This is a Ford Mustang from the “Fox body” generation (late 70s to early 90s). The “5.0” usually means it has a 5.0-liter V8 engine, which is a big reason people love these cars and modify them.
Temecula is a place in Southern California. Here it’s just being used to say where the story happened.
Term
Mexican GTR
“Mexican GTR” is a nickname people use for a Nissan GT-R that’s been modified or built in Mexico. It’s not an official model name, so what it means can depend on the person using it.
The Nissan GT-R is a fast sports car from Nissan. It’s designed to accelerate hard and handle well. People talk about it a lot because it’s known for serious performance.
Traction control helps prevent the tires from spinning when you accelerate or turn. If the car starts to lose grip, it can reduce power and help the car stay under control.
“Fishtailing” describes a loss of traction where the rear of the car swings side-to-side, often from oversteer during hard cornering or acceleration. It’s a driver-sensation term that indicates the tires briefly lost grip.
The “Z 31 300 ZX” is a Nissan sports car from the 1980s. It’s the kind of car people used to race on the street, and it’s known for being a fun, capable platform.
A “car show” is an event where people bring their cars to display them. Sometimes there are awards or categories, and in this case the event charges a fee that helps support the school.
A “rat rod” is a custom car that looks intentionally rough and rusty, like it came from a junkyard. When someone says “rat rod builds,” they mean custom projects that aim for that rugged, worn-out style.
AI (artificial intelligence) refers to computer systems that can perceive the environment and make driving decisions. In the context of self-driving talk, it means the car would handle steering and speed control without a human actively driving.
A demolition derby is a race where cars crash into each other on purpose. The winner is typically the car that can keep going the longest after a lot of damage.
The Chevrolet Cavalier is a common older compact car. Because so many were made, it’s often the kind of car people can find cheaply and use for rough events.
Front-wheel drive means the front wheels do the work of moving the car. The host is saying that a lot of the early compact cars used in the beginner classes were front-wheel drive.
A Honda Civic is a popular small car. Here it’s being used as an example of the kind of front-wheel-drive compact cars people started with in the racing classes.
A V8 is an engine with eight cylinders. The host is using it as a shorthand for the more powerful cars in the event—especially compared to smaller four-cylinder compacts.
A Dodge Charger is a well-known American car, often with a V8 engine. The host is mentioning Chargers as examples of the kind of V8 cars that show up in the higher classes.
A Ford Expedition is a big SUV. The host is basically saying that if it had a V8 and could be made to run, it could qualify for the V8-focused classes.
The host describes the rules of the event and what the crowd is like. The main idea is that cars tow trailers, and knocking other trailers loose is what matters.
In this kind of race, cars tow trailers and the goal is to knock other cars’ trailers loose. It’s more about causing the other team to lose their trailer than about a clean lap.
Term
area code 909
Area code 909 is a phone-number region in Southern California. Here it’s being used like a label for a local “vibe” and the jokes people made about it.
Motor oil is the fluid that keeps an engine’s moving parts from grinding against each other. It also helps cool the engine and protects it from damage.
WD-40 is a spray meant for things like loosening rust and displacing water, not for running an engine. If you put it in an engine instead of real oil, it can overheat and cause serious damage.
“Seizes up” means the engine parts get stuck and can’t move freely anymore. Usually that’s because there isn’t enough lubrication, so the metal parts overheat and jam.
Cylinder walls are the inside surfaces of the engine cylinders. Pistons slide against them, so they need proper lubrication to avoid overheating and damage.
“Throw a rod” is when an engine’s internal rod fails badly and can damage the engine block. It’s usually the result of the engine being badly overheated or not lubricated properly.
Engine oil is the fluid that keeps the engine’s parts from grinding against each other. If there’s no oil, the engine can overheat and get damaged fast.
The BMW 3 Series is a luxury car that’s meant to drive nicely, not just look good. Some older versions are especially popular with car enthusiasts. That’s why it shows up in discussions about different generations and performance setups.
E85 is a fuel blend that’s mostly alcohol (ethanol) mixed with regular gas. Since it has less energy than regular gas, you usually get fewer miles per gallon and have to buy it more often. Some trucks can run it, but you may need extra care to keep things working right.
The Ford Edge is a family-sized SUV that’s meant for normal daily driving. It has room for passengers and cargo, and it’s usually chosen for practicality. People mention it when they’re talking about how an SUV can fit into everyday life.
They’re saying to use regular gas after E85 so the fuel system doesn’t stay full of the ethanol blend when you go in for service. That can help avoid problems during maintenance. It’s basically a “clean out the system first” instruction.
Your oil gauge is the dashboard light/indicator that tells you about your engine oil. Some cars show a simple “low oil” warning, but this one sounds like it shows a percentage estimate of how much oil life is left.
The VQ engine is Nissan’s V6 engine design. Some VQ engines have a reputation for using extra oil as they get older, so owners may need to check and top up more often.
Blow-by means some hot engine gases are getting past the piston rings where they’re supposed to stay in the cylinders. That can lead to the engine using more oil over time.
Car
third generation coyote
“Coyote” is Ford’s V8 engine. Here, they’re talking about the third version of that engine and how it changes how fuel and oil are handled compared to earlier ones.
Direct injection means the engine sprays fuel straight into the cylinders. It helps the engine burn fuel more precisely, which can improve efficiency and reduce emissions.
Fuel injection is how the engine delivers fuel. Here, they’re saying the engine uses direct injection plus another injection strategy to help the engine run cleaner.
Cylinder shutoff is when the engine turns off some cylinders to save gas when you’re cruising. It can make the car quieter, and some drivers feel a difference while others barely notice it.
Corvette is a Chevrolet sports car. The host is using it as an example to ask whether cylinder shutoff makes the car feel different—like quieter cruising or different acceleration.
Sport mode is a button/setting that makes the car feel more “responsive.” When it’s on, the car usually reacts faster when you press the gas and may shift differently.
Paddle shifters are little levers behind the steering wheel. They let you tell the car when to shift up or down instead of letting it decide on its own.
A convertible is a car with a roof that can open up. With the roof down, the cabin feels different, and the back seat can feel more cramped or exposed than in a coupe.
Downshifting paddles are buttons or levers behind the steering wheel that let you choose a lower gear yourself. That can make the car feel quicker and can also help slow down using the engine.
A Camaro is a sporty American car (often a V6 or V8) that’s meant to feel quick and exciting. Here, the story is about driving it hard and enjoying how it pulls on the road.
The Nissan 240Z is an old-school Nissan sports car from the early Z-car era. The host is pointing out a red one that looks rough, but it’s still a recognizable classic.
The Datsun 240Z is an older sports car that people collect and restore. It’s known for its classic look and for being fun to drive. The podcast mentions one that’s not in the greatest condition, which is common for older project cars.
The 620 is an older pickup truck made by Datsun/Nissan. It’s smaller than many modern trucks and is often kept or restored by enthusiasts. The podcast brings it up as part of a group of classic Datsun vehicles people like to see.
A “Coyote swap” means putting Ford’s Coyote V8 engine into a different car. People want it for power, but it can be tough to fit depending on the engine compartment.
Term
double word cam
They’re talking about the engine’s camshaft design—how the valves are controlled. The key point is that this engine layout affects how wide the engine is, which matters for fitting it into a small engine bay.
A straight-six is an engine with six cylinders in a single row. It’s physically long, so it can be hard to fit into some cars when you’re doing an engine swap.
A boxer engine is a type of engine where the cylinders lay sideways. The pistons move opposite each other, and the engine is usually flatter, which can help fit it in certain engine bays.
A crate engine is basically an engine you can buy ready to install. Instead of hunting down parts one by one, you get a packaged engine for an engine swap.
The Ford F-150 is a popular full-size pickup. Here, they’re talking about how it can be set up with four-wheel drive and a V8, and how people add turbo or supercharger power to make it much faster.
The “Coyote” is Ford’s V8 engine family. In this discussion, they’re saying it’s known for being able to handle added forced-induction power like a turbo or supercharger.
Four-wheel drive sends power to all four wheels, which helps the car grip better. In this conversation, it’s brought up because it affects how the truck accelerates and handles power.
The drivetrain is everything that sends power from the engine to the wheels. They’re saying the truck’s drivetrain looks strong and built for handling power.
A "sleeper" is a car that looks normal, almost boring, but is actually fast. The "ultimate" part means it’s the most extreme example—people don’t realize how quick it is until it moves.
The air filter keeps dirt out of the air going into the engine. On turbo cars, it’s especially important because the engine relies on a steady, clean airflow to run correctly.
A sleeper build is a car that looks boring on the outside but is really quick on the inside. People might not realize how fast it is until it starts moving.
The BMW M4 is a performance version of a BMW 4 Series. It’s built to be faster and handle more aggressively than the standard model. People compare it to non-M BMWs because the M4 is meant to feel like a step up.
Car
Benz
“Benz” is a common nickname for Mercedes-Benz, another German luxury/performance brand. In this context, it’s used as a generic comparison point for how people may not care about exact model details.
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Hey, what's happening? How are you doing today? Thank you so much for being here. Do you truly
appreciate you stopping by today and on today's fantastic episode of cool cars with Chris myself?
Well, years and years ago, we had a Fox body 5.0 Mustang in the family. Well, and I actually
borrowed it for a weekend. I'll tell you about that story. And also courage himself is up there
in the Temecula area and up in the Paris area, not Paris, France, but Paris, California. I know
you get those mixed up all the time, right? Yeah, who doesn't anyways up there. He went to a demolition
derby and he saw these double decker cars. What? What is that about? We'll find out about that on
this episode and topping it off. Have you ever heard the term Mexican GTR? What is a Mexican GTR?
Well, I kind of have one myself. Well, sort of. Anyways, we'll talk more about that on this episode.
Let's go. All right. Welcome to the world-famous cool cars with Chris. How are you doing today?
Thank you so much for being here. I got courage. Man, it's great to see you. We're trying a new
experiment tonight. Yep. No, I'm always glad to be a part of a little science project. So
as usual, always good to get on and talk about some cars. Yeah, man. So we are on the air.
As it says right now, my computer is just kind of weird to see it like that. But
it's like you're in a real like radio setting. Dude, we are in the studio. Like literally,
this is the, we were playing with the big boy toys tonight. And it's like the first time you
get into a car, you know, and like you borrowed dad's car because I did that one time, you know,
I found his keys to his Fox body, five point a Mustang. And let me tell you, that is a car right
there. I took it for a joy ride the entire weekend throughout a town. And my dad was very
particular about not letting anybody drive his car. I did drive it like one time when he first
got the car. Of course he was driving, riding with me kind of a thing and like just, you know,
maybe a mile or two kind of a deal, you know, but nothing crazy, you know, whatever.
But I remember that took the keys to the thing and I'm like, man, I'm picking my friends up.
We're going to the beach. We're going everywhere. We probably put over a hundred, couple hundred
miles in the car in that weekend. And I was hot riding around town and doing all kinds of cool
stuff. And the only reason why I guess he found out because he checks his mileage.
Yeah. And he saw the mileage on the car. And that's how he knew, but I didn't put gas. I think
I put gas in the car and everything filled it back up to where I, you know, took it. I mean,
I tried to cover all my tracks, you know, everything must be pretty pretty. He must have
been pretty particular because like, I noticed that say I was over like a thousand miles and I
was before, but like, I usually don't remember it to the T. Like if I was like 50 to a hundred
miles, like over what I was the last time I drove the car. So he must have been pretty particular.
Well, I think too, like the, he was in the salesman. He always kept track of his miles for sales,
sales and traveling miles and like a reimbursement and things like that. And so, and we lived kind
of far away. We lived in Alpine. It's not like to make it look far, but it's still pretty far. And
like everything we did was down in the city here and down by the beach and stuff. So like,
I was constantly going back and forth and driving around and just having a blast. Just driving the
thing and kind of seeing what we could do. Let my friend drive it too. And he was, he was crash
the thing that I think about it. He like was racing somebody with a car and like spun around
the corner and the thing has like no, I think it had traction control. Maybe he didn't, I don't know,
but he like he fishtailed around the corner and I'm like, holy crap. You know, and he was like,
yeah, things got some power. Yeah. You know, of course it does. And, and, and he had a 300 CX
with Z 31 and we were racing that, you know, and my buddy was filming with a video camera. He was
filming me racing him down the streets of mission beach with me driving. You know,
it's so funny. This is before you to believe before YouTube, you're doing these kinds of crazy
things, you know, viral back then. Yeah. Everybody will want to see a Z 31 300 ZX versus a Fox body.
That would be all over the internet. Yeah. I mean, he was, I mean, I cut him off, of course. And I
gunned it. You know, the torque torque, I throw you back, but his wasn't turbo, but it was, it was
nice car still, you know, stick shift or whatever kind of thing. But I remember those videos I was
making back in the day, man, wait before YouTube and have YouTube been around like back then.
Holy crap. I've been all over it, man. All over it. Yeah. So, so what's new in the world of courageous
cars, man? Then a fun weekend you went out to on Saturday, we had a pretty big event out here in
month, but one time a year they do an actual car show. So the whole campus, there's a
school here, MSJC, they take over the whole campus, whole bunch of vendors. I think he said it was like
300 cars or so from all, like, I mean, anything that you could think of was there from like,
you know, older classics, crazy rat rod builds, a whole bunch of 90s, you know, Japanese sports
cars, super cars, and you name it, just my, my end, you know, I saw that dude. So how did you
get, you have to get invited to pay a fee? How's it work? Yeah. So this is the one where they do
charge a fee to enter. And so, you know, I, it goes to a good cause percentage of it goes to the
college itself. So, you know, you're kind of supporting the cause when you, when you, you
registered to be a part of the event. And, you know, it was, it was interesting because I,
I got there, I don't want to say a little late because they had a roll in time from eight to
10 if you were in the show, but I got there right around 930 and pretty much everybody who was
going to be in the show was hardy there. So, you know, I was one of the Pavilion spots. And so
I was like on the tail end of those spots as I was coming in. But again, it's like, you know,
it's kind of just whoever, whatever you want to bring, whatever you're proud of, you know,
bring it out. Like that's been kind of the motto of it, you know, and, you know, again,
the end park next to, you know, this one card that was there is this, this Arizona themed
STI, the couple of it.
Arizona themed.
If you ever seen.
Like Arizona iced tea themed or like the state.
Exactly that. Yeah.
Oh, okay, okay.
So yeah, literally just like the color scheme of that, like the Arizona bottle or can, they had
a whole bunch, they had a couple of Arizona cans, like in front of the car as a display.
Do you think it was part of like the Arizona iced tea, like crew, like the Red Bull car you see?
She, so I don't know quite if it was just like, she had eventually gotten the sponsorship, but
like, you know, they've done a different build on the car, but, you know, she was there and I
definitely noticed like an entourage of folks that kind of came along after and was super excited to
see her there. So I don't know the full story on it, but, you know, I would definitely say like,
she's at least part of some sponsorship because, you know, I'm sure they're going to look at some,
you know, some sales of Arizona in the Temecula area over the weekend and say,
why do we have such a spike in sales as we can?
Well, they're still selling them for 99 cents, I believe the candle as a big deal when the
inflation hit and everything went to the roof. They're still selling for a dollar.
I think a little too sugary and sweet and I mean, too, like I had my time with them.
I used to love the watermelon flavor one, the red one in the can, but, but again,
yeah, when you, you get to a certain point where that like sugar level that's in that
stuff, just like, I couldn't do it, you know? Yeah. Well, that was awesome.
They went out there to, was it yesterday? You did that?
Yeah. So I was yesterday have fun with that. Yesterday, I also did something else really,
really kind of out of the norm. Pretty interesting. I took the family over. It was
actually my wife's idea, but I took them, we went over to Paris, not the drag strip that we
normally go to. Do you flew to Paris? We flew to Paris, not to go to that drag
strip that I always talk about, but to the, it was a demolition derby event that they had,
that they hold. Is it the one at Farbaugh? No, I don't think so. It's literally like Paris fairgrounds
right behind where street legal dragway is. Okay. Okay. So it's like a big dirt track.
They got a dirt oval and then an internal little, little track between it. It was,
it was different from what I thought demolition derby was going to be. I now know why because,
you know, just obviously just safety, you know, I think it's like fast cars like slamming each
other as fast as you can, but it's all like mud and like slow and like just like mud was mud
with yours, right? It wasn't like that. It was dirt. It was all like basically
like a dirt oval track, but it was a lot more racing versus different. That's probably like,
as a cars three movie, I'm thinking they did something like that.
If she's moving cars, they had a scene. So they had it where he did do like the dirt
racing, but then yeah, they had a scene where he accidentally, I know this just because my
kid is all about that movie, but they had that scene where he accidentally goes to this dirt
track thinking it's like, Oh, I can go here and practice and learn some of my skills.
And they find out that they're actually in a demolition derby match. And so,
you know, that that part's definitely like my son's favorite scene because he loves the school bus.
Oh yeah. That's cool bus. What's the license plates with license plates on the
the school bus kept like a souvenir or was it hubcaps? Maybe I can't remember. It was one of
those two. I think it might have been hubcaps probably because a lot of the cars that were
probably involved in that are cars that normally would have hubcaps on them, but
we were thinking it was going to be a little more like that, like full on like contact,
like, you know, last man standing kind of dirt demolition derby. Of course. Yeah.
You know, it was a little more like it was dirt. It was basically like dirt racing,
but with contact. They did have a, they had like the double decker cars, which were pretty
interesting where they stacked two cars on top of each other. Wait a second. And
so there's one car like welded to the top of another car. Yes. Yes. And the car, the tires,
like hanging by like the windows or something. No. So it's like, it's the body, the car on
top is just the body of the car. And then the car on the bottom is the full on car and
where's the drivers at the bottom one. So the, the, the gas pedal is his controlled by the guy on
the bottom. The steering is controlled by the guy on the top. So that sounds like fun. Yes.
I want to do that. Would you do with it? Would you do the guy driving?
I'm telling you, there were two guys sitting in front of me and they were all about it.
They were like, dude, we, we know a guy who owns a junkyard with a bunch of cars. Like,
let's do this next time. Like I am down for that. It takes a lot of trust. I'm telling you though,
like these guys are going into corners, like, you know, trusting that the guy, you know,
the guy's going to let off the gas at enough point for him to not roll the whole thing over.
It was, it was fun to watch for sure. Yeah. You know, I bet there's going to be some kind of AI
version of that where the AI like, you know, drives the car and you have to like steer it.
Or as the gas pedal has a steering, you have the gas pedal to break whatever it is.
Kind of a thing. I still want to check out one of those Waymo's. I was in San Francisco,
I saw them and I was like, oh, it's so cool. You know, it looks so cool running around. No
driver just running around, you know, but they got a bunch of them in LA. Yeah. They moved to
LA. I thought they were bringing the San Diego too. I thought I'm not sure until they ran a
kid over and then be a big stink about that. But that's super cool though, like at the actual
like campus and going to the demolition derby. Now, when you go in the demolition derby,
these cars were not like new pristine off the dealership lot. I'm assuming they were just
beaters, right? They were just like 70s, 80s. What kind of cars were they? I told, I told my wife,
like some of these cars, this is going to be like the last like Hurrah for them before they're in
a junkyard somewhere. Or if that was a car, I think that's where they want to go. Yeah. Like
just go out in the blaze. Like you were seeing stuff like, like the early 2000s, like Chevy
Cavalier or even 2000 stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It was, you know, I saw a lot of like early 2000 stuff,
Cavaliers 70s crown Vicks. No, no. I think, I think one of the big reasons for those is that
those like with impact, like you're, you're, you're taking a brunt of those with all of the steel
and all of like, those things like could take so much in terms of damage and everything.
Like they kind of want, like, yeah, they kind of want a little bit of like the, I don't want to
say danger factor, but like, you know, these early 2000s, like, you know, compact, you know,
sedan, front wheel drive cars, I'm assuming a lot of, they actually, that was an interesting thing.
They did it in sort of classes. So they had like early, yeah, like a lot of front wheel drive,
like Cavaliers, focuses, Civics, but then they had like the tear up, which were like, you know,
you see like V8, like, you know, V8 purpose built like dirt cars were like one of the classes.
And then they had others where it was like, you know, char old beat up chargers and,
you know, Ford expeditions, like basically anything that with a V8 that you could get running,
they were, they were all about it. So it is like a tear that they kind of do,
like when you're first starting out, they're probably going to have you in some like,
you know, four door compact four cylinder car or something like that. But as you step up the ranks,
you're, you know, you're getting into like the V8 power and, and then you're getting into
like a purpose built like dirt track car. So, you know, it was you, there were a couple like
families that like they were like been racing there forever and like the sun was racing against
the dad. Oh wow. It was, it was, it was pretty cool. I can imagine, I can imagine a lot of Miller
High Life being flowing, a lot of Skull tobacco being spit and a lot of Miller High Life being,
you know, but, but like, I don't want us to get canceled on this podcast. And this was the,
this was the words of the announcer at the event. So this was not my words at all.
Okay. But his announcement of, because they basically did these trailer races where
like a trailer was attached to, to like the cards that were racing and they were basically,
the goal is like to get everybody, knock off everybody else's trailer. Because once you get,
once you knock off the trailer out of the race and literally the announcers like,
this is the highest quality redneck entertainment you will find anywhere in California at this
moment. You are in the, is this still, is that the 909 out there? I don't know. Actually,
you heard the terminology, but the 909, right? No. Okay. So, so the 909, I guess in the zip code
for everything like Temecula Riverside, that whole area out there, it's like 909. Well,
let's say changed it, but they used to be at 909. Because 951 is pretty popular now.
Yeah. They might have expanded since, I'm sure they expanded since, but back in the day in LA,
the radio stations in LA, especially like K rock, they used to make fun of everybody in the 909.
Like it was like, it was like a thing. It was like the butt of a joke. The 909 were like all,
like everything you just said was like, it was like the butt of the joke of the 909.
And so that was kind of the thing back in the day. I remember that with the,
with the 909 area code and everything you said kind of give me flashbacks of what they were
talking about back in the day of the radio of that whole area where it was like all just farms and
like, you know, racing your trailer on a drag racing trailers or whatever you guys are doing
out there, jumping cars through the, through the fields, like, right. You know, your cow tipping
while, while you're drag racing at the same time. You know, living, living it up the country life,
man. Well, but it sounds like fun though. I mean, I said, I went to a drag to a,
a devil, devil's and derby one time and it was out there way up in a Fresno area.
And when we did up there, they were all older cars. They were like the seventies,
like Ford, like T birds or whatever, because these big, with the big noses and nothing big
V eights with a big long, the hood is like literally the football length field size,
the hood is so big. And, and they had these, you know, kind of tractor kind of tires on there,
whatever tires they had on there. I don't know, but the whole thing was like a big mud
crowd pit and just kind of drove around and banged on each other until like,
I guess your car stopped running or whatever. But one thing I remember a car, they had a kind of
hole in the hood that gets us required to have like a hole in the hood, maybe for like the
fire extinguisher to blow the flames out or fire or whatever, get to it or kind of deal.
And, but the guys driving the thing, the accents didn't look that bad,
but they were so beat up. Like they were so sore.
That seems like part of the reason why I feel, I don't know if they like changed the rules recently
or not, but I feel like that's why they didn't have any like full on contact, you know, type
demolition derby. Okay. Okay. That's different. This was like full on like nose to nose, bumper
to bumper, like side to side. That's what we were, you know, I'm not gonna lie. I was excited
to see that kind of stuff. I was, I was excited, but also like, you know, I, like, I mean, I love
cars. So even, even like an old beat up, like, you know, Chevy Cavalier, like I'm like, it hurts
a little bit to see like a car treated that way. But there's part of you where it's like, you know,
it's like the whole car, car accident mentality where, you know, if you see a car accident,
like you're, you're going to still want to see like what's going on yet. You want to make sure
everybody's okay and everything. Well, I've been sitting here in traffic for like 30 minutes. I
paid my ticket to admit for admission. I want to see this show with my time that I've been
stuck in this traffic jam. You know, so I want to, I want to at least see what's going on with
this thing. So, but that's pretty cool. Maybe it had a pretty fantastic weekend. So what did the
kids think of all this? They were, my oldest was probably like the least interested out of
all of us. Was he like buried in his phone or iPad or whatever he wanted to be. And we, we like,
I fought against it so hard because I'm like, dude, be present in this. Cause one, I don't think
we're going to come back to it. Like this, this might be the, you know, last time we don't see this.
Yeah. Like one and done, like just one time experience, I deal, but two, it's like, come on,
like you can get, you can do that stuff any other time. Like, you know, I, I really kind of fought
against that a bit. My youngest enjoyed it. He loved the popcorn. We just got him a big bag of
popcorn and he just sat there. Like things you can't get anywhere else. Yeah. First thing,
the first of things you can definitely get somewhere else. But for some reason, you know,
demo Derby popcorn was just like, he was in heaven. He was just enjoying it.
Was it special? Honestly, was it just regular popcorn? No, it was regular. Probably in a,
in a brown paper bag, like nothing, you know, it's like, you go to these fair,
these small carnivals, they would go to the school carnival or some small street fair
and they got the guy doing the popcorn or doing like something like that or whatever.
Kettle corn is my thing. They do the kettle corn and I go to the fair, you know, here,
I always get the kettle corn and that's kind of maybe it was a kettle corn or regular popcorn?
No, it was regular popcorn. Okay. Cause when he gets kettle corn in his mouth, he'd be like,
Oh my gosh, game changer. Yeah. Yeah. He hasn't had that yet. So that might be the next thing.
He's like every popcorn after that can be like nothing. It's going to be worth nothing. It's
going to be horrible. It's like, you know, it's the same worth my time. But it's all I'm eating
from in on out. It's like, it's like getting sugar for the first time, you know, or candy for the
crap. Amazing. And we are feeding my kids like the Gerbers, like fruit, fruit, little jars, not
fruit, but like did the, did like the mash peas and the mash that carrots and things like that.
And you give them some of the fruit and try to not give them so much of the fruit because
that's what all they want to eat when they're little, the sweet stuff, you know, cause sweet
tastes good. I mean, who doesn't want sweet? I love that. You know, we had cake tonight for
birthday. I get it. You know, so I know this isn't a health and nutrition podcast, but it always is.
The funny thing is that we, we all, we were looking up a while back of like when it's,
when it's like supposed to be safe to let your kids drink soda and juice and like,
that's not part of the format. Yeah. We were reading about that. I mean, this is a while back
now, but we were reading about it and literally like what it says is like the longer you can
statement should have been if you can go, if they can go their whole lives without having it,
like that's the best. I drink coax every day for the most part of that all the time. I don't
think as much I used to when I, when I first started working at the company, I'm in now
doing the deliveries, they would give us free sodas only if you brought like in a cup,
because I think with the, in these places, the majority of the cost is in the cup itself,
not the actual fountain soda, you know? So they said, so somehow I got myself one of their big
giant, like, you know, like what do you call it? Like a big gulp size kind of thing, the big
giant one. And so I would just be washing it out and like bring it back. And then I would just
ask them for refills all all night long. That's all I would drink with the crap at the freaking soda
fountain. And then I switched to water, you know, and been doing water pretty much every night now
at work. But yeah, I used to do that. I can see it really tempting to just constantly be drinking
soda than guys that do that. And people do that a lot. It can be very addictive. There's addictive
personality or anything. I mean, sweets, sweets, the big one, you know, smoking of course and
drinking and like, I mean, you know, if people have their, their things, I guess,
I mean, every once in a while, it's not so bad though, but I shouldn't be putting coke in your
baby bottle. If you walk away with any value from this, this podcast, don't do that.
Right. I wouldn't do or put your gas tank either. Hey, speaking of which, is it true that if you
put sugar in your gas tank, it'll ruin the engine. Is that a myth or is it for real?
I would, I would be surprised. I mean, I don't know. Like, I mean, obviously if it doesn't dissolve,
like that's a problem because it's like you're, you're getting like particles in any, in whatever
it is, like anything that's not liquid. Well, I heard, I think the rumor goes is that I guess
if you jump sugar in a gas tank, it gums up things and like gums up your engine or whatever. Like
that would, because I imagine like as it like heaps up, it's gonna, it's gonna start stinking
stuff or whatever. Sticky. That's what I heard, but I thought I saw an episode on mythbusters
or something like that. And I thought they did an experiment and I thought they found out that it
just like, you'd have to put like, you know, like giant, giant bags, like, you know, pillowcases,
hides a bag. You have to really, yeah, like you really have to go to town.
Right. Make a difference. I think sand be worse. I think sand might be worse
because. Oh, well, I can imagine that because sand is, is, you know, I mean, it's not even like
with heat. Like, I mean, it's like what happens to, I mean, sand, you would use it for like making
glass. And I'm like, I wonder what that's going to do inside of a, inside of an engine.
I hate to find out, man. I speak with gasoline and prices being crazy high.
Throw it in one of those demo Derby Cavaliers this on his last leg and just see what happens.
You know, probably no harm to file with that in the early days of YouTube. When I say early days,
I mean, like, you know, probably 15 years ago or 10 years or whatever it is,
there was some YouTubers that were doing experiments with like other forms of motor oil. Do you see
these ones where they did, they replaced oil with like WD 40 to see how long it would go.
And it kind of fire eventually, but it ran for a while. They were running the thing for a while
on WD 40 and got real hot, of course, all that stuff. And then it eventually like,
like caught a fire or whatever, or removing the oil from the car completely and just seeing how
far you can, you can run because you'd be surprised the car can run because the oil just kind of bond
to the engine parts of the engine. It'll seize up eventually, but I think you can run. It won't
like immediately stop. It'll run for a while. Not like, not like for a trip to here to Vegas,
but it'll run for like maybe a few miles. I would think before it seizes up, I would think, right?
You get some time before like, yeah, for stuff just because an engine is like different. You
know, I always say like machinery and things like that are different from us as humans. Like, you
know, we, when we feel like some discomfort, you know, we start to slow down or, you know,
we'll stop, you know, this doesn't come to like a machine, like it's going to keep doing what a
machine does until it just can't do it anymore. The cylinder walls are moving around and then
eventually it seizes up and then you throw, throw a rod, whatever you end up doing. Good times though,
but I was kind of wondering about people that do this kind of crazy thing with cars. You want to
like, especially picking a demolition derby and getting like cars in their last legs, like,
like things that you could do to a car to destroy it. I think for me, what I would try to do would
probably be all those combination of, well, maybe probably the oil thing, probably take the oil out
and see what it would, how long it would go. That'd be the thing. That's like the classic one.
Yeah. What would you do to a car to destroy it?
I mean, no oil thing definitely would be, you know, would be at that, maybe like a combination
of like engine oil and transmission oil, like what happens like when you just got no oil and
all of these moving parts, but I mean, like no coolant would be, that to me is like really cruel
because it's like, it really is like, it's like, you know, at a certain point, like you're just,
like the engine can't cool itself off. You're just like, it's running at all of its like,
everything's fine, except for the fact that it has no way to cool itself down. And like,
I just can't even imagine what that's going to be like, seeing the engine die out after that.
But doing that, remove, remove the valve covers and just take spoonfuls of sand and just chuck it
in there. If cars ever take over the world, they're going to find this podcast and just
see what happens. It's like, it's like, tell me where the files are. You know where they're at?
Yeah. Tell me your source. Torture, car torture. Gotta have a thing. Yeah. Just that or maybe,
or maybe just try to put like, I was kind of wondering if you put like E85 in a car that's
not designed for E85. Like say, that would be a good like long-term experiment because
that's one of those where I don't feel like it, I think you could probably do that for a while
before you actually. So say a car like built like saying that 90s when E85 wasn't even a thing,
not even a high-performance car. Just say like, I don't know, generic, some generic car from the
90s, you know, four-cylinder or something or other. And you ran E85 on it just to see what happens.
I wonder what would happen, you know, because they say a lot of really what the problem is with
E85 is just that like all, like some of the materials that are part of the fuel system
aren't, you know, it starts to degrade them faster because the cars like set up to actually
handle that much ethanol. So the doesn't have to do with it. Maybe, maybe, well, you know,
it's funny is that there's ethanol all over our gas, you know, 10%, you know, and now they're
talking about raising it even higher because the field. Yeah. There was a suggestion that
they wanted to raise it right now. It's E10 is everything's E10 right now. And they want to
raise it to like, I think E20 or 30, they want to raise it too. Yeah. Cause that even is like,
you know, for me, it's like when I was kind of messing around with those blends, like E30 is
the max that it was saying that you, you would want to do that without kind of causing issues
and things like that. So if that's the base for like our regular fuel, I wonder what that does.
That's just because they wanted to try to get the prices down, you know, because E85 is, you
know, I drove by a station yesterday. I've got, I haven't bought the E85 in a while, but my truck
can't run on E85, but it's got this issue where it burns oil a lot. And I'm like, I don't want to
like already, it's already pushed it over the edge, you know? And plus you get less, you get a lot
less range on the E85. Oh, you do. Oh, you do for sure. For sure. But check us out. Like the prices
here in San Diego around here are like six bucks a gallon, give or take, right? The E85 I drove by
was like 250 a gallon. Still, even with the increase in gas prices? Yeah, it goes yesterday.
That's great. I would have thought that at least like it would have, because it always seems like
it's about like two-ish dollars less, but yeah, that's almost, yeah, that's a lot more. I, yeah,
I think it was 250 or two something like that. Yeah. And the, I've seen as 33 fifties
like that. When I was buying it on the regular, I was paying about half of what gas was. So if gas
was six, I was paying three. And so I was trying to figure out the math. You do burn through it
a lot quicker. That's for sure. But I still, even with that, it's still, I was still saving money.
But then also too, with the E85, when I was asking the dealership like, how safe is this to run on
my truck? Even though it says I can, they even say don't run it. Even though it says it right on
there, you can run both. But they say, you know what, you can run it, but you have to flush it
out with regular before you get service. I'm like, that's weird. Why would I have to flush it out
before I get it serviced? And I'm running through AI and Googling, all kinds of stuff. And they're
saying something to do with, maybe something to do with like the material of the 85. They want to
flushed out or octa, I don't know, but, but they want it flushed out before you re-service the
vehicle. It says it right there in the owner's manual when you do run E85. It says, make sure you
run regular before every service. Like that's weird. So it's kind of doing that. But now that my
truck burns oil, like I think it burns oil and I heard these five O's burn oil. Like it's a thing
they do. And since my truck has got higher miles on, not like incredibly high miles,
but has higher miles on it. And it's, according to Ford, their safe zone, they say it will burn
a quart of oil every about every 1500 miles. And what I've noticed, it's been burning oil
at about every 700, 800 miles. So I'm a little under, I mean a thousand right around there,
but I got to keep an eye on this because my oil gauge, all Ford's vehicles have this oil gauge.
It's like a percentage gauge. It just tells you, it doesn't tell you if you're low or not. It just
tells you like the percentage of life left, like a battery on an iPhone. It just tells you what
percentage is left. And so like a knucklehead I've been, like I would go when it's at like 20%
take it in there. And then the guys checked the oil, I said, there's no oil in this.
Like what do you mean there's no oil in the truck? Yeah. And I'm like, why isn't it oil in the truck?
And that's, that's what got me worried thinking like, oh crap, this thing's burning oil and I like
keep an eye on it. So when it gets down to like 50%, I need to add a couple of quarts
or something like that. So, and I think maybe had something to do with the fact I was running
E85 a lot in the truck, you know, essentially. So yeah, I mean, cause I know like the infinities
are, we talked about this a bunch too. Like, I mean, obviously you're in both worlds, you're,
you know, with the Ford and the, and the Z like Nissan infinity, like they, the VQ is known for
that too with burning oil. And so was like the V, the, I think, I think it's still a VQ engine,
the 45s V8 engine is still that. And so they had issues with it. That car did burn a lot of oil.
Like it was, it was to the point where like, yeah, probably within like,
yeah, probably about what you said, like about five to 600 miles or so, like I was noticing it.
And, you know, I just didn't know what the issue was. They said sometimes like, it was like,
sort of these like circulation filters that you could change. I didn't notice the difference
with that. Like, you know, the engine otherwise like ran super smooth, like it passed smog and
everything. But for some reason, like, you know, I guess just age of the engine or something like
that just had like more spacing and was getting more, they call it blow by. It was, you know,
that was happening. But even 40, when I went to the Ford dealer and he told me this, they said,
yeah, that sounds about right. That sounds normal. Like, well, okay, I guess. I mean,
I mean, it doesn't sound normal to me, but I mean, because my other truck had issues with
its oil situation. It was burning oil, running oil a lot too. But with my other truck though,
it got to the point where it gave like the warning lights came on the dash saying,
you're out of oil, buddy. Like park this thing kind of, kind of warning lights.
And, and that's when they had the whole engine changed out. It's a whole, whole thing we did.
But this other truck, it's the third generation coyote. So it's still a 5.0 like the other one,
but that my mind's got the, like the main differences other than more power
is the new oiling mind has the direct injection plus it has fuel injection. It's got both.
So direct injection and it's got the fuel injection coming over the top to kind of clean
things out or whatever. And then the fourth gen coyote, I believe, is got the cylinder shut off.
So that's kind of the thing that that one has on top of what I have or whatever. People hate the
cylinder shut off because it just cylinders, it just more moving. It sounds like a good idea,
but like, I guess the pistons are still banging around in there or something, but not being
used or something. Do you notice it at all? Is there anything, because your truck has it,
right? No, no, mine does not. Mine does not. Yours doesn't. No, the next one does.
I've always been curious to like, it like ask somebody who's own like, say like the Corvettes
because they've had that for a while. Like, do you notice it? Like, do you, is there anything that
like, you know, does it, does the car feel different or does it accelerate? Like it's
quieter on the freeway. It's usually where free, freeway mode is really what it does.
My ex-wife had a Camaro and it was a V six and it was weird. It did that with the V six.
Cause it said, it said like on the dash V four, I was like, what's this V four? And I learned
that it does the cylinder shut off on the V six. I'm like, why would it do it on a V six? I don't
know. I mean, I, I didn't really notice much of it when I did drive the car around, but
she kind of babied the car, like never put it in sport mode. Like I said, put these paddle
shifters to use. Let's use these things. No, fine. Whatever grandma, you know, but when I
drove the car, I would, I would take it to like, I swear, I took it like 3000 RPM and slow down,
slow down. I got a, I got a little story not to derail with the V six Camaro earlier on.
They was probably like around like when it first came out actually my parents actually,
we were, I don't remember what we were going to Sacramento for, but my parents back in the day,
like they, you know, didn't really like putting a lot of like unnecessary miles on their cars.
And so, you know, if we had like an unplanned trip to go somewhere kind of far, they would
actually rent a car, which I thought was cool because I loved cars. And so, you know, it was
always like, you know, I was trying to edge them to get something like pretty cool or whatever.
But, you know, they normally end up with like, you know, say the, the NSUV or like, you know,
the, the Chevy and Paula, like sedan or whatever, typical rental, rental fleet cars, the typical
rental fleet stuff. Yeah. But this particular time, for some reason, I think it's one of those
where they had like overflow and they were like, you know, we could actually get you into like,
you know, a Camaro, like the convertible Camaro, like for no extra charge or whatever.
And I'm over here just like, you know, trying to, you know, hold in my excitement thinking that,
oh, there's no way, but at the same time, like excited about. And so they ended up getting it.
And, and we, you know, we drove, like they drove, my mom drove it, you know, for a little while as
we went up, but at a certain point, because I, you know, I got my learner's permit. And so,
you know, I had that and they were in the car with me. So knowing my mom,
knowing that like I was itching to ask her, actually let me drive it. And it was, it was the
convertible. So with the convertible is interesting because it's like even more claustrophobic in the
convertible in the back seat than it is like in the coupe because they have like that little
window in the coupe, but the convertible doesn't really have any of that. And so my dad had to
sit in the back seat, which my dad is like about my height. But if you've been in these, like,
I mean, the, this, this could, the cabin is just so tight in these things, especially in the back
seat. So my dad like took the whole drive, like up to Sacramento in the back seat, you know, we,
we, you know, I would, every single tunnel we went through, I was like downshifting paddle
shifting through the like here, here, the V six, cause even the V six sounded good back then.
And had so much fun with the car. And then we came back and I had a buddy of mine who actually
owns a pretty cool 86 VW Soraco. He was one of my like, you know, earliest of car friends,
but we went by his house and, you know, just kind of caught up with his family and everything.
And my parents again, bless their heart was, were pretty lenient. They were like, oh, you,
you know, I asked him, oh, can I show him the Camaro? Like, oh, sure. Like they gave me the
keys. So we take the Camaro around the block. And, you know, I know for sure that like they
hurt us when we left like around from his neighborhood and got onto the main street,
because literally I just floored it going down the, going down the straightaway.
And I know that they were just sitting there like all, like my parents and his just like,
you know, hands in there, you know, hand facing their hands. Like, what do we just do?
Just hoping that like nothing crazy happened. And yeah, obviously nothing happened, but
just one of the, one of the stories that are cemented in my mind about the, the early
last gen v six Camaro's. Yeah. I mean, they're, they're, they're fun. They're fascinating. I
think the one that, that she had had about 350 ish horsepower. I think it was somewhere in the
low threes, which was, it was a mod. It was a couple of years old, you know, it was a fairly
new 11 of the last ones they made. And it was, it was a convertible, you know, and
that was the whole thing, want a convertible, whatever. It was kind of a big car. And I think
about it. Like the Z was parked next to it side by side, the driveway and stuff. And like,
they were definitely bigger. Yeah. They were bigger. It seemed to look with a Mustang too.
In fact, tonight, today, I got a chance to drive just not because I wanted to just cause the way
things were, I got a chance to drive all three vehicles. I got to drive the, the Z, the truck,
the Mustang. I drove them all today. All of them. I had a chance to drive today.
And so I noticed that, you know, I mean, I mean, the Z is it's kind of a challenge to drive the
thing because it's not like, like the Mustang and the truck, it's put it in drive and just kick
back and just go kind of a thing, you know, and the Mustang is fine. It's definitely feels older,
for sure. I drove it tonight. I'm like, man, this car does feel like it has this kind of
creak it makes when you like back it up and put reverse, put it in drives, kind of creak.
You know, if you don't say older cars kind of do that, when you put them in, you know,
and I was just a suspension or just maybe the breaks or whatever. It kind of does this creaky
sound. We put it in there. Don't say, don't say that. Somebody's going to knock on the door tomorrow
and want to take it to demolition derby over. Oh, dude, I got to tell you, dude, so check us out
on the way to my son's work guy, take him to work all the time, you know, and I drive by this.
It's kind of this kind of a neighbor. It's kind of, it's not a newer neighbor. It's an older
neighbor with older houses kind of thing. I kind of a country road kind of style.
And there's one of this house on this corner here. Get the stop sign and on that corner,
the stop sign is on the left. Hey, if you're listening, you don't talk about you. They've got,
they must be fan of Dotson cars because they've got two classic Dotson pickup trucks,
but they're all like kind of like just like sitting there on the side of the house, like not like,
you know, people have cars, but they don't like work on them. They just have them, you know,
they're just there on the, on the grass or whatever this guy just there, you know.
And so he's got two of these Dotson pickup trucks. And I saw a Porsche that's parked there too. A
Porsche that's like, I think which one it was. It wasn't 9 11, but it might have been 9 11 or
career. I don't know, but he had a Porsche that was parked there too. And then some other regular
car, but, but kind of hidden on the right side of the front of the driveway, kind of the right
side of the house, kind of behind the trash cans with a half ass tarp kind of sitting over it is a
red, not in the greatest shape, but a red Dotson 240Z. And I'm thinking, I told my son,
I got to ask the guy if he wants to, if I can buy it. Yeah. Because I'm thinking like, man,
like those are kind of, first of all, kind of rare to find in me, find one. And there's,
it's just sitting there. The guy's house is just sitting there. Like every time I drive by the
place, I look at the thing like, check it out. 240. I'm like, man, things just sitting there.
It's just somewhat like in the state where like, you know, does it look like it potentially would
run or I don't think so. I don't, mean, I don't think so, but it doesn't look like,
like it's just a shell, you know, looks like it has glass windows and stuff. Cause like,
if you see a car, it's like shell in like no wheels or something that you're like,
Hey, it needs a lot of work. It looks like there's tires on it. I mean, I just tried
to buy the thing. It's kind of tucked away. So I can't get a good look at it, but I can tell
from the shape and I can see like, like a tarp kind of blew up above either a tarp ripped
or kind of blew up of it. Or you can see now, the side window, the classic Z,
you know, side window, you know, the shape of the Z and all that stuff in the back hatch.
You can see the hatch and everything. And it's kind of a red, orange, just kind of color.
And I'm wondering if like, man, I wonder if they're ever going to do anything with that thing.
And I see the other two dots and trucks there, you know, maybe they're like a Dotson,
you know, they like Dotsons or whatever. These old Dotson trucks, the little Dotson trucks,
you can put like, you can soup those up too. You can just do some stuff with those.
You can remodify those. I mean, they're not really like the engine bay isn't very big,
not very long, but you might put an LS in there. You can step it up a little bit. I mean, somebody's
done it. Like it's not like it has. Well, they are small trucks, these little dots and pickup
trucks, they are really small. And so definitely a beef, your four cylinder you can put in there.
Maybe not a coyote swap, because the thing about my engine and my truck, the coyote,
is you don't even realize this because it's double word cam. It's got this really wide.
It's really wide engine. It's not very long, but it's really wide. So, so if the engine bay isn't
very wide, then you can't really, you know, put that in there, but I'm sure people, people do a
redneck a few, enough beers and enough courage. I mean, no pun intended. They probably can do
whatever they want to do, you know, kind of even though honestly, like, you know, I mean,
maybe, but straight sixes are long. So that probably wouldn't work. But like, even if it was
like, say like an SR, like an SR motor, like out of like the two forties, like with a turbo or
something or even, even like an STI, like a, or like a, you know, Subaru, a boxer engine.
Those are wide though. Don't forget those are, those, those are like pancake engines. So, so
they, they're flat. I just don't even fire out. Why didn't it rule a lot of whites with space?
So, but, but I wonder, I wonder if you can get like a modern EcoBoost 2.3 and put that in there.
Cause well, that would be a lot of power. Yeah. Yeah. So that's crazy, whatever kind of stuff,
you know, I remember there was a guy with, it was a guy with like this older, like mercury wagon.
I can't remember the exact like model name of it, but it was like an old mercury wagon,
like mercury wagon with like wood paneling on the side and everything. And he had a certain
motor in it at the time. And he was saying that he was looking to put an EcoBoost in there,
the 23 EcoBoost. And, and I was like, well, that's straight up going to be, you know,
almost like, you know, like a three series or like a, you know, one of those old Mercedes wagons
at that point. Cause, you know, you can easily get those things at 300 wheel pretty easily.
Yeah. But are those, are those crate engines? Oh, can you buy them like that? I know the
coyote you can, but can you buy the three 2.3? I don't know if you can't.
I don't know. And I wouldn't, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a source for them. I mean,
there's a source everywhere, but I doubt it's like, as, you know, as, as, as simple as like,
Oh yeah, just order me like, you know, order me a coyote, five.
So that's already looking at coyotes for his truck for his car.
He said he looked into it like the 10 grand or whatever I said, well, maybe I thought
they were cheaper than that, but maybe I thought you get a first gen for less than that, but
they've got different versions of the coyote you can buy. You can get like the boss version,
you can get like the regular version, the truck version, which generation you're getting,
gen one, gen three, whatever, you know,
Beacon of speaking to this as I know we're on, we're off the rails here, but in a good way.
I'm enjoying it cause it's parking some, some interesting topics, but have you heard the term
Mexican GTR? Yeah, we talked about the last time it was. Oh, did we? Yeah.
About the, about the Ford F 150 with the, um, it's just a regular like work truck, you know,
you know, day cab recall with the four wheel drive and the coyote and then the turbo charge that
thing or super, super charge. Yeah. Either way, you know, that coyote engine does take boost
very easily. People are boosting those things like crazy. In fact, I could have got a super
charger for my truck. It was an option. And I still can't today. If I want to take it over
there and say, you know, put it on there, but it's time. You're like,
it's already burning oil. What else can happen? You know, see what this thing could do or whatever.
But, but the reason I think they get the, they get the four wheel drive version, because that's
could you put a four wheel drive high and the turbo is everything going that's close to us.
Now you're, now you're an all wheel drive car and you're, I mean, you're probably the same
weight as a, as a GTR. It's not quite the same bed. Yeah. It's, it's yeah. It's not quite the
same. And you, and you probably don't want to be doing that a lot. Cause that's not really what
that like overall drive train is made for with like, with full on launches, but you can, you can
get it going. But you notice the drive chain in my truck, the new truck, when I first bought the
thing, I was peeking underneath it, you know, I was looking around and that thing's really beefy.
It's got a really thick, like, you know, drive train. It's, it's a big one. It's like, I'm like,
wow, I'm not sure the diameter, but it looks pretty like, I mean, it almost looks compared
to my work truck one. I'm like, it's almost like the same, almost. I mean, it looked like it.
And I'm like, wow, it's actually a pretty beefy one. So I mean, I don't know. I mean,
I mean, it's all fun and games. They call it the ultimate sleeper, you know, the Mexican GTR,
you know, pickup truck, you know, cause I saw one at the, at the car show this week, literally,
like the, like, you know, the poster of it, like with the, with the steely wheels, nothing in the
bed, like, you know, just looks completely just like a stock truck, but obviously he had his head
open. So I peeked under and he, and you know, I think he had like one of the centrifugal
superchargers that they kind of looked like a turbo, but it was kind of hidden tucked down where,
like the wheel, the wheel well was. And yeah,
unknowing, you know, folks are probably just going to be blown away. Just if, if they see it do a
here's the thing. If, if somebody wants to race in that, then you automatically know he's got
something because no, no regular person drive, drive in a work truck is going to want to race
unless there's just being a jerk off and want to be funny, you know, kind of thing, you know,
kind of a thing. But if they're like, did serious about it, like serious, like taking it seriously,
you kind of can tell if someone's joking around like, yeah, okay, whatever. But if they're being
that serious about it, they want to race you for pinks or something like that or for money.
Yeah, don't mess. There was, there was a meme that was going around a while back of like some
of the cars that you like, if this person like asked to race you, like, don't, don't do it because
yeah, they, they, they're, they're packing way more. Like it's usually like the, uh, like the M
threes or like the, even like the three series, 35 is like, they're like, if you
ever see a three 35 I with like a single exhaust and like missing a headlight because they like
took the headlight out. So yeah, for the turbo, like, you know, air air filter, don't mess with that.
Like, you know, there's, there was a list of like cars with like certain like defining features
that's like, that's a notion. Like you're, you're going to get embarrassed if you ever try it. So
it's funny you mentioned that. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's all for show really. I guess I've heard of
cars that, that if you go on Instagram or I'm sure YouTube also, there's people with unlimited
budgets and unlimited blort torch torches and barnyards, barns to work on their things and
plenty, plenty of Miller high life rolling to like, you know, do, do whatever you want to do,
you know, and, and, you know, I saw one, I don't even saw the same one or not where this guy had
like 50 turbos on the front of his hood on some truck or something. I don't know. It was like so
like ridiculously over the top. That's like a joke. It's like almost like a meme of itself.
You know, like how many turbos we slam on this thing. And it's just for what though? Like, I mean,
I don't know. I mean, I said this to somebody today, actually, when I was, I went to another
little thing real quick earlier today and was, was mentioning how like, isn't it crazy how,
you know, we put all this, like, you know, people put all this money into their builds and like,
you know, make this crazy horsepower and, you know, do even like just visual mods and certain
things like that. And you could just have like, you know, say a police officer wreck your entire
day being in a bad mood and you put all of this money into this, you know, making your car like
the fastest thing out there and whatever. Isn't it crazy how we all have that passion to still
like do stuff like that? But yet somebody can just come and wreck your day just real quick.
You know what? On that note, I, I bet you those who are working with the sleeper builds are probably
onto something because the name of the cop doesn't know what it, what it really is by looking at it.
You know, they don't know. It doesn't look as cool though. You know, if you have like,
you don't get the outward cool points, but you get more of the, if you know, you know,
kind of people, which that is true. That is true. I guess it goes back to the same point of like
girls don't know the difference between like, you know, a base, you know, BMW versus M4, you know.
They don't know the difference, you know, BMWs, BMW, as far as they're concerned, you know,
it doesn't matter which, which year it is either. You can have like a 15 year old BMW paid too
grand for and might impress some shit. He'd drive a Benz and then some other guy rolls in with like
a $100,000 car and she's like, whatever, you know, it's like my boyfriend's, you know, whatever.
Yeah. What's your nonsense? Well, Hey, courage, man. That's been so fantastic having on the show
tonight, trying this new experiment tonight. I appreciate you coming by and trying this
get this working. This whole, this all works out tonight. You know, it should, it should
fingers crossed fingers crossed. So how's your YouTube channel going along man? Any new videos
coming out? Good man. Yeah. No, the video came out a few weeks ago and I got one in, in the hopper
that's probably going to post sometime this week. Got a little controversial mod that maybe we'll
talk about on the next, the next pod at some point that I was working on this time around. And
everybody find your YouTube channel. I'll put a link to it in the show notes, but where can we find
it? Yeah, absolutely. Check out driven dad 22 takes you right to it on YouTube,
Instagram and yeah, feel free to check it out. Fantastic. You want to find everything about
this show here? Go to coolcarswithchrist.com. Everything is right there and we will see
you on the very next episode. Don't go anywhere.
About this episode
Borrowing a Fox body 5.0 kicks off the episode, then the talk jumps to street-racing matchups and the slang “Mexican GTR.” The hosts explain what “double decker cars” are—stacked cars with split steering and throttle—then zoom out to demolition derby culture: campus car shows, dirt-track chaos, and older “beater” builds. Later, the conversation turns practical with fuel and engine myths, E85 tradeoffs, and oil-consumption realities, plus Ford Coyote and swap-fitment ideas.
This week on Cool Cars with Chris, Chris and Courage are talking Fox Body Mustangs, demolition derby madness, double-decker cars, E85 fuel, oil-burning engines, Datsun finds, and the legendary “Mexican GTR.”
Chris kicks things off with a story from back in the day: the time he secretly took his dad’s Fox Body 5.0 Mustang for a weekend joyride. Beach runs, friends in the car, racing a Z31 Nissan 300ZX, and trying to cover his tracks before dad checked the mileage — what could possibly go wrong?
Then Courage recaps a packed car weekend, including a big Temecula car show with everything from classics and rat rods to JDM cars, supercars, and an Arizona iced tea-themed Subaru STI. After that, things get wild with a trip to a Perris demolition derby, featuring dirt track racing, trailer races, and the unforgettable double-decker derby cars — one driver on the gas, another on the steering wheel, and a whole lot of trust involved.
The conversation also dives into classic car myths and garage talk, including whether sugar in the gas tank really kills an engine, old-school YouTube car torture experiments, running E85 fuel, Ford 5.0 Coyote oil consumption, VQ engines that burn oil, cylinder deactivation, and what happens when cars are pushed way past their limits.
To wrap it up, Chris and Courage talk about hidden Datsun 240Z finds, engine swap ideas for old Datsun pickups, EcoBoost swaps, Coyote swaps, and the ultimate sleeper truck: the Coyote-powered F-150, also known as the Mexican GTR.
If you love car stories, Mustang talk, sleeper builds, JDM cars, demolition derby chaos, and real car-guy conversations, this episode is for you.
00:00 🏁 Intro: Fox Body 5.0, double-decker cars & Mexican GTRs 01:10 🎙️ Welcome to Cool Cars with Chris 01:49 🔑 Chris takes dad’s Fox Body 5.0 Mustang 04:41 🚗 Temecula car fest and the Arizona STI 07:34 💥 Perris demolition derby night 09:32 🤯 Double-decker derby cars explained 13:27 🛻 Trailer races and dirt track chaos 20:55 ⛽ Sugar in the gas tank and car myths 22:32 🔥 Car torture experiments and engine abuse 25:19 🌽 E85 fuel, flex fuel trucks and gas prices 29:03 🛢️ Ford 5.0 Coyote and VQ oil-burning problems 32:24 ⚙️ Cylinder deactivation and V6 Camaro stories 38:12 👀 Datsun pickups, a hidden 240Z and swap ideas 43:11 🇲🇽 What is a Mexican GTR? 49:16 🙌 Wrap-up with Courage from Driven Dad 22
Chris and Courage talk Fox Body 5.0 Mustang memories, Ford Mustang joyrides, a Z31 Nissan 300ZX street-race story, Temecula car show highlights, a wild Perris demolition derby with double-decker derby cars, trailer racing, E85 fuel, Ford 5.0 Coyote oil consumption, VQ engine problems, Datsun 240Z spotting, engine swap ideas, Coyote F-150 sleeper trucks, and the legendary Mexican GTR in this fun car podcast episode of Cool Cars with Chris.
