The Team's Latest Project: A Comprehensive Overhaul of a Engine

The team had been working tirelessly to complete a comprehensive overhaul of an engine, which they had acquired just a few hours prior. The project involved cleaning and painting every part of the engine, including the valve covers, replacing the water pump and tensioner, rebuilding the VVTI gear, and installing new cam seals. Alberto was in charge of painting the valve covers, using a special paint that was flame-resistant to ensure durability.

As the team worked on the project, they encountered some setbacks, such as the incorrect installation of a shifter bushing. Despite this, they were determined to get the job done and continued working diligently throughout the night. The team's leader, Trevor, mentioned that they had initially planned to call it quits by 2 a.m., but due to their progress, they decided to push on until completion.

The engine was nearing its final stages, with only a few remaining gaskets left to install before it was considered complete. The team had also received a shipment of new parts the following day, which would further enhance their efforts. As the night wore on, the team's excitement and motivation grew, fueled by their enthusiasm for the project.

Nicole, who had stopped by to check on the progress, was impressed with the engine's appearance and couldn't believe how much work had gone into restoring it to its former glory. The team took pride in their handiwork, carefully polishing every surface to ensure a flawless finish. Alberto's paint job was particularly noteworthy, with the gloss black finish looking stunning against the engine's metal components.

The team had worked diligently for over 12 hours, and despite some minor setbacks, they had made significant progress on the project. As the night drew to a close, Trevor reflected on their achievements, acknowledging that they had exceeded their initial expectations. With the engine nearly complete, the team was eager to move forward with installing it in the car and making further adjustments as needed.

The next day would bring new challenges and opportunities for the team to work together and continue making progress on their project. With a full day ahead of them, they were confident that they could overcome any obstacles and produce an exceptional result. As Trevor stated, "Tomorrow we actually have a full day, so we'll be able to get quite a bit done." The team was looking forward to the challenges ahead, knowing that their combined efforts would ultimately lead to a successful outcome.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe're going to pick up the 1j today and right now we're putting together a little tool bag of stuff to bring to the JDM Engine place cuz we're going to have to swap around a little bits of stuff and we don't have to be asking for tools if we bring our own so should be solid This Is Us going to Dunkin Donuts knowing that they are going to mess up our order and I'm just putting this clip out there because every time after I film like oh I knew they were going to mess up my order but now you know I'm real cuz we're literally pulling up and I'm telling you guys that they are going to mess up our order Nicole's coffee is going to taste like urine and it's it's just how it always goes they didn't going make something my order what are you going to give them the Big Boost he's so cute all in all they did okay this time our coffees don't taste like urine um but that might be because I ordered Nicole's for her instead of she ordering it like that's kind of when she gets bad luck that's true although they forgot Jamie's cheese so poor Jamie Alberto how you doing he's a very easy man to please where did Alberto sit wonder that makes it worse dang dude so disrespectful thanks guys a half hour drive has turned into an hour and a half and it's entirely my fault because I pulled up the wrong address 500 ft the destination is on your right oh look at all the JDM oh last time we're going to need like a frequent engine loyalty card from this place shout out to the homies at JDM Orlando always set us up with the engines look at that dude that thing is nice looking it's a Skyline right this green is so cool entering the abyss they have three different vvti 1js here one of them we compression tested well actually they compression tested for us and one cylinder was low so we can't use that one but we're going to have to pull the throttle body off that because it's non-electric throttle body and there's two left one also didn't have the greatest compression so we're down to one and we got to keep our fingers crossed Nicole that it has good compression or we're screwed yo if it doesn't then what happens then we don't have a good motor actually like theoretically theoretically if none of them here have good compression there's one other place that has like two yeah vvti ones it's just they might not let us swap everything so we might have to pay full price for the engine and trany there what do you think of this place Nicole that it's your first time here did you see yourself living in a place like this it's very dark I could see like villains living here in Disney movies getting nervous on this one oh boy that's good yeah the first two are good y we're good good we got a good one we got one we got a keeper all right so what do we do about coil packs though cuz this one doesn't have coil packs take out of that one okay hopefully they're good we're able to get the non electric Auto Body on the one day that we're taking it fit and bolt it up perfectly so we shouldn't have any issues cuz I guess they're like a pain to wire up you like need a sandone I guess if you have ET cs plus look at my cute little shoes there's a baby in there yeah we were singing I came in like a wrecking ball because we picked the engine up it just started swinging back and for and stuff this is your manual transmission r154 this is what's going in the mini no AKA way too expensive for old crappy transmission that's going to break so we're putting the automatic transmission back on the non vvti 1j that we sto off of the R14 manual was on this one even though it was out of like a x110 so someone probably just swapped the inine pan and uh we got there swapped TR they made it back with the engine they stopped and grab some paint and other various accessories we're going to start getting to work it's late all the errands took a lot longer than expected so it's like what 9:00 p.m. right now okay 8:00 p.m. but we're basically starting everything at 8:00 p.m. and the goal is to get the engine fully refreshed get the bay clean and ready to do the swap and then maybe put it in today but probably tomorrow since we don't have the mounts yet got him hey boy we got your do getting in Alberto lift Motors the claws very very dirty do a work thank you for filming showman cuz this is one of those nights where we're going to be like so hectic and R I know I'm sitting here cleaning and filming like always got it out got with the nicer wi special it must look like there's some sort of party going on here we've been pulling a lot of random stuff off of the long block we're getting to the point now where we'll be able to pull it outside power wash it so we can get ready to paint it I think we're just going to paint the most most of the block black other than like the intake manifold stop it I'm trying to film The Other Side stop spinning it there you go yeah so anyway in case you don't remember we're trying to keep this swap as simple as possible so stock Turbo stock manifold that leaves room in the future to upgrade the turbo and gain more power but for now we just want a simple quick swap our goal tonight is to basically do the main refresh of the engine paint it have it cleaned up so tomorrow we're ready to drop it in and then in theory we'll be a day ahead of schedule cuz tomorrow I think we should easily be able to knock everything out half of the day today we just SP driving around this just Heats it up so the paint sticks better rather than using a cold surface you know probably doing this on metal though so I don't like the skate light on fire intake manifold came out so pretty with just a nice little bit of silver paint the best thing is though when the silver paint chips it's just silver underneath so you can't even really see I thought my pizza was supposed to be that small one uhoh did they make a big one Pizza where's my pizza oh no box dude that's a thick Pizza where you got to get your cloths I got JDM Pizza Parts bro I want to see what this Bianca looks like the drinks are in Al White oh that smells good white craziest thing ever last afternoon I ordered a custom wiring harness because I knew that the one at the JDM place was going to be like chopped up it would be a mess to work with so I ordered one from wiring Specialties and they were able to get it made ship it out and get it to us the next morning a complete engine wiring harness how crazy is that I mean given they do have them pre-made so all I have to do is add the connectors but this is going to make the whole process so much easier and nicer I like this they have the igniter inside their car so it's out of the way and they realize too there less offu in the engine it'll just be Plug and Play right into the stock ECU mask it a big boost over there and I'm just paint prepping these things to paint those just a gloss black this is crazy what's going on right now at 1:00 a.m. I just want to add that like yeah we could probably do the swap way faster if we didn't like clean anything up but that's another type of people we are we're like almost perfectionists I don't want you to get right almost there I don't want you to get copyrighted oh with a song that's why I'm just speaking really loud because I don't want them to know that I'm thinking about you right now it's a dirty girl and we got Adam over here what is this Adam is this the gearbox this is not even close to the gearbox you know that I was just joking we just broke a fuse we broke break I mean we we tripped the breaker breaker Tri uh no breaker is tripped uhoh party they're using our personal toothbrushes to clean down there I think this one's Adam's this one's yours no oh that's why it's so dirty it's valved can I show the valve that's that's your throttle so that like adjust how much air we need but it's kind of like a valved exhaust kind of thing well with air I dry your hair with this no it's hot it's going to looks so good it looks so good damn that's right oops I'm I'm sorry I'm burto looks so good it's so beautiful so much better your ex W looks so good and then how happy are you pretty happy now the Chrome bolts are going to highlight with this too oh nice that looks so good wait still has some fuel in it let me pull it out I think it's around 1:30 a.m. uh I'm prepping the fuel rail so we can paint it gold we're trying to dry the block I think the goal now tonight is to get like valve covers off May valve cover gasket paint those just we like get to a nice pretty finished product so we're not just like leaving in the middle of a step for video sake you know but tomorrow we'll have a whole day ahead of us since we won't really have to be running million errands like we did today checked it just came from the cabinet I save all the baggies now I do not sell drugs for get the baggies uh she's a little sludgy the Crusty ones are the good ones that's true she's fine nothing like a good old oil change won't fix right I wish we could clean like no scores on them they look good yeah all the cam journals look really really good we can't clean right cuz that would be bad no yeah oh scoring that it it hurts me just to know that we're leaving all this crap in there running rich for a few weeks we get taking off the timing belt and we're going to replace the rebuild the vti gear cam seals timing belt water pump tensioner pulley all that a would it be easier for us to pick it up with the crane so we can do it in the air no okay looks like these uh good cams have already been replaced and then even on like the the vvti gear looks like somebody already rebuilt that cuz has the paint on it and then they already did the timing belt cuz they had the timing marks marked on it already we're just going to go Ahad and replace it anyhow cuz we're already here we botom so and the going to do the water pump too that thing doesn't look up the place all me so we just got the all the timing stuff back on it new water pump new tensioner um cleaned up everything over here rebuilt the vvti gear and new cam seals all that stuff so it's all ready to go Alberto's painting the valve covers or finishing heating up the painting or baking the valve cover he didn't like my paint job yeah he didn't like it so he's like I'll just do it my D um you're going to put the shifter bushing in and I'm going to paint this bracket cool might as well put a new shifter bushing in while it's nice and easy stupid me got the wrong bushing so uh we're just going to throw a little bit of grease in there which should make it a little smoother it's super grimy in there it's like all rusty and stuff so Adam's oh sorry the garage exploded dude like I'm messy the garage is you get that yeah what time is it Trev it is where we at 3:47 a.m. damn and uh we should be calling it quit soon we're just trying to put it together so we got a nice looking engine to call a night on we just picked up this engine a few hours ago yeah when did we get it when did we get it back here like 4 three later than that five it was 6 yeah we didn't get home until like 6 6:30 okay yeah so we've had this thing in possession for less than 12 hours and it's almost ready to go it's almost completely overhauled already yeah really all we have left to do is about gasket and re seal and then all the important gaskets are done yeah if it was just rebuilding it it will be done like couple hours ago but literally the cleaning and painting and preparing all these parts what takes forever like we're going to make it look nice if we're going to go through the trouble of doing it you know yeah all right all this stuff's over here just kind of drying Alberto told me to uh when I'm tightening the intake manifold to start from the inside and work my way out I guess it's kind of like a sticker where like you don't want to get air bubbles so I mean I think I don't know TR me a mon I think that's good if you want to double check them real quick it looks pretty doesn't it that looks good the gloss black looks so good Nicole just came out cuz she was wondering what we were still doing you can come out come look at your engine Nicole come look at your engine what do you think oh my gosh do you remember what it used to why isn't this painted uh cuz we need a special paint that's like flame resistant oh this is so pretty so you like it I love it thank you guys yep you guys should send them a picture Deon what was his name Johan johanan oh I love Johan check out the alternat this is M this is my contribution for the night it's 4:34 a.m. which is a little bit later than we intended uh we did say tentacle that we'd be in bed around 2 a.m. but yeah okay so uh we pretty much got to our goal point of having the engine all pretty all put together with all the gaskets basically full refresh other than the remain seal so far um it looks great uh in terms of cleaning up I can't really think of anything else to do other than maybe polish the oh you're hiding it you're hiding it I was like where's the alternator yeah oh didn't it didn't look good for the picture so oh keep so considerate but anyway Alberto killed it with the paint I'm not going to lie I'm like a 12-year-old with a spray can I can't do anything I'm so hyped on how hyped you guys are on this massive thank you to Trevor again for coming down like Trevor Big Boost Matt shman was here for a while navo was here for a while helping it made us get so much done faster tomorrow we actually have a full day so we'll be able to get quite a bit done hopefully drop it in the in the car uh maybe you start I don't know we'll see we have Parts too we have like I don't know I'm going to say almost everything dve shaft but that's on this way yeah that should be here tomorrow morning so we're looking good it's looking solid but uh as you guys know stuff happens with cars thank you so much I'm glad you guys are hyped about this keep the hype going cuz it's giving us motivation to stay up and get this stuff done thank you guys so much uh we'll see you tomorrow hopefully with more progress when when you when you say that you love me that you me you when you say when you saywe're going to pick up the 1j today and right now we're putting together a little tool bag of stuff to bring to the JDM Engine place cuz we're going to have to swap around a little bits of stuff and we don't have to be asking for tools if we bring our own so should be solid This Is Us going to Dunkin Donuts knowing that they are going to mess up our order and I'm just putting this clip out there because every time after I film like oh I knew they were going to mess up my order but now you know I'm real cuz we're literally pulling up and I'm telling you guys that they are going to mess up our order Nicole's coffee is going to taste like urine and it's it's just how it always goes they didn't going make something my order what are you going to give them the Big Boost he's so cute all in all they did okay this time our coffees don't taste like urine um but that might be because I ordered Nicole's for her instead of she ordering it like that's kind of when she gets bad luck that's true although they forgot Jamie's cheese so poor Jamie Alberto how you doing he's a very easy man to please where did Alberto sit wonder that makes it worse dang dude so disrespectful thanks guys a half hour drive has turned into an hour and a half and it's entirely my fault because I pulled up the wrong address 500 ft the destination is on your right oh look at all the JDM oh last time we're going to need like a frequent engine loyalty card from this place shout out to the homies at JDM Orlando always set us up with the engines look at that dude that thing is nice looking it's a Skyline right this green is so cool entering the abyss they have three different vvti 1js here one of them we compression tested well actually they compression tested for us and one cylinder was low so we can't use that one but we're going to have to pull the throttle body off that because it's non-electric throttle body and there's two left one also didn't have the greatest compression so we're down to one and we got to keep our fingers crossed Nicole that it has good compression or we're screwed yo if it doesn't then what happens then we don't have a good motor actually like theoretically theoretically if none of them here have good compression there's one other place that has like two yeah vvti ones it's just they might not let us swap everything so we might have to pay full price for the engine and trany there what do you think of this place Nicole that it's your first time here did you see yourself living in a place like this it's very dark I could see like villains living here in Disney movies getting nervous on this one oh boy that's good yeah the first two are good y we're good good we got a good one we got one we got a keeper all right so what do we do about coil packs though cuz this one doesn't have coil packs take out of that one okay hopefully they're good we're able to get the non electric Auto Body on the one day that we're taking it fit and bolt it up perfectly so we shouldn't have any issues cuz I guess they're like a pain to wire up you like need a sandone I guess if you have ET cs plus look at my cute little shoes there's a baby in there yeah we were singing I came in like a wrecking ball because we picked the engine up it just started swinging back and for and stuff this is your manual transmission r154 this is what's going in the mini no AKA way too expensive for old crappy transmission that's going to break so we're putting the automatic transmission back on the non vvti 1j that we sto off of the R14 manual was on this one even though it was out of like a x110 so someone probably just swapped the inine pan and uh we got there swapped TR they made it back with the engine they stopped and grab some paint and other various accessories we're going to start getting to work it's late all the errands took a lot longer than expected so it's like what 9:00 p.m. right now okay 8:00 p.m. but we're basically starting everything at 8:00 p.m. and the goal is to get the engine fully refreshed get the bay clean and ready to do the swap and then maybe put it in today but probably tomorrow since we don't have the mounts yet got him hey boy we got your do getting in Alberto lift Motors the claws very very dirty do a work thank you for filming showman cuz this is one of those nights where we're going to be like so hectic and R I know I'm sitting here cleaning and filming like always got it out got with the nicer wi special it must look like there's some sort of party going on here we've been pulling a lot of random stuff off of the long block we're getting to the point now where we'll be able to pull it outside power wash it so we can get ready to paint it I think we're just going to paint the most most of the block black other than like the intake manifold stop it I'm trying to film The Other Side stop spinning it there you go yeah so anyway in case you don't remember we're trying to keep this swap as simple as possible so stock Turbo stock manifold that leaves room in the future to upgrade the turbo and gain more power but for now we just want a simple quick swap our goal tonight is to basically do the main refresh of the engine paint it have it cleaned up so tomorrow we're ready to drop it in and then in theory we'll be a day ahead of schedule cuz tomorrow I think we should easily be able to knock everything out half of the day today we just SP driving around this just Heats it up so the paint sticks better rather than using a cold surface you know probably doing this on metal though so I don't like the skate light on fire intake manifold came out so pretty with just a nice little bit of silver paint the best thing is though when the silver paint chips it's just silver underneath so you can't even really see I thought my pizza was supposed to be that small one uhoh did they make a big one Pizza where's my pizza oh no box dude that's a thick Pizza where you got to get your cloths I got JDM Pizza Parts bro I want to see what this Bianca looks like the drinks are in Al White oh that smells good white craziest thing ever last afternoon I ordered a custom wiring harness because I knew that the one at the JDM place was going to be like chopped up it would be a mess to work with so I ordered one from wiring Specialties and they were able to get it made ship it out and get it to us the next morning a complete engine wiring harness how crazy is that I mean given they do have them pre-made so all I have to do is add the connectors but this is going to make the whole process so much easier and nicer I like this they have the igniter inside their car so it's out of the way and they realize too there less offu in the engine it'll just be Plug and Play right into the stock ECU mask it a big boost over there and I'm just paint prepping these things to paint those just a gloss black this is crazy what's going on right now at 1:00 a.m. I just want to add that like yeah we could probably do the swap way faster if we didn't like clean anything up but that's another type of people we are we're like almost perfectionists I don't want you to get right almost there I don't want you to get copyrighted oh with a song that's why I'm just speaking really loud because I don't want them to know that I'm thinking about you right now it's a dirty girl and we got Adam over here what is this Adam is this the gearbox this is not even close to the gearbox you know that I was just joking we just broke a fuse we broke break I mean we we tripped the breaker breaker Tri uh no breaker is tripped uhoh party they're using our personal toothbrushes to clean down there I think this one's Adam's this one's yours no oh that's why it's so dirty it's valved can I show the valve that's that's your throttle so that like adjust how much air we need but it's kind of like a valved exhaust kind of thing well with air I dry your hair with this no it's hot it's going to looks so good it looks so good damn that's right oops I'm I'm sorry I'm burto looks so good it's so beautiful so much better your ex W looks so good and then how happy are you pretty happy now the Chrome bolts are going to highlight with this too oh nice that looks so good wait still has some fuel in it let me pull it out I think it's around 1:30 a.m. uh I'm prepping the fuel rail so we can paint it gold we're trying to dry the block I think the goal now tonight is to get like valve covers off May valve cover gasket paint those just we like get to a nice pretty finished product so we're not just like leaving in the middle of a step for video sake you know but tomorrow we'll have a whole day ahead of us since we won't really have to be running million errands like we did today checked it just came from the cabinet I save all the baggies now I do not sell drugs for get the baggies uh she's a little sludgy the Crusty ones are the good ones that's true she's fine nothing like a good old oil change won't fix right I wish we could clean like no scores on them they look good yeah all the cam journals look really really good we can't clean right cuz that would be bad no yeah oh scoring that it it hurts me just to know that we're leaving all this crap in there running rich for a few weeks we get taking off the timing belt and we're going to replace the rebuild the vti gear cam seals timing belt water pump tensioner pulley all that a would it be easier for us to pick it up with the crane so we can do it in the air no okay looks like these uh good cams have already been replaced and then even on like the the vvti gear looks like somebody already rebuilt that cuz has the paint on it and then they already did the timing belt cuz they had the timing marks marked on it already we're just going to go Ahad and replace it anyhow cuz we're already here we botom so and the going to do the water pump too that thing doesn't look up the place all me so we just got the all the timing stuff back on it new water pump new tensioner um cleaned up everything over here rebuilt the vvti gear and new cam seals all that stuff so it's all ready to go Alberto's painting the valve covers or finishing heating up the painting or baking the valve cover he didn't like my paint job yeah he didn't like it so he's like I'll just do it my D um you're going to put the shifter bushing in and I'm going to paint this bracket cool might as well put a new shifter bushing in while it's nice and easy stupid me got the wrong bushing so uh we're just going to throw a little bit of grease in there which should make it a little smoother it's super grimy in there it's like all rusty and stuff so Adam's oh sorry the garage exploded dude like I'm messy the garage is you get that yeah what time is it Trev it is where we at 3:47 a.m. damn and uh we should be calling it quit soon we're just trying to put it together so we got a nice looking engine to call a night on we just picked up this engine a few hours ago yeah when did we get it when did we get it back here like 4 three later than that five it was 6 yeah we didn't get home until like 6 6:30 okay yeah so we've had this thing in possession for less than 12 hours and it's almost ready to go it's almost completely overhauled already yeah really all we have left to do is about gasket and re seal and then all the important gaskets are done yeah if it was just rebuilding it it will be done like couple hours ago but literally the cleaning and painting and preparing all these parts what takes forever like we're going to make it look nice if we're going to go through the trouble of doing it you know yeah all right all this stuff's over here just kind of drying Alberto told me to uh when I'm tightening the intake manifold to start from the inside and work my way out I guess it's kind of like a sticker where like you don't want to get air bubbles so I mean I think I don't know TR me a mon I think that's good if you want to double check them real quick it looks pretty doesn't it that looks good the gloss black looks so good Nicole just came out cuz she was wondering what we were still doing you can come out come look at your engine Nicole come look at your engine what do you think oh my gosh do you remember what it used to why isn't this painted uh cuz we need a special paint that's like flame resistant oh this is so pretty so you like it I love it thank you guys yep you guys should send them a picture Deon what was his name Johan johanan oh I love Johan check out the alternat this is M this is my contribution for the night it's 4:34 a.m. which is a little bit later than we intended uh we did say tentacle that we'd be in bed around 2 a.m. but yeah okay so uh we pretty much got to our goal point of having the engine all pretty all put together with all the gaskets basically full refresh other than the remain seal so far um it looks great uh in terms of cleaning up I can't really think of anything else to do other than maybe polish the oh you're hiding it you're hiding it I was like where's the alternator yeah oh didn't it didn't look good for the picture so oh keep so considerate but anyway Alberto killed it with the paint I'm not going to lie I'm like a 12-year-old with a spray can I can't do anything I'm so hyped on how hyped you guys are on this massive thank you to Trevor again for coming down like Trevor Big Boost Matt shman was here for a while navo was here for a while helping it made us get so much done faster tomorrow we actually have a full day so we'll be able to get quite a bit done hopefully drop it in the in the car uh maybe you start I don't know we'll see we have Parts too we have like I don't know I'm going to say almost everything dve shaft but that's on this way yeah that should be here tomorrow morning so we're looking good it's looking solid but uh as you guys know stuff happens with cars thank you so much I'm glad you guys are hyped about this keep the hype going cuz it's giving us motivation to stay up and get this stuff done thank you guys so much uh we'll see you tomorrow hopefully with more progress when when you when you say that you love me that you me you when you say when you say\n"