Larry Chen’s SR20 Swapped Datsun 240z is ALIVE! Ole Orange Bang: the 1 hour special

like last night after dinner i was like drifting off like my wife's like what's wrong what are you thinking about i want to scare larry tomorrow in his own car [Music] [Music] wow [Music] [Music] so hey everyone larry chen here welcome to another episode of hoonigan autofocus today we're actually focusing on my car my actual car ol orange bang 1970 240z i like to talk about it in every video but this is the first time that i actually should be talking about my car because i'm featuring my own car but the point is i'm not actually i don't actually know anything about this car this is not even my car anymore this is transformed into something amazing by my really good friend rob fuller from z car garage you guys are probably wondering why is it that it's been here for so long well the story is we actually dropped it off right before the shutdown like like two weeks before the shutdown i feel like and then since then the world has changed and now it's mostly back all of that i'm so excited uh we're here finally get to see the car in its finished form i guess almost near its final form i'm so excited i just can't believe it's sitting here and we're here i'm here to pick it up i'm here to drive it and you actually want to show me so many things about it that you've done because as much as you guys liked the car as much as i liked showing you guys the car it was just the looker it did not perform at all there was constant issues with it it would always overheat there was always problems where it wouldn't idle it wouldn't really stop very well because the brakes weren't very good there was just so many problems with it time and time again non-stop it would cut out every now and then but we've fixed all of that every single bit of that so let's start from the beginning what was the first thing that you worked on well we met each other we looked at your car we checked out and saw the things that we could make better right and so it's got our z car garage brakes on it it's got our cv axles we did a full alignment we corner weighted and balanced your car with your weight in it and then we worked on all those things you just talked about right we worked on the air conditioning system we worked on the cooling system and we ducted all of the air through all of our coolers instead of all over the place we changed the oil cooler and the location of the oil oil cooler and then management yeah engine engine management that was a huge game engine management is the is a game changer um what's your favorite standalone larry because i know my favorite standalone so tell tell us about your favorite tech yeah hall tech is just an absolutely awesome friendly customer company right you can get a standalone get it in your car with the base map have it running in a day and so for somebody that tunes cars every day like myself i love it all right so the story is when i bought the sr20 for this car for my swap it came out of an old formula drift car as you guys probably already know which means that it was out of a race car the engine management that came with it is fine i think for a race car that's just for racing only not for street use it was terrible for street use like i could not drive at all any time i had to go somewhere uh you just couldn't even idle you had to get on the gas sure like if you're going to a stop sign you have to like be on the throttle as you're braking right just to keep it just so it wouldn't die sure and it was it was the worst in traffic it would just die and it was just horrible to drive with that said haltech stepped up and they sent us an elite 1000 ecu which solved all of the issues one of the first things that i asked rob when i walked in here was if i have to prime the fuel pump anymore when i'm starting it and now actually as soon as you turn the key it starts it's a street car it's a street car that can go on a race track and that's what your car is going to be from now on is a car that you can get in on a sunday morning and drive wherever you want and be able to get to the light and i don't turn your air conditioning on when it's hot get caught in traffic do all those things because that's what makes you want to drive your z right if your z is always fighting you and always giving you a hard time you're gonna drive it you're gonna drive it less and less and less but if it's friendly and it makes you warm it puts that smile on your face and you sit in your sexy recaro and you do all of those things that you always want to get behind the wheel that's uh one other thing that is changed on the interior on the comfort side i actually drove the nasty z the medusa probably one of the scariest cars i've ever driven and i had the most comfortable seats for 240z i knew i needed to get those exact seats so we went with the same recaros and they fit perfect the problem with a lot of race seats is that they they actually hit the door and they destroy the door and it doesn't actually allow for the door to to close but there's actually a gap here there's my fingers gap right yeah there's actually a gap and it allows you to run a nice race seat that's very comfortable that smells amazing by the way too because it's leather it fits well and it just looks so good i just can't believe they fit so so perfect there's no better way to modernize a z the problem with the stock seats they look great your support you're all moving around yeah all right exactly you're just you're moving around too much and that's why i love the recaro specialist and i have them in my car and pretty much every one of the builds that we do here always has a recaro seat they're just fantastic highest quality the cloth seats and butters i bought i think in 2001 and so they just stand the test of time and when these z cars get you know somebody pulls a car out that hasn't been out since like 85 and it's got like vintage recaros they're always in and shape because they're just wonderful quality so again you know not the least expensive seat ever but you're gonna sit in it it's where it all starts right is your steering wheel and your seat no the parts that you actually touch you're actually touching yeah you're not going to touch your brake caliper you're not taking your brake caliper off right and put it in your backpack but you'll take your wheel off and you'll love it right and then you'll sit in that seat every time so very cool all right so let's take a look at the engine bay you've done so much to this thing and you've refreshed it i have to see it um wow galzo just a little touch-ups you know again what new rate new radiator you know the funny thing is i'm so blown away because um yeah it looks it's funny because you were telling me that you were going to paint it black and it just make it disappear but the fact that you did it body color i like it so much better yeah i think it looks really nice and i love right i think it looks great i'm really proud that you know you've got the nissan logo on there and we zinc plated all your hardware and your fuel rail and just kind of tried without going crazy without going crazy we really tried to just might look like it had been at z the engine bay finally looks like the rest of the car i mean because when i was going to shows uh nothing against the original color it was kind of a tribute to the cars that it came out of yeah it was pink it was like it wasn't a hot pink but it was like a pink and it was chipped and it was ugly and dirty we saved it for you now it can be a you know it's going to be on the wall at your garage but so all of this is brand new hardware it's your existing hardware that we take off and then we have it zinc plated and we do it for all our restorations it looks brand new it looks really nice it's just the small little touches right and again we didn't get crazy we just wanted to make things kind of make us feel good inside right all your oil lines have been redone and rerouted there's your new battery with the battery holding down anti-gravity so nice man that thing is just so good love your tiny battery it saves up so much weight and also it just cleans up the engine bay so much and there's nothing better than seeing a factory nissan oil filter on any nissan engine doesn't that oh cool doesn't that 55 y-o-a make you feel good inside wow warm and fuzzy one of these delicious and then there's our small fans this looks so good it looks factory it looks like something that came out of a factory well it just you know i know that you had built all these brackets and kind of done things to get everything in there and be functional but because there was so much gap in between all the heat exchangers there was just really no way to get all of the air flow through all of them and so again by capturing everything making it go where we want it to go with these beautiful fans and the enclosure around them it's just yeah so that the entire radiator assembly right now the fans pull everything through all of the heat exchangers and you actually took the mishimoto while it's a great radiator for a stock 240z it actually needs to be modified for this duty for a turbo car we just modified it for the simple fact is on your pick list was rob when i put the air conditioning on it's not cold when my oil cooler is there taking all that heat coming off of the oil cooler and pumping it right into my condenser into my radiator i wanted all that to be done i wanted to be able to pull through here and you know again i did all the dyno tuning on your car and then i just really did some hot lapping with it with the air conditioning on just to see if i could get it to overcome oh yeah oh yeah yeah this is this looks like brand-new that's just what you guys do what do we do here yeah well again i did this not for you for me like every time i pop the hood i was like ah that bothers me i got it and so again i just wanted to make it you know feel familiar uh really um i i use this a lot mind blown mind soul blonde isn't that cool this is my friend tony tc design he's a fabricator in this area and he does like all of our like little fab work and he's just man he's just awesome like he came over and we made a cardboard template of this and he just look at how like there that little bend there and all these pieces and this just bolts in with two bolts this is all serviceable so like say we have to get to the condenser we have to get to anything we just popped that panel off and we got full access to everything your ac lines were all over the place it was kind of like spaghetti junk outside of atlanta and we just made all of that nice so we made all new ac lines for it tucked all that stuff up and again now all that stuff is serviceable the hot side and the low side right because again this thotson is for driving around for having a good time wow and the fans it fits so good they're still they're still wrong and you know what they're just those those small fans there's nothing like them right it's like if i wanted to blow away a small village i would hire spall to like make me a bunch of fan blades they're just they're fantastic fans and again they're just look at how beefy the motor is right and so this stuff's going to last and that's the coolest thing is that you want to do work to your car but then you don't want to redo that work two years later right and so now you should have the three-dimensional package power braking suspension cooling i i don't even recognize this engine bay like this is this is not the same car that i dropped off it's it's so wild how much you guys it's just like the little things that make such a big difference it makes the biggest difference like all of this nickelodeon yeah and um and again this really helped us too because as you know man the last year has been pretty crazy for all of us and so i get to get lost in all these cool cars and do the fun things and again it's nice that like i'm really proud of like like all of us like the guys here you know you just had nick over here helping all the guys worked on this car and we were all into it because we wanted to you know make this car fun just incredible and we take a look at the interior here so where is the hall tech actually mounted is it uh i'll show you in the kick panel over here on the passenger side i just even that even just the door alignment the windows yeah so we did our package that we do here so listen the rubber yeah right so how do you guys how do you guys we have a sound deadener that we use in the inside of the door skin and then we seal the door with a piece of plastic and so it's all weatherproof and then we put the door panel together your felts were missing on your door panel so we put some new felts on them and then we took your whole door apart we did all of your all of your gaskets here the little weather strips and then we did your felts over because the felts weren't very nice and so we did all those over put it all together glowed them in and then all of your regulators were a little sticky and so we redid the regulator so it all comes up and down super smooth well because the the thing is i bought a lot of these rubber pieces on a lot of trim pieces um from motorsport auto in anaheim and they uh they supplied a lot of this stuff but the problem is i look at it it's just a bunch of rubber pieces i don't even know where they go right well that's my job you drive you drive and take the pictures we do everything else yeah so pretty soon i don't even know how to put this thing on well it's on now so you don't have to worry about it and then we don't like the factory nissan door seal and so we actually use a german seal and so this is really nice because it's got a lot of look at how squishy it has and so when you're going down the road it's really cool with the windows up you don't get a lot of wind noise and the other really cool thing is the first couple of weeks you're just gonna have to shut the door with a little attitude so that way you get it but you hear it right it's like it thuds like a german car that's the way it's supposed to be well the thing is this uh also it comes down or i used to have an issue where when you close it it would like squish and it would just come off um so you guys redid all of this yeah we did your hatch seals inside and out as well oh because those weren't right just because again you know after the paint work those weren't you know those weren't done to the z-car garage specs so we made them that way i think you might be locked here nope yeah so we did all your weather strips right because you saw that this is oh my god that's all new this is incredible thanks yeah and this is super super nice yeah yeah yeah yeah all that stuff pledge it up here yep i can't believe it it's i've never seen it all together you know because usually what happens is it goes like this it just like droops down yeah and the other part of it too right like i had these and we stuck those on and then you know you have a series one car and so i actually take and we epoxy these up and so we fill those holes so that way you don't suck in exhaust fumes and so all of that's epoxied now and so you see when you look at it you can't tell but now all these are sealed so they're sealed from weather and then you won't smell any exhaust so yeah oh and we did your tail lights right so we did the tail light gaskets and we did all the fitment of these finisher panels that's another place where a lot of exhaust fumes go in pretty much any time i drive my i used to when i used to drive this a lot anytime i drove it i would get high because of all the fumes that would get in so i think i'll probably enjoy driving a lot more enough now i want you to get the z car garage high right that comes from like wow man this is good stuff huh okay um i'm trying to think what else is not just oh and again you asked about oh yeah can we take a look at that yeah well it's just all the way hidden away right and so it's in the passenger kick panel oh wow oh yeah and then we cleaned up all of that wiring all that crazy wiring that was underneath there yeah the spaghetti and meatballs has all been cleaned up okay so the ecu's right here it's mounted really really nicely yes sir um everything here it's all mounted it's so neat too now oh thanks you uh redid a lot of the wiring down here and it looks so neat now just try to make it nice yeah i can't believe it yeah no again i think sitting here i think it's really fun but i think when we drive i think that's going to be the biggest difference is that you know all these little details all kind of put up into one makes for a pretty enjoyable experience and on top of that you guys actually had to get the re the you guys had to get the wheels refinished correct um so we actually had to send it back to matt at love 20b and i got to tell you you know i ranted last time you and i hung out he's one of the guys he's one of the guys that makes this industry so bitchin because he cares you know i was like hey i'm in the middle of larry's car i'm right here at the end and the wheel offset i just i don't like it enough to set the car where i want to set it and he's like i'm on it and i sent them down to him and he reacted quickly and got us some barrels and and again he's just really fun to work with his communication skills and his passion right like that's the thing when you can see somebody's passion in a text message you know that shit's legit um so if you guys want to check out his shop we did a full video at his shop and uh of course we touched on it with this restoration build so that's on bonus channel but with that said i just wanted to kind of give you guys an insight on the story behind these wheels it was five days i think before jccs last time the last time the japanese classic car show happened in long beach i wanted to show this car plus it just came out of paint right the only thing that i didn't have was wheels and i really wanted a nice set of wheels so i called up matt at love20b five days to go before the show and i asked him if it was possible for him to make me a set of wheels he said he had one of these centers laying around but generally speaking the lead time for a wheel build is about whatever six weeks even longer right i think now he's so backed up because of the fact that so many people want him to make custom wheels with custom offsets with just you know special hardware special centers special barrels well no one's doing it like him right because that's the thing it's like somebody can make you a wheel but when the wheel master is taking your wheel knows the offset knows the car and then has access to all the things that make great stuff that's the difference yeah so he had these centers and they're from whatever 1985 right southern ways epsilons and he made a set of wheels for the z 16-inch um 16 by eight zero offset but they were just a little bit too aggressive correct well for where we wanted to set your car up right because again your car isn't a road race car your car isn't a drift car your car is a get down drive it and enjoy it car and so it had to have that combo of being able to drive down the road straight go into a corner nicely and come out of it quickly and the offset was just a bit too aggressive for what we were trying to do yeah so it essentially what was happening is it was rubbing a lot a lot pretty much everywhere i would drive anytime i hit a small bump uh it was rubbing and on top of that my camber was maxed out front right and that's the thing you have kw suspension you've got you know great brakes you've got all these things you got to be able to throw the car around and if your car doesn't have good wheel fitment well then you can't yeah because so i i put these ao-52s on um from yokohama on these wheels but the problem is my contact patch was only this big oh yeah sure because i was running three and a half degrees of camber on the street and if i needed to break or turn or anything it was just this much rubber i might as well have been running a 185 like on your 510. we saw that doesn't work too well um but uh it was uh pretty tough you know to drive to get the power down no doubt now it's full contact back absolutely yeah and again you're gonna see when we drive the car it's transformation like if we teleport back a year ago and we drive this car on the block and then we got out of the time machine went back to hear two different cars um pretty exciting one of the big thing really the the biggest thing and we'll get it up on the left and we'll show you guys the brakes um but the biggest thing that i had an issue with was the fact that i just couldn't stop i couldn't stop i had nissan maxima rear brakes and i had toyota toyota 4x4 brakes that were meant for a pickup truck you know well and again it's just right it's just a hodge podge when there's no brake math to it some cars probably get away with a little this a little that but it's just again now you've got confidence inspiring brakes and when you have a car that's this powerful and looks this good you gotta have it right good wheel fitment and suspension brakes cooling system uh your air conditioning is really cool like i was man like pretty nice like it's pretty cold in there yeah so it'll be cool um well i i intended you're gonna be pretty it's free it'll be really cool i actually reached out to vintage air because i know they do a lot of stuff for uh old school yeah muscle cars they have so much more room and it's a lot easier to potentially put a nice air conditioning aftermarket air conditioning system into these cars because a lot of them just never came with air conditioning and plus on top of that if it did come with air conditioning they were very primitive and they just didn't work very efficiently right well and again you put the compressor on right and lose a cylinder right that's how much load was on it because you had this big honking compressor like taking it down and so yeah being able to use modern day stuff on a vintage car you get nice cool weather inside on top of that so vintage air sent over their smallest kit and on top of that they sent over something that looks stock that looks oem and it matches the rest of the car that's one of the that's one of my favorite things about this kit it's because it just doesn't look out of place and it and it looks like something that could have been on the car in 1970 and i think that looks great so um let's see the last thing is how much horsepower does it make i can't tell you that yet until you drive it so it's kind of my thing i think that when you know what kind of power your car makes then you don't pay attention to the detail of the first time you feel all those changes and so again not breaking my rule not even for you larry we're going to go drive it and after you felt it full throttle then i'll tell you what your power number is okay so this is how crazy rob is he sends me the dyno video he sends me pictures of the dino and every one of those things that he sent me the screen is blurred out even on the video so so it's like you know it goes through the motions you know spits big fireballs all of that stuff but the screen is blurred out so i can't actually see what it made sorry so it's just the way we do and again it's just i really believe that the number is just the number it's how you feel that makes you real you know how many people have driven butters what's this thing make 350 horsepower no no it doesn't because again that's just a number but the what you feel when you're driving when you drive your car you're gonna feel it you're not gonna care what the number is that's just a number you enjoy this don't you you enjoy this oh man you enjoy this so much this is what you love to do this is what you love to do whatever it's just part of my process right you got to stick to your guns so no but but but this is the fun part for you as artists as artists you're creating this thing it's kind of like uh what what chefs do and honestly what i do too you know when i take pictures i take so much pride in showing the owner or whoever i'm working for i show them the pictures and i want them to enjoy them i want them to be so excited for them kind of same thing with you and you know chefs when they create something amazing they want to see the people eating their food being happy and and they want them to really appreciate all the work that they put it's the draw for me and it's the draw for everybody that works here because again without people like you that are allowing us to kind of be the executors of their passions like i mean i would just have a job and i'd probably get fired at that job because i'm a little bit a little bit out there but in here we get to do what we love and work for people that you know again we get to be part of their story and so you're absolutely right i mean this isn't my job man this is my life okay so you're going to take me on a ride right now yes i want you to grab the door panel in your own car and it's all i've thought about like last night after dinner i was like drifting off like my wife's like what's wrong what are you thinking about i want to scare larry tomorrow in his own car that's what i was thinking [Music] okay all right let's do this let's do this all right let me get them to move the 510 okay all right we got the car on the lift that way we can get a little bit closer detailed look at some of the brake components and some of the other things that you guys did to the 240z um to all orange bang let's see so what am i looking at back here we got the kw suspension that was already installed when we dropped it off here correct but this is all new correct rotors are new this is new parking brake assembly that works with the factory cables and then you look through here and you can see your z car garage cv axles whoa and that is a bolt-in solution for the back of your car so if a stock half shaft will bolt into your car so with these cvs before what i had on here were 911 axles and unfortunately right before i brought it to you i was driving on the freeway and all of my bolts backed out because it wasn't safety wired properly sure but the other part of it was adapted right and that's exactly why we did what we did is that we're just using the factory hardware on the inside right so there's no companion flanges no anything it's just a bolt-in solution so you're using your factory nissan hardware on this side and then hardware that we actually give to you when you buy our cvs so nothing can back out there are no issues and again we have over 120 of these out in the world from anything from your car james stevens nasty z the medusa uh just you know any car that we're doing builds on we're using our cvs on so this potentially since it's on nasty z which is well over 500 horsepower it can handle a lot a lot it has you know i think that horsepower rating is kind of like a term to say hey this horsepower rating but it's like we put all of our product on cars and tested before we ever sell it to anyone and so you know you know my big gtu car like the 280zx right all those cars have the cv axle and we're using 13 and a half inch wide slicks and we're not having failures now i'm not saying you can't break one of our cvs it just takes some serious abuse and we just haven't found that failure yet so and again we're not looking for it we want a good solution to where again you can drive your car have smooth power delivery and not any vibrations or any issues and then this uh is something that you guys are probably going to start doing with kw yeah we did right so that was the thing right kw made a few of these kits one for your car a one for my car and then i actually we're going to private label that and so z car garage is going to have the exclusive on the kw coilover systems for the s30s that's really big that's pretty huge that's big news i mean because part of it is that for four street cars in terms of kw they dominate the porsche market the bmw market a lot of european cars first thing they do is get kw suspension but in terms of japanese cars and especially old japanese cars it's not so well known that's right but the point is that they're a modern company that's making suspension components from raw materials absolutely today right for these cars and with engineering right they didn't just guess right they got a car in they did all the testing with it and then we took it a step further and put it onto our cars and gave feedback and now again we're gonna feel confident enough to put our name on it too and so we're really pumped about it so again we've got a coilover solution we've got a cv solution and then our brakes right and that segues into one of the things that i'm most proud of in our products is the z cargo tell me about these brakes because uh what's weird or what's interesting about these brakes versus a lot of other kits for the z or four similar applications is the fact that you don't actually have to change the master cylinder that is correct again and that's all stop tech's fault not buying right it's just the brake system is engineered around this car and that's why it works so well there's no proportioning valve we're using the factory brake booster factory brake master cylinder and then all of the piston sizing all of the area of rotor everything is done with brake math and that's what stoptech's known for right and that's exactly why it works so well it's like we had some great ideas but you got to go to the people that do brakes when you want the brake solution well part of it is the issue for example when i first brought the car to the shop it had nissan maxima like late 90s or or late 80s early 90s nissan maxima brakes on it it didn't work because the master cylinder on this is proportioned to give enough fluid for a drum brake system but not enough for a caliper system whereas this is designed in a way to use that amount of fluid absolutely again it's just the reason why we did this is we're building these epic sports cars and when we got to the brakes there is no brake solution on the market that we could say wow this gives me confidence this makes me want to throw this car into this corner and get on the brakes late just didn't have that experience and so we tried on our own right in 2000 i want to say maybe seven or eight is when we use the st-40 brake caliper our own brackets our own hats our own rotors it still didn't have that magic and then again you know thank you to the stop tech engineers for believing in me and what we're doing and so tyler at stoptech took me under his wing and said look this is what's missing and let's do it and that's where we got here so then let's say somebody does have your kit on their car what happens if they need pads just uses a stop tech off the shelf pad a 309 pad for an st42 caliper and that's the biggest thing here is that i'm trying to offer serviceable items so that you can get the full life out of your z car um okay so then this i'm just looking at the back side yes and this plate you guys actually designed this well so that is a every one of these components that are in here is a stop tech component built around so i sent them parts ideas thoughts and then they engineered it so everything like so when you get to your big brake kit from z car garage it ships from stop tech and there's actually a 55 page break manual that goes with it so any question that you have we've already answered and so very easy to install and works really well and we have i want to say i think we're cresting a hundred kits out in the world yeah and then it comes with the lines it does it comes with everything to bolt it onto your car huh yeah wow okay yeah super cool and then tell me about this uh e-brake yeah so the e-brake calipers is something i'm begging stop tech to do so this is an off-the-shelf uh brake caliper that we make a couple of modifications to and then we can actually get it to hook up to the factory brake cable and so your factory brake lever that was in your car originally actuates the parking brake and that's so cool right you know it's like if you park your car in the garage and then you gotta navigate out of the driveway and it's still warming up you can just pull that e-brake right she's still running do your thing jump back in and get after it so really really nice to have that's very convenient and again right it's like the brakes fit a lot of 15 inch 16 inch wheels we're actually in development right now to kind of make a stage two that has a little bit bigger rotor and a little bit bigger caliper for guys that you know have got some pretty serious power levels but so far so great we haven't i haven't seen a time where we've i guess gone past the braking capabilities of this kit so far i see okay so most 15-inch wheels can fit on this absolutely and also um obviously all probably all 16 inches yeah all 16's all 17's it just depends again like where your wheel offset is but the other great thing right is we have a wheel fitment template so if you you know email me and say hey rob i'm thinking about getting your brakes but you know matt from love20 he's building me a set of wheels cool i can send him the template and then in terms of size front and rear what's the difference in size so the pistons in the rear are a different size than the front and again right all of the break math is surrounding to where when you get on the brakes the car will not dip dive do anything funky it will just be like if nissan said hey here's some big breaks for your z car uh did you guys have a chance to tune this or do any corner balancing on it we did yeah we corner we corner balanced your car we put your weight in it and again the setup in your car is brilliant i think you're really going to enjoy it how much does this car weigh i don't have the exact number but pause for a second and i'll go get it on my phone yeah because i kept it okay look at your car the cross weight is 50. whoa yeah 24.91 with your weight in it hmm interesting so yeah and then the left front is just a little heavier because you put my weight in it so 24 nine uh 24.99 right yes yeah that's what i made your load 165 yeah pretty cool that's pretty cool yep this thing is light weight so a couple things that you guys did so one of the complaints that i had was that it would overheat and also on top of that the ac didn't really cool down that much it didn't really work very well and as soon as i brought it to you you looked at it and you realized that the air was just not being funneled to the right place that is correct yeah so the biggest thing about your car was when you looked at the front of it there was just too many places for the air to go and so what we did is we built a plate here so that you could actually make all the air go where we wanted it to end up and so the really cool thing is so when you had your heat exchanger you had your intercooler and you had your ac condenser and you had your radiator and then before that i even had an oil cooler right and so all of that stuff was just a bunch of you know things that are are meant to to cool off right to absorb all that heat well they just couldn't work together as a team and so that's what we did right was line them all up closely move the oil cooler out of that area and then force all the air to go where we wanted it to go and then got us a bunch a bunch of cfm out of our and spall fans and that was a big game changer this is so neat too right so you got the oil cooler hidden behind the horns the sock horns and it's just enough space and on top of that you guys put some of the stock uh vents in which allows for uh fresh air to go into the ac system and it's not hot air which was that's what actually was happening before it was like it was heated up before it would need to be cooled down because essentially what was it what it was doing was it was pulling in hot air from the engine bay trying to cool that down for the cabin it was a mess it was a hot mess it really was and again that was the coolest thing it's like we did it step by step and and saw that okay cool now we've got the air going where we want next thing we have to have enough enough fan and enough fan uh cfm to pull all that heat out of there and it's worked uh pretty well so far i'm i say this i say this time and time again i will be the first to admit that i'm not a builder i'm a photographer but i'm a car enthusiast i love cars i like to wrench also but i'm not that's just not my job you know that's not my specialty that's your specialty that's what you guys do here at z car garage and it's kind of amazing to me how far i've been able to take it with my friends up until this point um but you guys just took it to the next level this honestly is not even the same car anymore and i cannot wait to drive this and it's going to be a really good time and the other thing too is that you got to remember that last 10 to 15 is really hard and it takes somebody that does it all the time it's like you know i might get lucky with my camera at a kid's birthday party and take one good shot over and over again you're taking the shot right and that's what i try to do in my shop right is take the shot but every day i'm doing the same thing over and over again trying to get that last 10 to 15 so but yeah i'm super stoked let's look under the hood too okay all right so uh we're going to put it down we're going to go for a drive and i think my mind is going to be blown a little bit hope so yeah that's the goal here we go send enough car alarms already this is my car i can't i can't believe we're in my car it's pretty cool i just can't believe it i can't believe it either already in terms of just drivability i can tell it's so much better yeah when you drive it i don't want to be in the car i want you to be by yourself and you drive it for the first time really yeah i do i want you to be able to no i want i want you to be a part of it i want you to be a part of it we're in this journey together as as much as that sounds weird yeah i love it it's how about this cold drivability we're driving around yeah makes you happy really really really drivable just want to get some temp in it before we give her the beat yeah for sure whoa it handles so much better whoa it handles it doesn't hurt dude that sounds healthy jeez oh man i live for this this sounds crazy that's nice thank you honda civic don't worry about it ma'am don't worry about it it's your world incredible it's like my car but it's like not really because it's working fine and the temps don't even like my temps before it would already be at like 190 200 already how is that even a thing oh my god and the brakes i already feel it jeez it finally performs how it looks that was just a little taste it finally performs how it looks it's really cool all right so okay yes sir the story is when the motor was pulled out of the formula drift car it was uh running on c16 and it was tuned it was making 390 horsepower to the wheels in an s14 right and then when it got to me and when i put it in this car we tuned it on 100 octane and it made 280 horsepower to the wheels it was kind of like a conservative tune yes yeah when it got to me actually you know i think it made two i think i made 245 on my dyno like 245 and we'll look at the graph and then not a lot of torque and you could totally see that the engine wasn't very happy and so then we pulled it apart and you know you'll see the results after but again too we also tuned it for you know a lot of safety you know just to make it nice but it's got plenty of power no way how's it like this oh god you're insane 180. you see it come back down to idle yeah you hear the fans the glorious fans now we're back to chill mode and look at our temp yeah it even went down yeah holy cow there's no way this this is completely a different thought yes sir oh look at how nice and stable it is yeah right at speed you drive nice and straight jeez oh my god it corners so hard i wasn't ready for this i wasn't i didn't think it was gonna be like this it just my smile like i just can't my jaw well again i can keep driving it all day is this them yeah okay cool not for us good stuff um i can keep driving like that all day but it'd be a whole lot cooler to sit shotgun while you enjoy your car and again i love how drivable it is right i'm in second gear right low rpm pulling up to a light and it's just awesome and then now you can hear our fans are on again and they're going to bring the temp right back down wow i just [Music] in terms of drivability this hall tech is just like changed the game really have and we use them in all of our vintage fuel injection builds our big 300 cx horsepower builds any of the g35 350z supercharged builds it's just a really really nice unit and again i love the support of hall tech usa like any time anything's going on have a question about something they always answer it immediately they help you they don't make you feel like you're putting them out it's like they want you to be successful with their product and that's why again when i find something that i like and a company that wants to work with me i'll do anything in my power to keep using them right like james stevens car hall tech right and so we're about to put fuel injection on butters hall tech oh wow if someday i'm a homeowner and i have a lawn mower stand alone stand alone easy on that's correct so again just fantastic how cool is this we're in your z we are in my car yeah look at this oh look at someone just watch i know hold on a second it doesn't roll away yeah look at this it doesn't overheat temperature control what to say hot blooded check larry z and see i'm just i'm blown away i don't know i don't really know how to how to feel what to feel i don't know what i'm feeling geez that freeway pole no wow galza oh also another thing yes sir this is so much more comfortable um problem with the the other seats i had they were too low yeah so then my legs right were it was like this so it was only like the tip of my butt touching the seat this seat is just i mean you know again just recaro yeah thud oh yeah good stuff huh oh man these are nice huh i can't believe it this is my car it is and again you're feeling everything for the first time so you know squeeze onto the brakes squeeze onto the throttle and just enjoy wow [Music] it's gonna take a while for me to get used to that's ridiculous wow whoa it makes so much traction now i i it used to spin out so easily in first gear probably because i had this much contact patch correct you saw me go through this corner i mean yeah you know it's got great great traction and it just feel how good it feels just everything in your hand it's got torque yeah it even just sounds different i mean everything it stops so good no way yes sir jeez it's like i've always dreamed of having a car like this no way i feel how good that feels like just you know plus the the kws i feel like yeah when we put them on initially yes oh and and it doesn't die when i let it off when i put on the kdb's initially um it's not tuned or anything it's not set up right so you have to actually tune them and set them up for it to be loaded correctly for dampenings correctly all of that yeah so now all of it is set up correctly yes i remember when i first put it on i was like wow i can't believe how harsh these coilovers are but now it's actually not that bad it's great for a street car absolutely and again just feel the whole thing like that again you know you haven't been in your car in a year and it's completely different and like look at this drivability like we're on a full stand-alone ecu and on top of that um no crazy fume smell like it it's it's not coming into the car it's all shooting to the back yes sir how about that just that that sound yes it's like set up correctly now feels good it just sounds so dumb but it's true like it wasn't set up correctly until now everything feels so tight everything feels so right and it drives straight it's not like hunting all over the road no that's what you used to do probably because the alignment wasn't very good exactly it was probably like your contact patch was so small right and so that's the other thing it's like you're fighting for grip and now you've got grip for days and then you also right can get out of any situation because you're in control of the car and you got enough brake to do whatever you want look at that you see that guy right there he just gave us the thumbs up really thank you sir nice shopping cart sir throw that thing down in a second let's uh here it's on the buy jamming jamming jamming wow 85 like that yes sir about it i mean 55 55 yes two professionals on a closed course that happens to be 101. just crazy yes it's like usable power and it's still honestly i drove your 510 i love your 510 it's a great car but that scares the out of me this i can drive yes and i can floor it without being scared my pits don't get sweaty like driving your 510. hit it get some and then the turning is so nice get your foot in it yeah oh god it's so good yeah it's it's not something that i just i've never experienced before well again this is happy happy to be apart you know i love james's car oh and it's not overheating i love it oh yeah let's put on that you see y'all wow blows cold even though we've been flooring it all over the place well let's just drive around the ac on for a minute right and the windows roll out i don't have to push it jeez this is a proper modernized sports car now after all of this you know i bought this on my 21st birthday and now it's become this crazy machine uh pretty special and again happy happy to be a part so it's really cool and again it's really fun when a car you know that's modified comes to our shop and we get to put our twist on it right like to be able to make this car dry to be this powerful and for this car to drive as nice as it does so good yes so good now that the innards match the outside you know the the this it's just something that uh there you go let's see so there we are the the for the longest time you know it just it was like a 20-foot car 25-foot car and then once uh my friends at belzonvan restored it it looked great but it still drove like crap you know that it just needed love it wasn't crap it just was like you said you had all the right components but they just needed to kind of be you know put together right again it's just you had an awesome main course you just needed a couple of sides to make the combo and now you have the combo let's drive around with the ac on for a moment and it doesn't overheat look at that 170 with the ac on blows nice and cold cold as ice you're willing to sacrifice i love i mean la he you know yes it can get pretty brutal so should i do the loop again you damn right like i would like you to full throttle it i mean with the hall tech it's going to shut the ac off for us automatically a lot yes sir hit me jeez yeah that is just crazy it's not even it's not even fair it's like so it it just goes 51 year old datsun two guys and i need you to go back to the shop now because i need my jacket i'm cold i'm cold in here right now i'm chilly it's so it's so crazy to me how it just plants and goes i've just i'm not even used to that at all like i'm i'm just it before even with 240 you said it dynoed at 245 yeah we'll look at the dinos when we get back now that you've driven it yeah when i when it was driving at 2 45 yeah it was still hard to put down the power in second gear it was like on the edge of being able to keep the traction yeah well again you're using this much of the tire right yeah and now we're you know we got grip first gears was useless useless first gear was done um and and the reason why like i said before we had to set it to the three and a half degrees camber was because the wheels were just so so [Music] poking out you know i wanted it to be as flush as possible now it looks really really nice do you know how far in he made it just one centimeter uh well whatever we spoke about i thought it was a half and i thought we did a half an inch oh just happened okay pretty sure yeah the drivability the brakes are just so good it's i knew [Music] and it's funny like you cannot describe that without touching that pedal right but a paragraph does not do that brake pedal the thing is it doesn't feel like a modern brake system what it feels like it feels like a it still feels like very manual yeah and it feels very visceral versus a spongy modern one right where it's there's a very linear stopping power this is like as soon as i let the weight of my foot rest on it it stops the car it's nice and the deeper you go the better they get yeah and again it hasn't done anything odd right it hasn't done anything out of character that's made you not want to toss this car around and that you know that's what we're going for right it's like who wants to do all this stuff to their car if you can't enjoy it and get the most out of it yeah watch out for the humans oh emergency stop no problem yeah z car garage brakes [Music] crazy i just can't even okay we've driven the car uh i'm my i just i mean i had you've been sending me updates the expectations i knew it was going to be something great i didn't think it was going to be like that it's a completely different car that actually works it gives me the confidence to drive this thing and i could drive it far that's what we want that's why we do all this versus before i would only drive like a certain area in my in my near my house because i knew if i needed to get a tow i could get it towed back um so then you're going against the whole philosophy of datsun right because dachshunds are driven and that's the thing where you know your car now should be able to do whatever you wanted to do i was pretty i mean that was really cool that you got into it after being out of it for a year and you guys just went back to work just two friends just getting to know each other again so what's the dyno chart look like yeah so your car and again i'll send you one but your car came in making 244 to the wheels and 223 foot-pounds of torque and so again i wasn't trying for max power i was using usable power and so now you're making 295 277 but if you take a look at it it's the area under the curve that's so amazing it's that before your car's wastegate was actually misadjusted so your car would never make full boost until way late and so if you take a look at this wall of torque that's all because the wastegate is adjusted properly and that's why it feels so you know again when you like wow it's so responsive everything there well now it's all set up correctly well essentially this is uh making potentially 100 maybe more than probably more than 100 horsepower over stock over a stock sr yeah i think a stock sr and again it's been a really long time since i've touched a stock one but they will usually make yeah about one like maybe like right at 200 or 190 or something but that's to the crank um no at the wheels they'll do that yeah they'll sometimes make good power at the wheels like once you got them turned up a little bit so again stock for stock hard to say i'll just tell you this when your car came here it was like and now when i get in your car and i'm like wow wait so it made 244 244 yeah 223 right so here's your old torque right and there's your old horsepower and then the red line is your new torque and your new horsepower so quite a bit different and again i wasn't going for max power i was going for drivable because when you fall in love with this car well then we upgrade then we make 100 on top of this right but right now your car has to prove itself it looks beautiful and now it drives beautiful combo combination it's like a solid that's a solid 300 horsepower to the wheels yeah in a car right that is light has great weight distribution has great traction and then if things go wrong i can get on my brakes that's awesome yeah so it's actually happy in terms of like chassis it it it is making almost three times the horsepower of what it originally came with right it's definitely it's definitely making more power than they came with and again right you know like butters this is a smooth operator right butters is like you know all like rocking and rolling and making sounds this is just it's just wonderful and again and then check it out yeah and then you're just like man i'm missing something what's wrong baby i'm cold do you have your jacket it's the middle of summer i know this air conditioning it's so cold so i'm really i'm stoked again i'm really i'm happy that you're pleased but i love when a car that's modified comes here and we get to put our touch on it because that's the cool part right it's like we just drove around cruising short shifting right dudes walking down the street giving us the thumbs up right and then good stuff i love making turbo noises yeah i noticed i noticed um well thank you so much thank you so much for just putting your touch on this thing and making an actual drivable car i'm going to drive this a lot um with that said i i want to see some of your cars um compete against some other cars at uh this versus that it would be awesome if you can bring like maybe your z32 or even the 510 who knows if you bring it to the airstrip and race against other cars it'll just be i'm just i'll just be happy to see them run sure at all yeah you know i don't i mean again right i mean that's the thing it's like that's what we're known for it's like all the cars we build don't just get built and then go get put away somewhere like james stevens right everything that he posts is always his car not at home on a back road starting in the parking lot going here going there right drive-bys like that's what they're for right we spend all this time money and effort to enjoy these cars not just to collect them collecting them is cool don't get me wrong but enjoying them and driving them so channel your jaffy and do what randy jaffe does and make museum pieces drive on the street without a doubt 100 i'm taking this to this versus that i'm going to race again something probably so dumb but that's okay because i like that i think that'll be a lot of fun let's do uh butters versus the bang let's do it right and again just because i'll i'll be the underdog how cool would it be two extreme datsuns in two different styles two different ways from one shop and maybe we can make one of those wrestling championship belts and whoever wins gets to wear the belt for like a week or so i think i would just i i don't even want to try this guy is a maddie z on z crimes no this guy's a madman behind the wheel and uh yeah it'll be an interesting race for sure we need yeah we need to call somebody out though so that you can get after it and use all this cool stuff that we just did so cool um also on top of that because it has brakes finally i can actually take it to i can actually take it and take it to a road course and not just do two laps and go off to cool down i can actually keep i can keep uh running lap after lap after lap absolutely to to cut just actually improve my driving skill and i can actually use it for what it was built for definitely and the other cool part of it is going to stay cool it's going to work and better yet it's going to drive you home i like that i think on that note that is without a doubt a wrap [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] me

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Keywords: Z car garage, Nissan z, Z car, Datsun Z, Datsun 280z, Datsun 240z, Datsun Racecar, Nissan Racecar, Rob Fuller Z car garage, Larry Chen, Larry Chen Photo, Larry Chen Photographer, Larry Chen Photography, 260z, 70s Z, Orange Bang, Hoonigan, Hoonigan Cars, Hoonigan Autofocus

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Length: 69min 18sec (4158 seconds)

Published: Fri May 14 2021