TOKYO DRIFT RB26 MUSTANG

hello fast fam thanks for tuning in I'm Craig Lieberman and I've been taking on cars since 1980 I've owned more than 40 cars in my life some where heroes is some more zeroes but never in my wildest dreams would I ever guess that three of my cars would go on to star at a motion picture franchise my Supra my GTR and my maximum all had starring roles and universals Fast and Furious movies over the next three years I'd serve Universal as a technical advisor to help choose the cars procure the parts oversee their build and support both production and post-production I've got some great stories to tell and that's why I created this channel it's time to talk about the Tokyo Drift Mustangs I say Mustangs plural because although we only saw one car at a time there were actually six or seven of them on set if you don't know who's Sean Morris says he's basically the guy that helped get GTRs into not only the first two movies he's largely responsible for getting Paul Walker to become a fan of the GTR welcome back everybody another episode and another appearance with Sean Morris the man the myth the legend the GTR guru he is the king of GTRs in the united states he's probably forgotten more than most people will ever know about GTI's okay we have a special treat we are going to talk to him specifically about your pet project the Tokyo Drift Mustang with the RB 26 how did you even get that call to do that project so I was actually the first time I heard about it I got a call from Toshi otoshi hyoma who was itwas advisor Yeah right who's a technical advisor and he says he says to me hey I'm looking for a five-speed transmission for skyline and and he's like yeah we're working on a project for Universal for faster shares and we're putting in our b-26 in a Mustang and I was like I just started I was like I don't you know I didn't really know I don't really hear anything about it at night so I just you know I and so that was the first time I really heard about it and then later on John wiser actually called me and said hey you know we're doing this project this is what we're you know this is this is where we are can you come and help us and so I worked out you know deal with John and then I went over to then they were in my jaw just a larger Stadium and it's like kind of that look great right right yes over there and the car wasn't there the car was actually getting built by a place up in Valencia called tri-c engineering and so I went with John and kinda he talked about the car a little bit we went up to have a look at it he paused sort of second so we went up there to have a look at the car and they had the the engine out of one of the cars from from too fast too furious so it had an hour 34 RB 26 in it with a rear-wheel drive transmission they're kind of fitting it up they didn't have the turbos on or anything else because the shock towers on the Mustang they didn't really have enough clearance to put the twins and all that stuff and so I started to talk to him about it and look at it and said okay what made me sense this just put a single turbo on here and then I also said look you need to take this engine out of this car you need to put it back in the r34 I've got other engines I can sell you you know just regular our 32 engine you know for a few thousand dollars and probably 2,500 or 3,000 dollars or something like that for the engine that way then you have a complete running r34 that's worth money it's word money and not a shell that you guys have to push around and make not wake worth nothing but they are already four back together we'll put this other engine in this in this car because they needed an oil pan and some other stuff too and so I had an RV 2500 oil pan and so I go up there and I work at tri-c with them a little bit on putting an oil pan in doing some other things got the single turbo manifold and and then I also I worked with Terminix and you know we got a turbo for it and some other and intercooler in that so I'm pretty sure Reggie over there turbo nedick's so you know when it comes to like a movie car and stuff I just like I think I talked to Reggie and I said look I want the most basic the most standard the most nothing turbo I can possibly do something like easy easy to get to replace easy cheap you know cheap and easy that's what I want because it doesn't need to be anything special it's a movie car so we got a sixty - one which is real basic turbo but then so what I like I was noticing like you know a lot of the cars they had like a big the big turbo kind of sitting out off the side of the engine of it and so what I want to said to the guys from tri-c and also just even a little bit for Clarence was they built to stand off to make the turbocharger sit up and forth so it's a small turbo but if you look at its kind of sitting like Ford and hub and that's intentional to kind of make it look like a bigger turbo kind of present well you know like here's the turbo you know so instead of being like tucked down you know because it's a movie car you know so again so we're gonna see the engine actually we're gonna see the engine we're gonna see exactly what it was and what it was in and so and then you know the way that the story progressed was that the S 15 in the engine instead of having an RV I'm sorry instead of having an SR 20 in it it had an RB 26 and now that's an interesting thing because there's a lot of people in the world and I run into this all the time where somebody says that's not an RV 26 it's an sr-22 and s 15 has an SR 20 in it but it is possible to swap an RV 26 into that car that chassis it's hard when you have to argue with people about a car you've built and that you worked on I'm sure you may or may not know this know this feeling but when you were actually spent all this time in this car and somebody on the internet it says nope it has an SR 20 in it yeah well the fact I think of it is is that I have learned through having a crazy Italian father that you need to be very clear in your communication and the way I would probably preface that after somebody hit me up 400 times was well yes the car comes with that motor but it is like it is plausible that somebody would pull that motor out and do a motor swap on that car right and so we were we didn't say that it came with that car or that that our b-26 came with a guy say it was in that car we took it out so forth and here we are right and again it's but even you know I actually built a mock-up engine because we you know so there was a good engine in the car and then they asked me to build a mock-up for the s 15 so they had one of the crash just fifteen chasis and then i had spare parts and if you look at it it looks like spare parts if you really pause the movie and stuff and and and you'll see there's like and it was literally just sitting in there I mean there's no mounts no nothing and just put it in our feet twenty six in there and you'll see it's like hey you know if you watch some of the videos they've even they even use that same engine when they're trying to like you know they're they're doing good the insert shots of them you know putting an engine in you'll see like it's kind of cut up a little bit and so the car was that try see engineering came back I got a a AEM ECU and for the car and we installed it started the car up single turbo you know I did some basic you know make sure the thing was gonna run right and all that all that kind of stuff I really wanted to put on a dyno cuz you know I mean so everything was set pretty conservative I told them you know they have to run race gas in the car all the time because you never know what the guys from they're gonna do but you know it had street cart conservative setup it was on spring pressure you know not running any real amount of boost or anything like that and so it but it ran good I mean it ran what kind of power to make that so that everyone's gonna actually that's gonna be actually I think so sport compact car no Emmons no sport compact car tested it I think it made 350 to the tire that's the number that's so yeah so made about 350 now the thing is Edmunds tested it they did some like 0 to 60 in quarter-mile in it and so it did like low fives 260 and did like low 13s it like a hundred and nine miles an hour in the quarter just two rear wheel drive rear wheel drive with the 19's on the with basically the drift setup that had in it which are not you know cheater drag ready not I was on a regular old 19-inch tire and that's a lot of people forget what should be fast or what yeah if it was on a suspension and drag tires yeah maybe oh if it if I would have known I turned it I mean it was like I said it was on stupid timing and stupid like conservative timing it was on movie car people are gonna be moving this car and driving it and so like I don't want it to die when they're doing it so you know it would've been I would have turned I mean I would have run I think it always run in like you know 11 12 13 pounds of boost or something what the transmission was in the car it had our be 25 so FS FS 5 hour 30 minutes so it's the same trans as in like 300 Z the same that are in these except for all-wheel drive the same it's in a frontier exterior it's in everything but what about the rear end what we're using with that was a regular four nine inch rear end so what a bastard car so and you know and actually a pretty good suspension and stuff underneath it and then you know the thing is like you know there's a lot of stuff out there about the car and like you know what some people don't understand is that there's there's a hero right right and there's and then there's other car there's stunt cars and so they build one hero nice car you don't want to mess it up you don't want to damage it you don't want to do stuff to it that's gonna cause it to be if they have to use it to shoot some nice pictures they don't want to have a damaged car so you know they didn't really use it for any of the drifting or side-to-side or crushing together and all that stuff and then some people said oh it can't drift or it couldn't do any of that stuff or you know the the thing was that so when we get back to this Edmonds video so they had some of the v8 cars and stuff like that you know 347 yes are they all had 347 something something something like that right and so that car the cars with the the drift cars I think they may have tested a few of them and that was about a 14 second at 90 low 90 mile an hour car 93 or something like that and so that so if we know about weight and horsepower and all the rest the RB powered car set up as basically I let anybody drive it went a hundred and nine right it made a lot more second car yeah it made a lot more power and so and you know I mean works better turn tire torque trust me it didn't have a problem you know like anything it required some revs yeah it was it's six or seven cars I have to look I think we've said I'm tight it may be about the end so all of the other ones had v8 except for the hero one car know like if Shawn was talking about when you in the the movies that we've worked on and I'm speaking for myself and you know for the first movies you have a hero one car which is the prettiest shiniest nicest cleanest car that you have all the Jake all the gadgets on it are supposedly going to work if you need interior shots you know all that fancy stuff and then a hero to car is a car that is cosmetically identical to the hero one car maybe it doesn't have the engine stuff but we maybe we will be using that car for for a backup in case something happens to hear one then you have stung once too and then if you go more than you have spent three four five six seven you have a process buck car well they'll do some interior shots on or some [ __ ] means they cut it up and i'm mickray grill right buck bucks yeah so you get the mick rig shell car right that you got the process car which like a man fast and furious one they put one of the supers on huh hydraulic rig a shaker machine so Brian driving to the desert a super it's all done on sound state all right I wonder so you have a bunch of cars so they because they did so many stunts that's what I had six or seven Mustangs yeah because they're crushing them together and all that stuff and so of course they're gonna have cars you know you the amount of money that they're spinning basically every second the car in the car every second they're filming out there on set all the people all the craft services all of the lighting lighting electric riggers all those people there's there's there's like hundreds of people out there and so then if they go to get in the car and that car doesn't start it doesn't work it's something doesn't happen it's costing them blossom on it lots and lots of money so they have to have backups they have to have more than one car they have to have all this stuff and so that's a bunch of different cars because if they don't start you got to have a car right there on set ready to go right then right then you got a you got a you know somebody's got to be able to get in that car moved out all the one out figure figure it out later or whatever an on-set there's always gonna be picture car guys and the picture of our guys are there you know basically responsible for them and and so when the Mustang was on set I was responsible for that car and so I was there with the car make sure that it worked if it didn't work then it would be Shawn make it work or whatever it might be but are you referring to the hero one car the hero one car okay the other cars are responsible the other picture keeps your car guys and one of the things that you do it as you remember the commonality of parts is currently as crucial in the picture car business because these guys can literally they have to be anywhere in the world and be able to get parts for these cars right so if they're to work in a Mustang a small-block Ford there's parts for that at every track our chief Otto parts about the auto part stores already there have to be parts for those cars at every auto parts store whether you go to Pep Boys or or anything right so that's why they put these small-block v-8 sin them because the parts are readily available and the brake rotors and all that kinda stuff it's all available and even you know wheels and all this stuff even just the it's swapping between the different picture cars and stuff like that so that they can they can you know keep one going keep cars going so it's really important so then back to the back to building the Mustang so then when we were we were there with the Mustang and and it came down a pitcher car and they had to do the painting and all the rest of the stuff on the car and me and John actually decided on the color for it and we've you know put together some of the other things for the cars you know work if you look at the Mustang like it has an exhaust it has like the exhaust kind of goes off the side you know the HKS style like against intent you know that the the tip that's on there I did intentionally like that because I really wanted it to be like this this American car with this Japanese you know so that's why if you look at the exhaust exhaust and it's not only because the first time they install it they installed it straight so it's coming I'm like no you got it you got to turn it so that it's coming like out this person it's kind of like it was they're kind of a little bit out the side and and the picture car guys are probably going what what's going on right and and so and then you know like the the cam cover the valve cover you know at first we had it like body color of the car and then it didn't really make sense with the movie that was like hey they found this engine and they put it in the car and you know overnight and they buffed it and then like the Carl you know kind of came out and so and so then you know we're talking about different colors and so I did the basically like the the the the Newark color engine you know the I like the engine came out of an ER and it was a little bit of a tribute to tomorrow a little bit like you know here's this is like a you know so cuz we had read some had hit black ed green we had like gold on the engine of the car yeah because and you know I I wrapped everything up and you know like I kind of hid some of the things here like you know I took a I I did something you know I think we had a Polish collector and stuff it was you know it kind of pretty the engine up a little bit to make a look a certain way yeah so what happened to the cars after you know I so you know once I was done my part of it yeah I was done that's it I was done no I you know I'm I'm I'm done and at the end of it they're like you know supposedly they gave it to one of the producers or something or and then maybe it went and and you know I said I thought you know if I were to know and I like let me take the car and actually like clean up some of the stuff or put it on dyno and make it you know make it because I mean the car shouldn't have a problem making it for 100 wheel on 91 the thing of it is is that there you get we we have to talk about the time gap here after 2 fast 2 furious which was released in 2003 Tokyo Drift was three years later and then and the thing about they least took you a drift and when I was working on it you know the thing is you know and I didn't know it said before and some of the other stuff too and on the first ones but the cars are the storm right right the cars are the stars on Tokyo Drift and so then we're working on that the cars were characters right so so all the cars that were there were basically characters on the on the set so and yeah when they were done they were done and they got rid of them and and you know I've never seen that car again so then you know you went a few years there was in hit little later 2008-2009 we started seeing that but I saw you know YouTube didn't really start until 2005 it wasn't really a thing into it you know 2007 Instagram wasn't around Facebook was in its infancy in 2007 so tracking those cars there's a dead zone period where automotive forums was all we had so tracking those cars all I knew is in Taiwan 2012 when I started looking again is that the Malolos cars had gone overseas and the reason for that is because after Tokyo Drift with no Vin Diesel in it that movie was the worst making movie of the franchise up until that point out of the three movies it just didn't make any money was no Vin Diesel in that in the movie it made money but it didn't make what the first in Justin Lin deal deal they set it up for four and all that I tell that story in another video but essentially what happened was is that people had lost interest in to tuner culture you know there was all Styne kinds of stuff going on with a different drag series and consolidation and NHRA I won't get into all that because it's it's a long story but what happened was is that people in America just didn't want those cars they didn't think the movies were all that big they certainly didn't think they were very good you know the average person a lot of people who like us who grew up with them they loved the movies and they loved the cars but people weren't buying them an option so off they went overseas and a lot of them are still there yeah and I said I don't even know I mean I heard that the Mustang was in like a museum in Illinois there's a there's a museum there that has a bunch of stuff but you know I don't know you someone's you don't know if what card actually is right because you look at it from the outside or what somebody says something is and you know a few pictures from you know 75 feet away so I yeah you have to see it up I mean obviously that card you know the hood obvious of what it is or what it isn't but there's one in Europe I was in Norway two years two summers ago and there's one there that was one of the crate motor cars right but I mean it could be something like you know the same like this where even you know I mean somebody people have built through real replicas close replicas right oh yeah there's a lot of people get semi-closed just a lot of people who get really close and there's some people like I'm just gonna paint it put the wing on it the details so the same with even the Mustangs and stuff I mean although you know it's really a not really the car and the demographic if it like you know it's it's kind of weird right you know maybe it would be a little strange for like you know Mustang if you had a fastback Mustang 67 68 because they were actually there were 67 and 68 so there's like some slight differences in them I don't know Mustangs that well but I know that they were 67 and 68 and there was a little bit they were both so so and like you said they do you know the difference is Ammar very small but back to your point about Cigna people who would be looking to buy a replica I mean one of the movie Cars people were buying 67 68 Mustangs they probably gonna make it look like the Bullitt car right exactly that's the car that everybody knows Tokyo Drift Mustang unless you're a rabbit or that Eleanor those Eleanor Mustangs those are relatively so you know you start to get into this those uh those fast backs which are you know all the money you know six-figure cars now right so you know if you're gonna do it you're probably not gonna build a replica from here if you're gonna do a replica it's gonna be an Allen yeah you know there's kind of people it's gonna be you know so it's and and so it's a it was still as a fun car you know and I've had people ask me and I'm people show me and show different stuff you know different American cars were like to jay-z's in them 1jz and you know some other cool stuff weird stuff out there with RB 26 or whatever in it and so you know as a personal thing again when they very first came to me I was like I just I blew him off I thought it was funny and then when I actually had it and ran and drove it and did all that it was fun it was a it was a fun silly car I mean it you know it definitely you know had all the good sounds and all the rest of the stuff it did right so yeah wonder what car they used to record that I know who wasn't his Milano's car really yeah as are we today was a car it was RB 25 bar every 25 was used for the engine shed with a 30 I think it at 30 76 honor there's not a single turbo filter well yeah so and I had helping Chris out a little bit with some stuff and I only tried to punch him about one time maybe two times or something like that Oh Chris he was a he's in it he's a character you know it's kind of a junkyard guy kind of a little you know I haven't talked to him in years he's a little he's a little out there but uh you know he so he they used to use his car for that what he's doing these days I have no idea I lost track of the guy John wiser just to go back the people don't know John wiser recently passed away this year it's 2019 right I'm sorry we really sorry so John will i surpassed this last year in 2019 he was kind of like the Rain Man of picture cars I went with him in Florida for a few months on too fast too furious and I mean if you needed to find a wheel for a 1991 mismo something or other and he would know where one was buried in a cable you to find somebody he would you know I mean John was wizard motors and that and then he's a you know he would just be sitting there with his rolodex as a stuff you know that he would call you call me up here and say hey do you know where a something something is or do we need help with this and I actually bought quite a few cars for him and through the if we're Tokyo Drift we actually bought we supplied them with the also the Mercedes and then a lot of the background cars for that you know if you notice like in the parking garage there's like Nissan Maximas and like like protegees and stuff and they're all like pastel colors because they needed some background cars and they just you know they they need stuff to crash into and it was obviously that film Tokyo Drift filmed in LA mostly call for and more yeah right and so they when they needed stuff to crash into movie we sold all no crap we provided the background cars for the downstairs parking structure where the girls were sitting on and all right - nothing we used some of the movie cars that I left over from 2008 is the race car there I had the race car yeah you know we had the race car there at the Hawthorne wallet one point but that but so it's so those crash cars we can we got them for John and you know the picture car people you know it's a if you ever work for the movies is an interesting process it's an interesting thing because you know you have these art directors you have regular directors and you have people that are used to getting what they want and also changing their mind and it'll sometimes on a little bit of a whim and so you know you may have they may come to you one day and say hey we need you know five red Nissan Maximas so you're going to go try and find them and then they call you back the next day and they say hey actually we need them black okay cool so you know now you kind of line these cars up and all that stuff the next day actually red and so it can be a slightly frustrating at times it could be a little but you know I always told people you know the the money was good always the that side of it you know this is worth a little bit of frustration and you know they were obviously they would pay you know the like it's not like a you know a regular consumer so as long as you can get him what they wanted but John was you know he was my contact there for let's see I I worked with him a number card number of different things the most recent things that I got for him were Bentley's I got salvage Bentley's for the one where they had the submarine and when I was at 7-7 maybe that seven is that seven the one the one there was there's a Bentley Continental because I got some of the stunning white ones stunt I want the harpoon that shot out I got Tyrese drove I told you if I told you I did I haven't watched it would you believe me I was oh I discipline cars for that fear if you're over 35 you're probably not watching so so I am but but yeah we bought him a couple of Bentley's for that you know and stuff and you know they were like stuff we're bad engines or flood damaged cars and stuff that they needed in and so um I helped them get those cars and so and then yeah I would you know get a phone call from John every every few months you send me an email through and sometimes you going a little rant I mean the last one I had a really good way I had a really good rant with him about about the movies and about what was going on and about oh man these are definitely things I cannot say on a video about some of the inner workings a big inner workings and some of the people oh yes and some of the actors so yeah there was some there was this is a little bit of there was this really good good after this camera goes off I'll even tell you it was kind of funny so but but yeah it's I mean I really like John you know even when we erase the r34 we're out there in Florida he came out he brought us food he is you know he's a good guy you know and I said he really was like [ __ ] Rain Man he's just a guru man you would just be able to get fine things and you know I don't know how much people really appreciate it sometimes getting some of those I mean it's hard to get those parts those things then stuff I mean you know he needed a you know when they had the hakko and stuff like that they needed a windshield because you know they pull the wind chill down they needed a windshield and so you know I mean John you that you know we could get one and so our you know helped you know and so but you know the same you just kind of have those contacts of people and and you know I mean then sometimes they would because it is the movies they can do silly things like they can fly people with the part I was just going to your answer fast that have a Ferrari window broke the other one so they flew it they put a guy on an airplane right probably one yeah they just have summers they have just have somebody like pick up this part get on a plane you have a passport get on a plane pick up this part get on a plane bring it to us because that's the fastest way you're gonna get it in your hand and they and they they have the again that you cannot sit around and and not have not have those participating else's costing much thousands thousands on you

Channel: Craig Lieberman

Views: 403,269

Keywords: THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, TOKYO DRIFT, TOKYO DRIFT MUSTANG, SEAN'S MUSTANG

Id: DK5NvNZ4ZSI

Length: 28min 44sec (1724 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 21 2020