Car
Chevrolet C8
The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car built for fast driving. The C8 version is especially interesting because some models can be ordered with a manual transmission, which means you shift gears yourself. People talk about it because it’s a high-performance car that can also be more engaging to drive.
Term
supercharged v6
A supercharged V6 is a V6 engine with extra air pressure added by a supercharger. That usually helps the engine feel stronger, especially at lower speeds.
Concept
aftermarket parts
Aftermarket parts are upgrades or replacement parts made by other companies, not the car’s brand. People buy them to make the car faster, better, or more personalized.
Concept
enthusiast car
An enthusiast car is a vehicle chosen for driving enjoyment—often involving community support, tuning potential, and a focus on feel rather than just commuting. The speaker contrasts it with cars that are more about status or looks, emphasizing fun as the priority.
Concept
tuner cars
A “tuner car” is a normal car that someone has modified to make it faster, look cooler, or both. The show is basically talking about how people group these cars by style and culture.
Part
rims
They’re talking about the wheel rims (the part you can see on the outside). The way the wheels are finished—color and coating—changes how the whole car looks.
Term
gloss black
Gloss black is a shiny black finish. It reflects light, so it usually makes wheels look nicer and more expensive.
Term
powder coat
Powder coating is a type of coating for wheels where a powder is sprayed on and then baked hard. People say it’s tough, but the speaker thinks it can look worse depending on lighting and texture.
Term
static charge
Powder coating uses electricity to help the powder stick to the metal. That’s why it can coat corners and edges more evenly.
Term
single-stage metallic
Single-stage metallic is a type of paint where the color and shine come from one layer. The idea is that when it’s applied well, it can look more “real” and even than some cheaper metallic finishes.
Brand
Honda
Honda is the automaker behind the Civic and many other enthusiast-friendly models. The brand is often associated with engines that rev freely and a strong supply of aftermarket parts, which makes DIY repairs and upgrades more approachable.
Term
RPM
RPM tells you how fast the engine is spinning. Higher RPM can feel more exciting because the engine responds more quickly.
Concept
Fast and Furious
Fast and Furious is a film franchise that heavily popularized street-racing aesthetics—big graphics, flashy paint, and exaggerated styling. The speaker is using it as a reference point for the kind of visual theme they want on their Civic.
Term
speargun
A speargun is a tool used for spearfishing—basically a gun that shoots a spear. They’re using it as a visual comparison for a car’s look.
Term
harpoon
A harpoon is like a spear meant to catch fish or other things underwater. Here it’s just describing the style of the graphic they’re talking about.
Term
squeegee
A squeegee is a flat tool you use to push liquid out and smooth something flat. They’re describing a common trick for applying car decals so they don’t bubble.
Term
base coat
Base coat is the actual color layer of the paint. It’s what gives the car its look before the clear protective top coat goes on.
Term
rattle can
A rattle can is just spray paint from a handheld aerosol can. It’s an easy DIY way to repaint or cover something, but it often looks less perfect than real body-shop paint.
Term
coilovers
Coilovers are suspension parts that let you lower the car and adjust how it rides. They’re popular with enthusiasts because you can fine-tune ride height.
Part
valve cover
The valve cover is a cover on top of the engine that protects the parts inside the top end. Here, they’re basically using it as the shape they want to show through the hood.
Term
thermoform bubble
Thermoforming is when you heat a plastic sheet until it’s soft, then press it into a shape. Here, they’re talking about making a clear “bubble” in the hood so you can see the engine.
Term
acrylic
Acrylic is a clear plastic. It’s used here like a window so you can see the engine, while also shielding it a bit.
Term
engine heat
Engines get very hot. If you put clear plastic near it, the heat can make the plastic change color, get cloudy, or wear out sooner.
Term
custom tail light housings
Tail light housings are the parts that hold the tail lights in place and shape how they look. Custom ones can be made to create a unique style, not just a factory look.
Concept
SEMA
SEMA is the Specialty Equipment Market Association show, a major annual event where automakers and aftermarket companies announce performance parts, concepts, and production updates. It’s especially known for “big reveal” announcements that may or may not reach production.
Term
diesel truck
A diesel truck is just a truck that runs on diesel fuel instead of gas. People like them for pulling power, but they can require different upkeep.
Concept
roll coal
“Roll coal” is when someone cranks a diesel truck so hard it smokes a lot. It’s usually done for show, but it can be illegal and bad for air quality.
Concept
lift kit
A lift kit raises the truck so it sits higher. It’s usually done to fit bigger tires or for off-road/looks, but it can also require extra adjustments.
Term
rock lights
Rock lights are small lights under the truck that shine on the ground. People use them for looks and to make the truck stand out at night.
Part
center console
The center console is the area between the front seats. It often has storage and cup holders, and in this case it was customized with wood.
Term
captain's chairs
Captain’s chairs are individual seats with their own space, not a single bench. In vans, they’re popular because they make the interior feel more comfortable and roomy.
Term
CB
CB is a type of radio that lets drivers talk to each other while they’re driving. It was popular before everyone had phones and built-in communication.
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a company that makes self-driving cars. Instead of you driving, the car is supposed to do the driving and you can use it like a ride service.
Term
body kit
A body kit is extra parts added to a car to make it look different, like new bumpers or side pieces. If someone rips those parts off, the car can look really messed up.
Term
oil cooler
An oil cooler is like a small radiator for your engine oil. It helps the oil stay cooler, which is important when the car is working hard or making more power.
Term
odometer
The odometer tells you how many miles the car has been driven. People use it to guess how worn things might be, but it’s not the whole story.
Term
red oxide primer
Red oxide primer is a protective coating used under paint to help prevent rust. If it’s still there the way the factory left it, that’s a good sign of originality.
Term
ultra tall deck
“Deck height” is basically how tall the engine block is. A “tall deck” setup can be used to fit certain parts and build an engine a certain way.
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Found out something interesting about the manual transmission for the C8 Corvette
Hey cars Hulk Hogan is that you?
What you gonna do brother
I'm just got these on because I know this episode's gonna be so bright. Oh
Shit
Yeah, yeah, are we recording now is that we were starting out that was happening. Let's fire it up
fire it up
bought an Audi homie an Audi
Looks like rolling on 20s Audi. I don't know is that white trash talk when you say
Audi
I'm not sure is it like is it more German or is it more belly button like you got an Audi?
Well, I mean it really depends
I don't know
Yeah, so I bought this from a buddy of mine that had had bought about a year ago
And it had he put 20s on it right away, and they looked really good
So when I bought the car had 19s on it, so I was like that's gonna have 20s on it right away
so end up making a deal with another buddy of mine that had just bought an Audi to part out and
Ended up get the rims off of that and what's new shoes on it this last week
Pretty sweet pretty pretty jazzed up about it ask anybody every inch matters
Definitely definitely
But it's a v8 six-speed car, so it's pretty I didn't realize until yesterday that only
the
First gen of this basically is it a b8
So there's a b8 and b8 point five chassis the second version of this car only came with a b6
Well, I shouldn't say only but it came with a supercharged v6. I think they made more
Made more power than the b8, but
So it was only like a very specific generation of these two-door cars that came in came with a b8
Which is kind of interesting. I didn't know I until yesterday, so
I was just trying to find parts for it like aftermarket parts like there's a lot of parts out there for Audis, but
Not for this specific version of it, which is interesting
But so I think it's kind of even cooler because it's a little more quirky than I
Thought it was so I don't know
This is my first time owning a
A drivable foreign car usually they were just junk ones
It definitely changes the vibe of the backdrop of your shop
Compared to what it used to be
Yeah, I've always had I mean I really really like I mean I shouldn't say like I
Can't like specifically put it down to like tuners and exotics, but just like I like
New cool cars, too, you know, it doesn't if it's fun like I would say like an enthusiast car
I've always loved cars that were
just for make like having fun going down the road and
Looking cool is almost secondary, but it definitely helps, you know
But yeah, I mean I'd love to have more like
Quirky not not necessarily quirky, but just different shit in the shop. So this is maybe my
Entrance into that world as well because I've always been a fan of it, but it's it's almost like you're
It used to be anyways you go to a car show and either you're an old car guy or you're a new car guy
and there wasn't really like a lot of
Commingling and now I think that the world is a little smaller that everybody should be commingling and
I don't see a reason why
tuners even Euro tuners and
and
You know like
What do you call Asian tuner Asian tuner cars? I don't really I don't what do you say about like how do you how do you say?
That is like a job. I feel like they're just tuner cars of the Japanese under cars. I guess. Yeah, I don't know
But what you call like?
But to me it's almost fitting in with like a Camaro, which isn't necessarily exactly the same thing either
You know like you can't is that a tuner car? Not really not really
But it is it is it like I guess it's muscle, but like wouldn't a v8 car from
Europe be a muscle car too then to be a European muscle car
So yeah, so that wouldn't so that this would be a European muscle car that I would say yeah
It's that's not saying it's like a the world has gotten a little more muddy
Like it's when you when you trying to put it into like the category
So to me it's like I'd be cool to have the stuff you see in cars and coffee where there's just like
Muscle cars sitting next to a Lamborghini and like all these next to a Honda
You know and it's just like it'd be cool to start introducing that more into this area because I don't see it at all
Yeah, it's kind of fun like my buddy's resto mod shop
You'll go in there and there'll be a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or whatever because those people I think well a lot of let's say a lot of
You know most of his clientele's
You know I want I don't want to say retired age
But you know I mean people that are further in the career they can afford stuff and a lot of those guys are muscle car guys
So they kind of know them from muscle car stuff, but then they also have you know
European Italian toys and if you want a high level quality of work
Sometimes the rest of mod shops are the highest level work because there probably isn't enough
Lamborghinis and you know exotics out there keeping you know specific shop just doing
Exotics, you know
The majority of them around here are probably taking them to just your
Average body shop to and getting mixed results as well
Like these rims there were like we looked at the rims
They were used when I I got them from a buddy and they're used but they're just I like the style of milk really nice
But anyways, so I decided to paint there were a satin black and had some damage on them
So like gloss black on a white car. I think what's fantastic, especially to get the grill is gloss black and stuff
painting them gloss black and then my buddy Trapper came to
Yesterday and he's like, why do they look so expensive? I'm like, it's just because they're gloss black like you paint a good wheel
Like gloss black or you put a good finish on a wheel and it changes it completely
Like sometimes powder coat is not the way to go in my eyes. I
We powder coat at my work
We kind of like started that right after I got there. I helped them set up the whole powder coat system
I have to say
I'm not impressed with powder coat in this light. Yeah, it doesn't look good
Well, and there there's it has no depth because there's no transparency to it for one, but two
You know growing up in the the era we did, you know
we were watching stuff like Orange County choppers and all that and our American chopper whatever it was called and
They were always talking about powder coat being the toughest finish you can get you can hit with a hammer and doesn't chip powder coat
It
It's harder than paint
But because it's harder it does things like chip off. It doesn't take it
But also if you like I've noticed if you have a gloss black powder coat your finger your clean finger will scratch it
Yeah
Which is like so it's so hard. Yeah, but it also scratches that too. I I don't understand the idea of it
Like so hard
Give
Like why is that good?
So everybody chapters like oh, he's like so what what's better is, you know
Is this this the paint that you put on these wheels is that like good for wheels like, you know, does it have good stone protection?
I'm like a curb is a curb man. He's like, yeah
I guess a chip, you know a rocket 80 miles an hour is a rocket 80 miles an hour
I'm like, yeah, it doesn't matter like the difference to me is I can repair paint
I can't repair it with powder coat like that's a sandblasted and redo and then
It doesn't come off easy. I've sandblasted powder coated rims like factory powder coated rims. I
Would say factory powder coat is definitely different than
These backdoor powder coaters that you know, I just started in our oven. So I mean there's like
Different variations of it as well. So I mean, I've seen some powder coat that looks like paint
But and that's the stuff that comes off like shit, but I don't know who's doing it
You know, I don't I don't have a source that does that go to powder coating
Yeah, my friend in Tennessee with the GTRs and whatever the shop that they have they do a lot of like
Valve cover jobs and timing covers because a lot of the you know, like the Japanese cars
They have a real like because they mainly work on or one of their big
Nishes they do are, you know, RB motors from, you know, skylines and
Those have a really flashy valve cover and timing cover
They're like four pieces, but they all sit on each other and blend really nice and they they have a lot of shape to them
And they get those powder coated in like pearl powder coats and stuff like that and they look
like paint
depth-wise, but you know, they don't have the
The volume to it, you know, like a clear coat, you know, like a clear coat
I just even though it's only mills thick has a depth, you know, that you get to see through it
now
The the way they do a lot of these metallic and powder or pearl powders for like that kind of thing
They're actually doing multiple layers with like an undercoat and things like that. So I think I would say just paint it
It's stupid to me. Just paint it. I think
A powder coat is more forgiving for the the applicator. Does that make sense?
I guess but when you're doing stuff that small your your application is so it's
You're not painting a whole car, you know, you're doing these little pieces
That's I would I would I
Would sooner paint it maybe that's just because I'm a paint background and I have a I have a whole a paint room
So maybe that's why
Order it just blown it in and put it in the oven, you know
There's you know, like what 10 spokes 12 spokes on your wheels that you got there
And they all have edges and side profiles and things like that to get somebody that can powder coat all those edges and around all the corners
Yes, and not have runs and have good coverage is a lot simpler because the the static
There's a couple of runs
That's fine
Stopped it. I ended it like one o'clock in the morning on Friday night because I just wanted to get them done
So I'm like if I spray on Saturday, that means I can't put them on till Sunday. So I was like, fuck it
I'm gonna get it done. So I was uh, it was
It was late for this guy, that's late. So I was like
Trying to keep my eyes open spraying and all the edges and shit. Anyways, yeah, so they're not perfect, but they look pretty good
You know as soon as you start driving them and washing them and you start getting a little bit of you know
I was they're gonna get fucked up anyway. Yeah, break dust all over them. It's not gonna matter
But yeah, I think a powder coat is just because because of the static charge and the way it's applied
You can you can hire an entry-level guy and get a good finish easier than you can hire a guy to paint
that are intricate
I do and it like
It's way more affordable
Like to actually put apply paint
I mean
powder coating usually doing you can't you can do and get away with before mounting a tire because I was painting them
I didn't really want to and the tires are like
Where I took the tires at dragsters that get them mounted
They were like these are probably the heart one of the hardest tires we've put on rims before like oh, sorry
But yeah, you're you have a good pretty good likelihood of fucking up the rim
So I just had them before I fixed any of the damage on the rim
I just had them mount them so I can tape them up. But yeah, I mean there's
Cost wise I've heard of rims getting powder coated around here. I mean they didn't look good by any means
But they were like 30 or 40 bucks a rim and that was them sandblasting them and coating them
So I mean, it's very very affordable, but I mean when you start getting up, you know
10 feet and closer and you start looking at me like oh shit
Maybe a rattle can might have been better
Or like get the powder coat and then scuff that up and then just put a good rattle can finish on it when I say good
I mean like the metallics actually lay out because
you get a
cheesy metallic
powder coat and it looks like
It looks like
Modely, you know because it's not
Layed out look at it'd be it's like a single-stage metallic. How good is single-stage metallic look?
Yeah, and then blowing around in it blowing around and then
orientated by
Electricity bring clinging it to the wheel to like that's there's like all it's like convoluted, but yeah, I don't know
No, I did anyway powder coat the valve cover on my Honda motor and
It I mean, it's just gloss white and that looks awesome because I mean you can well
Gloss whites gloss white bro
But I mean there are I mean even suspension components
I do see the upside to it, but being a paint guy
I would rather have it be paint in any in any fashion just because I can repair it myself
You know, yeah, that's just me being
I can fix it that kind of thing, but I don't that's how I look at everything though
Like the tundra suspension I painted because I was like, it's gonna get beat up
Yeah, yeah, then it's just like then it has to come off to get fixed whereas if it's painted
Well, I can get under there with the airbrush and you know, like I mean on a square tube
I could tape right on the corners and yeah
Flat on it or whatever I needed to do and it and you put powder coat on them
It's gonna be so deep the chips will be so deep
It's like you could start how they're hard to touch up
You got to put a mile of paint in it before it actually fills level, you know
That's where these gloss black ones
It just you could just brush touch in gloss black and even if you wet sand it a little bit
I mean it would you could blend it in pretty easy. Yep. I
Agree that's being a paint guy about that's how I look at everything. I'm like well
I can repair this and it can take a little bit of a hit, you know
It's more for me. That's that is why I
Putting together cars you I mean you're building cars right now, too. I mean if you got a
It's just thinking forward. Yeah, like yeah, I can I'm using this product so I can repair it
It's no different than mounting
This said bracket here so I can get my hands around it or whatever, you know, it's like it's just a thought process in general
It's not just one thing
Feel me. I feel you dog
Yeah
I'm getting it's it's I feel like I'm falling to the dark side because the more I work on my civic the more
I'm starting to like Honda's and I feel like for my entire life Honda's were kind of against
Everything that you know to me. I was like displacement
RPM isn't is it I like RPM so I mean Honda fits that but we will drive or all will drive only pro will drive is
Light in the loafers we'll say right, but I just like
It's so fun and forgiving and inexpensive. It's like
hard to
Not enjoy it because yeah, I'm gonna paint it absolutely wild and everybody's gonna be like
What would you do that for cuz like it's gonna kill the value of the car in a way, you know
It's a 95% of our
There's needs to be a palm tree in the paint job somewhere
for real maybe maybe maybe
Like I'm the deck leg going on to the roof
It is gonna have a little Florida style because like I said, I'm gonna do
Fast and furious
Style early 2000s need for speed underground paint job with like a big graphic on the side
And you know like if you think first fast and furious the cars always have like, you know a splash or you know
A bunch of lines and then they have one graphic and the graphic on mine is gonna be a harpoon
Like a speargun
It's
You know, you might not understand it's a speargun or a harpoon when you look at it
You're just gonna like oh cool graphic kind of like all the fast and furious cars
You don't really know what's going on on the side of them. Yeah, it's just like a lot of weird shit happening
Yeah, it's gonna be kind of like that
It's like the guy
Yeah, I think that I
Think the the Supra one the orange Supra. I think I was what I watched it like a week under two ago and
I
Think it's a guy throwing a spear. Yeah. Yeah, and then the
Yeah, you seem like putting on the graphic by hand like just oh it's
Yes
You got enough you got enough water under what soapy water into that you just squeegee it out, you know, right?
California you don't need water you just put it on. Oh, there you go
The if they're in a drought anyways, I'm sure
Yeah, oh
Yeah, yeah, I think it would be cool to have the maybe the harpoon. Are you saying a harpoon gun you're gonna use?
Harpoon gun
palm tree
I
Can see it because then the palm tree would go back like up and back over the trunk like a stripe over the trunk
I'm seeing it already
I'm envisioning it
I've been reaching out to a couple
smaller paint companies trying to get like
To use their products and showcase them or something like that. I
I looked at the Honda colors like the like mines that they call it either
Cypress green pearl or
Yeah, it's just like a dark green pearl just like a dark green like a forest green, right?
Yep, that's Allen
It's like five six hundred bucks a gallon from anybody for the base coat do it every my black base coat
I was at my black base coat which is cheap is a thousand bucks a gallon
Everything is so expensive now
Paint is ridiculously expensive compared. I would say in comparison to what it used to be now when you're looking at
Painting a car and yet it may be it might cost you a couple thousand dollars more now than it did
Five or six eight years ago
But it's still quality stuff like it's still really hard to say
you want to use shop line versus
like
It it doesn't outweigh itself when you're thinking of application the person applying
Applying it and the cost of that as well. So like the quality paint still is better
But man, is it more expensive? I remember the cost of materials when I painted my s10 and that was not that was like a medium price code
That was like a thousand dollars
right, you know, that's
That's how much it cost it was like eight hundred dollars in base coat
Or seven hundred dollars in base coat and the rest was sealer and clear
Now christ you or if you get a good clear, it's a it's a thousand dollars
per gallon
Oh, yeah, you know
Yeah, it's
I've actually been looking at I wanted to do the oem green as like a main color. So I didn't have to jam the car
But you're something similar
I thought that too
I don't know now I'm at the point where I'm like
I'm just gonna do a green chameleon for the main color. I mean, it's like
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just do something you can always go back and like rattle can the fucking jams black
If you want to yeah
Just saying if you wanted if it bothered you that much you could always do that
Yeah, hoping that I can get some sort of you know something that's close enough or it's not gonna stand out right away
um
But I I don't know I almost feel like if I'm gonna go this
Stupid with the paint job like let's go chameleon full stupid. Yeah full stupid. Hold on
I want
Yesterday I raised the motor up to get more because I so I put coilovers and control arms and stuff in the front this morning
or yesterday to get a lower and
But with the the k-24 engine is uh like a tall deck motor
So they mount that when they they sell you k-swap conversion mounts and stuff like that
There's two sets of holes on it. If you have a k-20
It's it's a shorter shorter deck motor
So they have you mount it higher to get more oil pan clearance
And then with the k-24 they have you mount it lower but with my car lowered
And the low mounts
My I had like two two and a half inches of clearance for my oil pan
So oh did I tell you what my oh, I don't think I told you my hood plan
No, okay. I I
keep dreaming of uh, you know
1997 through 2005
Import tuner magazine covers, you know
I'm going to so I raised my motor up to the higher motor mounts
And I am going to cut a relief in my hood in the shape of my valve cover
Okay, so the the hood the valve cover is going to just peek through the hood and then because I make
Like marine windshields and stuff that work all the time in thermoform acrylic
I'm going to thermoform acrylic to the shape of the valve cover and it's going to bump a window out of my hood
And then
When I do under glow and green on the car, I'm going to light the engine bay too
So as I'm driving that window is going to be glowing green
Yeah, that's pretty rad
So basically I'm just going to take my valve cover and cover it in painter's tape
And then I'm going to heat the sheet of acrylic up to 400 degrees and build a frame to keep the
Need like a
Need more room in there for the motor though or no
For like the the window
No, just for the motor motor to move a little bit. I'm going to make it a little bit uh
You know uh bigger, you know what I mean
It's going to have like a half you know half inch space around it
And then I'm going to take the acrylic and like I said, I'm going to
Tape a bunch over like the you know, because I'm going to have the bump for the oil cap and everything
And I'm going to squeeze the acrylic over it with like a frame
You know, like I said, probably about an inch bigger than the the valve cover itself all all the way around
And then I'll squeeze it over it while it's hot let it cool
And then I will put that up through the hood so it'll have like a a thermoform bubble and acrylic
Yeah, that's sick dude. It's a freaking awesome idea
And then you're going to be driving on the road, you know grabbing your billet shifter and looking
You're going to see the motor just peeking out of the hood
Well, I think you're going to see even when you're shifting through gears
I mean the motor is fairly rigid, but you're still going to see like when you hit a gear you're going to see the motor
That's so cool
Like it's legit like clear shaker almost, you know, yeah
Yeah, that's cool. That's a good idea. It's really good. It's not exposed the elements, you know what I mean?
Because it's going to have that acrylic there. So that's nice. Um
And just it has like a I don't know it's going to be something like nobody has really done
I've never seen that. Have you ever seen a thorough felt like a a thermoformed window to the actual engine?
Nope, not even in the corkiest weirdest tuner shit. I was into when I was a kid. I mean for real, that's pretty
That's pretty cool. I like that idea
The only thing I could think is that thing is going to
potentially deteriorate faster because of the engine heat
I thought that but they thermoform
Another one
Make a form just how about this instead of doing it to your valve cover make something very similar so you can just like
make another one
Because there's going to be people that want to do that
It's going to be unique and uh, they had all started because I was a nerd for bubble top hot rods
So I looked into like acrylic thermoforming a long time ago and how to blow out shapes and make custom tail light housings and stuff like that
and so I think
Yeah, I remember talked a long time ago about like an actual bubble top car
Making a butterfly liner or something
Yeah, it'd be so cool
Yeah, I think it is just gonna be so
I don't know
The bubble top cars I've seen that everybody it says there looks there they say they're really cool until they drop the drive them in any
sort of heat
Oh, yeah, you're in a magnifying glass
Dying inside
But no, yeah, no good way for air to flow inside because they're just like in one dome
Yeah, so this morning this morning I saw a video
it was
looked at looked like it was at some show with a corvette and
Like officials from official Corvette, whatever and they were saying that
Last year at SEMA, they released this manual transmission. He's like but it doesn't exist or not
We have no interest in it. There's never we're never putting a manual transmission in these cars
He's like the last time they offered manual transmission
And at the end of the c7 he's like we hardly sold any of them
He's like so we're never never ever going back to that
And then he's like but our transmission is much faster and so he's trying to sell sell, you know
Stay positive on what they have but yeah, it didn't sound like
What Tremac did was
from his perspective real I was like
You're you're telling me that Tremac
Said that they have a manual transmission for a c8 and they just lied about it at SEMA like yeah, right, dude
I think that's a there's like a little I think because Tremac builds transmissions for
For the automotive industry, right like the earth out
Not just aftermarket like they sell to transmission was a Tremac
Yeah, so so i'm sure that's there's some probably divisions of Tremac that are like automotive aftermarket and then
Uh directly into the to the new cars. So
It's not that's interesting. It'll be interesting. I mean, it's not like high-end news or anything like that, but it's still pretty interesting that
There's still
it's still like
It's never stopped since car car manufacturers started like there's always
Given take with the automotive aftermarket like
You know, I don't know. It's just it's just been it's I don't even know what to say about it
Huh, I remember you talking about that at SEMA during about SEMA time was about that transmission
How they had they released for the c8 and then the forward Mustang gtd
Which I don't know how they cross over at both cars
But apparently the transmission was made for both which I don't really understand
That didn't make sense to me at first too. So that was like
Hmm, maybe they don't have it
Maybe they're just hyping something or just getting people talking getting their name publicity. You know what I mean
And if you if you did have one in it, let's say it was 40 grand like they said it was
There's gonna be a guy that wants to put that in a c8
There's a ton of c8s out there. I think that that would be a hot market
but
It's not just selling you a transmission
You got to overhaul the whole I mean you got to put another pedal under the dash
You got to put a shifter in there
Which I don't think a shifter would be the biggest thing because you just put a you know, like a
Cable operated shifter and you could put that thing on the ceiling if you wanted to so you I mean you could put it anywhere
It's just a matter of modifying the entire car to
To do that. I mean, I think it cost a cost the guy a hundred grand
Probably what's a hundred grand these days?
Right
Yeah, I don't know what's a hundred grand these days
Not a house anymore. I know that
Good paint jobs are $50,000. You know what I mean? It's like oh, yeah
Yeah, that's what I mean a lot of this business is he talked to I had a guy change a windshield in our bronco
so he had a
big chip that turned into a crack
And he's he was an Audi kid and he was telling me about you know
Because I had the one year we got to talking about Audi's and stuff
And I said I gave him a business card. I'm like, yeah, if you know anybody that needs any work
Me it's like probably nobody can nobody that I know can afford you. I'm like, well, it's like
Unless you know the work in the area exists
Sometimes you don't even know that you want to afford it for some people
so
It's like it's a little bit frustrating on that end but because I know there's guys out there
I mean, I had a guy with a
300zx hit me up to do
a wide body kit like actual weld on fender flares and stuff that
You we're gonna contact each other again this year to to hopefully get on the schedule and get get it worked in but
Yeah, that that would be a cool vein to be in I mean
It's not just old cars to me. I mean I'm a car enthusiast in general not just
I mean, I'm not a diesel truck guy, but everything else I pretty much like
Yeah, I think diesel trucks have their need
But I don't
All fucking produce down the road not to roll coal in town to get from to get to home Arby's. I mean
Jesus Louise man. This town is crazy with these
jacked up trucks and then it was like
There was like there was a phase where every book like
Kids had somehow had money and bought these
30 40 000 dollar pickup trucks and now they're then they modified them with the big rims and jacked them up and now they're all just
Rotted out and flew really falling apart all over town. It's pretty nuts
Yeah, but how else are you supposed to make up for being five foot six?
I don't know. I'm kidding. There's nothing wrong with being five foot six. We love all of you
Um
Please do that extra step to get up inside
I um here it's pretty wild in florida. You'll see like
You know squatted trucks and all this stuff. It'll it'll be you know, uh
You know less than five year old truck
With a full lift kit, you know differential drops and it's like a painted one or color powder coated crazy stuff
They'll have all of that. They'll have it squatted out. They'll have rims on it
They'll have you know, I mean, they'll be like 24 26 inch wheels with mud tires on a low pro mud tires
And then they'll have it squatted out
Rock lights. They're always driving with the rock lights on lighting up the underside of the truck
And it'll be somebody who's
You know, uh living at home or somebody who's called oil changing lights
So those are service lights service lights. Oh, okay. Yeah, but um, then I find out later that the tire shops in the area
Will finance you suspensions and rims and tires. Oh, yeah, so these people are not saying everybody some people
You know what I mean? They have to do it. That's awesome. But like a lot of people are get I know people
who buy a truck
paying you know
$1,500 a month for the truck payment insurance and then they go and get rims and a lift and tires immediately
and they're making payments on that too and it's like
You get a cool vehicle. I guess if that's what you're into but then it's like you're just in the whole
All right, you know in a hole in a hole
I guess that's why they exist down there then
I mean that makes that makes it makes a lot of sense if shops are doing that. I mean, I get it
And the shops are I mean, they're just buying parts
I mean to a certain extent it's like a wall dock conversion. I mean, they're just buying shit throwing it on and sending it down the road, you know
Oh man wall dock
I had a
square body duly chevy
Uh for crew cab and it was a choo-choo customs
They had like it was like silver white blue and black had like, you know a cool conversion paint job
The back seat it was all blue the lure inside
The back seat folded into a bed and then like the center console was wood
I had the wood center console with the like eight cup holders
And then it had the the captain's chairs with the dual armrests up front, dude
Holders that like they were they had a lot of cup holders, but they never really held anything. Well
Yeah, right. Just it was like a piece of nice wood with a hole saw and then they routed it
And then there's it was like just stood up above the the bottom layer. So like you'd get like crap under
Zach
Oh, yeah
But it was yeah, my uh look ahead of uh
Chevy van that was uh had the same interior like the same material the conversion van with a little bump on the roof, you know
With the sex lights and oh, yeah
I thought those were just for maps
In case you had to read maps, you know why the everybody when I was a kid they always called the lights on top on top sex lights
I don't know why I mean
Yeah, uh, I don't know. I thought they were for reading maps. I guess I would have just never imagined
Yeah, maybe eating food
map watching
Whoa, those are captain's chairs. You can swing all the way around
I just realized map light is probably like a vintage term because people don't use maps anymore
Yeah, right
Yeah
Give it 15 more years and the cars will all be driving themselves over the menu cars driving themselves. I'm sure we're more than there already are
But yeah, the thing had like a cb on it too. It's where you could like talk to people on the road
like we're not like not just people to add like a
uh
Speaker oh underneath the hood like a phone
Yeah, like a megaphone thing. Yeah, because you could like uh always like yell at the bikers
I think we were seeing that bicycle song to the bicyclists going by bicycle bicycle. It was a fun fun thing to do as a child
Now if you saw those people doing that you'd be like, what's wrong with these kids
I mean that that was why we did it to be like make these people like the hell
Yeah, I was good time
Good time sally
Oh, so I was thinking speaking of self-driving cars. Did you hear the whole conspiracy?
You know about the way most they're like way most they they're like a uber
So they have them in some big areas like california, texas
That's called a waymo. What's the driving cars with this with the goofy shit all the way around? I think so
Okay, so you can like call a waymo instead of calling an uber or lift. Oh, yeah
And they come pick it up takes like a sexy service self-driving car
I heard a whole conspiracy that I never looked into and I don't care to look into that. It's actually
Remote control. They're not actually self-driving the remote control and they're driven by people that are in prison
Yeah, yeah, is that is that a real thing?
I don't know for sure, but I know I know for sure
I've heard stories of the early versions of those for sure that that's a thing and there was a thing that uh
Uh also with tesla's
Uh robots that they were doing they had early versions of them at parties like serving drinks and stuff
And it was somebody operating it remotely
Talking through the talking through the robot. Yeah
Yeah, I can see that. I mean to a certain extent
I would rather have a human
But I mean
It's just a crazy world. I don't know where there's needs to be there should be like some
The scary part is there's no legislation or anything like protecting
actual people like there's going to be accidents of people dying. I think
There already are I mean car self-driving cars are doing crazy shit like trying to drive off bridges and stuff. So
There should be a little more liability and to some extent for the manufacturers you would think but
They're gonna just put another line in the contract, you know
So I don't know print that's that's scary stuff
I don't know people might be riding around in self-driving cars, but I'm gonna be driving a civic with the engine popping out of the hood
Yep, and the people in the self-driving car are gonna be like what the hell
I was like
I
Sounds like the last two days yesterday it was uh, so last week we got almost three feet of snow
And yesterday it was 70 degrees
So people are like it sounds like crotch rockets and diesel trucks like non-stop
All day yesterday and then this morning now it's like because the highway is right out here and people are
Boogieing out of town. So it's all it's just non-stop
Feel like you can I feel like I hear way more cars than there actually are on the road
I don't know why there's just a lot of loud shit out there that you don't really notice anymore
Yeah, probably a junker
Yeah, I don't know
It's it's interesting when you when you get those warm snaps after the everybody feels like they were shut in from the weather
Yeah
Yeah, that one the early the first warm snap we got when I
Took it was really nice out. It rained a hell of a lot the night before
So I it was the first I just got the Audi and so I want to take it out for a ride. So it took a round town and
I'm behind one Silverado
I'm just a probably about four or five car lengths behind
Dude's front right tire falls off and he runs it over. It's like a jacked up silver like uh early 2000s
Silverado runs the whole entire rim entire over the trucks like bouncing up and down he pulls over
And like there's shit all over the road. So I'm just trying to not run stuff over those. I mean fairly close behind
And um, he had a bunch of kids in the trucks. I'm like, yeah, they're they're fine. Tell them I'm not gonna
I've already I've it was like Saturday. I'm like, I don't feel like helping like maybe I'm not the best good Samaritan, but
Uh, so I get down the road
get down
To the one at the town turn around and there's a
And I didn't turn on just went down a loop. But anyways, there's a newer BM
2000s BMW with a body kit
Pull front bumpers trash torn off of it and it's just parked there
It's just like carnage everywhere. I hate the hell out here
People taking shit off that wasn't ready to get taken out. That's what it seems like
I I I always think about anytime. There's like the cold and the warm
We don't really have that here, but like I think it was like 2017 or 2018
We had a really cold winter where there was like negative fifties for a week
Yeah
and
We used to have people on rotation go out every hour and start everybody's vehicles for about 10 minutes
In the parking lot at work like because we're working
you know what I mean, but uh
I remember after that like within a week. We had a day that was 32 degrees or 34 degrees
And there's pictures of me in shorts washing my fiero in the driveway
32 34 degrees like it felt like 80 when you
Because it was a 70 80 degree difference in temperature from the previous week
Yeah, that that happens. I mean there's kids in
T-shirts and shorts and shit when it gets like 40 degrees here
Yeah, it's nuts
Now so really nuts
Like we're in key lago this week and it's you know, it's like 70 degrees and my wife's wearing sweatshirt and stuff because she's like
It's too cold out right now
I mean 70 degrees isn't when I was a kid 70 degrees was hot now
It's like 70 degrees is if you're working. It's a little warm, but
Still on the chilly side
Or it's supposed to be a real feel a 90 today. So I think I think the boat's sure
Nice, that's cool. Yep
The beers don't drink themselves in the boat. You know what I mean
90 degrees that does sound like man. That makes me thirsty for a beer. That sounds
That sounds awesome, man. Wow
Jelly I'm not turning it up to 90 in here. Fuck that
Yeah, so what do you got on the docket coming up this week?
Well, I got we I ordered a shitload more parts for this the 66 with the coyote in it. There was a lot of
Coyote things that needed to be
Coyote problems that need to be solved. So apparently if you put like even the the coolant lines to the heater core
If you don't put an h-pipe in it in but before you get to the heater core
If the heater core is off
One head will get hotter than the other and you'll it'll run it'll it'll throw a coat so
Just going down the rabbit hole of buying some of these parts. It's just like
It's not just going online and buying a part you're like
I mean, I'm sure the guys that done coyote swaps before they already know all this stuff and they've handled
You know, that's why this stuff exists online, which thankfully I don't have to vet that
You know, I can just go online and figure it out, you know, but man, it's still kind of exhausting
It's mentally exhausting trying to figure all out and then think you have the right part
Just thankful that I didn't order the right wrong part, you know, I'm doing all that before
Getting it vetted before that but even the oil cooler or the oil remote oil filter
This is really no no room for it on the motor. So you gotta
remote
Mount it and they make kits that you don't need a oil
That you don't have an oil cooler and someone that you have an oil cooler
But the car came with an oil cooler, but doesn't necessarily need one
But we're boosting it. So probably should have it. So it's just now. I now we got to mount an oil cooler somewhere
It's just another thing to mount. It's like Jesus. When does it end with this thing? You know
Yeah, even the the cable to just a little pop cable to open the trunk
$30
Yeah, it's nuts
It's old car stuff
Yeah
It's all good experience though for the next one
Yeah, I mean to a certain extent I would be dealing with this problem regardless of what car it is and if it's got a
You know a newer modular voter. It's gonna have all these quirky problems and each car is
Unfortunately, each car is pretty different unless you're building the exact same car with the exact same parts
You're gonna one introduce one part and you're gonna have 10 different problems that arise from it potentially
In my buddy trappers helping me out
On some of the mechanical stuff in the car and he's just like
He came to the realization. I think it was this last week. He's like, there's just nothing Mustang anymore
I'm like, yeah the outside
I'm like it looks like a Mustang on the outside, but everything underneath there is
Literally nothing Mustang anymore
It's like it's not one part where you just bought a Mustang part and you introduced it to the
Anything underneath the outside sheet metal and it's just yeah works. Nope. Nope doesn't work
That's pretty nuts full custom
What are you gonna do
Is
On this car now
No, I mean we have a
We have a color palette in mind. I don't have a definite like this is the shade of it's gonna be some sort of dark green
solid color dark green
But to me I have to
I think if you go because there's not much chrome on the car
front and back it's just gonna be like bezels and
Window trim and the door handles and the mirrors. So it's pretty minimal chrome
So I think if you go too dark of a color that's gonna pop too much with the chrome
So you almost need something that no, it doesn't necessarily blend in with the chrome, but it's a little not as dark
If you go too dark with chrome with minimal chrome
Like that color on your hat would be more
I with chrome would be better than a really dark color
Dark color green with a minimal chrome. I think it's gonna look weird. It's gonna look like
I don't know
I don't know what to I mean, it's fucking art, you know, like it's hard to
quantify what why I'm saying what I'm saying, but I think uh, I'm
just a
medium puke green, you know
I
P green puke green a baby shit green of sorts
Yes solid color no metallic. Yeah, there's no metallic and in puke or
Other bodily fluids. Hopefully you are right. You are correct. Yeah, good observation. Good. I
What we did get rims and tires uh for the 67 that's on the rotisserie like ring
He's got he bought uh
He's I thought he's he's having tires sent to the shop and I thought it was gonna be like
A wide bfg or like a radial tire, you know, no, dude, they're like
Non-road use
Like racing like they look like NASCAR tires to me like they have like the the
Stenciled Goodyear logo on the side like they're legit NASCAR like
Like race tires anyways
But they're on a 15 inch torque for us like the
Matt Gray torque for us they look like for a 15. That's dude
It's the look for the like he's going for like vintage, uh road race car look, you know and
He's like you think we have to cut the tubs out in the minute or the tubs in the back to to mock this up in there
I'm like, yes, they are huge
They're huge
So I'm pretty excited about getting that getting it that far. So we're gonna get this next week. We're gonna get that car blasted
Hopefully they're gonna pick it up bring it back blasted by the end of the week. Hopefully
Um, so we're gonna get the car primed
Off the rotisserie onto the frame rack and swap it with the 69 that's on the frame rack because that thing's ready to come off
And then we're gonna cut the mini tubs out of it not saying this is all gonna happen in a week
But we got to cut the mini tubs out of it set the rims and tires up in and then
Measure for the width of the rear axle and then we can get the all the suspension components ordered
Which is all a street and track stuff and it's pretty sick stuff
I mean, it'll I think the front is more of a bolt-in
ish application and the back is a four-link and
It's a pretty groovy stuff back there pretty excited. I think it's got a watts link
nice
Yeah
It's a pretty pretty
And then from the outside the car should should just be look like you know
It's got rims and tires and it's lowered a little bit
But it'll be everything underneath should be pretty trick. I mean, it's it's definitely less custom than this
than the 66 like way less as far as
Custom, you know sheet metal work and and as far as modification. It's not it's you know, it's we're not putting it on a chassis
so it's you're using a lot of the
More factory components. That's something that's a car. You can buy Mustang stuff for you know, and it'll it'll actually apply
bolt ends
Yeah, but it's I mean
I
I'll still say it's the nicest Mustang I've ever worked on
Like it is very very nice. We cut the seat pans or that's the seat risers out because he's got convertible seat risers that go
The brackets go over the tunnel. So it's just a little bit more rigid
So we cut them out for we're setting up to blasting and there's like hardly any corrosion at all
underneath the seat risers, which is like
It's nuts and we some of the seam sealer and under coating we peeled off. It was like wet seam sealer
On clean steel yet. So it was like it came from the whole hop desert, but it was clearly inside
For a long time like the majority of its life. So
There's probably some old lady or something. You know, I mean
Yeah, it had to have been
Yeah
Because I don't think it's got like 20 something on the odometer and I don't think it's 120
Like you look at the car and there's no way unless it was
Babyed even more than we think, you know, there's just no there's factory part numbers on shit under the dash
There's factory stamping on the backside of the fender
Like there's like the legit stamping like red oxide primer and white stamping of the part number in the backside of
the fenders
Like I was kind of nerding out about it because I you know, we've done
Excuse me. We've done like factory restoration stuff trying to get things to look this good
And I'm tearing it apart. I'm like, dude, look at this thing. It's got all the factory undercoating it in part numbers and everything
He's just like
Yeah
Pretty funny. He's like, yeah, top it. Okay
Yeah
Like hurry up
That's cool
I love torque thrusts on a on a 67. I don't know great gunmetal. Yeah, I'm college lip. It's the right look
That's what he's got. Yep 15s. It's the right size. I mean I like the period
I'm that far with those with the tires. He's got
That's gonna look tough dude like real tough
So I'm excited about that
He's got some I don't even know what the motor is he's got for it. It's some
ultra tall deck
that he
Some rare intake he had that isn't that nobody makes anymore. He found one from some guy in florida
That had one on a shelf yet. So he's he's excited that he didn't have to have one recast it
It's like Jesus. Yeah
It's it's some aluminum block some custom aluminum block with ultra tall tall deck and I I don't know exactly what
Like I'll put it in for you. I don't I'm not building the motor for you or anything like that, but it's been a hard
around here
The guy that build motors he sold his chat or sold his dyno
so
We don't have a locally sourced person to build and dyno motors in this area. So that's kind of a
If you anybody knows anybody
Uh, yeah, it's uh, I mean chest. There's chassis dinos within a couple hours or hour or two. Um, but
I'm sure there's engine dinos within that
It ranges well, but we used to have a guy that's just on the road, you know, so
interesting
Yeah, I think something broke the industry something for this dyno
And he just didn't want to he was overwhelmed with it already. So he just didn't want to continue to do it
so there was a
um
Overhauls and they closed up shop. So now this performance shop was taking on like
tractor overhauling and shit as well. So they're just like
More work than they ever need, you know
And there's less people doing it, you know, like physically humans employees that shit
If there's how many people you know now that are turn apart motors professionally like
I don't know. I don't know very many at all. Yeah
Yeah, I don't know why that is if it like, um
Just out of the box engines and stuff is the way things are going or
If I got too expensive warranty on shit
You get a warranty it warranty on it and boost it. It's like
You can almost build the whole car know how much horsepower you're gonna get before you before you even bought the parts
you know
There's just no guessing in it anymore. You can buy an LS three
Bolt a bunch of shit on it and make, you know, seven 800 horsepower
Yeah, we don't really need to you're buying the right one
But we've all been there like, you know back in the day where you heard, you know
Certain performance engine shops that you know, people had their stuff done there and you know
X YZ and was wrong with it and you heard, you know, you
Ted the eyes have said it and you're like, don't take your motor this place
That is why people are going to these buy buy a crate motor and put it in because
You have one guy that man, it's pretty easy to fuck a whole motor up if I got you're not paying attention that day, you know, right?
Great, yeah
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About this episode
A shop-and-garage chat that jumps from an Audi purchase to big ideas for a Honda and a deep dive into finishes. They compare paint vs powder coat, arguing paint is easier to repair and has better “depth,” while powder coat can look flat or scratch easily. The conversation also turns to C8 Corvette manual-transmission rumors, self-driving car conspiracy talk, and Florida weather chaos on the road. Later, they preview ongoing builds: a Coyote swap project and a 1967 Mustang road-race-inspired setup with mini-tubs and period-correct wheels.
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