Project Car Chronicles

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.

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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 years ago?

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?

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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