An “air system” is a setup that uses compressed air to run certain parts of a vehicle. The host is talking about building the pipes that carry that air to where it’s needed.
Piping refers to the fixed tubing/pipe network that carries pressurized air from the source to the rest of the system. The speaker is waiting on delivery of piping, then planning the routing around the shop.
A “drop” is a short connection piece that goes down from the main pipe to a device. Here, the host is saying they’re avoiding rubber hoses for those connections.
Straight pipe means using continuous rigid tubing sections rather than flexible hose or angled fittings for routing. The speaker emphasizes an all-straight-pipe approach, likely for fitment, durability, and consistent airflow.
A tire changer is a machine that helps you take tires off wheels and put them back on. It’s the kind of tool you’d use when mounting or remounting tires.
Term
pneumatic
Pneumatic just means “powered by air pressure.” Some garage machines use air from the compressor to move parts and do the heavy work.
Shipping cost can jump when something is large or awkward to pack. In this case, the pipe is long, so it probably ships in a bigger, more expensive size.
Company
Warthog online
Warthog online is mentioned as a supplier/distributor the speaker used for shipping and sourcing. The speaker frames it as a way to cut shipping costs compared with another option.
A joiner is a piece that connects two pipe sections. If you use shorter pipe lengths, you need more joiners, which can make the install more annoying and create more potential leak points.
Term
hose extensions
Hose extensions are just extra hose length. They help you reach the right spot, but they can also make the setup more complicated and affect how strong the flow feels.
Term
Vennable hose
They’re talking about a specific hose product (“Vennable hose”). The point is that the hose is one of the parts in their setup, and the brand/type can affect how well it fits and works.
Clean, dry air means the air is free of water and dirt. Water in compressed air can lead to rust inside air tools, so filtering and drying helps them work properly.
Power tools are tools that run on electricity (or a motor) instead of just your hands. In a garage, they’re used to get work done faster and more accurately.
Snap-on is a brand of high-quality tools that mechanics and serious hobbyists use. The idea is that they’re built to last and work well when you’re doing precise jobs.
Plumbing means installing pipes and connectors so the water/air can reach different places. In this case, they’re saying it’s easier to add new connection points after the main line is already in.
Term
practice cut
Before you cut the real thing, you do a small test cut on something leftover. That way you learn the tool and technique without ruining the main part.
A three-piece wheel is made from multiple parts that bolt together. People like them because they can be customized and sometimes repaired, but you still want to be careful when mounting tires.
Low-profile tires have less rubber on the sidewall, so the tire feels more direct when you turn. The host is basically saying they wouldn’t practice on a tricky, performance-style setup.
An inflation cage is a protective enclosure you stand behind while inflating a tire. It’s there to keep you safe if the tire fails or the bead doesn’t seat correctly.
They’re talking about very large tires from Nitto, with a 37-inch size. Bigger tires can change how the truck drives and also require enough space in the wheel area so they don’t rub.
Seat belts are the primary restraint system that keeps occupants secured during braking and impacts. The host is describing a maintenance/cleaning approach where the belts are removed or handled carefully so they can be washed and reinstalled correctly.
eBay is a website where people sell used items. They’re saying if they mess up a wheel while practicing, they can replace it by finding another one online.
Hard mounting means bolting equipment directly to a solid surface (like concrete) rather than using a movable base. The speaker is working through how to secure machines safely and rigidly so they don’t shift during use.
Casters are wheels (often on swiveling mounts) that let equipment roll for easier positioning. The speaker says they may add casters to some machines, balancing mobility with the stability needed for shop work.
When something spins, it creates strong outward forces. That’s why tire equipment has to be set up securely and not bumped or moved while it’s running.
A pallet jack is a tool that slides under a pallet and lets you lift it slightly to move it. It’s a common way to move heavy stuff around without a forklift.
They mean they’d have to run the air lines and connections. If the compressor were outside, they’d need extra tubing to bring the pressurized air indoors.
A manifold is like a distribution hub for the air lines. It takes air from the main supply and sends it out to different connection points so you can use it around the garage.
Term
dropdowns
“Dropdowns” sounds like the hanging hose connections/outlets on the wall. They’re meant to make it easy to grab air wherever you need it without running hoses all over.
Term
B Blaster
“B Blaster” appears to be a specific brand/model of an air-powered blasting or blowing tool used with compressed air. The speaker’s plan (“hook that ... up to the manifold ... and be blast everything outside”) suggests it’s used to clean or blow debris off surfaces.
Air tools are shop tools that run on compressed air from an air compressor. They’re often used because they’re powerful and make quick work of things like loosening bolts.
A blower is basically a strong fan that blows air. Here, they’re saying they just use their own blower to move air and help with drying/cleaning instead of using the car-wash setup.
A car wash is where you clean your car using machines and tools. This part is talking about how some places make you use towels instead of giving you strong drying tools.
Air guns are handheld tools that connect to a compressor and blow air hard. They help push water out of cracks and around parts so you don’t have to wipe as much.
Blow drying means using strong air to push water off the car after it’s been washed. It helps the car dry faster and can reduce the need for lots of wiping.
Swirl marks are tiny scratches that make the paint look hazy or dull, especially on dark colors. They usually happen when dirt or grit gets rubbed into the paint during washing or drying.
A ceramic coating is a protective layer you apply to the paint. It helps water bead up and can make the car easier to clean, but it still won’t fully prevent spots from hard water.
This is a shop tip: put the parts together on the floor first, check that everything fits, and only then lift it up to install. It’s safer and usually faster than building while you’re up high.
Term
prevo system
They’re talking about a specific aftermarket system called the “prevo system.” The exact function isn’t explained in this snippet, but it’s something they’ve read about, used before, and are planning to test.
Topic
garage Mahal
“Garage Mahal” is likely the name of a show or channel they’ve worked on or watched. They’re using it to remember whether they used the same system on earlier builds.
Term
didn't leak
They chose the version that “didn’t leak,” meaning it didn’t have fluid seeping out after installation. That’s important because leaks can cause mess, damage nearby parts, and lead to failures.
An air-cooled engine uses air blowing over the engine to keep it from overheating. When someone says “air-cooled Porsches,” they mean older Porsches that cool the engine this way instead of using coolant.
A manual transmission means you shift gears yourself using a clutch and a gear stick. It can feel more engaging because you’re directly choosing the gear.
Aftermarket just means “not made by the car company,” like third-party upgrades or replacement parts. They’re describing an area focused on Porsche-related aftermarket and restoration items.
Restoration means bringing a car back to an earlier, better condition. They’re talking about Porsche-related parts and services that help with that kind of work.
Wheels are the rotating components that connect the tires to the vehicle via the hub. This segment focuses on aftermarket wheels and the craftsmanship involved in machining and finishing them.
Machining is how manufacturers shape parts with very precise cutting tools. They’re saying the wheel makers are getting better at making the details accurately.
A satin finish is a lower-gloss surface that looks smooth but not mirror-like. Here it’s used to explain the wheel’s final styling after the high-polish step.
On a wheel, “structural” means a part that helps the wheel stay strong and handle forces from driving. The host is showing a ring on the wheel that’s there for strength, not just looks.
“Staggered” means the wheels or tires are set up differently on the front versus the back. People do this to change grip and how the car feels, and sometimes just for the look.
The sidewall is the part of the tire that’s on the “side” of the tire. More sidewall usually makes the ride a bit softer and can help protect the wheel from bumps.
A speedster is a type of sports car that’s usually open-top and meant to feel more like a pure driving experience. It’s often used for special, limited versions.
Guntherworks is a company that builds and modifies cars—especially Porsche-based projects. Here, they’re mentioned as the group that showed up with a special Porsche build.
They’re talking about a special auction car based on the Porsche 918, which is Porsche’s high-end hybrid supercar. The extra letters (“YSEC”) are likely the specific car’s edition or auction listing name.
Sell-through rate tells you what fraction of the cars at an auction actually get sold. If it’s high, it means buyers showed up and most cars were purchased.
A restomod is an older car that gets brought back to good shape, but with modern upgrades. The goal is usually to keep the classic vibe while making it drive and perform better.
Singer is a company that builds extremely high-end modified classic Porsches. If you see one in person, it’s usually a very carefully engineered, modernized take on an older 911.
The Porsche 959 is a famous older Porsche supercar that collectors really chase. It’s special because it was technologically advanced for its era, and it’s a big deal to see one in person.
They’re visiting a specific car collection called the Matranga collection. The people behind it are a father-and-son team, and the collection is set up in a way that shows off cars.
They say the Matranga family business is concrete work, especially building parking garages. So the building they use for the collection is made by people who do that kind of construction a lot.
CAD (computer-aided design) is software used to create precise digital models of parts and products. In a car-collection context, it’s often used to design custom components or layouts before anything is printed or built.
They mention Honda and Acura because one of the designer’s early instructors worked with those brands. It’s basically a clue about the designer’s training background.
GM stands for General Motors, one of the big car companies. If the collection is “GM packed,” it means a lot of the cars come from GM’s brands or designs.
A hot rod truck is a modified pickup built for the classic hot-rod vibe. People typically change things to make it look cool and drive more like a fun project car.
“Boydster” is the name people use for a particular style of roadster associated with Boyd. It’s basically a recognizable roadster type that collectors talk about like a model.
A battery tender is a device you plug into a car to keep the battery healthy while the car is parked. It helps the battery stay charged so the car starts easily later.
Hot rods are cars that have been modified to be more exciting and usually more stylish. People often change the engine and body so it feels and looks different from stock.
Topic
Bear Jackson
This sounds like “Barrett-Jackson,” a famous collector car auction/event. They’re saying the group will be there and might spot cars they like.
SEMA is a big trade show for car parts and custom work. A “SEMA build” usually means a custom car made to show off upgrades and fabrication, not something meant to be a normal daily driver.
An “in-house shop” means the owners or their team build and develop cars internally, using their own staff and facilities, rather than outsourcing the work to outside fabricators. In this context, it explains how the Matranga team can control design and build quality.
“Dialed them in” means they tested the car and made the adjustments needed so it drives and works the way it should. It’s basically the final tuning after the build is done.
Mercedes (Mercedes-Benz) is a major German luxury and performance brand. The hosts mention a “vintage Mercedes” to emphasize the collection includes older, high-quality European cars, not just American muscle and hot rods.
They’re talking about a company that makes car parts. Here it sounds like Kugel makes parts for the rear of the car, like the parts that help the rear wheels and drivetrain work correctly.
3D printing is a manufacturing process that builds parts layer-by-layer from a digital model. In automotive work, it’s often used for prototypes, custom brackets, and fitment pieces before committing to expensive machining or fabrication.
Filament is the material feedstock used in many consumer and industrial 3D printers (commonly thermoplastics). Different filament types affect strength, heat resistance, and how well parts hold their shape—important when prototyping automotive components.
Vintage Air is an aftermarket HVAC brand, and an “AC unit” here means the climate-control hardware being installed into a vehicle. The speaker is describing how 3D-printed parts can help route and fit the system’s outlets and ducting under the dash.
A universal kit is an aftermarket product designed to fit many vehicles with adaptable mounting and routing components. In this context, it’s used with a Vintage Air HVAC system so the installer can tailor outlet/duct routing to the specific car.
Air outlets are the vents/duct exits that deliver conditioned air to the cabin. Proper placement and duct shape matter for airflow distribution, and 3D-printed ducting or tubing can help achieve the right fit and routing.
Plastic tubing here refers to the ducting/lines used to route airflow from the HVAC unit to the vents. Using 3D-printed or custom-shaped tubing helps solve packaging constraints in older cars where off-the-shelf ducting may not fit well.
The center console is the interior structure between the front seats that often houses controls, storage, and trim pieces. The speaker describes designing scratch-built/3D-printed components that match different finishes (aluminum, polished surfaces, and leather-wrapped areas) and fit together in multiple sections.
Term
relief
In this context, “relief” refers to the intentional shaping/clearance in a part so adjacent materials and components can meet correctly. The speaker mentions needing the right amount of lip/relief so one finish (aluminum) can butt up against another (leather-wrapped) without interference.
“LS engines” are a modern family of V8 engines from GM that hot-rodders like to use in older cars. People swap them in because there are lots of parts available and they tend to run strong.
A “four speed” means the car has a transmission with four forward gears. More gears can change how the car drives and how it sounds at different speeds.
A “five speed” means the car has five forward gears. That can make it easier to keep the engine in the right power range while driving.
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What's going on in Goldberg's world?
You ever heard of Prevost, the air compressor fittings
and system?
I have not heard of that.
I don't think so.
I'm knee deep in Prevost.
I've been trying to design my own air system here
at the garage because I don't like paying people
to do stuff that I can do, right?
Today, this afternoon, I'm taking delivery of the piping
finally.
So anybody out there that's looking to do this themselves,
first and foremost, take into consideration
the shipping of the equipment.
Because when I initially went in and made the order
to purchase this, I didn't reach out to the company.
I want to do this myself.
I want to see how easily it's done with no bias whatsoever.
And the tab was, I think it was $1,600.
Guess what the shipping was.
I have no idea.
Half that.
Equal to that.
Really?
It was literally $1,400.
So you're going to basically do the hard lines around the shop
and then a couple of drops, like rubber hose drops.
No rubber hoses, all straight pipe, all three-quarter pipe.
No drop downs, but I have two reels.
I've designed the entire thing.
Yeah, the reels.
That's what I meant.
So you've got an air compressor already,
or you needed to get one?
Oh, are you kidding me?
I've had the BendPak compressor sitting at the corner of a garage
since this thing opened.
Oh, that's right.
And so BendPak was nice enough to, I reached out to ask
if they possibly had a tire changer that somebody had used
and they could throw it my way.
Very long story short.
Without further ado, the complete unit
shows up brand new at the house from BendPak.
And that gave me the reason to pull out the compressor.
So for five years it's been sitting on the side.
And so now it'll be functional.
Now I'll have a functional air unit in the garage.
But it's been an interesting journey trying to figure out
which brand to go with, number one.
But like I said, the biggest obstacle and the thing that really
shot me down was when I hit a checkout and it showed me
that it was 1,400 bucks to ship it.
It's because the length of the pipe.
Now you can get a seven foot pipe and I would imagine
the shipping wouldn't be drastic by any means.
But you go from 10 to 18 feet and it goes through the roof.
So what I did was I based my sale on the ship.
So I found this place, I think it's Warthog online.
And they're a distributor of pre-boss.
And it was half of what that other shipping was.
So you pay them like 600 bucks to ship all this piping.
And it's like a third of the price of the entire unit itself.
And now obviously people are going to go,
why didn't you use the seven foot links?
Well, for the obvious reasons,
because I didn't want to put a joiner every seven feet.
Because I'm running, you know, I've got 21 foot spans, right?
And so I don't want to have to deal with that by any stretch of the imagination.
So I chose to go the longer length, the less connectors.
And that's what I am ending up having to do.
But I'll tell you what, this system that they've come up with is,
I don't know how long it's been out there.
But geez, Louise, man, it's a hell of a system.
It truly is.
I've seen the other ones.
And I think this one is cleaner.
I performance wise, I mean, we'll see.
But the installation is going to be very easy.
And it's clean, man.
And it's, I haven't read any bad reviews of it.
And see, I would do the dropdown,
the pipe that you're showing right there with the reel.
With the hose extensions.
Vennable hose.
Yeah.
But the fitting that goes on that vertical pipe that the hose is sticking
out of has to be at least a one inch fitting.
And I've got three quarter inch going the whole way.
So if you do a one inch to three inch or four inch up top there in the base pipe,
then you can feed off of it in that manner.
But I can't do it.
Right.
So that wasn't an option.
So I, now that I'm looking at it, yeah, I'm familiar with this.
I think this is the same brand we used in Adam Corolla's garage.
I didn't use it in my garage because when I was just like renting the space,
I didn't want to fuss around with like hard wiring a solution.
So I just ran some longer hose, but I think this is what we had in there.
And yeah, it took a little while to kind of configure it because the compressor
to his was outside of, of in between two buildings in between two of the warehouses.
And we had to go to like up and over and into the building and kind of all around.
And yeah, there was, there was a lot to it.
Like you're saying, it required a lot of, of a lot of components,
but came together pretty nicely.
And I, so I ran on mine.
My air compressor was in the corner and then I needed to go like 12 feet
across my lever rack to at the end.
And that's where I hung my reel that had a 50 foot reel.
Yeah.
Right.
And since I just needed to go in a straight line, I just used like a 12 or 15 foot,
you know, rubber hose.
So, and I laid it on top of the lever rack, zip tied it to the pallet rack.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
It's tied to the pallet rack at the top of the lever rack because I didn't have
to go all around the garage and then on my, on my house.
But when I, so I went from the compressor to the basically the rubber hose extension.
And then I went to two filters, right?
Because when I was using all of the air tools and stuff,
I wanted it to be very clean, dry air.
And I think that was super important, right?
Cause especially when you're using any of the good air tools.
I've got, you know, one set of filters.
I'm not sure that I don't need more in different locations,
but I'm going for it.
I can install those later.
Well, look, having even one set of filters somewhere on a mainline
or for one of the reels, wherever you use most of the air tools
is better than not having them.
And I'm not just talking about like if, if you just do a reel with a drop
because you're mostly like drying off a car,
blowing air around or dusting stuff off.
I was thinking more of the power tools that are kind of expensive.
Yeah. Yeah.
We got some snap on tools and stuff that I didn't want to screw up.
So yeah, so it's, it's an interesting project. You're right.
You kind of have to want to, you like, you lay it all out.
You kind of draw it down or at least start laying it out in the shop
and figuring out how much, uh, cause, you know,
when you cut them and put the fitting on, you know, you're cutting once.
So measure 12 times.
If you're spending 600 for shipping on these 10 to 18 foot pipes.
So yeah, it's going to be, it seems extremely straightforward.
I've seen so many videos of installations.
Um, you know, I won't make mention of what's nice about it though.
Like if you, if you do one of the, the big main hard lines,
like across the shop or somewhere up top and you have a two or three drops
later on, if you go, you know what, I need another reel in the middle of the shop.
You just, you just go in and just start plumbing into that hard line.
So you can, you know, you can add stuff to it, which is kind of nice.
Yeah.
It's easily done.
Man, it truly is.
Yeah.
And I mean, if I could do it, it's, it's pretty easy, but,
and I haven't done it yet.
So like I said, the piping shows up at five o'clock today and I've laid everything out.
Um, I'll probably shoot a video on it.
The show.
Masculate.
What, what I would do is, is start with just the,
the very end or something of the pipe and do a practice cut,
like just cut a few millimeters off, like just get used to doing it.
And then also you mentioned the tire changer.
And I would say for the tire changer, if you have any set of old wheels,
tires, anything laying around, uh, that were like up on the shelf, like,
you know, when Adam's collection with the racing cars,
there's a bunch of wheels and tires that are kind of extras or you can't race
on them because they're too old.
Start there.
Do not start.
I know where you're going.
And do you think I'm going to throw a three piece HRE wheel on there the
first freaking time and do a low profile Nitto tire?
You're not even close.
I'm not that stupid by any means.
I'm going to scoop up a couple of rims in the, in the process of learning it,
but, um, you know, the, the, the inflation cage is what I'm greatly appreciative
of that I went above and beyond and purchased one of those because I don't
want to blow myself up and flake one of those big monsters.
You know, 37 inch Nitto's or anything, but yeah, it's,
I'm going to get the discount tire guys to come out and do a little
tutorial for me and, uh, hopefully it'll be up and running next week.
I got to get out of town this weekend.
We got that.
The, uh, Hempstead spring dust off with, uh, uh, Tim dig and Richard Rollins
and should be a cool show up there.
So that's, that's on Sunday and I'll hit the ground running Monday morning
when I get back and I'm looking forward to doing this.
So you should be having a, like you said, someone from the discount tire
group, having them come out and walk you through it a few times is that
super smart.
If you can have that, if you have that resource available, have a manager
that discount tire, you know, for the last seven years has taken great care
of me up here and, um, I'm greatly appreciative of that and I want to throw
back some love in their direction.
Um, and so I'm going to have him come out.
He's the manager.
And, uh, yeah, some trial and error should be interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A buddy of mine got one.
Uh, he got his machine.
Uh, he's in, he's in Canada and he's got a great shop and a great
collection and he's like you, he's just really, really into just kind of
taking this time and learning the process and doing a lot of the stuff
himself setting up.
And he's, he's a super detailed guy as far as like just how he maintains
his gear and, you know, cleaning stuff and taking things apart and putting
it back together.
Super clean.
You're talking about every little detail you did on the Cobra.
He's very much like that.
You know, he's like, I'm going to, you know, he'll buy a car and like I'm
going to clean the interior.
That means the seats are coming out.
The, the seat belts are getting washed, you know, like everything, you know,
every nut and bolt is getting washed and put back together.
And when he got his tire machine, he kind of set up a line of several wheels
and tires just to practice on ones, you know, you know, even, even like an OEM
trucked wheel and tire, it's like, ah, at least if he scuffs the wheel, you can,
if he needed one, he can get another one on eBay.
Exactly.
I think we're thousand dollars.
I think my biggest issue right now is truly coming to the grips of hard
mounting these things into the concrete.
You know, I'm going to try my best to put casters on a couple of the machines
that I can.
I'm going to reach out to Viper and they've got the best casters on any piece
of equipment I've ever seen.
So if I get a couple of casters from them and slap them on a couple of the
machines, it's not, you know, not the balancer.
I don't know.
I mean, I've got steel pallets that I've made for a couple of the units,
the balancer and the tire cage, but I don't want to mount any of them
permanently in the garage.
But obviously you got the balancer and the centrifugal force of that thing.
I mean, I don't want to shake it or move it at all.
And then, so I don't know.
We'll see what happens, but I'm trying to make it as convenient as possible.
And I'm trying to put stuff on casters to where the cage, for instance,
if I can, if I can blow a tire up right outside of my garage door as opposed
to blowing it up five feet away in the garage door.
I mean, there's going to be a difference.
God forbid if something goes wrong.
Yeah.
So if I can get away with something like that, that'd be great.
It's just, I'm looking for that one person, that one expert to say,
yeah, you can do it because everyone said no up until now,
which obviously is a realistic, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It would be hard, but I just, I don't want to dedicate the entire space.
That's all.
Well, it is what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, if you have to do it, then you're going to have to do it, but,
but you're right.
Like to have it somewhat moveable.
I don't know that we even had our tire changer mounted to the ground.
It was on the ground.
It wasn't on anything else.
It was on the ground.
But it wasn't, was it mounted?
I don't think it was attached to the ground now that I think about it.
See, because I'm making pallets.
I'm making aluminum pallets, but I'm putting a steel plate on top of them.
Right.
Yeah.
So that each machine can be solidly blocked into it.
So I mean, we'll maybe allow go trial and error and see.
Well, the difference between what you're doing versus casters is, I don't know if the casters,
because now that the amount of surface area touching the concrete ground is smaller because
it's on casters, but if you put the whole pallet down, it's got a lot more surface area.
And then if you needed to move it, now you could just get it with the forklift, right?
If you built a pallet that you can get the forklift, you know, or the pallet jack.
Yeah.
That's how I move the compressor over there.
Yeah.
Then it's easy.
But the compressor I had wasn't a particularly big compressor, but I got it from Eastwood
and it's one of their, it's one of their compressors that I don't know has like the
motor in it.
No, it was quiet.
It was it was one of their quiet ones, like a silent one.
And it obviously it's not completely silent.
But man, you fire up a compressor like my neighbor fire up a compressor.
You hear it three warehouses down.
I fired up mine.
I didn't realize it.
Like I had a headset and I was on the phone and someone's like, do you hear a little bit
of noise?
I'm like, I'm standing next to the compressor.
Like I could make a call next to that compressor.
I don't know how.
Ironically, I can do the same.
And this compressor I got from Ben packs bigger than I am.
I mean, the thing's a thousand fricking pounds.
Yeah.
And I was originally going to put it outside, but I didn't want to have to plum everything.
And then we did a dedicated spot for it when the badass workbench went in and put the plug
in the wall there.
And it sits there right now.
And I was going to put it in a cage.
But the cage would be obtrusive number one and number two, it's freaking quiet.
It's amazingly quiet.
So I'm glad I didn't go above and beyond to try to make it soundproof when it doesn't
even really need it.
Yeah, it probably doesn't need it.
I mean, these newer ones, they've definitely gotten better over the years and people made
them, you know, I'm sure that's the number one request from anybody putting them in going,
can we make it quieter?
Can we make it quieter?
You know,
And I think, you know, and I've got to be honest with you.
I mean, this is the OCD part kicking in, but I think the thing I'm most excited about putting
this air system in is to put those dropdowns and the manifolds on the wall and to be able
to go outside.
And I'm going to go buy a, a B Blaster, you know, a cabin, a big cabin on casters and
I'm going to roll it outside and I'm going to put it right next to, why does it keep doing
this?
I'm going to put it, I'm going to put it right next to the garage door.
I'm going to open the garage door.
I'm going to hook that sun bitch up to the manifold right there and be blast everything
outside.
When I'm done, I'll just put it, put it right back in the garage.
It'll just be you and Presley standing out there.
Wait, wait, wait.
I'm going to be blast her.
She will not be fazed by any of that noise, anything that you're doing out there.
She will walk her right up like, what's she doing?
It'll attract her.
That's what I'm honestly, that's what I'm looking forward to the most.
Cause I mean, I haven't needed the compressor.
I haven't needed my air tools.
I mean, these big fricking drivers that Milwaukee's got, they'll take a fricking lug
nut off an 18 wheeler for God's sake.
So I mean, I really needed a bunch of air tools, but to have them accessible.
Yeah, it's going to be terrific.
And to be able to blow up a tire, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
Then I can hard line in the, the, the scissor lift, you know, so I don't have to pull my
little compressor over there and plug it into it.
It's going to be fabulous.
I mean, that's what I saw in the beginning, but I.
You have another compressor.
You have another air compressor.
You have a smaller air compressor.
Do you have an air compressor in the, in the wash bay, like just to, to get some of the
water off the car?
What's in the wash bay?
No, the wash bay has got that blower on it.
Oh, it does.
Yeah.
But it's absolutely useless, completely waste them, complete waste of money.
So I trashed it and I just use my fricking, my blower, you know, the one for the yard.
That's all I use.
Oh yeah.
So there's no, there's no compressor in there.
Yeah.
I don't really need it.
Yeah.
There's a car wash over here.
It was kind of like the coin operated, like do yourself cars.
There's two in the area and they, they got ready for years and then eventually I saw them
redoing it and I went over and I talked to the, one of the young guys was like, did you
guys buy this or whatever he's like, he's like, no, we, we've had it in the family for
years.
He's like, my grandmother owned them and, and he goes, and she, she finally gave them
to us.
He goes, so my brother and I are investing in the money and they redid it and all new
hardware, new equipment and it, you know, it's not coin operated.
It's all like, you know, a credit card or, or, you know, your phone or whatever.
It makes it super easy to do.
But the one thing I noticed that they put in is, is yeah, it has kind of the air blower
thing, right?
So you can kind of, and I was looking at that thing and I saw some people do it and I tried
it for a second.
I'm like, no, this is just for them to get another $10 a change out of me because it
doesn't work that well and you'll be there.
Like I can put it like shooting air out of this.
Yeah, out of a straw.
It's just like,
Like it's ridiculous.
Like it wouldn't even be good enough to do, to use on a motorcycle.
They suck so that you're right.
So I mean, maybe you could just hit it real quick around the rear view mirrors because
all the water gets in there.
But aside from that, it's not.
And if you think about it like every like actual car wash I go to, those guys just have
the air compressor with the guns and, and they just hit the mirrors and, and a few of
the trim areas and then that's it.
Nobody, the one that they have over there at that little car wash, that one, that one's
a money grab.
They did a great job redoing these car washes and they work well, like good water pressure
and they're on it.
Like when people throw the gear down and run it over with a truck there, they're fixing,
you know, fixing the water guns and all that stuff.
So what they're doing, what they're doing, not giving you the ability to have an air
compressed system there that actually works is they're keeping money in their pocket because
they won't be able to sell all those rags and stuff because you won't need them because
when I blow dry my cars, I wipe them down with one rag afterwards.
I don't need to do anything else.
Yeah.
But like so much of your stuff is black and every time I wash a car or, or, or anything
that's black, I'm always so worried about just like, oh, am I going to get squirrel,
swirl marks?
Am I going to get scratches or got a detail missing again?
Like anything that you like ceramic coated or PPF, that's great.
But, but anything that's just like nice paint black, it just looks great.
Even on the, even on the PPF, if you didn't serico the entire PPF, the, the, the biggest
issue out here is the hard water, right?
So you've got spots everywhere.
So if you don't take care of that immediately, you're going to have spots all over your car,
no matter what it is.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I think about it.
Does the wash bay, the wash bay doesn't have filtered water.
Does it?
No.
No.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Actually, might be your next project.
Actually, actually it does.
It does, but it don't work with a shit.
It does.
Yeah.
It just doesn't.
We've been through a number of those machines since we've been here and I don't think we've
found one that we like yet.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, look, you got, I know you got a project for you doing all the air hoses.
I'm curious to see how it turns out.
I'm looking forward to it, man.
I mean, you know, it's going to be extremely easy.
I think the biggest thing that I learned and put in the Hex lights up is that you got to
build everything on the ground before you go up.
Yeah.
And now that, you know, scissor lift that I bought a year ago that I haven't pulled out
of the corner.
Now it comes into play.
So it's perfect.
I got the scissor lift ready to rock back there.
And I've got everything lined out and we're just waiting for the piping this afternoon.
So it should be fun.
Should be fun.
Yeah.
I just don't want to hear it.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It seems pretty good though.
Like everything I've read about this prevo system, I mean, it's pretty rock solid.
So I'm going to put it to the test.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
We've used it.
I think we used an atom shop.
And now that I think about it, I think it got used.
Did you guys use it on garage Mahal on any of those builds?
Possibly.
I don't remember.
Maybe it wasn't like you wouldn't have been there because you were more of the destruction
a little less of the construction.
Well, that's true.
But I think maybe you'll enjoy the destruction more than the construction.
But some, I remember it seeing that product or similar product.
I think maybe on that show from back in the day because it's a cool system.
All right.
There's a number of them out there.
And you know, I just, I went with the cleanest looking one and one that didn't leak.
And I just looked at all the reviews and we'll see.
You know, there's no better way to do it than just do it.
So yeah.
I will give you an answer next week.
All right.
We're going to take a quick break and then I'm going to tell you guys about some of the
cool events that were happened this weekend that was, we went to.
So hang on.
We'll be right back.
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So this past weekend was the air water event.
It's the Porsche event that is an extension of Lufka Cult.
Lufka Cult 12 I think is happening later this year in Atlanta, which might give you an excuse
to go to Atlanta again because it's a cool event to go to.
But air water event, obviously, Lufka Cult is air-cooled Porsches and the air water event
is all of it.
This is the fourth year.
It's been at the Orange County Fairgrounds.
Great event.
I think they had something about 9,500 people come out.
There was about 800 different cars on display.
Patrick Long, the race car driver and the Porsche driver.
Patrick Gempsy's co-driver quite often.
These are his events.
He's the co-founder of these events.
Does he work in conjunction with Porsche at all?
Yes.
As a matter of fact, Porsche reached out to me and asked, hey, do you have a vehicle available?
We want the 935 and it's not available, but they wanted it.
People in hell want ice water.
Yeah.
So Porsche is heavily involved as far as I can tell.
They debuted one of their cars out there, the GT3 convertible that we talked about a little while ago.
Manual transmission, very, very cool car.
I asked that because of the Porsche hotel in Atlanta.
Is that where the event is going to be?
Because they have a track and everything out there.
I don't know where Lyft's going to be, but usually it needs a pretty big footprint.
It's kind of like a built out curated event.
So there's a bunch of vehicles that are on display, but you were saying like build a pallet for your compressor.
They'll take like lumber and they'll build like a stand and put a car on it.
And it'll look like something out of the Peterson Museum and build out like almost like they did one in a Walt lumber that we went to is like the first one.
And they used wood to build out these cool displays.
And then Adam and I went to that one and then years later, we showed a car, the Porsche 935, and they did it at Universal Studios Backlot.
So it had the backdrop of all these different things.
So part of the display was like, it was, you know, everything's fake, you know, it's all just movie sets and stuff.
But it was like an old theater, right, like with a marquee above it.
And we took the Porsche 935 and rolled it in front of the marquee.
And then above top, it was like Paul Newman, you know, because his obviously his background in film and in front of the theater and the race car.
And then when you step back 20 feet, you're like, what an amazing photo to get.
So there was a bunch of things like that.
Some were like often like the car Porsches were like up in the grass area heading toward the, the off display.
Yeah, yeah.
So it's kind of a fun curated thing.
So air water is similar to that, not quite as many big displays built.
And now they have one of the areas was sort of aftermarket, you know, stuff like new things coming out for Porsches and the aftermarket or restoration or whatever.
And I ran into our friend Alan from HRE and they debuted a new set of wheels.
Fantastic.
It was on the Porsche and has a little bit of that like Porsche 935 sort of disc to it in the back.
And he was just going through the, the, the, the smallest little details and walking me through some of the things and how complex and how much better they're getting at, at machining these types of wheels and then do into a high polish
and then give it a sort of a satin look to it.
And, and I said, yeah, what does it cost?
He's like, well, this, this is $20,000 because of the amount of time and everything into it, you know, they get, but they get, they sell them.
They do.
And interesting is this speaks to, to their wheel, by the way, there's a lot more than just the HRE wheels that were there.
But speaks to their wheel and how they handle their customers.
And we were talking, Alan and I were talking about this and I go, I go, yeah, yeah, I tell people all the time.
I go like the, the, the good car auction companies, they're more like hospitality companies that sell cars, right?
Because it's all about the experience.
And that's one of the things that HRE has built up is this wonderful customer experience.
And he said so many of his customers are repeat customers.
And it's a boutique shop.
It's something that I don't think is rivaled by any other brand.
I mean, for, for what they've built, like around the brand and around the HRE community and stuff, that part for sure, I think is, is unique to them.
So they're doing a great job there.
The car shows that we've been to down there, you know, I mean, every experience is, is that itself.
It's an experience and customers greatly appreciate that, except especially when they're dropping so much coin on these wheels.
Yeah, they feel though they're part of the part of the family, right?
And, and they feel as though these guys are designing the wheels specifically for them.
And price wise, it may seem that way.
But they do.
I mean, I have nothing bad to say about HRE, man.
They are absolutely fantastic.
And everybody else has just been wonderful throughout.
Well, that's the other thing is like, they're all such good people.
They're all such nice people and stuff as well.
So it was nice to catch up with them.
Wait, I'm going to show you the, here's the picture of the wheels.
See this, this kind of ring in the middle here, that is structural.
And then the front, they do it kind of staggered so the front doesn't have it.
You know, you could get that wheel in the front, but the idea was the rear has the extra ring and then the front doesn't.
Yeah, that's badass.
What a great combo that is.
I, you know, I'm that's a cool looking wheel, right?
Yes, there's no question.
But again, I'm old school and I'd get a smaller wheel.
But look at the price.
Oh my God.
Yeah, well, they only start at $4,050.
For a 19.
You can get up to the 22.
But there's so many people out there that it'll buy.
And that, you know, understand the value of craftsmanship because these guys are fantastic.
They're just the attention to the details is unbelievable.
And see, like I said, I don't, I don't like that big of a wheel on that car.
I just like more of a sidewall.
Yeah, a little more tire on it.
You and Adam are speaking the same language.
He's always looking at, he's like, needs a little more sidewall.
There's a little too big of a wheel needs a little more sidewall.
For many reasons for me, I mean, I'm a curve guy.
Unfortunately, I curve every once in a while.
So you surely don't want to hit him on those freaking wheels.
Right.
The front design and then the back design.
It's badass.
It's a badass.
It's a badass wheel.
They did a great job on it.
It's crazy because this is the car they had there.
Now that I'm looking at the photos on their website, it's like they, they took these all
in-house at their place and then went right to the event because it debuted there.
So it was all done very quickly.
So good job.
I'll be honest with you.
What's really cool about the HRV stuff is obviously, you know, you're trained to where
your eye is looking at the wheel anyway, but I don't even see that car.
You're looking at all this.
Well, I mean, I don't, I'm looking, those wheels grab your eye like nothing else.
I mean, the car is cool as shit.
There's no question about it, but those wheels are grabbing my eye.
They're just beautiful.
Yeah.
Well, they did a great job on that.
So air water event, it's, look, it's, it's great to walk around.
They have a bigger footprint out there.
It wasn't like it was too busy that you couldn't go and see everything you wanted to see.
Several singers were out there.
Guntherworks brought out that, like that final edition speedster.
It's like an Iron Man edition.
The Iron Man component too.
It was like, not quite for me, but the car is insane.
Like what they're doing now.
And those Guntherworks cars are so fast, so much power.
Broad Arrow has an auction on site as well in all Porsche auction.
I think the, the 918 YSEC was the, was the number one seller at just over $4 million.
And then I think it was a roof was like 2 million.
And then they had a couple of singers or like 1.1 to a million.
They've been around that 1 million to 1.1 for a while, which is a great place to be, by the way.
So the air, I'm sorry, the Broad Arrow auction, I think, did about $20 million in total sales,
80 something percent, 84, 87% sell through rate.
It's their most successful all Porsche auction at that event so far.
So air, water has gotten bigger over the years and the Broad Arrow auction at that event has gotten bigger over the years.
Anyway, anyone that is a Porsche fan, I don't know, tickets are like 50 bucks or something.
And it's on a Saturday from 9am to 3.
They had kind of a BMX thing going on out there with Bob Harrow.
He did a jump over a Porsche a long time ago.
So they recreated that just on BMX just to add a little more to that.
By the way, this event, unlike any other event, was just like lots of families and moms and dads and bringing the kids out
and everybody brought their dogs and all the dogs were super good.
And for that fairly reasonable ticket price, you can go and see pretty much any Porsche
you can possibly imagine is going to be there, a handful of racing cars as well.
But if you haven't seen Gunther Works in person or Singers in person
or the latest and greatest of the Kenapa 959, it's all there.
It's all at that event.
That's a cheap entrance.
We had to go down to Orange County, which is a little bit of a drive for us.
So we grabbed the dogs, Tammy and I went.
We went down.
We got the second half of that event.
And then after that, we met up with some friends over at the Matranga collection.
So Bob and Kent Matranga, father and son team.
They are successful entrepreneurs.
I believe their business is concrete.
I don't want to flub it, but I believe their business is making parking garages.
So needless to say, when you go into this collection, the floors are amazing
because they are the concrete specialists.
They build the biggest and best concrete garages.
I know they've done them all over Southern California, Vegas and like massive
like Angel Stadium parking garage, you know, or like the Cosmo or something like that in Vegas.
So they did this really cool thing is so they went to buy a building
and it had a slab of concrete, but they knew they wanted to lay out their cars.
This is probably credit to Chris Brown.
Chris Brown is the car designer that talked about many times.
He's a really, really good guy. He's so nice.
He's the guy that did some 3D printing and stuff for me, designed some stuff for me.
He's the head designer at that collection and he does all the CAD stuff, the 3D printing stuff.
But he's a car designer that went to Art Center.
I think Dave Merrick from Honda and Acura is one of his original instructors who was also at the event.
So it's great to see Dave.
And he was like, hey, the old collection, everything is kind of GM packed.
You had to move a lot of cars around to get them out because they want all their cars to run.
And Bob and Kent, well, they'll go there and like, hey, I'm going to drive this car.
I'm going to take it home for a week or two.
I'm just going to drive this hot rod truck or this Boydster, you know, Roadster or something like that.
So they wanted to lay it out to where you can get the cars in and out.
So they're kind of along the edges and they're like back to back in the middle so you can just pull them apart.
So they bought the building.
There was a nice slab of concrete.
They knew they were going to redo it.
So before they redid it is they wired up outlets and stuff all over and then did another three inch slab where the outlets came through.
So so now you can park the cars all over this place and plug in the battery tenders all over the all over the car.
The first thing you do when you're designing a car.
Yeah.
You start thinking about that.
Yeah.
So there's probably 200 battery tenders and they do have a row of lifts.
Those cars obviously got to pull the one out of the bottom to get the one on the top, but most of everything out there is is accessible now.
So the collection is definitely something that you would love.
It's not brand specific, but it definitely leans into muscle cars, hot rods and and like hot rod trucks.
It is it's cool stuff.
They got some original Boyd cars in there.
They've got and they build cars in house as well as they acquire cars.
They'll go.
They'll be at Bear Jackson.
They may see see something they love.
Cal customs can dig whatever and and buy it and bring it in and and and get it, you know, into the collection.
Oftentimes, you know, SEMA builds and other builds.
They the the clients always like I want this car and I want it now.
And, you know, after a year, you get to be impatient.
So as we know, so many of these hot rods and custom cars, they have to go back several times over their life because even a year is a bit rushed and they don't work correctly.
So the Mantringas, although they have purchased cars over the years, they started to build out their own in-house shop, but it's not for hire.
It's just it's their own in-house shop.
A little like what Adam has with his racing cars, what Leno has and stuff and a couple of other people.
And but they have somebody like Chris Brown, who is a car designer.
They have CAD software there.
He's, you know, a master at that and 3D printing.
And so they'll they'll say, oh, their cars are two, three years to build.
But when they're built, they they drive into a show.
They drive out of a show.
Like they're they've shook them down.
They've dialed them in.
And one of their most famous cars that they they really kind of campaigned was called Brute Force.
I'll bring up some images and stuff and kind of let this go in the background.
But Brute Force, I think one battle of the builders, it won the Barrett Jackson Cup, a number of awards.
And this is something that they built in-house and and really just wanted to get it get it done, get it right.
So anyway, in the background, I just want you to see some of these images.
So I'll let this play as we're talking about it.
So you can see some of the the cars, the boats, but they've got they love their trucks.
They got a number of products.
These are some Boyd Coddington cars, Boyd Coddington Roadsters.
And, you know, he's got a brand new Aston Martin in there.
He's got, you know, a vintage Mercedes in there.
Like there's a, you know, just stuff that they like, they've acquired in there.
This red truck that we were looking at was the first one that Kent Medrango built when he was like 14 and and sold it off.
And then his dad found it again and kind of bought it back as a surprise.
It's completely untouched.
This is the first truck they built together.
Yeah, it's a it's a cool piece.
So I think Ctec Battery Charters did this little video that we're looking at and it shows you some of the collection in there.
But and this is the shop as well.
So seeing what they've been building.
Very cool.
It's cool stuff.
Yeah, it's really, really cool stuff.
And so the the front of this building has this nice entrance area, big kitchen, some look at these muscle cars back there, kitchen area, conference rooms.
And then you get into the main car showroom.
And then in the back is the fully operational shop, a machine shop, paint booth, their mechanics are in there.
That's brute force.
That's their their car that they that won a bunch of awards.
I know they have several cars that won a bunch of awards, but this is this is one of them.
So my buddy, Sean, who's Adam's mechanic, head mechanic, and he's a great fabricator, cut his teeth back in the day when Brad Fanshawe was running Boyd Cottington garage.
He was one of the freelancers like so Jesse James was a young fabricator working for Brad at Boyd.
Chip Foose was there as a young designer.
And Sean was was a freelancer doing some metal work.
And then he went on to Kugel, right?
If you think of Kugel components, the Kugel rear ends and all that stuff.
He was a fabricator there.
But now he was saying, I want to get more into into 3D printing.
And my son, who's I think he's 16 is is interested into it, like learning about 3D printing and learning about the kayak software stuff.
So I said, you should come down.
There's an open house at the Matranga collection and it'll be busy, but it'll be fun.
And Chris was so nice to grab us both and go into his office and just walk us through it.
Like here's here's all the 3D printer machines he's kind of had and how they sort of gotten better over the years and all the different types of materials,
different types of plastics and filament that they uses for it and how he's prototyping stuff.
He made like little like three inch round wheels like we're talking about HRE wheels.
He 3D printed a couple little versions just so they can see in small but see physically see how they want the lip to go on the wheel or how they how concave they wanted before they machined into a giant, you know, an expensive one on set of wheels.
Really, really cool pieces.
A lot of the things that that he's 3D printing that understand was like a little bit easier to do is you grab like a vintage air AC unit and you grab one of their universal kits.
You mount it up underneath the dash and now you need to get the air outlets to the proper vents and by the windshield and whatever and him being of the 3D print like plastic tubing like hard, you know, almost like hard lines.
Doing that kind of stuff was cool to more complex things.
He's completely designed to scratch center console for the car that they're working on.
And there's different pieces of the center console. Some will be fabricated out of aluminum and some will will be polished finish.
Some will be wrapped in a leather and and everything's taken into account so he can't 3D print it as one giant piece.
He doesn't ever printer big enough so he doesn't several pieces how it all fits together.
It has just the right amount of of like relief going this piece will be an aluminum finish and then a butts up against a piece of leather wrapped finish.
So you need a little bit of a lip right to do that, you know, to get around it.
So really, really cool stuff.
So Chris, thanks for the invitation and the tutorial and to the Matranga collection and those guys are going to put this out there.
If you go to Matranga hot rods on Instagram, they are.
It's really cool account to follow. I'll show it to you guys real quick Matranga hot rods.
Cool.
Yeah, cool stuff.
Great collection.
Definitely stuff that you would dig in that collection that are muscle cars their trucks.
You know, from LS engines to full like roots type blower engines.
It's a.
It's a cool place. I'm glad that they opened up their doors and invited us in.
Yeah, they got some great 60s and 70s muscle stuff.
Yeah.
And the best concrete Florence you'll see in any shop.
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to those guys.
But yeah, that's I think that's all I've got for today.
You're going to be wheels up soon off to your events.
Yeah, wheels up soon.
I've got the Cobra interior finally finished last week.
And I'll be putting pictures of that up and got the.
Some more interior stuff done for the.
2500 and hopefully I'll get will baby's ass out here soon so we can put that.
A four speed or five speed in it.
So yeah.
Maybe he's dodging you.
Probably.
Good.
All right guys, we'll be back next week. Thanks so much.
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About this episode
Goldberg walks through designing a Prevost air system for his garage, including shipping costs, pipe lengths, reels, filters, and how he plans to use it for tools, tire work, and even blasting cars outside. The second half shifts to a recap of the Air Water Porsche event in Orange County, with notes on attendance, standout cars, Broad Arrow auction results, and a visit to the Matranga collection, where custom concrete-built storage, in-house fabrication, and 3D printing take center stage.
