**The Car Update: A Behind-the-Scenes Look**

As I sit down to write this article, I'm excited to share with you the latest updates on my car's transformation. It's been a while since I've posted about the project, and there's been a lot of progress made recently.

Firstly, I want to thank Alberto for taking care of the car while I was busy with finals and other commitments. He's been doing an amazing job, and I'm grateful to have him on board. One of the things he's been working on is the motor itself. As you can see in the video, it's been pulled apart, and we're currently replacing the cylinder head. Alberto mentions that this metal piece wore out quickly, suggesting that there might be a rubber component that needs to be replaced.

The motor update is just one part of the many projects we're working on simultaneously. We've also got a big turbocharger for the GTX 2863 engine, which will increase power output significantly. Another exciting addition is the new injector setup, which will enhance fuel efficiency and performance. The hydro system has been installed, along with dual Z32 rears that Alberto mentions are custom fabricated.

Speaking of Alberto, he's been busy welding a custom-braked e-brake for the car. This feature is going to be a game-changer for the ride, and I'm excited to see how it turns out. The CTSV four-piston calipers are another highlight, as they're huge and will provide excellent stopping power.

**Formula Drift Atlanta**

Alberto's also been preparing for Formula Drift Atlanta by getting the car ready to go. This means that we've got a wideband gauge, a boost controller, and a boost gauge installed in the car. These features are crucial for optimizing engine performance and ensuring safe competition.

As I'm writing this, Alberto warns me about the loud welding noise coming from his workshop. He jokes that it's going to be the loudest welding he's ever heard, but I can imagine it's still going to be an impressive sound. Meanwhile, Roberto has given me a personalized touch by customizing my Isis manifold with the lettering.

**Rebuilding the Transmission**

Alberto mentions that rebuilding the transmission is actually harder than working on the motor itself. This task requires great care and attention to detail, as any mistakes can lead to costly repairs or even render the car unusable. I'm impressed by Alberto's skill level and confidence in his work.

As we near the end of our project, I want to express my gratitude to everyone involved – from Alberto for taking on this massive task to Nicole for bringing me a special birthday gift (a new set of Z32 rears). The end result is going to be worth all the hard work and dedication that's gone into it.

**The Future Plans**

With everything in place, we're now ready to take my car to Dino Tuning on Monday to get it tuned up. The goal is to reach 300 horsepower, which I'm excited about. With cookie headlights installed on my S13, the car is starting to look almost new again.

As for me, I have an exam tomorrow, but don't worry – the car's in good hands with Alberto. He'll be finishing off any remaining work and getting everything ready for us to take it into tune soon.

**The Progress So Far**

In recent weeks, we've made significant progress on various fronts. The rack was cleaned up and pulled apart, allowing us to start working on other components like the caliper and rotor. We had a hard time getting this loose, but with patience and persistence, Alberto finally managed to get it out.

Next, Alberto installed stainless steel brake lines, which will provide better pedal feedback and durability. He struggled to find the perfect fit for the new line, but eventually got it right after four attempts. The stainless brake line installation is one of those features that'll make a big difference in the car's overall performance.

To finish off this section, I want to show you guys how Alberto cleaned up the new Z32 rears that Nicole gifted me for my birthday. They look fantastic and will match perfectly with the freshly rebuilt ones.

Finally, it's time to leave the shop for now, but not before mentioning one last detail – a genuine Isis manifold that Roberto gave me as a personalized touch. It's going to be installed soon, and I'm excited about how it'll turn out.

The car is coming along well, and with Alberto at the helm, I have no doubt that we'll get everything done on time. Bring on Monday!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI didn't film it but I dropped the oil pan on the car and there was no luck finding the shim we are resorting to bringing it to a friend's shop and he is going to pull the head and hopefully the shim will be in there we're using maros trailer very well built well-kept uh super nice trailer T I've literally towed of my own like 10 cars with this trailer all of your cars I think I've used it more than he has in the past year oh in the past year yeah 1 2 3 go go go go go yeah all right real MVP yo CTSV caliper is about to get dropped off Noe no yeah I'm no dude he's got them I seen the tracking it's the bumps a this a rare sighting of my roommate Lindsay you guys have never seen her but she does exist yep that's about all this why I didn't want you to get hot boy Wheels cuz then I have to be careful with them Adam's never been in the van and oh my God we got bean bags dude it's gutted it's more gutted than my race car you should probably move those this is sick oh that's a good setup right there damn there's a 240 over there where right there there there's a 240 over there I got the to Florida for being pretty sometimes we're rolling up to Alberto shop right now it's actually called Kaizen performance I didn't know the name of it what anything else you want to add Adam oh take it off take it off bro so pretty this is Kelsey's FD car hey look presents I can't I can't wait to hold it and take a selfie next to it wait can we can we take a picture has like a family photo yes we please like can you hold the turbo like a baby um definitely okay cool you have mirrors Adam use your mirrors it was hilarious this is AB don't do that to it I don't want to curve the wheels my brand new amazing wheels don't curve them bro I can't get in here Adam so she said wait actually other way around this a really pretty 240 trailer Greg go just take it easy go that laugh that wasn't that bad what is this stop it Dad look how romantic that looks with the sky oh you got it was you to I was filming you two there's nothing there now I'm hard zoom in oh is this the hard Zoom I can see it I can see it getting taller towards me that's what she said yeah we're getting food at Texas Road house and I brought Felicia with me Fel Felicia that's why by Felicia it's not going to go by I do think I had a face mask wait did it open look it opens I didn't realize that there wasone got 8 O cute I got a GTX 283 kelse she's ordering he almost got a PE in my Turbo yeah see it's fun do it again really hard it's recording video over that looks so cool tell me about your car Kelsey got this big thing in it okay how many Rainbows are you at right now like 123 rainbows 12 13 rainbows smells like race gas we are leaving the 240 at the shop in the hands of wonderful Alberto we just watched lots of videos and chilled just took a quick stop by Alberto shop and look what we found sweaty and dirty Greg I feel like you're always in video that like we're not planning on you being in you're just always around I never call you you never call me we just always in the same place all right so I'm at kaisen performance with Alberto and he already has the motor out of the car so he found the shim yep it was somewhere around this area of of unknown territory you have to like wash it through to find it right yeah if you guys remember what it looked like before it's like insanely clean now but we also realized there's a lot of other broken stuff in the process right O2 like turbo Outlet so we got a nice little crack there there you guys can just take a word for it the manifolds crack too over here you can see this breaking around the well too yeah they can see it Alberto found a boo I should say it went through a hole uh it went through this hole to the battery and this metal just wore it out I think there's supposed to be a rubber piece here like there's on the other side so what is on the agenda for the motor now cuz I'm just trying to update them cuz I haven't made a video about the car in a while we still have to get the manifold mhm and wait for your new valve cover to the ride oh yeah he painted the valve cover it's going to be really pretty it's going to look so pretty my goodness look how bright that looks so while I had Alberto pulling the motor apart we're doing some other stuff too so quick list of everything bigger turbo GTX 2863 750cc injectors we're doing the hydro with the Dual z32 rears e yeah and he's welding like a custom fabricated e brake I got CTSV four piston calipers which I'm pumped on the are huge uh what else also disclaimer Alberta says the Shop's never this messy it's it's just been really hectic he's going to uh Formula Drift Atlanta so he's trying to get the car done before he leaves for me so this gauge is like a wideband and a boost controller and a boost gauge these are my z32 calipers I got Nicole actually got me another set for my birthday that I wasn't supposed to know about but I don't have them in yet that's where the motor used to be down she goes I'm just crazy busy with like finals and everything coming up and school's just been like super hectic so uh Alberto's been taking care of the car for me cuz I know if I was trying to do any of this stuff I'd probably mess it up and it would take forever apparently I should be like mid 300s powerwise with this it's what I hear the plan is to get everything together and then take the car to go get Dino tuned on Monday cookie headlights on s13 look so cool dear owner of this car I'm treating it very well I'm not driving it I'm just bringing it in the shop for Alberto we just finished cleaning up a new rack that I picked up and started pulling everything apart from this rack we had a hard time getting this loose this rack is the devil that's what I sound like when I puke I just pulled the caliper and the rotor off and now I'm going to do a stainless uh brake line install as I'm spewing brake fluid everywhere all right so I'm going to try to be somewhat educational I guess people switch to stainless brake lines so if there's debris flying it doesn't damage the lines but that's probably not the case for me so I think there's supposed to be better pedal feedback with stainless lines cuz they don't like Flex under pressure and look cool again this year the bottom I figured it out I figured it out so I got it in there I don't want to smash just got it all mounted up to see how it kind of sits got these rigged up what Snapchat calling is like the worst quality ever it only took me like four tries to get this right so the way that this is set up the brake line doesn't reach where it needs to go so what we're going to do do is take the one from the other side like this and switch it so the bleeders are on top of this one so then we'll have the banjo fitting coming out of the top instead of the bottom so he's measuring it now cuz we have to cut a little bit it I took the bracket down a little Yep this used to be third year in Kelsey's car rip third year in Kel's car I think we're going to call it a night right yeah I'm tired yeah me too I got a genuine Isis manifold Let the hate come on so one thing that I asked for Nicole or from Nicole for my birthday was another set of z32 rear so Jimmy helped her Source these out but they're a little dirty so I'm going to show you guys cleaning them up and giving them a nice paint job so they match the freshly rebuilt ones Alberto just warn me this is about to be the loudest welding I've ever heard you guys ready he's joking so he's welding the studs in so they don't wiggle out Roberto gave me the personalization and we have the very first LZ BMX Isis manifold meanwhile Alberto is rebuilding a transmission I think my job's harder no I don't think so I don't think so either Alberto's going to finish these off and take the paint off the lettering for me well I have an exam tomorrow so I now have to leave the shop but the car's in good hands and Alberto should have the motor back in tomorrow and the car should be ready for us to take it into tune on Monday oh my God it's to in this car we need ex turn turnI didn't film it but I dropped the oil pan on the car and there was no luck finding the shim we are resorting to bringing it to a friend's shop and he is going to pull the head and hopefully the shim will be in there we're using maros trailer very well built well-kept uh super nice trailer T I've literally towed of my own like 10 cars with this trailer all of your cars I think I've used it more than he has in the past year oh in the past year yeah 1 2 3 go go go go go yeah all right real MVP yo CTSV caliper is about to get dropped off Noe no yeah I'm no dude he's got them I seen the tracking it's the bumps a this a rare sighting of my roommate Lindsay you guys have never seen her but she does exist yep that's about all this why I didn't want you to get hot boy Wheels cuz then I have to be careful with them Adam's never been in the van and oh my God we got bean bags dude it's gutted it's more gutted than my race car you should probably move those this is sick oh that's a good setup right there damn there's a 240 over there where right there there there's a 240 over there I got the to Florida for being pretty sometimes we're rolling up to Alberto shop right now it's actually called Kaizen performance I didn't know the name of it what anything else you want to add Adam oh take it off take it off bro so pretty this is Kelsey's FD car hey look presents I can't I can't wait to hold it and take a selfie next to it wait can we can we take a picture has like a family photo yes we please like can you hold the turbo like a baby um definitely okay cool you have mirrors Adam use your mirrors it was hilarious this is AB don't do that to it I don't want to curve the wheels my brand new amazing wheels don't curve them bro I can't get in here Adam so she said wait actually other way around this a really pretty 240 trailer Greg go just take it easy go that laugh that wasn't that bad what is this stop it Dad look how romantic that looks with the sky oh you got it was you to I was filming you two there's nothing there now I'm hard zoom in oh is this the hard Zoom I can see it I can see it getting taller towards me that's what she said yeah we're getting food at Texas Road house and I brought Felicia with me Fel Felicia that's why by Felicia it's not going to go by I do think I had a face mask wait did it open look it opens I didn't realize that there wasone got 8 O cute I got a GTX 283 kelse she's ordering he almost got a PE in my Turbo yeah see it's fun do it again really hard it's recording video over that looks so cool tell me about your car Kelsey got this big thing in it okay how many Rainbows are you at right now like 123 rainbows 12 13 rainbows smells like race gas we are leaving the 240 at the shop in the hands of wonderful Alberto we just watched lots of videos and chilled just took a quick stop by Alberto shop and look what we found sweaty and dirty Greg I feel like you're always in video that like we're not planning on you being in you're just always around I never call you you never call me we just always in the same place all right so I'm at kaisen performance with Alberto and he already has the motor out of the car so he found the shim yep it was somewhere around this area of of unknown territory you have to like wash it through to find it right yeah if you guys remember what it looked like before it's like insanely clean now but we also realized there's a lot of other broken stuff in the process right O2 like turbo Outlet so we got a nice little crack there there you guys can just take a word for it the manifolds crack too over here you can see this breaking around the well too yeah they can see it Alberto found a boo I should say it went through a hole uh it went through this hole to the battery and this metal just wore it out I think there's supposed to be a rubber piece here like there's on the other side so what is on the agenda for the motor now cuz I'm just trying to update them cuz I haven't made a video about the car in a while we still have to get the manifold mhm and wait for your new valve cover to the ride oh yeah he painted the valve cover it's going to be really pretty it's going to look so pretty my goodness look how bright that looks so while I had Alberto pulling the motor apart we're doing some other stuff too so quick list of everything bigger turbo GTX 2863 750cc injectors we're doing the hydro with the Dual z32 rears e yeah and he's welding like a custom fabricated e brake I got CTSV four piston calipers which I'm pumped on the are huge uh what else also disclaimer Alberta says the Shop's never this messy it's it's just been really hectic he's going to uh Formula Drift Atlanta so he's trying to get the car done before he leaves for me so this gauge is like a wideband and a boost controller and a boost gauge these are my z32 calipers I got Nicole actually got me another set for my birthday that I wasn't supposed to know about but I don't have them in yet that's where the motor used to be down she goes I'm just crazy busy with like finals and everything coming up and school's just been like super hectic so uh Alberto's been taking care of the car for me cuz I know if I was trying to do any of this stuff I'd probably mess it up and it would take forever apparently I should be like mid 300s powerwise with this it's what I hear the plan is to get everything together and then take the car to go get Dino tuned on Monday cookie headlights on s13 look so cool dear owner of this car I'm treating it very well I'm not driving it I'm just bringing it in the shop for Alberto we just finished cleaning up a new rack that I picked up and started pulling everything apart from this rack we had a hard time getting this loose this rack is the devil that's what I sound like when I puke I just pulled the caliper and the rotor off and now I'm going to do a stainless uh brake line install as I'm spewing brake fluid everywhere all right so I'm going to try to be somewhat educational I guess people switch to stainless brake lines so if there's debris flying it doesn't damage the lines but that's probably not the case for me so I think there's supposed to be better pedal feedback with stainless lines cuz they don't like Flex under pressure and look cool again this year the bottom I figured it out I figured it out so I got it in there I don't want to smash just got it all mounted up to see how it kind of sits got these rigged up what Snapchat calling is like the worst quality ever it only took me like four tries to get this right so the way that this is set up the brake line doesn't reach where it needs to go so what we're going to do do is take the one from the other side like this and switch it so the bleeders are on top of this one so then we'll have the banjo fitting coming out of the top instead of the bottom so he's measuring it now cuz we have to cut a little bit it I took the bracket down a little Yep this used to be third year in Kelsey's car rip third year in Kel's car I think we're going to call it a night right yeah I'm tired yeah me too I got a genuine Isis manifold Let the hate come on so one thing that I asked for Nicole or from Nicole for my birthday was another set of z32 rear so Jimmy helped her Source these out but they're a little dirty so I'm going to show you guys cleaning them up and giving them a nice paint job so they match the freshly rebuilt ones Alberto just warn me this is about to be the loudest welding I've ever heard you guys ready he's joking so he's welding the studs in so they don't wiggle out Roberto gave me the personalization and we have the very first LZ BMX Isis manifold meanwhile Alberto is rebuilding a transmission I think my job's harder no I don't think so I don't think so either Alberto's going to finish these off and take the paint off the lettering for me well I have an exam tomorrow so I now have to leave the shop but the car's in good hands and Alberto should have the motor back in tomorrow and the car should be ready for us to take it into tune on Monday oh my God it's to in this car we need ex turn turn\n"