My LS-Swapped Porsche 911 BROKE MY HEART 4 years ago, and now it lives again! FIRST DRIVE!

hello hello i need a very durable condom and zip ties we are here at the amelia island concord elegance and we actually made it because we brought reliable cars this time i don't know about yours it's not known for its reliability is it okay well that sounds missy doesn't it this is the closest i've ever been to a private jet the doors have been ready look at that tyler are you a member of the mile high club well never with a partner your dream cars are safe with us but we have given you a generous budget to buy a duplicate of your first car oh they're right on my tail get him get him get him we need his channel he's the only one that gets views i'm sorry [Music] oh wow tyler just took off [Applause] oh my goodness i'm coming on your inside no he's inside got him you're gonna be the first person to get stabbed in the neck by a volkswagen key unless you say something nice about my work okay okay okay okay okay okay i'm gonna need some popcorn if we're gonna keep this going and i'd love to keep this going oh my god today does not today is a good day come on [Music] ah [Music] welcome to hoovy's garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and as you saw earlier car trek is back coming out september 6. really fun episode where we have our dream cars that we purchased and then they are ripped away from us and we have to buy our very first cars that we bought with our own money so very nostalgic for me just like today's video is very very nostalgic because apollo 911 a car that i abandoned almost four years ago and then bought back because i i missed it is alive i get to drive it for the first time today and there are other vehicles up here like the jurassic park jeep that are coming out of mothballs after many years of storage uh for a future car trek there's also progress on several other vehicles today but let's talk about apollo 911 first for those who haven't been following since basically day one i purchased this 911 with 238 000 miles on it something like that for only 9 500 making the cheapest porsche 911 in the usa since 996 prices this chassis of 911 have exploded to very expensive levels but this one was obviously tired but despite the engine sounding tired and the epic mileage two ims bearings i think actually three if you count the original it ran and drove great up until i took it to the track and starved it for oil and blew the motor i made the decision long long ago to ls swap it it was my first big build project on youtube and the wizard was in a very small shop in halstead with holes in the walls and i actually had to help him because he didn't have well any other option for help i'm sure he would love anybody else but me but i helped him take the engine out put it in things here and there and well it lived for a very short time unfortunately i decided to take it back to the track and test it and because the engine is mounted backwards all the g-force is going the wrong way versus when it was in a corvette it's an ls3 v8 well it started one of the bearings and blew the motor i was so disgusted at that point because i'd spent all of this money basically ten thousand dollars on a credit card hoping the videos would pay for it and well they did pay for it but then it broke right there again and i decided you all didn't want to see me go through this process for a second time nor did i really have the money to pay for it so i sold it moved on to other cars but then well i missed it and actually the person i sold it to really didn't do all that much other than take out the old motor buy a new one and left it you know kind of apart and so i was actually able to buy the car back more or less how i got it and uh well now it runs it runs but before we drive apollo 911 and catch up on other hoopties i'd like to thank shipstation for sponsoring today's video shipstation is the leading web-based order management and shipping software designed to make retailers exceptionally efficient at processing fulfilling and shipping their e-commerce orders i had a few ideas to sell some different merch for the holidays like signed photos of the recent ser mix-a-lot album cover or cutting pieces of my leftover mybach the door in the rear quarter into little coins so you can have my bot coins for christmas but i had no idea how to ship these out until i discovered shipstation they really make it easy how easy you ask well shipstation makes it very easy to start your own online store all of us car guys have extra stuff lying around or found a honey hole on something that we could resell for a profit and if you're looking for an easy side business whether you're selling on amazon etsy or your own website shipstation funnels all of your orders into one simple interface that you can manage from anywhere even your cell phone and you can ship with any carrier using ship stations deeply discounted rate over 100 000 online sellers have chosen shipstation so far and that gives small businesses access to the same rates as fortune 500 companies without contracts or commitments ship more in less time for a lot less money just go to shipstation.com to get a 60-day free trial that's two months of no hassle free stress-free shipping that's shipstation.com hovey's make ship happen just like the car wizard is doing back at his shop yes a trip down memory lane wizard look at these two the first season of car issues which would actually start filming the second season next week it's amazing i can't wait on motor trend this is four years ago you had hair yeah i had hair no longer anymore it's weird because it was just on motor trend and there's gonna be such a big time jump in places and hoopty fleets and things but uh in buildings actually we're gonna use this jeep for car trek six okay i'm going to be off-roading in it it's been sitting in a museum for years so if you look it over for me and make sure it's all right i know it's leaking some transmission fluid also the four-wheel drive doesn't work it doesn't work no i don't know that it's ever worked has it i don't think so yeah i got stuck in the first season so yeah i need it to work for what we're doing in card trick uh but apollo 911 is not stuck right i'm not stuck look at this crazy ls v8 stuffed back in here and working it's just as powerful as i remember it as well it's amazingly powerful can you start it up sure it has this exhaust on too sounds very yachty doesn't it it does sound like a yacht a big block yacht verbally wonderful well i'm going to drive this thing i guess right you let me i'm going to be the test driver in a little bit before we do that let's move on to uh other projects i actually need your help making a decision on something and that decision is with this bad boy my 1979 porsche 911 sc target that was hacked into a cabrio and the engine did finally get shipped off to leonard and he has the verdict i haven't told you this yet okay actually looks pretty good in there and he has like various tiers of things that he could do from basically the minimum replacing head studs putting in new piston rings just because cleaning things up putting it back together that would only be like three thousand dollars that's not bad for a porsche engine or i could do a full head rebuild i mean it just goes up from there it could be you know seven eight thousand dollars for a head rebuild and he was pushing towards uh completely ditching the uh bosch fuel injection system and going with this crazy carburetor setup that he loves i think i would go with carburetor over the bosch stuff really yeah well the problem with that is uh then we're up to like 12 13 000 dollars maybe the sport exhaust it would really wake the thing up and then the engine would be fully built it would be worth it money-wise the engine will be worth what i put into it but is it worth putting it into into this so basically like three grams to the minimum or seven eight grand to do the right thing by this car and do all the things like the head rebuild the things you're supposed to do new timing chains that kind of stuff or do you go crazy i don't know i'll have to see what they say it could be interesting to see the comic they're saying right but there's going to be plenty more to go through on this car once it's in because the interior is well uh yeah not not not great but i'm going to leave the exterior as is on this car because i love the patina look of it and it's well a hacks target so there's no point in restoring it right so i plan to go into that cheap and now i'm considering spending way too much money we've seen this movie before uh but another vehicle here is my riptide blue escalade we finally had some problems unfortunately the climate control would just blow to full heat in the most inopportune times i'd have to stop turn the thing off turn it back on again in order for it to reset nothing else i could do and you found the issue it's just a uh blender actuator it's gone bad it's common on these these years of gm vehicles they have blend or mode actuator recirculate they all fail like they drop like flies i see yeah and then the steering wheel was acting all funny as far as like the controls and everything i would hit the volume knob and it would trigger onstar and that kind of stuff which i was just waiting until something else broke to bring it up to you for that and there's a clock spring right yep we got it all apart we got all the harness and everything out but yeah it should take care of it how much am i looking at here probably going to be six to eight hundred bucks for all of it not bad no it's not horrible yeah i didn't spend a dime on this thing since it showed up so these are really fantastic reliable vehicles they really are unfortunately we'll never get anything like this ever again something that's simple yet comfortable and luxurious everything else is now so electronically complicated that this is kind of it my grandma's sl is done so i'll probably take that home because i'm leaving you the jeep which i drove up okay but uh the murcielago is also up here unfortunately yes magic mike is getting very very familiar with the belt tensioner and belt system on this thing huh yeah these are very sensitive to belt alignment and we're having to use shims and move this entire bracket that holds accessories back and forth we got it pretty dead on straight and we're doing some adjustments with the tensioner i think we'll have it the problem i'm having with this car ever since i got it back was a squeak and it's a really annoying light squeak that's there all the time for like 10 to 15 minutes until it's fully warmed up and i do some hard acceleration runs then it usually goes away unless it's cold outside then it's there all the time so i've been dealing with that we've tried a few things but now we're going full hard michael's going hard on it i don't know what i i need to word that better um [Laughter] you are bent over the thing but i i can't talk yeah we're working to get it solved so it doesn't do that anymore that was the only thing wrong with this no if we can get the squeak done it's perfect it is perfect and then something else will break because that's that's the rule yeah that's right the rule at least with me but yeah your uh wizard flashlight technique is getting very strong their magic mike so fingers crossed there and actually how could we forget this elephant in the room any progress with the hummer we just got some parts in today we've been waiting for parts from your guy oh yes newretroparts.com in here yes i don't think you can do it at the same time all kinds of ah suspension yep those are some beefy beefy ball joints holy moly you could almost knock someone out with that thing okay so it looks like there's still a few more bits that need to arrive but that's all the big suspension stuff so you can get started on that which is very loose up there and rusty all four control arms are being replaced because the old ones yeah that that's a hole that's a hole but i get to drive apollo 911 now for the first time in nearly four years it's been a long time i never thought i would see it again it's back it's back and it's alive again it really didn't take you all that long once you got i mean it's out here for four months or so you worked on other things but then i guess it's alive i didn't expect to be this easy which usually isn't so hopefully i don't blow it up for the fourth time third time we do have an oil pan in there that now has baffles and trap doors yes so that will help yeah okay well i'm i'm going [Music] goodness goodness all right so far so good it's gonna be a little loud a lot loud and hot in here because i have no air conditioning and the cover is off the back so i have no insulation back there you can see engine there's the intake there's the ls than working ls she's back let's do a light pole just a just a light one real easy into first and go [Music] wow [Music] oh wow this is so good i know i kind of cried in my last video this one's making me emotional too because when i bought this thing five years ago five years ago i was hoping it would help me build a youtube channel build a following and we'll pay for cool cars and it works it works unfortunately i gave up on this car too soon when the motor blew but i kind of had to sell it i mean i i had to move on to other projects because at the time i didn't have the money to collect cars to keep cars that i really wanted i needed the money to move on to other projects to make more videos i'm so lucky to get this thing back and then it works [Music] now the reason i did the ls swap four years ago mostly had to do with cost i thought it would be cheaper to do an ls swap rather than to rebuild the original porsche engine which rebuilds at the time were like fifteen thousand dollars uh but actually turned out to be just as much if not more to do than ls swap uh the parts close to ten thousand dollars i think and then the engine itself another five thousand dollars i don't remember exactly but it was a lot of money and then very dejecting when uh the motor blew on the track now horsepower you gain versus a stock 911 about 150 horsepower which is awesome basically the equivalent of a turbo 911 you have horsepower wise and the power to weight is the same because the engine weighs the same it's a flat six obviously but it's iron it's heavier the ls engine all aluminum so it ends up being a bigger engine but the same weight now the center of gravity is probably higher because the engine obviously sits up higher that's why there's holes and such to get it to fit in there but really i don't notice it that much when i'm driving it it doesn't feel higher the only difference between before and after was the lack of power steering which i could have added toyota free as power steering but i chose not to after i drove it for the first time the steering really feels fine it's actually easier to turn in a parking lot than say my lamborghini countach or something but i named this thing apollo 911 because it had traveled the distance for the moon and back 240 000 miles now it's at almost 250 000 miles and i think i'm keeping apollo 911 to the moon and back welcome back babe welcome home wizard you beautiful manu it's good thing there's a safety barrier here oh i would jump into your arms and kiss you and everything else oh would you now yes yes so where's the bill i will pay whatever you want me to pay i i have to apologize to you i don't i don't have one today he doesn't have a bill it's not it's not done the gauges need to be hooked back up and the interior put back together so it's i came up here we made a video and i don't have to give you any money no isn't that rare thank you for watching [Music] you

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Published: Wed Aug 25 2021