The Journey of Building a 180SX

We've just got a little repair to do at the front for the power steering and then Martin, we're off to the dyno to make our 180 kilowatts. Once the car is working, we also have to get it made legal for street use because it's been unregistered for so long. This involves an authorized inspection to make sure that it's safe, it meets design and safety standards, and a check for tires, body condition, working lights, indicators, horn, and dash. Engine leaks, seat belts, and brake efficiency test are also on the list.

Only then can we get number plates, insurance, and registration because I've updated the rear lights they no longer work with the factory loom plugs. So, I need to re-solder old-style plugs onto the new lights. This is fairly simple because even though the updated lights are a new design, most of the wire colors have stayed the same. It's just a matter of mixing and matching.

The 180 has just left on a truck to go out to Haltech, and tomorrow we're going to be hitting the dyno to try and get our 180 kilowatts at the wheels. We're gonna get there; we're gonna get 180. Now it's worth remembering that a stock SR is not something that's going to make a thousand horsepower by itself. You've got to have the world's biggest turbine in your power band, looks like a slippery and we don't want a thousand anymore.

Meaty useful streetable amount of power now is true when doing a project like this that 80% of the work does usually happen in the first 20% of the time, and the same is inversely true that the last 20% of getting it finished is 80% of the time. It doesn't look like much just rewiring the lights; it's hours to make sure it actually works, and that's part of the process when the car goes through a blue slip.

Blue slips will actually make sure it's all the engine numbers and chassis numbers make sure everything matches. So, if something drops out of registration or it's a new car that needs to be registered, there's a bunch of checks that go through. It's a bit more complicated because in New South Wales we live, we get like yearly checks, and then a blue slip is one that's like checks absolutely everything.

Like if you've had a new engine or something as well, it's a bit harder. After that is the pink slip that I think now is called an e-safety where they're going to check the uh indicators, the brakes, they actually drive the car and do a brake test, make sure there's no leaks any of that. So we have to make sure the car can actually meet all those standards as well.

That is going to take a little bit of time before we can get the number plates, before we can get the CTP and insurance, and then the registration. Yeah, it's beautiful; it's big, it's better if you don't let your car drop out of registration but something like this has been sitting for a long time, it's going to cost you over a thousand bucks to keep it regged.

So sometimes people go, "I'd rather just go through that pain in five years' time than pay five thousand bucks worth of registration." So, that's where we're at. Yeah but it is going to be good.

Thank you, of course, to everybody who's been following along the journey so far up to this point. I did mention during the episode the 180SX posters that we have available; they're only available while this project is happening, which I would suggest there's only one or two more episodes left. So, if you don't have one yet, nearly there, then now is the time to grab one.

We will sign it and we'll send it to you anywhere in the world. I don't even want to start talking about the next project yet because we got to get this one finished. But, there are some very exciting things happening. I would say almost Martin getting back to some very old-school rivalries is all I'm going to say. Absolutely that's what I'm going to say.

Chopped Hoodies you can get them right now. Anything else? Martin, nope. Great, I'm hungry. See you next time. 180SX on the dyno. Thanks for watching.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to another episode of mighty car mods we are the automotive edge lords taking you to the brink of automotive purity but never tipping you over the cliff i'm the automotive hedge lord i trim your hedges oh my god on this episode of mighty commons we are going to be working on the 180 i don't know what's happening it doesn't matter what's happening all i know is this car is freaking awesome and we're gonna get there stop trying to be professional welcome to another episode of mighty car mods we're getting our 180 working have we got it working already yeah kind of now we're doing it again we put a bunch of sensors and stuff in there we fixed it up here sorry i can't do it can't do what just funny what because you don't want to do the materials anymore oh let's go do the other thing we're going to do sorry i'm so unprofessional hedging mutton get back to it yeah we're going to do garden edging what garden mutton go sorry we're going to make our stuff work we put a new sensor thing in there and a new thing on the thing with the thing and now we're going to make sure it works in the thing uh also uh the car got painted we put it back together um today we got seats going in we got steering wheel going in we're gonna go to the dino unless we don't i might just tell you that we're going to do and then alone i'd like to actually do it but i think we are our steering wheel a bunch of things to finish off we got dave from hal tech here he's going to check um he's going to check some triggering he's going to change he's going to make sure that i make sure that it works and the optical 360 degree 24 minus ones that's actually true because if you get one little bit of dirt or grime on there on that wheel the triggering won't work properly well the easier you'll get the no because it'll get the shits it doesn't make it better but it's an improvement no it's an improvement but it's not better either way the car is going to work again we want 180 kilowatts dave's here to make sure we get our 180 kilowatts at the wheels not one kilowatt more not one kilowatt less 40 kilowatts more let's get into it i just found another dollar this really is the car that keeps giving time to put the seats in the bin because they've been injected with rectal slime for almost three decades with the seats out this is the perfect opportunity to give the inside of the car and the carpet a good clean and see what other treasures may be hidden down below i will need some of the seat belt components from the factory seats such as the seat belt clips luckily no tools are required they were so loose i can remove them by hand safety first kids now we can also get our ecu checked and fired up and dave from haltech is here to make sure that everything is working exactly as it should our electrical stuff is now done we've got our air temp sensor plugged in dave's been tapping away at the keyboard changing our triggering type now we find out if our new sensor that we put in is actually going to work see if the car will start our trigger system appears to be working the timing light looks good now it's time to hear this thing yep get keen that's right all right people here we go forgot your kill switch excellent so excellent i hope the check engine light is meant to be on i checked there's an engine the car is running it's sounding good that is excellent it works enough to be able to get it to the dyno next up it's time to do some of the extra pieces including the interior so this here um we got a couple uh of seats these are a acaro sr3s which i believe came factory in some civics like ek civics and dc2 type r integras or something we got these for forty thousand dollars and they look like that they are in really good condition and um that there is the uh i think that one there is the driver's side seat and then over here in this box we've got some rails so seats are going in i've just been giving the interior a little bit of a clean up under the seats i was considering changing the carpet it actually doesn't need changing it's in really good condition it's nice and black which is what i want to change it to if it was that kind of festy 80s grey but it's not so our seats go on rails go on then i've got a steering wheel gear knobs some other little interior bits then i've also had to arrive the pods that we were missing last time these which go on the front bar like this so these were the pieces we were missing last time so they go on there trung has painted those as well and then the other thing that i have is the uh risers razors for the type x bar for that to go on so we we are getting close we are getting close there's just lots of little bits and pieces um but we're just gonna dive in get the seats in get the steering wheel done and then we'll move on to the exterior stuff as well as all of the mechanical updates that we've done so far the interior of the car is also getting a freshen up starting with replacing the factory steering wheel with something brand new we've got a whole video with step-by-step instructions on how to change a steering wheel which you can check out on our channel there are heaps of options and it's made easy with this car because there's no airbags to make the new wheel fit an adapter kit is required and then your aftermarket steering wheel will mount to this with the new steering wheel installed now i can move onto the seats using seats in a car that we're not designed for usually requires the use of adapter rails these convert the factory seat mounting positions on the car to the mounts on the seats well they're meant to but they don't always fit and you may need a prybar hammer drill or even a welder depending on what your setup requires to make these fit bolt-on doesn't always mean bolt-on there are loads of cheap and fake seats available but for a build like this it was really important for me to have genuine seats that are quality recaros like this are expensive even secondhand but they are totally worth it because they're some of the best seats available and i'm stoked to have such awesome quality in my 180. the seats are in and they look freaking amazing and the car is starting to look just like the poster which was drawn before the car was even built these posters are only available while this build series is on if you don't have one yet grab it now and we'll autograph it and send it to your door anywhere in the world next up it's time to install the type x bumper pods which i managed to get as genuine items that were already here locally in australia i'm also changing out this slime covered nismo knob for a brand new one that is exactly the same design because i really like it the seats steering wheel and gear knob are done and the test sit is a massive success now it's time to install the pista resistance the type x wing dude this is the cherry on the cake it is the sweet the cherry pie i put it over the holes you put it over your holes yep hold on no i'll put it just let go for a second yep no no let go is yours lined up no mine's that's lined up on my side line yours up on the holes i'll just let go of it yeah but now that's that's right that looks good on this side um we are back in super garage now because the length of the exhaust is not correct with our vertex bar you can see just the from the short amount of time we've been starting it that there is turning all black but not in a good way speaking of good things you asked for it we finally have it chopped hoodies it's got chopped fingers on the front it's got chopped fingers on the back they are available right now so you can pick them up on the shop what are we doing we're chopping off the exhaust we're modifying we're going to weld some new bits on this twin pipe i do kind of like the onion plusness of that it just doesn't fit now look we could try and cut it and trim it and something else i don't know if that would work but we bought a couple of components i got a cannon that's what i used to have so i just i want to put that on there because i think it's going to be cool and then maybe i can swap back to something like that later this is not a specific 180sx exhaust this has been built which is good and bad sides of some mild steel bits and they're kind of a little bit rusty but it doesn't matter it'll last just nice nicely and fine this is just a after-market muffler that someone's made fit it fit the old car really well this one is specifically 40180 but we're probably going to have to move the mounts yeah so these are going to have to move back it's got some silencer in there that's going to go in the bin and so then um we also do have this muffler though so that's a good thing so we're gonna try and keep that muffler so that because if you just go turbo on this it'll be so loud you wake the dead uh if we keep another muffler in there it should actually be pretty good and it's got a cat as well that's where that is set to mount we actually need it more like that because the black up the bumper doesn't look cool does it not cool so this here is about to get chopped hey chopped hey check it out on the mighty car mod shop link below reciprocal that chop that off zod it on cut these off we're going to cut and weld some stuff and then the exhaust it's also got like the world's worst power steering like so we're getting a hose made to fix that yeah that's right there's a tray down there's dropping stuff everywhere you know at least we know that now because it's running all right let's chop we're going to be adapting our new exhaust parts to fit our existing system which in my experience is actually way harder than making a whole new one from scratch obviously a bolt-on system is the ultimate in ease of install assuming it actually does bolt on welding old metal to new metal and getting all the angles right takes a bit of trial and error but i reckon i can make this work with the help of the hoist and some stands we'll send the old muffler to the big metal shredder where it can be turned into a can of beans and then we'll cut the mounts off the new cannon this will allow us to place the muffler exactly where it needs to be in the bumper cutout and then work back towards the existing exhaust system a whole lot of eyeballing ensures that the muffler looks good in its final position we're roughing in the angle of the cannon and the position left to right then tack welding the hangers back onto the muffler next i'm going to cut up a bunch of 3 inch bends to join the cannon to the rest of the exhaust some careful measuring and tacking is the key to getting this right but sometimes you do get it wrong and a quick hit with an angle grinder can break the tacks and you can try again once it all looks right i'm going to run a few welds on each joint so it doesn't move when i take it off and weld the whole thing together i'll be using a mig because it's fast and the whole thing is going to be painted do the exhaust is done and it is a fruit salad of a pipe if you have a look down here there is basically every food group here of all colors sizes distinctions and smells starting from the butthole of the turbo exactly right and then we do our catalytic converter which is cool got our dump pipe and our flex joint uh why didn't we just get a new one um well yeah you can't and if you can they're made like quite cheap really thin material the mufflers don't muffle they actually i think they just end up making their car sound like and i thought this car sounded pretty good with the muffler that was on it i mean if you're going to go a full system you just get jdm legit is what i wanted to do just like you get the whole thing that was not possible in the time frame that we had this here is functional it's a three inch turbo back system um and it appears to be custom made for this car there are so many pieces i'm kind of good with that having custom made some exhausts and knowing how difficult it is but knowing that they just fit really well like this just it fits great and yes okay there's a bit of surface rust on it but there's no holes and it's not leaking anything this is how many functions there are one one two three four five six seven eight different nine different 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 past a 17 piece exhaust you could argue that the amount of welding required to stitch this together probably would have cost more in gas than a whole exhaust but happy with it it's gonna work it's gonna sound good it's gonna muffle enough so it's not gonna offend everyone and it's gonna be good all right so um we've just got a little repair to do at the front for the power steering and then martin we're off to the dyno to make our 180 kilowatts once the car is working we also have to get it made legal for street use because it's been unregistered for so long this involves an authorized inspection to make sure that it's safe it meets design and safety standards and a check for tyres body condition working lights indicators horn and dash engine leaks seat belts and a brake efficiency test only then can we get number plates insurance and registration because i've updated the rear lights they no longer work with the factory loom plugs so i need to re-solder old style plugs onto the new lights this is fairly simple because even though the updated lights are a new design most of the wire colors have stayed the same so it's just a matter of mixing and matching and with that done the lights and indicators are now all working the 180 has just left on a truck to go out to haltech and tomorrow we're going to be hitting the dyno to try and get our 180 kilowatts at the wheels we're gonna get there we're gonna get 180. now it's worth remembering also that a stock sr is not something that's going to make a thousand horsepower by itself you've got to have the world's biggest turbine in your power band looks like a slippery and we don't want a thousand anymore 180 meaty useful streetable amount of power now it is true when doing a project like this that 80 of the work does usually happen in the first 20 of the time and the same is inversely true that the last 20 of getting it finished is 80 of the time it doesn't look like much just rewiring the lights it's hours to make sure it actually works and that is part of the process of when the car goes through a blue slip which is blue slips will actually make sure it's all the engine numbers and chassis numbers make sure everything matches so if something's dropped out of registration or it's a new car that needs to be registered there's a bunch of checks that goes through it's a bit more it's a bit harder because in new south wales we live we get like yearly checks and then a blue slip is one that's like checks absolutely everything like if you've had a new engine or something as well in detail and then after that is the pink slip that i think now is called an e-safety where they're going to check the uh indicators the brakes they actually drive the car and do a brake test they make sure there's no leaks any of that so we have to make sure the car can actually meet all of those standards as well that is going to take a little bit of time before we can get the number plates before we can get the ctp and the insurance and then the registration yeah it's beautiful it's big it's better if you don't let your car drop out of a region but something like this has been sitting for a long time it's going to cost you over a thousand bucks to keep it reged so sometimes people go i'd rather just go through that pain in five years time than pay five thousand bucks worth of regis so that's where we're at yeah but it is going to be good thank you of course to everybody that's been following along the journey so far up to this point i did mention during the episode the 180sx posters that we have available that we're signing them they're only available while this project is happening which i would suggest there's only one or two more episodes left so if you don't have one yet nearly there then now is the time to grab one we will sign it and we'll send it to you anywhere in the world i don't even want to start talking about the next project yet because we got to get this one finished but there are some very exciting things happen i would say almost martin getting back to some very old-school rivalries is all i'm going to say absolutely that's what i'm going to say uh thank you very much for watching chopped hoodies you can get them right now anything else martin nope great i'm hungry see you next time 180sx on the dyno thanks for watching see you there you said this would be like three episodes yes is it more than that uh it's not as many as you'll see you know how i say it's gonna be three episodes no it's actually 30 episodes yeah right now but yours is going to be what like six uh yeah who knows six mad sevenwelcome to another episode of mighty car mods we are the automotive edge lords taking you to the brink of automotive purity but never tipping you over the cliff i'm the automotive hedge lord i trim your hedges oh my god on this episode of mighty commons we are going to be working on the 180 i don't know what's happening it doesn't matter what's happening all i know is this car is freaking awesome and we're gonna get there stop trying to be professional welcome to another episode of mighty car mods we're getting our 180 working have we got it working already yeah kind of now we're doing it again we put a bunch of sensors and stuff in there we fixed it up here sorry i can't do it can't do what just funny what because you don't want to do the materials anymore oh let's go do the other thing we're going to do sorry i'm so unprofessional hedging mutton get back to it yeah we're going to do garden edging what garden mutton go sorry we're going to make our stuff work we put a new sensor thing in there and a new thing on the thing with the thing and now we're going to make sure it works in the thing uh also uh the car got painted we put it back together um today we got seats going in we got steering wheel going in we're gonna go to the dino unless we don't i might just tell you that we're going to do and then alone i'd like to actually do it but i think we are our steering wheel a bunch of things to finish off we got dave from hal tech here he's going to check um he's going to check some triggering he's going to change he's going to make sure that i make sure that it works and the optical 360 degree 24 minus ones that's actually true because if you get one little bit of dirt or grime on there on that wheel the triggering won't work properly well the easier you'll get the no because it'll get the shits it doesn't make it better but it's an improvement no it's an improvement but it's not better either way the car is going to work again we want 180 kilowatts dave's here to make sure we get our 180 kilowatts at the wheels not one kilowatt more not one kilowatt less 40 kilowatts more let's get into it i just found another dollar this really is the car that keeps giving time to put the seats in the bin because they've been injected with rectal slime for almost three decades with the seats out this is the perfect opportunity to give the inside of the car and the carpet a good clean and see what other treasures may be hidden down below i will need some of the seat belt components from the factory seats such as the seat belt clips luckily no tools are required they were so loose i can remove them by hand safety first kids now we can also get our ecu checked and fired up and dave from haltech is here to make sure that everything is working exactly as it should our electrical stuff is now done we've got our air temp sensor plugged in dave's been tapping away at the keyboard changing our triggering type now we find out if our new sensor that we put in is actually going to work see if the car will start our trigger system appears to be working the timing light looks good now it's time to hear this thing yep get keen that's right all right people here we go forgot your kill switch excellent so excellent i hope the check engine light is meant to be on i checked there's an engine the car is running it's sounding good that is excellent it works enough to be able to get it to the dyno next up it's time to do some of the extra pieces including the interior so this here um we got a couple uh of seats these are a acaro sr3s which i believe came factory in some civics like ek civics and dc2 type r integras or something we got these for forty thousand dollars and they look like that they are in really good condition and um that there is the uh i think that one there is the driver's side seat and then over here in this box we've got some rails so seats are going in i've just been giving the interior a little bit of a clean up under the seats i was considering changing the carpet it actually doesn't need changing it's in really good condition it's nice and black which is what i want to change it to if it was that kind of festy 80s grey but it's not so our seats go on rails go on then i've got a steering wheel gear knobs some other little interior bits then i've also had to arrive the pods that we were missing last time these which go on the front bar like this so these were the pieces we were missing last time so they go on there trung has painted those as well and then the other thing that i have is the uh risers razors for the type x bar for that to go on so we we are getting close we are getting close there's just lots of little bits and pieces um but we're just gonna dive in get the seats in get the steering wheel done and then we'll move on to the exterior stuff as well as all of the mechanical updates that we've done so far the interior of the car is also getting a freshen up starting with replacing the factory steering wheel with something brand new we've got a whole video with step-by-step instructions on how to change a steering wheel which you can check out on our channel there are heaps of options and it's made easy with this car because there's no airbags to make the new wheel fit an adapter kit is required and then your aftermarket steering wheel will mount to this with the new steering wheel installed now i can move onto the seats using seats in a car that we're not designed for usually requires the use of adapter rails these convert the factory seat mounting positions on the car to the mounts on the seats well they're meant to but they don't always fit and you may need a prybar hammer drill or even a welder depending on what your setup requires to make these fit bolt-on doesn't always mean bolt-on there are loads of cheap and fake seats available but for a build like this it was really important for me to have genuine seats that are quality recaros like this are expensive even secondhand but they are totally worth it because they're some of the best seats available and i'm stoked to have such awesome quality in my 180. the seats are in and they look freaking amazing and the car is starting to look just like the poster which was drawn before the car was even built these posters are only available while this build series is on if you don't have one yet grab it now and we'll autograph it and send it to your door anywhere in the world next up it's time to install the type x bumper pods which i managed to get as genuine items that were already here locally in australia i'm also changing out this slime covered nismo knob for a brand new one that is exactly the same design because i really like it the seats steering wheel and gear knob are done and the test sit is a massive success now it's time to install the pista resistance the type x wing dude this is the cherry on the cake it is the sweet the cherry pie i put it over the holes you put it over your holes yep hold on no i'll put it just let go for a second yep no no let go is yours lined up no mine's that's lined up on my side line yours up on the holes i'll just let go of it yeah but now that's that's right that looks good on this side um we are back in super garage now because the length of the exhaust is not correct with our vertex bar you can see just the from the short amount of time we've been starting it that there is turning all black but not in a good way speaking of good things you asked for it we finally have it chopped hoodies it's got chopped fingers on the front it's got chopped fingers on the back they are available right now so you can pick them up on the shop what are we doing we're chopping off the exhaust we're modifying we're going to weld some new bits on this twin pipe i do kind of like the onion plusness of that it just doesn't fit now look we could try and cut it and trim it and something else i don't know if that would work but we bought a couple of components i got a cannon that's what i used to have so i just i want to put that on there because i think it's going to be cool and then maybe i can swap back to something like that later this is not a specific 180sx exhaust this has been built which is good and bad sides of some mild steel bits and they're kind of a little bit rusty but it doesn't matter it'll last just nice nicely and fine this is just a after-market muffler that someone's made fit it fit the old car really well this one is specifically 40180 but we're probably going to have to move the mounts yeah so these are going to have to move back it's got some silencer in there that's going to go in the bin and so then um we also do have this muffler though so that's a good thing so we're gonna try and keep that muffler so that because if you just go turbo on this it'll be so loud you wake the dead uh if we keep another muffler in there it should actually be pretty good and it's got a cat as well that's where that is set to mount we actually need it more like that because the black up the bumper doesn't look cool does it not cool so this here is about to get chopped hey chopped hey check it out on the mighty car mod shop link below reciprocal that chop that off zod it on cut these off we're going to cut and weld some stuff and then the exhaust it's also got like the world's worst power steering like so we're getting a hose made to fix that yeah that's right there's a tray down there's dropping stuff everywhere you know at least we know that now because it's running all right let's chop we're going to be adapting our new exhaust parts to fit our existing system which in my experience is actually way harder than making a whole new one from scratch obviously a bolt-on system is the ultimate in ease of install assuming it actually does bolt on welding old metal to new metal and getting all the angles right takes a bit of trial and error but i reckon i can make this work with the help of the hoist and some stands we'll send the old muffler to the big metal shredder where it can be turned into a can of beans and then we'll cut the mounts off the new cannon this will allow us to place the muffler exactly where it needs to be in the bumper cutout and then work back towards the existing exhaust system a whole lot of eyeballing ensures that the muffler looks good in its final position we're roughing in the angle of the cannon and the position left to right then tack welding the hangers back onto the muffler next i'm going to cut up a bunch of 3 inch bends to join the cannon to the rest of the exhaust some careful measuring and tacking is the key to getting this right but sometimes you do get it wrong and a quick hit with an angle grinder can break the tacks and you can try again once it all looks right i'm going to run a few welds on each joint so it doesn't move when i take it off and weld the whole thing together i'll be using a mig because it's fast and the whole thing is going to be painted do the exhaust is done and it is a fruit salad of a pipe if you have a look down here there is basically every food group here of all colors sizes distinctions and smells starting from the butthole of the turbo exactly right and then we do our catalytic converter which is cool got our dump pipe and our flex joint uh why didn't we just get a new one um well yeah you can't and if you can they're made like quite cheap really thin material the mufflers don't muffle they actually i think they just end up making their car sound like and i thought this car sounded pretty good with the muffler that was on it i mean if you're going to go a full system you just get jdm legit is what i wanted to do just like you get the whole thing that was not possible in the time frame that we had this here is functional it's a three inch turbo back system um and it appears to be custom made for this car there are so many pieces i'm kind of good with that having custom made some exhausts and knowing how difficult it is but knowing that they just fit really well like this just it fits great and yes okay there's a bit of surface rust on it but there's no holes and it's not leaking anything this is how many functions there are one one two three four five six seven eight different nine different 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 past a 17 piece exhaust you could argue that the amount of welding required to stitch this together probably would have cost more in gas than a whole exhaust but happy with it it's gonna work it's gonna sound good it's gonna muffle enough so it's not gonna offend everyone and it's gonna be good all right so um we've just got a little repair to do at the front for the power steering and then martin we're off to the dyno to make our 180 kilowatts once the car is working we also have to get it made legal for street use because it's been unregistered for so long this involves an authorized inspection to make sure that it's safe it meets design and safety standards and a check for tyres body condition working lights indicators horn and dash engine leaks seat belts and a brake efficiency test only then can we get number plates insurance and registration because i've updated the rear lights they no longer work with the factory loom plugs so i need to re-solder old style plugs onto the new lights this is fairly simple because even though the updated lights are a new design most of the wire colors have stayed the same so it's just a matter of mixing and matching and with that done the lights and indicators are now all working the 180 has just left on a truck to go out to haltech and tomorrow we're going to be hitting the dyno to try and get our 180 kilowatts at the wheels we're gonna get there we're gonna get 180. now it's worth remembering also that a stock sr is not something that's going to make a thousand horsepower by itself you've got to have the world's biggest turbine in your power band looks like a slippery and we don't want a thousand anymore 180 meaty useful streetable amount of power now it is true when doing a project like this that 80 of the work does usually happen in the first 20 of the time and the same is inversely true that the last 20 of getting it finished is 80 of the time it doesn't look like much just rewiring the lights it's hours to make sure it actually works and that is part of the process of when the car goes through a blue slip which is blue slips will actually make sure it's all the engine numbers and chassis numbers make sure everything matches so if something's dropped out of registration or it's a new car that needs to be registered there's a bunch of checks that goes through it's a bit more it's a bit harder because in new south wales we live we get like yearly checks and then a blue slip is one that's like checks absolutely everything like if you've had a new engine or something as well in detail and then after that is the pink slip that i think now is called an e-safety where they're going to check the uh indicators the brakes they actually drive the car and do a brake test they make sure there's no leaks any of that so we have to make sure the car can actually meet all of those standards as well that is going to take a little bit of time before we can get the number plates before we can get the ctp and the insurance and then the registration yeah it's beautiful it's big it's better if you don't let your car drop out of a region but something like this has been sitting for a long time it's going to cost you over a thousand bucks to keep it reged so sometimes people go i'd rather just go through that pain in five years time than pay five thousand bucks worth of regis so that's where we're at yeah but it is going to be good thank you of course to everybody that's been following along the journey so far up to this point i did mention during the episode the 180sx posters that we have available that we're signing them they're only available while this project is happening which i would suggest there's only one or two more episodes left so if you don't have one yet nearly there then now is the time to grab one we will sign it and we'll send it to you anywhere in the world i don't even want to start talking about the next project yet because we got to get this one finished but there are some very exciting things happen i would say almost martin getting back to some very old-school rivalries is all i'm going to say absolutely that's what i'm going to say uh thank you very much for watching chopped hoodies you can get them right now anything else martin nope great i'm hungry see you next time 180sx on the dyno thanks for watching see you there you said this would be like three episodes yes is it more than that uh it's not as many as you'll see you know how i say it's gonna be three episodes no it's actually 30 episodes yeah right now but yours is going to be what like six uh yeah who knows six mad seven\n"