Mitsubishi Man

One thousand cars sir you have a thousand cars I don't think I'd attempt to try this

stunt or we owe this horsepower to Uncle Sam's too big a car like I put my beer belly on

it you can't immediately tell somebody how many cars you have you'll really give those

up in a yuffy something to think about stay on the bar don't go off the bar with your Bronco

1980 Volvo horns what's right man's coolant he's like oh I thought I'd be small it's for a

small car and oh yeah but it's still an automatic transmission they're never gonna be light it's

definitely gonna have to crash starting off with Brad by another car that's the west

internet she knows this is Nigerian oil print I also wish you drove a tan Camry anyways

that's a very horrible podcast content very inside job they love to be driven hard

welcome to our topic how goes it Brad that Andrew how goes it with you it's not bad we're

we're getting there we're getting in the new year we're keeping to our resolution so far to

keep making episodes it's like a week cars that don't run by the end of the year I mean you've got

a few more months so do we can well be fine we'll figure it out I was just being a little

sarcastic because obviously I haven't failed to anything more at this point than that we haven't

bought any new cars that's good not full-size anyway yeah I did find the new color release of

the opening parts matchbox 1990 I think it's a 91 in Japan land Pajero it's all I did by what

small car I bought one recently I saw the they have a cream colored 240 the matchbox one I was

pretty mediocre I think I need that yes we prefer mediocre cars in real life and in scale yeah

I'm actually looking at gender I've got a pile of die cast here I really need to get another case

form put them up on the wall that would really clean up my space down here a bit because that's

what I've been doing is clean up the my office slash hobby room so you know that goes I've been

doing that as well because I'm preparing for the the parents to visit this weekend into next week so

get to make it look like my my car stuff is always organized which I mean actually technically it

is a lot better than it used to be that's for sure so it's not that much work but trying to get

some shelves on the garage and get some more stuff organized and just kind of meeting things up a

little bit because my dad has not seen the garage yet so I'm excited to show him the garage yeah

we're in the other than pictures they're coming out to visit but it's also car week right yeah

they're coming out to visit my mom's coming out for a few days and my dad's staying through the car

week so all the different events that are happening here in the greater Phoenix area over the next

week all based around you know Barrett Jackson obviously but there's a bunch of other little

things going on I know Italian design and racing is doing an event so we're doing that one there's

a couple other small ones the Italian grocers having an event there's a bunch plus all the big

auctions other than Barrett Jackson there's also like I think is it you know what I'm gonna say

which auctions it is because I don't remember some of the higher end like Sotheby's and RM or

whatever but I forget which ones actually have have shows here next next week but what is the

Italian grocer it's an Italian grocery store here in I think it's in Scottsdale okay they do a

of course they call it something and something because everything's cars and coffee right

but they do a I think they call it caffeine and carburetors or something

um they do uh I don't know garlic and garlic and gasoline yeah

unlit and garlic bread um yeah and saline and whatever

well it's it's Italian it's European car focaccia and Ferrari

yeah it's it's a Eurocentric event um but it's not just a bunch of new super cars it

attracts a lot of 50s and 60s and 70s Euro cars so I usually enjoy that event and they're having a

a special event during car week as well over there I would say the name of the Italian grocery

store but it's something Italian grocer and it's a very Italian name and I can't think

too bit top of my head because not like a very English word so it's not like angeles but it's

something like that you know all right that's interesting they're having a special one next

week too but plenty of reports to come next week of all of the fun stuff that happens in

actually probably not the week after we talk about it based on the recording schedule

that actually reminds me so I uh this happened when we were on break

my folks they got re-rendered it's not bad it just didn't work um but yeah I gotta

I was gonna bring you to dad's shop but if he's not there I'll wait till he comes back it's not a

big deal these cars it literally just needs to be painted it's not a big deal it's like a

stuff on your bumper is that all set with insurance and everything now yeah they keep calling me I'm

finally the guy's like I can just send you yeah just send me the check for it that's fine

I will get it fixed I promise I just haven't had a chance yet yeah it's also like it's

middle winter I don't want to drive my other cars if I don't have to because the salt on the ground

and it's it's not like like nothing is broken it's literally just annoying scuff

this woman in uh somebody impressed I hit you yeah so you should have rental car

uh yeah I guess maybe that was the reason why I should have went through the other person's

insurance I don't know I don't have rental car I don't pay for rental car coverage because I have

multiple cars right it's not a big deal I think you can still put a claim in through their side if

you just want to be covered for a rental car but if you can handle it without then that's also fine

I'm sure you and Stephanie can figure out how to use one car for a few days yeah it's not a big

deal um so it's more it's more annoying uh it's just like one more thing to do when you're busy

yeah I understand I understand completely as a person who has had an accident before in his

life it's never a convenient time that's one of those things like that's what I do professionally

only right like I deal with people every day who are dealing with accidents so I constantly

am dealing with people who are irritated upset and annoyed so yeah I mean lucky for me uh like

it was like an impresa so it just it was super low speed bumper to bumper uh traffic and then

I mean I she hit me hard enough I thought the bumper was gonna be off but it was like not

at all and her bumper was way worse but it probably hit behind the bumper once they get it off

yeah yeah yeah but I was just lucky it wasn't an scv because it would have been into the hatch

and that would have been really annoying way more annoying a lot more damage a lot more work a lot

more time yeah so so I got lucky it was a car of similar height and the bumpers actually lined up

and which is not calm acted like because there are so many trucks on the road

acted like five nine on a bumper as they're supposed to act

excellent a lot excellent but excellent they're really taking care of so other than the big down

date uh get right into it Andrew what have you been uh working on

so I went I talked about getting the different jets for the Volvo uh it actually ordered them

I got them in uh they resumed shipping from the the kruppparts.eu so I got new chokes which are not

chokes like you would on a normal carburetor they are in the barrels and they choke down the air

the air flow so so you're basically racing on Talladega with restrictor plates exactly they're

like little tiny restrictors but the way the carbs are set up they came with 30 millimeter ones

which I went through the carbs when I first pulled them out of the box just to make sure that

both sets of jets are the same both ventures are the same both chokes are the same just in case

there's like an issue because it's not impossible I guess that you could get a carb brand new that had

one size jet in one hole in the wrong set in the different sizes in the other hole

so they were all the same and I didn't you know their stuff's expensive I didn't want to

I kind of knew what I wanted from the calculators that they have but I was like let's just get the car

running the way the carbs are out of the box I'll figure it out afterwards um so yeah that's what I did

they have 30 millimeter chokes so it's a these are DCO E40s which means the barrel itself is 40 so

you could you could have a choke that's basically up to 40 mil or very very close to 40 mil anything

I mean if you're needing that's basically the rule like if you need a 40 millimeter choke

or my 45 38 yeah I should go to a DCO 45

but for an engine like this where we didn't do any head work there's no porting it doesn't

have a radical cam I actually went down on the chokes so I went to 28s so slightly smaller

the reason you do that is because of the venturi effect it will actually speed up airflow you'll

get less air but it'll be faster and that should help with vacuum and idle and uh you know low end

torque around town which is why I also went with those manifolds because those are the longest

longest longest intake manifolds I could get for that engine to fit in the engine bay

because having a long you're running close to the fender fender well yeah all's and done right

yep because having a nice and long runner again will give you more torque

because I don't think this engine's gonna get much more out uh it it probably will rev maybe

a five grand or something it's not this is not a race tuned motor it's basically a stock build

but the only other thing being a header so you want good idle and good around town pick up and torque

and that should be plenty for that car so you want something that comes off the line quickly and

nicely but doesn't need to be a race car yeah and it will sit there most enjoyable you don't have to

have it you know because that's the thing you'll see these vintage race cars that have webbers on

them if you go to like a vintage event and they're idling at like 1500 to 2000 rpm because they've

massive jokes on them that's the only way you can make enough vacuum to idle so I don't want that

you know I want this thing to idle at you know 800 to 1000 rpm a nice comfortable street idle so

typically it's like so like changes jets super easy you unscrew that little pot

thing on the top of the webber and you're too you know basically the way I described these

last week it's each carburetor is really two carburetors in one so each cylinder gets a barrel

so you're changing the jet for each barrel and what I'm when I say the jets I'm actually

changing the idle jets I haven't even gotten into the mains because that comes later once you get the

idle uh and because really the way webbers work is there's three progression holes on the other

side of the butterfly so actually on the intake side and as you sit idle it's running off those

progression holes and about like the way people talk about it it's like they're like 60 percent

70 percent of a webber tuning is in the idle because it's really your idle up to mid-range

that you're adjusting with the idle jets and then you don't worry about wide open throttle till

whatever I'll I'll drop that out later out so yeah I got new ones of those according to

kakoyas new emulsion tubes that were the f2s apparently for ethanol gas those swapped over

really easy I started doing the front carb you pull the velocity stack out you pull the venturi

out after you undo there's a little lock screw you undo it there's an air bleed screw uh that

also holds the choke that's closest to the butterfly inside the body of the carb so you

pull that all the way out and usually reach your fingers in there and they're a little bit loose

and they just slide out so I did the first barrel no big deal really really easy like cool this is

what the reason why webbers were designed this way was because they're for racing and you could

do the tuning with the carburetor on the car and all the adjustability right very so uh I go to do

the other barrel in that same carb I take everything apart take the screws out that's

holding everything the choke is stuck in the bore like I don't know why I was like well this is

annoying uh of course when you look over the internet it's like people dealing with old

carbs like you spray carb cleaner in there it's all gummed up and you gotta clean it out and like

looking in there it's like brand new like I've run these carbs twice so I don't know why it's stuck

it's very annoying there's like a little haven't gotten to like a huge heat cycling no especially

as the other side came out exactly as expected uh there's a little knurled piece of brass that's

pressed into the original choke that kind of helps it align down a cut out in the bore

and I'm thinking maybe it got twisted or something kind of maybe it got caught in the aluminum

uh so I was like well that's annoying I'll just move on to the back one and figure that one out

afterwards because I think I have to take this carb off which is annoying so I do the back carb

and I do the right side barrel again comes out perfectly I go to the rear most barrel that's the

left one on the carb it's the same thing it's stuck in there I'm like okay so now it's not something

that I did wrong at some point I'm like this has to be like a manufacturing defect because it's the

same barrel in the same location on each carb but they're both stuck it's just it's just a really

weird like thing knocked in when they're going down the semi-line just when they're doing that

side I don't know they're pretty much pushing them in too hard or something or oh so you didn't

assemble them in there they came pre-assembled they came pre-assembled okay yeah interesting I

haven't touched it from the factory I only took apart when I was saying earlier when I was checking

all the the stuff I only took apart one carburetor the right hand barrel so which I don't remember

which carburetor it was I they have been mixed up since I got them I don't know which one I put

front and rear so whichever one I uh originally inspected it was loose so I didn't think of it

so I guess you buy a brand new set of webbers check both

barrels to see if everything's loose and you can actually remove it before you install in the car

but why would I think of that because it's brand new I bought brand new carbs for a reason

and I bought brand new genuine carbs for a reason

but and they're not even built in Italy anymore so you can't blame Italian manufacturing

no they'll built in Spain and some people do say they're like you go with the some other

brand that's a knockoff of these but is like similar quality I don't know so I think what's

gonna have to happen is these are gonna have to come off you have to carefully punch them out from

the back and I kind of was thinking about doing soft mounts for these anyways replacing the phenolic

spacers I made with a it's basically a plate with rubber it and just gives them a bit of a soft mount

against the vibration of the engine because we did notice that the heat shield I installed were

like rattling like crazy at certain rpm so that vibration is going through your carb and it's

fuel which is not great so the vibration or the soft mounts also give a little bit of thermal

brake too so I think that's what I'll end up doing because I'm gonna have to get new gaskets

so I'll just do it this way it's annoying that I have to take them all apart because now they

have gas in them so that's really what I'm most annoyed about is I'm gonna undo gas lines just

while they're low they're super low pressure but it's just annoying to leak gas right

it doesn't matter how low the pressure is when you first break that line loose that like pin hole

that operates first like the small it always squirts gas either that doesn't matter how low

pressure it is like what's every time I touch the fuel lines in the truck it's the same thing

because it's like it's only two and a half psi but it's just when you first start taking it off

when it has the smallest of openings opens up you get scored up a gas it's just

inevitable so I will say it's definitely worth it buying high quality fuel lines like I used on

the car the urls vapor lock carburetor fuel line okay which is really nice nice line you can buy

from like summit or whatever by the foot uh the how expensive is it I forget what it is it's not

terribly expensive for how well it works because I bought a little electric fuel transfer pump

because we were running it off of a jerrycan and I used that hose that came with that to hook

from that pump to the fuel pressure regulator and in just like three weeks the hose that came

from the pump as attached to the pressure regulator is oozing black at the top like the fuel is

eating that hose which is crazy that cheap hose that's what happened that's what happened to the

the truck yeah that brand new like six month old hose are leaking so I cut the end off and shortened

it and you know a few months later start leaking again I was like what is happening so I bought

different hose but off look at that url stuff is there a different name for it you said urls what

urls vapor lock so that's the other thing it's the way it's made is that you you won't smell gas

through it like it doesn't let gas guard escape through it or vapor guard yeah yeah so they have a

they have an efi version which I've used in the glint and they have a carb version

okay yeah you can buy it for 10 feet is 80 bucks for three eighths yeah but you could buy a roll of

that it's about eight dollars a foot essentially which is not terrible it's not terrible but if it

does like no it's a five or six for the crap at the part store so yeah exactly if it doesn't have to

in the starion so I'll probably buy some of this I would use that it has a conversion on it I think

for what's close to the metric so and then I use their urls either sells them or now summit

sells their version of the fuel clamps so they have a big thing of special fuel clamps so yes

also use those they are much better than the worm clamps for fuel line

I bought because you can buy the uh fuel line style clamps at harbor freight and they're

they're actually pretty good okay yeah so I have a set of those I have a couple couple

couple containers of those because I did all them a few lines in the Cressida a couple years ago

and a year ago I did them all in the truck but I'm probably gonna do them again in the truck

because the fuel line sucks so yeah those like urls is a holly company now yeah I mean I don't

know where the hose is made but it seems pretty high quality um and that's it the the vapor guard

is they call that because like you would get you'd smell gas sometimes from like just the lines

right they just weep yeah absolutely fuel vapor so that that prevents that

so it looks like uh speedway carries it and speedway has a

a showroom here I can go do the big stuff up so there you go I'll get it there it's a non-sponsored

endorsement it's just a product I found that's used really well it's worked really well so

and you buy 20 feet it's even cheaper so 20 feet 150

so yeah as long as you keep it somewhere in your garage where the elements won't get to it

you know you'll just have it on hand I always need fuel line so yeah I'll buy a couple of

20 foot lengths of it and call the day because most most of the long lengths of fuel line in the

vehicles are steel so like most of the cars they don't have like a rubber line all the way from the

tank all the way the engine it'll have to refer certain sections at least in the old Mitsubishi's

yeah I don't know what the Volvo has uh it's probably a big long steel line from the tank to the

that's gonna be another whole project is draining that tank and cleaning up that line

I think I've gotten to that yet so that's my least favorite rescuing an old car from a long

dormant time project is the fuel tank yeah it's the worst I'm sure it's not bad because

the car had tags on it from 22 or 20 or 22 but it smells stale so I'll always siphon it

use that electric pump siphon it and uh try to put some fresh stuff in there maybe like a

half gallon of fresh gas in there and maybe kind of like blow it out a little bit

or transfer it back out try to wash the tank with some fresh gasoline

I have to look and see how well the conditioning inside the tank is

I put the boroscope down inside the starion tank and it was just it was kind of muddy

in there just from old fuel so I haven't done it yet but I bought some specialized

for fuel tank cleaner so I'll you know how that works when I do it is that that miradic acid stuff

what I remember what the active ingredient was it was actually um it's sold by boat people

it's like uh because boats are famous for sitting for a long time yep um and it's supposed to be

like the best stuff we can buy so I forget to man but I'll look into it and when I do it I'll you

we'll see how it works all right so what did you do your cars then because that's all I've

got from oh I've been I've been busy I'm busy um I think last week I started talking about the

fender on the ram 50 I think I had had the fender hung but just like kind of temporarily

in place I hadn't finished doing the whole job yet um I think I'd mentioned how stoked I was

in the stripes being all lined up because I knew that they looked the same but you never

you know I wasn't sure if they were going to line up perfectly with the stripes in the door

and now that the fenders bolted on the car all the stripes are absolutely perfectly lined up

so no if you at all it does look like that fender was repainted at some point so thankfully when

they put the stripes back on they put them on for um there's a few the fenders a few more scuffs

in it than the other fender did that'll have to put some touch up paint on but it looks way

better than the dented fender so that's a positive also it does not have a rot hole in the middle

of it from the emblem which the other fender did have so that's good um let's see so I hit the

fender hung on the thing I had to put the bumper on and what I did not realize when I bought the

bumper at the junkyard was that the bumper had a slight bend to it very slight but what I did

notice trying to put it on was that it's impossible to line up the brackets because you have the 40

year old truck that was hitting the left front and you're putting on a used 40 year old bumper

with a slight bend on the right front so what happens in that case is that the truck is bent

on the left with a bracket bolts the bumper to and the other bumper is bent on the right where it

has to end up with the right non-bent bracket in the truck so it wound up being a much larger project

to hang a bumper than I thought it was going to be you know it's only four bolts to take it off

came right off both trucks but then fiddling around with the thick steel brackets on the

bumper and the truck became a bit of a nightmare so even to this point I have lined up the best I

can it's pretty close but if you dig deep into it it only has three out of four bolts in it which

I'm just gonna say is fine and not hit anything because there's absolutely no way without equipment

that I don't have to fix the bracket on the left front enough to line up with the bumper and make

it all work because the problem is not only is the bumper the bumper bracket on the truck bent over

a little bit but it's also twisted so I have to pull the cab off the truck in order to have enough

access to the bumper bracket where it bolts back on the frame in order to twist it the way it would

need to be to line up that fourth bolt and I don't feel like taking the cab off the truck because that

becomes a huge process can you slot the bracket so no um may I you know what maybe on the bumper end

I could because I couldn't slot the bracket on the truck because on the truck it's a captured like

not on the inside so I couldn't slot that bracket but maybe I could slot the one on the actual

bumper itself that's not a bad plan yeah just give you enough to I mean the picture you showed it

didn't look doesn't look bent from from here when you look yeah looks like good from my house

when you look at the truck standing in front of it now it looks fine everything lines up

as it should the bend is so slight on the passenger side that I didn't even notice it

until I put it on the truck I was trying to figure out I figure out why it wouldn't fit so um it's not

bad it's if I get ambitious I will take the bumper back off and that's a good idea to slot that hole

out and be able to put the bolt in but I did not think of that so I did not do that um it's all

torqued down now with the three bolts it's not going anywhere and it's lined up fine I'm really

access that bracket because it's like tucked inside the radiator support and the radiator support is

welded to the cab of the truck it's not like a bolt-on piece so it's just diminishing returns to

try to get it fixed like the bumper's on the bumper's solid it's not going anywhere the truck

looks right now so then I put the grille back on which is a bit of a challenge because again

40 year old grille off of a third 40 year old truck that was sitting in storage somewhere for a

very long time and it's got a little bit of a tweak to it so a couple of the brackets don't

quite line up right so much like a lot of cars of that era some zip tie engineering is needed to

get the whole thing together so I put the whole grille in and then remembered that I hadn't put

the high beam bulbs back in which need to be removed to access the bumper bolts

and because the grille and the whole front of the truck is off just a little bit you can't

put the headlights in the truck with up with the grille in so it required removing the grille again

which not the end of the world just had to undo my zip tie engineering pull the grille out bought

I bought a couple new headlights um because it did not have high beams before it was so the old

headlights that came in the truck I had never swapped them and when I unbolted the retaining

rings the actual glass lens just fell off the headlight housing itself the of the sealed beams

basically um plugged that all together realized that the wiring for the driver's side high beam

is actually chewed I had not noticed that before because I hadn't tried the high beams they didn't

work and I assumed the bulbs are out which they were but also the wiring is chewed on the driver's

side so that project still has to be done but everything else is now buttoned up and together

the headlights are in I can access the wiring from the back so it's not a big deal I did buy a big

container of connectors that are all like the 70s and 80s Japanese car style connectors off of Amazon

so it has the proper headlight connector in the correct color so it looks factory

so I can slap a new connector on there no problem but all the auto lights now work

I never had left turn signal or side marker on the front and now I have left turn signal

and side marker on the front so that's all good um everything else works everything's lined up

best it's gonna be if I didn't spend the past 10 minutes telling you that the bumper was slightly

off nobody would probably ever notice so I'm gonna live with it as is and be happy that it looks

way better than it did so I'm gonna call the uh the heavy repairs in the outside done so success

so that's the truck uh it's still sitting out back I gotta finish cleaning it up and I gotta

buff that fender back a little bit to make it look like the rest of the truck because I've kind of

got over the rest of the truck with my cleaner wax and some and some time and this fender was just

straight out of the junkyard straight out of the truck so that's where we're at with that

oh I've been busy what else did I do Andrew um we talked about the mercore speedometer cable

and needing a bench vise

so I got that all taken care of and I got a bench vise actually Naomi picked up a bench

bench vise while we were recording that episode um we've been talking about it before we recorded

the episode I came in to record she left midway through the recording and I came back out to a

new bench vise so thank you for that space little thing what is this happening was perfect this is

happening now yeah and it's not like she listens to the podcast lives like she listens to it later

it just we had been talking about it earlier and she's like I'm not doing anything I'm waiting for

Brad to finish recording so we can have dinner I'm gonna go to the store by a bench a bench vise so

I have that now um I also got the cable in I don't know if I had the cable last week or not

I got the cable in and it's hard to describe so it's a universal cable that you cut to life

now a speedometer cable has squared off ends on each end I think I talked about it last week

and you cut one end to the length so there's no squared off end on that end and then on that end

you have to add a additional piece that crimps on to the cable to create a squared off end

that's what we did the bench vise for

I am not clear on how it's supposed to work because I've clamped this thing down

to as tight as it will go and it's not the bench vise that I'm out of power on it's

the clamping tool that it comes with is mechanically bottomed out like it can't move any further

and does not hinge the collar enough to hold the collar on the end of the cable

so I'm a little bit at a loss of how that's supposed to work it seems very straightforward

looking at it like you just slide the little collar into the gap put the cable in the collar

and then clamp down on the little metal bracket that it has but like I said the the bracket is

so tight in the vise that it's mechanically bottomed out it it can't move any further like

the two pieces of metal are squashed together but doesn't give enough clamping on the

on the sleeve so I'm a little annoyed and lost on that because it's literally the

last thing on the car to put together before I sell this stupid thing so

with a couple more tricks up my sleeve to try and then the nuclear option is to

haul a speedometer shop and see if they can just make a cable I did talk to a friend of mine

this weekend who does have a hydraulic press that he thinks he can do it in

but that requires me getting down to his house switches but an hour hour and 20 minutes away

so I just gotta get some time to get down there and and do that so hopefully that will work we'll see

uh so no updates on the record other than failure what else happened oh I picked up a

bell housing for Naomi's Mustang so that's completing the t5 conversion because the car

was a four speed and we're putting a later model t5 in it which requires a bell housing for t5

so I managed to get one of that actually from my friend who has the hydraulic press he's a big

Mustang guy and he just has 302 and 2.3 parts lying around everywhere so that's good for the Mustang

and let's see the last thing I got the Sapporo running again last time I drove the Sapporo was

probably two years ago and it would not idle it stalled out every time we came to a stop sign

so that was frustrating and I parked the car and was frustrated with it and then kind of

and then as happens with life and you put a cover on a car once the cover is in the car the car

becomes dead storage in the garage and then there was a dead car parked in front of the car and

just next thing you know it's been two years so I got the Sapporo out this weekend because I wanted

to go to an event with it and filled with the carburetor a bunch and got it to idle so once I

got to idle I took it for a drive around the block and it's idling fine once it's warm it runs like

absolute rat when it's not warm though it takes about 10 minutes to warm up and the entire time

it's warming up it sounds like a cammed big block sitting there in the driveway and smells like

raw fuel so it's going to need some more fettling obviously but the carburetor on those cars is

notoriously gross because it's you know a late model carburetor that needed to pass emissions

so one of the things that I learned this weekend is that on those carburetors most of your adjustments

other than idle speed are sealed so all of your adjustment screws have to be drilled out

okay they didn't want people messing with them because of some emissions regulations

so I was reading the factory service manual and the factory service manual shows you where to

drill a 516 hole to access adjustment screws so like build the carb and then like

cast over it yeah weird you know so that's going to be a project that I will do once the

recorder is down off the the jacks in the garage and the 944 timing belt is done I don't want to

the car does run I don't want to take it apart and potentially make it yeah not run

while the other cars are still down so it's just interesting that that's a thing I guess a couple

of cars had that back in the day yeah in like worst case down draft Weber

so the only reason I haven't just done that option on that car yeah is the cars and automatic

yeah well they have a kick down so adapter they have a kick down on them but it's it's never quite

right it doesn't work as well as the factory carburetor on those a manual transmission with

the down draft Weber is like stupid easy to use that's a little bit more difficult and I know I

have it in the Cressida which is an automatic and it works pretty well but it just I don't know it's

not it's not as smooth as it should be and maybe that's just due to my lack of knowledge and how

to adjust it properly I don't know but possibly we'll see what happens and then there's the third

option Andrew for that car either fix the car whoever on it or just take it all out all together

and put the fuel injection off of a starry on it so oh yeah here we go we shall see I currently have

two spare starry on engines so I could potentially do that but that's like the super

nuclear option that's like yeah giving up on everything we shall see it'll make the car more

fun but yeah it's certainly we shall see anyway so yeah that's what happened with my car this

weekend this week I had a pretty busy week actually not working on stuff trying to keep some momentum

going here oh and we got some quotes for doing air conditioning in the garage oh okay that's that's

needed that is very needed here and that seems to be the quotes we got are of a level in pricing

that will probably try to do it before this summer so that by the time the hot weather comes I'll be

able to continue to keep progress going in the garage so that'll be nice so anyway yeah that's

it for our project car stuff pretty sure yeah that's about it it's pretty good this is stuff

we can talk a little bit we are back in the motorsport season

oh wait I need to complain about one more thing okay I talked last week about doing the

catalytic converter in that lancer

he went to get emissions the check engine light was on the day before he brought the car here

to put the catalytic converter in it we put the cat in it started the car cleared the codes all

lights went out he drove the car for a few days went to get emissions they wouldn't even test it

because he turned the car on and the check engine light did not illuminate on the startup sequence

oh so they said that you need to fix that because obviously you're trying to

trick us into thinking that you don't have a check engine light because it's obviously blown out

it was uh it was sorry boss it's passed away I don't understand how that happens or what happened

because the check engine light obviously did work that's how we do it at a problem

so now it's like okay well I gotta get the cluster apart put a light in it yeah it is just a little

tiny incandescent micro bulb yeah I remember I remember stalking them the dealer when I worked

there yeah but what bothers me is you can just plug the computer in still and it will tell you

is that fault or not like who cares if the light's not there like they don't just do a visual to

plug the car in so I don't know annoyed but it is what it is so he's coming over after we record

tonight and I'll look at the car and plug a scanner in see what is going on make sure there is no

actual fault and go from there but can't win with emissions this month nope oh that remind me I gotta

go I gotta get a sticker from the Volkswagen that just popped into my head and reminded me again

so thank you for a scratchback bumper yeah yeah um well motorsport season has started

uh that car is actually going on for a week I'm way behind in coverage I gotta catch up

so I am on day three I have no idea yeah I'm like day two I have no idea who's leading

but just just following it social media I mean the pictures and the videos they're always epic right

the sure that one picture a bunch of people shared of the the Ford Raptor coming up over the deal

and yeah the wheel is spinning so you know high shutter speed I mean like really nice

capture and all the dirt's spinning out of it super cool

um see right now Honda is winning in the motorcycles yep who's leading

uh and car well in motorcycle is it Brabac or no

it's uh Tosha Shirania okay perfect yeah it's just saying uh there's been a lot of

you know there's a lot of games been shipped with you don't want to open the road

so like watching the first episode of the coverage they're talking about for the first stage

and they're uh apologize that was the stage ranking the overall right now is Australian

Daniel Sanders on a Red Bull PTM yeah Brabac's the second Sanders is very fast yeah Brabac um

but yeah there's like you know they're they're showing they're going through the motorcycle

guys and they're like all right what position you want to start and all the top guys are like

every time they go up they'd be like you know they they draw kind of like a Yankee swap or

white elephant where they draw uh for like when you choose so people like 16th and then the next

guy that's a top guy come up be like I want 16th and like so yeah you'd keep getting bumped up

further ahead in the field so ideally I guess if you're a top guy you wanted to start 16th just

because you you weren't opening the road uh basically you're following paths versus yeah

first try and then navigate on your own when nobody's been yet before so it's pretty interesting

and then you I mean you are you are sort of penalized too if you win a stage you get you

have to start first I think the next day so there is some it depends I mean they get to a certain

point where they if they're just keep winning stages they're like fine but sometimes they

do kind of not try to win a stage because they want to get different road position but

you know that's that's the way the game I mean it's a it's a two week race so yeah you're gonna

have some stretch yeah yeah yeah just like any other kind of endurance race you can't win in the

beginning you can only lose so we're on what day nine right now or day 10 yeah but it looks like

Ford is winning in first and second with uh Sains is in second but only 57 seconds behind wow

yeah they should be finishing up Friday actually this week so um and it was interesting I think

I don't remember the class before but it seems like there's a return to stock class

so cars that are more like this is more like the way Dakar used to be

where you'd show up with like a stock SUV or whatever car and running as a land cruiser

and a couple defenders I've seen that are just like normal cars which and our friend uh

Mercedes Lianthal was there for a week covering the land uh rover team so we'll have to that'll

be interesting if we have her back on and she can talk about that I'd love to hear about that

yeah for sure yeah and then I loved a little on the coverage are you watching the peacock

coverage they'll do little throwbacks like classic Dakars uh and they were talking about I haven't

been I've been watching whatever the YouTube coverage is from Dakar well they were talking about

they were talking about this in one of the first Dakars these guys did it in a 1926

Situin KZ or something KZ

okay and people thought they were saying gazelle so they the car got named the gazelle

so like think like a 1920s car doing Dakar it would like you know convertible top but like open

windows yeah it's pretty crazy

so I don't see any stuff like that interesting but I mean all those 20s cars kind of all look

like the same as each other right so yeah they're all pretty rugged to begin with but uh it was funny

they were working roads yeah at the time they were just to drive to the store was like beginning

into car yeah and the guy was recounting the story he's like yeah we were actually going faster than

some of the other the land rovers and stuff because for whatever reason it was just you

little thin narrow pizza cutter tires just get right along so you know that's going on and then

we're gonna get back into NASCAR so the big announcement for NASCAR

is we're back to the chase so no more no more playoffs it is gonna be playoffs but not playoffs

so explain so yeah so the big complaint right and that we've talked about this in years past you

any point during the regular season of NASCAR you could win and you had a seat in the playoffs

and there were 16 drivers right and it started from I think when it started this past summer

like middle of august was when the playoffs started because the NASCAR the New Hampshire

thanks for the playoff race or maybe it was the first one it was the first playoff race maybe

um so which means that you could have a pretty mediocre season but if you got one win

you were in the playoffs now whether you made it through that was also pretty hard but each

round of the playoffs was an elimination round uh so the gripe was that some really good drivers

might get bumped in the first second third round not make it even the last round

and then our gripe this year was that Denny Hamlin had an amazing playoff run was really consistent

I think won several races in the playoffs and then you had Carl Larson who had made it in

the playoffs from early in the season and kind of seemingly coasted through the first couple

rounds without getting eliminated then just sort of won the championship by being the top driver

in the end race it kind of felt like he didn't really work for it right that was my right not

yeah so now no worse outcome could happen yeah so now there's still gonna be 10

playoff races um what they're gonna do it'll be purely on points so no drivers will be eliminated

and that you'll have the regular season and they will crown a champion at the end of the regular

season and the person with the most points will so the points will reset once we go to the playoffs

but if you win the regular season championship you will get a 25 point bonus that will carry in

so you won't start with zero points you'll start with a 25 percent 25 point bonus as the

regular season champion that makes sense to me that seems pretty fair if you win the whole regular

season sure you'll 25 point buffer you should get bonus points yeah and then

during the regular season they have bumped the race win point percent from 40 points for race

win to 55 while keeping second place the same at 35 34 33 etc as you down the field and that is to

further entice teams to go for wins versus just consistency and doing points because that is a

strategy some teams and that happens sometimes on a race weekend you don't have a good car you have a

wreck you just try to go out there and you run as good as you can and get points but what they

want to have is that if teams can do it they want teams to win or they want everybody trying to win

right the more people try to win you don't want somebody trying to finish fifth yeah

you don't want like what larson did a bunch of times and why he had a lot of points last season

was he would have some bad wreck or something and then just go out and get the fastest lap time

and that was like bonus points yep right watch them do that like four races is like really weird

um so then

okay so here i'm reading it off nasca's website so it says our points receded for the chase

it says yes points are receded for just just once for the chase fall on the end of the regular

season and based on where the drivers finish in the standings for the regular season

so that should fix everybody's complaint then oh okay so i was wrong they don't start with zero

points when they get to the chase they are awarded if you're like the number one driver

and points you'll start with 2100 and i guess you'll probably get that 25 extra for being the

season champion and then it goes down from there the 16th seated driver will have 2000 points so

a spread of 2100 to 2000 points between first and 16th and that will be so doing good in the

regular season certainly puts you in an advantage in the post exactly which is also good i like

so far i'm on board with this because it solves the problem that the original format of nascar had

where the season champion would be crowned in like the end of the summer and then there was no more

races or there were more races but what was the incentive to win these races or even watch them

so all right so theoretically this is going to make it so that there won't be a runaway victor

because they get even a little bit at the end and it should take the full 10 races to crown

champion theoretically i hope so you've got you know you definitely i mean so say you're that

uh you finished 16th in season points you start with 2000 in the playoffs that's pretty good

but you gotta make up uh you know 125 if you wanted to get to first right which is pretty hard

so you gotta you gotta make some wins so you have less of a chance if you've

haven't done as well but you know racing is kind of crazy because you can have a lot of upsets

so oh absolutely and then how are they gonna it'll be interesting to see so and then

they're not doing any eliminations so cause the champion determined and it's gonna be whichever

driver the chase has the most points following the season finale so maybe they've done the math

here that with that amount of points i mean does it matter if they started with 2000 points or 20

i don't know may it just sounds cooler to have more points arbitrary at that point yeah that

he doesn't matter so uh yeah maybe they've done the math to figure out that within 16 rounds you're

not really gonna have unless somebody won like four races in a row maybe i don't think you'd

really run away with it but the odds of winning four races in a row are pretty low i mean it's

possible pretty slim but you they'd have the team would have to be really really good

i mean it's certainly happened where people have won three races in the row in the regular

season right i think chris rebelle did it two years ago or a year ago so it it didn't buy

into it yeah i think so but it's like i guess you know if you're looking at it the level of

competition would be high enough that it's unlikely that would happen right especially

in the playoffs like everybody's gonna try to get a win like it's unlikely you would sweep

any wins so um yeah it seems that seems pretty cool and that makes it makes it make more sense

when you're like i remember before when you're trying to explain to people like well

you're like yes the other drivers are racing but they're not racing for the championship anymore

but they're still racing and they can still win and like upset the race but it's less likely and

people are like what what are you talking about right so not anybody can theoretically win the

championship yeah so now it makes more sense so you're just like listen at the end of season

you've got your top 16 drivers from points they move on and then they find it out for the championship

it's kind of cool because it's still the other cars are out there they are but it doesn't solve

that problem well it's more if trying to explain that to a regular sports ball person yeah

all right so the patriots are playing the eagles the patriots can beat the eagles

doesn't mean the patriots go on it just means the eagles get a lower seed later because basically

what happens yeah NASCAR i was supposed to be like what are you talking about but it makes more sense

in that the it makes more sense not having the elimination because now uh you can have that

come from behind victory that would be really cool right so you have a guy that finishes 16th

for the season starts 16th and then has a really good playoffs and wins the championship right

that's a possibility that's pretty cool sure so you can have a turnaround back then that's like

yeah i'm not i'm not the anti it it's just it's gonna be i think it's a i think it's a step in

the right direction it's gonna be interesting i think it's a big deal so i'm one of the few that

wasn't upset about the playoff format but i was only upset yes we'll see this past season that was

that felt pretty rotten right and it's only because we don't like

we don't like it but also like i talked about a previous podcast i mean you watched

hamlin put in the drive of his life like that was that was a like legitimately

say what you want about the guy he's got a mouth on him he was operating he was driving at a

super high level like that was impressive driving through the playoffs

and it was a bumper to watch yeah no question

man had a uh had a mission you wanted to win because you know i know you're like me when it

comes to racing i have a few favorites but i really really like to just watch people compete

yeah like when i'm watching the olympics i may not know much about the sports

but if you're watching a certain sport in olympics and the two teams are like pretty well matched

they're going back and forth that's exciting right just like any sport you know i don't

watch a lot of football just watching the game the other night uh the 49ers and the eagles they're

going they're kind of going back and forth a bit that's a pretty good game right it's not fun to

watch someone get blown out sometimes it is but not not always it's only fun if you care about that

yeah exactly so but last night i'm watching the steels game it was not fun watching the steels

game blown out although it was fun watching aron rogers last game be terrible but that's all

all right well i think that's kind of ideal for this podcast so

we're uh excellent we're back to talk about nascar i've got a little i did two events yeah

let's cover your events real quick i went to a cars and coffee at a local mega church

uh my first time setting foot in a mega church i will hold opinions for anybody else

but there was a full-on coffee shop in the church which i thought was odd

and it felt like a starbucks and then i learned that there used to be a starbucks in the mega

church until they had left and they just kept the menus so i thought that was weird anyway

the car show portion of the day was wonderful um unfortunately it's very far away but what a cool

mix of cars um there was no like pretension of anything like it was like 30s 40s 50s 60s through

modern stuff and everybody was pretty cool it was probably one of the better cars and coffees

that i've ever been to um it's rock point church i think is what you call it in mesa uh it was was

a really really good event um so many cars and coffees are now so pretentious it's hard to like

find a good one that has a crowd that isn't either super pretentious or all modern cars

so it was it was pretty neat um sunday however i uh crashed a big honda meet

and that was super fun so i was unaware until recently do you know hot sport engine mounts

yeah i've heard of them they only make engine mounts or like well they're honda parts in

general but their big thing is making they started making b swap engine mounts for like

d series hondas back in the late 90s i remember their ads in sport compact car magazine they're

they one of the few companies that's been specializing honda parts for a long time

i did not know they were in town huh so it turns out they're in town and their location a friend of

mine has a a rented garage in the same like complex as them and they have a very popular youtube

channel called vtech academy and so they had a a an event at their shop it was you know hot sport

and vtech academy and accelerate coffee present such and such um car show so i don't have any

hondas but my friend who rents space in that shop had some vip parking passes for his friends

um to park their cars that were not hondas near his shop so i was invited to go hang out down there

which is the reason i got the support out because i wanted to run it and drive it

and i drove it there and back successfully and hung out there for the better part of the whole day

it's amazing how many nice hondas there are in the area there were probably 250 cars there

and i would say 220 of them were hondas and some really nice hondas like super quality builds

i think 25 crx's rolled in together i've never seen that many in one place ever

um it was cool to see how big the community is for hondas here and we were joking because

you know if you remember back in the day of cars and coffees and car shows

everybody complained about the hondas ruining the events right because they come in and

revving and all that stuff the crowd has shifted so much that it was probably one of the better

behaved car shows i've ever been to everybody's middle age now like in recent years yeah everybody's

middle age right but even the young kids that were there with their hondas nobody was like rev

bombing and two-stepping and all that stuff it was a super low-key crowd you know the the hondas

kids are now g35 kids i guess right so it was a pretty pretty sweet event um i took a couple

pictures i put them in the discord i haven't posted them anywhere else yet but uh there's

that one civic there that's actually in the new grantorismo it's like an eg hatch with like a

liberty walk style or rocket body style i don't know if it is one of those kids or not but

body kid on it but it's like a true like time attack car that car apparently is here in town

hot sport general is here in town it was it was pretty neat um the owner of hot sport i think his

name brian maybe i'm gonna get that wrong so i should don't quote me on that um older guy has

been running it since day one he runs the vtech academy youtube channel he actually interviewed

a bunch of us non-honda owners about our cars so that was kind of neat but it was a cool community

cool stuff going on and a friend of the podcast and former guest uh ron is working with hot sport

to kswap his mr2 so that's gonna be cool to see and kind of fun to follow that build go along so

they're uh working together to develop a kit that hot sport will sell after the fact to kswap

mr2's so that'll be neat to see but yeah super cool day super cool people um i've not been to a

honda specific show maybe ever and it was a really good time an amazing variety of cars

could be had in just one make so everything from kswap fits which are very cool to early integras

to some late model stuff i mean it was tons of like full on motorsports builds like it was a really

really cool really cool setup so it blown away there that many nicely done hondas in town so

looking forward to uh another one of those events in the future and crashing it with our toyotas

and mitzviches and mazes in the corner but that was really good time so watch out for a vtech

academy video with my support in it uh speaking of youtube videos also if you're on youtube and you

want to see stuff uh in the arizona half of auto off topic garage there's a new video that a friend

of mine filmed over here and kind of like did an interview process with me walking around the garage

and talking about the cars and all that stuff um i don't remember exactly what his channel is called

but if you give me a second i can look it up i think it's arizona classic japanese something

something something uh let's see so it is arizona japanese classics

and the video says mitzvichy man schools us on bad engineer so he'll uh catch that video

was a good time i enjoyed making it talking about cars and obviously i will uh always

talk about my cars so i have a podcast right yeah so super cool a little bit of visual added to

just my my voice so check it out on youtube and follow the little things he's just a nice local

guy he's not like a trying to make a million dollars on youtube guy he just uh wants to connect the

local vintage japanese community together so he's done one with me with a few other people that i'm

friends with i don't know if you're familiar with uh zebra built racing they're the rally

team with the rx7 that runs the hand controls oh yeah i started the video video yeah it's a video

with those guys and they're actually i learned from his video around the corner from me oh

so i'll meet those guys now anyway that's all that's all i get for today yeah all right cool so uh

yeah come visit us on our discord we'll send you links and a message uh on off topic podcast on

instagram uh i'm racing anger on instagram let's have scale out of cast i've been putting some

rc stuff on there and uh brah we're gonna find you they can find me at all those same places

except race and anger uh-huh but they can find my personal stuff at tsi ss 350 on instagram

all right cool and that's basically about it all right as always keep cars analog and aim for roses

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