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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, America. You listen Let's Talk Cars Radio and
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davp hangout with Cam Okay also and AVB. Hey guys,
if you can't tell I'm excited. Why it's finally here.
That's right, Sea trip is on. It is finally come.
It is time for us to pack our bags and head on out. And I've been getting a lot of
stuff sent to us over the last couple of weeks, which hypes us up as media people. I got a
couple of videos from people that I know that we met last time. That we were out at SEMA and
for some car builds. So I've seen some pretty cool
card builds that are really excited. I can't wait to
see them in person. We have tons and tons of
stuff to cover for you guys, and interviews that were going to be doing and stuff, so I'm excited. I'm
ready for the whole thing. So you guys, remember, seeing
it for us starts a little bit earlier than what it does for the general public because as media, we get extra attention that we can spend with vehicles and take a look at things and stuff before it really opens up and the floor starts really getting busy, which is always great we enjoy. And then of course it
rolls around to the public party towards the end of it, which is where everybody else usually gets involved. But it
is gonna be awesome. Like I said, I saw there's
a sixty four Impalla build that I've been kind of following that I want to see, saw sixty eight Chevy cy ten build that I want to see up close.
There is a couple of Mustangs, a couple of Kamara builds I want to see, and of course I'm just really excited about seeing last time we were there, right so, and we saw you know, new product for wheels, new designs, things, new, a lot of electric, yeah, a lot of electric stuff.
A lot of it was a real big focus on electric.
But the fact that it was a lot of technology that was being put into things or even just like some of the new gauge clusters that you can you know, put into and make them over a retro rod. All
that stuff excites me. And then of course, you know,
you go to APEX. If you guys didn't know, Apex
and SEEMA runs side by side. Most of you guys
listen show know that there's a lot of y'all that don't.
And of course then there's all of that side of things, which is parts and you name it. That just that
technology and see you like I said, I told you guys, we saw for the first time ever the tire changing machine that did it all itself, you know what I mean.
You didn't need humans anymore to take a tire off the car, change a tire, put it on a rim, balance it, and put it back on the car. Which
was just really cool to watch that thing work. And
now you know, here we are, what a year and a half to almost two years later, two years, two years now people are putting them in their garages, so they're actually being out there in garages. Another technology I
think is really cool I saw and we'll talking a little bit about it a little bit later on the show is the camera technology. Everything has really stepped up
their game, some kind of serious about seeing how that has moved forward. I hope somebody has some type of
display on that this year because I got to see it and now it's in a lot of the dealerships.
Which is great technology.
Speaker 3: Company that I'm actually looking for as a company that reached out to us, and they're at Apex right so where I haven't told you guys yet, but we are going to go check them out. And they're called Scoomaker
Shoemaker I think they're called, but they're creating aid. They
got three new lithium wireless This is the interesting part.
Wireless jump start starter packs. Yeah, where I guess they're
wireless charging the battery packs inside them and then you just pick them up and then it's a jump start for your car. But just the wireless part had me.
I was just like, wait a minute, what are you trying to do with wireless electricity, and cars.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of people reach out to do interviews this year, which is great. If you guys remember
we did quite a few last time we were there.
I'm excited to sit down with Blueprint Engines. We're gonna
be with them and sit down and have an interview with them. So I'm really excited to see some of
the things. I just saw a couple going back and looking.
It seems since last time I kind of you know, looked at everything. I see some great engine opportunities there.
You guys see the release, it was probably earlier this week.
It was a big, huge thing and it's been around for a while. But people, for some reason contraction about
the four to twenty seven kong supercharger motor. It's eleven
hundred horsepower. It's like thirty one thousand dollars. Not a
bad price for what you get. I mean if you're
looking to put a really cool motor into like some type of hot rod, but eleven hundred horsepower and it's thrown in where they throwing it in, well they had anything.
You just buy the crate motor and put it in anything.
So realk here. I really enjoyed last time seeing all
the different motor options and stuff that we're at. Seeming
there was tons and tons of motors out there. But
for a chance to sit down and they, like I said, and talk with blueprint, it's gonna be cool. Uh. The
other one I'm really excited about that you guys definitely gonna want to check out is uh there is a company. Uh,
there's a couple of companies are out there. I want
to check them out. They're doing AI technology for car design.
So you put your car in you can use AI and you can basically build your car online your car and add parts and stuff to it and see what it looks like ahead of time. I know. That's here's
the thing. So you guys, ever I have I know
you guys do it. So wheels and tires like you
know you ever played with the wheels entire app where you're trying to put the wheels and tires on your car to see what kind of would look like and you kind of you almost get there, but it doesn't really give you like a good right look of what you know, what you're going on exactly. I think we
could do so much more in that, Like the technologies out there, like it doesn't always have to be like a side profile of the car, like I should be able to put the wheels on. They should be able
to gen rate like an image of what my car would look like with the right stance and with the right depth of the wheels and all that kind of stuff.
I'm looking for that. So I'm kind of excited to
see hopefully that's what this is. You want to game
style right right, you know what I mean, Like you just get this this weird cutout right now your car like on a lot of these sides and they just put slides of wheels in, let you know, but it doesn't really give you I want to be able to put in like okay, so my offsets this and you know then I wanted to give you, you know, different pictures of the car. We should be able to generate that
of what it should like. Technology, I know it's there.
Speaker 3: So we'll also be meeting with Hellwig Products and then last the last two years, we also did the detailing person When we.
Speaker 2: Did, we don't always cover something details cramic chramic.
Speaker 3: Ceramic coding, but we'll be meeting up with Malco Automotive Detailing over there as well. And then we got We've
got a bunch of interviews.
Speaker 2: It's kind of down the list. The list is long,
and I'm trying to get to everybod uh that we got set up. It's gonna be a lot of running
around trying to get it. So I said, you guys
be able to follow it all. I'll show you guys
a lot of the cool cars this year, which is gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Their whole new tent lineup. We are scheduled with them
to go see their new camper lineups and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I saw people. I'm gonna try to get
over to the Optimum Battery course so you guys can see some some rally cross going on over there. I
know that I got somebody reached out to me as well.
So there's somebody here from our area that's actually gonna have their car out there. So we're gonna try to
team up with them to want to see it. If
you got if you guys listen to Hanton Rose area, you guys seeing that camaro a couple of different times schedule. Well,
like I said, we got a lot on Definitely, we're trying to keep all the balls rolling and get everything together.
But like I said, if you can't tell, I'm excited because every time that uh, we get around cars rather than going to Bear Jackson or going to Seema or whatever it may be. Uh, there's always something great to see.
There's always a lot to learn. And if you ever
feel like you've you've learned everything, especially when it comes to car, you're wrong. You haven't. I mean, as soon
as I think, I always say, just as soon as you think you've seen it all, somebody like steps up.
There something new there is And like I said, you know, you guys, remember if you go back and watch the videos from the last time where at Sema electric was huge, the customization taking electric and putting in classic cars was a big push. And I'm curious to see here now
a couple of years later the people taking how much people did with that.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I remember because we were seeing that one blue Seed ten We saw that. We saw the wood
bed and he replaced the wood bed with a Tesla battery underneath it, so it was a gas powered vehicle, but he could flip a switch.
Speaker 2: There was a pickup truck and they did solar panels in the bed for the charge, which was kind of something different so I thought that was kind of neat.
Like I said, I'm curious to see that technology and how that changes and and you know where it goes from there. Uh, the cars are absolutely insane. The drift
competition last year SEEMA was extremely cool. So kind of
hoping that that's gonna be just great if you ever wanted somebody see somebody just uh literally take their car and what I call just to burn it to the ground. Uh,
that's probably the place to see the drift competition out there because they go just completely crazy with and we watched a lot of cars literally melt to the ground in some of their drift and burnout contests and all that kind of stuff, and people just went all out. So,
like I said, that is probably gonna be the place to see that. So we're gonna try to bring you
guys a bunch of that.
Speaker 3: I said, skids for kids, US skids for kids. That
was the Corvette, right, Yeah, they brought up their red Corvette and just shreded those wheels too. Can't say the
word on there, but I think I think there was wheels.
Speaker 2: If I remember correctly, there was some. So it hurt
the motor very badly too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I believe if I remember correctly, they had to push it or one of their cars they had to push.
Speaker 2: There was a couple of course they had the ice cream truck to I believe that was the Remember that was all tricked out.
Speaker 3: And then we got kicked out of our spot. Tip
the photos and everythinghoto we had.
Speaker 2: We had scouted out a great spot for an aerial spot when we were at Semen. We had, like we
when we go, we try to like check everything out before everything really starts and gets crazy. So we had
found a great spot to uh sit and run video and stuff of it for you guys. Well, you know
how it is. Sometimes you go to some of these
events and over zealous security gets a little over the top.
But we kind of dealt with that a little bit and it didn't Usually usually I can de escalate that pretty easily, just because I don't know when anybody enemies.
If you guys have met me out at any of these car shows, you guys know, I talked to everybody I've been friends with, everybody still gott I was trying to de escalate this security guard who just I think was having a really bad day and it was not working.
And it took me an hour and a half of working with security to finally get to the point to explain that a number one, we were supposed to be and b we were taking all that stuff for media shots.
But what happened was and what happens at a lot of these events, is you'll get media and then you'll get spectators, and spectators tried to get to where the media is and they have a hard time deciphering who's who, and when they can't figure it out, they just want to close down all the camera area and just rush everybody out of the camera area because they just get tired of dealing with it. And I get it, I understand,
but it's really simple when media has media badges on and has other credentials and the people that are trying to sneak in don't, it's a very simple separation. If
you guys look back when we went to Vegas for the last event for Drifting, there was a lot of that and it was very simple. We had media badges
and the people are trying to sneak in didn't, and they quickly handle that and separated those people. What they
didn't do was they didn't close down everything for everybody.
Speaker 3: We didn't hope in that situation was that we were showing our passes and they were saying no, and that there was somebody.
Speaker 2: They are doing. That's what started though. That was that
was the problem. Was you had people who weren't part
of anything trying and I understand, you're just trying to get that perfect shot that you can show your buddy.
We're trying to get the perfect shot for you guys, so we can show you guys, so we know how that goes. But like I said, security just wasn't having
it that day. And it wasn't It wasn't just that location.
We had another location where they're having problems with people trying to sneak into and get too close. And like
I said, we're used to it. We're used to being
close to the cars where we used to the action.
Your eyes are open. We have a bunch of people,
so your eyes are open so you can kind of make sure you're out of the way. It's one it's
another thing when someone's trying to sneak in and grab a picture and then something can happen and you know, they got to they gotta do what they gotta do.
But being over zealous sometimes isn't exactly the best route to go. So well, like I said, we're excited about
being out there. SEEMA puts on a great event every
single year. I highly suggest if you've never got an
opportunity to go to a SEEMA event, or if you go to any of the big Cruises events or the Good Guys event that they just did out in Delaware, big things like that, I highly suggest you put it on your list of something to go do. Like I said,
Seema's has opened for public and they have closed for the industry. But if you go for the later portion
where it's opened up to the public and you guys could enjoy the outside shows and all that kind of stuffest Friday night, it is a terrific, terrific event. I
don't care if you can't make it of that one, find one that's close, But go to some of these big, huge events. Like I said, I heard the Good Guy
Show was really really good this year, unfortunately, and we were a booked for something on the same time. Else
I would have loved to drive over to Dover and actually see that and go to it. But maybe next
year we'll see what ends up happening. But yeah, like
I said, it's it's gonna be a whirldwin. It's kind
of funny. So I posted that Laborghini, like there was
a Laborghini we saw. It was really nice. The first
day we're I seen him. Last time, it up again
like a million five hits within like maybe three hours we posted that car. So that's just the top of
the line builds. Another one that got a big, huge
hit hit was I don't what to call up, but I'd say it was kind of like like the crypt Keeper tow truck, the member that was all at the end, it was all done and metal. Everything was all custom metal.
Speaker 3: The one know the white one, the one that was all tricked out with the peace symbol.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeh yeah, yeah I remember that one to That.
Speaker 3: One was in Central Hall on the red carpet Nate. Yeah,
that one got a lot.
Speaker 2: It was as you guys didn't look, go look. There
was a really cool uh mystery machine that was done up last time we were there too. The guy put
a lot of time, a lot of energy into that.
A lot of people love. So I'm hoping, like I said,
seem has never let me down. The car builds are crazy. So,
like I said, I am extremely excited about taking you guys there and showing you guys what's going on. We're
gonna take a lot of pictures, trying to post a lot of stuff. Just keep in mind it takes a
lot of time for us to go through things and then get things and get them online. So just make
sure you mark your notifications, turn on your bells so every time we're popping up something, you guys get a chance to see it that note. Let me take quick
commercial break. When I come back, we're gonna talk a
little bit about batteries. What do you guys think about batteries?
And it may get a little heated because we all have different opinions. I'd be right back.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio, your automotive specialist now back to your host, Dave Polach.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So here is a topic I
don't think we really talk about very often, but for some reason at this table, it's a little bit of heated topic because everybody has it a little bit of a different opinion. So how often do you believe you
should change the battery in your car? Two to three years,
two to three years, five to seven Okay, most typical batteries about five, five week seven. We agree on that.
So ten years, I'm still going to say it. Two
to three years. Why do you think two to three years?
Two to three years? Why? Because why two to three years?
Speaker 3: One it's going to sound bad. One, probably because I've
never had a car that's lasted long. Three years number
one kind of problem. Yeah, I mean, battery just put
gets put in the car and then it just goes with the car when it's on the tow truck. But no,
I mean this this one car that I've had, I've had it for about five years now. I've want to
replaced the battery one time.
Speaker 2: In it and it was just two to three years.
Speaker 3: And in my mind, you have to it's just like breaks breaks. You guys, tell me I have to replace
every two years. I replace breaks every couple of months.
It's getting time for breaks again. But we won't talk
about that.
Speaker 2: It's bad break none, is it really? How you take it?
Shocks and springs. If you guys aren't following, yeah, so
if you guys, you guys aren't following. We talked about
my truck and the whole break usue I had with it. Well, yes,
everything went in the trash again. So this is now
the third set that's on it. I bought everything premium
shocks and springs, everything, and I put a set of struts and shocks on it and springs before replacing it. No,
I didn't know because I already knew it was I found the problem with the brakes. I already found it.
It's it's a once. I got it all, everything through
everything in the trash again. I'm ninety percent sure I
found the problem. So but here's the crazy part. And
I don't want to get off on it because I want to talk about batteries. But I got another noise
and I heard it today and it is a squeak noise.
But it's only a squeak noise when I'm driving down the road. Every once in a while here a little shocks
and springs. It's not just I think I know what
it is. I know what it is. Let me ask you.
I'm going to I'm going to bed change exactly. Did
you have the noise before?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: What did you change? And springs and brakes? I think,
I know it might be your problem shock springs or breaks, I think. But here's the thing. So it's not a
break noise. Like I said, So the break noise I
kept been going. It didn't matter what I did. Every
time I hit the brakes. I can't get ready come
and stop and start making a squeaky noise. This is
I can drive it fifty five miles now, and I drive one windows down a lot because it's back country roads, and I enjoyed the breeze. But I'll be driving all
of a sudden I'll hear a sup trip chup. Sure
it's not that quick, by the way, It's like it could be a mile before I hear it again, you know, stuff like that. But I hear it, I think, And
this may go a little bit too. That tire, same size,
where the tire wore out prematurely. I think I got
a wheelbaring getting ready to go bad. That's what I think.
The tripping noises. I think the tripper noise is coming
out of wheel bearing. Weren't that now? But I tested it?
Huh when did that also cause break issues? It could?
But maybe okay, so maybe if it had enough play in it that it was tilted everything at the wrong able. Possibly,
but I tested it and I can't really move it around.
I think the barrier it's a bearring noise somemember once in a while it's big, the bearing's making noise. I
think that's what that trip is. But how about you
guys know I can get it back to back back to the battery three years, y'all? Two three years? He's
the two to three years. Now, I've had my battery
before I had to get replaced with ten years old. Now,
I know that's way above because the battery is rated it seven years, but I got ten years out of it before I had to go ahead and replace it.
At the end of what do you think as far as.
Speaker 7: I said about five to seven, I think the longest I've had my car for is probably like what five six years, and I haven't really changed the battery, so yeah, I'm still with five to seven. Like I said, some
batteries can last about nine years.
Speaker 2: So the average person, when do you think they changed their battery?
Speaker 7: That's the average person, like if they bought a car, and so I'd say the average probably like four years the average I mean, OK.
Speaker 2: What do you think the average person is when they change a battery? Well, you want know what, I'm going
to go based off of my.
Speaker 3: Sponsor trip away, okay, and say three in the five years.
Speaker 2: It's right on their website. Three years, three to five
years battery the minimum other battery so boom. How often
people change their battery is stranded? Yeah? I answer, and
it doesn't start? Cameron? How many times have you jumped
started your car since swapping your battery?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Since swapping the battery on it? One time? One time
one I jumped started and held it. No, you know
what really? All right, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: Where we went through my mind yesterday wasn't my battery is dead?
Speaker 2: My I gotta go jump the battery while haven't driven.
That's what went through my mind.
Speaker 3: And then what second went through my mind was where did I put my portable battery?
Speaker 2: Jump? And I could not find it anywhere the one.
Speaker 3: Time that was the first place I looked the one time I needed it, and I couldn't find it.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I have three of them. I don't
know what it is, don't know where they are, that's the only thing. But no, I've only jumped started my
car one time, just as bad. Just so you know,
my portable jumpstart that I bought that keeping my truck is not in my truck right this. Let me get
the one you just got it? No you can't. Well,
are you gonna lose it? I'm not gonna lose it. Guy,
I do have jumper cables in the truck all the time.
I don't want those. You get the one you want.
How about the guy that just needed one? That's no
clue where is if you guys don't know, I told you.
The seat of my truck is like there is a full toolkit that you take the whole truck apart with that, I stays on the eighth the back seat of my truck.
There's always flashlights. I have jumper cables. I used to
have some flares, but I used them. I haven't replaced those,
and not that I think everybody needs to have those but you always find a couple of bottles of water.
I told you guys, and we're getting that time of year anyway, So uh, there's always a couple of bottle of waters in my vehicle for emergency. So I have
a whole kit that have everything in it that stays on eightth the back seat that has if you name it, it's probably in there. I mean, it's got duct tape,
it's got electrical tip, it has it's got zip ties.
Speaker 3: You name it still because we're on the battery topic and we haven't finished your question yet, but what I did is because I couldn't find mine, I'm now sitting in my room going, okay, am I going to run up the target and go buy myself a portable.
Speaker 2: One charger ye.
Speaker 3: And then and then I see the jumper cables and they're like twenty dollars for jumper cables. And then it
clicks in my head. One, what, Cameron, you have a
membership for trip Away that you haven't used all year.
So finally, like I talked a couple of shows ago, I used my trip Away membership at least once a year, and I finally used it this time. I use it
one time a year, I finally got my use of this.
Speaker 2: I've told you, guys, triple A isn't to have it to be using it. It's to have it so when
you need it, you have it. That's the whole purpose
having triple A. You guys know, I've told you guys,
forever I have. I've been a card carrier for a
very long time. Sometimes I go years without using it
and I haven't used it at all. Uh the last
I think two times I used it. I use it
for somebody else. I didn't even use it for me,
but I did. However, when the truck wouldn't start because
it had been sitting for a week, and I went to go drive in, the battery was dead. I oh,
did you use it to put it? Put a battery
in it? I didn't install a battery in it.
Speaker 3: That's what got us into this conversation. It was, you know,
because I had the option to replace my battery. So
what got us in this conversation was I had the option to replace my battery for I think it was like two hundred.
Speaker 2: Dollars and forty bucks nowadays for a good battery.
Speaker 3: But then you asked, well, what type of battery do you have it in right now. I personally use Walmart
batteries because and it's not that I'm a cheap stake.
It's and that's what we were fighting about. It's not
that I'm a cheap stake. It's that I understand that
that batteries. You're right, that battery is not going.
Speaker 2: To last me. Look, battery, that's not the conversation I'm having.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not going to last me the five seven years. Like the dealership battery that cost me two
hundred and forty nine, three hundred dollars to put in, you know, without my trip away discount.
Speaker 2: I just want to put it in for my point.
Speaker 3: You're right, but I'd rather go put an eighty dollars battery in and two years down the road go it died, and put another eight battery in, and then two years down the road go put another point.
Speaker 2: My battery still last as long as you care. I
just saved some money. Though you're paying for.
Speaker 3: Conveniency while I'm paying for while I'm just you know, catching every dollar.
Speaker 2: You are paying the same amount of money at some point that at some point as well, I'm also I don't have to touch mind.
Speaker 3: But you're risking that your battery last that's seven to ten years.
Speaker 2: I'm knowing it whole, but he knows.
Speaker 7: It's probably gonna last that ten years. But add on
to your point was that you know it might be a little cheaper in the short term, right, but people might not have triple A to install their battery or get to them. So in the long run, if their
battery does die right and stuff, they're out of pocket to have someone tow them, and if they don't have the membership that you paid for already, but you're not really adding into the payment.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I absolutely agree with that. It It all
depends on exactly what you want to you know, pay for a battery. So obviously Cameron likes to buy the
donor it does whatever it needs to do, still starts in the car, but on his but on his theory, eventually he's going to get to how much I paid for my battery in the same amount of time, And my battery technically still has another year. If you go
by seven years, it has another year left on it, and I get out of it that I don't have to so the money works out to be I end up paying less than you but.
Speaker 3: Your battery, Like, the difference about your battery is that battery has been in that car for that whole seven years.
Speaker 2: I got ten years out of that battery. I got ten.
Speaker 3: Years out of that whole battery, you know. And and
number one, good job because you I don't know how you got ten years years of it. You were trying
to find a noise. I think that was one of them. Okay,
I'm your battery has been in the car for the ten years. That's one battery that's been in the car
for ten years that could obviously have a problem at anytime.
I'm more willing to say that my battery won't have a problem out of the one out of three batteries that I went and picked. You know, one of those
three batteries might last six years, and I might get a longer time than you know.
Speaker 2: But I'm a gambler. I'm rolling the dice. Imagine, Imagine
you take a long.
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Speaker 3: You're like, what if I just got Betterbsolutely at that point, I use one out of my five trip away calls three and then and then no, got right. But then
you're just waghing around for a.
Speaker 2: Premium not plus. I don't know. I value my time there.
Speaker 3: I got premad plus.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 3: If I break down on the side of the road, though, I will call my trip away membership, pay my two hundred dollars at that point and say.
Speaker 2: Oh, maybe I should have learned my lesson.
Speaker 3: But guess what after that two hundred dollars battery does you can guarantee I'm putting in an eighty dollars battery back in that car.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm always gonna go with the premium
battery and I'm gonna let a ride. And for the
most part, well, last time I put another Premiu battery one of our other cars, we got seven and a half years out of that battery, so I didn't have to do it every two years. But hey, you buy
what's best for you. There's tons of them out there.
It's about this. You can do a Walmart, you can
do an Optimum, you can do an Interstate, you can even do a Decca. We can try it.
Speaker 3: You buy my next battery and we'll do the.
Speaker 2: Mad that I buy your battery. For science, science, for science,
on that note on for science. I'm gonna take a
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Speaker 2: Hey guys, and welcome back. So I want to give
you guys a question and you answer it for me and tell me what you believe is the right action.
Only problem with it is I gotta make a decision what I'm gonna do before I get on a flight.
So you guys know that we've been building the bad Am, and you guys know the struggles of building the bad Am that we've had. We've been covering them. We've been
telling you guys about them on the We've shown some pictures of stuff. If you guys don't know what the
bad Am is because you're just tuning in and you never listen, that is our nineteen seventy seven trans Am build that we're building. So parts to get and we're
doing a lot of custom stuff on the car, but getting custom parts and has been a little bit of a battle with everything fitting up right. We've had some
trial and tribulation. I guess the best way to play it,
the best way to put it, and stuff. Well, you
guys know that I'm having problems with the brakes. It
seems like every vehicle we have we have problems with breaks.
Speaker 3: This seems so I even want to start with with yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we still got another old pickup truckt to restore too after the bad am gets done. So here's
my issue with it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I thought about taking the parts because I can't seem to really get the answer that I need for fixing this problem, and the break manufacturer is going to be at SEMA. So I've thought about taking the parts and
throwing them in a bag and bringing the parts to them.
And I don't I'm not trying to put anybody on blast, right, but it probably she's a ffree to ship them. No, no, no, no,
I show them, so I would show them the issue I'm having because it.
Speaker 7: Seems like I'm saying, probably she refree to ship it to Nevada, then it would bring them on the air.
Speaker 2: Now you're playing no, because them breaks are easily thirty pounds. No,
I'm just gonna take three pounds to take the bracket and the caliber assembly and just is what I'll sink it, just one of them. I just I don't want to.
I don't feel like I Yeah, because there's only what they say, sorry, sir, we don't do that here. We
carry it all the way here. I feel like overstepping.
Speaker 1: Maybe not.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to put anybody in blast. I just
there seems to be a communication breakdown between what the problem is with the breaks and how to fix the problem.
And I think that communication breakdown is a loss in phone conversations because I'm like, look, if you guys don't know so that we're having problems with the brackets and the breaks and stuff like that, and the bracket gets I think I kind of told you it's worn out.
The boats don't really want to go out right. I
have literally had one of their texts walks make sure we're not doing anything wrong and walk us through everything, and with the same result of running into a problem where the bolt sees up. Uh. And then it's like, well,
the only solution was is we can send to me and we'll assemble it for you. My problem with that
is what I mean, what happens when I got to service it and I got to take it apart, you put it together. I know there's a problem. The first
hit might ride around on the car for a year and a half for the first time, I need to takes them apart. And at that year and half mark,
I go to take it apart, and I'm stuck in the same position. I am right this second. No, I
really can't. I really want a part that I know
it's going to fail on my car, and it's it's not even a failure. I can't get the part on
the car without it failing already. And I said, and
I'm not going to go deep into it because I already told you guys this story and kind of told you the problem or happened. I just kind of want
to bounce off you guys if you guys think maybe taking the part with me to them and letting them take a look at it with their own eyes and having a direct conversation with me there versus everybody's like, well, you know, and some people are like, well, you were going to ship it to them, and I'm like, I am, but I'm shipping it to somebody and I'm not there to talk to them directly again, which is the problem to have. Basically, what they're gonna do is just slap
it together. How are they getting together? It doesn't matter
to them, and they're gonna send to me, and I'm a bolt the other portion, always one assembly versus assembly, and I'll bolt it his assembly on the car, which we've already gotten that, right, which doesn't that doesn't solve my problem.
Speaker 3: I got the perfect answer. Have you guys ever seen
the TV show What would you do?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 3: We can come out like Chris Hensworth and break out the camera with microphone and partners and.
Speaker 2: Just sit down, just sit up. No, no, just want
to talk to you. Just what do you do? Just
just handling the part and say what would you do?
It's just I'm to that point because really the hold up for us guys on the on the bat and right the second is fixing this problem, finishing that assembly in the car rolls again and now we can start putting everything back in it. So it's very frustrating to
me to know that we have spent very large amounts of money, time and time on getting to where we are right this second, and this build has been not cheap, but we were We're rolling really well. It's getting everything
back together. But I'm I'm hung up on this and
I think, you know, Dathaniel kind of pinned me down the other day about it, and I think he's right.
He's like, Hey, we haven't worked on it in a little bit. We really need to get back and work
on it. And I think I'm a little deflated by
the fact that there's just no simple resolve for this.
It seems like there's going to be a lot of jumping through more hoops to solve what should be a simple problem. That where you don't want to feel like
you're showing on the car.
Speaker 7: You don't want to feel like you're throwing things together either, right, just for the you know, for the you know, simplistic of it.
Speaker 2: Well, right, And that's what I feel like. I feel
like I'm being forced to kind of throw something together and hope and pray that it works right. And I
haven't done that with anything else. Have you guys been
following this bill. We've had this car together, back apart, together,
back apart several times because I put things together. I
don't like the way it looks. I don't like to
fit and finish whatever it is, and the car comes back apart until it until I really could put a dun stamp on, going, yeah, we know what the issue is.
Speaker 7: So have you looked into maybe looking for a you know, another support mount and maybe you get in a different hardware.
Speaker 2: I would have to go everything. So I could go
with a complete it will work like I can't go like grat No, it's got to be it's got to be mount. So I look to see there's another manufacturer
out there that has a similar bracket. But it's similar,
it's not and I don't think it's gonna work. So
I'm kind of stuck in the same thing.
Speaker 3: And I thought about this last time before the fourth bracket that's came to us. Can we just get a
custom fabricator to make a a bracket that is full mounted or are those boats built to break off.
Speaker 2: In case they're the other manufacturer that I was that that so the Caliber bracket. So the Caliber bracket, I
think is I want to say that thing is aluminum.
Is just painted illumina, I think is what it is.
That's probably the reason why strips as easy as it does.
You know, I looked at there's other manufacturers that have that brackets. Like I said, it's very similar. I just
don't think it will work on that caliber. One of
them is metal, it's not aluminum, so it's heavier, but that's a big deal to me, you know. I mean,
we're not raising this car.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: We're putting a big motor and it's gonna be fastest like that, but the car, this car is not getting raised anywhere. So I'm not really worried about it. Either
aluminum or being a steel part. That doesn't bother me.
What do we do?
Speaker 3: We should bring it and then like and make it not where it's like, hey, like I'm trying to come to you guys with a problem. It's just like I'm
trying to bring this to sales attention, you know, because obviously you know we're going to be talking to sales people.
Speaker 2: Just take a lot of pictures and just bring the pictures.
But I just don't know if that's going to I don't think that's going to serve justice. You know. It's
it's different when you have a photo in hand, said, well, don't bring the caliber. Just bring the bracket and show
that because I have two brackets laying there now. One
was one of the one and it's worn out. You
can see where it got stuck. The other one, the
bracket is still stuck into the caliber, and we can I would bring.
Speaker 3: This is what the bracket looks like when it comes back off, this is the bracket. How you guys send it,
you know, because we still have a good bracket. And
then this is what I don't think.
Speaker 2: Bracket right the second Oh really no, because the last put together the exact same. This is what happens when
you put it on the actual break. It looks like
it's work together.
Speaker 3: And this is what's happening when we try to put it on and then bring them the brack and say we got one bracket off and look what it did to the break?
Speaker 2: Does it?
Speaker 1: Money?
Speaker 2: Does it? So each bracket does the exact same thing. Yeah, no,
it's not. It's not personally together. Because I was able
to walk the caliber back and forth, so I knew it wasn't all the way down and I never got So basically the installation is you go ahead and tighten it down with a wrench and then you torqu it to thirty pounds foot pounds. We're going to the point
where you get the bolt of bo The bult goes about halfway down the bolt and starts stripping out because it's a nylon locker bolt, so by the time you get about halfway down, it just starts stripping out the nylon on of it and doesn't want and you can't go backwards with either. Once it's on, it won't come
back off either. So then you're stuck with a caliber
half bolted on. It rocks back and forth, and it
just it's it's annoying as it could be. And then
I went online and found other people had the same problem.
I've told you guys a little bit about that, so I just I don't know. I'm trying to figure out
what the tell What tells me the classy mood move is is not to bring it with me. Just bring
some pictures and go have the conversation with them. I
just pay for somebody to go, well, if I had it here, I might have a better idea of what you're talking about. And since you don't have it, I
don't know which is the kind of conversation I'm having over them.
Speaker 3: Bring the photos, bring do this, Bring the photos. And
then when they say, you know, I wish I had that here, then you go.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to get anybody like that right.
Speaker 7: I would just bring the mount because honestly, like bring the caliber is not really going to show them. It's
not really showing what the problem is with the defense, right because the calibray just mounts up to the bracket.
The calibre is and the issue is the bracket.
Speaker 2: Uh. My meat in the middle on it was is
just take the caliber with the bracket that's stuck and run a video of it, right showing with the problem moving bat me bring the one other bracket that did the same thing, and just bring with me since it's luminating the one that got worn out, right exactly. But
by the way, when I say it's worn out, it's never been written down the road. We're just trying to
assemble it in the threads literally are wearing out, just trying to take the bolt and go down. So, like
I said, I was having the conversation this week a little bit. Everybody asked me what's going on because every
you know, everybody who's directly involved with the bad Am build uh knows that we're at a stall point. The
good news is is the transmission is done. It just
needs to move out to the garage. It's all powder
codd it's all assembled, it's ready. There was a whole
lot of money into parts went into that, but a big shout out to Mark Smith Builder who took care of that for us and Keith Smith. Uh. They put
a lot of time effort into that. It's supposed to
be able to hold over a thousand horse powers. Hopefully
we're going We're gonna keep our fingers crossed that thing stays together. But if you guys don't I have. Somebody
asked me. They're like, so, what transmission you decided to
go with? And I went with A four lady, So
that is what we moved to. Hopefully that all goes
together and works great. I have great confidence in the
fact that we're going to get this together soon. But
like I said, I kind of wonder what you guys think.
Should I bring the whole thing? Should I bring it?
I'm thinking maybe the best thing is to take the video of what I have and then just bring the one bracket, But you guys tell me, maybe I'm wrong.
And you know people like conflict anyway, so you guys probably gonna tell me to bring it all because you guys just want to see how that pans out of it.
He's like, I love conflict, uh, and the camera to record it. To record it. One thing I'm not conflicted
about is that we are excited about going to seemas so like so regardless if I get this fixed or not, I'll let you guys know, and maybe I'll just tell you guys why we're out and doing everything. I'll stop
and do maybe the thing about update what yeah, what an update of what it was? And I note, let
me take another quick commercial break when we come back.
I went back down the rabbit hole again, and this is gonna came out on the other side, and I'll tell you exactly where I came out at whole time.
Be right back.
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Now back to your host Dave Polach.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. All right, I told you that
I went down the rabbit hole, right, Oh gosh, you guys know how this works for me. So if you
don't know what the rabbit hole for me is is, usually it's when I find a car online that's for sale and then I somehow, for whatever reason, take the picture and I start modifying a car that I don't own because I'm just like, okay, So if I was to buy that car and build it, what would it cost me to build into what I want? And I
start looking for wheels for it, and I start looking for parts. So well, well, it wasn't this this time
as well? It's close, it is, but it isn't that.
You guys know that I have been talking about and toying with the idea buying a modern day muscle car, and I just don't know what I want. I keep
on saying. I was like, I've looked at everything, and
I had the privilege to a certain degree or really to kind of look at everything when Nathanny was looking for to buy. When he bought his Mustang, we went
looked at everything for the Mustang. So I got to
kind of see what was out there and put my hands on everything. And there's a lot of things that
I would have to customize on certain cars like we get in certain cars, and it's too plastic for me.
So I started thinking, well, I could send it to in a poultry shop and let him go ahead and wrap everything in leather and make it nicer and make it more what I'd want as far as a car, which I wanted to do that. I would spend the
money to do something like that to make it nice, But is it really what I want? I think the
problem I run into is a lot of the cars.
And we've looked at everything, you name it, from the Toy to Supra, to the Charger, to the Mustang, to the Camaro to the Corvette. I take a peek. Now, Cameron,
if he had his way, he'd had me buy the new Corvette's I'm talking about. He's like, he wants about
a new Corvette. I just I can't twenty I know,
but I looked it up. So it's about one sixty
the way that I want to build it. So and
I'm like, I'll I'll pay a dollar I don't like.
So I don't know if I you know, I can't justify I spending that kind of money on it. I'm you know,
I like to spend money. Right, Come on a day.
Let me tell you where I ended up at. And
you guys probably be shocked, because I give you, guys the biggest hardest time. I ended up back at Ford
looking at the Mustang again again all around the car.
It is the third time that I've gone back and looked at the Mustang. Go ahead and send your letters
to me. Now, even the Ford people is like, oh,
mister me too, car huh. But here's here's the thing.
I think I found the happy medium for me my problem with the Mustang. And Nathaniel knows he owns what
and I'm proud of the fact that he owns one.
I think it's the fact that I have children who like the cars in the muscle car world. And fast cars.
Stuff like that is a huge just not direction that I think is absolutely awesome. The fact that he went
bought himself a true muscle car, the manual that's manuals vaight, all that kind of stuff. I think it's even greater
and it makes me more happy. I can't say that
i'll buy if I bought a car, I'll buy it manually.
You guys know I have messed up ankles. It's a
lot of work for me to do a manual, okay, And that's the reason I love Manuel cars. I just
for me to be able to enjoy it. I'm afraid
of you want to work for it. I'm afraid i'll
Manuel and then I won't want to drive it because it is a lot of work on my ankles to drive one. And I got an accent years ago. But
we're not getting into all that. Here's the happy medium
for me. Have you guys took a look at the
Boss for twenty nine with a new one coming out and the new one coming out? I don't see the
new one come out, so that might be the happy and the reason why is because I'm still going to use a six to fifty platform. It's gonna I think
it's still on six to fifty platform, and but it's got the what the seven point the seven point two liter in it is what it has for the motor, It's got a lot of different options. I kind of
like to look, they're going to change up the hood scoops on it, stuff like this is supposedly I'm gonna air quote that because nothing since stone. But I start
kind of playing around and trying to build one and see what it looked like. That may be because it
won't be something everybody has, and that's the problem for me.
It's not so much the Mustang is a problem is the fact that there's just so many out that I want something that's very unique. Now, you can customize your
car as much as you want and try to make it unique, but something that jumps right out of the gate unique. It's kind of cool to me. Now I
can't tell you what color because I'm stuck between two different colors. There is a special paint job you can
get where you do it like. I think it's like
almost like in a Grabber green or you can do I think it's like the a version of the Grabber blue.
I like those two different colors, but it's built. It's
kind of like it almost feels like it's built like on a dark dark Horse platform. But that's they've changed
some stuff to it.
Speaker 7: So here's a render, but it's the render. If it's
like this render and it gets like a whole right right, so look to it. That'd be trade minded for that
there is.
Speaker 2: So there is some real pictures I think that are out there floating around, but I don't know how much of it's AI generator or whatever. I kind of really
like that one, right there is the one. Do you
hope an old school or do you hope they bring it like take the new school body. I kind of
goes a little bit old school into it, but it looks like it may look more like this when I hear that your brother just had on the screen. It
looks like it's probably gonna look something more like that a little bit. Now I've seen it without that rear
spoiler on it and its regular spoiler on it, and I like it more that way. Hoby does have the
vents on the on the rare, but that may be the catalyst for me to jump into buying one. You know,
I've looked at I don't really like the charge charger.
I think the charge is schooled when we were wrong.
But a lot of people have them. That's my problem
with it. I mean, it's a lot that is now
the me too far. And then you know challengers. A
lot of people have challengers. So there's like, even though
I do like the Challenger, and I've been I've been eyeballing one.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: So Camen has got side by side, you cauits see he's got which, he's got the Mustang, and he's got the Corvette side by side. For me, try I just
more events. But I can tell you right now. So
here's my problem with the I will hear the Corvette apart deeper to big at mine. By just what I've
seen with the car, I can't find it out of wheels.
I even like for that car. I'm not really particular
on any of the color choices, so I at that point, I know I'm probably putting a rap on. It's probably
gonna be an obnoxious rap. So that's more money. I mean,
like white, if I'm gonna go white, white, But I was like, you know, you know how I love white man this conversation. You guys know, I love white on anything.
I think it's just classy. But if I bought something
like that, I feel like I had to just throw a really obnoxious rap on the car, just so it stands out for what it is, like a purple sick as can be. That's there.
Speaker 7: I know, I know, I know what it is.
Speaker 2: It is sick and I do like the fact that one's got, like, what a a little bit of a gold tone, so on a blue car, which looks great, I'd always think that it's idiots somewhere like it. So
I'm having a problem, but I've gotten to the point where I'm closer and I keep going down the rabbit hole.
Like if you guys leave me in a room and it's quiet and I got nothing to do, or leave me in an airport on a layover. Usually if you
find me someplace sitting quietly, I am going down the rabbit hole of cars. I am messing something with cars.
I'm building a car online, I put it together. I'm
finding parts. I'm looking for spoilers, I'm looking for different
ground effect kids as I have a wide body kid available for I'm doing all that stuff. So just know
when I and I've ran into you guys, some of the weirdest places where you guys have stopped me. Hey,
stop stopping me in the bathroom. That's just a little strange.
But to you people that have, hey, it's great that you listened to the show. Don't be wrong. It's just
I find a little strange when I'm in the bathroom and you stop me and you recognize me and you say, hey, I listen to your show. I'm not shaking hands in
the bathroom, just letting you guys know. I told you guys,
that's just a little strange, not happening. But I do
appreciate the fact you listen to the show. Give me
a little elbow nudge or something. I don't know, camp keys.
I pull up pictures of different renderings of the Corvette.
No elbow nudge at the store. No, I don't want
that to happen.
Speaker 7: But I am.
Speaker 2: I am one hundred percent keep going going down, Like when I have downtime. I keep on finding myself sitting
and building stuff and really looking so I'm getting closer.
And then of course I have to, you know, convince, you know the better half that you know ninety thousand dollars investment or whatever into another muscle car is a really good idea to have it, just since it's a little easy to sell. It is some of forcing. But hey,
we're going to the point. You know, all the kids
are almost not allow so you guys are gone and Hunter's almost gone right right around it. So a two
seater may be an option. I don't know, tell what
you guys think. I'm curious if there's an option I'm
not looking at, so just so y'all know, I think I pretty much kind of looked a We've looked at the Camaro, I looked at the Mustang. I've looked at
the Corvette. I've looked at Challenger. I've looked at the Charger,
I looked at the Supra. Now there is and everybody's
going to say, hey, did you hear that there's supposed to be like a really killer m R two coming out for the Toyota. It's supposed to be just sick
and for that stuff like that, and this is right.
They're like, I don't know if i'd go that route, guys, but somebody did ask me about that, because I just don't.
I don't view those as true muscle cars. I think
of them as a really fast mid you know, sports sports.
I don't think. I don't think that's right. If I'm
gonna do something, it's probably going to be something muscle.
And then everybody's like, hey, for the kind of money, why don't you just buy a used Laborghini, which I could.
They're out there in the price range that I'm willing to spend. I just don't think I want the maintenance
keep up on a Laborghini. And now, keep in mind,
pretty much of anything I buy, it's gonna sit in the garage, it's gonna.
Speaker 7: Get used, get cool, but it's just a hassle. Like
it's cool to have Lamborghini. But I feel like the
hassle isn't worth it. I've always said I buy by five,
buy a Laborghini. It's probably coming from an auction. It's
where I need to fix something on it. They gotten
the recor whatever, and I need to put it back together.
I'd rather much do that and get a huge discount and do it that way. I look all the time,
I've actually been watching this Challenger right, this second hell Cat Challenger Red Eye that's been up at auction. I've
been steadily just kind of watching that I wouldn't mind having, but it's one of those things. I got to pop
on it, and then I got to hope that there's nothing seriously that can't be fixed wrong with it. And
for the kind of money even on an auction site for me to pop on and get it, it's still a good chunk of money.
Speaker 2: Now. I think right now the cars, it sits at
like eighteen grand. It's not real money. It's not getting
like real big money yet. Its eighteen thousand dollars. It's
almost worth the gamble, but it's still eighteen thousand dollars at the end of the day, you know what I mean.
It's like you're basically paying the chassis, right. You just
got to hope real big money guys, I would like eighteen thousand when I'm talking about in comparison to what the cars seventy eight ninety thousand I'm looking at right the second, it's you know, a quarter of the price right this second. So I don't know, just know that
I keep on pushing towards it. I kind of figure it,
but you know, I feel guilty because I know the trans AM's got to get done first. We still have
old blue sitting outside that we got to get done.
And oh Blue doesn't need a lot of stuff to it just needs attention. But we gotta get those two done.
And I feel like if I put another car into the stable, but this one will be done though, right right, this one would be done, that they can actually but this one is done, that it may push some of those stuff back to make a promise that it won't.
So that was that was one of the conditions been put on me so far, was by my better half that if I do proceed forward with buying something that it has to uh, those cars I still have to get done. I just can't fall in love with what
I bought and stop touching things, which I don't think i'd ever do that to the bad am because I'm just in love with that car and have been since I was a kid. So on that note, guys, it's
come to the end of show. We got to get
out of here. Guys. Make sure you have your bells
turned on. Make sure you guys are doing everything you
need to do to follow along so that you guys know we're at Seema. We're gonna be having a great time.
I want to share everything with you, guys. I don't
want you guys miss any of it, so make sure you tell your friends like follow do all of it so you guys can catch it all. You guys got
anything before we get out of here, Andrea weekend, see ya.
All right, guys, that's it for us. We're out of here,
and watch the cover and we'll talk to you guys when we come back. We're out of here. Have a
great weekend.
About this episode
Excitement builds as the team prepares for SEMA, sharing their anticipation for unique car builds and innovative technologies. They discuss standout projects like a 1964 Impala and electric conversions, while highlighting new products such as wireless jump starters and advanced camera tech. The conversation shifts to the challenges of building a 1977 Trans Am, with debates on battery longevity and the pros and cons of different battery types. The episode wraps up with a personal journey of exploring modern muscle cars, particularly the upcoming Mustang, as the host navigates the balance between passion projects and family responsibilities.
Original notes
On this episode of Let's Talk Cars Radio, we cover multiple topics, including a heated debate about battery choices. From Cameron's preference for Walmart batteries to others choosing dealership options, we discuss the pros, cons, and what drivers should consider. Join us for this and more on today’s show!
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