Debadging means taking off the brand/model stickers on a car. People do it to make the car look cleaner, but you have to remove the glue carefully so you don’t hurt the paint.
A carbon ceramic brake kit is an upgrade to the car’s brakes using special ceramic rotors. It’s meant to resist heat and fade better when you drive hard or brake repeatedly.
Brembo makes high-performance brake parts. In this case, the host is using Brembo calipers with ceramic brake components.
Car
Honda Type R
Honda’s Type R is a high-performance version of a Honda, built to feel more “race car” than normal models. Here, the host is saying theirs is in the shop getting repainted, usually to fix damage or refresh the look.
The BMW E46 is a specific generation of the BMW 3 Series that a lot of car fans like. The host is talking about brake work on it, which is a normal part of keeping an older enthusiast car running well.
The Honda S2000 is a lightweight Honda sports car known for revving really high and feeling fun to drive. The host is describing shop work on it—an exhaust setup (including a header) and suspension/brake work.
A header is an exhaust component that collects exhaust gases from the engine and routes them into the rest of the exhaust system. Aftermarket headers are often used to improve exhaust flow and can change the engine’s sound and sometimes its power characteristics.
Upper control arms are suspension parts that connect the wheel to the car. If they’re worn or you’re upgrading the suspension, replacing them can help the wheels sit and move correctly for better handling.
An intake is the path air takes to get into the engine. Mugen is a well-known performance brand, and the host is using a Mugen intake to see if it improves how the car breathes without needing to change everything else.
The air box is where the air filter sits and where air is guided before it goes into the engine. Changing it can change how the engine feels, so the host is deciding whether the current setup is already good.
“At the wheels” means the power measured on a dyno after the drivetrain has done its job. It’s a practical number because it shows what the tires are actually getting.
A stroker kit is a modification that makes the engine’s internal dimensions change so it can move more air/fuel. It’s often used to make more torque, but it’s not cheap and it has to be done carefully to avoid reliability problems.
Cams are parts inside the engine that control when the valves open and how much they open. Changing them can change where the engine makes power—like making it pull harder at higher RPMs.
A supercharger forces extra air into the engine so it can make more power. The host is saying they pushed their setup too hard with a Vortex supercharger and learned from it.
“Shaving the fenders” means removing material from the fender edges to create clearance. It’s commonly done when wheels/tires sit wider or sit closer to the body than stock.
An ozone machine makes ozone gas that can help eliminate stubborn smells. It’s usually used when the car is empty, because the gas isn’t safe to breathe.
“Causticness” means how aggressively a chemical can burn or damage things. The host is basically saying they tested how strong it is and how long it would take to cause damage.
Term
overnight
Using a chemical “overnight” is a practical way to test worst-case exposure time—leaving it on a surface long enough to see whether it causes discoloration, corrosion, or other damage. In this segment, the host is considering whether extended contact time would be safe for a car interior or materials.
TE37s are a popular brand/model of aftermarket wheels. People like them because they’re strong and relatively light, and they give the car a classic enthusiast style.
“SR3” refers to Recaro’s SR3 seat model, which is a motorsport-style bucket seat. The host is planning to swap to these seats to improve driver support and reduce weight compared to many stock seats.
Term
defenders
They’re talking about trimming the parts around the wheel so the new wheels/tires don’t rub. It’s a common mod when you change wheel fitment.
A B18C swap means putting a different Honda engine (the B18C) into the car. People do it to make the car faster and easier to tune than the stock setup.
Wheel horsepower is how much power the car actually delivers to the wheels. It’s usually measured on a dyno, and it’s a practical number for comparing builds.
CSL XO is likely a spray-on or wipe-on protective product used when detailing a car. People use it to help keep the paint and wheels cleaner and easier to wash.
The Tesla Model 3 is an electric car that uses a battery instead of a gas engine. It’s popular partly because it’s modern and has lots of electronics. The episode is talking about adding an exterior accessory and how it was attached.
Double-sided tape is tape with adhesive on both sides. Car people use it to attach parts like trim or lips without drilling holes, but it only works well if the surface is cleaned properly.
A 3M adhesion promoter is a surface-prep chemical used to improve how well an adhesive or coating bonds to a substrate. It’s commonly used before installing trim, protectors, or other bonded parts so the attachment holds up better to heat, moisture, and vibration.
Self-tapping screws cut their own threads as they’re driven in, so you can fasten into plastic or thin metal without pre-tapping. In this segment, the host uses them to secure a plastic piece from underneath, describing it as “bulletproof.”
A lip protector underneath is a sacrificial piece (often plastic or rubber) that helps protect the front lip or lower body trim from scraping. The host connects it to lowering the car—when the car sits closer to the ground, the lip is more likely to hit curbs/ramps and get damaged.
Brand
IND
IND is referenced as a vendor that sells an underneath lip protector. In enthusiast circles, IND commonly supplies aftermarket appearance and protection parts for Honda/Acura platforms.
The Honda Civic Type R is a sporty, track-oriented version of the Civic. Here, the host is talking about upgrading the seats and planning an engine build for their Type R.
The Acura Integra Type R is a sporty, enthusiast-loved version of the Integra. In this segment, it’s part of the seat and car plans the host is considering.
A cold air intake is a modification that helps the engine breathe cooler air. Cooler air can make the engine run better and sometimes adds a bit of power.
Term
B20
“B20” refers to a larger-displacement configuration within Honda’s B-series family, typically achieved by stroker-style changes or specific parts combinations. The host is using it as a target outcome—making their B18 behave like a B20 in terms of displacement.
A waterless, rinseless wash cleans your car using products that loosen dirt without needing a lot of water. It’s often used when you want a quicker clean with less mess and less water.
A wash bay is a specific spot—like a small car-wash area—where you can clean vehicles. It’s useful if you plan to wash cars often or test different cleaning products.
Brand
Ritech door
“Ritech” sounds like the company making the door for the wash bay. The door is important because it needs to work well with a wet, frequently used space.
Front chassis reinforcement is a structural upgrade intended to reduce flex and improve rigidity. On an E46 convertible, added bracing can help the body stay more stable, which can translate into sharper steering feel and better suspension effectiveness.
A rear brace is another chassis-stiffness component that works with front reinforcement to reduce body movement. Together, front and rear bracing can improve how the suspension loads the chassis, especially on a convertible where torsional rigidity is typically lower than a coupe.
Spacers are small parts that move the wheels slightly outward. People use them to fit the wheels better or get the look/clearance they want, but they should be installed correctly.
Company
3DM
3DM sounds like a parts supplier the host is using for suspension-related items. The key point is that they’re providing the specific hardware needed to get the suspension installed.
This sounds like a stand or rack for wheels that can rotate and swivel. It makes it easier to clean and coat the whole wheel evenly without constantly moving it by hand.
Ceramic coating is a protective layer you apply to your car’s paint. It helps keep the paint cleaner and easier to wash because grime and water don’t stick as much.
Obsess Engineering is referenced as the engineering effort behind the planned comparable wheel/detailing solution. In this context, it’s a brand/company name tied to designing and building the tool they want to produce.
“LID5” is a speaker option that uses a five-inch speaker for the main sound and a one-inch tweeter for the high notes. It’s a simpler setup than the three-way LID48.
“LID48” refers to a speaker setup with multiple speaker sizes working together. The idea is that different parts handle different frequencies, so you get more complete sound and usually more volume.
“LID8” is a speaker option with an eight-inch woofer and a one-inch tweeter. It’s meant to produce strong midrange and bass compared with smaller driver sizes.
A “three-way design” in car audio splits the sound spectrum into three frequency ranges, each handled by a different driver type (for example, woofer, mid-bass, and tweeter). This can improve clarity and output because each driver is optimized for its frequency band.
“Amplification” here means the power that makes the speakers play louder and with more control. More channels can mean the system drives each speaker part more effectively.
The TR7 is an older sports car. In this episode, the speaker is talking about a version with a digital display and whether it feels different from another setup. They’re basically saying they don’t notice a difference.
Term
dual SF7004s
They say they’re using two of something called “SF7004s.” It sounds like a specific device or setup, but this snippet doesn’t explain what it is.
“Maxflow M-Pro” sounds like a specific device they’re using to adjust settings on a car. They say it’s set up and ready, but this snippet doesn’t explain exactly what it changes.
“Digital tuning” means using a computer to change how the car’s electronics run. It can adjust things like how the engine responds, usually to improve how the car drives.
Griot’s is a car-detailing brand that sells products and tools for polishing paint. The host is comparing it to another brand for a specific polishing setup size.
Bosch makes power tools, and in this case the host is using Bosch polishers for car paint. They’re planning to polish the whole Tesla Model S with them.
“Dry mode” is a car-wash setting that changes how the system rinses and/or dries the vehicle, typically aiming to reduce water spotting and streaking. In detailing terms, it’s usually meant for cars that aren’t heavily soiled, because it’s not designed to do the heavy lifting of removing grime.
Brand
GTeknik
GTeknik sounds like a car-wash or detailing product/service. The speaker is basically saying one setup might work better than another depending on how dirty the car is.
The Audi R8 is a famous supercar. When someone says “R8 successor,” they mean the next new version that will replace it. It matters because it hints at what Audi will do next with that kind of supercar.
Term
Stormtrooper look
“Stormtrooper look” is just a nickname people use for a sleek, clean, mostly light-colored futuristic style. They’re saying that look looks great on these Teslas.
“Fit and finish” means how neatly things are put together and how nice the materials and details feel. They’re using it to talk about differences in the Tesla interior.
“Drive” and “Park” are the two main modes that tell the car whether it should move or stay locked. They’re talking about where those controls/buttons are located inside the Tesla.
Performance seats are aftermarket (or upgraded) seats meant to keep you more firmly in place when you drive hard. They’re getting new seats installed to improve support.
The Chrysler 300 is a larger, older-school sedan. They’re using it as an example of a car whose seats might feel softer or bulkier compared with Tesla seats.
A dehumidifier is a machine that pulls extra moisture out of the air. In a garage, that can help prevent rust and damp smells, especially when cars are parked for long periods.
PPF is a clear protective film that helps keep your car’s paint from getting chipped. “Temporary PPF” is a removable version meant for shorter-term protection, but it can be tricky to remove without residue.
Track Armor is a brand that makes removable protective film for car paint. The host says it can get messy and may not come off as cleanly as you’d hope.
A digital rear-view mirror is a screen that shows what’s behind you using a camera. Since it’s not a normal mirror, you usually have to add wiring and a rear camera.
Headlights are usually made of plastic, and they can get cloudy over time. If you’re adding a new coating, you have to prep them so the coating bonds properly.
This refers to the BMW M3 in the G80 generation. It’s a fast, sporty BMW sedan, but the speaker says it feels too large for their taste. They’re comparing that experience to a Porsche 911 Carrera T.
This is a special Porsche 911 variant called the Carrera T. It’s meant to feel more focused and less “luxury,” so it’s often chosen by people who want a more engaging drive. Here, the host is weighing it against a BMW M3.
A manual Carrera T refers to the Porsche 911 Carrera T configured with a traditional stick shift instead of an automatic. Enthusiasts often prefer manuals because they give more direct control over engine speed and driving feel, which is part of why this is used as a “dialed-in” upgrade goal in the conversation.
They mean they tried the car long enough to know how it feels for them. After that, they’re saying it probably won’t be something they’ll want again later. In their case, the size is the main issue.
Here, “manuals” means a stick shift. Instead of the car changing gears for you, you do it yourself. The host is saying that later 911 versions stopped offering the stick shift.
“Center lock” sounds like a setting that locks something in a centered position. They’re asking whether you have to set that mode every time you turn the device on, or if it stays set.
“High torque” means the tool can apply more twisting force. They’re talking about a high-torque unit they bought and how it behaves when you turn it on and use its settings.
Slipstream is when one car benefits from the airflow created by another car in front. It can make the car behind feel like it’s working less hard at speed.
The “edge of adhesion” means the tires are basically using all the grip they have. At that point, the car can start to feel less predictable if you push it too hard.
An “aggressive alignment” typically means alignment settings (like camber and toe) are adjusted beyond a conservative, comfort-oriented setup to prioritize steering response and cornering grip. It often trades off some straight-line tire wear or ride comfort for sharper turn-in.
Camber is how much the wheels tilt when viewed from the front. Negative camber tilts the top of the tire inward, and in this case the speaker says using about -2° makes the car feel better in turns.
A “stretch tire” is when a tire is mounted on a wheel width that’s wider than what the tire is designed for, pulling the sidewall taut. Enthusiasts do it for a sharper look and response, but it can reduce sidewall protection and increase the chance of damage if you hit potholes or curbs.
The Toyota GR 86 is a small sports car meant for driving enjoyment. It’s designed to handle well and feel responsive. The podcast mentions it as the choice the speaker is going to get.
A “K20 swap” means putting a Honda K20 engine into a different car. People do it for more power potential and because there are lots of parts available, but it’s a big project.
Milwaukee M12 Surge is a cordless tool. It has different settings for different jobs, and the speaker is saying to use the drill setting when drilling.
Wheel offset is basically how “in” or “out” a wheel sits on the car. That changes how close the tire gets to the fender and suspension parts. Getting it right helps prevent rubbing and makes fitment easier.
A “sidewall” is the vertical rubber section of a tire between the tread and the wheel rim. A “chunkier” (taller) sidewall generally means more tire height, which can help with ride comfort and can also change how the tire clears suspension and fenders. It’s often used when dialing in fitment after changing wheel offset or lowering the car.
That “245 285” is tire width—different sizes on the front and back. Wider tires on the rear can give more grip, but they can also rub if the car is lowered or the wheels sit too far in or out. Fitment depends on clearance everywhere the tire can move.
This is a wider front/rear tire setup than the previous one. Wider tires can improve grip, but they also take up more space and may hit the fender or suspension. That’s why they’re worried about rubbing.
Lucid is an EV brand that makes premium electric cars. The speaker is basically saying Lucid’s cars aren’t the choice for them because they don’t include Tesla’s FSD features. So it’s a “software features” comparison.
The Porsche Taycan is an electric car made for performance and comfort. It’s designed to drive quickly while still being an everyday luxury sedan. The podcast mentions it as the speaker’s favorite option among the electric cars they were considering.
FSD is Tesla’s name for its advanced driver-assist features. It’s software that can help with things like steering and lane driving, depending on the version and regulations. The speaker is saying other EVs don’t offer the same feature set.
Audi is a car brand that also sells electric cars. The speaker is saying that, compared to Tesla, Audi’s EVs don’t have the same FSD driver-assist features. So it doesn’t match what they want.
An electric car runs on electricity stored in a battery instead of gasoline. The host is basically saying they don’t want to switch to that unless it also has the self-driving features they want.
Porsche 911 GT3 Touring is a “less hardcore, more livable” version of the GT3. The host is saying they’d choose that kind of balance over owning multiple cars.
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So Friday, I'm working on the Model S right now.
All right, give me some questions here, people.
I didn't plan for this one.
I was working on taking the debadging,
the test, I got sticky crap all over my fingers.
But Model S needs to get polished and coated.
Wheels are on it.
I'm still waiting on the brakes.
I haven't heard back from unplugged.
Let's see.
I ordered the carbon ceramic kit.
And so they're Brembo caliper and ceramic rotors and pads.
And I haven't seen anything from them.
Just check my tracking file here.
Clearly, they didn't have it, I was aware
they didn't have it in stock.
But yeah, I haven't seen anything from them yet.
So waiting for those to get that part done.
My type R is down at Jose's getting totally dialed
and getting repainted.
And then my friend, I'll be right back.
All right, we go back to live, make sure we're good.
Check, check, check, test, test, test.
All right, we're good.
So nothing drives me crazier
than when you hire somebody to do something
than their drama.
They have to check in and I got this one
test control company and they'd like have to like
survey me and text me and call me and check in.
And just fricking come and spray the bugs.
They don't have to involve me at all.
Charge me double to not ever talk to me.
I told this to my financial advisor.
Yeah, handle it.
Trucks are blocking where I need to park.
Okay, well, tough luck.
There's landscapers there and the pressure washer guy
just pulled in the driveway.
Let's see.
I'm not there.
You have agency to do what you need to do.
I just can't do anything now.
I'm live on a podcast.
It's just landscapers.
This guy is always a fricking mess.
Cool.
Okay, so let's make sure we're going.
Playing.
Alive.
Okay.
Let me know, are we good?
Alive.
Okay.
God dang.
Okay, sorry about that.
Let me pull up my pop out chat.
So anyway, as I was saying, my type R is down getting painted
and my friend crazy Korean on Instagram
found me a full half interior, so the rear half.
And so he's shipping that to me.
Let's see, I got my brakes for my E46 I need to put on.
So the E46 project, I'm gonna dig back into that
as soon as I finish polishing
and getting the model S on the road.
My S2000 is down at LHT.
I'm not on the go here.
My S2000's on LHT, they're building my exhaust right now,
putting the header on.
We did the brakes, suspension, all of that.
At least first round of the suspension.
I ordered a bunch of hardware stuff,
but it's just not available.
So I'm probably gonna find some different,
some different upper control arms.
There's a bunch of companies that make them.
And so my S2000 interior got sent out.
So my S2000 probably be road worthy in the next,
say, I have to wait for the interior to come back.
So end of July, probably same time as my Type R.
So those two cars are kind of coming together.
I have pretty much all the parts and pieces
for the S2000.
Yeah, I don't think there's anything else that I need.
I did get an OE original Mugen intake.
We'll just kind of see.
If I love the air box the way it is,
I'll just leave it alone.
But the car diner to 208 horsepower at the wheels
and it'll probably do somewhere around
high 230s, low 240s.
So the F series, the F22,
John's cracked those open and done stroker kits
and cams and those engines just don't,
they're kind of tuned out.
Like there's not much else you can do
without spending piles and piles of money
and then affecting reliability.
So I learned my lesson on that car
and I went too far with the Vortex Supercharger
on the CR, you know, back what eight years ago.
And I don't want to do that.
You know, I want a naturally aspirated car
with a really cool interior and nice wheels.
So I do have a set of bronze Mugen and black Mugen wheels
and we'll have to shave the fenders
and do all that kind of stuff.
But the, you know, the interior stink,
I think I've got it figured out.
So what I did procedurally, I'll have the video up
probably in the next couple of days,
but I took the seats out, door cards out,
sun visors off, carpeting out.
So we took the entire interior parts center console out.
I took the leathers off of the seats.
So the foam and leathers were separated,
no visible mold or anything like that.
Just a musty mildew smell
that like stunk up the whole building,
like a really powerful scent.
And so I, you know, took that all apart.
And what I did is I had a car capsule
that we need to take some photos of for the website.
And so I opened up the car capsule,
I put the Rainbow 2000, the Ozone machine,
the Rainbow 2000 is designed for like 2,500 square feet.
So I put that machine and I did different cycles.
So I ran the machine.
If you're not familiar, an Ozone machine,
I wasn't familiar.
What it does is it takes in oxygen from the air
and then it does a sort of breaks down the oxygen molecule
and then creates, so oxygen dioxide is what we breathe
and converts it to oxygen trioxide.
And so the oxygen trioxide is Ozone,
which will kill pretty much everything, bacteria related.
It's also pretty caustic from an understanding
it can kind of break down leathers
and really cause plastics to crack.
At least that's the focal or maybe I should try it
and put something in there and see how long it would take
to crack something.
But I ran all the stuff for 60 minutes
and then I let it air out overnight
and then I put it outside in the sun for like four
or five hours and flipped it a couple of times.
And then I brought all those parts and pieces,
put them back in the car capsule,
ran it for another 60 minutes,
put it outside in the air in the sun.
And I did it one more time and put it out in the sun.
Now I haven't extracted or cleaned the carpets yet,
so I'm gonna do that to the carpets.
Then I put the whole car in with the interior out
and ran that for like an hour and a half
to help with the, kind of open the soft top up
like 50% of the way and just let the ozone do its thing,
open the trunk and then I'd like to do the car again
when it comes back.
And then I sent out all the foams.
I was able to get it and I think smelling pretty good.
I sent all the foams out to GT goods
so they're gonna put new leather.
So the old leathers covers are just gonna go in storage
and I'll keep them forever.
Those'll be worth a 5,000 bucks a piece someday
because they're like brand spanking new
and I got all the funk out of it.
And then it'll be kept in a climate controlled area
where eventually all that funk will dissipate, hopefully.
So I did that whole process
and I think that Rainbow 2000 machine,
I think we need to, or at least the different versions
of the Rainbow machine.
I think that the parent company's new air
and it's pretty well built and pretty sweet.
So I think we're gonna bring that in the store.
I found it rather difficult to buy.
Took like three weeks to get.
There's a bunch of janky websites.
Not good photos, not good information.
And really tell you how to use it.
And so I had to kind of fumble through it
and figure it out.
And then we can run some tests and see what is
the actual causticness of it and how much damage,
how long would it take to damage something?
Could you run it overnight in your car
or something like that if you really needed to?
But it made a pretty remarkable difference.
It has like a chlorine type smell
versus a musty, gross smell.
So the S2000, that sort of,
the $20,000 less the car cost me because of that,
I think it was a worthwhile,
cost me like 500 bucks for a machine
and a little bit of time and effort.
And I've got a really, really great car,
that a great example of a car that I think is,
it'll be pretty valuable someday, at least valuable to me.
So I guess I do have an announcement.
I was not in the market, I was out of doing this,
but I had a bunch of alerts set from AutoTrader
and Bring a Trailer and all of that.
And so a really clean EM1SI,
more miles than I like it, 49,000 or 50,000 miles.
But at 99 Civic SI, Electron Blue Pearl,
so the blue popped up and I bought it
was like 36, 37,000 bucks, 37,000 bucks.
And so that's coming Monday.
And then I promise I'm done for a long time.
I've got too many things going on here.
So that car, I'm gonna do some SR3 Ricaros in blue
and I'm gonna find some TE37s in gun metal to put on it.
We'll, you know, we'll shave the defenders on that as well.
I'll do KWV3s.
So I won't do the same thing I did, you know,
when I did the giveaway car,
I'm gonna sort of be quite a bit less money to build this out.
I probably, I don't even know, I'm gonna put a stereo in it.
If I do it, it'll be something really simple,
but I'm gonna do a B18C swap on that again.
And we'll do a little bit more aggressive cams and tuning.
So it'll be target right on 210, you know, 210,
5, 210 wheel horsepower.
So John and I, well, John will build that for me
and I'll do all the different frame braces
and all that stuff to kind of stiffen up the car
and just make it cool.
And then that would just be like a collector for me.
So yeah, that car will be here shortly.
Anyway, let me get to your questions.
You got a bunch of them here.
Let me catch up to you.
Jeff Brown says,
Hey Matt, just picked up a Super 73
and wanted to see which product you recommend I use
to protect the bike frame,
matte wheels, plastic fenders, et cetera.
So Super 73 is the little electric bike.
They're kind of cool.
Ryan had one until it stopped working
and then we just throw it away.
But it, I would just coat it with, you know,
you probably don't need to do CSL XO.
You could probably just do XO or just CSL.
But I mean, for my bike, I would clean it, you know, wash it,
you know, wash it with Decon soap.
I would, you probably don't need to iron, remove or clay it.
I just wash it, wipe it down, let it dry overnight
and then just coat it, you know,
just like I do my bicycles, my mountain bikes and stuff.
So I would coat it with CSL XO
and I would do that on all the matte parts
and the wheels and the whole thing.
So take the wheels off, de-nib the tires.
You don't want to dress those tires,
but yeah, I would clean the tires with,
with the stoners and, or maybe mineral spirits
just to get them deep, deep cleaned
and coat the thing, it'd be awesome.
You know, wipe it down with a racer beforehand.
SK80, Saurus says, for the agile lip on the Model 3,
did you use double-sided tape
and then a couple of screws on the tabs on the underside?
Yeah, mine didn't come with any of the stuff
it was supposed to come with.
It had just one little strip of tape on the, on the top
and I'm like, this can't be right.
So then I found some Korean video.
It was, you know, sort of subtitled Korean video.
And so I bought a bunch of my own VHB tape
and so I taped the same thing they did
that so the extreme corners,
I taped and added two layers of tape on the front.
I bought some 3M adhesion promoter.
So, and make sure that everything was clean.
That polished everything underneath
and make sure there was no coating left.
And then I drove, I didn't have the screws
so I just drove two self-tapping type,
type screws up through the bottom,
right through the plastic and it's bulletproof.
The only problem is I'm scraping that lip crazy.
So if your car is lower, just be prepared.
You're gonna, you know, you're gonna scrape the lip up.
So you might wanna buy that,
what's that stuff that IND sells?
That's the lip protector underneath
because it's gonna get scraped.
Let's see.
So my Civic SI is 1999, electron blue pearl.
It has the factory optioned
or factory dealer installed leather package.
I don't know how that's gonna be.
So what I'm probably gonna do
is leave the leather door cards
and the leather back seat,
which has like a blue insert.
And I'm gonna match and do some sort of fabric,
Recaro SR3s, you know, Civic Type R seats
and Integra Type R seats in it.
And there's, I found some set on eBay
that where they sort of reupholster them
and do new, you know, do new foams in them.
And so I'm gonna try that.
It's like $2,500 bucks or something like that.
We'll do Cold Air Intake,
Bees B18, you know, with cammed, you know, built B18.
We will do,
I wonder if we do a slight stroker
and make it like a B20.
Do like the B18.
I think John said he can make it like a 1.95 liter
or something like that.
So maybe I'll do that.
I don't want a case swap, but I just, I want the B18.
I love the B18.
And so I'm gonna have that in my Type R and my S2000.
I will get a Civic Type R as well if I find the right one.
And then I will probably get a USDM Integra Type R
as well at some point.
Let's see, I'm at to use 3D printers at all.
Nope, never used one.
Don't really have any interest.
Let's see, Christopher Deity says,
I love the North Carolina plan, growing up,
grew up going to cashiers and the roads are awesome.
Cody Helen was cool, any new news on the lots?
Yeah, I decided not to buy the lot.
I talked about this inside the hex.
I want to keep my options open.
What happens if a house pops up?
I'm certain that I'm always gonna be able to go into there
in that community.
And let's say it's three years from now
and I have a couple million bucks in cash
and ready to go build a house
and I had to pay $100,000 more for a lot.
I think the convenience, and who knows,
that's like a 20% chance, right?
High odds, but I just decided not to buy the lot
because I really, really want to build a house here in Florida.
So Michelle and I were kind of going back and forth
on getting the lot and I'd gotten the price
pretty close to what I wanted.
If I could, if I could have stolen the lot
for less than 200 grand, I would have probably
would have bought it, but we were at like,
we settled on $250,000 for the lot 22 that I wanted
and just didn't feel right to put money in.
Then I got to pay HOA and property tax.
The property tax is reasonable.
And then who knows, you know me,
my mind changes like the wind on stuff like that.
So I now know where I want to be.
I have my North Star.
I don't need to put money up in order to do that.
So I'd rather keep that money
and maybe buy some more cars instead.
V-Ray says, what new products are you wanting to try?
That's a good question.
Trying to think of holes in my process here
that I'm looking to fill.
I mean, the new built hammer,
which should be here any minute.
This is a new built hammer, waterless, rinseless wash.
I can't really think of anything else
that's of interest that I'm looking to change.
I've got a lot of detailing coming up.
So maybe ask me that question in the next three months.
A lot of washing, a lot of detailing.
You guys aren't going to buy this,
but part of the reason, and I am like dangerously close,
I just drove up 441 in my Model 3
with no, no, in like 9 a.m. traffic,
hit 15 stop lights with bumper to bumper traffic.
I mean, for here without any FSD.
So I'm getting there.
I went down to Tampa.
I had a little bit of a couple of adrenaline moments
of near panic moments.
When I was going over the bridge that goes over
like the water, you know, it's pretty dicey.
But so I used FSD there,
but and I use FSD on the highway a lot, but man,
it's going to be wash and talk crazy.
Remind me to tell you the sort of where the direction,
so I'll wrap with this at the end of the podcast.
So remind me to talk about the vision,
the plan for what we're doing
and how the channels are going to align and all that stuff.
But I paid the deposit to build the wash bay out back.
The Ritech door deposit's paid.
And so the Ritech door is coming in about five weeks.
And then the outdoor wash bay probably in about eight weeks.
And so I'm going to be, I have all these cars.
I'm going to be driving around all over the place.
So lots of washing, lots of product testing,
lots of chasing process.
And so I'm pretty pumped for the foreseeable future.
And so part of the reason why I bought all these cars
was to garner new audiences and new interests.
And so I'm going to be washing cars crazy.
It's going to be awesome.
So I'll be trying all kinds of stuff.
The S&Fags are always coming in.
We, it's so successful.
We keep ordering like double the previous order
and then they sell out.
So they're always within weeks.
So I just say, just place your order, reserve your spot
and it'll ship as soon as it can.
Mopar 478, I just picked up a 2004 E46 convertible.
When are we going to see more E46 content?
Yeah, I was saying earlier, I've got the Brembo brakes.
I have the Slon front chassis reinforcement to do.
I've got the Slon rear brace to do.
I'm still waiting on my cash or exhaust
and my suspension should be here any day.
Barry was waiting on a couple of spacers
or something like that from 3DM to get my suspension.
So the E46 will be back in the news here,
back on the channel here shortly.
Riccardo Sportster should be done soon.
It's about an eight week delivery.
I think it's been about six weeks.
So I should have seats for it here soon.
So lots, the E46 project will be kind of getting done here
over the course of the next, probably two months.
And then I want to drive it a lot.
Shane Chilton says, hey Matt,
you have a wheel tire holder that pivots swivels
and you use it for detailing and coating
with the ceramic coating.
And the company's no longer in business.
You plan to offer a comparable solution.
Yeah, it's on our very short list to make one.
That was from the source garage.
It was sort of a side hustle.
He was an actual engineer
and he just was taking too much time and energy
for the profitability for him.
And so he'd shut it down.
But it's a really nice product.
I really like using it.
And so we're going to make our own version.
It's on the list with Obsess Engineering.
So we're going to have something like that built here
in the next year or so.
Jeff Jr. says, will you be stocking any parts
of the Active 2.0, especially the water seals?
Yeah, we should have parts.
We can get you whatever you need,
but we should start stocking them soon.
Spencer says, after keeping an eye out for used LAD48s,
I've given up and I think I'm okay
to spend money on the new ones.
What's the difference between the LID5
or PSB options versus the LID48s?
So LID5 is a five inch driver, one inch tweeter.
Then the LID7 is a seven inch driver, one inch tweeter.
The LID8 is an eight inch driver, one inch tweeter.
The LID48 is a three way design.
So it has a three inch woofer.
So it has a mid base driver, one inch tweeter.
And I believe a roughly eight inch woofer.
So the 48s have, and they have an extra channel
of amplification to power that mid base driver.
And so it's just a more complete,
fuller range speaker, which it just has more output.
And so in the LID line, it's I think the best option.
It's what I have in my house in Middleton.
I think it's the best sort of happy medium.
If you do that and the subwoofer to get with it,
I really, really like having that paired with the sub 18s.
The sub 18s also has the DSP profile already set up for it.
And so it's a really, really great combination.
I think it's great.
And I think for that area of your shop,
that you'll fricking love it.
Cause it'll play louder than you can stand,
but most of the time you're gonna listen to it
in reasonable volumes.
Let's see, Yo Kenyar says,
hey Matt, what's the speed queen versions we want
per your recommendation?
So the standard of the old school tub,
the old school version is the TC5 DC5,
but they're the ugliest.
The one that I have with the digital display
is a TR7 DR7.
I don't notice any difference,
even though it technically doesn't have the old,
the old, the Washington tub.
It's, I think it's great.
I have no issues.
It's awesome.
And if you're gonna do a stacker,
the, let's see, it's the SF7004.
So what I'm doing in my laundry room,
so I have the TR7 DR7 in black now,
and I'm doing the dual SF7004s,
one in electric and one in gas,
just because I already have both a gas
and electric hook up there.
Let's see, oh, a super chat here.
Mike, do you have a question?
Oh, thanks.
Just says, you keep me going every day, Maddie, thank you.
Well, I do what I can.
So thanks for the super chat, I appreciate it.
If you have a question, get one down there.
Let's see, any active 3.0 tests?
I know I haven't done it yet.
I have, clearly I don't have a lot of interest, so,
but I do need to test it.
Video coming this week on the,
because we're launching the new M-Pro from,
gosh, why is my brain not working with Maxflow?
So the Maxflow M-Pro with the new digital tuning
is all set up.
And so, I told Ryan I'd wash something this weekend.
I do need to wash my Model 3, so I'm gonna come up here.
I might as well wash it tonight, get that done.
And share with you what's going on with that.
Let's see, Brian's car stuff.
Hey, Mad, I scored a ticket to SEMA on Friday this year,
other than detailing, what other sections
do you recommend besides tools
that is worth exploring in one day of access?
Do you plan to go?
Yep, I'm going.
Yeah, I mean, you wanna go to the top side of South Hall.
That's where all the fun stuff is.
Cabinets, lifts, air compressors,
all the stuff that you would care about.
So, it's the right side of the South Hall
you'd wanna go and spend at least an hour or two there.
You wanna spend a bunch of time in West Hall.
West is where all the detailing stuff is.
Now, you'll also need to go back to Central Hall,
sort of the newer detailing exhibitors
are on the right side, the far side,
of the North Hall as well.
So, because of your limited time,
you wanna skip all the car stereo stuff.
You wanna skip all the Chinese tires,
which is on the bottom side of South.
You'll wanna skip all the bullcrap outside.
I mean, Maguire's and Adams are outside,
but there's nothing to see there.
It's just very retail-y.
And you don't need to go see the Hoonigan booth.
There's nothing cool there.
If you're not there to see goofy cars
and you're there to like see products,
then you're gonna wanna spend all your time,
spend all your time in West.
And then depending on how you like to do things,
like the most important hall for you would be West Hall.
And basically half of West Hall.
And you might even wanna stay closer to there,
like the Fountain Blue.
And I'm gonna do that this year.
I'm gonna stay at the Fountain Blue
instead of where I've been staying, the West Gate,
because the Fountain Blue is attached
right to West Hall, basically.
It's like right next to it.
Let's see, what type and brand of air purifiers
for the home do you prefer?
I've been doing Jasper products, they're expensive.
The secret trick, if you want more than one of them,
just buy it and then it gives you an option in your cart.
You have to buy one on like $400 off.
So you buy one and then you buy the second one.
And they do run some sales like a couple of times a year.
Let's see, Mr. 705, did you see the Audi
started using Sonos as their high-end audio option though?
That's a good sign for Sonos.
Spencer found a U-Set of Core 47s for 3K.
You just don't know and they've been ragged out.
Let's see, Matt, give the people what they want.
Please bring back Richardson hats.
They sit on the head nicer than the new ones, no way.
They're not even close.
I can't even wear a Richardson hat anymore.
It's too stiff, doesn't fit right.
The new hats are so much, our BISPO cats are so much better.
I can't wear anything else besides that.
Let's see, Gabriel says, I got the Liquid Elements T4200
polisher, I really like it.
What about the Liquid Elements 3-inch Polisher,
the T2000, do you plan to carry it?
Have you worked with it?
Or do you, and if so, what was your experience?
So the T2000, I don't think they brought it over here.
So I don't think it's an option.
I don't think it's UL approved.
Let's see, Liquid Elements T2000.
I don't see it available.
So you can't just look at the German site
because not everything has come over here.
So if you want quartered 3-inch,
I'd probably buy the Rupes of the Griots.
If you want to go cordless,
you could do Bosch or America.
I'm gonna be using the Bosch polishers
to polish the entire Model S in the next video.
My second question is what do the new t-shirt designs look like?
I don't have any new t-shirt designs.
In fact, we've eliminated like 90% of the t-shirts
and we've narrowed it down to the ones
that everybody buys and the ones that are the best.
So I don't have anything on the horizon
right now for t-shirts.
Hugh says, looking for a new bike rack,
quick R or one-up, why did you decide to go with the quick R?
I wanted a single bike.
I already have the one-up dual
and I wanted a single bike
and I wanted it to be light as possible for the Tesla.
And so I bought the quick R and it turns out,
so the original engineer for quick,
for one-up left and went and sort of probably did
all the things that he wanted to do on the quick R
and it's better.
So it's a better experience.
So I would recommend it.
I think it's pretty great.
The other one I was looking at was the,
was it Kato or Kiro or I forget which one it is.
But yeah, the quick R is pretty sweet.
Let's see, my experience with O3 is that it works best
when it's drawing in fresh air
and pumping the O3 into the car or capsule or whatever.
Yeah, I was thinking about that.
I put the machine in the car capsule,
but it may be better served.
I wanted to sort of test that out.
It worked well, but I'll test that out in the future
where you have the machine outside
and you just pump it in with some piping.
AI 27 Motorsports says, big fan of tool grid,
but I came across a really clean and new foam system
primarily for aviation from this place
called the Henchman Tools.
Yeah, I've seen them, but I don't like that.
The foam where they waste so much space.
I saw that, like I follow them on Instagram
and they do have this like digital system
that like senses scans when you put stuff in the drawer,
but they're like that typical 3D scan.
You lay your tools on the table and then it creates a foam,
but the foam's kind of, like it just doesn't look like Sonic.
You know, cause Sonic is doing like some serious,
like scanning, re-scanning, CNCing, re-sensing,
trying to make it as efficient as possible.
But when you do that kind of foam stuff,
it's like, it just looks real homemade.
I just don't like it when you just kind of do it
with the tools you have.
Have you heard anything about, from GTeknik,
about their rinse list that's coming soon?
I got to try a sample and it's pretty legit.
Yeah, I mean, I'm just,
I don't know that the market needs another rinse list.
That's why I was a little shocked to see Built Hammer,
but if it's, Built Hammer does something totally different.
So if it's something totally different, maybe it could be cool.
Let's see, RT, Zena, ZG9Qi is the DSC sport controller,
worth it on the 718 came in GT4, or GTS 4.0.
I think it probably is.
Man, I hadn't thought about that.
I need to get one for both of my cars.
I've always put them in all of my GT cars
and they've said in GTS everything,
that always makes a remarkable difference.
So, yeah.
A quick note on the Built Hammer rinse list.
I don't think the dry mode is going to be for you.
It's only for dirty cars used like other rinse lists.
It's very good, but GTeknik might be better.
Interesting.
Let's see, I still love my keys.
Let's see, when are the garage door brackets coming out?
Now I see your version, I hate the ones I have.
You know something I don't know?
Not sure.
Have you seen the new R8 successor?
It definitely looks interesting.
No, I have to look it up.
Also, what do you think about the Ferrari electric?
I don't know, it doesn't occur to me at all.
I don't think about it at all.
It's not interesting.
It's hideous, but almost every Ferrari
that's been made over the last decade is pretty hideous,
other than a few.
Is your first model, is this your first model S?
And how do you like the interior fit, finish, et cetera,
versus the three?
Stormtrooper look always,
Stormtrooper look always looks good or great on them.
Yeah, I really like it.
The only fit and finish like on the 2022,
there's like buttons on the bottom,
like on where the cell phone tray is for like drive and park.
I guess that was the thing in the original Tesla.
They probably got eliminated later that year.
That kind of looks like it's rubbed off.
So I almost need to just grab some like solvent
and just wipe it the rest of the way off.
But yeah, I love it.
I'm taking it down to get the performance seats put in next week.
So I bought those.
It's so funny listening to Tesla people on the forums,
now that I'm on all the Facebook groups,
they're like, the Model 3 seats are so uncomfortable.
Look, what are you talking about?
Maybe they're coming from, I don't know,
Chrysler 300 or something,
where they got some big bubbly bench seat or something.
I don't know.
The seats aren't even remotely uncomfortable.
In fact, I don't really find any seat uncomfortable.
But some people just have a real,
like my ex-business partner at Merrill Lynch
was always complaining about like,
his Honda Accord seats being uncomfortable.
I'm like, I don't understand.
I sat in a seat and like, this feels fine.
You know, I've been fat too.
So maybe not morbidly obese, but pretty chunky.
And I haven't had any problems with any seats.
The only seats I have problems with are ones that I can't fit in.
You know, like the narrow little Japanese seats
or narrow German seats that were car rows that are too tight.
But yeah, I think it's great.
Let's see.
Let's see.
The walking egg.
Hey, Matt, just got laid off due to the company reducing workforce.
And that sucks.
Today is my last day.
Anxiety was high, but trying to remind myself
this could be the start of something better.
Thanks for everything.
Yeah, I think, man, I've never had that happen.
And especially been somewhere a really long time.
That's got to be a brutal.
Now, I've done it to some people, you know,
whether it was at Maryland or here or, you know,
reduced and added or reduced, you know, workforce.
But it never had it happen to me.
And I wouldn't do well with it, I'm certain.
But, I mean, I would use it as an opportunity
to get really creative with what you want your future to look like,
you know, and go out and find something great.
I'd be willing to move.
I'd be willing to sell it all, start over.
I mean, if I can give you any piece of advice,
it's to get like when I actually, I take it back.
I got fricking fired from wealth management for gosh, thanks.
I forgot about that.
I didn't get laid off, but they, you know, were suing me
and I owed hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So yeah, shoot, never mind.
I may even had it worse than you because I was getting sued.
And I was in legal trouble because of the potential
of me doing something illegal by me making videos
and not getting approval for it.
So, you know, and then I lost my license
and I lost my livelihood and I lost all my designations
and the whole thing.
I lost my whole thing.
Shoot, I didn't think about that.
And it was great.
I mean, look at how good I'm doing now.
It's awesome.
I'm driving down 441 with no MST.
So, and I've got the, the fitness bug back now.
I'm struggling with that.
I want to get down to that 195,
but I don't want to give up performance
because I'm starting to get fit.
So, um, yeah, I would,
I would leverage this as an opportunity to figure out,
what do I like?
What am I good at?
Can I put those two things together and figure out a way
to where I want to show up to wherever I show up to
and whatever I'm doing, that it's lucrative.
It's, um, so it, I make a lot.
I want to work a lot, uh, and go get after it.
And don't fricking chase, you know, lifestyle, you know,
to me, I wouldn't want to,
you know, sell myself short.
I wouldn't want to, um,
to not live up to my potential by searching for something
where I could, you know, whether it was,
maybe I could work from home and only work three days a week
or something.
Screw that.
I don't work seven days a week.
How can I find a job where I would want to work
seven days a week instead of finding a job
that would allow me to only work three days a week
or work from, from some, some convenience factor.
You don't want convenience.
You want options.
Um, and you want, you know,
you want it to feel like you're doing something that,
uh, um, you could do 16 hours a day,
uh, because you can't shut it off.
I mean, that's my hope for everybody.
Okay.
Highly recommend, um, ADS tire cleaner.
Meh.
Meh.
I think ShineSplies is better.
Um,
uh, there's a bunch of great tire cleaners.
That, uh, car post stuff works great,
but you got to use a half a gallon of it with, um,
in a stupid foamer, which is hard to cover your tires.
Um, ordered some press all from here in Miami.
Just wanted to say thanks for fast shipping.
Yep.
We try to ship it as fast as we can.
Any updates on the OGFU?
Uh, I'll have some updates, um,
the guys from, uh, AR are coming down later this month.
I'm going to shoot some videos.
Uh, question was, are you off all medications?
Yes.
100%.
So the only medication I was taking was Velocidone
and I'd gotten up to 20 milligrams.
And then I sort of settled in at 10.
Uh, and now I'm at zero for about, uh,
I've been off for about a week and I feel fricking great.
It didn't have a lot of side effect for me.
Didn't have any like drowsiness or weight gain or anything like that,
but I just don't want to be on stuff if I can help it.
So I feel like I've made another breakthrough here
and, um, the ability to start, you know,
challenging the thought that what if thought when I get to certain stop lights
and, and so now if I can have a nice, you know,
clean period for the next, you know,
couple of weeks and I'm going to start driving on my other cars.
Um, it's going to be great.
I'm going to get that dream.
Remember my dream was I could just come and drive a different car every day.
I'm like, I'm going to get it.
Um, what dehumidifier for a three car garage would you choose?
Um, let's see the major dehumidifier companies.
Let's see Santa Fe is one of them.
Um, what's the other one was it carrier?
Um, so you just want like, uh,
something to do like 50 pints a day or something like that.
One of those like supplemental dehumidifiers that would supplement your HVAC system.
Um, I used to put them in all my houses, but I haven't put one in this one.
Um, but yeah, you'd, I don't think you want like a wall plugin.
You want like a supplemental one that supplements your HVAC system.
Um, any experience with track armor, temporary PPF.
Yeah, I've used that, um, in the past.
It's pretty gunky and doesn't really do much.
So, um, yeah, I don't think it's very good.
It's kind of hard to get off.
Um, suppose you can just rinse it off,
but it kind of gets stuck in the cracks and crevices if I remember correctly.
So, um, I was all about that early on when I started the YouTube channel
trying to figure out if that was a viable thing,
but it's really not.
It's like you roll it on like a roller and then it hardens up.
Um, let's see.
Uh, Jay Sikorn says understand the new linear fixtures are on order.
Uh, will there be a video giving us a look at them and the installation
before they arrive in the store?
Uh, they'll probably be in the store first because we just put them up
because lots of people were waiting for them.
But yeah, we'll have a whole suite of support for those videos, photos, descriptions,
all that kind of stuff.
Uh, can you buy the plans from the engineer that used to build the tire holder?
Yeah, he had offered to sell me the company.
Um, I used to, I was like selling the vast majority of them,
so I didn't want to pay for my own sales.
Um, so we'll just, we'll design our own.
We, Joe Pichette has a drawing and already has a drawing.
We just have to execute.
Yeah, lots of Chinese tires at SEMA.
Um, have you had any experience with built hammer, fat, newt, not yet?
Um, yes, we are carrying it.
Yes, it's, it'll be on the next container.
I have some coming.
We talked about the scent bags coming back in stock any day.
Um, oh, he was asking about the brackets or the garage door
that attached the ceiling.
When will it come out?
I don't know.
Um, I know we've got it all developed and figured out.
We should have it up on the site soon.
Getting rid of the, uh, the angle, that goofy stuff that they use.
Okay, Matt, I replaced the stock rear view mirror on my Model 3 performance
with the digital rear view mirror from OptiMotion.
Highly recommend.
It's a full HD.
Yeah, but then you got to run out cable through the car.
You got to get power to it.
And you got like another bolt on camera on the back.
If I'm not mistaken, I don't really have a problem with visibility,
but you know, if it had it, I kind of guess it'd be okay.
I don't love the one in the Toyota and it's kind of weird looking.
Um, but I get it.
Um, but I don't, I mean, I'm pretty good at seeing what I need to see.
But, um, I'm sure it would be better.
Hey Matt, how do you prep plastics and headlights when you recoat after two years?
Yeah, I mean, that's a tricky part.
I mean, usually when I recoat, I just, you know, just clean it as good as I can
without polishing it.
And then I just coat over it.
You know, so usually by then it won't reject the new coating.
Uh, it'll usually just kind of wear off.
Uh, and so I found that, you know, generally speaking, you can just reapply.
Uh, Matt, it would be really entertaining watching you do a flip series
where you buy a cheap car, dial it in, do whatever mod you think are best and flip.
And I wouldn't do very well with that because I'd spend too much money.
Uh, can you post the link to your outro song again?
Yeah, let me pull it up for you.
Suno.
Log in here, quarter tank.
Uh, let me get the link and put it here.
Uh, where'd my pop-up go?
Put it in here.
Here we go.
Boom.
Uh, tch, tch.
What's your opinion, meticulous garage?
What's your opinion on the 991.2 Carrera T versus a G80 M3?
Uh, I've dialed in my 25 G80 and thinking within the next few years
of upgrading to a manual Carrera T.
I mean, I would do that in a heartbeat.
Uh, I don't like the G80 though, so, um, I'm not a fair person to ask.
Uh, the G80 is just so big.
You know, the G80 is one of those things like you have to get it out of your system.
For me, it was 30 miles and it was out of my system.
Um, you have to get it, you have to decide if you want it.
But it's one of those cars that I don't think, I don't think you'll like come back to it someday.
You'll, you'll check it off the list.
You've had it.
You've driven it.
You put some miles on it.
I'm sure you've modified it.
You polish it.
You set it up.
And, um, I think that, um, you know, you'll probably be done with it and never come back.
And so a 991.2 Carrera T would be really cool.
Um, the problem with that car is that they sell it like MSRP, which kind of stinks.
Um, but yeah, I mean, I think that's a logical move.
Um, I mean, if you're okay with turbos, you know, I would, if I was going to have one Carrera though, I'd rather have a 991.1.
Uh, and, um, but if you love the tune ability of a Carrera, because you can get a 991.2 Carrera S, you know, because the manuals are available.
It's only, only until 991 or 992.2 where the manuals have gone away.
So, you know, I'd be inclined to look for, um, you know, a 991.1.
And I think the interiors are still fine.
Um, they don't feel dated.
Uh, any plans to sell the OG wash station without the pressure washer?
Yep.
It'll be coming soon.
We'll have all different variants.
And, uh, the walking A, thanks for the advice and the layoff.
Yeah, go get after it, man.
Figure it out.
Use this as an opportunity rather than getting screwed.
Uh, let's see.
Been waiting on Slatwall foam cannon holder.
Is that coming in a shipment soon?
I hope so.
Um, you know, we're dealing with a little bit of kind of Tommy getting his feet under him and really executing.
Um, uh, Matt, Matt Rutledge has stepped in to kind of help with the execution side of, uh, obsessed engineering and the products.
So, you know, uh, when, when I start promoting stuff, it won't be such a long tail to get things done.
We've been having issues that manufacturer can't make it fast enough.
Uh, hey Matt, do any of the Tesla mods mess with self-driving sensor stuff?
Uh, I was thinking of upgrading brakes, ride height would throw off the logic.
Nope.
The only thing is doing the bike rack, like doing the, uh, the thingy off the back, the trailer hitch.
Uh, that's the only thing that messes it up.
It doesn't like that.
Uh, but everything else is fine.
Uh, what's the wall color called for the garage?
It is AC 25.
So AC-25 Benjamin Moore and the color is now called Silver Chain.
You want it in BenLine Flat.
So no need to, you know, could go up to the more expensive paints because then they have a little bit of a sheen to it.
Uh, but you want it to be flat.
Uh, any updates on the new ADS soap collab?
Uh, yeah, we've, I picked the color.
I think the scent is pretty good.
Uh, and I think it's ready for prime time.
So we may launch it here soon.
Um, this is the plan.
I think Bradley's ordering raw materials.
Uh, Shane says, I purchased a high torque from you.
Uh, do you have to, to set it for the center lock each time you power up?
Or does it stay in the mode once you use the menu to get there?
Yeah, mine stays there, should stay on the center lock.
Um, uh, and you just switch it forward and backward.
Uh, so you shouldn't have to adjust it.
Just remember, this is the tricky part on it.
Just hold the button down.
Just keep holding when you, when you're tightening because it'll tighten back off quarter turn.
And you think you like release the trigger and it starts over.
So just keep holding, keep holding till it's completely done.
Uh, when will you be doing a new video on the new OG spec max flow?
Uh, it's, uh, being on the website surprised me.
Yeah, we just launched it today.
Um, I should be making a video tonight or tomorrow.
Uh, do you have a brand preference for garage door sales?
No, I haven't really searched that.
There's our, uh, there's a buddy, crazy Korean who got us hooked up with the, uh, with my interior and sold me.
He's taken a lot of my money buying all kinds of parts from him.
Um, let's see, says my question is, uh, when, when do you want me to come to Florida to dial in the S2000?
Yeah, I think I'll polish that myself, buddy.
Um, let's see, what do you use to put your wand holder on a cement block wall?
I don't like putting wood on the wall.
Yeah, just get tap cons.
Um, go to Home Depot, take your wand holder with you, get a tap con with a washer and, um, mount it that way.
Um, I like to, um, when you, when you, you know, drill out the hole, I like to put tap cons in by hand.
So put it in with a, you know, with a ratchet.
Uh, don't drive it in with an impact because oftentimes you'll spin it and crack the block.
Um, have you tried Kamikaze window coat 2.0?
I have not.
Wonder if it's any good.
Always window coatings, man.
They're all terrible.
I keep coming back to wolves.
The, um, the Angel Wax Exodus, I thought was pretty promising.
You know, it was a mess coming back from, uh, from Helen, uh, from the mountains.
And then I put H2 Go on.
I'm telling you, if a window coating is too coating-y and the water just kind of shoots off, it just doesn't work right.
I don't like that.
If it's too hydrophobic, it sounds counterintuitive, but it doesn't do well.
Um, you know, Matt, any update on the new Krenzler?
There is no new Krenzler that I know of.
So, um, nothing new there.
Uh, King Kong, is the future plan for detailing products to keep searching for the best?
Or are you just going to collab with ADS to get what you want?
No, um, yeah, I just think it's whatever it needs to be.
Um, sometimes, sometimes I'll have, you know, um, like,
this little collaboration with, um, with, uh, Bradley was him, you know.
He, um, you know, he's confident like I am.
He's like, I can freaking make you the best soap you can possibly imagine.
I said, no, you can't.
He said, I bet you I can.
And so he freaking made me one.
And he spent a fortune on it.
And he just threw the kitchen sink at it with, uh, you know, the most expensive raw materials and it turned out insane.
Um, and I think the only reason why we're able to make a better soap was because I don't think anybody in their right mind would spend that much money on the raw materials.
So it's like, it's like $20 a gallon raw cost, you know, to, to, I think it's $14 a gallon raw cost or something crazy like that.
Where a normal soap costs like a dollar or less, you know, for, for a gallon.
So it's like 15 times more expensive.
Uh, and so, um, I think that's why no one's ever done this or, you know, gone to, gone to that, that stretch.
So, um, no, I mean, my ethos has always been, I just want to use what I like the best, um, what I deem to be the best.
And now that's an opinion, um, and it's, it's, it's based on an experience, not just, you know, lack of information.
And I'm sure I'll take some heat of people saying, well, you said, there's a lightening in a bottle, isn't it too hard to get?
And I said, well, I don't know what to tell you.
I told him he couldn't do it and he fricking did it. I like it a lot.
If I tried every soap in the world, no, but I tried a lot of them that does exactly what I wanted to do.
So at times, if that happens, then, um, I'd want to put mine, if it doesn't exist, I'd want to put my name on it and say, Hey, this is mine.
So that would don't get in the situation like I did with GSF or other soaps where I get fricking screwed.
So, um, yeah, I think it's just going to be, um, whatever makes sense.
Oh, sorry, I missed this one. Any thoughts on Adam's slick and slide drying aid?
It's pretty darn slick and doesn't streak at all.
I don't have to get a bottle and try some.
Uh, let's see. I wonder if it's just a slipstream.
Uh, do you like the Model 3 or S more? That's a good question.
Um, I like the Model 3 more.
You know, I like how the Model S looks.
I like the fact that, you know, when you're rolling down the road, it just has presence and it's like long and masculine.
And when I get out of the car, I feel way better.
Like if, if there was a bit of vanity in it and I went to like, uh, you know, it was stepping out of the Model S.
I don't know. I just, it just suits me.
It feels like it's, it's where I am at this stage in life where, you know, you get out of the car.
I don't know. It just feels like me.
The Model 3 feels like, like 30 year old me, you know, or 28 year old me, uh, which I'm kind of chasing, you know, the young me again.
You know, getting fit and tan and I only feel like I'm going to grow some hair back.
Um, actually I've shaved my head even when I was younger.
I just got to keep my head shaved and then you can't tell as much.
But, um, yeah, the presence of the, of the Model S, because I don't care about the, the, the, the both so fast.
It's just untenable, unmanageable.
And I don't like that feeling when the tires are like right at the edge of adhesion.
So I don't, um, I, you know, I don't care that the Model S is so much faster.
It is cool knowing that, hey, no matter who's around, I've got the fastest car, you know, which is kind of an interesting, but that's never been something I was pursuing.
Um, so, but the Model 3 from a driving perspective, especially the way I have it set up, I really, it's really bothering me the stretched look of the tires.
So I'm going to talk to Jimmy, um, from Signature and I'm going to probably sell these wheels, which are perfectly set up for somebody who wants a, you know, like a stock alignment.
It looks incredible.
But I like the more aggressive alignment.
Having negative two degrees of camber in the front has completely transformed how it feels going into a turn.
It doesn't plow through a turn.
Uh, so it's made it more nimble, but the stretch tire and I had to run, I have to run some spacers on the front.
Makes me want to, I want to go to a wider, um, uh, even if I had to go with a slightly narrower wheel, um, but I want a wider chunkier sidewall.
Um, are you keeping Ryan's car a secret or still don't know what you're getting him?
No, I know what I'm getting him.
I'm getting him a GR86.
That's what we're going to do.
He doesn't want that, but that's what he's going to get.
So he's going to love it.
Gosh, I wish I could have gotten a $35,000 car.
I guess that car would have been 20 grand when I was his age.
Uh, we talked, I talked about Aaron, um, the pressure washer solution being available as a cabinet only that'll be coming very shortly.
Once we catch up to the production of the ones we sold, then we'll start to offer variants.
Well, you hate me if I K20 swap my 997.2.
That'd be stupid because the 997.2 engine is so much better.
Um, when will you use, let's see, Matthew Dunlop, when should you use the screw mode versus 123 setting on the Milwaukee M12 surge?
It's not screw mode. It's drill mode.
So if you're drilling, you'd want to use the drill.
Um, otherwise you do the 123 setting depending on how much torque you want it.
Let's see.
Pride possession says, how do you expect tire fit fitments set up on your cars?
Is it your own calculation or from factory recommendation?
Yeah.
I mean, you always start with what comes stock, right?
And then work from there.
Uh, and then I'll generally get a level out and measure.
I have one of those like you see on Instagram is like tire, wheel and tire offset measurement thing.
I still haven't used that thing which you put on the hub.
Um, and then I'll, I'll talk to the manufacturer and I'll look at, you know, forum posts or, you know, chat GBT it.
Um, and then try to figure out what works and half the time you get it wrong.
So, or they get it wrong or they don't, they don't get exactly what you want.
And so my model ass is perfect.
The offsets are perfect.
The wheel, the tire, the whole thing is perfect.
I don't have to mess with that at all.
The model three, it's, um, with the alignment that I have that the car should have with how low I am.
Um, I need a chunkier sidewall.
So I just don't know that I'm going to be able to fit in the current offset a, I have a 245 285 combo.
I want to go to a 265 305 combo.
I just don't know if that's going to end up rubbing, but I think I need to just roll the dice and give it a try.
Uh, what do you suggest for something wanting to use a single wash station but has a one and a half inch protruding concrete below the baseboards?
I'm assuming you, uh, I'm assuming using the blocking for the cleat.
Yeah.
So you would, um, find a stud or if you have a concrete wall, you're just going to mount it up above that stem wall.
So, um, you're going to mount it up above the little protrusion on the bottom and it'll hang just fine.
So you'd mount the cleat, put the thing in place, or there's three or two cleats or three cleats and you'd be good to go.
Uh, Jeremy says you should have gotten a Lucid over the Model S.
So you're, you're missing the point here.
If I wanted, if I was going to get the, you know, an electric vehicle that I liked the most, I'd probably get the Taycan.
But none of those cars, the Audi's, the Lucids, none of them have FSD.
That's the whole point.
I don't want to be driving an electric car at all.
Um, but you need, I need FSD.
Otherwise I would get something else.
Otherwise I'd just drive a GT3 everywhere.
I'd sell all my cars and just drive a GT3 Touring.
Um, Matt, what's your go-to phone case?
It's always iPhone.
It's the Woven iPhone case or the Apple case.
Uh, let's see, does that make adding a M12 drill pointless?
No.
Um, the M12 surge doesn't have a chuck.
Uh, and, um, and it doesn't have like different speeds.
It's, it's kind of like a, it can do it, but it's, it's not nearly as good as a drill.
Plus you'd want a hammer drill in your, in your arsenal as well.
So I'd promised I'd tell you about the direction here and I finally figured it out, man.
I finally figured out life direction.
I feel like I've been chasing this ever since I got fired from wealth management.
You know, what's the direction?
What's the path?
It was very clear in the very beginning, get to an end-to-end solution for detailing.
That was the goal.
Get to the entire process and have an end-to-end solution available.
Then it was end-to-end solution for the garage.
And ever since we kind of, you know, I never find the full, you know,
we're always finding new stuff, developing new stuff,
changing out things, improving things.
Um, that's, that's the pursuit.
But that pursuit, we're at the point now where that pursuit is not enough to occupy me,
you know, or occupy the company.
Um, we moved to, you know, I moved too quickly for that or occupy my, my existence.
So, you know, we struggled with for quite some time, the YouTube channel,
the sescarage channel, when I'm sharing, you know, this stuff, podcast would mess it up,
sharing life, um, that would mess it up.
Um, sharing, you know, home stuff that would mess it up.
And all of you guys that are here, like seeing all that different thing, stuff.
Um, I like sharing it, you like seeing it.
Um, but it's, it would nuke the algorithm and nuke the, you know, potential to continue to grow
and to continue to find enough people to, to, you know, sell pressure washers too.
So, um, you know, we've been, you know, kind of struggling a little bit.
You know, what's the channel? We started the garage obsession channel.
Um, we've, you know, kind of bounced around a little bit on what, what, what's what.
Um, and, you know, I had some turnover on some, some humans that work here.
Um, and, you know, attempting to figure out what the path is.
I really wanted to build the design center and, and do, um, do the Middleton showroom.
And the, for the, for the biggest reason in that it was really interesting to me and I can't drive.
I couldn't drive to HQ when I came up with that concept.
HQ studio wasn't even really a thing.
So we're just going to build my studio down in Middleton and have it be a public showroom.
Uh, and then I could at least drive sometimes from my house to there, which is a couple hundred yards.
Uh, and then, um, as we got deeper and into it and closer and closer to executing it.
Um, you know, there's a huge risk there.
I would have made it successful. It would have worked.
I would have made it happen, but I really didn't.
Sorry. I really didn't, um, as I got closer and closer to it, um, it's not exactly who we're designed to be.
Um, I sell to the classes, you know, I sell to, um, the, you know, the, the, the people that can afford a Krenzla, you know, you guys that can afford an AR 635.
Um, and then we develop progressive solutions or a progression, um, to, to satisfy that, you know, different demographics and different age groups and stuff like that.
But my bread and butter is to go to John's garage or Fred's garage, um, and go out there and build, um, build these amazing garages.
I mean, that's what we do best. Um, those have been the best video series we've done.
I think it's the most, um, appropriate thing that we can do.
Um, but I didn't want to do that because it was freaking hard. It's like really hard work.
Um, and so, um, long story short, I've shut down the, the idea of doing the villages and sell to just, you know, to, to regular people and build, um, build just regular, you know, two car garages.
Um, I think we're still going to do tons of that, um, but I'm not going to go and build a retail, you know, and build a design build and an installation division around that.
I've realized if I want to build an installation division, I want to build it around amazing, fun, the best of the best, not a two car garage with big fancy garages.
If I show you like when we showed you Fred's garage, remember the green cabinets?
I mean, then you can apply different aspects of that garage to your, to all of our situation.
I don't have a garage that great. Um, but, um, we can kind of see how everything goes together and get ideas.
Um, you know, Fred had some ideas, we our design team had some ideas, so we got to design it, build it, share it.
Um, and so my future, the Obsessed Garage channel, um, we're going to do, hand select, um, if you want to be in on this, we're going to hand select, um, 30 or 40 garages a year to go out and build.
Um, and, and, um, and our team's going to go out there and install it for probably a lot less than what a, um, what a, what the contractor would install it and they don't even know how to do it.
So the next garage, which we're going down to do next week is in Miami, um, and, uh, Ernie's garage, it's a really amazing setup.
Um, you know, one of everything, you know, maybe even two of some things.
Um, so, you know, flooring, lighting, cabinets, vacuum lifts, you know, Sonic, Lista, you know, the whole deal, air compressor, the whole nine, organizing the drawers, the Sonic tools, the tool grid, the whole thing.
Uh, and so the Obsessed Garage channel is going to be garage after garage, you know, the story of the garage.
So the Obsessed Garage channel is where we're going to show and share, um, the, you know, basically the, the Chip and Joanna Gaines Fixer Upper series where me, Mike, um, and team Chris Gore-Barry are going to get to meet a bunch of other characters.
Uh, I'm going to build an entire team around this.
Uh, and there may be multiple teams, uh, depending on how many garages people want us to do.
Um, and we're going to provide this concierge service where we go and share that, and then we're going to share it on video.
We're also going to collaborate.
I'm going to probably do TJ Hunt's garage, Adam LZ's garage, uh, Tavaresha's garage, Matt Armstrong's garage.
We'll, we'll pick a few celebrities a year or YouTubers to go and collaborate and do their, their space.
Um, and then the Matt Mormon channel is going to become sort of the old, it already is the old Obsessed Garage where I'm doing Washington talks and car modifications.
And, you know, so it's kind of the, the, the lifestyle channel that Obsessed Garage used to be, um, that doesn't work anymore, but I'm okay with that.
Um, and then the Obsessed Garage micro, I don't know what we're going to call it, but the Obsessed Garage how to channel, we're going to call it, we need to call it something different.
So give me some ideas.
What should, what should the how to channel become?
That's where we'll do, you know, so let's say that we're doing Ernie's garage and we're installing the new wash station.
Uh, and there'll be a QR code and a link that pops up on the screen or a video that pops up.
If you wanted to see Tommy, Joe Pechetta, Matt Mormon talking about how to assemble this, um, go here, or if you want to see it in action in the latest Washington talk, it'll take you there.
Uh, and so the Obsessed Garage channel will be the overarching, um, channel where we show, you know, what, the entire garage, everything, detailing, flooring, lighting, cabinets, tools,
product process, the whole thing built and shown in different colors and different shapes and different sizes from all over the world.
Uh, we're going to fly around the country and go and shoot the series.
Um, the goal this year would be to do a dozen before the end of the year and then to be doing 40 or 50 a year.
Um, where we build this a team of people to fly around and go out and do these insane installations and shoot these insane videos.
Um, my friend Tavaresh is sort of helping me tell the story, you know, having our young team learn how to tell my story.
Uh, tell the story of the garage, tell the story of the Testimonial S, tell the story of whatever.
But have a, you know, have it so that we can garner and find more of you, um, that are bought into this whole concept of obsession.
Um, so then the final, you know, the final thing I want to build is the, you know, have a really amazing, you know, 50 part series every year of inside the hex.
If I get this all built, we're already like 90% of the way there.
So to build the villages or to do home products or to do a home theater, um, I was maybe 25% of the way there, 30% of the way there.
And I was attempting to build those, those other businesses.
Um, whereas this, this is what we do. We've already done it. We're already great at it.
I just need to tweak a few things to make it so that the lesson learned, like when I did that MLC project or we did, you know, Fred's garage or John's garage.
Um, you know, I'm carrying, I'm carrying, you know, 30% of the load of doing the work and managing the project.
Um, but also trying to run the company and, and, and manage all of that while I'm away.
Um, and so, um, we're going to have a team to a project manager.
We'll have the, you know, the, the, the Michael, you know, run the team of people to get things done.
Every town we go to, we're going to 1099 hire some, you know, Palmer's electricians and people who, you know, skilled tradesmen to come out and help us execute so we can build a garage in three or four days instead of a week and a half.
Uh, to make that more efficient. Um, and then, um, um, you know, I think there's going to be a lot of people that want that same experience that Fred got or John got.
Or, um, um, um, we, you know, we did the garage up in Ohio. Um, we did, uh, the garage in Virginia Beach, the giveaway garage in the past.
Um, so, you know, like doing, doing the winter corn garage up in Ohio, we had a really good process for what we needed to capture.
Um, and so doing those kind of projects, um, I think, um, is, is what we're destined to do.
So if you're a rich guy and you want to get on the rich guy, uh, Rolodex here, so we're going to have two different pathways.
We're going to have a retail garage design and project garage design.
Uh, Chris Gorber is going to run the whole thing. Uh, and we're going to go out and make some of the most amazing content on garages over and again.
I think that gives us the ability to the Obsessed Garage channel to grow substantially.
People will know what to expect. YouTube will know what to expect. It'll push other people.
I don't care if you're into garages or not, you want to watch the series.
And if YouTube is pushing it out to people, we'll find a bigger audience, which we'll be able to sell more stuff to, um, and grow, you know, grow the business from there.
And then here's the beauty. Um, eventually the, you know, the Obsessed Garage channel, it, you know, it can live without me.
Um, it can continue on, um, because we've built a, you know, built a team and we've built a, you know, a bunch of personalities around, you know, building this garage out.
I kind of become the host, uh, pseudo-host. I think Chris Gorber becomes the host.
And then I'm, you know, kind of like the chip foos on overhaul when I come in and work with, do some special projects.
Uh, and so that'll afford me the ability to, um, you know, to maybe come in a few days into the project instead of having to be sweeping the floors and, and, and, you know, cleaning the baseboards at the end.
I can kind of be more of a, you know, the business owner rather than doing, doing the doing.
So, yeah, I'm pretty pumped about, you know, from a business perspective, how that's going to look, um, going, uh, going forward.
Chris, the plumber says the reason your algorithm isn't performing is because you use Apple products.
That's it. Anyway, I'm, uh, yeah, I'm going back to start working on the Model S and, um, I want to get that thing polished.
And then when the sun goes down and you get something washed out there and, um, yeah.
No, I mean, R1, yes, we cater to the rich. That's what I do.
Um, and so, um, that, that is not everybody's goal in life when you want to get rich, you know, when you want to be successful.
Um, and so those guys have the means to give us the garage to be able to show you what you can do.
And then, um, if you'd stop complaining, maybe you, um, would be one of them do to kind of how the world works.
So the concept here would be to, um, to have an equal exchange in value with those that have the means to lend their garage to make a great video series.
Because each one of those expensive garages has all the simple stuff in it.
It's just a summation of all the simple stuff that adds up to a lot that most people can't do all at once.
But I think most of us could put together if you, you know, your aspiration is to have a garage like I have in Middleton where you have a nice three car garage.
And you, you get the flooring and then you get the lighting and you paint the walls and then you get some flat wall and you put some shelves up and then you get the pressure washer and you get a vacuum cleaner.
It's the same stuff that Ernie's going to have.
It's just that Ernie is so fortunate because he's worked his face off his whole life that he can do it all at once.
And so, um, you know, that's the, that's, that I think is, is also going to be aspirational and we're going to get the Ernie's of the world to tell their story so we can all learn from them.
And that to me, I don't know about you, but, you know, when I turn on, was it house hunters?
They're touring $180,000 houses in Columbus, Ohio.
There's nothing I switch off faster.
But if they were in, you know, in, the Hill Country in Austin, Texas looking at $4 million mansions, I'm super interested.
I actually watch a lot of those videos and learning man.
If I could build a house like that someday, um, you get to see little things like how do they put the laundry room together?
What, you know, where do they spend their money?
You know, what, what sort of tiles that they choose, all that kind of stuff.
Then you can kind of add it up and put it together.
That to me is way more interesting.
And so that's what I'm going to build.
So anyway, I'm out.
I'll see you guys next week.
About this episode
Dialed In Podcast (June 5th, 2026) bounces between shop updates and obsessive car-care. The host waits on a Brembo carbon-ceramic kit for a Tesla Model S, while a Honda Type R is “totally dialed” and repainted. The S2000 gets ozone-based odor remediation and build planning (including an OE Mugen intake and dyno talk). A new 1999 Civic Si Electron Blue Pearl joins the lineup with a B18C swap target near 210 wheel horsepower. Later, they compare Tesla driving feel, detail wash-bay plans, and discuss SEMA hall strategy.
In this episode of Dialed In, Matt shares updates on the growing fleet of project cars, including the Tesla Model S, Honda S2000 build, the E46 M3, and a newly acquired Civic Si. He also talks about overcoming driving anxiety, getting off medication, and reaching a point where he's driving more than he has in over a decade. Plus, Matt dives into the future of Obsessed Garage, upcoming product launches, the new outdoor wash bay project, and the vision that's shaping the next chapter of the company.
