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#109 - Alex Chang of SoCal240sx · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode
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  of the After Hours podcast. On today's episode, we have a
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  guest, Alex Chang. Alex is from Los Angeles.
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  He is a friends with Ken Fujimatsu, who's been on this
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  podcast before as well. We actually might have talked
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  about him on that podcast. So you might want to check that
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  one out before you listen to this.
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  But we had no idea who Alex was. So Alex was just a friend of
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  Ken's, but Ken was very adamant about having Alex on because he
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  thought we would learn a lot of stuff and to be honest, he was
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  100% right. So I hope you guys enjoy this
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  one. Alex is he he has a pretty
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  extensive background in the automotive industry, at least an
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  R scene, our drifting scene. He worked at places like 5
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  Ziggin phase two motoring Fr sport and he also was involved
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  in I believe he was involved in two socal240sx.org, which is one
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  of the first forums for two 40s. Yeah, he's he started in the
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  early 2000s and there's a lot of history in this podcast.
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  All right, Well, welcome everybody to another episode of
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  Faction After Hours. We're here to bring you another
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  guest tonight. We have a mystery a man We have
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  Alex Chang, otherwise known as MAV 1178, from a lot of your
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  favorite forums. Your.
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  Favorite. Dude.
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  Those those. Forums.
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  Oh, are they all like Yahoo? Groups.
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  Yahoo. Groups.
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  What is that? Yahoo Groups.
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  Geocities. That's that's like before
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  forums, right? Yeah.
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  Jesus. This was after mailing list,
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  before forums. Was OK.
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  So one thank you for coming on the pod.
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  Thank you. We always try to say thank you
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  first and we also have Ken sorry here.
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  Ken Fuji. Ladies and gentlemen, we have
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  Ken Fuji. Welcome.
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  Doesn't have your back for that you look.
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  An idiot. But Ken, you're pretty regular
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  on here now, like. It's my second time.
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  You have a good following on here, Do I?
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  Yeah. You could tell good stories.
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  You got a good podcast voice. Thank you.
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  Good. Time.
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  Yeah, your podcast was good. I appreciate.
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  That it's called. Actually, that's why Kens
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  Podcast was the reason why. Like what's the inspiration for
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  me being here? You're like, yo, I gotta be on
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  there. I gotta, I gotta top.
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  Cuz I was at work and then I'm just playing Ken's podcast in
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  the background and I'm like, oh, this is cool.
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  And then I texted Ken. Yeah, I was like.
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  What do you So what do you do for work and you can leave the
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  companies out and sound like. That yeah, no, I work in the
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  tech industry, distribution. OK.
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  And then? Prior, like the tech version of
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  Turn 14. OK, no, actually no, no, no, no,
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  no. Actually, that's actually no,
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  no, that's that's a pretty accurate.
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  Well, for for car guys turning 14, yes, because it's enthusiast
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  products, right? But if you're actually just
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  selling OEM parts or just parts in general, you would be like
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  IMC world pack. That's a different, that's like
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  that's like that's like if you go into a regular mom and Papa
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  or O'reilly's, whatever and they say, oh, we have this
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  alternator, we can get it here in four hours.
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  That's the distribution that they buy from, right?
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  So that those are the larger distribution that nobody knows
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  about. Damn, we don't have O'reilly's
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  up here. O'reilly's prices are way better
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  than ever. I know AutoZone.
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  You go in and you buy an alternator for your like Nissan
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  Maxima, right stock whatever, right And they can say say they
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  can get in in four hours. That's the.
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  Distribution. Why did you say Maxima?
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  Is that an alternator that's used by people?
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  I just, I just thought of like a generic car that people would
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  know. Like he's got Nissan on his
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  brain, right? Let's say he bought AJ 30 DIF.
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  Right, right. But no.
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  Yeah, so I we're with this podcast, what I was really
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  aiming to have is like a glimpse of, I guess not what life was
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  like, but you're in there in the beginning, like you had your
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  240. Now I, I kind of like stalked
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  Alex's page up with me. Look at this, look at this, look
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  at this museum piece. What the fuck is this?
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  And it's it's got like every option your steering wheel, it's
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  like. It's a It's a weird build.
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  Yeah, that the steering wheel alone.
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  I saw that and I was like, damn, he went that far.
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  Very no. I waited 12 months for that
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  steering wheel. To show, yeah.
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  Because Nismo wouldn't fulfill it.
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  Yeah, no, yeah. But yeah.
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  The car is a relatively stock looking but it's like mint
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  condition. Right.
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  Like, really like very meticulously Mint.
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  Example Exhibit A for example. I told Ken on the way here I
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  spent $1600 on paintless dent removal alone.
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  Yeah. What?
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  1600 because because I didn't want to repaint the cart if
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  possible. Is it the original?
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  Paint, for the most part, it's original.
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  The front of your rear ends had been repainted most likely just
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  because of like regular bumping into stuff.
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  And then the paint cracks on the front, the stock buffers, you
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  know, so there's like overspray in the front.
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  I tried to get my detail guy to fix it as much as possible, but
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  I end up spending money to have PDR instead of paint.
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  Yeah, because the real problem with paint is, as you know, some
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  of this stuff, it's like the moment you pull it off, you
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  can't replace the trim. My biggest concern was the rear
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  hatch. The rear hatch, the trim, the
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  the trim around the glass you can't get.
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  Those anymore. So.
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  So you actually have to do like there.
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  There it is. Yes.
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  Yeah. Jeez, yes.
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  Yeah, look at the. Look at the.
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  Fender gap. Look at the Fender gap.
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  I like to point out, no, actually there's a there's one
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  problem with this car as is, which is the Fender liner, so.
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  And I see this, I have to. Explain this, I pulled the
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  Fender liner off because in two weeks I need to move my car to
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  to store it somewhere for two weeks because I'm getting my
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  roof replaced and in the meantime they don't.
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  There might be stuff falling down in the garage so I don't
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  want them to damage the car. So I'm moving the car, but I do
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  have a small little dent that I need to fix on the inside of the
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  Fender. So I took the Fender liner off
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  so that the detail guy can get the PDR guy to fix it for me
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  while he's storing it for me. Dude, that thing is I don't
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  think I've ever seen. 90 less than 96,000 kilometers Canadian
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  car, so 59,000 miles so. Your your goal with this car is
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  just to pretty much have like an Immaculate OEM.
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  Car doing doing a different build in this time of time time
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  of this this year 2024, right, the twenty 20s yeah, different
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  kind of build because not everybody wants to do this type
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  of preservation. Restoration is the one thing
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  reservation restoration is like. You pull everything apart, you
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  repaint, whatever, but preservation is different.
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  Damn, so this is not a restored car, it's a preserved.
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  Car that's an interesting tape like the rear hatch spoiler.
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  I I found a brand new one by accident and then the original
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  one was like rusted, you know? Yeah, they they wear out.
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  Down there I took the whole thing off, had all the rust
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  repaired, painted and put on a brand new stock spoiler.
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  Wow. Jeez, where you where did you
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  find this that that laughter is hell you bro.
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  I wasn't even looking for this car.
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  I wasn't even looking for this car.
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  That was the worst part, the car.
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  Found you, Alex. My friend my friend Kevin in
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  Idaho sent me a link on somebody selling this car in Vancouver.
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  What platform did you find how many years ago on?
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  Facebook oh, this was this was new.
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  This was no, this was middle of COVID.
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  This was like summer of 2020 and I wasn't even looking for the
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  car. And basically my other friend
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  that's in Vancouver went to go look at the car for me and told
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  me everything was wrong with the car.
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  And I decided, you know what? I'm bored like everybody else,
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  sitting at home doing nothing. I'm just going to buy a car.
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  So you were part of the reason why the prices went up?
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  No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
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  Those, those bored people, those are the ones that it's like, oh,
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  you know what cars are actually kind of dope because that was
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  me. I was in COVID.
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  I sold my drift car right when COVID started.
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  I think that's what started COVID and then and then I sat
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  inside and I'm like damn, maybe real sick if I had a drift car
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  right now because everywhere is empty.
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  Yeah. Like, I didn't have that.
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  Like that would have been sick. No, but I've never had a I've
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  always modified a car, like either use as chassis or buying
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  a new car and modifying it. But I've never had an old car
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  where I could. I'm sorry I should rephrase.
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  I've never had an S13 or S14 where I can do like OEM plus
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  upgrades as if you could buy options, you know, off the
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  dealer showroom floor like how they have in Japan, right.
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  You could buy a bunch of random stuff and they'll install it for
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  you at the dealer. Yeah.
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  So I've never had that. So that was my my my thought
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  process behind. It I was just about to ask like
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  if this was the way that you always built cars, like did you
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  own like ones where it was a little more like of our speed?
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  No, like you know what I'm talking about.
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  There is that it's. It's actually on the USB file.
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  Oh hell yeah. OK, but.
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  Yeah, if, if you'll. Alex brought a bunch of photos
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  and stuff on Ausb Drive and to my knowledge, anytime so far
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  somebody brings AUSB Drive here. Ken.
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  It's like really like cool stuff to me, just because it's stuff
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  that probably wasn't fucking on Instagram or something like
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  that. Like, like it's it's it's it's
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  cool stuff. But wait, is this stuff?
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  Is this the drive? Yeah, this is.
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  We open it up the drive. It's it's tailored faction.
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  What's Shine St. Yes.
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  OK. So real quickly before you get
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  to the individual photos, but the car that I sold to get the
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  current S13 is actually the BMW. That's AMM.
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  Five. No, it's a 540.
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  It's a. 540I6 like a 60. So no.
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  So the 540 is basically the poor man's M5, Yeah?
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  My cousin had. One it's a instead of dual, it's
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  single venos. No LSD, no quad exhaust.
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  This is a fucking nice photo. Sorry like this.
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  Like a background photo. I I just took it with a long
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  zoom so so I'll. Exhausted this.
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  Photography. Oh, OK.
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  Yeah, that's, that's quite evident.
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  Here, but the like the license plate number on this car is
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  wannabe M5 because it is. It's like a poor man's M5,
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  right? You have all the benefits of the
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  M5 minus the price. 400 horsepower.
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  And the price, yeah, M5 price now is crazy.
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  There's an old guy in my neighborhood that just drives
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  one. Around yeah, yeah, the M5 cars
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  prices have always been crazy, but BMWs of that era, you always
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  had one or two things like you had to fix the venos, you had to
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  fix the bearings some. Cooling system.
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  Like the E46 M3 was always like the first thing everybody asks
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  is like, oh, did you do the big three?
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  It was like the rear subframe, the the bearings and something
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  else. There was all those three things
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  you needed to fix on the car. After the E 92 wasn't A you had
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  to fix the make main bearings. Yeah, Rod Bearing.
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  You got to do the rod bearing so.
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  Every generation of car always had their issues, right?
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  You know, like the early DSMS you had the crank walk issue or
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  you had the the crank which just walk side or literally walk
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  sideways. I feel like German cars are even
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  worse to be honest with you because it's worse.
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  Because issues are usually literally like.
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  You need to do this right. It's going to die or your car's
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  going to break. It's going to literally.
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  The Japanese problems are like, you got to do this before you
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  have, I have seven on our horsepower like.
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  Yes, that's a good. Point.
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  Or like or like R30 fours. Like people don't realize R30
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  fours are actually a semi rust bucket waiting to happen because
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  of the way the chassis was put together.
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  There's a couple of spots underneath the Fender where it
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  just collects the moisture. I'm not surprised it's a Nissan.
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  And I mean like we were talking about earlier, like Larry Chen,
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  the photographer, has his R30. Four, I was about to say, I
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  think I seen a video. Yeah, he's doing the restoration
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  at Garage Joshita, right? Yeah.
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  And one of the things that garage your cheetah base is like
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  a strut kit that essentially fixes.
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  I saw that. But a lot of times when you buy
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  R34, outside could be perfect. But the moment you open up the
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  Fender liner and look underneath, like there's rust
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  underneath that, the strut towers, that could be just
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  sitting there and you don't even know what's happening.
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  Yeah. Because, I mean, Japan is like
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  here, you know, it's like moisture, high humidity.
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  And you could drive it in the summer, but it's still raining
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  here and there, You know, yeah, people, people joke about
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  California cars, but it's like the one of the reasons why it's
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  desired is because there's no moisture.
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  Yeah, that's the only place to get a car is the desert or
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  somewhere in California. Yeah, cuz there's no moisture so
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  you don't have to worry about like rotting of any kind.
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  Yeah. You can park it outside and it's
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  just sun damage. That's it.
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  That's the worst thing. But then but then like a
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  Colorado car is fucked or no what is?
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  What is the one where it rains a lot in Seattle, Washington?
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  Yeah. Northwest is.
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  They're bad. They're bad over there.
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  Because you have. I mean snows.
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  You still have every once in a while though.
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  Too. It really depends on who's salt,
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  Yeah, who's salting the roads. That's really what it depends on
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  I feel like. Japan Japan is salt capital,
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  especially in the countryside. Really.
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  Yeah, Tokyo, not so much. Mostly because you would never
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  drive the car in Tokyo to begin with.
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  Yeah, because there's no way to drive it.
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  It's busy. Yeah.
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  I mean, stop and go all the time.
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  It's like driving in Manhattan. You would never drive like a
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  fans, a sports car in Manhattan because you can't.
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  You can't go anywhere. People do.
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  Own them, but like in the countryside, though, it's
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  different. That's like when when people
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  have a crazy sports car in Manhattan, I'm like, yeah, you
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  just got that fuck you money. Yeah, like, what the hell?
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  Literally. It's like all the benefits of
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  Japan minus the expressways. Yeah, there's no actual
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  expressways for you to drive it on.
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  Yeah. Well, some of them New York
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  drivers find a way to make it go express.
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  Yeah, and they all have potholes in them.
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  Like, like, what the heck? You mean?
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  Frankie brought up a point where it was like, it used to be kind
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  of fun to like ride a motorcycle in the city and now I really do
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  not want to. Wait, why did I say it used to
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  be and not? Because now people are cutting
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  up and shit. Oh yeah, and like doing all that
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  crazy shit. Reckless drivers.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Reckless like John Mcclane. Like they.
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  Iheart 3. They just do this shit.
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  They they, they call it cutting. It's basically just driving as
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  reckless as you can and getting as close to other people and
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  cutting them off. But could it?
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  Is it worse than John Mcclane in Die Hard 3?
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  I don't know because I never even seen Die Hard one which is
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  bad. I know you haven't.
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  Watched none of the die. Hard movies.
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  There are there are threes in New York.
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  You're a buff. You're a movie buff.
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  I know it's. One of the best you're.
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  Literally, I know I got to watch it.
• 17:44
  On Crystal Tower. Yo don't, it's not a Christmas.
• 17:47
  Wait, did you say Die Hard is a Christmas movie?
• 17:48
  No, it is not. Hey, it is a.
• 17:50
  Christmas, Ken Ken and I are on the same page.
• 17:51
  No, I. Think it is right?
• 17:53
  That's what I heard. Yeah, it happens.
• 17:54
  That's a Christmas movie. Ever.
• 17:56
  Yeah, I know. They they put it on on ABC every
• 18:00
  year. I'll watch it every year.
• 18:02
  Like probably. I just don't think that's a.
• 18:04
  It's it's a perfect movie because you have drinking while
• 18:07
  pregnant people doing cocaine at Christmas parties.
• 18:11
  That's perfect. That sounds like a great.
• 18:13
  Christmas Malcolm, could you find a YouTube video of someone
• 18:14
  cutting it up? No, just there's, there's no,
• 18:17
  no, actually the best trailer, the best thing for this is
• 18:20
  actually a channel on YouTube called Honest Trailers.
• 18:23
  What is that? It's just like, Oh yeah.
• 18:25
  It tells you exactly. What?
• 18:26
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a parody of it, right?
• 18:28
  But I'm. Just trying to I just want you
• 18:29
  to see how insanely like ridiculous this is.
• 18:33
  There's no way that they're not doing this in California, Bear.
• 18:37
  I don't know. I've never seen, I've never seen
• 18:40
  this shit. Wait, is this the actual wait?
• 18:42
  What is this? No way you put this.
• 18:45
  Sweet. Throw it all the way further
• 18:46
  down. Wait.
• 18:47
  Cut through the clip. How?
• 18:48
  Does he know this video? Oh, is this New York?
• 18:52
  This is what we mean by cutting it up.
• 18:54
  Oh yes, yes, yes, I've seen this video, these types of videos.
• 18:57
  Before this is like the though hezy shit.
• 18:58
  Yes. It's a settle in real life.
• 19:00
  How did they do that? This is like, this is like
• 19:02
  people trying to be like, get away to Stockholm.
• 19:05
  This is just young. That was a really old video.
• 19:08
  Oh my God. So yeah, these people basically
• 19:11
  they, they murder families and yeah, it's fun.
• 19:14
  It's fun time. So at least like not fun being
• 19:16
  there at. Least get away in Stockholm
• 19:17
  there was nobody on the streets and it was just.
• 19:19
  Like those, those videos, it's always like it's, it's these
• 19:21
  guys don't. Do this unless there's people on
• 19:23
  the street. Yeah, it's like they wait.
• 19:25
  This is like part of it. People have too much money.
• 19:27
  Like he just hit him now. Now he's just go drive away.
• 19:30
  Yeah, you're bye. You're bye.
• 19:31
  Like yeah, it's a weird. So when you ride a motorcycle in
• 19:34
  the city and you know that this is happening, I don't really
• 19:37
  want to be on the road anymore. Yeah, 'cause they're going to
• 19:39
  get as close to me as possible and I'm on there care if they
• 19:42
  come on there fucking. It's very weird, I don't know.
• 19:47
  You can't see me on that thing. It's a very weird culture.
• 19:50
  There's actually Front Street Josh on the way to work.
• 19:55
  Yeah, so. Yo look how dark the tints are.
• 19:58
  What the fuck? The shit.
• 20:04
  Oh, that's a Turnpike. No, it just.
• 20:05
  Makes me angry. I'm just kidding.
• 20:07
  That looks like the BQE or something.
• 20:09
  Don't worry, on the West Coast we have takeovers.
• 20:11
  Do you have shit like this? No, they have.
• 20:12
  Takeovers. Takeovers where somebody just
• 20:14
  blocks off and. Yeah, Yeah, we have that.
• 20:16
  We have that too. I got stuck in one of those,
• 20:18
  actually one. Time.
• 20:18
  Really. OK, what was that like?
• 20:21
  It was just like, OK, here's people doing Donuts in the
• 20:24
  middle of a large intersection and nobody can go anywhere.
• 20:27
  Yeah. So you're just sitting?
• 20:28
  There and then you call the cops and they don't.
• 20:31
  Here's the thing, LA cops are always like they won't show up
• 20:34
  until they have enough force to counter whatever that's going
• 20:36
  on. So if there's like 10 cars, they
• 20:37
  won't show up unless they have 20 cars ready.
• 20:41
  Nice. It would buys you some time.
• 20:42
  Good, good, good. Good to know that it's a weird
• 20:44
  town. So so so.
• 20:45
  Then, so then if there's not enough police officers around,
• 20:48
  right, they're, they're not going to show up.
• 20:49
  Why don't they just nut up and go stop the thing?
• 20:51
  You're a cop. What the fuck?
• 20:52
  Every time I'm in California, everything's on fire.
• 20:54
  That's all I know. Yeah, like what?
• 20:56
  That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
• 20:57
  NYPD, we'd be up in there. Somebody's.
• 20:59
  I need Nick here to explain fucking swinging the fucking.
• 21:03
  I don't, I don't even know what he would say.
• 21:05
  Like NYPD would not. Yeah, yeah, they're not gonna
• 21:08
  wait for their buddy. Like, what the fuck is going on?
• 21:11
  Like I'm in trouble. Just shoot them these, yeah.
• 21:14
  Yeah, this is the pros and cons of urban sprawl.
• 21:16
  Yeah, an urban sprawl when? Everything is too spread out.
• 21:19
  Hmm. So yeah, LA, bring that mic.
• 21:21
  Closer to you. LA is crazy.
• 21:23
  Because swing. That mic a little closer to you?
• 21:25
  Because if I was no, no. No, you don't have to move
• 21:27
  forward. You can move the mic.
• 21:28
  That's the beauty of the stand. I don't I don't do podcasts.
• 21:31
  That's why this is all very new to.
• 21:33
  Me, I'm just used to yelling at something, so it's just this mic
• 21:36
  right now. This is natural.
• 21:37
  Like this? This reminds me of like Ace
• 21:39
  Ventura when he's like. Odd movie reference.
• 21:45
  I haven't watched that movie in a long time actually.
• 21:48
  I have seen that movie. I You're a movie.
• 21:50
  Buff, I know you are. That's why I'm surprised.
• 21:53
  I'm, I'm, I'm so surprised that you've never watched Die Hard
• 21:55
  and I. Have, I don't know, Christmas
• 21:58
  movie that's I want to watch it during Christmas.
• 22:00
  That's yeah, yeah. Do it.
• 22:02
  Do it. Do it now.
• 22:04
  Do it now. So hold on.
• 22:05
  One of the things that I do know about Alex that we were speaking
• 22:08
  about earlier was, and Ken has mentioned this because before
• 22:12
  Ken would just be like, I have this friend.
• 22:14
  He was the one who brought those wheels over because I love 5
• 22:18
  Ziggen. Wheels 5.
• 22:20
  Ziggen Wheels. 5 Ziggen Oh, oh, you were.
• 22:22
  Over there 5 Ziggen. So it's five.
• 22:24
  So what is it for real? Go Ziggen.
• 22:26
  It's gold, Ziggen. Yeah, go.
• 22:28
  Ziggen. It's gold, Ziggen.
• 22:31
  Oh sorry, my throat's a little bit scratchy from the flight so.
• 22:34
  I got you. I got you.
• 22:34
  We've been messing that up for a long time.
• 22:36
  I was. Like goal.
• 22:37
  Like five in five in Japanese is goal.
• 22:39
  Yeah, but go. So I had a lot of those wheels.
• 22:43
  And then ten was just happened to be like, Oh yeah, he he would
• 22:47
  import. He he imported like he was
• 22:49
  responsible for bringing that wheat here.
• 22:52
  And I was like, what the fuck? What?
• 22:53
  The hell. Is that correct?
• 22:55
  Does that hold water for? The for the most part I mean OK,
• 22:59
  so I I mean I brought. Him on my carry ONS.
• 23:03
  So I I mean, I, I worked at 5 Ziggen before 5 Ziggen became 5
• 23:07
  Ziggen. USA was a KTUSA.
• 23:09
  OK, so there's a little bit of back story like, and it, it,
• 23:14
  this actually is true for every almost every brand of Japanese
• 23:18
  product in the US. That's not a major brand outside
• 23:21
  of like HKS or Grady. But even Grady still has other
• 23:25
  stuff that they bring in like, you know, Rocket Bunny and other
• 23:27
  stuff, right? But back in the 90s, there was a
• 23:31
  lot of companies on the West Coast where they were just like
• 23:35
  consolidated bringing all these other random small stuff.
• 23:38
  Like before 5 Ziggen, it was a company called AKTUSA Akuto.
• 23:45
  It was a Japanese company. It was the US office of the
• 23:47
  Japanese company. Before that, it was another
• 23:51
  company called NK and a Crimson. And if the name Crimson sounds
• 23:56
  familiar, it's because. Sparkle.
• 23:57
  Wheel Crimson is wheels, Yeah, yeah.
• 23:59
  And, and, and and and NK and a Crimson was like the US company
• 24:04
  and Crimson Japan was like the parent company.
• 24:07
  And So what it was was it was just like none of these brands
• 24:10
  by themselves. You'll be able to sell any in
• 24:11
  any volume to make any money, right?
• 24:13
  But you would just consolidate them, put them in a 2044
• 24:17
  container and bring them over and sell them, right.
• 24:19
  So it's like wheels Racing Sparkle is one of them.
• 24:23
  There was a lot of others, a lot of other stuff like like there
• 24:30
  was a big book in the 90s and 2000s ish that was called Auto
• 24:36
  Gallery. And it was like a big like it
• 24:39
  was like this big, like really thick too.
• 24:42
  And it would publish it every like year, but it would just
• 24:44
  speak nothing but wheels, every single possible wheel can think
• 24:48
  of in Japan. Imagine like the hyper Rev.
• 24:52
  Yeah, that. Thing except nothing but wheels.
• 24:54
  But what it was was it was just a catalogue of nothing but
• 24:57
  wheels. And then how would you order
• 24:59
  them? You message you e-mail.
• 25:00
  E-mail in. So in Japan, there was like two
• 25:02
  or three large distribution companies that you would buy
• 25:05
  from and then a handful of other smaller ones, more or less, I
• 25:08
  guess, you know, depending on your relationship with the
• 25:10
  companies. And you would just order the,
• 25:14
  you know, wheels that was in that book, because that book, if
• 25:18
  I remember correctly, was available from a single
• 25:20
  distributor. And and then if you flip through
• 25:24
  it, if you flip through it, the first few pages are always like
• 25:26
  the top brands, TRD, dismal rays, whatever, right?
• 25:30
  And then you start getting into like the more obscure brands,
• 25:33
  things that you'd never. Heard of instead?
• 25:36
  Like, like, like, like, like, like for example, there's a
• 25:41
  Facebook group called Back Shelf, right, Back shelf, back
• 25:44
  shelf, back shelf. I thought Backpage, backface,
• 25:53
  Craigslist. Yeah, the no back shelf.
• 25:56
  Like there's a lot of like, you know, old nostalgic parts,
• 25:59
  whatever, you know, But one of the things that people share are
• 26:01
  like all these like old wheels, right?
• 26:03
  Like from my perspective, it's like, I mean, not to say how old
• 26:07
  I am, but. I was about to ask because you
• 26:10
  was like about. 40 Asian or Raisin?
• 26:12
  That's why you look. You look 30.
• 26:14
  Eight yeah, Yep, sure. But but back then it was just
• 26:21
  like there was all these wheels, right.
• 26:23
  And then from my perspective, it was like all these brands of
• 26:25
  wheels like back then I didn't care personally care for them.
• 26:29
  Like when racing sparkle around it was great, but I personally
• 26:33
  didn't care for it. But but it was just one of those
• 26:37
  things where it's just like all of this stuff was, you know,
• 26:39
  available in the background, right?
• 26:40
  And then NKN and Kristen became, I don't know specifically how
• 26:44
  they became evolved into a KTUSA, but AKTUSA came around
• 26:49
  and they were importing 5 Ziggon back then when it was 5 Ziggon
• 26:53
  was the brand but the company itself was called Dijon Cars.
• 26:58
  Dijon. Dijon like Dijon mustard?
• 27:01
  Yeah, the mustard. Dijon Cars Fancy Company Ltd.
• 27:06
  French. Correct.
• 27:07
  Give me the grey Poupon. Pardon me, do you have any Dijon
• 27:12
  wheels? But like, the logo itself was
• 27:16
  like, it's like multi colored, like triangle with, you know,
• 27:20
  Dijon cars in the middle. It's a kind of a weird logo.
• 27:23
  And then at some point they'd be evolved and inside they
• 27:25
  rebranded their company and became 5 Ziggy International,
• 27:27
  which is their current version. But then, yeah, I was, I was my
• 27:34
  one of my high school friends. To illustrate how old I am, I
• 27:39
  guess one of my high school friends because I graduated high
• 27:42
  school in 96. OK, I was one.
• 27:47
  Oh, Alex. I could be.
• 27:51
  I could be your father, you know, if I.
• 27:53
  I'll call your daddy if you want, OK?
• 27:55
  All right, OK, I got. Weird.
• 27:58
  It's like. Boy, that escalated quickly.
• 28:01
  Yeah, but no, one of my high school friends, his across the
• 28:06
  street neighbor was the president of NK8IN Crimson.
• 28:09
  His name was Hiroshi. And so he started working there.
• 28:13
  And then there was one year when I needed a job during the
• 28:16
  summer, and then he ended up asking me if I wanted to work at
• 28:19
  AKT. And then that back then, it was
• 28:21
  just like we were importing 5 Zegan, but it was like small
• 28:25
  stuff in the background, but we're also importing everything
• 28:28
  else, like like various. Pots and pans and shit.
• 28:32
  Various multi piece wheels for example.
• 28:34
  Oh, OK, Still wheels. OK.
• 28:36
  Like Riverside Company, they had.
• 28:38
  Oh hell yeah, like all studs and shit.
• 28:40
  All of that stuff was that time frame.
• 28:42
  So that was, that was. All my favorite.
• 28:44
  Wheels that was stuff I was bringing in like I was looking
• 28:47
  out on like a daily basis damn like at one point it was just
• 28:51
  like oh some of the so and so wants this wheel, but they want
• 28:54
  a specific offset. They want a specific dish, you
• 28:57
  know, because if you guys. Like a car.
• 28:59
  And were you into cars about this point?
• 29:01
  Yeah, I was in the cars and and so at that point I was just
• 29:04
  like, oh, I was learning from like the sales manager Miguel.
• 29:06
  He was like, yeah, this is how you disassemble a multi piece
• 29:09
  wheels. So so this is a brand new multi
• 29:11
  piece wheel. Like, you know, the silicone
• 29:13
  bead, you basically cut the silicone cut, cut the bead out
• 29:16
  and then you disassemble it, you know, the and then pull the face
• 29:19
  apart and then you clean the the the the inner outer disk halves
• 29:23
  rather cleaning up and then you reseal it.
• 29:25
  That's it. This is.
• 29:26
  What you guys are doing when you get a custom order?
• 29:28
  Well, no, not so much custom order.
• 29:30
  What it was was, oh, somebody wants a certain wheel.
• 29:32
  We just so happen to have these other sizes in stock that could
• 29:35
  be pieced together to make this wheel.
• 29:37
  No, because it's important because when you buy a brand new
• 29:40
  wheel from the factory, that's how they make them anyways,
• 29:42
  because the actual face is only one type of face, like high,
• 29:46
  low, medium disc. And then the barrels themselves
• 29:49
  are just like no different than what people do nowadays.
• 29:51
  It's like, oh, I have a so and so wheel with a four inch
• 29:53
  barrel, 3 inch barrel, whatever, right?
• 29:55
  This is what they have at the factory.
• 29:57
  That's how they piece together the various sizes.
• 29:59
  That's all it is. It's not, there's not no rocket
• 30:01
  science behind it, right? And so we were just bolting and
• 30:05
  unbolting wheels together. And I was just like, probably
• 30:07
  the only thing was back then I was just like, oh, it's just
• 30:10
  whatever pressure the impact gun was set, that's how you tore the
• 30:13
  program. Please please.
• 30:15
  No, don't. Don't be doing that.
• 30:17
  If you're listening to this podcast, don't do that cuz then
• 30:20
  you're gonna. Have it looked like it worked?
• 30:21
  Yeah, nobody complained. No, nobody wrecked their cars.
• 30:24
  Nobody did anything. No one complained.
• 30:26
  How are they? Gonna reach out.
• 30:28
  We've definitely done that on our wheels before on our cars.
• 30:31
  Yeah, I've definitely done that before.
• 30:33
  That's the the assembling part is dude, my, you know the wheels
• 30:38
  on the car right now they're only two piece, so I don't want
• 30:41
  to worry about that. Well, two piece can be made in a
• 30:43
  three piece, right? Sometimes.
• 30:45
  Yeah. Where is that?
• 30:47
  Yeah. No, no, wait.
• 30:48
  Is that how it goes? I forget 2.
• 30:50
  Piece two piece into three piece.
• 30:52
  It's possible depending on how the construction is done.
• 30:55
  Because it's two piece, there's two piece bolted and two piece
• 30:57
  welded. Two piece welded?
• 30:59
  No, by the time you by the time you cut it out, you would have
• 31:02
  to. You do a lot of machine work.
• 31:04
  You have to do a lot of machine work to rebalance it.
• 31:06
  That's that's the main thing. Yeah, the mine is.
• 31:08
  Mine is welded and that's why it's nice to have a little baby
• 31:11
  JZX like the hotel. OK, I'm not going to talk about
• 31:15
  this on here. Carl Baby Jay ZX You're really
• 31:17
  trying to probe me, but I'm not a bit probe You like that.
• 31:19
  Word. I'm not trying to do nothing.
• 31:22
  Carl thinks he has a JZX, but he has an Alteza because that's the
• 31:27
  name of that car in. But there's a 1J in it and the
• 31:30
  front subframe is a J ZX110 or no?
• 31:32
  The rear is a J ZX110 and the front is like very similar to.
• 31:36
  Ken, can you tell him that he doesn't have a JZX?
• 31:38
  Dude, it pulled up. Ken, you don't got to tell me
• 31:41
  there's a. Jay-Z in there too, right?
• 31:45
  That shit is the right. 1. J.
• 31:47
  That's one of the JS that's. Yeah, he's.
• 31:53
  Delusional. I I finally got the driver here.
• 31:55
  That's why I was I I I knew Alex was coming, so I was like, OK,
• 31:59
  let me bring like, not my Koya. Yeah, I would have missed the
• 32:05
  Koya today. Dude, it's 90 fucking degrees
• 32:08
  sitting in the IS. Fuck that.
• 32:11
  Alex, did you have a car at this point when you were working?
• 32:12
  There. Yeah.
• 32:13
  What were you driving? There I was.
• 32:14
  Driving a 240SX by this time. Actually.
• 32:16
  I actually had a two my 1st 2:40 I got in 96 in my senior year of
• 32:20
  high school. Hell yeah.
• 32:22
  But there's a minor. There's a weird.
• 32:24
  Wait, we got to talk about this. What?
• 32:26
  S13 or S13? So this car was two years, three
• 32:29
  years 4. Years old, 93 S 13, but 93 model
• 32:32
  years means that it's sold in 92 at some point.
• 32:37
  But yeah, I had a three-year old car.
• 32:39
  That's like buying an FRS right now, like a.
• 32:42
  ZN. Six yes, yes and no.
• 32:43
  They really, in hindsight, it was one of those things where
• 32:46
  it's like, had I gone about it differently, I wouldn't have
• 32:48
  bought that specific car so. Wait.
• 32:52
  Elaborate a little bit? Yeah, like what do you mean?
• 32:54
  By that in high school, I grew up in Los Angeles area, South
• 32:58
  Bay, so a lot of Japanese Americans there and everybody at
• 33:03
  my high school, North High School in Torrance.
• 33:05
  By the way, North High School, if you ever look it up, Random
• 33:08
  tidbit is our most famous alumni is Chuck Norris.
• 33:12
  Oh. Wow he graduated like 1959 or
• 33:15
  something. This is.
• 33:16
  Wow, right here, No. Yo, you kind of look like I'm
• 33:21
  kind of just. Because I'm white, Carl.
• 33:23
  No, it's the fucking this shit is growing in.
• 33:26
  Yeah, I should take care of that you.
• 33:27
  Need to fucking you, don't mind to check it out.
• 33:31
  Yeah, after like you and me, after like 3.
• 33:33
  Weeks, five years combined, but yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, to get
• 33:37
  that Alex, realistically, we can, yeah.
• 33:39
  No, it's we would have to go with the Beavis and Butthead
• 33:42
  route. Wait, what is that?
• 33:44
  Because there was an episode of Beavis and Butthead where they
• 33:46
  saw ZZ Top in a music video and they wanted, they're like, oh,
• 33:50
  chicks take facial hair, big beards, whatever, right?
• 33:52
  So they basically they went to the mall and had their heads
• 33:54
  shaved and and then super glued the the hair to the yes.
• 33:58
  That's exactly what we would have to.
• 33:59
  Do they did that in Jackass too but it was pubic.
• 34:01
  Yes, they did do that in Jackass.
• 34:03
  But they didn't tell until the end.
• 34:05
  But this was in buttheads. This was mid 90s so it may have
• 34:08
  predated Jackass they copied. Them Jackass copied them.
• 34:10
  Yeah, for sure. So what we talking about we're.
• 34:13
  Talking about your car. First car, So yeah, no, back in
• 34:16
  high school, everybody was into Hondas, racing Hondas like this
• 34:20
  was. Yeah, we've.
• 34:21
  Heard we've heard this before 92.
• 34:22
  To 96 accords right? For example like the CD 7, the
• 34:27
  boxy accords because they had a accord had a DC right?
• 34:30
  DC. No, it's AH if I remember.
• 34:32
  It was H22 if I remember correctly.
• 34:34
  Yeah, called the engine. Yeah, that's the prelude one.
• 34:36
  Yeah, it had the same basic block.
• 34:38
  But it's the one where it's shaped like this.
• 34:42
  Yeah, like a like a rectangle, like a kindergartener, like a
• 34:45
  front end. Looked like a Sylvia.
• 34:47
  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 34:49
  I'm. Gonna have to stop you right
• 34:51
  there. It did not look like did not
• 34:52
  look like a Sylvia dude. It probably did.
• 34:54
  So no. Back then, back then, everybody
• 34:57
  had like Civics and the Hondas in general, right?
• 35:00
  If you had anything else, it was not cool.
• 35:02
  That was the weird part. It was.
• 35:03
  It was really weird. It was.
• 35:06
  What if you had a Mark 4 supra? Oh, OK, I had a couple.
• 35:09
  No, Well, no, no, back then nobody could afford a Mark 4
• 35:11
  Supra, right. 300ZX was like unobtainable because you had no
• 35:15
  money for that kind of stuff. Yeah, it was like Honda Civics
• 35:17
  or nothing. Or of course, of course, of
• 35:19
  course were usually like the parents car and you took it and
• 35:21
  you modified it. That's basically what it came
• 35:23
  down to. What was, what was one of those
• 35:25
  cars like I, I know, I think they retailed for like 40 to 70,
• 35:28
  but what was, what would that be like today?
• 35:29
  Like can you name a comparable price car today?
• 35:33
  With inflation, you're gonna want no.
• 35:35
  No, no, no. It would be like the supra I.
• 35:37
  Mean like a current supra. Like a current Supra or a
• 35:39
  current like BMW M3? Yeah, right.
• 35:43
  That kind of. Stuff and those cars are
• 35:44
  probably like 70 grand. Like because the M3E36M3 in high
• 35:49
  school was like a almost $40,000 car if I remember quickly.
• 35:52
  My. Wages.
• 35:55
  Were not a high school friend had one so it was just one of
• 35:57
  those things where if you actually look at the income of
• 36:00
  people and then the actual price of the car right the car was
• 36:03
  like borderline supercar status in terms of price that's.
• 36:06
  Crazy how $40,000 then was crazy but then now that's a WRX
• 36:13
  that's. True.
• 36:13
  Oh. That's a That's a.
• 36:14
  That's a fucking What is That's a That's a BRZ or whatever.
• 36:20
  Yeah, GT86. I mean Disneyland in high school
• 36:23
  for me was $25.00 to go. Yo, you're 85.
• 36:27
  No. Whoa.
• 36:27
  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Because I went to Disney World a
• 36:30
  few years ago and I spent well over $25 for parking.
• 36:34
  Yeah. Maybe parking may or may.
• 36:36
  Not just for the gas. Parking may or may not have been
• 36:39
  25. Yeah, it probably was more.
• 36:41
  No parking. Parking Before when California
• 36:43
  Adventure was a parking lot, parking was $5 in high school
• 36:46
  for me. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 36:48
  I do want to ask now that we're talking about food and Disney
• 36:51
  and all that. Shit, I don't think we were
• 36:52
  talking about. Food.
• 36:53
  I know I'm hungry. OK.
• 36:54
  But like so you grew up in the Super size era?
• 36:58
  And super size was still around till like I.
• 37:01
  Was in high school super size. The size was after but.
• 37:03
  When was super sizing done? Because I need that back. 2000.
• 37:08
  Roughly around 2000 I missed. That I need to, I need to get on
• 37:11
  that. I I wish they would bring that.
• 37:12
  Back you are very hungry. I'm starving, OK.
• 37:17
  But I did, I did bring up, I did want to write this down because
• 37:19
  all we were talking about that all I could think about was how
• 37:22
  you mentioned that it was like supercar territory.
• 37:25
  Yeah. What in your opinion would have
• 37:29
  been a comfortable wage salary yearly in that time to afford
• 37:36
  some sort of car like that? Like if you were to think like
• 37:39
  you were a kid again and you were like fuck I wish I could
• 37:41
  just make X amount per year. Like I don't even know what
• 37:44
  that's like. A lot of our listeners probably
• 37:46
  don't know what that was. Probably like to go into a
• 37:49
  Canadian store and buy something with 50.
• 37:51
  Cents probably. I mean, if you wanted to also
• 37:54
  have a house at that time, probably somewhere in the
• 37:56
  neighborhood of like 60 to $100,000.
• 38:00
  That's a pretty big window, but yes, but that, that sounds
• 38:03
  pretty reasonable. Definitely you don't need like
• 38:05
  152 hundred, you know, price range because because back then
• 38:10
  also the houses were cheap. Yeah, of a better description.
• 38:15
  Yeah, you don't. Got it.
• 38:16
  Like the like the the house we I grew up in in Torrance when we
• 38:21
  bought it in 90, it was I think we bought it for two fifty
• 38:25
  250,000. And that's in LA.
• 38:28
  And then when I when we moved and we sold in O five, it was we
• 38:31
  sold it for 538. Imagine now.
• 38:35
  That house is The house is worth almost a million right now, and
• 38:38
  it's A and it's a tiny house too.
• 38:39
  The only reason? Why it's a good house.
• 38:41
  The only reason why it was the only reason why it was worth
• 38:43
  it's worth that much money is because it's 2 miles from the
• 38:46
  beach. Yeah, holy shit, that is got to
• 38:49
  be pretty over. It's probably over $1,000,000.
• 38:51
  Maybe 3 miles from the beach. Sorry, it's not that it's not
• 38:52
  that close, but it's next to the beach.
• 38:54
  It's. A nice driveway in that that's.
• 38:56
  Got to be over $1,000,000 now. Actually it's like, no, last I
• 38:59
  checked it was like 950. Jesus.
• 39:01
  Yeah, that's a that's that's tell us.
• 39:03
  And they're all like single level houses, you know, right?
• 39:06
  Not 1100 square feet. Yeah, small. 1100 That is what
• 39:10
  my house here is, yeah. Yeah, but it was like 1
• 39:14
  bathroom, technically 2.5 bedrooms.
• 39:17
  One of the bedrooms was like a walkway.
• 39:20
  I visited Santa Cruz once and the house is, the house was
• 39:24
  probably the same as that, like a mile away from the beach.
• 39:27
  And all the houses were very simple.
• 39:31
  And honestly, I would never want to live in one.
• 39:34
  And I'm like, how much are these houses?
• 39:35
  And they're like, oh, over a million.
• 39:36
  I'm like, I'll see you later. I'll never be here again.
• 39:38
  It's all about the location. That's.
• 39:39
  Fucking insane. Yeah, but then, but then you
• 39:41
  also have to never worry about like extreme weather.
• 39:45
  Yeah, it might get hot. Right.
• 39:46
  Yeah, it's nice. Fine, there's wildfires and that
• 39:48
  kind of stuff, but. Yeah, you might.
• 39:49
  You just might lose your house or wildfires, or you might fall
• 39:54
  into the ocean or. Earthquake.
• 39:55
  As long as you don't, I mean that, that's what, that's what
• 39:58
  people are saying. Los Angeles are not Santa Cruz.
• 40:00
  That, that that's the other thing too.
• 40:02
  Santa Cruz is a fire hazard, like downwind.
• 40:04
  Ironically, the place that Frankie visited is the place
• 40:06
  that it's the one that lights on fire.
• 40:09
  I well. Had a lot of California lights
• 40:11
  on fire, apparently. But yeah, I don't know.
• 40:14
  Everyone's waiting for that one earthquake, right?
• 40:16
  Yeah, but but. What?
• 40:17
  Who's that's gotta be? No, there's nothing.
• 40:21
  Good to say. There's a thing they're all
• 40:23
  waiting for. The the one, the big one, the
• 40:25
  big one. What for the tectonic plates to
• 40:26
  show, Yeah. And break California off?
• 40:28
  No. Because the San Andreas Fault,
• 40:30
  the last, the last time the South part of the San Andreas
• 40:33
  Fault had a major earthquake was like in the 1850s.
• 40:37
  So they're like overdue at this point.
• 40:39
  That was a hard reason. And it's like, it's like that
• 40:41
  fault is like magnitude 8 or higher, like earthquake wise,
• 40:47
  it's coming. So I would be fucking panicking.
• 40:50
  I would stay away from that place. 1906 San Francisco
• 40:54
  earthquake was San Andreas and it wiped out in the Center City.
• 40:57
  Yeah, that, that's crazy too, if you want to do some history.
• 40:59
  Yeah, that that earthquake is crazy.
• 41:00
  The. Fuck.
• 41:01
  So I'm I'm fully very useful, very useful or very useless
• 41:05
  information. No, it's great information.
• 41:07
  You ever sat through like an earthquake there?
• 41:09
  Because we had one here. Like a few.
• 41:11
  Oh no, no, my, my first, my very first year in the US in 1989, I
• 41:15
  lived in Arcadia next to Pasadena and there was a 5 point
• 41:18
  O earthquake that hit next to in Pasadena and I was on the second
• 41:21
  floor of an apartment building. And it, it was like the biggest
• 41:25
  shake I've ever had in my life because it was I was right on
• 41:27
  top of a 5 point O the. Epicenter.
• 41:31
  Huh. Yeah, yeah.
• 41:32
  It was like it was like not even like 1/4 of a mile away.
• 41:34
  It was like we're practically right on top of it and it like
• 41:36
  it shook like crazy. How?
• 41:38
  Much do you think the building moved?
• 41:40
  Well, I mean, my probably so so there was a we had a bunk bed
• 41:46
  and the top mattress slid off man, nobody was on it, but the
• 41:50
  mattress is up. Just like dude, I would freak
• 41:52
  out, dude. Well, what?
• 41:54
  What was the earthquake that we had here?
• 41:55
  Do you remember? Does anyone of you?
• 41:56
  4.8. Foursome Great.
• 41:58
  It. Wasn't it?
• 41:59
  Wasn't. High.
• 42:00
  It wasn't. Yeah, but.
• 42:01
  It was. Higher than the epicenter of
• 42:04
  that one was my house. Oh, you felt it?
• 42:06
  Pretty, yes. So what did you do, Carl?
• 42:08
  I was. This is how it went.
• 42:10
  This is what it went. I opened the bathroom.
• 42:12
  I sit down. Morning sitting there.
• 42:15
  Fuck, I was on a plane to go to Japan.
• 42:17
  You weren't? No, you're about to leave.
• 42:19
  We're on the, we're on the runway.
• 42:21
  Frankie is on is at Newark or JFK, wherever the hell, and he's
• 42:24
  in a plane. I'm taking a shit.
• 42:26
  And was that was that? It's Eddie.
• 42:30
  It's our OK. It's not.
• 42:32
  It's funny but I was taking a shit.
• 42:34
  The earthquake happens in my office like where I work.
• 42:39
  The the quarry across the street.
• 42:41
  When they do, a quarry blast shakes the building.
• 42:43
  Oh, so you already know? So in my opinion, I was sitting
• 42:45
  there and and the fucking build like my bathroom is like, it's
• 42:49
  that bad. And I was like, oh, it was a
• 42:52
  quarry. Wait a minute.
• 42:54
  And I was like, wait, I'm at home.
• 42:56
  I'm very far from that quarry. What the hell is going on in
• 42:59
  here? How much does?
• 43:00
  It. Shake like were.
• 43:01
  You. It was enough where it was
• 43:03
  fucking like moving. Dude, I never been in an
• 43:05
  earthquake. And then and then hat like
• 43:07
  knocked. Yo, what you doing in there and?
• 43:11
  Then and then like. It was just so anything higher
• 43:15
  than that, I'm assuming would just be pretty violent, yeah.
• 43:18
  Like. I mean, really.
• 43:18
  Violent. So put to put this into
• 43:20
  perspective, 1989, when San Francisco had a earthquake
• 43:24
  during the World Series, it was like, I forgot.
• 43:26
  It was like it was like a six point something or seven point
• 43:28
  whatever, however large it was. We're we're going.
• 43:31
  Crazy. It was in San Francisco.
• 43:32
  OK, I still remember because I was It was in the afternoon and
• 43:35
  I was home from school. I was just watching TV and I
• 43:39
  felt my house slightly moved. Something was off and something
• 43:43
  moved, yes. And that later on that day on
• 43:45
  the news, they were like, oh, there was a major earthquake in
• 43:47
  San Francisco. So, so a magnitude.
• 43:50
  I mean, we're we're, we're 400 miles away from San Francisco.
• 43:53
  Oh my God. So for me to feel that, so and
• 43:57
  earthquakes are kind of like decibels in the sense that it's
• 44:00
  not linear when you go up, it's magnitudes, it's exponential,
• 44:04
  basically. Yeah.
• 44:05
  So it's like when you go from six to seven, it's like I forgot
• 44:09
  the skill, but it's like four times more massive.
• 44:12
  Geez. So it's not.
• 44:13
  It's like multiplies. Right, correct.
• 44:16
  And then also if if the earthquake the the movement was
• 44:19
  up and down versus side by side that that also makes a
• 44:22
  difference. Up and down is probably.
• 44:24
  The side by side is actually the ones that you feel the most
• 44:26
  because it drags out over time and San Andreas is a slip fault,
• 44:30
  so it goes side by side. It's gonna go move side by side
• 44:32
  like that. And that's the thing that's
• 44:34
  overdue. Correct.
• 44:35
  All right, well, I have some Californian friends.
• 44:38
  I got a pretty nice basement if you fucking needs somebody.
• 44:41
  To say Jesus could be worse. You could be in Japan, where you
• 44:43
  could actually. Have.
• 44:44
  Yeah, all the time. Yeah, fuck that.
• 44:47
  Yeah, Japan is different. And then a tsunami.
• 44:49
  I wonder if right when the earthquake's over, you get a
• 44:51
  tsunami. They.
• 44:52
  Got they got earthquakes in Philippines.
• 44:53
  Yes. Yeah, definitely.
• 44:56
  Are they really? Yeah.
• 44:57
  Jesus, I didn't know that I'm the worst Filipino ever.
• 45:02
  Jeez I I didn't like dude. The earthquake thing is just
• 45:05
  weird because it's like something that happens out of
• 45:06
  your control. We live in a good area, man.
• 45:08
  I know like God, I love it here. We live in a really good area.
• 45:12
  Occasionally we've got a hurricane.
• 45:13
  Well, yeah, sorry, before I went off on the tangent about
• 45:17
  earthquakes. That's perfect.
• 45:18
  Yeah, sorry. That was, that was, that was
• 45:20
  1000% my. So.
• 45:23
  Or this? You bought the two, You bought
• 45:24
  the 2:40. I bought the 240 High School,
• 45:26
  but it was complete accident because what it was was I was
• 45:28
  really into Hondas at the time because everybody is at Honda.
• 45:31
  Yeah, yeah, I gotta have a Honda, right?
• 45:34
  And there was a couple of things that motivated me.
• 45:36
  And one, one of the main things was beyond the fact that I had
• 45:39
  friends that had modified Hondas, was there was a, there
• 45:43
  was I think there was a shop called speed factor in or speed
• 45:47
  something in, in, in California where it was kind of unique.
• 45:51
  They were advertising, but they were basically selling modified
• 45:53
  cars with full financing. Here's like A2, here's like a 92
• 45:57
  Civic hatchback with like racing hearts or, you know, whatever,
• 46:00
  whatever, both on parts, whatever, right?
• 46:02
  And they will sell it to you for like, let's say $15,000 with
• 46:05
  full like used car financing. So you imagine you buying a
• 46:08
  three-year old car, a fully modified, funded by, you know,
• 46:12
  financed by the bank, right? So I was like, oh, this is cool,
• 46:15
  whatever. And then my mom at the time was,
• 46:18
  she was dating this person who was a BMW mechanic.
• 46:24
  His name, I forgot his last name.
• 46:26
  First name is Wolfgang, Very Wolfgang Puck.
• 46:29
  Typical. Wolfgang Puck?
• 46:30
  Yep, that was him. That's a shock.
• 46:32
  No, but this guy was a mechanic. He owned a mechanic shop in
• 46:35
  Redondo Beach and turns out he was a former M1 test driver for
• 46:42
  BMW when he was in Germany and he always had a thing for rear
• 46:46
  wheel drive cars. So he was like, this was back
• 46:49
  when Autotrader was just like a regular book that you pick up at
• 46:52
  the local, you know, it's like yellow at the grocery.
• 46:53
  Store. Yeah, you just like that one.
• 46:55
  I'm sure Frankie would grab one. And then so we picked up a thing
• 46:57
  and I was like, I was still like in my, I want my Honda thing,
• 47:01
  right? And he insisted that Hondas were
• 47:03
  not safe. They're not.
• 47:05
  And so he, he basically said, oh, let's check out the other
• 47:09
  cars. And then he's like, oh, this is
• 47:11
  nice. So he, he looked through all the
• 47:13
  various Nissan 240SX for sale, whatever, you know, because
• 47:16
  obviously he, he, he remembered like the Z cars and that kind of
• 47:19
  stuff. So.
• 47:20
  So he convinced you get a 240. He didn't convince me, he
• 47:23
  convinced my mom because ultimately she was the one
• 47:25
  paying for the car. Yep.
• 47:27
  So then he was like, oh, this car is reasonably priced, blah
• 47:29
  blah blah. You know?
• 47:30
  So I got a 93 coupe for. It's actually one of the
• 47:37
  pictures. You might have a photo milk
• 47:40
  it's. Got it for $6000 in 1996.
• 47:43
  March of 96 is. That's literally the price that
• 47:46
  it would sell for today. That's a huge depreciation
• 47:49
  approach. Except one problem.
• 47:51
  The car had a salvage title and then after I got more into the
• 47:55
  cars I realized why it was salvage title because our car
• 47:59
  hadn't been in a pretty massive front end wreck and then the
• 48:01
  whole front core support was re taken out Right here.
• 48:04
  You got to go to my car and then holy shit, old car.
• 48:10
  You could view all the, you could just view the.
• 48:12
  No you know, just just just do like view.
• 48:14
  This is the most prepared anyone's ever come to this
• 48:16
  podcast. View extra Yeah here scrolled.
• 48:19
  Oh, these are. Cool.
• 48:20
  Hey, hey, yo, that's Laguna Sega.
• 48:23
  I know what that track is right there.
• 48:24
  Weather Tank Raceway look at. It look.
• 48:27
  At the Toyota, look at the Toyota MY2, these two photos, my
• 48:30
  one and my. Two So this was the car in
• 48:33
  November of 96, taken with a film camera.
• 48:37
  On your front lawn. And I had to get my your.
• 48:39
  Oh yeah. So.
• 48:41
  What? So look, the car had.
• 48:42
  The car had. Paint on the grills.
• 48:47
  That was me. Oh, OK.
• 48:47
  I also painted the windshield wipers.
• 48:50
  That was also me. Yeah.
• 48:52
  Whoa. Whoa.
• 48:53
  Whoa, red flag. Yeah, white windshield wipers.
• 48:57
  Things were different back then. Devious.
• 48:59
  Work. Notice the tires shine.
• 49:00
  Things were. Different No no no no no.
• 49:02
  Wild Steve tires shine forever. Oh yeah, no, this was this was
• 49:06
  the car I had in high school. And then I had this car up until
• 49:08
  about 2002. And then at some point I
• 49:10
  realized, oh, this car is nice, but I want something slightly
• 49:14
  better. So then I found some another
• 49:17
  much cleaner chassis and I swapped all the parts over.
• 49:20
  Look at your exhaust shield. Yes, as far as you can.
• 49:24
  At that time had a what they call a DTM exhaust.
• 49:28
  The the tip itself was like angled upwards because I was
• 49:32
  like you're very Euro style thing.
• 49:34
  So I had that muffler on the car.
• 49:36
  What did you do to the engine on this?
• 49:38
  Anything. Oh yes, this was the truly fun
• 49:43
  part because it was I. Think there's a photo mount?
• 49:44
  You couldn't find parts for it like cars, like the the parts,
• 49:48
  even though it's just like an intake, right?
• 49:50
  So what it was was I had to buy a universal HKS filter and there
• 49:54
  was another guy that was selling a math adapter.
• 49:59
  OK. What?
• 50:01
  Hold on, I'll get. I'll address that in a minute
• 50:03
  because that's also one of my crowning achievements in my
• 50:05
  early career. Really an achievement.
• 50:08
  So, so I so like the intake, for example, before they had intake
• 50:12
  kits, nobody had anything for the KA.
• 50:14
  So you had to buy somebody that hadn't sold a a little math
• 50:19
  adapter and you have to do like a like a universal filtering,
• 50:22
  bolt it on. Yeah, we honestly, we still have
• 50:24
  to do that shit. They still don't make a good
• 50:27
  intake. Yeah, When I had a Sr.
• 50:29
  I, I just zip tied them together because now a zip tie can
• 50:32
  conform. It'll go like that.
• 50:34
  Yeah, the only intake kits they make are for SR20, like out out
• 50:37
  of Japan. Like you have the little, you
• 50:40
  have everything. Like the silencer.
• 50:42
  All that stuff, you get a Apex integration.
• 50:44
  Fucking one still doesn't. Fit right on a 240 with a Sr.
• 50:47
  swap. But that's the one you want to
• 50:48
  buy. Yeah.
• 50:49
  So this is that exact same car later on and you could tell all
• 50:52
  the ricer stuff that I've done to it.
• 50:55
  For starters, they had a case the.
• 50:56
  Wheels are cool. The wheels are cool.
• 50:59
  This was one of those things that was also imported by us.
• 51:01
  Buddy Club. Yep, P1P1.
• 51:03
  Yeah, No, no, no, sorry. No, no, no, no.
• 51:05
  Sorry. Time out.
• 51:06
  Sorry. I need to not Buddy Club Cosay.
• 51:08
  Cosay. Correct.
• 51:09
  Cosay K1. Cosay was imported by us.
• 51:11
  Cosay K1 and Buddy Club P1 were the exact same wheel made in the
• 51:15
  Philippines, even though it's a Japanese company.
• 51:20
  It was not made in Japan. Yeah, that was one of those
• 51:23
  weird things that we'll discuss. But here, for example, the case
• 51:26
  badge, even though it's not a Sylvia, not a Could.
• 51:29
  You have the case. Badge.
• 51:30
  Chris is. My front, yeah.
• 51:35
  Thing is. Air Dam.
• 51:37
  Home Depot. That I knew that.
• 51:40
  They still sell it. They still sell it.
• 51:42
  Yes, they do. I mean, I know I used that shit,
• 51:44
  people. Yeah, so.
• 51:46
  The garden liner. The inspiration for this was
• 51:49
  actually my same high school friend that hooked me up with
• 51:50
  the job at AKT was he had a lowered Chevy truck and he had
• 51:55
  like this like front air dam thing it looked.
• 51:57
  Pretty good. And it looked good, but it was
• 51:59
  his was more like hard, right? It was like, it was like it
• 52:01
  actually worked, right? And but then I was like, oh,
• 52:04
  that's cool. And then I made my own version
• 52:07
  that looks. What do we expect?
• 52:10
  The lip. We should have gone with the
• 52:11
  side. Squad Yeah, you should have just
• 52:12
  brought it all. The way around talking.
• 52:14
  But OK, first style. But for but for years to come
• 52:18
  though. But for years to come, people
• 52:21
  used that garden lip. What you needed was.
• 52:25
  Forever. The OEM lip.
• 52:27
  Yeah, you. You needed an OEM lip to mount
• 52:29
  it on, so you needed a. Ready that ready lip.
• 52:31
  East Bear lip. Yeah, that one.
• 52:33
  That goes in there. Yep.
• 52:34
  Oh yeah. Yeah.
• 52:35
  And then the. Optional fog.
• 52:37
  Lights the PIA? No, those are Pia's.
• 52:38
  Pia Oh, I love that, Love that 2000s.
• 52:41
  Of PIA, Pia's were like the number one choice for fog lights
• 52:44
  back then. I'm not gonna lie to you like
• 52:46
  I'm kind of digging the paint mesh wipers right now.
• 52:48
  You. You're now I know you're hungry.
• 52:51
  I'm thinking I'm thinking that might make a comeback.
• 52:53
  No, no, no. Maybe.
• 52:56
  Rattle campaign jobs. I think that might.
• 52:58
  You also have to repaint it every so often because it would
• 53:00
  flake. Because I didn't, because I
• 53:02
  didn't strip the paint. I didn't know anything about
• 53:03
  paint so I just painted over something.
• 53:05
  Malcolm thinks it might make a comeback, too.
• 53:09
  I don't mind it. See.
• 53:10
  OK, what about? But yeah, this was my first car
• 53:13
  and then I had it up until 2002 last time I swapped stuff.
• 53:18
  Any other photos This caramel, sorry.
• 53:20
  Yeah, there's tons of photos happened entirely.
• 53:22
  Yeah, you could just go through a Malcolm.
• 53:23
  So you just kind of go through them, yeah.
• 53:25
  Click, click, click. Like see, like P ones.
• 53:27
  I know P ones, but cose yeah, cose yes, Oh wait and.
• 53:33
  There we go. There we go, there we go.
• 53:34
  Start at S13 Cloudtail right there and then just click right.
• 53:38
  This was this was streets. This was streets.
• 53:41
  Yeah, no, that thing is this head gasket smoke.
• 53:44
  This was This is also a single single open diff trying to slide
• 53:50
  on open diff. Really, I used to try.
• 53:52
  Yeah, actually I have. I can't say that I'm a good
• 53:56
  driver, but I can say that I'm a consistent driver.
• 53:59
  And one of the things that one of the things I did very
• 54:00
  consistently was I was able to slide my open diff car.
• 54:05
  But the problem with open diff is that you can't transition
• 54:07
  going from One Direction to the other.
• 54:08
  So when you transition, your car will always spin out, right.
• 54:11
  So then there was this second clip of me on YouTube where I
• 54:15
  basically slide right and I slide right, left and I spin
• 54:18
  out. And I did it four more times.
• 54:20
  And I was like, there was like a montage at the end where if you
• 54:23
  look at all the clips, all the sex things side by side, it's
• 54:25
  like I'm doing the exact same thing.
• 54:26
  Like, almost like I'm a robot. Now we got weldeds.
• 54:31
  Yeah, but this was open diff. This was back when like, I
• 54:34
  didn't know what. What year?
• 54:36
  What year was this? I was.
• 54:38
  Looking for a 2002 thousand, 2000 and 1:00-ish.
• 54:41
  And they people were like, drifting was a thing now, like.
• 54:44
  They were doing no. So this was back when it was
• 54:46
  actually hard to drift. So there was only so many events
• 54:49
  where you could drift at and you could only do it kind of like
• 54:51
  secretly. OK.
• 54:53
  What do you mean like OneNote? Facial no, no.
• 54:55
  For example, you can go to Buttonwillow and do a track
• 54:57
  event right? And you can do a car, what they
• 54:59
  call a car control group, but you can't slide aggressively.
• 55:04
  You could just kind of like come into a corner hot and kind of
• 55:06
  like do a controlled slide. Power Slide.
• 55:09
  Yeah, not even power slide. Nobody had power back then.
• 55:12
  It was like it was like stock A or drill break.
• 55:15
  It was basically you would do something to get the car to
• 55:17
  slide. Yeah, but what it was was the
• 55:19
  track owners frowned upon you going off track?
• 55:21
  What happens when someone showed up with like a welded diff and
• 55:23
  like really? Nobody had a welded diff back.
• 55:25
  Then someone had to eventually. Somebody, somebody, yes.
• 55:27
  But if what I'm saying is that eventually at some point people
• 55:30
  realized that drifting was catching on.
• 55:31
  So the track owners were more OK with it, but before that was the
• 55:35
  case it was just confined to parking lots.
• 55:38
  If you can find a parking lot, I like your.
• 55:40
  Plate. I need.
• 55:42
  My my $50 turbo kit customized plate in California back then
• 55:48
  cost or actually without any like fancy lettering customized
• 55:52
  plate and now it's like 60 or so, but it's.
• 55:54
  So you did turbo it though. No.
• 55:56
  Just the license. You just got the license plate.
• 55:58
  Yes, that sounds like no, that's no.
• 56:01
  That's actually really. Funny I I this is this is before
• 56:04
  you could check online. So, so you I have to physically
• 56:07
  go to the DMV, fill out the form and be like, hey, is this
• 56:10
  combination taken? And somebody will punch in the
• 56:12
  computer and look, and if it's not taken, then I can take that.
• 56:15
  So how many people would ask you?
• 56:16
  You turned. On it, probably everybody.
• 56:20
  For a while, for the first six months, I was like, this is
• 56:23
  cool. And then afterwards I realized,
• 56:26
  oh God, I'm one of those people, Yeah.
• 56:28
  So you never turboed this? Car.
• 56:29
  Nope, I never turboed. But The thing is though, when?
• 56:32
  You go on track with Alex. Like, you can't keep up with
• 56:34
  him. The mic.
• 56:35
  I'm sorry. Yeah.
• 56:36
  So like. Oh yeah, as far as they can
• 56:37
  exhaust system like see, look at look at the date stamp on this
• 56:39
  99915. Wow.
• 56:41
  Is this from a film camera? Right.
• 56:43
  So there's like when they have the camera that put the little
• 56:46
  date stamp on the. That's all Frankie wants is the
• 56:49
  year. I was 10.
• 56:50
  I was 10 years old. Gee. 99 Where are you really?
• 56:53
  Yeah, what? Carl, you were two.
• 56:57
  No, I was 4. See, even back then, Jesus, you
• 57:01
  were still for your car on Jack stands like you know.
• 57:04
  Those Jack stands look just like the Harbor Freight Johns.
• 57:06
  No, that that was that was that was from like Kragen O'Reilly or
• 57:10
  or. Wait, wait, wait.
• 57:11
  Look at the wooden creeper on the right.
• 57:13
  Hell yeah yeah, hell yeah. And that yellow lamp right there
• 57:16
  that's giving you 10 lumens. I was using those up till like
• 57:19
  last. Year Me too.
• 57:20
  I I have one, I have orange one. There it is, KA24.
• 57:24
  Just kidding. Our debt?
• 57:25
  Yeah. Oh yeah, dude, this is.
• 57:28
  This is wheels. Nah, yeah, this is.
• 57:31
  Look at the paint mesh wipers with the wheels now.
• 57:33
  Yeah, look, look at the little quarter.
• 57:35
  Light. Look at the blue.
• 57:36
  Calipers. Where?
• 57:38
  Yeah. Yeah, it's in one of the photos
• 57:40
  I. Think 2 calipers.
• 57:42
  Nice like a baby. Blue color.
• 57:43
  Thought it was a light Simpson. Helmet, what's going on in
• 57:45
  there? Yeah, I know.
• 57:46
  It's all. It's all random.
• 57:48
  No, it's cool. Nah, yeah.
• 57:50
  It's all. It's also the weird part is the
• 57:52
  an absurd amount of body roll in the front.
• 57:54
  Is this the? Streets.
• 57:55
  Yeah, this is the streets. This is coming out of the skid
• 57:57
  pad doing clockwise. I like that the wipers were
• 58:01
  paint matched and then the mirrors.
• 58:03
  Also no no no. My left front side marker is
• 58:06
  falling out. The.
• 58:07
  G's. It's all the G's.
• 58:09
  It's all the G's. Yeah, that will.
• 58:11
  Dude, that thing is picking that front right wheel.
• 58:14
  Yeah. Stocks way bar look how.
• 58:16
  Straight the body is look. How big they look in that car.
• 58:20
  Look how straight the body is though.
• 58:21
  Look. Look the line from from Arch to
• 58:25
  a brand new. Car.
• 58:26
  I know it just looks so good when it's.
• 58:28
  Like and this and this was the crappy of the of the S thirteens
• 58:31
  that I had actually. It's just crazy that you got
• 58:34
  this car for 6 grand. Three years after, that's a
• 58:37
  heater of a photo right there. Yeah.
• 58:39
  Well, this is. This is just a scanned from a
• 58:41
  regular print. And then there's also poor
• 58:43
  resolution. So it's like it just looks cool
• 58:46
  now. But back in the back in the day,
• 58:48
  it was like, oh. Yeah, that looks like a
• 58:50
  catalogue photo. It does.
• 58:53
  Oh, Ek back there. Yuh.
• 58:56
  What is that, 1414? And then there's.
• 58:57
  ADC 2. That's a type R in the
• 58:59
  background because back then a lot of the track guys, it was
• 59:02
  like if you had a type R, you were just like showing off at
• 59:04
  the. LSD is that So what 99?
• 59:07
  So that's, if that's a newer one, that's the facelift one
• 59:11
  too. Yeah.
• 59:13
  Yeah. So you did a lot of grip driving
• 59:15
  too? Pretty much.
• 59:17
  I mean, that was my main passion.
• 59:19
  Well, not even autocross. I got in the autocross way
• 59:22
  later, but it was this. Well, I feel like as you
• 59:26
  mentioned that there, that drifting wasn't even really
• 59:28
  readily available yet. I feel like there wasn't really
• 59:31
  an option for you to be like, oh, I'm going to grip drive or
• 59:34
  I'm going to be a rally driver or I'm going to be like this.
• 59:37
  Like it's really just racing. Well, the other thing, the other
• 59:40
  thing too is that late mid, early, mid, late 90s, that time
• 59:45
  frame, the number one driving of any kind that people did was
• 59:48
  drag racing. Yeah, more so than anything
• 59:51
  else. And the, and when I was in high
• 59:53
  school, I, I went to a few St. races and like back then SoCal
• 59:58
  St. races, it was like, you could look it up.
• 1:00:00
  It's all like legend at this point.
• 1:00:02
  But there was like Sylmar, Pomona, there was a bunch of
• 1:00:04
  other places. I saw the.
• 1:00:05
  I saw the MTV real life. Yeah, the closest one to me was.
• 1:00:11
  The The true life I'm a street. I'm a street.
• 1:00:13
  Racer Yeah, I've seen it. The.
• 1:00:15
  Closest one, sorry. Was not going.
• 1:00:16
  To dinner in like the Compton Wilmington area so there would
• 1:00:21
  always be a couple like we would always meet at this Del Taco off
• 1:00:24
  of the 91 freeway Oh no and Avalon and and from there we
• 1:00:28
  would go we would go wherever right but one of the places that
• 1:00:32
  they love going to was right next to right next to one of the
• 1:00:34
  refineries in Wilmington. But the cops got smart and when
• 1:00:38
  they started busting it, they were hardcore.
• 1:00:40
  They they would showed up with maybe like two cop cars.
• 1:00:42
  OK, well, what they did was they showed up with as many flatbed
• 1:00:47
  tow trucks as they can get that for that day.
• 1:00:49
  Because you know why? Because the street racers are
• 1:00:51
  stupid enough to go on this street where there was
• 1:00:54
  essentially bottlenecks on either.
• 1:00:56
  End. I was going to say no.
• 1:00:57
  So they just showed up with like 4-4 or six, like, you know, tow
• 1:01:00
  trucks and just blocked the exits and nobody could go
• 1:01:02
  anywhere. And there was just like two
• 1:01:03
  cops, just like going down the entire like hundreds of cars is
• 1:01:06
  writing tickets. Yeah, I've seen they do that
• 1:01:08
  over here too. Yeah, but but back then it was
• 1:01:10
  like drag racing was like the number one thing, so more than
• 1:01:14
  anything else, right. So that was like that.
• 1:01:16
  Like the whole thing was Fast and Furious.
• 1:01:17
  The very first Fast and Furious movie was drag racing.
• 1:01:20
  It's kind of based on that whole, yeah.
• 1:01:22
  Area because it was like idrc like, you know, like the was
• 1:01:27
  like the big thing and it was like all front all these front
• 1:01:29
  wheel drive racers and a lot of the more famous like builders
• 1:01:33
  nowadays that like you know name wise, they all made their name
• 1:01:38
  back in the day building front wheel drive cars like it was
• 1:01:41
  like the first car that broke 10s.
• 1:01:43
  I was about to say like that. Broke nines.
• 1:01:44
  You know that kind of stuff, right?
• 1:01:47
  Wow. You know, so, so that's, that's
• 1:01:50
  that's old school stuff for you, but that's just how the industry
• 1:01:53
  evolved. It went from that to like, you
• 1:01:55
  know, the same people that were building 4 wheel drive drive
• 1:01:57
  cars took their expertise and started building drift cars.
• 1:02:01
  Papadakis for example, look at look at him right his his his
• 1:02:04
  background is 4 wheel drive drag racing.
• 1:02:06
  Is it really? Yeah, he had.
• 1:02:07
  I didn't know he had the AEM civic, the yellow civic that was
• 1:02:10
  very famous for. Front wheel drive time attack
• 1:02:12
  and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean that that stuff,
• 1:02:14
  but he went from that to being now involved in, you know, rate
• 1:02:17
  drifting and other stuff that's, you know, was non existent when
• 1:02:22
  he started. Yeah.
• 1:02:23
  The. What was it like?
• 1:02:26
  Because I think I asked Ken the same question, but what was it
• 1:02:29
  like when Fast and the Furious came out for you?
• 1:02:33
  Because were you guys already connected at that point?
• 1:02:36
  Okay, so so that means maybe your story might have been
• 1:02:39
  intertwined with Alexis, but I need to hear it from Alexis.
• 1:02:42
  Point is a lot more tied with the industry, so you had a lot
• 1:02:45
  more industry friends within that movie.
• 1:02:48
  You're like. We got you got our wheels in
• 1:02:52
  there. He's.
• 1:02:52
  Like, oh, that's so and so's car.
• 1:02:54
  Oh, that's so and so so. You still working?
• 1:02:55
  Are you still working at the same spot when you when the
• 1:02:57
  movie came? Out.
• 1:02:58
  So wait, what year did the movie come out?
• 1:03:00
  2000. 09990. 92000 yeah. So I was, I was already at AKT
• 1:03:05
  at that time, right. So but I've always been a more
• 1:03:09
  technical accurate person. So when they when I saw some of
• 1:03:14
  the lingo that was being thrown in the movie, I was just like,
• 1:03:17
  the moment I heard that I was just like, Nope, this is not for
• 1:03:21
  me. Yeah.
• 1:03:23
  Like which is why like. It's like watching.
• 1:03:25
  It's like a military dude watching a military movie.
• 1:03:27
  Correct. It's like, it's like, cuz for
• 1:03:29
  example, I have friends who, so one of my friends, I could be
• 1:03:39
  butchering the the relationship. But one of my friends, she knows
• 1:03:45
  people that because she was in the Navy before, she actually
• 1:03:48
  knows people that were essentially directly or
• 1:03:50
  indirectly involved with like the newest Top Gun movie.
• 1:03:53
  OK, yeah, yeah. So, so there are certain movies
• 1:03:55
  where it was like accurate. They try to strive to be
• 1:03:57
  accurate. I heard good things.
• 1:03:58
  But then if you look at the first Top Gun movie, it was
• 1:04:00
  like, for starters, For starters, you would never talk
• 1:04:03
  that much on the radio. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:05
  You would never be like Roger, Roger engaged.
• 1:04:07
  Like, like, like every time I see that, I'm just kind of like
• 1:04:10
  laughing in the background, like, like.
• 1:04:13
  Do you remember? It's like it's like video, even
• 1:04:15
  the video. Game doing this Alex, God damn
• 1:04:17
  it. Can you?
• 1:04:20
  Can you? Remember.
• 1:04:23
  But but. Can you remember any moments
• 1:04:25
  from Fast and Furious that. No, like the the whole thing
• 1:04:28
  with like the SR20, right? It was like, oh, I'm involved in
• 1:04:31
  Nissan stuff. And he was like, oh, talk about
• 1:04:33
  pull Sr. a couple of Sr. 20s or pull a premium before a week
• 1:04:36
  before race, Yeah. What was up with that?
• 1:04:38
  And it's like, it's like, it's like, OK, first of all.
• 1:04:41
  They're 500 bucks. First of all, there are 500
• 1:04:44
  bucks, right? But second of all who the hell
• 1:04:45
  are you going to get the motors from like and third of all,
• 1:04:49
  nobody. No, back then the probably the
• 1:04:51
  craziest engine swaps you would do would be like ALSV tech swap
• 1:04:53
  in a front wheel drive Honda well.
• 1:04:55
  That's. That's yeah, that's 99.
• 1:04:56
  Those engines probably weren't even no.
• 1:04:58
  No, I don't. That's what I'm saying, that
• 1:04:59
  that that would be the most exotic swap, Yeah.
• 1:05:01
  I forgot it was they were talking about Hondas right?
• 1:05:03
  Yeah, yeah. So so that was that would be the
• 1:05:05
  most exotic swap. So it's like of all the things
• 1:05:07
  are not mentioned in the movie, make it seem exotic or whatever.
• 1:05:11
  I want what you do. I saw hornies.
• 1:05:13
  Oh my God. I, I, I feel like, who did we
• 1:05:15
  talk to about the street race? Kenny Central, Yeah, shout out,
• 1:05:19
  Kenny. I miss you, bro looking, you
• 1:05:22
  know what I'm saying? But I think Fast and the
• 1:05:25
  Furious, if I'm not mistaken, was kind of supposed to be more
• 1:05:28
  based on Hunt's point, I thought.
• 1:05:30
  Yeah, I think the story happened, really.
• 1:05:33
  Yeah. It's originated because it was
• 1:05:35
  off of a Vibe magazine article or something like that, right?
• 1:05:38
  It's something like that and this.
• 1:05:39
  Is going off of Stone magazine. This is going off of like
• 1:05:42
  another reel that I've seen where they focus more on the
• 1:05:45
  drag racing aspect of things which is I think St. the Alpha
• 1:05:49
  or I forget what it is but it's another podcast.
• 1:05:52
  Damn I feel real shitty for not knowing the name but they
• 1:05:55
  mentioned that it was based on Hunt's point.
• 1:05:57
  That's funny. I was like damn I didn't know
• 1:05:59
  that. So now I'm hearing this and I'm
• 1:06:01
  like who? Who had the influence that said
• 1:06:04
  Nah Nah Nah. Mention SR20.
• 1:06:06
  Mention SR20, Mr. Lieberman. Are you sure it wasn't Tom
• 1:06:10
  Nazaro? Yeah.
• 1:06:11
  So. Controlled it, we got.
• 1:06:13
  Craig Lieberman. Craig Lieberman.
• 1:06:15
  My brother hates that kid. I forgot.
• 1:06:16
  I forgot our guy. I forgot specific technical
• 1:06:19
  people involved, but I do know that there was like a couple
• 1:06:21
  other industry veterans that were involved.
• 1:06:25
  Someone's got to take the fall for that one because that was
• 1:06:27
  bad. What?
• 1:06:28
  Seeing a bunch of Hondas and then they say that line.
• 1:06:31
  Well dude, a Honda with a Sr. in it would.
• 1:06:33
  Be well, no, because central nobody did a no, no.
• 1:06:36
  Here's the thing though. Inspect all builds guys.
• 1:06:38
  Yeah, people, people knew about front wheel drive builds, right?
• 1:06:41
  But, but, but here's the thing, though.
• 1:06:43
  At that point in time, nobody in their right mind would put a
• 1:06:46
  Nissan SR20 front wheel drive, let's say turbo, let's say yeah.
• 1:06:50
  And most people right now. Wouldn't do it either.
• 1:06:52
  You would never put that motor in a Honda.
• 1:06:54
  Mostly because back then you had no sources for two real tuning.
• 1:06:59
  Yeah, that was. That was the other thing that
• 1:07:01
  was in the background. That was like, OK, great, all
• 1:07:04
  this lingo, whatever, right? But how can you?
• 1:07:07
  Even if you had a? Yeah, even.
• 1:07:08
  Talking about Motech, you know Motech systems.
• 1:07:10
  No, no, he said. Motech exhaust and a.
• 1:07:12
  Motech Exhaust. Yeah, a lot of a lot of it was a
• 1:07:15
  lot of it was just like put together, right.
• 1:07:16
  But ultimately what it came down to was even if you had a Honda,
• 1:07:19
  right, even your sources for Honda was like limited to like
• 1:07:22
  ROM tune. Yeah.
• 1:07:23
  Like which is still. That's pretty good still.
• 1:07:26
  Use them now. P28 chipped.
• 1:07:28
  Yeah, I know what that is. Yeah, I thought it was just a
• 1:07:30
  fuel controller. But but because because, because
• 1:07:32
  the front wheel drive motors are the the non turbo motors that
• 1:07:35
  the parameters were limited, right?
• 1:07:37
  It was all known stuff. So it was like a ROM tune was
• 1:07:40
  relatively easy. Yeah.
• 1:07:42
  That's why ROM tunes was so popular back then because it was
• 1:07:44
  like you could spend very little money to get decent horsepower
• 1:07:46
  gains. Yeah.
• 1:07:48
  Right, you get the I'm telling you it's AP 28 ECU for a Honda
• 1:07:53
  and you chip that bitch and you go get it tuned over there at
• 1:07:56
  Xenochron. Boom.
• 1:07:58
  I thought they were just like throwing on those little fuel
• 1:08:00
  controllers and like doing. Everything.
• 1:08:02
  That too. You manipulate the air?
• 1:08:04
  Yeah, Signals. Oh no, you're talking about like
• 1:08:06
  the diaphragm thing, like the FMU.
• 1:08:08
  No super. SAFC, yeah.
• 1:08:10
  Oh, SAFC OK, 'cause there's another thing.
• 1:08:14
  It was a FM U it was a fuel management unit or something and
• 1:08:18
  it looked like a yeah fuck me up fam.
• 1:08:21
  You it looks like a disc. You put vacuum to it.
• 1:08:24
  Basically as much gas as you give the car as as watch is
• 1:08:27
  going to go in there as I'm bullshit The golden eagle made
• 1:08:30
  it. I forgot what.
• 1:08:31
  It's called the number one thing to make power was just to cheap.
• 1:08:33
  Make cheap power is just a Nitro shot.
• 1:08:35
  Hell yeah. Now we're talking.
• 1:08:37
  Yeah. That's you're more about that,
• 1:08:38
  Yeah. So what?
• 1:08:39
  What was the nitrous craze like 'cause this?
• 1:08:41
  Is I have no idea. I did that.
• 1:08:42
  I had no interest in that whatsoever.
• 1:08:44
  What I would be fucking I would have.
• 1:08:46
  How do I get the bottling? I would.
• 1:08:47
  Get 100 shot in that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:50
  Yeah, my, my, my main, my my main thing was actually I was.
• 1:08:53
  Getting to work and getting home.
• 1:08:55
  And this is not. This is.
• 1:08:56
  Having a reliable vehicle or being this.
• 1:08:58
  Is not, this is actually not being me, me being sentimental,
• 1:09:01
  but this is actually a real story and and actually my
• 1:09:04
  probably in hindsight, it probably influenced me more than
• 1:09:07
  anything else early in that time frame.
• 1:09:09
  So I was also part of like the circa SER Club of America.
• 1:09:15
  So it was like B13B14 Central SER.
• 1:09:17
  Oh, OK, B-15. How did that?
• 1:09:19
  Happen. That's Sr. 20 It was Nissan
• 1:09:22
  people, no more specifically because people like Michael
• 1:09:24
  Jima, OK, he was an he was an engineer at Nissan at the point,
• 1:09:27
  right at that time, but he was also like building like, you
• 1:09:30
  know, he was heavily involved with that group, right?
• 1:09:33
  Yeah, I love Moto. I can't.
• 1:09:35
  We love Mike. Yeah.
• 1:09:36
  So, so Mike, Mike can tell you this if you if you ask like that
• 1:09:41
  group of people was where they were way more courteous and
• 1:09:44
  professional to each other overall, just in terms of like
• 1:09:47
  just the community, right. And there was a guy named.
• 1:09:50
  So what it was, was there was this thing called Ultimate
• 1:09:57
  Ultimate Sports Car Challenge. I forgot the specific acronym,
• 1:10:00
  but it was basically one of those things where spoke compact
• 1:10:03
  car had this thing where it's like you would just build a car
• 1:10:05
  to do like a series of drag racing track events, whatever,
• 1:10:08
  you know, and they ran track. You know, it's like it was like
• 1:10:11
  a like a kind of like a like a all around gymnastics for cars,
• 1:10:15
  right? You know, and then you also do
• 1:10:17
  like a car show. So it's like it wasn't just that
• 1:10:19
  we had to build a car that basically meet all of these like
• 1:10:22
  things. And whoever scored the highest
• 1:10:23
  was was crowned like the. I love those shows.
• 1:10:26
  Can we bring those shows back? That's the problem.
• 1:10:28
  Here's the problem. We can.
• 1:10:29
  It's. Expensive.
• 1:10:30
  No Plus. I know, bring me the.
• 1:10:33
  Car. I will rate it.
• 1:10:34
  I'll take a video of it. I'm gonna drive it for a lot.
• 1:10:36
  You want to be the judge? Yeah, OK.
• 1:10:38
  I just want to see the cars. I got to go review Alex's Smart
• 1:10:41
  car for a little bit final. Bout on.
• 1:10:43
  Star Different, Alex. Right.
• 1:10:44
  Oh no, no, sorry, not not you different Alex.
• 1:10:47
  This Alex was like no, no smart car for me.
• 1:10:51
  Front St. Alex is the one with the Smart
• 1:10:52
  car. Yeah, but no, that's a those
• 1:10:55
  shows. I feel like early Pimp My very,
• 1:10:58
  very, very early Pin My ride. There was another show called.
• 1:11:02
  Yo we put a fish tank in the back of.
• 1:11:03
  You no, no, no. What you know about what you
• 1:11:05
  know about. Trick it out with RJ Devera.
• 1:11:08
  Nothing. Yeah, you don't even know.
• 1:11:11
  You don't even know bro RJ. Devera was one of the technical
• 1:11:14
  consultants for the first fascinating for you.
• 1:11:16
  OK, I'll tell you one thing. I know I hate him.
• 1:11:18
  How about that? He he, he worked with cars and
• 1:11:21
  stuff like. So yeah, that was probably that
• 1:11:23
  was the dude in the Civic playing Grant like.
• 1:11:26
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that was. The guy in the Civic shit, yeah.
• 1:11:29
  There was a lot of the a lot of the other things about that era
• 1:11:33
  was also influenced by car builds at car shows.
• 1:11:37
  Like. Like no, no, not see, but like
• 1:11:39
  import show off, hard import nights.
• 1:11:42
  First it was import show off and then it was hard import nights.
• 1:11:44
  Hard import nights came second. But at that time it was like a
• 1:11:47
  lot of car crews building these cars.
• 1:11:50
  And there was like, I, I, I also remember one of my other friends
• 1:11:53
  was heavily influenced by a guy named LJ Garcia, a Filipino guy.
• 1:11:58
  And he had this like, really like award-winning wide body
• 1:12:01
  Civic. Like, like, it was like winning
• 1:12:03
  shows. Left is it a hatch is it a hatch
• 1:12:05
  so he's. Like do you know I can?
• 1:12:07
  Probably find this. LJ Garcia, do you mind?
• 1:12:09
  I forgot, I forgot. I just.
• 1:12:10
  I just. Remember, I feel like.
• 1:12:12
  That crew was just like winning all the shows.
• 1:12:14
  It was like unstoppable. Feels body.
• 1:12:16
  Kids. LJ Garcia.
• 1:12:18
  That sounds mad familiar because I think, Yup, there it is.
• 1:12:22
  Ohhh yeah. Yeah, Yep.
• 1:12:24
  There it is. So, so, so, so it was he, he
• 1:12:27
  there was multiple cars that that that they were building,
• 1:12:30
  right. Wait.
• 1:12:32
  When when was this car built? Like late 90s.
• 1:12:35
  Yo, those yellow tips. Keep in mind this is the Ek
• 1:12:38
  Hatch, right? So these are brand new.
• 1:12:39
  Car slammed car. These are brand.
• 1:12:41
  New. It's not slammed, it's on
• 1:12:43
  eighteens, that's why. Nineteens probably at that,
• 1:12:46
  yeah. Nineteens.
• 1:12:47
  Dude, that is dude, the yellow tint.
• 1:12:50
  Yellow tint is crazy. Fuck, I need it.
• 1:12:52
  It'd probably make everything look like sepia filter.
• 1:12:57
  I'd be driving here with yellow sunglasses on to make it look
• 1:12:59
  sunny. Yeah, everything, everything was
• 1:13:01
  done. Yeah, now the sun visor.
• 1:13:02
  Look at the sun visor. Look at the sun visor, you like
• 1:13:04
  the interior. Fire.
• 1:13:07
  Look at the visor. The visor.
• 1:13:09
  That's what I want display. That's what I want.
• 1:13:11
  I'm. OK with having video games and
• 1:13:12
  TV's everywhere, that's fine. But the paint matched.
• 1:13:15
  I don't. Know.
• 1:13:17
  Well, yeah, that's it. Yup, I need that.
• 1:13:21
  I need that. But also, if you go back to the
• 1:13:23
  interior shot, Malcolm, I got a lot of this shit.
• 1:13:26
  OK, I drive a steering. I drive around with my glove box
• 1:13:30
  open, boom. I have a TV in the center, boom.
• 1:13:33
  Everything is multi colored. Boom.
• 1:13:36
  Look at the gauge cluster. You see the gauge cluster.
• 1:13:38
  I see the. The dash overlays were sick.
• 1:13:41
  I see the. 90mm tack in the fucking air vent on the left
• 1:13:45
  side. I don't.
• 1:13:45
  Even know, I don't even know why you would need that.
• 1:13:47
  No, because. Because the car didn't have a
• 1:13:48
  tack. Because it was a probably ADA.
• 1:13:50
  Yeah, it didn't have a tack. I, I, my high school, one of my
• 1:13:54
  friends had one and it was just like when I first drove it, I
• 1:13:57
  was like, how do you shift? How do you know when to shift?
• 1:13:59
  He's like, oh, just listen for the engine.
• 1:14:01
  I'm like, I'm like what? Yeah, get.
• 1:14:04
  Into the. VTech.
• 1:14:04
  Hell yeah. No, no, there was no VTech,
• 1:14:06
  right? You just basically the RPMS got
• 1:14:08
  high enough, the engine got annoying enough and he shifted.
• 1:14:10
  Yo LJ. Garcia 99 coverage on the left.
• 1:14:14
  Malcolm, move your cursor to the left.
• 1:14:16
  Right there, LJ Garcia was really doing it, holding it down
• 1:14:20
  for the Filipinos. Bruh.
• 1:14:23
  Cuz that's it. That's it.
• 1:14:24
  That. Car.
• 1:14:25
  Look at the dictation back in December 1919.
• 1:14:28
  Look. At that, look at the mirrors
• 1:14:29
  under dude. Filipinos were during this time.
• 1:14:33
  Filipinos ran the entire input. When I went, when I would go
• 1:14:37
  back to the Philippines. I'm doing it right now cuz right
• 1:14:41
  now look at the IS outside. Gleaming.
• 1:14:45
  What dirt? But when I would go back.
• 1:14:48
  So that's 99, four, five years old.
• 1:14:50
  So let's say by the time I was going to the Philippines and
• 1:14:53
  somewhat was able to generate coherent memories like 01 or 02.
• 1:14:59
  So I'm six or seven Hondas everywhere, everywhere.
• 1:15:05
  So that's really the only car that I really wanted when I grew
• 1:15:08
  up. I didn't know about two 40s or
• 1:15:09
  anything like that. But the fact that I know this
• 1:15:12
  dude's Filipino now, I'm like, OK, all of Philippines was
• 1:15:18
  trying to was maybe saw one person make it, then this
• 1:15:21
  Filipino culture is very influenced by other Filipinos.
• 1:15:25
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:15:26
  Like it's that's crazy to me. That's sick.
• 1:15:29
  I wonder what he's doing. Now, yeah.
• 1:15:31
  What's he? Doing.
• 1:15:31
  Where's that? Car now that car is with sticky
• 1:15:33
  diljo right now or maybe he stole or maybe he sold it to him
• 1:15:37
  or he he did a. If I remember quickly that site
• 1:15:41
  does a lot of like archival review of stuff.
• 1:15:46
  Yeah, photo. That photo's good.
• 1:15:49
  What's that? But but this wasn't.
• 1:15:52
  I'm not going off on tension again.
• 1:15:54
  That's fine. That's what this podcast is all
• 1:15:55
  about. No.
• 1:15:57
  So going back to that ultimate sports car Challenge thing,
• 1:15:59
  whatever. Right.
• 1:16:00
  Yes. Yes, it was something done with
• 1:16:02
  by a sport compact car back then.
• 1:16:05
  Is that a magazine? Yes.
• 1:16:06
  Yes. So sport compact car, import
• 1:16:09
  tuner, turbo magazine, Honda tuning, they're all like roughly
• 1:16:12
  the same type of magazine, just catering to different stuff.
• 1:16:15
  Sport compact car was a little bit more professional in terms
• 1:16:18
  of like the information, more technical.
• 1:16:22
  But what it was was there was a guy named Matt Kemp and he was
• 1:16:25
  part of the SER club. And so he had driven down from
• 1:16:29
  Norcal and to help Michael Jima at the Drag Race event that they
• 1:16:33
  were doing that particular week. And Long story short, because of
• 1:16:38
  AI forgot the, the specifics, but basically he got T-bone on
• 1:16:44
  the freeway because he had to. He was, I forgot if it was
• 1:16:46
  swerving out of the way because it was like a dog in the freeway
• 1:16:49
  or something like that. But he basically got killed in
• 1:16:52
  the accident. But what happened, what
• 1:16:54
  happened? And the reason why I, I, I
• 1:16:56
  didn't know the guy beforehand. I didn't know about this until
• 1:17:00
  after it happened because obviously the SER guys were
• 1:17:02
  talking about it. So what it was was somebody had
• 1:17:04
  posted a recap that he did where he ran a Buttonwillow like
• 1:17:08
  months ago. Stock B13 century SER cars,
• 1:17:14
  whatever econo box, right? It's not a fast car, but it's
• 1:17:16
  also not a slow car if you know how to drive it.
• 1:17:19
  And Long story short, he drove the crap out of the car.
• 1:17:22
  He was trying to chase down this Corvette that he had been slowly
• 1:17:25
  improving his pace with throughout the day.
• 1:17:28
  Last session of the day he was like, oh, this Corvettes, I want
• 1:17:31
  this Corvette. I want to pass them, not to race
• 1:17:34
  them, but just to say hey, I can pass the Corvette at the.
• 1:17:36
  Track you wanted a point by. Correct, you wanted you know,
• 1:17:38
  it's important because if you're trying to learn right, you that
• 1:17:41
  point by from somebody has a far superior machine is means the
• 1:17:45
  world to you, right, especially if you're young and he basically
• 1:17:48
  drove the crap out of the car and then ultimately he couldn't
• 1:17:50
  he couldn't get the point by because his brakes were
• 1:17:52
  overheating, his car was overheating, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:17:55
  And then at the end, you know, the checkered flag, whatever,
• 1:17:57
  and then the corner workers that was like, you know, on the cool
• 1:17:59
  down lap, right? It was like just clapping
• 1:18:01
  everybody. And then there was one specific
• 1:18:03
  corner worker that he had mentioned that was like pointing
• 1:18:04
  at him just like gesturing like like like just, you know,
• 1:18:08
  awesome, right. And afterwards the Corvette
• 1:18:11
  driver came over and and asked who the central SER driver was
• 1:18:16
  and basically introduced himself and apologized for not letting
• 1:18:19
  him pass because he was still learning the car as well.
• 1:18:24
  But the fact that the fact that Matt Kane got this not not, not,
• 1:18:28
  not not KEMPKEMPE. If you look up Matt Kemp KEMPE
• 1:18:33
  on like an SER, you'll find like something related to him.
• 1:18:37
  But basically what it was was he was like, because of that, he
• 1:18:42
  felt like he was like king for the day, king for a day, right?
• 1:18:45
  That kind of stuff, right. And then for me it was like like
• 1:18:48
  driving, like doing stuff. It was like that.
• 1:18:50
  That was actually probably the more important thing more than
• 1:18:53
  anything else was not like other people accepting you or
• 1:18:57
  whatever, but it's more like how you feel about doing something
• 1:19:00
  after you do it, right? You want that sense of
• 1:19:03
  accomplishment, you know you achieve something, whatever, but
• 1:19:08
  more so about getting you feeling it inside rather than
• 1:19:11
  somebody else telling you right that.
• 1:19:13
  So that was kind of like one of those things where I in
• 1:19:16
  hindsight that changed probably my perspective about a lot of
• 1:19:19
  things in general because it was more or less about.
• 1:19:22
  It was less about, but I want somebody else to feel about
• 1:19:25
  something. It was more about how I wanted
• 1:19:27
  to feel about the outcome of that.
• 1:19:29
  Yeah. So that was one of those things
• 1:19:30
  where it's like. Don't you?
• 1:19:31
  Wouldn't you say that that's a pretty relevant thing that I
• 1:19:34
  wish that more people took in today?
• 1:19:37
  Yeah. No, no, because like.
• 1:19:39
  Do what you want to do type of deal.
• 1:19:40
  Yeah, I mean, I mean 20 years ago and now it's all the same.
• 1:19:44
  It's like people always ask, oh, what should I do with my car?
• 1:19:47
  Should I do this? Should I do that?
• 1:19:48
  But it's like in reality, it's like, are you building your car
• 1:19:51
  for yourself or are you building your car for somebody else,
• 1:19:54
  right? That's always, I always ask that
• 1:19:55
  question because it's like it's relevant.
• 1:19:58
  It's like, you know, it's like you should be doing something
• 1:20:01
  that you enjoy, not what you think others would enjoy.
• 1:20:05
  Yeah, right. That's one of the drawbacks of
• 1:20:07
  like social media and like social media age is that you're
• 1:20:11
  constantly chasing after like likes, right?
• 1:20:15
  That interaction, right. So and so as so much stuff,
• 1:20:18
  whatever I mean. Very specific example, why the
• 1:20:20
  hell are LMGT 2's so expensive, right?
• 1:20:24
  You did not just bring that up. Right, because.
• 1:20:27
  Because people, people want it because it's in high demand, but
• 1:20:29
  it's also because a handful of people talked, you know, hyped
• 1:20:32
  it up. I bought it for $500, Alex.
• 1:20:36
  Even to this day, even to this day, I'm putting it on record.
• 1:20:40
  Even to this day I will. If you gave me a set of LMGT
• 1:20:42
  twos for free, I will not run it.
• 1:20:45
  Why? I don't.
• 1:20:46
  I never liked the wheel. I drifted on them.
• 1:20:48
  I drove them in the winter. Little threes.
• 1:20:50
  I never liked the wheel he. Hates them.
• 1:20:52
  Too and I never. Like he has them.
• 1:20:54
  If you if you give it to me, I will.
• 1:20:55
  I will not run it. Yeah.
• 1:20:57
  I know. People but but LMGT 4 is
• 1:21:00
  actually. Look, no, no, no GT twos.
• 1:21:02
  Oh GTGT twos with the lips. Which one is?
• 1:21:05
  I don't. The weird the weird thing is is
• 1:21:07
  that the wheel that I like is actually the LMGT 3.
• 1:21:10
  So the LMGT three was a two piece wheel forge made by Race.
• 1:21:13
  I think all of those. Look good it looks similar to
• 1:21:16
  the IT looks similar to the fours except it was a multi
• 1:21:19
  piece wheel Yeah the four was a one piece forge.
• 1:21:23
  So LMGT 3 SI liked twos. I did not.
• 1:21:26
  LMGT 3 I don't know. What the hell?
• 1:21:28
  What the hell all? Right, put it on the screen.
• 1:21:30
  I need to see, I need to see. Give it a goo J MO Sorry
• 1:21:37
  Malcolm, it's a blood wiser this. 1 That's cool.
• 1:21:40
  Yeah. So.
• 1:21:40
  Okay, wait, yeah, that's pretty soon the face.
• 1:21:43
  Looks kind of like this. So the other reason why I liked
• 1:21:47
  this because when I was at 5 Zegan, 5 Zegan had 66 dollars,
• 1:21:51
  five Zegan. In stock too.
• 1:21:53
  First thing is. I think this is like a clock or.
• 1:21:55
  Something, yeah, that's gotta be like a fucking.
• 1:21:59
  Don't click on. That.
• 1:22:00
  Link Yeah, don't click. On the link by now.
• 1:22:03
  Not during the podcast. So this was made by Rays and and
• 1:22:06
  back then five Ziggen had a wheel called the five zig and
• 1:22:08
  five ZR. The original 5 Zig and five zero
• 1:22:10
  was the two piece wheel that was an identical version of this
• 1:22:13
  wheel except it said 5 Ziggen. Yes, and they're heavy as balls.
• 1:22:16
  No, no, no, no, no, no the. 5. ZR.
• 1:22:19
  The two piece, no, the two piece was not the case.
• 1:22:21
  The two piece was a two piece forged.
• 1:22:23
  This was a two piece force. I'm talking about the five.
• 1:22:25
  Zigun, I don't know. The five Zigun 5 CR 2 piece was
• 1:22:28
  a two piece force identical to this.
• 1:22:30
  It wasn't. Headed up.
• 1:22:31
  The five zigun had the second version of the five CR which is
• 1:22:34
  a one piece that was heavy as hell.
• 1:22:35
  That's the one that I see a lot of. 5 Zigun if.
• 1:22:38
  You. Search 5 Zigun 5 ZR.
• 1:22:42
  But I I I had LMGT twos. I fortunately sold them to a
• 1:22:46
  friend of ours. Chris, you met earlier.
• 1:22:48
  If you look at this one, this is.
• 1:22:50
  This is. This is the two piece version.
• 1:22:53
  That's a cool wheel, but that's the same wheel as the LMGT 3.
• 1:22:56
  So you see with the. Z down there.
• 1:22:59
  You see how you see how the the, the embossment thing embedment
• 1:23:03
  or whatever the. Logo yeah blue and if I see can
• 1:23:06
  also love daming random stuff after things in Europe.
• 1:23:10
  So this was a 5 ZR cops. Cops is a corner at Silverstone
• 1:23:15
  in in in the UK at the track at the F1 track.
• 1:23:18
  And then they also had a height, a wheel called the Heidfeld, the
• 1:23:22
  high wheel. The.
• 1:23:23
  High. Is that a blitz Rep on the left
• 1:23:25
  which looks like a techno speed all the way over to?
• 1:23:27
  Second big mics. Yeah, dude, I.
• 1:23:30
  That's the five ziggle wheel. It's a One Piece 5.
• 1:23:32
  Ziggle Wheel. I need those five ZRS, Frankie.
• 1:23:35
  They had a very. Yeah, that wheel's cool.
• 1:23:36
  With blue with the blue logo or the little logo on the spoke on
• 1:23:41
  the five ZR. Oh yeah bro, I need that on the
• 1:23:44
  SO. Alex, you still got the hook.
• 1:23:45
  Up that. Well, all right.
• 1:23:50
  Right. I guess not.
• 1:23:52
  Damn. But yeah.
• 1:23:54
  Carl. 'S taking a bathroom break.
• 1:23:58
  All right, so so you work. You work there?
• 1:24:00
  Yes. I want to know what your second
• 1:24:02
  car was after this. Oh, my second car was another
• 1:24:05
  240. Of course.
• 1:24:08
  So if you it's in one of the folders, if you go up to the,
• 1:24:12
  yeah. So what?
• 1:24:15
  What was the name of the folder SO0928O2?
• 1:24:21
  The very first one at the top. That should be it.
• 1:24:26
  So this was the second car. You bought the same car again.
• 1:24:29
  I bought the same car the the key difference was this was AI
• 1:24:33
  want to say this was about 180,000 miles 90 after Very very
• 1:24:38
  specific. This was a 1993 SE manual coupe,
• 1:24:43
  no sunroof. S13, almost the same car fully
• 1:24:46
  loaded, no sunroof, original heads up display, original heads
• 1:24:51
  up display windshield, and this is probably I mean this still is
• 1:24:55
  one of my favorite car because everything on it was like I mean
• 1:25:01
  high mileage sure, but everything was on it was like
• 1:25:03
  pristine like pure. So I when I got this car, I was
• 1:25:09
  very specific in terms of how I wanted to modify it.
• 1:25:11
  So I did like, I swapped over like the power brace only and I
• 1:25:15
  drove it for like a week and I swapped over like the next thing
• 1:25:18
  and I was over for like a week. And I basically documented this
• 1:25:21
  entire process in terms of like how the car feels.
• 1:25:23
  So were you? Were you on the forms yet?
• 1:25:25
  Yeah, No, no, I was, I was already involved in the forms
• 1:25:27
  like I, I started doing 240 stuff on on the original mailing
• 1:25:33
  list. So back then it was, there was a
• 1:25:36
  240sx.org. Yeah, right.
• 1:25:38
  And then on there, there was, there was no forums back then,
• 1:25:41
  but on there, there was a mailing list that you could
• 1:25:43
  join. And the mailing list was like, I
• 1:25:45
  mean, literally it was a mailing list.
• 1:25:46
  It was like you have to sign up with the e-mail address and you
• 1:25:49
  have to send emails every day. Wow, to every people, everybody.
• 1:25:51
  And then you could sign up for like a digest and it'll give you
• 1:25:53
  like. But you couldn't like you
• 1:25:55
  couldn't. It wasn't like a forum.
• 1:25:56
  So you just no emailing each. It was.
• 1:25:57
  Like, correct. It was like just an e-mail.
• 1:25:59
  Yeah. I mean, this is how people did
• 1:26:01
  stuff back then. And then at some point, there
• 1:26:03
  was a Yahoo came out, the Yahoo groups.
• 1:26:04
  Yeah, same thing. It was like, it was like you
• 1:26:06
  could sign up and do stuff. But back then it was like just
• 1:26:09
  the e-mail list, right? So that's how I knew some of the
• 1:26:11
  people initially. It was like, here's a name on
• 1:26:13
  the behind the e-mail address and that's how you correspond
• 1:26:15
  that you didn't know anything else about that person.
• 1:26:17
  There's no aliases, nothing. When did you start with the
• 1:26:20
  forums? Forums was roughly about 2000 or
• 1:26:25
  so. 2000 into 2001 because at that point in time, roughly
• 1:26:29
  speaking, Nikko Club was not. It used to be 240sx.org and the
• 1:26:36
  Nikko Club was separate and but they kind of aligned themselves
• 1:26:39
  with each other. So 240sx.org by default was
• 1:26:43
  promoting Nikko. OK Nissan Infinity car owners
• 1:26:48
  Yeah. And at that time, roughly.
• 1:26:50
  I never knew what that stood for.
• 1:26:51
  Just first I just. Came up side note.
• 1:26:54
  Fresh alloy was also like a Nissan enthusiast, right?
• 1:26:56
  But then it was like, it was like some of the that was a.
• 1:26:58
  Florida one right fresh alloy. I don't.
• 1:27:00
  I don't. I don't know exactly where it
• 1:27:02
  was based or. Am I thinking another one?
• 1:27:04
  I thought fresh alloy wasn't just a Nissan.
• 1:27:07
  What are we talking about? Both of them were all like
• 1:27:10
  various Nissans, right? But in reality, what it came
• 1:27:12
  down to was they were all, both of them ended up being 240SX
• 1:27:17
  centric, Yeah, even though it was open to various other makes,
• 1:27:21
  sorry models. And then Zovia came about, I
• 1:27:25
  want to say one or two years after that initial time period,
• 1:27:29
  like roughly till O2, O3. I forgot specifically what time.
• 1:27:31
  So at that point in time there was like 3 different forms,
• 1:27:35
  right? And so I was already involved
• 1:27:39
  with it. But what it was was what what
• 1:27:40
  kind of took my involvement to the next level was the mailing
• 1:27:44
  list. We had a 240SX chat and a 240SX
• 1:27:47
  tech mailing list. Those two separate mailing lists
• 1:27:49
  and what it was was a chat was just chat that was not
• 1:27:52
  moderated. You just send my emails back and
• 1:27:54
  forth. But how do you so it's a group
• 1:27:56
  e-mail? It's like, imagine, you know,
• 1:27:58
  how like Outlook, right? You could start a new e-mail
• 1:28:00
  with a subject and then you could reply to it and it would
• 1:28:02
  become like a thread, you know? Yeah, it's it's like that.
• 1:28:05
  As long as you reply to the same thread, it's a thread.
• 1:28:06
  It's a thread, yeah. And it also.
• 1:28:08
  Sometimes not too. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:28:10
  He's not an outlook. He he's, he's not an outlook
• 1:28:12
  guy. Yeah, he's a.
• 1:28:13
  Gmail even even Gmail when you reply to scroll.
• 1:28:16
  Up if you don't change this. Apple Mail guy.
• 1:28:18
  When if you don't change the subject, it's the same thread.
• 1:28:20
  Yeah, that's what then it comes down to you.
• 1:28:21
  As long as you don't modify the subject heading, it's the same
• 1:28:23
  thread, right? You'll see it and.
• 1:28:24
  You just have a bunch of people in there like when you.
• 1:28:26
  See, people, people would just e-mail.
• 1:28:27
  I mean, I joined it because I was looking for information to,
• 1:28:30
  you know, modify car, whatever, right?
• 1:28:33
  But then the two footer says tech e-mail was because it was
• 1:28:36
  tech related. It was manually moderated.
• 1:28:40
  So what it was was essentially at some point I decided to help
• 1:28:43
  moderate it. So my second job while I was
• 1:28:47
  working at AKT, my second job was basically every time, every
• 1:28:50
  day I go home and I start forwarding the emails because
• 1:28:52
  here's the tech related e-mail that I can approve when I
• 1:28:55
  forward, there's not tech related.
• 1:28:57
  I just delete it and it and it never shows up on the
• 1:28:59
  distribution e-mail. OK.
• 1:29:01
  And as I also, I started like organizing a couple of meets.
• 1:29:07
  I was like, you know, like the SoCal.
• 1:29:09
  We had a few events here and there.
• 1:29:12
  So that's pretty cool. But but that's how I got
• 1:29:15
  involved with that stuff. And then, like, all of this
• 1:29:18
  stuff was like running around kind of like on the same time
• 1:29:21
  frame as me, like modifying cars and starting to do more and more
• 1:29:25
  stuff, right? Yeah.
• 1:29:27
  But this car was like, I wanted this.
• 1:29:29
  Is the second car, just so you know.
• 1:29:31
  I figured. But it's the exact.
• 1:29:33
  Same. It looks quite There's no white
• 1:29:36
  wipers. The grills have no balls.
• 1:29:39
  But for example. There's a previa in the back.
• 1:29:41
  Oh, yes, that was that was a 5 Zegan van.
• 1:29:43
  It was one of the two. Oh.
• 1:29:44
  Hell yeah. What?
• 1:29:45
  5 Zegan had two vans. There was a 5 Zegan van.
• 1:29:48
  Where's the faction van bro? Lewis Yeah, we have.
• 1:29:52
  What was that? What was a non, what was a
• 1:29:54
  regular non nasty aspirated 4 cylinder previa and the second
• 1:29:57
  one was a supercharged 1. Yeah.
• 1:30:00
  And what would you accelerate with the all track?
• 1:30:02
  You're the you're the whine of the the belt.
• 1:30:04
  Yeah, the all track, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:30:06
  What you know about that? I always got those inside of the
• 1:30:08
  coil. I got this car in what, middle
• 1:30:10
  of 2002? And then at some point I swapped
• 1:30:13
  all of the parts over. So like this entire gallery, if
• 1:30:15
  you flip through it, it's all the other, it's all the the
• 1:30:19
  parts. Oh wow, that I had swapped over
• 1:30:22
  you. Literally.
• 1:30:22
  Wait, whoa, the typhoons. Yes, typhoons.
• 1:30:25
  Yeah. I had for example I'm.
• 1:30:27
  A5Z. Fan I did Z32 rear uprights, the
• 1:30:31
  aluminum rear uprights for the S chassis.
• 1:30:32
  I did I I had this on my car 2002 and this was one of those
• 1:30:36
  things where I remember I was saying that I swapped over one
• 1:30:38
  piece at a time. Yeah, this was one of those
• 1:30:40
  things where I swapped it over and I drove it before and after,
• 1:30:43
  like no changes other than this for like a week just to know the
• 1:30:45
  difference. That's a pretty intense job that
• 1:30:49
  rear uprights I feel like. Yeah, it is.
• 1:30:51
  But it isn't because the hardest part is actually all you need
• 1:30:55
  really is. If you open this over picture,
• 1:30:59
  all you really need is a fork. Yeah.
• 1:31:01
  Switch it. All you need to do is swap it
• 1:31:03
  over to a fork. Type rear mount to swap it
• 1:31:07
  doesn't solve the back then nobody knew anything about the
• 1:31:09
  binding issue with the with the with the So the bushing itself
• 1:31:14
  binds because it's at the slightly wrong angle.
• 1:31:16
  So if you bottoms out, it binds the suspension.
• 1:31:18
  It prevents full travel. So at some point people did went
• 1:31:23
  with the spherical bearing in the uprights to solve that
• 1:31:26
  problem. But you also you really just
• 1:31:30
  needed to swap that. That's all you needed to do for
• 1:31:32
  for us to do Z32 sorry. And then the only other thing
• 1:31:35
  that needed to be done was the upright itself.
• 1:31:38
  The metal one that's on the S13, it sits directly in the lower,
• 1:31:42
  the ball joint in the lower arm, right.
• 1:31:44
  Z32, because it's aluminum, there's a conical spacer
• 1:31:50
  basically that sits there. So that prevents the metal from
• 1:31:52
  grinding because if you just bolt it directly in, the
• 1:31:54
  aluminum will wear on the steel ball joint over time and it will
• 1:31:57
  break. It's it's in one of the photos
• 1:32:00
  somewhere in here. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:32:03
  I don't know where it is. Just had.
• 1:32:05
  AZ right there, right there, right there.
• 1:32:06
  See that little? This little spacer is why you
• 1:32:08
  need to run the rear upright. So you really had a photo of
• 1:32:14
  this vault, You. Probably said this.
• 1:32:16
  You have no idea. I told you earlier I was a data
• 1:32:18
  horde. So that is that is insane to me.
• 1:32:22
  I documented every single little thing that I've ever done on my
• 1:32:25
  cars. Do you have all this uploaded
• 1:32:27
  somewhere? No, you should.
• 1:32:29
  It's it's all my, it's just on my own Nash drive at home as a
• 1:32:31
  backup. That's all it is.
• 1:32:32
  But but we just had before you came in here, we had a
• 1:32:35
  conversation about how Alex lost the drives worth of photos.
• 1:32:40
  Yeah, yeah, Alex, we got to post this shit, get the cloud in
• 1:32:43
  there. Boom.
• 1:32:44
  Like we're in, but. If you look through the photos,
• 1:32:47
  some of it's like. We don't care.
• 1:32:49
  Junk. No, that's that's, that's fine.
• 1:32:52
  So this is when I saw let. Me See the five Z.
• 1:32:54
  Get on it. The 44 click 44 Yeah.
• 1:32:57
  Yeah, actually this is not the best photo of the car.
• 1:33:01
  So to answer the question earlier about the wheels, not a
• 1:33:04
  question, but if I you guys, everybody knows the FNO one RCS.
• 1:33:09
  Yeah, but the original version of this wheel is the FNO 1R.
• 1:33:13
  That's what I had. Those so so the FNO 1R is the
• 1:33:15
  forged version. So the forged version is so 5
• 1:33:19
  Zigging. What it was was and they still
• 1:33:21
  do. They still participate in
• 1:33:22
  racing. But 5 zigging was actually
• 1:33:24
  participating in Formula Nippon. The the the Formula Japan's
• 1:33:28
  version of Formula 3000. It's like the feeder series for
• 1:33:31
  F1. Yeah, now it's called Super
• 1:33:33
  Formula. And basically in 2001, five
• 1:33:37
  zigging won the the Formula Nippon championship,
• 1:33:41
  constructors championship. They didn't win the drivers
• 1:33:43
  championship, but they scored enough points to be the
• 1:33:45
  constructors champion. And I was like, Oh my God, this
• 1:33:47
  team out of nowhere won, you know, the top open wheel series
• 1:33:51
  in Japan, right? It's like, it's like, it's like
• 1:33:53
  the equivalent of like some no name team beating Penske.
• 1:33:57
  Wow. Because because if you look, if
• 1:33:58
  you look at the teams that are participating in in in super
• 1:34:01
  formula, they're like teams that, you know, like Toms Moogan
• 1:34:05
  and Toyota Castrol. What?
• 1:34:07
  What? I mean, yeah, that just like
• 1:34:10
  something like that, you would know all the teams except for
• 1:34:11
  Frank Zegan. Yeah, right.
• 1:34:13
  So then in celebration, they made a wheel in 2000 and at the
• 1:34:16
  end of that year introduced Asima, which was the forge
• 1:34:19
  wheel. And then 2000 and end of 2002
• 1:34:23
  they introduced a cast version of it.
• 1:34:25
  I thought that the C stood for concave.
• 1:34:28
  Cast. That stands for.
• 1:34:30
  So the, so the so the actual spelling of the wheel is FN the
• 1:34:34
  this one, the forged one is FN-01R yeah.
• 1:34:38
  Formula Napoleon 01 R and then the C is spelled FN 01R.
• 1:34:45
  Eight of these Alex fuck I want these are so cool.
• 1:34:51
  Stop selling everything. I know, what a fucking radar.
• 1:34:54
  But yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, at least.
• 1:34:56
  At least you didn't I? OK, I saw.
• 1:34:58
  Them at Ken. So it's like maybe?
• 1:35:01
  Maybe I should, maybe I should tell you the the the cost of the
• 1:35:04
  wheel back then. Nah, yes you should.
• 1:35:06
  OK, so the cast wheels are and this is this is this is like now
• 1:35:12
  it's like a deep dive into like. Wait, can we guess?
• 1:35:14
  Can we guess? Can.
• 1:35:15
  We tell you what we spent on the wheels before you tell us.
• 1:35:18
  OK, fine, you go first the. First set of FNL ones I ever
• 1:35:22
  bought. They were 250 bucks, but two of
• 1:35:24
  them were cracked twice each. OK.
• 1:35:27
  So OK. Buys garbage.
• 1:35:28
  So then I bought more. I bought a a pair of them from a
• 1:35:32
  buddy of mine that were 17 by 9 + 15.
• 1:35:35
  That's the one that I sold you. That's one of them.
• 1:35:36
  Those ones were 550, which is I think kind of high, but I.
• 1:35:42
  Only I only bought a pair of. Them but the spec was so cool
• 1:35:45
  like it the you could fit a fist into the hub dude.
• 1:35:49
  Wait, hold up. It was I had. 17 by 10 plus 12.
• 1:35:55
  You had the bear claw looking shits though.
• 1:35:58
  That shit was. Look how much though?
• 1:35:59
  Look how much nicer. Yeah, well.
• 1:36:01
  No, this is not even the nicest version, but we'll, we'll, we'll
• 1:36:04
  get to the nice. Version I like when it's not
• 1:36:06
  like the bear. Claw Yeah, yeah 'cause it has
• 1:36:08
  just. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like that
• 1:36:09
  right there. Those are what I bought.
• 1:36:10
  Those for 400 bucks ship. OK, if I'm gonna go in the the
• 1:36:14
  gallery, I'll show you the second the the the at least to
• 1:36:17
  me, the nicest version of the wheel.
• 1:36:18
  Go back, go up go back up into the go to go to LSLS 01/03 this
• 1:36:27
  was. This was January 2004 when I
• 1:36:30
  rent A Laguna Seca. That's sick if you look.
• 1:36:32
  If you look, if you look at the photo.
• 1:36:36
  Yo. What is this?
• 1:36:38
  Yeah. So.
• 1:36:40
  Besides the fact that the license plate so slow as 13, the
• 1:36:44
  wheel on this is 17 by 8 1/2 + 30 in the front 17 by 9 + 38.
• 1:36:51
  Those the rears have like a lip to it.
• 1:36:53
  That's the the rear. I had four of those.
• 1:36:57
  Look at. That, but that's but the cast
• 1:36:58
  version is different. I have also the I have a picture
• 1:37:01
  of the cast version, but the cast version is different.
• 1:37:03
  The the the forged version, the face is flat still and then you
• 1:37:05
  just have a lip. It's like a.
• 1:37:06
  It's almost like a step, like a. Fuck, do I have a?
• 1:37:09
  Photo of these. Things.
• 1:37:11
  I love that wheel dude. I had eight of.
• 1:37:13
  Them if you go back to the the directory again, go up and then
• 1:37:18
  just look at all the photos that are in this folder.
• 1:37:22
  You can Scroll down yes, there's a lot of random photos.
• 1:37:26
  Good Lord. Oh yes, that's when I wrecked my
• 1:37:27
  car. Quickly, quickly, quickly.
• 1:37:34
  It's somewhere in the bottom of this gallery, if I'm real
• 1:37:36
  quickly. Yeah.
• 1:37:37
  See, this is 17 by 10. This is the 17.
• 1:37:39
  By 10, that's what I had, yeah. So this is this is the one.
• 1:37:42
  This is this is 70 by 17 by 10. Here's.
• 1:37:45
  The worst part about this wheel? Yes.
• 1:37:47
  If it falls on his face, the spokes are getting destroyed.
• 1:37:50
  Oh yeah, I know. The spokes barely protrude.
• 1:37:53
  Past the. Fucking lip.
• 1:37:55
  I know, I know. Spoken.
• 1:37:57
  That's the most annoying part Other.
• 1:37:59
  Than the spokes. Huh.
• 1:38:00
  Yeah, Kerbin on Kerbin. So who wanted to take a guess at
• 1:38:04
  how as to how much these guys cost?
• 1:38:06
  OK, Carl, guess how much they cost back then?
• 1:38:09
  Were they made in the Philippines?
• 1:38:11
  110 a wheel. Wait, are we answering the where
• 1:38:14
  is it made first? Or or.
• 1:38:16
  Yeah, where are they made? Where are.
• 1:38:17
  They tell me they were made in the Philippines and I'm going to
• 1:38:19
  be like, yeah. They were made in Taiwan.
• 1:38:20
  OK. All right.
• 1:38:21
  That's that's kind of what I thought.
• 1:38:23
  A lot of those. So so so most. 70.
• 1:38:26
  Bucks. So, so pretty much if you come
• 1:38:29
  across a Japanese wheel, even if it's a reputable Japanese brand,
• 1:38:33
  if it come, if you come across the Japanese wheel that does not
• 1:38:35
  have made in Japan on the wheel, it is not made in Japan.
• 1:38:40
  Yeah, actually that goes for almost every part you could
• 1:38:42
  possibly think of because because if it's not made in
• 1:38:45
  Japan, they will not put that on there.
• 1:38:47
  They might put it on the packaging, but they won't put it
• 1:38:48
  on the actual product. But this, if I remember
• 1:38:52
  correctly, I think MSRP on this was 250 a wheel dealer cost.
• 1:38:58
  Hold on. Here's how it broke down.
• 1:39:00
  Here's how it broke down. Here's how it broke down.
• 1:39:03
  If you were a regular dealer, I think your cost was 25 off.
• 1:39:06
  If you are AWD, 30 or 35 off. And then if you were like the
• 1:39:13
  lowest possible price, you it was roughly about 40% off MSRP.
• 1:39:16
  What's your cost? Yeah, our landed cost on this
• 1:39:19
  wheel, I want to say including shipping was about 100 bucks.
• 1:39:26
  Damn US. That's yo the 17, the 17 by 7,
• 1:39:31
  the 17 by 7 wheels. I, I remember this because when
• 1:39:34
  we first got our various first shipment, we, we had a bunch of
• 1:39:36
  17 by sevens, 4 by 100 for civics.
• 1:39:38
  And oh God, our invoice priced from 5 Ziggens out of Taiwan was
• 1:39:47
  40 bucks a wheel 40. And the MSRP on the on them were
• 1:39:52
  like 150. So that's how cheap they were.
• 1:39:57
  And it was like, it was like when when I was selling them, it
• 1:40:02
  was just like, oh, you want wheels?
• 1:40:03
  Sure. Let me just hook you up with
• 1:40:04
  five or $0.10 at a time. Like it was just like, no
• 1:40:07
  seriously, it was like it was like if somebody wanted wheels
• 1:40:10
  it. Was just like, wow.
• 1:40:13
  I missed them. Damn wheels bro.
• 1:40:15
  That's. Your that's your car.
• 1:40:20
  Yeah. What happened?
• 1:40:22
  What are you talking about dude? That.
• 1:40:24
  Thing looks sick. Why does it look teal?
• 1:40:26
  Yeah. I lowered the hell out of it
• 1:40:29
  that day bro, it was on the ground.
• 1:40:31
  The side skirts look cool, what happened?
• 1:40:34
  I literally had those on and everyone was like.
• 1:40:37
  Oh, it's just an OEM. Car.
• 1:40:39
  No, I think that was you that said that.
• 1:40:41
  Now it now it's. I think we probably liked it.
• 1:40:44
  Look how but this is what I'm talking about.
• 1:40:46
  You see the hub, how it's so sunk back there?
• 1:40:49
  Yeah, dude, that that was the. Coolest thing?
• 1:40:52
  It's a thick disc. Or so.
• 1:40:54
  So it's actually. But there's no lip.
• 1:40:56
  That's what I was. What I was showing is.
• 1:40:58
  There's no like like if you cast anything, imagine like this.
• 1:41:02
  Can I just had this earlier, by the way.
• 1:41:05
  Yeah, I'm still not sure what to think of this because, because
• 1:41:09
  it was like, this is one of those I mentioned earlier, but
• 1:41:11
  this is like one of those gums where you chew into it and the
• 1:41:14
  flavor disappears after like 10 seconds, like the first after
• 1:41:18
  the first sip. And then like subsequent sips,
• 1:41:20
  it became less and less alcoholic and it just became
• 1:41:22
  like nothing Alex is. Holding a Breezy in his hands so
• 1:41:25
  everyone knows. Yeah, I, I forgot to mention,
• 1:41:27
  Yeah, he he had a couple. So, so it's actually quite
• 1:41:30
  simple if you think about it, if you look at a can right, In
• 1:41:33
  reality, it's just. That's a wheel right there.
• 1:41:35
  This part is one piece by itself in terms of what I call it
• 1:41:38
  stamped. Everything else is one other
• 1:41:41
  piece and that's it. So if you wanted to make this
• 1:41:44
  larger or if you wanted to make this taller or whatever, all you
• 1:41:47
  have to do is scale like it out, right?
• 1:41:49
  So the way the the wheels were made essentially 5 zig in for
• 1:41:53
  like 17 inch wheels before the 17 by 10 was introduced, all of
• 1:41:58
  the sevens, eights, sevens, eights and 9 inch wide wheels
• 1:42:03
  all had the exact same identical face.
• 1:42:06
  The actual outside part where the five spokes are, that's all
• 1:42:09
  the same. All they did was they added
• 1:42:11
  material to the backpack to make different offset.
• 1:42:14
  And then if you actually looked at, if you actually look at the
• 1:42:17
  back of the wheel, their face is flat.
• 1:42:19
  So, so, so the lug holes were the last part.
• 1:42:22
  And then they essentially drilled it 4 lug or five lug
• 1:42:24
  depending on what it needed for what you needed it for.
• 1:42:27
  Because if you, if you think about lug holes, right, the only
• 1:42:30
  thing that matters is the PCD, right?
• 1:42:33
  Because the PCD dictates the center board of the, the wheel.
• 1:42:36
  That's all it is. If you have 544100 bolt pattern
• 1:42:39
  you can. You can't do 73 millimeter board
• 1:42:41
  on a cast wheel because it compromises the the structure
• 1:42:43
  too much. Because it's going to be.
• 1:42:45
  Close. Yeah, two, there's not enough
• 1:42:46
  material. So that's all it was.
• 1:42:48
  And then when they introduced the 17 by 10 since the 10, the
• 1:42:51
  10 this size, this face wasn't my thing, but, but when they
• 1:42:56
  first came out with the nines, right, everybody bought the low
• 1:42:58
  offset. I was like, Oh my God,
• 1:42:59
  everybody's writing this right? But then my, my main thing was,
• 1:43:02
  Oh, what's our who's our primary competitor?
• 1:43:04
  And I was like, Oh, it's Mackin. I hated Mackin because they have
• 1:43:07
  all these like deep dish concave wheels.
• 1:43:09
  We didn't have anything like that.
• 1:43:13
  But also you had forged wheels. So I was like, what if so we
• 1:43:15
  they came up with a aggressive face cast version of this wheel.
• 1:43:20
  So that's how the 17 by 9 came about and that's how the 18 by 9
• 1:43:24
  and sorry, that's how the 17 by 10 came about, which is this.
• 1:43:28
  And then that's also how these 17, sorry, the 18 by 9 1/2 came
• 1:43:31
  about, because those were the only two wheels that had a more
• 1:43:33
  aggressive face. To to me, it was just that was
• 1:43:36
  the widest 17 I can get. That was mono block.
• 1:43:39
  That looked good, Yeah, to me. And that was 2010.
• 1:43:43
  It's the wait, Malcolm, do you have that other photo of Alex on
• 1:43:47
  Laguna Sega with a dished FN? I mean also at the period.
• 1:43:51
  It was FN. O RC's came out, there wasn't
• 1:43:54
  that many options within that ice range, right the for the two
• 1:43:58
  course. Sorry the previous folder you
• 1:44:00
  were in that that LS LS it starts with LS cuz it's Laguna
• 1:44:05
  Sika. That wheel in the back looks so
• 1:44:10
  much different. Actually, no, don't even look at
• 1:44:12
  Laguna Sika. There's a better folder of it
• 1:44:15
  somewhere else, a better picture of it somewhere.
• 1:44:16
  Else yeah, dude with a lip. We'll go back.
• 1:44:19
  Scroll down, Scroll down. It's one of the actually here
• 1:44:26
  the actually I hit a cone. Damn it, I hit a cone.
• 1:44:33
  Yeah, dude, I need the yeah. Yeah, I had AI want to say like
• 1:44:38
  a 2 1/2 inch lip. I mean, it was subtle, but it
• 1:44:43
  wasn't aggressive size, right? But it was.
• 1:44:45
  What kind of tires were you running?
• 1:44:48
  Bridgestone. What size?
• 1:44:50
  Potenza P1 my. Yeah, but on a nine, what are
• 1:44:55
  you running back then? Is that like a 2?
• 1:44:56
  55. No, no, no, no.
• 1:44:58
  So I had a stock. My engine was stock, right?
• 1:45:01
  So in the front I ran 2 fifteens and then back I ran 230 fives.
• 1:45:05
  OK, normal SO230 fives in the. Back normal, normal, normal.
• 1:45:08
  That's what that's what I would run now.
• 1:45:09
  Yeah, 23540. 17 I literally have two fifteens Ken's. 21545 in the
• 1:45:14
  front and I, I, I wanted the front to be a little bit more
• 1:45:17
  like stressed on the side wall, mostly because I knew I wasn't
• 1:45:21
  going to have enough. I was I knew I had more than
• 1:45:24
  enough tire for grip. What it was was I wanted more
• 1:45:27
  response. So that's why I went with a
• 1:45:29
  sharp more stretch set set up. Interesting.
• 1:45:33
  And also for some reason that back then there was a pretty
• 1:45:36
  sizable price difference between 22 fifteens and 220 fives.
• 1:45:40
  Could you get 22540170? No, yeah, 'cause that's right.
• 1:45:44
  Now it's this entire size that doesn't really exist.
• 1:45:46
  No, no, Back then it was expensive.
• 1:45:47
  I, I, I, it existed, but it was like it was for some reason.
• 1:45:50
  It was like one of those odd sizes that was super expensive.
• 1:45:53
  That's like the size that we all need.
• 1:45:55
  Apparently it comes and goes, but it hasn't been here for a
• 1:45:57
  while, Yeah. Yeah, well, we need it, Kenda.
• 1:46:03
  154017 Right No 22540 Yeah 40. 17 is because you could get an
• 1:46:09
  18 that doesn't exist all day long. 2254018 yeah, that's fine.
• 1:46:12
  Super cheap in abundance, actually, yeah.
• 1:46:15
  OK, so where were we in your history?
• 1:46:17
  Because this is let's see where you started the you started
• 1:46:20
  doing mailing for moderating mailing.
• 1:46:23
  Just being generally involved, right.
• 1:46:25
  Yeah. And then so one of the photos
• 1:46:28
  folders rather you could look at the photos is is if you scroll,
• 1:46:33
  go back to their faction. So the UNN meet.
• 1:46:39
  So I had been doing various. I've been doing various.
• 1:46:42
  I saw people let me see I had been doing.
• 1:46:45
  Various events up in South Cal. No, no, that's me.
• 1:46:49
  No, I mean on the side. No, no, that's that's Derek
• 1:46:51
  Rieser. You he he was at convention.
• 1:46:55
  He was one of the old school form guys.
• 1:46:56
  He's still around. He's the he's like doing tuning
• 1:46:59
  or something in in North Carolina.
• 1:47:00
  He does only engine tuning but dude but I think that. 21 amigos
• 1:47:06
  I see LMGT 2IN. There.
• 1:47:08
  Yeah, that's, that's TY's car. Oh, that's Ty.
• 1:47:11
  Yeah, that's TY's car. Yeah, that's the.
• 1:47:14
  White Bunny. The white.
• 1:47:16
  Bunny. So so the white Bunny clutch.
• 1:47:17
  In the back, the white. Bunny clutch kit that everybody
• 1:47:19
  talks about that that this is the car that it actually came
• 1:47:21
  out of. So funny.
• 1:47:24
  So this event was actually so I was at 5 zigging at the time,
• 1:47:28
  right, AKT and we had a booth there.
• 1:47:29
  But what it was was it was just like various Nissan guys,
• 1:47:32
  whatever. Oh yeah, let's do an event.
• 1:47:33
  So at that point there was like Z car stuff, but there was an
• 1:47:36
  actual like Nissan convention, right?
• 1:47:38
  So you we wanted to do something that was kind of like that.
• 1:47:41
  So there was a guy named Lewis. I forgot his last name, but he's
• 1:47:46
  in Kansas City, MO and he basically hosted this event, put
• 1:47:50
  it together and bunch of us showed up some some of us flew
• 1:47:55
  in, some of us drove over. Ty, the guy that owns the white
• 1:47:58
  car, He's owns the white car. He still has it.
• 1:48:00
  He's not yellow. He's the original owner of his
• 1:48:03
  car. For example, he's Ken's, Ken's
• 1:48:06
  friend from Arizona, but he he like drove out from Arizona for
• 1:48:13
  this event. Unn.
• 1:48:15
  Yeah, United Nations of Nissan is.
• 1:48:17
  What it was called, Yeah, so. That's right.
• 1:48:23
  Yes, you could not get away with that today.
• 1:48:26
  No, that's a good name. I think we.
• 1:48:27
  Should do. Yeah, we should do.
• 1:48:28
  It's. Very.
• 1:48:30
  Inclusive UNF. United Nations of factions.
• 1:48:33
  UNF sounds like something out of like like some like sci-fi
• 1:48:37
  movie. That sounds like that little
• 1:48:38
  cardboard box that you're supposed to put money in.
• 1:48:40
  What at? The during school, yeah, UNF.
• 1:48:43
  Isn't that what that was? I don't know.
• 1:48:46
  UNF is a yeah. I feel like I know you're
• 1:48:48
  talking. About I'm dumb, OK?
• 1:48:49
  Something foundation. So yeah, if you scroll through
• 1:48:51
  the gallery, there's like this is all stuff from like June of
• 1:48:55
  2001, I mean. Y'all all look like my older
• 1:49:01
  cousins for real. The one white dude in the back.
• 1:49:03
  Ridiculous. Wait all your.
• 1:49:05
  Uncles. Carl, those are actually all my
• 1:49:07
  uncles, the highlights. You see that dude with the
• 1:49:09
  highlights back there? My all my cousins had highlights
• 1:49:12
  when. That shit was crazy.
• 1:49:13
  The upper, I don't trust the guy.
• 1:49:15
  I mean the guy, the guy with the highlights.
• 1:49:16
  Like I got him, his name is Sean.
• 1:49:18
  He used to own a shop in Minnesota called Project D Auto
• 1:49:21
  Imaging. He was actually really heavily
• 1:49:24
  involved with two with with 240SX stuff back then.
• 1:49:28
  Yeah, that sounds familiar. Yeah.
• 1:49:30
  So, yeah, some of these guys are like, you know, they are.
• 1:49:33
  They are. Some of these guys also showed
• 1:49:34
  up at the convention the following year.
• 1:49:35
  But if you look through that, look at the photos, right?
• 1:49:37
  These are all like, you know, bugs.
• 1:49:40
  I know those are bugs. Those are bugs.
• 1:49:43
  Nobody cleaned their cars. Those.
• 1:49:46
  Are bugs? Well because they do.
• 1:49:47
  Waterless wash wasn't invented yet.
• 1:49:49
  No. Bugs are crazy back then.
• 1:49:51
  Yeah, but then like Malcolm. Keep What do we else we got in
• 1:49:54
  here? Keep.
• 1:49:55
  Yeah, some of like this is some of this is, here's a Bluebird,
• 1:49:57
  that's a Bluebird, that's an NX, here's an NX with a swap, right.
• 1:50:00
  But this is this is this is this is considered like, oh, this is
• 1:50:04
  kind of like high end technical stuff because you didn't have
• 1:50:07
  any information to work off of besides forms and people that
• 1:50:13
  figured out how to make the wiring work, you know?
• 1:50:16
  And that had that weird digital cluster.
• 1:50:18
  Yes, this is NX200, the next 2000 and then a bunch of hill
• 1:50:23
  damage, Yeah. Flag.
• 1:50:26
  Is five Oh yeah flag will be worth thousands of dollars
• 1:50:30
  today. Back then, it was worth nothing.
• 1:50:32
  I yeah, I. Love that.
• 1:50:33
  How many you got in your basement?
• 1:50:35
  I have none. Damn.
• 1:50:37
  Alex threw it all away. Damn.
• 1:50:38
  Yeah. We'll see in the back the five
• 1:50:42
  ZR Heitfeld that the 6th smoke is a fireball.
• 1:50:47
  Fireball. So you guys brought all these
• 1:50:49
  wheels out? Yeah, just to show and because
• 1:50:52
  back then selling the stuff was like you needed to just get on
• 1:50:54
  the ground and and be in front of people.
• 1:50:57
  Because I like the stance. Yeah.
• 1:50:58
  So we were trying to, Oh yeah, see Virginia.
• 1:51:01
  So he's from Virginia? Sr. swap and then he has turbo.
• 1:51:05
  13 Sr. yeah, I have that shirt I saw there's that's the one thing
• 1:51:09
  of five second I still have I saw.
• 1:51:11
  Yeah, I need to go find someone. That looks like a.
• 1:51:15
  That looks like a proper JDM build right there.
• 1:51:18
  Yeah, so it was a 13 Sr. swap. License plate actually matches
• 1:51:22
  the engine, unlike my car. Unlike some people.
• 1:51:26
  Yeah, yeah. And we were just like, you know,
• 1:51:30
  doing something dumb. Oh God no.
• 1:51:31
  Not I know what that. Mark is, yeah, yeah.
• 1:51:33
  This was like they had a dyno there day there too.
• 1:51:36
  So it was like people that actually had something worth
• 1:51:38
  dynoing would throw the cars on a dyno.
• 1:51:41
  It's like, yeah, it's like the parking was in the field.
• 1:51:44
  The. Parking.
• 1:51:45
  Yo where? Was the meat again?
• 1:51:46
  That's a twin turbo. Z right there.
• 1:51:48
  This was in Kansas City, MO. Oh wow.
• 1:51:52
  Kansas City. Dude look at this Z it's so
• 1:51:54
  nice. So you drove all the way over
• 1:51:56
  there? I didn't.
• 1:51:57
  No, I, I. Oh, not Mal.
• 1:51:58
  You flew with the wheels. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
• 1:52:01
  We, we, we, no, no, sorry. We shipped.
• 1:52:02
  We shipped most of the product and we flew.
• 1:52:04
  OK, I'm I'm looking. Malcolm's like hovering over
• 1:52:06
  this Cokie in the back. Look how nice that shit
• 1:52:09
  gleaming. Look at.
• 1:52:10
  The Chrome wheels. Yeah, like the Z on the grenade
• 1:52:13
  looking Z, whatever, Koenig or whatever.
• 1:52:16
  Z's are awesome. I don't know what bumper that
• 1:52:18
  is, probably ABFLUG. BB 14200 SXSER.
• 1:52:23
  Yeah, dude, my my architecture teacher had one of those.
• 1:52:26
  It was. Like brand new back in the day.
• 1:52:27
  Yep, this is. Yeah, that's what that was like
• 1:52:29
  I'm looking at. People's attire right now, OK,
• 1:52:31
  hold on. Don't don't don't change it.
• 1:52:32
  Don't change it. This could be 1998 or it can
• 1:52:38
  also be 2024. Is that sure right there?
• 1:52:43
  The one in the middle. No2. 100 bucks.
• 1:52:46
  Now, yeah, like the footwear particularly, like this is what
• 1:52:49
  people wear today. This looks like I'm wearing Air
• 1:52:52
  Maxes right now. Like that's really that Pepsi
• 1:52:56
  machine is probably cold as fuck.
• 1:52:58
  Like there's a green, there's a red Powerade in there waiting
• 1:53:02
  for me. Oh yes, the gentleman on the
• 1:53:06
  right at Siyoshi. He's still Wait, who?
• 1:53:11
  Carl. Malcolm said this.
• 1:53:13
  Carl. This Carl right there.
• 1:53:16
  Siyoshi he was he was my Co worker if I zigen.
• 1:53:18
  OK. He he's, he moved back to Japan,
• 1:53:20
  but I, I still, I still keep in touch with him.
• 1:53:22
  That sure it's fire Frankie we need.
• 1:53:25
  You need that shirt. I'll, I'll.
• 1:53:26
  I'll take a picture of the shirt I have and.
• 1:53:29
  I'll send it to you guys that's. Oh.
• 1:53:31
  Yeah, 10 wagon. Damn, that thing is so.
• 1:53:34
  Straight. What the hell that?
• 1:53:36
  Was the biggest fan you can get back then.
• 1:53:37
  Holy. Crap, I mean.
• 1:53:40
  At the farm depot. Yeah.
• 1:53:42
  Yeah, Wait, wait, go back, go back, go back one, go back one.
• 1:53:44
  I want to see the Monday. I'm looking at this like, from
• 1:53:46
  a, like just purely, I'm putting myself in that situations 'cause
• 1:53:50
  that's what I, that's what I like to do next, next, next one,
• 1:53:52
  this one. This the traffic dude.
• 1:53:54
  This is like the. Final zoom in a little bit.
• 1:53:56
  What do we got here, people? Are just parking.
• 1:53:58
  It's like a Ford thing and then all two 40s.
• 1:54:03
  Like I forgot specifically what it was.
• 1:54:05
  It looks hot as hell, that's for sure.
• 1:54:07
  Were you? Guys just going back to the
• 1:54:09
  hotel. I think so.
• 1:54:11
  I think so because this was, this wasn't like an event event.
• 1:54:14
  Like. Look, look at my boy on the
• 1:54:16
  right with the stance right here.
• 1:54:18
  Yeah, that's Eric. Ryan.
• 1:54:24
  No way there's not. Shout out Eric, though.
• 1:54:26
  Yeah, look at the ball. That's 740.
• 1:54:28
  Shout out Tony Martin right there, right.
• 1:54:30
  He's like. Wait, this is.
• 1:54:31
  Not the 2:40 meet I thought it was.
• 1:54:34
  He's at the wrong place. You guys just do them all in
• 1:54:36
  the. Grass the.
• 1:54:37
  The the random porta potty next to that dumpster.
• 1:54:44
  I mean, hey, yeah, it made it happen.
• 1:54:46
  Yeah, you this is like really early on.
• 1:54:50
  Look right here. I don't see, I don't see a
• 1:54:52
  hookah insight. Yeah, right.
• 1:54:54
  Nowhere. Better town.
• 1:54:56
  See. I don't see anybody fucking you.
• 1:54:58
  Just smoked regularly. What was this again, 01?
• 1:55:01
  01. You just smoke cigarettes like a
• 1:55:03
  man. That was that.
• 1:55:05
  You died like a man. Damn dude, this is cool as shit.
• 1:55:10
  Is that my brother? That's Kenneth.
• 1:55:13
  Oh my. God it really does look like
• 1:55:15
  him. I I already saw another
• 1:55:17
  doppelganger too. I'm going to pull up a picture
• 1:55:20
  really quickly because I have a picture of.
• 1:55:22
  Making me feel like we're in a simulation.
• 1:55:24
  Yeah, we are. We are.
• 1:55:25
  We are. Yeah, because Because I'm in
• 1:55:26
  here, Kenneth's in here. I got to show you a picture of
• 1:55:29
  Kenneth. Well, I'm gonna pull it up right
• 1:55:30
  now. The other thing too is BF
• 1:55:32
  Goodrich, if you look at the poster in their back, yeah, back
• 1:55:34
  then they had they were advertising this like weird,
• 1:55:37
  like tire where? Didn't do anything for us, but
• 1:55:41
  yeah. They're advertising a tire where
• 1:55:44
  it was like, it was like, it was like there was a color on the
• 1:55:47
  tire. Yeah.
• 1:55:48
  Oh, so this was actually one of the that that Integra that the
• 1:55:50
  the tire was on the the actual tire itself had yellow on it.
• 1:55:54
  Yeah. And then at some point later on
• 1:55:56
  when Kumho was sponsoring the drifting stuff, they had a drift
• 1:55:58
  tire that that had smoke that was a same color.
• 1:56:01
  So I've seen that. So, so this was this was very
• 1:56:04
  much a part of the import scene back then.
• 1:56:06
  Oh, L. Series triple sidetracks that
• 1:56:08
  looks at my dad's engine. Base.
• 1:56:09
  I mean this is some series relatively stock car.
• 1:56:12
  You know the Z guys are fanatic like that that.
• 1:56:15
  Is my. Quickie.
• 1:56:18
  Quickie. Quickie, can you go back to the
• 1:56:19
  S30, the white one that looks identical to my daddy's car to
• 1:56:24
  the tea? Yeah, he.
• 1:56:24
  Probably went to the he. Probably went to the meat it
• 1:56:28
  looks you at. Home.
• 1:56:28
  It looks really weirdly like my dad's car No.
• 1:56:31
  But before he bought it, you saw your.
• 1:56:33
  Brother in the other. Photo and then and then on the
• 1:56:35
  left hand side there's a random car with Co say K ones or buddy
• 1:56:39
  club P ones. Yeah, like the auto cross guys
• 1:56:42
  love that wheel because it was like one of those wheels that
• 1:56:44
  was cheap, very white and and the most important thing is
• 1:56:48
  actually it's it's the smoke design allowed it to clear a lot
• 1:56:51
  of big brake. Kits like it's all the way
• 1:56:53
  outside. I had a set of 15 by 7 K ones.
• 1:56:57
  I have a picture of X actually in one of the galleries where it
• 1:57:00
  cleared my Z32 calipers 15 by 7. Oh wow.
• 1:57:05
  They were probably occupying the whole.
• 1:57:08
  Barrel it was very close but none of it touched and and it
• 1:57:12
  was enough room to wear. Even if the wheel deflected, it
• 1:57:14
  wouldn't wouldn't hit. So what year is this meet?
• 1:57:17
  01. 01. Summer of 01.
• 1:57:19
  OK, the. Best one happened in O2.
• 1:57:22
  Though Oh that Z right there. That's it.
• 1:57:25
  Maxima Maxima. Look at the wing maxima.
• 1:57:29
  Look at the. Wing, Malcolm.
• 1:57:31
  That's it right there. That's the car.
• 1:57:33
  Look at the two maximus. The AB Flu, John.
• 1:57:36
  Look at the JDM tails. Damn.
• 1:57:39
  I'm not AZ guy so I don't know what.
• 1:57:41
  These I just love that Z right there.
• 1:57:43
  He really does. He really fucking does, bro.
• 1:57:46
  No, but that that that Z dude, I'm telling you the.
• 1:57:51
  Camcorders. Yeah, 2024.
• 1:57:54
  That could be 2024 right now. Yeah, literally some dude with a
• 1:57:57
  camcorder sitting. Wait, go back to that Kai want
• 1:58:01
  to see that KA? Oh no, it that's not my dad's Z,
• 1:58:03
  that's a 2 + 2. Never mind.
• 1:58:06
  Yeah, this is this is what we had to put up with when we when
• 1:58:09
  we cold air like a cold air intake.
• 1:58:10
  Yeah, I see. And then the problem with like
• 1:58:13
  you mentioned earlier by like the, the, the, IT looks nice,
• 1:58:17
  but the way the intake was designed, was designed, it was
• 1:58:20
  never, it never took into account like the math and the
• 1:58:22
  turbulence. So it was like that became kind
• 1:58:25
  of one of those things where it's like, it wasn't like the
• 1:58:27
  Honda engines, Honda engines had had a map sensor, right?
• 1:58:30
  So the intakes were designed so that it was very smooth.
• 1:58:34
  But the math intakes for the Nissan's would never, they never
• 1:58:38
  thought about that for some reason.
• 1:58:40
  And it was like, you know, all the SRS became like, more
• 1:58:43
  popular because it was like, you can make better power out of
• 1:58:45
  them. That's dumb.
• 1:58:47
  Just look at how new everything is.
• 1:58:48
  That that shit. Looks.
• 1:58:49
  Clean as hell with. The engine heat shield.
• 1:58:52
  Yeah, that's that and the power steering reservoir, the.
• 1:58:55
  Master. Cylinder.
• 1:58:56
  Yeah. Like and the fuse box cover like
• 1:59:00
  the OR the battery terminal cover it's got.
• 1:59:03
  The AC caps on the lines, you see that right there?
• 1:59:07
  I do not see that little fucking do you seen, do you?
• 1:59:11
  I've never. Seen that on 240?
• 1:59:15
  You can buy them at the store. I know, but.
• 1:59:16
  Yeah, but nobody faces them, That's the thing.
• 1:59:18
  Yeah. That that that's the.
• 1:59:20
  It's not, It's not if you can't buy it or not.
• 1:59:22
  It's nobody touches it. Oh hell.
• 1:59:24
  That. Lip is.
• 1:59:24
  That's the that's the fucking lip right there.
• 1:59:27
  But then you got to find size carriers.
• 1:59:28
  Are those some what lips? That is that the East Bear.
• 1:59:32
  Lip. Those are SU Chia wheels, KTS
• 1:59:34
  wheels KST. It's something else.
• 1:59:37
  It's not. I have a set of the SU chia.
• 1:59:39
  KSO 5. Yeah, I have a set right now and
• 1:59:42
  it's not that it's very similar, but there was like two or three
• 1:59:44
  wheels in that time frame that had the same overall design.
• 1:59:48
  I wanted those so badly. But this is one of those like,
• 1:59:51
  remember the whole thing earlier about the hard drive that I
• 1:59:54
  lost? Yeah.
• 1:59:55
  Like like, like a lot of these photos are like the backup
• 1:59:59
  copies that I uploaded online to share with people.
• 2:00:02
  So they're much smaller resolution.
• 2:00:04
  The original I every single one of these I took like and, and
• 2:00:07
  back then I was like an early adopter of like, you know, high
• 2:00:11
  resolution digital cameras. So every single thing I took was
• 2:00:14
  like, you know. Pretty high maximum.
• 2:00:16
  It's probably hurting you so much.
• 2:00:18
  It's megapixel. One of the reasons why I never
• 2:00:21
  sure is because when I upload this, when you look at it on the
• 2:00:23
  phone right it looks like crap. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:00:26
  Because Facebook compresses the photos even more, so he took
• 2:00:28
  them like A50 KB to like A5 KB photo, you know?
• 2:00:32
  If you uploaded these to like what the fuck is that Facebook
• 2:00:35
  group now? 240SX owners club or something
• 2:00:38
  like that. Somebody like, even if they're a
• 2:00:41
  little grainy dude, like I know like that.
• 2:00:44
  I should. It's so I should it's so nice
• 2:00:47
  those that guy to the left or girl with the red card that was
• 2:00:51
  look like almost SSR integral looking wheels Yeah 5 spoke like
• 2:00:57
  yeah, this is. Or or the other thing too is
• 2:01:00
  back then is the number one source for buying wheels like
• 2:01:02
  this is actually one or two places either any of the larger
• 2:01:06
  like tire chains like Discount Tire Company.
• 2:01:11
  Have. Boys, no, no, no, no.
• 2:01:13
  So Discount Tire Company, America's Tire Company, they,
• 2:01:15
  they were the company that's based out of Scottsdale, AZ Tire
• 2:01:18
  Rack, if you go to tires.com, tires.com is, is what they own
• 2:01:22
  the domain wise. But what it is, is that they
• 2:01:25
  they they were like very much like Tire Rack in terms of they
• 2:01:28
  had a lot of like they were selling wheels, right.
• 2:01:32
  But the key difference was they had a lot of stores and you can
• 2:01:35
  basically buy wheels and tires mounted together for the for a
• 2:01:39
  very good price. Whereas Tire Rack before it was
• 2:01:42
  like you can mount them but the shipping cost would kill like
• 2:01:44
  whatever savings you had on the package.
• 2:01:47
  But these you could pick up. But these you could pick up and
• 2:01:49
  that's why like 5 using it, the ethanol one RCS was so popular
• 2:01:51
  because we were, we were just like, at one point we were
• 2:01:55
  shipping one, one to two containers a month to Discount
• 2:01:59
  Tire Direct. Like like directly from Taiwan.
• 2:02:02
  It's just no, because this was one of those things where it's
• 2:02:05
  just like, in order to make the numbers work in terms of buying
• 2:02:09
  a product and maintaining that cost structure, you have to do
• 2:02:12
  volume, right? It's no different than like, why
• 2:02:16
  are people, why is the cereal at Costco so cheap?
• 2:02:19
  It's because when they make it at the mill or factory,
• 2:02:22
  whatever, right, they take the stuff that's like poor, poor,
• 2:02:25
  poorly cut, You know, the, you know, poor quality, you know,
• 2:02:28
  that won't go through the, they sift it, right.
• 2:02:32
  When they make something like the, let's say the oatmeal,
• 2:02:33
  right, The stuff that's poor quality, like crumbs, you know,
• 2:02:36
  they'll repackage it and sell at Costco for like costs just so
• 2:02:40
  that they can maintain the factory volume.
• 2:02:42
  And then the higher quality stuff they sell at a retail
• 2:02:44
  store. So same thing with the wheels.
• 2:02:46
  It was like, it was like here is there was shops that are buying,
• 2:02:49
  you know, 5/10/20 cents at a time, which is low volume.
• 2:02:52
  And then here's the large volume stuff.
• 2:02:54
  And we have to bring in the volume in order to maintain the
• 2:02:57
  the the the revenue to keep the business going.
• 2:03:00
  So you you worked at that job for a while?
• 2:03:04
  909890 end of 98 to 2005. I worked there long enough to
• 2:03:11
  know to learn everything there is to know about that
• 2:03:13
  particular. Thing, yeah.
• 2:03:15
  No because I was just genuinely interested in all of this back
• 2:03:20
  end stuff. I mean like not to sound like
• 2:03:23
  I'm super nerd or anything, but if I get bored if I sit at a
• 2:03:27
  desk at work and right now my my job if I get bored sometimes I
• 2:03:30
  just open up Wikipedia and read random articles.
• 2:03:32
  About. That's awesome.
• 2:03:33
  Just just just just to learn stuff because because a lot of
• 2:03:36
  this stuff, honestly, it's very useful because it doesn't matter
• 2:03:39
  what industry you work in. If you understand how the flow
• 2:03:43
  works from my production design, logistics, everything else in
• 2:03:46
  between, it solves a lot of problems along the way.
• 2:03:49
  That that's, that's probably the number one thing is for me is
• 2:03:51
  that I don't like to just give you ABS answer.
• 2:03:54
  I like to give you an actual factual like something.
• 2:03:57
  Thought through answer. Not even a thought through
• 2:03:59
  something that actually is based on actual like this is how
• 2:04:04
  things work kind of answer, you know, because because like for
• 2:04:08
  example, like shipping a container, the actual amount of
• 2:04:11
  time it takes for a container ship to transit from Taiwan to
• 2:04:14
  to the US is 13 days exactly. No more, no less.
• 2:04:18
  That's how long it takes to sail, right?
• 2:04:20
  Japan is even less. But depending on where it sales
• 2:04:23
  form and depending on how where where it stops, every time a
• 2:04:25
  ship goes into port, minimum one day just to dock the ship.
• 2:04:30
  Depending on where your container is, it might take you
• 2:04:32
  one to three days to unload. And then customs.
• 2:04:35
  And then no, no, the customs part is actually the, the
• 2:04:37
  customs part is actually the, the BS answer part of it
• 2:04:41
  because, because in reality what you do is you declare the goods
• 2:04:44
  when you're, you know, coming in, right?
• 2:04:47
  Actually, there's two parts. You, you, when you export, you
• 2:04:49
  have to declare the goods. And then when you import, you
• 2:04:51
  have to declare the goods a second time.
• 2:04:53
  Because when you ship something out of the US, you actually have
• 2:04:55
  to declare where what is going outbound.
• 2:04:59
  Because you can't. You can't be like, oh, I'm going
• 2:05:00
  to ship uranium and not. Declare, right?
• 2:05:03
  Yeah. And that'd be like, yeah, this
• 2:05:04
  is actually. So when you ship something
• 2:05:06
  outbound, you have to declare it because it triggers things like
• 2:05:09
  are you actually, is this being taxed?
• 2:05:10
  Does it need to be taxed? Is it illegal contraband or
• 2:05:14
  anything else? Right.
• 2:05:15
  But so the filing paperwork stuff is done as when it arrives
• 2:05:19
  or even before it arrives, the the brokerage company will do it
• 2:05:22
  for you, right? But the actual logistics part is
• 2:05:26
  if you actually see a container shipping unloaded, imagine your
• 2:05:29
  container being at the very bottom of that pile.
• 2:05:32
  And depending on the weight and where it's loaded, it doesn't
• 2:05:35
  get loaded like, like a plane. It's like, have you seen those
• 2:05:38
  pictures of those planes where they unload the front end too
• 2:05:40
  quickly and the plane just, like, tilts over?
• 2:05:44
  Yeah, so, so so that is a real thing.
• 2:05:46
  Same with the ships. And if they don't unload it
• 2:05:48
  safely, the ship can tilt. And then the wheels.
• 2:05:51
  Could just come in the water and it makes it unstable and then
• 2:05:54
  the cranes can't unload anything.
• 2:05:57
  You actually have to put balance back on the ship to basically be
• 2:05:59
  out level allowed to unload it. So when they unload it,
• 2:06:02
  everything is weighed properly so that when the when it sails,
• 2:06:05
  it's safe and when it's unloaded, it's it's unloaded
• 2:06:08
  evenly from front to between front and back, right.
• 2:06:10
  So interesting. Sometimes it takes a day if it's
• 2:06:13
  light stuff, sometimes it might be at the very bottom and it
• 2:06:15
  takes forever. Right.
• 2:06:16
  So that's what I'm saying. But things like shipping, it
• 2:06:21
  takes maybe one to three days. Sorry.
• 2:06:23
  It takes about a week for the outbound because it takes a
• 2:06:25
  couple of days for it to be sorted in the port and then they
• 2:06:28
  have to pack it on the ship, right?
• 2:06:30
  Load it on the ship. The actual sailing part is only
• 2:06:32
  about two weeks. And then on the.
• 2:06:34
  Water on the water and over here is another, you know, minimum
• 2:06:38
  three to five days, maybe about a week and then to get to your
• 2:06:41
  store to leave the port. Oh, OK.
• 2:06:43
  And then when it when it's ready to leave the port, the trucker
• 2:06:46
  has a basically 24 hours to pick it up.
• 2:06:48
  Otherwise they charge start charging fees.
• 2:06:51
  The only exception to all this is if it's held for customs
• 2:06:54
  inspection or they do one of two types.
• 2:06:56
  Either they X-ray it to look for whatever they're looking for
• 2:06:59
  drugs, or they'll take it open and unload all the contents in
• 2:07:04
  front of you. And then they say, oh, we didn't
• 2:07:06
  find what we're looking for. And you?
• 2:07:08
  And. Then and you have to be the one
• 2:07:10
  to put it back all together so they can transport it.
• 2:07:13
  God Customs doesn't do any of the repacking stuff for you.
• 2:07:16
  They'll unload it in front of you, but they won't pack it back
• 2:07:19
  in for you. So that's why that's.
• 2:07:20
  Some devious ass work. No, but this, this is.
• 2:07:24
  Here's the. Thing like.
• 2:07:25
  This is this is, this is just how goods are imported into US
• 2:07:29
  every single day. Yeah, those millions of
• 2:07:31
  containers. This is just the flow.
• 2:07:33
  So then people don't realize that.
• 2:07:34
  So for me, it's like, this is like what I wanted to learn.
• 2:07:37
  Like this is all the stuff I learned before from doing car
• 2:07:39
  stuff. But it was like all of this
• 2:07:40
  stuff was relevant. Doesn't matter if I'm bringing
• 2:07:42
  in this car stuff or if like now I'm in the tech industry Now
• 2:07:45
  it's like, oh, somebody has a question about how the computer
• 2:07:48
  goods are brought in, right? And this is things I can
• 2:07:52
  actually go around and say, hey, somebody has a question about
• 2:07:55
  lead time, that kind of stuff. I just know what I can answer,
• 2:07:56
  right? But I like learning about the
• 2:07:58
  stuff because it's it's just how the world works.
• 2:08:01
  You know logistics. Logistics is one part of it, yes
• 2:08:05
  and but but just that whole flow of business, right.
• 2:08:10
  You know, it's really no different than like having a
• 2:08:13
  workflow for building an engine. Sure, you could wing it and you
• 2:08:16
  know, you have experience on it's all in your head, right.
• 2:08:18
  But then if you don't do it, then who else can do it, right?
• 2:08:22
  That's, that's one of those things.
• 2:08:23
  It's like, you know, but for me it's like this was like the, the
• 2:08:29
  car stuff in the, you know, and, and so I, I started attending
• 2:08:32
  events, I started learning about how to organize stuff, you know,
• 2:08:35
  and then also at the same time, when I like build cars, I
• 2:08:38
  documented, you know, everything that I'm doing is like this, you
• 2:08:42
  know. So, but yeah, so you worked
• 2:08:44
  there till 2005, Yes. And then what did you guys have
• 2:08:47
  done? I we actually moved houses, but
• 2:08:50
  then I just essentially decided to finish my school schooling,
• 2:08:55
  but I was working at phase two, Motor Trend.
• 2:08:57
  Oh, really? From O 5 to 2010.
• 2:09:01
  Order stuff from. Frankie's like P2 everyday
• 2:09:04
  ordered from P2M. Like everyday we.
• 2:09:07
  So so yeah, phase two, I mean, Wayne, Wayne Wayne still is the
• 2:09:11
  owner. Yeah, it's funny because Wayne,
• 2:09:14
  Wayne Wayne basically joked about how like his company
• 2:09:16
  became like companies just selling nothing but floor mats.
• 2:09:20
  Yeah. That sounds about.
• 2:09:21
  Right, yo, 'cause you can't keep them in stock.
• 2:09:25
  It's like good at this floor. Mats all the time and it's and
• 2:09:28
  he has a pretty wide variety of formats right but.
• 2:09:30
  Yeah, and they're good. They they look.
• 2:09:32
  The the funny part is that Wayne was one of the first, very first
• 2:09:36
  people I met in the in the car industry.
• 2:09:39
  And Wayne is, I don't have any pictures of his car, but he had
• 2:09:42
  this. He was actually one of the part
• 2:09:45
  I. We almost did a podcast with
• 2:09:46
  him. He all he is one of the what?
• 2:09:48
  Really. When we were in California?
• 2:09:50
  What? What the fuck he?
• 2:09:51
  Was one of the only people that I hit up and was like, yeah, we
• 2:09:53
  could do. He was.
• 2:09:54
  And I, I don't remember the conversation, but we were
• 2:09:55
  thinking about stopping by there.
• 2:09:57
  Yeah, yeah. But it didn't happen.
• 2:09:58
  He is one of the first three people I can say say, say this
• 2:10:02
  with high confidence. He's one of the first three
• 2:10:04
  people that did an Sr. swap in the in, in in the US Yeah, we
• 2:10:07
  got to have him. I don't know if he's a first,
• 2:10:09
  but he definitely one of the first three.
• 2:10:10
  He had an S13 red top in a 95 or 96 Zenki white body.
• 2:10:19
  He did this, I want to say roughly around high school
• 2:10:24
  because he's a year older than me.
• 2:10:25
  He graduated high school in 95. But his friends and that time
• 2:10:29
  frame was like just like they were doing way more car stuff.
• 2:10:32
  But I still remember he was like one of the first people I
• 2:10:34
  actually met in person. And he, I don't know if he was
• 2:10:38
  he, I think I bought something from him, but I remember him
• 2:10:42
  rolling down to my house in Torrance.
• 2:10:45
  And he had this black S13 hatchet with the Sr. swap.
• 2:10:47
  And this was, there was this gigantic frontline intercooler.
• 2:10:50
  Like the bumper was cut out and the fire intercooler was just
• 2:10:52
  sitting there, right. And we went for a little drive
• 2:10:54
  and he drove like he basically did like a, you know, full on
• 2:10:58
  drag, you know, roll through the gears like down Crenshaw Blvd.
• 2:11:02
  in Torrance and scared the crap out of me.
• 2:11:07
  And it wasn't even like. Coming from a Oh my gosh.
• 2:11:10
  And I think it was probably a rocket ship back then.
• 2:11:12
  What? The hell so so so so he had that
• 2:11:14
  car. And then I think maybe the
• 2:11:20
  elements of the story are wrong, but I know that he wrecked the
• 2:11:23
  car because he was running spacers at the time and one of
• 2:11:28
  the rear wheels fell off on the freeway.
• 2:11:31
  No. And it bent the chassis, so he
• 2:11:34
  basically moved on to another car or something like that,
• 2:11:37
  Yeah. I don't know.
• 2:11:38
  Now I'm running Amazon spacer. So you ended up working there?
• 2:11:42
  After Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's supposed to be because I
• 2:11:45
  needed a job in the, the, the the Community College I, I went,
• 2:11:49
  went to was more or less down the street in the same area.
• 2:11:52
  So that's. Convenient.
• 2:11:53
  I was like, OK, well, you know, hey.
• 2:11:54
  And you probably did some of the same stuff you did at the other.
• 2:11:57
  I mean, he's still importing stuff.
• 2:12:00
  He he was importing parts and all that stuff.
• 2:12:02
  Not, not, not so much. So what it was was back then he
• 2:12:06
  was doing a lot of circuit sports.
• 2:12:10
  OK, Yeah. Stuff, but he was not doing
• 2:12:12
  anything related to actual importing, mostly because so it
• 2:12:18
  was like it was weird because it was like the car industry was
• 2:12:20
  built around like especially in Southern California, it was
• 2:12:22
  built around like a bunch of friends that knew each other.
• 2:12:24
  So he was good friends with Alex from SP Engineering, Alex Shen,
• 2:12:31
  SP Engineering. SP just sends for special
• 2:12:35
  projects, but SP Engineering is like it's, it's one of those
• 2:12:39
  weird things. So before turn 14, before
• 2:12:43
  motivicity, before anybody else, the largest distributors,
• 2:12:47
  distribution was on the West Coast, more specifically like
• 2:12:50
  promotion and options and a couple others.
• 2:12:54
  Promotion was one of the large, larger, largest ones.
• 2:12:57
  And this, this, this was one of those weird things where if you
• 2:13:01
  wanted to buy greedy products, most of the time you would buy
• 2:13:04
  from promotion. But the weird part was promotion
• 2:13:07
  was not buying it directly from greedy.
• 2:13:09
  Promotion was buying it from SP Engineering.
• 2:13:11
  Oh, wow. Or something to that effect.
• 2:13:14
  It was, it was a really weird arrangement because.
• 2:13:16
  Different people were importing things.
• 2:13:18
  No, no, no. It wasn't so much about
• 2:13:19
  importing, it was more like so and so wants to sell more, but
• 2:13:22
  they don't want to open up a new account because they will
• 2:13:24
  cannibalize your existing customers.
• 2:13:27
  So you make an arrangement where somebody else is buying from
• 2:13:30
  you. Essentially you're just, you're
• 2:13:31
  just passing through paperwork, but you make like a really small
• 2:13:36
  markup, right? You do the basically make like a
• 2:13:38
  paperwork fee, but that kind of stuff, right?
• 2:13:41
  So in reality, it was like if you wanted grading products, SP
• 2:13:46
  engineering had the lowest cost because of their relationship.
• 2:13:49
  So the Wayne was buying grading from SP.
• 2:13:51
  Same with like Blitz. Oh yeah, I'm wearing a Blitz
• 2:13:55
  shirt. That's it.
• 2:13:56
  Bye. Same with Blitz.
• 2:13:58
  When Blitz Blitz basically there was 3 versions.
• 2:14:00
  There was there was 3 iterations of Blitz in the US.
• 2:14:04
  There was the first version was it was I think it was like Blitz
• 2:14:06
  performance sales. That was basically like they
• 2:14:11
  were like the authorized store, the sole importer of Blitz in
• 2:14:14
  the US until about what 2000 and three 2004 or something like
• 2:14:18
  that. I forgot the specific year and
• 2:14:20
  then let's Japan basically came over and bought them out and ran
• 2:14:25
  this ran the US operations directly till about. 2008. 2009,
• 2:14:31
  which that year was when? Everyone left.
• 2:14:33
  That that time frame wiped everybody out because it because
• 2:14:35
  the yen yen sky. Factory talked about that era
• 2:14:38
  208. Yeah, everyone.
• 2:14:40
  Well, the the economy and everything.
• 2:14:42
  Yeah. So yeah, the Japanese economy is
• 2:14:43
  a whole other podcast. OK, you could do.
• 2:14:45
  No, it's, it's, it's really relevant because, and I don't
• 2:14:50
  want to go off on a tangent too much, but, but it's important
• 2:14:53
  because if you, if you people that go to Japan now, I think,
• 2:14:57
  oh, everything's there. So, so cheap, right?
• 2:15:00
  Even before the exchange rate plunge, everything was cheap.
• 2:15:03
  Yeah. But one thing that people don't
• 2:15:04
  realize about Japan, and it's an ongoing problem for 20-30 years
• 2:15:07
  at this point, is Japan ever since the housing bubble popped
• 2:15:11
  in the 90s, in the mid 90s, their economy has been kind of
• 2:15:14
  flat. If you actually look at their
• 2:15:15
  actual growth, their economy has grown maybe two or three percent
• 2:15:19
  a year tops. They actually have a problem
• 2:15:22
  with currency deflation there where you don't have wage growth
• 2:15:26
  and things are getting cheaper and cheaper.
• 2:15:27
  Just just just as an average person in Japan, right?
• 2:15:31
  That's why like the cost of a bowl of ocean oil is still ¥500
• 2:15:35
  in Japan because the wages have never increased.
• 2:15:40
  But then the current economy climate is mostly because the
• 2:15:44
  Bank of Japan can't raise the interest rates because they
• 2:15:47
  can't they, they're actually at the, they're out of options in
• 2:15:49
  terms of how to stimulate their economy, so they can't raise
• 2:15:52
  interest rates. And the US interest rate is so
• 2:15:54
  high. So if you have, if you're an
• 2:15:57
  institutional investor and you're sitting on billions of
• 2:15:59
  dollars and you just want passive income in the
• 2:16:01
  background, what are you going to do?
• 2:16:03
  You're going to buy US bonds because you're going to make 5%
• 2:16:07
  right compound every year until whenever you sell it, right?
• 2:16:12
  So, so that's, that's the inherent problem in the
• 2:16:15
  background. And because of that, that's why
• 2:16:16
  the yen is so cheap. But the real problem and going
• 2:16:19
  back to the whole like yen thing in, in the OEO 9 was when they,
• 2:16:23
  when the economy, global economy crashed, right?
• 2:16:26
  It, it, the, the yen skyrocketed in value.
• 2:16:30
  At one point it was trading at like 6968.
• 2:16:33
  That was, that was like a peak of it was like in the 70s,
• 2:16:35
  eighties for a for an extended period of time.
• 2:16:37
  But everything from Japan overnight doubled in price
• 2:16:41
  practically because at O 5, when I went to Japan, it was one to
• 2:16:44
  125, right? OEO 9 O was like, it was like
• 2:16:48
  8090. So it was like a 4050% increase
• 2:16:51
  in price for no reason. What is it right now?
• 2:16:53
  160 I just looked last week because my my Co workers going
• 2:16:58
  soon so so as I just looked last week, but it was it was over.
• 2:17:00
  It's over 160 now. 150 was a psychological barrier that
• 2:17:03
  nobody would thought it would ever hit in our lifetime.
• 2:17:06
  But now it's there. It is 60.
• 2:17:08
  I was looking at because I'm trying to go still, Yeah, in
• 2:17:10
  October, and the yen is so weak compared to the US dollar right
• 2:17:17
  now that it's great. I feel like the ticket, I'm
• 2:17:20
  going to show you how much it is after, but I want to know how
• 2:17:23
  much you paid. I think we paid like $2000.00
• 2:17:25
  for a round flight. Yep, we're going to talk about
• 2:17:27
  it after it's. It's, it's, it's different
• 2:17:31
  though, because, because the, the, I cause 'cause I, I, I like
• 2:17:35
  to look at flight stuff. The, the, the pricing, the
• 2:17:38
  pricing from New York is a little bit skewed because
• 2:17:41
  there's never any cheap flights. Yeah, none.
• 2:17:43
  So if it's actually cheaper if you flew out to California and
• 2:17:45
  then took a flight because because there's way more
• 2:17:46
  capacity. Yeah, I mean, you might as well,
• 2:17:50
  honestly. Is it really?
• 2:17:52
  Yeah, yeah, it's a huge difference because October, no,
• 2:17:56
  October, the average price for a round trip out of LAX or SFL is
• 2:18:00
  about 900 bucks. And it breaks the trip up too,
• 2:18:03
  so it's. About 900 bucks.
• 2:18:04
  That's kind of what it was that I.
• 2:18:06
  Was 900 bucks. Yeah.
• 2:18:08
  So if you, if you could do it, if you could get under 1000
• 2:18:11
  direct from New York, do it. It's worth it.
• 2:18:13
  All right. Just.
• 2:18:14
  Be first, have spirit. Oh.
• 2:18:16
  My God. It's.
• 2:18:18
  No, I'd fly. I'd fly 18 hours Spirit.
• 2:18:22
  OK, let me know how it goes. Actually bring a camera too.
• 2:18:25
  Because I'm going to be so hopped up on everything that I'm
• 2:18:28
  just. Whoa, whoa, oh.
• 2:18:34
  Look, it's Japan, isn't that crazy?
• 2:18:38
  I don't care if the fucking plane makes a bump.
• 2:18:42
  I'm just a hell. I'm I'm a person that doesn't
• 2:18:44
  care either. But I don't think I would take
• 2:18:45
  Spirit. If I die, I don't.
• 2:18:47
  They just don't have a plane that goes all the.
• 2:18:49
  Way well, the next closest thing is Zip Air.
• 2:18:51
  Zip Air, what is that? Japan Airlines budget
• 2:18:54
  subsidiary. I'm sure it's probably a little
• 2:18:57
  better than Spirit. It's is it comparable?
• 2:19:02
  Everything is you have to pay for everything.
• 2:19:05
  Yeah, that's experience. One of those, yeah.
• 2:19:07
  So it doesn't even come with CPAC Entertainment?
• 2:19:09
  I was gonna say you want. Chair Well, now we got, now we
• 2:19:11
  got this. No, no, I know.
• 2:19:13
  But you also don't get even. You don't even get water.
• 2:19:17
  I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding.
• 2:19:18
  Look up, look up, zip air. Look up their identities.
• 2:19:20
  You don't even get water. Oh, you wanted?
• 2:19:22
  So you have to pay one. Oh, you wanted air?
• 2:19:24
  Air. You wanted oxygen.
• 2:19:26
  This is well, we only provide zip here you got to get the air
• 2:19:28
  set so but. You wanted a seat?
• 2:19:30
  But the the the the true thing about zip areas is that if you
• 2:19:33
  want a life flat seat, you can get a life flat seat for
• 2:19:37
  essentially less than half the price of a normal life flat
• 2:19:39
  seat. Too.
• 2:19:39
  It's just in the cargo area, no? No, I did.
• 2:19:41
  Like this for business? Imagine.
• 2:19:43
  Imagine. Not, not quite that.
• 2:19:47
  Every time I got on a plane I asked if I could drive that
• 2:19:49
  bitch. They always say no.
• 2:19:51
  Well, I'm glad you even make it to where you're going after you.
• 2:19:53
  Just but yeah, I know the the O eight O 9 time frame invite
• 2:19:57
  wiped out a lot of companies, but like, I mean, at that time
• 2:20:01
  Wayne wasn't even importing stuff.
• 2:20:03
  It was mostly like just like, I mean I worked there.
• 2:20:06
  I still remember this because from 2005 to about 2009 a ton of
• 2:20:12
  our customers were just people in the military that had.
• 2:20:16
  Freaking Iraq or Afghanistan deployment money.
• 2:20:19
  And it was just like spending money left and right.
• 2:20:21
  It was, it was wild. Some of the biggest customers
• 2:20:24
  that we've had were just straight up guys that were just
• 2:20:27
  like calling us from the base. Call that the Bush.
• 2:20:30
  Bush they. Call, call.
• 2:20:31
  No, no, they're calling us from like Afghanistan.
• 2:20:33
  I'd be like, hey, I want to buy all those parts.
• 2:20:34
  So I'm going to, I'm going to coming back to the US in like 3
• 2:20:36
  months. I want to buy all these parts
• 2:20:38
  and get all they got all these parts lined up and then they
• 2:20:39
  were just like, no problem spending ten, $20,000 on parts.
• 2:20:43
  I go, it was, it was, it was wild.
• 2:20:44
  That's it. Hell yeah.
• 2:20:46
  But I but I was like, I got to come home to a built Sr. please
• 2:20:50
  like. They just want to come home to a
• 2:20:52
  pile of parts. Yeah.
• 2:20:53
  So then they could just, yeah, get started.
• 2:20:55
  So. So it was that time.
• 2:20:57
  Frame right and drifting was becoming.
• 2:20:59
  Yeah, drifting. I mean, drifting, yeah,
• 2:21:01
  drifting. I mean, it started really taking
• 2:21:04
  off like as far as California was concerned in like 2001,
• 2:21:09
  2002, like because it evolved from doing like those car
• 2:21:13
  control crews. Yeah, track days to oh, yeah,
• 2:21:16
  Now we can do parking lots. Yeah.
• 2:21:18
  So now we can rent out like, let's say like like an airfield
• 2:21:21
  or someplace and then there and at some point it became like,
• 2:21:23
  oh, we can rent out a track. Is that not on the track?
• 2:21:26
  Wow. No, because no, because, because
• 2:21:28
  the track owners hated it, because they they hated the fact
• 2:21:31
  that there was all these guys tearing up the edges of the
• 2:21:33
  track. Because when you go off and you
• 2:21:34
  come back on, it tears up the we were.
• 2:21:36
  Just talking about this the other.
• 2:21:37
  Day somebody on an Evergreen day just got torn apart because
• 2:21:40
  they're like, can we patch up some of those grass?
• 2:21:42
  And it's like, how about you don't go off?
• 2:21:45
  Yeah, exactly. It's like, exactly.
• 2:21:47
  It's like, you know, suck less. Yeah.
• 2:21:50
  But I. Just hit my.
• 2:21:51
  Man, Carl's calling him out. But yeah, I'll find his name on
• 2:21:55
  Facebook. Too chill out, chill out.
• 2:21:57
  But but that was that was I mean it, it started taking off and
• 2:22:01
  then like next thing you know, it was like D1 came over.
• 2:22:04
  Did you do the driver search before that?
• 2:22:06
  It was there was an option video like event and a window E slot.
• 2:22:10
  I mean a window E slot was like a whole nother thing.
• 2:22:12
  I was like, it's like parking lot drifting.
• 2:22:15
  But Irwindale, at least ownership wise, they were the
• 2:22:17
  one of the first venues who actually like let anybody do
• 2:22:20
  anything. But it was like the East law was
• 2:22:23
  weird though, because it was like there was besides the fact
• 2:22:27
  that there was light poles, right?
• 2:22:29
  There's also this like little like drain like dip in the
• 2:22:32
  middle. Was this the video we watched
• 2:22:34
  and it's. Also, so it was like when you
• 2:22:36
  when, when, when drift a Moto and Aoki set up the course, It
• 2:22:43
  was like purposely, it was like you don't go over that middle
• 2:22:45
  section because nobody knew how to slide over it.
• 2:22:48
  What do you know how to slide over a dip properly?
• 2:22:50
  Which is the? Same trip tray with Kaguchi in
• 2:22:53
  there too. That's the same.
• 2:22:55
  Same. Same venue, Yeah, same venue.
• 2:22:57
  It was a different That was a different event because that was
• 2:22:59
  that option video of things that.
• 2:23:00
  Yeah, Ken showed us a video where he accidentally signed up
• 2:23:03
  for that. Yeah.
• 2:23:05
  And then? And then and then the other, I
• 2:23:08
  think the eye opener was just like the 2000 and I think, oh,
• 2:23:11
  2000 and two or three when D1 came over and they ran the
• 2:23:17
  Irwindale course and, and the way they had it set up every, it
• 2:23:21
  just, it just, I think it changed a lot of people's minds,
• 2:23:25
  mostly because I mean, Irwindale bank, right?
• 2:23:28
  The fact that they ran that Irwindale bank and the original
• 2:23:31
  course was like, like you know, you do the bank counter clock,
• 2:23:35
  counter clockwise and then you had a left hand, right hand
• 2:23:40
  transition and. Then in the.
• 2:23:42
  Center and go around that kind of like it challenged what a lot
• 2:23:48
  of people thought was possible, thought was possible, right?
• 2:23:52
  And then from there it just kind of like then then you started
• 2:23:54
  seeing this skills progression because initially it was like
• 2:23:57
  the US drivers, you can see there's a pretty significant
• 2:23:59
  skills gap versus the Japanese drivers.
• 2:24:02
  And then at some point it was like, I think it was like the
• 2:24:05
  first couple of years was like dominant players was like Sam
• 2:24:07
  Hubernet and Reese Millen, right?
• 2:24:09
  Because they had. They had.
• 2:24:11
  Super high-powered cars. Hubernet.
• 2:24:13
  Has like a Viper or? Something, but more.
• 2:24:15
  Importantly, had GTO. No, no.
• 2:24:17
  But more importantly, they they were, I think probably the most
• 2:24:19
  important thing was they were not driving their own cars
• 2:24:21
  because for example, Daiyoshihara, his first year, he
• 2:24:24
  was not driving his own car. He wasn't even driving a built
• 2:24:26
  car. He was driving Jerry Yang's
• 2:24:27
  personal car, the I Love Racing Pacific Rim S13.
• 2:24:32
  That was Jerry, Jerry Yang's personal car.
• 2:24:34
  That's funny, I have a shirt with that.
• 2:24:36
  Damn, I shot a Pfeiffer. Drove his own car.
• 2:24:39
  I mean, it was it was infamous because he he competed against
• 2:24:41
  human it right. You know, you here is a stock
• 2:24:43
  for AG and clutch. Get the crap out of it and
• 2:24:47
  whatever. Yeah, he so he drove his own
• 2:24:49
  car, but everybody else who basically drove a some version
• 2:24:52
  of a stockish or mildly built stock shop or own personal car
• 2:24:58
  and the yen drove the auto link car.
• 2:25:01
  I would love to go. Back to that, that kind of
• 2:25:02
  stuff. Yeah, because then it's like,
• 2:25:05
  because there's a video 2007 Formula D on on on YouTube.
• 2:25:10
  It's the only one that I, if you type in Formula D like 2000,
• 2:25:14
  whatever it would, it will come up.
• 2:25:16
  And Ryan Turk in that video has a S13 KA with like fifteens in
• 2:25:23
  the back. Oh, no, that that was basically
• 2:25:25
  me, Yeah. When I ran.
• 2:25:26
  When I ran Irwin deal in O four, it was it was a basically with
• 2:25:30
  the mods that I had and running a test pipe, I think I probably
• 2:25:34
  I probably made 150 wheel horsepower.
• 2:25:36
  That's and and there's a S2000. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:25:41
  Who was driving the S2000? I can't remember.
• 2:25:44
  Which one? It was built by Gary.
• 2:25:46
  It was built by Gary Castillo. Filipino guy.
• 2:25:50
  Shocker. Design craft design craft is is
• 2:25:54
  a shop he he he does a lot of like fab work, but he was also
• 2:25:57
  famous for building like some of the fastest 4 wheel drive drug
• 2:26:00
  civics. But it's like, it's like when
• 2:26:02
  they go Ken Gucci was driving a Mustang in that video.
• 2:26:07
  When you watch that stuff, though, it's like when people
• 2:26:09
  hit or they, they like make contact, it's like the end of
• 2:26:13
  the fucking world. Yep.
• 2:26:15
  Now it's like, now it's like, give me that door.
• 2:26:20
  I'm like, no, like back to that. Yeah.
• 2:26:22
  Like that, That stuff to me was like, that's kind of what I
• 2:26:26
  thought drifting was and still is.
• 2:26:28
  So like it's kind of cool. Like we're literally going back
• 2:26:32
  to that. People are trying to find new
• 2:26:34
  chassis. People are trying to do this,
• 2:26:36
  make it work, whatever. Like it's pretty.
• 2:26:39
  It's evolved in a pretty cool. Stuff.
• 2:26:41
  The other thing too is also like back then it was like you had a
• 2:26:46
  lot of experimenting, a very specific example, 2004, because
• 2:26:51
  Feizagen was like the whole selling ethanol on RCS, like
• 2:26:56
  trying to get everybody to buy the wheels, right.
• 2:26:58
  But we were also sponsoring everybody left and right, so
• 2:27:00
  like half the entire FDP. Was sponsored by US no.
• 2:27:02
  No, like all the Falcon cars were sponsored by us.
• 2:27:04
  No joke, because because we, we knew Nick from Falcon like well,
• 2:27:08
  so it was like, here you go. Here's a bunch of wheels running
• 2:27:10
  on your cars, right. But we sponsored Rodoro and that
• 2:27:13
  the first two years of Team Rodoro was Kangushi and Ernie
• 2:27:16
  Fixmer. With the S 13.5.
• 2:27:18
  Ernie Ernie had the S13 hatch, S 13.5 hatch.
• 2:27:22
  Ken had the S13 coupe. Yo, I fucking hope we get to
• 2:27:27
  meet Kangushi again one day. Aside from the bathroom at E
• 2:27:29
  Town, yeah. Paul, don't tell anyone that.
• 2:27:32
  Story. I actually ran into Kangushi
• 2:27:35
  once at a Starbucks, but he just he had his sequential
• 2:27:39
  transmission in his yes, right, and he's like Starbucks buying
• 2:27:43
  Starbucks drugs. Do I walk by?
• 2:27:45
  I was like, hey, Gucci, that's. Crazy.
• 2:27:49
  But but when Ken that I remember because that that year of
• 2:27:55
  formula drift was when they there was four events only there
• 2:27:58
  was Atlanta, Houston, Sonoma and Irwindale Sonoma was at the back
• 2:28:05
  end was called Infinity on Raceway.
• 2:28:07
  I forgot the name of the track now.
• 2:28:09
  I think it's just called Sonoma. Race, yeah.
• 2:28:11
  And then and then Houston was a weird setup because it was that
• 2:28:16
  Reliant Stadium back then. It was in the parking lot of the
• 2:28:19
  football stadium. But it was just like essentially
• 2:28:21
  the course was set up like K Rail and just like AJ Turn kind
• 2:28:25
  of set up. It was very straight.
• 2:28:26
  It was very simple. And this was also when FD needed
• 2:28:29
  credibility. So they had Tarzan Yarmada being
• 2:28:31
  one of the judges, and so he had that Benihana Viper.
• 2:28:38
  Oh. Yeah, that she looks.
• 2:28:40
  Sick. Yeah.
• 2:28:40
  And then. And then I think one or two of
• 2:28:42
  the the other judges were also from Japan.
• 2:28:46
  But the reason why I said, like a lot of experimenting was the
• 2:28:49
  way Ernie's cars were set up. Ernie can tell you more if you
• 2:28:53
  ever, you know, if you ever ask him.
• 2:28:55
  But I remember because my friend Richard was the team manager for
• 2:28:59
  Rotora at the time and I knew all the people at Rotora
• 2:29:02
  personally before and what it was, was the way the cars was
• 2:29:06
  set up. For some reason it kept breaking
• 2:29:09
  the axles and, and, and, and it was like one of those like at
• 2:29:14
  Houston was just like the moment you started, you started doing
• 2:29:16
  practice runs, it broke an axle. So they were trying to figure
• 2:29:19
  out like why? Maybe it was like the way the
• 2:29:22
  concrete surface was because it was a really hard concrete
• 2:29:24
  surface and with like joints, right?
• 2:29:26
  And so maybe there was the way it was going over the joints
• 2:29:29
  that was causing the OR the suspension was too loaded or
• 2:29:31
  whatever, right. But back then it was just like
• 2:29:34
  you didn't run too wide of a rear tire, right?
• 2:29:36
  You didn't want too sticky of a rear tire because you wanted the
• 2:29:39
  car to be able to slide. But at some point people have
• 2:29:41
  realized that, hey, you actually need more tire and more traction
• 2:29:45
  to have more control. Yeah.
• 2:29:48
  So it was one of those counterintuitive things that
• 2:29:50
  people transition over and then when they did the transition,
• 2:29:53
  then you really see like the the amount of like builds, like
• 2:29:56
  crazy builds take off. And more power.
• 2:29:58
  Yeah. And then, then, then the FD
• 2:30:00
  rules sort of kind of like went along with it in terms of
• 2:30:03
  adapting and restricting what you can and can't do on the
• 2:30:06
  cars. When do you think that was
• 2:30:07
  around? I, I mean, it was just one of
• 2:30:09
  those things that happened, right?
• 2:30:11
  I never it was one of those things where it's just like I
• 2:30:15
  kind of saw what was going on, but I didn't really think about
• 2:30:17
  it, you know, but if you want to sit down and analyze it, this is
• 2:30:19
  one of those background things about like drifting.
• 2:30:22
  Yeah, but but this was keep in mind, this is just FD, right?
• 2:30:25
  I I I didn't, I didn't really keep track of like everybody
• 2:30:28
  else doing like feeder amateur series and that kind of stuff.
• 2:30:31
  So, you know, people are doing the smaller series or just doing
• 2:30:34
  it for fun. Was doing were doing completely
• 2:30:35
  different. Things.
• 2:30:36
  Those were the guys pioneering some shit, but they were out
• 2:30:38
  there like. Yeah, but but, but, but really
• 2:30:39
  the really the main thing was the really the main thing with
• 2:30:42
  FD was just like, OK, here's the series, here's here's all the
• 2:30:46
  rule sets. If you if you you know, they had
• 2:30:51
  all these things in place so that the competition was fair,
• 2:30:53
  like the five minute rule, that kind of stuff, right.
• 2:30:56
  You could invoke like certain time things to like fix your car
• 2:30:58
  is that kind of stuff, right. Whereas like amateurs were like
• 2:31:01
  different. It was just like, oh, you just
• 2:31:02
  drive until your car doesn't physically move anymore, you
• 2:31:04
  know, that kind of stuff, right. So it's a little bit different.
• 2:31:08
  So and also like amateur series you had you had a lot less
• 2:31:14
  tandems were more for fun, right, But you didn't really
• 2:31:17
  have anybody doing like tandem for competition.
• 2:31:20
  You know that's. Interesting.
• 2:31:22
  I feel like the moment I get in chase, the only thing I want to
• 2:31:24
  do is fucking make sure I'm driving better than that dude in
• 2:31:27
  front of me. Yeah, true.
• 2:31:28
  Like that's so. Weird to think at some point
• 2:31:30
  actually. Unless it's like actually like
• 2:31:32
  just. At some point it got added on,
• 2:31:34
  at some point it got added on, but it wasn't like a thing in
• 2:31:37
  the beginning. It was more like you would just
• 2:31:38
  judge on solo runs. That's interesting because I
• 2:31:41
  feel like it's almost. It's a complete opposite now,
• 2:31:44
  everyone. Wants to see.
• 2:31:46
  You do a crazy chase because it's like, oh, OK, if I lead.
• 2:31:50
  Driver like when they got rid of the qualifying in Formula Drift
• 2:31:53
  this year or whatever, I was like, damn that, that was kind
• 2:31:56
  of like the cool part. Yeah, but now it's now it's
• 2:31:58
  seating, now it's like now it's like the tandems have to be
• 2:32:00
  good. I guess I just don't want to see
• 2:32:02
  that. I want to see the qualifying I
• 2:32:03
  like. Tandem, I mean it, it, it
• 2:32:05
  evolves right? For for me, for me and, and, and
• 2:32:11
  later on with like when I took the BRZ to the track, for me it
• 2:32:15
  was like always like car control.
• 2:32:17
  That was more than anything else.
• 2:32:19
  It was like drifting was like car control.
• 2:32:20
  You have to, you have to learn and know the fundamentals of
• 2:32:23
  driving before you can get into drifting.
• 2:32:27
  Yeah, right. You can't just drift.
• 2:32:28
  You haven't like if I, you know, if you anybody can, you know, do
• 2:32:32
  doughnuts in any car, right. But you actually did, you do
• 2:32:35
  actual beautiful doughnuts, for example, to do something that's
• 2:32:38
  like, looks nice, looks like it's actually done on
• 2:32:41
  deliberately. That's it.
• 2:32:42
  That's a different set of, you know, different skill sets.
• 2:32:44
  Yeah. You mean like yes?
• 2:32:49
  Carl what? The ones you fucking did outside
• 2:32:50
  the shop? Yeah, Jackass.
• 2:32:53
  Well. Hey, just just just just like
• 2:32:56
  when I wrecked my S13, right? Now, different.
• 2:32:59
  Those are two different things, Alex.
• 2:33:01
  Those are two. Different things.
• 2:33:02
  If nobody saw it, did it happen? Well, there's a phone camera's
• 2:33:06
  all over the front of the building.
• 2:33:07
  But there, you didn't see it. Yeah, we didn't see it.
• 2:33:11
  We used to certain noise. I was, yeah, I was sitting
• 2:33:14
  there. I heard it.
• 2:33:14
  I was like, yeah, some assholes outside.
• 2:33:16
  Yeah, it's me. And it's girl, the guy who knows
• 2:33:18
  better. Yeah, it's me.
• 2:33:19
  But yeah, I mean. Did we wait?
• 2:33:21
  I I did we get questions. We did not.
• 2:33:23
  We did not do that because it wasn't live.
• 2:33:24
  Yeah. So we don't have that, but.
• 2:33:28
  We just went through like a good 8 1/2 years worth.
• 2:33:32
  I know I'm. Random stuff I'm.
• 2:33:33
  Trying to see where this would go I.
• 2:33:35
  Wanna see when it meets up with current day because it's also
• 2:33:40
  like getting late yeah now we've.
• 2:33:41
  Been doing this, we don't even do a six hour podcast.
• 2:33:43
  We've literally been here for three hours.
• 2:33:44
  Yeah. Hasn't been that long.
• 2:33:46
  Yeah, it's crap for three hours. Holy.
• 2:33:48
  Should I come back and do Part 2?
• 2:33:49
  You probably will have to. You probably will have to.
• 2:33:51
  Either way, 'cause I'm Mets down to get dinner, I'm hungry.
• 2:33:53
  Mets shit right now. Mets versus Dodgers and the NLCS
• 2:33:57
  and then, and then I'll come back.
• 2:33:58
  A lot of pressure on my Mets, right?
• 2:33:59
  Now I know, right? Hey, hey, hey, Steve.
• 2:34:02
  Got to give Steve Cohen some pressure, right we're.
• 2:34:05
  Only one game over a 1500 right now.
• 2:34:07
  So OK, baseball guys. Yeah, I know.
• 2:34:10
  I. No, but yo, we know what's going
• 2:34:21
  on. Why did Malcolm look around like
• 2:34:23
  what was wrong? What?
• 2:34:24
  Malc laughing. Shit.
• 2:34:30
  Yeah, I mean, there's there's, there was a lot of photos and
• 2:34:33
  all that stuff. Oh yeah, I know, I know.
• 2:34:34
  When I saw all the photos you had, I was like, I feel bad
• 2:34:36
  because we ain't gonna. Get we didn't even get to go
• 2:34:38
  through all of them like, but yeah, it is it is 3.
• 2:34:41
  There's anything? I want to bring up but yeah, I
• 2:34:43
  know. Is there anything else that you
• 2:34:44
  want to end with? Because I don't know, We can
• 2:34:46
  continue this conversation. Are you still coming to dinner?
• 2:34:48
  I'm down to go to dinner. I'm hungry.
• 2:34:50
  Depends on where we're going. I have a lot of shit.
• 2:34:51
  To do in the next two days. I, I think, and I actually made
• 2:34:55
  a post just like two days ago about this.
• 2:34:58
  I think you saw it. I saw it, yeah.
• 2:35:01
  So what it was, was because I had kind of been inadvertently
• 2:35:05
  dragged back into the car industry.
• 2:35:08
  Oh. God, a few years ago, so, so so
• 2:35:10
  I was at Fr Sport. I was managing the blitz and the
• 2:35:13
  D Max import stuff and then and then and then that.
• 2:35:16
  That didn't pan out. I thought I was out of it for a
• 2:35:19
  while and then I came back to do more car stuff.
• 2:35:22
  But one of the things I did recently and because I because
• 2:35:25
  of that current 240 I own was I wanted to, I wasn't sure if I
• 2:35:30
  was going to repaint the car, but if I was going to repaint
• 2:35:33
  the car, I wanted to make sure I could reproduce the stripe kit,
• 2:35:35
  the black stripe kit on the car, though.
• 2:35:38
  There was a gentleman in Vancouver who was mutual friends
• 2:35:42
  with my other friend Luigi, Luigi Kendos Luigi.
• 2:35:46
  But Luigi is one of the original 240 guys, you know, like he was
• 2:35:50
  at the 2002 convention. I knew him before then and that
• 2:35:54
  kind of stuff. And what it was was he had his
• 2:35:58
  friend turns out made a stripe kit.
• 2:36:02
  Yeah, right. He, he made that kit and he was
• 2:36:05
  selling on an Etsy. And I was just originally my
• 2:36:07
  thought was I was just to buy a kit off of him.
• 2:36:10
  But then Long story short, I was just talking to him about how he
• 2:36:13
  makes it, that kind of stuff. And then at some point I
• 2:36:15
  realized, oh, he's actually a quality.
• 2:36:16
  He actually, he, his family business is one of the biggest
• 2:36:24
  decal and print, print, like just not decal, Sorry, print,
• 2:36:30
  print companies, print companies.
• 2:36:33
  Yeah, I guess print companies is a better description.
• 2:36:35
  One of the biggest ones in Canada.
• 2:36:37
  They've been doing it for a very long time.
• 2:36:38
  They do a lot of truck stuff. If you actually, for example, if
• 2:36:40
  you fly into Vancouver airport and you and the the gigantic
• 2:36:44
  Uber signs in the airport for rideshare, those are printed by
• 2:36:48
  the company. Oh, wow.
• 2:36:49
  So they actually have these like large professional jobs, right?
• 2:36:52
  So they know what they know what they know what they're doing.
• 2:36:56
  And vinyl is vinyl, right? Anybody can cut vinyl.
• 2:36:58
  It's vinyl. If you buy A roll, it's cheap,
• 2:37:00
  right? Yeah, But how you cut it, how
• 2:37:02
  you present it, that's the part that cost money and requires
• 2:37:06
  expertise and professionalism, right.
• 2:37:08
  And he basically, Long story short, I negotiated a thing
• 2:37:11
  where I basically was just buying it in large, a large
• 2:37:14
  volume and he stopped selling it.
• 2:37:16
  And then the goal of this was for him to become my supplier
• 2:37:19
  and me selling these on a regular basis so people can have
• 2:37:23
  access to them. But at the same time, when I
• 2:37:26
  reached out to him between 2122, he had already been sick with
• 2:37:30
  scler. I don't even know how to
• 2:37:31
  pronounce the word SCLERO. It's some sort of.
• 2:37:34
  An der multiple sclerosis. No, no, no.
• 2:37:37
  It's Scleroderma, derma. It's basically like a hardening
• 2:37:41
  of your skin or a connective tissue.
• 2:37:44
  Imagine. What the hell?
• 2:37:45
  It's, it's, it's a, it's a kind of like an autoimmune disease.
• 2:37:47
  Yeah, no, that's horrible. But he had been diagnosed with
• 2:37:50
  it for quite some time and I knew he was sick with it and I
• 2:37:53
  knew he had was waiting on a waiting list for a lung
• 2:37:56
  transplant last year. And I knew he got the lung
• 2:37:58
  transplant, but because he never posted on social media, I didn't
• 2:38:01
  know what was going on. But I found out like 2 weeks ago
• 2:38:04
  that he had passed away late last year.
• 2:38:06
  So, but, but, but the, the, the, the important thing here is, is
• 2:38:09
  that, and this is very similar to the Matt Kemp story from
• 2:38:13
  before, was that there's a lot of like, like there's a lot of
• 2:38:18
  things about this car industry, right?
• 2:38:20
  That people would just like, oh, I want to have fun with cars,
• 2:38:22
  whatever. But there's also a lot of things
• 2:38:23
  in the background like that's like a like a human element as
• 2:38:26
  far as like so and so is a shop or maybe they sell products or
• 2:38:30
  maybe I want to buy this and you know, I don't like them because
• 2:38:33
  they have bad reviews or whatever, right?
• 2:38:36
  But ultimately what it comes down to is that if a couple of
• 2:38:39
  things is if somebody had can provide a consistent, reliable
• 2:38:42
  service, maybe not the best service, but they can provide
• 2:38:45
  something consistent that you can, you know, rely on, then
• 2:38:49
  that's one of those things where it's like you got to make sure
• 2:38:51
  that you keep keep supporting that type of like company,
• 2:38:55
  brand, whatever, right? Because because that's the most
• 2:38:58
  important thing is that because a lot of companies they don't
• 2:39:00
  run it their business, right? They don't, they don't they
• 2:39:05
  don't treat their customers right, right.
• 2:39:06
  But that's representative of a larger problem in terms of.
• 2:39:11
  Within that organization, correct?
• 2:39:13
  Yeah. But also there's also a lot of
• 2:39:15
  companies that have been around for a very long time, like,
• 2:39:22
  excuse me, Facebook's not Facebook's not selling direct
• 2:39:26
  any sorry, Facebook is not selling like the traditional
• 2:39:28
  tuning parts anymore, right? Wayne's becoming more of like
• 2:39:32
  selling formats. Formats and lights.
• 2:39:35
  Here's the thing though, he's still around.
• 2:39:37
  Yeah. Kenya had a question earlier
• 2:39:38
  about like, oh, he's a great stuff any good anymore, right.
• 2:39:43
  I look at it probably from a perspective of he obviously went
• 2:39:46
  through the trouble of trying to source his product and that kind
• 2:39:48
  of stuff and he offers it to the public for sale and that's it.
• 2:39:50
  You should just take that at face value because if after 25
• 2:39:54
  years he's still doing this not as a service, but as a business,
• 2:40:00
  right? He's obviously doing something
• 2:40:01
  right. So that has to have some
• 2:40:03
  intrinsic value. Same with the Njuku or 250SX
• 2:40:08
  motoring like Canada. Njuku is obviously doing
• 2:40:10
  something right to be able to grow his brand like this, right?
• 2:40:13
  I mean, he has other he, I mean. He doesn't want me to talk.
• 2:40:19
  About. It no.
• 2:40:20
  So Ken specifically told me not to talk about this like a couple
• 2:40:23
  years ago. I'll still mention it.
• 2:40:25
  No, look, look. IRSR, Yeah.
• 2:40:27
  Is he is. We all know is there.
• 2:40:28
  A brand. Yeah, we all know.
• 2:40:29
  No, no, we all know. But Ken doesn't want people to
• 2:40:31
  talk about. It I know, but.
• 2:40:33
  Everyone but everybody knows. We all know Ken.
• 2:40:35
  We all know Ken. Yes, ISIS ISR so but but.
• 2:40:39
  No one, no one. We all.
• 2:40:40
  It's all good. My buddy we got bad.
• 2:40:42
  ISIS, but but he's obviously doing well business wise to be
• 2:40:46
  able to continually grow his business like this, right?
• 2:40:49
  Same with Jeff as CIP 240SX motoring.
• 2:40:52
  Yeah, like Jeff Rica. I mean, the fact that he's gone
• 2:40:56
  to become a professional race car driver for Hyundai.
• 2:40:58
  Wow, I never knew that. So so I was always.
• 2:41:01
  He's. Racing a Hyundai Elantra N in
• 2:41:05
  the TCR series. He also gets he also has ran the
• 2:41:09
  24 hours of Nurburgring a couple of times around as a factory
• 2:41:13
  Hyundai driver and not not like a top tier, but he's still one
• 2:41:16
  of the factory backed drivers at at the AT there right.
• 2:41:20
  But at the core, his business is 2 foot ISX motoring that evolved
• 2:41:24
  into selling Genesis son Hyundai Genesis parts Gen. racer is his
• 2:41:27
  his company also his brand right.
• 2:41:30
  But what I'm, what I'm ultimately getting at is that
• 2:41:32
  there's a lot of companies that are out there that are, have
• 2:41:34
  been doing this a very long time and they're obviously doing
• 2:41:39
  something right. And those are the kind of
• 2:41:42
  companies that need to be, I don't want to say supported, but
• 2:41:47
  you need to make keep that in mind next time you want to buy
• 2:41:51
  parts or that kind of stuff. Like, you know, you guys just
• 2:41:57
  just ultimately, like, because in the car industry, there's
• 2:42:00
  anybody can buy a part to resell.
• 2:42:04
  Yeah, right. But it takes very little for
• 2:42:07
  somebody to not stick around anymore.
• 2:42:09
  Yeah. Prime example is Fr Sport.
• 2:42:12
  Yeah, right. They're still around, but
• 2:42:15
  they're nowhere near what they were doing before I was.
• 2:42:17
  Going to wait till after to talk to you about.
• 2:42:19
  This but, but, but no, no, but what I'm saying is that what I'm
• 2:42:22
  saying is that there's there's dozens of companies like like
• 2:42:27
  that where, you know, they started doing something and they
• 2:42:30
  did they disappeared off the face of the earth, right and
• 2:42:32
  then or whatever, right and. And kind of abandoned people.
• 2:42:36
  Too And and the most important part, and this ties into the
• 2:42:38
  whole reason why I mentioned Japan in the 1st place is
• 2:42:41
  because the average consumer is not loyal other than the price.
• 2:42:47
  So they see, oh, this. Product.
• 2:42:49
  Product is available for cheap from Japan.
• 2:42:52
  I'm just going to buy from Japan, but they don't think
• 2:42:54
  about oh, this exact same part product is available for this
• 2:42:57
  sodium higher whatever pricing out of the US seller.
• 2:43:02
  The key difference is if you buy it from AUS seller, you're
• 2:43:03
  supporting somebody that's at that shop.
• 2:43:05
  And that's to mention, if you have a problem, you might be
• 2:43:07
  able to correct some more support, correct?
• 2:43:09
  Right. They'll be more willing to help
• 2:43:11
  you out, give you advice, whatever, right.
• 2:43:14
  And that's actually something that's incredibly important
• 2:43:16
  because it's like, at the end of the day, though, it's like my
• 2:43:18
  personal experience with selling stuff is like, people are just
• 2:43:21
  loyal based on price. You could get this, whatever,
• 2:43:24
  and I'm trying to sell this product.
• 2:43:26
  And then especially on Facebook, and it's like, yeah, you're
• 2:43:30
  barking up and you're scummy. Yeah.
• 2:43:33
  Did you ever end up following through with the line thing even
• 2:43:39
  though he passed away? The what do you call it, the
• 2:43:41
  trim? Oh no.
• 2:43:42
  No, I, I so, so I had already purchased like 50 kits, OK, and
• 2:43:46
  I was selling them, but then after the first ten, it was just
• 2:43:49
  incredibly difficult to sell the.
• 2:43:50
  Rest Yeah, OK, I figured. That's, I mean the last 10 I
• 2:43:52
  practically gave away. I gave away you.
• 2:43:54
  I gave you like I have a bunch three sets I bought.
• 2:43:57
  Two, he said. He sent me a whole bag full.
• 2:43:59
  I was like what is all? This 'cause it was all the, it
• 2:44:01
  was all the leftover pieces and I couldn't do anything with it.
• 2:44:03
  I wasn't gonna toss it right, But but, but you know who has?
• 2:44:06
  You know who needs that shit? Chris.
• 2:44:09
  Chris got ahead. We we did.
• 2:44:11
  We did the electrical tape for the longest time.
• 2:44:14
  Oh. Yeah, yeah, I'll bring them.
• 2:44:14
  From my spares. And.
• 2:44:16
  Yeah. And then I'm.
• 2:44:17
  Just picturing like you got to piece them together.
• 2:44:20
  Like even even the even the even how this kit is cut like Ben had
• 2:44:24
  Ben his name is Ben. He Ben had flat out told me he
• 2:44:27
  can reproduce the factory kit to the thickness the exact same
• 2:44:31
  material. The tooling itself would cost
• 2:44:34
  several $1000 per piece because the factory the factory accent
• 2:44:39
  stripe is very thick and it's it's die cut.
• 2:44:41
  Yeah, it's almost like. It's, it's die cut, right?
• 2:44:44
  So it's very thick. It's like it's like three or
• 2:44:45
  four times the normal thickness. And there's no way you can use a
• 2:44:48
  laser machine to cut because it will burn.
• 2:44:51
  You'll just burn. So, so you have to use a die
• 2:44:54
  cutting machine and you are. And for every single piece, you
• 2:44:57
  would have to make a tool to make tooling for it.
• 2:45:00
  Yeah, no, I'm. So each one of those, my
• 2:45:02
  electrical tape zip. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:45:05
  But, but, but, but it's real. But it's just, this is one of
• 2:45:07
  those things where it's just like if if you guys want to, you
• 2:45:10
  know, I can try to reach out to the company and figure out a
• 2:45:13
  point of contact and figure out because he saw the files, right?
• 2:45:15
  They have all the stuff. It's not like it disappeared
• 2:45:17
  with Ben. I'm always interested in selling
• 2:45:19
  stuff so but. But this is one of those things
• 2:45:21
  where it's just like at the end of the day, you know, it's like
• 2:45:23
  a lot of these things, it's like in the background, it's just
• 2:45:25
  like, has me realizing that like, like there's more than
• 2:45:29
  just like a product and a price, right?
• 2:45:31
  There's also a faces behind these things and the, the faces
• 2:45:35
  that people are kind of like just as important as the, the,
• 2:45:39
  as the stuff, you know, it's not just about, Oh yeah, I'm going
• 2:45:41
  to slide my car around the, you know, the course or whatever.
• 2:45:43
  What we try to do with our with our brand is kind of like market
• 2:45:47
  ourselves versus the stuff we sell because like you said, like
• 2:45:52
  everyone, everyone can sell and everyone is selling the same
• 2:45:55
  stuff, a lot of companies. And it's like anybody with a
• 2:45:58
  business license and a commercial address can buy from
• 2:46:00
  turn 14. Yeah, right.
• 2:46:01
  Exactly. So that's the basic requirement.
• 2:46:03
  So how do you get people to buy from you instead of everyone
• 2:46:06
  else? Well, do things like this, you
• 2:46:08
  know, talk about different. Yeah, different.
• 2:46:10
  Parts review stuff, show everyone that you're interested
• 2:46:13
  in what you're selling, and more.
• 2:46:15
  Most importantly, put your face out there and be involved
• 2:46:18
  because the people who don't do that, there's always, and that
• 2:46:21
  used to be me. That used to be us.
• 2:46:23
  I want to say like back, I would say five to seven years ago, I
• 2:46:26
  didn't want to be in any videos. I didn't want to do anything.
• 2:46:29
  But it's like, especially right now in 2024, that's how you're
• 2:46:32
  going to progress. And this is this is my first
• 2:46:35
  automotive podcast ever. Yeah.
• 2:46:38
  No, you do amazing. And this is only my second time
• 2:46:40
  doing a live. Well, this is not quite live,
• 2:46:42
  but this is only my second time doing a like a.
• 2:46:46
  In person one. In person of any kind?
• 2:46:48
  No, no, of any kind of any kind because the last time I did this
• 2:46:50
  was 2012 when I was in doing computer marketing.
• 2:46:53
  Oh OK, because I was actually at MSI.
• 2:46:55
  Yeah, 2012. Holy.
• 2:46:57
  And we were, I was, I was basically I went to tech
• 2:47:01
  reviewers website, sorry, tech reviewers office in Kentucky and
• 2:47:06
  did a live stream of promoting like some product.
• 2:47:09
  OK. But, well, you're really good at
• 2:47:11
  it. Yeah.
• 2:47:12
  You, you just you promote it. I now want to go home and
• 2:47:16
  fucking look up some five ZRSI want to.
• 2:47:20
  Go home, look up. Look up a bunch of other shit I
• 2:47:23
  think. We got to get all these saved
• 2:47:25
  and and we got to go through these at some point on the
• 2:47:28
  photos. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:47:29
  Maybe we'll do a, we'll do a little video of.
• 2:47:30
  It or so yeah if you guys want to make a copy of them I can't
• 2:47:33
  yeah I don't have a problem with well I'm.
• 2:47:37
  Going to go to the back. Well, the crash photos, I don't
• 2:47:39
  know. The crash Actually no, no, you
• 2:47:42
  guys should pull up the crash photos real quick before.
• 2:47:46
  Oh yeah, yeah, we. Think we can end with it would.
• 2:47:48
  Be that's the end, no? Wait, wait, wait.
• 2:47:52
  Go to. Shine St. first go to go.
• 2:47:54
  To Yeah, I'm sorry, what's? Shine St.
• 2:47:56
  Shine St. Shine St. was a shop in South
• 2:47:57
  Cal. This shit just.
• 2:47:58
  Looks cool. Yeah, that is the.
• 2:48:01
  Yeah. Signal auto S.
• 2:48:02
  That is the yo. No, no, no, no, no.
• 2:48:05
  Malcolm out. This is from #1 all the way
• 2:48:07
  through. Jesus.
• 2:48:08
  Signal. If you didn't know, Signal
• 2:48:11
  Auto's very popular AT faction. Motor, yeah.
• 2:48:13
  Yeah, so, but you see how the image quality is poor.
• 2:48:15
  Because look, it sounds like shiny the baby.
• 2:48:17
  What I have saved left from the? Yeah, look at the fucking babe,
• 2:48:22
  right? It's so shiny that you cannot
• 2:48:25
  just. See.
• 2:48:26
  Wait till you see the actual photo of the babe, yo.
• 2:48:28
  Yo Frank, you see how the decals are at an angle?
• 2:48:30
  I hate the bottom decals. Yeah, I hate.
• 2:48:33
  It. I love them.
• 2:48:35
  Oh, my God, Yeah. That's what's going to happen.
• 2:48:38
  No, Connor. I agree with Frankie.
• 2:48:41
  Everything else Everything else on the car was fine.
• 2:48:43
  But. Frankie, Holy shit.
• 2:48:47
  God damn. Is that a like T88 or something?
• 2:48:53
  Holy fuck that's for an airplane bro.
• 2:48:56
  T1000T1. T1000 like a Terminator.
• 2:48:59
  Yeah, it's just gonna start shooting at you.
• 2:49:01
  Damn. You know, what's crazy is
• 2:49:02
  Daryl's engine May is littered with so much of that, like hose
• 2:49:05
  and stuff. Yeah, it looks like where it's
• 2:49:07
  like. How much power does this thing
• 2:49:08
  make you think? 4. 100 Yeah, right, four. 100,
• 2:49:14
  400, it's got, it's got a look at the split fire sticker
• 2:49:16
  because it's got split fire. Coils, you know what I'm saying?
• 2:49:19
  It's got a. Jet engine fucking.
• 2:49:21
  Hey, wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 2:49:23
  That globe on the Split Fire logo is kind of fucking real.
• 2:49:27
  Reminiscent of. Something that does All right.
• 2:49:30
  Next photo Next. Photo Hurry up, Hurry up, hurry
• 2:49:32
  up. Is it is Gruddy Turbo?
• 2:49:35
  Yeah. So is it really called AT one
• 2:49:36
  though? Dude, that is.
• 2:49:38
  Because that would be sick. That's AT4Z.
• 2:49:40
  Something I. Don't.
• 2:49:41
  That's AT4Z. That's huge.
• 2:49:43
  It's bigger than. That it's bigger than.
• 2:49:44
  T4Z Hey. I like the ARCARCARC.
• 2:49:48
  We need a host. That's crazy.
• 2:49:51
  Look at the P2M fucking CAS cover.
• 2:49:53
  No, that's. Project MUSE?
• 2:49:55
  No, that's project this. Predates making yo.
• 2:50:00
  Faction cats coming? Yeah, the strut support.
• 2:50:02
  That's ARC. That's the titanium one.
• 2:50:06
  Right. What the fuck?
• 2:50:07
  They. Made some cool shit.
• 2:50:09
  Yo look at the size of the exhaust housing.
• 2:50:11
  I know fucking turbo dude. Fucking.
• 2:50:15
  That is not normal. No, if I if I remember
• 2:50:18
  correctly. If I remember correctly, they
• 2:50:20
  built this for drag. Look at that.
• 2:50:21
  Look at the crankcase set. Because I because I remember the
• 2:50:25
  car came over for like one of the import drag race things.
• 2:50:29
  And they capped off the other side, Malcolm Yeah, this was
• 2:50:31
  capped off the block coming up to the.
• 2:50:33
  Valley because this car was brought over for SEMA the
• 2:50:36
  previous year and then it stayed through about February or March
• 2:50:39
  of the following year and then it got sent back because you
• 2:50:41
  have to ship the car out within like whatever.
• 2:50:45
  Interesting. What the?
• 2:50:46
  Fuck. Dude, I know.
• 2:50:48
  That's a clear one, yeah. We got to save all these photos,
• 2:50:51
  Malcolm, at least this, this one, these this folder.
• 2:50:55
  Dude are. Those gatadors, yeah.
• 2:51:01
  They are CE28. Cool wheels.
• 2:51:05
  Not for this car personally, but.
• 2:51:06
  What I don't CE. 28 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:51:10
  Look at it. Look at it.
• 2:51:11
  Yeah, that's half of them. Fucking I just play from Osaka.
• 2:51:18
  Osaka, Oh, that thing straight Pip.
• 2:51:21
  Here, let's just cut through a dash like no big deal.
• 2:51:24
  No. No, no, the weird part, the
• 2:51:26
  crazy part is, is that if you look closely, though, the cage
• 2:51:28
  actually goes through the vents. Yeah, that's, that's, that's,
• 2:51:31
  this is one of those things, weird things about Japan, you
• 2:51:34
  know, make a cage that goes through the vent and not cut the
• 2:51:36
  actual dash. Yeah.
• 2:51:38
  I love it, but then the worst part is you can't even take this
• 2:51:40
  apart now. Yeah, you can't take the catch
• 2:51:42
  out. Yeah.
• 2:51:44
  What now? You could technically like lift
• 2:51:46
  it up and like you would just slide it.
• 2:51:48
  Or you have to cut the, you have to cut the.
• 2:51:51
  Yeah, I know what that. Side what that thing is on the
• 2:51:53
  door bar near the bottom of the photo that.
• 2:51:56
  That's where the netting on the side.
• 2:51:58
  Yeah, it's sort of netting because that was a drag car.
• 2:52:01
  Oh yeah. Oh, you didn't know?
• 2:52:02
  Yeah, because it. Yeah, anti yeet mechanism.
• 2:52:06
  Oh yeah, look. Yeah, I know about it.
• 2:52:09
  Yeah, idrc See the sticker idrc. Oh yes, import drag racing
• 2:52:12
  circuit. I remember that.
• 2:52:15
  It. You're just so smart.
• 2:52:17
  I thank you. You're just so.
• 2:52:19
  Smart. I literally knew.
• 2:52:19
  Here's why. Because that drift appellation,
• 2:52:21
  that's one of the requirements. Super Street.
• 2:52:24
  I still have some of those signal auto stickers that.
• 2:52:26
  They do that red. That's cool.
• 2:52:28
  Parcel cover is something that I need.
• 2:52:33
  I'm going. To meet my shit there.
• 2:52:34
  You. I'm not sure if it's.
• 2:52:35
  Red, yo, I'm not. Sure if it's red or orange
• 2:52:37
  though, because that was that option.
• 2:52:38
  That was that option B. Like orange interior dude.
• 2:52:41
  This wing right here. Hey, those Allen bolts are
• 2:52:43
  fucking. And that's who makes his wing.
• 2:52:45
  No idea, that looks like a. The uprights just look like
• 2:52:48
  somebody made it like out of something else.
• 2:52:50
  Rusted bolts. Yeah, that.
• 2:52:51
  That's literally what mine looks like.
• 2:52:54
  Probably. Eight pieces.
• 2:52:55
  Oh. Lord, Oh yeah, yeah, yo, so this
• 2:52:57
  was. This was an actual car meat.
• 2:52:58
  This was one of the meats I organized at my friends shop.
• 2:53:02
  These are these are all the all the other that looks like.
• 2:53:04
  Oh, wait, yeah, that is a 180. That's a 180 SX.
• 2:53:07
  Oh. Yeah.
• 2:53:07
  So this. Is 180 for like?
• 2:53:10
  My friend Patrick that used to work at HKS, Patrick Hayes, he
• 2:53:16
  is the owner of this car, yeah. It's a real 180.
• 2:53:20
  Yes, but no comment. OK, all right.
• 2:53:23
  All right. We can talk about that maybe
• 2:53:25
  later. Yes, we'll talk about it later.
• 2:53:26
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get Yeah, that looks like 2024.
• 2:53:31
  For real. It's a random S14 Sr.
• 2:53:35
  Yo look at the Viper alarm horn on the right by the filter.
• 2:53:37
  Yeah, the worst part? Well.
• 2:53:38
  That's one thing we don't see that much anymore.
• 2:53:40
  Dude, I I. Clifford Alarms.
• 2:53:42
  My my shit you speakers in the. Trunk.
• 2:53:44
  Yeah, that, that shit was cool. Oh yeah, on fucking GT.
• 2:53:51
  Somethings. Somethings 6 spoke ones.
• 2:53:53
  Let's go to the crash. Yeah, where's the crash?
• 2:53:55
  Yeah, yeah. So go to the crash.
• 2:53:56
  So you have to go to a. Faction and I'm not going to dip
• 2:54:00
  again my. Cars.
• 2:54:01
  Enough of these stock cars I've. Been up too long?
• 2:54:05
  Somewhere in the middle somewhere.
• 2:54:06
  Scroll down. Right there, right there.
• 2:54:08
  So what do you do to this thing? But actually, no, no, wait, just
• 2:54:12
  scroll up. Sorry, scroll up.
• 2:54:13
  There's an actual folder just called Crash all the way.
• 2:54:17
  It's just a lot of random photos of me.
• 2:54:20
  I know CCCC crash the holder called crash.
• 2:54:26
  Oh God. So this was my call 0.
• 2:54:30
  Damn that is bad. OK, go on 2nd.
• 2:54:33
  Photo so real quickly this was this happened at a drift show
• 2:54:36
  off sorry this happened at a drift a staff event.
• 2:54:39
  They basically had a private event for drift A staff members
• 2:54:43
  and we ran the D1 course and that morning Alex Pfeiffer sat
• 2:54:49
  in my car and basically told me to how to drive my car and slide
• 2:54:53
  it like I had 1000 horsepower. And this.
• 2:54:55
  Is what happened. And so no, so he this is the
• 2:54:57
  crazy part. So I guess I was underpowered,
• 2:55:00
  right? So I would come out, come on the
• 2:55:02
  Orlando Bank and then clutch kick and then the car would just
• 2:55:05
  slide, right. But what it was was he told me
• 2:55:07
  to do the transition. I would go.
• 2:55:09
  Up. No, no, no transition.
• 2:55:12
  But not lift at all. Oh, yeah.
• 2:55:15
  So what it was was I up until that point, I've been when I
• 2:55:17
  transitioned, I would lift and the car would rotate naturally.
• 2:55:19
  Yeah. And I would get back on the
• 2:55:20
  throttle. He told me not to lift.
• 2:55:22
  He just says floor it all the way.
• 2:55:25
  So yeah, you're now you've got to force it.
• 2:55:27
  And I and I, the first time, the first time I did it, I was like,
• 2:55:29
  oh wow, this is this makes the transition so much like faster.
• 2:55:33
  And I was like, this is this is damn fun, right?
• 2:55:36
  But what it was was because I was still running 20 fives for
• 2:55:39
  my drift tires in the back. Essentially because I was doing
• 2:55:42
  that, I was a little bit too aggressive.
• 2:55:44
  And the second time I ran, I over rotated and then I backed
• 2:55:48
  into the wall. That's a.
• 2:55:50
  Bad bad. Good thing the window didn't.
• 2:55:53
  Yeah, so, so. So yeah, I mean, I wrecked.
• 2:55:56
  I like that. But here's the crazy part.
• 2:55:57
  I drove two more events after this with the car.
• 2:55:59
  I was going to say the back wheel still looks pretty
• 2:56:02
  straight. Fuel tank was intact.
• 2:56:03
  There was no leak. Hell.
• 2:56:04
  Yeah, I drove it. Hell, I drove it home like this.
• 2:56:06
  That back bumper support in the S13 can take a building.
• 2:56:11
  But I mean this is my favorite part about two 40s.
• 2:56:13
  If you look at the. If you look at the other photos
• 2:56:16
  right the the the rear quarter smashed in pretty damn good.
• 2:56:19
  Yeah, that's crazy. And then my wheel is like got a
• 2:56:22
  pretty sizable dent on the side thing, but I still drove on that
• 2:56:25
  wheel. That was a hard hit.
• 2:56:26
  That was a really hard hit and guess what?
• 2:56:29
  If that happened to a twenty 24240.
• 2:56:33
  It would. No, they would pull it out and
• 2:56:37
  they would sell it for 7 grand. They would cut the back half of
• 2:56:39
  it and replace it with 2F. Yeah, 1000%.
• 2:56:43
  Yeah. And then I guess the very last
• 2:56:45
  photo you could look at it would be what I did with the car
• 2:56:48
  afterwards. Oh yeah.
• 2:56:49
  What? What?
• 2:56:50
  Scroll, go, go to the other folder, cut, cut.
• 2:56:53
  Right there. Oh.
• 2:56:56
  I don't like the name of the folder.
• 2:56:58
  What? Vertical.
• 2:56:59
  What the hell? Just if you scroll through the
• 2:57:01
  photos it's self-explanatory. Basically what it was was I cut
• 2:57:04
  the top off so I could cut the cage out.
• 2:57:08
  Oh because it's a welding. It's a welding cage.
• 2:57:11
  Gary Gary from Designcraft that built the S2000.
• 2:57:13
  The RSRS 2000 was the one that built the cage for me.
• 2:57:16
  Was this? Your second car.
• 2:57:18
  This was a second car. This was a car that was perfect.
• 2:57:20
  Fuck. You, man, what you?
• 2:57:21
  Do. Come on, Alex.
• 2:57:25
  In 2000 and four, 2005, it was cheaper to part out your car
• 2:57:29
  than it was to like, you know, do anything else right?
• 2:57:33
  Because because back then chassis were like 500 bucks
• 2:57:35
  complete. Cut the roof off it.
• 2:57:40
  Yo that shit was caged. Milwaukee Sawzall is so easy Oh
• 2:57:44
  my God holy crap Milwaukee sawzall sushi.
• 2:57:48
  The top came off in about 5 minutes of work.
• 2:57:50
  It's. Because it's a 240.
• 2:57:51
  Yeah, that. I mean I think cars in general,
• 2:57:53
  like the sheet metal is just thin.
• 2:57:54
  Especially Nissan's. You could you could have banged
• 2:57:56
  that whole thing out somebody. Crushed though, right?
• 2:57:58
  Like without that roll cage. Yeah, the roll cage helped.
• 2:58:01
  The roll cage saved the the roll cage saved the back end of the
• 2:58:04
  car. It would have because because
• 2:58:05
  Gary built a proper cage. So it was boxed in where they
• 2:58:08
  met, where he met the strut towers.
• 2:58:10
  That would have like folded this way.
• 2:58:13
  Like the back would have folded up.
• 2:58:16
  That's fucking nuts. Too.
• 2:58:17
  Yeah. And then and then.
• 2:58:19
  Yeah, so. You know what's probably the the
• 2:58:20
  hardest part for me is to see those stickers.
• 2:58:24
  Oh yeah, there's a last picture of this photo is like the
• 2:58:27
  stickers. Damn.
• 2:58:29
  So drift a combination 2 national.
• 2:58:31
  Convention. Damn.
• 2:58:32
  Well, dude, I got, we did. I got the tape.
• 2:58:34
  Yeah, we got the crib. I left it over there.
• 2:58:36
  Drift Day Competition two was my very first Drift Day event and
• 2:58:39
  this was at the Irwindale E lot where they had there was a
• 2:58:41
  little dip and that day I came in 3rd place, mostly because the
• 2:58:46
  way the course was set up, it was only going mostly One
• 2:58:48
  Direction. So I kind of kind of overlooked
• 2:58:51
  the fact that I spun out at the end of the course, right?
• 2:58:54
  But the 1st place winner for that day was a guy named Ryan
• 2:58:59
  Hampton, AZ 24240 guy AZ 240. He's like, he was like a test
• 2:59:05
  driver for like Continental Tire or somebody else or whatever.
• 2:59:08
  He's also a stunt driver 2nd. IRL professional.
• 2:59:12
  Driver yeah so he drove a Corvette that day, somebody
• 2:59:14
  else's car, not his car, and he also drove the phone with the
• 2:59:17
  drift for like a couple years. The 2nd place winner that day
• 2:59:19
  was Calvin One. So he was a Falcon driver for a
• 2:59:23
  long time now. He used to.
• 2:59:25
  Now he does like he does he. He's also some type of stunt or
• 2:59:28
  professional. Driver.
• 2:59:29
  They always end up being stunt drivers.
• 2:59:31
  Yeah, but because it makes you make money that way, you know,
• 2:59:33
  you can film commercials that make money all day like that,
• 2:59:35
  you know? Yeah.
• 2:59:37
  And then I, I somehow came in 3rd place.
• 2:59:39
  It was like, and then and then no, the guys that come for you
• 2:59:42
  were like, oh, oh, you got for 3rd place.
• 2:59:44
  Not because, you know, because you were just consistent.
• 2:59:47
  I, I drove the same way every single time.
• 2:59:49
  It was like, but it was just like, hilarious.
• 2:59:51
  I like how you made sure to take a photo of those stickers.
• 2:59:53
  I know like as you were talking about them, it's like I'm like,
• 2:59:58
  oh damn, he can be like a thought of everything.
• 3:00:00
  Yeah, so this was the car and then afterwards I just scrapped
• 3:00:03
  it. It's like metal, scrap metal,
• 3:00:05
  so. 40 bucks. And that's how that's the life
• 3:00:09
  cycle of a 240SX. Pretty much.
• 3:00:11
  We were able to show that to everyone.
• 3:00:13
  Do much watch, watch. Somebody's going to see these
• 3:00:14
  photos and then they're going to, they're going to, they're
• 3:00:16
  going to post it on Facebook saying I'm partying on a car,
• 3:00:19
  right? Like a scam.
• 3:00:22
  We're gonna find them on a Facebook Marketplace ad.
• 3:00:25
  But Alex, thank you so much for coming on.
• 3:00:27
  Yeah, that's. And Ken, thank you for the plug.
• 3:00:30
  Yeah, thank you. Thanks for putting us off dude.
• 3:00:33
  If it allows, we can come back and I can come back next time
• 3:00:36
  and spill the real beans of the. That's fine.
• 3:00:38
  We'll do that on a Patreon and then we'll get you one of these,
• 3:00:41
  Yeah. Then you'll.
• 3:00:42
  Be Yeah, we'll give you one of these bad boys.
• 3:00:44
  Yeah, just just open it and I'll have this.
• 3:00:46
  I'll have this if and I'll be drunk.
• 3:00:48
  Yeah. That shit is a leader.
• 3:00:51
  God. Is there anything else that you
• 3:00:52
  wanted to share Any any any other wisdom?
• 3:00:55
  A lot of. Important information.
• 3:00:56
  Yeah, seriously. This.
• 3:00:58
  Is I'll share the juicy details with you guys offline.
• 3:01:00
  OK, all right, cool, then let's. End this thing.
• 3:01:03
  Thank you guys so much, this has been another episode.
• 3:01:05
  Peace. Yo, I did not know you were for.
• 3:01:11
  Fr Oh yeah. So now I'm going to yell at you
• 3:01:12
  one time. They delayed my order for a
• 3:01:14
  really long time. Well, that was an informative
• 3:01:18
  podcast. Yeah, it was like a blast from
• 3:01:20
  the past, yes. Like opening a time capsule,
• 3:01:22
  once you plug that USB in, it's like, what year was it?
• 3:01:26
  I. Was thinking we probably should
• 3:01:28
  have saved more photos from that.
• 3:01:30
  Yeah. Well, you could always send us
• 3:01:32
  them. Yeah, I guess so.
• 3:01:35
  Yeah. I hope you guys enjoyed that
• 3:01:36
  podcast with Alex Chang. Awesome guy.
• 3:01:41
  Yeah, he's been around. And he's very informative.
• 3:01:44
  I learned a lot from him. We went to dinner afterwards
• 3:01:46
  and. Oh yeah.
• 3:01:48
  Yeah, and it was even more info. Carl was just sitting there and
• 3:01:51
  like, there's your eyes wide open.
• 3:01:53
  What? No learning a lot.
• 3:01:55
  Yeah, no way. No, no.
• 3:02:00
  But yeah, thanks for coming by, Alex.
• 3:02:02
  We loved having you on and I'm sure we'll have you back because
• 3:02:05
  you have enough stories probably for like a nine hour podcast.
• 3:02:09
  Yeah, I mean, and if you ever go out on the West Coast again, you
• 3:02:12
  could hang out with him, try to get him on an.
• 3:02:15
  Hopefully he can introduce us to Wayne from P to M.
• 3:02:18
  Oh yeah? Well, Wayne's in like New
• 3:02:21
  Mexico, I thought. No, it was in California.
• 3:02:23
  Fontana Yeah. Oh, wow.
• 3:02:25
  Yeah, you're thinking of GK tech.
• 3:02:27
  Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 3:02:27
  Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I'm, I'm guys, we're
• 3:02:32
  doing the outro a little bit late.
• 3:02:34
  We're doing it a couple weeks later.
• 3:02:35
  So I'm like, I'm like trying to remember things we talked about
• 3:02:37
  because there was a lot of things that we talked about on
• 3:02:39
  this podcast, like the signal auto cars.
• 3:02:42
  Malcolm said he had no idea what was going on.
• 3:02:44
  This, this all looked crazy to him.
• 3:02:46
  Yeah, it was so like. Did it look like any?
• 3:02:50
  Did drifting look like it does now?
• 3:02:53
  It looked way simpler back then. Yeah, like more like let's just
• 3:02:58
  drive. Like, not really.
• 3:03:00
  You'll let me make my shit look. Make sure there's a certain
• 3:03:03
  amount of stickers on my car. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 3:03:06
  It was simpler, but yeah. Thanks, Alex.
• 3:03:09
  All right, so as far as the shop, what do we got going on?
• 3:03:12
  I feel like there's some stuff that's been going on this week.
• 3:03:17
  We got our shipping area figured out I.
• 3:03:21
  Guess. Oh yeah, yeah, as far.
• 3:03:23
  As cleaned up a bit. The.
• 3:03:25
  Parts department. The loading.
• 3:03:27
  Dock area is completed. I would say we got used oil
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  tanks, guys, If you got used oil and you're local to us, just
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  bring it by. Feel free to drop it off.
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  We're like a it's, it's like an AutoZone now, yeah.
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  We're going to be like an AutoZone, so just come by.
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  You can you can dump your oil here.
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  Just oil, no cooling. If there's cooling in it, I
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  don't want. It and you better not lie to us.
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  Don't. Dump it down the sewer.
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  But you know, don't, don't bring it here.
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  But yeah, so we're doing that now, you know that we're just
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  giving back to the community right there.
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  You know what that is? Yeah, it's paying it forward.
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  Because I can make a confession here.
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  Go on. I used to dump oil down the
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  sewer. Not here, never here.
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  I'm talking about when I was a kid.
• 3:04:10
  So I'm talking about kids out there that are doing oil changes
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  in their parents garage and they're like, oh, where do I
• 3:04:16
  dump this? Well this looks like a good spot
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  the water for the entire community.
• 3:04:23
  Let's dump it in the water supply.
• 3:04:25
  I remember Ethan saw me do that one time when I was like 1819,
• 3:04:29
  and he's like, what the fuck are you doing?
• 3:04:31
  And I was like, oh, this isn't the first time.
• 3:04:33
  So yeah. Guys, why wouldn't you just dig
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  a hole in? That's what some people do too.
• 3:04:36
  That's what I used to do. Yeah, I think my dad would have
• 3:04:39
  shot me, so I just did this instead.
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  That's more natural, but he didn't know about this.
• 3:04:44
  So it worked out for everyone. Yeah.
• 3:04:47
  But yeah, guys, you don't want to do that.
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  I'm wearing a wire by the way. Shit, we're literally talking
• 3:04:53
  into mics that's broadcasted everywhere.
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  No, that was a very long time ago.
• 3:04:58
  And it's all allegedly anyway. What kind of arrow you got in
• 3:05:01
  stock right now, Malcolm? We got some Origin Arrow in
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  stock. I just got a list of kits that
• 3:05:05
  we got in stock. Just to keep you short, we have
• 3:05:07
  a 180SX aggressive line kit and racing line kit in stock.
• 3:05:12
  As for teen Cokie stylish kit? You don't have aggressive line.
• 3:05:15
  Tom took it. Oh Tom Lazar already snagged it,
• 3:05:17
  sorry about that. And we have AS15 region kit.
• 3:05:21
  Yeah, what's up with this? Yo, who's got AS 15 out there?
• 3:05:24
  Come get this body kit. Maybe the nobody just likes that
• 3:05:27
  kit. No, it looks good.
• 3:05:28
  Nobody even has an S that's. What it is?
• 3:05:31
  Yeah, yeah, whatever. I noticed that you were going
• 3:05:35
  through some thrash racing shift knobs and seatbelts.
• 3:05:39
  Yeah, we have an assortment of thrash racing harnesses.
• 3:05:46
  We only have a a couple black ones, but the rest are like
• 3:05:50
  green, blue, yellow and I mean, yeah.
• 3:05:53
  Yousef from Thrash said those are the top sellers.
• 3:05:56
  Really. The the coloured one like pink
• 3:05:58
  stuff like. That nice and then we have the
• 3:06:00
  three style of shift knobs, the different shapes the.
• 3:06:03
  Shift knobs are amazing. Yeah, they're nice.
• 3:06:06
  Weighted Heavy. Heavy.
• 3:06:08
  Finally someone selling a heavy shift knob in the drift
• 3:06:11
  community. Because it always was just some
• 3:06:13
  plastic thing that added no weight.
• 3:06:15
  Yeah. Dude, the best shift knobs have
• 3:06:17
  always been the ones that are heavy as fuck and like almost
• 3:06:20
  throw themselves into the next gear.
• 3:06:22
  Yeah, so I'm glad that someone's doing that.
• 3:06:25
  But yeah, you guys have got to check out their shift knobs.
• 3:06:26
  You have them on the site yet or?
• 3:06:27
  No, no, not yet. And they're only going to be.
• 3:06:29
  They're affordable. They're only 50 bucks.
• 3:06:31
  That's it. Yeah.
• 3:06:32
  It's better than an ismo. Gretty is like 90.
• 3:06:35
  Yeah, and nismo's like 110. Gretty was the next best shift
• 3:06:38
  knob we had here. Now I'm hesitant to say the
• 3:06:40
  thrash one is better. Definitely bang for your buck.
• 3:06:43
  Yeah, they're both. They're both good quality.
• 3:06:45
  But yeah, best bang for your buck is the thrash one.
• 3:06:48
  We also have some thrash seats. Yes here's our extra thrash seat
• 3:06:52
  list. We have circus spec beta and
• 3:06:56
  yellow. Then we have a few circus spec
• 3:06:59
  beta wide orientations for you big boys out there.
• 3:07:04
  I'm. Going to cut you off right here.
• 3:07:05
  The wide betas I mean. I don't know if you sat in the
• 3:07:09
  yellow 1 yet. No.
• 3:07:11
  There's the the regular beta is skinny.
• 3:07:13
  I I saw by the look of it like. Really tight.
• 3:07:16
  So that's why I ordered wide ones because the wide ones are
• 3:07:19
  kind of just. Normal.
• 3:07:20
  Normal American size? Not normal.
• 3:07:22
  But like, you know, you're not if you're a normal 30 plus
• 3:07:25
  waist, you're probably not fitting in that regular one or
• 3:07:28
  you're not going to fit in it comfortably.
• 3:07:29
  You might. I feel like you would be the
• 3:07:31
  only one here that would fit in that comfortably.
• 3:07:33
  If I sat in it, I would be like, this isn't really that
• 3:07:36
  comfortable, but it'll work. Yeah.
• 3:07:38
  So. Yeah, we have that, the wide
• 3:07:40
  ones in blue, black with silver carbon and yellow.
• 3:07:44
  And we also have Pro spec Sigma seats, one black, one with FRP,
• 3:07:49
  2 red with black carbon. So you could get that as a pair
• 3:07:52
  if somebody wants 2 red with black carbon and then the snow
• 3:07:57
  leopard with silver carbon and then we also have a race back
• 3:08:01
  new seat, the FIA approved seat in black with silver sparkle
• 3:08:05
  backing and two pink love seats for you ladies out there it.
• 3:08:09
  Doesn't have to be ladies. You're right.
• 3:08:11
  I feel like Chris would rock that seat.
• 3:08:14
  He he. He would.
• 3:08:15
  He might, he might. He might he as we're doing this,
• 3:08:19
  I just realized we should take some seats out and do a little
• 3:08:22
  seat review video. And Eddie's shaking his head yes
• 3:08:24
  to me. So I guess that means.
• 3:08:25
  There we go. All right, so you got, we got
• 3:08:28
  seats. We got some Arrow guys Origin,
• 3:08:31
  some Origin Arrow is coming next week, not next week.
• 3:08:35
  That was crazy. Next month, next month, next
• 3:08:37
  month. So we don't know what's coming.
• 3:08:41
  We are going to put an order in right now and let's see what
• 3:08:45
  happens. So don't bank on it, but we
• 3:08:48
  might have some more Arrow next month.
• 3:08:49
  Yes, and also we have our return of the casket ride T that is up
• 3:08:54
  on our website. If you guys haven't trying to
• 3:08:56
  look at that yet, go check out the website or Instagram post
• 3:08:59
  the new casket. Well, the old new casket ride is
• 3:09:02
  back. The new old.
• 3:09:04
  Yeah, that used to be that that was first released on a
• 3:09:06
  sweatshirt that a lot of people didn't even like because it was
• 3:09:09
  so thin. Some people did like it, but it
• 3:09:12
  was very thin. But then we brought it back on a
• 3:09:14
  shirt and I feel like that it should have been on a shirt from
• 3:09:16
  the beginning. That's one of the better
• 3:09:18
  designs. So yeah, check out that Casket
• 3:09:20
  ride design. It's right on the front page of
• 3:09:22
  our website. And yeah, for the next couple
• 3:09:27
  weeks, Malcolm is going to be adding KA24 parts to the
• 3:09:32
  website, OEM and aftermarket. So what we are trying to do is
• 3:09:38
  pretty much every month we're going to pick certain car or
• 3:09:41
  brand or engine and we're just going to start adding a bunch of
• 3:09:43
  parts to the website. You guys have been asking for
• 3:09:46
  different stuff. We added some BMW stuff a few
• 3:09:49
  months ago now a long time ago and some other brands.
• 3:09:52
  Maybe Miata will be next, but yeah, if you guys have any other
• 3:09:55
  things you want to see on the website, let us know.
• 3:09:58
  And that's pretty much it. I do want to say if you are
• 3:10:03
  interested in supporting this podcast, our Patreon is the best
• 3:10:06
  way to do that. We have a Patreon where we post
• 3:10:10
  exclusive content, we post discount codes, we post
• 3:10:14
  questionnaires for the next podcast guests.
• 3:10:16
  Honestly, there's a lot of stuff on there now, like yeah, you and
• 3:10:19
  Eddie have been doing a lot of work.
• 3:10:20
  So we got multiple tiers, $5.10 dollar, $15 and yeah, whatever
• 3:10:26
  you want to do to support us in there would be very much
• 3:10:29
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• 3:10:43
  make sure you check them out. And also East Coast Drift School
• 3:10:46
  in English Town Raceway Park, the track that we always talk
• 3:10:50
  about, our home track in New Jersey.
• 3:10:53
  I guess that's about it. Do you have anything else to
• 3:10:55
  say, Malcolm? That is all.
• 3:10:57
  And please leave a review on our podcast wherever you are
• 3:10:59
  listening to this. That was another thing I did
• 3:11:02
  manage to get this on. What was it, Amazon?
• 3:11:07
  I think I added it to Amazon. It might have been on Amazon
• 3:11:09
  already, but I added it to a couple different ones.
• 3:11:13
  iHeartRadio. I think we're all there now.
• 3:11:15
  Dang, yeah. So there's a couple other ones
• 3:11:18
  that I try to add this to, if there's any, if there's
• 3:11:19
  listening platforms that you guys use.
• 3:11:21
  And obviously you probably can't hear this then, but if you're
• 3:11:23
  going out of your way to find this somewhere else, but you
• 3:11:25
  want to have it on a different listening platform, let us know.
• 3:11:27
  Shoot us Adm on Instagram and we'll try to get on that.
• 3:11:31
  All right. All right, long outro, but hope
• 3:11:33
  you guys got some information. And that was another episode of
• 3:11:37
  After Hours with Action Motorsports.
• 3:11:39
  All right. See ya.
• 3:11:41
  See ya.