing to a machine shop that we had and it scared me.
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I didn't want to do it late projects because I was always in
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fear that the wood was going to come and hit me in the face.
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I was gonna say you ever have a kid like lose a finger or
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something with class because I had that happen.
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Well, that's yeah, yeah. I forgot his name.
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But he always Frankie but he, no, do you got fingers?
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Missing and shit. I was like, what do you What was
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it, what was it? The table saw probably probably
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didn't use the like X and, you know, how to give you would.
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They're like, when you don't feel comfortable, just take the
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wood and you push that through, dude.
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Definitely didn't do that anyway, sorry.
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Yeah, so goddamn high school, high school didn't have any car.
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They had an auto mechanics class, that's which I took
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because I took the what class like three times in a row and I
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couldn't really do that. So I need an extra credit.
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I was like, you know what, like I think I want to get into cars.
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Okay, so that was it. Steak.
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All right, let's see how this. Yeah that's that's what I want
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back then. I wanted to be an airline pilot
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that was like, okay that's got sick.
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That was my career path. And why do I feel like I could?
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Yeah. I could see that too.
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Ken. Yeah.
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You cut through the camera of Jake.
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Look at him. Look at me.
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Yeah. This is your pilot speaking like
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yeah. I feel like yeah.
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Now that that Aviation I don't know.
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I feel like I have a thing for a machine.
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So me too. I like planes.
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All right. Oh yeah.
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So only warbirds. All right.
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That's it. I don't fuck with any like you
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know Boeing. So I don't that's funny that you
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like that you say you like machines and planes and stuff
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because I feel like that takes a certain level of like detail to
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like airplane mechanics are crazy, like a tongue touches on
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an airplane, is a lot tighter than it is on a car.
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Absolutely. And that's actually where I
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learned what I could say. I know now was, because, like I
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said, I went to, I went to high school took the auto class which
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was just reading books, we took a lawn mower engine apart, we
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put it back together. Yeah, we did that.
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It didn't fire up. I didn't even know if it was
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going to work. I just took it apart to put it
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back together and that was it. Wait, didn't make you start it
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back and know they made us. They made it.
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Make sure it was just like, put it back together and that was
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great. A like the teacher was just
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like, you know what, just don't care.
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Like, he's probably getting laid off the next year and the cut
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the auto program for that. So, but one moment that, like,
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really struck to me in high school was one of the technical
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schools in Connecticut owned a R34 GTR.
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And an NSX. So it's it's a crazy story.
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How they own those scars mind you.
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This is like to the early 2000s. So like the car was still
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relatively new. Yeah.
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Super new. And I didn't know what a GTR
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was. I knew what an EVO was.
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So I was like, I like evos and stuff and then they were like,
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we were in the auto class and they're like, okay Porter and
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Chester. The technical college is going
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to come by and give us a presentation.
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And usually they bring Dianna sex, which it was just like a
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rice doubt and a sex with a system on the back.
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And I thought the NSX was cool because my uncle had a Sex
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growing up and I was just like, oh that's my uncle's car.
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So they brought the R34 to the classroom and I walked in there
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and I don't know, I this car just like struck to me.
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It was like like when like ash sees that legendary Pokemon and
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like, Destiny changes forever for him.
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I feel like that was, that was my, my epitome owaisi said, it
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was a 34. Yeah, it was an R34 GT-R.
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That was literally probably brand-new when you, it was, it
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was. Yeah.
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And like mine. You Too Fast, Too.
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Furious had just been recently, released.
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So like, that was a hot ticket of the car, so I was like, who
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shoot that stock car from that movie, like, what the hell.
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But like back then, I didn't know I that I couldn't do an oil
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change back then so we graduated high school, long story short,
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the car actually got impounded, okay?
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It was an illegally, Imported Car, that's what I thought
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happened and they probably crushed that thing too.
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So I think you know that car got crushed that car was actually at
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the wall a couple times. Yeah.
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Yet. Because if they, if it was an
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illegally Imported Car. I feel like there's always there
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were pictures of them always getting crushed.
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Yeah. The R34.
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Yeah. I think this happened in 2007
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when they crushed it. Yeah.
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It was full-blown. R34 GT-R.
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The NSX was okay. Technically, we got the NSX
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here. Was it was it brought in by that
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company like company that would bring in all.
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This art motor ex. Yeah, was our director.
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I think the motor X cars are actually legal.
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They are the big bucks ones because those are the ones that
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got legalized you know, anything that's not motor X.
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Well, I heard that. They, they said they were legal.
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I don't know. I don't know.
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There's a legend, but I'm just saying I watched mad videos.
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Well, that was a whole thing. Yeah, they said they were doing
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it but then they didn't do it. Yeah.
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There was some, they that's why they messed up.
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If they were just they just stayed legal doing the right
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things, they would have been fine and it would have been
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sick. But like, it looks like somebody
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messed up, they get greedy. And then the thing was, it was
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like, dude, there were big problems with those not being
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legal. It was like, the way the fucking
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roof was designed or some shit, you know?
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I mean the glass to I heard, There's no way they're fucking
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face, especially what it was. I thought it was an Omission.
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This thing, dude, it's like, it has height.
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It has like structural differences that aren't DOD.
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Approved shit like that. Yeah, it's okay pillars.
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Yeah, some with three colors, some shit.
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Yeah. Windshield like he's saying,
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hey, there's a lot of that all when they were like, yeah, we,
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you know, these are all legal. I'm like, bullshit.
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I remember reading their website when I was younger and I was
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like there ain't no fucking way. Forgive me.
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If this was mentioned already. But why did the that High
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School? I'll have that.
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No, it was the technical technical school.
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Yeah. They have that.
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I have no idea but I remember it was on dealer plates.
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Who's who's in charge of the budget over there?
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I don't know, but they just wanted to talk to us but dude
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like nobody nobody else and you want that was like, it was just
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me and my other buddy who wasn't a Subaru was back then and he's
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like, he was always wanting a Supra.
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So back, then we looked at Super as, you know, a hot Supra back.
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Then was like 20 grand, like, how big turbo?
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Like, nice super up, 20 grand. Yeah, so we were looking at
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those and then he's like, who's this?
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GTR of I got use in Australia. Like I've always wanted to buy
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one, there were like 20 grand for a GTR back then like nice.
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Like this is so weird, but then the import process I feel like
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would take wouldn't. I always thought that the
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problem with importing something that obviously wasn't supposed
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to be imported here in the first place.
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Would be so fucking hard. So I'm like, I hear it's 20
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grand, dude. You just let them live on in
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Florida and you're good. That's true.
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I guess, you know what else? I think it was, I think it was
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because it was a school. It was probably imported under
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like a show on display. Say type deal.
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And I think that probably got expired and then they kept the
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car, because I know, I know, there was dealer plates on it,
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for a long time, because I was like, what the hell's a dealer
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plea? My buddy told me as I go
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because, like, you can't register that car.
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So that's the way they drive it, but it's like the school.
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I'm so sorry. All right, that's kind of weird.
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But that's when I started to learn about.
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Like these, like, loopholes into like that.
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You give me the next day and it was crushed and I need a soda
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can damn unfortunate. I mean, I graduated, and I saw
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it at the mall, like we had like the local mall and it was like
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there a couple of times I have a couple like, really like old
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iPhone 3G picture. Of it like really grainy.
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Yeah, if I walked into a fucking, if I walked into
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Paramus Park and there and there was a GTR and our 30th
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anniversary year to that. I was seven.
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And I was 10 years old or no? 2007.
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I was probably like 12 12, 12, 13 years old.
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Yeah, I'd shit a brick right there because like you, how
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often are you get to getting to see that my especially then when
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I was like kind of new. Yeah, not in like the engine was
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pop, Darby 26 and then I was just like oh man, like I see one
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thing though, that probably got a lot.
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Lot of students to sign up. Yeah, dude, thing is like my
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height. I don't know, the, the area that
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I grew up in was just weird. There was no car kids other than
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that one. My friend that was in the
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Subaru. So like nobody knew what this
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thing was like they they just kind of took it for granted and
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I think about that back then. I'm like dude like all these
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kids were sitting around. This beautiful are 34 and I
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nobody gave a shit like this is the weird.
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I feel like it's almost like a year feel like it was a dream
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and you're hallucinating. I knew that was like different.
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I knew that at that moment I was like, okay, like I think I
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really want to get into this like this is that with this
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route, this is really appealing. This is a really nice car.
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Like I want to own something like this.
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Like well they ever let you drive it or like take you out
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and I'll do that was probably like 15 years old.
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Frankie. Imagine that's a good way to get
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someone hooked. Yeah.
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I would, I would want to if I heard that thing.
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Yeah, there are B-26 sounds a little different than, like,
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some you got the itv's in there? Like that thing when it
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accelerates. I like how they sound.
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Yeah. It's like nice.
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When there's relatively Tively, stock.
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I like it. Hello?
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I love Arby's. I I love the / a lot more than a
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Jay-Z. That's why I was going to say
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which one's better. Jay-Z, or RP, I like the RBI.
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Do you, do you get a lot of Arby's?
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Yeah. Yeah we do.
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We do a lot of time yet. Vias are be.
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So honestly, we do more Arby's now than as SARS at this point.
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We gotta start sending. Moreover, yeah.
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Come on, guys, send us your engine.
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Yo yo, chill just get here. You had like a stack of our bees
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there. When we were there what their
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dad? I was so tired.
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I go there like every week Now, so no.
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But yeah, thank God. You were able to come down here
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and save me one trip. At least now anytime dude, I
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know you've been up there like a handful of times, you know.
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And so dude I something about Connecticut, man.
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I don't at least they got Royal Farms up there.
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The driving though, there's ones right pocket?
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It's not for me. Yeah. 84 is definitely a
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nightmare. Yeah, but if you're if you're in
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Connecticut is not so bad. So like living in Connecticut as
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long as I don't get down here during this time or it's like
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the that highway is just I don't know what it is.
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Do something about it. You should put me to sleep to
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there's this Body shop down or I don't know what kind of shop it
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is, but there's a 996 Carrera, just sitting there and I'm like,
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damn wait. We're on the literally so close
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to jpo. I was like, yo, oh yeah, the
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Porsche just sits there and I'm like, yeah, that thing is going
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to blow up one day because it's been sitting.
18:04
That's what that the secret is. What those you guys work on
18:07
those a lot. Yeah, yeah.
18:08
So we that shop down the road, they've service a lot of poor
18:10
stuff so they bring us everything.
18:13
That's blown up and stuff. So remember that engine, it was
18:16
on a And when we went there, oh, that's right.
18:18
Nick. Oh yeah, you don't like and like
18:21
I don't I don't know why but I don't remember if it was like a
18:24
normal engine stand, but that shit just looked weird on a
18:27
stand because it was like flat flat.
18:30
Yeah. Well that was the air-cooled
18:31
engine to. Yeah.
18:31
So it's like a Porsche. So the transmission Bell.
18:34
Housings like a look, a little circle, the way a bounce to it.
18:37
So that's why it has its Especial engine mount.
18:39
So, we was a special engine. Yes.
18:41
Okay. The engine in those 911s are
18:45
cool ones. That's the only reason I got it
18:46
into them because I was like, damn, I want to air-cooled
18:49
engine one. That's how I learn.
18:50
How to drive stick in one of those?
18:52
Well, in an air-cooled one. Yeah, my dad had one for a
18:55
little while. So I just start looking, I
18:56
started doing research and like, all right, what's the last one
18:58
with the air-cooled engine? Like I see.
19:00
But yeah, they kept the air Cooling and I think up to like
19:02
89 I think not ninety or ninety eight.
19:06
Yeah you said that because that Everyone likes the 99 the 993
19:10
was still air cooled and then they switch to 996 which my
19:14
roommate has one Cars ugly. It is, but it sounds very, it
19:20
still sounds very Porsche. That's the one, your dad has
19:22
right? Yeah.
19:23
Still sounds very Porsche and there's a everything in there.
19:26
Feels like a beetle like I like to do 997.
19:29
I do too because I think it looks better, but they also
19:31
still blow up and shit until you get a 99 7.2, which is because
19:36
the bearing it deletes that at the IMs, they yeah.
19:39
Revise. The to not have one.
19:41
I think, or they made it better. Yeah, that weird bearing.
19:44
But yeah, I like Porsha dude. Yeah.
19:46
I Those engine. I like the the air-cooled ones,
19:49
I just like, because it's, you know, it's there.
19:50
Yeah. Yeah, we work on the air cools,
19:52
mainly like not so much. The water cool stuff.
19:54
It's more intricate. But the air quotes office like
19:56
we have seen C program for run and like we do some pretty cool
19:59
stuff with them actually. Yeah.
20:00
Because they have individual cylinders right.
20:03
Like they're not it's yeah lock. So yeah.
20:05
So you both teach each cylinder is its own jug.
20:08
Basically it's kind of yeah basically like a Harley engine.
20:11
Yeah. So you can basically assemble it
20:12
like a Lego. So like you'd have the cylinder
20:14
with the ribs, the cooling fans and then you put the On the top.
20:17
So, and the head is this heads are individual or there?
20:20
Yeah. Yeah.
20:21
It's a digital head. So each individual had side kind
20:23
of like a little square. Yeah.
20:25
So, and it's just the intake and exhaust port, and then the valve
20:28
guides, and then the holes for the pushrods.
20:30
Now, there are like weird things with Porsha's, right?
20:32
Like the rings that they have on the cylinder heads, right?
20:35
Or something lot. So I didn't know that.
20:38
It's some weird the way the head gasket seals.
20:40
Yeah. It's like it's like a counter
20:43
bore. So like we actually when Sheen
20:44
that we put that on the CNC in the CNC.
20:47
The interpolates the circle and it gets a true flat again
20:49
because they just warps over time.
20:51
But the way it mates to it's just like a like a cap.
20:55
Almost like you're not well cap in the cylinder with the with
20:57
the head, is it actual head gasket?
20:59
Or is it? Like?
21:00
I don't know. We haven't put one together.
21:02
Usually they put them together so just do the big.
21:04
I was doing some research on this shit.
21:05
I was like, I got so deep in YouTube.
21:07
One Night. You look like a little bootleg.
21:09
Magnus Walker driving around? Oh yeah dude I love Mac as well.
21:13
Video comes up on YouTube with him.
21:14
I watch that shit. Yeah, although now he's gonna
21:16
lose. My dad was cool as fuck when he
21:18
would drive that 911 around. The first one, he had the black
21:21
191. Air-cooled one, it was a, it was
21:24
G-Body 9/11, it was a 87, it wasn't the best one.
21:27
Yeah, with a three. Three to swap some, some bigger.
21:31
It was a good engine. Yeah, G50 trans.
21:33
And that's the most expensive one now, right?
21:35
Or G80 trans those. They're all fucking expensive.
21:38
I don't look like the one that George W be Jimmy Joe.
21:43
Yeah, I think, right? Yeah, RWBY the shit out of that
21:46
car real quick but you know, you would, he would be so cool.
21:49
He would be leaving at like 5 a.m. on Sundays, be gone all day
21:52
and I'm like, where the hell have you been now?
21:54
I get it. Oh, now you got to him like he
21:56
was probably having a day. Yeah, that's it.
21:59
That's what I want to know, what?
22:01
So yeah, we always do. God damn it.
22:03
Where the hell where we year? There was a technical school
22:05
that had the R&B and NSX? Yeah, they had the R34.
22:08
So the R34 pretty much made me fall in love with cars.
22:11
Okay. So back then weren't you weren't
22:13
like into it at all yet. Like, no lie.
22:15
I hadn't gotten my license yet. Like I knew what an EVO was.
22:18
Like, I knew I wanted a car but like I wasn't sure yet what I
22:21
wanted. You know, like back then.
22:23
Okay, I hate to admit this but back then I wanted a Toyota
22:27
Celica likely Like, which one do the like the 2000's, like the
22:32
hairdresser car. Oh, the one with the, with the
22:34
pointy. Like Yeah, I wanted that so bad.
22:39
She had a starter kit from Factory.
22:41
I love that car. Anybody can do it.
22:44
I wanted it so bad. I would go in like search for
22:46
it. A long time, nor standard back
22:48
then. So I was like, I won the trip
22:49
tronic because I want to shift but I don't want to like much
22:51
like I drove one. It was a manual.
22:53
This girl had it. I was like yo you got that car?
22:55
I literally just hung out with her because she had that car.
22:57
You're fucked up, dude. First of all, I'm kidding if she
23:00
ever listen to this God forbid but so he took it up to Bear
23:03
Mountain, that shit rips, it had the intake that dual vvd but
23:07
then you found out the car was slow as fuck.
23:08
Probably, right. Well, I mean I just like how it
23:10
looked like I was like I wanted to TRD tram with the big wing
23:13
and then I was going to put this like stupid body kit that I
23:15
found online was called the Vader kid or something.
23:17
Like thank God, I didn't have money back then later kit.
23:22
That's a 1zz engine. I think, I think to zzzzzz,
23:26
yeah, to z z is the one that you want.
23:28
That doesn't blow. Yeah.
23:30
Or is there one? ZZ is the one that does block?
23:32
I mean that car sick, man. It's the thing is.
23:36
It's front wheel drives. Yeah.
23:38
Yeah. I mean there's not much support
23:39
to it and I guess it all the other Toyota, just overpower,
23:42
especially like a GT for coming from a GT4.
23:45
And then you have like this, like literally like commuter car
23:47
but back then it was like that was that was a cool cool.
23:51
Yeah. It was, there were 9 Grand,
23:52
dude. Imagine paying 9 grand for that
23:54
car, nowadays like this insane. And I like, I remember they had
23:58
an exhaust for it. Was like the chasm exhaust and
24:00
it sounded really loud. And I was like, I'm on that.
24:02
And I want that exhaust. And yeah, dude, those cars sound
24:05
nice up top. I'm telling you.
24:07
Yeah, they definitely OTA and the interior if you guys are
24:11
listening this, go check out a Celica interior, the
24:13
specifically, the 2000s one because I like a lot of those
24:16
cars. Took a lot of styling cues from
24:18
the same cars of that era. So that's like the Supra and all
24:21
that shit. The gauge cluster and shit like
24:24
it's very driver looking inside. Yeah.
24:27
Mr. To sue are the same are the same.
24:29
In actually? Yeah.
24:30
Tuesday they take. That's why I think it was a 1zz
24:33
in there. I don't know.
24:33
Correct me if I'm wrong. The chats probably gonna be like
24:35
it was a fucking 1 y z or whatever.
24:39
But the a Divine one of those are.
24:41
What ya did you have one? No, dude, they were
24:43
unaffordable. I was like a thousand dollars.
24:45
Yeah, it's nine thousand dollars and I also was looking into a
24:48
mark, for subra Suresh. It was, there was a white
24:51
automatic one down the road and they wanted 11 grand for it.
24:54
So I was like, dude, yeah it was white, it was nice and I was
24:58
telling my dad I was like, hey. I want that and he's like you're
24:59
not buying that piece of shit, super up to you.
25:01
So Yoda for 11 Grand like why would you pay eleven thousand
25:04
dollars for a 1994 car? And I'm like that, like I need
25:07
this money, I need this car. Like that's what all parents
25:09
say. So it makes like, I mean we
25:11
don't have money to do like, where immigrants, like we my
25:14
parents just side know where are you from?
25:16
I'm Colombian okay. Yeah.
25:18
We're trying to figure it out really.
25:19
So where are you? Yeah.
25:20
Damn, I got here late. Okay.
25:23
So, yeah, we came, you know, we moved here and then we've had to
25:26
start from scratch so, you know, my parents didn't have that
25:28
much. Onion in a came time to bike for
25:31
me to buy a car, and I didn't have money.
25:33
So they were like, find an economical car that you want.
25:36
So back, then I was looking for a 86, has a look here.
25:40
Now, as we just running through these expensive cars and but I'm
25:43
forgetting. What time frame here?
25:45
Yeah, they were probably meant was an 86 back, then three grand
25:49
tops. So that was, that was within the
25:51
budget, but as soon as I showed my dad, what a 1986 Toyota
25:55
Corolla look like, said what the fuck?
25:57
He's like, what the fuck? What is wrong with you?
25:59
Like why would you spend three thousand dollars on that piece
26:02
of shit? Looking good.
26:04
I'm waiting for him to say. Okay.
26:06
Yeah. Well, you know what Clark did he
26:08
get the okay Chrysler. Sebring.
26:10
So mind you. It's like he like I showed on
26:12
that and then back then actually I wanted the R34.
26:15
So like I found out that we couldn't have those in America,
26:18
they didn't come with them. Yeah, so then I found as 15s
26:23
like within the same category of the cars and I was like dude
26:25
that's a really really sick car and they were cheaper than the
26:29
There are 34. So I was like, let me see if we
26:30
have this in America. Now, we don't so everything.
26:33
You wanted was just like, no, you used to be able to find him
26:36
like, a speck s. There was one that was herself
26:38
or mad long and it was down the road.
26:40
I don't know if you remember Chris, but it wasn't like
26:42
Clifton. It was a white one who was like
26:43
nine grants pekkas. Wow!
26:45
That's Josh fi owns it now. Honestly, why do?
26:49
I don't back out that car but I don't know where it came.
26:52
There was a white Speck s in Clifton.
26:54
Yeah. Remember when?
26:55
Yeah, come to this country. They were you a baby or I was 11
26:59
years old, I think ten or eleven.
27:01
Okay. So did you see any cool cars
27:03
when you lived over there? That would like we couldn't get
27:07
not. I mean, the markets, definitely
27:08
different. It's more so like European cars
27:10
and like, Okay. And like American cars, there
27:12
wasn't that many like Japanese cars other than like Toyota fj40
27:16
fives and stuff like that. Like off-roading which there's
27:18
like plenty full of those over there.
27:20
Yeah. But no real sports cars like I
27:24
think they got like one and a sex in the country entirely I'm
27:27
like everything else. Like will send you one
27:30
different. So, but that's crazy, dude.
27:34
I'm all right, back then. Actually, good thing that you
27:36
brought that up because also, one of my depending on my life
27:40
was there was a supermarket right across the street from
27:44
where we live. We live in a condo.
27:45
So my parents would always go shopping at this big kind of
27:48
like a super Walmer. Basically, a mini mall I would
27:51
say and then they had a formula car car.
27:55
Therefore display, the Lucky Strike.
27:57
What is that? What Connecticut and this is in
27:59
Connecticut. Now, there is in Colombia, I was
28:01
about to say, oh my God, I was like, bro, what is going on?
28:04
We're talking like, why is there a Lucky Strike car down there.
28:08
So I think they were doing some sort of promotion, but like,
28:10
there was a big crowd and then like, I don't know, I did, I was
28:13
like, probably like five years old.
28:14
So this was like core memory 90s.
28:15
Yeah. Like one of my earliest memories
28:17
was like going to the mall and my moms, like do they have like
28:20
a race car there? So, like, she brought me up to
28:21
it and I remember seeing and I was like, oh, dude, like this is
28:24
like one of those like for I didn't know distinguish back
28:26
there in Formula, One from anything.
28:27
But I realized the car like Big wings, big tires and like that
28:30
was when they were like real sick.
28:32
Yeah, this is like the V10, V12 era, at his Prime.
28:35
And like, I knew of those cars like, from TV and stuff, in like
28:39
little cars that I had. But like, I remember, I was
28:41
like, holy shit. Like this is this is it?
28:42
Like, I'm looking at it in. Like, I remember looking at the
28:45
tires and like I was so sure back.
28:46
Then that the tires were as tight as I was like, I was like
28:49
through the Scott ginormous tires like that.
28:51
Yeah, I went and told my dad, I'm like, Dad, like I saw like
28:54
the formula race car and like had bald tires and then he told
28:57
me that those are special tires. Yeah.
28:59
Like racing and stuff but I was like yeah that's cool.
29:01
You remember that I do dude? It's like it.
29:03
I vaguely remember it. But I remember like the
29:06
obviously the subliminal advertisement of Lucky Strike
29:09
cigarettes but I remember I was like dude that's sick like Lucky
29:13
Strikes. I don't know what that is but
29:14
that sickly. Yeah.
29:15
And then yeah I grew up watching formula car because Juan Pablo
29:19
Montoya was a formula a Kart Racer back then.
29:21
So like South America was big into the Formula racing so
29:25
that's kind of how I got into like the motor sports.
29:29
My dad was more of a truck guy. Okay.
29:31
He's a he was a diesel mechanic engineer at a company so he he
29:36
did a swap actually like way back then.
29:38
So that kind of helped you find your find your way to like it
29:42
was a big source code into that. Yeah.
29:44
It was a, it was it was extremely supportive.
29:47
Having a dad that was into that because that was basic, he knew
29:51
what I was doing and he supported it.
29:53
So yeah. And he knew because way back in
29:55
the day we had a forgot what it was like a key too.
29:59
Blazer. Like the old-school square body
30:01
square body Blazers? Yeah, I don't know anything
30:03
about you. I just know that word.
30:05
I know that lik e K2. I think it's like the hot ticket
30:08
like this. But people want the K5 that I
30:10
think that might actually the K5 saw is the square body.
30:12
K2's are the roller blades. Oh yeah.
30:15
For those Yellen had those for a week, those are sick.
30:18
I was all over the fruit Booter. It was a fruit of her week.
30:20
Jesse, Martin knows. Oh God, you try to get me to do
30:23
it and well K 5 Square by T. So yeah, he had a K5 square body
30:28
and he Saying that he was going to change the engine to like a
30:31
diesel truck engine. So I was just I didn't that was
30:34
also around that time when I was really little and I just knew
30:36
that my dad was putting a truck engine in the car and I don't
30:40
know, for whatever reason because my dad specialize in
30:42
these was stuff. So obviously you wanted to have
30:44
a diesel powered car so wait. So your dad was a was a diesel
30:48
engine specialist to like so he was definitely runs.
30:51
Cut your kind of it runs in the family.
30:54
Yeah sure. Yeah, my dad went to school for
30:56
mechanical engineering. So he worked at a at a coal
30:58
mine. Basically like working on these
31:00
giant excavators and stuff. So I got to play with like
31:02
bulldozers and stuff like that way back then.
31:04
Which okay, exactly. Yeah, but yeah, we always it was
31:08
like a fact, like my dad was just a mechanic.
31:10
I like he also owned like to 18-wheelers that like he just
31:14
had contracted driving around. So there was always like my dad
31:17
was always working on stuff and I looked up to that I was like I
31:19
want to be like my dad. I don't want to pay anybody else
31:21
who work on my stuff. Yeah, saves a lot of money doing
31:23
it. Like it's that's badass.
31:25
Like yeah. So my dad supported everything
31:28
that I do like, My ruinous toolbox.
31:29
I ruined the garage. I've ruined everything, do, the
31:31
driveways. I can relate to that.
31:33
Yeah, I was gonna say all the tools are net.
31:35
They're gone. My dad's on my dad comes in
31:37
here, sometimes, if so. Where am I tools?
31:39
Dad. I don't know where the fucking
31:40
me, those tools. Yeah, I got like, two wrenches
31:43
left. Ya know, I feel bad and I once I
31:46
make it, I told my dad, I'll buy him a nice to a buck, but
31:48
luckily, he doesn't work like mechanical stuff like that
31:50
anymore. He got into Machining to, so
31:53
that's also why like push me to get into Machining was because
31:55
he went from doing just mechanical hand work to
31:58
Machining stuff. Hmm.
31:59
So I followed that footstep and that kind of like all clicked in
32:03
and then I told my dad. Oh, so back to the 240.
32:06
How I got the 240Z all ties in together so we okay, yeah, that
32:10
was going to say did we didn't get to that point because he's
32:12
so look. What's up?
32:13
Collier was the to 42 car, you've landed on.
32:15
You're like fuck it. No, this is it.
32:18
So like I told you I wanted the S15.
32:20
Yeah, I really wanted it couldn't get home.
32:22
Okay, now it's making sense. Yeah.
32:24
Couldn't I couldn't fathom seeing a nice if like there was
32:26
no no cars like this around Connecticut, we had the Before
32:29
which is a lucky thing. Yeah.
32:30
But I couldn't I back then if you ask me I probably would have
32:33
told you that there's no as 50s in the country, if you ask me
32:36
because there there's not. They've also know what was going
32:38
on in California or New Jersey but, you know, yeah, my internet
32:42
wasn't like that back. Then you didn't, you didn't just
32:44
be like, oh, shit, yeah, yeah. Like you knew like of like
32:47
formula D and stuff and like, stuff like that cause we're
32:49
still early but like you know, those are race cars.
32:51
Like there wasn't like you could just buy one.
32:53
Yeah, so I was also like, you know what?
32:55
If even if I find a nice 15 I think I did find a nest. 15 on a
32:59
Craigslist ad here in New Jersey of some weird shop that we're
33:02
selling a GM cars. I don't know if it was a scam
33:04
but they had like our 33s and like for like 20 grand, you
33:07
know, I believe it that's telling you.
33:10
There was that one that had that must have been where I looked at
33:13
this back s because it was on Craigslist.
33:15
Yeah. Lot of importers would just
33:17
somehow it was like a picture of a shop.
33:19
Like I like, the cars were parked outside and like, their
33:21
vaguely remembered. It was probably like my 2008.
33:29
We're well, I guess I shouldn't ask where either, but somebody
33:32
else will have a better story. Sorry.
33:34
Yeah, interrupt so you so think I do know who he's talking
33:37
about. Yeah.
33:37
So this was happening at least. Yeah, I've been.
33:39
Yeah. Interesting.
33:40
I that's crazy. You guys know that?
33:42
Because I didn't swap era. Yeah.
33:44
Oh yeah. It seemed like it seemed like
33:47
one of those type of places. Yeah.
33:48
There was a, I mean, dude, were like right in that area.
33:50
Like we got we're surrounded by like five different engine
33:52
Depots. Like this was definitely a big
33:55
area as far as like import cars and didn't.
33:58
Swaps and it was a lot of like chop up a car.
34:01
Bring it reassembly. My car is registered now I can
34:04
say it my crust from an engine Depot.
34:07
You guys have the port here too. So like yeah, yeah, I'm sure a
34:10
lot of crazy stuff comes in, and now he's gets lost.
34:13
I just remember, we are drifting one night and some the cops all
34:15
came, and then one guy was like, getting bothered.
34:19
And we're like yo, what's up with that guy in there?
34:20
Like is Vince don't match and I was like, okay, let's get the
34:23
fuck out of here. That guy didn't have a good
34:25
night. Damn really?
34:27
Yeah, I was like what? Fuck so.
34:29
Yeah, it happens. Yeah.
34:31
So I mean, like I said, glad I didn't have money back then
34:34
because I would have thought with 11 of those or something
34:37
else. Stupid.
34:38
I would also go on eBay and find like race cars for teens for,
34:41
like, like 14 Grand like an SR-22 swab with a key issue
34:44
stuff. But so, but back then I didn't
34:46
know about us 14. So I found as 15 and then I
34:48
found. Oh, there's that's 14.
34:49
There's s 13s. And then as 14 came as 240SX in
34:52
America. So I was like looking those up
34:55
and I was like, you know, was there pretty cool?
34:56
Like yeah, I like the kooky like Left first.
34:59
And I said, I wanted that. So I started looking up on
35:02
Craigslist back. Then you could find like a 97
35:05
would like a fender bender for like 1,500 bucks.
35:07
Automatic. Yep.
35:08
So Craigslist was just full of to 40s as for teens and I was
35:11
like, alright, sick like this is where I'm going to get my car
35:14
because back then like three grand was a good budget for for
35:17
my parents to give me as a car. Yeah.
35:20
So so what'd your dad say about this one?
35:22
Well, I asked him. I mean I was like Hey I want
35:25
this car is a 1995 Nissan 240SX and he's like that's a bad.
35:28
Idea that once again, with the old car thing, he wanted me to
35:31
buy like a 2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse.
35:34
Like the friggin hairdresser cars.
35:35
Yeah. Why don't you buy an Eclipse?
35:37
Which I also liked that car too but it's so it's so dark.
35:41
Not the spider one. Yeah.
35:42
Like I'm talking about that. The newer one before they look
35:45
enjoying. Yeah don't know.
35:47
I'm talking about the spider one but not a convertible.
35:49
No, not the three just three the three, not then the one I loved
35:53
it. Don't run after that look like a
35:54
jelly bean. Yes.
35:55
Well either that would but but let me tell you something about
35:58
work. Let me tell.
35:58
About something about those. Those there was a high trim
36:02
package of that that came with V6 really big wheels.
36:06
They were like a teens, and they look like that.
36:10
They look good enough where I feel like, that's the next spare
36:12
that people are going to start buying.
36:14
You, you like, currently, you think it looks like a.
36:16
If you take the center cap out, it looks like that one weird
36:19
work wheel where it's got like the indent but if you just
36:22
started a trend right now, goddamn it.
36:25
Yeah, write it down. His you set it out, get out
36:28
there. Because they work on the is I
36:30
think I'm pretty sure. Well anyway we got anyway.
36:32
Goddamnit, tangent. Again, you don't go by and don't
36:36
go buy into those wheels. So I need to.
36:39
So he wants you to buy 4th gen Eclipse so I still refuse dude.
36:42
I was like no, I'm either getting an S14 or an 86 like one
36:45
or the other. Yeah.
36:48
Down the road. There was like a little
36:49
dealership and one of my buddies said, like, there's a Nissan
36:53
240SX there, and I was like, I was like bullshit.
36:55
Like, don't believe you like and he sailor to it's like what?
36:58
Yeah. Yeah, and he sent me a picture
36:59
of it and it was listen and literally a 98 with gold
37:03
emblems. White worked in the front like,
37:05
is, it was like a, like a kind of like a home mom and pop
37:08
dealership that. Yeah, so I was like, oh no way
37:11
like back then. I didn't have my license back
37:13
then, so they drove down. I drove down with my mom.
37:17
My mom was going to come on, I was like Mom dry meat.
37:19
Like I need to stop that. The dealership on the way to the
37:22
Marcus is on the way to the mall.
37:23
I'm dropping off. You're buying a car so I
37:25
stopped. Yeah, she dropped me off and
37:26
then like there's nobody was closed.
37:28
And I see the car and I was like, oh my God, like this is an
37:31
S14. Like I've never seen one in real
37:32
life before and like I just looked at, it had like the
37:36
Nissan like wood grain trim on the center console.
37:39
You ever seen those? Yeah, stick on one.
37:41
Yes. Yeah.
37:42
It had dad had the gold emblems. It was white, it looked like it
37:45
was somebody's daily driver because there's stuff in the
37:47
backseat. Yeah, so I left a note saying,
37:50
hey, I'm interested in buying this car, please call my phone
37:53
number. So I left a note on the
37:54
windshield I went home then I think the next day I got a call.
37:58
All and then it's somebody and I'm like, hi like that.
38:01
And I was like, Hey like yeah I'm interested in buying the car
38:03
and it's like he's like no I'm interested in buying the car and
38:06
I was like I was like what? So like they thought I was the
38:09
owner put in the note on the car that was supposed to sail and
38:12
they call me and I was like, no dude, I want the car first, like
38:15
like screw you too. So I started freaking out like
38:17
I'm like, I'm like, do I need to get this now now?
38:19
Doesn't like, dude, I need to send you anything he does.
38:21
So I told my parents, I'm like this cars by gonna be like three
38:24
grand at them. Oh, so you're for.
38:25
Yeah. So we went back one time like I
38:28
think during business Hours. And then like I found I went
38:30
inside and I found somebody and he's like, yeah, when asked
38:33
about the white Nissan outside and then they're like, oh, here
38:36
they me, let me get whoever Baba.
38:37
And then they got the person and they're like, oh that's that's
38:40
whoever's blood lost car. Like, it's not for sale.
38:43
I have a feeling that's where this was going.
38:45
That's the reason I don't drive 098 right now, dude.
38:48
That was like, the Spider-Man meme.
38:50
Like everyone's point, no, I want the car.
38:52
Damn. Yeah, yeah, do it in like mind
38:55
you back then these things didn't have that much appeal.
38:57
So, like the fact that like somebody else, Was targeting
38:59
that car was like, I was like, dude, like this.
39:01
It was Frankie I was gonna say it's probably someone who is
39:03
literally exact same as us like, yes.
39:06
Like I need that. I wonder where the car is
39:07
because it was so men and like it later sold for like 7 over 7
39:12
Grand in like 2010 which back then was a lot of money but the
39:15
dude I remember him the the description very clearly.
39:19
He's like I know what I got Baba.
39:20
This and that was one of the very first over prices chassis
39:23
that. I was that manual.
39:25
Yes. Oh, okay.
39:26
Yeah, this thing was a lot of got an auto S14.
39:28
That's why I asked yeah I remember as for teens were were
39:32
around 5 to 8 Grand for it with a Ka?
39:34
Hmm. What are they what are they now
39:36
when I was looking for a car you could get a KAS routine for for
39:39
great. Yeah that's a lie.
39:41
Five grand or less. I would say yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:44
For like a legit cookie back then.
39:46
I was like seven Grand. Seven Grand was a.
39:48
Got you a solid car? Yeah.
39:49
If it was a zenki. That's a different story.
39:51
Yeah. Thank you sir like two to three
39:54
thousand dollars but also was still.
39:56
What year do you think this was sub 2010?
39:58
This Was 2008 2008. So that's only like a what
40:02
ten-year-old car doesn't mean. I wasn't even into that stuff.
40:05
Yeah, 2008 man, shit. I got my first iPod.
40:09
Nano iPod. Nano hot shit man to gigs on
40:13
that bitch. Yeah, yeah.
40:17
They were there. They were still up there.
40:18
I would see to 40s on the road. It was, it was once I knew about
40:21
these cars, like I learn about them.
40:22
Like I would see them on the road.
40:23
I've said 86 is happening MR2 sand?
40:26
I'm like, dude, like this is sick and back, then I Initial D
40:29
2. So like I learned a lot about
40:31
the Japanese cars and that's all I really got into it to and
40:33
watching wangan midnight. Monday, like these shows were
40:35
also kind of relatively new. Yeah, back then.
40:37
So I was like, oh like that's like the Supras and all that.
40:40
So like I was like these are the cars that I want to get into
40:42
because most of my friends were, like into like Volkswagens.
40:45
That was like, the whole thing, like, in Connecticut was like a
40:48
big Volkswagen. It was a thing here too.
40:50
Don't worry. So I wanted I wanted to be
40:52
different. I want to like I said it and I
40:53
found about test 15s and like drifting and then I was like,
40:56
dude. Drifting is really fucking cool.
40:57
Yeah. So like I was like I think going
40:59
by drift car. So you found out about drifting
41:01
pretty young. Yeah, I was.
41:03
Yeah, relatively extremely young.
41:05
You were still in high school. Yes.
41:06
Yeah. Okay.
41:07
Before I even got my license. So I made sure that, like, I
41:09
wanted my first car to be like a car that I could modify into
41:13
drifting. So what did it end up being?
41:16
When did you find the car? So I got my heart broken by the
41:19
White House 14. So I went home.
41:21
I strike destroy, dude, I guess it's like, dude, I literally
41:24
felt. It was like heartbreak, like I
41:26
know what you mean? Yeah.
41:27
So I went home. And kept lookin.
41:29
Then I got my first job as CVS, because I didn't have a job,
41:33
throw High School. My parents were just like, just
41:34
just studied finish your school and go to school.
41:37
Yeah, yeah. And then you can get a job after
41:38
size of to college. So I got my first job save up
41:42
some money and then my parents are like, all right, like we're
41:44
ready to lend you the money. So I found the black 95 that I
41:47
have right now, on Craigslist. So I messaged guy and I'm like,
41:52
you know, I want this car, like, it looked like it was like,
41:54
lowered it had like American Racing wheels and it had like a
41:57
nap xen. On dual exhaust the one with the
42:00
two cans. And yes, yeah, but one of them
42:04
was caught off for whatever, researchable just one can and
42:07
the insulation was like showing so like the car was like 20
42:11
minutes away was in Hartford. So yeah, I told my parents I was
42:14
like, oh, this is, this car is 2,700 bucks.
42:16
Like, I want to go check it out. So we went, we took the family
42:19
trip in the fucking in the Jeep. We went to Cecilia and then like
42:23
I didn't have my license. So like my dad tests show in
42:25
like we showed up. It was some Spanish guys.
42:27
So like my parents were able to talk Them, which is a big plus.
42:30
And they had the car there and like back then, I didn't know
42:34
base model is for teens were four lug?
42:36
I thought everything was five lug.
42:37
Okay, so I show up. And I'm like, why is this thing
42:39
up for looks like, but I was, it was in his 14 knows ago.
42:43
This sick, like I want this car. This is the first thank you
42:45
ever. I actually did and that's what
42:47
he said. Sorry, dude, I'm five lug.
42:48
Good luck with sale. Yeah, but I'm like, no.
42:51
I was like, dude, I just I wanted it.
42:53
I didn't, I haven't even driven and I wanted it then.
42:55
Yeah, yeah. So but the weird thing is like
42:57
so this dude also in the Back had a Mark 3 super and it had a
43:01
giant intercooler in a giant purple and he told me this, a
43:05
co-listing, makes 800 horsepower.
43:07
And now it's just like holy shit.
43:09
Like this is a big turbo car like this is like, like I have a
43:13
picture of that thing. And like, it looks like an old
43:15
Yankee early 2000 set of like I could like those more though and
43:19
it was a 7M like seven. I've back then, I didn't even
43:22
know. He also built 7M will sound like
43:24
a rocket ship it in there. Nice.
43:28
Went, I went to college in there was one totaling around the
43:31
town. It was instill in a Mark 3.
43:33
So that's why I was like sounded like a Jay-Z in there, but it
43:37
was just worked seven. Mm-hmm.
43:40
But yet, so you ended up picking it up or so I found that 95.
43:44
We won the test, drove it, my parents like the car.
43:46
So we're like, okay, like will go by next week, next weekend.
43:49
So I'm like, freaking out the whole fucking weekend.
43:51
Yeah. Because slowest week of your
43:52
life, I'm an anxious person. Like I, I need everything now.
43:55
Like, when I see something, I want it.
43:56
Yep. Yep.
43:57
Which is a Bad Thing knife. Feel you?
43:59
So my parents were like well we went and bought the car.
44:02
We met up with a dude and the do drove it to my house.
44:04
So I could the whole time I'm like in the back seat of the
44:06
Jeep, looking at this S14 driving through versatile and
44:09
it's mine. Oh my God, it's happening.
44:12
It's fun. It's so crazy.
44:13
That's that's literally the car you have right now.
44:15
Yeah. So this is their Dallas.
44:17
I was 17 years old back then and I was just like, dude.
44:19
Like this is this happening, like I'm getting it like stock,
44:22
so but its standard. So I had to learn how to drive
44:25
standard, because I didn't know how to like dress standards a
44:27
man better than learning how to do a five.
44:28
He swaps. Oh absolutely, which I'm going.
44:31
What I was dealing with right now.
44:32
But we're a team all over. So I'm glad I got to jump into a
44:36
five-speed right off the bat so it was 2,700 bucks.
44:38
So I worked at CVS, I paid off my parents with my hundred and
44:41
fifty dollar paychecks at the most I think back then.
44:44
Yeah and I was like, eventually I went to like build a car, like
44:47
build it into a drift car and like sick, I start 20 like that
44:51
was my goals back then. Okay, so you already knew what
44:53
you had to do, pretty much, but I was I was really broke and I
44:56
was also really young. I just, I just I wanted a party
44:59
and hang out. Yeah, I went to car meets and
45:01
like I live for the car meets, but I had a queso like, yeah, I
45:04
see on your post. Sometimes you always, you always
45:06
bring up the car means how they used to be, you know, and now no
45:09
one really does anything. You should pretty much a
45:11
takeovers now. Yeah, that I guess we do now, I
45:17
guess we do, which is unfortunate.
45:19
But yeah, the car seen as Boomer as it is to say this at the car
45:23
scene that we grew up with no longer exist.
45:26
Yeah na. Yeah.
45:27
That's so sad. I'm gonna go ahead and say
45:29
Instagram ruined it. I don't know why the social
45:32
media. Yeah, yeah, I'm not like I don't
45:35
I'm not saying like oh, fuck Instagram.
45:36
I'm just saying that is when it changed.
45:39
Yeah. I think it's just the need for
45:42
gratification and wanting to attempt like do things, you
45:46
know, like it's just Reckless, like yeah, shit seen, it can
45:48
seem fun, but in the end you're just, it's pointless.
45:52
It just crossing chaos, I think it's like, I feel like
45:55
everybody's competing trying to exactly people are competing.
45:58
It is. It is which is and it used to be
46:00
like you just go to a car meet with whatever you got and it's
46:02
like it's not a big deal but all of a sudden it turned into like
46:06
you deal. Now, people are going to take
46:07
videos and photos of you. Yeah, you know, yeah.
46:09
Now it's like, oh no, my car is not nice.
46:12
So I don't where they want to go.
46:13
I think that's what a lot of people are doing like this, what
46:15
it turned into, but I also think that they just strategically get
46:18
the car to do what they're gonna do.
46:20
Yes, the thing. Cuz that's what's happening.
46:22
People are just buying I got reset the Takeover kids like
46:25
yeah, fa tm3. Yeah.
46:27
I'm like what? How the fuck are you avoiding
46:31
that right now? OEM burble tune.
46:34
You know. I don't know.
46:35
But so did you start drifting in the last 14?
46:39
Yeah. Are you just started, you know,
46:41
doing some donuts or something? So I wanted a drift, the car was
46:45
a base model for look, no, rear sway bar opened.
46:49
If I didn't know what an open diff was the world is against
46:52
you. Yeah, I learned.
46:54
I learned a lot of things with this car.
46:56
I learned about differentials. I learned about sway bars, it
46:58
taught me. Me it taught me how to drive
47:00
standard basically. Yeah.
47:01
So and like work on stuff and oil changes and stuff.
47:04
Like I said, I didn't know how to do any of this.
47:06
I just wanted a car like Yeah, I wanted to hop on it.
47:09
So actually I got the car and I couldn't register for everything
47:12
because I didn't have money. So like I just sat on the garage
47:14
so I would just like sleep in it and just like, listen to the
47:17
radio and just like, yeah, like this is ask 14, like this is
47:20
like this, is it? You know, so I got the car
47:23
register and I'm like, eventually I wanted to drift
47:25
like stop going to car meets and then like, I found out about a
47:28
drift faction. In Massachusetts.
47:30
I mean I'm sorry. No Lebanon Valley.
47:32
Okay, so I was like, oh I want to get my car to like go drift
47:36
at a local Grassroots events. So I found out about
47:39
differentials and stuff and I would do some Street stuff like
47:41
I was young and dumb and I did plenty of stupid jerks to
47:45
Drifting like dumb. That's what's up and I got
47:48
arrested, I mean, I didn't get arrested.
47:50
I got a couple heavy tickets and one time, I go into the local
47:54
car, meet in the Berlin, Turnpike we were going and I
47:56
think I bought my coilovers like fresh boiler, As stance
47:59
coilovers, I always wanted them stock a and I was just like yeah
48:02
I got real suspension. That's so G stands coilovers.
48:05
Like the gr+ is, I think they were gonna go with orange orange
48:08
ones. Yeah, I had those on my ass 13.
48:11
First one. I still have them and so I think
48:13
I got them rebuilt. Every time they blow I'm like,
48:15
dude, I'm like your loyal customer like, like we build
48:18
them and really? Yeah, we take care of me over
48:19
there. Yeah.
48:20
Awesome, awesome. Dave does pretty much everything
48:23
like himself with the valving and everything like that,
48:25
really. Yeah, like I'm sure they have
48:27
the made somewhere but he knows this.
48:29
Wilbur's inside and out like completely.
48:31
Yeah like it he'll give you like you tell him what you want to
48:33
do. He'll like hell, it will give
48:35
you specs and everything. We run this spring re this and
48:37
that. So that's awesome.
48:39
I I know them as a company. I don't know yet another stuff
48:42
but it's toga factories. Have Dave owns Toge Factory and
48:45
stance so he's the one that's kind of doing.
48:48
Wow, that's tough. I've spend by like 20 thousand
48:51
dollars for this guy. It sucks because like right now
48:55
the coilovers are getting expensive.
48:57
I don't know if you've yes seen but it's fucking crazy.
49:00
Went up this the past year I thought.
49:02
Yeah, BC went up like $250 stance.
49:04
Went up about four to five hundred dollars.
49:09
So it's like how much our stances have your Tobias it
49:11
right now. I Malcolm.
49:13
Do you know, I want to say, I don't 17.
49:17
Yeah. Back then 1,200 bucks was like
49:19
yeah that was it. That was yeah yeah.
49:22
So now it's things are just more expensive now and liked or they
49:24
again. Sorry nowadays like 1,700 Yeah,
49:27
I know it sucks. Not just because the is is are
49:30
all kind of not great, but the ones in your car.
49:33
Yeah. They're not like I'm scared that
49:35
they're going and it sucks. Good stance.
49:37
Coilovers are good. And we want to support Dave, and
49:39
everything. So I'm like absolutely unlikely
49:41
sicknesses, like, have no money. I know, every member of it fuck?
49:45
Yeah. Yeah.
49:46
And I've one of my friends got stands coilovers and I saw the
49:50
quality of them and I was just like, dude, this is a really
49:52
nice coil over, like, yeah, this is you could like back then, I
49:55
think BC had just started. Unlike other companies but like
49:59
you could like the shock about. You could look at it and tell
50:02
that the stands which just like like, nice.
50:04
Like the colors are different there.
50:06
They didn't look like the other coil overs.
50:07
Yeah, everage is heavy-duty. Where yours probably were so
50:10
old? They weren't the inverted
50:12
design. Now we have like the inverted.
50:14
They were inverted were and that was the, it's a recent.
50:17
One of the biggest reason I didn't know, they were inverted.
50:19
One of my buddies bought coilovers for his STI.
50:22
My best friend, like at this. I said in high school.
50:24
He's so you got an STI, okay. And he wanted coilovers.
50:27
Ooh, so we were buying our first set of coilovers.
50:28
We saved up so he could only get like a weird company because
50:32
stands didn't sell them for STIs.
50:34
Yes Subarus. So I got mine, he got his and
50:37
then he was just like he's like dude what the fuck?
50:38
Yours are way nicer. Like okay, these are inverted
50:40
and like I'm like, what's inverted?
50:41
He's like, oh they're upside down.
50:42
So, they're way better. And I was like, really like,
50:44
yeah. Well, if you look at the two
50:45
coilovers, and like, you could tell like the steams which is
50:47
like nice, like the collars were be feeling like the righteous
50:50
and like I was like I got my money's worth like that's cool
50:53
because it's a US company to. Yeah which is like back then.
50:57
Even now, I mean, we always want to support JDM companies, but I
50:59
feel like even more nowadays. Now, American companies are like
51:03
really stepping up for these cars.
51:04
Absolutely. And like I said, I got I'm
51:07
always support the JDM, you know, I'm that guy too, but like
51:10
I said, we got to believe in these companies because like
51:13
yeah, because I mean look at the economy.
51:15
So yeah, we gotta I personally got to support this country from
51:18
like a logistics standpoint. Like if you're supporting like a
51:21
US company, you're going to hope that it's going to ship from us
51:24
and not. Yeah, I have that delay.
51:26
That a lot of Experience right now.
51:28
Yeah, it's just like another thing about that whole like by
51:31
American type. Mentality is always for me.
51:33
It's always like, Yeah, by American and then support
51:35
Chinese slave labor. So it's like, is it really?
51:38
You know, I mean, yeah, like, there's no, that's but if
51:40
they're making the, if the shit's made in America then,
51:43
yeah, that's awesome. Yeah.
51:45
I think the target is support. The people and support the
51:47
business, because that way students can stay in business
51:49
and stands can develop other things.
51:51
Now, stands makes coils or Subarus.
51:53
They make like random things like the coolant adapters and
51:56
stuff. That's a like, that's pretty
51:58
cool that like, you can support a company and help them grow to
52:01
help that chassis and like this after Marcus.
52:04
And they like you said they yeah.
52:05
They give back to the community and start making more things.
52:08
And absolutely. I'm glad Stannis has stayed on
52:10
the game this long because I swear by them.
52:13
So yeah, like we do to yeah, I try to sell everyone on Stan's
52:15
first before anything else but I'm hoping one day I can try.
52:18
They're like really expensive coilovers.
52:20
Yeah. Don't you.
52:21
Does anyone else feel that way where it's like I'll know I made
52:24
it when I can afford the yeah, that's third tier.
52:26
Yeah. You know soon soon.
52:28
Soon. You know the external Reservoir
52:30
Monday. Will rain from the ceilings,
52:31
dude. I don't know, man.
52:32
That's like a lot of money. Yeah.
52:36
I'm I'm like, so you had this S14 for so long but like what
52:41
did an issue arise or something where you were like?
52:44
All right, I'm going to work on this engine now and I'm going to
52:46
learn about engines because I want to know how you got took.
52:50
You do a lash it to that shop. So I'm like goddamn because
52:54
there was a lot of engines in there and I'm like, what the
52:56
fuck? Yeah, so I was not a mechanic,
53:00
you know, I I play video games, I build my computer, that was
53:03
just play Pinball. So like I fiddled with paintball
53:06
guns. That's as much as building as I
53:07
could get. I never really had a dirt bike
53:09
so I didn't really have actual engine work.
53:12
So yeah. Just a lawnmower in high school,
53:14
pretty much I just love more than ever ran solo but I had the
53:18
idea of like how an engine works but I've never attempted it.
53:20
I was like, that's my dad, I'll go ask my dad for help like,
53:22
okay, so I got the car and back then, street racing was a big
53:27
Big a big thing still like the Connecticut, like we were
53:29
talking about the, the car seat, like back then.
53:31
It was just like, oh sorry racing was big and street
53:34
racing, it was huge in like car meet and all that.
53:36
So like I grew up around most of my friends.
53:39
All they all had more money than me.
53:41
So they all had the fast cars and fancy cars.
53:43
They had STIs. They had SRT for, they had
53:46
whatever the Golf GTI is whatever.
53:47
Whatever was like turbo and fast back then like eagle talons.
53:50
I think we're are the R32 Volkswagen.
53:53
That was the fucking car. Yeah, yeah, one of my other
53:55
friends to yeah, he was like He wanted a are 32 or 32, right?
53:59
Yeah. Mark blue.
54:00
The blue thing to that shit was sick, man.
54:02
I love that car when it came out.
54:05
Yeah. You got to see Travis his car
54:07
because he has one of those. Yeah, that's his baby.
54:09
Is that blue Mark, Mark for our 32, he's got the only German
54:12
car. That's kind of cool I had up.
54:13
So I like those because I ended up getting a B5 outie, as which
54:18
is like the same thing. It was like the same era.
54:23
So a lot of the Plastics kind of felt like it and it had that
54:26
same like picks. Related Center screen that is
54:29
the 104. Yeah, Mark for that, I have a 5
54:32
cylinder or VR so that someday our six, okay?
54:34
So the funny you say that because Travis says, I like the
54:37
beef 5S, where was the Fanboy car?
54:39
Like, he has a new fan boy cars because like, the, our third
54:42
team are for our 32 and then the B5 s for of the era, where like
54:45
that, like the Euro kid, if you had those your the hash you are.
54:47
Yeah. For sure.
54:49
Yeah. Because if you had a golf it was
54:51
like yeah, yeah, yeah. You were like yeah it's pretty
54:54
sick. Dude now the R32 young.
54:56
Whoa. I was just this there was this
54:58
one dude I honestly think he was from Connecticut, but I followed
55:01
him in on Instagram when Instagrams header was like blue
55:06
and shit and he had an S4 and he posted a video of a launch and I
55:11
was like damn. I want that.
55:13
Yeah. Like they're cool.
55:16
Boom. Until you find out what the real
55:17
are 32. Is and you're like all right.
55:19
Well yeah and well no I couldn't I didn't really know how to work
55:23
on it. Like I got the car and I
55:24
literally just didn't know how to do anything.
55:26
I was like what the fuck? Why can't I open this like, lid
55:29
for the coolant? And I'm like, why is it boiling
55:31
in there? And I'm like, I don't know
55:33
anything about ya. Thank ya know.
55:35
I I knew out he's just suck to work on like that's unless you
55:39
really love them. Like, there's nothing good to
55:41
say about working on the Audi, I feel like I like I love Audi's
55:44
but I love old Audi's. So like my cutoff here is
55:46
probably 1995 down, which is where the simple stuff.
55:50
Like if you look at mine right now, like it looks like a
55:52
two-fold, it's pretty standard, you know, the engines facing the
55:55
right way everything you can see the engine.
55:57
Yeah, there's no stupid plastic, the turbos there, everything's
55:59
there, you know, there's no. So the old Audi's are cool but
56:02
like Travers likes the new Audi, so he's got the Fanboy v5s for,
56:06
and I mean, hey, they're nice. But like, like you said, you
56:10
know, you want to, if you got to work on it.
56:11
It's like fuck, dude. Yeah.
56:13
Now, and they're also expensive. Those cars are just out on my my
56:16
Spectrum back then. Like, I knew I knew as Force
56:19
because Bam Margera had automatic.
56:22
Yeah, that thing was nice. Yeah.
56:24
Do you know Gaara blue and did? And I was just like, like a now
56:27
Adios like I don't know how he's back then, but I was just like
56:28
that's, that's sick, like, that's that's looks like an
56:30
expensive car. There's those, what was the beef
56:32
or, or whatever? That's the one with the wider
56:35
body, right? B5 was like, had like this
56:38
little notch in the trunk. Well, I mean like the wheel well
56:41
like, oh, Fender Flare. Something like kind of like
56:43
stuck out. Get really wasn't.
56:45
It was the bumpers and like the color match is rims.
56:48
This weird thing where like I imagined this car a lot
56:50
different than your talk about that Norris for, you're right
56:53
because so a lot of the S cars for the Audi's actually have
56:57
Wider fender flares. So was it yes by the fall and
57:00
like the RS are 6-3. Is why it has like really,
57:04
really wide fenders. Actually that's what I'm
57:05
thinking of. Yeah.
57:06
But like if you look at my -6 right now which is a 95 and you
57:09
look at a regular a 6 which is the normal trim.
57:12
The fenders are wider Mind of a wider.
57:15
So it makes it look more aggressive which kind of sucks
57:17
because then the bumpers are unique to the S car.
57:20
Yeah. And there was only like less
57:22
than 400 of those wagons me brought into America.
57:24
So wow. So your car's pretty rare.
57:27
It's extremely rare. That thing is, we're just
57:28
throwing us ours in the tree. Yeah, just driving through New
57:31
York City. Liam engines and stuff.
57:33
Yeah, whooping engines around. Yeah, I love that thing, dude.
57:37
This is sick. I love it.
57:38
Now, it's good. I mean, I like how to trunk like
57:40
we were saying, when we put the engine in the probably actually
57:42
Pronto the trunk struts, they really thought that thing up?
57:46
I was like, yeah, and it's got a lot of room that you open the
57:48
trunk and you have a lot of room to put the engine hoist in, so
57:50
it's perfect for. Yeah, well, you do, you know,
57:52
absolutely, like, I bought it with the intention to say, I've
57:55
always had my 240, had the beard.
57:57
And I like, I never had a truck. Never had a be trying to not buy
58:00
a truck pretty much. Yeah, it's like I went there
58:02
before to. I want to be that dude.
58:04
Yeah, and I like I have like that Foreigner sent where I'm
58:06
like, no, I'm not yet American where I need a big truck, you
58:09
know, they got ya, I'll get like a little truck and then that's
58:12
it. If I need to, but my dad has a
58:13
truck, my dad as a Dodge Ram. So so if you need it, you can
58:15
get it. Yeah, I was the same way, dude.
58:18
And then when I needed a truck, I was like, I gotta get a truck,
58:20
I got a trailer my car, this and that.
58:22
And then I was like, I'm gonna get a short bed, you know.
58:24
I don't want a long. I don't want to have to park
58:25
this thing. This and that Yeah, then I only
58:28
ones I could find were long beds and I was like, all right, let
58:31
me just buy it anyway, this one looks clean after probably like
58:36
six months of owning it I will never ever buy shortbed truck
58:40
ever dude. That long bed changed my life.
58:42
I'm sure you can just throw anything full-size motorcycles.
58:45
Anything you want back there? Did it makes a difference a
58:48
little extra. What?
58:49
3 feet or whatever? Yeah. 32 feet two feet.
58:53
Oh that's it. How many more bodies?
58:54
Could you put in? There he is.
58:57
Is Vie for the standard bed is like a new one.
58:59
Yeah, it's like four and a half or five of those is the standard
59:01
foot bed was a normo. You're right.
59:03
It is a six foot bed and yeah that's true.
59:05
Yeah bitch I got you that to foot difference makes the world
59:09
it makes a difference main reasons.
59:11
I'm sure for a yeah for American trucks. 6-foot is the quote
59:17
unquote standard size. It almost is a lot of five foot
59:20
beds. Are ya not do nowadays.
59:22
Buying it, mr. Cranky has me noticing this shit
59:25
now because one day we were aware.
59:27
Were we, I don't know, but we talked about 8 foot bed.
59:28
And now, when I'm like, looking at a trunk, I'm like, that was
59:31
kind of you ever see a Dodge Ram on the road that bed is like one
59:35
foot. It looks so small and I'm like
59:37
yeah, nah. They don't because they because
59:38
people don't care about, they're not, they're not using trucks
59:40
for trucks shit. Yeah.
59:42
Saturday is the put their family in it and drive to the
59:46
restaurant after work. You're like, yeah, I mean yeah,
59:50
pick up but you have a family I fuck with the Avalanche the guy
59:52
these guys just want truck because they think like oh if I
59:54
would truck then my friends will think I do stuff but it's like
59:57
Your bed. Is that what it is for sure,
59:59
dude. And the bed is like 2 feet long,
1:00:01
you know? Like dude, you ain't doing
1:00:01
anything like the hitch receivers like that clean.
1:00:04
That's not. That's you can tell dude, that's
1:00:05
like if you have a clean hitch receiver your you have a clean
1:00:09
hitch receiver and the nuts hanging from the back, like the
1:00:11
nutsack. You know, that fucking thing.
1:00:13
Jake's truck like, does he have that?
1:00:15
No. Oh, maybe like his teaching?
1:00:17
Yeah, should get him that. Yeah, like his keychain, the nut
1:00:19
side. You, she ever see those things
1:00:21
and can? Yes.
1:00:21
Yeah, dude. What the fuck is that?
1:00:23
Why did you specify? I don't know.
1:00:28
Okay dude. All right, God damn it.
1:00:30
You look, man. I got to make this a little bit
1:00:32
exciting. I mean, you know what I talk
1:00:33
about is cookies. He brought up car trucks.
1:00:36
All right, go ahead. But the thing is okay, I do, I
1:00:38
do fuck. You said your dad a Dodge Ram,
1:00:40
is that there's a diesel in that, right?
1:00:42
No. No, my dad bought a gas truck,
1:00:43
he he's a truck guy. So like I said, like, I told you
1:00:46
that he had the swapped comments, that's why I placed
1:00:48
her back. Then I was like, that sounds
1:00:50
like a sick built. So like my dad like trucks, he
1:00:53
likes big trucks and stuff like that.
1:00:54
So when I wanted to get a sports car, he wasn't really Port of
1:00:57
about it because like he didn't know.
1:00:58
And like that also came into the engine building because I was
1:01:01
like, I want to change the Pistons.
1:01:02
I want to change that and he's like, no, why are you putting
1:01:04
aluminum pistons? And I like it's gonna, you're
1:01:06
fucking it up. Like, leave it alone.
1:01:07
I'm like, no, that I have to build this motor.
1:01:09
Like I want to do it. So I want to race, but that's
1:01:12
another another story. That's a second podcast of the.
1:01:15
So street racing was super prominent in that time.
1:01:18
Yes, car meats and stuff like that.
1:01:20
Oh yeah. So, there was a lot like back.
1:01:22
Then seen a big turbo car was like, a big deal, like you had
1:01:26
to To have money, you had to have resources, you have to be
1:01:29
into the game to like, steal the car like this, like, you back
1:01:33
then. I was like, dude, like this
1:01:34
person took an engine out of a car, modified it, but a big
1:01:38
turbo on in like, you know, like, that's a lot of money to
1:01:40
me back then for a high school, kid still a lot of money.
1:01:42
So back then, like there was Honda's racing at the local car
1:01:45
meets, and there was like, literally ten.
1:01:46
Second hand has with big turbos and like back then when like,
1:01:49
people just drop in pistons and rods.
1:01:51
So like they would have a lot of Pistons slapping.
1:01:52
Like, you would hear the Pistons in the the car.
1:01:56
I see what Idol in the And then you knew that was a bill motor
1:01:58
and like I would be like yeah oh my God I just got a bill morning
1:02:00
to be looked like CP persons pretty much.
1:02:03
Yeah. Would like 5,000 plus piss in a
1:02:05
while clearing. Yeah.
1:02:07
And the whole like they're just like rattling in there Jesus.
1:02:10
But is that really how it was? Yes.
1:02:12
That almost just seems unfair. Like I wouldn't want to do that.
1:02:15
Ha ha ha. I mean back then most of the
1:02:17
onion bills were like home build.
1:02:19
Yeah. Like you put it together at
1:02:20
home. So I look, that's crazy.
1:02:23
Just because I know all the machines I saw all the machines
1:02:25
that you guys use and shit. It now.
1:02:27
So, I mean it's unfortunately you can half-ass a lot of stuff
1:02:32
so like you don't need all the fancy machines and we honestly
1:02:35
don't even have that fancy of machines.
1:02:37
Like we're pretty standard for what we have.
1:02:40
Okay. There's a lot way nicer stuff
1:02:41
than we have but we what we have it does generally everything.
1:02:45
Like we don't need us fancy CNC home that measures by yourself.
1:02:48
You know we know how to read a double border like and the end
1:02:51
numbers are numbers so whatever machine you used to get there
1:02:54
like that's good. But you can't.
1:02:57
Can do a valve job at home. Like, you can't lap valves in
1:02:59
like, you can't call that a valve job.
1:03:00
You can't hold at home with a three-finger, hone drill.
1:03:03
Yeah, dude, I don't want to get into this yet, but I got
1:03:07
questions for you when we get to the valve jobs and stuff like
1:03:09
that because holy shit, absolutely.
1:03:11
So that's that's one thing. So like I said, you can get you
1:03:15
can have fast a lot of the stuff so that's why it brings the
1:03:18
industry down because Jose Ramon, like the backyard can say
1:03:23
that they can rebuild your engine for 500 bucks versus the
1:03:26
big. Machine shop.
1:03:27
That's going to charge you 1,500 bucks.
1:03:29
Yeah. So they go to The Joe Schmo
1:03:31
that's gonna freakin like, lap your head on that sandpaper and
1:03:34
like the video. Yeah, and Cletus down in
1:03:38
Paterson. Now, due to this guy, this guy,
1:03:40
this guy put like the engine head.
1:03:42
I think Riley from the road. Star showed me this video, he
1:03:46
fucking like, puts the engine or might have been fischetti.
1:03:48
He put the engine head, like up against a wall or some shit, and
1:03:51
he's just sitting there going, shh.
1:03:54
That is one way to do it. It is it is yeah.
1:03:57
Not if it's warped. If it's worth, you're not going
1:03:59
to get the Warmness out of that. That's just a clean up the
1:04:01
surface only we do that that's called lapping up in the head.
1:04:04
So like if you take like ahead and it was good enough say like
1:04:07
it's an iron head it's they're pretty sturdy.
1:04:09
Yeah. So you're trying to clean up the
1:04:10
surface then like we grab like a it's a piece of stainless like a
1:04:15
heavy heavy stainless. That's like ground flat.
1:04:18
And then like we put a sandpaper on it with a high grit and then
1:04:20
just kind of like scrub it with it and that flattens out like
1:04:24
the little imperfections out of it.
1:04:26
It. But that's where like minimal.
1:04:28
Yes, that's like to kind of clean it up and like usually
1:04:31
after you do that and you see like the kind of like where the
1:04:34
head gasket sets, you start to see like the witness marks.
1:04:37
Yeah. And that's when you know like
1:04:38
okay I need a real resurfaced because there's a gouge in the
1:04:42
where the head gasket is gonna seal, okay.
1:04:44
But most people won't think about it like that.
1:04:45
They're like oh I can just do that and you slap it together.
1:04:48
Throw a composite, which is fine, which because there's
1:04:51
composite head gaskets out there that will crush.
1:04:53
But when you're trying to do race stuff doing mls's, yeah.
1:04:56
That's not okay. No, you're not going to be
1:04:58
ghetto, get away with that. So needs to be perfectly flat.
1:05:01
You can get away with really Haggard stuff.
1:05:04
Like, in a tractor engine on a daily driver car, something like
1:05:07
stupid. Like that sure, it's not done,
1:05:10
right? But it ain't the right way,
1:05:12
you're not rectifying ahead, unless you have an ice
1:05:13
resurfacer or honing is on there to size unless you actually seen
1:05:18
a cylinder honing machine. So it's like if you're gonna go
1:05:20
to a shitty machine shop or some might be better off with a stock
1:05:23
head gasket pretty much. Yeah.
1:05:26
And that's That's why those machine shops Thrive because,
1:05:29
because up until recently, I would say the standards were
1:05:33
like that. They're like, people weren't
1:05:34
uses using mls's like this. Like people are using like o
1:05:38
rings and stuff like that. Like really old school stuff.
1:05:40
Yeah, I feel like, even OEM stuff is probably way more like
1:05:44
high-tech now, right? Yeah.
1:05:46
Now I'm all engines are like, MLS is pretty much right, I
1:05:49
think. Yeah, I don't know, but I would
1:05:51
assume like I could see that happening and BMWs and stuff.
1:05:54
Most of the stuff is like, all MLS is.
1:05:56
And wow. Yeah.
1:05:58
So now it's kind of like they got to start stepping up.
1:06:01
Yeah even Nissan actually switched over to mls's for the
1:06:04
BET turbo so and they still sell.
1:06:08
It's just weird because they sell a cell that head gasket and
1:06:10
they sell the s or teen head gasket.
1:06:11
So if you buy the s13 head gasket it's like a like a shitty
1:06:14
composite like cardboard. And then you buy the 2007
1:06:18
sr20det of the X of extra GT and it's a nice MLS like it's I
1:06:24
didn't know that. It's they bolt up to the A
1:06:26
certain block. So, like that's a cheap ticket.
1:06:30
You get an MLs on there and it's bulletproof to like I say up to
1:06:33
1,000 horsepower because that's what the, from what guys do.
1:06:35
Yeah. They throw the head gasket on
1:06:36
there. We've been using a peck.
1:06:38
See how caskets, how do you feel about those?
1:06:39
I love. Those are the best things.
1:06:41
Yeah, that's what we were thinking.
1:06:42
We're like, it seems like a Pepsi seems to be the best.
1:06:45
How do you ask it? It is.
1:06:46
Yeah, no, absolutely. Before Mass works.
1:06:48
I think mouse works copied that design, but the epitaxy head
1:06:51
gasket, I like it a lot because it's a full grommet around the
1:06:56
Crush. Yeah.
1:06:57
So it's kind of like an O-ring. Hmm.
1:06:59
So you can reuse the head gasket Ivory, use my head gasket like
1:07:02
five times. Holy shit.
1:07:04
So it is expensive, but if you were using your head gasket do
1:07:07
it, it pays for itself. Yeah.
1:07:08
So Tom make sure you get those pecs?
1:07:10
Yeah, just don't. Yeah, he always buys a gaskets
1:07:14
but I think he uses I mean he doesn't reuse them.
1:07:17
So, no, I would dig through the garbage.
1:07:19
I actually talked through my garbage and fun moment and
1:07:21
effects he had got thanks. It's Tommy better replace
1:07:24
everything and just pray back then.
1:07:25
Like, yeah, I was in that. Same mentality and I was just
1:07:28
like, you know what? Let me take my chances.
1:07:30
Yeah, the more I learn about engine building.
1:07:31
So I was just like, you know what, I got away with it when I
1:07:34
was I guess I wouldn't recent a customer.
1:07:36
I'll tell a customer now. Yeah.
1:07:37
Yeah. Bye.
1:07:38
Like I wouldn't like yeah I can reuse this if you want but it's
1:07:40
not gonna you know, there's no guarantee now.
1:07:42
Ya know she probably get a new one and thing is like I think I
1:07:45
posted about that one time in my Instagram story and somebody
1:07:48
like reused the there the Potomac oh no oh.look Russia and
1:07:54
it just instantly leaked and I was like well I saw you do.
1:07:56
I like yours and I was like yeah, bro, but I have the epoxy
1:07:59
one so I was like, oh I'm sorry, like you had to go used to go
1:08:03
with her and I was just like my bad.
1:08:05
So now I specify that like the Apex, he's the only one that you
1:08:07
can reuse. Yeah?
1:08:08
Because yeah, don't tell me what I mean, we have some here, I
1:08:14
think so wait. So the more we talked on the
1:08:16
head, that told me I had gas is no longer good.
1:08:18
No be well here's the thing, but mls's you can reuse mean don't,
1:08:24
you don't do this because I said it, but you can.
1:08:26
Reuse them LF you don't run them.
1:08:29
So like say like you put the head, gal it head on and then
1:08:32
you forgot to do something, you forgot to put the water
1:08:35
connector because like you can't do that without the head off.
1:08:37
And then you gotta take the head off.
1:08:39
So I can like, you can take the head off and then, okay, just
1:08:42
pop it back on in the domain. That's it, you haven't run it,
1:08:44
but if you ran, if you put a couple he Cycles on it, like I
1:08:47
would like that. That's done.
1:08:48
Okay. I was getting a little worried.
1:08:50
Yeah. But you did that with yours with
1:08:52
my engine. So sort of story.
1:08:55
What happened was I was I had a Built My Sr.
1:09:00
Hmm, I had a told me head gasket on it.
1:09:04
There was a washer inside. One of the in the one of the
1:09:07
cylinders I was like great, I took the head off and I was
1:09:10
like, okay, only the head took the damage.
1:09:12
I have a spare head laying around, took it off Swap the
1:09:17
head and then my friend torque. The the are P had stud too fast
1:09:25
and then it snapped. Oh, which brings us to our next
1:09:28
subject. Wait was it was a washer in
1:09:31
between the head and the block. No no.
1:09:34
Oh wait the small wash. Oh you mean like it crushed the
1:09:44
washer? Yeah.
1:09:45
Like don't know, it was just it was Inside the cylinder.
1:09:47
Okay. I was like I thought you claimed
1:09:49
it down but you did start it up. Yeah.
1:09:51
Started up in a heard it. Oh, fuck clicking.
1:09:53
I was like, you got lucky. Yeah.
1:09:55
And then I saw a picture of the head.
1:09:56
It's like a little chewed up. Yeah, squish bad.
1:09:59
It's got you up a little bit. Yeah.
1:10:00
That's where it will crush against the person.
1:10:02
So lucky about didn't get in the valve.
1:10:05
Yeah I tested it water. Yeah I kept the head so I took
1:10:11
the head off Swap, swap the head towards the back down snap.
1:10:16
The are P heads done. I was like, how the fuck did
1:10:19
this happen? Like he was doing it fast, like
1:10:21
he was talking. That lug nuts.
1:10:22
Did he have like the Lube on there and Molly under the washer
1:10:26
under the? Yeah.
1:10:27
Yeah. Did I mean that happens?
1:10:29
That happens all the time. So that I had a Frank.
1:10:31
I was like I need a set of are be head studs and even that day,
1:10:35
he was like, how do you snap and are be Head Start.
1:10:37
Yeah, that was years ago and that was the first time he came
1:10:39
here, right? No, no.
1:10:42
Before that. Okay.
1:10:44
That's why, that's why I was getting worried about reusing a
1:10:46
tummy, had got sick because I haven't told me head gasket.
1:10:48
Hmm, and my car's been running. Fine for the past four years.
1:10:52
No, no, your gold under. Thank you.
1:10:53
Yeah. If you're gonna have a problem,
1:10:54
you probably gonna have it. Yeah, it's from something else.
1:10:57
All right, but what was I going to say about orp head studs?
1:11:01
So you have a Love/Hate relationship with AARP has does
1:11:03
with us ours, right? Yeah.
1:11:04
So what happens is like the it's a faulty design.
1:11:08
I think. So the SR20 head studs are no.
1:11:13
It's the case, the K head studs are the same part number as the
1:11:16
dot Saturn 1.9. Okay.
1:11:20
Which is kind of weird. Yeah, what.
1:11:22
Yeah, now those are the same head studs and like, you'll find
1:11:25
that into a lot of engines. They share the same head stood,
1:11:28
they do the same thing with the fly wheel bolts because the fly
1:11:30
wheel bolts, we have, therefore afford, but they fit is our
1:11:33
yeah. And they'll say for the car bees
1:11:34
and everything like yeah. It's so a lot of the hardware
1:11:37
like main head studs and means those are pretty much the same
1:11:40
for I'm assuming there's like some sort of like a That yeah,
1:11:44
thread the thread pitch in the length.
1:11:45
And yeah. So like you mainly match the
1:11:47
thread pitch, if you match the thread pitch which is most like
1:11:50
Mitsubishi Toyota, they all usually use the middle of a
1:11:53
millimeter threads. So as long as your match the
1:11:56
length, even if it's just protruding a little too high,
1:11:59
you can you get the washer in there like you can use those
1:12:01
headstone? Yeah, that's not a problem.
1:12:03
Which is like one of the ways that SR20 people have been using
1:12:06
l19 head studs, is because the for b11 had stud is the same
1:12:10
length as an Sr, so they A cell fancy l19 material head studs
1:12:16
for for Bill Evans. So people that are SR20 people
1:12:19
that are trying to make like a lot of power, they will buy
1:12:21
those and they drop right in which is like weird from your
1:12:25
drive trick but it also work on SRT on dribble-drive but the
1:12:28
main problem is the length of them, right?
1:12:30
Yes. So talking about that reason.
1:12:33
Why the interchange so studs? So I think Matt ARP uses a
1:12:39
Volkswagen main stud for the SR20 head stud.
1:12:44
Okay. Or like one of those, it's like
1:12:46
a different engine. So the thread engagement is very
1:12:50
little because it's meant to be for an iron block.
1:12:53
So iron blocks are a lot stronger.
1:12:56
A lot stronger threads so it engages poorly into the SR20
1:13:01
aluminum. And then when you go to work it
1:13:02
up, and I think back, then they used to tell you to talk about
1:13:05
to like, 90 or close to 90, which is a insane.
1:13:09
Yeah. I don't know.
1:13:10
Still is the same for sure. Yeah.
1:13:12
They tell you doing three equal steps 294 pounds.
1:13:15
Yeah. So which I mean the the torque
1:13:17
in is right? They were an iron block.
1:13:20
Yeah. And for the Fastener which is
1:13:21
they determine that by whatever engineering calculations are
1:13:24
they do they? Yeah they come up with a torque
1:13:27
value so we don't have enough engagement on the aluminum block
1:13:31
because number one, they're using a different stud from a
1:13:34
Volkswagen and they just did the refused to make a SR20 specific
1:13:41
stud with the updated fix but Mass Works got them too.
1:13:45
So Matt I think that's the reason why Masterworks did it
1:13:47
was because they just are like right because the stud the mass
1:13:50
work cells is made by AARP. Yeah.
1:13:52
So they can't get them because I've tried.
1:13:54
So they have their own. Yeah they're locked.
1:13:56
Yeah there you can't do that. Unless you customize a fully
1:13:59
owned your own blueprint. Yeah.
1:14:00
Your own one, your you buy them directly from them.
1:14:03
Yeah. Which we do and we stock them.
1:14:05
Well, we try to whenever they have them.
1:14:07
Yeah. But you have to be like, yeah,
1:14:08
you have to go through a couple people to get them but but thank
1:14:10
God for Mass works for addressing that issue and coming
1:14:14
up with the right one. So yeah, because I personally
1:14:17
didn't have those issues ever until we started talking and you
1:14:22
brought it up and I was like, that's weird.
1:14:24
I never really seen that. And then I think someone else
1:14:27
had an issue with it and I was all of a sudden.
1:14:29
I started seeing this shit all the time.
1:14:30
Hopefully I didn't jinx it. Yeah, I was like, what the fuck
1:14:33
man? Remember when you were, you were
1:14:34
tightening head, studs on someone's and then you were
1:14:37
starting to freak out because JP had a problem.
1:14:40
Engine noise 50 years. Yes, waxes engine.
1:14:45
Yeah, and you were like, oh God, I remember using hair so scared.
1:14:47
I was like yeah. Because like I was I was on the
1:14:49
second step. I was trying to get to 60.
1:14:52
It was that like 56 and it just wasn't getting tight around.
1:14:55
Like I don't like this. Yeah.
1:14:57
And I'm edgy it tighten it up. I just, ya know they because
1:15:00
they the washers pushes onto the aluminum.
1:15:02
So like sometimes you get like that that spin.
1:15:04
Yeah, that's it. Yes, scares me.
1:15:07
Oh my God. So we did Tom's engine the other
1:15:09
day and he Add the mass works one, I'm assuming he did but I
1:15:12
don't remember, did he? Yeah, he bought the Mavericks
1:15:15
won. Yeah, right.
1:15:17
Yeah. Okay.
1:15:18
I feel like they weren't but I guess they were.
1:15:20
But um, yeah. So they're just a little longer.
1:15:22
They bought him out in the actual lot.
1:15:24
So, what I'm assuming is happening is the the regular ARP
1:15:27
ones are bottoming out with the threads?
1:15:30
Yes. So they buy them out before they
1:15:31
touch. Yeah, the threads and onto the
1:15:33
body. So like so you still, you still
1:15:35
could have some. Oh, absolutely.
1:15:37
Yeah. I have a picture of all three
1:15:39
studs. The half-inch, the ARP and then
1:15:41
the mouse works next to each other and you can visibly.
1:15:45
See how much more thread engagement.
1:15:47
The mass work, one has so at least I mean that that solves
1:15:50
that mystery I mean that's exactly what's happening.
1:15:52
Your tarshell e partially. Yeah, because the SR20 is also
1:15:56
like the 11 by one millimeter threads are just so puny and
1:16:00
well, I mean, at least we know what's happening, you know.
1:16:02
I mean yeah. It's it's obviously the the
1:16:05
studs not long enough. They're probably using it from
1:16:06
another one, you know, if only they just made One for the SR
1:16:11
instead of borrowing it, you know, I mean, yeah, I mean you
1:16:14
got to think about the Volkswagen Market versus the
1:16:15
SR20 market so like yes, ARP makes they make boats for
1:16:20
everything so they could just drop the SR20 bolts and then you
1:16:22
like, I, we don't give a shit like, yeah, we don't care.
1:16:25
So, but yeah, like you said the threads, you just don't like it
1:16:28
because it's aluminum and it's there just weaker, right?
1:16:30
Yeah, I mean, SR20 is, I just usually there.
1:16:33
They've been taken up are already like, it's 2023.
1:16:36
These engines are as old as us. Yeah.
1:16:38
So, Just more cheat. Like the block is brittle is not
1:16:42
a new blog. So like even if you use a mask
1:16:44
works, you can end up stripping and because that's what happened
1:16:46
and my engine. At first, when I had Masters
1:16:49
mashina, I have standard size studs.
1:16:52
I broke the timing chain. I sent the head back to master
1:16:55
is to get the valves fixed, got to head back and then like I
1:16:58
went to go torque it up and like it didn't hold 60 pounds before
1:17:01
it started like spinning dude. In like this was before.
1:17:04
I worked at the machine shop and do it and I was like my stomach
1:17:07
sank dude. I spent 5 grand.
1:17:10
And I know that feeling man, that's like I mean cuz now we
1:17:12
don't have that feeling because we're in the industry but like
1:17:15
pretty much when you're not and yours and you're stripping,
1:17:18
that's like hitting your quarter panel on some, you know, it's
1:17:20
like ah fuck. Now the cars like total pretty
1:17:23
much. Yeah.
1:17:23
Been there done that? Yeah, absolutely.
1:17:25
So I got feeling like fuck. It's like your spark plug
1:17:27
stripping out or something. Yeah, pretty much.
1:17:29
Yeah. It's like it did back then like
1:17:32
I assemble my motor before. Like that's the one thing I did.
1:17:34
Like I assembled the onions. I never had a stock SR20.
1:17:37
I had to put my first Asar 20 together.
1:17:40
From from up above, I brought one that was like burning oil
1:17:44
for like 500 bucks back then you could find a shitty sr-25 for
1:17:47
500 bucks. Oh yeah, so one of my buddies
1:17:50
call me he's like oh one of my friends has a Sr.
1:17:52
Something like you said you wanted and I was like really
1:17:55
like and he's like yeah how much you want for it?
1:17:57
He's like 100 bucks and it's like what he's like yeah.
1:18:00
He's like you just want to get rid of it and I was like, no
1:18:02
way. So we drove there and then I
1:18:05
show up and then this is like pretty wealthy kids house.
1:18:08
Like they have, yeah, he had like a show.
1:18:10
GT 500 knows this car. He's 18 years old.
1:18:12
It's Nicolas Cage. His his younger brother had a
1:18:15
Roush Mustang. He's like 16 years old.
1:18:18
The pretty wealthy is an understatement.
1:18:19
The veneer is oh that's the thing about Connecticut.
1:18:24
Like we have like the wealthy people like that.
1:18:26
Like there are low-key but they're cool.
1:18:27
Like and yeah, I guess like the mom.
1:18:28
And the dad had also like other roush's.
1:18:30
So like yeah. In the it was pretty crazy.
1:18:33
It was a relish. It was the Roush family.
1:18:35
Yeah. Let's get out of her.
1:18:36
Fucking ass are so I guess like he had a flatbed.
1:18:40
He had this flatbed and I guess uh, the story was that like one
1:18:43
of his buddies, had a 240 and it got stolen or something and then
1:18:48
I got he got it back and then like he got it back with a
1:18:51
flatbed and then I came to his house and his parents didn't
1:18:53
want it there. So he wanted a gun.
1:18:55
He was like, dude, 400 bucks for the whole car. 100 bucks for the
1:18:59
engine. So I was like, I was like, this
1:19:01
is bullshit. Like this isn't isn't that real?
1:19:03
Because like these are not to 40 kids and like my buddy was into
1:19:05
SRT for so like he didn't even know what an assault Tony was.
1:19:07
But he heard her talking about it saying like oh I want to An
1:19:10
SR, 20 Turbo. This is what came in the car, so
1:19:13
please tell me about the whole car.
1:19:14
So yeah, this is well, this is where it gets.
1:19:16
This story gets crazy. So we show up there and I'm
1:19:19
like, okay, like I see this s13 on the ground, like it's got no
1:19:22
wheels. Kind of like they took the
1:19:23
coilovers out. It's a hatch.
1:19:26
It's got Mark for Supra. Taillights, molded onto the
1:19:28
back. Like the fuck we.
1:19:31
Oh, yeah, yeah. Holy M14 super taillights.
1:19:34
No, no, because I feel like I've seen photos of that somewhere.
1:19:37
Yeah, people probably do this. Yeah, we'll have done that.
1:19:39
Like Like a few times. Okay, but 2G Eclipse with Mark
1:19:44
for super Taylor. Hell yeah.
1:19:47
Another common one is the What is it?
1:19:50
Goes on one of the Hondas where they put the the mark for super
1:19:54
like a fucking Skyline. No, right?
1:19:58
No, no, it was it they put it on, I think it EG or like a Del
1:20:03
Sol or some shit, where they put the fucking Mark for super
1:20:06
lights. Wow.
1:20:06
Oh my God. But anyway, so you had it molded
1:20:08
on this shell. Yeah, you could tell that, like,
1:20:11
somebody try to build this car so I was like, okay, let me see.
1:20:14
The engine is, this is what I'm after, I can buy another car,
1:20:17
like I don't have nowhere to put it, so we show up.
1:20:20
I think this was probably 2010. Yes, 2010 before I had an Sr.
1:20:25
Okay, so we show up there and the kids.
1:20:27
Hi, give me 100 bucks and you take the engine and whatever
1:20:29
else you want for me. So the engine hype, the engine
1:20:34
was like it wasn't installed, like the transmission was on
1:20:38
there like plopped in there and like they threw the engine and
1:20:41
like the crossmember and then the head was also off.
1:20:43
So, like it was like, like, if you like, like somebody got
1:20:47
evicted that didn't pay their bill and like, you through
1:20:48
everything together because you were pissed and let you throw it
1:20:50
outside. That's what it would look like.
1:20:52
You were halfway done through his engine building.
1:20:53
Like you threw it out. So the head was off.
1:20:56
Yes, that's so you should have took the tail.
1:20:57
At least in sold them on eBay. I regret the taillights.
1:21:02
I think about those taillights because I was like, damn dude.
1:21:05
Like those are all. Yeah, because there are looking
1:21:06
at them but like, back then like there were like, I don't know.
1:21:09
You could probably dime a dozen. Yeah.
1:21:10
Yeah. So back then.
1:21:13
So I gave the kid, a hundred bucks and then I took the head
1:21:16
and I noticed that he had BC stuff in it like Springs and
1:21:18
retainers you could see like a lot of the red our TV like on
1:21:22
around them boil pants. You could tell somebody touched
1:21:25
it put this thing together. Yeah.
1:21:26
Because the kid was like, This thing was built.
1:21:28
So like I was like, you're selling me a bill motor, 400
1:21:31
bucks like no. Like, that's right ends up here.
1:21:33
Alright, yeah, but then he's red red lights would be, oh yeah,
1:21:37
mmm, yeah, but at the same time I'd be like 100 bucks.
1:21:41
I'd be like, all right dude I'm fucking buying this shit.
1:21:43
Like I'm like if you're if you're that fucking dumb and I'm
1:21:46
just buying this far car right now.
1:21:47
Sorry, we got. So I'm picking up a car outside.
1:21:50
Everyone's staring at the camera right now.
1:21:52
Sometimes my car's not getting. No, no, you're good.
1:21:54
We gotta be like that's taking. It looks like that's where my is
1:21:56
is and they're getting in. So yeah you know as a reminder
1:22:01
this is an active shop. Yes.
1:22:03
So this happens. Okay.
1:22:05
Yeah I need to hear about this Som.
1:22:06
Yeah so you get the SR. Well so yeah I'm looking at it
1:22:09
and it's like okay like it is it's in pieces but it's got
1:22:13
Parts in its got like looks like Springs and retainers or 6mm BC
1:22:16
boxes and then like everything looks like really trashed.
1:22:19
Yeah. So Okay, 100 bucks.
1:22:21
I take the head, I take the block, I can tell it has some
1:22:24
aftermarket pistons and like, rods in it.
1:22:26
So I take that, it looks like a steady flywheel.
1:22:29
So I'm already like, okay, I'm really like making money.
1:22:31
Like yeah, here it is. So I'm taking that and then like
1:22:35
and then like one of my buddies, like starts taking off the
1:22:37
steering wheel and it's got ammo Champion.
1:22:39
Steering wheel. That I knew was like three, four
1:22:41
hundred bucks. So like we take that and then
1:22:43
like I take the walbro fuel pump and I forget what this is.
1:22:47
What else build sheet right here?
1:22:49
Going on pretty much. This is how I got my first swap
1:22:51
like was like, by the time, JP love the car was a show.
1:22:55
It was already on the ground. No one saw anyone see the movie,
1:22:58
Lord of War, anyone? Yeah.
1:23:00
Yes, remember the airplane when they leave it in the middle of
1:23:02
Africa and then, but the next day, they come and the whole
1:23:05
plane is dismantled. That's exactly what happened
1:23:07
with that or so. I mean, he said like, if I give
1:23:11
him 400 bucks, he would take it and like deliver the car with a
1:23:13
flatbed. But like I said, back then I was
1:23:16
young. My parents would never.
1:23:17
Let me, your dad would have killed.
1:23:18
Yeah, absolutely yeah. So I bought the motor, you know
1:23:22
I was like oh super taillights like I guess I should have
1:23:25
probably took those. I got this damn well I got the
1:23:28
Bobo the fuel pump? I got the the engine.
1:23:31
Yeah I got I don't know. For intercooler not I don't
1:23:34
think the intercooler can. How much is this?
1:23:35
200 $100? He gave me and then yeah he said
1:23:38
400, I could have took everything but a hundred bucks I
1:23:41
could take them over her and whatever else you can take
1:23:43
anything, you can walk away with bat back then those Craigslist
1:23:46
deal. Sometimes was it Craigslist
1:23:48
service to a buddy, you know, us through a body.
1:23:50
Yeah. Yeah, but I feel like people
1:23:51
back then, we're more willing to do that.
1:23:54
I caught like the tail end of that of people being super nice
1:23:57
at a sale. Like that's that's, that's when
1:24:00
did that happen to? That's how you got those Wheels.
1:24:02
That's does that sound? That's how I got.
1:24:04
Chris has wheels, those LMS, that's how I got Sylvia front
1:24:09
traded for a pop up front. The LM story is the craziest
1:24:13
story that's because we almost given the fast version.
1:24:16
Yeah fast version. I was on Craigslist, fucking
1:24:19
loved Craigslist. Then, by the way, shout-out
1:24:21
Craigslist. Cause that shit was dope.
1:24:23
Yeah. But I saw a picture of lmg d2's
1:24:27
didn't know what lmg d2's were had an s13.
1:24:29
Now, just Google it and they were 500 bucks, but it was only
1:24:32
a picture of one. And I was like, is this for a
1:24:35
pair? And he was like, nah, 44.
1:24:37
And I was like, what the fuck? So then I, but then I looked it
1:24:40
up and it was in, like, Buffalo or some shit, which was seven
1:24:43
hours from where I was from uses.
1:24:45
And I only had an s13, but it was, and it was an Sr, and I
1:24:48
straight pipe, the car, the night before.
1:24:50
Or drove up. There was talking to some dude
1:24:53
at the address I asked him like where's the wheels?
1:24:56
And the dude was like, what wheels?
1:24:58
And I thought I was getting kidnapped but then this other
1:25:00
guy showed up and he was like that was my neighbor.
1:25:03
Here are the wheels fucking lmg? Dues in the Box, I went home.
1:25:06
500 bucks. Boom.
1:25:07
Boom, that's crazy ing. T R-Spec Square, always a cat,
1:25:11
see them back then too. And like thing is I wanted l m
1:25:14
gt22 and I couldn't afford a my goes like a bro kid.
1:25:17
Yeah so I got my road up p45 Our suture like the lmg TT Ripple.
1:25:23
No, those are GT40, the GT40 2's were those like multi-piece
1:25:27
looking ones? Like on Chris's?
1:25:28
Well, the flat it was like a five spoke that was flat with a
1:25:32
lip. Okay.
1:25:33
Got you. I always get them mixed up.
1:25:35
Yeah so a gtlm GT40 I would like the newer looking without like
1:25:38
the more respect he gave me mad shit to like he had.
1:25:41
He was like, yeah, I got rid of my car.
1:25:43
Do you need like gear oil or like oil?
1:25:45
He's giving me like Amsoil shit. I'm like, which by the way at
1:25:48
your shop, we had a quick conversation.
1:25:50
Ation about oil. Mmm.
1:25:52
I believe driven Motor Sports was one.
1:25:54
Yes. But I use Pennzoil now.
1:25:57
Yeah, because of that other Pennsylvania.
1:25:59
So Pennsylvania. Oilfield thing.
1:26:01
Absolutely. Dude, I be by pencil, man.
1:26:04
Yeah, that was you support of the u.s. man.
1:26:06
We got the best racing oil here and Pennsylvania.
1:26:08
Yeah, you were telling us, we have the best oil field for
1:26:10
that. Now even that day I was on the
1:26:13
back of the label. Yeah.
1:26:15
We were at JB's shop and we had he was explaining how the oil
1:26:19
fields were And like on the labels and shit.
1:26:22
And now, when I'm at the parts store, I'll guide you, where was
1:26:25
this shit? I'm like, I'm looking at it.
1:26:27
I'm like, what the fuck this shit oil field in Texas.
1:26:29
Not get different. Yeah, I get a different one.
1:26:35
They actually had like those bottles have a like iced a like
1:26:38
Pennsylvania, grade oil? Like a damn Donna.
1:26:40
Yeah, dude. So that's what you want to look
1:26:42
for. Yeah, Pennsylvania.
1:26:43
Great. For like you're racing.
1:26:45
Sweet. Sweet, Pennsylvania.
1:26:46
Yeah. What's the reasoning for that?
1:26:49
So my boss Is saying that it's something to do with the, the
1:26:54
geographic features. Yeah, the land that section of
1:26:57
land. Pennsylvania also has a lot of.
1:27:00
What are those mines? Like, lime or is it what?
1:27:02
I think a lot of think mines? Yes, I don't know.
1:27:05
Did you just guess that you think is because zinc is the
1:27:08
shit in oil that I feel like it's a question.
1:27:11
Yeah, that's it's it's it's that and like I know in Rotella it
1:27:15
has a high amount of zinc in that I think in phosphor or
1:27:19
like, The two best ingredients that you want to look for.
1:27:23
Okay. So a high sink oil.
1:27:24
The sink is like the cushion. That's like it's basically like
1:27:28
a metal. Uh-huh.
1:27:28
So the more think you want you can have on your oil the better
1:27:32
but sinks going to ruin the cats.
1:27:34
It's not emissions from logs up the cats.
1:27:36
That's who did we. I honestly think it was Chris in
1:27:39
this conversation. Who told me that Rotella would
1:27:41
clog up a cat? But that, but then on Sr.'s.
1:27:45
Well, I mean, I guess who I don't know what it was early on.
1:27:50
But I knew that for some reason, but so what bro, not great for
1:27:53
cats, no one runs a cat. So, like, we're well allegedly,
1:27:56
allegedly allegedly, I don't have a hollowed-out one.
1:28:00
Yeah, yeah, just kidding. But no, yeah, that's that's what
1:28:03
it is right. You know.
1:28:04
That's what that is. That, that's why they got zinc.
1:28:08
Yes, it is a big deal in oil, you have to think about like so
1:28:11
oil back, like we, when we were young, we all got taught.
1:28:14
The oil came from molten dinosaurs, right?
1:28:17
Yes. So I guess we're going to run
1:28:19
out of it. There's not enough.
1:28:20
The truth is that oil comes from the crust of the Earth getting
1:28:24
mulched up and whatever over thousands of years and then
1:28:27
eventually Rises up and petroleum form.
1:28:30
These teachers were Liars is you know, yeah, I'm learning way
1:28:33
more, right. Mind you like I learn.
1:28:35
Morse is still there too. Yeah, no, absolutely wild.
1:28:38
So we get. So in certain areas of the
1:28:41
world, there's obviously different types of vegetation
1:28:44
and geography and all that. So different.
1:28:46
So Pennsylvania has a lot of zinc and / other minerals are on
1:28:52
that, and that area. That's what Pennsylvania is
1:28:53
known for a lot of Mining and stuff.
1:28:55
Yeah, so all that is a gets into that petroleum.
1:29:00
That's in that in that ground in Pennsylvania, marinate.
1:29:03
And yeah, and pretty much. Yeah, that's like the spice to
1:29:06
it. Yeah.
1:29:07
So my boss told me that oil from Saudi Arabia is it's different
1:29:11
obviously because it's other side of the world, they have
1:29:13
different back way back in. Prehistoric times, a different
1:29:16
type of vegetation than we did. So there there petroleum is It
1:29:20
for gasoline. So that's why that's the hot
1:29:24
ticket oil because everybody needs gas, huh?
1:29:28
So, gas oil gas, that's made from the Saudi Arabia.
1:29:31
Oil is the best one. Now, Venezuela is another part
1:29:35
of the world where there's a lot of good oil.
1:29:37
Venezuelan oil is good for cutting oils industrial oils and
1:29:41
that is all because of the geographical features of the
1:29:45
land have an effect on the oil that broths from the Earth's
1:29:49
crust is weird. Both places, he name is
1:29:51
somewhere America wants to go to war with.
1:29:53
That's crazy. That's why I don't write.
1:29:55
Well I was thinking more about if I die tomorrow.
1:29:59
You guys know I'm thinking about it as these are the
1:30:03
conversations where when I'm buying something I'm like huh
1:30:08
that that that right there is from from Venezuela.
1:30:12
That's good. I mean, you got the pro tip know
1:30:13
that that PB Blaster is going to work way better?
1:30:15
Yeah, I'm just kidding. I'm like industrial type.
1:30:20
What like hydraulic fluid and shit like that.
1:30:22
Maybe. Yeah I mean it also like
1:30:24
gasoline because Venezuela has stupidly cheap gas, despite all
1:30:28
like the socialism and stuff but Venezuela was a very very nice
1:30:31
place to live in in the early 2000's and then they had all the
1:30:35
all the gas, all the oils and stuff and they could have been
1:30:38
like I'm in Saudi Arabia. Yeah.
1:30:40
But you know politics are on that and now they have plenty of
1:30:43
guys and just yeah. Shit economy you know?
1:30:45
Well at least you bought that SR20 for 100 bucks.
1:30:48
Yes. Oh wrap it back around.
1:30:49
Yeah, okay. We were about to be in Falcon,
1:30:54
heavy tiptoe territory there so with me.
1:30:58
Yeah so I don't need to get Frankie riled up now with
1:31:01
politics and stuff like that and oil talk.
1:31:03
So all right let's we'll leave it at talking about the oils of
1:31:08
the earth oils of the earth. That's gonna be the name of his
1:31:10
podcast. So you got this as our 2,400
1:31:14
bucks. What do you start to try to put
1:31:15
it together obviously? Yeah, what do you do now?
1:31:17
Yeah, some Legos on the ground, he's a good.
1:31:19
It just 2010 zillion shit. That was probably your bread and
1:31:24
butter now. Yeah.
1:31:25
It was actually two for Deus, Ex 1.
1:31:27
Oh yeah. What is that?
1:31:28
246 one.com. That was an alternative site not
1:31:31
240SX motoring or whatever. They, no, no.
1:31:34
I mean, that's a well, that's a parts web so parts website.
1:31:36
Yeah, 246. One was like a form like the New
1:31:39
England to 40 people, which is like mainly like New Hampshire,
1:31:43
some in Connecticut. And that's how I met the people
1:31:46
because, like, when I got my 240, I was the only person with
1:31:48
it. Yeah.
1:31:48
Like people I want to escape are going to my He was like oh that
1:31:51
JP bought a Skyline was like that's the skyline and like he
1:31:53
was just going around, like tell me those kind of people, believe
1:31:55
them. Yeah.
1:31:56
Well, you know, you got this guy.
1:31:57
Then I get that. There's a right hand drive and
1:31:59
that's like, that's like that's 14.
1:32:01
Like this is kind of related to it but but my but the same.
1:32:04
He's got the same window switch. Its yeah.
1:32:07
Yeah. My engine is n a very much but
1:32:10
back then it looked like a two-door Nissan and yeah.
1:32:12
It was like yeah. I mean everyone thinks every
1:32:15
single 24, he's a GTR for some reason to his day.
1:32:18
Yeah probably see a hatch from the back.
1:32:20
Koki taillights like, oh, that's a GTR only happened a month ago.
1:32:24
Yeah, dude. Stop him like it was that
1:32:25
Skyline. I'm like, that's a 240.
1:32:27
Well, the all right. Bye.
1:32:29
Well, those those those s13 Cokie Tails.
1:32:32
Yeah. They're just circles.
1:32:33
That's why, I'm pretty. Yeah, they can.
1:32:35
Yeah. I like that rear end it like
1:32:36
that. I kind of look like when the
1:32:39
they put the R32 till I tell him to okay, but you lost Towing and
1:32:44
I'm sorry Frankie, just put the fucking super taillights.
1:32:50
I didn't Think the soup until eyes look that they kind of had
1:32:56
it at the car was a little whiter that shit out of here.
1:32:58
It kind of would have worked but they look nice.
1:33:00
I like the round was on that big, dude.
1:33:03
Imagine I was just well, he was telling me this, I was just
1:33:05
thinking, like, I'm heading. The guy that's just sitting
1:33:07
there. He thought I was a good idea,
1:33:08
molding this shit for hours, like it's just gonna be fucking
1:33:12
hot at the next hot important, nice.
1:33:14
It's just taking home a fucking trophy.
1:33:15
That's that's what would happen. It probably would.
1:33:18
It probably wasn't hot a nice card because like, Had a Momo
1:33:21
steering wheel like it had a semi Bill SR, 20 from what it
1:33:24
looked like. So like to time, he was kind of
1:33:26
like the amount. Have you done?
1:33:28
Anybody work at all? You haven't really fuck your car
1:33:30
up that bad right? No no, I crunched up a quarter
1:33:32
panel. Yeah, not gonna.
1:33:34
That's what I'm talking about, really?
1:33:35
Because it's like, you know, I hit a guardrail or wants or
1:33:38
whatever and I had to like, fix my quarter panel you to there
1:33:41
for hours, just fucking like, sanding it, what do you Skype
1:33:45
with in the super talents that the problem is is you weren't in
1:33:48
the right form. Here's the form of a body guy.
1:33:50
A cigarette in your mouth. Get the music going.
1:33:53
Yeah, absolutely. No knows I face ear protection
1:33:57
whatsoever. That was me so far.
1:33:59
It's a cigarette. Well, then you move, you were
1:34:01
missing a cigarette, okay? Then they're just she yeah, that
1:34:05
was can't be angry at nothing. You gotta be like gone and then
1:34:09
you're just like sitting there calmly and the secret.
1:34:13
And what do you say? When, when you think it's good,
1:34:15
you go? That right there is glass like
1:34:22
smooth as silk. Yep.
1:34:23
Like that, that, and you crash it again, so fucking long yet
1:34:27
and then you crash again at the wall.
1:34:29
Yeah. But you went on Import Nights,
1:34:30
do ya think you're winning bro? One eventually you will get
1:34:33
through this story. I promise you but it's gonna
1:34:36
yeah, this is over 10 years of my life were talking.
1:34:39
So yeah, because I feel like I feel like I love to get to know
1:34:44
the person behind it and we all know you build sick shit like
1:34:48
and follow the We follow the Instagram, we see what gets me
1:34:51
like and how and if and you if you want to see where it gets
1:34:53
me, go check out that YouTube video.
1:34:55
But like, I'm always curious like how does somebody get to
1:35:00
where they are now. So like, so you got this Sr?
1:35:03
This is has to be, probably one of the biggest Stepping Stones,
1:35:06
right? Because now you got this as a
1:35:08
kid, you browbeat weakened? Yeah, so I was I think 19 at
1:35:12
this point now. So yeah. 18 or 19 and I couldn't
1:35:16
afford an SR20 saw that was my thing.
1:35:18
Like, I could barely afford coilovers.
1:35:20
I got the coil over. That was all my money.
1:35:21
Took me like two years to save that up on top of paying my
1:35:24
parents back to 2,700 bucks for the 240.
1:35:26
Yeah. So like I said, a hundred bucks.
1:35:29
I was like whatever. So I bought that and I knew I
1:35:32
was like, okay like it's got pistons and rods and I was like
1:35:35
okay I can build a motor. Someone put this together I can.
1:35:37
Yeah so I was like I'm not going to spend.
1:35:39
I think back down for an S14 swap was like, probably twenty a
1:35:43
hundred bucks as 15. Swap was probably three grand.
1:35:46
So I was like, I don't have twenty hundred bucks so I can I
1:35:49
don't want to justify buying that like I couldn't.
1:35:51
So I got that Sr and I was like, I'm gonna put my own together
1:35:55
because back, then my buddy, with the SDI was also building
1:35:58
his motor because he wanted to put a big turbo on it, so he was
1:36:01
like, going through the process. I was like, you know what, I
1:36:03
want to build motor to so going back into the street racing
1:36:07
thing back like the street racing that I grew up.
1:36:09
I mean, the car scene that I grew up with was heavily into
1:36:11
street racing. So having a bill motor was like
1:36:13
a big deal, you know, it was like your bad ass, like your
1:36:15
car's powerful. Like it's sick, like engine
1:36:18
power. Being a bill engine like you're
1:36:20
the shit. So I wanted that like I want to
1:36:22
have a bill motor in my 240 even though I didn't need them.
1:36:25
A bill motor to have an Sr but like I was like I want to have
1:36:28
like a sick. Well you also just getting into.
1:36:30
I feel like we all make these Sim.
1:36:32
I'm not going to call mistakes but sometimes their mistakes
1:36:35
where it's like we just dive in too far, you know, yes.
1:36:39
So that that's part of like the what happened after that that
1:36:43
was because like you said, tough times, create strong men.
1:36:48
Oh yeah. Easy.
1:36:49
And create weak man or whatever. Yeah, so I feel like if I would
1:36:51
have bought an SR20 swap, dropped it in like how I'm doing
1:36:55
right now, it wouldn't have taught me anything that I would
1:36:58
have known now, because I had to put my first assault 20 together
1:37:02
using the parts that I bought for 100 bucks.
1:37:04
I use a Pistons, Eagle, Ross, Pistons.
1:37:08
I don't even know what Ross was still don't.
1:37:11
They're like an American company.
1:37:13
So yeah, they made pistons for us are 20.
1:37:16
Like I think they were the front wheel drive ones because they
1:37:17
were notched for the Oils quarter and you could tell
1:37:20
somebody did that by hand. So they probably brought final
1:37:23
drive Pistons. Put those in there and had Eagle
1:37:26
rods. I knew of Eagle rods back then
1:37:28
because nobody was on the people of Eagle rods, man.
1:37:31
Yeah, Eagle, Roger, good. So it had those.
1:37:34
I forgot what bearing had King bearings are.
1:37:36
Oh, yeah. And the bearings.
1:37:38
It had a didn't have studs, which is what, what saved me,
1:37:42
we'll get into that later. Okay, so I kept had, which was
1:37:47
BC Springs. Retainers I kept the Pistons and
1:37:51
rods the bearings and I kept the block.
1:37:55
So I bought all that. I brought it home and then I
1:37:58
went on to 46:1 classifieds and I search for like the cheapest
1:38:02
SR20 swap, I could find. So I found one that was in
1:38:05
Massachusetts that was like, burning oil or whatever and the
1:38:07
kid wanted like I think like 400 bucks.
1:38:09
So a red top assembled, you know, the oiliest shivs, really
1:38:14
good, scotch complete complete, okay?
1:38:16
And I think that the term. Yeah.
1:38:19
I like the long black was there like the manifold was off for,
1:38:22
like, it was like generally everything was there.
1:38:23
Uh-huh. And it came with like a super
1:38:25
hacked up wiring harness, this is before, wiring Specialties
1:38:27
was in business, I think, okay. And so I bought all that for,
1:38:31
like 400 bucks, we picked it up in the Jeep and then we got home
1:38:34
and then I took it all apart and I was like, okay, like we have
1:38:37
to rebuild this motor and I'm going to put the Pistons and
1:38:39
rods in it. So I argued, with my dad, you
1:38:41
know that we're changing the Pistons and rods and he's like,
1:38:42
no OEM Factory is the best. Like, why would you do that now?
1:38:46
And then I showed him the clutch and he's like, no, why would you
1:38:48
put a 6 Buck? Like You're supposed to use a
1:38:50
full and I was like no dude. Like well yeah, but your dad was
1:38:52
onto something. Yeah.
1:38:54
Like I get his philosophy like he just fix this stuff.
1:38:57
Oh yeah man. He works on big dump trucks and
1:39:00
stuff like that but like he doesn't understand the racing.
1:39:03
You know. Like I'm trying.
1:39:03
Yeah. Yeah.
1:39:04
I'm trying to go fast Dad. Yeah.
1:39:07
Right. Yeah.
1:39:07
And it was an argument getting I wanted a welded if so like when
1:39:11
I was first, when I first got my car and I learned that it hadn't
1:39:13
opened. If I was like, I need an LSD,
1:39:16
the drift. So I told my dad I was like
1:39:18
that, can you? Well, my Differential and he's a
1:39:20
goal. You're not doing that.
1:39:21
Like those are for people are stre raised.
1:39:23
I know what the fuck you're gonna do.
1:39:24
He's ads gonna break your transmission.
1:39:26
Bob, I know this. Like so, like there was no
1:39:29
asking my dad to, well, my differential.
1:39:31
Yeah, so you're kind of on your own.
1:39:32
Now, pretty much. So I went on eBay and I phony
1:39:36
300ZX, C32, differential on eBay for 50 bucks to hand.
1:39:41
I bit it on it and I want it for $50 and I was like, no way.
1:39:44
I want it. So it showed up dude, like the
1:39:47
box was all ripped up and it was like Was late at night are ever
1:39:51
going outside in the Box was like the death was like halfway
1:39:53
out. You can tell you that memory
1:39:54
man. Dude, it was the best times of
1:39:56
my life. Like remember that?
1:39:58
So I got the diff that was like my first real mod so I got it.
1:40:01
I put it in they, my first burnout.
1:40:03
I filled the rear end like skin around nose like yeah I have LSD
1:40:07
NOS win. That was hyped.
1:40:10
I was make a heightened back then I used to daily the car.
1:40:12
So like I told my one of the biggest things I told my dad was
1:40:15
like that I couldn't drive the car in the snow because it was
1:40:18
the one tire fire. Like I would get stuck on this
1:40:21
know, which happened a couple times.
1:40:22
Yeah. So how is that?
1:40:24
How is that? How you were trying to convince
1:40:25
him for the LSD? Yes.
1:40:26
So like, I mean, hey, for those kids listening out there, that's
1:40:29
the way, you convince your parents pretty much.
1:40:31
I was trying to like, use the responsible approach which I
1:40:33
mean was also, right? Because I shouldn't have been
1:40:36
daily driving. A welded if car like, I don't
1:40:38
agree with all the dips but like I also don't have money like 50
1:40:41
bucks is of a man, you gotta do what you gotta do.
1:40:43
So I put the LSD in and, you know, school and then I went to
1:40:47
the junkyard and I realized that S4 Base model S14 is don't have
1:40:50
a rear sway bar so I didn't even know that.
1:40:54
Yes, yeah, they don't believe it though.
1:40:57
That's crazy. Why didn't come and see where
1:40:59
either? So wait, like for real.
1:41:01
No, somebody just took it out of my car.
1:41:02
All right. Well or maybe it didn't.
1:41:04
Come on. I'm saying that he should put
1:41:05
that back in there. Yeah, very important sway bars
1:41:09
Snappy. So I like I said I wanted to
1:41:12
like, do the things to my car. I want to like fix it up.
1:41:15
So I went to the junkyard and I found back then J 30s where
1:41:17
everywhere. Yeah, back, like The 90s.
1:41:19
Nice times was flooded, the junker was like an amazing
1:41:21
place. I wish I had more money back
1:41:23
then. Yeah, so I got the sway bar.
1:41:26
I put it in my car and I feel like a world of a difference,
1:41:29
like, it was like holy shit. Like, yeah, because I had like
1:41:31
this little Back Road next to my house where it's like, kind of
1:41:33
like windy uphill and like, that's the way I still take the
1:41:35
work but like I called it like my tuning Road or I would like
1:41:39
do the mods in my car and go and drive it up really hard.
1:41:41
Okay, I wouldn't come back down. I'm like practice.
1:41:44
Yeah, just track. That was, that was the practice
1:41:46
front. So I felt my diff there.
1:41:47
I feel the weight sway bar there.
1:41:49
And that's pretty much how I started like to get the car
1:41:52
basically basic enough to drift like I Lebanon.
1:41:55
Yeah. So go to Lebanon with my V LSD
1:41:58
and just fucking draft and then it would fucking open up and it
1:42:00
was just be shitty, but I had a good time.
1:42:01
He knows Matt Young showing up at 14 inch tires and it was
1:42:05
great. It was great because it was
1:42:06
awesome. I lived in.
1:42:07
So then after that, I said, I got the motor, I got the SR20.
1:42:11
So I got the two Motors and I was like, okay, I'm going to
1:42:14
learn to put this in together because I want to build motor.
1:42:17
So I've had my dad, teach me, my dad to me.
1:42:19
Chemical engineer. So he had done an engine rebuild
1:42:21
the for. So he taught me how to like
1:42:23
laugh. No, vows.
1:42:24
We did like the basic at home stuff.
1:42:26
We bought like the three-finger home from AutoZone and we like
1:42:28
deglaze, the cylinders sick. And I like, I have like,
1:42:32
pictures of myself, like washing the head outside, like the, the
1:42:35
driveway, we like a garden hose. Like, it's like laughing and
1:42:37
like, I feel like we all been there, too.
1:42:40
Dude. Back then, Matt people talk shit
1:42:42
about that and I'm like, dude, I'm usually doing that nowadays
1:42:44
for a living, but the air hose and putting on Instagram.
1:42:46
People love it like yeah, you know, he had a block.
1:42:49
In my driveway and we're just, like hose it off and I sent it
1:42:52
to Josh. The least they'll never let that
1:42:54
go. Yeah.
1:42:55
No, they always bring that up. Like, already had that block and
1:42:58
you drive. When you guys were hosing it
1:42:59
off. I'm like dude you gotta do what
1:43:02
you gotta do, man? Yeah, I mean that's the way to
1:43:03
do it. That's all we clean blocks.
1:43:04
I wear. Yeah, you can we wash them with
1:43:06
water so that engine blew up anyway.
1:43:09
So, yeah, I put that motor together.
1:43:11
Like I said, we did the basic stuff just RI ring it.
1:43:15
We put the same bearings. We put the, I got it, okay?
1:43:18
Because the parents look good. Like, I Didn't want to.
1:43:19
I also didn't want to buy anything dude.
1:43:21
Like back then. Yeah.
1:43:21
You try not to spend a lot of money.
1:43:23
Yeah. So back then.
1:43:24
Like my budget was like 600 bucks.
1:43:28
So, I put that together. I bought the epoxy head gasket
1:43:32
because I read that. I was like the best one back
1:43:35
then. So I bought it was like the most
1:43:37
expensive thing that I bought for it.
1:43:38
Most expensive part of the build.
1:43:39
Yeah. It's like 250 bucks or 220 back
1:43:42
then. So I put it together.
1:43:45
I had to teach myself how to do the valve lash because I knew
1:43:47
that rocker arms or an issue of those are 20.
1:43:49
So how the hell did you do this without any tools?
1:43:52
That's what I'm saying. Where was the source of
1:43:54
information? So it was all on the internet.
1:43:56
Yeah, it said I started digging up and I went through the Sam's
1:44:00
and seeing how the, how the SR20 work like other valve out of
1:44:04
rocker arms worked. And why, why?
1:44:08
Why would people are having these issues?
1:44:09
So I was like, if you do things right, you know, they should be
1:44:11
good. So I went by the FSM.
1:44:13
It tells you to buy a four hundred dollar indicator tool
1:44:15
that like bolts up to the you had, which I'm still looking for
1:44:17
if anyone's got it. So I didn't buy.
1:44:19
I was like, no, I'm not spending $400 in this thing.
1:44:21
But so I found some dude, that was like, oh, you can make your
1:44:24
own by disassembling, a lifter, putting a rod in there and, you
1:44:27
know, just buying an indicator from whatever Harbor Freight.
1:44:29
You for like 20 bucks is not in. Yeah.
1:44:31
Is it something that you've done?
1:44:33
Yeah, I'm real job. We had a rod welded to an old
1:44:36
rocker. That's exactly.
1:44:38
That's all it takes to live so you actually made one.
1:44:40
So yeah I mean I made that piece because it's see looks like we
1:44:44
got to make me one. Yeah no that was before I went
1:44:47
to school. So like I had to teach myself
1:44:50
that like a what how to read a dial indicator.
1:44:53
Sorry, so I did that, I made the tool made my own valve lash,
1:44:59
dial it in. In perfect.
1:45:00
And then put the motor together. It had a nice Tony.
1:45:04
I ran into Stuckey's to you but T25 and I think it had a yeah.
1:45:11
It was like that for a little bit.
1:45:12
So I ran it had a little bit higher compression because I
1:45:14
bought the thinner told me head gasket because like I was like,
1:45:18
oh I want to up the compression and I want to be a badass.
1:45:20
Not thinking that I need a tune for this.
1:45:22
Yeah, so I put the thinner head gasket, I put the Pistons, I
1:45:25
don't know what the hell, the Pistons compression ratio or
1:45:27
they could have been 12, could have been crazy.
1:45:30
So what it together and then we fired it up and it ran like and
1:45:34
I was just like oh my God like this thing is awesome but then
1:45:38
it starts smoking, really bad. The whole garage filled up with
1:45:43
smoke and this is like a week before the big you can car show
1:45:46
like back then, I was like big into car shows.
1:45:48
Like I had to make the spring car show.
1:45:52
Excuse me. So I was like, my body was like,
1:45:55
oh I just drive it, you know, is whatever.
1:45:57
And I was like, no, something bad happened with the Rings.
1:45:59
Like, yeah. As I can't, like, I gotta take
1:46:02
this apart so I had to take it apart again, found out that I
1:46:07
bought. Oh yeah, Nissan piston rings for
1:46:10
the Ross Pistons so I don't know you.
1:46:14
You like the Pistons? We're unique.
1:46:17
Sorry. Sorry.
1:46:18
Sorry. The the ring package is unique
1:46:21
to the Pistons. Oh, so even if Are at the same
1:46:23
bore size. You can't just slap like oh um
1:46:26
Pistons. I mean oh um, rings on je
1:46:28
Pistons vice versa. Like it's you can grab them,
1:46:31
right? But like they're not like the
1:46:33
ring plans are designed differently and there's
1:46:35
tolerance is to be had on the Rings to the Piston, okay?
1:46:38
So that's where I failed. I bought OEM piston rings for
1:46:40
the Ross pistons and there is smoke in there burning oil.
1:46:45
So I was like, okay great, take it apart again.
1:46:48
So I bought a set of je use je piston, so somebody on an Eco
1:46:53
Club. I bought Pista je pistons for
1:46:55
like $200, thank you. So I got two pistons and I put
1:46:59
those pistons in there with the Rings.
1:47:01
My dad showed me filed the Rings, we filed them and that
1:47:04
one ran good. So we're smoking, no more smoke
1:47:07
and I was like, okay, thank God. Like we got it right?
1:47:09
Everything ran good. So I drove it for a little bit
1:47:11
with the stock T25, is that computer.
1:47:14
And then the sketchy wiring harness that I had.
1:47:18
I started like acting up on me, like it would it would just
1:47:21
freak out the car would like start like to stall and like I
1:47:24
would I remember at one point I shut it off in the car wouldn't
1:47:26
shut off it like stayed running and it was like, dude, it was
1:47:29
like it was possessed. So I freaked out and I was like,
1:47:32
you know what, like I hate half-ass shit.
1:47:34
Like I hate this, like everything about the socks.
1:47:37
So I parked the car and I bit the bullet and I bought a
1:47:41
wearing specialty harness back, then like brand-new was like
1:47:44
$400 fully loaded and it was a d.t. version.
1:47:47
So It was a d.t. reason. I had the Tianjin back then so
1:47:50
that made it like Drop it. So yeah.
1:47:53
It drop into the engine harness and like, now there's no
1:47:56
electrical issues. Hmm.
1:47:58
So I bought a 2871 are terrible for like, 600 bucks.
1:48:06
I bought a nice to nice to you, for like, 300 bucks, was trying
1:48:09
to go fast. I know I'm like, damn not.
1:48:11
Now, this is a later date. Here's the downhill.
1:48:14
Yeah, I mean, I had a bill motorized.
1:48:16
I was like, I don't want to be stuck.
1:48:18
Turbo. Like, I'm gonna get my, my
1:48:19
Labor's worth. Like, I want this thing to be
1:48:20
fast, so yeah, I was like, the 2071 are, is the hot ticket is
1:48:24
stock location? I can use the stock manifold, so
1:48:27
I bought 20 and 21 our and I bought a factory log manifold
1:48:33
that. Had a waist, be welded to it
1:48:34
Frankie's setup. I got that.
1:48:36
So I bought. Yeah.
1:48:38
I bought that and I bought a waste guys because I wanted
1:48:41
externally skin. I was like, yeah, it's cool.
1:48:43
Yeah, I don't care. I had that.
1:48:45
I think I had another T25 for a little bit and it Only gas like
1:48:48
little turbos with the way schedule.
1:48:50
Still worse. It was like, yeah.
1:48:54
So I bought the 2071 are about the supporting mods.
1:48:58
I think I bought STI injectors and z32 math, probably the z32
1:49:04
math. But then when you can get them
1:49:05
at the junker, like I used to go to the Jungle time, I got all
1:49:07
these things for like, like, 53:32 Maps.
1:49:10
Now, that's like gold. What?
1:49:13
Yeah, is it? Yeah, because you want an oem
1:49:15
one. Yeah, so you got to find you.
1:49:17
Those toes is Us our fucking Maps Fox hair that you are
1:49:20
fucking terrible. Any time someone tries to buy
1:49:22
ice our electric anything. I'm just like well, no, every
1:49:24
time I've seen one on a car and like if it's running it almost
1:49:28
doesn't sound good. Yeah, always there.
1:49:30
Yeah. They just they never seem to
1:49:31
work. Right.
1:49:32
So I always try to sway people away from anything and then
1:49:34
here's JP at the junkyard getting them.
1:49:37
Dude, that's a good, that's a big was like 10 bucks, a pop.
1:49:40
Hell yeah. Better idea to get old used OEM
1:49:44
Maps. Yeah.
1:49:45
Or to get a standalone and get a map sensors?
1:49:47
Yeah. That's the that's the goal.
1:49:49
So you got all the map. So now do you slap this in
1:49:53
together? And it's do you made a rocket
1:49:56
ship like so yeah. So I put the turbo on it and got
1:49:59
them, the ECU and we're getting put the little supporting mods
1:50:03
on it and I brought it over to the tuner and that that to and
1:50:07
all my buddies cars around and use like the one, the guy that
1:50:10
knew. So we got the cartoon like, he
1:50:13
looked at it and like, I don't know.
1:50:15
He got kind of like a bad Vibe out of it, the whole car set-up
1:50:17
because Like I reuse like the pcv pipes and once you were use
1:50:21
those like the Press fit losses on them so like they don't
1:50:24
really hang on. So it was kind of like loose in
1:50:26
there and I was like spewing a little bit of oil.
1:50:28
Oh he was just like calling all the bad stuff that was wrong
1:50:30
with it and I was just like you know I was pretty embarrassed
1:50:33
cause I was a guy like you know there's some half-assed shit but
1:50:35
like generally the car is okay. Yeah.
1:50:38
So that's your first build. Yeah.
1:50:40
So don't mind you the Leaky PCV or weird catch cans.
1:50:43
I use like a thermos for a catch.
1:50:45
Can like mark metal. Yeah.
1:50:48
Snapple bottle. So back.
1:50:49
Then, I also didn't know anybody that welded, so whenever I
1:50:52
needed like, I think my, my blow-off valve like blah, a
1:50:55
blitz, SS blow-off valve, which is yes sick for, like, for my
1:50:59
body, for like, 20 bucks and the flange is likely keys.
1:51:02
I like a J-B Weld it, and I was because I didn't know anybody
1:51:04
that welded back. That's why J-B Weld it.
1:51:06
A lot of things that we are in a cooler and I worked out so, but
1:51:10
the dude ended up turning my car and it made 330 wheel 350
1:51:14
torque. Damn, pretty good which is dumb.
1:51:17
Yes, it is. Only fast as fuck.
1:51:19
Yeah, he turned it. He turned it in like remember
1:51:21
the it was like the Fourth of July weekend.
1:51:22
Like he like it was like Fourth of July day and he's like oh I
1:51:25
got your cartoon. It made like 3:30 3:30 so far
1:51:27
and I was like oh my God, no way.
1:51:29
So I got a dart over to like the tuners and like I'm like yeah
1:51:32
they're America they made more fucking torque than his power.
1:51:34
Like so I was stoked because like I did a little bit of work
1:51:38
to the car. I think I use like the front
1:51:40
wheel drive camshafts that I found at the junkyard also Alpha
1:51:43
0 sr20det Ena which are a little bit.
1:51:46
I think higher profile. A little, A step above the det
1:51:50
stock in terms. That's pretty cool.
1:51:52
So it had that little bit of a pep up in the camps and I think
1:51:54
I did some Port work to the fucking exhaust manifold.
1:51:57
I like shank. God knows what that look like.
1:51:59
Yeah, now did, it was like, it was sketchy but like I kind of
1:52:01
had a weird idea but it worked. Yeah, made Power.
1:52:04
Due to me. 3:30 we. Yeah.
1:52:06
It was sick. Dude, it was the fastest thing I
1:52:08
had to die. I remember, I went to my friends
1:52:11
house and was downtown Bristol and I'm like ripping this
1:52:13
freaking thing like downtown and I'm like, I've I didn't even put
1:52:16
the the shifter. Cover the plastic heat coming
1:52:20
out. Yeah, he and like a hot tranny
1:52:23
fluid. I was so happy that I guess just
1:52:25
like ripping on it. Picked up my buddies.
1:52:27
You know, that was the thing that was like, that was my setup
1:52:30
in Iran but I never drifted with it because at least I got it
1:52:33
event. Yeah, because I never trusted, I
1:52:35
knew it wasn't balanced. I knew I was smart.
1:52:37
I knew things weren't right and it still didn't run right,
1:52:40
because when I got it tuned I got a tune with a shitty
1:52:43
harness. So the new harness kind of like
1:52:46
you gotta go reach him but I I was like, dude, I can't afford
1:52:49
to get a retuned. I didn't want to go back to that
1:52:51
guy because like you didn't like my car.
1:52:52
He's gonna make you get a roast you when you come in.
1:52:54
Yeah, I told you so. So, but back then I also thought
1:52:58
that, you know, you got your cartoon once and that's it like
1:53:00
you're set for life. So I learned so that set up.
1:53:05
I never trusted in like back then I ran with that setup up
1:53:09
until Lime Rock started doing drifting back when like yeah,
1:53:12
Iraq was first starting and I think I was in I was already
1:53:18
going to school. I went to school for a machining
1:53:20
because I was originally going to school.
1:53:22
I wanted to go to school for being a commercial pilot but I
1:53:25
was too young, you know. Like you you're not going to
1:53:27
find a commercial Pilot's like 18 years old flying a
1:53:29
transatlantic flight. So I was, I got to do something
1:53:32
to mean time. So I was like, I want to be a
1:53:33
cop. So I was like, no.
1:53:36
Then that was when I realized I like Street Racing's.
1:53:38
I was like, now I wanna, I want a serious.
1:53:40
I don't want to be a cop. I want to be a bad guy, so
1:53:45
machine shop, it is. Yeah.
1:53:46
So I got a job. I think I was like cleaning
1:53:49
houses. I was like, because I wanted a
1:53:50
Monday to Friday job, so I could go to the car meets on the
1:53:52
weekend back. Then I worked at a CVS, so I
1:53:56
they would, I was the new guy, so they would put me on the
1:53:57
weekends. And I would hate it because
1:53:59
that's when the car meet up and it was Friday nights and
1:54:01
Saturdays. Yeah, so I was like, I'm not
1:54:04
making enough money here. I got a need a better job.
1:54:05
So I found a job on Craigslist as I like organic made a, how
1:54:10
service. Okay, so, you know, just show up
1:54:12
the people's houses and clean and it was like it was like or
1:54:15
causes the very clean because it was like Organics, it was like
1:54:17
rich People asking us to come in and like, just make things smell
1:54:20
good. I was you say.
1:54:21
What's that mean organic? So we use, like, we didn't use
1:54:25
chemicals. Like, we use a homemade cleaning
1:54:27
products. Yeah, that was a thing, I guess.
1:54:30
But it's also a thing because like, people pay good money for
1:54:33
that. Yeah.
1:54:34
Like they because like mainly the thing is like we had a lot
1:54:36
of special-needs clients so like they couldn't they couldn't
1:54:39
handle like bleach and stuff like that so it was good for
1:54:41
that. That makes sense.
1:54:42
Yeah. Not only has to be lavished like
1:54:44
oh I got I'm not God but so In a sense like it was good in that.
1:54:50
So, okay, so you're doing this, so I'm doing that.
1:54:52
I have my weekends free, I'm making a little bit more money,
1:54:56
so I hated that SR20 and I was like, I'm parking my car.
1:54:59
So I park my car for like two years and most of my 240 friends
1:55:03
are just talking shit. You know, they acquire years, I
1:55:06
would say me right now I was about to say damn won't do it
1:55:09
beat you to it. Whoo, two years.
1:55:11
Yeah. And I was like, I might daily to
1:55:13
at the time. So I would just drive my parents
1:55:16
cheap like the stupid Jeep. Cherokee and it just sucks.
1:55:19
So, I'm just saying, two years is a long time when you're that
1:55:21
young, you know? Yeah.
1:55:23
Absolutely. Like, you know, and that was all
1:55:25
you were into it like street racing and having a fast car and
1:55:29
drifting pretty much. Yeah.
1:55:31
So, I decided to make the leap onto Machining because I needed
1:55:36
a better job. And like, my dad was already
1:55:38
working in the Machining manufacturing business.
1:55:41
So he told me to go to school for that.
1:55:43
So I did because I was like when you when you're my end, goal was
1:55:46
to build my motor, you know. Have a Cigar but I wasn't
1:55:50
planning on working like directly with cars because I was
1:55:52
like, I don't want to make a hobby out of my.
1:55:54
Yeah, my job on my hair because it's going to kill it.
1:55:56
I know, smart thing. So, Aerospace manufacturing pays
1:56:00
really well. So, I went to school for
1:56:02
Machining for like, I did like an apprenticeship because I was
1:56:04
going to school for like General Studies, like like a random
1:56:07
colleges for a while just like wasting my time.
1:56:09
Yeah. So I went to the school that
1:56:12
offered the Machining and I went with the Machining program.
1:56:15
So I did everything. They taught me how to read it.
1:56:17
Caliper how to literally how to use a file and everything like
1:56:21
from scratch, it's pretty cool. Yes.
1:56:23
So the team had reached blueprints basic Machining, but
1:56:28
mainly it was learning how to read calipers, read measure
1:56:32
stuff really accurately in like, that was the biggest thing.
1:56:35
It wasn't so much getting to use the machines because I was
1:56:38
afraid of the machines. I still didn't know, but I knew
1:56:40
how to measure now. I knew how to read a blueprint,
1:56:43
measure thousands and stuff. So I finished the program and my
1:56:48
car was still down, so I got a job and then I was, I forgot how
1:56:51
much I started making. It was making like 14 bucks an
1:56:53
hour and back, then I was making like I think like a dollars an
1:56:56
hour. And I got a job with your degree
1:56:58
from the school. Yes.
1:57:00
So well, I got an apprenticeship and then one of my buddies
1:57:03
worked at a machine shop. Next door that like also did
1:57:06
Aerospace. There's like a complex.
1:57:08
So he's like oh whenever you graduate like come work for your
1:57:10
because they gave me a bonus like a thousand dollar bonus.
1:57:12
If you get somebody hired. Oh yeah yeah.
1:57:14
So I was like We'll see what happens.
1:57:16
So I went to school, then the the unpaid internship, I learned
1:57:19
some stuff and then the program was over.
1:57:23
I got my certificate and it was time to get a job.
1:57:25
So my want to apply it on my buddies job because the place
1:57:28
that I did my internship, they ended up laying off a bunch of
1:57:31
people like you just something happen between us, I'm glad I
1:57:33
didn't go there. So I went to my buddy's shop and
1:57:36
then the supervisor, there's also Columbia and so they be
1:57:40
like me and you know, we started talking and he got me in there.
1:57:44
So the company is a contractor of prime Whitney.
1:57:48
So like we made engine components like and we we were
1:57:52
known that machine shop was known to make really complex
1:57:56
stuff. Like we made like the oil pump
1:57:58
drives in gear drives for like these jet engines and they're
1:58:01
made out of very exotic metals like wasp alloy inconel.
1:58:05
Like stuff that you see like on the space shuttles.
1:58:06
Yeah, in the tolerances are ridiculous and like the shapes
1:58:09
are absolutely insane. Like compound angles like you
1:58:12
have to be a very seasoned machinist still like be able to
1:58:15
do this type of stuff, okay, so I got thrown in there because
1:58:18
you know they needed somebody and you know so I picked it up,
1:58:21
you know, they started giving me races.
1:58:23
I was like making like probably making 18 bucks an hour and you
1:58:26
know, I I was like, all right, I'm doing it.
1:58:28
I'm learning. Yeah, and I was still not doing
1:58:31
my own things so I was like I want to look at built motor.
1:58:33
So I went to I got I saved up my money, then I went to Larry's
1:58:37
Auto Machine, and Groton Connecticut, which was where my
1:58:40
buddy had his Subaru, motor built and they were expensive,
1:58:44
like they were one of the most expensive shops, but I knew that
1:58:46
they were race and I knew that they were Import Shop, so I had
1:58:49
them build my SR20. So you pulled the engine out and
1:58:53
yeah. So I pulled that out.
1:58:54
And then I wanted a new engine to be built and I wanted it to
1:58:58
be AV ET because I had the dtn, I was a shady and had to me is
1:59:03
here on our on it and I was like this But, like back then I
1:59:06
forgot to mention that when I ran into the vbos, I don't know
1:59:09
how I ran into him, but like I remember like the valve cover
1:59:12
struck out really hard. Like the p12 is the, I mean,
1:59:15
this is the reason I, I knew who you were cause you had that
1:59:17
engine, that engine, that's what set me aside from.
1:59:20
Yeah, the crowd and the and your car look really good.
1:59:23
Thank you. What's a?
1:59:25
What Arrow? Was it?
1:59:26
The I had the full in Devon. Yeah.
1:59:28
Are okay. Yeah.
1:59:28
But that's not really common either.
1:59:30
So yeah. It wasn't.
1:59:31
Yeah. That's like that was one of my
1:59:34
things. I was like, I was Devon dude.
1:59:35
And yeah it had a case I was like, all right whatever big
1:59:37
back then. I bought the navon then if I'm
1:59:40
from bumper was like, 600 bucks. I bought it from a dealer in
1:59:42
Canada. You shipped it.
1:59:44
The skirts. I paid like 400 bucks.
1:59:46
They shipped from Thailand. When did you start caring about
1:59:49
the outside of the car as soon as possible?
1:59:52
Oh, okay. So you so you did because the
1:59:55
whole time we're telling we're having this conversation.
1:59:57
I'm like he seems to be very focused on performance.
2:00:00
Yeah, I skipped the whole Arrow era because Yeah.
2:00:04
Now I was I was when I was younger and I didn't know
2:00:06
mechanical stuff. Like I said.
2:00:07
Yeah and most of the time it's like that appearance stuff
2:00:11
usually waits till the end anyway because like, you're
2:00:13
trying to eat your car running. You're broke, you know, you
2:00:15
don't want to worry about. Yeah, don't worry about that.
2:00:18
So, engine suspension first, then they are.
2:00:20
Okay. Yeah, but you did but you did
2:00:22
want to make it look good. I think I did because I had
2:00:25
already lowering springs on it. They had to tokiko Blue struts
2:00:28
with like some. Yeah, back Springs.
2:00:31
So the car was already kind of low.
2:00:33
And I wanted. The K ran fine.
2:00:37
It was already five speed so like I could do K things would
2:00:39
be fine. Yeah.
2:00:40
I was like, oh thanks. I just wanted the car to look.
2:00:42
Cool. I wanted to take a swing
2:00:43
keitaro. I want the hell.
2:00:45
Yeah, I got found about them ivanka's.
2:00:46
I wanted to do the Cokie front end.
2:00:48
That's like what I fell in love with, I felt what that white
2:00:50
ones I wanted that. So I said, oh, for the Sankey
2:00:52
but then I found about the Devon and I was like, you know what,
2:00:55
I'm going to make the zenki local until I can afford it.
2:00:57
I like to thank you for a man. Everybody here like zenki?
2:01:00
Yeah. Well, I don't know.
2:01:01
Yeah, well oh, you are. Yeah.
2:01:05
JP is too. Well, here's I mean thing is a
2:01:08
wing though that has to be the whole koki.
2:01:11
Yeah. Well the thing is what really
2:01:14
set me aside to love this and Kimora is the fact that when you
2:01:17
look at an S14, it's a 90s car. It's a bubbly car.
2:01:21
Yep. It is round.
2:01:23
Yep. The Cokie front end is very
2:01:26
sharp. That's why I like it.
2:01:27
It makes it look like a new car. Yeah, only the front, but if you
2:01:31
look at the car, like say like in an angle likes, it is my
2:01:34
iPhone's, the car. And you're looking at the front
2:01:36
end and you can also see the sides.
2:01:38
You can see that. The back end is really bubbly.
2:01:41
Yeah, in that really contrasts to me nowadays when somebody
2:01:44
pointed that out. Yeah, ever since.
2:01:46
But I agree with you. But I mean the the wing The Wing
2:01:49
makes a sharp, makes it a little sharper in the back.
2:01:51
That's why I needs the wing. Yes, I got it and the rear like
2:01:54
spats that. Come on.
2:01:56
A Cokie that are sharper. Yeah.
2:01:58
But at the end of the day, that car is round like the like the
2:02:01
roofline like like I like when people do the S15 And a hatch
2:02:06
because the hatch has like the kind of like the the wedge type
2:02:10
so like the headlights flow up. Yeah.
2:02:12
And also like when people do Yakko Wiki front end like an
2:02:16
advert s13, I remember seeing one a long time ago.
2:02:19
You never gonna sell me on that but I saw them because the Ester
2:02:22
team coops are square. They're more squarish.
2:02:26
Yeah. So I thought it looked better on
2:02:27
that 13.4 way so it it did for a very short, like a month, bro.
2:02:35
Hey An RV 20. And yeah, I remember now.
2:02:39
Yeah, so dark times. So yeah.
2:02:44
So I like, so the navon I was like, damn, then of on looks
2:02:47
really good. Yeah, you know, Works back then
2:02:49
I would look up everything that I looked up as Japanese us for
2:02:52
teens like back. Then if you looked up like a
2:02:54
nice and Kee it was like on work meister's 18s and like had
2:02:59
enough on front and that usually I saw like a lot of Australian
2:03:01
builds so they were already like the Neva narrow.
2:03:04
They just put wheels on them and lower them.
2:03:05
I thought that was super cool. So I was like, I want that novan
2:03:09
front bumper and I was like, who, like 600 bucks?
2:03:11
For a bumper? I was like, that's retarded.
2:03:13
Yeah, that's a crazy. Like, how you gonna spit?
2:03:15
You just spent $200 on a head gasket, you thought was, you
2:03:17
know, the world. So that's what I'm saying.
2:03:19
This, this down, this slope is so slippery because you go from
2:03:24
like Yeah, let me piece this together.
2:03:28
I'm going to pieces together. And then now as time progresses,
2:03:32
which is funny, because this happens to literally everybody,
2:03:35
I feel like you go from kind of not half-assing everything,
2:03:40
totally, you're putting effort into it but then you're like,
2:03:43
fuck, let me put in more effort and that effort comes in the
2:03:45
form of money. I knew this was going to be a
2:03:47
slippery, slippery slope. Once you brought up that turbo,
2:03:50
but then so the Vee Is that did you get like a ve or something?
2:03:57
Like so you say you saw it, you saw them.
2:03:59
So I saw them online because I was always just researching SR20
2:04:02
stuff. Yeah.
2:04:03
I was just like, you know, building Motors and before I
2:04:06
decided to part out what the det was, when I saw what the video
2:04:09
was and I was like, what's a front-wheel drive engine?
2:04:11
But back, then I would go and, like, JDM Engine Depot and like
2:04:15
look up as our 20s and then I would see like the ETS DTS and
2:04:18
then I'll see you at the front wheel drive once and I'll see
2:04:20
you. Like I start 20V and I'm at the
2:04:21
fuck is a ve, yeah, as I goes from 0. 500 700 bucks.
2:04:25
I got nobody wants that like by like the center engine but then
2:04:29
I found out. I was like a really popular
2:04:32
swell not really popular but like like the Godlike swap.
2:04:36
Yeah. Like a hybrid conversion that
2:04:38
like only like it is like god tier 4 SR20.
2:04:41
Well because correct, and you're the person I want to ask is the
2:04:46
ve has a really high cam lift. Is that true?
2:04:51
Yes. Like a wildly High Factory.
2:04:53
One. It's kind of like it's the the
2:04:56
be serious versions of the of the Nissan.
2:04:59
So like the DTs are turbo engine.
2:05:00
So they have mild cams and have a turbo to compensate, but V's
2:05:04
just have the better Port design.
2:05:06
They're made to make more powerful motor.
2:05:08
That's a merit. They came in, that was a that
2:05:11
engine. They used it a lot in racing, in
2:05:14
the well, they, for the Paris, they use daddy.
2:05:17
He's, oh, that's a de. Yes, the still the deed, but the
2:05:21
Primera P11 had the Neo baby. Well, the ve optional so like
2:05:26
some of the Premier GTS came with the ve but generally is a
2:05:29
det car, okay. So the deal of he's kind of like
2:05:33
came afterwards and there was only also like a CVT tranny.
2:05:36
So yeah, it was like not good for.
2:05:38
What is that doing in there? That's what.
2:05:39
Yeah, you know, like that's kind of weird thing is like.
2:05:43
Then the Neo VB L stands for Nissan Eco oriented variable
2:05:48
valve, lift. Oh, informational.
2:05:51
That's what it stands. Never knew.
2:05:53
Yeah. People are ever interested in
2:05:55
finding out what that means. Also the neon rb25det.
2:05:58
Is that Nissan equal oriented. So what Nissan did is they they
2:06:03
I don't know if it was like a law thing or something, but they
2:06:06
figured out let's make the engine.
2:06:08
Let's optimize the engines and column eco-friendly because now
2:06:12
they're better performing their saving more gas but at the same
2:06:16
time they have way more performance features and they
2:06:19
make more power, more efficient? Yes, yes.
2:06:22
Quote unquote, you get better gas mileage.
2:06:23
Yes. But you also, you can floor it
2:06:25
and like, you can go really fast because asagi makes almost as
2:06:29
much power as a det. That's what the target they were
2:06:31
really, wow, really capable engines, dude.
2:06:34
Like when you said God tier? That's like probably yeah, yeah.
2:06:39
So the ve like back then it was a team of Norway.
2:06:42
It was TPMS Builder. Der.
2:06:45
I think, if I'm saying it right, but they had to VTS.
2:06:48
Esther teams that are drifting and I remember seeing a video in
2:06:51
like 2012 of these cars drifting.
2:06:53
The engine is just there were like 900 horsepower engines,
2:06:56
like Filippo drift cars and through the way they sounded was
2:07:00
just incredible. Like it was just it's not like a
2:07:02
chainsaw. It was just gets all these
2:07:03
things were revving to the sky, do it and it was like waste gay
2:07:06
screaming. I was just like I never heard
2:07:09
and as chassis sound like this in my entire life.
2:07:11
Yeah if you go like on YouTube right now you can look up team
2:07:14
BS Builder and SR22 V ET and it'll come up, I'm pretty sure
2:07:20
those videos are still up and that's why I was like dude I
2:07:23
need that like I need that sound and then I found out the valve
2:07:25
cover. Look cool.
2:07:26
And I was a good eye. Looks cool as fuck, so it's like
2:07:28
sick as well and then like, I realized that it's like a super
2:07:30
expensive swap in like really hard with a pain in the ass.
2:07:34
Really custom really fabricating intrusive and naturally
2:07:39
naturally you go to. So that was when I started
2:07:42
getting the job. I got the big boy job.
2:07:44
Yeah, but unquote. So, my first paycheck went to
2:07:46
getting the navon from bumper that I always wanted.
2:07:49
Okay. Cuz I had a, I had the nerve on
2:07:50
skirts. I had the case Wing had the
2:07:53
cool, the Vaughn a valances and then I didn't have the what else
2:07:58
did I have? Oh, and have that bumper, I had
2:08:01
the usdm bumper with a usdm lip. So I was like, I'm missing the
2:08:05
knob on bumper so I bought the Devon bumper 600 bucks.
2:08:09
I think was like my entire paycheck back then and I was
2:08:11
like sick. I bought it now.
2:08:12
The thing is I can get started on the on the engine.
2:08:15
So I found a local guy named, Jamie Marsh.
2:08:20
This is my tuner now. He used a Central guy like
2:08:25
because actually one of the local people in the skate park
2:08:29
that we were that I grew up with next to, he was an older guy and
2:08:32
he had a century back. Then we everybody called him
2:08:34
pops. So like when he found out, I had
2:08:36
a 240. He was is all you guys, and I
2:08:38
told myself I wanted SR20 by and he would always tell me to go.
2:08:41
You want, like, the video and I was just, like, what's up with
2:08:44
you? And he's like, oh, this is what
2:08:45
we have in our Centrist and stuff and I do this is like
2:08:47
40-something years old. He's not that old.
2:08:49
Yeah, but he's like old enough and he still had the Sentra.
2:08:52
So that's stuck to me. But he's like whenever you want
2:08:55
to get into it, let me know. I can hook you up with the
2:08:57
people. So I did the DT and then I was
2:09:00
going to venture into the new build and I was like, I want to
2:09:03
do something crazy. Hmm, because my body with a
2:09:06
Subaru, he did something crazy, he made his car will drive, but
2:09:08
a big turbo on and like, use, like he made a rear-wheel-drive.
2:09:11
Yeah, so he was a, he was a ball on the other channel.
2:09:16
What the fuck is this? Is the one, the one friends that
2:09:18
I was with, and I think it was great, being friends with them
2:09:20
because we push each other because Would decrease shed and
2:09:23
I want to do crazy shit. Yeah, I think but he wasn't
2:09:25
really into drifting but like he saw me dressed.
2:09:27
So he wanted to drift the car. So like that's when he like he
2:09:29
was, I got me make my car would drive for like just for shits
2:09:31
and giggles. Yeah, but the main thing was
2:09:33
like, he wanted a bill mortar with a big freaking BorgWarner
2:09:36
turbo. Big STI turbo like sick is fast
2:09:39
car. So I was like, okay, now I need
2:09:42
like a sick-ass build. Yeah, so I was like, let me let
2:09:45
me attempt the video. Oh my God.
2:09:47
So I hit up Pops and then he's like, oh call this, do Jamie
2:09:49
Marsh and then I called Jamie and I told him, I said, hey man.
2:09:52
My pops mu over like I'm trying to build like a ve like I was
2:09:57
honored to have a to 14 is 14 and then like he gave me the
2:09:59
rundown, he's like I got I got a couple hats for sale like come
2:10:02
down Mimi and Wallingford my shop so okay.
2:10:05
I met with up may not put them and I bought actually I made up
2:10:08
with a dude before that was one of his friends is like a quest.
2:10:12
It was a quest for this engine right now.
2:10:14
It is imagine that I've never seen before is only on the
2:10:17
internet and like, but but you you got the Hook-Up do pops
2:10:20
though. So that's yeah.
2:10:21
To the Yeah, so I got ahold of Jamie and then his oh pops was
2:10:28
friends with Jamie and Mark, Mark was more of like he was
2:10:30
still in the in the in the game and they were like the their
2:10:34
Club was called SR20 deep like dep.
2:10:38
That was their Club. There were like these three
2:10:40
racer Honda. Sorry I can trust.
2:10:43
Yeah. Lucky for you, the early 2000s
2:10:44
because they always tell me is like, all you think you missed
2:10:46
the street scene when you are young as I like, if you saw the
2:10:49
pike 10, how was like back in 2005 or whatever?
2:10:52
It was like dude there's like mad cars and everything as a
2:10:54
humanist out, the good stuff. Yeah but I got like the last end
2:10:57
of it before they retire because like they were there were the
2:11:00
people that I looked up to we have the same situation around
2:11:02
us kind of like there was like old heads that drifted to yeah.
2:11:06
But nobody drifted it was just like all.
2:11:09
Yeah, you're smart like racing stuff.
2:11:10
Yeah. So I told Pops idea, I was going
2:11:14
to do the build and stuff because I had to build motor and
2:11:16
had good luck with the DT. And I was like, I think I'm
2:11:18
capable of doing like a sick building.
2:11:20
So Got I went and saw Mark, Mark offer me a couple heads, they
2:11:26
had been valves. So back then.
2:11:29
Like it was like, I think he offered him for like 300 bucks
2:11:31
each and I was like, now I'm looking for something complete
2:11:35
that I can just like, slap on and go.
2:11:36
I'm not trying to do, like had work, Val jobs, and all this.
2:11:38
Like, I'm not gonna fall out that much.
2:11:41
So I told my passed on that and then Jamie had mint.
2:11:45
Heads still goes, like you still messing with the Centrist so he
2:11:49
showed me one. That was supposedly good.
2:11:52
And then 600 bucks. Like this was there's a big
2:11:54
bucks for a head back then like pretty much what the motor set
2:11:57
cost. Yeah.
2:11:58
Which when today's, I mean, that sounds like nowadays to head is
2:12:02
1,500 1,600 dollars. Yeah, for the head itself up to
2:12:05
like two 21 bucks, this is something that bad for what you
2:12:09
get, Frankie for what you get, put the wallet away, aren't you
2:12:14
have to build it? That's the thing.
2:12:15
Yeah, it's a whole nother. Like, what is the process now?
2:12:18
Like, you get the head and then so, I got the head and I was
2:12:21
like, okay, I got Prep the bottle, man, because I realized
2:12:24
that you need to leave you all your palm.
2:12:25
You need a special vvl pickup tube.
2:12:27
I learned a lot of stuff from Mass works.
2:12:28
That's when I found out about Mass workers because like,
2:12:30
Masterworks had were the only ones in the states, do on the DL
2:12:33
stuff. Okay?
2:12:34
And they sold parts for it. So I was like, I can't afford a
2:12:38
master extension. So I when I had Larry's Auto
2:12:40
Machine and Grand your bottom and they use the machines
2:12:43
everything, I put it together, at home to save the four hundred
2:12:45
bucks of assembly. That's emotionally charged, but
2:12:48
because I was like, I know how to put an outfit together, I can
2:12:49
file my own ringside Capital everything.
2:12:51
So I Put the motor together. Then I got the head from Jamie
2:12:54
and I sent a machine shop to get just for surface and the Machine
2:12:58
Shop told me, I had four valves. So I was like great like now
2:13:02
this head has four Valves and I paid double for when I could
2:13:07
have bought the other one that had four valves for 300 bucks.
2:13:09
So I didn't know Jamie other time.
2:13:11
So I got mad, you know? And I was just like, bro.
2:13:13
Like you really fucking did this to me, bro.
2:13:15
I spend fucking 600 bucks in the oven like we got.
2:13:18
In this argument goes like Jamie's.
2:13:20
Also a street Racers to like, you can't Really approach is
2:13:23
three racer like that. Yeah, it's like he's been
2:13:25
through some shit. So, yeah, he's not.
2:13:28
He's now my age, he can. Yeah, he's like, so I got up
2:13:32
uppity with him and whatever we fought in then he ended up
2:13:36
giving me like four valves or something and I mean that
2:13:39
whatever that's good at least. Yeah we like squash 24.
2:13:42
I forgot to wear what but he gave me the valves and then I
2:13:47
took the valves I gave him to the dude.
2:13:48
He put the he did the valve job on.
2:13:50
It was some like really shitty machine shop in tow.
2:13:52
Renton that only did Subaru heads to do jobs, one of those.
2:13:56
Okay? So he charged me 300 bucks for
2:13:58
the whole job in like he wrote it in like this 1950s looking
2:14:00
for. See notepad thing that yeah.
2:14:02
Yeah, he have them here. And the show.
2:14:05
They did, you do, we use computers, we use computers.
2:14:08
We have, where the hell is it? There was this pad here about a
2:14:12
yellow paper? Yes, yeah.
2:14:14
That's, that's the style. They didn't like you walked in
2:14:16
there and like you think our shop was bad?
2:14:18
Like, no, dude, this place is like, I couldn't recognize the
2:14:21
machine. Like it look like it was just
2:14:23
junk and now I didn't even look inside, so I don't know if he
2:14:26
had a real Valjean machine or not.
2:14:27
Yeah, because you don't need a value machine to do valve jobs.
2:14:29
You can use grinding Stones, which is okay, if you're
2:14:32
skilled, but, but like, isn't that just like your kind of just
2:14:36
dreaming? That's what I'm picturing when
2:14:39
you said grinding Stones. Yeah, but I mean before you guys
2:14:42
think about Valjean machines didn't come out up until
2:14:44
recently. So Val Stone, valve jobs were
2:14:48
like the how it was done before Valjean machines became more
2:14:51
accessible. To the public.
2:14:52
Yeah. A lot of the head work stuff.
2:14:54
Seems like it's it's almost like an art.
2:14:57
Yes. It's more delicate.
2:14:59
For sure. Yes.
2:15:01
It's very intricate because you're changing shapes your
2:15:03
versus like the bottom and you're just honing but that's
2:15:06
like for me because I'm very like I want to say OCD in the
2:15:11
wrong way, but I like very OCD, like, very perfectionist type
2:15:15
mentality, so I'm like, what you're going to do, you're going
2:15:19
to do like a port job and you're just going to just grind away
2:15:24
with a grinder. Like they don't, like it doesn't
2:15:27
make sense in my head because I'm like, how, you know, if
2:15:28
they're exactly the same. I totally, I did.
2:15:31
And I'm exactly the same way. And I came in with those same
2:15:34
approach Pro and like now, after doing it myself, it's a whole
2:15:37
different thing. Yeah.
2:15:39
Because, like I said, yeah, You say you're growing a little too
2:15:41
much in one poor. Yeah.
2:15:42
So have you seen what fucking intake manifolds?
2:15:44
Look like, they're all over the place.
2:15:46
They're all different. So like, why would a little bit
2:15:48
of too much riding in one cylinder?
2:15:50
But I can't see those because those are inside the manifolds.
2:15:52
Yeah, per se like say my Audi right now.
2:15:55
It's a 5-cylinder. Yeah it's got this extremely
2:15:58
inefficient manifold that like the the rearmost cylinder number
2:16:01
five is known to run hot and burn eval because it travels
2:16:05
literally like like a worm at the old screen savers in the
2:16:09
computer. It goes like that.
2:16:10
Like Like up until like the wastegate the pipes?
2:16:13
Yes, the pipes that face, that's it.
2:16:17
Yeah, I always think about that. So it runs like that and that's
2:16:21
why it gets that particular sound because of the man of
2:16:24
because it's running like shit runs unequal.
2:16:26
Yeah, it's an unequal length. It's like all over the place is
2:16:29
like a Subaru. Like the old Subaru is a bar or
2:16:31
because like the font the manifold funnels.
2:16:34
The post is different So you get these heads back, I got the head
2:16:40
back and well, I was saying with the valve jobs because I one
2:16:44
thing, so when you go to a drag racing competition and they're
2:16:47
rebuilding the motor on the spot, they're using grinding
2:16:49
Stones, they're not using a fog machine.
2:16:52
Yeah, so, you got to think about doing a valve job with a
2:16:55
grinding stone, can still be skilled and you can make it look
2:16:59
like an actual machine did, because you use different sized
2:17:03
Stones, different angle Stone. So you can manipulate if you're
2:17:07
smart, You can manipulate you can or geometry.
2:17:09
This is all geometry. You can manipulate the angles to
2:17:12
get the right size. Has the right diameters.
2:17:14
Shit done, man. This is like, I had it easy
2:17:16
because I have a Valjean machine and like, half the work is done
2:17:19
by the cutter so like the Cutters are a form cutter.
2:17:22
It's you just got to cut early grinding the angles on.
2:17:26
Yeah. So imagine grinding like cones,
2:17:30
like little circle cones up until you get like the funnel
2:17:33
shape. Yeah.
2:17:34
And if you grind too much, you're going to make it too
2:17:35
wide. And then you're gonna screw the
2:17:36
whole thing up. Yeah, so you have to know how to
2:17:39
hit the stone. It's an art form.
2:17:42
Dude it's like like real Colangelo.
2:17:43
Like type deal. Yeah.
2:17:44
That's the way I when I think of how it really is like I'm
2:17:47
literally like baffled because I'm I'm picturing myself sitting
2:17:50
here, Port, Port jobs are things that scare me though, okay?
2:17:53
I'm like Like being like, that's the tool.
2:17:58
Yeah. Like I feel like the other the
2:18:00
grinding wheels like Yeah, The Stone, rather, the stone valve
2:18:04
job. So.
2:18:04
But most people that do unless it's like a professional, like
2:18:08
they're not going to do a good Stone valve job.
2:18:09
They just don't voucher because they don't want to set it up in
2:18:11
the machine. Get everything dialed and they
2:18:13
can just hit it with like the 45.
2:18:15
Just hit the 45 angle grind it clean.
2:18:17
Okay? When I was, if it's even
2:18:18
concentric, they're just like, yeah, it's clean.
2:18:20
Good enough. It'll run.
2:18:21
It's a Subaru. Yeah.
2:18:22
So that's why it's not good going through those shops.
2:18:25
Yeah. Not being super anal with it.
2:18:27
Yeah. Like I could have gone in there
2:18:29
with my Subaru. Like 2001 Subaru, Outback
2:18:32
engine, he don't have a job with that would have been fine.
2:18:34
But I was looking for a multi angle, valve job like
2:18:36
performance object and I asked him, I was like, hey, you like
2:18:38
you do like multi angle valve jobs and he's like, yeah I do
2:18:40
all that bullshit, he didn't do that.
2:18:43
So I got the head of acting. I got the head back all fixed up
2:18:46
but at together with the it was basically a stock head with N1
2:18:50
cams resurfaced and barely washed onto the you my fully
2:18:54
Bill Block B. Oh man.
2:18:56
So I had that tuned and unfortunately mishap happened in
2:19:01
the tuning process and oh actually, I got it tuned because
2:19:05
I got it tuned in on this Tony. See you.
2:19:07
Okay, that I still had. Yeah, so the I guess like the
2:19:12
tuner copied the map from the from the new stone to the am
2:19:16
back when I bought when I because I landed the am and
2:19:18
Sylvia for like 800 bucks brand-new and I was like I want
2:19:20
a real stand alone because I for this build so copy the map over
2:19:26
And you're kind of it's always fucking engine block.
2:19:28
No, I mean values were out the roof and I drove it.
2:19:33
Like I drove it to a main power in the dino.
2:19:35
I floated a couple times drove to a car show at Mohegan Sun
2:19:38
casino, right? Like Probably 40.
2:19:42
Yeah, 40 miles, each way. And I think on the way back, I
2:19:47
start hearing like a ticking sound like so I'm like burnt
2:19:53
like hurrying home because like, I'm just freaking freaking out
2:19:56
and then I also like one of the like, the coolant nipples like
2:19:59
through the throttle body that like, usually you cap off, can
2:20:02
you have done? So like the coolant, like
2:20:04
Spilled Out and like now the cars like overheating and shit.
2:20:06
And I'm like pulling until a gas station getting water and I'm
2:20:09
like bugging out because like Like doing this.
2:20:11
So I get home, get to skate park and the car just idling it just
2:20:14
like. And I was like, bro.
2:20:16
Really like I didn't know what was happening.
2:20:18
I thought it was like sounds like there was this the ve was,
2:20:22
like, 2013, okay. 2013 was the first early for video on what
2:20:27
you were doing but I only got to enjoy that motor for 250 miles
2:20:33
before right before I realized that and I like 100 of those
2:20:36
miles were to driving to the casino and back.
2:20:38
So what ended up being the problem?
2:20:40
The to So like I knew something was off like in the inside but
2:20:44
it sounded like like I don't know how to say, it didn't sound
2:20:49
bad but it sounded like it was on the inside and I knew like I
2:20:52
was I was fucked. Yeah.
2:20:53
So I was really pissed and disappointed what you end up
2:20:56
doing with that I got back in the car and then I went to my
2:21:00
secret tuning Road and I went in fucking Florida.
2:21:03
I just went up and down dude. Like I was like I was like I
2:21:05
want to blow this shit up, dude. Like I got pissed dude, legis
2:21:09
this oxide, I get that. I totally get That no dude.
2:21:13
What? Yeah, so it's just knocking.
2:21:15
I'm gonna blow it up. No.
2:21:17
There was it wasn't knocking. It was like taking.
2:21:19
Yeah, guy. So something with the head
2:21:21
exhaust leak? I was like whatever.
2:21:22
Dude, I'm just gonna go and like I'm like, I have to tear this
2:21:24
down. I was like, I'm gonna get my
2:21:25
fucking money is worth, I only drove this with casino and back.
2:21:28
I'm going to Florida. So like I went up and down the
2:21:29
little road. Dude.
2:21:30
What you like doing 50 mile an hour is pretty sketchy and I'll
2:21:32
just floor in this thing and it dynode like 422 the wheels back.
2:21:37
Then it logos so smoke it. Yeah.
2:21:41
It is clearly. I was like roasting tires up and
2:21:44
down the fucking road, bro. And I was like, oh I guess it's
2:21:46
not blowing up so the end of the day and I'm sorry this is
2:21:48
getting sketchy so I parked it in my house.
2:21:51
Okay, so you were mad. Yeah, and I was like, all right,
2:21:53
this thing then blow up because like I was close to home
2:21:55
alligator bloats, then whatever it is what it is.
2:21:58
Yeah. So I took a home, parked it took
2:22:01
the head off and then I found the fucking ring land, like,
2:22:03
literally gone on the top of the Piston was like missing like a I
2:22:08
would say like a 1/8 of the, of the Dome Mount.
2:22:11
And then the Rings were like pretty much like dancing up and
2:22:13
down. So I was like okay that's that's
2:22:16
where the sound came from. So I fuck my brand-new bottom
2:22:19
end that I just spent thirty two hundred dollars on is gone so
2:22:22
and Moz work parts and all that. Yeah, so once again, young me
2:22:26
gets pissed off starts, bitching out the tuner.
2:22:29
Yeah, burn a bridge. And here I am Mega pissed off
2:22:35
and then whatever missed I think like another the rest of the
2:22:38
year. More people are talking shit
2:22:40
about me. And then talking shit because I
2:22:42
was talking shit about their to winner because like that was
2:22:44
there to her. Yeah.
2:22:45
So like they were like, all you fucked it up and I was like, no
2:22:47
bride and fuck it up. So like, but back then I didn't
2:22:49
know reputation of doing any. Yes, you like I couldn't say
2:22:52
anything but I was mad like nobody, like me back to know, my
2:22:54
240 friends are like like hating me.
2:22:55
So I became a little Outcast for a minute.
2:22:57
Okay? So but I don't know what my
2:22:59
Subaru kid, my Subaru friend who's also an outcast from the
2:23:02
Subaru world. So we were like diesel, Outcast
2:23:04
building. These fucking guy, but nice
2:23:06
things and I your Outcast blown motor.
2:23:08
So I kept working and then I was like, you know what, like I want
2:23:12
the best of the best. I want a mass Works engine, so I
2:23:16
was like, I'm gonna save my money.
2:23:18
Tax return came, I had like five grand saved.
2:23:21
All those are oh my God. Is the most money I ever had and
2:23:23
I think account. Hell yeah.
2:23:25
So I could amass works and as you go I was like I was like how
2:23:28
much for a I want a nest 13 bottom and I'll send my block or
2:23:33
something I. Yeah, but I know, Sarah block
2:23:35
for like 50 bucks. I'm gonna send a block.
2:23:37
I want a S14 bottom end for a Ve done with the CP pistons for ve,
2:23:43
whatever everything like you are manly rods this time because
2:23:45
they're a little bit fancier so manly rods CD, Pistons grocery
2:23:48
list and that was it. Yeah, the CB bezels are
2:23:50
extremely expensive, but that was the only ve piston aside
2:23:54
from the je. And I had the Jetties before.
2:23:56
But I think that's sold those her.
2:23:59
Something I forgot what happened.
2:24:01
Okay. So I want everything brand-new
2:24:04
like how my body that it goes like.
2:24:05
He had a better job. So like he had everything
2:24:07
brand-new and I wanted that too. And Done by Larry, I mean by
2:24:10
Larry's but also that motor blew up.
2:24:12
So now I want Mass Works, they do it.
2:24:14
Like I want, I know they're gonna do the head to did.
2:24:18
I have the head of hers? I think I might of.
2:24:21
Yeah, but it was like a basic, like Springs and retainers damn,
2:24:24
so you shit all that shit down there.
2:24:25
Yeah, I ship, well, I think it, they charge, like 300 bucks for
2:24:31
the core and I think for back then I was like if I buy a block
2:24:35
for like 50 to 100 bucks, ship it down.
2:24:39
It's not gonna be as much as like $200.
2:24:40
It was like over. So I was like, let me just by
2:24:43
the core for through them fucking bad ass.
2:24:45
Like I thought fucking optional. Yeah.
2:24:47
Core purchase. Yeah.
2:24:49
All the options. Yeah, I'm not understanding
2:24:51
nothing. I just all the kind of - yeah,
2:24:54
give me a word, GTI are five whole main bearings.
2:24:56
Yeah, whatever. Studs everything.
2:24:59
Like, I want a cool set up when you think about how they have
2:25:01
it. Yeah.
2:25:02
Oh absolutely. I thought it was I thought I was
2:25:04
like such a baller back. Then imagine you could have that
2:25:06
in the future like your own JP shop.
2:25:09
Calm you down there and that will make an announcement
2:25:12
leader. Oh, so stay tuned for that.
2:25:14
Yeah, for sure will make a big announcement now, I'm
2:25:17
interested. Yeah.
2:25:18
So anyways, so yeah, they had the menu and I was like, yeah, -
2:25:22
fuck is this shit like I love them.
2:25:23
This is what my dream is to have a master extension.
2:25:25
So yeah, like I never like I wanted to drift but I never
2:25:29
wanted to be like the best drifter.
2:25:30
I never saw drifting competitively.
2:25:32
I was like this is an art form the same way.
2:25:33
Cool. This is I like doing this is a
2:25:35
mild form, but like, I can't afford this.
2:25:40
I'd like to be sponsored. I don't want to be like, Aw,
2:25:42
like I'm the best of the world like nah, I just want to be able
2:25:45
to do this as cheaply as possible, and like these
2:25:47
sponsored by mass works and just get mass for extensions for
2:25:49
free. That was my goal.
2:25:50
That was a goal. That was my fucking go.
2:25:52
Yeah. So I was like I'll buy my own
2:25:54
Mass flux engine and like just build my rep up from there.
2:25:56
So I bought all that and then they ship me the I sent the
2:26:00
head. I thought the only thing I sent
2:26:02
I sent the head that I bought from Jamie.
2:26:03
Okay for 300, yeah, the six hundred dollar had I sent it
2:26:06
over there and I I bought the whole block from them, and then
2:26:11
they assembled the head assembled the block, but they
2:26:15
shipped everything in pieces in a palette.
2:26:17
So, I got the head bag. I did, I think, I just did Super
2:26:20
Tech valves overstay and oversized Wells, and springs and
2:26:23
retainers basics of them. Put that together assembled it
2:26:29
then I pissed off the other tuner.
2:26:31
So I couldn't go back to him which was fine because I was
2:26:34
just like you know I like I got eventually I'm doing cooler
2:26:38
stuff and I can't wait to go back to a and I burned that
2:26:40
bridge with all those kids. Yeah.
2:26:42
So I hit up Jamie who was also a tuner so I was like a man like
2:26:46
would you like I squash the Beast with them?
2:26:48
Yeah. Yeah because like that was the
2:26:49
biggest thing so you know that got settled in and then he
2:26:51
started hitting my car And the car ran great.
2:26:56
He got it back, put it in car and great.
2:26:58
Yep. Okay he wound up with the am he
2:27:01
likes? Am so the car May power me like
2:27:04
whatever power was making like 420.
2:27:06
The wheels still can't get the waist, go to work, but that I
2:27:09
was like, I'm happy with like what?
2:27:10
Turbo were you running around? So 3076 are.
2:27:13
Oh, okay. I bought it that bigger.
2:27:15
Yeah, big yeah, but I wanted like, my body had a Borg Warner
2:27:18
as 362 because you're just competing with him massive.
2:27:21
So like I was like, I don't want to be like ponies. 71 are like
2:27:24
I'm on the little bit, but I was like, I don't want like a 35 ri1
2:27:27
like in between seems like it's a good turbo.
2:27:30
I mean I should have gone with the 3071 but I was like 3076.
2:27:33
Like it's a vvl like it's got a big.
2:27:34
I wanted to make like 450 wheel like that sitcom like app.
2:27:38
Yeah, so I got that running and I was I got to making over 400.
2:27:42
Like I'm happy. So like I kept that and then I
2:27:45
started drifting more like with that setup.
2:27:48
That was like my first Turtles when I probably noticed.
2:27:51
Yes. Are, you know, you on A gram and
2:27:53
everything. Like that's probably what I
2:27:55
noticed. Ya know, you had that engine and
2:27:57
you were drifting it. So yeah, so I started.
2:28:00
Yeah, I got that engine in that that I kind of blew up because I
2:28:02
was the only one around with something like that and it was
2:28:04
like a really ambitious set up. And the thing is like I went to
2:28:07
school for Machining. And then my buddy with the
2:28:09
Subaru, went to school for welding.
2:28:11
So he wanted to become a fabricator.
2:28:14
So he did all my intercooler welding.
2:28:16
A me a custom manifold to your engine babe setup was sick.
2:28:20
It was a lot of custom to it. So like all the welding I was
2:28:22
able to do for Him. So I thankful for him like dude
2:28:25
I could have done to be if it wasn't for him being a welder.
2:28:28
Yeah, because I had no skills or means to pay anybody to well my
2:28:32
stuff. So yeah.
2:28:33
One of my good friends is a welder as well.
2:28:35
So so combined us out a lot, the welder.
2:28:40
Good old Ethan. Yeah, treasure treasury welders
2:28:43
man. They're really skilled people.
2:28:44
And oh, yeah, I guess it really thankful for the Fabricators
2:28:47
always be emphasized. Cousin, Frankie's, Doug's that
2:28:53
Then sometimes my what's wrong. My I don't treasure Ethan.
2:28:57
Yeah, yeah, get back in there and get back to work.
2:29:01
Hey, I mean Ethan, you know, he gets distracted easily.
2:29:05
Sometimes you gotta like send them.
2:29:07
You gotta be a little part of the craft.
2:29:08
Yeah, the craft. Yeah, it's kind of like an art
2:29:10
tooth. So, so, anyway, so I was just
2:29:15
hanging out you so he did the welding for me.
2:29:16
So that was a big advantage of doing the video stuff Machining
2:29:21
wise. I don't know if I did much to
2:29:23
That one myself other than like the one the valve lash.
2:29:26
Well what I'm wondering now is when went as you're still,
2:29:29
you're still working that job. When do you decide?
2:29:32
I'm going to quit this job and work on engines and stuff.
2:29:35
Yeah, so that didn't happen up until probably like, hmm.
2:29:38
I start working there like 2012, 2013.
2:29:42
It didn't happen until like 2018 when I quit that job.
2:29:44
So you were there for a long time.
2:29:46
Yeah because like that that's the job.
2:29:48
That taught me everything. So I started as an operator then
2:29:51
I got to do setups and then like I was going to make her stuff
2:29:54
that's pretty much the same shit that Miyagi wax did, or waxed?
2:29:58
Yeah. It's the same machine.
2:29:59
Basically a machine shop as you're working on crazy shit.
2:30:02
Yes, yes. So the thing is like where I
2:30:04
work being different than proud when you use that point, when
2:30:06
you're only pressing one button and that's all you're doing and
2:30:09
you paid a lot of money and you have to travel pretty far from
2:30:11
where I was. So, I don't want to do that.
2:30:13
I want to, I wanted to know how to set up everything because
2:30:16
that's what really pays is. The person that sets up the CNC.
2:30:18
Yeah, for the production guys to run.
2:30:21
So, the guy that I went and work for, like there was a small shop
2:30:24
that got bought out by a big Corporation, so they had to be
2:30:26
contract. So I learned a lot of that by
2:30:30
trial and error like we got these contracts and then like,
2:30:33
you know, it's like figure this out and like, I literally had to
2:30:35
figure it out. Yeah.
2:30:37
So there's some part numbers out there for the new Boeing 737
2:30:41
Next Generation. I literally made all the, it's
2:30:44
called, like a bushing. It's like a little, like, like a
2:30:46
round piece that's machine from like inconel, and it's like a
2:30:49
hundred thousandths thick and it crushes like a bearing Crusher
2:30:53
thing. And if you look at it, it looks
2:30:55
like a, like, a rim like a 12 inch rim.
2:30:57
Yeah. But that's what loads that
2:30:59
bearings of the engine and that's a very intricate piece.
2:31:03
It's got like all these Tabs tolerances are plus or minus 1
2:31:06
and all the diameters those are in Planes right now flying
2:31:08
around. Yeah those are there's two.
2:31:09
Yeah there's one on each engine that preloads the thrust
2:31:12
bearing. Guys, this guy built the planes.
2:31:14
You're in going a different countries.
2:31:16
All right, so just he can build your house are all right.
2:31:18
Trust me. That's when I realized, I was
2:31:21
like engines, you know what? Like, nobody's falling out of
2:31:23
the sky. So yeah, no one's falling out of
2:31:25
the sky. All right.
2:31:26
For a while at least and it's plus or minus one gram.
2:31:28
Not the only plus, or minus 2 times 2 times.
2:31:30
This literally like yeah. Fraction of a thousands.
2:31:34
So those are those challenges tolerances are way different.
2:31:38
They're like absolutely ridiculous.
2:31:39
Like almost impossible. Okay so if even engines It's
2:31:42
kind of like oh this is a little bit.
2:31:43
Is a walk in the park. Yeah, it was like It was insane.
2:31:48
So I worked there. I guess I'd it paid really well.
2:31:51
And it was a Monday to Friday job.
2:31:52
So you know I started like putting money in my car.
2:31:56
Getting more stuff done. Drifting going venturing out
2:31:58
going to Canaan. Came the club Lou started like
2:32:00
doing more. Yeah.
2:32:01
I definitely remember senior Club loose and I mean I also had
2:32:04
a couple issues throughout the build.
2:32:06
Like I was having issues with the shims on the pbl.
2:32:10
It wasn't that reliable. I went to Kenan a couple times
2:32:13
and like I got crippled because of the speed of Shame out my
2:32:16
Canaan. And I couldn't find the shim and
2:32:20
I had to get erased off. And I drove my car from home.
2:32:22
So I had like, I was like in the middle of sticks, New Hampshire.
2:32:25
Yeah, so it was like dude I need, I need a Shameless set up.
2:32:29
I'll come back then. I don't know much about these
2:32:32
heads, but so, like there's no rocker arm issues.
2:32:35
There are crime, is you're taking care of and now you have
2:32:37
the shims. So now you're snobbish, been
2:32:39
shims? Oh, I know I'm like wait, yeah,
2:32:41
was just swapped one for the other.
2:32:43
Well, it's probably rocker arm, hopefully will pop out and it
2:32:46
hopefully, He is right there and the shims are hopefully, where
2:32:50
they kind of the other ships could go to the bottom of the
2:32:52
end. Yeah, they could drop in.
2:32:54
That's another story. Real bad story right there.
2:32:57
So, so we have with the Deep with the v's, you eliminate the
2:33:01
rocker arm problem. Now, the problem becomes the the
2:33:04
shims. That's the weakest link at that
2:33:05
point. So, in your revving distinctive
2:33:07
about 9 Grand 9200, I think it was yes, sir, that damn, the N1
2:33:13
cams are like 288 duration, 288 exhaust intake.
2:33:17
This hotel. My it is, I got my energy back
2:33:20
from JP and he's like, yeah, you can read that thing to a time
2:33:23
like whoa, slow down. No.
2:33:24
You said like 85 or something? Yeah, I trust ya.
2:33:27
I was like, dude. I don't know if I could do all
2:33:29
that if it makes the part, that's the thing.
2:33:30
Like it's gonna start like, droplets on power, like so if
2:33:34
you make power up to like, it is an sr20det.
2:33:38
Yeah, yeah. So it starts falling off at like
2:33:40
6 grand so yeah, but in a ve like the way it flows and the
2:33:43
way the camshaft profiles you just have to spin it out fast
2:33:46
because it's like Good as to read really high.
2:33:49
Yeah. Due to the Moon.
2:33:50
Yeah, my need that. But it kind of sucks because it
2:33:53
gives you a lot of lag. So it's okay with that.
2:33:57
I'm all right. That leads into the other story
2:33:59
of the anti-lag, set up. But oh, geez.
2:34:01
Yeah. This is all I catch a little
2:34:04
snowball. Yeah.
2:34:06
Fiddling. I don't know if we have all
2:34:07
enough time for that. For all this.
2:34:10
How long have we are long right now?
2:34:12
It's three hours. Yeah, we fuck am I we're gonna
2:34:15
have to continue this another time.
2:34:17
Yeah. Which is great for us because I
2:34:18
want you to I'm gonna bring you back only at 2013 10 years ago.
2:34:23
Yeah for real I know I given I didn't know that you were in it
2:34:28
that early. Yeah.
2:34:30
Like I'm either because you guys are kind of the same age and
2:34:32
Frankie got in it. And you mentioned years of like
2:34:36
2012-2013 not 07 yeah. Yeah.
2:34:42
When the internet. Yeah, when I got to high here's
2:34:44
developed a fuckload. I was 19 or 20 when I got into
2:34:47
like drifting and stuff like that like your first car was a
2:34:50
spy school. Yeah.
2:34:52
And like not to speed through but so you got all of this ve
2:34:58
stuff under your belt and then fast forward like, eight more
2:35:02
years, I guess to 2018 was that when you started working on it,
2:35:06
yeah, Yeah, seizing. So then like you have all of
2:35:09
these years trial tribulations through fucking building this
2:35:12
ve? Yeah.
2:35:14
And when you got this job, I guess give us a little rundown
2:35:18
of like why you transition to take this job because I believe
2:35:22
what you've told me before as you took a pay cut, you know?
2:35:25
So I was like in a bad spot mentally like I broke up with my
2:35:30
girlfriend at the time. So like my whole life kind of
2:35:33
just like shit on itself like, yeah.
2:35:35
But the car was I'm good. So those beautiful those could
2:35:39
be worse that that, that was what kept me like.
2:35:43
That's kind of people really like knowing that go GPS.
2:35:45
The VT like yeah, thing. And then like I said, I wasn't.
2:35:49
I was in my job. I was a kind of boring
2:35:51
repetitive and then broke up with a girlfriend at the time
2:35:54
and I was like, I was like, fuck that.
2:35:56
So move back home and I was like, you know what?
2:35:59
Like I hate this fucking job. Like I'm gonna fucking shoot
2:36:01
myself. I keep working here, I hate it
2:36:02
and now that I am like dealing with a breakup like it's even
2:36:05
worse like you. Know what?
2:36:07
Fuck. Well we already see what JP does
2:36:09
when he's upset or angry. He just he goes full builds.
2:36:12
A ve? Yeah, fuck it.
2:36:14
I Quit. Yeah.
2:36:16
Or just pedal to the floor when the engines making noise.
2:36:19
Yeah, which isn't isn't like me that I'm a, yeah, calm person.
2:36:22
Yeah, very responsive. I show up to work every day.
2:36:25
But I was like, you know what? Like I'm gonna venture out.
2:36:28
So the, my buddy that was the Subaru kid.
2:36:30
He needs this. Peru guy, man.
2:36:32
Yeah, man. Pretty, pretty important guy.
2:36:34
Yeah, life. I'm very thankful.
2:36:37
We're not friends anymore unfortunately.
2:36:38
God damn it. Yeah well it's okay it was over
2:36:41
a drift accident. Yeah, that's another yeah.
2:36:44
Okay, we're definitely have you back on.
2:36:46
Yeah. Wait.
2:36:47
So you ventured out. The Subaru guy told me that
2:36:50
there is a machine shop locally because like the one and where I
2:36:54
had my motor building gratin was like an hour away.
2:36:56
I wasn't going to try and work over there and I knew they
2:36:58
couldn't hire anybody because I tried to work there and I was
2:37:01
like, did you guys how I have some experience doing the
2:37:03
Aerospace? And they're like, now when I'm
2:37:05
looking to hire anybody, there's a Cole shop in Bristol to where
2:37:08
I live my hometown and they were looking for anybody either.
2:37:10
It was just like a two people shot but my buddy with the
2:37:13
super, he's like hey like I've been welding for those dude that
2:37:15
bills Volvo's and he has all his Volvo's built at this machine
2:37:19
shop in Watertown. And I was like, really and I was
2:37:22
like, he's like, yeah, he told me the name and I was like, I
2:37:23
never heard of him and he's like, I'll just, let's just go
2:37:25
down, like it's like 15, 20 minutes away.
2:37:27
So we went there and quit your job at this point, are your, you
2:37:31
know about it? I was still working there.
2:37:32
Okay, so I went there and a weird thing is like, This like,
2:37:37
the shop doesn't advertise for anything.
2:37:39
I never knew about it. Yeah, this this got up.
2:37:41
So I walk in there. And first thing I see is an
2:37:43
SR-22 like, sitting on like that little, I don't know if you've
2:37:46
ever been to the front door where it's like, really narrow
2:37:48
and yeah, job stuff off. Yeah so there was an SR20
2:37:51
dropped off there like a block and I recognized him as like
2:37:53
that's a nice, our 20 nose like weird.
2:37:57
That's kind of a weird sign. Yeah so I walked in there and I
2:38:00
met the owner Bill and then I chatted with him and I asked him
2:38:03
I was like okay, like whatever's going on, I'm looking for a new
2:38:06
job. Job and like we talked for like
2:38:07
three hours. Yeah, three our interview fire.
2:38:10
Yeah. So they love me on the spot.
2:38:12
Do they show me around and they're like yeah we below this
2:38:15
it. A Viper motor mainly a V8 shop
2:38:16
and stuff. Yeah but I was like, I was in
2:38:19
shops that deal with performance I feel like yeah, big ass
2:38:22
engines in there. Yeah, he told me he's like we
2:38:24
don't do that much import stuff, but we do some Subarus here and
2:38:26
there we do some Porsches and then like some random Honda's
2:38:29
that come in, but they're like it's a shitty town.
2:38:31
So you get like all the ghetto. Honda people to come.
2:38:33
Yeah. So but there are mainly at VA
2:38:35
and stuff and they were And give me a job.
2:38:37
So I took the job and I told my old job, I was like, yeah, I'm
2:38:41
waiting, you know, like, I hate it here.
2:38:43
I'm trying to, like, do what I like, which is like engine work
2:38:46
and like, I want to do that. Yeah.
2:38:48
Burnout out the out, the parking lot.
2:38:50
Yeah. So there were like, all right,
2:38:52
good luck. You know, whatever.
2:38:53
So I left there, my brother, actually.
2:38:56
This is kind of work, is kind of crazy.
2:38:58
It is, I'm just saying it. All right, I'm all right.
2:39:02
Continue. So like me my worker, my brother
2:39:04
would work in together and then Like I said, I just got in a
2:39:07
shady spot and then I decided to leave.
2:39:09
Yeah. So I told him I was I gonna put
2:39:11
my two weeks in and like, you know, I'm leaving.
2:39:13
I want to do car so cause that's what I like.
2:39:15
I want to build engines so at that point we hadn't discussed
2:39:18
pay with my with the new boss. But I just like I was I want to
2:39:22
I want to get out of there. Yeah.
2:39:23
You don't want to do it like how bad could it be.
2:39:26
So welcome to the automotive field.
2:39:29
Yes, very I got a kick in the ass right there.
2:39:33
So I started working and he's like I told Which I was making
2:39:37
yeah at the air space base and he's like he's like I don't know
2:39:41
if I'm gonna be able to pay you that much.
2:39:42
He's like he's like he's like you're eventually going to get
2:39:45
there. He's like I don't give me the
2:39:48
whole rundown small business thing and like yeah build it up,
2:39:51
you know over time, you know, prove yourself.
2:39:54
So I was like, okay, whatever. He's like, I'm going to give you
2:39:56
enough to pay your bills and then from there like you can do
2:39:58
some side jobs and stuff like that.
2:40:00
So I looked at the house, okay? I can do some side jobs and like
2:40:03
make up for it and like, okay for engines, that was the UPS.
2:40:06
Side to taking a pay cut. That was the catch.
2:40:08
Yes. Yeah so I started working there
2:40:12
as a okay working with you it's kind of cool.
2:40:14
I like I was fresh in the water so I was like that's hyped.
2:40:17
Yeah then I got my first paycheck and I was like hmm.
2:40:20
Oh boy like $9 an hour Pika. So I told my buddy wants to get
2:40:27
through their pay me this much like it's like I can't do it.
2:40:30
I'm sorry like in Psych Anna whatever it's like, he's how you
2:40:33
got to really stay, you know about I was like, nah, do you
2:40:35
like I Like this is this sucks. Like I started making more than
2:40:39
this. I, my other job.
2:40:40
Like, yeah. So I didn't come back.
2:40:45
I think I told him that I was like, I went back to to place
2:40:48
and I told him, I think that that there's we get paid on
2:40:51
Wednesdays. So I went in there and I was
2:40:53
like, it's almost like I'm sorry, but I can't work for
2:40:55
this. Like this is yeah not enough.
2:40:57
And then they're like our eyes finally understand.
2:41:00
So I left and then I just like, I don't like thinking about it
2:41:04
and then Monday came back. Back and then I showed up again.
2:41:08
Oh God, they got them. Yeah and I was like he's like
2:41:13
and then the sun was like he's like ojp you came back and he's
2:41:15
like, he's like yeah man. Like he's like I thought about
2:41:18
having to stay and so he's like all right side I would have been
2:41:22
like yeah well I already quit my fucking job, dude.
2:41:24
So yeah, here I am here. Well my old job was willing to
2:41:28
take me back that desperate. So like I was already talking to
2:41:30
my old boss sounds like a man like they're paying me this much
2:41:32
like I need to come back. Like, I made a mistake.
2:41:34
Yeah. So it's like, I'll be right
2:41:35
back. Yes, I was.
2:41:36
Like, all right. I'm coming back next Monday but
2:41:38
I didn't go back to the job that I was supposed.
2:41:40
I went back to the engine shop. Yeah.
2:41:42
So that was probably a huge pivotal moment in your life.
2:41:45
Yeah, it was you could have taken two different paths and he
2:41:49
still doesn't know if it was the right decision.
2:41:51
Yeah, I could tell. Yeah, we're at a turning point,
2:41:54
bro. But yeah, it's looking really
2:41:56
good. It's looking a lot better than
2:41:57
it did back then. Yeah.
2:41:58
But I remember driving away from the place and like, thinking
2:42:00
about, I was like, it might possibly fuckin up the best
2:42:03
thing that it's probably gonna happen my entire life.
2:42:05
Yeah. So could be, I went back and I
2:42:09
was like, you know what, like I'm gonna do this for like a
2:42:11
year. Yeah, I can show up.
2:42:13
Like, the biggest thing I showed up my old job, I like fucking
2:42:16
five six in the morning, and I want a job where I could show up
2:42:18
like, 88. Mm.
2:42:19
Yeah, I started. I thought that was sick.
2:42:20
I was like, 8:00. I can wake up in like, have a
2:42:22
breakfast and like, yeah, have an easy.
2:42:24
So I like to a job. I was like, whatever.
2:42:26
Make some money, I struggled, like I said, my dad, understood
2:42:31
that what I was doing. So he was very supportive.
2:42:33
My mom was not okay with me taking that big old pickup but
2:42:35
my dad was like, He's doing it for the experience.
2:42:37
Like, it'll be worth it. You can always go back.
2:42:39
Yeah, you guys doing you have the experience already.
2:42:41
So it's like, you know so I stayed and then like I said I
2:42:46
started doing work for my buddies and like doing my own
2:42:48
things and then I did the Shimla set up on my own actually.
2:42:52
Now the reason why I started working there, one of the
2:42:55
biggest push was when I stripped the heads done.
2:42:57
Oh yeah. Which will get back.
2:42:59
Well into that story. So we're now is when we're
2:43:02
speaking about the shims on the v's one time I was Like a burner
2:43:07
we were like at a party or something and then like, we were
2:43:08
leaving, I did a burnout. And I remember I spit one of the
2:43:12
shims out while I was doing the burnout and then I was like, I
2:43:14
hear it, I was like, I hear the tick and I was like goddamn it's
2:43:17
a fucking that we can actually really quick for a, you can't
2:43:20
get away from the shoe Sr. Something's Gonna Be Something's
2:43:22
Gonna Pop out and you won't thing is that it was every time
2:43:25
I backfire so jerks the valves around and that spits the shims
2:43:28
up. So I was like the party was like
2:43:31
pretty clean the town. So I was like, I'm pretty close
2:43:33
to home. I just fucking drive home.
2:43:34
So I drove home. Yeah.
2:43:37
And I fixed it and put the chin back and then I put the car back
2:43:40
together and I heard like a weird sound when I started it.
2:43:46
I was like a, like a like a scraping sound.
2:43:48
Almost sounded, very weird. I know we're bad feeling about
2:43:51
it so I put it back together and I went to like a local car me
2:43:55
like in town too. So we hung out there and then
2:43:58
whatever something to go home 10:00 at night.
2:44:00
And then on the way home, like I was just driving and not even
2:44:04
boosting it and then I don't know, we're just like boom.
2:44:06
Like everything shots off everything.
2:44:09
Nothing. I'm trying to like, I'm trying
2:44:12
to crank it and it's like spinning, but like like nah, so
2:44:17
I pull over no parking spot and then like, I'm like spinning as
2:44:20
I could and I was like, so I had to get towed, got towed home,
2:44:26
take it apart and I'm like, looking at things outside and
2:44:29
then I take the cam angle since I'm like, I think like a mango
2:44:31
sensors. It's like broken.
2:44:32
I thought I broke the shaft on the chemical sensor.
2:44:34
Okay? So as I broke the Mango sensor
2:44:37
shaft that rides in the cam know that that piece is fine.
2:44:40
So I look back more and then I I noticed that my timing chains
2:44:42
gone so I'm like they're like there is no timing chain.
2:44:49
It's just gone, it's gone. It's in the bottom of the block.
2:44:53
So the shim that I spit out the one that burnout worked its way
2:44:58
into the front of the SR20, fell through the front into the lower
2:45:02
sprocket broke broke the One of the teeth on the sprocket and
2:45:08
then broke the timing chain like in half.
2:45:11
So it was still held by half the link, but that's what I drove.
2:45:16
That's what I heard the noise. That's what that noise was, was
2:45:18
the chain, literally like a hanging on.
2:45:21
So, I grew up for Amy. Yeah, it fell off.
2:45:24
Yeah. It completely like fell off.
2:45:26
It was broken in half. I should probably sounded like
2:45:29
the weirdest sound now that I'm thinking about rank.
2:45:31
Rotate, it is. Yeah.
2:45:34
And then but I got lucky because I kidding, Like crunch valves,
2:45:37
it wasn't like a tablet. Yeah, because now the bottom is
2:45:40
yeah, so but I wasn't beating on I was like really low RPM, so
2:45:43
like that's when it happened and I was just like poof kiss the
2:45:46
vows and then like I think I put it back together and have low
2:45:48
compression. So I was like all the valves are
2:45:51
no good. So I had I sent the head back to
2:45:53
mass works for to fix to little valves like I wish.
2:45:57
I just sent it to somebody local, got the head back.
2:46:01
I go put the hat on and it didn't hold the 60 pounds of
2:46:05
torque. This is my five thousand-dollar
2:46:09
bottle man that I bought from Master to my heart saying, crew.
2:46:12
And I was like, I was like, bro, I broke up with my girlfriend.
2:46:15
Now, my engines Falk, like this is like, the worst.
2:46:18
Like yes, like, I went upstairs and I was like, dude, I think
2:46:20
I'm gonna sleep on the train tracks tonight.
2:46:23
I was like, freaking out and I was like, like, I was pacing.
2:46:26
I was like bug and I was like, dude, I trash this motor like,
2:46:29
yeah, so you didn't know that. You could oversized them yet or
2:46:33
anything. I knew he could, but I didn't
2:46:35
want to take the whole thing apart.
2:46:36
Like everything star from scratch again.
2:46:39
Yeah. So I talked to one of my buddies
2:46:42
that like I couldn't do stuff on my own in my own shop.
2:46:44
It was like it's still strictly supervised.
2:46:47
So I talked to one of my buddies that was also a machinist and
2:46:49
his shop. It was but mom-and-pop own and I
2:46:51
was like, hey buddy like do you want to like help me convert my
2:46:54
shit to half-inch, 13 on your shop, on your Bridgeport and
2:46:56
like will put it assembled and I will mark it up and take it deep
2:46:59
up everything. So he said, yeah, let's do it.
2:47:01
So I would took the motor. We set it up on blocks because
2:47:04
you can't accept that. 20 flat on it because the crankshaft
2:47:08
hangs lower down. The block is so I feel like this
2:47:10
was when you first got. That was the biggest push
2:47:12
because I was literally pushed into machine, the Machine Shop.
2:47:15
You're looking around. You're like, okay,
2:47:17
fight-or-flight baby. Yeah.
2:47:19
So I bought the half-inch 13. Like happened.
2:47:21
A half inch. 13 bowl is pretty common thing.
2:47:24
Yeah. So those are indicate
2:47:26
everything. I took six hours to do the whole
2:47:28
job which is overly like I was like making sure every hole was
2:47:32
like within a tenth. Yeah yeah Center even though you
2:47:35
could be pretty crooked But anyway, I did that and I pulled
2:47:39
it off and I didn't have to send that thing.
2:47:41
The mask Works awesome. I feel like a badass.
2:47:43
I was like yeah convert him, I shouldn't half inch 13.
2:47:46
Like I can do engine job like the work on engines.
2:47:48
I want to do this. So that's that's when I went
2:47:51
trip to the into the engine shop, I make sense.
2:47:54
So I happen to be friends with a freaking all the grow on
2:47:58
YouTubers at that time. So I became friends with Jamie
2:48:02
and Adam, yeah, through my brother because they all bike
2:48:05
that the skate park. Local like literally down the
2:48:07
road from me. Yeah.
2:48:09
So they like they knew my brother, they knew Jefferson's
2:48:12
brother had a 240, like I came to escape our time.
2:48:15
Now, everybody didn't sell my car, a skate park is a pretty
2:48:17
important place and you're also. Now, I feel like you're
2:48:20
transitioning into being the old head there.
2:48:23
Yeah, like yeah, there's this guy.
2:48:25
JP. Yeah, yeah, right.
2:48:27
I feel he builds engines. Yeah, hit him up.
2:48:30
I think thing is like, this would be for I built the well I
2:48:32
build the engine at home so I can put a thousand engine
2:48:34
because I built a put the thing together at home.
2:48:36
So, I was the only dude with a carload.
2:48:39
My brothers age were like, they're just starting to get in
2:48:42
the cars. So they were like, what did you
2:48:44
keep? Your brother has like sick.
2:48:45
Car. Goes to carnies and street
2:48:47
races. Badass drifting I thought I was
2:48:49
mad cool. Yeah.
2:48:52
So was I going with us? You talk about the YouTubers.
2:48:56
Oh yeah. So yeah, they were all the
2:48:58
YouTubers were friends with my brother.
2:48:59
Yeah. Adam and Jamie.
2:49:01
And they started get into cars and then they built up the you
2:49:06
too. And then we kept in touch and
2:49:08
then I became more friends with them.
2:49:10
Yeah, and we started doing cars things together.
2:49:13
I started working in the Machine Shop.
2:49:14
Jimmy was about it and he was like, I started helping Jimmy
2:49:16
with stuff. Yeah.
2:49:17
Doing work for Adam and then they started shouting me out and
2:49:20
that's when it really started blowing off.
2:49:21
Okay, so yeah, it was a mixture. All that dude, all the
2:49:24
Connecticut YouTube why are all the YouTubers in Connecticut?
2:49:26
Can anyone tell me this? I'm sorry, there's some
2:49:29
YouTubers in North Jersey Rutherford.
2:49:32
Okay. I wouldn't call us YouTubers but
2:49:35
could be able said they Liked it.
2:49:36
Well, it really is because like, like you said, they're friends.
2:49:39
Yeah. Then if one person starts making
2:49:41
it helps support the other person and then before, you know
2:49:44
it. Yeah.
2:49:44
I think I Donnie. How dumb was the biggest?
2:49:46
Yeah. Adam was the one that started
2:49:48
the whole ball for everyone? Yeah.
2:49:50
So but Adam was cool with my brother and like I said, he knew
2:49:53
that I had to 40 and stuff. So so that's when you okay.
2:49:55
So now you got this job, your, your Instagram is getting more
2:49:59
popular. And now you start, I guess this
2:50:03
is kind of when you start filming stuff in the shop side
2:50:05
jobs and stuff. Start hopefully pouring in so
2:50:08
now yeah isn't bad. So I mean like nobody wanted to
2:50:11
trust me and working on their Motors because yes, you know, I
2:50:13
was one of them now. It's like who's this dude?
2:50:15
Like I haven't proven anything other than what I have and I
2:50:17
didn't really build it myself out then put it together.
2:50:20
Yeah so I was just like building the deviates and like I got a
2:50:23
couple of side jobs and I was just like okay yeah well you're
2:50:25
always like you know is it this person have experienced, you
2:50:28
know this and that. Yeah so that's when I came in
2:50:30
and I met my buddy Travis that works there.
2:50:33
Yeah, he's he had been working there for like three years and
2:50:35
he actually told me he was like, dude, like you don't want to
2:50:37
work here? Like dude, you're not gonna make
2:50:38
any more than 19 bucks an hour here tops.
2:50:40
Yeah. So he's like, you should
2:50:41
probably go back to your old job and I was like, you know what,
2:50:43
dude, I can't go back. Like I think we can pull
2:50:46
something off like, you know, I think I can get you guys, I
2:50:48
guess bigger plans than just work.
2:50:50
Yeah, forever. So that I, I got the first job
2:50:54
job and I split it with him which was an R&B 25 for one of
2:50:57
my buddies and he was like damn, like you actually really do know
2:51:00
this. These people because he's not
2:51:02
into 240, he's got Mark for R32 Volkswagen.
2:51:04
B 5 is 4. So he learned all this Nissan
2:51:07
JDM stuff for me. And it's almost like there's a
2:51:10
big Market into this. I'll get can be a big thing.
2:51:12
Like you help me out like I just need help, you know, and he was
2:51:15
about it so I, you know, start sharing work, I fed him some
2:51:18
work, he held me and like, yeah, I needed I needed all the help
2:51:21
that I could because like it was, it's very intricate work
2:51:24
and stuff. So, the tool was made it.
2:51:26
And then, like I said, the YouTubers got bigger, I started
2:51:29
doing more work for Jimmy Adams. And you engines.
2:51:32
Yep. Then Adam start sending me stuff
2:51:33
because I don't have to stop have people doing stuff in
2:51:35
Florida for him. Yeah so I was I got I'm not
2:51:38
counting on Adam like coming through like he's got everything
2:51:41
in his hands like but Jamie was smaller.
2:51:43
So like Jimmy came to me and like I did a couple jobs for him
2:51:46
and Jimmy's following came up big time and then now everybody
2:51:49
was coming to me from Jimmy. Yeah, so I started doing more
2:51:53
jobs and then like just local people that were drifting also
2:51:56
like, start getting their Motors done because I was the only guy
2:51:58
around doing it and they needed the really fast.
2:52:01
Around time so Word of Mouth just spread locally and also on
2:52:05
the YouTube. Yeah, so it just like blew up to
2:52:08
like where it is now dude, I'm telling you your Instagram
2:52:11
stories are very important. Like I appreciate that.
2:52:14
I do that. I get a lot of messages like
2:52:16
people are like dude. Like I look forward to your
2:52:18
Instagram stories everyday. Like something was like when I
2:52:21
found your Instagram was like a phone, a gold mine that was yeah
2:52:23
because we most people in the car, I don't want to say car
2:52:26
industry but even Drifters like anyone who's in the car as we
2:52:29
like to learn You know, so with someone who works in a machine
2:52:33
shop and is able to your basically teaching everyone, you
2:52:37
know, pretty much so little little things here and there, I,
2:52:41
I like to share the experience. I think what we do is very cool.
2:52:45
Like, it's not like, people probably think I'm like a big
2:52:47
show-off, and I just like, think I'm like this badass, and I
2:52:49
don't think many people think that there's some people think
2:52:52
that, because I stopped responding to messages, because
2:52:54
I got overwhelming. So they think I'm like, too good
2:52:56
for them. But oh, yeah.
2:52:57
Yeah. I could, I could get the thing
2:52:58
is like, they just don't understand.
2:53:00
Yeah. No, it's it's unrealistic.
2:53:02
You you have to be unfortunate? Have to be mean and not
2:53:04
everybody's gonna like you. Yeah.
2:53:06
So, but like I said, I have to do this as part of the process,
2:53:10
you know. Like I didn't count on it.
2:53:12
Getting this big. Yeah.
2:53:14
And that gets the other chapter, which is it got big enough that
2:53:22
Bye. Lucky chance.
2:53:23
I found an investor. That's I'm working with an open
2:53:26
up my own shop. Hey, oh yeah, I fucking knew it.
2:53:30
I was like, I remember that conversation.
2:53:32
We had where he's like, I'm working on something, don't say
2:53:35
it. Yeah, II Spill the Beans.
2:53:36
Last time a little bit when you guys came over.
2:53:38
Yeah. So but I was a shit.
2:53:42
Yeah. That's the biggest thing.
2:53:45
Like, he sent me to PRI, he's the one that sent me to PRI.
2:53:47
Yeah. I'm gonna keep it confidential.
2:53:49
Silent. Investor like, is not who you
2:53:51
think it is. A lot of people.
2:53:52
Oh, I know who it is. Oh yeah, really good.
2:53:55
I'm going really no. Yeah, nobody knows like it's
2:53:57
actually like extremely and there's a whole nother story
2:54:00
about how I met this dude and how I does it.
2:54:03
Came through Instagram. Yeah.
2:54:04
And but anyways, how's that? How's that situation?
2:54:08
Looking? Because last time we spoke it
2:54:09
was like I mean it's going extremely slow just a slow
2:54:12
process. Yeah.
2:54:13
It's just very slow but things are moving forward like slowly
2:54:16
but surely like we got the spot now.
2:54:20
We're just working on. I'm agreements and getting the
2:54:22
Owners. There's to investors and then
2:54:25
they want me to run the shop and I'm going to have Travis as the
2:54:27
first employee. And then we're eventually going
2:54:29
to hire more people because we're going to be buried into.
2:54:32
It would work did, like once we have what you have a process set
2:54:35
up where you can like, oh, you know, you hit us up, you do this
2:54:37
and you get you send your engines here.
2:54:39
Yes. You know, once the process is
2:54:41
smoothed out, it's going to be crazy.
2:54:43
Yeah, absolutely. Like I said I've been turning
2:54:45
away so much work that I'm lying, bro.
2:54:46
Like like I need a full-time job to take care of everyone.
2:54:50
Yeah, so that's how I became a thing.
2:54:52
And I was like, I talked with the investor and like being
2:54:55
under the YouTuber, Shadows, some not good.
2:54:58
Like all the stars are aligned. Yeah.
2:55:00
It's like so I'm like yeah we can do this on our own.
2:55:03
Like I have a decent enough found that I can get enough jobs
2:55:05
to support a business, but if we have the YouTubers, like you
2:55:08
have the marketing done or it's it'll be insane, dude.
2:55:10
It's gonna be absolutely insane. It's awesome business model We
2:55:15
need everything that I need. I need somebody to take care of
2:55:17
invoicing. I need somebody to do the
2:55:18
payroll because right now, I'm doing basically everything.
2:55:21
Like I'm, I'm the customer service, I'm the machinists.
2:55:24
I'm the freaking getting you quotes talking to customers
2:55:28
doing everything. Like, turn, turn Chris, and
2:55:30
Michael. He's trying to quit.
2:55:34
He's trying to move over there. I see what you're doing.
2:55:35
Oh well, that's awesome. Dude, I'm glad you could share
2:55:40
that here because I know you were on the fence.
2:55:42
You're like I don't know if I should say anything yet because
2:55:44
you know, Yeah, it like I said it was time sensitive stuff.
2:55:47
So yeah, I didn't want to like buy the saddle without buying
2:55:50
the horse. Yeah, so I didn't want to get
2:55:52
every too hyped. I mean, I got, you know, just
2:55:54
talking about and then like, I mean, hey, if you're saying it
2:55:56
on here, that means you're pretty confident that it's going
2:55:58
to happen. So 1.5 Jay-Z sounds, real good,
2:56:01
rope thing is like, if this doesn't happen, dude, I'm going
2:56:05
to have to quit and go back to a shitty door.
2:56:07
You'll find another way to make it happen.
2:56:10
We'll see. I hate when he does.
2:56:11
He doesn't shun story all the time.
2:56:13
You actually, you've actually stopped.
2:56:15
Well because of this, okay, because it's got a lot of faith,
2:56:18
but I don't even go on your story and it would be like, JP
2:56:21
JP be banging out all this work and everything be sick and then
2:56:24
it'd be another one where he's just like, yeah, I'm going to
2:56:27
quit all this week. So I'm like, bro, what shut the
2:56:30
fuck up? Quit quit like like the
2:56:33
everything looks better on Instagram.
2:56:35
Yeah, I know, I know you're struggling.
2:56:36
This is bad. Wait pays bad.
2:56:38
Yeah, it was bad. It's happy the toilets, bad, the
2:56:41
toilets, bad. Everything is bad, everything.
2:56:43
Everything looks good in saying they were having And fun with
2:56:45
like, you know, that I just upload a little bit.
2:56:47
Well, there's one thing about the automotive industry that is
2:56:49
better and that's the people in it and the fun you have in the
2:56:53
yeah, yes, that's something that you don't really get anywhere
2:56:55
else. No, I love the people that I
2:56:57
work with to and I quote unquote, no offense, like I work
2:57:00
with a bunch of Boomers and it's just, it's awesome.
2:57:02
It's yeah. It's like the funniest.
2:57:04
I like watching your videos and seeing the old guys.
2:57:06
Yeah, I try and record them. Yeah.
2:57:09
Because then you could tell. They're like, why are you
2:57:11
recording me? Yeah, they're not.
2:57:13
I keep telling them. Like this is the Bob and he's
2:57:16
like, don't record me Bob. And I was like, no, dude.
2:57:18
Like people love this. Like yeah, he shit like all this
2:57:20
and I'm like, no. I'm dude, like people love.
2:57:22
I'm here to see Bob. Yeah, alright.
2:57:24
So like let him know like I remember yeah you'd be all
2:57:27
right. All right.
2:57:28
Bob would you doing? And he's like yeah but now
2:57:31
they're getting better at it. I could tell ya some of them are
2:57:33
getting better Bob is we have a couple part-timers so Bob's one
2:57:36
of the part-timers, the owners bill so he's like the whole time
2:57:38
I don't really joke with him that much.
2:57:40
Yeah. The other part timers in the
2:57:41
other older dudes like a joke with them is just like you Said
2:57:44
it's the automotive industry. It's just there's a fun time
2:57:47
man. You hear some crazy shit in the
2:57:48
shop though. Yes.
2:57:50
Yeah. Office office to now.
2:57:56
All right. Yeah.
2:57:57
I mean Malcolm get a little rowdy.
2:57:58
I'm glad that you have that in the future.
2:58:01
Hopefully dude will be in the near future.
2:58:03
Something's Gotta make this shit happen.
2:58:05
Yeah. Like pull up those questions.
2:58:07
Yeah. Let's do some questions right
2:58:08
now. I'm cured.
2:58:08
It's going to be like, what bills should I do?
2:58:11
Yeah, let's hope that with my ring natural.
2:58:13
Like, what my ring? Supposed to be whatever.
2:58:15
What's a 5 angle valve job? Yeah, watching be like 30
2:58:19
different technical questions. Let's see, first thing.
2:58:23
Let me see how many other I was hoping nobody would and like ask
2:58:26
stuff that you can generally Google because I get I get that.
2:58:29
Floated a lot now is just like what's the torque spec for this?
2:58:32
What's this? And I'm like dude like really
2:58:33
you can Google that thing. Yeah dude.
2:58:35
Like at the end of the day it's like JP wants to help everyone
2:58:39
out. But like guys you got to be
2:58:41
realistic if you can Google some of this information you probably
2:58:43
shouldn't be DM. In him.
2:58:44
He's got a lot of shit on his plate.
2:58:46
I mean I try I did it. I did it off the internet, dude.
2:58:50
Like yeah, there wasn't as much internet as there was back.
2:58:53
Then I will then definitely let you or start with us Frankie or
2:58:58
when we start. I mean bulletproof case k80 set
2:59:02
up question mark. So these are going to kind of I
2:59:04
mean this is a general question. Yeah, just so I mean like right
2:59:08
off the bat with okay piston rods like that's they have heavy
2:59:12
shitty Pistons from Factory. Okay, half Counterbalance.
2:59:15
Crankshaft doesn't like the RPMs. Oh, wow.
2:59:17
So what I never did, I see? I didn't even know that dropping
2:59:21
dropping info right now. Oh, yes.
2:59:22
I mean, that down Kazar good. But like people can understand
2:59:26
that case weren't designed to be a Performance Engine.
2:59:28
Yeah, it was supposed to have like low end, you know?
2:59:31
And just drive. Like it's got a little red line.
2:59:33
Yeah. And that's a like, you're not
2:59:34
supposed to Peg limiter off of them, and that's why you see so
2:59:37
many duel camps, throwing rods left, and right, because like,
2:59:39
they're unbalanced such a shitty rotating assembly is not meant
2:59:42
for that. So my gonna start 20 words of
2:59:43
square. Rotating assembly, fully
2:59:46
counterbalance crankshaft. Can you even like balance that
2:59:50
crank really well. Yeah, you can balance it.
2:59:52
So we do the balancing on the crankshaft and now I think BC
2:59:55
cells, the stroker kit or like a full counterbalance.
2:59:58
Crankshaft for the queso like okay, that's another hot ticket
3:00:00
but the case that we've done, we haven't had any issues and
3:00:03
nobody really revs that high. So like, okay, well there's some
3:00:06
info. There's a tip right there, make
3:00:08
sure that shit's balance I guess and pistons and rods.
3:00:10
Yeah, so piston rods bearings and like I said, usually, the
3:00:12
valve guides are born just like Ben SR, 20 years old engines.
3:00:16
Why does JP choose to stick to the SR platform?
3:00:19
I love mine too. I'm just curious.
3:00:22
That's what I wanted, because that's what came in the car
3:00:24
originally. Yeah.
3:00:25
Said you're a purist in that aspect.
3:00:27
Yeah. And also, the way it handles in
3:00:29
the car like it's like, dude I went from Ika tomb is R2 and I
3:00:33
hope big difference in the way the front end felt.
3:00:35
Wow. So, like I was a good, like,
3:00:36
this is great. Like, I like four cylinders.
3:00:38
I like little engines, I don't ya if you put a Jay-Z and there
3:00:41
we feel a lot different. No, yeah.
3:00:43
Like I like R&B sounds but Like I said, that's why I'm putting
3:00:45
the are beyond the other streetcar that I'm not gonna
3:00:47
drift because I just, I want the power on the sound.
3:00:49
Yeah, I can't afford an are 34. So I'm going to leave my R34
3:00:52
Broken Dreams through that little red car.
3:00:54
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually, hopefully, I have
3:00:57
formed, my own are 34 and I can do RV things.
3:00:59
This is Wags, is a friend of mine.
3:01:00
What is the best meat for a taco reaso shrooming?
3:01:04
I'm big shrimp shrimp. Taco guy.
3:01:07
Yeah. Vertical.
3:01:15
Still there. Like pork and pineapple?
3:01:17
Yeah, they're good. Yeah, that, that smell comes.
3:01:20
Favorite. Yeah.
3:01:21
Fuck with that. You guys gotta come up and go to
3:01:23
the Taco Truck. Those are those those?
3:01:25
Alpa story tacos? We had in California when we
3:01:27
were literally going to a fucking Taco spot.
3:01:30
Like a restaurant, though, it had before.
3:01:32
And we went to a taco truck and after we went through a taco
3:01:35
truck, oh my God. Taco truck into a lot of them.
3:01:38
Yeah, one of my buddies. I lived in California.
3:01:40
Like the Subaru kid? Yeah, I live in California.
3:01:44
You guys, we're gonna, we're gonna recreate a French
3:01:46
eventually, so he lived in California because you got a job
3:01:49
like working at a fabrication shop in California, like doing
3:01:52
pretty nice stuff. So and he came back and told me
3:01:54
like, dude, I've had legit Mexican food in California for
3:01:57
when I was there doing this. Taco truck somehow like slaps.
3:02:00
Yeah. More like I mean yeah.
3:02:03
I meant to do that last time but I just, yeah, to be honest, I
3:02:06
never had a shrimp taco. So I'll have the first one
3:02:08
there. Who'd amazing.
3:02:09
Is that the one that's like other side of the highway?
3:02:12
It's like a bunch of food truck. No.
3:02:13
No, this is like Behind them all on a water bear.
3:02:16
Yeah it's time. I know what you're talking
3:02:17
about. Those are the second known spot
3:02:19
but this is like a standalone food truck next time.
3:02:21
We're there. We'll we'll grab it.
3:02:23
This guy he has. He said share Frankie's back
3:02:26
stretch. We love you.
3:02:27
Mentioned it last time. I was like, all right so and
3:02:29
this is Dylan iine. Any leg stretches.
3:02:31
You can do just touch your toes. That's the key.
3:02:34
Touch your toes. You can you can do it sitting
3:02:36
down. You can do it standing up.
3:02:38
This is for a lower back, so there you go.
3:02:40
J. P's, are you doing yo?
3:02:42
Yeah, yeah. Secret.
3:02:45
That's his engine builder. Secret.
3:02:46
Yeah, I have, it's nothing crazy.
3:02:48
So I'm not going to try my for you.
3:02:51
So any questions that you've already answered.
3:02:52
I'm not going to ask like how do you learn about Vivi LSR?
3:02:55
Yeah, that's the only kind of when I was a two-and-a-half hour
3:02:57
segment on this episode about that.
3:02:59
Yeah. Now let's ask the important
3:03:02
ones. What's your favourite cereal,
3:03:04
where the fuck? Frosted Flakes Frosted Flakes.
3:03:07
I'm yeah, I can dig that favorite game right now.
3:03:12
Maybe video games going to be car wrecks.
3:03:14
Yeah. What's up action?
3:03:16
Discord. We're on there.
3:03:18
We were running comms. Last night.
3:03:20
I was making brackets and shit on a piece of cardboard, almost
3:03:23
feel the private lobby last night.
3:03:24
Yeah, it was kind of fun. Yeah.
3:03:26
Well I want to send you a link to this.
3:03:27
Yeah. Yeah.
3:03:27
Because you're in, you're in groups with that too, right?
3:03:30
Yeah. Yeah.
3:03:31
No. We, I mean, it's just like my
3:03:32
local buddies and we just fuck around.
3:03:35
Get up on a weekend night and just like playing, that's
3:03:37
exactly what we do. Yeah, we can have a sick private
3:03:41
lobby. what's your favorite tool in the Machine Shop of Ten
3:03:47
millimeter socket, right? I okay, can see that probably
3:03:52
acetylene torch like the CNC machine.
3:03:59
I knew you were going to centroid.
3:04:00
Like yeah, really argue? That freaking 300,000 dollars.
3:04:03
Yeah. See ya, how the fuck did your
3:04:06
job afford that? It's like, like four grand a
3:04:09
month alone and she's like, it's insane.
3:04:12
That's a lot of knots now. I'm not gonna brag or anything,
3:04:14
but I also did a little bit of my own head work as well.
3:04:17
I did valve seals on my car race car and I got this tool that you
3:04:21
fucking hit. The thing.
3:04:22
Yagna, favorite shit. I thought you were going to say
3:04:24
you did like bulwark and like fucking.
3:04:27
Yes, I did. Yeah.
3:04:28
Oh yeah. He also asks, what's the most
3:04:37
hated? That's the one I wanted you to
3:04:38
ask, what do you not like using probably the mag, the yeah, the
3:04:43
magnaflux thing because it's just like, really dusty and
3:04:46
stare Being like, it's like a magnet.
3:04:49
Like we used to like check cracks and blocks and head.
3:04:51
So like we put like this like Ferris dust on it and then we
3:04:55
put the magnet and like you blow the dust out of it.
3:04:57
Yeah. And everything but the crack is
3:05:00
gonna like blow away so you can visibly see the cracks?
3:05:05
Yes. He's posted a video once in a
3:05:08
while like I don't do that much clearly part-timer job.
3:05:11
So like bothered do that like they have like it's a shitty job
3:05:14
but yeah we all have to do this shitty jobs eventually and like
3:05:17
Yeah, yeah. No I think it was because that's
3:05:21
how I remember seeing that I was like I've never seen this
3:05:23
before. What's the best advice on
3:05:27
maintaining an SR-22? This is a great question oil.
3:05:33
Sands oil oil change your filter every other drift event.
3:05:37
I'm going to chime in too and say, make sure you actually have
3:05:39
oil in it. Yeah.
3:05:40
Put an oversized oil pan right off the bat.
3:05:43
Yeah, that's that's the biggest thing.
3:05:45
And I say coolant temp. Swatch your cooling temps.
3:05:49
Yeah. No, absolutely like that, too.
3:05:51
And like that's the number one thing.
3:05:52
Make sure that tune is always good.
3:05:54
Don't run a stocky. See you stock ecu's.
3:05:56
We're tuned for 100 and octane in Japan.
3:05:59
Yeah, running different gasoline, here, we're running
3:06:00
into cool pipes stock to Stockton, should be just to
3:06:03
drive it. Like just to get it to going,
3:06:05
drive it to the tune yet. So I always sharpen up the tune,
3:06:08
put an oversized oil pan. And yeah, like I said, just
3:06:12
watch the vitals. Good to know.
3:06:15
Oh my God, this is what I do know this one, this one, this
3:06:17
one here. You don't don't don't glance
3:06:19
over this one. Now, you gotta smile values.
3:06:21
No, no, that's, that's a good question.
3:06:22
I like it. This, this is that realize this.
3:06:24
Okay from Wild Steve, who will finish their car first, JP or
3:06:28
Frankie? This is good.
3:06:30
That's a good one. Do you wanna make a bet?
3:06:32
Our where Frankie yours is? Are you guys similar like yours
3:06:36
is out? Everything is out.
3:06:38
Yeah. Frankie's car.
3:06:39
Pretty much looks like mine right now but is yours good
3:06:41
combo. It is assembled.
3:06:44
Engine. Did you put two years together?
3:06:45
No, no. I said one day, I'm like, what
3:06:54
are you missing anything? I said he was like, nah, I'm
3:06:57
like. Alright guys, place your bets
3:07:00
place your bets. Yeah, I think Frankie because I
3:07:03
might like Gerald to get the Rockers fixed because I had like
3:07:06
rocket rocket rocket on it from the sunroof.
3:07:09
Yeah. So I got a guy that I build a
3:07:11
motor for that. Like knows a guy.
3:07:13
I don't know, like The Bronx or something that like I guess he
3:07:15
fixes a lot of like yeah, that's chassis rotten.
3:07:17
So I was like, let me do that before I get the car painted,
3:07:20
but I mean that's kind of the point of the red car was to like
3:07:23
I know I didn't. The thing is now he's got
3:07:24
another car so now. Yeah, he might, he might get
3:07:28
distracted. Yeah, I might like the DT with
3:07:31
us 15. Turbo more for drifting.
3:07:33
Yeah, I'm not scared of all simple, it's fun.
3:07:35
I mean, it's definitely it is, yeah, but I miss it once you
3:07:38
turn that breath, from it up to 9 Grand, and then you see what
3:07:40
the Rockers do, that's who can conservative 300 wheel, stock
3:07:45
Red Line, you know? Yes, just have fun.
3:07:47
Yeah. What are your thoughts on a
3:07:52
proper 2JZ? Gen8 e, 400 horsepower build.
3:07:57
Is it better than a GTE? So right off the bat the GE
3:08:02
heads flow better. Yo, somebody said that on
3:08:05
another question and I also read that on forums.
3:08:08
Yeah. So then why is it so it have the
3:08:11
same intake? But the exhaust ports are
3:08:13
different. This is also, it comes to like,
3:08:16
Frankie's thing of like how come you need things aren't the same.
3:08:19
So when you look at 88 GTE head it's got the group 3. 3 Runners.
3:08:25
Yes. So like group them towards the
3:08:26
twin turbos. Yeah.
3:08:28
So you have very awkward. Runners on each end like you
3:08:32
know, facing really awkward shapes.
3:08:35
Yeah. So that affects the flow.
3:08:37
Ige just comes straight out like a normal cylinder head.
3:08:40
Those ports straight out. That's what you want.
3:08:42
Yeah, I don't care what anybody on the internet says dude
3:08:45
Formula. One cars are not designed with
3:08:47
group headers like that. Everything's a straight shot
3:08:50
out. So the GE is the hot ticket.
3:08:52
So if you're building like the thing is the GE restriction.
3:08:56
Exhaust manifold options. Yes.
3:08:58
All the manifolds are for GT-R gonna have to make some kind
3:09:00
Custom shit from yes. But if you're trying to like be
3:09:02
the world record, get a GE didn't build it.
3:09:04
Okay, fair enough staying I have one of those.
3:09:07
Okay, yeah, I see the other question with the head.
3:09:09
Okay. What is your?
3:09:10
Well, I want to, I'm gone. I want to ask that one next
3:09:13
because that kind of piggybacks off of the information.
3:09:16
Well, he kind of just explain it right?
3:09:18
Yeah, but the sound of a 1 G. So there's another question
3:09:21
here. Why is the 1JZ?
3:09:22
So good. But yet, I hear that the heads
3:09:24
don't flow as well as a GE and like now that's, I guess for
3:09:29
the. That's because Grouping.
3:09:31
But like almost like the intake noise, maybe.
3:09:33
That's because of the intake manifold.
3:09:35
Is not that like crossover shit. I don't know.
3:09:38
So that's part of it for sure. But the 1 J is just different
3:09:42
than the the 2J smaller. Yeah, it's a small.
3:09:44
The ports are very small. So that's why like, it's not bad
3:09:48
but it's not like the two J's. A new head.
3:09:50
Is that different from the 1JZ? Yeah, interesting.
3:09:53
Yeah. Now the runner thing now I'm
3:09:54
going to be like yeah yeah yeah absolutely the runners just for
3:09:59
the record it's been Two minutes Malcolm put a pole in the chat.
3:10:02
There's been five votes and it's all JP haha.
3:10:07
Yeah fuck. All you guys.
3:10:09
I want to see what Frankie said in those like that was that was
3:10:11
a really intricate building. Yeah, it seemed like I feel like
3:10:14
you were pretty excited about. Yeah, I'm stoked.
3:10:15
Yeah. Can I see it?
3:10:18
I'll get it done. Shut the fuck up, Chris.
3:10:20
It's all right. What's the most common problem?
3:10:23
You run into, this is a very Open-ended question, but let's
3:10:28
say with most engines that come into the shop, they're lean do
3:10:33
there. So definition stuff I got and
3:10:35
then you end up needing sleeves and then that that kills the
3:10:37
whole process. Yeah, we're the sleeve Club over
3:10:39
here. Now I've decided we're just
3:10:41
leaving every Sr. Yeah, I mean your sleeves are
3:10:43
replaceable. So like if you sleeve one and
3:10:45
you detonate it will just put it on the oven.
3:10:47
Pop this leave out put a new one in its fake.
3:10:49
It's a lot stronger than a hundred percent aluminum top
3:10:52
above sleeve, they were telling me about and in between the
3:10:55
cylinders, the water jacket. That's like with a high-power
3:10:57
once. That's one of the weaker spots
3:10:59
where it splits in between. Yeah.
3:11:01
So about at work, we've been doing like welding the top.
3:11:03
My boss is really good at building blocks.
3:11:05
So like I've been pushing them to do that for us.
3:11:07
Okay, so we did that on Stone backs engine because he didn't
3:11:09
want sleeves. Yeah, but I also wanted to like,
3:11:12
you know, if Tom gives you an engine, make him sleep it.
3:11:15
Yeah. Gotcha time.
3:11:16
I send you the invoice. Yeah.
3:11:18
Opinions on for b11 platform. God damn it.
3:11:21
It's Johnny, ha ha. How do you feel about those evil
3:11:25
eyes? Like I said fully built like I
3:11:27
said, yeah, you have to fill them.
3:11:29
We've done a few of them through the shop like I haven't done any
3:11:31
for my actually. We did one for one of my friends
3:11:33
in like he had a clutch issue like the clutch which is not set
3:11:37
up, right? And that your white, the thrust
3:11:38
student eigth of main bearing housing, dude, in like had have
3:11:42
my buddy. Well no my boss well do that
3:11:44
because didn't for G6 trees have a crank walk issue to yes they
3:11:48
do. Yeah but kinda weird.
3:11:50
Yeah I know it's not relevant. It's just like yeah it's that
3:11:53
was this is just awesome freak. So so Crank Wall could be
3:11:55
caused. I would like improper input,
3:11:58
shaft pressure. So crank walk is weird because
3:12:02
like even I don't really understand what it is because I
3:12:05
talked to a couple people. It's more like an old-school
3:12:07
term when the term I thought it was when it goes like this.
3:12:10
Yes but naturally, the engine is just supposed to do that.
3:12:14
Like if you're, if you don't have any thrust play like this
3:12:16
on the engine stopped like that, that's not good.
3:12:19
Yeah you're supposed to that's why I tell people.
3:12:22
First thing you do like grab the crank pulley, pull it taut.
3:12:25
It's kind of like Click, it's not going to move like 22, but
3:12:27
it's gonna like you're gonna feel like a click.
3:12:29
Like it's like one of the critical measurements to then
3:12:31
thousands. I think it is the clearance
3:12:33
between the thrust in like that way, you know, like your clutch
3:12:36
isn't binding up the through us, because the clutch pressure
3:12:38
plate tugs on all that assembly. Yeah, so if your pressure plate
3:12:42
is talking on that and rub in the crankshaft against the
3:12:46
thrust is going to wipe the thrust out, okay.
3:12:52
Oh yes, the reason why I ask is because I had this funky Ask
3:12:56
clutch setup because I was doing trial and error of us of a trans
3:12:59
swap with a CD. And one day we went to private
3:13:03
day with Frankie and them and I accidentally Jack the car up by
3:13:07
the pan because it was dark and I was just being Reckless.
3:13:10
Yeah, and then I hit the pan and I heard something drop the pan.
3:13:14
There's this U shape piece of metal, that doesn't Brokenness
3:13:18
of thrust washer that is. I looked it up and I was like,
3:13:21
what the hell is a thrust washer?
3:13:23
And I looked where it goes, like, and when you call me
3:13:25
later, Told ya and then you're like, that looks like a thrust
3:13:28
washer and the motor was running fine.
3:13:31
Like it was running. Great.
3:13:33
So Nissan SR20 has to. Yeah so you were probably riding
3:13:38
on one of them on my now I have a GI value is 0 and a Jay-Z.
3:13:42
Yeah, there was a there's a couple more of them.
3:13:45
I was going to see the is a 1j or to j2j.
3:13:48
It's a g like it's a but I thought those were one piece.
3:13:52
It was broken in half. Oh don't want that the Was
3:13:56
broken in half but it was still running fucking mint.
3:13:59
This is not your engine. Isn't it was my old one.
3:14:02
Okay. And then I had I was like okay
3:14:04
this probably means this is on a time limit.
3:14:08
Let me get rid of this and a buddy of a buddy of a buddy was,
3:14:12
like, I have this normal stock, 12.
3:14:15
You could just give me yours and give me 200 bucks.
3:14:17
And I was like, that's crazy cool.
3:14:19
I would have been like, oh, all right, but I never knew what the
3:14:21
reason was or how you can even measure those.
3:14:26
I guess that's what it is it. Yeah, but you measure the play
3:14:29
between better my tugged on. It would do more like Factory.
3:14:33
You're supposed to put an indicator on the back and then
3:14:36
like, just zeroed out like, on the fly wheel, and then just
3:14:38
like, tug on it and that'll give you like the measurement, and
3:14:41
then there's enough of some spec for it.
3:14:43
Interesting. So, but the thrust washer is,
3:14:44
what keeps your crankshaft from moving laterally up and down.
3:14:48
Yeah, so you probably broke it from like a clutch kick.
3:14:51
That's absolutely horrible. On the thrusts and we go.
3:14:56
Because that day, I remember there was no grip, never really
3:14:59
thought about that but you're right, it's not absolutely.
3:15:01
Yeah, I had a super sketchy setup and like the car wasn't
3:15:04
aware. I remember guys, check your oil
3:15:06
pans for your thrust washers. Yeah.
3:15:07
Well, how am I first of all, don't jack it up by their, don't
3:15:10
like, get a good clutch. There's a to clutch, like I
3:15:14
said, like my buddies for b11, the clutch, cook the entire
3:15:17
build engine because it the date the thrust and it ate the mains,
3:15:20
and then I had to give it as much.
3:15:22
Was it, some triple disc crazy for be 11?
3:15:26
I don't use training for like 900 horsepower.
3:15:27
I always say, get the clutch. You need not the one you want.
3:15:31
Yeah. But actually, and that could go
3:15:33
both ways. But what I'm saying is, if your
3:15:36
car is making 350, foot pounds of torque, you don't need a
3:15:38
clutch for 850, foot-pounds of torque.
3:15:40
Yeah. Absolutely.
3:15:41
What's the point, adding, the edit abuse to your drivetrain.
3:15:44
Exactly. And, you know, petal feel to it.
3:15:47
I'm going to skip some of these guys.
3:15:48
Sorry, we're running a little late here, but this guy's name
3:15:52
is too good. Flick my bic, 55 JP rank is JP.
3:15:56
To drive a slow-ass are again. I'm actually very excited to,
3:15:59
like I said, it's going to take me back to like the, The Early
3:16:02
times of me and I guess stock is just are so, like, I picked up
3:16:05
the S15 turbo, so hopefully, it's like close enough to what
3:16:08
2871 are by also being a lot more responding.
3:16:11
That was my only set up so I can tell you, it's fun.
3:16:13
Yeah, that's what I said too. It's a proven set up.
3:16:15
Yeah. So like I said, I got a couple
3:16:17
tricks Under My Sleeve to them is not going to be just basic
3:16:20
setup, so yeah, I clear, I feel like you cannot for you
3:16:25
personally, you Did not want it to just, You Gotta Throw a
3:16:28
little. Yeah, he magic that I been
3:16:30
spilling the beans on the stories, I've been like cutting
3:16:32
camshafts and doing like these weird things.
3:16:34
And like, hopefully I got a couple people have caught on it
3:16:37
and I'm just like, yeah, it's not gonna be just stuck.
3:16:39
Yeah, we're doing some research. Yeah, I saw some stuff.
3:16:42
There's two questions, I'd like to ask last favorite engine to
3:16:47
build from scratch, and why? Right.
3:16:50
SR-22 just because I know them like the back of my head.
3:16:53
Yeah, like Ali like. Well, yeah, Glory Olson.
3:16:56
Is that the last question? Yeah, you can ask it.
3:16:58
Yes. Who or what inspires you right
3:17:03
now in your career. Because you now right now you're
3:17:05
just so far. You've just been fueling your
3:17:08
own fire and Subaru. Guy's been fucking, you guys.
3:17:10
Just been 222-2222 so like it, if you tell me, Subaru guys,
3:17:14
sort of God. Yeah.
3:17:15
No. I mean I owe a lot to the Subaru
3:17:18
guy. Yeah.
3:17:18
She's my buddy, dude. Of Builders engine for free
3:17:20
whenever you want. So he's got the open door.
3:17:22
I don't care. Yeah.
3:17:23
If we crash into each other drifting, and come on cameraman.
3:17:26
Come on back, man. No, no, he's cool.
3:17:28
I like him, I miss him. But I mean, like I said, doing
3:17:32
my own thing, like I always, like I said, I wanted to be like
3:17:35
a business owner. I didn't want to like, have like
3:17:37
work for somebody, and be, just another freaking tool in the
3:17:40
corporate world. Yeah.
3:17:42
So having my own business and just making a living out of what
3:17:45
I love is like, my ultimate goal in life.
3:17:48
So if I can pull this off, you I'm not looking to make top
3:17:50
dollar, I just want to make a decent living.
3:17:53
Do this have access to this and just be involved with a for the
3:17:56
cars and Building engines and be freaking sick.
3:17:58
Like that's my end goal but I think I think I for say like
3:18:04
inspiration wise, I think I would say would be mr.
3:18:07
Junichi from June out. Oh, okay.
3:18:10
In Japan. That's, that's somebody who I
3:18:12
like, I could say, I mean, I I don't idolize people that much
3:18:15
not to say that in a cocky for him but like, You should idolize
3:18:18
yourself, mostly you should give yourself up to be a badass.
3:18:22
There's always role models and stuff.
3:18:23
Yeah, so I mean I always looked up to attack Joshi Hara as 14.
3:18:29
He had a zenki, just like mine and then I was like, dude, I
3:18:31
want I set up when he had to 300 horsepower.
3:18:33
Each key has set up. It was sick, it was think he
3:18:36
looks sick. I was like, that's what I want,
3:18:37
like. Yeah, and then I looked up to
3:18:41
like, I said, juvenile do because they machine everything
3:18:43
and house, they build their own Parts.
3:18:45
They're like, literally like, The all-in-one shop.
3:18:49
Yeah. And they've they've been around
3:18:51
dude. Like with the Supra.
3:18:52
The z32 to June's Dunes like the ultimate engine builder.
3:18:56
Actually cars. Were like literally god tier
3:18:58
again yeah. Like I also look up a lot to
3:19:01
like smoking. I got I grew up watching all
3:19:02
those videos dude. Yes but he's more.
3:19:05
So like a tuner versus like June junichi.
3:19:08
Like rest in peace. He put the cars together and
3:19:11
machines. Everything makes his own rods.
3:19:12
Make some stroker kids camshafts dude.
3:19:14
Yeah like I would love to visit June Auto Machine.
3:19:17
In sha because it's just an insane Place dude.
3:19:19
Let's get a trip together, man. So Japan trip.
3:19:21
We never been. So I've never been either like.
3:19:24
Yeah, I love to go. Yeah.
3:19:26
Machine shop in a junkyard and they'll be happy.
3:19:28
Josh Tolley says he wants to go the end of the year so get that
3:19:30
passport ready. Boy.
3:19:32
Lot of work to do. Yeah.
3:19:35
All right, well get us out of here carleeee if you made it
3:19:38
this far. Thank you so much JP.
3:19:41
Thank you so much for coming. Yeah thanks for coming here.
3:19:43
Thank you for having me guys today.
3:19:45
And also you're going to have to probably drive back home.
3:19:47
Well, at least now I'll be quiet.
3:19:48
Yeah, you have a nice peaceful to 10.
3:19:51
Oh my God. I can't believe I've been here I
3:19:55
left at like 3:00. It's been a long day.
3:19:59
Yeah. Just did a flight.
3:20:00
You just did an international flight dude.
3:20:02
I know it's been a crazy day. I just yeah.
3:20:04
Off work. I put the clutch, but only has
3:20:06
14. So I was like I was like I got
3:20:08
something done today. Yeah.
3:20:10
Or loaded to Sr.'s in the Audi.
3:20:12
So yeah. I'm just gonna wear it to see
3:20:13
where I'm going to put those because I'll ignore room.
3:20:16
Hmm. I'm going to talk about brother
3:20:18
into making some money, but thank you so much.
3:20:22
Thank you so much for sharing your stories and stuff.
3:20:24
And and I'm sure everybody loved.
3:20:26
There was a decent amount of people in here is 42 people in
3:20:29
the live chat. Yeah, jxd Christ.
3:20:32
There was fit the most people that's ever been in live chat.
3:20:34
Wow. So I have either a makes me feel
3:20:37
incredible. Do you have anything you want to
3:20:38
say to anybody listening? Like I said, well number one, I
3:20:42
got invited to a couple podcast, so I'm just going to say it.
3:20:45
Frankie put a gun to my head. So I had to come here and First
3:20:49
to pick up parts. So it's yeah, but there's some
3:20:52
other podcasts out there asking for you.
3:20:54
Yeah, I mean, I just work so much and make it eventually.
3:20:57
Yeah. I mean like, you guys have been
3:20:59
here with me since to start and stuff, so like, and I'm coming
3:21:01
here to pick up our so, like, we all this all worked out great.
3:21:04
Yeah, first I from the traffic. Thank you, man.
3:21:06
I do appreciate you coming out here, so, absolutely.
3:21:08
Maybe next one will, hey, maybe the next one will have it in a
3:21:11
machine shop. Yeah, I know.
3:21:13
I thought about that, too. I thought that would be cool.
3:21:15
Yeah, we could do that. We could do with Travis like I
3:21:17
was being here, we're down. Yeah, go up there and try the
3:21:21
taco truck. Yeah, I know.
3:21:22
It's how you tracked? Yes sir.
3:21:24
But thank you guys so much for listening.
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3:21:38
That's it's been the same the whole time.
3:21:39
Stay tuned on there. Yeah.
3:21:41
If he's obviously going to be making moves soon and he clearly
3:21:44
makes moves. So yeah, and I'll be running
3:21:46
into Car. Alarms, and whatever else they
3:21:48
run into in the my daily life? Yeah, daily life story videos
3:21:52
are the best. So all right, let's go see if
3:21:55
anyone's open. So we eat bro.
3:21:57
I'm going home. I think that's fine.
3:21:59
I'm going to Juicy platter it's late, but thank you guys so much
3:22:01
for listening. That's a wrap.
3:22:10
Wow, that was a long one. Yeah but it was a good one.
3:22:14
It was a good one for sure. Other good one.
3:22:16
Yeah. Yeah I mean I I don't I mean I
3:22:20
was looking over at Chris, he look like he might, he might
3:22:22
have been asleep for a little bit there, that's just Chris.
3:22:24
Yeah, I know. But he gets comfortable saying
3:22:27
anywhere and then and then you would be responding to like JP
3:22:30
and he would look like, he's actually very Into the story,
3:22:34
but you could just tell his eyes were like half away.
3:22:36
Yeah, yeah. Like, I'm like Chris, you can't
3:22:40
fall asleep when our guests are here, you know, gonna take it
3:22:42
anyway. But yeah.
3:22:45
So we just record Another podcast yesterday.
3:22:49
So we don't really have much to say as far as parts and stuff
3:22:52
that we added. Yeah.
3:22:53
I mean, the only thing that I can say is we have a special
3:22:56
announcement. Well, the first thing is you're
3:22:59
pregnant, I'm pregnant now, the first thing is I believe we just
3:23:04
gained another sponsor. So oh yeah.
3:23:08
So that's going to be probably next month.
3:23:10
We started doing that. Okay, you guys stay tuned.
3:23:14
See who it is. It's a local shop here.
3:23:16
But do they do wraps and tinting stuff like that.
3:23:20
And they seem pretty legit. So yeah.
3:23:22
They work on a whole bunch of supercars.
3:23:23
I saw. Ya supercars German car.
3:23:26
I mean, they even the owner, one of the owners drifts, pretty
3:23:29
sure they all have a tuners. Yeah, I think one guy has G37
3:23:35
then that's 14. I wanted a nice 14 and they said
3:23:38
they drift them. So awesome.
3:23:40
That's how he found out about about the podcast.
3:23:42
That's awesome. In other news, we are starting
3:23:46
the patreon account right now. Oh we're going to do this right
3:23:51
now. Another big announcement we got
3:23:53
to tears so far. We got a $5 tier.
3:23:56
We got a $15 here first here basically.
3:24:01
We're just gonna put whatever we feel like on there.
3:24:03
Do hourly episode releases on there for the podcast, we're
3:24:08
going to do separate podcast episodes on the patreon.
3:24:13
What else? Any behind-the-scenes stuff?
3:24:14
We're going to post on their Insider info.
3:24:17
As far as you know what brands are doing, when they're
3:24:19
releasing new products stuff like that.
3:24:21
Pretty much if you want if you want the you know if you want to
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be the first ones to hear information about what's going
3:24:27
on in the industry and the drifting community that would be
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the place you want to check it out.
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The second tier is basically Ali, Just Faith.
3:24:35
It's basically for the people that want to support us more
3:24:37
just for the hell of it. Yeah.
3:24:38
Who's got the extra dough? Yeah.
3:24:39
But at the same time when we release new merch, anytime, we
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release new merch, you're basically going to get a care
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package. So, there's a little bonus in
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there, but it's not, you know, depending on when we make new
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merch and yes, new merch is coming.
3:24:53
Don't you fret? Now, I have to make it since we
3:24:55
met. Yeah.
3:24:57
So we're going to release this right now.
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There is going to be a episode on.
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They're with Reese Marin because that episode, that episode will
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be coming out later in the month.
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But just for those that want to hear it now and they don't feel
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like waiting, we're going to put whatever episodes we have on the
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