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I was not a huge fan and look and just before anybody beats us up like like I have a z33 you have a z32
It's not exactly like you also have a g. Yep. It's not exactly like we're not like
You know into some of the z legacy here, but I will tell you that I think z31 probably is one of my least
Favorite
Vintage's I could say it's probably one of the weakest of the heritage. Yeah, and I yeah not from an aesthetic standpoint
I think it was really cool for like that 80s style car
Yeah, I'm taking it for what the car was it did it did I actually had the digital dash if anyone knows exactly where
My dad hadn't won an 87
I think it was an I think it was it was an 84 85 was right around that year
So like it was obviously was a 2 plus 2 was the non-turbo. It was an automatic
So I mean I had all that way to go that easily the worst trim you could have picked up, but aside from that
What color was excited black I had gold no no his
I had the gold one the colors right
I think it's questionable on the interior with that beige crap. I had the beige interior
Yep, but there was a lot of things that were very cool about the tech in the car
You know that the gauge cluster the fact that they had a lot of that
Not just the gauge cluster on the dash. We're talking about like, you know, they had the three gauges off to the pods
Yep. Yeah. Yeah, and so so I think that stuff was pretty cool. I even think that
You know when they have you know, there's something and I and I get it a lot with the Mitsubishi, right?
you know that
That
Undescribable can't put your finger on it
But like it's an amber orange thing that they have and all the the the way the dashes lights up
Yeah, but it's this it's this the way everything is orange, but it's not really orange. It's like, you know
Yeah, but it gives you that like you get in the car. You're like, oh, yeah, this is 80s. Oh, yeah
No, no, no, no, so with that one it had actually that's a great example
It was like a greenish blue in that car, which was what what was a little bit different
It was almost like the like the Casio watch or whatever like that. Yeah, you know that color
Yeah, so it was a lot of that
But that was a close contender but to be to be fair to that car
I didn't really get an opportunity to drive it. I was in the middle of
Trying to get it on the road fix it up and go to college and work a part-time job
So yeah, it was more of it sat in the driveway never really moved got it
So the Evo was something you were primarily driving. Yeah, and you loved it so much
I did so I picked it up from a shop and they had built it for me
It was kind of like I guess the shop if I had to you could I feel like I feel like
All right, go ahead. So so regardless of that so the shop built it for me
There was a lot of like little problems with it
Do you remember what any of those problems were?
Yeah transmission leak so the the transmission was leaking the seals on it were bad transfer case seals were bad
They put the car together they put the used parts
Yes, so they put the car together with you with used components, which was fine
We kind of went into that knowing that because I ended up picking up a real it was a really clean SSL
Max you can probably pull up pictures of it from my Instagram
It was super clean
I can't tell you that the car was pretty the engine ran great
But what was it was it how do we get to a part a point with that car if it's so clean
So they're using all these used so it was everything under
The lipstick was a little rough
So wiring harness it wiring harness connections were as a super weird term by the way
Did you say no what everything under the lipstick? Yeah lipstick on you know lipstick on a pig. So I understand. I understand
I'm just saying it's a super weird. I don't know. I don't know how I got there
So it was um, you know
There was all the connector a bunch of the connectors on the wiring harness loom were broken
So I'd be going down the road and all of a sudden come loose and something would really light comes on the car
And I'm stranded on the side of the road or the best one was the
Um, the clips were broken on the cam position sensor or what happened?
So obviously the motor was out of the car. Oh, yeah, there was not it was a shell
So the car started as a shell. All right. It was a good shell that a shop
Probably had enough parts around that they said we're gonna put this car together. We got the shell cheap enough
It's a clean shell
We're gonna make a car. Yep. We have a lot of parts. Yep. That's exactly what happened
I immediately can think of three shops now that I've narrowed it down to
I feel like I know the one
But I'm getting out with it with that said so so they put this car together
And they you know, can they come out and they you go to see this car obviously looks great
Yep, because it's clean shell. Yep, and they slap it on the hood and they say
Mint
Condition car so and no that wasn't that wasn't the case. All right fair. Okay stood behind it. Um, so
One like stood behind it pushing or like more than once
But but actually that's that's a joke, but I'm a hundred percent serious
I think we did push into the shop at least more than once. Yeah. Um, so regardless
It did have cone against the sems on it just so you know
Um, interesting 18 9 and a half plus 25
So all right, I had those on there. Um, so it was an interesting choice, but regardless of that, um
Where was I going I had to slip that in I'm sorry
Well, it had to be obviously like what we're talking about with this car. Oh constantly breaking. So the
They were really good about whenever there was a problem taking care of it taking care of it. Um, I will give them that. Um
What ended up kind of happening was I went down to to echo with them
For evo versus ti da
I drove now. I know who it is. Anyhow, I drove down and on the way down
The transmission started to hum. I immediately called them
And I was like, hey
I think the transmission is out of fluid and it's starting to screen
And I'm gonna turn back and he's like, no, no, no, just come down. We'll take a look at him
When it gets here, we'll put fluid in if we have to that we're gonna jack it up right there
Where are you at this point?
Jersey turnpike. All right. So you're pretty far pretty far. So this isn't like right
It's not like you just started out 40 minutes ago. No, no, no, no
And as I said, they they were good like it had just been at the shop not too long before that
um
Because it had a no start condition because the crank sensor wasn't reading
So because the harness was broke because the harness was broken
So I ended up, um
They put they repaired the harness. They did what they had to do. Yeah, ended up going put a new pigtail on it
That's everything. Um, so I'm on my way there. They say just get it here. Get it there
um
They take it for a ride
I end up I end up making it pass with the car
End up driving it home
Wait, they check they took they checked it though, right?
Apparently that's what I was told so
So
This car was not my doing so everything was so I have this habit of if it's my responsibility
I will take care of it
But if somebody says they're going to handle it
I'm going to put my hands back and say, okay, you handle it until I have to step in
So the I'm going to say by the people that we're talking about here that maybe wasn't the best advice for yourself
No, it wasn't maybe just a quick glance. Yeah, you know, like, hey, like I know they said they were gonna
Didn't let me just check. Yeah. So I didn't follow up with it
Um, I kind of just hung out and went with my friends and came back made a pass through the car
They it was quieter. So I assumed that they put a foot
um
I wasn't still too sure about everything I ended up driving at home
and I get it home
at the time my now wife
at time girlfriend
Laid into me for driving the car instead of just towing it
So we ended up towing it to the shop
We ended up picking up a couple days later
um, I'm
driving the car and the
crib nut comes loose on the control arm and the whole right side of the car gets wiped out on the side of the highway
I had something like that happen to me with a with a 1g
Right over coming off the coming off the southern state over off of, um
What road is that?
Well would mm-hmm. I was coming up, you know, like if you're coming if you go in this way you go in
West westbound and you go to come back up on the big wood. Yeah
Go like this and all of a sudden there goes the wheel
And the car goes down and there it is and I was like
So the worst part is it had I had like all really nice
You know the cwest front lip and all you know all the nice little good had had and everything was destroyed
Um, the good thing I got it and the only thing I could say about the shop is they did eventually buy the car back from me
Oh, that's cool. Um, I kept the seats. I have those are the seats in my z
I have evo seats in my z from that car. Cool. They're good seats for the cars
Yep, and they bought the car back
Um, and they you know, it took them some time to come up with the money, but okay, but they did
Oh, listen, I can't say anything about that. That's a pretty admirable move
So so I'm not gonna knock them too hard. That's why you know, I'm not I'm not really trying to tell you who it was
But you know, no, no, I kind of think I knew it is but honestly
I think that's a really that you know when you when you sum all that up
That's an admirable move
Right seemed like they try to make every attempt and ultimately just said hey
Well, you know, yeah, and and the mistake that was made
With the suspension the the technician that did it like, you know
Was man enough to come to me and say, you know, he messed up and they that's why they were buying the car back and all that
If things happen, right? I mean listen things happen with the cotter paying back in or something like that and
Yeah, whatever was whatever it was at that time, you know, as I said, they stood behind it. They did the right thing
I can't knock them for that. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. But the experience with the car nonetheless
Does put it pretty low on my list. Yeah, I mean look, that's tough
I think they have a bad experience with a car that potentially could have been good
Now I will say for everybody that's out there going to say no the evos are all crap anyway. Well, here's the thing
DSM's and evos and I and I I messed with those cars
For a long time, right had a lot of DSM's
They were all kind of crap
But in different levels and proportions, right?
The Mitsubishi build quality wasn't inherently great a 4g63. I don't care what you say
It wasn't a great motor
Now
Could it make a lot of power and could it do it fairly?
Inexpensively absolutely. Yes. I feel like it brute forces its way to that power
It just was it was just it's just when you look at engines or when you have the opportunity to start building
Some engines when you have the opportunity to really like
Mess with some other platforms
You'll realize just how crude the 4g63
Was I mean the head itself the head design itself is just a crude design. All right, but
They were some of the most fun cars for the dollar
In their heyday than you could ever find which is why I think I messed with them so much, right?
I love building cars. I I even even like since I got the vr4. I've done a lot of work to it
Yeah, not measurable
In the way that I think you'd measure work being done, right?
For example, like when you add parts to a car you kind of increase its quote unquote build build resume
That's that's that's what people think of when they do work on the car
But I got this car that was sitting for a few years
So the first thing I had to do is had all the fluids had to get swapped out. I got to take everything apart
Switches didn't work. I mean almost all the switches didn't work
You know that you can kind of push them around they move and just a lot of corrosion and different things like that
But the cars rust free. Yeah, right. So that's fantastic
You know had things like dense and a lot of cleaning that had to get done and like, you know
Why doesn't this work having to go track it down and then ultimately figuring out? Oh
It's because this harness or module somehow became unplugged, right?
Stuff like that
You had to you had to teach yourself paintless dent removal in that time also from what I understand. Yeah
I don't know if anybody can see this. I got this burn on my finger because
I've now convinced myself that I'm a paintless dent removal technician
I'm not by the way
But I've done a pretty good job
With the tools that I have for this that I bought that I bought specifically
To get the dent out of the quarter panel on the on the vr4 because all these
Amazing pdr guys told me that they wouldn't touch it. Yeah
They didn't want to burn their finger. They didn't want to burn their finger. So uh, so and ultimately I ended up doing it
So now all of a sudden people are like, hey, you know how you can pull out those
What I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention. I got hot glue on it and the one thing about hot glue
Uh, you know the ones that they use for a pdr
Is that um, it's very hot
Right, it's hotter than your average glue and
The thing is when you put it on a car
If you want to take the glue off the release agent is isopropyl alcohol, right?
When you burn yourself to the point where it's a continuous burn that won't stop
And when you try to take it off, it just it's it's a liquid
It's just kind of like you can't you can't get it off, right?
So the first thing I think of is I got to cool it to rip it off
And then I'm thinking the release agent and I take that isopropyl alcohol and I just
And when I tell you like I mean, oh my god, it was awful
But it did cool the glue enough that I could peel it off and mean my skin came with it
But it's getting better
Anyhow, so yes, uh pdr
I think there's a lot of things I had to learn, uh, and you know and some of the stuff I actually knew
Um
I think you're okay. Yeah, I just by thinking just yeah, we kick the audio thing. Um, but like I think that
There's some things that I knew way back in the day, but I haven't touched in 20 years. Yeah, right like
I don't
evo flash evo scan flashing ecu's
You know, like I mean in premise I remember a lot of tables and different things
But like I the the for a 3000 gt like, you know, which plugs you had to plug in and an unplugged memory car is a
You know, it's it's an obd1 convert it to obd2 that is able to use
So like you have a lot of different dingles and dangles that are you know, supposed to be like, you know
Yeah, it's a lot easier today to just this has to be grounded
It has to be done and plug this cable in and do this and then you have to make sure this is set so that you can just flash
the ecu so
And there's no instruction manual. So is that the ready? Is that like a ready state you have to put in?
I'm just wondering because I know on some of the older cars with obd1
You had to put them into like what's called ready state which meant the ecu was like in like a factory
mode
No, I don't think that's what it is. But there is this like
I think it's called a z-link a connection that goes to the ecu and that's where they basically have to ground out a pin
So, okay, you could do it. In fact
It what's interesting is all right. So the the person I bought it from, you know, I've known him for 15 years
So I knew when he said he was going to sell this car that I was going to take it, right?
So I bought the car
I think I've talked about this a little bit here and there on different things
But like when it was interesting about this car was that it's got a built engine, right?
But you know built and I say, oh, so what did you use when you built it? Oh, I don't remember
You know what I mean? Like so I don't even necessarily know exactly what's in there, but like
What was fun for me was there was a lot of things I was preparing to go through on the whole car because it'd been sitting for
Three years and like what you know switches different things didn't work
Every step of the way I got to a certain point and I'd go to buy a part and I'm like, uh
Like I would first I had bought in a few bought a few parts
They come to the house I go to put them in and I realized when I go to put them in they're already done
Yep
And then I realized that from now on before I buy anything I need to go look at the part first
Because there's a chance he changed it and a lot of that stuff has been done
Now it may be older, but it's done, right?
So, you know the car is I have I got to tell you that
I love the car. I love it
But it's got a built engine has upgraded 15t turbos. It's got, you know, evo injectors
It's got all the stuff to make some power
Um, the issue to me was that the car was never really it was never tuned. Okay
It was they scaled the injectors. Oh, that's all it was. That's all it was. Okay. So now I'm in the process of
I gotta really get my you know my flashing logging games together
And try to get this car dialed in so, you know, I've already done a lot of rescaling on the ve table
And then, um, you know rescaling the math to be able to accept a higher higher level because now
I think the cabin capped off at like 1600 hertz, but now like I'm already logging in area and the 24 hertz
2400 hertz. This is why I like speed density. You don't have to deal with this
Here's the thing with this with this I can convert the thing to speed density. Okay, so you can't so I can with that ecu
Without ecu. Okay. I can so it's got what they call a jester chrome ecu. Okay. Um, so it's
It's essentially a stock ecu that they've added some different doodads to like in an e-prom basis. Yep
Um, I think we just lost half our audience because I'm talking about some
We went down a rabbit hole real quick. Yeah, I guess all the all the technical guys are still here, but everyone else left
So I don't know anyhow bottom line is I think uh, there's a lot of things that I think I did to that car
But I but I really love that car
And I would not have bought it if it wasn't coming from the owner that I knew
That would have did the right thing and and he blew my expectations away
On the things that he did even when he didn't remember to tell me that he did them
Right. So good scenario there. So next car probably not
So my question really comes down to since you got my worst car out of me
Yeah, do you think that your vr4 is better than yours?
They're very different
Oh, I I agree like night and day different
I agree because this kind of brings me back to that question that you had for me a while back when we were discussing
When you said which of the you know the z's would you like about the 350 z versus the 370 so on and so forth
And I actually I wanted to revise that slightly
I forgot about one car that I did work on that I really enjoyed it was an o3 o4
de with a
Um hks supercharger really simple setup little roots a little um
Like vortex style. Yeah centrifugal. Yeah centrifugal supercharger
And it was so much fun. It was great
So and I kind of think I know where you're going. So I'm gonna guess and then maybe I won't be wrong. Okay, so guess
What made that car really good? Was it the fact that the power still felt so linear?
It felt snappy
Like the car felt
That once again, you just moved the torque table up instead of having that that
You know waiting for boost to come in but it was
Well, but the car was a non-turbo car anyway. So if you would have driven the car, you know in just its basic cylinder form
Do you feel like this was essentially like if you if you had a graph that went like this
Do you feel like this supercharger basically just moved it up?
But it was the same yeah, yeah 100% and that's what made the car so cool
Right, exactly. And I and I very much enjoyed the fact. So, you know, I was able to just throw it around
It was light. So obviously being the lighter of the z chassis
That was really beneficial and then having that really snappy response out of it. I mean, it really felt great
That's what I think I love so much about my z because I have a the gym wolf twin turbo kit on the car
That car is
Stupid linear like for turbo car. There is no such thing as you you couldn't feel when the turbos are in or not
Like like that's how good it is right the the fact that um, you know in vini 10 to tune the car
Obviously, I didn't know anything about, you know, 350 z's at the time when I bought that car and um, and they tuned it with
You know, they put up rev in there
And you know, they tuned the car and it is just
You cannot tell when the turbos come on. That's how good it is, right? It's that linear and you pretty much have
A good amount of power and almost every gear even a six gear if you whatever
But like if you're going, you know at a six gear speed
Yeah, you just roll it a slight roll you rolling the throttle and the car will accelerate
So so the z is I will tell you the thing that's bothering me about the z now that I have
Driven the 3000 so much
It's that
I always thought that my z was super comfortable
Okay for for you know, I've owned the car for over 15 years
um
I always thought the z was super comfortable. I get in it. I was very comfortable
Like I've done a lot of modifications to the car. The car has a lot of modifications
But like they're tasteful very oe plus type things. I always felt for what it is. All right, maybe the suspension's a little stiff
But like this is still a comfortable car
um
I didn't realize how uncomfortable the car actually is until I got into the to the vr4 and realize
How comfy that car is no
They are two different cars. One is a sports car. The other one is a grand touring car
There's never going to be a time where
You know
The vr4 even comes into the same element
As wherever it really puts into view though how different some of the grand touring cars can be
You know sport grand touring cars versus a really really good sports car. Um
I think it's given me a little bit more of a
Wow
The z is better than I thought it was performing wise. Maybe I need to start getting it
To the track even though it's always been kind of the car that I
Didn't want to do that with because it's only got 24 000 original miles. Everything's very clear clean and
They kind of like ah, maybe I need to go to the track because the truth is it it's good
So I I like the twin turbo idea over so I've driven the big single turbo the tread stone kit
I don't love them. I don't like it. Um, it's kind of fun once you're in power
Yeah, it's great. You know, it's fine for that. But when you're out of power
It definitely takes some time to get into power
Yeah, I don't love that and that was the unfortunate way
That a lot of the dsm, especially as you went big turbo cars were right
There was lag lag lag lag lag and then that and actually I think that's why I was so adamant about doing the
um gtr twin turbos on my 300 um my my z project because
They're direct mount, you know, they're essentially manifold based turbos. So you're spooling them really quick
They're small for what you get out of them and I shouldn't have any problems on them
But I fully agree that doing that that twin turbo and the grand touring aspect. I'm fully on board with
That's why I think I still love my zx because it has that same
touring feel. Yeah, it's that touring feel, you know, um
Having the the car be, you know, I always make this joke that I don't like being able to touch my door panels at the same time
Now coming from the guy who had the SRT for I find that ironic because I could definitely touch both door panels
At the same time in that car. I could actually touch all four door panels at the same time in that car
Yeah, but um, yeah, no at the grand touring car. I get that. So, um
Yeah, I know it's hard
It's hard, you know, like I think I also think like, you know, I'm still in a good honeymoon period
So it's hard to like like will I feel this way in a year?
You know what I mean? Like, I don't know like maybe at that point. I'll be so used to it
Uh, and there's again, unfortunately another more fortunately another project coming
And uh, you know now without many projects. I think like, you know, clearly, you know, I only have a very limited amount of time
So driving
The cars or whatever is good, you know, even working on the car. Yeah, I don't know where you find the time because I
I don't have the
Honestly, the only times that I spend are like on the weekends or
Everybody goes to sleep and like let's say I've decided like I'm not going to do any more work for the night
like I go in the garage and
And and with the the new car, you know, not to give too much away, but that's selection
You have now you have a sports car. You have a grand tour and now this other car and it's like they're all different
They're all you know, they're they're all very different. They're all going to feel very different
They all have different driving positions all different feels all different like a hundred percent
It's a completely different thing and I think that's really interesting because
you know
You're getting to experience
Different drives like I know that sounds weird, but like that's not weird
That's that's kind of where that that to me has always been interesting
Yeah, it's it's it's I think it's interesting for me
And I think like, you know, I've had a lot of people say to me
So what do you do yourself the z you sell this car or whatever?
And the truth is like, you know, I've said it before like I'm not I'm not
I'm not building cars that if I'm going to get a car that I'm going to sell
I'm not going to really have like it's not going to be around long. You know what you mean?
But this is um, I think, you know, I'm going to keep all these cars, but you're right. They're
Just so different. Yeah, they're they're night and day
definitely, um
And you know, like it does it take a little you know a few minutes of driving in each one before you feel acclimated again
100% but
I will say that, you know, each one, you know, kind of does put a smile on my face for the most part. Um,
I
Think the thing that bothers me the most about the z out of everything
Is the fact when I got the car it had the guy had put a lot of money into it
Exterior wise, right? It's got an inks lx kid. It's got carbons where mirrors
It's got, you know a bunch of little and it looks very oe plus even though it's whatever
But the kit is very
Very low
Okay, yeah
And your ground clearance is done right and my car is low word. I mean I didn't go crazy, but it's low word, right?
um
And it you really got to think when you drive it a lot
Like you have to think yeah, you have to know where you're going you have to
Be very careful and I've done a lot of things. I put the you know the the piston lift kit
On my coil overs like I have a fortune auto set when they used to build that
High lift thing so I can get the fronts up, you know, you know, three three and a half inches
Which is cool to like
But it's not you can't drive like that, right? No, and the car's gotta have it's got it's pretty
You know taught in the suspension as far as you know, it's dampening to make sure that I don't have a lot of compression
um
So
You know it's you got to think you can't go through pot holes
You know a million miles an hour your teeth will fall out
You can't just randomly pull up to railroad tracks that are too big
You can't go through parking lots that have big dips in them on some ends
You can't you got to watch your speed bumps for sure
Driveways, you know inclines like so, you know
There is a little bit of a pressure thing when you drive that car to not
Screw it up, right?
And that's going to make it really hard to drive on the track too because no
I think it will be okay. Do you think so because I think you're knowing you you're going to be
I think you're going to be aiming for those apexes and those curves are going to get
I don't think that I'll be doing that with the car that I want to keep and whatever
But I do think I do think there's tracks that I really
Will have a good time with the car on like lime rock and you know, so I have some
Thought of trying to get to some of those not to set records
Go drive the car really like do what I think it's meant to do and I think that that car
Um, it should be pretty good. I I don't think
That you know, I think I've gotten rid of pretty much most of the oversteer with that car
And that should make it feel a little bit more tamed, but man, there's only one way to find out now
Yeah, no
Um, I so I know you're always pitching for the ideas for something we should do. I think uh scott's cars
Drag race would be the it's going to be the perfect episode. We we rent out the core mile
We bring all of your cars. We bring fissures. Miata doubts cars my cars and we we all just do a drag day and that
That's the video content. I'm gonna be a nine car holiday
You just get a whole 18 wheeler to bring us down. Oh, man. Anyhow, all right
Yeah, perfect. What was uh for those out there what what kind of you what what's your favorite cars?
What was your worst car? Let us know what you think about it interesting to hear about it. Um,
I think
That it's uh, it's just an absolute
Interesting thing to think about all the cars you've owned and all the cars you've drives and if you had them all in front of you today
What would you keep what do you love? What are you like? What was I doing my z?
Yeah, that's my answer you keep the z keep my z if you had to choose one of yours
Well, it's your one last question before before I okay, because I just came to me. I want to lose it. Okay
It's your car has been down for a little bit now
Six years seven years. Okay
This has happened to me before and this is why I'm asking the question. So nobody beat me up for trying to sandbag you
um
Do you think that there's a possibility that as good as you think your car is
Was know it can be
That you're going to get the car back on the road different things you've now aged six or seven years
more
Do you think there's a possibility that
You've done all the things of making the car much better than it ever was in your head
And by the time you actually get it built the way you want it now
It won't measure up to that
There's a fear of that, but that's also why I've tried to
March with technology so I had I had a completely different plan when the car went down
My original plan was to get the rb rebuilt and do that and it changed it evolved and
Now a technology has increased and then new plans have solidified
The concern is I do think they're cool. I think that I think I like you know, I know what your build plan is
And I think I really do think it's going to be a crazy build. I just got to get it done
That's the hard part
We should do it. I mean the hard part is the is the parts. So right? Yes. That's I mean and and here's the thing
I'm actually and this is off topic. I mean, we don't this on camera. So I'm trying to get the hell tech right now
Jill and I were discussing it
We're just trying to get the kitchen done and all that and then probably going to pull the trigger on that
Get the harness and then I have to start wiring that whole engine. So that's going to take me
Probably the engines in the car now engines on motor mounts sitting in the car. What about
Turbos and stuff. They're on the car. They're on the engine. So what about trans have we gotten the trans yet?
No, so the manual trans I still have a cd09 in the car on the engine, but you're now going to go
Am I giving it away? We're going to get you know, I haven't hidden it. Yeah, we're going to be hp automatic
So I was looking at hps last night
Hp 75 out of a quadrofolio. Okay, so you can also get them out of chargers and trucks
Correct. Um, but the particular kit that loj offers is uses that particular bell housing already
So I already know the kits. Everything is literally just
Working and saving up money and paying bills and then buying the parts and then doing the job. But sadly the the
G 37 the daily
Transmission swap comes first and that's the thing is that's something that will be done in in a day a weekend
It's a weekend. Um, because while I'm in there. I'm replacing the drive shaft. I'm doing I'm doing diff bushings
While I'm in there. So it's you know popping the diff out doing that
So there's there's projects that I'm doing while I'm in there
But other than that I was planning on spending the weekend doing it and having it back, you know, ready to run
So is my fear with projects to go down for a long time. Yeah, then my tastes and my remembrance
Of those cars is going to change. It happened to me recently
um, a dsm that I put together even though it was not
Um, my favorite one or whatever it was, but it was you know, and I remember the car being very good
Got my hands on it and friends like yo, just go drive it. You love it and it did not
It wasn't what I thought I wasn't gonna remember
I mean, that's that's why I pulled the trigger on some of this stuff with like staying manual
And that's kind of why I changed automatic because I wanted something that
As I got older like even if this takes me another two three years to finish
In that amount of time, I'm not going to go. Oh, you know what? I want to go back to manual
Because I already I've made that decision like hey, I want this for something that
In 20 years I can still get on in drive. Yeah, you know, I don't have to worry about a clutch
I don't have to worry about you know as much as I would love to have that be the manual car
I can always build something that's different for that. Yeah, it's interesting man. I think
I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be a good project and think it'll be fun
Um, all right, so back to what we're saying before we get out of here
Let us know what you think down below in the comments there
What's your favorite car? What's your worst car if you line them all up today?
What do you think would change in your opinion?
From how you felt about those cars in yesteryear
And why do you feel that way about the cars? I think that's more important because I don't think it's just the car itself
I mean, I think as you can say like even with my experience
It was a great car
But because of what happened, I don't think I'll ever own evo again
You know and isn't it a real shame when you like love a car so much?
But then when you drive it, you're like like you're just like man, I love this car
But I don't want this car
It almost feels like when you meet your you know, your
Real-life celebrity crush and they suck. Yep. I get that. Yeah a little bit like that. Yeah a little bit like that
A little bit like that. All right, we'll catch you next week. Have a go
About this episode
Reflecting on their first cars, the hosts debate whether nostalgia can overshadow the reality of those vehicles. They share personal stories about their own first cars, including a Z31 and an Evo, discussing the quirks, failures, and memorable experiences associated with them. The conversation dives into the differences between sports cars and grand touring vehicles, highlighting the importance of comfort and performance. Listeners are encouraged to think about their own automotive journeys and how their perceptions of past cars have evolved over time.
In this episode of the Behind the Wheel Podcast, we talk about our first cars and the questionable mods we did to them. Every car enthusiast has made some bad choices early on, and we’re no different. From cheap parts to wild ideas that didn’t age well, we look back and laugh at the mistakes that shaped how we see cars today.
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