We Modified Our Stolen & Crashed Hot Hatches

we bought each other 2,000 hot hatches and today we're going to modify them will bought me this stolen Honda Civic Type R and Edwin bought me this crash damaged Focus ST we're each going to fix our broken cars and then we've got £500 to modify them and we'll also buy each other one secret mod so I need to replace my front Wing cuz it's dented so I bought an exhaust Instead This cost me half of my mod budget and it's going to make it so much louder so let's get the old one off do you know what I actually didn't get to work on mine that much I did like little tiny bits but I never got to get like underneath it and do stuff so this is cool well I'll say it's cool in about an hour I might be going this is the worst experience of my life how many standed St exhaust systems have been lost to the sands of time oh and they're act legit worthless I found a standard one for sale it was £20 and it was like listed 6 weeks ago I got to say your pipe control is incredible I know people that would pay for this sort of treatment hell he's absolutely slonking this old exhaust out it was time for the new one exhaust off fomoco fear of missing out company this is a 3-in exhaust system which is half an inch bigger than this and half an inch of 250 is not to be sniffed at I'd pay £250 for half an exra in I'm going to need a few of those £250 I might need a couple Grand but we also have look at that big ugly ass box in there that is just that is silencing me like an oppressive government this is democracy manifest aside this will sound better it's better quality and possibly a little bit extra performance cuz it's better flowing and stuff but it's for the noise really it's for the noise isn't it also really thoughtful that someone came in the night and stall your catalytic inverter and then they swapped it out with just a metal pipe oh curse you the police will be around oh I meant to say can I get an impression please bangang bangang bangang pull over your band for 42 days will found fitting the new exhaust rather tricky you are coming like it's an anaconda on your neck come on you there we go that's the exhaust fitted that is the new exhaust I've just noticed something will can you put that gasket up this is the equivalent of me putting a very tight rubber band around the middle of my penis is that bad it's not good so what can we do to remedy that you g okay but what can we do at halfast 4 the answer was not a lot right now so I got the exhaust in anyway and moved on to my next mod what is going on here you're meant to be filming and I meant to be doing exhaust fitting yeah yeah you are massaging my brakes the the spaff was to hand and you busy doing exhaust stuff so I thought I'll clean your calipers quickly cuz no one likes a diry caliper a at that point will was finished with the exhaust so he got his new lowering springs unboxed ready to install them so 150 quid of my budget has gone on some lowering springs we to First Skipper so we want to take one bolt out we want to take two bolts out we want to take five bolts out in total whizzer out compressor down new spring in stick it back in do the other three sit lower be cooler what there nothing don't worry that wasn't useful it's better it is [Music] better bar as I'm aware don't take my word for it but take my word for it I think this is just for noise anyway so if you take this off you're just going to get more noise nvh and what does that sound for will that stands for not vehicular Henry it stands for noise vibrations and harshness correct this is exactly what I want yeah I want all of those things you could clean that excellent a come on can we take my Springs out yet H not yet hold on tell me this isn't coming up nicely yeah but my car's no lower that is a very long spring and I'm about to replace it with one that's shorter lower better and better scare time Springs are coming off look at that goodbye m ah a sh I my pants my heart can't take that so before we carry on modifying these horrible cars this is a quick reminder that if you're buying a used car you should always run a car vertical check just like we did with these two every single day hundreds of cars just like this one get crashed written off or stolen and some of them get put back on the road in an attempt to hide that dodgy history with a car verore report though you can find out that shady past all you have to do is enter your or your red number and car vertical will tell you if that car has been crashed clocked or stolen now this is my Civic the will bought me for this Challenge and thankfully we were looking for crash damaged cars so when you put the VIN in it comes back as damaged early in 2006 this car was written off for structural damage but a car vertical report is what told us this and gave us peace of mind and if you look at this pjo 308 it's got green ticks from mileage and finance but it also has a yellow tick for damage and if we look at the photos look at that the wheel and the entire strut has come off so that had a massive impact it's probably bent the chassis it is going to be a nightmare to repair so if you see this car up for sale looking absolutely Prine with a car vertical report you can find out this shady past so the next time that you're buying stolen Civic uh crashed Focus ST or anything in between make sure that you're on a car vertical report to make sure the price you pay for it matches its history and as a little added bonus car vertical have offered you guys 20% off when you use code TDC your Top Mountain was full of ants whatever that was I didn't look good for those bull bearings why are there bull bearings in my suspension it wasn't supposed to go down like this honestly we didn't see it coming they just came flying out of there after realizing that I would in fact need new bearing thingies for the suspension I was at a dead end so Edwin abandoned me and put his100 worth of detailing products to good use you can now tell now that it's clean that there's about 70 different shades of badly hand painted color on this car it's not about the dog it's about the owner there's no such thing as a bad dog it's just a bad owner even if this car fails itot and it dies for the last two weeks of its life it gets to live nice and happy and clean before this dog gets put down it can go for one last run so it's the next morning I've been and collected my parts and no longer got ball bearings everywhere so I can finally put the Springs back in and Edwin is still cleaning this morning listen leave me be in my happy place okay also where has the leather sofa come from you've taken the stool and I need to sit and do this so it's only fair see as you stole it from my house that I get to use it I know this is done but just the little things just got to make this thing a little bit nicer first so you have an engine light or your suspension is knacked or your brakes are knacked and so far you've cleaned the car and you're now polishing the exhaust and I do it again oh it's not perfect that's better the can of Japan lives again meanwhile will was trying to make actual mechanical progress by getting the lowering springs in but that wasn't going particularly well I I actually hate Maring cars I hate it I'm just having lots of fun polishing my car just making progress I'm just happy yeah but your car's still broken yeah but don't don't you feel the same thing about this car yeah no love it I love that I have to line this up like some kind of Chinese puzzle that doesn't have an answer how many arms has a human got answer me that in the comments and then come back to me and show me how I can have three to do this job and carves the size of a ox to stay on my knees I'm actually getting B of watching this now yeah I'm at bll height you have not got it in the right orientation maths all of those bolts this car can I have it then yeah sold wow that's how you know it's getting bad cuz will wants this car now he's decided he wants this car off the series not anymore it can go and its own can't bleep that's all got to be bleeped I wish you could have heard what he said all right I'm going to say it's like it's whoa whoa whoa okay it's this it's this it's like that no it's like that that also makes more sense surely you want more support on this side which is close to where the pressure is going against it's that way around I promise you let's not argue we're all hot hatch owners here right that's one bolt in which I've had before there's two bolts in here sort about this big third bolt ni just threading in quite nicely that's quite nice isn't it CRA we need to do another video where you s me back the Cleo and teach me how to do caret with my front suspension finally in Edwin got his Civic up in the air ready for some visual mods all of our tires are a little bit dodgy we don't want to be doing a trip and perhaps a track day on them so we're going to get all of our tires changed Tire streets are very kindly send us out some tires so I'm going to get my wheels off wheels wheels are already off going to take them to the tire shop got some nice fresh new tires meanwhile I'm getting these in they're red and they will be much lower better as you can see that's what a normal Tire looks like and this is just bold so off I went to the tire shop but when I got back will had some questions about my wheels fresh new tires and different Wheels huh I'm assuming that's in your budget that's what I spent the majority of my budget on I bought for £300 a set of Mitsubishi Evo Wheels some incredible man in the early 2000s worked out that Evo 789 wheels go perfectly on an EP 3 Civic they're not the nicest condition they've got some kbash and they've got all kinds of chipping from paint and stuff but they'll do for me 300 quid we thought we were going to stick the cars on an even playing field because perhaps next next episode they might be going up against each other TI Street 2K very kindly sent us out some acceler 651s if you need tires in the UK grab yourself some and better yet Tire streets offering you 10% off if you use our code TDC before getting the wheels on though I needed to replace the ep3 brakes and meanwhile will was making very very slow progress on the St all this time I have been on these and am I any closer there's a spring down there that's not where it's meant to be none of these bolts move so what am I to do Edwin I'm giving up I got front Springs so I've got that rake needed for a front wheeel drive automobile but there is one more problem I can't do up my rear anti- roll bar why cuz everything's rounded and rusted this one is not that bad I might be able to do this but that one is rounder than a tit while will dealt with that I carried on with my brakes which also weren't going well here we go just got to run up and sneak up on it ready we go one more time one more time no that's gone drill time while I'm doing this would you like to pan over to Will's car progress ah Will's not very happy boy right now he chose this life he chose to be excited about m meanwhile Civic out here stilling what it wants it's being easy on me please be easy it's not being [Music] easy I just love brake flu on my hands it's one of my favorite things it makes me really happy almost so happy that it could be confused with anger and as always a huge thank you to febie Bill Steen for sending us all of these OE matching Quality Parts to improve our cars back to proper Road worthiness uh this Civic was not long for this world but now it might have a fighting ch hit the link in the description if you want to pick up any OE matching quality parts for your car look at this guy hacking into the main frame on the I'm logging into the anti- rollar right now we've gained access to Cs on the rear strut with that side done I noticed something about the new brake calipers on the febbi caliper they've actually got it s it stamped St for Wheels car you seen that will who made 180 horsepower and who made 250 horsepower Hey listen who's got Brakes in trying to take my old Springs out and put lowering springs in I removed some stuff and bugged some things up now I can't get the Springs out so I'm going to keep the standard ones and I've just had to run out and get some new anti-roll bar droplink thingies so I'm no further than I was perhaps what feels like 3 days ago I was though because the new brakes were done so I got the new Wheels fitted by that point I was done dealing with the rear springs so I turned to something easier I'm going to service the St even though this is the better of the two cars still do basic maintenance as you can see this is oil and while will was busy with that I got my new O2 sensor in hoping that it would get rid of the typar check engine light if it works it works if it doesn't oh well I tried my best oh can I have the penetrant please someone it's just there that's that's oil that I mean it might work but it's not for me today thanks oh penetrant just the penet oh sorry the penetrant cool you back oh we got it with the old sensor out and the new one in it wasn't hard to see why my engine warning light had been on it's actually a two-piece O2 sensor that's going in the bin right I can finally put my back box on I was missing something before I was missing a clamp which we now have thanks to Adam Evolution auto works thank you very much for that at very short notice just Smash It Off the bumper a couple times do you need a hand will nah wouldn't have thought so this is the mod I'm most excited about but then I ran into another problem so I'm missing another bit for my exhaust another one this is what happens when you buy things used basically the back of my exhaust isn't really attached buy things startup I'm B with this oh now that is perfect now with Focus sding not too loud just right that's genuine excitement from this manap all this suspension and other stuff look at that look at the size of those the next thing I'm doing which is completely necessary and fixes all of the issues with this car is polish my headlights because they're annoying me look how faded and nasty these are so I'm going to get a drill on this guy see if we can polish him up a bit and for that we've got this has just come in look at this TDC tape how cool is this if you're covering a crevice grab yourself in the shop some TDC tape while Edwin does that I've got this new Wing to fit I was worried I was going to have to buy an unpainted Wing or a red one or something horrible but this means my car will be the correct color and I can open my door and not like I've just run down some pedestrians I'm going to replace the wing but I'm not going to replace the bumper it may have a dent there but everything else is fine all the fog lights work the grills are there the number plates there so I'm only going to replace this plus I save a little bit of money [Music] before I reveal it uh it's better but unfortunately I used an old headlight restoration kit it had some contaminated pads so while the overall thing's better there's just lots of things all over it that I can't get out but I mean before and after that to that it's a little bit better I'm not happy I'm really angry I'm really annoyed that wasn't on there and now it's on there there we go all the bits in here all look intact and more importantly the chassis does as well need to clear up some stuff down there get me new one on [Music] look at that just been doing a little bit of alignment work and look oh we got a door that opens more than where it was before it is a slightly different color but I'm pleased I haven't had to got like one painted one or a red wing or something got one final mod cuz I went and bought a facelift Civic tyar bumper but my budget meant that I could only stretch to a very bad one so it's completely held in with zip ties uh it's really badly painted and I've just come to take the bumper off here and seen that this car is already doing its best impression of that one because it's just held in with a zip tie here I mean this is a quick release bumper if ever I've seen one the faft bump has a bit angrier of the front end it looks a bit cooler that looks cool yeah what goes there tough to say officer new bumper firmly held on with the original Honda clips and fasteners I dropped my car down to see how the Civic looked with its new wheels and tires come on bit lower bit more ooh that's good that's better than I was expecting that s B old ep3 starting to look good I was super happy with how the fitment had come out so I pulled the Civic outside to see its final form in all of its Glory look at that that awful looking Civic from the last episode how clean it looks you are forgetting one thing we both said we'd buy each other a mod okay and your steering wheels looking Tatty I thought that you just can't let that run you like steering wheels yeah one in your beat is pretty wild I don't like this where's this going where and we agreed as well that we have to put on whatever the mod is I imagine racing down the road with this on that's actually really pissed me off I've spent the last two days trying to make this car nice and presentable and this was over100 you spent $100 on that that's how much I love you right well I don't feel bad about my gift now I know you could only afford to replace your wing so you've got a nice proper Wing now and the last thing that's left that kind of signifies that this car's crashed is the bum bumper so I've bought you with my gift a brand new bumper you bought me a bumper I've bought you a new bumper oh man I feel awful no it's a bumper this is this one look it doesn't have any damage you've got a brand new bumper mate there's two different Blues isn't there I think I got the wrong blue I got the other blue didn't I electric orange and performance blue they kind of yeah no one will ever be able to tell this car's being in a crash good luck I actually have to fit this now sake right now despite my bumper which I am really really annoyed about I am overall pleased with how this car has come out I've got a working headlight which is from the previous episode an orange bumper but I've got a new Wing which means I can open my door some of my old tires were looking pretty rough so they're all sorted some new accelera 65 ones on there so they are ready for some track action now my Springs I'm also annoyed about I've got lowering springs on the front it's very very low at the front and normal ones at the back so I've got rake £250 went on an exhaust but it's great lovely oh man this is so good also this is the exact same exhaust I had on my one like 9 years ago or whatever it was apart from my heart steering wheel I'm really happy with what I've done with this Civic it was on the brink of being too far gone I think this has been saved quick polish nice new Evo Wheels and this thing it looks smart the front bumper looks a little bit sketchy I'll I'll give you that but it was all I could do now one other thing that you didn't see that didn't arrive in time annoyingly is that I used the last of my budget to buy the biggest induction kit I could physically find and it sounds crazy the VTEC [Music] now that is ridiculous I got to check if it's still a Honda the only thing left to do was Drive each other's cars for the first time since we bought them that is an odd feeling the front is very hard but the rear feels very soft it also looks ridiculous on the road it is tilted it looks like a old Hot Wheels dragster going forward right then new big air filter [Music] whoa I'm going to have to get one more of [Music] those this is fast not going to tell him that going to tell him it's slow and it feels like it's about to blow up but damn it this car's quite quick oh my God this steering wheel is awful I do feel quite bad my bumper is bad but I can't see it when I'm in it this or in Heavens I do also feel quite bad I know Will loves this car and I think he really will buy this after we're done with it so I feel a bit bad having made him put the orange front bumper on it but because he gave me that steering wheel I I don't I just don't feel bad at all he deserves every bit of it a I feel bad for the steering wheel now he spent so much time polishing this finding the right Wheels what's the fitment like are they going to look good getting the tires on there new brakes and then I come along with this B basically ruin everything now he looks like he's just started his only fans and he's got his first paycheck it sounds so much better and St is one of those cars that you cannot have a standard exhaust [Music] on what an absolute yob car I love it Ed's doing little pops and bangs in my car look at my tail pipes click here if you want to watch the first episode where we bought these terrible cars for each other

Channel: Top Dead Center

Views: 285,169

Keywords: topdeadcenter, car throttle, overdrive, automotive, cars, automobiles, autoalex, cheap car, cheap cars, cheap hot hatches, hot hatch, civic type r, focus st mk2, TDC

Id: bCGC7jBmriE

Length: 21min 58sec (1318 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 15 2024