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Rare Chevy Sedan Delivery, Boss 302, and a Mercury 1 ton pickup | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 51

Hagerty:

(rock music)
- Three, two, one.
(tires squealing)
(engines roaring)
- A friend of mine, Peter Egan,
wrote, once wrote a great story in
Road and Track magazine that if you want
to look for old cars,
go to a small airport.
Because the wings of an
airplane leave lots of room
to put cars underneath them.
And so we're at a small airport, today.
Happen to meet this great
guy, a couple weeks ago,
Willy Vinton.
And Willy is the curator
and the manager of the
Fountainhead Auto Museum
in Fairbanks, Alaska.
He has assembled, what I think,
is one of the finest museums
in the United States.
I just went there a couple
weeks ago, and I said,
"Willy, do you know anybody with old cars?
"We're going to be shooting an
episode of Barn Find Hunter."
And he says,
"Well, I've got a couple old cars."
And he happens to own a
couple of airplane hangers.
So Peter Egan's story is coming
true in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Willy's going to open up his hanger
and show us what he's got inside there.
Are they underneath wings by the way?
- No, I don't have any airplanes in here.
They don't have room for
airplane in a hanger.
(laughter)
- Too many cars?
- Too many cars.
- Okay, cool.
- Yeah
- Let's see what you have.
- It's kind of a mess in there, but
- I like this kind of mess.
Well this is one of the most eclectic
little grouping of cars
I've seen in a while.
(laughter)
This obviously has my attention.
- 1947 Mercury 110 Pickup.
- I don't think I've
ever seen one in my life.
So, okay.
Mercury, tell us about that.
- Well, it's a Canadian
built Ford pickups.
They started build 'em 1946,
and so this is the second year for them.
Very few of the early ones left.
And I chased this one for
almost 25 years before I got it.
And the Mercury pickups are a little bit
fancier in some of the trim stuff than
the Fords were.
But, just a great old pickup
that's had an awful rough life.
- Where did you find it?
- Here in Fairbanks.
- In Fairbanks, okay.
- The sad part is I don't
have much history on it.
But I went through the
running gear, and it runs.
- So it's got a standard flat head V8?
- Yeah, it's all original.
- Can we open the hood?
- Yeah.
The only thing I did is I
put aluminum heads on it
because the heads were cracked on it.
- Oh, yeah, okay.
So is it Edelbrock or something?
- These are original
old Offenhauser heads.
- Got an alternator on there.
- Yup, yeah.
Six volt alternator.
- So do you drive this around?
- Not much, but I just
finished the tail lights on it
here a while back.
- Okay, okay.
- So I got lights all working on it.
- So this was that standard
Ford green that you see
on so many 50's trucks.
- Yeah, it's, I haven't even waxed it yet.
- (laughs) Wow.
Can you start it?
- Sure.
(engine starting)
- Sheesh.
I think it's got a starting problem.
It starts too quickly.
- Yeah (laughs).
- Man, is that sweet?
(engine revs)
Did you rebuild the motor?
- Yeah.
- Is that a hundred horsepower?
- It's a 85.
- 85.
- Yeah.
- Okay, isn't that sweet?
So one ton, amazing.
- We can run this outside if you want.
- Oh yeah, could we?
- Yeah.
- Okay, let's do that.
Okay, so we're going to pull this out
(blues rock music playing)
Wow, that's nice.
- Not so fast now.
(engine noises)
- Now to get back in that old clunker.
So tell me about this tailgate.
- You see what they did,
is they stamped this out
stamped the Ford out,
and if you measure a Ford tailgate
it's exactly the Ford
script is exactly that size.
- Wow.
- So and they made these
and just put them in
and spot welded them.
But you can see where somebody
was hooking up to a trailer
and the hitch was a
little high or something.
But if you look at the sides
the sad part about this thing
on that side over there,
somebody and I've never seen it before,
but it had two foot square,
or two inch particle board.
So the beds got to come
off of it this winter, and
because everything underneath
it's a wood structure.
- So you're going to
rebuild the bed, really?
- Just the bottom.
- Not the metal?
- No.
- Okay, well now we have room to go look
at this Model A you've got too.
This Model A, tell me, you
say it has an unusual history?
- Well, yeah.
This was bought new in Dawson City.
- Which is in Alaska?
- No, it's in Canada.
- Canada.
- Just across the border.
Now one thing you can tell about the ARs,
as you can tell this is a
restoration waiting to happen,
is that the emergency brake
is on the left.
- Like a Model T.
- Yes.
That was the very first Model
A's were built that way.
They called them the ARs.
And this was built in December of 1927.
- 1927, so they were still being built
during the last year of the Model T.
- Right, yeah.
- They closed production,
so this, do you know the
serial number, is this
one of the first ones?
- I don't know, cause the,
I got to pull the body off
to get the correct
serial number off of it,
cause it's got a different engine in it.
- Um hm.
And so what color will
this be, do you think?
What color, can you identify what-
- Well, I gotta go back
and do some research,
but it looks like it was a dark blue.
- I see.
Oh yeah.
- Um hm.
I love it when then they
haven't been molested.
- Yup.
So two unique vehicles.
So, now we are on your third one here.
- Well, the third one over
there is a 1975 AMC Gremlin.
- So what's the story with this car?
- Well, that was the
last car my Dad bought.
- Oh wow, he bought it new?
- No, he bought it used, and
it's never been messed with.
It's got 62,000 miles on it.
- Original paint.
- Yeah.
- So did your Dad live in Alaska?
- No, it was Montana.
- Montana, okay.
Have you driven this car?
- Yeah, I drove it about,
oh I brought it up here
about 20 years ago, I guess.
- So it's an automatic,
keys are in the ignition.
A bench seat.
- Yup.
- Wow.
Well, thank you, sir.
- You betcha.
- This has been a great
way to start the morning.
- Well good.
Doesn't get much better
than this, you know.
(blues rock music playing)
(engine roars)
- We're going over to see a guy named
Peter Lundquist right now.
I met him last week when I was here
driving around the state,
I asked him "Do you know
any cars in the area?"
He said "I got some at
my house, at my hanger."
So here we are at the hanger.
- Peter!
Thanks for meeting me.
- Yeah, you're welcome.
- I met Peter a week and a half ago.
We were driving around Fairbanks
on kind of a pleasure drive.
And actually Peter is a good
friend of my friend David,
who loaned us this Mustang.
He said, "You gotta meet Peter,
"he's got a cool car in his hanger,
"where he keeps his own collector cars."
And there's one back there
that just (snap) bam,
that's the car, so follow me.
All right, so, I don't want to
put the words in your mouth,
tell me about this car.
- Totally original other than the wheels,
but my brother bought it in 1975,
when he was going to law
school in Puget Sound.
He bought it in Tacoma,
and then he drove it to
law school every day.
And in the summers he would
drive it up to Alaska,
work up here, drive it back in the Fall
and go back to law school.
And shortly after he
graduated, he passed the bar,
then he got killed by a drunk driver.
- Ah.
- Pretty unfortunate, but you know.
I ended up with the car.
I haven't done much with it.
It will start right up and drive.
It's very solid.
- How long has it been sitting here.
- It's been sitting here for 12 years.
- Do you remember what he paid for it?
- $500.
I have the canceled check at home.
- Do you really?
- Yeah.
- Now this car has some unique features.
It may look like an
average 57 Chevy wagon,
but if you notice,
the first thing you
notice it's a two door.
Okay, so it's a two door
wagon, so it's not a Nomad.
If I were to tell you
it's not even a wagon,
you'd probably scratch your head saying
"What's going on here?"
So tell us why this car is unique, Peter.
- It's unique because it's
a rare sedan delivery,
is what it is.
And, ah, they
GM called it Window Delivery,
but they built a very limited production
of sedan deliveries
with glass in the back.
So it looks like a station wagon, but
sedan delivery trim, sedan delivery back,
there's no back seat.
Sedan delivery back door.
And the VIN number has
SD for sedan delivery.
- So sedan deliveries, if you think about,
was a panel, kind of a
panel van, and it was just
metal around here,
and a lot of times florists
would put their name
of their business or plumbing business.
But the tell-tale mark
for a sedan delivery
is a one-piece tailgate.
Station wagon had a window one
up, the tailgate went down.
But this is a one-piece, can I open this?
- Sure, yeah.
- All right, so it's
a one-piece tail-gate.
That was a sedan delivery exclusive.
Also.
(door slams shut)
As Peter said, there's no back seat.
(door opens)
You can see back here,
it's just a compartment
for storing things.
So who ordered this car and why?
- They made them specifically
for the government.
So I think they were all
Department of Agriculture or
Forestry is what I understand.
I've never seen, I've seen
other pictures of one,
and they were all bare-bones.
So they were straight
six, no real options,
plain Jane, work vehicle.
- So this is a 150.
Most base model
55, 56, 57,
Chevies are 210's.
You can tell a 150.
Now look if I make a
mistake, don't criticize me.
Because I don't know
everything about 57 Chevies,
but a 150 had no door handles,
armrests on here.
No armrest.
You had to close it with the door handle.
Probably why a lot of them are broken.
This was a 210 option.
I believe they only had one sun-visor.
But this one has two, so I
may be mistaken in that area.
It's got a radio delete clock delete,
and I'm going to see how
many miles are on this thing.
99,636 miles.
It's got a three on the tree.
If you look, there's
nothing on this dashboard.
There's no brass trim, gold
trim, or anything like that.
It's a basic basic car.
The 150's also had the
most basic steering wheel.
Just one small horn button in the center.
No deluxe horn ring around there.
And that's it.
It's a basic basic delivery vehicle.
Or work vehicle.
And as Peter said this was
ordered by the government
for Forestry work.
And I really wonder how
your brother found it?
- Ah, you know, I don't know.
He must have just,
He bought it off a private party.
So he didn't buy it from the government.
- Got it.
- There's a sticker on the dashboard,
somewhere near the steering wheel that has
the unit number for, I
think it's the Department
of Agriculture.
- Really?
- Or such, it's somewhere
near the steering wheel there.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh.
- And the log books are
still in the glove box
from oil changes and
stuff the government did,
- No kidding.
- Yeah, there's a log book in there for.
- Oh, look at this.
This is unbelievable.
United States Department of Agriculture.
Chevrolet 57.
Fiscal year ending June 30th, 1975.
So this was in use for a long time.
- So he must have bought it right after
they decommissioned it.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- So this must be like receipts,
yeah, for oil changes, vehicle inspection.
There's the tag number, the VIN number.
This is intriguing.
And, so here is a,
Government vehicle operators,
your guide to service stations
for gasoline, oil, and lube.
Sheesh, this is amazing stuff.
So I guess this was a required
piece of documentation
for people that drove government vehicles.
Wow, pretty cool stuff.
Well that's pretty amazing.
The 150's were the stripped down
versions of Chevrolet sedans.
I think they all had posts,
whether it was in a sedan version.
And I believe that's what
they used for the Black Widow,
which was a 283 engine
fuel injected version,
which was the most
high-performance version.
It was built to be a race
car, a NASCAR race car,
or drag race car.
But this one is on the
other end of the scale.
Basic basic, three speed on the tree.
And a six l motor.
Let's flip that hood open there.
(hood slams)
And I'm not sure what
the cubic inches are,
probably something like
215 or something like that.
(clanking noises)
So there it is.
99,000 miles, it probably
still runs like a clock.
Does it run pretty well?
- It'll fire right up.
It'll drive real nice.
- Geez.
- Yup.
- So what's your intention for this car?
- I'm going to build it stock.
Just like it is.
But get the rear wheels
and poverty hubcaps.
- Those little pipe,
the little tiny things
- Yup.
Small little, the small hubcaps.
Keep it just stock.
I have every piece, every part, so.
- Man.
- Do it as stock as I can.
- Is the body pretty solid?
- Pretty solid, it's
going to need some work.
But in the 70's driving back
and forth to Washington,
half that road was dirt.
- Oh, yeah.
- So silty dirt, you know, builds up, so.
It's going to need some work.
But for the most part, really solid.
- You know another
thing I'm just noticing,
is that 57 Chevies I believe
that were made in California
had a one piece front bumper.
And 57 Chevies made in Detroit
had a seam here and a seam here.
- Correct.
- So that's a, so this is
probably a California car.
- I think so, yeah.
It's definitely a one piece bumper.
And that's the original bumper, so.
- Researching this car,
there's no value for this car,
that we can find, because it's too rare.
There's probably never been
one brought to an auction.
And this might be the only
one left in the world.
And it is a 235 cubic inch,
six cylinder, 140 horsepower.
And it served its purpose.
I mean that's all it needed to have.
(Door slams)
So, nice car.
So we walk over here.
Peter, tell me about this car, right here.
- It's a 1914 Model T Town Car.
And Town Car was the most expensive
Model T built at the time.
And they, so they didn't
sell very many of them.
It was coach built by a
company outside of Ford,
for building the actual body.
- Um hm.
- But it was meant for
taxicabs or chauffeuring,
so people sat in the back
with glass partitions,
and the driver sat up front.
But very rare.
Town Car Club says there's
two left in existence.
This is number three.
So there's three left in
existence of this model.
- No kidding?
- What's your intention with this?
- Build it back to stock.
- Build it back to stock.
- I'm working that way, I've
got the mechanical parts.
I've got everything I need.
It's just a matter of getting to it,
and the money to pay
someone to restore it.
- Sure.
- So.
- Yeah, wow.
- It would look like
that promotional picture
that's on the wall.
That's a-
- Oh, look at that.
Ford promotional picture from 1914, so.
That's the exact model.
- And how did you come to acquire this?
- My Dad bought it in 1954.
- Wow.
- And so it's always been a Fairbanks car.
The original owner bought it brand new.
Barged it up to Fairbanks.
Opened a taxicab company.
Supposedly did it for a
year and a half, two years,
wrecked it, damaged the front
end, and sold it for scrap.
So it's been in Fairbanks its whole life.
- Okay, well now we're going
to look at another Ford,
of a slightly newer vintage.
As we walk by Peter's other cool cars.
So a friend of mine, David
Carpick, has loaned me
his GT350 to use for
our trip here in Fairbanks,
as our vehicle.
As a substitute for the Woodie.
This is another one of his cars.
He and his wife, Katie,
have a great little collection of Fords.
And this is a
Boss 302 that he owns,
that he found, and told
me a little bit about it.
That's the original paint on there.
So it's a Boss 302 1970
original paint car.
It's got, it looks like it's
got eight track tape deck.
So this was a model, the Boss 302,
was built around the time,
that the Z28 Camero was being built.
And it was in response
to the Trans Am series.
The car companies had to
homologate their race cars,
by building a certain number
of street versions of it.
And the cubic inch
limit
on the Trans Am series was five liters.
So they had to build
these cars for the street,
so they could race them.
Guys like Bud Moore would
build cars for Parnelli Jones
and Dan Gurney, people like that.
Swede Savage, Sam Posey,
all drove cars like this
in the Trans Am Series.
So this is one of those cars, it's a 70,
and this could be for sale.
I mean David told me,
"I think we could consider selling that."
So this will make somebody
a happy owner one day, potentially.
A rare car, desirable car,
a high-performance car, a fun car to own.
So if this car were in fair condition,
number four condition, it
would be a $44,700 car.
In good condition 68,200.
In excellent condition 97 nine.
And if it were concours, 128 grand.
So, you know, what's this one?
Original paint, it's probably
a good condition car.
So somewhere in the 60's I suppose.
I think this trip to Fairbanks has been
particularly fruitful in that,
we haven't found a lot of cars ourselves,
but because we went to
a car, antique car event
a week and a half ago,
and made all sorts of leads,
we were able to meet
people who knew about cars,
or had cars themselves.
So we've just come back here this week
and call that number and call that number.
Like taking orders.
This has been a great time in Fairbanks.
We're not done yet.
We're going to keep driving around,
looking for cars.
But if you have a chance
to come to Fairbanks,
check out the Auto Museum.
Fountainhead Auto Museum.
And scoot around some of the back roads.
And maybe find some cars like this.
Happy hunting.
- This is the last known
midget race car that ran in Alaska.
And they used to have a race track
over where Seekins Ford is now,
called the Rendezvous Race Track.
A gentleman named John Goss,
that brought nine midget race cars
from Seattle area to Alaska to race.
He was flaggin a
motorcycle race over here,
and he flagged the winner
and the second bike
hit him and killed him.
And so that was actually the
demise of the midget race cars.

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Setting Ignition Timing Video - Advance Auto Parts

Advance Auto Parts:

Chad: I'm Chad Reynolds
David: And I'm David Freiberger.
Chad: And on this video commit points are
not understand and set ignition
timing on your engine.
David: Before we show you how to set ignition
timing, you've got to
understand what it is. Go back to the stroke
cycle of engine,
compression, power and exhaust. And on the
power stroke, the
spark plug fires and starts an explosion the
crams the piston
down the cylinder and makes horsepower for
you. In truth, that
spark happens a few degrees before the power
stroke at the end
of the compression stroke. In other words,
right as the piston
is coming up for compression, just before
it reaches top dead
center, or TDC, the spark plug fires. That
distance before top
dead center is what is known as ignition timing.
Ignition
timing is typically read from a market that's
on the harmonic
balancer on the front of the engine, and the
zero point
represents top dead center from the number
one cylinder in
between the compression and power stroke.
This is zero mark will
have been set by the factory on your engine,
or perhaps buy the
machine shop that built it for you, but it's
critical that that
mark be said exactly top dead center on number
one.
Now, I'm going to rotate the engine here with
a breaker bar to simulate
what happens here on the timing tape comes
he can see what we're
talking about. Right now we're before top
dead center, and the
piston is on its way up. So right here. So,
right here if I
stop, the piston is now at 20 degrees before
top dead center,
and it's moving on its way up the cylinder.
There's 10 degrees
before, five degrees before, and then I went
a little bit after,
but that's a roughly zero or right at top
dead center. Now, the
piston is moving back down the hole, and now
it's 10 degrees
after top dead center. So as the engine rotates,
the piston
comes up, stops for just a millisecond at
top dead center, and
starts to move its way back down. Now that's
the mark that we
use to determine ignition timing.
David: Now that you understand how the MSD
timing tape on the damper
relates to the piston position in the engine,
you can understand
that I have it right now at 12 degrees before
top dead center.
That would be a typical initial timing adjustment
for a small
block Chevy. Now, if I were to advance the
timing, that would
mean making the number larger or more degrees
before top dead
center. If I were to retard the timing, it
would mean moving it
to less degrees, or a smaller number before
top dead center. So
if you're at 12 and you change it to 20, that's
advancing
timing. If you're at 12 and you change it
to zero, that's
retarding the time. Now that we've described
what an ignition
timing number means as far as crankshaft degrees
and the
position of the piston in the cylinder, I
can tell you about the
three aspects of ignition timing that you
need to know.
The first of those is initial timing setting,
also known as the idle
timing. That is the total ignition advance
set when the engine
is idle. The next aspect is total ignition
timing or the
greatest amount of advance that the engine
achieves at higher
rpm. The third thing you need to know is ignition
timing curve,
which is the rate at which the ignition timing
advances between
the initial timing and the total timing. Now,
I've explained
that there is an ignition timing curve between
initial timing,
which is a lower number, and total timing
which is a higher
number, but you might ask; why does ignition
timing need to
advance as engine speed increases. Think of
it this way. We
always want peak combustion pressure to happen
at the same point
in the piston travel, say about 10 degrees
after top dead center
on the power stroke. Let's assume that there
is a fixed amount
of time between when the sparkplug fires and
when the point of
peak pressure occurs. So if that is a fixed
amount of time, you
can see that as engine rpm or speed increases,
you need to
ignite the spark sooner so peak combustion
happens at the same
place regardless of engine speed.
Chad: Now that you've got the theory down,
it's time to hook up your timing
light and check your initial timing. Here's
how you do that. If
you've got an MSD timing might or anybody
else's, what you're
going to do is hook up your cable to power
and ground on your
battery. This does not plug into the wall,
and then also take
this pickup and hook it to your number one
spark plug wire.
You'll note that on some timing lights, there's
an arrow that
points in the direction of the spark, in other
words that arrow
needs to point at the spark plug. You hook
this up to the number
one spark plug wire. Every time the number
one spark plug fires,
this sensor picks it up, creates a strobe
effect with this light
so that you can read the timing mark on the
balancer.
David: Here's what you're seeing through the
timing lights. You can
see the initial timing setting is about 12
degrees right here.
Now watch as engine rpm increases, you can
see the timing
advances up to about 33 or 4 degrees. It will
start to jump
around up there and that's not actually what
the engine's doing,
that's a result of our camera shutter speed.
But anyway, you get
the point that as engine rpm increases, so
does timing advance.
We just showed you how to read timing, and
now I'm going to tell
you how to adjust it. First thing you need
to do is loosen the
bolts that hold your distributor hold down
clamps so that you
can rotate the distributor housing. Now, on
this Chevy, where
the rotor returns clockwise, you would advance
the timing by
turning the distributor counterclockwise,
or retard the timing
by turning it clockwise. Here's how that looks
on the timing
tape. Now watch as, here's our base timing,
this is going to be
advancing that, here it comes back to where
it was, and now I'm
retarding it. Now we're going to look at setting
the total
ignition curve on this engine, which is defined
again by the
point between initial timing and total timing,
and how fast it
gets there.
Chad: The most important thing for maximum
performance is total timing, and
on a typical small block Chevrolet like this,
you're aiming for
between 34 and 36 degrees. So what we're going
to do season a
time in my, fire the engine and rev it up
to somewhere between
3500 and 4000 RPM wherever our timing quits
increasing. When we
get it to where it stops adding advance with
the distributor,
I'll adjust the distributor so that our timing
reads at 35
degrees, and then we're going to lock down
the distributor.
David: After we locked in our total timing
at 35, we checked our
timing at idle, our initial timing setting.
We found out that it
was 19 degrees. What that means is that this
distributor has 16
crankshaft degrees of total timing in it between
19 and 35. Now,
honestly financial at a rowdy cam, that's
probably about right.
A tamer engine can use 12, 15 degrees, something
like that. The
thing about the MSD distributor is that all
of that is easily
adjustable, and I'll show you about that right
now. Now we get
into the guts of the MSD distributor so that
we can change our
timing curve. Every Pro-Billet kit comes with
a variety of
springs and a variety of stock bushings so
that you can adjust
the total advanced curve in the distributor
according to the
charts on the side of the box. You can change
the total range of
timing within the distributor and the rate
at which it goes from
initial to total. The lighter the springs
that you put on these
advanced weights, the faster the curve; the
heavier the springs,
the slower the curve.
In addition to changing the rate of the curve
with the springs,
you can change the overall sweep of timing
inside the
distributor with these little bushings, and
you have to get an
11/32 wrench in here right underneath that
advanced weight it
and take off a little not to get to that bushing.
And finally,
there's the one thing that we can't really
tell you here, which
is exactly what the right advanced curve is
for your car. That's
going to be a matter of trial and error. In
general, if your car
has more compression, a rowdier cam, if it's
lighter, if it has
lower rear gears, a looser converter, that
can generally accept
a faster curve. A car that's going to need
a slower curve would
have lower compression, have a smaller cam,
it would be heavier,
have higher gears as a tighter converter.
That's sort of a
general trend the way things are going to
go, but you can mess
with it. It's pretty easy to change the springs
on that Probilit
distributor, but you can make it even easier
on yourself and not
have to deal with an centrifugal local advanced
mechanism if you
pick up one of those MSD digital e-curve distributors,
at which
point all you have to do is change a couple
of switches with a
little tiny screwdriver and you can set your
entire ignition
curve electronically.
Chad: Don't forget that all the information
you need is right here on the
side of your distributor box. It tells you
what springs and what
bushings will give you what combination of
rate and total timing
sweep.

Installing a Distributor Part 1

MSD Performance Ignition:

Hey I'm David Fryburger, and I'm Chad Reynolds,
an in this video we're going to show you how
to install a distributor.
Before we get started I want to show you just
a little bit of how a distributor works so
that you can picture what's going to go on
here in the video.
I'm going to take off our cut away distributor
cap here, you can see that there's a relector
and a pick up inside the distributor and as
the distributor shaft turns each one of these
little teeth passes by there and triggers
your electronic ignition when to send a spark.
That spark goes through the rotor here which
aligns with the distributor cap where your
spark plug wires go, and as you can see, the
terminal on the rotor spins around to send
sparks to all the eight cylinders in the engine
and of course we are assuming you have eight
cylinders as you should.
I showed you how the shaft rotates inside
the distributor, but you can see this one
that is installed in the engine, the shaft
won't turn because it is meshed with the cam
shaft inside the motor, but the housing will
rotate independently of the shaft and that's
the setting that we need to get correct in
order to align the rotor with the number one
spark plug terminal which is what you're going
to learn when we next show you how to actually
install the distributor.
We're going to cover two scenarios for installing
a distributor in your engine.
Later on in the video your going to see how
you would do it if you're starting completely
from scratch, but first we're going to show
you how to install a distributor on an engine
that already has a working distributor.
We're doing it here at Vestech performance
group on an engine dyno, but it's exactly
the same senario if you do it at home in your
car.
Before we begin it's really advisable to know
what your engine's firing order is and where
the spark plug wires go on the distributor
cap.
You can find the location of your number one
cylinder and your firing order and your direction
of distributor rotation all online or in your
service manual but here's a few tips.
First, if you have a distributor that has
vacuum advance, point to the vacuum advance
canister like this and it will tell you which
way your distributor rotates, in this case
it rotates this way.
So this distributor on the small block Chevy
rotates clock wise which means that all the
spark plug wires go on the distributor cap
in clock wise order following the firing order.
Since I happen to know that this is the number
one spark plug wire, which you can follow
down to the number one cylinder, that means
that our firing order on this small block
Chevy is 1, 8, 4, 3, 6, 5, 7, 2, just good
information to have before you start disassembling
anything.
Now if your starting with an engine that is
running fine and your just going to RNR the
distributor, the things that we want to do
are make sure that we mark everything so that
we can get it back in the same place that
it came out.
We already showed you how to do that with
the firing just so it's square in your head
but the next thing you're going to want to
do is mark the relationship of the distributor
housing to the engine block, and this is mostly
handy if you're going to be installing the
same distributors so you can get it back in
the same place.
If you're swapping out your stock distributor
for a new MSD unit, this isn't quite as handy
but it's a good point of reference.
Once you've got the relationship of the housing
and the engine marked, the next thing you're
going to do is remove the distributor cap
and mark the location of the rotor inside
the distributor.
I find it handy to use something like a straight
edge like this screw driver and I'm going
to mark exactly on an immovable object such
as this throttle bracket which I'm not going
to touch during the remainder of this installation,
so I know exactly where that rotor is going
to point.
Now that David's got the distributor all marked
up exactly where it needs to stay, I'm going
to take the distributor out.
The first thing is that you need to remove
the distributor fold down clamp which holds
the housing of the distributor in place while
the engine is running so that the timing doesn't
change from it flopping around.
After I do that I can just yank this thing
out, except if this was on a Ford.
On a Ford we need to be careful because the
oil pump drive shaft will stick to the distributor
and you can pull out, end up dropping it,
and it will end up in there where you have
to fish it out with a magnet.
So just be careful so you don't have to do
that.
Once you have the distributor out of the engine
the main thing you want to worry about is
do not crank over the motor, don't do it with
the starter, don't put a wrench on the front
of it, nothing, because you're relying on
everything staying in the exact same spot
so you can line up these marks that you've
made.
So let's assume that you've come back with
the same distributor that you took out, and
you're going to line up the mark of the housing
with the mark on the block, however, because
the gear that's at the bottom of most distributors
is cut helically, that means that the line
of the rotor is not going to line up perfectly
to let the distributor drop straight in.
You're going to have to take the rotor and
lead it a little bit ahead of the mark that
you've made in order to have it drop in and
have that gear mesh properly.
For example, you see that right now I've got
the rotor perfectly lined up with my mark
but the distributor won't go in, I'm one tooth
off, that means that I want to lift it up
and just move one tooth back on that gear
and it sets right in like it was meant to
be.
Now I can rotate my distributor housing, align
the mark right there, and I am halfway home.
Once I've got the housing all lined up and
the rotor pointed in exactly the right place
I can reinstall the distributor hold down
clamp to hold the distributor in position
making sure that it does not move anywhere.
If I'm reinstalling my old distributor I can
simply put my old distributor cap back on
right in place and I'm ready to go.
But many of you will be installing a new distributor
which means you've got a new distributor cap
to deal with like so, and I bet you can see
the problem coming which is how are you going
to know where all the spark plug wires go.
Well in this method we're going to make it
really simple by just taking the wires and
moving them on the cap directly from your
old distributor cap to your new one.
The distributor caps have some identifying
features on them such as the location of the
hold down clamp and you can use that to eye
ball where the terminals match up, for example
this is the number one terminal on the old
cap, this is the number one terminal on the
new cap right here.
So that means I can just start taking off
spark plug wires and move them in perfect
order all the way around the cap.
That's one, that's 8, that's 4, and so on,
all the way around the cap and you can double
check your work simply by following the spark
plug wire down to the cylinder to make sure
it's going to the right place.

1966 - 1972 Historic Trans-AM Cars - Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion

Troubleshooting - backfire through carburetor

HolleyPerformance:

backfires can be very damaging to the
engine and carburetor
until the issue is resolved you should
never position any part of your body
over the opening of the carburetor the
most common causes for backfires could
be
a faulty EGR valve a bad ignition coil
fouled spark plugs old or cracked spark
plug wires
improper ignition timing incorrect valve
timing
vacuum leaks or worn or broken valve
train parts
each of these areas should be thoroughly
checked and then fixed if they're not in
proper working order
if a backfire still occurs we should now
take a look at the carburetor itself
check the choke to make sure it's not
sticking or binding which would
restrict
air flow to the engine clean the choke
components if needed
if the carburetor has an electric choke
make sure it's getting a full 12 volts
from
a switch source and that is fully warming
up and opening completely
with the engine off briskly open the
throttle and verify a full stream of fuel
is emitting from the accelerator pump
discharge nozzle
for more information on how to tune the
accelerator pump system
see the advanced tuning section of this
video and the accelerator pump
and/or pump cam tuning clips for further
inspections also check that your air
cleaner
or fuel filter is not clogged either
condition would result in an
overly rich or a lean condition that
could cause a backfire
make sure the bowl vents on the main
body are not restricted
vacuum leaks can cause a backfire and
can be located with a leak detection
fluid
if you replace the intake at the same
time you installed your carburetor
verify that you don't have an intake
manifold vacuum leak
a manifold leak can typically be located
at the valley
ends of the intake check all the vacuum
hoses for cracks or splitting
and make sure any unused vacuum ports on
the carburetor are plugged up

How to install a timing chain

David Jones:

hi I'm Rob Dana and today we're gonna
I'm going to show you how to put a
timing chain on the front of a small
block chevy it's pretty similar with all
other engines how we do this
you've got two gears you get one gear that goes on the crankshaft
and we've got another
gear that goes onto the camshaft
this is the camshaft sprocket and it's
got a little dot that goes right here
it's stamped into the gear
I marked in yellow so you can see it
better
and also on this bottom sprocket
on the crankshaft
we've got three slots three key ways
you have got a 0 for 0 degree
advance
you got an A right here on this key way
and that's four degrees advance
and you have another key way down here and it says R for retard
so I put it on 0 and you automatically
go about two and a half three teeth from
the key way and they'll be a mark and
this one says 0 so that's very important
that if you're going to go Zero.. put your
key on 0 and then you line up the Zero
Her straight up at twelve o'clock and we're
going to match that with twelve o'clock
on the on the cam gear
ok we're going to bring this cam gear
and we're going to line it up
you know see how it's off. I'm going to
rotate it till it's like right on the
money
and what you want to do is slide this
onto your cam and put in a couple of bolts.
to make sure you're totally lined
up
ok
see how it lines up right here
you might have to rotate the cam until it lines up
perfect and that's what you want to do
line these two marks up
and then we're going to take this back off
because now we've got the cam where we want it
Now we've got to take this back off and put
the chain on and then attach it
reattach
so we're gonna pull it off
put our chain back on
ok, oops
and then we're going to slide this onto
the motor and get it to go into place
and get it to line up on the on the cam see
that's off
that's one tooth off rotate it again
ok now we line up our marks and push it
in like that, and then we get our bolts
and we'll tighten them up and then tighten
them to torque spec
when you run these in
and i'll get a torque wrench
ok for the final step what we're going
to do is torque the three bolts down to
spec that's 15 to 23 foot pounds and I'm
going to go to 23 because i like it
tight..so
and that should be it. when you put your
timing cover on and then you can put
your oil pan on at that point.
if you have any more questions about our videos
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World class collection hidden in plain sight | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 61 (Part 2/4)

Hagerty:

(upbeat music)
- We're back in Midland, Texas,
where we were about a year ago.
This won't be your normal
Barn Find Hunter episode.
It was just a year ago
we were in this yard
in Midland, Texas, looking at this field
of pretty solid cars,
and I actually really fell
in love with this one.
And I kept on going back to that wagon,
and there was somethin' solid about it.
You know, having spent time
buffing out this little piece
of the fender, then having
spent time buffing out
the complete front fender,
this car was talking to me.
I couldn't get it out of my mind.
We decided we'll just make
a project car out of this.
Well, let's show these people
what this has turned into.
(rock music)
There we go.
(door slam)
(engine revving)
We're just about to
leave Midland, Texas now.
It's been a wonderful adventure.
Why did we choose Midland, Texas?
Well, it's just because I've
had a lifelong fascination
with Chaparral race cars.
This little town, at seven
miles by seven miles,
produced some of the most
amazing race cars in the world.
I encourage you to go on the internet
and put in Chaparral race cars,
built by a guy named Jim Hall.
They were built in this
little town, aerodynamics,
ground sucker cars, amazing engines,
built right in this little town around
the Can-Am series back in the 60s.
But now we're about to leave.
We're probably at the
city limits right now.
So, we'll say goodbye to Midland.
I don't know if we'll ever be back,
but I have to say that over
four years of Barn Find Hunting
on this series, this is the
first time we've got to live,
kind of the talk-the-talk
and walk-the-walk,
not just walk through a
guy's collection of old junk
and say, "That's good, that's good."
We picked a car that we said,
"That car's got good bones in it."
And why not make a project car out of it
over the course of a year.
With a lot of volunteer help
and some people donating parts,
and we built this car from
a shell that was ready,
literally, for the scrap
heap, and we're driving it.
We're gonna drive it
probably 600 or 700 miles
into Kansas, and we're gonna
donate it to a good cause.
And you'll be along for the ride.
(banjo music)
(laughs) Triple digits!
We're in Lubbock, Texas,
driving towards Kansas,
and we passed this yard,
and it's a Sunday afternoon,
so it's not the easiest day
to find somebody around old cars,
but Mike was mowing his lawn,
so we caught him at the right time,
and he's got cars here that
you say they're all for sale.
- [Mike] Yes.
- [Tom] They belong to your girlfriend.
- [Mike] Uh-huh.
- [Tom] And how much are they?
- [Mike] $500 apiece.
- $500 apiece.
So keep that in mind as
we look at these cars.
So, you'll notice some similarities.
Here's a four-door wagon,
here's a four-door sedan.
But, they came probably
off the same assembly line.
This one was sold in Morton,
Texas, by McCoy Ford Sales.
As we know, this one comes
from Doug Burns in New Mexico.
I wonder if there's any parts
on here we need (laughs).
- [Mike] So that's a three hundred three.
- I don't know what
kind of motor it's got.
It doesn't have a 390
because it doesn't have
an emblem on it, so we'll
just work our way down
to some of these cars here.
So, our wagon, if you
remember from episode 34,
didn't look very different
than that car right there,
Country Sedan.
That's a 55 or a 56, I guess?
You know, it looks rough.
That quarter panel is rough,
but wagons are hard to get these days.
This has still got a Y-block in it,
which is probably a 252,
somethin' like that.
So, it's got no grill, no hood,
but otherwise it looks complete.
No windshield.
But, this is $500.
So this, let's see what
the other side looks like.
Yeah, I mean, this is
a good starting point
for a wagon project.
Not very different than
that wagon was a year ago.
I'll repeat that again and again.
(funky music)
That's a Big Block Chevy 454.
(funky music)
I mean, so what do you
do with these things?
That ones, I mean, that needs body work.
Too bad about this rust.
I didn't think things rusted in Texas.
- [Mike] Well, it kinda
depends what part of Texas
they come from.
- All right, so here we have a Fairlane.
Looks like a '64 Fairlane.
It's got a 260 V8, automatic.
It's a four door.
So, the 260 was the
predecessor to the 289.
First Ford built the 221, then a 260,
and ultimately a 289.
This is a five-bolt bellhousing,
and it was the first motor
available in a Cobra,
believe it or not, AC Cobra.
$500, complete with hubcaps.
Here's a first-generation Corvair, $500.
All right, so, if I had
$500 in my pocket right now,
which one would I buy?
(classical music)
Probably that Fairlane.
V8, it's a four door, but it's solid.
It looks complete.
I'd pay $500 for that car.
Well, Mike, you can go back
to your lawn mowing now.
I appreciate it, man.
- Thank you, guys.
- Thanks for being here on a Sunday.
- No problem.
(laughs)
- We're just leaving
Mike in Lubbock, Texas,
who had a bunch of cars scattered around,
and I have to say that some of them
had more rust than I would like,
however, now that I'm out of
there, I'm thinking about,
if those cars were on the East Coast
and they were 50 and 60 years old,
they'd have much more rust than that.
So, $500 apiece, there's
some deals over there.
Don't discount that place.
(banjo music)
We just visited Mike on the, let's see,
the east side of the highway,
and as we were looping
around to go back to Mikes,
we saw another place on the
west side of the highway,
so we're going back there now.
Looked like they had some
Chevelles, maybe GTO,
maybe a Judge.
I mean, it's my imagination,
but I saw an orange Pontiac
back there, so I'm saying it's a Judge.
So, we'll see if anybody's home.
Sunday afternoon, it's tough.
We'll see.
(birds chirping)
(talking muffled)
How do you like that?
So it would be great if this guy says,
"You're the Barn Find Hunter, come on in!"
It's worked before.
(door shutting)
We're driving this Ford
station wagon northbound
on 87 in Lubbock, and I
turn over to this side
and I said there's an
orange GTO back there.
That could be a Judge.
So, make a big loop come back here.
Walk in the shop.
I meet a man named Rick and Rick says,
"If you wanna buy any
cars, get out of here,
'cause I don't sell any cars."
I don't want to buy
anything, I just wanna look.
He said, "All right, come on back."
So, Rick, thanks for not kicking me out.
- Okay.
- And, I look forward to seeing
what you've got back here.
- Okay, let's start.
- [Tom] There ya go.
- [Rick] Let's start with
the stuff outside, I guess.
- [Tom] Okay.
- [Rick] This is kinda my daily driver.
- [Tom] Yep, yep, too nice, too nice.
So, '69?
- [Rick] No, this is actually a '72.
- [Tom] Oh, 72.
- [Rick] Yeah, the '6--
- [Tom] Is that a parts
car or is that restored?
- Uh, I got that.
Oh, no, no, I've got several others.
So, we bought it
basically because it's got
a Posi rear-end, that's why we bought it.
- Otherwise, it's a parts car.
- [Rick] Yeah, it's a parts car.
- Now, what about this Pontiac back here?
- The Trans Am?
- [Tom] Yep.
- [Rick] Yeah, the Trans Am
actually belonged to my brother
who lived in Oklahoma and
he was driving to El Paso,
moving over there.
- Really?
- And he said, do you like it?
I said, "Yeah."
He said, "Do you want it?"
And I said, "Yeah."
So we made a deal and
it never got to El Paso.
Ended up here and here's where it's at.
- [Tom] So, how long has
it been sittin' here?
- [Rick] Oh, probably about at least seven
or eight years at least.
'56 Ford Cabover.
- '56, so this should
have a Y-block in it.
Ah, motor still in there?
- Oh yeah, yeah.
Tree hit it, so it was part of the deal.
We got a roof and another
hood to restore this.
It's truck body is original as it gets.
(door screeches open)
- Oh man.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] So you'd put this like
a late model engine in there?
- [Rick] We will, when the time comes.
- [Tom] I mean, this is a
cat's meow for a hot rodder.
- [Rick] Oh yeah, oh yeah.
That's why I got it.
- Would you make a hauler
out of it, like a flatbed?
- That's definitely, yeah.
That was the plan.
That was the plan.
- Wow.
(door shutting)
Can I open the hood?
- [Rick] Sure, if you can open it.
- Oh, okay.
- [Rick] No, no, no, go ahead, go ahead.
(hood screeching)
Like I said, if you can open it.
- [Tom] So, it's probably like a 272,
and it's a two-barrel Holley.
- [Rick] Holley, that was the coolest part
about it (laughs).
- [Tom] No kidding.
- [Rick] Yeah, for a hot
rodder, you're just like,
"Oh, this is too cool!".
- [Tom] So, the Y-block, the
stock and exhaust manifolds
had outlets up here and
there was a crossover pipe
between the two that
equalized the cylinders.
- [Rick] Exactly.
- [Tom] Huh.
- [Rick] Exactly.
- And so, what will you do with this?
- [Rick] Oh, the long run will be
to put it on a different frame
and use it to haul cars.
- Like, get a dually frame or something?
- Yeah, yeah, dually
frame, low on the ground.
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah.
- Air suspension?
- Nah, I'm not, that's too modern for me.
- Okay, all right, well, we've
been doing this program now
for four years and we've
yet to find a Judge.
Now, tell me this is not a real Judge.
- [Rick] It's a real Judge.
- It's a real Judge.
- [Rick] Yep.
- [Tom] Holy crap, man.
- Carousel Red, four
speed, white interior.
I'd heard rumors about
this car being in Lubbock
for many years, and nobody.
You kind of hear about it,
but nobody's ever seen it.
Nobody has ever.
And then I got a call and this guy said,
the guy that owned it
hired him to start it up
and get it going because he
and his son were supposed
to build it, and so, it was
right around Thanksgiving.
And he said, "I'm too old,
so I'm gonna tell my son.
"And if he doesn't want
the car, it's for sale."
So the guy called me and he
said the kid didn't want the car
so it's yours, and I said okay.
- So, it's a four speed, it was a 400?
- Four, oh yeah, oh yeah.
- Four hundred four-speed.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It looks like it was a
white fender to white hood.
- No, no, that's the primer.
- [Tom] That's primer.
So, this is original paint on here.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] Wow.
- [Rick] That why this is,
I've got one that's gonna be
a perfect car.
This one is gonna be
like, when you find it,
and then the other one is
gonna be the shiny one.
So, you know, I just got the matching set.
- So, how long have you had this?
- I've probably had this one
about five, six years now.
- So these are, are these
original decals on here?
How many miles are on this?
- I don't know.
It's been awhile.
You know, when you first get
it, you really jump all over it
and then you go to the next one.
- [Tom] So listen, here's what
the odometer says, 00002.4.
Ha!
- [Rick] I believe it, I believe it.
(laughs)
- [Tom] So, can I open the hood?
- [Rick] Sure.
You got, hold up, you gotta click
and then when you pop it up.
No, no, you gotta do it,
and then just hold it down.
And then when it pops up, yeah.
(metal screeching)
It's stuck.
- Oh well, we tried.
- But, I can guarantee you
it's got a motor in there.
- Okay, I believe it.
It's a six cylinder,
I know it is (laughs).
- No, no, I drove it, I drove it.
- Did you really?
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Tom] Runs well?
- Oh yeah, yeah.
- Well, that's a first.
We should do a Hagerty appraisal on this.
This is the first Judge we've
found on Barn Find Hunter,
so I feel pretty privileged.
So, if we go to the
Hagerty Evaluation Guide
to tell you what this car might be worth,
in number four condition, which is fair,
which they say is a daily driver,
this is not a daily driver, is $38,900.
And this is a 400 cubic
inch, 366 horse power,
four-barrel Ram-Air III car.
So, it's a factory four speed.
So in fair condition, it's worth $38,900.
In good condition, $56,000.
In excellent condition, $92,000.
And in Concours, $127,000 is
what this car would sell for.
Now, Hagerty has the average
price for one of these cars
across the board at $56,000.
So, certainly one of the more
valuable cars we've found
on this series, and one of
the more valuable muscle cars
we've found on this series.
We're lucky to have found this.
And I'll just remind you, two things.
Number one, Rick said
this car is not for sale.
And number two, Rick said
this car is not for sale.
All right, so we have more Craiggers here.
You are a Craiggers.
- Oh yeah, oh yeah.
- [Tom] So this is like
a Little Red Wagon.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] Is it a V8?
- [Rick] No, no, well, the
Little Red Wagon was a Dodge.
This is the Ford version.
- I know, I know, yeah.
- [Rick] I've got the Little
Red Wagon at the other shop.
- [Tom] Oh you have a Dodge?
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] So, this is, I
think, a Falcon Econoline.
Didn't they call it that?
- [Rick] Um-hmm.
- [Tom] Six cylinder,
three hundred three, yeah.
- And this is the five window.
This is really cool because
a friend of mine had it.
I didn't even know it.
And then he sold it to me and
then when I went back up there
I talked to this other guy,
because I've got another one of these,
and the guy, he knew more than I did,
"Is it a five window or a three window?"
And I said, "I didn't even see."
It was in the car, I bought it.
- [Tom] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Rick] And then when I went
over and I talked to Joe,
and I said, "Joe, yours is a five window!"
and he said, "What does that mean?"
And I said, "That's the rarest."
So we gotta renegotiate.
He said, "No, no. It's a done deal."
And he was a man of his word.
I didn't worry about Joe.
Now, that one over there, the red one.
- [Tom] The Camaro?
- [Rick] Yeah, now that
one is a real '70 Z28.
- [Tom] A '70 Z28, so did
'70s have a 302 or a 350?
- [Rick] 350, '69 was a 302.
- [Tom] Yeah, okay.
- [Rick] But that's a real Z.
- [Tom] Is it really?
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] The world loves
'69 and '70 Camaros.
- [Rick] Oh yeah.
- Yeah, wow.
All right, so then over here
we got Mustang number one.
And what's, again, stylized
wheels, you're unbelievable.
- [Rick] Well actually we're
gonna take those wheels off
'cause I've got the Charger.
Magnum 500s need to be on a Charger,
so we're taking those off and
puttin' them on the Charger.
- Same bolt pattern.
- [Rick] Exactly.
- [Tom] All right, so this building
looks pretty appetizing here.
Is there anything in there?
- (laughs) Yeah, you're
not gonna believe this one.
Nobody believes it.
- Really?
- Come on in.
- [Tom] So you don't give
tours here very often, I bet.
- [Rick] Oh no, I run everybody off.
I run everybody off.
- Wow, geez.
And this thing's been
sitting here for how long?
- [Rick] Oh, it's been
sittin' here for a while.
'Cause I've got another one.
We're working on the other one right now.
- [Tom] Oh man, this thing
looks solid as a rock.
- [Rick] Oh it is.
- [Tom] Geez, very nice.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] So is this gonna
be hot rod or restored?
- No, '57s you don't hot rod.
Convertibles you don't.
This is gonna go back
more or less to original.
Probably have mag wheels and stuff,
but it's got the little 283.
We got a 283 in there.
The problem is I got ahead of myself.
I got so excited about this
one, I did the firewall,
started putting all the
chrome and everything,
and it was like I was
doing it the wrong way,
and I said no, no, I'm
gettin' ahead of myself,
I'm gonna end up with a piece of junk.
So I stopped and I said
when I get serious about it
I'll pull this one back out
and start working on it.
- [Tom] So it's a 283,
and it looks like it has
a standard transmission on it, a 303.
283s, they're such a good motor.
- [Rick] Oh yeah, and this
is, you can tell the motor
because of where you put
the oil and all that stuff,
we didn't even bother about
checking to make sure--
- Is this the hood scoop?
- No (laughs).
- It's custom, it ain't that custom.
It's not that custom.
- [Tom] That's sweet,
so you painted over--
- [Rick] I know, I know,
and I still got to do
a lot of body work in the
back and I thought no.
I just got too excited, you know.
- [Tom] So how long have you owned this?
- Oh, I've owned this one
for about 20-25 years.
I can't ever finish anything because
as soon as I get started up on something
somebody will call me
and a new car will pop up
and it's just like.
- I have a rule, I don't start another car
until I finish one.
- Oh, I've never finished anything.
(laughs)
Too many cars show up.
But, I've got enough that I
feel at this point in time
I kinda feel like it's time
for other people to get some.
So, I'm not a hoarder.
I've got my '57 convertible.
Somebody else can get the
next one, it's fine with me.
I got no problem with it.
- [Tom] I just walked by this Oldsmobile.
I mean, I assumed it was
some kind of Cutlass Supreme
or something.
- Correct.
- But then there was
these four little digits
that struck out at me here.
And those digits are 442.
- [Rick] That's a true 442.
- [Tom] Tell me about this car.
- It's a '72.
I actually got a call the guy had a '71,
an orange one with a white top,
and so I went to go look at that one
and he actually had two of them.
And he knew the orange one
because he said he knew
a guy from high school
when they bought it for.
So, he knew about the
car all the way through.
He bought that one to
restore with his son.
His son didn't want to
restore it, so he said,
"And I can't wait for my grandson."
So, he was gonna sell the orange one
and this one was facing one
way when we went in the door
in the barn, the 442 with
the wing was the other way,
so he said, "What do you think about it?"
And I said, "Oh the orange,
forget about the orange.
"I'm already thinking
about taking both of them."
And so he said, "Okay,
I'll make you a deal."
So I ended up with both
of them, an orange one
and this blue one.
- So, is that a his and hers shifter?
It is, okay.
Ha, geez.
Now, is this still a solid car.
I mean, to be with the
windshield out and stuff,
it looks like--
- No, in Texas, I mean nowadays,
all this stuff can be redone.
I mean, when we were
doing the media blast,
you got to get a good guy that
knows how to weld and stuff,
but all the body panels are available now.
You know, when I started,
you had to buy a Cutlass
and cut all the stuff out to put it.
Now you can order everything.
- So you've had this for how long?
- I've probably had this one
about eight or nine years.
- So is that like a 400 in here?
Let's see if I can open this hood.
I tried the other one over
there again, I couldn't do it.
- [Rick] Well, that's the Judge.
We don't want anybody
opening that hood anyway.
That's original as it gets.
- [Tom] Boy, look at that.
Air cleaner is on there and everything.
- [Rick] Yeah, yeah.
- [Tom] So, it's probably a 400, wow.
- [Rick] Yeah, the other one
was the one I was interested,
this one it's just cool
to have two of 'em.
- So, you say you've got
more stuff in that building.
- [Rick] Yeah, come on in.
- All right.
Oh, another '57.
- That's the one, that's really
my big time project right now.
Let me turn on the light.
- So you got a big block in here, 427?
- [Rick] A 454.
- [Tom] 454, wow.
What kind of front end is that?
Is that like Speedway Motors?
- [Rick] No, no, no, no, no.
Oh yeah, this is original.
(laughs)
This is an original deal.
- Man, old school.
- We used to take them off the Econolines
and put 'em on there.
- Oh yeah, this is old school, man.
- [Rick] Yeah, that's how we do it.
- [Tom] What else have we got here?
- This is an original '69 Z28 Camaro.
- Oh.
- This is the real deal.
- So what is that a DZ code?
- Yeah.
- So this is a restoration?
- Uh yeah, kinda.
It's one of my son's always liked Camaros,
and so, I'm going to.
I've actually got a '69 Camaro
convertible that I've done.
And that one, I got through with it.
It's a black, except
instead of white stripes
I put gold stripes 'cause
I just liked it better.
And so I want him to have that one,
but I want to build him a Z28.
- So what's going on here?
- This is a '33 Ford.
- [Tom] So is that Mopar engine?
- [Rick] Yeah, yeah.
- [Tom] It's like a 440 or something?
- (laughs) Yeah, nobody knows about it.
- Well, I'm looking at the distributor
and it can't be GM and it can't be Ford
because it's not at an angle (laughs).
- [Rick] That's exactly what it is.
- [Tom] Wow.
- [Rick] And so, it's a fast little car.
- [Tom] It's a torqueflite in there?
- [Rick] Yeah, it's a fast little car.
- I bet it is.
- We had a lot of fun in it.
This is a '29 Shay.
It's actually, uh, Ford
made these fiberglass.
It's kind of a reproduction.
- [Tom] I know, it had
a Pinto motor in it.
- Yeah.
- So, these cars that you
could bought through a Ford
dealership and they
had new car warranties.
If you bought this, it basically
had a Pinto drive train in it
and Ford would warranty these cars.
That's interesting.
- [Rick] This is what I love to do.
- [Tom] Is that right, geez.
All right, here's your last chance
to take us to the big building.
Here's your last chance.
It'll never come around again.
- Well, you wouldn't be able
to get into the building
at my house 'cause I've
got so much stuff in there.
But the building at my house
that where the good, good stuff is.
- I mean, it's up to you.
- You already ruined my afternoon.
- We already ruined your day.
- There goes my gas that I was gonna be--
- All right, is it a deal.
- Yeah, we'll go over there.
- All right (laughs).
Now, this is where I'm wrong, see.
I said you can't find cars on Sundays,
but this is the second this afternoon,
on a Sunday afternoon, that we found guys
at commercial establishments.
Now we're going to his house
to see some more cars he's got.
So we're at part two
of Rick's wonderful
excellent car adventure.
Oh, this is pretty darn good.
- Yeah, I thought for your kind of deal.
See, that was a parts car I bought.
- I mean, that's a restoration
project right there.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
It's a complete car,
no motor, transmission,
but other than that everything's there.
And the trunk was full of parts.
Brand new stuff.
- This was original,
it's got a column shift.
- [Rick] Oh yeah, yeah.
(country music)
- All right, '57 two are hardtops.
So, they made one like this
that was a Mark Donohue edition.
- [Rick] That is a Mark Donohue edition.
- Is it really?
- Yeah.
(country music)
- A Cushman, okay, with
mag wheels, of course.
- Of course.
If it doesn't have mag wheels,
then it doesn't belong on my property.
- So, of course, there's
mag wheels on here.
- [Rick] Of course.
- So, here we have a '57 Nomad.
So, is this the first, no,
we found a couple Nomads
in North Carolina.
So, this is a '57,
looks like it was painted
copper more recently.
But, I'd say it was
originally like a turquoise.
- [Rick] Turquoise.
- Okay, so '55 convertibles,
this is the second one we've seen today.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- One was at your shop and this one.
- [Rick] I think this is one
that the guy called me and said,
"Do you want a '55 instead of a '57?"
And I said, "I guess."
So he brought it over
and we made a deal on it.
- So a '57 Vette.
I think this is a '58.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- This is dual headlights.
Yeah, okay, this is a '58.
- That's the rarest car
I've got right there.
- The white one.
Don't tell me what it is.
Well, it's a Charger.
- [Rick] No.
- [Tom] No? It's got
an oracle in the front.
- [Rick] Look at the front fenders.
Look at what's on top
of the front fenders.
- [Tom] It's a Superbird?
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] You got the wing for it?
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] The original aluminum wing?
- [Rick] Yeah, I got it.
- [Tom] Wow.
Hi, horsies.
- [Rick] A guy had it.
He took it to a paint and body guy
and it lasted there forever
and then the guy's wife called him
and said, "Come pick up your car"
'cause he went out of business.
He went over there, they
had stolen the motor
and transmission out of it,
and they stole the hood.
- [Tom] Was it 440?
- It took me forever.
That car, nobody has ever
figured out what it was.
That's why I took the wing off.
Nobody's ever stopped and said,
"Is that a real Superbird?"
Never.
See, and that one is a 1970 Boss.
- That's a Boss car?
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Tom] No kidding.
- [Rick] Yeah, it's a real Boss.
- [Tom] So, it's a '33-'34 Coupe?
- [Rick] Yep.
Actually, I bought this one
before I bought the red one,
and then about three weeks
later I bought the red one.
- [Tom] So, you've got a three
window and a five window?
- [Rick] Correct.
- [Tom] That's a rare car.
Three window, holy mackerel.
- Yeah, it is.
- Well this is pretty cool.
Is there anything in here worth seeing?
- Yeah.
- Okay
Well, if we're asked
nicely, we'll go inside.
(laughs)
- [Rick] You're gonna stumble over stuff.
- Oh, I like those kind of garages.
- [Rick] No, you don't understand.
I've got people that are
collectors and they're like,
"I've never seen something like this."
And I say, "I know."
And I'm the guy that owns it.
- [Tom] All right, we gotta go now, boys.
Holy mackerel, geez.
- Cobra kit car.
- Cobra kit car.
- Oh, you gotta get the motorcycle.
Easy Rider.
- Not the real one, is it?
- No, no, no, no, no.
I've seen the real one, but no.
- I just wanna soak all
this in for a few minutes.
- This is my Chopper.
- So you got a chop pickup
truck back there with (mumbles).
- Yeah.
And there's another one back over there.
- [Tom] Boy.
- And, see the blue cover right there?
- Yeah.
- '37 Willys metal car.
- [Tom] Not a coupe?
- [Rick] A coupe.
- Man, a metal Willys, holy crap.
So, is that a Firebird
Lamborghini over there?
- [Rick] Yeah, it's a Fiero.
- [Tom] Oh yeah, yeah,
that's right, Fiero, yeah.
- [Rick] Yeah, in the (mumbles).
That's my Corvette,
and then that's my Porsche 357 covered up.
It's got the big white tires.
That's my '55 Gasser that I was building.
Right next to it is another '55.
That was a race car.
The wheel wells have
been cut out and stuff.
- [Tom] I bet you know
where everything is in here.
- [Rick] Yeah, and I know where I got it
and I know when I got it.
- So, that chopped truck,
is that like a '56?
- [Rick] It's the only
Ford truck I like, the '56.
It's chopped, it's got electric
windows, electric doors.
Back tires about 22 inches wide.
- [Tom] What motor?
- 350, it's actually got a Ford.
It's actually got a Ford.
- [Tom] Holy Mackerel.
- The Willys is there.
Right behind it there's a Barracuda.
There's a Challenger back there.
There's a '64 Impala.
There's a '60 Impala.
Then there's a chopped '49 Merc in back.
- [Tom] I see that.
- And then there's a '70 Charger RT.
- [Tom] What's that
convertible back there?
- [Rick] Uh, which one?
- [Tom] Behind the antique car.
Behind that old sedan.
Corvair or something?
- [Rick] No, no, no, I
don't have any Corvairs.
- [Tom] Mustang?
- Oh yeah, it's a '65 Mustang convertible.
Yeah, I built that one for my son
when he was in high school.
And the Merc, you can kinda seen the Merc.
- Yep, yep.
- And then there's a '60 Impala
that I've got back there.
Two door.
- And this right here, is
this your Velle convertible?
- No, if I really, really came down to it,
this is probably my favorite car
of all the cars I own.
This is done and I haven't driven it.
- [Tom] Oh, black with gold
'69 Camaro convertible.
Very nice.
- [Rick] How the heck did
you get all this mess,
I don't know.
- Yeah.
Well Rick, thank you, man.
- It was an interesting Sunday.
- Thanks for allowing
us to come in your door
and explain what we do, because you woulda
just kicked us the Hell out, so.
- Oh, I did, but you didn't go, but--
(laughs)
But, you don't get this much
stuff unless you're persistent,
so I know exactly what you mean.
- That's amazing.
- Yeah, and a lot of this people will,
other people's junk is
somebody's treasure.
- I just want to tell viewers, okay,
Rick looks like a regular guy.
He lives in a regular house.
You can't see any of this from the road,
but 100 feet in you're in a
Heaven of muscle car parts here.
It's just amazing.
Who would imagine this building.
I mean, I see donkeys, I thought
this was donkeys in here.
But we have horses in
here, it's horse power.
So listen man, thanks.
What a blast.
- Okay, next time you're around
there will probably be more stuff.
Come on by, you're welcome.
- Thank you.
- Just don't ask if anything's for sale.
- I didn't.
- You didn't.
- I won't.
- Nope.
(garage door screeching)
Now, when my grandkids were little,
they'd come over here,
"Grandpa, you got a lotta junk."
Now that they're older,
"Grandpa, you got a lotta cool stuff."
(country music)
(car engine revving)
- This is our 27th state that
we've found an old car in.
We don't find many of these.
See, one leads to another.
Oh, it's got a four speed in it.
Oh, look at this.
Holy mackerel.
You have any compound and a rag.
No, I'm only kidding.
(laughs)

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all right you guys Jeff thanks for
coming out no problem seriously I have
made probably the oldest car we've ever
filmed yep and I've been totally just
like had my mind set domestics and euro
cars like getting into everything that
is nothing like I've ever experienced
before and this is definitely not so I'm
super excited yeah I'm excited to show
you this thing there's really not many
of them around here that are you know
this original in this pristine is still
sure on the roads and stuff like that
most personal projects or they've been
like modified to you know to suit
different style of engines or a great
day grazing it up like that so it should
be a bit of a flashback in the past when
we found it it was for sale at the
Langley car she'll probably let you all
know like the big language car that goes
on in September yeah I guess they would
see the original owner kind of a friend
of the original owner who was selling it
and it was in original condition
everything down to the paint the the
original stripes everything it was only
had 38,000 miles on it anyways yeah we
picked it up it's kind of a father-son
project it was your like to keep me busy
because we moved out from Ontario
yeah I was going to start all will just
try to wax it and polish it and then
from there was like well I was working
in a body shop a large body shop and
General Motors body trouble job so and
I'm starting my apprenticeship at the
preference teacher and I decided you
know what you know they gave me the
approval as long as they pay for the
supplies at the time moving in a
favorite thing you know basically making
my apprenticeship
I am just as excited right now to drive
it as that nine on one fifty three RS
really oh yeah absolutely
yeah this is great yeah we picked some
good roads for this dude just like haha
no cars on the road nice sunny day oh
what dreams are made of
all right here we go
oh that's pretty bad
that's good then breaks are what's like
I don't know how like if I start to go
hard in the brain yeah I won't you long
enough they're nothing but it hit a lot
we definitely got to put your life into
it yeah yeah all that's awesome though
that's how car should be you got to work
for your work for your power yes sir
okay to hit your speed word for your
power you're going to work to slow down
just also got a 240 with an RV 25 single
thermal in it you really know the
difference just as well as I do or
anybody of like driving this versus
driving a - coordination board is very
different right lighten up a little
apart just all you get turbo giggles
when you're driving a turbo car you know
the grin never leaves your face like oh
you know you get out of the thing but
yeah yes it is you know you can enjoy it
all day every day I never get tired of
it
all that sound new if you were to change
anything on the car what would it be a
good question I filled it exactly how I
wanted there you go that's the answer I
would have to I thought you were gonna
say but making sure it's not need new
tires soon okay yeah oh dear there you
go buddy oh don't get it Oh God
where the cars gonna come barreling over
the hill
it was built that it's me job apparently
back in the age before so had a good
kind of found me into it but you know
beam us guys and we're gearheads we have
to take things apart and put them all
back together so after the body was done
the edge of was next it was kind of
taken apart and you know a couple things
blue printed and cleaned up the
compression raised up a little bit and
then obviously like a good carburetor
and ignition system was going to it
right right chronic cap what's
considered a day to car it's kind of the
theme of the car where's like guys you
know dealership or race race car drivers
even like you know the general Joe would
go and pick up a car from the car lot
and then by day two he be like ordering
and installing headers and large double
pumper carburetor right yeah traction
cars were a huge thing right so we kind
of try to keep that theme of what's
considered a day to car anyway but you
know maintaining like the paint like and
everything as original as possible of
the album's interior and like you said
to if you look at the tires the tires
are kind of a lot like you were saying
it drives like it drove back in the 70s
that's correct yeah there's a
reproduction ones but they're literally
the same tire they're there a bias fly
firestone tire that would have been
sound there was probably an aftermarket
tire back then it hooks every crack in
the road and it pulls together auto
totally on top of it I would say like
the internals like any new engine
nowadays you want a bunch of
good-fortune Pistons yeah the rods
themselves back in the day were always
good obviously just put it like a better
rod cool head studs
essentially just balanced and
blueprinted a lot of the things and
still retain like the original these
things are like the heads themselves
aren't original in the car so the
Builder heads which were performance
head back from the 60s yeah so there are
a larger valve and they float a little
bit better than the factory heads and
they also get a little bit more
compression the transmission basically
just been overhauled with like a ship
kid and a couple of small things inside
so to help her durability of their job
the rear end itself again original rear
end original positraction that was I was
lucky enough to take apart it still
reused a lot of the clutch packs inside
because the problem with these pause
attractions is that you can't buy a
replaceable clutch packs anymore
okay I was lucky enough to reuse them
ship them up and tighten them up and
just want to set up 373 gears
that's a strange thing to see someone
riding a horse and being on like a cell
phone and holding another one yeah the
weird only in the countryside I guess
yeah
that's too addicting that's like
actually it's pretty tame it sounds like
a little bit like you can get a pisses
fire yeah but then it's just like
oh my god dude and I mean it shakes when
you start to get up like baby right
there yeah 100 miles an hour the tires
have been sitting flat for you know
eight punch and I mean with bias-ply
tires that your tentative flat spots
yeah it's funny how so many people
myself included are normally like if
there's a car and it comes in manual
automatic I'm always going to go for the
manual right but it seems like with
old-school muscle cars it's not even
like you're totally fine with an auto oh
yeah it's such a part of like the
character of the car how they used to
build Auto single before crappy torque
converters with like slow paddles and
stuff like those autos are just garbage
tick-tock in my opinion but and they
were just you know they're still famous
for for drag racing and stops and yeah
the older ones you can obviously you
know do a lot of cool tool modifications
to to really make them quick and shift
hard
I did take you to the drag strip we did
have some up the 28 by T by 9 slicks on
the back just stealing wheels yeah
typed up the traction bars that had
probably like a 75 maybe an 80 shot of
nitrous on it just to kind of get it up
get this heavy car up out of the hole
and we're in a 12 flat
can't remember the body that was a mile
per hour it was definitely around the
115 maybe about 20 what Chad that was
was kind of like the highlight of a car
I mean but this thing you you don't have
to even just riding as a pastor I know
we don't have to be going fast at all
for me to be completely enjoying this
car yeah this was this was like just
before American cars got really terrible
for like 20 years
good point you're right for the most
part but there were some gems in the
eighties and nineties absolutely sure
but I mean the 60s and 70s that's
American cars to me at least yeah that
that's what that's the epitome of like
muscle car era would be like the late
sixties early seventies
it's a classic car it will always be a
classic car it'll always be respected by
everybody else to know we can't go down
the road and then someone kind of given
us a thumbs up or a so many today out of
any cars we've gone like even old ladies
you know all we had to know the back of
the day when I came to Canada stomp so
on and so forth yeah it's
it's a cool car that's for sure what
does the Cobra kick though right here
yeah
we're not short of light classic cars
out this area neither lot and all this
that's why I love white rock you get
everything
white rock getting into Langley it's
just Langley - yup we're white rock you
definitely get a lot of old school
muscle cars right but a lot of you like
higher Ennio Range Rovers and supercars
you see at the beach - and so then you
go to Langley it's like that's where car
central for me is in the Lower Mainland
elite and then when you get into
Richmond it's a completely different
scene a lot of Japanese stuff a lot of
exotic tonics that's right
yeah there's plenty powerful cap and
piston is enough to make it enjoyable oh
yeah also let's get you in trouble real
quick position oh oh sure art you can
hear this thing coming
Jeff thank you so much no problem
appreciated this was awesome
I appreciate you having me it gives me a
smile knowing you know now you've driven
something that you can really relate to
back to the Devon DS yeah yeah a time
where I definitely did not exist no and
I probably weren't even I thought you
know they got at all all right well
thanks bro I appreciate this yeah if you
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you like Instagram randinger yeah yeah
Mike Jefferson is my full name yeah
follow me I gotta tell this as well to
my other project that I built my 240 at
a skyline as well at one time
perfect yeah we'll definitely have those
long channel thank the end Jeff

Never Buy a Ford with This Engine

Scotty Kilmer:

rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk
about why not to buy a Ford EcoBoost
engine, for those of you who don't know
an EcoBoost engine system is an engine
that has turbocharged, gasoline direct
fuel injection, and variable valve timing
it can increase fuel economy and
decrease carbon dioxide emissions, but of
course here's the warning, you get a
turbocharged car with gasoline direct
injection it has more power, the average
Joe like me is going to be driving it
like a maniac, stepping on the gas,
revving the engine up, and then of course
it
gets worse gas mileage,
now first let's break it down, turbocharging
it's been around for a long
time, it just uses your exhaust gas to
spin a turbine, and then the other end of
the turbine, that compresses air and
shoots more air into the engine, giving
it more power and yes you can get better
gas mileage if you drive like the granny
going to church on Sunday, but like I say
if you drive it hard that's going to
negate any positive effects, most people
I know that have turbocharged cars they
get worse gas mileage, because they drive
them harder, now turbocharging is used
instead of supercharging in most cars
because turbocharging is more efficient,
it's using the gas that's in your
exhaust that's already there, where
supercharger has a pulley that either
runs with an electric motor, or runs off
of your crank with a fan belt, and that
actually decreases gas mileage because
you're using up energy in or operate the
supercharger, that's why they're all
turbocharged now, because the gasoline
ratings by the government is higher, now
the second aspect of these EcoBoost
engine is variable valve timing, and
that's been around a while too I've even
made videos on that, the modern cars can
control how the valves open and close, so
when you're just idling or cruising, it
can have a lower profile to get better
gas mileage, but when you want to accelerate,
it can open the valves up wider give
them a little longer duration, so you can
have better acceleration and power, now
Hondo is really the first company to
mass-produce efficient VVT variable
valve timing engines, and they've been
around long enough that they're a pretty
reliable system with the exception of a lot
of the ford motorcraft
ones they would wear out prematurely, gears
run by a chain and operates the cams
that assembly would start coming apart
and wobbling, it's a design flaw they
work fine until they broke, but they
broke too early I had to replace some of
them when I had 70-80 thousand miles on it,
and the third part of the EcoBoost
engine is the GDI the gasoline direct
injection, instead having fuel injectors
like this Toyota that spraying the
intake manifold and the fuel is then sucked
in through the valves of the engine, the
fuel injectors spray fuel directly
into the cylinders, they're much higher
pressures, this old Toyota is maybe 45 psi
the GDI ones are well over a thousand
psi inside, it's an interesting design
but when you start bumping up the
pressures like that, kind of asking for
problems as they age, so when you combine
super high fuel pressure with super high
air pressure being pumped in by a turbo,
variable valve timing where the cams can
move around so the valves open and close
less, there are a lot of things that can
go wrong in these engines, carbon buildup
on the intake valves, now in 2018 Ford
redesigned it, especially in their v6
engines are putting in f-150s, so they
had both the port fuel injection like my
Toyota there that has lower pressure, and
a GDI system that worked by computers, so
that every once in a while the port ones
are used so they clean the valves up and
carbon doesn't build up, because gasoline
is a very good solvent, it has two
separate fuel injection system another
level of complexity run by computers and
I'm predicting, hey they'll probably have
problems with them in the future, they
just started doing it last year, knowing
how these things work out there's almost
always teething problem with those things
GM had their version of it and they put
it in their 4-cylinder engines, their
little big four-cylinder engines, and
those high-pressure fuel pumps that had
to put over a thousand psi out to
those GDI injectors, tons of them went
bad, and either would leak or wouldn't
work anymore, and it didn't happen until
they were a few years old, so me I'd wait,
take the 2012 f150 that had the v6
between the turbocharger and engine is what's
called
the intercooler, because you don't want
the air to be too hot it cools it off
and they were getting condensation
inside the intercooler which would build
up water, then the water would be stuck in
the engine and it caused problems, a lot
of stumbling, hesitation, and that was
2012, it takes a few years to figure
these things out, and if you have one of
these 3.5 liter v6 EcoBoost engines
realize that their have been at least nine
software updates, they have to do with
the vacuum, they have to do with the
ignition timing, and they even have to do
with the transmission shifting, so as you
can see this is kind of a work in
progress, but if you happen to own one
of these 3.5 v6 EcoBoost engine systems
hey if you're having a problem, first thing
you do is have all the software
calibrations checked, it's easy for them to
do at the dealer, if it needs upgraded
software they can just update the
software, and if you haven't had any
software updated and you've owned it for
a long time
odds are it's going to need some
updating, I'd get an f-150 with a v8 engine
in it, I would want one that's proven,
it's gonna hold up be able to pull stuff
and not have any problems, they're
worried about gas mileage and power, they
can always put smaller engine in and then
they don't have enough power, so they add
all this stuff
on top of the small engine, it's a recipe
for disaster in the long run, now Ford
it does put EcoBoost in lots of their
engines, they have a 2-liter
four-cylinder one, they had to redesign
them and the new design doesn't share
that much with the old design, they kind
of found out that the old design it
wasn't panning out so well, when they
redesigned it, it's still a 2 liter
engine but they put a twin-scroll
turbocharger compressor on it, changed a
bunch of stuff, it's lighter they use a
lot more aluminum, I'll wait until
something's been tried tested out and
proven that it's reliable, especially
when it has anything to do with aluminum
parts and cars, look at the Honda CRV
they went to all this aluminum stuff, now
they've got an oil dilution problem that
fuel is getting into the oil because of
either the software or the engine design
Honda's never had that problem before,
you start ramping this technology up, your
just ask
for failures here and there, because
there's so much technology, so much
higher pressure, much larger use of
aluminum, which as anybody knows, aluminum
is pretty soft, this stuff's
gonna wear a lot faster than cast-iron,
the shelby cobras that they were making
at one point in time they tried using an
aluminum block on that big v8
well they had engines overheat and
blowing, the aluminum just wouldn't hold up
they went back to making them with cast iron
blocks and they stopped having the
overheating and cracking problems at the
aluminum ones had, oh yeah that's great
technology, better gas mileage bla blah, I
can make a lot of money fixing
those things when they break down too
you know, but I'm not that kind of guy
that's the advantage of low overhead
like me, I work by myself for myself, I
don't have to pay a million dollars in
overhead like at a big dealership, just
to break even, and sure there's all kinds
of pressure on the manufacturers to have
better gas mileage and pollute less, and
Americans of course they still want fast
vehicles, you don't want to drive around
some tiny little thing that doesn't go
fast, but you're using smaller and
smaller engines, using this technology is
about the only way that you can do it,
but believe me all this they had a
technology and complexity, it's gonna
cost you in the long run, if you keep
your cars longer than the warranty
period, cuz car repair hey it's got a
long way from my grandfather's day who was
also a mechanic, he fixed cars with
hammers, screwdrivers, listen with his
ears, you can't do that with modern cars
even I can be stumped when a car comes
in and it doesn't shift right, it might
have nothing to do with the transmission,
it could be that there's a problem in
the fuel injection system and that feeds
back to the computer, so the transmission
acts up, and it's actually an engine
problem not a transmission problem, even
though you feel it in the shifting,
because you kind of get a hint that
they're guessing when they have nine
software updates to these systems, I
would advise you not to buy an EcoBoost
system as they presently stand
so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to
ring that Bell

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