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Project Car Chronicles
Project Car Chronicles
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About this episode
Spring car-season is the focus, with Kevin Byrd and Willie B swapping stories about what happens when projects sit too long—gaskets, varnish, fuel issues, and dead batteries. They compare prep routines for coming out of storage, including tire checks, fluid refreshes, and why carburetors often fight you after years dormant. Kevin also recounts a long repair saga on his 69 Charger after an oil-pan hit, while Willie updates his widebody Mustang fastback build, including a tricky chopped-top glass problem. They end with build talk, weight balance banter, and upcoming plans.
Topics:
spring car prep after storage
preventative maintenance vs repairs
fuel stabilizer and oil changes
tire inspection and dry rot
carburetor vs fuel injection after sitting
winter storage tips for multiple vehicles
project updates: 69 charger oil pan repair
project updates: widebody mustang glass challenge
weight balance discussion front to rear
road course pro touring build plans
Cars:
BMW M3
Chevrolet Corvette
Dodge Challenger
Dodge Charger
Dodge Custom 880
Dodge Road Runner
Ford Mustang
Shelby GT500
Volvo 345
After months of neglect and distractions, Willie and Kevin are finally digging their project cars out of mothballs to begin wrenching on them again. They share some pre- and post-winter storage tips to ensure a smooth transition back to the open road and pull back the curtain on the slow and steady progress – and occasional behind-the-scenes struggles – that come with resurrecting sidelined automotive projects. From unexpected repairs that muck up the works to the satisfying (and sometimes frustrating) world of custom fabrication, they highlight the very real setbacks and victories that many car enthusiasts face.
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Dodge Charger
"...treet car? For those that don't know, I have a 69 Dodge Charger. I have two just Jet Black Dodge Chargers."
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Dodge Custom
"not to be driven, but I've got a 59 Dodge custom Royal D 500. I fired it up the other day,"
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Dodge Road Runner
"I'm not driven for a minute. I got a road runner that needs a, I guess a fuel pump went out on it"
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BMW M3
"...e got some older tires on my wide body, first gen M3 with the LS in it. And I think this is the summer..."
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Chevrolet Corvette
"... have it today, a 454 numbers matching four-speed Corvette Silver car, still out in the shop right now,"
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Shelby GT500
"...to Ford, right? Coyote, so it's the basically the GT500 motor with blower on it."
Car
Volvo 345
"I did a wide body. I only had 345s on my wide body. But yeah, man, I got 305s in the..."
Car
Challenger Hellcat
"...ay have me a little bit on power. I just have the Hellcat red eye. I am gonna do a little Livernoi,"
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It is two guys driving the podcast.
Welcome to it.
Here's Kevin Byrd, I'm Willie B, and fired up today.
We don't have anybody to talk to.
Man, we're actually excited because today is the day
we get to talk about, well, dusting off your cars, man.
Spring weather is here all across the country.
People are bringing their cars out.
For some people, first time through the winter.
I don't know about you, Byrd,
but I know I let a lot of cars sit this year, man.
I was a bad car owner, car enthusiast.
Just overall car, dude, I had so much work
and I did something unique this year
with my Cars for Christmas program.
You know, that takes up a lot of my time, right?
So I just kind of already have committed
a certain number of months to Cars for Christmas
that I just know I'm not gonna be able to work
on my cars, and I just kind of know
it's about to give and do it for that.
Now, this year, after Cars for Christmas,
I decided when we were going through the paperwork,
we found so many people that had cars,
but the cars weren't good enough to feel comfortable
about these people driving every day,
especially with families, kids, getting to and from,
you know, grandparents' visits to the doctor,
kids' visits to a doctor.
So we took a bunch of listeners and people
that emailed into Foundation and we fixed their cars
after Cars for Christmas was over.
We fixed four, I think we gotta do one more,
but she's saving some money for Cars.
So four, total of five altogether,
additional cars on top of the 35, 36 cars we gifted.
So it's been a busy year on that.
It's not like I'm not turning wrenches,
but man, I'm stuck because now I finally
get to pull some of my stuff in the garage,
work on it for the few months that I have to do it.
Yeah, it's weird, man, as I've gotten older.
You know, when you're younger,
it seems like you have a lot more free time,
especially, you know, pre-kids and families.
You've got lots of time,
but if you have that one cool toy you got,
whether it's your dirt bike, street bike, your hot rod,
whatever it is, man, you got focus.
You take care of it, you store it right,
you un-winterize it right, you do all these things right.
And then, you know, like it's in the way,
you got all these other distractions and things
in Cars for Christmas and then you get more toys
and all of a sudden, oh man, I got that,
I got the dirt bike, I got my pontoon over there,
I got my moonbow, you know,
my wakeboard boat, I got this hot rod,
man, you got stuff scattered all over the place,
you can't keep up with your battery charger, you know,
like, when did I change the oil on that?
How old is the gas in that thing?
Oh my God, you know, like,
so I feel like I really don't do a good job
taking care of my stuff,
but you know what, I know who gets to fix it.
So, you know, but I don't take care of something,
I know who fixes it and makes it right again.
So, you know, preventative is the way to go,
but, you know, fixing is kind of the backup plan.
There's no doubt, it is weird though, man,
you know what kills a car is letting it sit,
it just kills so many gaskets and, you know,
fluids and there's varnishes, you know,
there's all that sediment and things, you know,
that, you know, could block up and stuff up fuel injectors
and, you know, carburetors and floats
and all the needles and seats
and so it all gets affected by that for sure.
Nothing like getting the car out,
driving it and enjoying it that makes that car happy,
but yeah, I'm guilty of that, man,
it's sort of a lot of people.
So today, we're gonna go over getting that car out,
we're gonna go over a few of our projects,
some that have been on the forefront,
some on the backburner.
Both of ours have been on the backburner.
We'll get you caught up on that.
There is movement in at least my world,
I'll explain that here in just a few.
It's the Two Guys Rock podcast,
Kevin Byrd, Will It Be when we're back after the break.
It is Two Guys Rocks podcast,
here's Kevin Byrd, I am Will It Be and fired up.
We're talking about some of our own projects
and, you know, just getting your car out for the first time
has been sitting for the fall, the winter.
I live a couple of miles back on a dirt road,
so when the snow starts flying,
I tend to park a man and this year,
snow came early, I didn't get a chance,
dude, you're gonna laugh because I'm gonna give you
a date and you're gonna be like,
oh my God, I can't believe what you're saying.
So last year, start of last year,
let's rewind a little bit, let's get in time machine.
Go way back to this time last year.
All right, this time last year,
what is my favorite street car?
For those that don't know, I have a 69 Dodge Charger.
I have two just Jet Black Dodge Chargers.
One is a 70 and if you can see the camera,
I'm holding a cool picture of it
doing a nasty burnout up for Kevin.
That's like the 70.
Yeah, that was called the Titan
because it's a two-stage liquid missile.
Yeah, man, it's a nasty nine-second street car
and then I got a 69 Dodge Charger that is a nasty,
believe it or not, I think the 69's a little bit faster.
I think that 69's got a 890, high 890 in it,
whereas it may be faster than my old race car,
but my old race car's in a lot nicer shape
so I don't take it out as much.
But last year, my 69 Dodge Charger.
So this is a car that I drive often.
I got a gear vendors on it.
Last year was the first year I'd put that gear vendors
on it, so that made it a lot more streetable.
Engine, 542 cubic inch big block.
Indie heads, the engine itself is almost 600 horsepower.
When I spray it, I got a street tune
that makes it about 880 and a strip tune
that makes it right at 1,000 on a progressive controller.
So it's a pretty nasty car.
It'll pull the tires on a drag strip
and it get down on a street race,
but I drove it everywhere.
When you say drive it everywhere
for a nine-second street car in Colorado
at corrected altitude 10,000 feet at a local track,
so that's a pretty fast car.
And unfortunately this last year,
Bandamere or local drag strip closed,
but I think the car's a hint faster now
with the gear vendors and just the way it,
I did a couple things, I upgraded the heads to it.
So I'm driving that car June of last year.
All right, June of last year, I drive that car
and I'm transitioning from a concrete
to an asphalt transition under a stoplight.
So light's green, I see the light, it turns yellow.
I give the charger just a little bit of gas
and as I skip from the concrete
underneath the red light to the pavement,
there had been some sort of upheaval in the winter
or the pavement pushed somehow
and there's a big chunk of it that smacks my oil pan.
And bloodies my oil pan to the point
where I'm bleeding for the next mile and a half.
Here a little rattle, kill the engine
and pull it to the side of the road.
And right about the time I heard the rattle,
I looked and I'm 20 pounds of oil pressure.
So I'm like, whoa, shut the car down
and sort of backtracing my steps.
So that happened at the end of June last year.
I am pushing my car in my garage
to repair it from that accident.
And here we are at the end of March beginning of April,
the year after.
I'm like, my God, it's taken me that long
to get my own Numero Uno hot rod back out and ready.
Well, that's the problem with, you know,
you get a couple of toys, right?
Each one needs your attention.
Yeah.
I want to give it to all of them,
but like I said, work, life.
I mean, we do multiple jobs, both Willie and I.
So that doesn't help.
Then you throw on cars for Christmas.
Yeah.
And we're not the kind of guys
that ever want to hire anybody out.
Especially not on our babies.
No way is that gonna happen.
You know, I didn't even want a friend
barely to come over and touch anything.
You come over, hang out their beers right over there,
but don't touch it.
I got it.
Right.
I got it.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
So I play to get that 69 charger back
within the next couple of weeks.
But then, you know, like you,
I got another project that's on the horizon
that's got, you know, kind of a bigger footprint.
Wide body?
Oh, what?
Mine.
Your Mustang.
Yeah, yeah.
Your Mustang and my wide body.
Your Mustang that we had on the show,
that is funny.
I just shared a picture of that
to another buddy of mine who picked himself up
a 70 Mustang.
Nice.
And he loves yours.
Was telling him a little bit about what we're doing.
And yeah, my wide body,
which was at SEMA a few years back.
And man, I'm making moves on it.
And I'll get you caught up in just a second.
But let's catch up with yours.
Anything right out of the gate as you bring a car.
Well, let's talk about bringing a car
out of a winter fog and haze.
First thing you gotta do is wash it off, clean off.
Get all the crap out of it and off of it.
So recommend that.
But is there anything you do prior to storing your cars
or do you do it when you bring it out in the spring
to get them ready?
Well, there's things I have on my list
that I don't do.
That I shouldn't.
Yeah.
Right.
Touché.
As we've talked with the guru of goo
or our buddy, Gopralcek, from Hot Shots Secret.
Man, you should really change your oil
before you store something.
And that's one.
Yeah.
Oh, winter comes around, man.
And when you're stuffing.
So I'm on a lake here.
I got a dock.
Every piece of dock goes in length, ticker toys,
piece by piece, bolt by bolt.
Everything comes out.
It's got a 800 pound lift.
I somehow got to drag out into the yard.
I got two boats to winter.
Like winter comes so fast
that all of a sudden you're just scrambling.
So yes, I should change your oil and everything.
And I don't.
Right.
Having a lake in your backyard
makes changing oil in your car very difficult.
Well, I consider, you know, my boats by hot rods too.
Yeah.
The dirt bike, you know, you name it.
So yes, I would change my oil before I store it,
which I don't always do.
But that's what you should do.
Everyone listening should do that.
Right.
I do kind of move the trickle chargers around all winter.
And I do typically try to put a fuel stabilizer in
and make sure that it runs through the injectors
or carbure or whatever else.
So I'm kind of stabilizing the fuel.
Those are my big ones.
I store in heated indoor.
So I don't have to worry about the moisture so much.
You know, some people will bag their cars,
especially like really super nice cars.
Yeah.
They'll bag them.
You know, which I haven't done,
but I've always had good indoor heated.
How about you?
Anything on the list of yours?
Well, I always check, you know,
for flat spots on the tires,
any dry rotting that may occur in the tires,
depending on where you store it at.
That's always kind of a thing.
I learned a hard way.
Well, yeah, coming out.
Yeah.
For sure.
Going in, you know, that's my short list.
But yeah, coming out is definitely the full.
Yeah, full inspection.
You know, you're right.
Going in, I typically would try to change the oil,
just make sure, you know,
things are topped off that need to be unplugged
or disconnect the battery, things like that.
Just make sure not a lot of corrosion is building up on it.
And you know, for me, that's about it.
Like you, I have a lot of these.
Oh, I forgot.
I forgot the part about I cry a little.
I cry.
You know, because I'm not gonna see
my favorite things for five months.
Yeah, man.
And for me, it's compounded because I, you know,
I have a predicament.
Now someone's gonna hate on me for this,
but I got a lot of cars.
I got, you know,
when I say I have a lot of cars, I have a, you know,
I have a lot of cars.
So it's one thing for my baby, my 69 charger,
not to be driven,
but I've got a 59 Dodge custom Royal D 500.
I fired it up the other day,
but I'm not driven that thing.
And over a year and, you know, three, four months,
I got another 57 Chevy.
I'm not driven for a minute.
I got a road runner that needs a,
I guess a fuel pump went out on it
because I'm not getting fuel up to the car.
So I gotta fix that cause it just sit there.
So there's a lot of things that just happened,
but I've got probably, you know,
30 cars that I start can drive, you know,
in the, in the old hot rod category.
So yeah, for me, it's a bigger pain,
but you know, I've learned that lesson.
And man, I should do a better job in years past I have,
but this year, two kids,
like you said, a lot of cars for Christmas stuff,
just a lot of kids stuff, it took over.
And, you know, my own cars.
I've had a few other projects, you know,
in my regular cars that I needed bigger repairs on.
So it took a lot of my time,
but coming out of storage.
Yeah, like you mentioned, full, full on inspection.
I check the tires, check for any leaks,
get some fuel pressure.
Especially if it's one of these cars
that I don't drive very often.
I unplug the coil and, you know,
let the oil pump circulate some oil in the engine
before I light it off for real.
Definitely check the gas.
We, you know, we're using the Jeep
on the show here in a few weeks.
One of my, my cars that I've had stored for eight years,
eight years, I'd never touched this Jeep.
I just had it in the corner of my shop.
And I got to tell you, it was the easiest
fire up I've ever had.
It's random how that works, right?
When you think it's going to be a big hassle
and you just abused it,
you're ready for it to kick in the teeth.
And all of a sudden it's like, oh, hey, there you are.
I've been waiting for you.
And then, you know, some other thing that's like,
ah, just been a couple of months.
I'm just going to go hop in it, battery's dead.
This is, you know, where does Lee come from?
So it could be random how it treats you back, you know?
Let me ask you, do you think a car
with a carburetor is worse sitting
or a car with fuel injection is worse sitting?
Which one's worst case scenario
for just sitting for a couple of years
without starting?
In my experience, it's always the carburetor.
Always carburetor.
Yeah, you know what?
I wouldn't have said that years ago,
but just given recent, just recent fire ups
with like some of my cars for Christmas stuff
and some of my hot rides that I haven't fired up
in a couple of years.
Yeah, man, the carburetors have a problem.
Yeah, my old, I don't know,
XR600 dirt bike, carbureted.
And man, every spring, boom,
I'd have to do a carb rebuild, you know?
Like something, even if I drained it outright,
just, I don't know, it's just something, just.
Yeah, that needle in the seat gets all sticky or stuck
and floats get stuck.
Yeah, man.
But my new Husky, right, fuel injected.
You know, I think, oh God, here we go.
I got a ride coming up this weekend.
First one out, I got so much stuff to do
and I just, you know, it's got electric start on it.
Just, I'm like, I guess I'm riding.
I guess we're riding boys.
Let's go.
Well, this Jeep, it's got a 360, an AMC 360 in it.
It's got the old Holley System X fuel injection.
So one of the first ones that Holley ever came out with.
It looks like a, almost like a throttle body
with a big, huge injector in the middle of it.
You know, since all the venturi is kind of wild.
So it's that System X kit.
I had that on the Jeep because, you know,
anybody does a lot of rock crawling,
carburetors just will kill you on big, large angles.
So fuel injection is kind of the way to go.
I put that one on it and it was an old system
when I put it on it.
So having that thing, I was like, well, I drug it down.
I did change the oil in it before I stored it.
So that was good.
I rolled it down after I dug it out to the shop
from my project barn.
Got a battery for it.
Did just that, unplugged the coil,
cranked it over until I saw some more pressure.
Cleaned the fuel injection,
just using some throttle body cleaners, some CRC stuff.
Cleaned it up pretty good.
So it was all clean and looked fairly well.
Made sure it was getting spark.
And man, I put that coil back in and it said,
vroom, vroom, vroom, and just fired right up.
And believe it or not, I'm driving,
I drove it earlier today, just riding back yard,
just having some fun with the kids.
So yeah, man, I really think fuel injection
is a much easier way to go if you're storing cars.
I got a Hemi Dodge Charger, a 70,
with the Holley Sniper kit on it.
And man, she fires right up every time.
One of these other cars, my 68, for example,
or my 69 with the carburetor on it,
it's gonna take a little bit of work.
So I think you're right.
Fuel injection is a savior when it comes to storing your car.
It's hard to argue to buy a carburetor.
If you don't already have it on your car, right?
And you're doing a fuel system for anything
to even really debate doing the carburetor.
And every time I think about a project,
a potential project,
because I got enough of them going on right now,
and they're all mud and mussel in them.
But I think about a project like that,
it would be cool to just do a little bit of old school,
do an nostalgic, put a carburetor on it.
It's like, man, you really gotta talk yourself
into a carburetor for all the reasons, right?
Altitude and temperature and just, yeah.
I'm a carburetor guy, man.
Yeah, because they're easy,
but yeah, cost-effective, they're a little more affordable.
And they work when you get them right,
but keeping them right is a challenge.
And unless you're up for that challenge,
you're gonna have some problems with it.
Well, and it goes back to, if you have that one thing,
and it's a carbureted and it's just part of your scene,
you know, it's like, oh, I'm polishing this thing out,
it's gonna look awesome.
You know, I'm tuning my little carburetor,
you know, I'm setting the setting.
Great, but yeah, when you have more and more
multiple toys and they're just,
they're falling apart around you,
man, you just want everything to just fire back up.
You know?
Yeah, it's crazy.
All the little pumps, they get hardened,
the rubberating gets hard.
Yeah, and just things under carburetor,
and you don't see it get clunked up
and got, you know, clocked up with stuff.
It's just a, it's a, you know,
it's got a lot of points of failure.
You'll find that once you store these vehicles.
All right, we gotta take a break.
Two guys were at the podcast,
Kevin Berg, Willie B, we're back after the break,
talking about what's cool for your car
coming out of the winter,
and man, some of these spring projects we're working on.
All right, back out of the break.
See you in a second.
It is two guys garage podcast.
He's Kevin Berg, I'm Willie B,
we're talking about dusting your car off,
getting it, hey, whether it's a car,
motorcycle, truck, whatever you got, man.
If you're storing it for the winter,
if you're storing it for the fall for winter,
then yeah, it's gonna need a little bit of love
when you bring it back out,
especially if it's, you know,
like a couple of my cars have been stored
for longer than just one or two seasons.
How about one or two years?
So yeah, definitely something you wanna look at,
definitely something you wanna get new oil in,
definitely something you wanna look at,
you know, whatever your fuel delivery system is,
there are probably gonna be some issues there,
probably be some issues with the battery,
probably be some issues with coolant,
and you know, things like that.
Check out the fluids.
Anything else you could think of,
Kevin, on the top of your head?
We miss his tires, but dry rods,
it is something to look at.
Yeah, and it's actually, you kind of reminded me,
I've got some older tires on my wide body,
first gen M3 with the LS in it.
And I think this is the summer, the spring,
where I just get out somewhere and just roast them off.
Just put my kid in the car and just donate that thing
till the metal's coming out, right?
Till it's got hairy tires on it and replace them.
But yeah, I mean, that's one thing you wanna do
is check dates on your tires, right?
Check dates, how long have they been on there?
Look for the dry rodding, look for the flat spotting.
Make sure to check your air pressure,
because that's one thing a lot of times you forget, right?
You go check all your fluids, right?
You got spark, boom thing fires up
and you're just so giddy, boom.
You take off and man, that right rear
that you weren't really paying attention to,
it was like 10, 15 PSI low
and the next thing you know, you got issues somewhere.
Yeah, man, I remember the,
a buddy of mine sold me a really nice,
I still have it today, a 454 numbers matching
four-speed Corvette Silver car,
still out in the shop right now,
but the first day I got that car,
you know, my buddy Gene, he had probably 25 Corvettes.
I just selected that one, he didn't drive it a lot.
Well, the tires, the tires were like nine years old,
but it was kept in a heated environment.
It didn't have anywhere on it,
but driving that car like a day after I got it,
man, one of the tires let go,
the belt around the middle let go
and had this huge, I mean, I was driving it
and then it sounded like doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop,
because it had this huge bubble brain
like a hunchback of Notre Dame on it, on the side of it.
I was like, whoa, like that could have got really ugly
had it not got stopped and got over.
So yeah, man, tires are something you definitely
need to look at and should look at,
something that oftentimes kind of flies under the radar.
Yeah, that's a sneaky one.
Yeah, the rest are just looking for leaks,
checking for sounds, all that stuff,
looking for mice that kind of made homes in places
that should have.
Oh man, a mice are a pain, dude.
Any other kind of rodent?
Yeah, no doubt.
Checking out mice shop is if there's one,
then there's more of them.
That's always something that we deal with
and why we partnered up with mouse blockers so often
because it really is, it's a big problem where I'm at too.
They came out here to actually shoot
and I said, you wanna see mice, let's go out back.
We lifted up this piece of wood
and there was five or six mice in it.
I'm like, that's my problem right here.
They're everywhere, man, and they get everywhere.
So yeah, definitely something to look at.
For you, man, you've had a project sitting there
for a little while.
Well, give us the progress report on your 70 mock one.
Is it a mock one?
It's a fastback.
It's a clone?
No, it's just, it's been a race car.
I've never looked up the Venn to see what it came with,
but I think it was like a Cleveland car.
So it's a fastback, but I bought it as an empty shell.
Right, an empty shell.
No drag race car.
Drag race for almost 40 years, yeah.
Yeah, then you turn it into more of a road course car.
Yeah, so it's definitely all pro touring now.
So it's slammed, it's got great stance.
18, 19 rear, tire size, 355s on the rear,
295s on the front.
You know, it's a C5 to six base.
355s in the rear, 355, that's ridiculous.
How did it be pumping?
Yeah, that's crazy.
You know, I got the modern muscle,
so it's a five to Ford, right?
Coyote, so it's the basically the GT500 motor
with blower on it.
So, you know, you saw we made almost 1100 on E85.
So it should be an 8900 all day street, you know,
street trim with that five speed TKX from Trimmick.
So it's stoked about that.
Yeah, full floater, nine inch rear.
Dude, this thing will, this thing will get,
but yeah, it's just been sitting.
I just got so many, so many things piled up on my plate.
It's killing me.
I mean, the motor is sitting right there.
You can see it right there.
It's just, yeah.
And I've done all the,
so all the suspension is basically in,
so it's a roller, and I've put the motor transmission
in and out a few times.
You know, the headers I have don't fit.
So you can see one of the header tubes is cut
because I'm going to rework the existing header, you know,
so I don't have to spend, you know,
three, four grand on a special set.
But yeah, I've got everything marked, all the tunnel,
everything that I need to modify, the headers,
like I got the whole build plan,
right all the holes I'm going to patch in the floor,
grafting rockers, grafting frame rails
through the rockers, tying it into the torque box.
So I had the whole thing like all worked out.
I had the thing in and out a bunch of times.
And then, yeah, it's just collecting dust.
Like, what the heck, man?
What the heck?
Oh, like so many projects out there.
See, he's one of us, you guys, he's one of us.
And by us, I mean, I got the same thing.
You know, my wide body, which was at SEMA.
How long ago?
Made a big splash there.
How long ago was it at SEMA?
22.
22.
22 years ago?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, 2022.
But yeah, man, it was, yeah, it seems like forever ago,
but man, I've really not done too much since then.
I just recently made some progress on it.
You know what took me a while was getting the sway bars
all right with heights.
So that kind of took like a year after SEMA.
And then, you know, kids and life and other projects
kind of got in the way.
But got back on it about eight, nine months ago,
finished up the exhaust on it.
So the exhaust has ran on it.
Now I've got, dude, I've got the craziest glass issue.
Like glass.
Something you don't think about for a hot rod,
you know, or a muscle car.
Glass, yeah, I chopped the top on that thing.
And now I've got a little,
well, I've got a little predicament with the glass.
Oh, we don't see it anymore.
What happened?
Yeah, yeah, so I gotta go to a specialized glass person
which is challenging to say the least
because that's a niche.
I mean, dude, when you chop a top of a muscle car,
A, most people consider that sacrilege,
but in this case it worked,
but it allowed that rear window not to move far enough forward
to meet the door hinge where the door, you know,
body line is.
So, I-
Well, remind me real quick.
So the front and the back glass,
you sank so it can use the stock glass
or did you have to cut it to fit or?
So where I cut the car, yeah, that's,
so we had to trim the front windshield,
but the back windshield,
because I cut the car on the sail panel.
I cut the car on the back.
I didn't cut the back window.
So just that big long sail panel
right up from where the,
from the corner of that rear window,
if you can imagine that sail panel right there
all the way back to the trunk
so that that whole roof just falls.
It keeps the same rear window.
The front windshield had to be trimmed down,
but now because I dropped it a couple inches,
the side glass, it used to have vent windows in it.
The vent windows are eliminated, right?
So it used to have just a big square piece of glass
that would come up on that vent window
and on that rear window
that the people in the back seat could roll down
with a little handle.
So that rear window doesn't quite move forward far enough.
It's about an inch and a half short.
So I need to trim that to get it to move forward more.
And then I got to find a replacement glass
that has that corner where the old vent window used to go.
And believe it or not, man,
I found a 2007 F-250 glass fits that corner
that's where I'm at right now as far as glass.
I've, yeah, I kind of found that out.
But other than that, it's a lot of shaping.
So I got to find somebody who's better than that
than I am to give it the seal right.
Cause I want to be able to roll the windows up, obviously
and be able to shelter myself from any storms
or the wind or anything else.
So have you found a glass guy?
Have you had the conversation?
Here's what I got.
Can you help me out?
No, not recently, the one guy in town
that was doing glass, retired last year.
So I'm looking for, you know,
I haven't put the feelers out there.
There's a couple of little things
that I'm gonna move the slave cylinder first
cause I don't quite like where that comes out at.
And then that's the last mechanical thing
I'm gonna do to it.
And then after that, it's the glass guy.
And then I take it to the interior shop.
So my goal is to have this thing running,
showing up at a car show by the end of summer.
That'd be sweet, dude.
That would be sweet.
So you got interior, which you've got a guy for.
Glass is an unknown.
And then small, little mechanical bits.
And that's it.
One little mechanical thing I gotta move
where a slave cylinder comes in the car at
cause it's too close to where my feet need to be
or where they're gonna be moving around at.
So I don't like where I have that coming out at now,
but so I'm gonna fix that.
But then really mechanically,
I think the car is ready to roll.
So outside of that, it should be good to get a tune on it.
I do have to drop a tune into it,
which I'm getting a lot better at
and feeling comfortable with.
So yeah, man, that part I think is good.
The glass and the interior,
the final couple pieces for this car to be ready to roll.
Well, it seems to me, man, that maybe priority wise,
glass can fall down a little bit
and you just have to check your weather
before you take it out.
You know, like, not that you'll ignore it forever,
but like, man, if you put an interior on that thing
and then a little bit of mechanical bits,
you could be out there ripping, you know,
at least get out to cars and coffee or something
on a nice day, you know, lay some stripes,
you know, do some gnarly little donuts and whatnot
and park it back in there
and go back to figuring out how to get some glass.
And here's a little shout out to Kevin.
That 66, it's a 66 died charger,
not a traditional second gen charger.
The first wide body I've ever seen
on that particular body style.
He mentioned he had 355s in the back of his Mustang.
He's got me, y'all.
I did a wide body.
I only had 345s on my wide body.
But yeah, man, I got 305s in the front.
Oh, he got me on the front.
Got me on the front.
Yeah, man.
Oh, man.
But yeah, you licked me in the back, dude.
I couldn't believe when you said
he had 355s on there.
I'm like, ah, it's a travesty.
All right.
I call him a larky.
We're even, Steven, I got you 10 mil on the back
and got me 10 mil on the front, so.
Oh, okay, all right.
So that's interesting.
All right, man, fun.
You may have me a little bit on power.
I just have the Hellcat red eye.
I am gonna do a little Livernoi,
Dan from Livernoi to Motorsports.
I spoke with him.
He's got me a little tune set aside
for this thing and a pulley for it.
So make it real close to where you're at.
About 1,000, so about 1,000.
So, and I'm on a six speed.
You're on the TKX five speed.
So yeah, man, heights, independent rear suspension,
independent front suspension.
Handling wise, we should be close.
Yeah, should be two killer setups.
Yeah, man.
And surprisingly, you know, not too heavy.
Dude, that would be epic, right?
You get both of these things on a road,
fully flushed out and then in the same territory,
you just go, yeah, man, would be balling.
Yeah, dude, and some nasty machines, man.
Yeah, that would be sweet.
Yeah, man, one day that's the plan
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Hey, what do you think your car's gonna be balanced out at?
Front to rear?
Whoa, that's a good question, man.
50.
I showed you mine.
You were in disbelief at mine.
Yeah, what was yours again?
Mine's 50-50.
How is that even possible?
How is that even possible?
Yeah.
That makes no sense.
Yeah, I like to say I planned it like that,
but I had sheer luck.
I mean, just think about that.
It's a giant iron motor with blower
sitting way up there on the front, right?
And then that T56 is a very stout, heavy transmission.
That's another 130 pounds, I think.
So, yeah, I'm not getting it.
I think you need some new scales, man.
Did you calibrate those things?
Yeah, they were, they were, man.
I'm scratching my desk.
Let's see what happens when you got,
you know, you're exhausted in there,
your interior in there, it moves it all, right?
Yeah, maybe because there's so much
hanging off the back of that car,
you're just unaware of how much weight there is back there
because there's a lot past that fulcrum point, you know?
On the front, not so much, but on the back most definitely.
Well, with the Mustang, you know,
if I just had an aluminum coyote
and that TKX is a smaller 5-speed,
that's a 30 pounds lighter,
I think that front end would be pretty decent,
but you know, I'm out in the blower
and the extra, you know, low-temper radiator for it
and all the other bits to go with it.
So, you know, it's kind of stacking back on it,
but I don't know, we'll see, man.
Either way, I want to spank you.
So the gauntlet has been dropped.
That's right.
We'll talk about that spanking
on the Two Guys Garage podcast again soon.
See you guys, man.
See you on the streets, guys.
See ya.
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