FAST & FURIOUS EVO

hello fast fam thanks for tuning in I'm Craig Lieberman and I've been taking on cars since 1980 I've owned more than 40 cars in my life some where heroes - some more zeroes but never in my wildest dreams would I ever guess that three of my cars would go on to star at a motion picture franchise my Supra my GTR and my maximum all had starring roles and universals Fast and Furious movies over the next three years I'd serve Universal as a technical advisor I helped choose the cars procure the parts oversee their builds and support both production and post-production I've got some great stories to tell and that's why I created this channel I hope you like the video working for Universal was one of the best experiences of my life I hope I've made that clear in my videos despite my critiques of some of the graphics and some of the choices they made with some of the cars I was very pleased with how Universal and in particular the members of the cast and crew treated me not just because they rented my super my maxima and GTR for the first couple of movies but because my role as technical adviser blossomed into many other roles with Universal being technical advisor afforded me the opportunity to be a part of many facets of the production [Music] including overseeing building of the cars being on set during filming being a big part of the sound recording process giving interviews to the press with the actress during the press junket promoting the movie by traveling to car shows with Paul Walker and traveling to foreign countries to help promote the movie and some other interesting projects just like this one that we're going to talk about today if you purchased any of the DVDs for the first couple of movies hopefully you've watched some of the behind the scenes segments RJ de Vere and I were asked to participate in a few of these segments as those of you who have watched them probably no one in particular was in the works at Universal and I was asked to co-host it this new version of the DVD was not only to rekindle interest of the first Fast & Furious movie but it was also designed to tie into the promotion for the upcoming release of two fast 2 furious in fact this new DVD featured a free ticket to go see the second movie one of the features of this DVD would be a full build of a import tuner car tricking out a hot import car was supposed to be a fun segment focusing on building the hype for tuner cars and in particular the Mitsubishi Evo which was set to have a starring role in too fast too furious as most of you know Mitsubishi sponsored the segment Universal wanted to embrace all the tuning trends of the era wild paint jobs graphics neon lining multiple TV screens and of course NAS the segment was produced by a guy by the name of John Murphy who did many of the DVD features for the first two movies working on what Universal called a modest budget and what I say modest I mean that we didn't have a multi-million dollar budget to build a car and to film edit and produce a segment I was given pretty much free reign to build the car as I saw fit so long as I included some of the sponsored brands that we plan to work with for too fast too furious my plan was to build a car the way I would have done it if I were building a street show car I wanted to work with the best companies but still lean on our sponsors for help where needed and appropriate a fun fact APC had signed on as a sponsor but unable to find anything worthwhile in the catalog for an Evo I simply selected one of their branded air fresheners and you can see it hanging from the rearview mirror of the car in a couple of shots we started with a 2003 Mitsubishi Evo which was just starting production we got one of the very first cars off the production line which started in January of 2003 for the build I leaned heavily on the companies I trusted Craig Lee's Paint & Body they did the full repaint using a house of color candy red this is the same place that painted my movies Supra my r34 GTR my movie Maxima as well as many other cars I owned interiors were handled by Revo at Stitch Kraft custom interiors in Huntington Beach California Revo and Steve had done interiors for many of my cars and for most of my customers and many of the movie cars for the engine work we solicited the Guru's at HKS who provided a turbo upgrade a new front mount intercooler injectors cam gears intake exhaust and the tuning and monitoring boxes necessary to make the car run reliable dyno tuning was done at Apex integration who also supplied the gauges and a lot of their their elbow grease to get the car tuned properly Universal wanted us to incorporate some of the participating sponsors for too fast too furious as I mentioned that meant using roja wheels a fast and furious branded nitrous system from the parent company nitrous express lightning audio equipment amps and speakers and a Panasonic head unit so they provided many of the components a roll cage was custom fabricated for this car and it was done by the same people who did my Supra the segment starts off with the Playboy Playmate of the Year from 2002 the lovely Dalene Curtis don't be fooled by her stunning good looks she's actually educated and very intelligent a fun little fact she ended up marrying the son of Fletcher Jones the same Fletcher Jones who owns many high-end luxury car dealerships throughout the United States of America the first scene shows daily nandai pulling up on my first Lamborghini a 1998 Monterey Edition the segment was mostly unscripted and we had to ad-lib a lot we had to do three or more takes for each line and change it up each time and the editors decided ultimately what they would keep when they edited the final piece Dalene is wonderful as she was simply wasn't an automotive expert so we decided to play with our lines a bit what resulted was a lot of cringe-worthy dialogue while I wasn't happy with what lines they ended up using it was their production and hence it was their choice but boy I give anything for them to have you some different pieces of dialogue in any case we start the build process at the paint shop the car was silver originally so a full repaint with door jams was planned this meant disassembly in the entire car door handles bumpers hoods everything the Quigley team was able to do the full repaint in just three weeks they had four guys working on it while the car was at paint the seats and interior panels were sent over to stitch craft to do their magic that process took another couple of weeks which was fast for them once the paint job was finished the car itself went to stitch craft so that they could finish the interior and also do the audio install Rhys Millan's company sent over some carbon fiber goodies and did some work under the hood before we sent the car over to HKS there HKS to the installation of all the tuning in suspension bits while the car was at HKS we bolted on a set of roja wheels for good measure and the final stop was excess engineering where the dyno tuning and graphics were completed modern image used to design inspired by a livery I had seen in the UK it used both metallic grey and Viton modern image used to design inspired by a livery I had seen in Great Britain it used both metallic grey vinyl and reflective white vinyl tuning of the car was very conservative given that we knew that anyone who would drive this car after we gave it back in to Universal will probably drive the piss out of it so boost levels were low even with the modest tune though the car made 310 horsepower at the wheels even though the final edits showed only 289 horsepower they just didn't sip they simply just didn't show all the footage so what happened in this car it's still around believe it or not it made a brief appearance as a background car in Tokyo Drift in the parking garage scene and for those wondering this car was not used as Sean's drift Evo that was a completely different car as of 2020 this car is now in Maryland and has seen many changes over the years the car still uses much of the original parts we used including the HKS 3037 turbo kit the front mount intercooler or the AMS fuel rail 750 CC injectors HKS cam gears and so forth that's been updated with a RP head studs 272 cams Exedy dual disc clutch and so forth the current owner reports that the ECU was especially challenging to deal with the car originally had a Japanese Evo file on the ECU and so it had to be reflashed with a US diem file after that this car made 408 horsepower to the wheels on a little over 500 of the crank at one point it was offered for sale several years ago first $75,000 obviously it didn't sell the stereo system and interior had been altered to help the owners score better at car shows so that's a little different from when we had it but the red paint which would which has held up very well for more than 15 years was damaged when the owner tried to remove the graphics so in April of 2020 the current owner reported that his ego is now getting a very spotty kit and a new paint job and so it will look very very different and so while the car will live on it will never be what it was back when we featured some might say it will be even better I tend to agree before I wrap up I just wanted to give you a sneak peek of what videos are coming up I get this question a lot I'll be focusing on the main cars of these movies and I will cover the cars more or less in the order of the movie releases I'm focusing on primary cars cars that were used by the stars of the films I will not be covering background cars or cars that had virtually no part in matrix Equus just not worth the time I will also skip cars that were bone stock like the Viper and Tokyo Drift for example no work no purpose in talking about that car stock cars for which I have videos in the works include the following Edwin's Integra complete specs and story Shaun's Monte Carlo everybody loves that car more Moto's 350z hans-erik 7 that's in the queue the Mona Lisa the S 15 Mona Lisa the Tokyo Drift Evo of course the Ford escorts from Fast six the Grand National from fast 4 these are the cars are just at the top of my list these videos won't be produced in this order and other topics will be covered as well just to reminder that when you ask questions on my youtube channel your best bet is to first scroll through my videos to see if I've already covered the car or the topic thanks for watching everyone and please remember to share these videos with your friends and of course subscribe to get notifications so you can find out when my latest video has dropped that's going to be it for this week thanks and we'll see you next time [Music]

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Views: 123,870

Rating: 4.9429216 out of 5

Keywords: the fast and the furious, dalene kurtis, mitsubishi evo, paul walker, 2 fast 2 furious

Id: IhRnqzSFB40

Length: 10min 20sec (620 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 28 2020