A wiring harness is like the car’s electrical “cable bundle.” It connects sensors and computers so the engine can run properly, and if you use parts from different years, the plugs and wire locations may not match.
Repinning is when you take the wires out of a connector and put them into different slots. People do it when the wiring diagram for one year doesn’t match the parts they’re using.
“2.0” means a 2.0-liter engine. They’re comparing it to the 2.4 to show that the wiring isn’t identical across engine variants.
Term
O2 to O4
They’re talking about different year ranges. The wiring harness they bought is meant for one range, but their car uses a different range, so the wires don’t line up.
Term
O2
“O2” in this sentence is just the speaker’s shorthand for a year/version group. They’re saying the harness matches one version, not the one in their car.
The ECU is the engine’s computer. It reads sensor data and tells the engine what to do, like when to inject fuel. If the wiring doesn’t match, the computer can’t control the engine correctly.
Fuel injectors are the parts that spray fuel. They need the right wiring: power and a command signal. If the power wire is connected to the wrong circuit, the injectors won’t work and something else (like the fan) may turn on.
Idling is when the engine is running slowly while the car is stopped. If it can idle normally after wiring changes, it usually means the engine is getting the right signals.
Limp mode is when the car intentionally makes itself less powerful to avoid breaking something. It usually happens when the car finds a problem and wants you to drive gently until it’s fixed.
A straight header is part of the exhaust system near the engine that helps gases flow out more freely. It often changes the sound and can affect how the car feels when you rev it.
Horsepower is a common number people use to compare engines. It’s related to torque and how fast the engine spins, but how the car feels also depends on torque at different RPMs.
A Heim joint is a heavy-duty ball-and-socket style joint used to connect parts in a suspension or steering link. It helps the connected parts move smoothly through angles without binding.
Shift cables are the cables that physically connect the gear lever to the transmission. When they’re set up correctly, moving the shifter moves the transmission into the right gear.
The Acura RSX is a smaller sporty car made by Acura. The podcast mentions transmission and shifter parts, which are parts that help the car change gears. That’s why it shows up in a story about fixing or upgrading the drivetrain.
A fulcrum is the pivot point in the shifter mechanism. If the cable attaches on the wrong side of that pivot, the shifter can end up moving the transmission into the wrong gear.
A cantilever is like a one-sided arm that bends when you push it. They’re talking about adding one so the shifter movement pulls the cable the right direction.
A shift boot is the rubber/cloth cover around the gear shifter. It helps keep the inside of the console clean, and they’re trying to make it cover the new hardware they’re adding.
Billet means a part is made by cutting it out of a solid chunk of metal. People use billet parts when they want something that’s strong and precisely made.
The O2 sensor is a small sensor in the exhaust that checks how much oxygen is coming out. The car uses that info to adjust how much fuel it burns so it runs right and stays within emissions rules.
A tune is basically software changes for the engine. It can help the car run better—especially if you’ve changed parts like the exhaust—because the engine’s computer is re-adjusted to match.
A rotisserie is a special stand that lets a car body be turned around while you work on it. It makes it much easier to sand, blast, prime, and paint evenly.
Blasting is a process where they shoot abrasive material at the car’s body to strip off old paint and rust. It helps create a clean surface so primer and new paint can stick properly.
A fender is the metal panel above the wheel. If it gets bent in a crash, it usually needs to be repaired or replaced because it’s part of the car’s outer body shape.
Bodywork is how you fix the car’s outer sheet metal after it’s been bent or damaged. It usually includes straightening the panel and then smoothing it out so it looks right again.
A spot welder is a machine that joins sheet metal by making small weld “dots” where the panels touch. Body shops use it to attach panels in a way that’s strong and fairly invisible.
Spot welds are the small weld points that hold two metal pieces together. If you’re fixing an older car, you often need to put those weld points back in the right places so the panels stay solid.
Plug welding means you weld through a hole so the two metal layers fuse together underneath. It’s useful when you can’t do the usual spot-weld approach because of access or panel design.
MIG welding is a way of welding metal using a wire that feeds automatically. It also uses gas to keep the weld clean while it cools, which helps it hold together well.
Filler is extra metal added during welding to help the joint fill in and bond properly. Some welding methods add it, while spot welding usually relies on the two sheets being pressed together.
Plug welds are welds that go through a hole in one sheet to attach it to another sheet underneath. If you don’t need those holes, the job can be faster and simpler.
The idea is that instead of building the whole metal shell yourself, you buy the car’s body structure and then focus on the rest of the build. It can save time if you’re starting with the right base.
Term
ballpark body panels
They’re saying the body panels were put on roughly at first. Then they’ll adjust them carefully so the lines and gaps look right.
“Epoxied” means they’re applying an epoxy coating during body repair. It helps protect the metal and gives a good surface for the next steps, like filler and paint.
Aftermarket doors are replacement doors from a non-factory supplier. They don’t always line up perfectly, so the shop may have to adjust and reshape them a bit.
Term
sweeps
“Sweeps” are measuring/checking tools body shops use to see if a panel is uneven. They help them spot high spots before they do the next repair steps.
Hammer-and-dolly is how you reshape sheet metal using a hammer plus a heavy backing tool. They’re saying you can’t do that after epoxy is applied because it won’t hold up the same way.
Epoxy is a protective coating used before final paint. It helps seal the metal so rust doesn’t start and gives the next layers something solid to stick to.
The transmission tunnel is the “hump” in the floor where the drivetrain components run. If the floor is being repaired, that area often gets welded or reshaped.
That’s a 1967 Ford Mustang. Restoring one usually means cleaning the metal (like blasting), fixing damage, and then sealing it quickly so it doesn’t start rusting again.
Concept
flash rust
Flash rust is when bare metal starts rusting again very quickly after it’s cleaned. In humid places, you have to seal it with primer/epoxy right away.
Sanding is used to scuff and level the repaired/primed surface so coatings bond properly. After certain prep steps (like acid wash), sanding helps ensure the surface is ready for the next coating stage.
Coverage means how well the paint coats the surface—whether it’s even and reaches the right areas. It’s part of planning a clean, consistent paint job.
A paint plan is basically the painter’s game plan for how the job will be done. It covers what gets painted and in what order so the final look comes out right.
“Uncorked” sounds like slang in this conversation for being allowed to do the full, unrestricted paint idea. The speaker is basically saying they haven’t had a painter who would go all-in on the job.
The Honda Civic is a very common Honda model that a lot of car enthusiasts like to customize. Here, they’re talking about a Civic show car as an example of the kind of detailed paintwork they’re describing.
Custom paint means the car is painted with a designed pattern instead of the normal factory color. In this case, the design is more complex and extends into areas like the fenders and engine bay.
Masking is how painters protect areas they don’t want to paint—usually with tape and paper/plastic. More complicated paint designs mean more masking time.
A “closed hood show car” is a car you show with the hood shut. The engine area still looks okay if someone opens it, but the main focus is the car’s exterior look.
A “fiberglass box” is a custom-made enclosure made from fiberglass. In this context, it’s likely for the car’s sound system so the speaker fits neatly in the trunk.
West Coast Customs is a well-known custom-car brand/TV vibe. Saying “full West Coast Customs” usually means you’re going for a loud, flashy, show-style build.
Fiberglass matting is a fabric that you soak with resin to make a hard, strong shell. People use it for custom trunk enclosures, but it can be tricky to shape and can come out rough if you don’t do it right.
A vented sub box has a port/opening instead of being sealed. That port helps the sub produce deeper bass, and it can also make the enclosure less likely to crack under stress.
MDF is a type of engineered wood panel that’s commonly used for speaker boxes. It’s popular because it’s sturdy and works well for holding subwoofers without flexing.
The firewall is a wall inside the car that separates the engine area from the inside where you sit. It helps keep the cabin safer and more comfortable.
Term
bash
In this context, “bash” appears to be slang for the front bumper/valance area (the lower front trim). The speaker is describing how the graphic runs under that front section and continues into the cabin.
Scallops are a style of decoration—usually curved, shell-like shapes—painted or applied to the body. People use them to make a truck or car look more custom.
The Volkswagen Bus is a famous older Volkswagen van people often convert into campers. The hosts are talking about a stereo setup in one of these vans.
A CD player is the car stereo that plays music from CDs. Back then, some of these stereos had a removable front panel so thieves couldn’t just grab the radio.
A wrap is a vinyl covering you put over the outside of a car. People use it to change the look, and it can be removed later, but it has to be installed carefully.
Rally stripes are those bold stripes you see on some cars, like a racing-style look. If you’re applying them with vinyl, getting them perfectly straight is tricky.
A 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix is a mid-size American car from the ’90s. The speaker is talking about one they had with a loud sound system and an exhaust setup.
“Two 12s” refers to having two 12-inch subwoofers in the car audio system. The larger cone size generally helps produce deeper bass, and pairing two subs can increase overall output and allow more complex enclosure designs.
A bandpass box is a type of subwoofer enclosure designed to amplify sound strongly within a specific frequency “band.” Compared with simpler sealed or ported boxes, bandpass designs can produce very punchy, loud bass in the targeted range—common in car-audio trunk builds.
A glass pack is a type of aftermarket muffler that uses packing material and a perforated core to create a louder, more aggressive exhaust note. It’s strongly associated with older American car culture because it tends to produce a distinct “raspy” sound compared with quieter mufflers.
Term
hot velour
Velour is a soft fabric used on some car seats and panels. When it gets hot from the sun and you’ve been driving, it can give off a very specific smell and vibe people remember from older cars.
“3.8” means the engine is about 3.8 liters. Bigger displacement usually means more potential for power, and it helps identify which engine the car has.
They mean the exhaust got rusted so badly that it actually broke through. That can make the car louder, smell worse, and eventually stop working properly.
Rockford Fosgate is a company that makes aftermarket car audio gear like amps and speakers. People who build car sound systems often pick it because it’s known for solid, punchy performance.
“2000 watt” sounds like huge power, but in car audio those numbers can be exaggerated. They’re saying the amp was actually closer to about 300 watts in real terms.
AliExpress is a website where you can buy lots of cheap electronics and car parts. They’re comparing the stereo sale stuff to the kind of low-cost, copycat products you’d find there.
A “sweet spot” in car audio is the setup where the amp power, subwoofer size, and speaker matching produce the best balance of loudness and sound quality. It’s often about tuning gain/levels and choosing compatible components so the system doesn’t distort or sound muddy.
The Dodge Neon is a small, affordable car. In the podcast, it’s mentioned alongside other cars with aftermarket audio, meaning people were adding things like speakers and sound systems. That’s why it comes up in a story about car mods.
A “pre-runner” bumper is an off-road style front bumper. It’s the kind of look you see on trucks built for desert driving, even if they’re not full-on rock crawlers.
The Mitsubishi Evo is a fast, turbocharged car that’s known for rally-style performance. The host is talking about how early Evos were exciting enough to get big media attention.
Car and Driver is a well-known car magazine that tests and reviews cars. The host is saying early Evos were so interesting that even big publications were covering them.
They’re talking about car meets—events where people show off their cars and hang out. The point is that it would be cool to show up with a flashy, customized car and have a fun place to eat.
Larry Chen is a car-content creator mentioned in the episode. The host says he makes videos for Hagerty now, connecting older car-media culture to today’s online videos.
The Nissan GT-R is a very fast sports car made by Nissan. The podcast mentions it as something you’d notice in public because it’s a well-known performance model. It comes up because it stands out when you see one in everyday places.
An off-road park is a place built for driving on dirt and rough terrain. It’s meant for vehicles that can handle trails and obstacles off the regular roads.
A C5 Corvette is a specific older generation of the Chevrolet Corvette sports car. It’s the kind of car enthusiasts talk about because it’s fast and fun, and it’s a recognizable “era” of Corvettes.
Term
super loud exhaust
“Super loud exhaust” means the car’s exhaust makes a lot more noise than stock. People do this for the sound, and sometimes it comes with other performance changes too.
The Dodge Charger is a larger car with a sporty style and powerful engine choices. The podcast mentions it in connection with a very loud exhaust, meaning it likely sounded aggressive while driving. That’s why it comes up in a story about what was on the road.
The Cadillac Escalade is a big, luxury SUV. The podcast mentions a newer Escalade with a very loud exhaust, meaning it sounded more aggressive than you’d expect from a typical SUV. It comes up because it’s noticeable when driving.
An immobilizer delete is a way to bypass the anti-theft key check. People do it when the factory system isn’t recognizing the key and the car won’t behave normally.
Re-pinning means rearranging the wires inside the connector so they’re in the right spots. It’s often needed when someone wired something to the wrong pin.
This sensor tells the car how warm the incoming air is. If it’s wrong, the computer may not fuel the engine correctly and you can get warning codes or odd running.
It’s basically a temperature reading the car uses while the engine is idling. If the reading is off or not connected, the car’s computer can behave strangely and may limit how high the engine revs.
A motor swap means putting a different engine into a car than it originally came with. People do it for power or fitment, but the computer and sensors have to be set up correctly or the car can run poorly.
Mass airflow is a sensor that tells the engine how much air is getting sucked in. The car uses that info to decide how much fuel to inject so the engine runs right.
The intake air temperature sensor measures how hot the air is before it goes into the engine. The car uses that to fine-tune fuel so it runs correctly in different weather and driving conditions.
The Honda Accord is a regular everyday car that many people use for commuting and errands. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because someone used a part (a sensor) from an Accord. That kind of car is often chosen because parts are widely available and it’s straightforward to work on.
The intake tube is the pipe that carries air from the front of the car toward the engine. If the tube or its fittings don’t match the sensors you’re using, the car can run poorly or throw codes.
An engine swap means putting a different engine into a car. Because the sensors and wiring are different, you usually have to rework connections so the car’s computer can control the new engine properly.
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You like just roast in the neighbors with Honda sounds now
Hey
So I have been spending the last like a couple weeks like repinning
wiring harnesses
changing things over and repinning connectors because you know this year sensors wired different than this sensor and
The 2.4 has it wired different than the 2.0 and so like I buy these eat I bought these eBay harnesses and
They help a lot because they're nice
Minimal harness that you can kind of tuck in it's not you know like the big OEM
Honda one's got like giant plugs in the engine bay
It's all plastic conduit and it like sits up real high and they just cover it with a giant plastic engine cover
You know one of 11 of them that looks like at the top of an engine, but really it's just a giant piece of plastic
Yeah, so the eBay harness is for an o2 to o4 and
my
engine and ecu are an o5 and
Apparently Honda thought it made sense to reap have all the pins on the not all of them
But like 50% of the pins in different spots on the ecu
That's right, and then because it's a $50 Chinese harness, you know, and they only use like six colors of wire
Sometimes the guys put them in the wrong spots
Fucking sweet, you know, I mean when you're using child labor or whatever they they bound to put the white wire in the wrong spot
Like the whole not but you know it probably is
Yeah, like my fuel injector power like that to power the injectors like just the constant not the signal
Was wired to the electric fan pin, so you turn your key on the electric fan wires would get hot
That's your no injectors
So I've been doing that I have the car firing up I have it idling and
I can rev it to 3,000 rpms
And now I need to figure out why I'm in limp mode or something that I can only get 3,000 rpms out of it
But it's running and idols
So I've got four codes left on the ecu, so I'm picking through them
I
Think I think they're pretty inconsequential because it's like cool and temp
Idol or idol intake air temp. I think is the one that's messed with me now
There's no intake air temp sensor on it plugged in at the moment, so I'm wondering if that's making it think it's just ice-cold out and I don't know
We're gonna affect it or at least if I now throw code, you know, it's throwing a code
It starts it takes like forever it like cranks and cranks and cranks, and then it's like
And it's straight header, so yes, I am I am bombing the neighbors with Honda sounds right now
But uh
That's awesome. That's one of the beautiful things about a cul-de-sac is it's just like an echo chamber for yeah
For you know, we were talking almost a 16080 horsepower
That's double. What was there though? Maybe for real. It's uh, is it about come?
It's about double the car stock was a hundred and like three horsepower
Sure, sure, but only like 40 something foot pounds of torque
It was a single can right yeah, and this one is I think it's a hundred and sixty
stock and then
It's a hundred and twenty or something foot pounds of torque. I don't know. It's over double the torque
So it should make a difference. Oh, yeah
Yeah, it should be a hell of a lot more fun to drive. That's for sure. Yeah, I did find out
I don't know how much I explained to you when I was asking you about your the cantilever
Heim joint pieces you got did I tell you what it was for?
No
So I found out I ordered a
Billet shifter for real cheap from China came with shift cables and all I was like oh sweet
I can just kind of bolt this thing in have a cool looking shifter. It'll be nice and tight
Because the OEM shifters are like in a plastic housing
Yeah, it's like a ball and socket that it's in a plastic housing. So they they're just loose feeling
so I did that and I got it on there and then I found out that
It's for an RSX transmission on the cord and the cord shifter
the
Where it touches the cable is below the fulcrum and on the
RSX it's above the fulcrum
So technically if I go to go in first gear
I have no idea
If I go into first gear on this new shifter of mine, it puts the car in second
So on the front I've got 24 in reverse and on the back I have 13 and five
So I'm gonna build a cantilever just for that one action this the side
But the I'm gonna build a cantilever. So like when you push forward it tips a cantilever that pulls
so
It'll look it'll look kind of a cyberpunk or whatever inside the car, but
That's all right
I was like do I put in the engine bay or do I just have it like right above the center console in front of the shifter
And I was like I think right in front of the shifter
Yeah, I mean if it's the shifter is going to be exposed. Why not?
That section is I'm going to build uh, I'm going to modify a boot to kind of hide like the the bracket
Because I have like a shift boot and I can take the shifter apart and I can put the boot at the low part
So at least there's not like just a hole in the center console
right
That's how most people do it, but I don't really want to go that route. So um
Yeah, I'm going to cover like the the bottom mechanism of it and then have that billet, you know
Rod and all that and the cantilever sticking out. So
Honda boy
What have you been getting into
Um, well speaking of codes I have a few on the Audi now, which I think is just uh
O2 sensor I think is what I have to check for sure, but pretty sure it's just an O2 sensor
And then I don't know I thought my buddy said something about a tune kind of
aces the O2 sensor
I don't know if it's an O2 sensor you get if I can't record it, but
So the fix to it might be a tune
He might just have to do a tune doesn't have an exhaust on it. It has an aftermarket exhaust on it
Yeah, so it could be something with that
Might benefit from a tune
Oh, it's going to
It adds like 50 foot pounds of torque. It's a lot
That's like two Hondas
That's what I'm saying
Ha ha ha
Um, other than that, um, I've been getting like the
67 Mustang we got on the rotisserie here. We got back from blasting. So we had to get that cleaned up
Got some some of the damage fixed not all of the damage fixed
But the majority of the damage fixed in the body, which isn't very very minimal very minimal
um, but um
So you got that primed we're getting the parts ready now
I got the fender the fender was like the worst part of the car and that's what I used those
The sweeps on this last week to get straightened out
So that's sped that up because you're not dicking around getting it kind of straight and then finishing bodywork when you have the straight blocks
So you're not like you're not working backwards to a certain extent. It's really
It's mind blowing that even body shops don't have these because they're not they're very inexpensive for what they do
If you use them every day
There's people that have
Spot welders for sale in town that i'm actually it's actually the thing you know
Hitting them up and low balling them because it's like a pro spot spot welder
The buy shop in town bought that i'm sure has been collecting dust since the day they bought it and you know it was over 10 grand
right
But it says I mean it's just uh
One other thing that I don't need to buy right now
I would hit them so low that it's like
Would be foolish not to buy it, but it doesn't put you out. You know what I mean?
Yeah, I'd have to be
I don't know. I'd have to check it out first probably
Because they're all different
Depends on what it comes with for attachments because you know on these old cars you get into the center of the floor
for spot welds you got to have like
All of the attachment attachments to make it worth its while unless it's convert cheap, you know
But someday
I don't know would be a nice tool to have
Flat faster and plug welding
Oh way faster and cleaner nicer like just in general it's just nicer
Anytime you can take the mig welding away from car building honestly just makes it a cleaner nicer and faster
It's even like the just the consumables to to clean up a mig weld is like
Legitimately almost triple
Because everything else is just softer. So I mean don't get me wrong. I mig weld stuff because it's
The most efficient way to do some things sometimes with the tools I have
but uh, man
Fuck it's kind of messy. Yeah, you think about it consumables wise
The spot welder doesn't have a shielding gas. It doesn't have a filler
Yep, you're not you're not spending time knocking that mig weld down and
some people are
You know mudding them and then mock doing like a mock spot weld in the in like a thin litter of glaze or filler
So if you're doing that anyways, a spot was going to look right inappropriate from the get go
So you're already got your the finishes already there, you know, yeah
And you don't have to drill holes for plug welds. Oh my god. Oh man, actually that we should stop talking about this
It's starting to sound like it makes a ton of sense
Fuck we don't need to go by that thing right now
What does a used spot welder get listed for on marketplace? I thought they had it for like 3,500 bucks
And
I mean, it's probably worth 10, you know, if you were to buy a new one, but is it worth it to me?
not 10
I mean, maybe
You'd have to be putting a lot of floors together
Or a lot of panels together to make that worth it, you know
And to me it's all we're getting a little closer in the industry to to just buying a body and stuff, you know, you're just
It's got to be the right car to to be like we're going to spend a bunch of time on this car
I mean unlike this Mustang right here that's been done over the course of
I mean, it's been in my life longer than my business as it was followed me from my last shop. So I mean, it's like 55
Six years
That car has been in my life and we're just I mean, it's a laundry list of reasons why it's taken this long
You know, that's what jumping you know holding off on it for a while jumping back on it all that bullshit
but
We finally got the front end fit together got a few more small parts just to be able to
Do like a final fit
and then
Because the we put unicides on it and all this shit. It's like we're just talking like
We got it ballpark body panels ballpark
But now we're like fine tuning the outside to where we're
Hopefully going to be comfortable the next month or two to pull it apart start getting it epoxied very for body filler
for body work and whatever there's
Shouldn't be a lot of body work on it, but you know aftermarket stuff those aftermarket doors are
I started holding sweeps up to them and I'm like there's like
huge high spots in the middle of the door
What the hell
so now I'm taking
The sweeps down the side of the car just to
Help generally straighten the car before we even get to epoxy process because
The epoxy we use is
not exactly
It's not like you can hammer and dolly it and it's gonna like
Be structurally intact after that if you're like moving a lot
So in some instances if you're straightening an area, we might need to reprimant a spot, you know if it was after epoxy
So just trying to heal and I made that you know back and forth that was
Trying to keep epoxy over the repairs
Stuff that should have been caught because you didn't have like a sweep
Right, man. It's crazy the the amount of time that it's going to save ahead of body work
Anyway, what else got going on?
um did the
Transmission tunnel and finished up welding the stuff in that's 58 Chevy truck did not a lot of bouncing around but
It's almost like you work to a certain point and
Like we needed a prime to 67 mustang and so we just you know, it's it was came from black from a
Blasting so it's kind of got to get on it right away
Right so to sit around, you know, it's not the middle of summer, but it's still
all 40
Four years 50 humidity in here. It's not the greatest conditions. I like things just sit sit forever
Yeah, you got a pretty tight timeline on that especially here like in florida when my friend was doing that
Yeah
Yeah, it's like you got to get on epoxy right away and you still have to hit stuff with a sand
Well, like that was acid wash
So you still have to sand it like you get it back and then you immediately have to da the whole car and coat it
I just yeah, I just talked to or listen to a podcast. I don't know if we talked about this last time but the guys uh
I think it was type one restorations. They do like I think they started off doing Volkswagen restorations
Oh, that makes sense. They they talked about having a car blasted twice
Um, so they get the car blasted do all the metal repair take the car back get it blasted again, which makes sense
Um, if as long as your budget allows that
so you do that
and then they have it
I never knew this existed, but uh powder coat epoxy
I've never heard of
I mean, I don't know who's standing behind the epoxy, you know, like whose epoxy is it?
You know, it put by it as far as putting a paint job on it. Who's going to stand behind it?
But I've never heard of it before but they have a powder coat epoxy and then because it's pretty hard stuff
They have the whole car dusted dust
Sand blasted after epoch a particle epoxy
So they don't necessarily have to prep in all the areas
You know like
I get that
Man, does that that seems like you're putting a lot of faith in that uh, that sandblasted mechanical like
etching in the epoxy
Because if you're not coating it right away
But my my experience, you know, if it's I guess if it's a powder coating epoxy, it should be hard
It should be hardened
But with our epoxy if we leave something
sanded
And then let it sit for like two months it like case hardens. So it like
skims over and
It's I mean paint could could potentially fall off but because there's not as much of the head issue
So I was like, I don't know man. if you want to let stuff sit around in like
Last prepped epoxy to wait for paint in a year. Like that doesn't that seems kind of nuts, but
I mean, maybe not a year, but
Yeah, it is interesting though. I never even considered like a
epoxy powder coat
right
It seems like people are just trying to like force
an industry like
Like to make the powder coat
Like to carry it on even if it's maybe not the best application for everything like they're just like
I understand like a business trying to do it where they're like, oh, this is the newest thing
It'll help you guys in the body shots. I understand like from the powder coders
perspective and like the company that makes the powder coat but like from from a body shot perspective, I just don't feel like
That is maybe the best
Option long term. I just feel like it raises the possibility for a lot of problems
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's kind of what I thought. I was like who's standing behind it. Like as his ppg's saying like, yeah
Let's throw up some paint down on it and make it it'll stick. Don't worry. I don't know
I mean to a certain extent epoxy is epoxy and it's all kind of a science experiment, but
The idea of of using a reputable paint company is for to like stand have somebody stand next to you with
If there is a problem, you know
Yeah, I could imagine
The customer takes a car and you know six months down the road. The paint's just flying off of the powder epoxy
Yeah, that'd be rough
I mean, I guess they're doing body work on the epoxy
So, I mean, they should be
To a certain extent. I would suspect the outside of the car. They're roughing up, you know
Doing body work on anyway. So it's probably just the jams and bottom side potentially
They were buffing and wet sanding and buffing the bottom side. So I'm sure the whole car was bodyworked anyway
right
Yeah
I don't think I've ever wet sand buffed the bottom of the car not yet
Not you gotta get that riddler stuff
That's what they I think they did they got
They got some awareness that I can't remember anything that was a while back
I um
Have been getting so
I got my big box of paint from paint company that's collaborating with me on the Honda paint job
And
I was talking to the owner of the paint company. It's super crazy. The guy just it's limelined paint supply
Quintin's never heard of it. They're kind of like a do-it-yourselfer brand. They sell paint on amazon. They sell paint on ebay
Um
Barriered entry is like really low. You don't have to go to a paint shop. You can go and pick out
They're more for like custom paint. They don't have a ton of base coat colors. You know, they got like white silver black
I don't even know if they have
I can't remember if they have other colors
But it's probably won't spend a lot of time in it because there's not a lot of money in it
You can just go to get shop line or whatever, you know, the custom column is probably where the good markup is
Yeah, and then they they sell candies. They sell chameleons. They sell, you know, all sorts of stuff like that flake
Um, they're they're more going for like, you know, the at-home custom paint hot rod or a guy
um
But I text the owner
Boom text me back. I mean, I don't think it's ever taken a half an hour for him to text me back
And he'll have like a real conversation with me
Like where I'll text them. I'm a real but no what I mean is like
No, I get it. He's not so busy that he's like just
It would be great if I texted the owner of a company like that and he responded it with an answered my questions
It's a whole another thing for a guy
to sit there and talk
paint plans and coverage and things like that like and
Yeah, he's he says uh
Because I told him I said it's been a while since somebody let me be uncorked on a paint job
And I don't know that I've actually ever done anything
This crazy this large before
sure
I mean your truck's pretty big, but this is probably gonna be crazier. I would suspect my truck is gonna look so tame
It's definitely gonna have
Like mini truck vibes. Have you seen that white Honda Civic show car that's been around for like 15 20 years?
I think but it's white and it's got like
The engine bay is smooth. They don't run a hood
The door jams are all done the hood every so this custom paint
Like comes down the side of it and then like swoops up the fender and goes down into the engine bay and across the engine
I mean
So I'm gonna be doing like this. I'm starting to be nervous. I'm gonna have to be
Take like three days off of work to paint this thing
Probably dude. I mean, that's a lot of masking like just masking. It's like you're stressing me out
Dude, you have no idea
So
But I'm thinking like um, you know my engine bay
You know, I've been doing the whole thing kind of on a budget
I'm building my driveway
So like the engine bay paint is pretty minimalist and I want to do like a show car
But it's probably gonna be like a closed hood show car, you know, if you pop the hood, it's not embarrassing, but it's not like
Crazy, you know what I mean? I'm gonna
I cut the frame out of the inside of the the hood a lot yesterday. So I've got a big smooth canvas
I'll probably do some air brushing up under there
Later down the road
I'll probably just get it in primer for now and then later down the road. I'll
Airbrush it at home in my garage or whatever do something silly
And
But I keep thinking about like, you know, I would like to bring this car to some shows not necessarily
Like trying to win anything just to show off and it's good for the brand for the youtube and whatever and just fun to meet people
Things fun to just talk about it and talk to different people and get different ideas and like oh, shit
I should have done this or what did you do there?
You know, that's kind of cool
I like that
Now I'm starting to get to the point where it's like I'm gonna paint the car and it's gonna get
You know, the jams are pretty close to the color
That it is so I can leave them be but I'm also like
Do I need to end up maybe down the road like at home
Doing the jams in the body color and continuing the paint graphic like wrapped into the jam
Now you're getting nuts
Because the trunk you're I'm gonna have it pop the trunk and in the trunk there's gonna be
You know a fiberglass box that we're going full west coast customs. Pimp my ride style fiberglass box
It's gonna have like, you know, the subwoofer coming out. Oh, yeah
Have you ever done that before?
Yeah, when I was 15
Back when that was
I used fleece
I did one and I didn't know about fleece. So I did like fiberglass matting and it was terrible
It sucks it it flattens out so bad where you try to get like a radius
Yeah
I was using like I think I used to end up using like two inch strips and like when you know
From the speaker opening to the box and just like kept doing the two inch strips like that. It was yeah, it sucked
It sucks a lot
So my first car was a 79 Camaro I paid $400 for
And before I even had my license
I had you pop the trunk and I built two sub boxes that like
From the corners of the trunk the
subs were like
Getting pulled out of the fleece boxes pointing out and then I think I did vented boxes and I'm going to be honest
I think for that style box you should always do vented because
There's just all you're gonna blow your fiberglass apart. Yeah, you got too many materials
Sitting on each other that I feel like if you tried to have it sealed it's you're just gonna cause a failure at some point
Because you got you know your mdf box fiberglass
I've seen guys pack it with fiberglass body filler both sides
That like you got a fucking layer at all because you're usually using like quarter inch mdf
And to have that density full
You're never gonna I mean you use a gallon of freaking body filler
And I think it'll crack out anyway
Uh with 20 years under my belt since then I think what I would do is I would build the box without the back panel
I'd build the fleece side framing like for where it sits into the car and I'd leave the back panel off
I would
fleece it
Then I just resin the fleece on the outside is the easiest way to go and then I would
When that dries I would flip it over and then with the back open
I would fiberglass the inside from the ring to the wood
And then yeah, the fleece kind of has like a sandable coat sand that down. Let's let's kind of what I always assumed it was
Yeah, uh when I did mine I I uh
Fleeced it and then I did one layer of fiberglass because I was a broke kid who know
You know, I mean probably sanded 80% of it off honestly, and then I did you know filler over that
Kitty hair fill a little bit of kitty hair in the big area. Oh, yeah
Yeah, I got long strand because I was hardcore
But uh, this guy like make a speaker box and he got to the kitty hair
Like a short strand kitty hair
And then he like covered it
He must have covered it all in kitty hair and then like took his finger and like dimpled it
So it looked like fucking spikes, but then he just left it in like raw kitty hair
So gross looking like how do you clean that bud?
look like
puke
Yeah
those girls
Yeah, they used to have like stereo competitions and rapids and steve or wisconsin rapids. That was like super interesting
Whose subs are louder
Uh, yeah
All right, i'm gonna send you this civic so you understand what's poisoning me
Boom you've got it on uh instagram
Oh, yeah, sure
Doesn't work
My my webcam sucks for picking up my phone screen
I'll uh try to throw it in on here
So this thing's got like super headlights in it and then they molded all the body work in and the graphic is it's not like
Super complex. It's done really clean and looks nice, but it like goes through the engine bay through the up the firewall and then like
The windshield's there
But the graphic continues right under the bash and spills into the inside of the car the back seats got in the sub boxes
that's cool
I had uh the scallops on my mini truck
They went I had one on the hood that went through the windshield and onto the dashes. I thought it was kind of cool
That is cool
I don't know I I really
the the interior on my
1998 hunt of civic is like
In all intensive purposes mint
So I kind of want to leave it almost like it's just gonna steer it'll have like the steering wheel and the shifter
Sure, and then you know, I think maybe just get like some nice
Fitted floor mats for it
And then just kind of leave it like retro. I want to get I got to find an old cd player that has the screen display
Not like a fold out but like where there's the little tiny display on it
and then uh, you know
I know I saw a premiere one that did the same thing
Sure
It wasn't exactly how that's good. You think somebody actually had like makes one anymore. Nobody makes that, right?
I don't know. I'm gonna start doing research to see if there is like a knockoff version of it because man those
You're buying a 20-something year old pioneer and they're selling for like 350 bucks
I know don't you wish you kept one on the shelf
That's crazy because they're a time capsule
They're selling parts ones for a hundred bucks
You know, I think that some of this is like it's it's coming. It's bringing back like nostalgia
Again, we're talking about nostalgia. It's like I honestly think
You're civic even my Audi there's gonna be a point to where some of these cars just because they simply exist
Are going to be worth something someday
You know more than what they are just like that super thing you sent me where that that super was like
20 years ago was like 45
That's I mean, but that's kind of that's where the market was like
When we looked at that it was like shit. I don't like I could maybe afford a thousand, you know
it wasn't like
at the time
But uh, yeah, it's kind of nuts. I think it's I think all this stuff is gonna come back eventually. It's just a matter of
300 bucks though
There's no way the cd player works. It's had to be mint like brand new in a box
No, they were like just used working condition
See like to me that just seems like a huge risk
To buy it
Does not work at all where you wire it up and it just smokes it
Or it has some different like screen on it that's got some crazy shit on it
I cannot like I'm not going for something weird. Yeah, I I um
Mine has like a you know, I think I think it's a pioneer. It might be a jbc like just a you know
Kind of plain jane. I don't even think you can pull the face off of it
Remember when that was a big thing you pull your face off and put it in the case and put bring it in your pocket
Don't anybody stealing your stuff
I we did a Volkswagen the Volkswagen bus we did that camper bus
she had a
CD player with a face on it and when she dropped it off she took the face with her
It was pretty funny
Like you're leaving your whole ride. You don't really got to take the face of your cd player about whatever
Tab it
Makes it makes you feel good about it
Maybe she just wanted to have a little piece of her car with her
For real it was that because she would come and just like to visit it and like put her hand on the window
Yeah
She's a bug
Yeah
I don't know. I'm trying to figure out like is it going to be weird if I don't have
Like an modified interior like is it okay to have that time capsule interior on the inside?
I think
You should probably leave it right now
I just don't even know what I would want to do with it to make it aftermarket
But I mean you could be you could have the paint job done and you know
I think later on
potentially take it to you know
Just drive it around for a little while and enjoy it and then I think
You could even find something on marketplace like
Honestly, it could be like old haunted haunted interior from some show car or something fucking crazy
Like it's not out of the realm, you know
Or get it to garner enough attention that I can get some like up and coming upholstery guy to go crazy on it
You got to paint you got a paint company on board, you know, what's the seat company next, you know
Well, I'm not even thinking that I'm thinking just like have somebody reupholster it
Sure, that's looking for some attention
Sure
Is that I mean is that
Is that as relevant down there as it seemingly more irrelevant here than it ever has been
Reupholstering. Yeah, it's like it's pretty hard to find anybody
There is a lot of
Or there is I wouldn't shouldn't say a lot in in comparison to most areas. There's a lot of upholstery places here because of boats
That makes a lot of sense and they do custom upholstery for boats constantly because people want diamond plates
They want all the things, you know what I mean, but they're just you know, these people are used to working in
You know a marine vinyl type of generally
But they do all sorts of cool stuff different piping all these things seats for seats, right?
Seats or seats and honestly it might not be bad to have
You know materials that are used to elements just because like the sun and the moisture here. Yeah
But yeah, I don't know. I feel like if you do interior like
Your interior's either got to be like pretty stock
Or it's got to be completely done
Because like if you have like a stock interior and like mines afford a next seat if I if I you plan on driving
If you do is like full cost of material it's going to be harder and to drive it
in my eyes
Yeah, I'm already thinking I'm going to have to after I paint it. I'm going to have to
Try to get a hold of like a ppf company and see if I can get a ppf sponsor where I do like a install video
For like a do it yourself
paint protection film
I've done wraps and stuff. I don't love it, but
Yeah, we used to wrap a lot on boats and
That stuff that just gives me anxiety
It's
You have to go into it just like
screw it
Yeah, I know that's the man. I know I it's hard for me to do that
Yeah, it's like there's like large like rally stripes on cars. They're like
Sometimes those are even harder because you got to keep it straight. I guess that's a different like
but
yeah, that's just
That wrapping stuff that just like I don't it doesn't look like something I would enjoy doing all day
I mean, maybe if a guy talk talk, you know, talk me through some of this stuff, but
It just seems like stressful
Uh, it definitely when we started wrapping boats at my work when uh, because they would buy used boats
and then we'd refurbish them and sell them as
For a recon like a refurbished boat, you know, I mean like a hundred percent gone through and so what happened is they'd buy
Five of the same boat and they didn't want all five be the same
So they do a little bit different interior and then they kind of start doing like wraps down the side of them
And so we're wrapping them and me and this Puerto Rican guy from new york
We're the only ones that had like any exposure to it
So we were doing it and you'd see us like stretch out 20 foot or some 24 feet of wrap across the side of this thing
It's all wrinkly and whatever and then we just start at the front like
Peeling it. It's like you're putting it down. You got big crinkles in it and stuff like and you're just stretching
Heating and stretching and heating
You're stressing me out
You have to just like accept like there's no other way and then you got to figure out where to start
For me, it's like even when uh, they do
Panels on a car with the majority together
I mean almost all the time they're putting, you know, they're wrapping cars or the cars together
Yeah
So like even if you're wrapping a bumper
like for me, it's I have anxiety on where they're cutting and then like
I'm always like like you can't see behind it
So it's just like it's just nuts to me and I know they use like all kinds of different tape and full tapes and all whatever
I've just not exposed to all of it. So it just seems super scary
A good wrap guys that are doing like the super cars and stuff. I think they actually pull bumpers
Because I mean I've seen that on expensive cars you're seeing they're pulling stuff
But like I've also seen expensive cars where they're just yeah, they're pulling handles. They're pulling mirrors. They're doing all that right
but especially with the ppf like the actual paint protection film like
I think on this last armchair expert. I don't feel listen to dex shepherds podcast
But he's like he just bought a gt for gt
And he's like somebody was commenting about oh, you know, you got that for the new for gt
And he's like, yeah, but I had to spend eight grand to get it wrapped in ppf
So he's like kind of shit talking himself. It's like, yeah, I mean if you want to keep it nice
I mean those cars are investments. So I mean if you're not keeping it nice, I think you're doing a disservice to the car
Yeah, I have to like get in a different mode because like I've always like
I am the painter so if I screw up and I always like like to the
To me, I always enjoy like when I see a muscle car at a show a car show and the bottom of the rear quarters caked in rubber
Like I like that that lived in look like it was so nice, but we use it anyways like I like that
so
but
That the Honda paint is almost going to be too much to just let it get hammered like I did my motorcycle. I did like
Other people's motorcycles. I've done my you know
My truck but my truck I drive it right through like pulling stuff and driving through the woods by my house
I'll drag it right through the palmettos, but it's a truck
To a certain extent. I think though if you got like a scratcher at ding you could repair it and then
another custom paint area like yeah, that's how I've always looked at it to me that you really got a
This paint protection film it'll like help from chips
It's not going to help from dense the problem with that. I see down the line is you're going to have to wait
probably like at least
For me, I would think a year before you put paint protection film on that fresh clear
Yeah, my thing is just like any
Where I take it is going to be an hour and a half
And I'm going to drive it because it's a civic it's not you know what I mean
It's not like a trailer queen. So I just feel like and florida's roads are covered and
You know gravel and sand so I'm just like do I really want to just pepper the crap
Yeah, the windshield in my truck that spent 23 years in florida is like the sun hits it and it's like a sandblasted piece of glass
It's crazy, but my friend's like you should clean the window on your truck and I'm like it's clean
It's
Just so peppered like
But so I just don't like at least on the front
I don't want to do
I don't want to just get hammered and then in a year it looks like 10 years old
So I think I should do you know, I'd want to do at least the front clip
Sure
I saw meme it was it was dad. What was paint protection film like in the 90s and then it was just cars with lebra on them
Gonna hold the front end up somehow right
Yeah, and then somebody was like, you know, I arguably the burrata z24 or whatever looked better with the bra on it
26
The burrata's the 26
The 26 uh speaking of that my friend
I was listening and I was trying to be in a good mood on friday or something like that and I was blaring some 2000s hip hop
and
Sending some songs to my friend. I don't remember what it was like. I'm in love with a stripper or
Smack that or something like that. You know, it came out when I was in high school
I send a
screenshot of a pandora showing the song to my friend and I'm like
Takes me back to your grand prix every single time because they had like a 96 grand prix with two
12s in a bandpass box in the trunk and a glass pack
Oh, yeah, and uh, I have the right glass pack that you know exceed, you know, I had the red glass pack
and uh
I said every single time it takes me back to the grand prix this morning
He sends me like a mint conditioned red grand prix like gt or whatever
It had the 31 in it, but it was like it had the smoother body cladding and everything on it
Yeah, yep 170,000 miles on it, but the thing looked mint
That's not very calm. Usually they had 10,000 miles and they were fucking trash
Yeah, the interior is super clean. Like it had that like clamshell looking upholstery
Yeah, and I was like man, you know, the thing is almost sweet enough to consider like
Oh
My god
When you're driving every car like you like it was like the fastest thing in the world, you know
Trying to erase everybody. Oh fuck. I can smell hot 90s Pontiac interior right now. Just thinking about it. Yeah
That like hot velour
Yeah
Most sort of fucking loud too. I don't know why the stock exhausts were like you knew when apanya
One of those grand prix pulled in because it was like, I don't know if it's just the tone or the length of the exhaust
But there we turn them on it like it's fucking this thing got a fucking real exhaust on it
Anyway, I think my brother had one all those 60 revs sixes had like the most god awful sound to him
Yeah
Yeah
Nothing cooler than an american v6
The date the way this is that my friend that does this guy. He's got the two skylines and whatever in tennessee
the way I met him is
one of my
Like friends from my grade or whatever
Was over he was like a redneck truck guy, but he was over helping me work on the camaro 79 and he texts this guy
I
Truck guy's helping with my camaro. Yeah, I mean and uh, you have a mullet
He didn't have a mullet the mullets weren't back in yet, but he had like the long greasy hair like the whole thing was long that like shoulder
Nice
Oh, yeah
Yeah, you know the stubble on the face, but you're leaving it even though it just looks like oh, yeah
It just grows in all white trashy like that. Yeah, it just comes in like ball blonde ball hair, but uh
He texts he texts this guy who was two grades older than us and he was like i'm under a 79 camaro right now
And this guy had
Uh an 84 and 81 camaro at the time
So he he gets the text message and he sends. Where are you?
And he showed up in the grand prix
and then like
I went out and like he was looking at the camaro and then we were
My my redneck friends like oh show them the grand prix, you know in the subs and stuff
And then he started up and like revved the glass pack exhaust on the 3.8. You know not super charged
And I was like, oh you think that's cool. I got a thrush turbo muffler on my jedda. So I revved up my
1991 1.8 liter jedda with a thrush turbo muffler on it because all these cars exhausts
Because in the midwest by that time the exhaust had rotted through and you had to do something
You just put a hot rod muffler on
Thrush or $20 at auto zone
I I think we got all our custom exhaust at fleet farm. Oh hell, yeah
They had a whole aisle of fucking car customized
Dug
Sweet farm fleet farm kicking it
Yep back in the day
It was like the walmart stereo section where everybody would go and you had to at least walk through it
You know see if had anything you
Yeah, and then best buy you'd go and you could hit the button on this amp and that sub. Do you think any of that actually really
translated
I don't know
I know it pissed the rest of this
The store off every time I was like, oh, there's some kid in there again
Yeah, that was nuts
I would spend an hour over there just like I'm gonna see what it sounds like with this rock fosgate amp and this pioneer subwoofer
And then you could pick like six by nines or you know
Six inch speakers too all at the same time. So it was like unlimited combinations of
what you could get
Profit margins must have been huge on car stereos that they were willing to make like a whole dedicated section to do that
remember the
Marathon park stereo sale they used to have
Oh, yeah
Dude, that was a huge thing
That was freaking huge
Yeah, it was like a
Piles of people and you could buy like a they would call it a 2000 watt. I am for like
100 bucks or something like that, but it was actually like a 300 watt amp. Yeah, it was all knockoffs
Yeah, it was like Ali express from today like the Ali Baba stereo
Two audio bond 10 inch subs from there
Those things fucking kicked man. I don't know. I must have had some like sweet spot combination. I had like infinity amp and up
and uh
Those pioneers fucking kicked like people didn't believe that it was just two 10s, which was kind of nuts, but
I had this gigantic box I built for my sunbird
Man, right? It took up like the entire trunk
So it was a huge box
Um, so I mean that must have something to get you to it, but yeah, it was fucking loud
I'm actually I have a sub that
Uh, I got from for free
Can't remember even where I got it, but it's like a little thinner box
I think it's made to go behind the seat of a pickup truck kind of a thing
But I was actually thinking about putting in the Audi
It's more need some more subs needs more bass in there
we were uh dropping my kit off to the dance on friday and uh
We were dropping them off in the minivan, but you know because nobody sees you get dropped off
So you can get dropped off in anything, but we came rolling up and we were listening to t-pain radio on
Pandora so we could get them pumped, you know, and then uh
Usher love in this club was playing which that song has a ton of bass
The van has like
Okay bass, you know
But we were cranking it and I was telling my wife
I was like I can't wait to have a sub in the civic and because I like
At the point in my life where I just don't like every maybe once a week. I would want to listen to something loud with subs
Yeah, most of the time I drive to work with the radio off
Oh my god, what a psychopath
That's what all my co-workers say. They're like, you don't listen to anything
And I'm like, no, it's just quiet just silence, but uh
Yeah, my wife on the other hand she'll bump all the times
I'm like, oh, yeah, you're definitely going to I'm gonna send her working at the high school in the civic with like the subs and the
Neons and everything, you know
Oh
She's driven my truck a couple times
Only once since I actually redid it like maybe we need to fix that but uh, she always parks it like in the front of the school
And uh
The first time she drove my truck
Back when it was just like black and had like the my first generation pre-runner bumper on it and red
Final stripes she parked in the front staff and they the cops ran the plates on it to figure what student parked there
That's funny, but uh
Yeah, I want to send her there with the to have her pull up with the civic and the neons
Man, I think that I think did I send you that uh for april fool somebody had like a
Spoiler with like it looked like
Yeah, dude, I'm like I'm not joking. I think that's a fucking fantastic idea. It actually is a good idea
Like remember when evos came out
Mitsubishi evos they like test your one and some like car and driver and they ate like
It was like one of the 41 of the first ones in the country and they were eating like
Fast food off the wing. I was like, yeah, that's fucking rad and then like to have a spot for you
Like anywhere you go, you're always waiting for setting something down and like at a car meet
You're like buy a cheeseburger and you want to eat it somewhere like that'd be fucking cool
I think that'd be really cool
um
You know, you know speed hunters that used to be like an online magazine
I'm not sure speed hunters was a huge like car culture online magazine when things started going online
Larry Chen he now he does videos for haggardy and stuff like that, but um, he was a big, uh
journalist for them and um
Now he does all of 7-eleven stuff too. He does he does haggardy's youtube
He does videos for haggardy's youtube like car culture videos. He also now does 7-eleven a lot of their um
Because 7-eleven markets to car culture now
They like sell shirts with like car meets on at a 7-eleven and like all sorts of cool stuff
Oh, yeah, dude
They have like 7-eleven hot wheels that are like imports and stuff like that
Yeah
And he does that and a lot of the videos that are like commercials. He produces he'll have like, you know, some
Import gtr or something backed up to the 7-eleven with that's like a $200,000 build
And he'll have like the 7-eleven food products sitting on the spoiler like right in front of the front door
And then the camera like pan around the french fries and stuff dude
So cool
What a great idea though to have
uh
Oh, shit. Let's say it's a heater too loud. Can you hear the heater? I heard it turn on. It's fine. No, okay
um, but yes, what a great idea for a gas station to like
That's gonna only gonna bring in more people like people need gas regardless like
That's to create a culture that that's really fucking cool
We don't really have any 7-elevens around here like at all you have to go to a pretty big city to get one and then
when you get into town, it's like
Some of them are kind of scary to stop to
We only seem to we only have them like on the the coast it seems for because you know, I'm in a small area, but
Um, yeah, they almost like advertised to be like a you know a weekend meetup spot
Sure, doesn't it make sense? It's kind of like the coffee's free at a diner because if you're there long enough, you'll eat something
Doesn't it make you're gonna spend months there regardless
Yeah, if you had a bunch of car kids hanging out in your parking lot at night as long as they're not doing burnouts and
You know causing trouble. They're gonna just keep coming in and spending money
And they're gonna draw their friends in to come in and spend money
Yeah, yeah, no doubt
I don't know
I don't know. What are you gonna do? I thought it was a cool idea
We need a gas station around here that'll do that
It's all about the ones around here you come. I mean
You've been to marshfield you drive around too long. You're getting fucking water. So
I uh, maybe they need to add that to my you know when my empire one day. I'll have like a car car club gas station
All right
So in japan there's like and actually there's a youtuber in germany that does it too, but they these like big companies
That are like car culture type people like liberty walk is a big body kit company in japan
He basically has bought so much property in one area. He's made like his own little town
He's got like an american diner. He's got like, you know, apparel shops
He's got like this whole hangout little town. That's like just full of cars that he built and cars he's building and like
Um, and then there's a guy in germany
There's a guy in germany that's got he's a big youtuber and he's kind of doing the same thing where he's like
building like a hangout
town almost
Where he's got like the diners and like you can go get like
You know cars and burgers and coffee shops and stuff like that
It would be super cool to do like I I kind of want to do like a
Race track someday like it'd be super cool to have like a you know, not like a
Sebring or something like that, but like the drag strips they have is just like such cool. I wouldn't do a drag strip
I wouldn't want something where it's like
People are gonna be dying
But it'd be nice to have like a little off-road park
little, you know, like oh, yeah
and you know some sort of hangout like that and
Uh
Would be cool to have like a gas station there. You know, that was like an actual gas station open
Like during the week or whatever when you're not doing events
Keep it in mind
Right, a lot of youtubers do like uh, they'll have like a little tiny
You know, like they'll have those drive-through coffee shops that are
Not much bigger than like a food truck
those big
we have one in town but
Like there's a guy in town that's trying to start cars and coffee
And everybody there's like people in marshfield trying to figure out where to have it and
I think they settled on having it at a church and bringing in coffee. It's like
It's really not a great idea. Like it's not it's not gonna last because I mean who wants to meet up in a church parking lot
For like car enthusiasts. It doesn't seem like I don't know
It's not you kind of want to be parked where there's traffic to a certain extent and like
You want to be stimulating local economy at the same time because otherwise
Why are you why does anybody want you there?
I don't know
Yeah
Yeah, you want it to feel like a natural car hangout
Yeah, I mean that you got to find the right to be honest. You have to find the right parking lot with a coffee shop next to it
That's all it is. Yeah, so in the center of an open parking lot is no bueno. Yeah pretty lame
Yeah, what they these guys are making they're like
Um, like I said, it's like a food trailer size little building
That's actually like in a parking lot like it's actually like a real building
But it'll have like 22 employees working just mixing coffee. It's a drive-through and they'll have like some sort of car theme
It'll be like, you know turbo
Caffeine or something. You know what I mean? Like the place will have some sort of, you know, corky
Yeah car name
training
I don't know. I think it's fun. I think I think we need more stuff like
That I think there's car guys everywhere and there's always going to be car guys everywhere
Yeah, for sure
Green there's a lot of car guys out there that don't even have a car anymore
They just want to be around them and talk to people about them and shit, right?
I mean, there's a lot of cars in this town. I mean I drove around I got boxed in by a
Corvette like a c5. I think it was a c5 of
Escalade with it a brand new escalade with super loud exhaust and a charger
When I was driving the Audi I've never seen any of these cars
I've seen a bunch of different enthusiast cars like in the last month that I've never seen before
It'd be cool to just get some of these people. I mean not that I want to be friends with everybody, but
It'd be there's a lot of cars around that are pretty fucking cool and it'd be cool to have them all in the same spot
right, I mean our down our downtown car show is like
There's already politics happening with it, which is already pretty exhausting like I just don't even want to be a part of it
I wouldn't
Yeah, it's it's a delicate balance
But yeah, yeah
Right on man, what else, you know anything else
I know that
My hand is in limp mode and I got to figure this out because it rev bombing the 3000 isn't it
I've had um
It's not gonna cut it dude
The funniest thing is like the guy that came and bought the single cam out of my Honda has been saving my butt
And a lot of this stuff like I messaged
I like last I was gonna buy this
So i'm running still the stock honda cord immobilizer
So when you put your key in it reads a chip in your key and tells you your security system or your ecu
Like you can work because we have the proper key. It must be the owner or whatever, right?
Well, I fake wired mine in and I was not getting it and I was having all sorts of problems and
I almost ordered a 200-something dollar immobilizer delete that you can get basically it just
spoofs the ecu into thinking that it's got that and sure
I
Last minute my wife kind of met
She's like maybe asked the guy that came and bought the Honda motor because he was talking Hondas and stuff when he was here
And I was like, all right, I sent him a message and the dude just like hit me up
He's like, oh no, no, you don't have this problem. You need to re-pin this connector. What's going on is this and
Sure sent me like pinouts and like a list of like take this pin out of here
And put it in this one and then when you have that one out
Beautiful this one like he gave me a like work right down the sheet list
Of it and uh that got it. So it was running
But I talked to the guy like almost every day when i'm working on it just because
He's excited to talk Honda and
Like that's that's where I'm at dude. I feel like I'm everybody's on their own island
And it's just like yeah when we get to on the boat and get to talk to somebody. It's like
Yeah, it's it's been a lot of fun like just
You can definitely tell like he's excited to talk about all his stuff
And he answers all my questions because
People like to be the guy that has the knowledge like they've spent all this time researching this stuff and learning this stuff for themselves
And when they get to share it, they're like, it's fun. Like you get you feel good, but um, you don't always get that opportunity
And I'm making sure like I gave him he's got a little youtube. I shouted it out on the channel like
And I make sure to like give him time to talk about his cars like I'm not just asking me questions and then dipping
but
uh
Yeah, he's been big help
He was just I just see he just text me because I text him this morning like
It only revs the 3000 still. Maybe it's this idle air temp or intake air temperature sensor
It's about the only thing that I don't have hooked up now
That I'm getting a code. I don't know. It's weird, but um, we're getting there. I guess
I don't know. I don't know Honda stuff like
So, uh, if you google like kswap 3000 rpms, it's just full of it. Like it's there must be
It's super common for when people are swapping these motors to get that cut out. So it's just you gotta figure out what is cutting it out for you
That must just be like the standard lint mode
3000 rpms max
Sure, so I can't I can't imagine it's cool in temp
And I can't imagine what's my other one mass airflow could be but the the the harness doesn't even come with a mass airflow
plug like the people just don't run them
or
so
I don't know I'm gonna go through it again. Try to see if I have an intake air temp sensor laying around plug that in
And go there from there I guess
But you used the sensor from the accord at all
I got rid of the accord after I ran it over with my truck
I thought I had the sensor, but it looks like it was never actually even I'm gonna check the wiring harness
I pulled out of the accord and see if it's plugged in
um, because I kept that
But on the intake so normally that goes into your intake tube like so if you have a cold air there's like a little grommet
It sticks in there
There isn't one in there. So either the accord didn't have it or it's still plugged into the harness
So I'm gonna see if it's out there
Go from there, but it's just I think that's one of these things when you start doing you're taking parts from here
and parts from there here and
Doing an engine swap and trying to make everything communicate. You're just gonna have these battles
But hopefully it just means that when it is this all said and done anytime there is an issue
I know the car so well from spending all this time with it that it'll it solutions will be easier later
Yeah, you'll just like brainstorm one night and like, oh, yeah, this is exactly probably works
Yeah, I get that and sir. I mean all these cars have been in my life so fucking long
We'll all know every all of them in and out. All right when they go up the cars for sure
Yep
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About this episode
Honda swap and wiring chaos takes center stage, from repinning harnesses after “The 2.4 has it wired different than the 2.0” to a pinout mistake where “Was wired to the electric fan pin, so you turn your key on the electric fan wires would get hot.” The discussion then jumps to limp-mode troubleshooting, shifter linkage mismatches, and broader DIY fabrication—spot welding vs MIG, epoxy/primer timing, and whether powder-epoxy holds up long-term. The episode also covers custom paint, PPF vs wraps, and car-culture hangout ideas.
Welcome back to the F_cking Cars Podcast, where Ethan and Quintin dive deep into the builds, breakdowns, and bullshit that shape real shop life. Every week we tackle the projects on our lifts, the chaos happening in the automotive world, and the stories that only come from long nights in the garage. From custom fabrication to wild engine swaps, questionable Craigslist finds, and the philosophy behind why we keep doing this to ourselves—nothing is off-limits.
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