The Ford Bronco is a type of SUV made to handle dirt roads and rough terrain. People bring it up because it’s known for being tough and capable when you’re not just driving on regular streets. The podcast also mentions an older Bronco generation.
IMAX is a special kind of movie theater with a bigger, clearer screen. People often pick it when they want the movie to feel more “bigger” and immersive.
“Moves under its own power” means the car can propel itself using its engine and drivetrain, not being pushed or towed. In a project-car context, it’s a major step because it confirms the powertrain is functioning well enough to roll.
Confirming “the brakes work” is a basic but critical safety check during a revival. Even if the car starts, brake function must be verified before any real driving.
Saying “the transmission works” means the gearbox engages gears and transfers power to the wheels. In this context, the speaker later specifies first and reverse, which are key for confirming basic drivetrain operation.
“Brake lights” are the rear lamps that illuminate when you press the brake pedal. Confirming they work ensures other drivers can see when you’re slowing down.
Harbor Freight sells cheap tools and shop items. Here, the point is that the “right” new buckets would likely have handled the fuel better than an old one.
A fuel spill means some gas leaked out and got on the ground. Gas is dangerous because it can catch fire, so it needs to be handled quickly and carefully.
An inline fuse holder puts a fuse in the wire so the car can safely shut things down if there’s a short. It helps prevent wiring from overheating and catching fire.
That’s a replacement tank for windshield washer fluid made to look like the original. Sometimes the pump setup is built differently, so it may not match the original parts or wiring.
A plug kit is a set of rubber/plastic grommets or hole plugs in different sizes used to seal openings in the body or firewall. Using the right size helps prevent wire chafing and keeps the cabin sealed from water and fumes.
A temperature sensor measures how hot something is (usually coolant/engine). The gauge uses that signal to show the temperature.
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voltage stabilizer
A voltage stabilizer helps keep the car’s electrical voltage steady. That way the gauges don’t act weird when the battery/charging voltage changes.
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thermo switch
A “thermo switch” is a temperature-activated switch that changes state when heated. In gauge clusters, similar thermal switching can be used to control how voltage is delivered to instruments, helping stabilize readings.
NASCAR is a type of racing in the U.S. where teams race stock-car-style cars on oval tracks. The rules control what the cars can be like so competition stays close.
A die-cast is a small, detailed model car made from metal, often produced with official branding and sponsorships. The discussion highlights how sponsorship deals (like Monster Energy vs. Red Bull) can affect whether certain branded die-cast models get authorized for sale.
Monster Energy is a major NASCAR sponsor, and the conversation is about how its branding rights can limit the production of certain die-cast collectibles. The host contrasts Monster’s approach with Red Bull’s, implying sponsorship authorization differences rather than a universal “law.”
Red Bull is another major motorsports sponsor, and the hosts compare its licensing behavior to Monster Energy. The point is that some brands allow die-cast collectibles with their branding while others don’t, based on their own agreements.
The Copper State 1000 is a rally event that brings together interesting cars and drivers. The speaker is talking about the kickoff event that gets people excited before the rally.
Renault Sport is Renault’s performance brand. When you see it embossed on the seats, it’s basically a badge saying this car is part of the sportier, enthusiast side of Renault.
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One thousand cars sir you have a thousand cars I don't think I'd attempt to try this
stunt or we owe this horsepower to Uncle Sam's too big a car like I put my beer belly on
it you can't immediately tell somebody how many cars you have you'll really give those
up in a yuffy something to think about stay on the bar don't go off the bar with your Bronco
1980 Volvo horns what's right man's coolant he's like oh I thought I'd be small it's for a
small car and oh yeah but it's still an automatic transmission they're never gonna be light it's
definitely gonna have to crash starting off with Brad by another car that's the west
internet she knows this is Nigerian oil print I also wish you drove a tan Camry anyways
that's a very horrible podcast content very inside job they love to be driven hard
welcome to auto off topic what's up Brad even Andrew how are you I'm great how are you
I'm good I'm good I like how we play that off like the evidence chatting for 20 minutes
before we record yeah yeah we should we used to do used to cold opens when we're actually in
person I would just hit record but it's we don't do that anymore more difficult doing it this way
yeah because it gives you a countdown make sure you know I'm ready and I'm making like that's a
weird noises yeah chewing candy or something I don't know I could be I could be you should
candy because of my condition chips but something whatever the pure sugar is not
although it was Easter last week so there was a lot of sugar around here for a while
but it lasts a lot longer when nobody eats the sugar
you know so I was giving peeps but I can't eat those until they're old and stale so
oh you like them when they're crunchy I don't like them at all I do like them when they're
crunchy yes they don't like them soft they're just sugary sugar covered sugar and I only want
obvious when they're soft yeah because they're much more I only wanted I only want only like
chocolate so I actually had some well it's probably been quite a long time but do you
remember a bunch of crunch I had some of those of course because we were at the movies on Sunday
so I had them left over I actually didn't eat them I didn't finish them during the movie
surprisingly what movie did you see we went to the new we took Marco to the new mario movie and i max
oh okay it's I didn't know that was an i max movie yeah it's a movie
um you know the first one I actually really enjoyed this one was kind of like you know
they really were just trying to cash this in yep cash grab for sure
but whatever he liked it uh I mean children love things with flashing colors and cartoons so
they're a very easy sale I think a lot of the time yeah and the i max theater is a really good
place to watch it anyway so
I still haven't seen the first one so well I mean I've seen the like 1980 whatever one but I have
not seen the most recent mario bonus movie it's fun you should when you have the kids over you should
you guys should watch it it's on peacock streaming if you've got that okay I do yeah it's definitely
because as an adult as you're watching it you'll see all the easter eggs you'll you'll totally
appreciate all the stuff all the stuff from the NES games yes there's a lot of stuff from the way
they did it and then like some of the characters you'll recognize I have to give that one a go
so also like all the car like uh there is like a hot wheels of the plumber van I think from it
coming to find out I think there is yes and like a lot of the cars in it are very Japanese looking
like they're like little cube cars okay it's kind of fun the way to do it but yeah I think hot wheels
in the uh oh what do they call it pop culture series yeah I think did the van from the movie
yeah I saw it at the store a few times but I had no connection to the movie so I did not buy it
yeah
unlike green light who did the home alone van which I bought immediately oh okay
or yeah the stranger things stuff
the model kits no didn't they do a hot wheel scale of the Steve's BMW
I think it's coming out it has not come out yet oh it has come out yet yeah okay yeah I don't I don't
know if it's a hot wheels or if it's going to be an auto world thing because auto world owns
all the companies that produce the model cars and I know that they are doing the 124th or 125th I
forget which scale kits of all the cars from the show because there's a kit of Billy's Camaro
of the case quack van of um Hopper's Blazer and the pizza delivery Volkswagen are all available
from Revell in kit form so that's the same company that owns auto world so my guess is that was an
auto world casting but I don't remember so I still have not watched the final season so I
mean you can be talking about it I guess I only know the case quack van is because of
the mall kit coming out it's worth watching it should definitely keep meaning to it's just
it's been I've been busy and I I don't want to watch it like on my phone I want to watch it like on a
full TV screen and just having the time to sit down and watch the TV show it hasn't it just hasn't
been there it's been busy busy a few months unfortunately or fortunately I guess a lot
speaking of which yeah like you're into project car updates might as well I think you have a
bunch I have some too but I'll let you go first thank you you made even more progress I think that
I did well you did because your car moves it does well there's own power with its own fuel tank
attached to the car with its own fuel in its own fuel tank um so yeah what we're talking of course
about the 84 starion it moves under its own power for the first time in who knows how long
I know the plates were like 21 or 22 but I feel like it sat longer than that
just based on the condition of things on the car and stuff doesn't go that bad
that quick sitting for like two three years it goes that bad sitting for like 10 plus years
so let's get right into it last week when we left off I said by next time we record the car will
move or the car will drive so thankfully we're recording on our normal night this week and not
Tuesday because if it was Tuesday it wouldn't have happened but here on Thursday it has happened
the car drove last night I didn't drive far I backed it out of the garage and drove back into
the garage but what that did prove was that the brakes work the clutch works and then transmission
works at least first and reverse also proved that all of the reverse lights and the brake lights work
and it proved that the brakes work in fact the brakes feel like good good like they don't feel
even a little bit soft so that's a really good sign all the belts I mean I'll replace all the
belts obviously but nothing squeaked or squealed in any weird way there's no knocking coming from
the motor everything just kind of worked I'll say kind of because we're not a hundred percent there
yet but kind of worked didn't seem to smoke it was not what's that no smoking out of the exhaust
no smoking out of the exhaust which was a huge relief uh that doesn't mean we're out of the
woods yet because once things start to go through a few temperature cycles maybe something will
happen but I was nervous about it needing valve seals yeah um again it it may still need them
we'll just have to put some you know heat cycles through it I didn't even have it running long
enough last night to get up to temperature so I'm going to have to uh I want to change the
oil and stuff before I do that but um it wasn't the simplest task getting there I think I don't
know where we were last week let's see we recorded last Tuesday or Thursday weekend you know the
the tank wasn't in the car yet but it was being prepared to put in the car
I think it was Monday night or maybe Sunday night last weekend where I was working on the car
and my friend Chris was over helping me work on the car and I had got the fuel tank in
and mounted the only thing that was left when he got over here was we had to get the filler neck
attached and then I was trying to get all of the lines from the hard line at the firewall up through
the filter and up to the throttle body so I had bought a kit from Mikey over at MKS Motorsports
that converts all of the rubber hose under the hood to a stainless steel with an fittings
so I was getting that all set to put on the car and on Monday the so this was Monday night let's
think this was not that long ago but it was long ago um we're trying to put the fittings in the
filter and we realized that the fittings don't fit the filter which is odd so I take the filter
apart out of the car again and look at it and one side is a 12 mil thread at the other side
it's a 14 mil thread and I look back up online and the steering arm is supposed to have two 12 by
1.25 threads on either end and this filter has a 14 by 1.5 I think on one end of it I was like
this isn't gonna work now I can't even put in the factory style parts because they have the other
size fitting and I can't put these aftermarket parts in because they're for the the 12 millimeter
not the 14 millimeter so I look it up online and according to MKS's website it's supposed to be a
12 by 1.25 in and out so I was like that's interesting well at this point we're discovering this it's
five minutes of nine and the part store closes at nine and I was like man that's thanks they show it
in stock too but nonetheless I was like well we have that late night part store here in town
let's open until at least midnight it used to be open all night but ever since COVID it's only open
until midnight I was like let's hit that store up we'll go down there and we'll get it figured out
what we need to do excuse me it was not five of nine it was five of ten so we get down to that
part store it's all open they show it on stock on their website I'm walking up the door and as
I'm walking up I see the guy inside locked the door what's going on I saw you coming not this guy
pretty much yeah this guy wants 80 scar parts get out of here I walk up the door and there's a sign
in the door that says due to system updates we're really closing from 10 to 11 I was like yeah of
course well I don't really want to wait here till 11 it's a Monday night I guess I'll just go home
and we'll deal with this tomorrow at this point this is not a tomorrow problem but I was like no
maybe the other midnight advanced auto parts has the thing auto zone advanced under one of the other
one of them doesn't exist anymore one of them does I think advanced is gone I think it's auto zone
other places so I was like hey I yelled through the door I was like is the other store open like
yeah they already did their update they're all done you can go there I was like cool so we started
driving over there Chris is driving and I'm like you know what let me pull this up on my phone
real quick and see if they even have it stocked there and of course they did not have it stocked
the other store so like oh it wasn't meant to be just let's go back to the house and we'll call it
a night so that was Monday it was Saturday and Monday I don't remember so I could do anything
I sent the pictures of the filter to Mikey over at MKS and credit to him where credit is due he was
very apologetic he doesn't understand how it happened because he only orders one particular
kind of fuel filter because all he does is starry owns so the only thing we can think of was this
one particular filter must have been mispackaged from the factory and of course I got it so
it was very you it's on brand yeah very on brand lately anyway it was like $20 of a $500
parts order I'm not even gonna like try to get a refund from him or anything he did offer to send
me another one I was just like honestly don't even worry about it we'll just chalk it up to a loss
just check your other ones before you send it to customers he's like no 100% thank you for the heads
up I'll make sure that you know the rest of them are correct so not a big deal I was able to get
it locally it's just a you know standard Mitsubishi fuel filter I think they use the same one it's the
same one on like my Colts and the same one on the Eclipse and the same one on if I remember correctly
even the Evo had the same style filter on it like I think they use this filter for
at least 30 years which is probably why all the parts stores have one in stock because it fits
almost every Mitsubishi on the road it's that standard style you know exactly what I'm talking
about it has like the crown on top for the hose to fit in and anyway so I managed to go the next day
figured out the whole fuel scenario it must have been Sunday this is not Monday night
so Monday night I get the whole thing all taken care of I get the fuel filter I put it all together
we put fuel in the tank put about five gallons in the tank
I have Naomi stands in the front of the car I have not connected the feed line to the throttle
body yet because I wanted to monitor the fuel as we're trying to prime the system coming through
the system to see when it gets there so I don't rack my brain trying to figure out where the car
won't start so she holds it into an old milk jug until we get fuel coming through the first
couple of spurts of fuel are a little questionable looking I assume it's residue that was left in
the hard lines that didn't get didn't get flushed out but once that fuel came through everything
else looked pretty clean there's no sediment in there it was pretty you know fresh fuel I was like
cool so we'll stop this right now I'm going to attach that feed line to the throttle body
and we're going to get this sucker to fire up hopefully on its own fuel tank so now this was
locked closed up fuels in it crank it over it fires almost immediately it's idling rough like very rough
shut it off cycle it again fire it up same thing it's idling but it's rough
shut it off and I hear what I feel like is dripping fuel and I was like that sounds like
dripping fuel so I look out in the front of the car and it's a like geyser of fuel coming down
and I was like great what are my fittings must have been not quite tight or something so I have
her get in the car and start it while I watch to see where the fuel is coming from and the second
it makes ignition it is spraying out like a fire hose from the injector I was like I don't know
these seals are obviously quite bad so the injector seals are hard as a rock
no question definitely not usable nobody local has injector seals I'm like well I guess I'll order
some injector seals and wait for them to come and it is what it is we need a few days of you know
figure out everything else here anyway I got stuff going on tomorrow not a big deal I'll get back
with it Wednesday I thought that was going to be a good idea until I realized the tank was leaking
as well which is a huge bummer because I'm sure everybody remembers my whole saga with the tank
and having it not repairable repairable repaired not repaired tenor repaired
looks beautiful but apparently missed a pinhole because it was like the smallest amount of fuel
dripping out it wasn't even dripping it was just cooling on the bottom in one spot
so I checked all around the tank to make sure it wasn't coming out of the top or out of the
side or anywhere anywhere weird it was not it was just coming out of one little pinhole on the bottom
so we decided that we're going to run to the part store after doing a little bit online research
and grab some JB tank weld okay because supposedly it's pretty good stuff
so we went to grab JB tank weld came back to the house I sanded the tank where the
leak was and of course as I'm sanding it I'm like flexing the crack and making it worse
now it's pouring out of course so Naomi has a great idea to take a bar of soap
and rub the bar of soap in the crack which will keep the surface of the tank dry enough
long enough for us to cover it in the JB weld tank seal what works perfectly well never thought
I what did that come from we never thought of that no idea where the idea came from but
she had it from something and it worked perfectly like honestly I rub the bar of soap on there
it just fills the crack in just a little bit and stopped from leaking long enough to put the patch
on problem was somewhere we screwed up in the now you're blowing bubbles out these us so yeah
pretty much now somewhere we screwed up in the like prepping of the tank weld and it got super
hot and it turned super hard in like 30 seconds so that was a failure so we're like you know what
let's try this different but let's walk away we'll try this again tomorrow not a big deal
I'm not going to stress too much about it we'll figure it out this is on Monday night
so Tuesday I have to go to work not even thinking about it Naomi actually had already ordered some
more tank weld to be delivered to the house Tuesday night I'm meeting back up with Chris
who's helped work on the car friend of the show Ron and I were all going to a metal concert in
downtown Tempe TV so I didn't have time to work on the car Tuesday night
I go out to the garage I don't even remember why I went out to the garage so let you back up a
little bit under the car we had put the lid to a black and yellow tote to start catching the
fuels it was dripping when we were working on it and then I put a five gallon bucket on top of that
so that after we walked away any fuel will be caught in that bucket so I went out to the garage
after work before I was going to the show and the smell of fuel when I opened the garage door was
nauseating of course but I figured it would be because there was a five gallon bucket that was
slowly filling up a fuel I did not quickly it was going to leak I knew I put five gallons in the car
I'd run the car a little bit but probably only you know a couple ounces had gone through not gallons
so I gave the back of the car and I noticed that the yellow tote lid is completely full of fuel
and it's leaked all over the floor over her bucket no no the bucket had almost nothing in it at all
so apparently the bucket had cracked at the bottom I wish we did not know
the kicker of this whole story is we had five brand new harbor freight buckets
that we had bought to get to transport rocks home like this weekend and I didn't use one of those
I used this old white bucket that was from the plaster in the garage so I guess stupid move on
my part anyway so now I'm pissed but now also I am Chris's ride to the show because his car is at
the body shop and he can't take his wife's car because she's doing other things for the car that
night so I'm like I don't have time to deal with this right now because if it was just me going to
the show I would have whatever I'll be late it's fine but I'm not going to also make my friend be
late to meet her other friend for dinner before the show so I don't know what to do I'm kind of
panicking kind of running around then I remember we have these do you remember the big absorbent
socks that we had at our high school if when it rained out because our ceiling leaked everywhere
yeah or the windows leaked the whole building leaked yeah right our like at the time 15 year old or
20 year old school um anyway so I have similar things here because we use them when it's monsoon
season because the way the old driveway is pitched next to the house it pools water next to the house
and it can seep under the garage wall into the front garage just a poor design that predates us
and fixing it will require so much effort I worked that we just haven't done it until we're
going to reuse the wall so we had those absorbent socks that are full of sand or kitty litter or
whatever I was like oh I'm going to grab one of those because it's not monsoon season and I'm
going to dump it all over the spill that will at least contain the spill I'll change out the bucket
pulling the new buckets under here I'll go to the show I'll come back from the show and then
I'll deal with like actual cleanup even though it'll be probably 11 30 at night and I'll be
not in any mood to do it I just don't have to do it now so I left did that spread the sand out
changed the buckets I was like this is good enough for now so I'm at dinner with Chris and Ron
and I pull up the camera to show them what had happened because obviously I want to share my
misery at this point right here we go laugh I have to laugh stuff but I do that and Naomi had come
home from work in the meantime and I had called her and told her what happened but because she's
the best she went out there and she actually cleaned up all of the fuel spill so I appreciate that
tremendously but anybody who knows Naomi knows that once she starts doing something she doesn't
stop until it's done so she also took it upon herself to while I was out enjoying myself having
dinner out again going to a concert she was in the garage and she patched the tank as well
so no complaints there at all I couldn't be any more happy with choices I have made so
she patched the tank and then she set it up with a radiator drip drain pan the one
the green ones full of kitty litter and put that underneath the car and then took the camera from
the garage like the security camera and put it on a little tripod facing into the kitty litter
so that we could monitor it from our phone to see if it was leaking again for the rest of the
night so not me over here at this concert enjoying myself watching the band era and
currents for anybody curious watching the bands constantly looking at my phone to see if the
tank is leaking and it did not so all was good so now all I have to do when I get back is nothing
it's all cleaned up tanks patched nothing to do I came back I got back it was probably about 1130
when I said I had looked at it it was setting up it was pretty it was pretty pretty um pretty
stiff already it wasn't malleable anymore there was no fuel leaking all good the last test now
was when the system gets pressurized again because that's when I started leaking the first time
so fast forward to last night Wednesday night I don't have my injector sealed kit in yet
so I say you know what I'm gonna pull the injectors and I'm gonna kind of judge the
condition of them and figure out what needs to be done because I remember with the other
starion I had to clean the injectors and I had to build this little kit with using a valve stem
with the core removed and some carb clean and aerosol can and a nine volt battery to shoot
the carb clean through the fuel injector as you cycle it with the nine volt battery
I was like well if I have to do that I can get that prepared for when the seal kit comes in
so I pulled the ejectors out and they are horrific looking like the bodies are rusty
the seals are trashed it just looks like you can see the tip in the bottom the injector it just
looks clogged weird I was like well this is not ideal just pull them out of the other car
I said that my brain said well I have a whole parts car on the other side I know the injectors
are good or they were good anyway so I pulled the injectors out of the other car thankfully
to take the injectors out of this car it's very simple it's very rudimentary fuel injection
it's a throttle body style injection so it only has two injectors it's an early starion
so they actually are both the same size and they fire in sequence so like
one does cylinder one and three and the other one does three and four I guess sorry two and four
and they fire in sequence back and forth unlike the later cars that have primary secondary
so the primaries are done for low boost low rev and then the secondary comes on for high boost
high rev so different style setup thankfully both these cars are the same so the same injectors
in them so I pulled the ejectors out of the other car they're only held in by the top hat which has
two phillips head jis head screws on it take them out they're definitely cleaner in that car
they're the ones in this car and then I remembered that I had them rebuilt at some point probably back
in like 2009 so they're fairly clean because I only driven the car maybe 10,000 miles so they're
still fairly clean but they hadn't run in a few years so the bottom of the injectors kind of had
that like goopy that dried up fuel look to them it's kind of like a it almost looks like honey
like it's just this brown glossy chunky liquid which was stuck on there so we got some fresh fuel
put the fresh fuel container and soaked the injectors in the fresh fuel and then did the trick
with the car clean the 9 volt battery to run some to run the car clean through them clean them out
again seem to be good seem to be spraying the seals on them are very good they're very pliable
because I had recently changed them like probably I did a fuel pressure regulator in the car in like
I think 2015 or 16 and when I did that I also put new injector seals on it so I knew it already
had new seals on it so thankfully those seals are still pliable still good so I just said you know
we're going to run these for now because eventually the plan is to upgrade to the later
style injectors with the secondary primary but for now we're going to run these and use these to
run the car got those in the car get the whole system sealed up moment of truth finally here
after three or four days of comical errors and car fires right out so
sputtered and sputtered and sputtered a little bit but eventually it smoothed out pretty good
to the point where I was able to back the car out of the garage and drive the car into the garage
under 100% its own power with no drama at all I actually posted a video to my personal Instagram
and the auto off topic Instagram today if you want to hear the car run or see the car move it's
that's where it's at so as of right now that's where we stand so last night the car drove
I've checked the fuel tank a few times today after pressurizing the whole system and there are no
leaks so the whole bottom of the car is dry so that's a positive sign the fuel system seems to
be working so that's a positive sign so the hope today is to put another five gallons of gas in it
and drive around the block after podcast and I almost wanted to cancel recording podcast tonight
because I don't know that I could wait long to go out and do that so I am very excited so huge
thanks to everybody who's been involved with this project Mikey over at MKS for getting parts
mail me for helping in general with everything Chris for helping with some of the final assembly
and of course Ron for helping go get it only went and got it so
cannot thank everybody enough or be happy enough with everything that's going on with the car so
it seems like we're on the up now and there shouldn't be too much going on with the car until it's
ready to tear apart for its new upgrades but everything seems to work
stay tuned for the next episode when I know exactly how it drives and if it goes out of
first gear and the clutch even felt like good like if the clutch grab where it should grab
the brake grabbed where they should grab like everything worked oh and the car is a broken
passenger's window as I talked about in the past I did get a window for it as well I have not
installed it yet that's on the list as well but you know a passenger window for it that's like
every once in a while I forget that the window regulator in the Volvo is broken and that
there's a piece of wood in there jamming up like I'll look at it because I've been working on the
inside of the car I gotta fix that window at some point too you just need to take the door
panel off the inside yeah and just have two pieces of wood one long one and one short one
yeah it's pretty simple you can have the window up halfway down or all the way down yeah
so I gotta change the window that's my that's my next play out of the car but
after I've driven around the block and kind of see what else it needs because this is the the final
like the final test is this weekend if the car is not 100 percent perfect I have to concentrate
on getting another car 100 percent perfect because the first weekend in May is that rally in
California so okay hopefully this car will make it if not
we'll prep a backup car so all right
so the the the point is now is that I'll probably keep the car bone stock
oh I said it again that's one of our words yeah I'll probably keep the car stock yeah um
leg bone stock specifically okay for this rally and then after that happens and I put
some more miles on it and I perfect everything then we'll start going down the modification
train a little bit so that by the time it's ready for the next rally which will be probably my
rally in October it will be a completely different car and I'll be able to kind of
haven't driven it both ways so yeah there you go going to run the stock suspension stock ECU
everything for this first event with the Anki 92s off the other car yeah I'll clean those clean
those up tonight let's get some fresh tires for those and then once that's done driving around for
a while I'll change the suspension out and then I'll put the watts on the car when the car is
lowered because I think that will look okay way better on the car when it's lowered and the Anki
92s will look good no it'll look good have you seen pictures of a flat body staring on the
watts on it I have it's a good look it's been to look in my dreams for years now so it's going to
happen and the Anki 92s will also look good on the squirrel so it's gonna work anyway I'm excited
car moves that's at the end of the day what else can I say right the car moves it's
so stoked so happy it's not even super super loud and I thought it would be because the muffler has
a giant hole inside of it but we'll have to uh fix the exhaust too obviously it blew rusty chunks
of metal all over the garage when I started it's there okay anyway that's my project car updates I
obviously haven't worked on anything else because that's been what a hundred percent of my time oh I
also one of my favorite things on the old starry on is the roof spoiler got the hatch spoiler I
guess you should say mm-hmm so I removed that from the old car to clean it and install it on the new
car so it's also a soon plan but I'm hoping I can get enough miles in shakedown between now and
sunday that sunday we have Kyusha club here in Phoenix and I can bring it to Kyusha club for its first
like outing that's the hole nice we shall see anyway that's my project update what have you been
working on well the level of course and I talked about the headlight wiring the main like power
feed wire for it was like fried like scarily fried I don't know how the car like down fried
like he like had been on fire for sure yeah um luckily it was a very short wire right up in
so I got an inline fuse holder and took a little bit of extension wire and
made a new one I basically just wired around it and just taped that wire to the outside of the
harness and just cut out so we're ignoring the old program yeah it's just in there it's not hooked
to anything I cut it back there's no it was like really involved if I wanted to dig it out of the
harness because it's kind of like wrapped around but I just followed the loop around it's literally
goes from the ignition the light switch which is like half a foot away up in the dash so
so there's no power going to it or from it so you should be fine the original one yeah I just yeah
just eliminated it and I have a wire that has a 20 amp fuse in it now just in case and in a way
I can get to it if it blows for some reason I can actually get to it so um yeah so then so like
all the lights work now except for the brake lights so my dad and I went through that the other night
we checked stuff the bulbs worked like okay the wires had continuity so we followed it all the way
back it's the brake light switch like 99 confident brake light switch okay so it's just an electrical
switch uh it actually doesn't look like the one that the Volvo parts place sells looks different
it looks like one of the crumbier aftermarket ones that are like uh rock auto like the right like a
generic like help a brand one yeah so maybe that's why it went bad but yeah it's just the type of
switch where it well I think most brake light switches like this where you you you think a switch
like if you don't realize that you're like yeah switch and you press the brake pedal it closes
it and turns the brake lights on no it actually opens the switch essentially interesting yeah we
press the brake grounded when you're off the brake into you well yeah it it releases the
little plunger and that makes the circuit connect we press the brake lever okay so it's
backwards of the way you think it would work mechanically not electronically yeah but I think
that's the way most brake light switches actually work because it's uh when you're off the brake
it turns them off when you're on the brake it turns them on right but it actually the starter
neutral safety switch in your um eclipse when it failed it failed because you couldn't
no it was off that that gets backwards everybody right yep here yeah yeah
um so yeah you jump the those two terminals at the switch and the lights come on so
that's good I know what that is now um and I didn't quite finish the fuse panel wiring
because we were focusing on that there's like two more wires I need to connect under there
I found another wire stuff under the dash that wasn't connected to anything that's
definitely a factory wire so I gotta figure out what that is and I gotta figure out what the
where why the wiper wire is cut um to the wiper control so and then also I realized yeah the
washer motor was like wired around like they had a different aftermarket one like inline one
so that probably doesn't work so I have to figure that out so many weird little things
it's so many weird little things that I kind of understand what they did because either you
couldn't get them or like the like those VP auto parts that I've gotten a lot of parts from
does have a like a reproduction replacement washer bottle with because the motor the pump is in
like the cap it's kind of weird but like their version of it it looks like a nice part but it's
like 200 bucks I'm like here so I think in the meantime I'll just put a generic one in there
just to make it work probably and maybe it'll just stay like that we'll see because unfortunately you
do need a working washer bottle to get a sticker in the state because they squirt the windows and
wipe the washer wipe the windows with the washer you know what I'm saying most things most things
I own would not get a sticker then because that's one of those things I don't ever even think about
yeah um so yeah and the other thing I didn't check
hopefully the hazard switch works says that would also be annoying so I need all of your turn signals
and everything work I'm sure it does yeah that's true it's all wired through it's true yeah yeah
yeah the turn signals do work um so yeah it's in the high beams high low now I think I talked about
that the the relay was wired wrong but yeah that's that's really what I've been working on is just
the wiring so now I want to move like we had the tack just wired up under the hood because we were
working on the engine getting it running we just needed to see the tack on the hood so that needs
to get moved into the interior there's plenty of open holes in the firewall unfortunately
uh so I don't have to drill anything all these experimental wires yeah I it just seems I mean
a lot of them seem like they're factory holes which is missing grommets and plugs um so I'm gonna
you know go behind there with well some of them are drilled which is annoying so we use some of
that 3M foil tape plug some of those smaller holes with that you also go to Harbor Freight and get a
plug kit there's all little rubber plugs okay yeah I've used some pushpin body clips in a couple
of them those have worked pretty well um they sell out they sell a plug kit at Harbor Freight
it's like you know when I was a little plastic you know all plastic cases they have like the
dividers in them it's one of those full just different sized plug kits okay yeah we got one
like that that's grommet so the grommet one put the harness through it for the
tack and the oil pressure gauge and I'm gonna wire up the voltmeter I gotta figure out the
temperature sensor I think it might be well I know it and the engine one is new but at the gauge
uh I think it's working correctly but I I should also double check when the fans coming on if it's
coming on too soon it's not actually letting coolant flow so I'll have to make sure that's
gonna be a little tricky to make it because the other way if it's not working there's some sort of
voltage stabilizer in the gauge cluster that's a
or what I call it forgetting what it's called but it's it heats up and then closes
sort of like a thermo switch thermostatic maybe is the word okay where it catches the right amount
of voltage it sort of like opens and closes it somehow stabilizes the voltage going to the fuel
gauge and the temperature gauge so they don't bounce while the alternator is charging okay and
yeah it's almost it's almost like a regulator like a condenser almost like yeah stops that from
yeah if it goes bad then sometimes those gauges don't read right um so I have to double check that
but uh I think there are ways to replace it but you know it's just it's just now I'm getting into
like the little things and then uh talked about before believe the brakes I should really check
the soft lines and see how good or bad they are because it's silly to believe them if they're
all dry-routed I'll just get get new ones yeah and again I can get those through VP auto parts so
they're not terribly expensive um it might actually even be cheaper to get their kit
that's just a braided kit for has every line versus buying their the soft lines
sure kind of like what I did with the fuel lines and the starion yeah definitely wasn't cheaper but
yeah but I'm not doing a restoration and you know if some of their lines are like 25 bucks 12 bucks
and the whole kit is 300 it's like mails by the whole kit yeah so you'll look at those next time I
go over there um but yeah that's really it's like it's getting there I know it'll run uh I'd like
to run it again because I haven't run it in like a month or so now it's a little bit warmer out
um and hopefully soon that will also move under its own power because everything is connected
it should yeah I mean you can probably just do it just to catch up
maybe just to uh have the same same sense of progress I guess
yeah the annoying thing is like uh I don't have it's got like I don't know why someone
but like the washer squatters were like one of them is saying it's got the ones that
squirt through the vents in the cowl panel right the Monterra was like this the 89
and of course we talked about somebody cut ones into the hood how big is the hole
I don't know normal washer nozzle hole the size so a couple a few millimeters yeah I wonder if
you could just leave them like take them out and or just put I have black ones I can put in there
some very some very small black ones instead of wearing the ones that come from the cowl maybe
yeah that's probably what I'm doing yeah that's probably what I would do in this case kind of
annoying I wish somebody had not cut up the hood well it's not too too big of a deal because the
holes could be welded if you ever were to paint the car so it just it is a weird it's like they did
that so they could put the lighted ones on like yeah what a weird thing to do because the other
there and all it is is they took the feed line that goes to the metal ones and unhooked it so
it's not like they didn't work yeah it is weird it's a very bizarre thing to do but I know a lot
of early cars have the the washers through the cowl like that so there's two metal pipes
there's a bunch of little weird things that I'm going to figure out you know like I've talked about
the vent hoses in the inside are just taped up with duct tape for some reason
like the crack use of duct tape covering ducts but I don't I don't know why like I'm sure they were
brittle and cracked no they is my guess lug right back in I'm just wondering if maybe they were
falling down and no like the tubes that go into the ducts yeah like the vent like like the tubes
from the heater box that would go to your vents to blow hot air for you are plugged so I actually
haven't confirmed that the blower motor works so I'm like did the heat just not work and
they're getting just air coming in through the cabin and didn't want it to be cold maybe
I don't know maybe because they had that weird like 110 volts plug and heater in the back of
the car yeah it's very strange yeah anyway the good news is you're almost there and even better
news is you don't eat heat that's fine not right away anyway because it'll be summertime the time
you're driving it so I still think you're good you get about a month until the marble head cruise
in first event so I'm gonna try I think you'll be there
all right if you can make if you can make that and I can make the rally we will have been successful
I hope so finds it's a little more ambitious I think but still yeah I'm just going next couple
towns over you're gonna go yeah whole state and a half over I'm gonna go like 14 hour drive away
and then drive for three days and drive 14 hours home yeah so I uh I'm not gonna be disappointed
if the car does not make it let's put it that way but I also hope the car will make it yeah so I
mean I'll be very disappointed if I attempt to take the car doesn't make it yeah what I'm saying is
I'll be not disappointed if I don't even attempt to take the car I'll take something else but hopefully
we don't get to that point we shall see like I said this weekend is gonna be huge for me so we'll
see if that happens oh good progress on both of our ends this week
yep all right anything else uh real quick nascar update there was a race it wasn't it was a race
ended it ended with a winner um first time you remember who won oh I do remember
Ty Gibbs I'm very upset yes nobody likes Ty Gibbs won his race yes and the only one that likes
Ty Gibbs is Coach Gibbs his mom yeah and his grandfather but it was nice to see him get his
first win I mean it's it's always it's cool to get a celebration I mean um there's any consolation
they'll never be his first win die cast this won't exist that's true because he had a monster energy
sponsorship and they won't authorize die casts of those it's so weird so weird the weird thing to
like because you have a yeah a red bull car they do it if I was a professional driver like that I
would not I'd have it in my like contract for my agent that like I'd always have to have die casts
be available yeah 100% because that's like a huge thing monster won't allow it I always assume
that monster and red bull are the same company but permanent not because red bull allows it and
monster does not yeah yeah so it's not some like energy drink law like cigarette law or something
but no no it's just their own personal feelings about it for some reason I don't know yeah but
I'm not disappointed because I wasn't planning on buying one anyway nope yeah the race was at Bristol
I don't know and our bustle seemed to have some mystique to it but no I mean there's barely anyone
in the stands race just so seemingly what I've learned about the stands at Bristol is it has
the highest capacity of any of the NASCAR tracks but they used to be full no they've never been full
full maybe they were full like in the 90s the peak NASCAR yeah but the attendance was the same as all
the other races oh okay pretty much it just looks like less because they haven't converted the seats
into anything else they're just all still seats yeah so it's also one of the only tracks that's
been in continuous use since the first racing back in the late 50s yeah so it definitely has a lot of
history with the sport um my thing with it is I don't think the new cars are very good there
yeah whereas the older style of NASCARs that were more like rudimentary stock cars yeah
were better there because Bristol is basically the same thing as like going to like your local
you know star speedway like your local like Saturday night
stock car track but now you're running these multi-million dollar high-end independent
suspension sequential shift modern race cars on this like old tiny oval so just kind of
doesn't work right it's kind of like the whole like driving a supercar in traffic right like
there's no it just doesn't work as well anymore and maybe they can do some tires or make the cars
too powerful for the track or something I don't know but it just it seems a little neutered now
the last five laps or so were pretty good and it was pretty cool seeing Tyler Redick back up
there again almost ready to win another race I think if he had slightly newer tires he may have
done it I think he just ran out of tire by the end there him and Larson both which I guess I'll
take a kai-tai Gibbs win over Larson win yeah I guess when the race he's like the last couple
Bristol races just dominated yeah and he was leading most of this race and didn't win it so
but anyway and then another thing that happens weekend was the copper state kickoff so the big
copper state 1000 like high-end rally door they do a big send-off for it with a not so fancy car
show attached to it but it's a good show because it's usually people that have interesting things
and it's not just you know a typical downtown Phoenix event with g35s and challengers so that
was a good time cut to send off all the high-end cars we had a little I guess we'll call it a booth
there for the Arizona Rising Sun rally just handing out some stickers and cards and we'll
save the date notifications and some posters and generate some more interest in our event at this
event so that was kind of neat to have but yeah good day a good day oh and I saw friend of mine
picked up a Renault Clio v6 oh nice yeah super cool car I've never seen one in person I guess that
there are maybe two in the states because they just became legal to import so he picked it up
about two weeks ago in San Francisco and drove it home got to see that on Sunday took a bunch of
pictures haven't done anything with them I should I post them what a cool car it definitely brought
me right to my Gran Turismo dreams and thoughts and playing the car in that game but he also has
a Renault Turbo 2 so it's a good garage made to go with that yeah now the handy plate on the Turbo
2 is hips because of the quarter panels so you got the matching vanity plate for the Clio v6
that just has hips too yeah but very cool car silver with like a gray and blue two-tone kind of
interior with the Renault Sport embossed into the seats just super rad car it's so like short and
squat and like just eat I dig it that was this weekend and then this weekend is here's your club
and that's it all right cool and then going on there for events
or still too early uh still kind of too early we're getting there though
all right anything else I think that's gonna do it all right cool all right as always keep
girls in lock name of the roses
About this episode
A wide-ranging Auto Off Topic chat starts with movie talk (the new Mario film in IMAX) and Hot Wheels/model-kit tangents, then dives deep into project-car chaos and wins. The hosts celebrate major progress on an ’84 Starion: after fuel-line/filter fitment issues, injector-seal blowouts, and a tank leak that turned into a full-on garage spill, the car finally fires and drives under its own power. The other host updates Volvo wiring/brake-light troubleshooting and upcoming rally plans, plus a quick NASCAR and Copper State 1000 event recap.
This week is all about those project car updates. Brad made some mega progress on the Starion and Andrew has a few Volvo updates as both these cars become more and more road worthy.
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