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#55 - Jonathan Izaguirre of Goopy Performance · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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Hello there. Welcome back to another episode
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of Faction Motorsports After Hours podcast.
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On tonight's episode we have John from Goopy Performance.
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Goopy Performance is located in Have A Straw, New York and was
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established in 2001. Goopy Performance works on
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Rotary engines. He is primarily a machine shop,
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but we'll also do other things here and there.
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But for the most part, he's not taking, you know, he's not
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disassembling your RX7. At a shop he's just working on
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your engine Goopy performance started out by making Rotary
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parts, performance parts and then slowly became what it is
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today, which is basically anything and everything Rotary
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engine. Please check them out.
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We have all of his information in the show notes on this
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episode, so check out his Instagram, Facebook, and
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website. If you need any Rotary parts,
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make sure to hit them up. And that's it.
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We enjoyed this one. This was we.
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We got a lot of information about Rotaries on this episode.
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We didn't know anything before this, so enjoy.
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Again, This is a functioning shop, so we're not far off from
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6:30, just about an hour. I said 6:30 and Malcolm yelled
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at me and said. It's not gonna be 6:30.
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I said. It's gonna be 6.
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Yeah. No.
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Sorry, Malcolm. But yeah, we're here to bring
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you another episode. We have another guest.
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We have Jonathan of Goopy Performance, a Rotary specialty
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shop. And yeah.
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Thank you for coming on the podcast.
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Thank you. Thank you for having me.
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Goopy legend, right? Yeah, for real.
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We're gonna call you goopy, he said.
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Yeah, Yes. That was my nickname, so you
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could go. Ahead.
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Yeah. Can we just started off with
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that? Why goopy?
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How did this start? Yeah.
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Why is your name goopy? Don't, don't, don't tell me it's
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something weird. No, no, no, no.
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Goopy is my Is that goopy was my.
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It's actually cu P. Y.
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That was my nickname in Spanish, so people used to call me coopy
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in Spanish and. And and then the the IT sounds
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kind of awkward in English. So one day we just said, hey,
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let's call my call me goopy, so everybody just call me.
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Goopy. So it came from your nickname?
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Yeah, that's my nickname. So when we started my business
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of making my parts, I was thinking, OK, So what should we
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name our parts? And I looked online and or you
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know, back then there was no online and it was like looked in
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the magazines and you had everybody from BZD and all the
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different alphabet. Yeah.
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You know names for. Heart brands.
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And I said, damn, I can't find, I need a name for my business.
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I have so many questions and I just said, you know.
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What? Who spells it with a G cuz it
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went from C to G? Right, cuz it just doesn't sound
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right in English when you say Kuppi.
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So yeah, you can think of Kuppi petals from BMX back in the day.
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So I just said let me just call myself Kuppi.
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Yeah, I like the name. It's very memorable because.
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For example, a coworker of mine. I don't know a lot about Rotary.
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This is the first time we, me and you have met.
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Yeah, first time we had any Rotary people on.
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Here but yet. But yet.
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I have friends who've gone. You I have friend named Angel He
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I think you might have built an engine for him or something.
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Like that. Yeah, and a buddy and my
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coworker is trying to get an RX8 and I'm like, dude, OK that this
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shop called Goopy, that's where you go.
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And that's one of the reasons why I used the name goopy,
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because I said OK even if someone doesn't know how to.
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Spell it or it sounds awkward. It's a catchy phrase and for
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marketing, it actually works. It works.
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It works. You guys do got me interested.
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I was like, what is goop you? You have to work harder to
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actually say the name and think about, you know, even my my
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decal, if you look at my logo, my logo says GO and then one of
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the O's is a rotor and then PY and most people are like, what
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does that say? What does that say?
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And then they study it. But little do they know their
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brain is being programmed to like remember my name.
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That just says Go Rotary people or.
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Whatever, but you know. It works.
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I like it. When did you start?
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We started Gooby performance started in 2000 and one 2001.
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In 2001 we started with. We designed an Apex Seal.
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We manufactured Apex Seal and that was my.
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I think I saw that on your website as well.
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That's what, that's what I used to spearhead my business.
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That's what I was known for and that's what I started with.
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You know, I remember I used to work in software prior to that
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and you know things would start going down after 911 and.
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And my business partner and I at the time said, hey, listen,
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let's just take all the technology, some financing that
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we had and all the resources that we had and what we were
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doing prior and let's just make our own Apex Seal.
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It took almost two years, 2 1/2 years, a little bit more.
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And then we went back and forth and 2001 and here we are today.
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That's kind of crazy to me. Not a lot of.
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That's not really like the first step that somebody takes.
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Yeah, you must have been pretty passionate.
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About, Yeah, like. You must have already.
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I was a Rotary guy and I had an RX7 that I used to drag and one
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time I went we went racing in Lebanon Valley.
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I remember I broke an apex seal and the apex it was a factory
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seal. It was a nitrous car and it
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ruined the housing and and I was like, Oh my God, cuz the Apex
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Seals, some people call them vein Seals, they're inside the
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engine, right? That's it.
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That's like the main thing, the. Achilles tendon, they would say,
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right? That's what builds compression.
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And so that broke the original. The OEM unit broke, caused a lot
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of damage on the inside and it hurt me.
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It hurt me financially. I was like, my God, this is
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killer. And I remember and I made
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software for. Were translating CAD files in
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the 90s. That's what we sold.
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That's what I already. Shit.
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Dog you were. A probably a genius considered a
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genius. So in the 90s and in the early
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2000s, if you had AutoCAD and you had Pro E or Katia or one of
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the other CAD softwares, right, Pro engineer, whatever.
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I don't even know if they're around anymore.
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I think they still use CAD and more like they do, but.
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I don't know if those brands are there.
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OK, so say you had pro engineer and you designed the 3D file
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and. Model in dot prt extension and
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you emailed it to somebody and they didn't have pro engineer,
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they couldn't open the file. So we had a software that I used
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to work for that we used to sell.
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They used to sell the software that allowed you to install the
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software and then open up 3D files and 2D files from a CAS
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software that you didn't own. It wouldn't allow you to edit
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the file but you could at least access.
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It so your goal with the software was cross
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compatibility. Yeah, that's correct.
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Pretty much. That's correct.
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That's good. And it's 90s.
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Yeah. So I'm.
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Selling. Software and I was selling
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software to engineers, casters, investment casting, CNC shops
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and. Bill Gates.
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No people manufacturing stuff, right in the job shop world.
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And then I actually got to meet a lot of engineers from every
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aspect, solid modelers and designers and whatnot.
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So I learned the entire manufacturing world from the
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sales perspective. So I took that ability and made
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my own apex. My God.
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That is fucking. I didn't know.
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That was an engineer. By trade, nor a machinist.
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Later on I bought mills and ladies and that sort of stuff
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and I had to kind of self teach myself.
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But yeah, so but we, you know we hired A metallurgist.
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He worked with us. He was the old fellow that
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worked with SKF for about 20 years, 25 years and then another
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company and thinking and he had retired and then he wanted to
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work with us. He had connects with connections
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with. Like Carpenter Steels and a few
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other people, he got us into the right people and it worked well.
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So you make this apex here. What was different about your?
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Apex. I was just about to ask that you
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sly bitch. Yeah.
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I would try to keep the mic close.
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So if you guys don't know, you can.
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Move it. Whatever.
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In the 90s there was very few people that made aftermarket
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Apex seals or even parts for Rotary engines.
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In the 90s there was very little aftermarket.
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So pretty much you're dealing with, you're dealing with Mazda.
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Apex. Seals, that's why, you know
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sometimes you'll buy a JDM 13B or 12A or I mean the 13B or and
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you'll see like extra injectors on this because in the early
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days there was like no aftermarket Ecu's or no big
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injectors like there is today. Yeah, all you had is original
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equipment stuff. So people just added another
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injector. So that was very limited as far
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as aftermarket stuff. Yeah, so then what we did is so
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then there was very, so it was very little.
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So then we said, hey, we got to come up with an Apex seal that
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that. That it's more of a consumable.
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You buy it, you use it. If it bends, it bends.
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If it wears out, it wears out. Whatever, But let it not break
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it cause catastrophic damage on the inside.
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You take the engine apart, you replace it, and down the road
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you go. Oh, that's like a big game
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changer. Yeah.
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Wow. So that.
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Wow. Now that's.
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To me, to the average consumer, that's me.
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And like everybody else was trying to get in a Rotary.
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You just provided like a godsend.
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That was what I started with, yeah, so that's I said to myself
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and my business partner all the time, Jack, he lived here in
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Jersey and he came out of the manufacturing world.
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When I started working with him in software in the sales
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business, he had already done rapid prototyping and he had
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worked with solid modeling and all the stuff from.
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Big companies Lockheed Martin and Nike and Saab GM.
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You know, so he was. He was real smart, dude.
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It started with, I think, McDonnell Douglas in the late
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70s and stuff like that. So I had good mentors, good
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mentors, and I was like shadowing these guys all the
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time. And I was like, wow, these guys
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are bright individuals and I'm here coming out of Ramapo
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College. With a degree in poli sci and
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stuff, and I'm over here. I'm just and I just wanted to
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sell software. So I had to learn the
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engineering world, the lingo, the terminology and everything,
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just to sell the software and then using the actual software
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later on to design my own parts. Yeah, now, now you were going to
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school and you graduated and you got into your career then and
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then you got. Yes, I was senior year Ramapo
11:55
College and like in the 90s I was senior year Ramapo College
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and. I got hired selling the
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software. It was like 100 credits, like 20
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short of my BA or whatever. Yeah, I just quit school and I
12:08
just started working and I said the heck with this and I just
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started working and that's it and.
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Then, well, I mean, that's the goal anyway, right?
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Trying to get a job in that field, so.
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The The thing is is like right now, like it's harder for kids
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to make that decision because like some, when you make that
12:23
decision now, you won't have that degree.
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And there's jobs out there where that's literally the bare
12:28
requirement. They won't even look at anything
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else. I'll just be like you don't have
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a degree you can't apply, but that person could have so many
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skills that are applicable to that one position.
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So like how many years did you end up selling software?
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I don't know, three years 4. Years, three years, four years
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before you were like, yeah, I need to do more.
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Yeah, we were traveling. No, not that.
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But the company we were working with selling software for
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started. They cut us off and they said
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we're gonna bring software in house in California and all the
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sales guys. So then we were a VAR here in
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Ridgewood, NJ so. They kind of, they didn't need
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us. Little by little they started
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cutting off our accounts. So, you know, it just, it
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started drying up. So yeah, so let's try something
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else with, let's do something else with the abilities that we
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had with the skill sets that we had at the time.
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Frankie Avar is a value added reseller, right?
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Right. Wait, what?
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A var, that's what he just called it.
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It's a value, added Reseller. What the hell is that?
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It's the product. You guys help sell the product
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and they add the value by reselling it VAR.
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You're welcome. I'm still lost.
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We'll talk about it. Later, you're technically a var.
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I've never, yeah, I've never heard that, that term before.
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On paper, you're technically yeah.
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So if you're selling something for somebody, yeah, you are a
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VAR. Yeah, but yeah.
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So when you designed the Apex Seal and stuff like that, what
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was the process like talking to? You mentioned a metallurgist,
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right? Not everybody talks to a
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metallurgist, yes. Yeah, what the fuck.
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That's sad. It's a cool process, like.
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We had that worked with us for about. 10 years actually longer
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than he recently passed away last year, you know and then and
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he was a brilliant individual. He was really smart.
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It was he has, he had a lot of years of experience.
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He used to fly back and forth overseas and I think the one of
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the reasons he retired is because it's back her from you
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know these intercontinental flights and that sort of stuff.
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So with me I just had to bring him, I had to bring him all the
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variables. This is what's going on blah,
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blah, blah and. This is the issues we're seeing.
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And then so I had to use my. Limited ability to.
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Communicate in that world and give him as much information.
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And then he went from there, Yeah, And then he said, okay,
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let's try this material, try that material, try that.
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We tried about a dozen different.
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Materials, Yeah. What was the like?
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Yeah, what was it? What was like the like, how the
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fuck do you even? Like how many Apex deals did you
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go? I know.
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I'm trying to think like it was interesting testing that it was.
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Interesting because it was, you know, it was it was hard, you
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know this is 20 something years ago, you know, it was it was
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challenging. Yeah, time of my life I went
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through a lot of stress. You know, we draining or Piggy
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Bank. And it was.
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It was. Difficult.
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I remember. You know, we'd come up with one
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material. OK, let's make let's try this
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material. Who can make it?
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Who can machine it? OK, let's try.
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Let's make one. OK, this seemed to work well,
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so. Let's make these in volume.
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Oh, it's not feasible. We have to do this type of heat
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tree and blah blah. It was challenging.
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And you still had a job at that point?
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Yes, yes, yes. We're still selling software.
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Now the thing we're testing, you know, we tried one.
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I'd put it in an engine. I'd have to drive a few 100
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miles to see how it if it broke in, if it, you know, if it made
15:32
good vacuum and then take it back out, send it back to the
15:35
lab, look at it and make it. OK, this will work great.
15:38
Let's try heat #2. Let's go to this one.
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Holy fuck, you're doing your own.
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R&D on the road, yes. Yes, yes.
15:45
While you're. Working.
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Even have a car registered. So it sucked.
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I was like, Oh my God, I got to put miles on this apex.
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How am I going to do it? So then I remember my friend
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Willie Maldonado. He's like, you use my car.
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I got insurance on it. All right, no problem.
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Let me borrow this first Gen. I would throw a motor in there.
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I was done. I got 11 that night and I was
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like, OK, turns on my little brother used to help me Elias.
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And I mean, I got to go put some miles on this cuz I got to take
16:06
this motor back out in three days.
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And and that night, you know, I get in and put gas in and drive
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all the way up. New Haven up 95 back down.
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Come home the next day I had like 300 miles.
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OK, take the motor back out, send it to the lab, check the
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radius, check you know the see if expanded, check the
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materials, go back to do some testing and Oh my God.
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So I went through that for, you know, almost three years 3.
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Years. That is some damn impressive
16:28
stuff, dude. Yes, it was a.
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Bitch like hats off to you. Very much respected. 20 years
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ago, you know Now this is all our own unique stuff we didn't
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copy. Anybody.
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That's the part that's difficult.
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Unique stuff, you know? My, my, the metallurgist we were
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working with, he was like. It was like straight as an
16:43
arrow, you know, You know, I don't do anything unethical, You
16:46
know, we're going to design our own stuff testing, you know, he
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was like old school, old school dude, bro, he's you don't find
16:53
guys like that anymore. And then so, but today you can't
16:56
say the same today. Today everybody's copying
16:58
everybody's stuff, you know what I mean?
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So. Yeah, I feel like I was going to
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ask this, but now we're kind of talking about it.
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But over the years, did it get become easier to be able to
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produce? Arts.
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A. Little bit like the access to
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like. I don't know how did you even
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find this metallurgist? He worked.
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I don't know, he was friends with somebody else.
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We met at a job shop show. We used to do a lot of trade
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shows like Jacob Javits, the Design Manufacturing Show and
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Jacob Javits and all the job shop shows they have down here
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at the Meadowlands and stuff where all the trade shows come
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in and. People that do EDM and machining
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and all casting and all sorts of stuff, so we had a lot of
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contacts in that world. That world is.
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Small, but at the same time each a lot of people know each other.
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Yeah, I'm not. In that world as much anymore.
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But when I was selling software, I got to meet a lot of cool
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people. So nowadays, I feel like with
17:48
the amount of exposure that you can have on one channel, let's
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say it's Instagram, right, you put a story.
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I'm looking for a metallurgist. I'm sure somebody knows somebody
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who knows somebody. Yeah.
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Yeah. Versus before where you had to
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like. You had to make that, Yeah.
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There was no social media. Yeah, right, EarthLink,
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Remember, dial up and wait. Yeah.
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Connection and stuff it. Was Internet in 2001?
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Yes. It was I was 6 so.
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Forums were probably a thing. It was, yeah, the forums, I
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don't know, were there forums? Yeah, I think there were.
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There was like RX7 Club and stuff like that and finger,
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everybody typing with one finger and.
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Stuff like that. Dude.
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If you could type like this back then, you were God, yeah.
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You could exactly. Everybody was one finger, 2
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fingers, like this one. And you had typing class.
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I wonder if you ever had to take typing class.
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Frankie. Did they have?
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Yes. Typing class for you?
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Yes. Where they made you like like we
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had this librarian in high school that she would get mad if
18:41
you are not. Hold on back.
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Straight back, straight foot planted and your your wrists had
18:46
to be like. Kind of.
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Can people hear us online? Yes.
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OK. Yes, OK, yeah, for sure Jordan,
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it says. It says Jordan has no audio, but
18:55
no one else has complained. So let us know in the chat if
18:57
ever there is no audio and we will.
18:59
And by we, I mean Malcolm. Here anything at 7:10.
19:02
OK, well. That was because we had them all
19:04
here. Fucking.
19:04
Around. So, so how did you get into
19:07
Rotary? OK, did you have that first?
19:09
What happened is I was already a gear head to begin with, right?
19:11
OK, I was already Where did I start with, right?
19:13
Since the early 90s, I was already a car guy.
19:16
So when we designed our own Apex Seals, that was a way to me for
19:19
me to start a new venture in life, a new business, a new
19:22
idea. Was it always Rotary?
19:23
Though yeah, I was always a Rotary guy for the most part
19:26
since I was a kid, and then that.
19:29
So we made these Apex seal and you know it was 2-3 years.
19:32
I would go to Puerto Rico a lot and do testing in Puerto Rico.
19:34
And I had a buddy of mine in Puerto Rico.
19:36
I said in parts 2 and I said hey be thing Israel's name was, hey
19:39
try this out, try this one, try that one.
19:40
OK, I tried this one. This one worked pretty good.
19:42
This one didn't work. One of the Apex seals, the first
19:45
one, the one we were working on for many years, we found the
19:48
patent for that. We filed a patent on that, you
19:50
know in 2003 and that apex seal will yield 1,000,000 miles.
19:56
We think we Apex would yield 1,000,000 miles.
19:59
That's not what we're sending now.
20:00
Depending on the abuse, but. No, that would yield 1,000,000
20:03
miles. It just wasn't feasible.
20:04
It was very expensive. It was challenging.
20:07
That's what we did file a patent for it and then that material.
20:10
So the technology is out there. To do almost anything you wanna.
20:14
This is just how much money you're willing to spend.
20:16
I. Was gonna say but there's that
20:17
means there's it's just God Mode apex.
20:19
Right. It was just expensive.
20:20
We didn't have to sell it for 1500 bucks a set.
20:22
And people aren't buying $1500 Apex.
20:24
That's just six seals. Yeah, that's just six seals.
20:28
Yeah. How much is a normal, how much
20:29
are you guys selling your? Apex what is it like 350 bucks I
20:32
think for set that's. That doesn't seem that.
20:34
And then it's A and again it's a replacement.
20:36
Consumable. Yeah, it's a consumable.
20:38
And that's the idea. The idea is, hey, listen, I
20:39
messed up. I leaned out.
20:41
Whatever the issue is, let's replace it.
20:43
Pop another one in and down the road.
20:44
We can, but it doesn't destroy the.
20:46
That's the idea. So the impetus behind making the
20:49
apex seals was that the original equipment mozzed the stuff.
20:52
When they would break, they would damage the rotor housings
20:54
on the inside, and if they came out, the exhaust and damaged the
20:56
turbo. And now you have bit more calls.
20:58
Oh my God. So that was the.
21:00
Issue with all the Rotary. Guys in the 90s and in the early
21:02
2000s, so all the early 90s and 2000s guys were tuning and that
21:06
were building engines. They had to be extra precise and
21:09
you know, real, real careful with everything they had.
21:12
They didn't have a second choice.
21:13
You know, if you broke an apex, it was, ah, man, I got another
21:16
engine, a housing. And a turbo.
21:18
Turbo Blue Yeah, so you know, but.
21:20
So you took three years and then you said you pretty much came.
21:24
You came to a conclusion with. Yes.
21:27
Was that the God one or was that like the?
21:29
No, that was more. Feasible.
21:30
What we have now, it works very well.
21:32
Works very well. And you know we I went to I had
21:34
a lot of dealers in Puerto Rico. I went to California 7 stock.
21:38
I did trade shows in seminars in Montreal.
21:41
I didn't guys didn't even speak English.
21:43
They had a French translator. I went to Guatemala.
21:45
Did 2 seminars in Guatemala. And had a all these guys there
21:50
and can you show us your brand, help us build engines and stuff?
21:53
Like. Rico The fuck that's see a lot
21:56
of different. Places I've been through, I've
21:59
been through the ringer, man. You.
22:00
Probably know that engine like the back of your hand.
22:02
And that's what happens. So a lot of people that wanted
22:05
to buy our brand. So you know, if anybody out
22:07
there nowadays wants to make something for one particular
22:09
car, I when I went to speed shops in Puerto Rico, they were
22:13
like, OK, these are good apexels.
22:14
Thank you, son. You know, you show them the
22:15
piece of paper this is. They'll withstand this
22:18
temperature, this work characteristics.
22:20
These are how good they are. And they would look at you and
22:23
be like, yeah, OK, give me them. Let me try to make my car.
22:25
If they work, I'll buy them. If they don't work, I don't buy
22:27
them. That's just how people speak,
22:29
old school guys think. They wanna see it.
22:31
So I had to put them in this car and that car and this car.
22:34
So I gave a lot of. I had a lot of guys using my
22:36
brand in early days, but it was just challenging.
22:38
So then it actually forced me to actually work on rotaries and
22:43
build my own engines and. Eventually what we have today
22:46
because folks were like, hey listen, you know, I had guys
22:49
come and say, hey, that's great, but can you build my engine?
22:51
And I was like, OK, well in between selling parts I could
22:53
build an engine and I. Was about to ask, is that what
22:56
your shop now? Is that service you offer?
22:59
Yes, full motor. Shop, yes, yes.
23:01
We don't work on cars so much. I just don't have the space and
23:03
the manpower, but we do blocks. So as opposed to most guys,
23:06
let's let's say rod mill in and let's say some of the, you know
23:11
like. From Erelbrock, Vic Erelbrock
23:14
and some of the other guys, if you see their business
23:17
platforms, most of those guys were racers, started racing,
23:20
started, you know, they racing, had shops and stuff, and then
23:24
they designed parts. I did it kind of backwards.
23:28
I designed the part. I, yeah, made a part.
23:30
And then I had to go back and build a shop around the part
23:33
because everybody's like, hey, you know, why don't you just
23:35
build it for me? And you know, here in the
23:36
tri-state area, there was a lot of dealers here in the early
23:39
2000s. There was a lot of shops around
23:41
here that did a lot of Rotary work.
23:42
And but it was challenging you know you wanted people were hey
23:45
can you build my engine? So I.
23:46
Feel like I only knew one Rotary shop for the last 10 years.
23:49
Who is it? I don't know.
23:50
It was. I think they were in South
23:52
Jersey or something. No, there's always been Rotary
23:55
shops. I think what has happened over
23:57
the last, you know, 25 years is, you know.
24:00
Generations have come, have gone, Some guys have retired and
24:03
you got the new guys coming in. Yeah, I feel like there's not
24:06
many nowadays. Right there is that.
24:08
You gotta know who sue. A lot of guys.
24:10
This guy will build a few engines.
24:11
That guy builds a few engines. As far as a shop that you can go
24:14
to Turnkey that just specializes on that, right?
24:17
There isn't too many of those. Yeah, I mean that is pretty
24:19
crazy. And you only specialize in
24:21
rotaries. I mean, those shops do exist.
24:23
Now I just now that I know that that that Achilles.
24:28
Of the Rotary, the apex seal right.
24:30
You make a consumable 1 now. Yeah, I want.
24:33
I'm interested in the God. One what's what's for stopping
24:35
me from like let's say let's say you are let, let's say I'm that
24:38
consumer, I blow my shit up. I'm going to take that thing
24:41
apart. I think I'm I can take, I'm, I'm
24:43
OK with my hands. I can disassemble an engine to
24:46
an extent and I feel. Like it's got no Pistons and
24:48
rods so. I think that's the coolest part
24:50
about it, but also the what people I feel like are
24:52
intimidated by. Well, yeah, because it's not.
24:55
Normal per se. Yeah, Well, was your first car a
24:57
Rotary? No, my first car.
24:59
I remember the first car I ever bought was a Volkswagen Beetle
25:04
73 Super Beetle. Oh my.
25:05
My dad had like, a good gillion of those.
25:07
Super. Beetle had the fiberglass flares
25:10
on it. I think I bought it for like 50
25:11
bucks. That's what, 50 bucks?
25:13
No. I see.
25:14
You know, my dad would tell me this. 50 bucks and you?
25:16
Just buy a shit load. Of guy Mike McMahon sold it to
25:19
me. He had a balloon clutch and he
25:20
had it. The shop down and have a straw
25:22
just junked there. I was like, yo, what you want?
25:24
He's like, give me $50. Why is it always at a junkyard
25:28
too like? That somebody shot, but they
25:29
were gonna junk it. It was a super three.
25:30
It was a 1.86373 Super Beetle fiberglass flares and
25:35
everything. Yeah.
25:36
And then I remember had a gauges on the you know the auto meter
25:39
gauges and and I remember. I So what is a Super Beetle?
25:42
Is it Turbo? What is it?
25:44
It's just a beetle. It was just called the Super
25:45
Beetle. I don't know why it was called
25:46
the Super Beetle. It had the bigger engine.
25:47
I think the 1.8 or something. One point, I don't know.
25:51
It's just super. And what else do you need to
25:53
know about it? So that was.
25:54
Burning. Smell like Clutch and I.
25:57
Remember And they had the cable clutches right?
25:58
Or. Something.
25:59
Yeah. And I remember I went and bought
26:00
some parts for it at Rapid Parts.
26:02
Rapid parts used to be in Muncie, New York, and they sold
26:04
just Volkswagen stuff. They're all gone now.
26:07
I. Wonder if my dad knows about
26:08
that. I'm.
26:09
They sold brand new Fenders, doors, everything for
26:12
Volkswagens, everything Volkswagen.
26:14
And then I took some of the parts home.
26:16
And before I started messing with the car, my brother's like,
26:18
hey, you want to put Sally and sold them for 150 bucks.
26:21
So I made like made $100 in one day.
26:25
And then what? Yeah, so then.
26:27
I sold that and then I bought an RX7.
26:29
That. So the next step was the.
26:30
R1 or something 91 maybe 92. I bought an RX7 FC for like 125
26:35
bucks. No an FB like FB.
26:37
Oh like 1081. Had a busted tie right in.
26:40
Put a phony plate you know drove it home.
26:42
My dad following me and and you know we made it home and.
26:46
And I had to put a new strut on it.
26:48
And so you're gonna have to educate me right now, because
26:50
all I know is FC and FD. That's an FB out.
26:52
There first Gen. first Gen. that's called the first Gen.
26:55
OK. So the one outside that you
26:56
brought. 1st Gen. 1978 to 1985 first Gen. they're practically
27:00
the same unibody and stuff like that, and they're. 7879 had two
27:04
tail lights in the back. Yeah, yeah.
27:06
The 8485 GSL, the C, which people call the five letters
27:09
Cinco letter, would have the 13B fuel injection with a
27:13
distributor. Cinco letter bro.
27:15
Yes, Cinco Letter. You guys don't have nothing cool
27:17
in Sr. and Jayz world. Make some.
27:19
Make some cooler acronyms. We got a, we got a black top,
27:22
they got a. Cinco letter over here.
27:23
It's just sick, which is? We got to see one up close,
27:26
which is. I didn't even know that that was
27:28
a model that existed. Yes, I thought it was strictly
27:31
12A in the FB, No, no. And then that people would put
27:34
theirs. They.
27:35
Did have 12A cells, so most of them did have 12A from 78 to 85.
27:39
The majority of of them had 12. A 85.
27:41
The one you've seen outside. That's a rare model.
27:43
Did you like the 12A? I'm assuming the one you had
27:45
was. That a 12.
27:46
A. So other than the .1 liter
27:49
difference, what? What's the difference between a
27:51
12A and a 13? B Well, the 12A has.
27:54
The 12A is. You wanna know the difference?
27:57
Yeah, yeah. Let's get into it.
27:58
Come on. The 12A is one point considered
28:01
1.1. The a little different.
28:04
Yeah the 13 B is 1.3 liter 1.2 for the 12A at 1200 and then
28:09
1300 and then the 12A housings are 70 millimeter.
28:13
The 13 B are 80 millimeters. In inches of three inch, 150,000
28:18
if you want to be exact. Just to so then increase the
28:21
size of the. Right of the width the rotors.
28:24
So the mass of the rotor is what you're kind of being.
28:26
Wider in this orientation, wider.
28:28
Which in turn would make more. It's it's a bigger motor.
28:31
Or go heavier, you know so and then the 12A, you know
28:34
throughout the years have different chambers, the
28:36
compression chamber, somewhere long gated, shorter.
28:39
I think Mazda played over the years with different elongating
28:43
the the, the compression dish. Have you ever heard Frankie?
28:47
Have you ever heard it? You probably heard a 12A, but it
28:50
sounds a lot different. Really.
28:51
I've never really heard. When you when I heard a 12A,
28:54
that was like built NA oh, I mean.
28:56
I probably heard. One like, super freaking.
28:58
I don't even know. When you see it, it looks looks
28:59
so weird because you're like, what is that?
29:02
Yeah. No, I don't.
29:02
Think it has like the two stacks coming out, the freaking top.
29:06
I'm just, I'm like, I'm like 12A13B.
29:09
You couldn't jump to like a 15-B.
29:11
Like why didn't they do that? They didn't.
29:12
Want to I don't know. Mazda had.
29:14
I'm bitches. Take these off.
29:15
Yeah, yeah, Mazda did. Have a bunch of different like
29:19
prototype design engines over the years.
29:22
But they seem to keep it small, even the RX8.
29:25
That was the goal though, to. Standardize on those on the 12A
29:28
and the 13 B and then in the late 80s I think the Cosmo in
29:31
Japan had a. The three rotor.
29:34
A3 rotor in it what's considered what's called A20B, which is 380
29:39
millimeter. Wide rotors.
29:41
Is it true? And this is just to debunk some
29:45
questions I have, Yes. Coming from a Pistons person, is
29:49
it true that you can technically if you had a crankshaft long
29:54
enough? Eccentric shaft.
29:56
Just sorry. Eccentric.
29:58
Shaft eccentric shaft. Yes, long enough.
30:01
You could just make. You could just keep.
30:03
Fucking stacking the world, yes is you can just add another gear
30:07
on a center plate, machine it and.
30:09
Because I've seen a picture of can stack on, yeah.
30:11
They can, OK, it's really not practical.
30:14
It's such an interesting concept though, because you're building
30:18
a combustion and chamber in a different way.
30:21
You know what I mean? Like, in a way that one of the
30:23
things that I like somebody told me about Rotary is, you know how
30:25
a piston engine goes up, it has to come back down, whereas A
30:29
Rotary, it's just. Just spinning.
30:30
That's the coolest shit about it, man.
30:32
I I love everything the Rotary has to stand for, yes.
30:34
I just don't know much about them.
30:36
Like, would you recommend a Rotary to like a new car
30:39
enthusiast? Yeah, yeah.
30:40
Like, I like the Rotary engine. It's a that's a good engine.
30:43
It has its positives. What do you what do you got to
30:45
lookout for as somebody new getting into it?
30:48
Like, what did you like? Did you have any experience like
30:50
that where? You kind of have to make it a
30:52
little the question a little easier, that's.
30:54
Or maybe more specific. Yeah, more specific.
30:56
What Car? OK, let's say, let's say a kid
30:58
was getting into an FC. I feel like that's the one,
31:00
everyone if it's. Annoying something to buy a
31:02
handle. Yeah, right.
31:04
Like you, I feel like, so you have to have some sort of, I
31:08
don't know, mechanical. Desire.
31:10
Passionate about desire. Yeah, yeah, desire.
31:13
You gotta be ready to be like, OK, fuck.
31:14
I gotta learn about why that does that.
31:16
Yeah. It is.
31:18
Let me see. It's all right.
31:19
All right, I'll give you. I'll give you this angle.
31:23
Let's say in the 80s, nineties. I remember most of the guys who
31:26
had RX sevens back then. Or.
31:30
Most car guys in general, 80s and 90s.
31:32
I remember when I was a teenager, when I was in high
31:33
school and stuff, guys would go buy a Camaro, or if you were a
31:37
Mustang guy, Grand National RX7RX Sevens were like, the
31:41
imports were like the import guys, right?
31:44
So. If you went, if you have some
31:45
other big block or whatever car you bought in high school and
31:48
you were a teenager in the 80s and 90s, most of those kids
31:50
either went to like a technical school or Bow Seas.
31:53
Or, you know, they were gear heads hanging out Dunkin' Donuts
31:56
or at the burger joint late night.
31:58
You know, grease monkeys worked at the gas station with the rag
32:00
hanging out the side over. Here I feel like it ain't like
32:02
that anymore though. Yeah, that's the thing.
32:04
So the most of those guys were some, they had some sort of
32:06
hands on, right. They were pretty technical,
32:08
right. And if not they were working on
32:10
lawn mowers, dirt bikes, they were, you know that that that
32:13
type of. That type of crowd, you know,
32:15
that gear, head grease, monkey type crowd, right?
32:18
So you know, you could tell which ones are which and then
32:21
what happens. So that if you got into a
32:23
monster or whatever car you got into, I need a carburetor for my
32:26
for my fox body. You know, I got a call racing
32:29
beat to put some stuff on my RX7.
32:30
For the most part, most people did their own work or if they
32:33
went somewhere they were able to communicate with the engine
32:36
builder or what was getting done.
32:37
That sort of stuff. They get tinkered.
32:39
I think what happens today is you have folks getting into the
32:41
car scene today, not just Mazda but maybe even Nissan.
32:44
You probably see them too that are Dumber than the door nail.
32:47
They don't know anything. They just they're not
32:49
mechanically inclined. Yeah, they call AAA.
32:52
They got to fly. They'd be like.
32:54
Can you come help me? I don't.
32:55
Want to feel tired? It's like you see on the phone
32:58
they'd be like. I got a flat.
33:01
What should I do so? That's the worst when you drive
33:03
by someone on the Parkway and it's like a it's a bunch of
33:05
young kids and they're just looking at the tire.
33:07
So they don't. They don't.
33:09
So then they get into the performance world and if they
33:11
get into the, you're not getting into a stock car.
33:13
If you're getting into a stock car and you just want to do an
33:15
oil change and change the tire, I get it.
33:17
But no, you're you're going from like elementary school to high
33:21
school to college by getting into a.
33:23
S13 or a turbo 2RX7 and automatically I want to get this
33:27
turbo and this intake and this. Yo dude buddy you don't even
33:29
know how to do the timing or check your oil.
33:32
Yeah, they go to some shop to get a car built.
33:34
They come here, they get all this work done cuz mom and daddy
33:37
gave him the trust month fun money.
33:39
And then they go buy a car. They come and then they
33:41
breakdown down the road cuz a little wire was loose, battery
33:44
was loose, they ran out of gas and they're like, Oh my God this
33:46
car sucks. They go on the forums.
33:48
Right this. Is the most accurate thing of.
33:50
This Frankie's life and why he's mad every day.
33:53
Motorsport sucks, man. My motor, bro.
33:56
Oh my. God, motorsport stuff.
33:57
Guys, a faction suck and they blast you guys on the Internet
34:02
and then and somebody come put gas in the car, turn on and they
34:05
go home, so. That was the most accurate rant
34:07
I've. Ever heard?
34:08
I know that's what happens. So then, so then.
34:11
Sometimes it's like sometimes it's what kind of person are
34:14
you? So you know, believe it.
34:16
You guys got to see it. On my shop I have this thing
34:18
called the the. My rules of engagement.
34:23
So I have them on my wall. Holy shit.
34:25
If somebody has it, that's my corporate to these guys I have.
34:28
It on my. Wall.
34:29
And I have it on my wall and it's like, somebody gotta have
34:33
it. Give me, give.
34:34
Me give me. Somebody has it.
34:36
One of them is if you went to every other shop and every other
34:41
shop has not made you happy. Just keep it moving, cuz chances
34:44
are I'm not gonna make you happy.
34:46
I talk about. I talk to you.
34:47
Get those guys here or what? Bro, I talk to Malcolm about
34:49
this every day. I'm like we.
34:50
Need a list. I went to ABC shop.
34:52
I went to this shop, That shop. This guy messed up my motor.
34:54
This guy did this. This guy did that.
34:56
This guy did that. Yeah, this guy did that.
34:57
And. The second you have someone
34:59
who's like, well, I want. To know my engine is no good.
35:01
So I'm just gonna go with you guys.
35:02
Yeah. No Mr. Faction guy there because
35:05
I heard you guys are the best. Yeah.
35:06
And you know that you're. Just the next.
35:08
One on the list. Yeah.
35:10
And then he's going to blast. You then.
35:11
He's going to shit on you now. Yeah, yeah.
35:13
So those guys are a liability, man.
35:15
Oh my God. I'm like, go away kid.
35:18
Just go, go buy yourself. Out.
35:19
That sucks, because On the contrary, I feel like that's
35:23
like unfortunately like my generation, and maybe a little
35:27
after mine not. Specifically but.
35:29
They just, they they don't want to like a lot of kids don't want
35:33
to work on anything. For me, I would want, I would go
35:35
to your shop because I look, I like what you do.
35:38
You know that I'm not going to you because you're going to be a
35:40
magical problem solver. Yeah.
35:42
Like, I go there because you're going to offer a service that I
35:45
can't get anywhere else, you know, let.
35:46
Me see somebody? Somebody.
35:48
One of my guys have my rules of engagement.
35:51
I have it somewhere. Rules of Engagement is funny as
35:53
hell. That's a really good.
35:55
Name no because I'm telling. You if you have a police
35:57
message, send it to me in my IG or something.
36:01
In the office right now, there are rules of engagement.
36:05
Like like there's a that's a term.
36:06
A. Correct, Yeah, it's a correct
36:08
way to approach. I don't know.
36:12
I only hear about rules of engagement in military.
36:14
No, I have it on my shop. It's kind of a silly thing.
36:17
It's a funny thing that I have, but it's.
36:18
No, no, no, no. Keep it.
36:19
Make it serious. Enforce that shit I have to
36:22
have. I wish somebody was somebody's
36:23
online. I like the signs in shops that
36:26
say like labor rate and it says if you help me and it says if
36:29
you. I gotta.
36:30
I have one that I've worked on over the years.
36:32
It's really funny, but at the same time, I worked really hard
36:34
to like, you know? Yeah, nail it.
36:36
Yeah, there was a situation in each that.
36:38
One, there's another one on. There.
36:40
It says if you found if if something I'm doing it's too
36:44
expensive and you found the cheapest somewhere else, please
36:46
go ahead, bring it too if you get a chance.
36:50
Literally, dude. Oh man, I should have.
36:52
Somebody must have maybe. I don't know if scoops outside
36:55
or somebody. Can that's the send it to me,
36:57
but that's the. Scooby is outside.
36:59
He's his car is broken right now.
37:00
I don't know if you knew. He was trying to keep it hush
37:03
and quiet so that it didn't interfere with the pod.
37:05
That's selfless, Scooby. I hope you figured it out.
37:08
Is he still outside? I think you might be still
37:10
outside, honestly. But I hope you figured it out.
37:12
Poor. So I have rules of engagement,
37:14
but you know, that's, that's, that's, that's this business.
37:18
You just have to be wise, you know, as business, Yeah, a
37:20
business owner. You just have to be smart.
37:22
You have to be wise. You have to measure twice, cut
37:24
once. Nobody's not everybody's, not
37:26
your friend. The guys who come here and sell
37:29
you dreams. I'm gonna buy this much from
37:31
you. Oh, my God.
37:32
I'm gonna be so loyal to you. I got another car I want you to
37:34
work on. I'm gonna bring you two of my
37:36
best friends for you to work so you can work on their motors.
37:40
Just please. Never see them again.
37:43
Amble pedals. That's what you're saying in
37:45
Spanish. Amble pedals.
37:46
Okay. Frankie, try to say it.
37:47
Ambustedo say Ambustedo. Tele Coffee.
37:50
I'm not even going to try to say that right now, because it's
37:52
going to be bad. Yes, it will be bad.
37:54
I can't roll my so you. Get those type of guys and it's
37:57
like, Oh my God. So those, you know, you got to
37:59
be careful. You just have to be wise.
38:00
Sometimes, sometimes there are those guys though that are a
38:04
good to your business. You know, sometimes far and few
38:07
in between. And again, that's sometimes that
38:09
happens sometimes, you know, as a business owner, you dealt with
38:11
so many grimy people that you actually get tainted or jaded.
38:14
My wife says, Oh yeah, that word jaded.
38:17
You get jaded. And then?
38:18
That's. True all the time, jaded.
38:21
And then, So then you got to be careful.
38:23
You know that you're not that way with every person, because
38:25
not every person has the right intentions.
38:27
That's the hardest thing. Have a have a.
38:29
Heart of mercy and of grace which each individual right
38:32
because not everybody is is mean like that but you still you got
38:35
to have your guards up and use wisdom and as the Holy Spirit
38:38
you know tell me is this guy grind me is that going to do me
38:40
wrong. And you know if.
38:42
If he lets you know, you got to be careful with this guy.
38:44
Then I mean that's a customer service.
38:46
Thing. Yeah, yeah.
38:47
It comes with intuition too, like.
38:48
You just have to like, hey, listen, I'm gonna reserve, I'm
38:51
too busy. I'll call you back later.
38:53
Stuff like that, so. I feel like, Frankie, you got
38:55
it. You got some good intuition with
38:56
that. Oh, God, yeah, I feel like you.
38:58
Would you? Do intuition.
38:59
I'm like I could read someone very easily, that's what I'm.
39:01
Talking have to be stern. You got to read the cappers.
39:04
Yeah, they can't. You can't let somebody cap.
39:06
Pretty good at reading those people, but it's what he's
39:08
saying is like a good example is like.
39:11
Let's say you just dealt with like three straight up assholes
39:14
all morning, right? One after another.
39:16
And it's not even your fault. Nothing's your fault.
39:19
But these people just suck. And then a new customer walks
39:21
in. Now you have to just be, like,
39:23
all of a sudden, totally fresh, and just that happens.
39:26
Hello. And that's.
39:27
The customer service office and. Just Well, that's why you're
39:30
just mean all the time. That's why I'm just mean all the
39:32
time. Instead, I'm.
39:33
Just kidding. Frankie isn't fucking.
39:34
You know, there was one of my my old landlord that I rented from.
39:39
We purchased the building now, but I was renting from 2005 to
39:43
2015 in Stony Point, NY Okay This office building and I
39:48
rented from this guy named Pat and he's done well for him so
39:52
he's. Wait, wait, were you building
39:54
engines in office? Building.
39:55
Yes, I was. I knew you were gonna say.
39:58
Everything. Yeah.
39:58
We had to bring engines into a little door and disassemble my
40:01
machines and go through a side door.
40:03
It was crazy. Wait, what?
40:05
That's all I had. That's all I had until I
40:06
purchased the, you know, commercial building and then we.
40:08
Moved. Did the landlord know you were
40:09
doing it? Yeah, but he was a gear head, so
40:10
he would come in and just kind of see.
40:12
What was there other? Businesses. 100 hot rods in
40:15
there. No lie, bro.
40:16
He had the most beautiful garage you've ever seen in your life.
40:18
Wow. Anyway, he was very successful
40:20
in the real estate business, and one time he came.
40:22
And like very wealthy. And one time he used to, I used
40:24
to sit with him all the time at his office.
40:26
He used to have office and he meet all the contractors and he
40:29
meet all the architects. You got to see this guy beer
40:32
down here, look like a hillbillies to drive this old
40:35
truck all the time and go to his meetings with little cardboard
40:38
and the magic marker and you see all the lawyers come in with
40:41
cashmere bags and all these leather bags and you know Brooks
40:44
Brothers suits and he'd be in there with like overalls and
40:47
stuff like that one time, he said.
40:51
John, Jonathan, When I go into a meeting, I go in like a tiger
40:54
and then I'm fair. You go in like a tiger and then
40:58
you're fair. So, so in other words, he's
41:00
stern, he's bold and then at. Stern, but fair.
41:03
Yeah, but those are wise words. You don't get.
41:05
The average person doesn't get the chance to sit down with very
41:09
wealthy or, you know, people that are changing the world.
41:14
The average person doesn't get the chance to sit down with
41:16
those people. And I feel like I'm doing that
41:17
right now to you, like that's you to me.
41:20
You know, glory to God, but, you know, and the Irish person.
41:23
So when he said that to me, I remember I was like, wow, that's
41:26
food for thought. Let me think about that.
41:27
You know, And he was just a very smart dude.
41:29
He's very wealthy. I know what he has done in his
41:32
life. So I admire when people give me
41:34
those little insights and then make, you know, some of those
41:36
things are those gob stoppers. Remember a gob stopper?
41:39
You chew it and you never runs out of you.
41:41
Just chew it and chew on it and chew on it.
41:43
It has a lot of meaning to it beyond just a few words.
41:47
Yeah, it's like a proverb. I I I get what you're saying.
41:50
Yes. And I was like, OK, I
41:51
understand. So that's it.
41:52
So you know and then, you know, the book of Proverbs says, you
41:56
know, take a quote from him who is surely of a stranger.
42:00
I think that's what it says in the book of Proverbs.
42:02
And you know, and you know, so you have to just be careful who
42:06
you do business with, right. Right.
42:07
As a as you know, you guys have this, this sport here.
42:10
A lot of stuff can go wrong, you know.
42:11
Yeah, and the thing. Just comes in.
42:13
The hard part is like. You can't just be completely
42:16
closed off to everything either. Like, that's the opposite end of
42:19
it. Like you could either be really
42:21
welcoming and then get screwed over, or you could be closed off
42:24
and you won't go anywhere. And I'm kind of more on that
42:27
end. Okay, okay.
42:29
Closed off? Yeah.
42:30
I feel like you make it a fucking.
42:32
Like I never I. People want to start doing
42:35
things together, stuff like that.
42:36
I'm always like. Right, right.
42:38
Right. You know, that's because they
42:39
want free parts. Yeah.
42:40
Yeah, yeah, Yeah. That's literally.
42:42
They have no money then. Yeah, that happens a lot in this
42:44
business. Oh, can I help you clean in the
42:46
back and I clean your toilet? Yeah.
42:48
You know, can I do this? Or like or I got this great
42:51
idea. This is not work.
42:52
Together, as a business owner, you just gotta be careful with
42:55
those type because you know they they could.
42:57
They could bite you. They could bite you in the ass,
42:59
but you know, just. It's challenging.
43:02
I get it. You know in the, this is the
43:03
aftermarket world, right? Yeah, So you're working on
43:05
Nissans and aftermarket exhaust suspension.
43:09
You're doing stuff that it's not by the book.
43:11
You can't go into that Kelly book or the OR the workbook,
43:13
right. They use the dealers.
43:14
Yeah, we'll use. FSM Factory service.
43:17
Manual. You can't go into the factory
43:19
service manual and see how many hours does this take.
43:21
It doesn't work like that. This business doesn't work like
43:24
that. It's like in your head, you have
43:25
to be quick with it. Quick, quick, quick.
43:27
How long is this going to take me?
43:28
The customer wants to know how much he's going to pay for this
43:31
particular job. Job, I get it.
43:32
That's I get it. But you and your mind are like,
43:34
well, I gotta really think about it because that boat can break.
43:37
This thing is 30 years old. You know, this can happen.
43:40
Accounting for got a Rust. Myself, you know, So sometimes
43:42
you give him a number and he's going to hold your feet to the
43:44
fire. Then you're in trouble when you
43:46
go under there and you realize this thing is a rust bucket, You
43:48
know, this thing is falling apart.
43:50
Somebody rigged it before, so. Truer words have never been
43:54
seen. And Frankie's literally so
43:56
happy. So this is you can't go to the
43:58
fact FSM, right? Yeah.
44:00
You can't go to the FSM and. Yeah, basically you say you
44:04
can't get the book. Time, right?
44:05
You can't get the book time after.
44:06
That's how you normally estimate things, right?
44:08
Those factory says it's going to take this long.
44:09
It's like, yeah, the factory said that when the car came out.
44:12
Right. Yeah, and both were just.
44:14
Yeah, right now it's now. You got Russ.
44:16
Now you had thirty other people in this thing, like everything's
44:19
broken. So usually it's like.
44:21
You know, this is what it should take, but this is an estimate.
44:27
Like they need to understand that that's an estimate, and a
44:29
lot of people don't understand that, unfortunately so.
44:33
Yeah, that's right. So you have to just be careful
44:35
with that and and. That's why you just stick to
44:38
bill and engines. You'll be OK.
44:39
I feel like, yeah. But even with that, like how
44:41
many? How many times probably we had
44:43
somebody, my my buddy Nick was in here who's like, yeah.
44:47
Asking how much a rebuild is would be how many, how many
44:50
times. You get asked that all the time
44:52
like and you can't really give them a straight answer because
44:55
something can change challenge like that.
44:58
With the build challenging and I would say this, you know for
45:00
people listening, guys are listening, you know all the
45:02
Youtubers and stuff like that that I listen to us at 6:00
45:05
o'clock in the afternoon. By 7:00. 30 at.
45:07
Home on YouTube. You should be outside hanging
45:09
out playing Do something Home right now on the Internet.
45:14
YouTube. Crazy to a decent amount of them
45:17
I wasn't in. Here I had with my kids, I'd be
45:19
on my bike or something like that.
45:20
Look beautiful. Oh God, you got a bike.
45:22
Why cuz cuz Frankie's a bike guy.
45:24
Yeah and a plane guy. Motorcycle.
45:26
Yeah, motorcycles. Oh, I used to be a BMX guy too,
45:28
back in the day, and then I got into I used to ride dirt bikes
45:31
too as a kid. And then?
45:33
Now I ride motorcycle, but I get I don't get to ride them as
45:35
much. I rode it once this entire year.
45:36
One of my bikes because I'm always with my kids.
45:38
Does your? What kind?
45:39
Of motorcycle have a Rotary in it?
45:41
No. There's one though.
45:43
There is. There is Monkey RE5, which I've
45:45
been after, but once you find outline, they're like 5-6 grand.
45:48
I don't. Want.
45:49
To it's a Rotary. Motor kids and I got three kids.
45:52
They're all young girls doing poo poo.
45:53
So I got to change diapers. Diapers are expensive, bro.
45:55
Nudge. I don't know about that.
45:57
One, not us. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:00
What are diapers? Expensive 30 bucks for At least
46:03
I think I spent 30. Bucks 3.
46:05
Craps 2 boxes. Imagine times 3 craps.
46:07
I have three kids. They're all under 2.
46:10
Lord. So.
46:11
Build a Rotary. No, I don't have a kid.
46:13
I don't know those prices. Just cuz I went to a baby, a
46:15
gender, really. So I tell everybody with regards
46:19
to like to, you know, with what you do and everybody listening
46:25
that. Really the the the word that
46:28
really triggers sometimes a lot of speed shops is that's
46:32
expensive or people are like how much is it, right.
46:35
Okay guys call me all the time. Hey, I want to do a full rotor.
46:38
How much is it dude? You don't want to do a full
46:39
rotor if you're asking me how much it is, bro.
46:41
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what you're getting
46:44
yourself into? Like if they came in here and
46:46
you had that 240SX right there, right?
46:47
That's the 2:40, right? S13, that's.
46:49
Yeah, S13 is the millennial term, just so you know.
46:52
Right. All school folks are going to
46:53
look at that and say, oh, that's a Nissan 240.
46:55
Yeah, S13, you know, you're like young kid, right?
46:58
So all the folks, you know, they're going to be like, that's
47:00
a Nissan. Yeah, like the RX Sevens, you
47:03
know, the the news new kids are like FC, FC, FD.
47:07
You talk to Old Port Regan. He's not.
47:09
What the hell? You talking about you talking
47:10
about you as a first Gen. or as a tool.
47:13
Bodo or that's a 93 Twin Turbo, OK.
47:16
They don't know FD or all these alphabet words and stuff like
47:19
that. Yeah, yeah.
47:20
They don't know the chance. Because the VIN.
47:21
No, they don't. It doesn't work like that.
47:23
You got a 280. Yeah.
47:24
What's the and then or they don't.
47:26
They don't use those little letters.
47:27
Yeah. So I tell most folks, right?
47:30
That get into the business dude, if you're coming here and you
47:33
wanna 2 JZ or what's the motor they put on these?
47:35
SR20. SR20 Yeah, one JZ.
47:39
One J. How much is it?
47:40
No, dude, you don't wanna know. This is not for you.
47:43
Keep going. Go somewhere.
47:44
Go. Go buy bicycle.
47:45
Walmart. Got bikes for $89.
47:48
Do some exercise, go buy some rim, Go.
47:50
Buy a bag. You got a Malcolm cracking up
47:52
over here. Go buy a bag of warm up.
47:54
Put some speakers on the side with a total bad, you know.
47:56
Why? Because Malcolm's thinking the
47:57
same shit when people say that stuff.
47:59
The hell out of here. You know, you gotta tell those
48:01
kids just, just just go away, bro.
48:02
Go put some rims on your coat with spinners and stuff.
48:05
Do something. But this is because they're
48:07
asking you for something that they shouldn't be asking you.
48:09
It's just, yeah, that's one, right, But 22 in this world.
48:14
Everything we do, I think it's just super inexpensive.
48:17
Like the labor rate that your average performance shop does.
48:21
It's so less. It's really a labor of love.
48:23
For yeah, For what? For what you're getting.
48:25
Right, because you're here and. All the knowledge that we have.
48:28
You're not going to putting a dealership and they got some 19
48:31
year old kid you know using this you know half inch impact gun to
48:34
take off a 10 millimeter. You know they don't they don't
48:36
have you're not you're not getting an oil change like that
48:38
where it's flat rate right or brakes sets on Honda dealer on
48:42
your Accord. Right.
48:43
And he does 3 brake jobs and four brake jobs in a day.
48:47
They were all flat rate. And flat rate is dangerous a.
48:49
100 bucks right now he. Made 15. $100 on 4 flat rate
48:52
jobs, right? Yeah, $1500, right?
48:54
But then the wheel falls off on the way off.
48:56
But still that. That's flat rate work, right?
48:58
Yeah, that's 123123. That's just the basic, you know,
49:01
guy. He's got decent skill sets and
49:03
that's all. He knows what to do.
49:04
But he made 1500 bucks. You come to a performance shop
49:07
like yourself. Right.
49:09
You can't charge flat rate on certain jobs well.
49:12
Right, it depends on some. Some shops do pay flat rate.
49:15
I don't know why. But it's difficult because when
49:17
you're doing big projects, you have to, you know, you have to
49:20
price the job out. So then if you say tell the
49:22
customer I want 5 grand for. This particular, not to mention
49:24
you run into all these different issues we already spoke about.
49:27
That's the thing And your customer will come and say, oh,
49:30
that's a lot of money, $5000 and you can turn around and say,
49:33
yeah my friend, but. That 5000 is taking me 3 weeks
49:36
to do, you know, I can make do breaks on a Honda Civic or I can
49:40
do oil changes and make that type of money in three days.
49:42
Four days, yeah. So when customers come and they
49:45
they try to lowball you like that and it's.
49:48
Oh, that's the my favorite thing that happens to me.
49:50
I guess we're just shit talking customers now, but that's fine.
49:53
I mulled you casual pot. Favorite thing that happens to
49:55
me is when the customer goes don't tell me I already forgot
49:58
what I was going to say. Fuck, what were you just saying?
50:01
Lowball. Lowball.
50:01
OK, yeah though. We have some shit happened the
50:05
other day. I go, here's the price for the
50:07
parts. He goes, oh, can you do 300 or
50:10
something like that? And I was like, what?
50:13
I had to like to take a second look at the e-mail.
50:14
I was like, wait, what? What?
50:17
Oh, he's trying to negotiate the price of brand new products.
50:23
I'm like, no. And he's like, and he just
50:27
didn't answer for three days and then like responded, OK, all
50:30
right, I'll pay it. Like bro, what are we doing?
50:32
And that's this has happened multiple times.
50:35
Multiple times. It happens a lot.
50:37
And how much to do the install something like that.
50:40
I'll give them the price. And there's a time when you do
50:42
this and I'm like, dude, this isn't do you negotiate when you
50:46
go to Amazon? There's a place where I've yeah,
50:49
there are places when I was younger.
50:51
Now when I'm gonna say younger, because I had to, I was that.
50:55
Younger a gas station that would come.
50:57
Baby as it is, how old are you? Younger.
50:58
We talking about 2810 years old. I'm 28.
51:00
Are you 28? Yeah, you're still young.
51:02
Yeah, I'm still a baby. I'm 32, all right.
51:04
Yeah. Well, how old are you?
51:06
Like 3233? Oh shit, 47 No shot.
51:09
I'm 47. You look young.
51:11
You look like. You're 27 I.
51:12
Drink. I don't smoke.
51:14
That's what's up. I do all of that, yeah.
51:17
Lewis was telling me that too. Because I don't either.
51:18
I don't. Drink.
51:19
I don't smoke. Yeah, Frankie is a.
51:21
Break night anymore? Yeah.
51:23
Frankie is also like trying. To keep stress, no, I used to
51:26
drink. I just.
51:26
I just don't see the. I cut it your body.
51:29
And I cut it back. It was hurting my stomach.
51:31
I don't smoke, don't do drugs, none of that stuff.
51:33
Yeah, most car guys, most old school car guys don't do drugs
51:36
or. Like that.
51:37
Because, yeah, because they need to put the money in their.
51:39
Car. Yeah, they.
51:40
Need the money? Yeah, something too expensive.
51:41
I mean, that's how it was too. When I was younger and I was
51:43
valeting cars and shit, everyone would be like, yo, how do you
51:45
have money for your car in this? And I was like, well, here's the
51:47
difference. When you guys leave work, you
51:48
all go to the bar every single night.
51:51
I'm like, literally every single night.
51:54
You make $40, you go to the bar and you blow all of it.
51:57
I'm like, what? What do you mean?
51:59
Instead, you could buy some rat hoses with that tires.
52:03
A tire with the 40 bucks. These guys would.
52:07
Drinking is not the same anymore, You know it's today,
52:10
you get pulled over and you get a DWI.
52:11
It's 10 grand, right? I wouldn't even know.
52:14
I I don't fuck with that. If you have a family, if you
52:16
have a job that that requires your license, truck driver or
52:20
something. You're doing bro.
52:21
You're oh, yeah. You're fucked.
52:22
You're screwed bro. That's why some people don't
52:24
even drift on the street anymore.
52:25
Because I was gonna say like, don't.
52:27
If you're listening to this, that that little you could take
52:30
from this little conversation is don't do that shit.
52:32
Don't drive under the influence of.
52:34
Of alcohol is a dangerous fucking expensive too.
52:37
It's expensive and he fucks you. If you love the car so much,
52:40
don't risk anything to let you lose it.
52:43
Yeah, right. So, yeah, so.
52:45
Like, I'm That's so funny. You just said that because again
52:49
like my dad would say like they used to used to get a DUI and
52:53
you would get like a slap on the.
52:54
Wrist. They just let you go home.
52:56
All right. Don't do it again.
52:57
Somebody call somebody to come and drive you home.
52:59
Yeah. He already drove.
53:01
My dad got caught when we little kids in the 80, he got caught.
53:04
And I think drinking and driving and then the cops would bring
53:07
you home. Leave the car there, give me the
53:08
keys, go get the car. Oh, so it wasn't even, like, a
53:11
big deal? Yeah.
53:12
I got caught one time in Hunts Point.
53:14
Like in the early 90s. I had a Heineken in my hand.
53:16
I was driving with my buddy and cop pulled us over.
53:19
We were you. Know.
53:20
Oh, he was drinking. Yeah, driving.
53:22
The cop came, took the beer out of my hand, and he spilled it.
53:25
Get out of here, I said. OK, no problem.
53:29
No problem, You wanna spill? Another one.
53:31
Yes. Yeah, you've done.
53:34
Stupid stuff, you know, But when the brace got, I'm still here.
53:37
Yeah, because you got into racing as well.
53:39
I saw the picture on your. Which one?
53:41
On your shop the home page. Yeah, we used to drag race our
53:43
car. That's how I blew the first
53:45
engine. It's.
53:47
That's how I you know. Was that in the early 90s too?
53:49
Or two. We had an all motor car.
53:50
Back then it was all motor and then it was a nitrous car.
53:53
I remember that in the 90s the Rotary performance and Rotary
53:56
drag racing was all based around all motor cars and nitrous cars.
54:00
Only few people had turbo cars. Why?
54:02
Why were people what only few people have?
54:04
The. Because remember you have it's
54:06
expensive. You have in the 80s the turbo 2
54:08
comes out fuel injection and in the 90s the 93 comes out, but in
54:12
the 90s? In the 90s you had very few
54:15
accessories to you didn't have aftermarket Ecus, you had like
54:18
the old house like F nines and the fuel only Ecus, right.
54:22
So that was only. You have aftermarket tools you
54:24
had. Turbos you had like truck turbos
54:26
or turbonetics. Turbonetics was out.
54:28
Who else was out? They put truck turbos on
54:30
everything. Yeah, so the.
54:30
Turbonetics and you had some, you still had guys running
54:33
sevens in the early days with the fuel only Ecus.
54:38
You like the one that just runs on straight vacuum?
54:40
Yeah like a fuel only ECU and then the 13 B is they would they
54:44
would take like the factory 93 intake or racing beat intake and
54:47
put a throttle body on the on there and there was nobody made
54:51
throttle bodies for them. They would take a General Motors
54:53
throttle body A/C Delco with the floor injectors.
54:56
Yeah they would use for like the fire pigeons and stuff.
54:59
They would put. Those on the Rotary engines with
55:01
a turbonetics hat like this with a screw on top and then an inner
55:04
cooler from like a. You know, some sort of diesel
55:07
truck or something like that, your own homemade manifold and
55:11
you know there was you. It would still have a
55:13
distributor. How much power would that make?
55:15
You know 7-8 hundred I think. I think that we turbo is 1 car
55:18
that we turbo Folito and stuff to all those guys ran sevens
55:21
with with those fuel only Ecu's and I think Folito which is an
55:25
order seven out of Puerto Rico he ran sevens with carburetors.
55:28
What the fuck? Blow through with a carburetor.
55:30
Blow through. When you're saying sevens,
55:31
you're not saying RX7, you're saying. 7 seconds in, 1/4 mile
55:34
in A. Quarter in a.
55:35
Quarter in 1/4 mile. This is in the 90s still.
55:38
Yeah, this is some Rotary shit. I don't know.
55:40
Of yeah, I thought. I'm like 7 seconds, maybe it's
55:43
like 1/8. Dude, that's insane.
55:45
Remember in the early days you didn't even have a crank angle
55:47
sensor. So when the guys you know didn't
55:49
have they couldn't use a crank angle sensor.
55:52
They had to make a crank trigger a trigger wheel on the front of
55:54
the pulley with the Electro motor.
55:56
I think it was. Yeah, you know electromotive,
55:58
they would sell you a setup and you would make a trigger wheel
56:01
Okay if you wanted to go fuel ingestion and you didn't have a
56:03
crank angle sensor, yeah. What the fuck?
56:06
Yeah, Evolution today is so much easier today.
56:09
And you have a credit card. What do you what do?
56:10
They do with your credit card. That's a different kind of.
56:13
Bill, you go to eBay, buy this, buy that.
56:15
What do these cars run now? The fastest rotaries?
56:18
And I. Think the.
56:19
Fastest. Rotary right now, given today is
56:22
Ray de Los Cielos. I think it's something like
56:24
that. It's a blue 6262 door.
56:27
You think it's out of Florida or Puerto Rico runs 608 at 200 and
56:30
like probably 29 miles an hour. I don't know if it's I.
56:33
Think NA. Terrible okay, I think Wilbur
56:36
tunes. It it's not mistaken.
56:37
Fuck, I could be wrong. But look, I think Wilbur tunes
56:39
that Kerry builds it, and I think it's a Kerry Wilbur and
56:43
it's a six to six, Like full chassis Con 13B.
56:46
Okay. You said six to six like the
56:48
Mazda, 6 to 6, six like the. The bigger Mazda, Do you know
56:51
if? That is for chassis car though,
56:53
Yeah, you know what, I'm not even sure it's a six to six.
56:55
It's a it's a pro model chassis. Oh, it's like a like a plastic
56:58
type of thing. I.
56:59
Don't know what they turn it into with some decals and stuff.
57:02
Feel like the Rotary community is very tight knit like you guys
57:05
all kind of know. Well, like, for example, all the
57:07
shit you just named that people were doing in the 90s, You're
57:10
gonna have to learn that from somebody else.
57:12
You. How'd you do that?
57:13
Or maybe somebody else just looking at it at like a.
57:16
At a place. You know, I was thinking about
57:18
that the other day and I talk about it with all the guys that
57:20
come to the shop. Yeah, all the time.
57:21
They're always blown away. Sometimes when I tell them stuff
57:24
and all the customers that you guys know that come to the shop,
57:27
I'm always yelling at them and tell them stop being retarded.
57:32
Yeah, yeah, I'm nervous sometimes, but but I always tell
57:34
them, I tell them that we're actually going backwards in
57:40
certain areas. What do you mean?
57:42
We're actually going, what do they call that reversion or
57:44
something like? That right is that.
57:46
The Yeah, no, I know what you're talking.
57:48
About I can't even reverse evolution is what I'm assuming
57:50
what you're talking about. Like we're going you.
57:53
Guys probably don't. There's a term for public.
57:55
School. Like we skipped it.
57:56
I did go to public school. So reversion or like going
57:59
backwards. Right.
58:00
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
58:00
With what you said before, people have to learn that now,
58:04
yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
58:05
Some of the. Things people have accomplished
58:08
in the 60s, in the 70s or even you know, six 70s, eighties,
58:12
90s, early 2000s, things that I saw that blew me away.
58:14
I used to be like, damn, well, look at that.
58:16
Remember I was a little kid but I was my older brother used to
58:18
take me to the drag races when I was a little kid and I used to
58:20
see things. I used to be like, wow.
58:22
So I was able to experience, thank God, nineties, 2000s,
58:25
early 2000s, late 2000s and now in the 23.
58:28
So that's so I was able to experience a lot and see a lot
58:32
and but going back to your. Going back, reverting.
58:35
The word is reverting. I think we're actually going
58:38
backwards. Look for example.
58:39
Let me explain to. You fuck let.
58:41
Me explain to you. OK, so in the 80s, the in the
58:46
80s the Rotary world, the drag race import world which is was
58:51
Rotary versus piston. Yeah they used to call it Rotol
58:53
versus Piton the. Battle of the Ages.
58:56
Right. So that was the, that was the
58:58
that was the performance world of the Rotary.
59:00
It was Rotary versus Pistons, right.
59:02
And they would have events down in ATCO which eventually turned
59:04
into the Pan Americans right, which is the biggest, the
59:07
longest import Rotary event going forever, right.
59:11
That put the Rotary game on the map, right.
59:14
And the East Coast and the drag race, Rotary drag race in the
59:17
United States that put it on the map, right.
59:19
And then it was Rotary versus piston and the Rotary was
59:22
obviously the 12A, the old 13B, most likely the five letter
59:26
motor. 12A plates against the three TC motor that was in the
59:30
Toyota Corolla. Yeah, yeah, you guys see all the
59:32
Puerto Ricans and how they like all the Toyota.
59:34
Cars. Literally.
59:34
Like, why are these all things that Puerto Rican people love?
59:37
Because those because the econo box and what you guys Why
59:42
Starlet Corolla or X3RX2? Why that is because those cars
59:45
were pretty inexpensive. Now, if you wanted to make it
59:48
fast, what did people do back then?
59:50
Let's make it fast with least amount of money spent, which
59:54
let's just. Put a Rotary in or take the
59:57
three TC and work on it. Right.
59:59
Because in the 80s, displacement was really it, Right.
1:00:03
Yeah. Yeah.
1:00:03
Yeah. Replacing for displacement,
1:00:05
which is the turbo analogy, what they say now.
1:00:07
And, you know, none. That was later.
1:00:09
Back then, you wanted to go fast.
1:00:11
Just put a V8 in it, put a big block in it, right.
1:00:13
But the import world was like, Nah, let's work on the Rotary.
1:00:16
Let's make that car fast. Because in Puerto Rico, they
1:00:18
used to do a lot of drag racing. And since there was a lot of
1:00:20
Puerto Ricans here in the East Coast, they continue working on
1:00:23
the Rotary engine, right. And then the 3C was like the
1:00:26
battle. It was the battle of the three
1:00:27
TC's verse the Rotary, right? 90s, right.
1:00:31
And then so the three TC is a push rod engine.
1:00:34
Yeah, right. With a distributor, 2 valves,
1:00:38
1.8 liter, the biggest fuck. And those and that.
1:00:41
Those cars ran six. They had drag cars running
1:00:45
sixes, I mean 779770. I think the fastest one now is a
1:00:49
red starlet in Puerto Rico. I think he ran 7 four, but he
1:00:52
may have a bill ahead, I'm not sure.
1:00:54
But the fastest with a stock head, I remember they were able
1:00:56
to get down into the to the to the sevens with A3 tc.
1:01:01
Now look. I got more impressed by that.
1:01:03
There's cars that are faster today.
1:01:04
Yeah, I know there is. You could put this motor or you
1:01:08
know, R. VK. 24 and 4G63 and yeah, I know
1:01:12
there's a lot of motors that can go fast that fast if not fast,
1:01:15
that's true. But now think go back 25 years
1:01:17
or 20 years ago when they had the three TC push rod came
1:01:21
underneath. Two valves, right.
1:01:25
No distributors. So you had to make a crank
1:01:27
angle, a trigger or run the distributor with blow through.
1:01:30
No intake, man of no fuel injection.
1:01:32
So they ran carburetor Weber side drafts with a box with an
1:01:35
inner cooler, Right on gas, you know, no alcohol.
1:01:38
It was like gas. And they ran I think 790 or
1:01:42
something like that. So, but all that, all those old
1:01:45
school G's that did all that knew what Pistons to use, what
1:01:49
cranks. You know because I used to sell
1:01:51
motors in the 90s. I remember I used to go to the
1:01:53
junk yards a lot find engines and sell them.
1:01:55
So I was always in the Toyota guys were always like hey find
1:01:58
me an 18 RI, think it was from the Toyota Celica.
1:02:01
They would use that crank in the three TC motor and or they would
1:02:05
use the block from the minivan, Toyota minivan, you know the
1:02:08
le's 8485, so. You saying like some of this
1:02:10
knowledge might have been lost? It's gone.
1:02:12
It's gone because that generation, now they're
1:02:15
retiring, they're going away, they're passing away or
1:02:17
whatever. They're just.
1:02:18
Believe in. So now that a new guy comes in
1:02:21
with a with A4AG48, no 4G63 let's say or K20 four, you don't
1:02:28
even know what a distributor is anymore because you got a, you
1:02:30
have a coil packs, A coil packs and a Cam angle and a Cam angle
1:02:35
sensor. That's it.
1:02:35
So you don't know what a distributor is, you don't know.
1:02:37
There's a lot of stuff here that that has been upgraded obviously
1:02:41
to make the car go faster. But now that empirical knowledge
1:02:45
that those guys learned in the 90s and 80s, that's all gone.
1:02:48
Dude, a three TC going a sub. 8 seconds do.
1:02:51
You get what I'm saying? So now it's real.
1:02:53
Easier now to make horsepower. So then a three TC.
1:02:56
Let's say you took a three TC and you did all sorts of work to
1:02:58
the lower end and the piston and the heads and whatnot, and you
1:03:01
got 200 horsepower out of it. That was a lot.
1:03:04
Yeah. I was like, dude, you have to
1:03:05
spend a lot of money. A lot of, you know, there was
1:03:07
number Pistons for the for the 1.83 TC, so they put a piston
1:03:11
from a B2000. Master B2000 and take it machine
1:03:14
in. Put a piston in from a B2000
1:03:16
because now it's 2.0 stroker. But so then, but that knowledge
1:03:20
base is now gone. So now you take AK-24 and that
1:03:23
car may that block makes 200 horsepower 225 with very little
1:03:26
mods without you doing anything to the short block, right?
1:03:29
Yeah, that's unheard of in an old legacy motor built in the
1:03:33
70s and 80s. But they had to work really hard
1:03:35
to make that power. Now you don't have to work that
1:03:38
hard, that hard. Just.
1:03:39
Get a kick 24 and no one's. Really putting in the work to
1:03:41
make it even. Faster.
1:03:42
That's it. You go get a flash.
1:03:43
I'm on tunes. They make 225.
1:03:45
Oh my God, I make 225. Yeah.
1:03:46
The thing is is right now, like if I saw a Three TC like done
1:03:51
up, done up, throwing down like that, I would be more amazed at
1:03:55
the Three TC and I want to talk to that.
1:03:58
Guy. Right, right.
1:03:58
I feel like maybe there was a gap there where people.
1:04:02
Weren't really talking to the people who were doing that.
1:04:05
You know, maybe, maybe it was like intimidation of the scene,
1:04:09
but like, that information, you're right.
1:04:11
Never got handed down. That's kind of fucking wild to
1:04:13
think about. Right now with the Rotary
1:04:16
engine, right. Yeah.
1:04:17
They the, the plates, you know, the plates, the billet plates.
1:04:19
Yeah, big thing. Now everybody wants to put
1:04:21
billet plates. Yeah.
1:04:22
Why? Why is that?
1:04:23
Yeah, why? Just the whole.
1:04:24
Thing with the billet plates is because the billet plates would
1:04:27
crack. And then first they had the
1:04:29
factory place and the factory place with crack from leaning
1:04:32
too much timing and tire shake sometimes breaks them and stuff.
1:04:36
And then what happens when a factory plate cracks?
1:04:38
The oil galleys are in there, it leaks, oil falls on the tire,
1:04:41
You crash the car. That's.
1:04:43
What happens? Right?
1:04:44
And then they had belly pans, diapers and all that stuff.
1:04:46
But still, you don't want to break a factory plate.
1:04:49
Right. And I have a customer that went
1:04:50
to the Dino and broke a plate the other.
1:04:52
Day. So is that a?
1:04:53
That's a somewhat common thing. Or is that like that's when?
1:04:55
They're making power. That's when they're making a lot
1:04:56
of horsepower. That's that's a mainly a tuner
1:04:59
issue and that's A and that's when they're making a lot of
1:05:02
horsepower and that's a not. I don't think it would ever
1:05:07
happen. On na nitrous, yes.
1:05:08
On a turbo car, yes. I feel like it's the equivalent
1:05:11
of like fucking up an Sr. like blowing a hole through.
1:05:14
It yeah, it's the same thing and the place would crack and then
1:05:16
you don't have to replace it, right?
1:05:18
So. But so the guys that ran with
1:05:22
factory plates, I think Con Puerto Rico Christian ran 660
1:05:27
with the factory plates. And there's other cars that have
1:05:29
ran 69680. Whatever.
1:05:31
There's a star here in New Jersey that ran 680 with stock
1:05:35
plates started from a touch and I think La Otra was called.
1:05:38
This is 10 years ago at English Town still English town was
1:05:40
still open. He ran 680 with factory plates.
1:05:43
So it's doable. The problem is they're
1:05:44
eventually going to break, right.
1:05:45
So people put the aluminum ones so that they don't so that.
1:05:49
You know you don't have the fracture issue anymore and then
1:05:51
you know you don't have to take the engine as.
1:05:52
Apart as much. But can I ask you something?
1:05:54
When people were using factory plates, you have to be that much
1:05:58
more careful. You have to be that you have to
1:06:01
measure twice. You have to be.
1:06:03
You're more in tune with it more.
1:06:05
Meticulous. You're more meticulate.
1:06:06
You have to see because you don't have, you know a second
1:06:10
chance. So I feel like the guys a lot of
1:06:12
times who had limited resources or limited parts or.
1:06:17
You know, they didn't have all those buffers.
1:06:19
You know, with billet plates and billet stuff, they were they had
1:06:23
a more robust learning curve. That's you're.
1:06:26
Saying the art is almost. There's there's two, there's two
1:06:29
phrases like forged by fire and trial by and trial by fire.
1:06:33
Those, they mean the same thing. That's what I feel like, that
1:06:36
person, they experienced that loss once already.
1:06:39
So they're like, you know what, let me check.
1:06:41
Now what? I have some customers and you
1:06:44
know they put billet plates on their motor.
1:06:46
And say before they were leaning or whatever, Okay, they'll take
1:06:50
the building plate time to refresh it.
1:06:52
And I'll look inside the engine and I'm like, wow, I'll chatter
1:06:54
here. Okay, pinging over here, okay, I
1:06:57
see Mark's shaft is bent. Dude, you know what?
1:07:00
The issue you had before without billet plates, you still have,
1:07:03
you're not breaking the plates anymore because now you have
1:07:06
billet plates, but you still have that same underlying issue.
1:07:08
Will you break something else? What will break?
1:07:11
Aside from that. Yeah, yeah, all the stuff will
1:07:12
happen. But what I'm saying is that a
1:07:14
lot that underlying issue wasn't resolved.
1:07:16
Yeah. So I think a lot of in the
1:07:17
performance world in general, I think 2023, everything is
1:07:22
available online nowadays, you know, it's beautiful.
1:07:24
K20 four, you want to buy this water pump housing or this or
1:07:27
that, go on eBay and 500 people are selling it.
1:07:29
You know, for 2999 you didn't have those options 20 years ago.
1:07:33
You didn't have the Internet. You have to buy something.
1:07:35
You needed a catalog. Let me order this Wait cod for
1:07:38
the mail guy. Oh my God.
1:07:42
You couldn't even track that shit too so?
1:07:44
Today you could build the car so easily because you could buy
1:07:45
every you buy the car before the car is being flat bedded to your
1:07:48
house. You're already online ordering
1:07:49
everything so that you can swap it the next day and it's bolt on
1:07:52
right? But.
1:07:53
I feel what's happening is all that at the same time has
1:07:57
allowed people not to really think of what's going on.
1:07:59
Let me fix this issue. Let me fix that issue.
1:08:01
Let me Why did this break? Let me figure out why it broke
1:08:04
1st and then replace it. But people aren't doing that.
1:08:06
And then what's happening is it's not allowing you to.
1:08:10
You're skipping a beat, bro. You're skipping a beat.
1:08:12
There's a lot of customers like. That today and.
1:08:14
I got this. And you said it was going to do
1:08:16
this, right? Yeah.
1:08:17
Well. You have an uninstaller.
1:08:19
Issue. Yes.
1:08:19
Like, I don't know. It's like everything's not just.
1:08:21
They think, Oh well, I looked it up on and this said this, so I
1:08:24
bought these parts. Same thing with drifting with
1:08:26
people. They buy all these angle kits
1:08:28
for the front end, they never drifted before and then they buy
1:08:31
all these angle kits to put and they're like, Oh well, Adam, LZ
1:08:34
said I had to get this and that. I'm like, well.
1:08:36
That's like a weird way, like I feel like again, like the the
1:08:39
later generation way of thinking is like, let me look at what
1:08:43
people. Are doing right now.
1:08:45
And they're and I'm going to just buy my way into that part.
1:08:49
Because that's what's happening and I see that and then.
1:08:53
Because I used to do that to me, like I was like, damn, I always
1:08:56
have to have the best shit. But but now working with my
1:08:59
friends, working with Chris Darrell or or any of my other
1:09:02
friends, the way that we're trying to think now, or at least
1:09:05
we're getting it from Chris, which is probably getting it
1:09:07
from you, Frankie, is that we want to know, OK, why would I
1:09:12
want to go this way? And what is that going to do for
1:09:14
me if I go that way? Or maybe I should go this way?
1:09:17
Yeah, well, a lot of that's. Why?
1:09:18
You see me when I'm thinking I'm like, what other options do I
1:09:21
have? I'll look at every fucking
1:09:22
option, figure out what each option is going to benefit me or
1:09:24
how it's going to hurt. Me.
1:09:25
Yeah. You don't always have to spend a
1:09:26
lot of money. You don't.
1:09:28
Yeah, but you need to do the research.
1:09:30
There's no short cutting of. We're known to fix a lot of
1:09:33
stuff that other people don't repair.
1:09:35
Yeah, yeah, that's one thing that we're known for.
1:09:38
I mean, repairing things that nobody else repairs or people
1:09:40
throw out. OK.
1:09:41
Yeah, maybe because you have the knowledge that people don't.
1:09:45
You know the years I used to always say there's gotta be a
1:09:46
way to fix this. There's gotta be, There's
1:09:48
something, let's say, and you're.
1:09:49
From you're from a generation before us, so it's.
1:09:51
You have what we report. We didn't have a lot.
1:09:53
Of. Money.
1:09:54
So when I was younger, we were, we didn't, we didn't have that
1:09:56
type of money, you know. So if we didn't, I was up the
1:09:58
junkyard with my older brother that's got a junkyard.
1:10:01
Oh, I need to rerun for this car.
1:10:02
That's cool to get it out of this car.
1:10:04
Oh, they got a transmission. They got a transmission over
1:10:05
there. And how much for that, you know?
1:10:07
What? Junk yards like back then, was
1:10:09
it? Fun There was picking pools
1:10:10
everywhere here in Patterson. Damn, I wish that arrow.
1:10:14
Was point was known? For hookers and junk yards,
1:10:16
Yeah, damn and drag racing. Yeah.
1:10:20
Hookers. Junk.
1:10:20
That's what transport was. For that sounds like you guys
1:10:23
know from back in the day and be like what was Hunts Point known
1:10:25
for? And everybody went there to get
1:10:26
their windshields repaired to buy tires and to buy parts cuz
1:10:30
it was all full of junk yards and then the food market that
1:10:34
the trucks would line up and pick up food.
1:10:36
And you know, the prison was over there and stuff like that,
1:10:38
but now they moved the fish market there and now a lot of
1:10:41
the houses, you know, gentrification and all the new
1:10:44
folks moving in and stuff like that.
1:10:45
So Hunts Point is not what it used to be years ago, but that
1:10:48
was what it was. All about South.
1:10:49
Then you went junk yards were everywhere and you went to the
1:10:52
junk yards and hey, how much you know you go pull it out, go to
1:10:55
the front and be some guy there. Dirty box 30.
1:10:57
You know you were able to you were able to go get parts.
1:10:59
Now there's no pick and pulls anywhere around here is.
1:11:01
There I want to go. I want.
1:11:02
I literally was just talking to my buddy.
1:11:04
You gotta go to people, but. That was.
1:11:06
MPA kicked them all out. And.
1:11:08
Values went up. Now you got it.
1:11:09
Now they got catalogs for that right where where you you're
1:11:12
probably you're probably like damn we got to go to the section
1:11:15
where they put the imports I. Used to own a junkyard.
1:11:17
I used to run a junkyard. So then that's.
1:11:19
Yeah, they used. I used to.
1:11:20
When the hell was this? Yeah, in 2002 and three at the
1:11:24
same time when I was doing the. What was that like?
1:11:27
It was 20. It was called, it was called
1:11:29
Cornerstone Recycling. It's 20 Point New York and it
1:11:32
was, you know, we had to buy the Hollander software.
1:11:35
So that was a multiple listing. It's called multiple storage.
1:11:38
They only had only had. Now it's.
1:11:40
Only rotaries and. Nearly rotaries in there.
1:11:42
He did that just to fund your Rotary.
1:11:44
Yeah, yeah, I just. Have to go to the auction in
1:11:45
Newburgh with the flatbed and stuff.
1:11:47
I had to drive the flatbed and pick up junk cars.
1:11:49
So you were doing that while you were doing goopy performance
1:11:52
while you were working? All to fund.
1:11:55
I've worn multiple hats in my years, man.
1:11:57
It's been challenging. But just to just just to keep
1:11:59
the drive going, dude. Well kids these days see like
1:12:02
your your cars and they're like, well, why can't I have all that?
1:12:04
I have one job. Well, he had three.
1:12:06
So yeah, you know like people just don't have the.
1:12:09
I was doing that and I was going to sell coffee at one time,
1:12:11
import coffee from Guatemala at one time.
1:12:14
Because this course starts. Importing coffee, but that fell
1:12:17
through. And then before that I used to I
1:12:19
was always buying and selling cars and.
1:12:22
And then we did tree. We had a tree business at one
1:12:24
time. Me and my buddy Eddie had a tree
1:12:26
business at one time. Yeah, we saw.
1:12:29
Figured you'd learn how to fly to save some, fight some crime.
1:12:32
Did also and then worked in auto body.
1:12:34
For about 10 years I worked at a body.
1:12:35
Shop 10 years. Okay.
1:12:36
That's. And then when I was going
1:12:39
through college, I was working at a Body Shop.
1:12:41
Okay. All right.
1:12:43
Yeah, we're doing frame and all sorts of.
1:12:46
How'd you feel about doing body work?
1:12:47
Suck. I don't want to do no more.
1:12:48
I'm done after 10 years and a slammer and that's.
1:12:50
It now so now at. Least you know how to do.
1:12:53
Things Are you just doing goopy performance?
1:12:55
Yes. So now would you say you're a
1:12:58
lot happier? You got one hat now?
1:13:00
One big hat? Yeah, but it's a hat.
1:13:02
Yeah, one big hat. It's very it's it's it's
1:13:04
challenging, it's got this challenges.
1:13:06
You know, I don't work for anybody which is the best part
1:13:08
about it, right, but. You know.
1:13:10
You know you know how it is when you run your own business you
1:13:13
you have payroll to me. You have have to get pull this
1:13:15
job out. That's getting.
1:13:16
Scarier and scarier every day. Fuck.
1:13:20
Well, you you guys, they just got a new guy.
1:13:21
Yeah, so yeah, right. Yeah.
1:13:24
Hey, Zeus. Yeah, right.
1:13:25
So Scooby's brother, he's working here now, so.
1:13:27
So you know you have to make sure you have workload for the
1:13:28
guys for the week and blah blah, blah.
1:13:31
So you know we have at Kupi performance we have about we
1:13:34
manufacture about 30-40 different items.
1:13:38
Not more. Now we do a lot of cool, unique
1:13:40
machining and. Tell me, tell me about like your
1:13:42
top three like either top selling or what what what do you
1:13:46
like the most the top three things and and for.
1:13:48
Those of you who are listening that don't know goopy actually
1:13:51
manufacturers parts. So if you're in the market at
1:13:54
all for Apex Seals or the thing I saw that you were pulling up
1:13:57
on your Instagram before is Studs, that stud kit they got
1:14:00
for for connecting all of them together, they make them, you
1:14:04
guys make. Those for make stud kits.
1:14:07
For the 12A we make stuck kids. For the 13 B we make stuck kids.
1:14:11
For the 20B we make stuck kids for the full rotor, 13B We make
1:14:15
stuck kids. For the full rotor 12A We make
1:14:17
stuck kids for the wait. Wait, wait.
1:14:19
There's a four rotor 12A. Yes, if you buy 2 thin plates
1:14:22
with a gear in it, we already have the studs for it.
1:14:24
Just. To stack them.
1:14:24
Solid dolphins. For each one, we have the stud
1:14:27
kit for the 12A short block, and we have the stud kids for the
1:14:31
13B short block. 20B short block.
1:14:34
In other words, two thin plates. Guys who are watching would know
1:14:36
what that is. And and like and again, like you
1:14:39
just heard how goopy was fucking R&D ING this shit.
1:14:42
I would trust anything I would buy from you.
1:14:44
Yeah, I mean, you're challenging.
1:14:45
You'd be taking engines. How many times you think you
1:14:47
pulled the engine out before? Bro, the R&D, he said.
1:14:49
He was driving them for three hours.
1:14:50
You got to pull it up. I feel that you.
1:14:52
I feel that you've pulled a million.
1:14:53
Thirteen bees out by now. As much as I've done this, all
1:14:57
the people that I've done more than me.
1:14:58
Yeah, you know. I I'm grateful for, you know,
1:15:01
where I landed and the opportunities God has.
1:15:05
You know, giving me and people that I've met, you know, it's it
1:15:08
really has been the grace of God.
1:15:09
It really has been the grace of God.
1:15:10
There's no way that I could have been, I would have been able to
1:15:13
like, orchestrate, organize me meeting this guy and that guy
1:15:16
and working here. Like some of it's like fate.
1:15:18
Like that's. Oh, absolutely.
1:15:20
The Bible says Romans 828, and we know that all things work
1:15:23
together for he who loves God and been called according to his
1:15:25
purpose. So there's no coincidence in
1:15:27
anything. That's Romans 828, you know?
1:15:29
So I know that everything that I did had like a purpose.
1:15:33
You know what I mean? And.
1:15:34
And. And now I'm starting to see more
1:15:36
like, Gee, now I want, I remember now why I worked there.
1:15:39
I worked at The Body Shop, right.
1:15:40
And at The Body Shop I used to remove quarter panels.
1:15:43
So you'd be there drilling out the spot wells one by one.
1:15:46
And that was the old gun with the spot Rd. cutter in the
1:15:50
middle. And OK, so this is a Dodge
1:15:52
truck. No problem.
1:15:53
OK. I could, you know, 300 spot
1:15:55
wells. Mercedes are coming.
1:15:57
Oh my God, they got a spot Weld every half inch now.
1:15:59
Now you have 500 and just one quarter panel.
1:16:02
So you kind of already knew that.
1:16:04
I would put the engine on the car liner, clamp it, you know it
1:16:07
was so. But all that allowed me to learn
1:16:10
this. The scrap yard, the junkyard
1:16:12
business I ran at one time made me learn.
1:16:14
This made you learn parts to learn.
1:16:16
This I worked. Selling the software allowed me
1:16:18
to do this. It was it was interesting.
1:16:20
You got like, a taste of everything.
1:16:22
I did, man. It was just a blessing.
1:16:23
And I was always hustling. I was always like, damn, it's
1:16:25
gotta be aware. I was always hustling.
1:16:27
Yeah, yeah. So you have a very interesting
1:16:29
story. Yeah, it's like again, it's
1:16:32
just. Over the years you get gain
1:16:34
certain skill sets. It's not easy you know.
1:16:36
Yeah. So then I, you know you design
1:16:38
the parts and you go to. I would I designed my parts.
1:16:41
I'd go to the track in Puerto Rico, Salinas, Speedway.
1:16:43
I go to speed shops. I go to all the little repair
1:16:45
shops that did Rotary in New York, Florida, California.
1:16:50
I went to California Hung met Mohan out there 7 stock and and
1:16:56
Florida and met all the guys in Florida.
1:16:58
All the big names for last 20 years in Puerto Rico.
1:17:01
You named the name that. Hold parts of them and Gnome had
1:17:03
talks with them whatever track in Puerto Rico here in Atco.
1:17:07
And you know what they would tell me the, you know, you know
1:17:12
you're trying to sell them a brand and sell them apart And in
1:17:15
the early days and remember there was none of this.
1:17:17
You know, all sensitive stuff. You know early 2000 they'd be
1:17:20
like, yeah, that's a piece of shit.
1:17:21
That is not good, man. How much you want 200?
1:17:24
I'll give you 150. Take it or leave it, you know.
1:17:26
Yeah, yeah. People were rough.
1:17:27
I had to deal with a lot of, you know.
1:17:30
Lot of lumps, you know what I mean?
1:17:31
So to get to where I am today, I had to go through the ringer,
1:17:34
you know. So today, folks starting a
1:17:35
business, they want to start whatever business they're in.
1:17:37
You know, most people give up three months.
1:17:39
Oh, this guy called me fat. Oh, this guy said I'm no good.
1:17:44
Yeah, well, it's even. Worse, it's even worse with the
1:17:47
Internet. This is a doggie dog world.
1:17:49
You know what I mean? So now you add the Internet to
1:17:51
it and now they can talk shit and you only have to see them.
1:17:53
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like.
1:17:56
Yeah, I don't know. You're right.
1:17:57
They go on the Internet and talk bad about.
1:17:59
You. Yeah.
1:17:59
And you know they're not worried about it, cuz they're just
1:18:01
sitting at home you ain't gonna do anything about.
1:18:03
It the shitty thing is, unfortunately, some.
1:18:06
Unfortunately, those kids are sometimes the people with the
1:18:08
most money that'll support your. Business sometimes, but yes and
1:18:11
no, you can't really, really you can't, you can't let anybody
1:18:14
drive you like that though. I thought about that one time
1:18:16
because I had a few customers that big money customers that
1:18:18
kind of didn't want to do business with me no more and
1:18:20
stuff like that. And I was like, damn, should I
1:18:21
go home and have a pity party? Nah, don't worry about it.
1:18:24
Just continue doing what you're doing right.
1:18:26
Continue building a clientele and a customer base.
1:18:29
I've had people talk about about me online and stuff, but I had
1:18:31
enough of the good guys that I've done that are that.
1:18:35
I have clientele customers that I've had for years.
1:18:39
Yeah, I was going to say. Again, Jonathan, just send me
1:18:41
this. You got my credit card.
1:18:42
Just charge me. I don't care.
1:18:43
Get it over. And I have customers that love
1:18:45
me, that they didn't know what I'm about, right?
1:18:48
Yeah, they know what I'm about. They love me.
1:18:49
And they've always defended me. I was.
1:18:50
Going to say what works for us is we're just extremely honest
1:18:53
and straight up, OK, like that's how we.
1:18:55
Like the ball doesn't lie. The ball literally does not lie.
1:18:58
Like, oh, how much you think this is going to cost A lot.
1:19:01
So I don't know if you want to do it.
1:19:03
You know, instead of like, Oh well, you know, we'll make,
1:19:05
yeah, we'll make it work. It won't be that bad.
1:19:07
And then they come pick it up and they're like, what the fuck
1:19:08
is this? I'd rather lose the job,
1:19:10
honestly, than deal with that. Like, dude, it's it's crazy.
1:19:13
But would you? Say twice.
1:19:14
Cut once in this business. Yeah, I was going to say.
1:19:17
But at the same time, are you scared?
1:19:19
You're like not losing the shots you never took.
1:19:21
I never think Wayne Gretzky. I never think that way.
1:19:24
But. Hiring more people and stuff.
1:19:26
Maybe I will start to think that way.
1:19:27
I don't know. You know, because I've done this
1:19:29
so safe. I've never took a leap of faith.
1:19:31
I've worked up to this point very, very slowly.
1:19:33
You know, I never really like, oh, let me just take a loan out
1:19:37
and now I got to pay it back. I never did that.
1:19:40
So up to this point, it's like, oh, just.
1:19:43
Well, I feel like recently you're taking risks.
1:19:45
More. Yeah, Which I'm kind of nervous
1:19:46
about. That's fine.
1:19:48
Here we are. Fine.
1:19:49
It's a, it's. Look how many hardships I'm sure
1:19:51
Goopies gone through. Dude, you know, everybody in
1:19:54
every business. They have gone through their
1:19:55
challenges. Yeah, everybody, every business.
1:19:58
You got to dig your heels in deep and just move forward,
1:20:01
continue trekking. Yeah.
1:20:02
And like, just have faith in what you're doing.
1:20:04
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that everything's going to
1:20:06
just work. Out.
1:20:07
Do what you do. Well, that's all.
1:20:09
Yeah. You know, there's always going
1:20:11
to be dirt bags in every business.
1:20:12
Yeah, that's the other thing, like, you know what some people
1:20:14
say? They say if you, if you never
1:20:16
had anyone talk bad about, you're not doing enough
1:20:18
business. Okay.
1:20:19
Because what they're saying is eventually you're gonna run into
1:20:22
those people, no matter how nice you are.
1:20:24
You know what I mean? So I get it.
1:20:26
I get the point. But you still try your hardest.
1:20:29
That's when it happened. If you don't have any haters,
1:20:30
you're probably not doing. See that's.
1:20:32
The same thing. You're not pushing hard enough.
1:20:34
Yeah, I'm sure there's people out there who think this podcast
1:20:36
is shot we don't really talk about.
1:20:38
Well, this one, this one, I've been joining us thoroughly.
1:20:40
Just cuz like, yeah, dude. We didn't know what to.
1:20:43
Expect I didn't expect anything because I'm like.
1:20:45
All I knew is you worked on rotaries you.
1:20:47
Looked on you, worked on rotaries.
1:20:48
On our website. And again.
1:20:50
Some people perform us on Instagram.
1:20:52
My website is is real. It's it's real lame because I
1:20:55
had a real good website at one time.
1:20:56
I've had a few guys coming in to help me with my website over the
1:20:59
years and. I'll be the.
1:21:00
I'll be the judge of this. I think it's.
1:21:01
Going to be so my website sucks, It's just my direction.
1:21:04
I have to completely redo the website.
1:21:07
But it's a drag car, which I want to ask about.
1:21:09
What did you, how did you, how was your like racing?
1:21:13
Like you're using all your own parts, so that's like your
1:21:15
number one marketing. Tech you see on our website
1:21:17
there, That's what that's I've owned that car for years.
1:21:20
I've had that car for about 15 years.
1:21:23
I bought that car down in South Jersey.
1:21:24
What's that run on the quarter? Pleasant.
1:21:27
I remember the guy sold me that car and we went down to pick it
1:21:30
up when it was all stock and. The guy said.
1:21:33
I don't know. We pay like 500 bucks for it or
1:21:34
something. And the guy's like, yeah, go
1:21:36
ahead, take it. He gave it to us with plates and
1:21:38
registration and everything. How?
1:21:40
How many years ago was it? A long time, like in 2005, 2006.
1:21:44
He's like, take the car, man, Just mail me the plates.
1:21:47
I'm like, what? That's like, yeah.
1:21:49
That literally, that was a thing.
1:21:51
Frankie. This is a thing.
1:21:52
Yeah. Yo, that this is a thing.
1:21:53
Because my dad was like, anytime, be careful when you
1:21:56
sell your car. Yes, take the plates off.
1:21:57
Take the plates. I'm like, why wouldn't I take
1:22:00
the place, Dad? Like, I see he signed a bill of
1:22:02
sale in the title. That's gone.
1:22:03
This guy. Did everything.
1:22:05
Gave us everything, I said. Oh my God, that was a good omen,
1:22:07
though I said OK, this is a good.
1:22:08
That was a blessing. So then we drove the car home
1:22:11
and it was an all motor car at one time.
1:22:14
We used to run an all motor nitrous island drag way.
1:22:16
Do you? Remember what it would run.
1:22:17
Yeah, I think we ran 11. Oh, with that car.
1:22:20
It's still fast as shit. OK, so so I'm on your website.
1:22:23
I like it. It makes me feel like it's old
1:22:25
school, so I like it. Yeah.
1:22:26
But can I can I purchase your parts on here or do I have to?
1:22:29
Go no, I have to work on that. OK.
1:22:31
Because I was going to say if you put those apex seals up.
1:22:34
I could I? Feel like they were still like I
1:22:36
have so much upgrade, I have so much.
1:22:38
How do you how do you go about selling?
1:22:39
People come to my shop by, they e-mail us. e-mail us is the best
1:22:42
they there's an. E-mail Frankie's a big.
1:22:44
E-mail Yeah, no, you have a contact thing on here and.
1:22:46
Facebook or. Is your Instagram.
1:22:49
I kind of make it hard to find me cuz if you.
1:22:50
Really wanna. Find me.
1:22:51
You know what? You're gonna have to work hard.
1:22:53
That's. What?
1:22:54
Cuz I'm not you do. I'm not even.
1:22:55
No, I don't. Yes, you do.
1:22:56
You're like, e-mail us. Don't DM me, e-mail us.
1:22:59
Okay. And that aspect, yes.
1:23:01
Phone. I do phone.
1:23:03
Phone. We try to pick up as much as we
1:23:04
can, but when we're busy, I really can't pick up every phone
1:23:07
call. Yeah, yeah.
1:23:08
I kind of like. That.
1:23:09
Talk to Sometimes people call you and they want to tell you
1:23:12
the life, yeah. And they want to stay on the
1:23:13
phone for 20 minutes and you're like, dude.
1:23:15
I've been good at it, have I not?
1:23:16
I'll let you know. But I'm just saying like.
1:23:18
How much for this? How much for that?
1:23:20
Like we in our business is literally time is money.
1:23:23
Literally, especially in yes, absolutely.
1:23:26
So it's like I'm on the phone for 20 minutes.
1:23:28
There's some companies that don't even have a phone you
1:23:30
can't even call. Yeah, Facebook.
1:23:32
Facebook. Facebook's one of them.
1:23:34
There's. A lot of companies that don't
1:23:35
even have a phone number, you can't even.
1:23:36
Call. Did I remember I got screwed on
1:23:37
Facebook once I was like. I'll just call it customer
1:23:39
service. You know what a lot of times.
1:23:41
No customer service on Facebook. It's the biggest company on It's
1:23:43
a chanted Earth. Most people e-mail the emails.
1:23:45
How much is this? OK, here.
1:23:46
I'll invoice you out the door. You go.
1:23:48
No, that's great in your case and in my case, when we're doing
1:23:51
a big builds, If it's five, ten, $20,000, bro, I want to see you.
1:23:55
Yeah, yeah, 10 grand, 20,000. You're going to come to my shop.
1:23:58
We're going to talk about this. What do you want to do?
1:24:00
Boom, boom. Here to put a name with a face,
1:24:02
right? You press the flesh, all right.
1:24:04
Let's talk about this. Okay.
1:24:05
No problem, Yeah. And then maybe not over e-mail
1:24:07
for that. Because you know why this now
1:24:10
the fella who wants to work on his S13 and do 2, you know.
1:24:15
Yeah, 2J or two. J or Swapper or what's the other
1:24:19
Nissan? Motor.
1:24:19
That's our twenty man. Come on, you gotta remember
1:24:21
this. The bigger motor RB.
1:24:23
Yeah, say they want to do an RB swap or the transmission airbags
1:24:25
and say it's a big job. You're like, yo, dude, for
1:24:28
something like that you're gonna have to come in here.
1:24:29
Leave me a deposit. We're gonna have to talk.
1:24:31
I'm gonna make sure you're. Make sure you're a real person.
1:24:34
Yes, yeah, go from there. Yeah, no, I you can't.
1:24:37
You can't just. Accept I feel more comfortable.
1:24:39
I usually. What I usually do is I go, OK,
1:24:41
let's plan this out. I'll make a parts list.
1:24:44
OK, here's the first bill, all the parts.
1:24:46
And I'll be like, whoa, like, well, you want to build the
1:24:50
whole car, you got to pay for the parts.
1:24:52
Yeah, you know. There's there is a part of me
1:24:56
though, that likes it like that the way you have it.
1:24:58
Make it a little hard because then now you.
1:25:01
And if anybody could reach out to you, you're gonna get so much
1:25:03
trash. Yeah, and garbage like at your
1:25:05
door and. It's hard.
1:25:07
For me, I'm just thinking about the parts.
1:25:08
Yeah, you don't because it's just challenging to run the
1:25:11
business and social media and parts.
1:25:13
We have a full machine shop. So I'm always, if I'm on the
1:25:15
mill or lathe, my dad works with me, have two more guys and one
1:25:20
guy has to be disassembled and cleaning.
1:25:21
Remember we do engines, do transmission repair, machining,
1:25:26
semi peripheral, port, rear ends.
1:25:30
A lot, lot of stuff. We're going to come up to your
1:25:32
shot one day, so a little. Shop toward What's the.
1:25:34
What's the point? So not to change the subject,
1:25:38
but like. I want to know.
1:25:39
Semi like I always hear Bridgeport, Sammy, Bridgeport or
1:25:44
what is exactly going on? The way the air goes into the
1:25:47
motor. OK.
1:25:48
Can you guys know that brap, right?
1:25:49
That sound everybody? Likes that brap.
1:25:51
The Cam sound OK You could do that with the Bridgeport or a
1:25:54
semi or peripheral port. And those are the ports that are
1:25:57
around. Yeah, the ports that are on the
1:25:59
plates, you do a like a little eyebrow cut they call it.
1:26:02
That's a bitch. A semi would be in the.
1:26:04
It'll go through the rotor housing and small little
1:26:07
incision. I got like a one inch.
1:26:08
Yeah, it's like an extra. Port right.
1:26:10
And it goes into the intake, so. What the hell?
1:26:13
And there's three different types or.
1:26:15
There's like this a semi St. yeah.
1:26:17
Like four, I think, or four. Yeah, yeah.
1:26:19
That shit is cool to me. Yeah.
1:26:21
Yeah, like you literally alter the way the air is going into
1:26:24
the fucking motor. But it's not like a normal like
1:26:27
on our. On a piston engine, you port it
1:26:29
or you port the intake, right? And like the exhaust, yeah, what
1:26:33
takes. It's kind of the same.
1:26:35
It's. Kind of the it's the same.
1:26:36
One thing about the Rotary engine that if you know folks
1:26:38
that don't know is the Rotary engine.
1:26:40
You can't bore the Rotary engine out.
1:26:42
No, no, you can't add more displacement or take out of.
1:26:45
It it all depends on. How big the?
1:26:46
So the Rotary engine is a 1.3 liter engine, the 13 B, that's
1:26:50
1.3 liters. You know, there's arguments that
1:26:53
the crankshaft speeds, that the rotor spends 3 times.
1:26:57
And that for every 3rd of a time, for every time it fires
1:27:00
three times, cuz there's three chambers in the rotor.
1:27:02
So there is that argument out there, and some people that
1:27:04
argument fight at the coffee shops and fight left and right
1:27:09
about. But the crankshaft spins, that
1:27:12
the rotor spin at 1/3 the speed of the crankshaft.
1:27:14
So if the crankshafts at 9000, the rotors are at 3000, so it's
1:27:18
not 1 to 1. So then there's that argument.
1:27:20
But still even though even besides that.
1:27:24
It's still a 1.3 liter motor and those motors now are making
1:27:27
over. I think there was one that made
1:27:28
over 1700 horsepower or 1600. That's and it's just weird
1:27:33
because of Three, because they're just throwing more
1:27:36
technology at this thing to make.
1:27:38
More for Cubic Kings I think. This motor makes more horsepower
1:27:40
than any motor I think. Probably. 100 I would believe.
1:27:43
Them it's a very inexpensive motor.
1:27:46
The Rotary engine. It's an expensive engine to make
1:27:49
the power. I I want, I need.
1:27:50
I gotta ask because I I told my buddy that I would ask about RX.
1:27:54
Question. You can ask people if they want
1:27:55
to ask questions. Yeah, yeah.
1:27:56
We have some later. But the But RX8 is when that
1:27:59
came out, because that's coming out now, like you're you're
1:28:03
messing around with rotaries, you're messing around with apex
1:28:05
seals. And then the RX8 comes in.
1:28:07
Yes, a new Rotary. Right.
1:28:08
What was that like when that came out for you?
1:28:10
Was that like a oh, this this is all right.
1:28:12
Like it's not that great. Or I didn't.
1:28:13
Look at it from that perspective.
1:28:14
I looked at it. Oh, cool, the Mazda continues.
1:28:16
Yeah. Yeah.
1:28:17
OK, good. Yeah, it was kind of bummed out
1:28:19
that it was non turbo and it wasn't.
1:28:21
It was non, you know, naturally aspirated and stuff 4 door.
1:28:24
Is that a good engine? Is that a good engine out?
1:28:26
There it has its purposes. Oh, OK.
1:28:29
A lot of people say it's a terrible car, the RXA, but I
1:28:31
don't think so. I think the RXA was built for
1:28:33
our purpose and for a reason and and what they intended to do,
1:28:36
they did with that RXA. Yeah, I mean, it was a pretty
1:28:39
well handling car. I don't.
1:28:40
An amazing thrift car, yeah. I think it's a.
1:28:42
It's amazing. Got big breaks, big calipers.
1:28:44
People buy that car to me, turn it into a Rd.
1:28:47
Yeah. They don't even have to upgrade
1:28:48
the brakes. Yeah, they handle great.
1:28:51
They're 54 or. 477, yeah. Yeah, something like that. 6
1:28:54
speed. Yeah, it's a six.
1:28:55
Speed and and they sound. Great they sound.
1:28:58
It's a nice chassis for you. They're inexpensive.
1:29:00
You could buy one inexpensive. Yeah, they're cheap.
1:29:03
So you could buy one for 500. Everybody thinks, oh, I wanna
1:29:05
buy one for 500 bucks. Go spend 200 bucks and get it
1:29:07
running. Everybody thinks that.
1:29:09
I don't. I'd be scared.
1:29:11
What? Does it turn out to be?
1:29:13
No, it turns out to be a little bit more, but just people have
1:29:15
just like this. I don't know.
1:29:16
I don't know what's happened. Like the average person
1:29:18
nowadays, it's like, it's it's crazy.
1:29:21
Sometimes I clown them on Instagram and stuff like that.
1:29:23
They call me and like, oh, I want to do a build and I'll
1:29:25
message him, well, how much money you got?
1:29:27
And they're like, oh, I got like 2 grand for for what?
1:29:30
For what do you what do you want to do with 2000?
1:29:32
Or I want to do a rebuild. OK You want a vacation with that
1:29:35
too? You.
1:29:35
Know. What else you want?
1:29:38
You want to happy me with that too?
1:29:40
I'll go to your house through your kitchen.
1:29:42
Modify. You know your bathroom too.
1:29:44
What else? Anything else?
1:29:46
Let me know bro, I'm feeling good right now.
1:29:48
Yeah, I didn't realize everything was so cheap.
1:29:50
Feeling good and. Then sometimes, because you know
1:29:52
what I see like this? Disrespectful.
1:29:54
You're like, you're ignorant, bro.
1:29:56
Yeah, you're an ignorant person. Yeah, And ignorant has a it's
1:29:59
just you don't know any better, right?
1:30:00
So go do some research, some homework before you get into
1:30:03
stuff like this. It just makes you look foolish,
1:30:06
Yeah. What about this?
1:30:08
This is another myth that I hear about rotaries.
1:30:10
Is it true that if you don't drive it hard?
1:30:14
It will break more like you've got to Italian tune up it every
1:30:17
so often, let it ring out, like drive it.
1:30:19
Is that true as well? Like, does it prolong the life
1:30:23
of your Rotary to drive it? Harder.
1:30:25
Basically it's fouling out, I guess.
1:30:26
If you don't, I don't know if you don't like, get on it.
1:30:29
That's the layman's explanation on decarbonizer or.
1:30:33
Cleaner, yeah. Yeah, that's what it is.
1:30:35
A motor sits too long if the injectors drip or.
1:30:38
Or there's a lot of Carbon built up.
1:30:39
The RX states have a lot of Carbon built.
1:30:41
Up on the road. Big time, Big time.
1:30:44
Why is that? Mazda, if I'm not mistaken, when
1:30:47
they went to the RX8 engine they took the exhaust port and
1:30:51
instead of being on the rotor housing now it's on the iron,
1:30:54
yes. So the gases have to do like 180
1:30:56
degree turn like leave this way as opposed to coming out the
1:30:58
exhaust where in the previous engines when the exhaust was in
1:31:02
the housing. Gas burned or not, came out the
1:31:05
exhaust and went out the exhaust.
1:31:07
Now the gases will. Yeah, they pretty much got, it's
1:31:10
gotta get, like, sucked out the side.
1:31:11
It's not. It goes into the next cycle and
1:31:14
it go and it burns again. Almost like an EGR valve.
1:31:16
A built in EGR valve. Yeah, so it's.
1:31:19
So that's why the RXA burns very clean and it comes to a complete
1:31:23
burn and the carbon stays inside.
1:31:25
So that's. Probably why they did it one.
1:31:27
Of the reasons. So then the side seals get
1:31:29
filled with carbon, the whole motor.
1:31:31
You can take a motor with 5000 miles apart.
1:31:33
And it's full of carbon. And it's like, yo, dude, this
1:31:35
thing is brand new. Yeah, but it gets full of
1:31:37
carbon. So then guys use sea foam
1:31:39
through the intake. Or, you know, I know some people
1:31:42
put diesel or it's something to clean the carbon on the inside.
1:31:46
Go go down the highway and just hit it hard.
1:31:48
It's gonna smoke like a freight train, but then you know,
1:31:50
that'll clean the engine. Out.
1:31:51
Was that one of the main differences between because it's
1:31:53
still 13 B, but it's a that's. One of the main reasons?
1:31:55
The resistance. But there was a six, not a six,
1:31:58
but there was a there was like a.
1:32:00
Updated version of the Renesis. Yeah, there was a serious one
1:32:02
and a serious. Two.
1:32:03
Yes, there was a few. Little subtle changes, but for
1:32:06
the engine was basically. The engine was kind of basically
1:32:08
the. Same, the main change was
1:32:09
probably that port. One of the main ones was
1:32:11
probably that port change. The port change was the primary.
1:32:13
I think it was 2004. Remember when the RSA being
1:32:16
released into the United States? During that time they had these
1:32:18
outrageous emission laws, emissions laws, and they had to.
1:32:22
Meet certain specifications. You know that the RSA was Car of
1:32:25
the Year motor track Motor Trend.
1:32:26
It was it. Was on the color bro.
1:32:29
They used to put a They used to put a wine glass on top of the
1:32:32
motor and say hey look how, how? Steady it is.
1:32:34
Yeah. Yeah.
1:32:35
So they were praising that car in 2003, 2004 and I don't think
1:32:39
it was you know Nepotism or Mazda paying off the and you I
1:32:42
don't you know there was a nice copy.
1:32:44
We were looking forward to it. I I think they're today.
1:32:46
You know, people are like, oh, that's a crappy car button.
1:32:48
Now I drove one. Of your cars that you built.
1:32:51
It was Angel's car that he sold to Greg, and it was a RX8.
1:32:57
That shit. That was my only Rotary I ever
1:32:59
drove. You built that RX8.
1:33:02
Yeah, that shit was fun as hell. What the fuck?
1:33:04
I. Didn't know that.
1:33:05
Yeah, he showed up to my house. It's idling in a driveway.
1:33:08
I'm like, what the fuck is this? I don't know anything about
1:33:12
Rotary. I always tell Chris I want a
1:33:13
Rotary and he's like and this is.
1:33:15
One thing that that gets me, a lot of time people will talk bad
1:33:19
about the RXA and stuff like that and say the RXA is no good
1:33:22
and I'm like all right, but the RXA is non turbo, yeah still a
1:33:28
1.3 liter makes about 200 horsepower, decent torque if not
1:33:32
a little bit more and they can take a four door car that weighs
1:33:35
almost £3000 and I've seen some people push about, you know.
1:33:40
I think with that particular car, they did 160 miles an hour
1:33:43
with that car. That's unheard of, 160 unheard
1:33:46
of with a turbo tour or 93 stock car.
1:33:49
Well, like a 1.3 liter, that's power per liter.
1:33:52
That is high. Where was what's making that,
1:33:55
you know, and I talked to some of my friends in Puerto Rico.
1:33:57
We have, I know a lot of drag races and stuff and when we
1:33:59
talk, Oh my God, oh what do you think about this ratio or this
1:34:01
guy did this a 60 foot blah, blah.
1:34:03
We go on and on and on and they go, they praise the ratio on the
1:34:06
RSA, they're like, Oh my God, that RSA has amazing ratio the
1:34:09
timing. Things down 50 degrees, 60
1:34:12
degrees, the computer and in other words.
1:34:15
So they like it. So what I'm saying is that when
1:34:17
Mazda designed and made the RXA, they made it with a specific
1:34:20
purpose. Yeah, right, that it does this,
1:34:23
this, this and this and this and it just works.
1:34:26
There you go. Take it for us gear heads where
1:34:28
we want to buy it and start modifying and doing stuff to
1:34:31
make more horsepower. It's challenging with the RXA
1:34:33
because the computer controls everything.
1:34:36
You remove the meter and pump. It goes into lip mode and all
1:34:38
sorts of stuff. Yeah, yeah.
1:34:39
But Mazda wasn't thinking about you and I when they were
1:34:42
building that car. They were thinking about Mr.
1:34:44
Jones over there. Let me just sell him a sports
1:34:45
car so he could. Yeah.
1:34:47
Cruise around, put it back in his garage.
1:34:49
So. Are there any aftermarket
1:34:51
solutions for? Yeah, they are.
1:34:52
There's a lot of. You could probably stand alone
1:34:54
for that. Thing.
1:34:55
You can make it happen. You can make it happen.
1:34:56
You can make it happen. You just.
1:34:57
You have to work, you know. You just.
1:34:59
Different ways to get it. Done.
1:35:01
How do they react to turbocharging?
1:35:03
Are they the? I was gonna ask the same thing,
1:35:05
like can you boost that engine? You can.
1:35:07
You can. Cuz I know they used to make
1:35:09
turbo kits for that, but well, someone probably still does.
1:35:11
But I know I think Gretti did, Gretti did and then it
1:35:13
disappeared or something. Pineapple.
1:35:15
No, no, not the guy down in Florida, Petty.
1:35:17
I remember Petty had a turbo kit for that years ago.
1:35:19
I'd seen him at 7 stock. They had a turbo kit.
1:35:21
This is like. 15 years, 10 years ago, 15.
1:35:24
Years. Yeah.
1:35:24
And then. And then the turbos disappeared.
1:35:26
I guess everyone's done with that.
1:35:28
That that would be sick. A turbo RX8.
1:35:30
Yeah, that's. That's why there's not much,
1:35:32
there's not that much room in the engine Bay.
1:35:34
It's pretty challenge. It's pretty tight, yeah.
1:35:35
Really, I feel like when you look at the RXA and the nose is
1:35:38
so long I would just assume. To get in the exhaust sign is
1:35:41
it? You gotta work hard.
1:35:42
It could be done. Listen.
1:35:45
If you got a credit card, yeah, yeah, credit card.
1:35:47
What's your What's your preferred 13 be because you
1:35:51
there's three different. 4-4 different versions.
1:35:54
That's probably a but don't. Look at me for confirmation on
1:35:56
that. Yeah, I.
1:35:57
Don't know. Like is there do you have a
1:35:58
favorite one or you just like, yeah, they're all yeah.
1:36:00
They all have their pros and cons, OK, yeah.
1:36:03
I'm beyond that already. Like, what was my favorite?
1:36:06
Yeah. I just wanna make money, sell
1:36:08
parts and. That's it.
1:36:08
Yeah. Yeah.
1:36:10
So, so if people, if people call you and they want their their
1:36:15
engine built, what's like that? Do you have like I was thinking
1:36:18
about this earlier. Do you have like?
1:36:20
Packages you offer like we're gonna do this, we're gonna do
1:36:22
this, we're gonna do this. Like certain parts you put in,
1:36:24
No, I've. Seen some people do that and
1:36:26
stuff I don't do. That I've always thought about
1:36:28
doing that too. Customers come.
1:36:30
I don't know. I guess sometimes when you've
1:36:32
been doing this for such a long time, after a while you just
1:36:35
wanna make it quick. Yeah, yeah.
1:36:36
Just wanna make it quick, chit chat what you want.
1:36:38
Okay, but I get the hell out. Yeah.
1:36:40
So. That's literally.
1:36:42
I get what you're saying, but. Wanna eat?
1:36:45
Yeah, do. This I gotta go see my kids or
1:36:47
whatever, so. I guess I'm asking more so
1:36:49
because I don't know the Rotary world that well, and to me it
1:36:53
doesn't seem like there's too many parts involved in it, so I
1:36:57
feel like whatever you use is probably very specific to your
1:37:01
build. What happens with the Rotary
1:37:03
engine, What I noticed with the Rotary engine is in the
1:37:05
customers with in my type of business is if you let the
1:37:09
customer talk he'll be there forever telling you about this.
1:37:12
About that what do you think about this questions he going to
1:37:14
tell you about the car he had in middle school?
1:37:17
He bought this car and then he bought another seven in high
1:37:20
school and I got arrested with this one.
1:37:21
And I and I had sex with my wife and this sea and this and that
1:37:24
and and all sorts of dumb stuff. And I'm like, dude, I don't want
1:37:28
to hear all your. What do you want, bro?
1:37:29
What do you want? So then sometimes, you know,
1:37:32
sometimes I I love, you know, if I'm at a car show, car me OK,
1:37:35
let's chitchat. That's what I'm here for, you
1:37:37
know. But sometimes when I'm busy, I'm
1:37:39
like, so then. What do you need?
1:37:41
What power? The average kid comes into our
1:37:44
shop and what he wants is the brap.
1:37:46
That's. What he wants.
1:37:47
Oh my God, it's like, at least like the verbal tune of your
1:37:49
world I. Think it tough of a lot of the.
1:37:50
Verbal tune of our oh listen, I want to.
1:37:52
Build my engine. Can you do what do you want?
1:37:57
You want the brap, right? OK, yeah.
1:37:58
Just give me the deposit by leaving the motor.
1:38:00
I'll have it done. But can you do this bearing And
1:38:02
yeah, yeah, trust me. So you know.
1:38:05
And that's like that's like Goopy's version of.
1:38:08
Verbal tune. Yes, yes.
1:38:10
So I'm like, hey, I'm going to do it.
1:38:11
So just. Just get out.
1:38:13
I know what I'm doing, So what they want like a certain port.
1:38:15
No, that, yeah, that that sound. The, you know, the Bridgeport
1:38:18
sound. People love that.
1:38:19
That that sound is iconic, bro. Now, but doesn't that make it
1:38:22
unreliable sometimes for the? No, that's a lie.
1:38:25
That's a lie. You heard that?
1:38:26
Yeah, that. Was a big thing.
1:38:27
Here, that was going to repent. I want you to repent.
1:38:30
All right, all right. I take it back.
1:38:32
I repent. Please forgive me.
1:38:33
I repent. Yeah, he repented live.
1:38:35
He's a lie. Yeah, no, I like those lies.
1:38:40
Well, you're never in a church called No, no.
1:38:42
No, I have because I have a pen. Yeah, it's a lie.
1:38:44
I like that you asked that question because now.
1:38:48
I I don't have it too. No, I wanted to know that
1:38:50
because that's what people that's what people say.
1:38:52
No, like people hear that and automatically assume the car is
1:38:55
like shit. Yeah, we've we've.
1:38:57
Dropped bridge ports before for a lot of miles and semis and all
1:39:01
sorts of stuff, you know, But The thing is this look, The
1:39:03
thing is this. The thing is that the average
1:39:05
person that builds performance. So I want a 500 horsepower car
1:39:09
and 600. You know, I wanna cruise it, but
1:39:11
beat it, hit it once in a while. That's what they all say.
1:39:13
I wanna hit it once in a while. OK, so you want 700 horsepower,
1:39:17
right? All right.
1:39:18
No problem, dude. That's not going to last 25,000
1:39:21
miles because chances are you're going to damage something.
1:39:23
You're going to hit a tree, You're going to do something
1:39:25
before the 20,000 miles comes up.
1:39:26
You get what I'm saying? Yeah, dude, it's not going to
1:39:29
make 20,000. It's not because of the motors,
1:39:30
because of your stupidity. You're going to not change the
1:39:32
filter. Do this, do that.
1:39:34
Pop Rocks were fouled and you kept beating in on it or
1:39:37
something like. That how many?
1:39:38
Miles, check the clouds. Yes, that's what they do all the
1:39:40
time. And tell them no.
1:39:42
I don't want for any warranties or guarantees on any.
1:39:44
To be honest, a lot of performance shops do not.
1:39:46
And I know shops that are. Probably smart like.
1:39:48
A lesson if they do but me, I don't do it bro.
1:39:51
No, you can't. You can't really do that.
1:39:52
You can't. You can't because this is like
1:39:54
you know, the, the, the. You don't know what they're
1:39:56
going to do with it. Not because they're going to
1:39:58
take the the AutoZone mentality. You know, like they buy breaks
1:40:00
that AutoZone with two year warranty and they bring it back
1:40:02
at one year, 11 months and 29 days.
1:40:05
Also, here's the Here's here's here's what's actually.
1:40:07
You know what I'm talking about, right?
1:40:09
You got AutoZone, you got a four year warranty at 3:00.
1:40:12
Is 12 months like like December? Like 28?
1:40:15
You're over at your brothers. The Battery's no good, bro.
1:40:17
Oh, I'm gonna give you another one because then you got.
1:40:19
That was me with my drift car battery.
1:40:21
Every every year you got the brakes from your Honda.
1:40:24
Let me get him bro. You got a warranty?
1:40:25
You bring him back here, let me give you mine and I get those so
1:40:28
then I don't have to pay for some.
1:40:30
You're warranty dude, you have. Probably run into some.
1:40:32
Characters. Man.
1:40:34
Warranties are for this. Warranties are so that I can be
1:40:38
irresponsible, so I could be stupid so I could blow it up.
1:40:42
And he's going to pay for it because he said it's not going
1:40:44
to break. That's what a warranty is.
1:40:46
So if you get that out of your mentality and you tell folks
1:40:49
you're, listen, I got no warranty, then that actually now
1:40:52
that obliges the customer to be responsible.
1:40:55
Yeah, that puts now a burden upon him.
1:40:58
Now you as a customer, you can't be stupid.
1:41:00
Don't call me, be like you're gooby this motor.
1:41:01
Don't turn on and your battery is disconnected.
1:41:03
You know what I'm saying? Now you have to put some vested
1:41:05
interest in it. And then what I do is just allow
1:41:08
you a good name to stand up for yourself.
1:41:10
A customer has problem with me. Call me bro.
1:41:12
Come to my shop. I'm gonna fix it.
1:41:14
I'm gonna do it right because it's to my benefit.
1:41:16
It's to my interest. If you made a mistake, you're.
1:41:18
Fixing you're an idiot and you go on the Internet and you start
1:41:20
blasting and you start complaining and asking this guy
1:41:22
questions and not. And you didn't come to me first.
1:41:24
And you know what? You're you cut.
1:41:25
Yeah, you. In Spanish, the wasa cortala
1:41:28
pattas, you know, that said I don't want to deal with you no
1:41:30
more because now as opposed to coming to me, you went to all
1:41:32
these other people asking everybody's opinion.
1:41:34
We couldn't help you anyway. I couldn't.
1:41:35
Help you anyway, so that's not right.
1:41:37
You know, you're, you know, I'm sure you value your brand name,
1:41:42
so someone you F up. I'm sure you're going to stand
1:41:45
by it, you know? But if you ask, if you give
1:41:48
people warranty, all that is is a is a permission for them to be
1:41:51
irresponsible. No our our invoices say no
1:41:54
warranties. On engine, any performance stuff
1:41:56
is like that. Summit you buy from Summit.
1:41:58
What does it say? No warranties, exchanges,
1:42:00
nothing from anything. Because here's what they're
1:42:02
gonna do. So you got they got your They
1:42:04
get your engine built. They leave.
1:42:06
Here they go. OK.
1:42:07
All right. I got my boy.
1:42:08
He's gonna tune it. You should probably bring it to
1:42:11
our guy. No, no, no, no.
1:42:13
Thanks, though. Bye.
1:42:14
They bring it to their boy. They go get that nice verbal
1:42:17
tune, all right, That's the first thing they do.
1:42:20
Then they go and they go race it to the track every night.
1:42:23
Never change the oil. Then they something breaks.
1:42:26
They go to their other, their other friend.
1:42:28
I could fix it for cheap. So then they get it serviced by
1:42:31
someone else. And then in three years, four
1:42:32
years, five years later, they call, yo, it's burning oil.
1:42:36
What do you want me to do about it?
1:42:38
You haven't. I haven't seen you in five
1:42:39
years. I don't know where the cars
1:42:40
been. Like, dude, if you're going to
1:42:42
offer a warranty, you need to service your vehicle.
1:42:46
At that shop, right? It needs to be tuned at that
1:42:49
shop and every single thing needs to happen at that shop.
1:42:52
And if it doesn't, I mean look, this is some.
1:42:55
Rotary, bro. This is performance.
1:42:57
This is Rotary. This is performing.
1:42:58
I tell you again, this is not for everybody.
1:43:00
Yeah, this is not for everybody. The Rotary game is not for
1:43:03
everybody. The Nissan tool.
1:43:05
And all this. Stuff.
1:43:06
Yeah, it's expensive. You know who really messed this
1:43:08
up? Vin Diesel.
1:43:09
He ruined it, bro. Oh no.
1:43:10
You're the first Diesel for vind one.
1:43:12
Your fault, bro. You're the fifth one to say
1:43:14
that. The Fast and the Furious Fucked.
1:43:15
This shit, you messed it up. Y'all.
1:43:17
Alright, let's hear more about this Vindy, How did Vin Diesel
1:43:19
mess? It up.
1:43:20
Why with the fast and the? Fast and the Furious, dude.
1:43:22
It probably everyone was like. Come on, this guy.
1:43:24
The rapper down down the ATL, What's his name?
1:43:27
Ludacris, You and Luda. Get back.
1:43:34
Because, I don't know, because they like through the they threw
1:43:37
the JDM world, right? Like the JDM world.
1:43:40
They threw it on TV and they made it look glam in this
1:43:44
parking lot stealing stuff in back of trucks.
1:43:46
That stuff is stupid. And then after the after that
1:43:50
movie, people are calling nitrous knots, you know, and
1:43:53
people are coming. You got knots in there.
1:43:54
I'm like, oh man. I know people calling yo, you
1:44:01
got Nas? Yeah, I used to have a nitrous
1:44:03
bottle on my RX7. You know my other one.
1:44:05
We used to go driving yo. You got Nas?
1:44:06
I know it's. Be like fun.
1:44:09
Don't ever say that again. Please stop it From now on, say
1:44:14
Nitrous. Yeah, but I don't know, maybe he
1:44:16
helps a lot of people get into rotaries with his.
1:44:18
I know, I know, he probably he did, he did.
1:44:19
He just say they just put it in it.
1:44:22
I don't know how. It's on Front Street now after
1:44:25
that movie. Yeah, it was on Front St. yes,
1:44:26
yes, yes. Like it was, everyone knew about
1:44:29
racing import cars. Yes, yes.
1:44:31
Not now. But then once that came out, I
1:44:34
feel like everybody's just like, oh, like the Fast, the Furious.
1:44:38
Oh no, not like the fast. And the furious.
1:44:40
Oh yeah, Like, you know, they like they just.
1:44:44
Everybody will automatically assume like you're into that
1:44:46
shit. Yeah, when really I'm just into
1:44:49
building. Yeah, that put rice on the map.
1:44:50
You put rice? I did.
1:44:54
But then your fucking Rotary that they're talking shit about
1:44:57
is running 7 seconds. Yeah, and their Camaro of that
1:45:01
same era is running like a fucking 12.
1:45:04
The Rotary engine bro. Is.
1:45:09
Is a gift. It's just different, dude.
1:45:11
It's just different. Yeah, I don't.
1:45:13
Even know I can't even use Icon Iconic Iconic is to been used
1:45:16
too much. I just like this.
1:45:18
The spirit that the Rotary engine holds, the spirit of it,
1:45:22
like the like the spirit of what the Rotary stands for.
1:45:24
Like you just told me, everybody's grinding out,
1:45:27
putting fucking diesel turbos and in a in an inner cooler from
1:45:31
somewhere else and piping from here, piping from there.
1:45:33
That's what I think the Rotary stands for.
1:45:35
It's for people who like, want to maximize something.
1:45:38
That's true. That really didn't have a lot to
1:45:42
give you in the beginning. Yeah, I guess, yeah, that, yeah,
1:45:45
displacement per size, yeah, probably.
1:45:46
Yeah, yeah. And you're just you're.
1:45:48
Just that would be the common denominator among all the Rotary
1:45:50
guys, yes. Small motor, big horsepower,
1:45:53
yeah, yeah. But the Rotary?
1:45:54
Engine did come out of a the Rotary engine has a few
1:45:57
different facets that I noticed since I was a kid in the 80s and
1:46:02
I said nine or even 80s. Oh, a side note, you know that
1:46:04
my dad used to work for my dad used to work for a here.
1:46:07
We go. My dad used to work for a a
1:46:11
exotic car repair shop in Mahwah, NJ in the early 80s when
1:46:15
we were little kids. It was called La Monza Motors.
1:46:18
La Monza, La Monza, Little Italian dude.
1:46:21
And that Italian dude was friends with John de Lorean,
1:46:23
bro. Really.
1:46:25
Yes, yes. And my dad used to tell us these
1:46:27
things and I used to be like we were little kids.
1:46:29
We didn't know about that. And my dad would one time took
1:46:31
us there. He actually, he used to drive
1:46:33
some of the cars home to make sure they were in good shape.
1:46:35
Yeah, he drove one time a Lotus Turbo S Spirit brand new on the.
1:46:39
Bond car. And when I he took us there one
1:46:42
time and where he they and to show us the cars because my dad
1:46:46
used to turn tune like the Webers and they had like these
1:46:49
you know side drives like. On the old.
1:46:52
European cars. And they had a BMW M1 like the
1:46:56
mid 80s. They had a wing on the back,
1:46:59
yeah, and three, they had kind. Of wedge looking shit.
1:47:03
Yeah, M1 was the one in the James Bond movie with.
1:47:05
Lamborghini, they had a chap on there, a few cool tashas.
1:47:09
That's some really exotic stuff that I was a kid and I was like.
1:47:11
Do you think that's where your your passion?
1:47:13
Started and I thought the cars were cool, but looking at it
1:47:15
today I'm like, oh. My God.
1:47:16
God, Dad. You know who you were around.
1:47:19
Yeah. Oh my God, I wish I would have
1:47:20
taken more pictures and shakes and carry me as a baby and.
1:47:25
I said. No those this.
1:47:27
And I was like, you know, that car, that stuff is gone.
1:47:28
But he was just a mechanic. He was just fixing the cars.
1:47:31
He didn't. He wasn't a car guy, you know?
1:47:33
Yeah, And neither were we were riding BMX bikes.
1:47:35
But it's interesting that that it's a small world that way.
1:47:38
I don't know where that guy is. He might not even be alive
1:47:40
anymore. You said it was in Ramsey.
1:47:41
Mahwah, New Jersey Franklin Turnpike If somebody knows where
1:47:44
that little Italian dude is, who knows.
1:47:46
But he was friends with John de Lorean and I think, I think my
1:47:49
dad might have met him out for. You.
1:47:50
But I know exactly what I shops. Do you?
1:47:53
Yeah. Oh, you do?
1:47:54
Yeah. My I lived in Ramsey for a
1:47:56
while. Franklin term.
1:47:57
Like, actually really fucking close to Franklin Turnpike.
1:47:59
So is the shop still a thing? I don't know if it's called
1:48:02
Lamonza anymore. It's called.
1:48:05
This is 30 years ago. I know it was, but the building
1:48:08
is old as she's. Still there.
1:48:10
It's got like 2 glass doors in the front.
1:48:11
Yeah, Yep. Yeah.
1:48:12
I know someone like someone listening to this podcast
1:48:14
probably. Knows where that.
1:48:15
Guy is. Yeah, but.
1:48:16
That's, yeah, but that's. What the fuck?
1:48:19
Like this? What was the question you asked
1:48:20
before? I don't even know.
1:48:21
I don't even know. You want to bust out some of
1:48:23
these questions that we got. You can do that.
1:48:24
Let's see. Let's see what we got today.
1:48:25
I was telling you how there's multiple facets in the Rotary
1:48:28
engine, right? Yes.
1:48:29
All right. Yeah.
1:48:30
So check this out. So 90s you have.
1:48:33
I came out of the drag race scene.
1:48:35
OK, so I was a little kid. I was like 14 and my older
1:48:39
brother used to have a Firebird formula.
1:48:42
He had the Super beetle and he had a Firebird 400 formula.
1:48:46
And he was into like V8, my older brother, right.
1:48:48
So he's older. He had a license.
1:48:49
I had no license. He was.
1:48:51
And and we would always like to hang out with him and his older
1:48:53
friends. I was a little younger and my
1:48:56
brother used to go to Hunts Point Drag Racing, which is in
1:48:58
the Bronx, NY He's go racing on the weekends, at night, you
1:49:01
know, hang out. And and I used to always be like
1:49:05
take us, take me with you, take me with you.
1:49:07
Now I go hang out with your friends.
1:49:08
And you know a few times he did finally started taking us and
1:49:10
stuff like that. And I started going with my
1:49:12
brother. This is night racing, right?
1:49:14
This started around 11:00 o'clock at night.
1:49:16
They raced to like 6:00 in the morning.
1:49:18
And that's the first time I went to a street race at night.
1:49:22
And illegal activities, which I don't do anymore or condone.
1:49:25
OK. We use the word allegedly over
1:49:27
here. Illegal.
1:49:27
I allegedly did that. One of my twin brother was
1:49:31
there. Yeah.
1:49:31
So then, so then I saw the Rotary and what I would see is I
1:49:36
would see starlets, corollas, which is called candungo.
1:49:39
Sprinters, 69 corollas, Rs. Threes, Rs.
1:49:41
Twos. RS7 first gens.
1:49:44
I'll see those cars with rotaries in them and I would
1:49:47
hear this noise and I'd be like, Danny, what the hell is that
1:49:49
noise? They would run open header at
1:49:52
night bro. You know how loud a Rotary is.
1:49:54
Imagine you know what it is to have open header or like a
1:49:57
Flowmaster right there on the side.
1:49:58
That's crazy. In the middle of the night down
1:50:00
at Hunts Point bro, you can hear that sound.
1:50:01
That sound that shit in Ramsey? No.
1:50:03
You can hear it in Sounder. You can hear the dragon.
1:50:05
I notice rotaries. The sound travel they're
1:50:08
extremely. Loud so you could hear it on the
1:50:11
cross Bronx and you were down in Hunts Point down at the bottom
1:50:14
over there. So then so then you would.
1:50:16
So I started hearing I was like Danny, what is that he be like,
1:50:19
yo, they're putting those monster motors in those cars and
1:50:22
Toyota Starlet. That's why you see other Puerto
1:50:23
Ricans with the Toyota Starlets. And you guys in your head are
1:50:26
like why did we go to the drag races and you see these Puerto
1:50:28
Ricans with these little Starlet 2 door cars that kind of looks
1:50:31
like a Golf. Yeah.
1:50:32
Why? Why do they choose that car?
1:50:34
Because back then you bought an econo box for a few 100 bucks
1:50:37
and you went to the junkyard, scrap yard or and you took a
1:50:40
Rotary engine and you poured it, it did some work, put it in
1:50:42
there and now you instantly had two hundred horses 250 in a
1:50:45
light car the. The popular one that is always
1:50:48
on Craigslist. Back when I was looking at first
1:50:51
car, I was looking for every eight or like Corolla, a 86
1:50:55
chassis and almost every single one My my friend bought 1.
1:50:59
With a Rotary in it, that's. A Corolla.
1:51:01
Always a Rotary. SR5 Yeah 84 to 85, not, not, not
1:51:05
8086. You need to repent from that
1:51:08
too. This is called the sapito or SR5
1:51:12
Corolla. This whole AE86 old old school
1:51:15
folks don't know what the hell that is.
1:51:16
They're like, what the hell? You so all the new school guys
1:51:18
like the chassis code? Yes also.
1:51:20
Guys, they don't know what the hell that is.
1:51:22
They say. Roll of row 86 to 87.
1:51:24
They made SR5, Sequoia, Tundra, Tacoma, Corolla, Camry.
1:51:29
Alphabet soup things. Well, they don't know what that
1:51:31
is. So then so then they so nobody
1:51:34
knew, but the Corolla that was after that was too heavy.
1:51:37
The starlet and the Corolla were it.
1:51:38
So I heard these cars drag racing or the old Corollas like
1:51:41
the 70s with a Rotary popping wheelies like this and Mickey
1:51:45
Thompson's in the back. You know 13 inch baby Supras.
1:51:48
When Mickey Thompson's in the back popping wheelie you know
1:51:52
they would bring him on trailers or from my town they you would
1:51:56
have a pack of like 30 cars bro leaving from my town to hunts
1:51:59
point and they would tow a little Corolla with a samurai
1:52:03
Suzuki Samurai with a tow bar with a small little tow bar.
1:52:07
Towing the Toyota Corolla all the way to the Bronx, You know,
1:52:09
with the emergency lights going and when you got to Hunts Point
1:52:12
and it took the pins out of the tow barn, go drag race with
1:52:16
slicks and everything. Little Mickey Thompson slicks.
1:52:18
And when I samurai and I'm like, there's probably a Rotary in
1:52:21
that too. I'm 14 years old and I'm seeing
1:52:23
this. I was like bad ass for that.
1:52:24
That was when I fell in love with the Rotary engine and it
1:52:26
started like, Oh my God, this is amazing.
1:52:29
And in my town there was, it was like.
1:52:32
It was like a it was rivalry. Piston was Rotary in my town.
1:52:35
We had this one guy named Faye who's still around real good
1:52:37
dude, bro. And he was like the Rotary king
1:52:39
and had another guy named Henson and he was the .8 king.
1:52:42
He had a Corolla 3T, C nitrous, Weber nitrous, you know, 1.8,
1:52:47
Corolla like a 1980 box. You guys call it TE 70.
1:52:51
Two, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and this car was running
1:52:53
like 11 O Nitrous and this guy other car was running like I
1:52:58
think 1090 Nitrous or something. But anyway, so that was a
1:53:00
rivalry. And then you know we'd go with
1:53:03
this pack of people always at Hunts Point, drag racing and
1:53:05
stuff like that. So that was like my berth.
1:53:08
So as you can see all the cars and all the clientele base
1:53:11
today, it's still, that's still the foundation, that's still
1:53:17
where I came from. So those type of customers are,
1:53:19
some of them are still my customers, Yeah, you know and
1:53:22
now I was watching and now I make parts.
1:53:25
Yeah, it's crazy because sometimes I see him come in and
1:53:26
they're like in the late 50s or early 60s and like, Gooby,
1:53:30
what's up and how you doing? Oh, my God.
1:53:32
I remember you were a little kid, used to come hang out with
1:53:34
us and stuff like that. I'm gonna call your Mama past
1:53:37
your bedtime. That's such a cool.
1:53:41
Story my older brother, my older brother would take us, you know,
1:53:43
But when you're young, you're all there drinking 40s and stuff
1:53:46
like that. So that's the only downside that
1:53:48
I remember is like we'd go, my brother would take me and
1:53:51
another buddy of mine in the back seat and then.
1:53:54
You know when your kids, the minute you left home you had a
1:53:56
beer. So then we go get a OE or a
1:53:58
Crazy Horse and hanging out drinking you know with the
1:54:01
hoodie on and the and and and stuff like that cuz you know you
1:54:05
want to drink when you're hanging out with your buddies.
1:54:06
But now that looking at it in hindsight, I wish I wasn't, I
1:54:09
wasn't weren't drinking because then I would have remembered
1:54:11
more or had better experiences, you know, so there again.
1:54:15
So that I love that story, though, no.
1:54:16
No, no. So that's that was the
1:54:17
inception. So that's what made me look at
1:54:19
the Rotary and most guys that most Puerto Rican guys are drag
1:54:22
races but. Like Rotary engine from this
1:54:25
area or either racing there. Bunker Hill Patterson or
1:54:30
Fountain Ave. in Brooklyn and Queen Brooklyn, they were racing
1:54:34
either Fountain Ave. or Bunker Hill Hunts Point.
1:54:39
In Hunts Point you had a few places, they had the Cocacola
1:54:41
you had down over there is a Riga Ave.
1:54:43
We used to race on the Riga all the time and I wasn't racing, I
1:54:47
was a kid, but I would go with somebody always to watch the
1:54:49
races. It was awesome, but I was like.
1:54:51
It was like NHL ray bro, like this on the side.
1:54:53
This is like before. Like this is like around before
1:54:56
Giuliani. This is around thinkings.
1:54:57
Yeah. And then Giuliani came in and
1:54:59
cleaned up all in New York. Even when I worked at Nissan, my
1:55:02
parts manager would be talking about that stuff like Bunker
1:55:05
Hill. It was in all the same thing,
1:55:07
bro. Street racing today to that it
1:55:09
was two different worlds, Yeah, so it was really rough.
1:55:12
So. Damn man, Well.
1:55:14
Thank you for telling us that story, because that's my
1:55:16
favorite part. But the idea was, so I came from
1:55:18
the Drag Race world, right? And I'm still in it, yeah.
1:55:21
And the horsepower and the parts that I've made have been from
1:55:25
that understanding. But at the same time, there was
1:55:27
Rd. racing in the 80s and 90s, But that was more like a Thai
1:55:31
guy. It was more of an expensive
1:55:34
sport, right? Yeah.
1:55:36
So today. Today now you have rotaries in
1:55:40
drifting like. I was gonna say, do you see like
1:55:43
a I was about to. Talk.
1:55:44
Yes, yes. I did a show this weekend.
1:55:46
I was at a car. I did a car meeting in
1:55:47
Connecticut this weekend and I got guys who have a lot of
1:55:49
street cars. So, you know, Street car,
1:55:52
Corolla RS3RS2RS7, Nice, nice cars, you know, everything
1:55:55
polished nice. They like Rotary, but they don't
1:55:58
like drag racing. They just want a nice Street car
1:56:00
to go chill with the wife on the weekend.
1:56:02
Stuff like that. Yeah, but they're not into drag
1:56:04
racing or they don't know. What drifting is or anything of
1:56:07
that stuff, right. So now as you can see, I do
1:56:10
Rotary engines because that's the common denominator that all
1:56:13
these people have. I don't focus on just RX sevens,
1:56:16
I do Rotary cuz rotor's being used in all these different
1:56:19
applications. That's pretty interesting.
1:56:21
Rotary, right. In your case, you're only doing
1:56:23
suspension and stuff for Rd. Cars are drifting.
1:56:26
Yeah, nothing drag racing. You get what?
1:56:27
I'm saying yeah, yeah, not. What about much?
1:56:29
What about, like, a wave runner? That has a that has a Rotary in
1:56:33
it. I've seen rotaries in wave.
1:56:35
Runners, I shoot you not Frankie.
1:56:36
Don't look at me like that. There's a Rotary in in one of
1:56:39
those little, you know, those little trucks they bring to
1:56:42
Japan right now. Yeah, yeah, K Truck.
1:56:45
There's a Rotary in a golf cart. I heard there's a Rotary in
1:56:47
Puerto Rico in a in a coffin. Wait, excuse me.
1:56:51
A coffin in Puerto Rico. There's an engine in a coffin.
1:56:53
A Rotary, I think a Rotary in a coffin.
1:56:55
Like they buried it. No, like they drive it around.
1:56:57
It's a freaking coffin, bro. Like that photo right there.
1:57:01
Yeah, like a coffin, Yeah. There's a Rotary in that there's
1:57:04
a. Rotary and there was a Rotary in
1:57:06
the I remember there was a Rotary engine on a four Wheeler
1:57:09
in the Bronx like 30 years ago. Doing wheelies.
1:57:13
It was Derek on the bicycle. Yep, doing wheelies.
1:57:15
Dude, that is. Yeah, so they put rotaries and
1:57:18
everything and the Mustang, and I've seen rotaries and the
1:57:20
Mustang. I want to see this.
1:57:22
My friend has a three rotor right now in Long Island.
1:57:24
He has a three rotor. He's putting it in a Fox body.
1:57:26
He's fine. That's fucking fantastic.
1:57:29
Yeah. That's the 5.0 guys are gonna
1:57:31
be. That's what I would want to do.
1:57:33
I'd want to just see the face of somebody.
1:57:36
You're gonna roll up to one of the meets with the VA guys.
1:57:40
And that one deal with the New Balance is gonna be pissed.
1:57:42
It's gonna be like. He's gonna hear that rap.
1:57:45
Like, what kind of Cam you got in this?
1:57:47
Yeah, so they're gonna be obsessed.
1:57:49
So then again, so the Rotary engine, like I told you guys, is
1:57:51
in multiple different. It's everywhere.
1:57:53
Sports. Yeah.
1:57:54
Rd. I've seen a Rotary lawn mower
1:57:56
once that exists, A Rotary lawn. Mower.
1:57:59
Yeah, sash made Rotary lawn mower.
1:58:01
They made a Rotary dirt bike. They made a Rotary motorcycle.
1:58:05
Suzuki RE5 I'm gonna look. For that I think you need to.
1:58:08
Get that motorcycle, huh? You need to get that motorcycle,
1:58:11
Yeah. I think it would just complete
1:58:12
your life now. Yeah, they were gonna put the
1:58:14
Rotary engine in. GM had the patents to the Rotary
1:58:17
engine, and they were this close to putting it in the Vega.
1:58:20
Remember the Vega? No.
1:58:22
I do. I know the Vega.
1:58:23
He knows the. And then at the last minute they
1:58:25
changed the motor from the Rotary engine in the Vega and
1:58:28
they put that Isuzu motor in The Vega had like a 2.42 point 2
1:58:33
Isuzu motor that came in the Suzuki pump.
1:58:35
They put that in the Vega instead of the Rotary engine.
1:58:37
But I met engineers throughout my walk.
1:58:40
I met, I had met a few years ago, like 15 years ago.
1:58:42
I met engineers that had to work at the GM plant where they were
1:58:46
testing the Rotary engine and I don't know if it Illinois or
1:58:49
whatever. Why didn't they do it?
1:58:50
I don't know. They said something with the
1:58:52
emissions. Yeah, I had emissions.
1:58:54
Remember they had the fuel crisis in the 70s.
1:58:57
So then I think they went and they decided to put the Isuzu
1:59:00
motor in there at the last minute.
1:59:02
And put the Rotary engine is big, it's vast.
1:59:04
You know the Rotary engine was made here in Jersey at one time.
1:59:07
Curtis Wright had licenses to the to the Rotary engine here in
1:59:11
New Jersey and they used to work out of Woodridge and they had a
1:59:14
little plant there and they worked on the Rotary engine
1:59:16
there at one time. Woodridge or Woodridge.
1:59:19
Because Woodridge is right. Woodridge the street.
1:59:21
Not Woodbridge. Not.
1:59:22
Not. Not.
1:59:23
Not Ridgewood. Woodridge.
1:59:25
There's a Woodridge right near us.
1:59:26
Well, maybe it's. I don't know if that's the same
1:59:28
one. Maybe, but they did work.
1:59:29
Here, Curtis. Wright look at Curtis Wright New
1:59:31
Jersey and Google. Curtis Wright New Jersey in
1:59:33
1960s, they did a lot of R&D there.
1:59:37
A lot of core and D that Mazda. Eventually I've seen the same
1:59:41
work that they did there at other engines and I was like,
1:59:43
oh, OK, so and sometimes when people say, hey, who designed
1:59:46
this, who came up with this? Well, I think the Curtis Wright
1:59:49
guys had it first or that's right in America.
1:59:53
Let me see. And then I don't know if you
1:59:54
guys remember Rotary Power International?
1:59:57
What is that? That was a publicly traded
1:59:59
company in IPO that actually did Rotary research here in New
2:00:02
Jersey as well. What the fuck?
2:00:04
So they're just doing research to.
2:00:05
See what they can use. These engines for.
2:00:07
In the late 90s there was a company called Rotary Power
2:00:10
International and they worked on what's called a stratified
2:00:12
Rotary engine, a diesel one as well.
2:00:15
And they were working on it for mass production, right?
2:00:17
It was an IPO. You guys know what IPO is,
2:00:19
right? Yeah.
2:00:20
So there was one here in New Jersey.
2:00:21
It got all this money, but it disappeared overnight and no one
2:00:24
knows what. Happened.
2:00:25
I see the Curtis Wright Rotary thing.
2:00:27
Yeah, see, I'm telling. You damn it.
2:00:28
IPO for a Rotary company is kind of wild to think about.
2:00:32
I. Think what happened is in the
2:00:33
90s that happened and then they took some monies and they did
2:00:36
that. Nothing came about that and I
2:00:38
think it went belly up. I'm not sure.
2:00:40
It disappeared. But I think that's why maybe one
2:00:43
of the reasons why the Rotary engine today or anybody doing
2:00:45
Wenkle work or anybody licensing the patent from NSU, they're
2:00:49
going to have a tough time creating, bringing, getting
2:00:53
venture because the Rotary engine has a sort of like a
2:00:56
stain. A stain on it, that's.
2:00:58
Trading. You want me to give you twenty
2:01:00
$30 million for this? What's the outcome, You know and
2:01:03
so? That's the challenging part
2:01:05
there. We got a good question here.
2:01:06
I wanna I wanna start. With this, somebody has a
2:01:08
question. Yeah, Mike, we.
2:01:09
Got a few? Friend?
2:01:09
Nico asked. What do you think of Rob Dom's
2:01:12
bill? Do you know Rob Dom is he's a.
2:01:14
YouTube guy with which build in particular.
2:01:16
I think I'm assuming he's talking about the four Rd. the
2:01:18
four Rd. Rotor is cool, bro.
2:01:19
That's badass, man. I like it.
2:01:21
All-wheel drive. I met that dude by accident once
2:01:23
in Michigan somehow. Yeah, it was so random.
2:01:26
He is from Michigan initially. Yeah.
2:01:28
He's from there, yeah. Yeah, that's where I met him.
2:01:30
And before all the Rotary stuff. Yeah, yeah.
2:01:32
He was on one of those shows with the with their dating
2:01:35
women. What was the name of that?
2:01:36
Show oh. Yeah.
2:01:37
Matchmaker. Whatever.
2:01:38
I think no. Yeah.
2:01:40
Wait, really? I think he was.
2:01:41
I think he was, I hope. He's funny.
2:01:43
Did I like wrong Dom? Yeah, yeah, he's.
2:01:45
I love his videos. Yeah, his videos are.
2:01:47
I need to. Talk to him.
2:01:48
He needs to help me out with my boss because I got a little boss
2:01:50
spot on him. You think he could help you out?
2:01:53
Yeah, because he got that hair product.
2:01:55
Bro, you gotta hook a brother up.
2:01:56
OK, I'll. Trade him.
2:01:58
Got the sound for it. Rob Goopy needs your help.
2:02:00
Yeah, so then I got the ball spot.
2:02:01
So then yeah, his car is cool. That is real cool.
2:02:04
I like his car. And then he has, he has that 12
2:02:08
rotor he's working on. Yeah, that 12 rotor he's working
2:02:11
on, which I think that was worked on, that was initially
2:02:13
designed and made by some guy, some other fella that does boats
2:02:17
or something like that. That's a.
2:02:19
Badass. How long is that?
2:02:20
Yeah, Ricardo just said. It was The Bachelor.
2:02:23
What the fuck? The Bachelor, right?
2:02:24
Yeah, I told. You that's funny as.
2:02:26
Fuck, that's hilarious. That's cool.
2:02:28
So how long is a 12 rotor? I think they designed it where
2:02:32
they had 4-4 and four something. Like that.
2:02:36
So what a dope fuck. That makes more sense, yeah.
2:02:40
That sounds let. Me tell you something, even if
2:02:41
that thing never takes off. It's safe and never takes off.
2:02:44
It's still cool regardless. Yeah, it's still cool.
2:02:46
And it's still cool that people are pushing the envelope because
2:02:49
the Big 5, the Big 5, Mazda and the rest of the world, the car
2:02:55
manufacturers, they're looking at big gains and all their R&D
2:02:59
projects, everything they do, big gains.
2:03:01
Toyota, you know, Daimler Benz, whomever, anything they make,
2:03:05
they're looking to sell a million cars minimum, you know,
2:03:08
5,000,000 or this. So the Rotary engine is just not
2:03:11
something that is marketable anymore, I don't think.
2:03:14
Yeah. So they're using it now as a
2:03:15
power generator now in that SUV for Mazda.
2:03:18
They're using it as a really, but they're not using it as a
2:03:20
power plant anymore. So when you get guys, whether it
2:03:23
be me or whomever in these small firms that are continuing to
2:03:26
push development on the Rotary engine, I think those people
2:03:29
should be praised, those people should be supported and people
2:03:31
should do whatever you can to. To.
2:03:34
Support it. You know, to support the brand
2:03:36
it to support the idea. Because if those people are
2:03:38
gone, then it's. It's gonna die.
2:03:40
And usually those people are doing it with peanuts, little
2:03:43
money, their own machine. It's a labor of love.
2:03:45
I was gonna say take loss. Passion projects.
2:03:47
You know, so when people go online and said, oh hey, that's
2:03:50
a piece of shit, this and that, and they blast you online,
2:03:52
you're broker. Then you go get a CNC machine,
2:03:54
you go spend $100,000 in material research and try to
2:03:58
develop something so that the rest of the people can make.
2:04:00
Can do it on Facebook. Just fucking.
2:04:03
I remember I remember seeing something that Mazda was going
2:04:06
to keep. They were going to make another
2:04:07
RX. Is that a?
2:04:08
Is that a real thing? You know what?
2:04:09
I tell you something? Mazda owns, owns a lot of.
2:04:13
They have a lot of investments in the road region, big cast
2:04:16
machines. Yeah, they have a whole factory.
2:04:17
Where they just. Work on that just going to throw
2:04:19
that out just like that it would be very maybe transition into
2:04:22
something else but just throwing that out I don't that's that's a
2:04:25
that's. Pretty.
2:04:26
I remember reading an article about this.
2:04:29
I think it's in Hiroshima. Yeah, somewhere out there.
2:04:32
Hiroshima. Yeah, they have some kind of
2:04:33
factory and there's it's like a skeleton crew.
2:04:35
There's only like 5, five to 10 people that work in.
2:04:38
There I like to go, but I don't know about the Canada airplane
2:04:41
that long. Yeah, it's a long flight.
2:04:44
The flight to the Philippines is like.
2:04:46
The Philippines? Who?
2:04:48
Norway is in the Philippines, bro?
2:04:49
Huh. Norway is in the Philippines.
2:04:51
What's that, Noriega, bro. We're in the Philippines.
2:04:54
You guys don't know? Hip hop on the old school.
2:04:57
From who? Jacks.
2:04:58
I mean Nori put up Nori on there on YouTube in the Philippines.
2:05:02
I think Carl will probably be into it.
2:05:03
I. Thought I like old school hippa,
2:05:05
that's. My Yeah.
2:05:05
So then So what happens is they're not gonna.
2:05:08
I think Monster still owns the rotor, the RX7 engine, right?
2:05:13
Yeah, one of the RX Eights. That design is arguably one of
2:05:16
the most refined Rotary engines. Yeah, on Earth for many of the
2:05:21
companies that have licensed the Rotary engine from NSU, I think
2:05:24
that's how it works because I think a lot of companies
2:05:25
licensed the. Rotary engine patents, so GM for
2:05:30
so they were able to make it and I think Mazda is the only one
2:05:32
that stuck with it inside. Let's just continue to because I
2:05:35
think they did have some emissions issues in the 70s and
2:05:38
stuff like that with they got bad reviews.
2:05:40
So don't. So then today Mazda was one the
2:05:43
one that continued to like no, let's make this better, let's
2:05:45
refine this, let's get more efficiency and stuff.
2:05:47
So you got to praise them for that.
2:05:49
If you have that many years in R&D, I don't think you're just
2:05:51
gonna throw it. Out.
2:05:53
Yeah, I think so too. That'd be sick.
2:05:55
Like a modernized fucking. But look what look what Japan
2:05:58
does. Japan has like Japan has like
2:06:01
let's say the the the Mazda motors, right?
2:06:04
The Mazda piston motors from the 80s and 70s, the BP from the
2:06:08
Miata, right. That BP motor was amazing.
2:06:11
First started in the old proteges, 32 threes and then
2:06:14
evolved, right? And then it went into the 90s
2:06:17
proteges turn into a really nice motor by that.
2:06:20
And then it was also in the Miata and stuff like that.
2:06:22
And then they went to a completely different design.
2:06:24
I think it was the 2.0 motor. It's no longer a BP motor,
2:06:26
right? Ford Escort got involved and
2:06:28
stuff like that. Ford got involved cuz Ford owns
2:06:31
Mazda right? Yeah, I'm not sure when it
2:06:32
ended. But then the old motor, the BP
2:06:34
motor, it was a great design, it's just older.
2:06:37
Whereas those motors, now it went to Kia.
2:06:40
Oh really? So Kia being a Korean company,
2:06:42
Right, Korean. Korean, I think.
2:06:43
I think. Korean company now Korea has
2:06:46
that same motor and they put it in a sport agent.
2:06:48
They put it in cars that they they I.
2:06:50
Don't even know that. I didn't know that either.
2:06:52
So you're like, what the hell happened?
2:06:53
So me and mine, I mean, I don't know this, I'm assuming.
2:06:56
I'm assuming that they Kia went to Mazda, a tier one company,
2:06:59
and said let's buy all your old tooling design drawings.
2:07:02
Why not? You're not going to use it
2:07:03
anymore. You guys evolved to newer motors
2:07:05
if more efficient motors. OK, well, so let's you.
2:07:08
Here you go. Your old tooling, your old.
2:07:10
All the dyes, everything from the old motors, you said go
2:07:12
right ahead, take a few $1,000,000 and they said, hey,
2:07:15
you know what, we're not a tier one company, we're a Tier 3
2:07:18
company. But we're going to all these
2:07:19
other countries that have no emissions laws, don't care about
2:07:22
that much power. We could put it in all these
2:07:23
cars and sell it in China, South America and all those places and
2:07:26
put it in new cars. I think that's where we
2:07:28
redesign. You see the motor and it's like,
2:07:30
wait, hold on, that's an old Mazda motor.
2:07:31
Yeah, yeah. They go to Central and South
2:07:33
America, they get a lot of cool stuff that we don't get here in
2:07:36
the States. Well, I hope Mazda keeps at it
2:07:38
because I don't want the Rotary to die.
2:07:39
It won't. It won't die.
2:07:41
So you want to read a question, You pick one of these.
2:07:44
I like crazy ones in. Here I know I like this one.
2:07:46
Which one? Because this one doesn't have to
2:07:48
do as much with an engine but more.
2:07:51
Pay for the question. No this.
2:07:53
Is the last last last free one, last podcast for free next
2:07:57
podcast on mine. You guys have to pay me to ask a
2:08:00
question. What's one car from your past
2:08:03
that you wish you could have back?
2:08:05
Oh. Ooh yeah, you.
2:08:08
Seemed like you knew the. Answer.
2:08:09
I was gonna say like, I feel like I don't know if he's a guy
2:08:11
who gets rid of cars, though, because that red one, you said
2:08:14
you had it for a while now. He's thinking.
2:08:17
Like I feel like you would put work into something before.
2:08:19
You know, I kind of. I stopped like like.
2:08:23
I'm over that now. You're like over, like years ago
2:08:26
I was like, I'll never sell this car.
2:08:27
I'm over now. Now you're like.
2:08:28
Cash is king. Yeah, Cash is king.
2:08:30
Yeah. You want to buy something?
2:08:31
I have so anything except my booty hole.
2:08:35
So everything's got a price. Anything out of price except me.
2:08:38
I don't sell myself, but. There's got to be something.
2:08:41
Yeah, but no, there's. I could have bought a I I missed
2:08:46
this close to buying a 69 Corolla wagon that my friend had
2:08:49
years ago I could have bought. Interesting.
2:08:51
I missed out on it so. It's not even a Mazda.
2:08:53
No, it wasn't that. What else?
2:08:55
No, cuz a lot of stuff that I wanted back in the day.
2:08:57
I went and bought it again. But but what's?
2:09:00
Is there any, Is there any car you had and you wish you could
2:09:03
have it back? No, no.
2:09:05
I feel like for me, I always try to think and I'm like, I would
2:09:09
love that car back, but really the only thing that I want back.
2:09:12
That I'm missing from that is probably some of the memories
2:09:15
that I had with it or something. Which you're not going to get.
2:09:17
Experiences. You're not going to get that
2:09:18
bag. You're going to get back in that
2:09:19
car and you're going to be like, why did I want this bag?
2:09:21
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:09:22
Once you're done with something that says so like a
2:09:24
ex-girlfriend. Bye.
2:09:25
See. That makes sense, though.
2:09:29
Do you know Judge Ito? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:09:31
He's a good dude. He's been, he's been doing Rory
2:09:33
for a long time. So I don't know who that is.
2:09:35
Can you explain that to me? He was here from Jersey, Even
2:09:37
Patterson. OK.
2:09:39
Doing a lot of Rotary for a lot of years.
2:09:40
He had a lot of records and stuff like that.
2:09:42
Really. OK, cool.
2:09:43
Why the hell did Wags ask? That wags is a Wankel fanboy.
2:09:46
But. Really what?
2:09:48
Happens though this is what happens though what I keep
2:09:50
telling you. It.
2:09:51
The Rotary world was vast. There was a lot of Rotary guys
2:09:54
here in the East Coast, in New York, East Coast, New Jersey.
2:09:57
And there was a lot of guys. They were, they were and they
2:09:59
were good. They were good at what they're
2:10:00
doing. And I think what has happened is
2:10:03
there was a lot of, there was a big performance shop right here,
2:10:06
and we're 46 at one time. My my friend Mark Marquitos, I
2:10:10
think he had a shop right here in this next town over.
2:10:12
He was the first guy to take an RX8 and put A20B in it.
2:10:16
I mean, the car was like brand new.
2:10:17
He drove it out. The dealer, bro.
2:10:19
Like. Like. 2020 B Auto dealer took
2:10:23
the motor and put a 20 because we seen them at the show like
2:10:26
that October at Echo and I was like, no way you got a 20 being
2:10:30
here, bro. These things just came out like
2:10:31
yesterday. He already had a 20B, was
2:10:33
running and everything, bro. I was like, no way, bro.
2:10:36
So it was crazy. And I think that car was in one
2:10:38
of the magazines like Sport Compact or something like that.
2:10:41
Yeah. So it was like a Turbo magazine
2:10:42
or one of them. So there was a lot of, there was
2:10:44
a lot of skill sets, a lot of car guys.
2:10:46
Like there's a proverb right in the book of proverbs.
2:10:49
Solomon wrote whatever has been, has been, whatever will be, will
2:10:53
be. There's nothing new under the
2:10:54
sun and sun under the stars. What he was trying to say is
2:10:57
that it was talking about what he has seen in the, what he has
2:11:02
seen in the past with Israel, things that has been, they'll
2:11:04
be, you know, it'll happen again.
2:11:06
It's just it's a cycle, right? It's a cycle.
2:11:08
So he was saying how the nation would go into idol worship.
2:11:13
And they would say, oh, all these bad things are happening.
2:11:16
This is new. And he would be like, no, I've
2:11:18
seen it before. It's happened before.
2:11:19
Yeah, from that perspective, right.
2:11:21
But I say I use that same perspective also in the car
2:11:23
world, because in the car world I get a lot of guys come and
2:11:26
say, oh, I'm doing something new and I always clown my customer
2:11:28
and you know, some of my, like my buddies.
2:11:30
And it's always like I'm always, I'm always clowning them.
2:11:33
But they it's always fun. I'm not trying to disrespect
2:11:35
nobody. They gotta know.
2:11:37
It's always just. Humor.
2:11:38
So I always tell them, bro, there's nothing new.
2:11:40
You're not gonna teach me anything new.
2:11:41
Little subtle little things, maybe.
2:11:43
But what has been has been. And what will be will be.
2:11:46
Look, let me tell you something. If there's something somebody
2:11:48
wanted to do with the Rotary engine, they already did it.
2:11:51
Okay. You're not gonna do something
2:11:53
that, bro. Oh, my God.
2:11:54
This is breakthrough. No, you didn't.
2:11:56
Somebody already did it. Somebody did it.
2:11:58
Sometimes people just. Forgot, and they probably
2:12:00
didn't. Publish it.
2:12:01
Of course. Somebody did it.
2:12:02
This somebody did it. Oh, I want to make 200.
2:12:04
Nobody's ever made 200 horsepower.
2:12:06
Somebody did it. You don't.
2:12:07
Think there's a Newport job? Wait.
2:12:09
No, maybe. But it's subtle changes here and
2:12:12
there. Little little tidbit
2:12:14
differences. But as far as big, you know,
2:12:17
yeah, there there, there isn't that much.
2:12:19
I've seen so much. It's just like it's it, it's
2:12:23
look, let me tell you something. There's a car, there's a in the
2:12:26
90s. I remember going to Hunts Point
2:12:28
once and I went there and I see in a 1979 miles RX7 like the one
2:12:33
I have out there, right, with a 1991 Nissan 350 three 300Z,
2:12:40
that's 199192. The 300 Twin Turbo, what's that
2:12:43
one called? 300Z.
2:12:44
X Yeah, but what's the abbreviation for that?
2:12:47
It had a Z32 front nose molded into the RX7 first Gen. body.
2:12:54
With the twin turbo motor inning driving on the street, you know
2:12:58
what it is to look and see a twin turbo.
2:13:00
And remember, the twin turbos are brand new there.
2:13:01
Right. That shit is big as hell and.
2:13:03
They're like you see the nose and then he goes by and then
2:13:06
it's an RX7 and the back was a wide body RX7.
2:13:08
The owner of it, if I'm not mistaken, was Turbo Tito.
2:13:11
Turbo Tito was the guy who used to raise Porsches.
2:13:14
And you can look, go on YouTube and type in Turbo Tito.
2:13:16
He used to be the Porsche King, He used to go to Pan Ams and all
2:13:19
the events here in English Town, Summer Slam and English, all the
2:13:23
Drag Race events and he's the pop wheelies in third gear.
2:13:25
New in? That type in Turbotito on
2:13:27
YouTube and you see him doing popping wheelies in 3rd gear 20
2:13:30
years ago and he had the RX7 in the early 90s and I was like,
2:13:34
this is incredible And that blew my mind And that made me realize
2:13:38
that dude, what people have done in the past, they everything you
2:13:41
could think of. Somebody already did it.
2:13:44
Fine. Can you fine tune it?
2:13:45
Make a little. Bit more trouble.
2:13:46
Here, adjust this. I'm gonna try something new and
2:13:49
they make this new. Fine, that wasn't available
2:13:51
then. Fine, no big deal.
2:13:52
That's something someone made. But you know, as far as the big
2:13:56
gains, people have already done it and even better.
2:13:59
That's fair enough. I mean, and we already talked
2:14:01
about how some of the knowledge is lost here and there.
2:14:03
So I'm sad about that, man. Like I wish I could.
2:14:07
Get some of that back, you know, I feel like we're trying.
2:14:09
So for example, I had, I have a K24 motor, I bought 2K24 motors
2:14:13
and I wanted to put one in a small truck that I have, right?
2:14:18
And instead of you know, now I was asking, I met a few Honda
2:14:21
guys that do Hondas at the Dino, a few the Honda guys and I kept
2:14:24
asking them a few questions. I asked them this question, hey,
2:14:27
what's the ring diameter, how many teeth and rig diameter on
2:14:30
AK-24 flywheel? From like a Honda Accord 2010.
2:14:35
Nobody was able to tell me the weight, the ring diameter,
2:14:38
nothing mechanical. They were not able to tell me
2:14:41
anything. And I wanted to know so that I
2:14:43
know because I want to modify some bell housings and adapters
2:14:45
from using Mazda Trending so I could put it in this truck I
2:14:48
have right now. I was asking, hey, give me the
2:14:50
ring diameter so I know what starter to use when gauge.
2:14:52
If I have to use a bigger, you know, yeah, if I if I put a
2:14:55
Mazda, I could probably put just a bigger gear, right.
2:14:58
So it engages and stuff. No one was able to tell me
2:15:00
anything. Oh my God.
2:15:02
And then I went and I asked them, OK, so can I put the motor
2:15:04
straight? And nobody was able to answer
2:15:07
that, you know, how the motors tilted.
2:15:08
And then I asked if he be, OK, So what should I do on this K20
2:15:11
four? And everybody in the mother told
2:15:13
me, regurgitated everything that they have read on a forum.
2:15:16
Yeah, I could tell, oh, you got to change the oil pump or you
2:15:19
got to do this. You got to do that.
2:15:20
Well, is that what you did? And you noticed that the factory
2:15:23
1 doesn't work or no, no or. None of them, did you?
2:15:25
Just read online. Oh, you know, and I was like,
2:15:28
OK, so I guess you guys are just knowledgeable because you're
2:15:30
sharing information, which is good.
2:15:32
We didn't have that back in the day in the Rotary world.
2:15:34
Just, you guys know, the Rotary world in the top Rotary world,
2:15:36
they don't share information. They don't talk to each other.
2:15:38
It's real competitive. Yeah.
2:15:40
It's like, yo, no. It's Drag Race you.
2:15:42
Go to certain drag race events and people cover their motors
2:15:44
and cover their turbos and yeah. The.
2:15:47
Laptops are locked and stuff like.
2:15:48
That, but you know what that's going to do, that's going to,
2:15:50
that's going to push that other person.
2:15:53
Right. Like, you know what?
2:15:53
I mean that's. Good.
2:15:54
Watch this. Competitions.
2:15:55
So then you know that goes to that some knowledge base has
2:15:57
been lost, which is the next question.
2:16:00
Best chassis for a Rotary. Best chassis.
2:16:03
To put it in. That's what the question is.
2:16:04
Interesting. Best.
2:16:06
Chance, I mean, we heard about a lot.
2:16:07
Of I like the starlets, Man, I love a good starlets.
2:16:10
Mazda to put it. In I guess whatever, yes, if it
2:16:13
is a Mazda if it's not. I don't know, man.
2:16:15
Not not Mazda. Just for the shit of it.
2:16:17
Dude, you. On my show on Sunday, there was
2:16:19
a Subaru there with a road rang in and it broke.
2:16:21
My God. You know the Subaru?
2:16:23
Was like, is it an older Subaru? No, like a 2000 something 5-6
2:16:27
Subaru with a pickup truck. Like a Baha is that one.
2:16:29
A a Baha. Yeah, 4 door pickup truck with
2:16:32
the with the bed. No, that's a Baja.
2:16:34
Yeah, OK. So what's a?
2:16:37
12A carburetor No, it was really dry, OK.
2:16:40
Wait, it's 12A, so it's not a 13.
2:16:42
B from Pennsylvania white one. It was beautiful.
2:16:44
It should be on my picture. So listen, I think at the end of
2:16:47
the day, whatever chance you want to use, that's gonna work
2:16:50
just fine. I think people will just put a
2:16:51
Rotary in anything if they have one just sitting, and why not
2:16:55
just put a fucking Rotary in there?
2:16:56
Which is the next question people had.
2:16:58
What do you think of Mazda's new Rotary plans?
2:17:01
We kind of talked about this, but I don't think we really.
2:17:03
Know they're putting that one. They're putting the the.
2:17:06
You mentioned as a power. Plant, right.
2:17:07
They're using A1 rotor engine and a power plant for electric
2:17:11
power. Right.
2:17:12
I didn't. Even use it, an SUV.
2:17:14
I don't know what it's called. Maybe he could look at it and
2:17:15
use it. But I'm actually waiting for
2:17:17
that engine to come out because the minute it comes out, I want
2:17:19
to get that engine in my hands and look at it and see what I
2:17:21
could learn from it. Yeah, and I heard the rotor is
2:17:25
600CC's. Or 800 cc's I think.
2:17:29
So that would be if two of those would be equivalent to a 1.6
2:17:34
liter 13B, which would 2 rotor, which would be bigger than A13B.
2:17:38
Yeah, so I'm thinking in my head man, maybe I'm already thinking
2:17:41
in my head. That's, yeah, I mean that sounds
2:17:43
pretty. Interesting First few junk
2:17:44
yards. My brother works for insurance
2:17:45
companies. I'm going to be like, yo wait,
2:17:48
first wreck, you see, I want. The I still don't understand
2:17:51
though because you you have that you're saying that that and that
2:17:54
little engine is. Somewhere on an SUV.
2:17:58
Yeah, it's gonna like power the power, the electron like, right?
2:18:01
Like a hybrid, in a way, huh. I guess a hybrid of.
2:18:04
Yeah. Yeah.
2:18:04
Like a hybrid. Yeah.
2:18:05
Yeah. That's so different.
2:18:06
What the hell? I think Audi was gonna do the
2:18:08
same thing at one time too, and I don't know what happened.
2:18:11
HM Lewis asked this one what is the best advice you can give to
2:18:14
a young car enthusiast? Oh God.
2:18:16
This is a loaded question. Yeah, that is a loaded question.
2:18:19
What do you mean? Stop being a bitch.
2:18:21
I'm just kidding. I mean, we talked about a lot of
2:18:23
that. Yeah, we did.
2:18:24
I feel like it's. I don't know you.
2:18:26
You come from like old school roots.
2:18:28
Yeah. So that's the people that.
2:18:29
I would say stay off drugs, man. Don't do drugs.
2:18:32
Just yesterday I heard bad news. A friend of mine that I grew up
2:18:34
with who you know is with the needle and stuff like that, and
2:18:39
he had a stroke because the drugs did something to his liver
2:18:42
or something and then he. Had a stroke.
2:18:44
And then half of his body is paralyzed now, and he's
2:18:47
homeless. This is somebody I grew up with,
2:18:49
you know, it breaks my heart. He used to paint all the time.
2:18:52
He's a good guy, but I remember when we were younger, he was a
2:18:54
pothead. He's a lot of smoking weed, man.
2:18:56
And and that's that was the gateway, you know, that's what
2:18:59
got him. And now he's in his 40s and now
2:19:00
he's homeless. And I think he probably live in
2:19:02
one of the shelters in the city, but it breaks my heart when that
2:19:05
happened because he was a painter, like you will not
2:19:08
believe you could paint cars. Oh my God, he was an amazing
2:19:10
painter. He was a car guy too.
2:19:11
So it breaks my heart. So a young guy, you know, stay
2:19:14
off drugs, don't steal, do your homework.
2:19:19
Okay. And no, I think that.
2:19:21
Good advice. Look for things that keep you
2:19:24
busy. Look for things that are
2:19:26
constructive. Try to find your purpose.
2:19:28
If you can find your purpose young in this life, that's
2:19:30
really the best, that's the best, whatever.
2:19:32
And stick with this. They'd be focused to it.
2:19:34
That's the best advice I've heard on this podcast.
2:19:36
Yeah, so. That's good for sure.
2:19:39
Cuz like it was like you took that a completely different
2:19:41
route and that's I like it. And if you work, you get a job,
2:19:44
make sure you have a good work ethic.
2:19:45
Start something, finish it, you know, start it and finish it.
2:19:48
That I like that, yeah. Everybody, every car guy starts
2:19:51
a project and it's for sale on Craigslist, like six months
2:19:54
later. Partial build, you know, for
2:19:56
sale, you know. Yeah.
2:19:57
And I know guys that are constantly looking at credit is
2:19:59
looking for those, that one dummy that spent 10 grand on a
2:20:02
car. And my friend picks that up for
2:20:03
five grand and finishes and sells it.
2:20:05
You know what I mean? So yeah, stay focused.
2:20:07
And if you're focused on little things, you'll do better.
2:20:10
And whatever it is that you do, stick with it.
2:20:13
Just pick. If you go online and you want to
2:20:15
learn about something, try to get different angles, but at the
2:20:17
same time, be open to new ideas. Yeah, just follow through with
2:20:20
your. Friends, Yeah.
2:20:21
Follow through with Yeah, that's a big.
2:20:22
One too. Working on that, we working on
2:20:25
that. I like this one too.
2:20:27
Do you want to read it? RHD?
2:20:28
Matt asks. Do you find the popularity of
2:20:31
rotaries increased or decreased over the last few years?
2:20:38
That's a good question though. I feel like it's increasing.
2:20:41
For different You've been in this for a minute now.
2:20:43
I think it's increasing in different ways like it's.
2:20:46
Yeah, I don't think it has not grown.
2:20:48
I think it has grown, yeah. Because look, for some reason
2:20:51
the Rotary engine isn't going away anytime soon, right?
2:20:53
Has it swapped hands? Yes.
2:20:55
So RX7 that. That some that Mikey down the
2:20:59
street has some YouTube Mikey down the street has that car
2:21:02
probably belonged to a middle-aged guy that you know
2:21:05
was a baller and then in the early 90s, you know he's
2:21:09
finishing working at the law firm, but it's FD now.
2:21:12
He's got three kids and they're older going to college, so he's
2:21:15
off and now goes into this guy's hand.
2:21:17
But they're so the Rotary engine isn't going away anytime soon.
2:21:20
It's just changing hands, Just changing hands.
2:21:23
Right. But has it grown?
2:21:24
Yes. Because they're not making them
2:21:26
anymore. Yeah, they are what they are.
2:21:28
These are so expensive. Cars are so expensive.
2:21:30
Why? Because there's none left and
2:21:31
there's more people coming into the game.
2:21:33
But yet I was going to say, yeah, they don't make them, but
2:21:36
yet people are still fucking pushing it.
2:21:40
Now the Rotary engine you do know is global, right?
2:21:42
Yeah, You know the Rotary engine, I have customers, Rotary
2:21:45
engine customers in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
2:21:51
Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica.
2:21:57
Panama. Columbia, Brazil.
2:22:02
Anderson Dick. You guys know Anderson Dick from
2:22:04
Fuel Tech? You got parts on every
2:22:05
continent. Every Canada, Yeah, every.
2:22:09
So Rotary is everywhere. Rotary this Rotary customers
2:22:13
everywhere. It may not be that many over
2:22:15
over there, but they're everywhere.
2:22:16
Rotary cars are everywhere. And I don't think they're going
2:22:18
anywhere. No, they're not going anywhere.
2:22:20
I mean, it's cool, dude. That's the coolest engine.
2:22:22
Yes, yes. Yeah it is cool engine.
2:22:23
It's not going any way anyway. There's the one question.
2:22:27
Does the name Tranny King mean anything?
2:22:29
Yeah, that's Dave. He's a tranny king from New
2:22:32
York. He said.
2:22:33
Who's that guy? Tranny king?
2:22:34
I heard he's the guy to go to for trannies.
2:22:37
What the fuck? Hey, yo.
2:22:40
Who? Who is?
2:22:41
Yes, Dave. That's my friend Dave.
2:22:42
He's the best man. He's DB Black man on Instagram.
2:22:46
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you know what we
2:22:47
call him? Tranny king cuz at one time he
2:22:49
blew like 7. Tranny's bro.
2:22:51
Wow. That's a.
2:22:52
Bad that. Means.
2:22:55
Yeah, yeah. Destroyed.
2:22:56
No, that also sounds bad. He transmissions.
2:23:00
Yeah, he destroyed transmissions like.
2:23:04
Ten of them or something like that, like in a few months.
2:23:06
And he would come and get need another one.
2:23:08
I'd sell him another one and break it up, Stop breaking.
2:23:10
Training Why is he? Why is he?
2:23:12
Because he was running like the NA training, like the the weaker
2:23:14
training. And I kept telling don't hit it
2:23:16
hard and he, you know, he thinks every car in New York is racing
2:23:19
him. Dude, that's a taxi, bro.
2:23:21
He's. Racing.
2:23:22
You bro. He's just trying to get
2:23:23
somewhere, he. Ain't racing you, bro.
2:23:26
I'd be like every every traffic light.
2:23:28
He thought it was a race all. Right training King.
2:23:30
Yeah. So then then Training King got
2:23:32
the He got the name Training King, yeah.
2:23:34
Damn. What?
2:23:35
What is the favorite color for Rotary housing?
2:23:38
Is that a thing I see? Like blue ones I see?
2:23:41
Is that a thing like? No.
2:23:42
Nowadays problems last ten years or so.
2:23:46
Everybody, I want this. Color.
2:23:47
I thought they were just supposed to.
2:23:48
Be black I see this. Color and that can it be off?
2:23:51
Why can it be? This, you know, back in the day.
2:23:54
They were just like washing. Oh Gen.
2:23:55
Z's. Oh my Lord.
2:23:56
I like the ones in your on your Instagram.
2:23:58
They're perfectly they're. Black and so it's cool.
2:24:01
So now I guess you want to pay me.
2:24:02
I'll do it. No big deal.
2:24:03
But they have got. You know, everybody powder coat
2:24:05
one this color and that color. Oh.
2:24:07
My God. Stop already?
2:24:09
Man, is that like the equivalent of like doing your valve cover?
2:24:12
Yeah. Kinda.
2:24:14
Sorta. Maybe, Yeah.
2:24:15
Cuz you know now like in the drift scene, everybody's got
2:24:17
some crazy looking. What did happen is though the I
2:24:20
believe that the because of COVID English time closing down
2:24:24
and and you know less drag racing you know you know it's
2:24:28
just it's just it's just turned like this.
2:24:30
I don't know it's a lot of variables but.
2:24:32
There's more car show RX sevens and rotaries and like what they
2:24:37
call a pachinko Rey or just to hang out, you know street cars
2:24:41
than there is race cars. So the guys that want an RX7 or
2:24:44
RX3RX2 or Rotary engine for like a meet or something to go to the
2:24:49
car show, those guys are being more meticular about making the
2:24:52
car pretty. The drag Race cars and the guys
2:24:54
who are into motor sports? Nah, they just want to just put
2:24:56
it together. Let's go.
2:24:57
Yeah, they just want to go. Fast.
2:24:58
So that's why that perhaps the. Propagated that at.
2:25:01
The color sense, yeah. So this one says Rotary and ECU
2:25:06
management is old gold. I think it might be a spelling
2:25:11
error. Is old gold with options like
2:25:13
Powerfc or newer tech like Haltech?
2:25:16
I guess the other saying is Powerfc is OK a Pexi Powerfc or
2:25:20
new tech like Haltech, is that better?
2:25:22
No, listen, I I think obviously a new computer has more options,
2:25:26
more features. They worked out some bugs.
2:25:28
Sales safe. Yeah, a lot of stuff they've
2:25:30
done, which is pretty cool. I get it.
2:25:32
You know, they evolved. But.
2:25:34
To say that something else doesn't work, You know, I've
2:25:37
always said every computer works great.
2:25:39
I love you tech. You know, I like how tech as
2:25:42
well. Microtech is still the king.
2:25:44
The fastest rotaries in the world.
2:25:46
Microtech, right They, they still got the fastest cars in
2:25:49
the world. It seems like a very easy
2:25:50
computer and people complain about them.
2:25:52
Oh no, it's older computer, but you could.
2:25:55
They have other technology but still can't get there.
2:25:57
So I look at it from that perspective.
2:26:00
But the power of C is an older computer.
2:26:02
My brother had an FC. My personal brother had an FD
2:26:05
that I built an engine for. I had my friend Marco from
2:26:08
Canada come down and tune that car.
2:26:09
Took all day to tune it, bro. He filled up the tank, left all
2:26:13
day. I thought he brought me bro.
2:26:14
I was like, yo, where the hell is Marco?
2:26:16
He left. He was driving halfway around
2:26:18
New York. Here they everywhere came back
2:26:20
with like, no gas. I'm like, where the hell you go
2:26:22
bro? I was tuning it, You're St.
2:26:23
tuning it. But he tuned the power of C that
2:26:26
I had on a 93. My brother's car was an
2:26:27
automatic car and he would break the tires loose.
2:26:30
Automatic in any gear. Wow, it was an amazing car.
2:26:32
That sounds amazing. Great.
2:26:34
It would had no issues with it. And I know that people have made
2:26:37
five 600 horsepower with the power of C So it's an older
2:26:41
computer doesn't work. Yes.
2:26:42
I think what happens is less people know how to fiddle with
2:26:44
them. That is being as particular as
2:26:46
other people. So if they don't yield the same
2:26:49
things that the other guy did, they frustrate, They go on the
2:26:51
Internet and say this is a piece of shit done deal, yeah.
2:26:54
And then if you have some sort of following everybody and their
2:26:57
mother's going to think that's a piece of shit, yeah, it works
2:26:59
fine. You heard that, Scooby.
2:27:00
He's talking to you. Me and Scooby go back and forth.
2:27:03
Power FC and Haltec. Power C is older.
2:27:07
Yeah, it is old. Yeah.
2:27:08
There are a lot of people that don't know how to tune it, so.
2:27:11
Yeah, the reason why I like those older ones is like those
2:27:13
stories you had earlier of like those guys who are.
2:27:16
Using literally like a just a few still.
2:27:18
Have those type of guys, the old school Puerto Rican guys, like
2:27:21
things simple. They say todo brega.
2:27:23
That's the saying in Spanish. They say todo brega babia que
2:27:25
buca. That means everything works.
2:27:28
You just got to stick with it and work out the bugs so you'll
2:27:30
figure it out somewhere. Damn, that sounds like Josh.
2:27:32
Do it here. 5 minutes. It didn't work.
2:27:34
That's it. I'm done.
2:27:35
No, go back. See what's going on.
2:27:36
Background this injectable. You know, you'll figure it out.
2:27:39
Yeah, And I think that's what happens with the old school
2:27:41
guys. The old school guys will sit
2:27:42
back. Car's not running, right?
2:27:44
Not idling. You go do a burnout.
2:27:46
Car doesn't clean well, it's not running.
2:27:48
You do a quarter mile putting and backfiring.
2:27:51
Do what? Not they'll go back to the pits,
2:27:53
look at the car and be like, let's see what's going on here.
2:27:57
Hold on a second. Let me go over this.
2:28:00
Everybody get away. Leave me alone.
2:28:02
Check wire by wire. Let's see what's going on.
2:28:04
Go back and oh, here it is. Here's the problem.
2:28:06
Boom. Fix the problem.
2:28:07
OK, problems resolved. I noticed that sometimes.
2:28:10
The younger generation, they're not like that, they're.
2:28:12
Too. They're impulsive and they're
2:28:14
like they want instant gratification.
2:28:17
Yeah, we draw right to conclusions.
2:28:18
This should draw, right? But yeah, they draw to
2:28:20
conclusions and they don't like to go over things.
2:28:24
I always just say if we have a problem with a car or something,
2:28:26
I always just go. It's a car, man.
2:28:28
We'll figure it out. Yes, it's a machine.
2:28:30
And I think that's what happens. And I think that's what has
2:28:33
happened with older computers and stuff like that.
2:28:36
But I still use any old computer.
2:28:37
I still use autotronic, which. Nobody, because the company
2:28:39
closed. I guess it was sold off to
2:28:41
health. So some people don't use the
2:28:43
Ecus. I use them when they work fine
2:28:44
for me. Yeah, so it really depends on
2:28:46
preference and. It does.
2:28:48
It depends on you. Remember earlier when we were
2:28:50
talking about stickers before the podcast started?
2:28:53
A buddy of mine, Johnny's, down here.
2:28:56
He's got a goopy sticker on his toolbox.
2:29:00
He's not a Rotary guy. But he has a goopy sticker
2:29:02
that's been on there for eight years.
2:29:04
Awesome man. Like what?
2:29:05
That. That's the that's that's the
2:29:07
prime example right there. What we were talking about
2:29:08
earlier where you're like, yeah man, marketing bro.
2:29:10
And just yeah, you want you just want to keep yourself relevant.
2:29:13
That was a conversation you missed, Frankie.
2:29:14
Oh yeah. But it's like you're talking
2:29:16
about how let's say you're trying to find somewhere to get
2:29:18
your Rotary rebuilt. Sometimes they're not just going
2:29:21
to remember oh goopy. But like he.
2:29:25
Constant, goopy, and it's got the Rotary in the.
2:29:26
Constant just reminder, I guess that this guy right here.
2:29:31
I'm not. If I The day comes when I have a
2:29:34
Rotary bro, I'm coming to you. I'm putting his seals.
2:29:36
In the seals, that's like the biggest thing for me.
2:29:38
I'm like, damn, a consumable item.
2:29:41
Which I saw this question here. It says thoughts on Renaissance
2:29:44
13B as a relatively powerful and a motor question mark.
2:29:49
I run their seals in my engine. Now I don't know what engine he
2:29:52
has, but I'm assuming maybe he has an older 13B.
2:29:54
Yeah, yeah. It works on any engine. the
2:29:56
Renaissance is a good engine. You get it built right, It
2:29:58
works. That's good engine.
2:29:59
Yeah, build it right. You saw that.
2:30:01
Great one, angels, all the RX. 8 Dude, that thing was that.
2:30:03
Thing is a whore. That car has been sold to like
2:30:05
20 different people, bro. Yeah, and I don't know who has
2:30:08
it now, but they still beat the balls out of it and the car runs
2:30:10
well. No one ever markets it in the
2:30:12
ad. No one knows even anymore that
2:30:14
you guys are the one that built it.
2:30:15
It just kept getting washed more and more and more of information
2:30:19
million. Owners, bro.
2:30:20
I I saw it on Facebook and I was like.
2:30:22
The owners has been around so and.
2:30:24
Sucks. That's a good motor.
2:30:25
Continue to build, beat on and stuff.
2:30:26
Like somebody get that thing and treat her right?
2:30:29
Yeah. Which is the next question.
2:30:30
That pretty much wraps up the questions, unless you saw one.
2:30:34
But no, no, that's it. And we're wrapping up on the 2
2:30:36
1/2 hour. Do you have anything else you'd
2:30:37
like to say share that's good but out?
2:30:39
There as far. As your future plans with Goopy
2:30:42
right now. All the future plans is just,
2:30:44
you know, just continue to stay organized.
2:30:46
You know we have a building and. The Rotary spaceship or?
2:30:49
Something what I'm gonna continue to do.
2:30:51
Some things are just not feasible.
2:30:52
Don't make you any money. There's a lot of stuff I did at
2:30:55
one time. With the Rotary engine custom
2:30:57
machining, I did a lot of custom stuff over the years that I
2:30:59
realized it just doesn't pay out.
2:31:01
It's not worth it. Yeah, you know, the commodities
2:31:03
market on eBay kills you, right? You make a little widget.
2:31:06
Yeah. You have a window of opportunity
2:31:08
for you to sell that particular Valve cover for Esther team
2:31:11
before somebody in China copies it and then puts it online.
2:31:15
Yeah. And then you have a Wuhan
2:31:16
competition. So then the idea is.
2:31:19
Do you go and do you invest the money in designing that, knowing
2:31:22
that somebody else is going to steal it from?
2:31:24
Being replicated. Yeah, you almost have to think
2:31:26
like that. You have to be like, damn, these
2:31:27
people are grimy, but it's a doggie dog world out there.
2:31:30
Or do you just continue to create unique skill sets for
2:31:35
yourself, stuff that you only do and only you can do, and then
2:31:38
people have to come to you for that?
2:31:40
There's only certain things that goopie and that we do.
2:31:41
We refurbish houses, we do certain machining, We do certain
2:31:44
things that only I do. You know, certain things that
2:31:47
only I do in people. You don't have to come do
2:31:50
business with me. Yeah, I treat them well.
2:31:51
I'll do what's right, you know, But I'm saying so that's why I.
2:31:54
Can't wait to come by your shop. Yeah, I'm pretty excited about
2:31:56
this one. We gotta.
2:31:57
I was gonna talk to you about this, Carl, but remember how we
2:31:59
were talking about the shop tour thing?
2:32:01
Yeah. Yeah, we should probably get on
2:32:02
that. Yeah.
2:32:03
Yeah. So I'm a I'm a Rotary shop tour
2:32:06
Rotary, you know, parts. Yeah.
2:32:08
And building and machining, that's what I have come down to.
2:32:11
Yeah. You know, over the years I've
2:32:13
wanted to like work on cars and I probably have more name
2:32:17
recognition. If I had like if I worked on fds
2:32:20
or something like that, you know FD.
2:32:22
Well, to me, I can't even believe you have enough
2:32:25
customers to. You only work on rotaries and
2:32:28
you don't even work on the car. You just, yeah, you're basically
2:32:31
a machine shop for Rotary engines and you still have
2:32:33
enough business to keep it going, which is amazing.
2:32:36
I turn away work. Yeah, I turn away.
2:32:38
I actually have a lot of builders in the area.
2:32:40
I have a guy named Eddie Gonzales over here in Yonkers.
2:32:42
He does. I send him work all the time.
2:32:44
He's an amazing old school Rotary guy.
2:32:46
And sometimes I'm like, hey dude, do you want to take this
2:32:48
job? I I can't do it.
2:32:49
I'm too busy. It's not what I do best.
2:32:51
And yeah, so I send a lot of people work.
2:32:53
That's crazy. Man, yeah, I fucking love that,
2:32:55
man. And I hope that hope the Lord
2:32:57
keeps blessing you with with opportunity because yeah, yeah
2:32:59
bro, Like hearing where you started from and how the fuck
2:33:05
you got to where you are now. I don't even know where the fuck
2:33:08
you're going to had the rest. Of Yeah, you have a crazy story
2:33:11
I like Yeah. I hope those seals go down in
2:33:13
history in in in the world of Rotary, because.
2:33:16
That's just. A Well, they've been around for
2:33:18
a while, so everybody knows who's who and that sort of
2:33:20
stuff. I think what has happened in the
2:33:21
last five years is not just with me, but just in parts in
2:33:26
general. Someone makes a S13 header,
2:33:31
right, S13 header, goes into some, you know, Youtubers car
2:33:36
and automatically that YouTube now is the gospel on that
2:33:39
header, right. So now his word is bond and
2:33:43
whatever he says with that S13 header.
2:33:46
Is whatever is. Everybody's going to default to
2:33:48
that. So now he that header, he sells
2:33:50
that header online and that's the best header there is.
2:33:53
Why? Because Joe Blow from the
2:33:55
YouTube with that S13 says that header.
2:33:57
So now this guy over here has 30 years manufacturing headers and
2:34:01
he's got this amazing design. Amazing.
2:34:04
Wells has done all the all the R&D for it, but he can't sell
2:34:09
it. Why?
2:34:10
Because. Kids nowadays and the people
2:34:12
will just gravitate towards exactly.
2:34:14
But that's where I'm like I look at that as an opportunity
2:34:17
because you could reach out. You look at that as an
2:34:19
opportunity, but at the same time that also that also causes
2:34:25
people aren't able to differentiate quality anymore.
2:34:27
No, you just got to find one of those Youtubers and give them
2:34:31
true. Your head.
2:34:32
But meeting up with sometimes with a lot of people with brand
2:34:35
name and stuff like that, it's sort of like it's a double edged
2:34:37
sword, yeah. Yeah, I think the best thing to
2:34:41
do really is for you as a person to build a brand that you have
2:34:45
enough people that use it and say bro, this thing works, this
2:34:48
thing works, this thing works, this thing works.
2:34:50
Yeah, that should definitely be the.
2:34:50
Base You get the black sheep and he can complain all he wants,
2:34:53
but the other ones are going to drown him out because they're
2:34:55
going to be like yo bro. Yeah, that's a good.
2:34:58
Look at you in your alignments, Frankie.
2:35:00
Yeah. How many alignments do you have?
2:35:01
Real good ones. Well, we just, we offer drift
2:35:05
alignments stuff like. That right?
2:35:06
Do they work? Yeah.
2:35:07
People are happy with them. People are happy with.
2:35:09
Them. Is there anyone, anybody that's
2:35:11
not happy with them? Not that I've heard.
2:35:12
Has there been anybody that has sort of not been happy with
2:35:15
them? Not that I heard.
2:35:16
From them. OK, fine.
2:35:17
But now you have enough people that are happy, happy, happy.
2:35:19
OK, so the one that comes and he starts complaining about stuff,
2:35:22
he'd be like HM. OK, maybe I did something wrong.
2:35:24
And then if you do do something wrong, you fix it.
2:35:26
If you didn't do nothing wrong and he still doesn't believe it,
2:35:29
still complaints about it, you say, Well, yeah, wrong.
2:35:32
All these people are happy then with you.
2:35:35
Yeah, once you try to remedy the situation.
2:35:36
If you can't remedy him, kick the hell out, yeah?
2:35:39
I mean, yeah. No, he's right though.
2:35:41
That's how it goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:35:43
You try to fix it. Some people are just, they're
2:35:47
just those type. Of people.
2:35:48
They're just just we're going to leave it at that.
2:35:51
It is what it is. You could.
2:35:54
They could find you at at Goopy performance on Instagram.
2:35:56
Yeah, go to my Instagram page. If you need apex seals or
2:35:59
anything. Yeah, yeah, we have more.
2:36:00
We have Gaskets rebuild kits. We do a lot more than.
2:36:03
Just that for your Rotary needs. Yes, yeah.
2:36:05
All. Generals contact at Goopy
2:36:07
Performance and check out their website.
2:36:10
Instagram. Instagram.
2:36:11
This Facebook is really. Instagram and.
2:36:12
We hang out for most the website.
2:36:14
I gotta update one of these. I'll have all the info and the
2:36:16
show notes at the bottom of the podcast.
2:36:18
So, but thank you so much John, for coming like this has been.
2:36:23
So fun. Yeah, I'm glad.
2:36:24
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna look like an idiot this whole
2:36:26
podcast, cuz I'm just smiling. We don't know about Rotary.
2:36:28
No, cuz I'm just smiling the whole time, cuz I'm like damn,
2:36:31
like this is sick. Yeah, like I didn't.
2:36:34
I don't. I never knew a lot about
2:36:36
rotaries. I learned a lot today about
2:36:37
them. And I hope our listeners did as
2:36:39
well. And thank you so much for your
2:36:41
time. No problem.
2:36:42
Yeah, but well, that's. Close this out.
2:36:45
Malcolm. Thank you guys so much for
2:36:46
listening. Leave us a review on Spotify,
2:36:49
comment on our videos and we'll see you on the next one.
2:36:52
Please. Bye.
2:36:55
That's it. Yeah.
2:36:58
Now we have like a little outro that plays on the.
2:37:08
Music Whoo. Goopy performance man.
2:37:11
Episode was full of fire. Yeah, no, that was a really good
2:37:14
episode. We had no idea what to expect.
2:37:16
Goopy is a friend of a friend I get, or multiple friends.
2:37:21
Our friends Louis and Louis come by all the time.
2:37:25
And they always talk about goofy performance and rotaries and
2:37:27
this and that. And we're like, what the hell
2:37:29
are you talking about? So we had to see it for
2:37:31
ourselves. Yeah, so he Well, actually, I
2:37:33
heard from Louis that he was watching our podcast videos or
2:37:38
something. Oh, really?
2:37:39
He said. He was laughing.
2:37:40
He was having a good time. So I was like, well, tell him to
2:37:42
come on. Oh shit.
2:37:43
Why not so? Yeah, really good conversation.
2:37:47
A lot of information in that one.
2:37:49
I have decided that I only want to interview people that are
2:37:53
above the age of 40 now. Because there's always so much
2:37:56
wisdom when the older gentleman come on.
2:37:58
Yeah man, it's just it's way more interesting too.
2:38:00
So much knowledge. There's just more.
2:38:02
I mean, obviously it's more interesting.
2:38:03
There's more shit to talk about. They've been through.
2:38:05
Yeah, more shit, Yeah, Said like Gen.
2:38:07
Z's. Just like, yeah.
2:38:09
Cars cool. Yeah, I hit the wall.
2:38:11
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2:38:37
Jay Leno on here. So, you know, maybe that should
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be our new thing that we bring up all the time.
2:38:41
Eventually he'll hear about it. Yeah.
2:38:43
Yeah. Somehow some way?
2:38:44
Yeah, we just need Jay Leno on here.
2:38:47
What else we got going on in the shop?
2:38:49
Whole bunch of new JZX parts on our website.
2:38:53
Jzx. JZX as they say.
2:38:56
So we got those. Not new, but new to us.
2:38:59
KTS arms from Japan. From Japan, imported.
2:39:04
Straight from. Yep, we imported those.
2:39:06
We have a bunch more JZX parts coming.
2:39:09
We got D Max arms coming soon. We have a We're gonna have a
2:39:13
gready intercooler kit for a JZX 100 in stock.
2:39:18
Wait, don't we have one now? Yeah, it's on.
2:39:20
It's on its way. Oh, it came here already.
2:39:23
Oh, it's here. It's here.
2:39:24
I was like, we have the box out there.
2:39:26
Yeah, that's it. It's a JZX 90 JZX. 100 I don't
2:39:29
know we're having. We're getting both right?
2:39:31
Or did I only order one? You only ordered one.
2:39:33
You'll see it on our Instagram website.
2:39:36
Blah blah blah. Dude, I pulled some of my back
2:39:38
just now. Oh my God.
2:39:39
Oh, you're just sitting there? JZX 100 OK Yeah, in stock, ready
2:39:43
to go. Ready in equilifate.
2:39:44
And JZX 90 is in stock ready to go as well.
2:39:47
I believe so. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of
2:39:52
others, dude. You add a lot of shit.
2:39:53
I know, I know, I'd be working low key.
2:39:56
You just don't think so. HKS oh, we talked about that
2:39:59
last time. The Gretty Schiff Noms, we
2:40:02
talked about that. We talked about the US body kit.
2:40:05
OK, so the only things that are new are KTS arms.
2:40:07
A lot of arms. We got the work spell, quick
2:40:11
release in black, and most importantly.
2:40:17
Is the key performance plug and play fuel pump.
2:40:20
A lot of people are digging those.
2:40:21
Yeah. So we don't have that many of
2:40:23
them. We only have 10.
2:40:24
We only have 10. We already sold a few so.
2:40:26
Yeah, there's another order right here.
2:40:27
I don't know if you saw it. Yeah.
2:40:28
Yeah. So those things are those things
2:40:30
are going. So get those while you can.
2:40:33
It's funny cuz I was literally just thinking how come we
2:40:35
haven't made that yet and then boom.
2:40:36
Boom. Key performance.
2:40:38
Back at it again. Key performance with everything
2:40:40
you need. All your wiring essentials, yes.
2:40:45
I Sr. performance front upper control arms for 370Z.
2:40:49
That's a new. Product, right.
2:40:51
Yeah, Yeah, that's brand new, brand new product, they just.
2:40:54
Released. So if you're looking for upper
2:40:56
arms for a 370Z, go to our website.
2:40:59
Check them out we got. Parts guys.
2:41:01
Got it? Come on.
2:41:01
Come on, we're adding stuff every day.
2:41:05
You know, we're shipping out a power steering cooler kit, our
2:41:08
own that we designed in house for S13.
2:41:12
We're shipping one of those out today, so.
2:41:14
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under the hood. Under the hood.
2:42:03
And that's all we got for you today.
2:42:05
Once again, thank you John from Goopy Performance for coming in,
2:42:07
stopping by, having a good time with this, Yeah, at night.
2:42:11
Please send us some RX Sevens. Yes.
2:42:13
We're going to start doing more alignments on Arc Sevens.
2:42:16
Yes. Yeah, we've got to hear that
2:42:17
brat all. Right.
2:42:18
All right. Bye, bye.