No more Turbo Lag

1,000 cars, sir, you have 1,000 cars.

I don't think I'd attempt to try this stunt.

Oh, we owe this horsepower to Uncle Sam's.

Too big a car.

Look, I put my beer belly on it.

Yeah.

You immediately tell somebody how many cars you have.

You'll really give those up at a yuppie, something to think about.

Stay on the bar.

Don't go off the bar with your Bronco.

1980 Volvo horns, what's right?

Meet me.

I'm a man's coolant.

And he's like, oh, I thought I'd be small.

It's for a small car.

And I'm like, yeah, but it's still an automatic transmission.

They're never going to be light.

It's definitely going to have to crash.

Starting off with Brad Beggin on the car.

That's the West.

Internet.

You know, is this a Nigerian oil print?

I also wish you drove a tan Camry.

Anyways, that's a very horrible podcast content.

A very inside joke.

They love to be driven hard.

All right, another episode of Auto Off Topic.

What's going on, Brad?

Not too much, Andrew.

Today I'm doing all right.

I am doing all right.

Let's see.

I have not really done a whole heck of a lot of things with cars, but a little bit we talk

about and you've done some stuff.

I know I didn't even, I still don't even watch the, I missed the race, the NASCAR race

at Kansas.

A lot of drama there.

I missed it.

I still haven't watched the recap.

So, I don't know.

It was good.

It was a good race.

Was it?

Very much so.

Did I wash or finishing?

I can hear it at all.

So that's fine.

It's just in my head.

So, Project House Update, we got new internet, so we should no longer have the delay that

we had last time.

Yeah, that was the big thing.

You fixed the internet or had it fixed, or I think you guys fixed it yourselves.

Now, we brought new internet, basically what it was.

So I think I talked about the previous internet issue we had was we had the other company

whose name I can't think of right now.

And when I did a speed test, I was at 21.8 mega.

Was it Mbps, mega bit, something, megabytes?

Megabytes per second?

I don't know what that means.

Yeah, there you go.

Megabytes per second.

21.8 down and 10.3 up, which is obviously not good.

So after talking to the company who we bought the internet from, they're like, yep, that's

what I was going to get from us.

So we're like, well, that's not going to work.

So we switched to Cox and for the same money, I now have 404.3 up and 79 down.

So that's like times 10, almost, more than that, times 20.

So it works much better now.

And this is our first recording with it and there's no delay at all.

So that's good.

I did notice that everything is working better, including like internet streaming and like watching

Netflix and the TV, like everything is just better.

So it sounds like it was it.

It sounds like when you went from dial up to broadband back in the day, I basically was

at dial up, I think with those numbers.

So I mean, it's still used phone lines for God's sakes.

So this new one at least uses coax lines.

So it uses the cable cable lines from the street.

So unfortunately, we don't have fiber here yet, which is obviously the correct way to

do all of this.

And we looked into a couple of satellite options, but they're way too expensive.

So this is the way to go and that everything so far has been totally smooth, even like

work stuff just works better.

Say my office is based in the house here and Naomi's is too, and both of us have noticed

that even our work meetings are smoother this week than they were before.

So maybe the podcast was a thing it was good that we learned that we needed better

internet.

So here we are.

There you go.

And it costs no more per month.

So why not?

Well, that's a no brainer, especially the company's like, it's not going to be any

faster.

Yeah.

Right.

They're like, no, that's about that's about the strongest number seen in your neighborhood.

And it's like, uh, trying to say exactly, but no, weird.

So they're done.

They're gone.

Oh, uh, I did, I did, uh, won my argument with Hertz and they're going to refund

me the extra money that I was charged.

Excellent.

Uh, did we talk about that the podcast?

I think so.

Did we?

I, I, I don't remember now.

Uh, we the talk about it.

I think it's a repenting litigation.

Yeah.

We didn't talk about it.

Maybe, maybe we definitely talked about the discord.

I'm just going to hang out on our discord, but the, the, uh, the short story is

that, uh, I was, uh, forced into taking the insurance when I never take insurance with

rental cars because you don't need to cause like your credit card covers that and like

your car insurance covers that I don't care if you're in a foreign country.

It's fine.

And, uh, you know, I rented through the app and I always went through Hertz because

I use it for work and we've never had a problem with it before and like your

quoted price, it was like, you know, 400 something euro and then I get there and she's like, oh,

you don't have the insurance.

It's going to be 3000 euro for a one week car rental.

And I was like, excuse me, what 3000 euro, which is like 3,500 us, uh, roughly, which

is insane for a rental car.

I, you could buy like a mark for golf and drive it for the week.

Yeah.

Leave it.

Leave it with a relative.

So yeah.

Uh, and I was like, you know, I had a family wait for me and I was just like, uh, okay,

whatever.

I don't know you're being ridiculous.

I was like, I probably should have been more forceful, but I wasn't, uh, I was like, fine.

What is it with the insurance?

It was like a thousand bucks.

I was like, fine.

So and then I was like stewing on that.

I was like, that's also not right.

Uh, that was, I shouldn't have done that.

Um, but I wanted to wait till I returned the car completely damaged free to be like there.

I'm not, I wasn't trying to scam you out of damaging a car and then not paying for

the insurance.

You guys said the car wasn't damaged.

So, uh, give me my money back and it took several emails.

At first they were not into it and then I was like, that's really horrible customer

service because I don't care if it's there.

I don't care if it's your franchise.

If it's not technically a corporate desk or whatever, that's still unacceptable.

Still your name on the building.

Irritatively, you had full coverage.

You could have just gone out and had a blast with that car.

I could have.

I was definitely not worrying when I was driving around and parking it in the

city, but anyway, um, yeah.

And then come to find out talking to another friend who travels early often

that's a, uh, that is a common scam to do that.

So travel tip, uh, hold fast to your quoted estimated price.

But anyway, um, I guess we'll talk about a dang dirty Europeans.

Wow.

Hey, now it's mostly just, I think, uh, scammy rental car.

I mean, even here in the States, I'm kidding.

Yeah, but even in the States, rental car companies can be kind of shady

sometimes because they just want to, here's the deal.

We all know my feelings on car dealership employees and all rental

car desk employees are just car dealership employees in a different business.

Yeah.

One step away.

It's a name thing.

Um, anyway, uh, I did work on the Volvo a little bit.

I'm going to work on it more this weekend.

I've got some time.

Um, I'm actually going to do an oil change in the Volkswagen.

Let's do for a little change and I bought a kit for it.

So I finally do my own oil change in that car.

But, uh, I noticed whenever I would get oil changes, they charged me for

drain plugs because apparently the drain plugs are one time use on modern

Volkswagen's, which is weird, but probably because it's got like a plastic pan.

I think, um, there's like, it's interesting because I never did that on mine.

Diesel's might have been a little different.

You know, um, how modern are the Volkswagen?

I've had a few modern-ish Volkswagen's never had to do that.

Uh, I forget what the engine code is in mine, but it's like one of the newest

engines.

Um, I think, so yeah, there's like a special tool.

I bought a kit for my CP Euro.

Uh, so there's like a special tool to undo the drain plug.

Then it came with a drain plug, a new one.

Uh, and then there's a special, cause the drain, the oil fill is like really annoying.

I don't have any funnels that fit it.

So I got a came with a funnel that fits it cause it's this really small

opening in the valve cover that like, you need a special adapter to lock on to.

And I would just always just jam a funnel in there to top it off.

So now I have the actual funnel for it.

So, uh, and the filters up top.

So it shouldn't be a big deal at all.

Uh, but yeah, I worked on the, worked on the Volvo a little bit.

Uh, my dad and I got the whirl pressure of sending units because I've got one for

the gauge and then one for the light kind of had to do a couple adapters.

They're just like pipe fitting adapters, got it on the side of the block.

Uh, had to be a little creative with the header because it's a little bit

bigger, the stock man of the fold to make them fit.

Uh, and then I went to put the alternator on and that isn't exactly

bolt on for some reason.

I don't know why maybe it's not the right alternator for the car.

Who knows?

It's the one that came with the car.

Uh, the bracket, the adjustment bracket was broken when I got it.

I don't know how it was, the belt was tight.

It was jammed against something.

I'm not sure.

Um, it's basically has to be, it fits better.

If I, it bolts the block on the bottom, I gotta give a spacer to space

it out about a half an inch, one for it to line up better with the pulleys

and two, it just clears the manifold better.

And then I got a universal alternator bracket from the Volvo part supplier

that fits pretty well.

That should allow me to adjust it.

And then at least all the other brackets are usually pretty easy to find

because all the hot rod guys adapt different things to their cars.

So yeah, tons of stuff available for that at least.

Yeah, but the Volvo plays soul.

It was like 10 bucks.

It's just a curved piece of steel with the channel in it to adjust it.

And, um, it's, yeah, I'm not going to run the fan.

So I'm going to run the electric fan.

So it should be, um, you know, it's a V bell.

I think I don't think it has to be like perfectly, perfectly aligned.

You know, if it's off like a quarter of a millimeter, it's probably fine.

Um, so yeah, I was working on that because really it's like cars really close.

I got to get, I need the alternator in there and fix the wiring as I cut

the wiring when I took it out of the car because I couldn't get it.

I couldn't get the nuts loose on the back of it.

And I didn't want to break the studs off in the car.

And I was like, oh, it'll be a lot easier if I just take down there out

and have it on the bench and I can just get those free.

So that's what I did.

And there's plenty of line in the wire in the harness so I can fix those.

You know, really, I'm thinking about it.

That's like, I got to do that.

I got the radiator in, I did the heater hoses.

It actually has three and I only bought two because two of them were formed.

And then maybe they don't sell the third one because it's really just a

straight piece of universal hose works just fine.

And maybe that's why they don't sell it and why I didn't find it

and why I wasn't looking for more than two heater hoses.

It's just unusual setup.

It's got two that come out and then two that go into the valve for

to change the hot water for to the heater core.

But yeah, it's really I got to wire up out later.

I got to run wires over for the.

Oh, two cents, the wide band of two sensor and then.

Double check the factory wiring at like the coil and stuff.

I'm going to add a auxiliary fuse block under the hood

to just kind of give things fuses and relays.

You know, right off the battery instead of just having stuff run the way it was.

Especially because I'm going to run a fan in the O2 sensor.

And we've figured we'd also.

Probably fuse and relay the ignition.

Just for a little safety.

Burn the car down with a little bit of wiring it has.

That's really kind of it.

It's not far so far from running.

Just going to work on it.

All those little things that add up and take tons of time, unfortunately.

Yeah, it's like one of those things that it's like a real nut and bolt job.

And I don't mean like I'm restoring every nut and bolt.

It's just like I got to figure out all the nuts and bolts sometimes

because the car was like mostly there.

But definitely put together in a hacky way before.

So I'm trying to like unhack some stuff, but then I also have to

re-engineer it sometimes to work with different parts that I have now.

So like it's got a ton of holes drilled in like the fender wells

because they had like those kugracha horns.

And I've got one of these universal like body plug kits.

Or the push clip things, the automotive push clip ones.

I'm just going to put the little fir tree clips in there.

Just fill in a bunch of the holes.

It's the quickest way I can think to do it.

There's such a weird thing to have installed in that car.

It's very weird.

Like the oil pan heater that makes sense because it was in Alaska.

The coolant heater that makes sense because it was in Alaska.

But yeah, like the kugracha horns, weird.

Very strange.

It doesn't make sense because it was in Alaska.

No.

I know.

And then it's like I was under the dashboard fixing the throttle pedal

and I'm looking up in there and it's like a bunch of messy wires

that definitely don't belong there.

So which that works out because I have that new dash to go in there.

So that once car I've talked about this for once cars running.

I'll have way more motivation to pull the dash out and fix.

Remove slash remove all that extra wiring like I've got.

There's like a heavy duty kill ward that's under the mats

that I got to pull out that went to some heater

that was in the back window.

Like it was like an auxiliary defroster,

but it definitely has like an old wiring from like house electronics.

That's weird because the defroster where Rindo has defrost.

Just maybe it wasn't hooked up.

I don't know.

It is what it is.

It's not deep up with the Alaska cold.

I don't know.

There's vents missing from heater ducts that go up

through the trunk to try to blow air up there.

So maybe that's a problem.

There's heater ducts under the dash that are disconnected

and covered with duct tape.

I don't know why.

Not sure why you'd do that.

But I'm going to find out.

I put water when I was cleaning the engine bay

through the heater core and water didn't pour out under the dash.

So I assume the heater core is OK.

Well, it loses.

You're going to be falling the dash out anyway.

So if you do put a heater core in it, at least it's accessible.

Yeah.

So the car's coming along.

Let's get in there.

I just I just got to work on it and amongst doing all the other stuff

that I have to do. But anyway.

I think I'm excited for it to be done because it's almost there.

It's almost been a year. I do.

Yeah. But I mean, that's not at the end of the day.

That's not like a long time to do what you've done.

It's not like you had a car that was perfectly good and running

and it broke and you got to put it back together and call it a like

you had to re-engineer everything and find parts and figure things out.

And and you went ahead and did some extra stuff, too.

That, you know, you wanted to do to make it more personalized to you.

So there's a lot that it does in the year. It's not.

I don't think it's too long at all.

But what we got going on here in in Phoenix.

We yesterday.

I can't take credit for this one because I don't do windshields,

but I had a new windshield put in the Mighty Max Dodge Ram 50 Power Ram 50.

That's one of those that's been bugging me for a little bit.

Was it broken? And.

Oh, yeah, it was broken really bad on the driver's side.

So it was broken.

A, it was all pitted so you couldn't see much out of it anyway.

But also it was completely shattered on the driver's side

down along the corner and then all the way to the top.

And it was right in your like line of sight.

So, but it was broken when I got it.

It wasn't like a surprise.

I didn't want to put it through insurance because I bought the car

with a broken windshield and I don't want to put in too many insurance claims.

And that's technically fraud.

But I don't want to put too many insurance claims in with Hagerty

because I don't want to have any reason for them to cancel my policy

and I had to put a windshield in another car.

So I didn't want to do two windshields in rapid succession through them.

So I just went ahead and paid on a pocket and had it done.

Found a local company, actually Naomi found a company

because we got her daughter's car tinted for her birthday.

And the company did her tent was like, oh, yeah, we do installs too.

And we asked them about getting a windshield for that old truck.

And he said, yeah, no problem.

So they sourced the windshield and it delivered to their warehouse

and put it in yesterday and did a really good job.

It looks really good.

I drove it from here to the gym and back last night.

It was like driving a whole new truck.

So you could see perfectly.

So the reason I pushed to do that this week was because this weekend

is the Williams Route 66 JDM classic up in Williams, Arizona.

That's that big one every year.

That's a charity show for Cree 2000s Japanese cars.

So we decided this year we're going to take that truck

and we're actually going to make a camping weekend out of it.

We're going to go camping in the Williams area, go to the show Saturday,

camp against Saturday night and come back on Sunday.

So that should be a different experience than usual for that show.

But I'm looking forward to it.

It'll be kind of neat to have the pickup truck there

because we'll be able to bring our like camping grill and stuff to the show.

So you won't have to worry about like finding food and whatnot.

And it'll be a nice, like relaxing weekend, I think.

So it should be a good time.

That's always a good show.

If you're in the Phoenix area or the Williams area,

it's two and a half hours away from here this weekend.

And you happen to listen to this the day it comes out on Friday

and you want to come on Saturday, come on up.

It's a good time.

So if you listen to this beyond that Friday,

I apologize that you missed it.

So it happens every year, first weekend in October.

It's a really good show.

It's probably the largest all vintage Japanese car show in the states

outside of JCCS.

So it's definitely a good time.

People come from all over.

There's one guy drives down every year from Bend, Oregon.

There's people that come from California, from Vegas.

One guy came last year from New Jersey.

And the guy comes every year down from Michigan.

So it's a pretty big deal, pretty, pretty good time.

Just a single day show, but it's a good time.

So I can't take credit for that one because I didn't do it.

What I did do is I purchased another fuel pump

to put in the glove box because I didn't have no faith

in that fuel pump that I replaced because I replaced it

with the same kind that broke the first time.

So everybody on the Discord and other places has been telling

me about the green label fuel pump you can buy on Amazon.

And they've all had really good luck with that fuel pump.

So I bought one of those.

It was eight dollars.

Well, as opposed to the Edelbrock one that is 70.

Whoa, doesn't last.

Yeah.

So my hope is that this eight dollar fuel pump works perfectly fine.

But I mean, actually, let me rephrase that.

My hope is I never need to use it because the seventy dollar

Edelbrock one lasts forever, but I do have it now as a spare

just in case and I will always keep enough tools in the car

to swap it on the road if needed, because I don't have any

faith in that little rock pump now.

So especially because I replaced that one, the truck

and the one in the 74 Colt that zero miles on it

and it died from sitting.

So hopefully, hopefully.

But I have a backup now.

And now that I know what they're like, seven or eight dollars,

I'll just buy a few of them and have them for all of the cars

that have old fuel pumps, which is all of them.

So it's a good like, how do I get home kind of quick fix?

Even if you don't mount it properly, you can usually put it

somewhere on the side of the road.

If you have a car with an old mechanical pump that dies,

you can usually, you know, put it in line somewhere

and use it to get yourself home.

So cheap insurance for less than $10.

So if it works out, I'll buy a few of them.

So that's really the prep for that vehicle for this weekend.

I'm going to actually, after we finish recording tonight,

I'm going to clean it, vacuum it, get it all

shined up to the weekend.

But other than that, truck should be fingers crossed, ready to go.

So. Oh, other big projects here.

I have made a ton of progress on the Corolla.

So the Brown 1980 Corolla station wagon.

I think last time we talked about it, I had had the head

sent to the machine shop and they tested it and everything was fine.

No problems at all.

So we knew that the problem was going to be

in the bottom end of the engine.

So the last test that I did, which I think we talked about

was I filled the tops of each cylinder with oil

and just let it leak down.

And the number four cylinder

like stayed with oil in it for weeks.

The number one and number two leak down

and what you consider to be a normal amount.

And then number three was drained within like an hour,

yeah, which number three is the one that made no compression.

So we knew the problem was going to be a number three.

So I eventually, after some time and some

looked a lot personal growth time,

it wasn't just wasn't looking.

I wasn't in the mood to work on the car for a while,

but a bad headspace situation.

But I finally got some motivation to get out there

and tear it down the rest of the way.

I pulled out the engine, the.

Lot of men to the engine because top end was already apart.

I used the engine hoist that I have and mounted it on the engine stand.

For the rest of the way down, I took out the pistons, all four of them.

Three out of four of the pistons have a broken skirt.

Yeah. Which is not good.

It's weird. Yeah.

It's very weird.

That's just sitting in there.

Was that sitting in the oil pan?

There were pieces of it in random places in the end.

Oh, also not great.

Some of it was in the oil pan, some of it was sitting like,

yeah, I say that, but I also

had turned the engine over on the stand.

So when it was upside down, I'm sure some of the oil pan.

So the pieces that were in the oil pan

made their way back up into the engine.

So I don't know where they were sitting, more than likely in the pan.

There was definitely a bunch of debris on the oil pickup tube.

It is that like metal screen on the bottom of it,

which obviously saved that stuff from going into everything

because the head was fine.

There were no signs of any kind of debris in the head

when the head was cleaned of the machine job.

So very odd.

But the big tell was when I took out number three

and where the rings are, the piston grooves that go

in between the rings were all cracked and smashed.

The oil control ring itself was broken.

And it was all just being held together by the race.

Once I pulled the rings off, all the pieces fell out

and there was a one inch by half inch hole

the side of the piston.

So I don't know how that happened.

It's wild.

It doesn't make much sense.

The car always ran fine.

I don't think it ever ran lean.

It doesn't have any kind of oxygen sensor

or any kind of reading to tell.

It never ran like it ran lean.

It never had any issues like that.

If anything, I think it ran rich,

but it didn't do it and never pinged.

It never did anything weird.

It just ran normal.

In fact, it even was running with no compression

number three, almost normal.

Like it didn't make any weird noises.

There was no outward signs other than the fact

that it was tons of blow by smoke coming out

of the breather in the valve cover.

I think you would have melted a hole

from the top of the piston if it was lean,

more so than the sides.

I'm just thinking of like the hanging and knocking

and like other things that lean conditions can cause.

I just, I don't know.

I'm not an expert when it comes to like

the real fine minutiae of diagnosing what went wrong

at an engine, but I can't figure out anything

in this case.

A couple of people have suggested that,

I think you were one of them that possibly went,

because the engine was rebuilt about 15,000 miles ago.

Maybe when it was rebuilt,

they did not measure the bore correctly

and the pistons were too tight.

That's what I think.

And that caused the skirts to break,

but just by over time and repetition,

they got weak and broke.

But I wonder if they were-

And maybe number three was just worse.

Do they have a bunch of scrapes on the side

that was broken?

No, there's almost nothing.

I'm wondering if they're the,

cause you've got the thrust side of the piston.

And usually when you're looking at a piston,

when you take one out,

that side will have more scrapes

where it's just been scraping the cylinder wall.

It's normal.

Cause it's just the way that, yeah, the engine works.

But yeah, if it was just, I had to look at them again.

Yeah, it was just not sized properly.

Then yeah, stuff was just too tight.

Cause there's definitely a Goldilocks zone of getting,

they need to be tight, but not too tight.

They need to be tight enough that the oil doesn't go by,

but not so tight that they can't move freely.

So I'm not sure what happened,

but I know it's catastrophic, that's for sure.

I had a call out to a machine shop

that I was recommended.

Actually called them today,

but the guy's out of office until Monday.

So I'll call him again on Monday.

Supposedly he's pretty good.

So hopefully it works out.

I trust with very much,

I very much trust the person who's recommending him.

So I hope it works out.

But yeah, these engines aren't.

I'd have them just fit the pistons and the rings for you.

Yeah, I might have them do that, just peace of mind.

This guy builds race engines,

so he should have an idea what he's doing.

Yeah, it might,

but I just, it's not like terribly expensive.

I would just have him do that.

I mean, you can do it yourself.

It's just very fiddly if you wanna learn.

Yeah, we'll see what happens.

It all depends on cost and everything,

but these engines are very commonly used

for different forms of motor sports.

Guys run big turbos on them

and you go drag racing with them.

There's a series of some kind of like hydroplane style

boat racing that uses three TC's.

They're used in some kind of aviation somewhere

and then some circle track guys use them.

So there's a bunch of,

bunches and bunches of parts that are available for these.

So you can go as mild to as wild as you want

when building one of these motors.

My plan is not to go crazy with it.

I might just do a couple of minor things.

I'll create some ignition stuff

and probably do a exhaust header,

but I don't wanna go crazy with it

because there's no need to.

It's just a cruiser.

It's not a race car.

Yeah, like the blowout.

I wanna build a race car out of it.

I could have bought $800 to $1,000 racing pistons

or an overboard kit.

Like, not worth it.

Yeah, that's not what I'm going for

on this one either.

Trying to keep it a reliable, fun car.

My guess is that with a fresh motor

with the right exhaust and the right ignition parts,

it'll probably make about 100 horsepower.

Nothing like.

Which is super crazy.

Just shocking that the pistons are broken

because it's not like a high horsepower car.

It's the craziest thing.

It's a nothing car.

Like it's just a normal car,

which makes me really think that there was an error

in the build process before.

So I looked at the pistons, they're ITK,

which seems to be a reputable brand,

but in looking at ITK pistons,

I guess there's a company out there,

are a couple of companies out there

that make knockoffs of the ITKs

and they stamp them with the ITK logo.

Yeah, and the only way to tell

if you have the real one or not

is the box they come in has like a seal on it.

But obviously I don't have that box

because I haven't bought a car

with the engine in it.

So maybe they're just cheap castings

from some Chinese knockoff piston.

Maybe that's the problem.

I just, I don't know.

It's very bizarre to me

because I never abused the car either.

Like it was never raced in any way.

It was just, I drove it around,

went to some cars and coffees with it

and went to show Williams last year.

Like I put probably three or 4,000 miles on it

in a year and a half for a pull up.

So I just, I don't understand it.

And I never, let me also think of one of the thing

that is a possibility.

The car does not have a temp sensor for the electric fans.

It's electric fans are on a switch, which is not ideal.

I'll change that when we put it back together, obviously.

And possibly somebody before me maybe overheated it,

which could have caused some damage.

But there was no sign of that in the cylinder head.

So my thinking is that's not true,

but it's only one of the like,

maybe this happened situation.

You know, everything else inside the engine looked great.

Like you can tell it was recently rebuilt.

Everything was clean.

Pulled the clutch out.

The clutch just looks brand new.

It's an Xity, it's a nice brand name clutch.

There seems to be no reason for anybody

to have cut cores with super cheap pistons,

but again, I don't know.

Good to tell you, I got a car, it's broken.

Now it's apart.

It's been broken for more than a year, Andrew.

So don't be complaining about your Volvo time.

I just never touched it

because I was building the garage.

So now it's become the first

big, big project in the garage, I guess.

And as a bonus, in all of my years of working on cars,

anytime I've torn deep into an engine,

I've never gone beyond cylinder heads

without doing the work in your dad's garage.

So, pat on the back, this is the first

like full engine tear down my own space.

There you go, good job.

Yep.

Learning stuff as we go.

I definitely will be

I'll definitely be requesting some extra hands

when I decide to put it back in again,

just because I know how difficult it is

to have to line up the engine and transmission

when you're putting the transmission in,

even harder putting the engine in

to the transmission, I think.

So, it's a big deal.

I'm sure I can get some,

con somebody into coming over here

and helping me line it up.

Plus Naomi's been a huge help this whole time too

and she'll help as well.

So, she'll help keep me motivated as well.

So, good stuff.

But yeah, it's all part.

Made the call next week,

hopefully get the machine shop scheduled

as soon as possible.

I'd like to have it done,

before the end of October,

but we'll see what happens.

I don't wanna go to false timeline on it,

but I don't see why not.

Unless the machine shop has no openings.

So, that's it.

That's it for project cars.

I've been doing a ton of prep work

for the Arizona Rising Sun Rally.

That's coming up soon.

October 25th.

If you're interested in the area

and have a pre-2005 Japanese car,

hit me up.

We're technically sold out,

but I can sneak a few more in.

So, if I need to, if I can.

If somebody wants to.

But that's prep work is working hard for that too.

So, I get our t-shirts printed this week

and we made posters this year

and all kinds of fun stuff.

So, big stuff happening there,

but it's been keeping me away from other car stuff.

So, what else is going on, you're really good?

Not that much actually.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't have,

like I literally just need to go work in the Volvo.

It's really what my issue is.

I've got some RC stuff here that I can work on,

but that's like winter's coming up

and I can do that stuff while I'm sitting inside

on a cold winter's night, so.

Although you have a couple things I want to do first.

I finished my Hornet.

Yeah, yeah, the Hornet came out cool.

Yeah.

Yeah, I finished the Hornet,

which is the Hornet EVO.

Yeah.

I think I talked about it a little bit last week.

It was the, yeah, the ultimate evolution

of that Grasshopper Hornet chassis.

Now, did the body, is that clear Lexan?

Does it come that way?

It is Lexan.

Did you have to paint it black or was it pre-painted?

Yep.

Nope, I can't clear.

Okay.

So, I haven't touched the Lexan body in years.

It was the first time I've done one in a very long time.

They're nice.

But it all came back, it all came back.

Especially the.

I wanted to do it box art style, so.

Especially the Tamiya Lexan paints really good.

That's what I used.

I was tempted to buy the Traxxas stuff, maybe.

No, Pactra.

No, I can't remember where brand is.

It's a bigger can for the same money as the Tamiya.

That's why I was like, oh, I should try that

because the hobby shop sells it as well.

But I was like, you know what?

For this first one back into like the hobby here,

let me, let me go with what I know.

So I have a lot of the Tamiya stuff.

And yeah, it worked out pretty well.

I actually, I haven't even run the car yet

other than just running it around the floor

after I set it up.

Just because I haven't had a chance, I've been so busy.

But hopefully the weekend I can run a pack through it

and see how it goes.

But it came out pretty, pretty nice.

I'm pretty stoked on it.

I was actually thinking,

because the wheelbase is the same as the touring car,

it's kind of neat to do like a full Lexan rally car

body for it.

Cause it has that tons of suspension travel.

It would be kind of a cool looking thing

to do a rally car with.

Well, I think back in the 80s, right?

Didn't they do a,

didn't they put an Audi Quattro body on it?

And they had a version of it.

On the frog.

That was a frog.

Okay, but the frog and the hornet are not related.

They're not related.

Nope.

The, that's super nerdy talk now.

The frog is the same chassis as the monster beetle

and a black flip.

Which if you're a Tamiya fan, you'll know those instantly.

So those are the monster beetle and black foot

are two wheel drive monster truck style ones.

But they're based on that frog chassis

and the Subaru brat actually has the same chassis on it.

Why don't you put a sandscorch body on your hornet?

I'm thinking about that too.

It's definitely, definitely a thought process.

We'll see what happens.

The rear mounted engine of the hornet sticks out

a little further and it might look cool

through the sandscorcher body,

which is a Baha Bila body, but we'll see.

Let me run some packs through it first

before I start modifying it.

But I'm super stoked with how it came out.

So, and unfortunately, all it makes you want to do

is go to the hobby shop and buy another kit.

It goes, it's so much fun to do.

They're super fun to build.

The one I'm planning on is fixing up the

FFO one chassis I bought.

I've got some parts for it.

I should fix it up and get it running.

So, absolutely.

But I also have the little,

I have that beetle body for the SCX-24 I should paint

as well, while the weather's still good.

And I paint for it.

I just haven't gotten to it.

Story of our lives, just haven't gotten to it.

Yeah, haven't gotten to it.

Yeah, I have two RC trucks to finish.

And I still have that old Kyosho hanging on racer

that I've never built.

I have one that is about 80% built.

And it needs to be painted in detail.

Yeah, and I have my old HPI RS4 Pro 2

I get rerunning as well, which I should get

running again, but as it is, they're there.

They don't cost me anything because they're sitting there.

So I'll get to them when I get to them.

But since I'm sitting here,

I actually have two Minizis on my desk right now

because I was getting those running again.

So.

Oh yeah, I forgot about my Minizis.

All kinds of stuff.

Minizis are still made.

I mean, the new ones are pretty cool too.

And there's places to run them.

Yeah, they've changed a lot.

Yeah, there's a racetrack here that runs Minizis

but I'm afraid if I show up with my 2001 Minizis

they'll be like, what is that?

What is this guy?

Where have you been?

You in a time capsule?

Cause I have two or three of them

and I have like 15 body sets for them.

So.

Well, the bodies would double as display,

but they were so nice.

Goodbye really.

I have several that are just sitting on my shelf here

as display because they're that nice.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, from where I'm sitting,

I see a C5R Lattra Stratos with the Atalya livery,

a yellow F40 Ford Focus race car,

a Lancer Evo race car, a Super race car.

So this, it's quite a few of them that are here as well.

And they came in their little display cubes.

So they're really cool.

So, but yeah, I have a bunch of those too.

Something really ones worth money now too.

So I probably sell them and buy a whole new Minizi

if I want to do.

All for another time.

Let me run one battery back at least through this.

Hornet Evo first.

Yeah, that's it.

Any other big events happening up that way?

We've got a Japanese car day this weekend on Sunday.

So a bunch of new tools here.

People from the Discord are gonna go hang out

at Lars Andersen Japanese car day.

So make sure you buy a ticket in advance.

I was on the website last night.

They're not selling tickets at the door.

And they have staggered entry times.

Apparently they were expecting that many cars.

So they stagger it based on vehicle make,

which is kind of interesting.

So maybe you'll end up with a bunch of makes parked together.

I don't know.

Maybe that's their plan.

Interesting.

So that's going on.

And then unfortunately the same day,

there's a car show at Salem High School in Salem Mass.

The Salem High School are Alma Marta, whatever.

How have you say that?

Tired?

Alma Marta.

Can't, I still can't say it right.

Alma, Alma, that's all right.

I'm tired.

It's only for Alma Marta if you've been killed

for in the name of the school.

Yeah.

I mean, it wasn't a good school, I can't say it.

No, it's an okay school.

It's not gonna get cool.

Anyway, they have an auto move shop there

that you and I never went to,

but they're doing a car show.

They have a car club.

It's gonna be Halloween themed

because it's Salem in October.

It's actually in the outskirts of Salem.

So you don't have to go into downtown Salem to get there.

You can, if you're locally,

you can kind of make it pretty easily,

but yeah, I think it's also,

they're doing a tech meet in conjunction

with the North World Car Club the same day, I think.

Sorry, our dads are doing stuff there with them.

But yeah, it's just,

I kind of bummed that it's the same day

as Japanese Cardi because I thought

Japanese Cardi was on the Saturday,

but it's also on the Sunday.

So, oh well.

I missed Japanese Cardi last year

because we had a little kid's soccer

used to be on Sunday mornings.

And now Mark was moved up to kindergarten soccer,

which is all on Saturdays.

So at least I don't lose my Sunday.

But yeah, anyway, that's what I get going on.

Yes, we have Williams this Saturday

and then 25th is my event

and then 26th is the first start

of Kiyoshi Club here in Phoenix, so.

What about JCCS, are you going to that this year?

Probably not, that's next weekend,

week from this Saturday.

I was up in the air, up in the air, up in the air,

but there's so much other stuff going on.

I just don't think I'm gonna make it.

I'd like to go, because it's the 15th anniversary,

I think. 20th anniversary.

20th anniversary?

Yeah, has a lot of cool stuff happening.

A lot of cool products to buy would be a consumer

that are 20th anniversary related.

They're doing a t-shirt collab with MoonEyes,

which is pre-read.

But yeah, I don't think I'm gonna make it.

I'd still like to, but I just,

I don't think it's, I don't think it's in the cards.

There's just so much going on.

Can only do so much, unfortunately.

But what can I say?

Anyway, yeah, watch the race,

because I want to talk to you about that next week.

At least watch the last half of the last stage.

That's pretty good stuff.

Although I guess you know who wins already,

so maybe just watch the highlights.

I'm just gonna watch the highlights now.

But big bummer at the end.

That's how I heard,

because the tour has been dominant

in the quote unquote post-season.

And all they had to do was

not take each other out,

go easy on each other a little bit,

to slide a teammate win.

Turns out that was too difficult.

Yeah.

So, yeah, weird move.

Very frustrating, especially frustrating

because Denny Hamlin,

who is the owner of the 2311 cars

in conjunction with Jordan

was passing one of the 2311 cars, Bubba Wallace.

And when he took the air out from under him,

both cars got lightly went up towards the wall

and ran out of space

and slowed down to the point that they got past

and lost the race.

So he could have just rolled in

and finished a second behind Bubba.

That would have guaranteed Bubba a move

to next round of four.

And he would have got good points.

And Denny was already in third or fourth

in Sandings anyway.

So he was already moving on to the next round of four

and getting a win in this round of four

doesn't guarantee you anything beyond this round.

So by trying to beat Bubba at the end,

not only did he take out Bubba's chances of moving on,

well, he still has another race,

but still he knocked him out of contention

and himself out of the win.

So big bummer.

He was a real super first.

Yeah, his redness move.

Like I don't be strategic a bit.

Like.

Yeah, there was no thought process there.

Which is crazy because as a fan, I am sitting there

and I'm like, all right, Bubba's winning this race.

He's got less than a full lap to go.

Denny's behind him.

Denny won't take him out.

Denny will run block for him.

And then behind them, you had

Taleretic as well, so the other 2311 car.

So it could have been possibly like a one, two, three

with Bubba, Denny and Tyler.

And then Bubba just was like, I mean, sorry.

Denny was just like, nope, I'm gonna win this thing.

And turned out he did not.

And then neither did any of his team cars.

And he gave the victory over to good old boring face.

Chase Elliott.

So yeah, it seemed like a real weird move.

Like, yeah, I understand you technically don't,

at the end of the day, you're all racers

as the last lap, but like,

you're all driving the same team, cars Toyota,

your team Toyota, you're driving two different teams,

but yeah, there's definitely a technical

probably sharing between JGR and 2311.

You're basically sister teams.

And it's like, you could have all just gone across the line

and brought everybody in with points and positions.

It would have been a one, two, three, JGR, 2311 finish.

Yeah, Toyota would have been happy, you know.

Sure, you didn't have a win,

but you should still be happy

because your driver got to win, your team got to win.

You've grabbed the points to advance,

like my goodness, like what?

Like, come on.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was a real bad move, but what do I know?

So I know I should be happy

because it's like, you know, no team orders,

no race and race in, but it's still a little bit

of common sense as they go into this.

Especially this time of year when it's the playoffs.

I mean, yeah, technically there's no team orders,

but you could still work together to like, right.

Like, and then I, you know, it's not really,

it wouldn't be race manipulation

because you're not like purposely slowing down.

I don't know.

It's silly.

It's all silly.

Well, blocking, blocking, blocking

if your teammate is leaving.

Yeah.

So whatever.

Anyway, I digress to watch the highlights

or lowlights, I guess it was a,

it was infuriating in the moment

because I was watching it, you know,

super excited, didn't know what happened.

I was watching it pretty much in real time.

And just, cause like,

do you really need to help Hendrick?

Does Hendrick need more help?

Like, come on.

Absolutely not.

Definitely not.

All right.

So.

That's it and that's all.

Yeah. That's a podcast.

I think we'll be back next week with,

hopefully get more down to the Volvo

where you'll find out from the machine shop

and, yeah, we'll have some event stuff to talk about.

So.

Yeah.

And if I can keep this motivation going,

I should have another project dug into.

So, all right, cool.

We shall see.

So follow us on auto-topic on Instagram,

scale out a cast on Instagram.

I am racing anger on Instagram.

You should put up some pictures of your

Hornet on scale out a cast.

That'd be cool.

I definitely should.

And, yeah, I got some more pictures,

probably the Volvo stuff I gotta put up there.

And, yeah, Brad, where can I find you?

They can find me at those same places.

And my personal Instagram is TSI SS 350.

Cool.

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