My "Bargain" Plymouth Superbird may be unfixable! The Car Wizard gives up???

you're not a race car shop no and this is all race car stuff that you really don't like no i strictly race i don't do racing like the trans am was up here you you worked on it but you you don't like it no so yeah it's that's the uh in the computer right mm-hmm it's just not your wheelhouse right no i you know i go in there and start diving in i don't know what they did there's no schematics there's nothing there's i don't know welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and this is my 1970 plymouth super bird resto mod it was originally a 426 hemi super bird that was a race car it was wrecked and then it was restored or rather resto modded into this crazy thing that was a complete basket case i bought it with numerous unknown or undisclosed issues and the car wizard has been diligently working through all of them but he's sort of reached the point where some things may be unfixable at least for him and its current setup so really it's kind of a bummer or not kind of it actually is a bummer but that's the reality of buying a resto modded car like this that wasn't built with an open checkbook rather somebody who well kind of hastily put it together to sell at an auction just to make it look pretty and it is very very pretty but not really caring about what it's like for the next owner and then 10 years later well i'm the one dealing with this mess unfortunately but before we get into it i can actually drive this car today and see some improvements let's go through all the other things going on in the shop there's a lot of progress a lot of good progress in the wizard what's the wizard doing but before we tour the projects and get more bad news on the superbird i'd like to thank policy genius for sponsoring today's video with winter upon us icy roads and deep freezes can lead to even worse news than an unfixable super bird especially if you don't have enough or the right insurance policy genius can save you tons of money as it's america's 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possibly me in the future he's i i see you're planting a seed there but yes also the drivetrain of 355 is not on the ground it's on something fancy right yeah about a table 2 000 pound hydraulic lift table we put some wood blocks on it so it's a nice soft surface for it to set on so this is a 1996 ferrari f355 with a gated manual transmission the first one of these i had burned to the ground before we did the major on it because of a fuel fitting issue this one's been fixed but uh we discovered that the timing belts were ancient on it among other things this table to make things nice and easy huh but yeah it's it's also wooded yeah we just put the wood there so it's something soft for it to rest on not metal i mean people bemoan the engine out on these things having to do every five or seven years or when something major breaks but as far as taking it out you all had it out pretty darn quick yeah daniel son actually headed out he started about eight in the morning and he had it out by lunch so there's something to be said about a car that's just designed to have its engine taken out relatively easily and ease of access and all that and you're ordering a lot of bits so 5 000 in parts which are coming soon which we'll do another video i guess when that all arrives and putting on and back into the car that looks well looks really sad without his glorious engine in there it's kind of like an empty sole isn't it yeah it looks like a kit car without it and speaking of uh well engines audi r8 any anything yes you've got parts off so that's the air box yep that's the air box magic mike's actually been diagnosing it he found that the crank sensor the resistance reading is really high on it the sensor itself is bad we also found a lot of kind of hack job wiring you can see that's been spliced over there with blue we're not sure what they were doing there magic mike has rerouted it to the correct areas the wiring just for testing and once we figure out and we get it right then we'll make it nice and i see we did have it actually running a little bit it would try to run which it wasn't doing before yeah i bought this for my wife for christmas supposedly a running car shows up not and uh well it's a little on the ugly side with the wing and all that stuff but it was only forty thousand dollars so if it doesn't need an engine or a transmission i'll be fine because these things are you know mid-sixties for normal nice examples now so it's the cheapest area in the usa but maybe you don't buy your wife uh re project probably not yeah so the db7 is still here and uh the latest episode of car issues with you and i is live now actually with the aston martin which went through a pretty amazing trial take a look wow a beautiful 2002 aston martin db7 420 horsepower james the baddies are giving chase geez he's paintballed it's so hard to aim at aston martin got him in the face like john wick [Music] but that paintball and shooting all that stuff didn't cause the problems that it has with the window right you had the modules rebuilt on it we had both window modules rebuilt by my guy in florida and that brought that door back to life but that one the actual door motor the window motor itself is bad ah yeah it was acting up a little bit before but now you're saying it's still broken bob bought this thing well before we get to the bad news on the super bird there was more bad news on this old porsche so my 79 911 sc has turned into quite a mess it showed up you actually got it running for a few moments but there was smoke everywhere it had broken headstuds which is really common with this motor and unfortunately it had some really stuck ones so i was originally coded four thousand dollars to basically fix semi rebuilt the engine but they're so stuck in there that it needs a full split case machine shop everything so that just all doubled you're starting off the new year with a bang it doubled unfortunately and uh the car well it it's a rat rod 911 which is kind of cool but i did not want to spend 8 000 on an engine rebuild for it and on top of that i'm probably gonna go with a carburetor setup which is another three thousand dollars there's gonna be tuning with that leonard who you all met not long ago because he's gonna do the orange portion of the 930 turbo swapped uh uh 74 carrera he's working on it still diligently but i stepped in it here maybe forty thousand dollars into this hooptie 911 after the interior and everything else and yeah probably not a good decision but that's not what this channel's for right right this channel wouldn't exist on good decisions yeah so the jeep was also up here had some leaks after car trek we threw it through the gauntlet up a mountain in breckenridge and everywhere else and it did great but it was leaky so no big deal nope just needed a new transmission pen gasket we went ahead and did that and did a filter did a few other small things but other than that that's all it needed nice we'll check out card track and see everything that this jeep did if you haven't already we bought the dream three-car garage for under 30 000 ish it kind of went sideways a little bit but we tried and uh i think it's the best one we ever did so if you haven't checked it out yet please have a look and now i've procrastinated long enough so super bird time uh i see fans wizard yes i also see the suspension is back on so are we suspensioning yes it has proper coilovers on it now it it moves it moves it it bounces okay so it runs it drives we have a new vacuum pump right there that uh actually a car wizard fan donated for you really jeremy brickles was his name that's nice of them so it's a quieter running vacuum pump because initially there was one here you can still see the remnant of a bracket here and then another one under there to operate the headlights and it was louder than the engine which is a racing engine it sounded like two butt trumpets basically going i mean just yeah it's constant so that's gone you can't even hear that pump run and it works the headlights perfectly awesome okay we got your horn fixed we got the speedometer fixed and we got several other things fixed but we're running into trouble with the engine wanting to overheat while it's sitting at idle a lot of the wiring stuff just wasn't hooked up right and you noticed like the fuel gauge didn't work because the wiring wasn't hooked up it just they never bothered to hook it up which unfortunately there's a lot of cars out there where somebody's just kind of slapping it together just to sell and if you're not somebody building it with a customer that has an open checkbook to say do whatever it takes if you're trying to build something to you know make a profit obviously then you're going to cut corners if you have to or where you can depending on your level of uh well i don't integrity i suppose and everybody's looking to make money obviously and you're buying a car at auction you gotta expect it's not going to be perfect but this one was yeah so this isn't the numbers matching hemi motor it's obviously a big racing uh race car hemi and it's still overheating huh yeah it runs fine and everything like that but uh danielson actually the guy was working on it believes that the tune that's on here with the timing and the fuel rate and everything is so high for most power that it's over overdoing the cooling system interesting i think if it was dialed back a little bit which we can't do here i don't really do tuning you're not a race car shop no and this is all race car stuff that you really don't like no i strictly race i don't do racing like the trans am was up here you you worked on it but you you don't like it no so basically i gotta take it somewhere else huh there's some shops in wichita to do tuning i think it doesn't run that great either as far as cold starts as far as idling it is pretty unlivable in its current setup so it would need a tune anyway and since it's all custom i mean we saw this in the glove box it's a yeah it's that's the uh in the computer right mm-hmm it's just not your wheelhouse right no i you know i go in there and start diving in i don't know what they did there's no schematics there's nothing there's i don't know yep not my wheelhouse well i guess i'll drive it see how the suspensions feel see how the car feels and then i can decide what i'm gonna do okay thank you wizard yep oh yeah i mean just hearing that vacuum pump it's it's a thousand times quieter and now it runs i mean it's cold but you can see what i mean it just doesn't run all that well so a tune could definitely help this thing he's trying to stall on me right now he's not happy oh yeah for the suspension though let's just hit a bump on purpose [Music] oh yeah that's fixed what i liked about these when i drove one years ago at the midwest dream car collection is how nice of a cruiser that these were kind of a land yacht because it's based on a lanyard well platform even though it looks like a crazy race car and now we have that nice ride thank goodness and we have the mimi porn and we have lights that work i assume can't really see them on that big nose but i'm sure they're working so obviously a lot of progress the car rides great it feels great and you got to give the wizard credit for saying hey this just isn't in my wheelhouse and i could throw a bunch of parts at it but i really don't know i feel more comfortable having it done at a race car shop or a custom car shop that builds these for a living and and i totally get it i'll find the right place to take it too we'll get this thing to the finish line and the wizard can keep on keeping on thank you so much for watching this thing definitely has some scoot though we can give it a romp now that's warmed up wow oh yeah that rides so much better thank goodness

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Length: 15min 1sec (901 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 19 2022