The Hatch is Back and Running Under Its Own Power

We're thrilled to announce that our beloved hatchback has finally come back under its own power. It's been a long time since we've seen this car move, and it was starting to feel like she was going to be stuck in the shop forever. But with some TLC and a little bit of love, we were able to get her started again. The first thing we noticed when we pulled her out into the daylight was how much she'd missed being driven around. She still had that same smell, those loose seats, and even the slightly ghetto hatch door. It was like she never left.

We also realized that she needed a little bit of tuning up to get her running at her best. We've been putting off some final touches on the engine, but it's finally time to get back to work. The exhaust system is still a little rough around the edges, but we're adding a brand new turbo to give her an extra boost of power. And with that, we can start thinking about getting her ready for Sick Week.

Speaking of which, Sick Week is going to be epic. It's like Rocky Mountain Race Week, but instead of driving through the Rockies in Colorado, we'll be hitting tracks all the way from Bradenton down to Georgia. We're talking over 800 miles round trip, with stops at some of the best tracks in the country. Our car has been on quite an adventure already, having driven from Colorado back to Florida and running a 9-second pass in the process. We're confident that she can handle whatever Sick Week throws her way.

We've got Shane bringing his car down for the event, Jamie working hard on his civic to bring it along, and us working tirelessly to get our hatch ready. The plan is to run fuel tech and see how she performs. If we don't get the all-wheel drive dog box installed, we'll still be running that dog box in the car, just capped off where the transfer case goes. But either way, we're stoked to have her back on the track.

Our goal has always been to keep this car on the streets, not make it a full-on racing machine. We want to be able to hop in and go get tacos whenever we want, without having to worry about taking her off the road for an extended period of time. And with that in mind, we're going to take things slow and easy as we prepare for Sick Week.

As for the dog box, Aaron is bringing one along to slap in this thing if we can get the all-wheel drive stuff sorted out. But even without it, we're still planning on running it, just because it's so much fun. And let me tell you, she's going to be nasty when we get her dialed in. We'll be driving track after track, pushing her to see what she can do.

For those who don't know, Sick Week is like Rocky Mountain Race Week, but here in Florida. We're talking about a whole weekend of track time, with no stops and no holds barred. It's the ultimate test of our car's capabilities, and we can't wait to see how she performs. So if you're planning on being at Sick Week, be sure to come out and show your support for our little hatchback. We'll be there, driving hard and having a blast.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso what's up guys we are back in florida i've spent the last three weeks in colorado with friends and family wyatt flew back here a little early but man it does feel good to be back we're in nice weather again we're out of the cold and the razzle dazzle videos killed it that was our plan was to go back down to colorado get that thing up and going again i'm really glad you guys enjoyed the content on that thing and we're definitely gonna have to schedule a dune trip for that but we're back in florida it's 20 22 and it has been too long boys the hatch has been down for over a year and a half and it is time to finally bring this thing back to life we have the all-wheel drive stuff we have everything we need to make the hatch run and it's happening hopefully today we might be able to fire this thing up because i have had wyatt working on this thing while i was still in colorado and he has made a whole bunch of progress and we're just going to get right into it and show you guys where we're at on this thing where are we at wyatt well you'll see here we're at this point we are at this point she is on the lift right and getting worked on and we'll keep you guys uh updated tomorrow that's it for today but no thanks for watching we have a lot of changes here guys we have completely ripped the dash apart y has just been going to town on the wiring yeah we're changing engine managements yes and i think you guys can guess what we are going with you know on the hatch here we got ourselves a fuel tech ft 550 going into the hatch here you can see why i got this nice bezel made not too bad it looks really good one thing i liked about this one is did this like bulkhead fitting so now we don't have to reach for the cable because that's something we always thought on the mr2 so just doing some different things with this one but i think it's looking really good and then we're also doing the can keypad from fuel tech with this one also so this thing is going to go in the center console and this will control everything so no more like rocker switches they do the job but it's just a little bit more fancy so combination here hard to beat you guys know we love our fuel tech units so yeah on the hatch i'm pumped on this because for whatever reason we couldn't get the hatch to run on the hondata s300 something in the chassis harness or something was just off i even got a whole new wiring harness for the car and the injectors were not annoying they were not giving it fuel because i could fire it up on starter fluid and i said screw it i'm over it we're going to just completely put it on a fuel tank and i know it was going to go that route eventually anyways once we get it all wheel drive and make this thing you know monster so might as well just get it out of the way now so we're putting it on a fuel tech we got a uh harness from fuel tech it's their universal four-cylinder harness and while i was gone wyatt went ahead and got all of the necessary plugs we need on there we have k coil plugs because we're switching to coil on plug we're getting rid of the distributor on here the hatch is going through a lot of changes boys but he got the harness all laid in there all the connectors we need have been switched out ready to go we still need to just do some final testing making sure everything's good we have not started the car yet i'm switching out the cam gears over here we got the valve cover off because we have this kit from ks tuned right here to switch over to a hall effect sensor so this is the ks tuned t1 trigger kit and if you look at this cam gear right here it has a whole bunch of little magnets built into that cam gear and this sensor reads those so with this new t1 trigger kit from ks tune we will no longer need to run the distributor that guy is right over here this is responsible for telling when the coils to spark from factory because this has the cam and crank sensor in it and we are no longer going to need that now that we have also the t1 trigger it has the built-in coil as well so it takes care of everything in one unit but it's kind of bulky not very great for big horsepower well and the big change is the aftermarket ecu and a lot of the aftermarket ecu's require a hall effect sensor at least they're a lot more accurate when they're using a hall effect sensor the k series for instance has a factory hall effect sensor so when we put the fuel tech on those they read right off that factory sensor really well but these older style motors don't have that so we're basically upgrading here to that hall effect sensor it will read off of the cam and that's how it will you know determine spark and timing all that good stuff so to do that we need to get rid of these cam gears right here and get our new ones on there and then this guy the sensor will actually bolt right up to the front of the head here and then why it already cut a slit out for us so that will fit right like so and then that will read the magnets on those new cam gears so i got the motor set to top dead center and i'm gonna go ahead pull the tying belt off get those cam gears off of there swap on the new ones then we can get this guy on there start getting this thing back together and then here pretty soon we can start you know testing all of our outputs and everything power everything on and if all goes well we might hear this thing run tonight it's getting pretty close and it will be the first time it has ran in a minute in a long time so i mean i did drive it once and it overheated and then i parked it and then we never started it again i had that issue but the injector is not firing yeah i don't know what it is but we are redoing just about everything on the hatch here boys and i'm really excited so all right we got our new cam gears on there but if you look at the back of these bolts these are adjustable so they have four bolts on there and i was tightening them all down but you can see the back threads barely hit on this plastic piece right there we don't need that plastic piece but it is behind the gears so i'm gonna have to redo that real quick i'm gonna pull these gears back off get this plastic piece out of there and then we'll be good to go all right boys got the hatch up in the air the tying belt is back on and done those cam gears are ready to go and we are ready to start reading off our halifax sensor it is up there we'll show it some more once we get it lowered back down this is the plastic piece that came out from behind those gears you could just trim this and reuse it if you need to but we're not going to worry about that so that is junk don't need it delete it and we also got a new oil pressure sensor installed right there that will actually go to our fuel tech this used to just have a really cheap gauge and add a sensor in there but we got that swapped out for one to read on our fuel tech yep and right now we're looking at what we need to do to rig up the fuel pump to work just to get it to fire up and we're going to have to give that power and ground yeah just powered to go everything else is already grounded and oh yeah that is just powerful i saw the two different colors but i forgot that's just something i did back in the day way back with crimped those together yeah so just give that power the fuel pump will come on we are gonna have to move the fuel pump in the near future once there's a drive shaft going right through there but for now and get rid of this honking thing yeah gross we're gonna have to get rid of the fuel tank we have a cell on the way yep get everything we need back here to get our all-wheel drive it's gonna be cool but for now we just wanna hear it run so it looks like we are just a few minutes away from being able to try to test fire this thing check it out why i got the dash installed everything is back together and when you turn the key on over here we get power to everything check that out looks so good our five button panel comes on and let me hop back out real quick we're gonna go ahead and test our outputs real fast make sure everything is wired up correctly we have the number one coil out with a spark plug in it so here in a second we're gonna double check that hold up she's not in there tight give me a second yeah go for it oh yeah we're good well guys i think we are ready to give the hatch a first fire up here we got everything back together that we need jamie just flew in as well and he's gonna be helping us get this thing fired up we just went over everything on the fuel tech make sure everything is reading correctly we have spark we have injectors working and we think we should be able to give it a first fire up here oh yeah so we used some calibrations from like shane's car and jamie's car because their cars are also using the t1 trigger so it's kind of a similar setup but it might not be perfect so we're just gonna have to try to get it fired up and see where everything's sitting yeah get it fired up yeah she sounds but we have spark we have fuel and as long as that's all happening at the right time with compression yep this thing should fire up it's been so long so i'm ready to see this thing fire up on her new fuel tech ecu and i'm just so pumped to see the hatch back up in action boys but here in a second we're gonna try to turn this thing over baby so so uh here the hatch is live boys on fuel tech hell yeah so pumped dude it's been too long all right guys we got the hatch to fire up but the timing is a little off so we got a timing light plugged into this thing and we are going to set the timing to where it needs to be because she is running a little bit on the side so we're gonna get all that set up with fuel tech jamie in there watching and we will just look at the light here and then we just have to make sure that line on the cam gears is level because we can tell that it's running a little hot right now yeah we're just going to set it to we're going off tdc and it's just like rotating a distributor yeah but digitally yeah we're just setting a lock timing deal so it's on sync if you guys remember the og videos i had to actually turn the distributor to do this but now it's all in the fuel tech well guys in this envelope we have ourselves updated registration for the hatch she has not had updated registration since 2019 of march so what almost three years at least yeah but it hasn't been registered and for sick week you have to have a updated registered car has to be street legal insured registered the whole nine yards and for the first time in about three years the hatch can we be honest this is the first time any of the cars have been registered in like three years okay let's not talk about that the truck was the first car that we have had registered and up to date since we picked it up everything else we've been kind of winging it so the hat is good to go though boys look at that we are good until january of 2023 plates up to date she's ready for sick week almost well there's still everything else we gotta do but at least one more yeah but that's pretty wild it's good to go we can go drive it to taco bell legally oh yeah and insured yep insured she's ready to go boys she's back to her old stuff what a unique car and it's always going to be a street car all right we got the timing and everything set she still needs some final tuning the alternator needs plugged in there's still a bunch of little things that need buttoned up but i think it's ready to move under its own power we're gonna back her out and it's the first time this thing is ran and drove in a minute so i'm just so happy to hear this thing running again and i guess without further ado let's get it out of the shop we don't need it on the lift for right now up until we bring it back in to start on the all-wheel drive stuff which will hopefully be here in the next few days but i just want to sit in it and drive it again it still has the same smell it always has i miss the same loose seats the old video where charlie was flying on those things because they were unbolted completely yep they're still unbolted the hatch is still a little ghetto here and there but man i miss this car okay still needs a little tune-up yeah she needs some final tuning but i mean hey it's come a long ways and she's out in the daylight again so under its own power yeah not bad i mean it just needs some final thing sorted through i also like that we've got the other exhaust housing on there now the exhaust lines up again because that got all beat up when we had the bigger housing on it i went back to the smaller exhaust housing and we have a brand new turbo on there for uh sick week because i don't think we've mentioned that yet but we're doing all this to hopefully bring the hatch on sick week and we're hoping we can get it all wheel drive by then as well i'm pretty confident that we'll at least get it going front wheel drive because considering we have almost two weeks still to go and it's this far i'm feeling confident about that but if we can get all the all-wheel drive stuff on there before we head out as well that would be awesome tell them what sick week is for people who don't know so sick week is basically like rocky mountain race week but here in florida so what if people don't know what rocky mountain racing is you don't know what rocky mountain race week is uh basically you drive track to track and rocky mountain race week was in colorado you go through the rocky mountains and that's why it's called rocky mountain race week this one is sick week here in florida and we start at bradenton which is our home track now and we're in florida and we drive i believe all the way up into georgia and we hit several tracks along the way we're going all the way up and down through florida it's like 800-ish miles right some round trip yeah something like that 100 miles tracks we're gonna try to get this thing ready shane's bringing his car down for that jamie's working on his civic right now to bring it on sick week and uh we're gonna try to make it in the hatch here she's driven from colorado to florida and back and ran two nine second passes so i'm confident she can do sick week so we just gotta run it on fuel tech and i'm just so glad to finally see this thing back in action guys it's been so long i've been neglecting this so many people in the comments just asking when the hatch is going to come back and it's finally finally happening so we have the all-wheel drive dog box from aaron that we are ready to slap in this thing if we get the all-wheel drive stuff good to go and if not we can still run the dog box in the car and just cap off where the transfer case goes because we're still gonna run that dog box on sick week regardless because it just has a stock transmission in it right now but yeah we got a lot of work to get done on this thing but she's alive boys she's back i hope all you og fans are happy because it is coming back and she's going to be nasty when we get it all said and done and it's always going to stay a street car is my goal i never want to go too crazy with this thing and make it just you know an all-out race car i want to keep it registered i want to always be able to hop in it go to taco bell if we want and take it down the streets because that's what this car was originally built to do and this was my first ever car and she is my baby and i feel bad that we have let it sit this long this deserved a redo a long time ago but she's getting there guys and i think on that note it's gonna do it for this video hope you guys enjoyed the hatch is back and it's gonna be nasty so next couple days she's gonna be dialed oh we'll drive things all-wheel drive buttoning up things sick road burnout things yeah i'm pumped dude so it's gonna be sweet it's gonna wrap it up boys we'll see you in the next one oh youso what's up guys we are back in florida i've spent the last three weeks in colorado with friends and family wyatt flew back here a little early but man it does feel good to be back we're in nice weather again we're out of the cold and the razzle dazzle videos killed it that was our plan was to go back down to colorado get that thing up and going again i'm really glad you guys enjoyed the content on that thing and we're definitely gonna have to schedule a dune trip for that but we're back in florida it's 20 22 and it has been too long boys the hatch has been down for over a year and a half and it is time to finally bring this thing back to life we have the all-wheel drive stuff we have everything we need to make the hatch run and it's happening hopefully today we might be able to fire this thing up because i have had wyatt working on this thing while i was still in colorado and he has made a whole bunch of progress and we're just going to get right into it and show you guys where we're at on this thing where are we at wyatt well you'll see here we're at this point we are at this point she is on the lift right and getting worked on and we'll keep you guys uh updated tomorrow that's it for today but no thanks for watching we have a lot of changes here guys we have completely ripped the dash apart y has just been going to town on the wiring yeah we're changing engine managements yes and i think you guys can guess what we are going with you know on the hatch here we got ourselves a fuel tech ft 550 going into the hatch here you can see why i got this nice bezel made not too bad it looks really good one thing i liked about this one is did this like bulkhead fitting so now we don't have to reach for the cable because that's something we always thought on the mr2 so just doing some different things with this one but i think it's looking really good and then we're also doing the can keypad from fuel tech with this one also so this thing is going to go in the center console and this will control everything so no more like rocker switches they do the job but it's just a little bit more fancy so combination here hard to beat you guys know we love our fuel tech units so yeah on the hatch i'm pumped on this because for whatever reason we couldn't get the hatch to run on the hondata s300 something in the chassis harness or something was just off i even got a whole new wiring harness for the car and the injectors were not annoying they were not giving it fuel because i could fire it up on starter fluid and i said screw it i'm over it we're going to just completely put it on a fuel tank and i know it was going to go that route eventually anyways once we get it all wheel drive and make this thing you know monster so might as well just get it out of the way now so we're putting it on a fuel tech we got a uh harness from fuel tech it's their universal four-cylinder harness and while i was gone wyatt went ahead and got all of the necessary plugs we need on there we have k coil plugs because we're switching to coil on plug we're getting rid of the distributor on here the hatch is going through a lot of changes boys but he got the harness all laid in there all the connectors we need have been switched out ready to go we still need to just do some final testing making sure everything's good we have not started the car yet i'm switching out the cam gears over here we got the valve cover off because we have this kit from ks tuned right here to switch over to a hall effect sensor so this is the ks tuned t1 trigger kit and if you look at this cam gear right here it has a whole bunch of little magnets built into that cam gear and this sensor reads those so with this new t1 trigger kit from ks tune we will no longer need to run the distributor that guy is right over here this is responsible for telling when the coils to spark from factory because this has the cam and crank sensor in it and we are no longer going to need that now that we have also the t1 trigger it has the built-in coil as well so it takes care of everything in one unit but it's kind of bulky not very great for big horsepower well and the big change is the aftermarket ecu and a lot of the aftermarket ecu's require a hall effect sensor at least they're a lot more accurate when they're using a hall effect sensor the k series for instance has a factory hall effect sensor so when we put the fuel tech on those they read right off that factory sensor really well but these older style motors don't have that so we're basically upgrading here to that hall effect sensor it will read off of the cam and that's how it will you know determine spark and timing all that good stuff so to do that we need to get rid of these cam gears right here and get our new ones on there and then this guy the sensor will actually bolt right up to the front of the head here and then why it already cut a slit out for us so that will fit right like so and then that will read the magnets on those new cam gears so i got the motor set to top dead center and i'm gonna go ahead pull the tying belt off get those cam gears off of there swap on the new ones then we can get this guy on there start getting this thing back together and then here pretty soon we can start you know testing all of our outputs and everything power everything on and if all goes well we might hear this thing run tonight it's getting pretty close and it will be the first time it has ran in a minute in a long time so i mean i did drive it once and it overheated and then i parked it and then we never started it again i had that issue but the injector is not firing yeah i don't know what it is but we are redoing just about everything on the hatch here boys and i'm really excited so all right we got our new cam gears on there but if you look at the back of these bolts these are adjustable so they have four bolts on there and i was tightening them all down but you can see the back threads barely hit on this plastic piece right there we don't need that plastic piece but it is behind the gears so i'm gonna have to redo that real quick i'm gonna pull these gears back off get this plastic piece out of there and then we'll be good to go all right boys got the hatch up in the air the tying belt is back on and done those cam gears are ready to go and we are ready to start reading off our halifax sensor it is up there we'll show it some more once we get it lowered back down this is the plastic piece that came out from behind those gears you could just trim this and reuse it if you need to but we're not going to worry about that so that is junk don't need it delete it and we also got a new oil pressure sensor installed right there that will actually go to our fuel tech this used to just have a really cheap gauge and add a sensor in there but we got that swapped out for one to read on our fuel tech yep and right now we're looking at what we need to do to rig up the fuel pump to work just to get it to fire up and we're going to have to give that power and ground yeah just powered to go everything else is already grounded and oh yeah that is just powerful i saw the two different colors but i forgot that's just something i did back in the day way back with crimped those together yeah so just give that power the fuel pump will come on we are gonna have to move the fuel pump in the near future once there's a drive shaft going right through there but for now and get rid of this honking thing yeah gross we're gonna have to get rid of the fuel tank we have a cell on the way yep get everything we need back here to get our all-wheel drive it's gonna be cool but for now we just wanna hear it run so it looks like we are just a few minutes away from being able to try to test fire this thing check it out why i got the dash installed everything is back together and when you turn the key on over here we get power to everything check that out looks so good our five button panel comes on and let me hop back out real quick we're gonna go ahead and test our outputs real fast make sure everything is wired up correctly we have the number one coil out with a spark plug in it so here in a second we're gonna double check that hold up she's not in there tight give me a second yeah go for it oh yeah we're good well guys i think we are ready to give the hatch a first fire up here we got everything back together that we need jamie just flew in as well and he's gonna be helping us get this thing fired up we just went over everything on the fuel tech make sure everything is reading correctly we have spark we have injectors working and we think we should be able to give it a first fire up here oh yeah so we used some calibrations from like shane's car and jamie's car because their cars are also using the t1 trigger so it's kind of a similar setup but it might not be perfect so we're just gonna have to try to get it fired up and see where everything's sitting yeah get it fired up yeah she sounds but we have spark we have fuel and as long as that's all happening at the right time with compression yep this thing should fire up it's been so long so i'm ready to see this thing fire up on her new fuel tech ecu and i'm just so pumped to see the hatch back up in action boys but here in a second we're gonna try to turn this thing over baby so so uh here the hatch is live boys on fuel tech hell yeah so pumped dude it's been too long all right guys we got the hatch to fire up but the timing is a little off so we got a timing light plugged into this thing and we are going to set the timing to where it needs to be because she is running a little bit on the side so we're gonna get all that set up with fuel tech jamie in there watching and we will just look at the light here and then we just have to make sure that line on the cam gears is level because we can tell that it's running a little hot right now yeah we're just going to set it to we're going off tdc and it's just like rotating a distributor yeah but digitally yeah we're just setting a lock timing deal so it's on sync if you guys remember the og videos i had to actually turn the distributor to do this but now it's all in the fuel tech well guys in this envelope we have ourselves updated registration for the hatch she has not had updated registration since 2019 of march so what almost three years at least yeah but it hasn't been registered and for sick week you have to have a updated registered car has to be street legal insured registered the whole nine yards and for the first time in about three years the hatch can we be honest this is the first time any of the cars have been registered in like three years okay let's not talk about that the truck was the first car that we have had registered and up to date since we picked it up everything else we've been kind of winging it so the hat is good to go though boys look at that we are good until january of 2023 plates up to date she's ready for sick week almost well there's still everything else we gotta do but at least one more yeah but that's pretty wild it's good to go we can go drive it to taco bell legally oh yeah and insured yep insured she's ready to go boys she's back to her old stuff what a unique car and it's always going to be a street car all right we got the timing and everything set she still needs some final tuning the alternator needs plugged in there's still a bunch of little things that need buttoned up but i think it's ready to move under its own power we're gonna back her out and it's the first time this thing is ran and drove in a minute so i'm just so happy to hear this thing running again and i guess without further ado let's get it out of the shop we don't need it on the lift for right now up until we bring it back in to start on the all-wheel drive stuff which will hopefully be here in the next few days but i just want to sit in it and drive it again it still has the same smell it always has i miss the same loose seats the old video where charlie was flying on those things because they were unbolted completely yep they're still unbolted the hatch is still a little ghetto here and there but man i miss this car okay still needs a little tune-up yeah she needs some final tuning but i mean hey it's come a long ways and she's out in the daylight again so under its own power yeah not bad i mean it just needs some final thing sorted through i also like that we've got the other exhaust housing on there now the exhaust lines up again because that got all beat up when we had the bigger housing on it i went back to the smaller exhaust housing and we have a brand new turbo on there for uh sick week because i don't think we've mentioned that yet but we're doing all this to hopefully bring the hatch on sick week and we're hoping we can get it all wheel drive by then as well i'm pretty confident that we'll at least get it going front wheel drive because considering we have almost two weeks still to go and it's this far i'm feeling confident about that but if we can get all the all-wheel drive stuff on there before we head out as well that would be awesome tell them what sick week is for people who don't know so sick week is basically like rocky mountain race week but here in florida so what if people don't know what rocky mountain racing is you don't know what rocky mountain race week is uh basically you drive track to track and rocky mountain race week was in colorado you go through the rocky mountains and that's why it's called rocky mountain race week this one is sick week here in florida and we start at bradenton which is our home track now and we're in florida and we drive i believe all the way up into georgia and we hit several tracks along the way we're going all the way up and down through florida it's like 800-ish miles right some round trip yeah something like that 100 miles tracks we're gonna try to get this thing ready shane's bringing his car down for that jamie's working on his civic right now to bring it on sick week and uh we're gonna try to make it in the hatch here she's driven from colorado to florida and back and ran two nine second passes so i'm confident she can do sick week so we just gotta run it on fuel tech and i'm just so glad to finally see this thing back in action guys it's been so long i've been neglecting this so many people in the comments just asking when the hatch is going to come back and it's finally finally happening so we have the all-wheel drive dog box from aaron that we are ready to slap in this thing if we get the all-wheel drive stuff good to go and if not we can still run the dog box in the car and just cap off where the transfer case goes because we're still gonna run that dog box on sick week regardless because it just has a stock transmission in it right now but yeah we got a lot of work to get done on this thing but she's alive boys she's back i hope all you og fans are happy because it is coming back and she's going to be nasty when we get it all said and done and it's always going to stay a street car is my goal i never want to go too crazy with this thing and make it just you know an all-out race car i want to keep it registered i want to always be able to hop in it go to taco bell if we want and take it down the streets because that's what this car was originally built to do and this was my first ever car and she is my baby and i feel bad that we have let it sit this long this deserved a redo a long time ago but she's getting there guys and i think on that note it's gonna do it for this video hope you guys enjoyed the hatch is back and it's gonna be nasty so next couple days she's gonna be dialed oh we'll drive things all-wheel drive buttoning up things sick road burnout things yeah i'm pumped dude so it's gonna be sweet it's gonna wrap it up boys we'll see you in the next one oh youso what's up guys we are back in florida i've spent the last three weeks in colorado with friends and family wyatt flew back here a little early but man it does feel good to be back we're in nice weather again we're out of the cold and the razzle dazzle videos killed it that was our plan was to go back down to colorado get that thing up and going again i'm really glad you guys enjoyed the content on that thing and we're definitely gonna have to schedule a dune trip for that but we're back in florida it's 20 22 and it has been too long boys the hatch has been down for over a year and a half and it is time to finally bring this thing back to life we have the all-wheel drive stuff we have everything we need to make the hatch run and it's happening hopefully today we might be able to fire this thing up because i have had wyatt working on this thing while i was still in colorado and he has made a whole bunch of progress and we're just going to get right into it and show you guys where we're at on this thing where are we at wyatt well you'll see here we're at this point we are at this point she is on the lift right and getting worked on and we'll keep you guys uh updated tomorrow that's it for today but no thanks for watching we have a lot of changes here guys we have completely ripped the dash apart y has just been going to town on the wiring yeah we're changing engine managements yes and i think you guys can guess what we are going with you know on the hatch here we got ourselves a fuel tech ft 550 going into the hatch here you can see why i got this nice bezel made not too bad it looks really good one thing i liked about this one is did this like bulkhead fitting so now we don't have to reach for the cable because that's something we always thought on the mr2 so just doing some different things with this one but i think it's looking really good and then we're also doing the can keypad from fuel tech with this one also so this thing is going to go in the center console and this will control everything so no more like rocker switches they do the job but it's just a little bit more fancy so combination here hard to beat you guys know we love our fuel tech units so yeah on the hatch i'm pumped on this because for whatever reason we couldn't get the hatch to run on the hondata s300 something in the chassis harness or something was just off i even got a whole new wiring harness for the car and the injectors were not annoying they were not giving it fuel because i could fire it up on starter fluid and i said screw it i'm over it we're going to just completely put it on a fuel tank and i know it was going to go that route eventually anyways once we get it all wheel drive and make this thing you know monster so might as well just get it out of the way now so we're putting it on a fuel tech we got a uh harness from fuel tech it's their universal four-cylinder harness and while i was gone wyatt went ahead and got all of the necessary plugs we need on there we have k coil plugs because we're switching to coil on plug we're getting rid of the distributor on here the hatch is going through a lot of changes boys but he got the harness all laid in there all the connectors we need have been switched out ready to go we still need to just do some final testing making sure everything's good we have not started the car yet i'm switching out the cam gears over here we got the valve cover off because we have this kit from ks tuned right here to switch over to a hall effect sensor so this is the ks tuned t1 trigger kit and if you look at this cam gear right here it has a whole bunch of little magnets built into that cam gear and this sensor reads those so with this new t1 trigger kit from ks tune we will no longer need to run the distributor that guy is right over here this is responsible for telling when the coils to spark from factory because this has the cam and crank sensor in it and we are no longer going to need that now that we have also the t1 trigger it has the built-in coil as well so it takes care of everything in one unit but it's kind of bulky not very great for big horsepower well and the big change is the aftermarket ecu and a lot of the aftermarket ecu's require a hall effect sensor at least they're a lot more accurate when they're using a hall effect sensor the k series for instance has a factory hall effect sensor so when we put the fuel tech on those they read right off that factory sensor really well but these older style motors don't have that so we're basically upgrading here to that hall effect sensor it will read off of the cam and that's how it will you know determine spark and timing all that good stuff so to do that we need to get rid of these cam gears right here and get our new ones on there and then this guy the sensor will actually bolt right up to the front of the head here and then why it already cut a slit out for us so that will fit right like so and then that will read the magnets on those new cam gears so i got the motor set to top dead center and i'm gonna go ahead pull the tying belt off get those cam gears off of there swap on the new ones then we can get this guy on there start getting this thing back together and then here pretty soon we can start you know testing all of our outputs and everything power everything on and if all goes well we might hear this thing run tonight it's getting pretty close and it will be the first time it has ran in a minute in a long time so i mean i did drive it once and it overheated and then i parked it and then we never started it again i had that issue but the injector is not firing yeah i don't know what it is but we are redoing just about everything on the hatch here boys and i'm really excited so all right we got our new cam gears on there but if you look at the back of these bolts these are adjustable so they have four bolts on there and i was tightening them all down but you can see the back threads barely hit on this plastic piece right there we don't need that plastic piece but it is behind the gears so i'm gonna have to redo that real quick i'm gonna pull these gears back off get this plastic piece out of there and then we'll be good to go all right boys got the hatch up in the air the tying belt is back on and done those cam gears are ready to go and we are ready to start reading off our halifax sensor it is up there we'll show it some more once we get it lowered back down this is the plastic piece that came out from behind those gears you could just trim this and reuse it if you need to but we're not going to worry about that so that is junk don't need it delete it and we also got a new oil pressure sensor installed right there that will actually go to our fuel tech this used to just have a really cheap gauge and add a sensor in there but we got that swapped out for one to read on our fuel tech yep and right now we're looking at what we need to do to rig up the fuel pump to work just to get it to fire up and we're going to have to give that power and ground yeah just powered to go everything else is already grounded and oh yeah that is just powerful i saw the two different colors but i forgot that's just something i did back in the day way back with crimped those together yeah so just give that power the fuel pump will come on we are gonna have to move the fuel pump in the near future once there's a drive shaft going right through there but for now and get rid of this honking thing yeah gross we're gonna have to get rid of the fuel tank we have a cell on the way yep get everything we need back here to get our all-wheel drive it's gonna be cool but for now we just wanna hear it run so it looks like we are just a few minutes away from being able to try to test fire this thing check it out why i got the dash installed everything is back together and when you turn the key on over here we get power to everything check that out looks so good our five button panel comes on and let me hop back out real quick we're gonna go ahead and test our outputs real fast make sure everything is wired up correctly we have the number one coil out with a spark plug in it so here in a second we're gonna double check that hold up she's not in there tight give me a second yeah go for it oh yeah we're good well guys i think we are ready to give the hatch a first fire up here we got everything back together that we need jamie just flew in as well and he's gonna be helping us get this thing fired up we just went over everything on the fuel tech make sure everything is reading correctly we have spark we have injectors working and we think we should be able to give it a first fire up here oh yeah so we used some calibrations from like shane's car and jamie's car because their cars are also using the t1 trigger so it's kind of a similar setup but it might not be perfect so we're just gonna have to try to get it fired up and see where everything's sitting yeah get it fired up yeah she sounds but we have spark we have fuel and as long as that's all happening at the right time with compression yep this thing should fire up it's been so long so i'm ready to see this thing fire up on her new fuel tech ecu and i'm just so pumped to see the hatch back up in action boys but here in a second we're gonna try to turn this thing over baby so so uh here the hatch is live boys on fuel tech hell yeah so pumped dude it's been too long all right guys we got the hatch to fire up but the timing is a little off so we got a timing light plugged into this thing and we are going to set the timing to where it needs to be because she is running a little bit on the side so we're gonna get all that set up with fuel tech jamie in there watching and we will just look at the light here and then we just have to make sure that line on the cam gears is level because we can tell that it's running a little hot right now yeah we're just going to set it to we're going off tdc and it's just like rotating a distributor yeah but digitally yeah we're just setting a lock timing deal so it's on sync if you guys remember the og videos i had to actually turn the distributor to do this but now it's all in the fuel tech well guys in this envelope we have ourselves updated registration for the hatch she has not had updated registration since 2019 of march so what almost three years at least yeah but it hasn't been registered and for sick week you have to have a updated registered car has to be street legal insured registered the whole nine yards and for the first time in about three years the hatch can we be honest this is the first time any of the cars have been registered in like three years okay let's not talk about that the truck was the first car that we have had registered and up to date since we picked it up everything else we've been kind of winging it so the hat is good to go though boys look at that we are good until january of 2023 plates up to date she's ready for sick week almost well there's still everything else we gotta do but at least one more yeah but that's pretty wild it's good to go we can go drive it to taco bell legally oh yeah and insured yep insured she's ready to go boys she's back to her old stuff what a unique car and it's always going to be a street car all right we got the timing and everything set she still needs some final tuning the alternator needs plugged in there's still a bunch of little things that need buttoned up but i think it's ready to move under its own power we're gonna back her out and it's the first time this thing is ran and drove in a minute so i'm just so happy to hear this thing running again and i guess without further ado let's get it out of the shop we don't need it on the lift for right now up until we bring it back in to start on the all-wheel drive stuff which will hopefully be here in the next few days but i just want to sit in it and drive it again it still has the same smell it always has i miss the same loose seats the old video where charlie was flying on those things because they were unbolted completely yep they're still unbolted the hatch is still a little ghetto here and there but man i miss this car okay still needs a little tune-up yeah she needs some final tuning but i mean hey it's come a long ways and she's out in the daylight again so under its own power yeah not bad i mean it just needs some final thing sorted through i also like that we've got the other exhaust housing on there now the exhaust lines up again because that got all beat up when we had the bigger housing on it i went back to the smaller exhaust housing and we have a brand new turbo on there for uh sick week because i don't think we've mentioned that yet but we're doing all this to hopefully bring the hatch on sick week and we're hoping we can get it all wheel drive by then as well i'm pretty confident that we'll at least get it going front wheel drive because considering we have almost two weeks still to go and it's this far i'm feeling confident about that but if we can get all the all-wheel drive stuff on there before we head out as well that would be awesome tell them what sick week is for people who don't know so sick week is basically like rocky mountain race week but here in florida so what if people don't know what rocky mountain racing is you don't know what rocky mountain race week is uh basically you drive track to track and rocky mountain race week was in colorado you go through the rocky mountains and that's why it's called rocky mountain race week this one is sick week here in florida and we start at bradenton which is our home track now and we're in florida and we drive i believe all the way up into georgia and we hit several tracks along the way we're going all the way up and down through florida it's like 800-ish miles right some round trip yeah something like that 100 miles tracks we're gonna try to get this thing ready shane's bringing his car down for that jamie's working on his civic right now to bring it on sick week and uh we're gonna try to make it in the hatch here she's driven from colorado to florida and back and ran two nine second passes so i'm confident she can do sick week so we just gotta run it on fuel tech and i'm just so glad to finally see this thing back in action guys it's been so long i've been neglecting this so many people in the comments just asking when the hatch is going to come back and it's finally finally happening so we have the all-wheel drive dog box from aaron that we are ready to slap in this thing if we get the all-wheel drive stuff good to go and if not we can still run the dog box in the car and just cap off where the transfer case goes because we're still gonna run that dog box on sick week regardless because it just has a stock transmission in it right now but yeah we got a lot of work to get done on this thing but she's alive boys she's back i hope all you og fans are happy because it is coming back and she's going to be nasty when we get it all said and done and it's always going to stay a street car is my goal i never want to go too crazy with this thing and make it just you know an all-out race car i want to keep it registered i want to always be able to hop in it go to taco bell if we want and take it down the streets because that's what this car was originally built to do and this was my first ever car and she is my baby and i feel bad that we have let it sit this long this deserved a redo a long time ago but she's getting there guys and i think on that note it's gonna do it for this video hope you guys enjoyed the hatch is back and it's gonna be nasty so next couple days she's gonna be dialed oh we'll drive things all-wheel drive buttoning up things sick road burnout things yeah i'm pumped dude so it's gonna be sweet it's gonna wrap it up boys we'll see you in the next one oh you\n"