The BYD Seal is a new electric car made in China that runs only on electricity instead of gas. It's designed to be modern and easy to drive, and people talk about it when discussing new electric cars that are becoming popular.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a famous fast car from America that many people love because it looks cool and goes really fast. When someone talks about its 'backend style,' they mean the way the back of the car looks, which is very unique and easy to recognize.
Royalex is a strong and light kind of plastic. Ford thought about using it to make cars but decided not to.
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Speaker 4: Everybody in the prime four got a final rib.
I got a breaded chicken sandwich and I wish I'd just kind of got the prime rib. I just didn't, didn't know if we were gonna get that serious, you know?
Speaker 4: for listening. We got so many positive comments. People, people got laughs. I will admit, I don't usually listen to the
Speaker: We were talking about listener writes from our Valentine's Day episode that we had a lot of fun doing, and I'm just gonna read j d's right now. I'm diving
Speaker: that we were able to crack people up.
Speaker: Keep going. Keep going. I'm gonna go. Uh, she also said I listened to half on my way to work and listened to half on my way home from work and was dying both ways, but at the very end, I literally spit out my drink when Rose said, I hope you get creamed this weekend.
Speaker: maybe. I guess so maybe that's what they're doing it for.
Speaker 2: arrow Speaker 4: looking up at that six feet above my head. Forever
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna have to wait. saving for retirement to buy a funeral plot. The, the sad part is somewhere in my life that becomes true. But,
Speaker: And this is something that I've never done before. I know people are like, oh, but you're part of that engine class. But that class we weren't putting seals on and we'd already cleaned it. But if you're actually putting it together, there's an endless amount of cleaning because every detail
there's a hole in the three 18 on my wife's van, I gotta pull it. That's bad.
Speaker 4: I hope I said the piston and not the block, but Speaker 4: In our class, we basically talk about like, okay, if you're going to the machine shop or are you like, did you take something apart and you're just trying to see if it'll run? Like my friend Sean one time, somebody I think gave him an old car, or he bought a really cheap one and they said it had been rebuilt, but I think it was seized up or something.
And what we could find was that, that probably came from a truck. It was like a hd truck option or something. So it's got a little higher compression ratio. I think it's like a little over nine to one.
Speaker 4: Oh, the lands. Well that's what we were, that's what we were talking about. The lands were full of crud and that really slowed things down because we then. Ultrasonic them and use the pick tool and clean the lands because again, we're just using the old pistons and they had carbon all in 'em and we don't want the rings to not seat.
Speaker 4: I guess. So that sucked. And then of course the head gaskets had been beat to death and then buying two of the gaskets was like 60 while getting a whole nother head gasket. Kit was 90. So I just assumed get all the extra gaskets. So it, and then we had to get head sealer for the head bolts.
And hopefully the cam breaks in Good. 'cause you just can't get good lifters anymore. So hopefully the lifters. Make their little turn that they're supposed to do. On the bottom of flat tap at lifters, they have a taper from the center out, that's two degrees. And sometimes they just get machine flat and you just get junk and there's like no premium lifter company.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Like metal, like tin.
We'll Speaker: Oh yeah. No, I'm, I'm just admitting to everybody that I've yet to put my calipers
Speaker: And it's got a new clutch. It's got hitters. George really put some work into it and the brakes were kind of the, one of the last things that needed to be done.
Speaker: I did wanna mention that, uh, the last episode, will it be last week's episode when the Black Art, black History Month episode? I, we were talking about Emily King and she was the first black woman designer.
Speaker: He got hired in 56. In 41. He joined the US Army and he served in World War II as an engineering design layout coordinator.
Speaker: I don't know, Speaker 4: Fine. Uh, no, I'm wrong. I'm totally wrong. I thought he lived longer than that. I apologize.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay. I was kind of right. This says that the 41, I had to look up the 41, and I think that's the one that sort of nobody wants because it says known among enthusiasts as the fat Fords. The 41 was the last new Ford model in which Henry Ford had direct involvement before his death in 47.
Speaker: I guess so. Conspiracies left and right. Left and right. Yeah. Well, McKinley was hired in 56 after, right after he graduated college. He was hired by Ford and then he worked on a bunch of concept cars, including the Coer two. And then he was awarded the Citizen of the Year award by the mayor of Detroit. Damn.
Speaker 4: Does anybody let us know? Do you use the show notes? Does anybody like the show notes? So yeah, this definitely has, has backend of, , the Corvette type style and then has like a cuda line.
Speaker 4: This shot I'm looking at, one of the emblems is torn up. I mean, it's, it's also let's not, let's not deny that it's got jag vibes with the wire wheels.
Speaker 4: big back window, except it doesn't look weird like the Cuda.
Speaker 4: I would park that thing in pay lots. I would occasionally leave the passenger door unlocked and just, you know. So it plays out like Ferris Bueller, like, you know, do you speak English?
It was supposed to create jobs and enhance transportation. So to help those countries like kind of move along and modernize. And it was slated to be made out of Royal X, which is a type of plastic. But in 67, Ford declined. 'cause they were like, we cannot make enough money off this.
Speaker 4: no, it's in the blog. Okay. Here's a photo of him with it. This looks cool. I was expecting something looking a little more armored, uh, but it looks like armored luggage, sort of like the front has a hatch that opens, kinda looks
Mr. Mr. Thompson then just a young boy of 12, was about a half block away, reliving the moment for the Henry Ford in an oral history interview in oh one, Mr. Thompson were called. Many of the details, there were patchy clouds in the sky, and it just so happened the clouds opened up for sunshine to come through.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: the guy who showed up to Gene's memorial and talked about people and couldn't even say their last names, right. Is constantly a mouthpiece for the Trump regime. And SEMA has just become constant. It's just like, it's like listening to Jim Comer or Ted Cruz talk or something.
Speaker 4: or are these like, do we not, are we so stupid?
Speaker 4: It, it, it's just not gonna Speaker 4: I am not saying, I'm not being the proponent, but like I get sick of this fucking right wing bullshit from sema.
Speaker: Well, and generally car first of all. Car nuts. I can't think of a different word to call it. Car enthusiasts don't make up a huge percentage of the population, and we're not, none of our rights are being threatened, you know I guess there's car enthusiasts that always wanna buy a new car, so maybe if they're forced into buying an electric car, they'll be bummed.
Speaker: No, of course not.
Speaker 4: do not give a fuck. I'm not falling for it. They're fucking dumb ideas.
Like, Hey, at some point we gotta take care of the place that we live in. I know that, you know, not everybody's on board with that, but, um, you live here too.
Speaker 4: leanings. I don't even know how I'd quantify that, but I, I mean, yeah, I feel like all of automotive is just pure, like other than the people that we hang out with, it's just constantly just right wing shit. Somehow everybody's convinced it's all piped in. It's all laced together. Yeah,
That guy, like with the Honda three cylinders or the Geo three cylinder and the Honda Motors was, was getting mileage. You know, that stuff was interesting to Ed. I think that's stuff's interesting. Like, I mean, isn't that, like, isn't that some of the idea of land speed, right? Is that you're like trimming the fat and making something aerodynamic and efficient?
I mean, turbos are hard known to be economical if you can keep your foot out of it, but it's fun to put your foot in it. Everybody knows that. But like the turbo does increase economy until, again, until you, you know, put your foot in it all the time, which is fun. So, I don't know. I just don't, I just reject sort of this, I, I just, again, I don't like any of that shit. It's just, it's, it's left, right, left right fucking political message with them nonstop. And I'm not buying it.
Speaker 4: It's not thoughtful of the place where we live, Speaker: you totally. And you would've gotten paid for it. What are you doing? Mm-hmm.
Speaker: No. Yeah. Building the engine. I, because I, I was kind of hoping we'd get a data work on it,
It's not done, but it is pretty smooth. I'm proud of that. But the day I worked on it, I went home that night and I couldn't, like my arms, like from my. Wrist to my elbows was so, like, I didn't realize what was happening as I was doing it. And I worked on it for hours that day. And then when I got home is when I was like, oh shit.
Speaker: Oh yeah. It's very thick.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Look, uh, you know, very early on for me in my career in a, in a body shop the owner came along and thought I had like Bondo running off my squeegee.
Speaker: Uh, yeah. But then if you put too much harder in it, here's the thing, it you have to work a lot harder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to be in here making the top panels. It's pissing me off, but we're gonna get there. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: yeah. Yeah. But it's, you know, it took until 56 for a car and then it wasn't Cadillac, which I was kinda surprised.
Speaker 4: People love what they hate, don't they?
Speaker 4: you were like, oh, I'm kinda curious what the, um, Speaker: he a child. He shot a child. The guard shot the child.
Who knows? They might just say, no, I had a really, you know, whatever. But I can just imagine that people just went outta their way to be shitheads. It just sounds about about white.
I was like, oh, we should have given somebody, a certain listener that I'm thinking of a little heads up to Speaker: you know what's funny is I always get a little nervous about this and the brain buster that I don't have any, I don't know, I won't know what to talk about and then I feel like I do find good things to talk about, but I do always have that like fear when I don't have something specific already in mind that I'm like, oh God, what am I gonna find?
This is what you wanted to do. And it's, I don't, I think it's just the like one, it's like, it's a pretty late night.
Speaker 4: Uh, no. Okay. I don't, um,
About this episode
The hosts dive into a mix of car maintenance stories, including detailed engine cleaning and rebuilding challenges, while sharing listener feedback from a previous episode. They touch on automotive history, highlighting notable figures like Emily King and discussing classic Ford models. The conversation also explores the intersection of car culture and politics, expressing frustration with the politicization of automotive communities. Throughout, they blend technical insights with personal anecdotes, reflecting on the passion and occasional struggles of working on cars.
