I spent way TOO MUCH fixing my Hemi Plymouth Superbird, but now it's a TOTAL MONSTER!

[Music] let's see oh I liked it welcome to hooby's garage the dumbest Arnold Channel in all of YouTube and everybody here on the internet just cross your fingers for me because we may have reached the light at the end of the tunnel with this crazy Superbird Journey for those of you who haven't been following I bought this Superbird for 130 000 almost well over six months ago now and it showed up with a lot of issues that weren't disclosed the car was basically undrivable had things that were never hooked up it was initially sold at a Barrett-Jackson Auction uh restored like this but Resto modded which is really weird because it's one of 135 Hemi Superbirds but it was a race car in Period wreck the original motor the Hemi is long gone so it is far from being a well real Hemi Superbird other than the VIN under the hood is a modern big block Hemi and a Tremec I don't even remember if it's a five feet or six speed it's been so long it's got a tremeck in there a modern suspension underneath and well after sorting through a lot of the issues electrical wise the car wizard kind of had to hunt it because he doesn't do tuning so I got it down here at pulp performance well not quite two months ago but first we had to deal with the overheating issues which was a whole thing in itself so let's get Dave in here we'll explain why it's been gone for so long and why maybe maybe I might be driving it home today maybe well Dave here at Polk performance has been so patient with this car and uh well the first issue to address was the overheating which we did the whole trick you know drilling holes into the Shroud that was right up against the radiator but that was kind of a kind of a joke just a halfway to see if it helped the car and it did so it went quite a bit further right yep absolutely yeah so the last round like you said we just wanted to drill holes just to see if we had any other condition so then though the real fix is to put a whole shroud on it Bill's built race cars over there fabricated this one and boxed it in that way it's got some room stepped off of the radiator and those are some beefy looking fans too huh yes those are uh 1300 CFM fans versus the 800 CFM ends that were in there so a little bit larger and they're offset now so all the cores are getting some airflow through them and so far I think we got a good fix they're they're pulling a lot more current draw so the alternator may have to get upgraded but uh it's working pretty good nice so issue number two was the engine computer the fast box which was dated from 2007. and uh it wasn't being very Cooperative was it no I was unable to establish communication with it so the fast Engineering Group up there was kind enough to let us send it to them and they upgraded that and then we had an issue with it could come back and we weren't getting any uh any crank trigger input through the through the ECU so they sent us an ECU that fixed that and we're on to tuning it now I had the original Tunes in that ECU and there's a lot of drivability issues I think that we're going to try to dial in today so you haven't done any polls yet but you've sort of set it up the initial programming right yeah you had complained about cold starting things so I worked on some cold start issues and things and then now now we're going to get on the dining and just start running through there and see what we see wrong so this is about the best we can do with the setup that we have and the wiring we have which has been a little bit of an obstacle for you as well right yes there's there's some wiring issues up inside of there grounding issues so that ECU didn't have very good grounds so you added some more ground so just to remind people I'll show them the glove box and then we can set it up for a pull huh yeah so there's the last little bit to do which you know it really is a shame because there's so many nice components on this car but then somebody like a child wired it up and well you've it does actually look like it's a little cleaner over here so we cleaned it up some there was a the wiring mess we just kind of cleaned up that nest and and provided new grounds up in there and mounted things properly but there's just a lot of worrying that's just kind of nutrient all right so fingers crossed maybe today will be the day Maybe [Music] [Music] that sounded good got it real real good what do we got 484 502 is that what it is oh my gosh I didn't expect that first run was 484 horsepower 502 torque he didn't even take it too high up on the RPM and that's just a baseline on this thing this thing's a monster I see it's still pulling if you look the upper graph it's still on an upward climb so I'm gonna rev it out a little further and see where we flash out yeah the 44 is a good start 522 torque that's amazing it's a lot better I expected there was a lot of areas in the map that we already kind of smoothed out the table was really lumpy and everything so we screwed that out and we'll see what else happens here nice [Music] Auntie went a little further and that sort of yeah now we got a heat soap run there okay and uh that's about where it's at but I'll do some tuning and see what we get it sounds fantastic though it does yeah all right so we have two runs down that we're both very happy with but Dave thinks there might be a little bit more so you're advancing a little bit yeah we're gonna see if it wants a little bit more timing up top and uh we're not quite sure what the compression ratio is so we're gonna play around with that and see if there might be some games there and if not we'll go right back to where we were all right awesome brace yourselves let's see [Applause] oh I liked it 5 15 and five that that'll do that's I'm happy with that it's a very conservative timing curve for 93 octane fuel and I think it'll be great for the street so it may have a little more in it but just leave it here it'll be happy right I think so leave a safety border there 528 Penny 515 horsepower it's close enough right yeah that's wheel horsepower sold that's pretty good that's that's enough for Dino bragging rights that's that's awesome well thank you so much so I guess now we can get it down and see how it drives and go for a drive to drive the building feels like can you believe this we're almost done all right let's take her out to see it's never started that easy before ever ever No ever another thing you do about the turning radius of this thing unfortunately yeah this thing I think most big diesel trucks can turn sharper so I'm not making that turn off to go around here turn around on the temp cage has never ever lived there ever the hell too oh yeah it feels like a modern car yeah wow but not just the feeling of acceleration but the smoothness of it should before and now it's a usable car it's a car yes it's not an ornament it's not decoration it's actually it's actually a car it's great we've been running it pretty good and we're still reasonable on the temperature she stays there we're doing this last time it was like outside I don't know it's all right it was yeah it was Winter yeah it's what 88 yeah well I'm happy I haven't gotten the bill from you yet but whatever that is I I'm still happy I'm happy you're happy and had all the right bits in it it just they weren't yeah they weren't working together well I've had this car back for a few days now and let me tell you it is such a transformation to have something that starts with the turn of the key every time no matter what is a nice thing first of all but then the Driving Experience now it is the comfy Cruiser Crazy Fast muscle car that it should be that it should have been originally when it showed up but obviously it wasn't would I have preferred the seller had told me all the issues before I bid on it well yeah obviously but uh it did make for an interesting Journey with this thing and now to have it just feels so much sweeter I really have to think the car wizard for this obviously Dave Polk at Polk performance and fast for helping him out with the fast box and well really just what a great car Community we have here I have so many great people that I work with on a regular basis to help me with these cars and of course you all for watching now this car isn't done yet it is definitely far from being as good as it can one of the big ones is no air conditioning in the winter I didn't need it obviously and now here we are in summer and uh no air so it's actually acting like a factory 426 Hemi in that instance because none of them had air conditioning that seemed unheard of to buy a race car with air conditioning so that'll need to be fixed but honestly I'm in no hurry I want to enjoy this car for a while before taking it back up to the Wizards and there are other vehicles that need their attention especially one of my other muscle cars which I just realized I now have my dream three car muscle car lineup because of you all watching these videos this is an absolutely pinch myself moment here to have these three cars together and for all three of them to be mine I mean look at this a vitamin C Plymouth Superbird Resto mod next to it a 1966 Shelby GT350 Hertz rental racer that was converted to a race car also raced in Period Group B racer and then the 1966 427 Corvette in Nassau blue all three of these cars completely unimaginable for me to own before YouTube and you all watching these videos and now well I have the mall the Nassau blue 427 is the car that's going to go up next it has a vibration at high RPM that doesn't matter how fast you're going it's just engine revs which may be a flywheel which it had before the engine was swapped I bought this thing the motor exploded shortly after and the replacement motor didn't fix the vibration I couldn't rev very far because I was in break-in miles you know so now well it's broken in and it needs to be able to rev freely the 66 t350 is fresh from the car Wizards it's ready to go on the track other than tires I need to get some racing tires for it not much for the street anymore but it is street legal thanks to the car wizard wiring up the lighting and making that all work again adding a key and some other refinements that this car didn't have because it was full out race car but one of the 1000 original Hertz Rent racer vehicles that Carol Shelby built in California in 1966 a huge piece of history and the Hemi Superbird one of 135 yes the AC doesn't work and yes the wiring is kind of well I'm sure it'll break my heart at some point I'll end up ripping it all out and doing it all over again but for now I'm just going to enjoy this car and enjoy this moment thank you all so much for watching and if you haven't subscribed yet hit that subscribe button if you do it I will do a REV battle right now with these cars so hit it have you hit it yet The Whole World's waiting on you hit the button there we go [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music]

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Length: 13min 57sec (837 seconds)

Published: Fri May 20 2022