In Wheel Time Podcast: Your Go-To Automotive Talk Show Jan 7, 2024

Spark Plugs to Electric Cars: Auto History and Valuing Classics. Plus the Subaru Impreza RS review!

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Just ahead, we hope to get a hold of Pennzoil's Michael Thomas and how EVs are changing automotive product development.

A lot is by guess.

You'll hear my thoughts on a week with the new Subaru Impreza RS and Conrad has the cruise in calendar Just ahead on this episode of the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show, howdy, along with Mike out of this World, mars, fiddling with his phone like a little teenage girl.

King Conrad DeLong.

We always need more.

Jeff Zekin.

I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us on this Saturday.

It's a beautiful Saturday here in Houston, texas.

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Logo is down here instead of back there.

We got some artwork up here.

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I hope you appreciate it Got some backlighting.

Yeah, I don't know if anybody's know, but I've been changing the color.

Have you been doing that or has you been doing it?

I've been doing it, okay, well, thank you.

I think, jeff, just to glow there.

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It's actually blue.

Supposed to be blue, okay, is it?

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Well, thank you very much.

I I've been dying to do this story while we're waiting for the guy from pencil, here we go.

Okay, nine old tools Almost nobody uses anymore, and I think I would fall into that category myself.

You are a tool.

I am a tool.

Here's one, peter.

There's a tool, that's a tool Spark plug gap tool.

When's the last time you used one of those?

Last time I?

changed spark plugs.

Yeah, I was gonna say I used it all the time.

Do you really, yep, use it for the mower too when you change plug?

Spark tools can still be found in the impulse bisection of your favorite parts store.

These have all been eliminated from regular loose by the growing popularity of iridium and platinum plugs.

These rare earth metals are extremely resistant to degradation, but when it comes time to set the proper gap between the ground strap and electrode, they are very delicate.

That's why the factory sets the gap when the plug is produced.

Yeah, most plugs that you buy are gapped in the box, but I always check them.

You know you never Do you ever have to adjust them.

I never do.

Yeah, you know, if somebody gets a little rough with a box and drops on them, I guess, but it's rare.

Nothing worse than getting rough with the box.

You know, I'm not even gonna go there on that one.

Here's one, and actually if we looked in that toolbox you will find a Torque wrench Dwell meter.

Oh yeah, oh, probably in the bottom drawer, I don't know, it's in there somewhere.

Yeah, fifty years ago, tune up of an engine centered on the ignition system.

Breaker points are critical to a properly functioning ignition system and timing how long those points are closed.

The dwell determines how much charge is built up in the ignition coil and thus discharged through the spark plug.

Poorly timed ignition discharges wasted energy.

But electronic ignition setups have never been more reliable or polarizing.

But we'll leave that verdict up to you.

Setting the point gap properly is usually enough to keep an engine running well, and modern multifunction timing lights can include a dwell meter.

And there was a period of time where you needed a dwell meter to tune a carburetor.

Yes, and they had the electronic carburetors and I used my dwell meter doing the carburetor as well.

Time, because you could tell.

Oh, that's too far.

Back it off a little bit.

Yeah, exactly, distributor wrench.

When's the last time?

you used it.

Remember the distributor the funny looking thing that's called L shaped thing.

Yeah, distributor wrench, I've got two of them.

I've got one that's a half inch, which is typically a four, and then I got one that's a nine, 16 inches.

This is next to a dwell meter, typically GM.

Yeah, maybe we should put those on display for everybody.

Oh look, bunch of old guys with some old tools.

That nobody.

Well, they're all old.

Nobody uses any of them anymore.

No, guys, old guys have old tools.

There's that A pre OBD two, two diagnostic scan tools.

Tech one is what in GM's phrase it was called was a tech one.

Now they just plug into the OBD two and run it through a laptop.

But there are certain break systems.

You had to have a tech one to diagnose certain break systems.

I never, I was not, that was not my era.

Distributor machine oh, distributor machines.

Turn it and turn the distributor at that Go again.

And you could not only just tune the distributor for the points, but you could tune the vacuum advance.

That's right.

Yes, well, you take the Allen wrench and stick it in the vacuum hole and turn it and turn it.

Thank you, yep.

Here's one, and I actually saw an ad for a used one.

They can't give them away.

It's kind of like real to real.

Tape recorders, an engine analyzer, the sun 2000.

Oh, the big one.

It hung from the rail in the ceiling.

Oh, I actually, when I worked at the Oldsville dealership.

Yeah, the wires were chewed up.

Either that or the one that I'm familiar with was a big roll around cabinet.

That was probably six feet six feet tall, yeah, and they had to put up a huge amount of wall space in the tuneup guys slot and it had an oscilloscope on it so you could look at the secondary ignition on the oscilloscope.

The thing I used it most for was to charge condensers.

I'd charge and then say here you go Throw it to somebody.

They catch it.

It's zap the crap out of them.

Yes, I do.

What a guy.

Yeah.

Yep the most pneumatic tools for home shops.

Yep Gone away, gone away.

Everybody's gone with the wireless Yep, makita's and stuff, yes, so yeah, yeah, I still have my air, air air air wrench, and I guess if I looked in there I'd probably find it.

I still got an impact and the ratchet, the ratchet, and then I have a butterfly as well.

Which is the faster?

Yeah, my butterfly died.

But you know, and I got a pumpkin compressor that almost run the impact.

You know it's just not big enough to hold in the volume, but it'll run the ratchet and I've since bought an electric battery oh yeah.

Or not ratchet Impact.

Yeah, that's what I had up here last week when we was working with the battery powered with.

Okay, here's one.

Here's one that I'm not familiar with, the words Babbit bearing molds or machining jigs, machining jigs, I got that, but what is a babbit bearing mold?

So in a think of a main bearing or a rod bearing, the softest material in there that you could literally scratch with a thumbnail that's the babbit.

So you would, you would put the bearing in Now this is like real old school and you would smear fresh babbit in there and that mold would hold it in place so that you got the correct depth of Babbit.

See, I even had, when I was turning wrenches, I even had a, an old valve grinding machine, yes, and then you had the, the, the electric spinner that you could seat the.

You know, cut the valve seats as well.

We had one of those machines in a cage at Richardson Chevrolet.

Nobody usually used it, but it was there Apparently at some point.

They used it Because you replaced the valves.

Yeah, because it's cheaper too.

Yeah, I thought that was fun.

And then this one.

I'm familiar with the split rim tire tool.

Oh, that'd kill you if you didn't do it right.

You're right, it's exactly right.

Now they have a really thick cage that they use to blow up tires and you know, high pressure stuff.

So when it does go, when it does release, it stays within the cage.

Well, and even when you go because you know I just recently got my tires done at Discount every time they do a tire that final, last air piece until the bead seat and pop out, they do put it inside that cage, which is for the safety of the handler, yeah, and everybody in the shop.

But with the split ring that thing was really thick and it was basically spring steel because you could bend it a little bit.

And I'll tell you what.

You go shooting across the shop and oh, it shoot a hundred feet a year.

if you did it the wrong way, you better stand back.

And those beads aren't seated once they do that.

The beads aren't seated on the tire until after a few miles are driven.

Where you drive it, it flexes and gets itself already seated.

It's actually seated.

It worked all the way in.

Yeah Well, talk to me about tire beads and beads on wheels.

What about craftsman torque wrenches?

Don yeah, Let me tell you about my craftsman torque wrench.

Now it's a dwell meter.

It was, you know what when we were doing the studio.

The show was going really well See we did.

Jaguar and torque wrenches today.

I want you to know that I finally threw that.

Happy new year.

I finally threw that.

George Skelton was tired of hearing me talk about the damn craftsman torque wrench that they wouldn't take back because it wasn't warrantied for life.

It was warrantied for life.

George has already posted on here.

Well, that person, that individual that denied your claim, is now VP of customer relations.

Yeah, and snap on tools yeah.

I'm sorry, sir, we don't take, because they sold the entire line of craftsman to somebody else.

Well, and because torque wrenches to a large degree are a thing of the past, Now they go with these angle meters.

So you get, you get the, the bolt down to a point and then you put an angle meter on it and you put 45 degrees on it all the way around and you do another 45 degrees on it all the way around and they say that that bolt stretches a little bit and that's a better measurement of the compression load on the gasket than a torque meter.

I will tell you this that one that George sent me works just fine.

Thank you, George.

Hundred pounds of torque on the wheels on the Corvette, and I haven't been in any machine shops lately or quite some time, but I don't remember ever seeing somebody say okay, let's go 45 degrees.

Now, they were just yeah they're putting the torque wrench on it.

And that's what they do at Disco tire.

And yeah.

And they have that torque.

they have that torque to yield thing yeah.

And speaking of George, we had the Perini luncheon last week.

We did.

Thank you very much.

Yes, oh yeah, it was wonderful it was.

It was very good.

Thank you, george Skelton for our our Perini lunch.

We love that and we made it every year.

As a matter of fact, the girls even commented on it.

You know this started off as some sandwich meat and now it's turned into this thing, ex.

You know a lot of deserts they were going to bring something.

Yeah, and they were going to bring something.

So, yeah, well, cathy made that wonderful, the Inwheel Time, ladies' auxiliary, they they helped out.

That's that's exactly right, and it was delish.

I missed out on the on the whiskey.

Uh, whiskey cake yeah.

Yeah, how did you miss?

out.

I think I probably left a little early.

I had a couple, oh you know she was cooking it or she was baking it or warming it up, but it actually the whiskey is in the sauce, not the cake itself.

So when you layer it with the sauce and that caramel stuff that's where the whiskey's at.

I had a pedicure and it we had some for the next couple of days after that.

It was.

It was delish.

The meat it is, it's spectacular, yeah yeah, and it looked like it was half raw.

It was delicious, it was delicious.

It was perfect, Absolutely perfect.

I just figured it was the lighting crummy lighting in the kitchen.

Well, there's that too, but that had nothing to do with the meat.

Close your eyes and just eat it.

It was so good.

We had some horseradish sauce and we had the fixings you know what it was.

Coal slaw, there was twice baked potato casserole, the main course, obviously, and bread pumpernickel, was it pumpernickel.

No, and some of that in-store cooked sourdough One was sourdough and the other was roll kind of thing.

It was really good Thank you.

George.

Thank you, george, appreciate you.

Thank you yes, yes, yes.

George Skeleton is our number one fan, always.

Yep, I hope George got my little video that we did.

I sent it to him.

I had to send it in three parts because you know, stupid Too big.

Yeah, the file is too big.

I sent it in three parts.

Remember, he's the video guy.

Yeah, live video.

Shut up Coops horseradish.

Actually, that's a market.

That's horseradish mustard.

Coops horseradish mustard.

Yes, Well, I had a different.

I actually had real horseradish in there too.

Yeah, raw.

I call it raw horseradish as opposed to a lot of times people make it sour, the fake horseradish.

No, they mixed it with sour cream.

Now you want the raw horseradish.

That kind of burns a little bit that all burns twice.

Yes, Did you want to make a comment there, Mr Mars?

No sir, we have a little time.

It's time now to get your pens and paper.

Oh here we go.

Here we go.

Emmyscom sold cars roundup.

Play along at home this one here.

I put these two together because they're both 1978 models.

Okay, so the first one is a 78 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe.

Okay, with the teatops.

All right, there's nothing fancy about it.

It's got stock factory optional aluminum wheels, not too far from yours.

Well years.

There is Well, you mean, you talked about that one yeah, no, but 78 had the bubble back glass, didn't it?

Yes, and there was also a 78 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe.

That's an official pace car, at least that's what it's got on it, so we'll assume that it is a true pace car, pace car.

Okay, this is a lot of clones and you can buy the stickers that go on the side.

We were buying both of them together.

No, not together, but I want you to give me a price on the original Coupe for 78.

Chevrolet Coupe.

Okay, it's a two tone.

I think that that was a that I don't even.

Is that an option?

I'm not quite sure, but this one is painted in a two tone color scheme.

Nothing about miles.

No, we don't get into that Miles makes such a difference in the price of that.

Okay.

Well then you do your bid Based on your miles.

Yeah, your miles.

How far is it to your house?

1978.

So, mr Mars, what would you think the 78 standard looking Corvette would be?

14, 9.

Okay, Conrad.

Well, I had 14 down, I wrote 14 down, okay, 17.

15, 750.

All right, mars, we're all within a couple of grand.

Now let's talk about the pace car.

We'll just assume that it's original.

How much would you think that the 78 clean looking pace car would be 23.

Bust of Mars 19.

27.

26.

250.

Wow, so it's probably got very little mileage on it and it looks very clean.

Anyway, more than it was new?

Yes, most definitely.

My 77 was $11,000 ordered from the factory and I paid sticker price for it.

Without the trailer package on it.

No trailer package on a Corvette.

God, here you go.

84 Ford Bronco 2.

Oh, j 84.

No, no, no, no, no, no, this is the little one.

Oh, no, you're right.

Yeah, 84 Ford Bronco 2.

What would you think that they'd get for that?

It's kind of like a bad brown.

It looks clean.

Don't know anything about it really, but put me down for 8,000.

I got seven, seven, I got five.

Mars is the winner of $5,200.

I'm off my game today the 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne.

Now I will tell you.

I don't want to give it all away, but my guess is this is probably a 409 car.

It's not the one from Richardson, is it no 63,?

Not that one.

With the pinstripes down buffed into the hood.

Yeah, or put the nut down the carburetor and broke the motor.

1963 Chevrolet Biscayne.

Looks like a 409 to me, just guessing it's a two door, 25.

25.

266 cars, no miles 409, 63 Chevy Biscayne Dual quad or 33.

How much?

33.

26.

$63,000.

Yowzers, yes, this is for Jeff.

The 1984 Buick estate wagon, priceless, priceless.

Okay, buick estate wagon, uh-huh, and what year?

Buick estate with the wood sides on it Applicate 11,000.

11,000.

Conrad 7.

Mars, yeah, I'll go 8.

$9,750.

That's 4 for Mars.

Yeah, mike's killing it.

Yeah, and it's a clean-looking car too.

That would be something you need to go to work at M&Z.

AutoPlex.

Yeah, hey, jerry, would it be okay if we bought an 84 Buick estate wagon?

You know what the answer to that would be?

You're fired, you're fired, you're fired.

And then the final one in this game today is a 1969 Ford Torino.

I love the look of it, love the look, love the look of that car Yep has it got a shaker hood?

Yeah, it looks like it does, or at least a big induction hood some sort.

I'm not familiar with the model, but I would think that this would probably be.

Is it a small block?

Do they offer a big block in the Ford Torino?

Yeah, you can get that.

Yeah, but it was like a GTT, whatever, whatever.

I don't know.

I'm gonna say 25.

, 25?

, 32.

Mr Mars 22.

22.

575.

Wow, wow, look at Mars.

You know what you know.

They buy those kind of cars over there.

Next week, whatever he guesses they live in those kind of cars over there.

Just saying he did have a little smirk on his face, kind of like okay, that's not funny.

Whatever he has, just add a dollar to it.

I was watching last week's show and Jeff did the piece on car advertising and one of them was about I had to sell the Harley.

Yeah, because of wife, girlfriend, pregnant wife found out lawyer wants money.

The only thing that you missed was they were both their sisters.

That was out of the Neaterville Gazette.

Both my sisters, wife and Steve mid-county reviews what it's called.

The mid-county review.

Is it a weekly paper or a monthly?

No, it was a weekly, yeah.

Do they?

have over a year's, but it was the local wife.

Do they have a police blotter or anything?

Oh, yeah.

They had all that Scandist stuff.

Police blotters easy.

Yeah, yeah, in general Once a week.

Yeah, you just call them and say hey, you know, Let me go down to the courthouse and find out who divorced who, and then find out who's Sue and who got arrested.

Who's?

doing, who Every Thursday comes out who's doing who Well, that's true, isn't it?

You do?

You know I'm supposed to do a car review here.

Yeah, I got you, I just kind of.

Well, we led into that quite well, didn't?

we Actually?

Why don't we do the cruise in calendar?

Do you have that?

You're going to have to pick that out of there as you go from the events.

Help me Cruise in calendar.

He said bite me, did he say that?

He said that didn't he?

He did Sunday.

Tomorrow Avalon diner, coffee and chrome Don will be there signing hero cards.

Bring it, because I don't have any of my own.

Bring yours.

Classic cars at Bessoria County.

New Year meat is in Lake Jackson.

This weekend it's actually it's 530 tonight.

Also at 5 pm tonight Brookshire Brothers cruise in in Montgomery at the at the Brookshire Brothers grocery store.

That would make sense.

Kima car show at the Lowe's and League City starts at five o'clock tonight.

I know that was one that David Ainsley's son would go to with some regularity.

Pizza and cars at pepperonis on highway six in sugarland starts at 1 pm today, right after the show.

I wonder if you they give away free pizzas, slice or two.

That's not very far.

It's three, four miles from here.

Woodlands.

Coffee and cars for a cause we know that's.

You know Weldon's pretty engaged in that.

So is the Northside Mustang Club.

That's tomorrow morning, starts at 630 to 1030 and they ask for a donation as an entry fee.

Cars and coffee at the Aggie land outfitters and college stations tomorrow morning at 8 am.

Cruise to spring.

Cars and coffee meat starts at 9 am at the Burnham Woods Drive, in spring at the Sonoco at Burnham Woods Drive, and then cocktails and classics at elevations.

The barber shop off of Fondren in Houston starts at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Cocktails, 10 o'clock, okay.

And the regional autocross at the Pleistic Academy.

We talked to Sergeant Woodard.

No, no, no, we talked to gosh.

My name goes blank, scca.

Yeah, richard Tomlin.

My mind.

I could see his face, I could.

Yeah, so that's tomorrow.

At the police station off there at Aldean Westfield he can go out and watch or you can go out and take a drive.

I think he said it was $55 if you want to drive.

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Time now for this hour's car review 2024 Subaru Impressa.

Available trim levels include the base, the sport and the RS.

I had the RS Compact hatchback it's called.

I like to call it a small station wagon.

You can call it what you will, that's what I call it.

Seats, five passengers, including the driver.

All new redesign this year.

They're no longer building the impresa Sedan, really.

Oh, no, it's gone.

So then you say, oh, but what about the WRX?

Where did it go?

It's done.

It's done, at least for now.

But listen to my review.

The exterior features sharp-looking lowered front end with a proportional grille.

Looks more like a hot rod compact wagon than traditional hatchback.

You following my game there.

Sloping rear hatch glass, attractive front and rear lighting, silver or gray looks awesome with the black wheels.

What could use improvement?

A whole hot lot hot rod line of aftermarket parts, including the WRX, in this car.

Okay, just saying that, do you hear me?

Subaru Interior highlights well laid out center stack with a great big infotainment screen.

The RS model has color enhanced seating and Cloth that is very comfortable.

Instrument cluster is good, with easy to read gauges.

Cargo and trunk room Well, it's small, it's a.

This is a small wagon at what I liked about it leg room for two adults in the backseat, and Kathy and Jeff Sat in the back seat.

We want to your suary.

Oh, okay, that's right.

That's a pretty good drive too.

It was very comfortable ride.

It does have the passive phone charger in there.

I like that as well.

What could use improvement?

Nothing that I know of two and a half liter four-cylinder boxer engine.

Boxer meaning a flat opposed, horizontally opposed four cylinder, 182 horsepower, which is just the right amount for that car, unless they decided they're gonna put the WRX package in and yeah, this is the more powerful of two engines.

The other one has a little bit less horsepower.

Get this one.

Torque 178 pound feet, cvt, automatic transmission only.

Only.

As far as mileage is concerned 26 city, 33 highway for combined to 29, I got 29.4

, over 377.1

miles.

What I liked great gas mileage.

What could use improvementa WRX version, please.

I wrote that right there.

Ride and handling rides like a dream.

Don's best ride.

Quality winner oh wow.

Base trim price 27885, prices tested 31 and the base model price 24 115 goes up against the Honda Civic for 23 950, the Mazda 3 for 25 690 and the mini club and $29,000.

That is my review of the 2024 Subaru Impressa RS.

And boy was it blue Did did you have a you said it called a sports car in a good ride?

Did you kind of have the feeling that you wanted to kind of toss?

it around a little bit.

Yeah, I did, but it really didn't have that kind of suspension.

But again, the WRX package would Take care of that.

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About this episode

Exploring the evolution of automotive tools and technology, this episode dives into the history of spark plugs and the shift towards electric vehicles. The hosts share amusing anecdotes about outdated tools and their relevance today, while also discussing the new Subaru Impreza RS. With insights on its design, performance, and practicality, the review highlights what makes this compact hatchback stand out. Additionally, the episode includes a lively segment on classic car valuations, showcasing various models and their market worth.

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Original notes

Remember the time you tried to set the gap on your spark plugs and ended up with more grease on your shirt than on the car? Ah, those were the days, and in our latest episode, we take a walk down memory lane to chuckle over the automotive tools that now rest in peace, thanks to modern technology. From the clink of distributor wrenches to the hum of electric motors, this is one episode where past meets future, and every gearhead gets a front-row seat.

Now, let's shift gears and talk turkey—and by turkey, we mean the kind that pairs well with whiskey cake and a side of car valuation banter. We may have missed out on dessert, but we sure made up for it with a hearty course of guessing the worth of some classic beauties sold by Hemmings', like a '78 Corvette Coupe and a '69 Ford Torino. Between the laughter and the head-scratching debates over real versus imitation horseradish, we serve up a glimpse into the culture that fuels our love for the automotive world. Tune in for the nostalgia, stay for the laughs, and maybe even pick up a tip or two for your own classic car collection.

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