The Road to C: A Journey of DIY Automotive Engineering and Triumph

As I sit here in my Florida home, surrounded by the remnants of a long night's work, I can barely keep my eyes open. The sun has just begun to rise, casting a warm glow over the landscape, but I'm still buzzing from the excitement of it all. Last night was a marathon session of welding, fitting parts together, and overcoming obstacles that seemed insurmountable at times. The end result is nothing short of incredible – our trusty minivan has been transformed into a behemoth of automotive engineering.

The journey to get here was far from smooth sailing. We'd always dreamed of building a car from scratch, but circumstances had other plans. With the world in chaos and travel restrictions looming, we found ourselves forced to take a detour. Our original plan was to build this beast from start to finish, dyno test it, and then unleash its fury on the roads. But life had other ideas, and we were left scrambling to adapt.

We made do with what we had – importing parts from overseas, scouring salvage yards for scraps, and piecing together a motley crew of friends who shared our passion for tinkering. It wasn't easy, but it was exhilarating nonetheless. We spent countless hours researching, designing, and fabricating, often working through the wee hours of the morning to meet deadlines.

The turning point came when we realized that this project had taken on a life of its own. We'd lost sight of our original goal, but something far more rewarding emerged from the chaos. The all-wheel-drive system, once just an afterthought, became the crowning jewel of this engineering experiment. And let me tell you, it's been a wild ride.

As I reflect on the past few days, I'm still in awe of what we've achieved. It's not just about building a car – it's about creating something that defies convention, pushes boundaries, and inspires others to do the same. The minivan may not be perfect, but it's certainly never been more than its own unique blend of personality and engineering wizardry.

And yet, as we stand at the precipice of completion, there's still so much work to be done. The dyno tests have yet to come, the cage is still on hold, and there are countless other details that need attention before this beast can hit the streets in all its glory. But for now, I'm content to bask in the glow of our triumph.

As I drift off into a well-deserved sleep, surrounded by the detritus of last night's work, I know that this journey has only just begun. The road to C may be one of many paths we'll take from here, but for now, it's enough to know that we've created something truly special – a testament to what can happen when people come together with a shared vision and a willingness to push the limits.

One final thought before I sign off: if you enjoyed this journey as much as I have, be sure to LIKE this video, subscribe to our channel, and join us on the road to C. We've got plenty more to come, and it's going to be an adventure unlike any other. So buckle up, folks – the next chapter is just around the corner!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell guys the secret is out we did make the beer out is he all-wheel-drive I did my best to keep it a secret from you guys but I had a couple slip-ups some videos you could barely see the transfer case hanging off of the transmission and then that one video where I said how cool would it be if the route of C was at World Cup competing against other all-wheel-drive Civics and I didn't even catch that in editing and I left it in and a lot of you guys caught on to it but then it also left a whole bunch of you other guys confused if we were actually making the route to see all-wheel-drive so I think it kind of worked out we're actually over in Florida right now you can see Ruby behind me we're staying over at cletus's right now and I just wanted to film a little intro to this video just kind of explaining to you guys that the all-wheel drive process on the route of C definitely took a good amount of work and a good amount of time and there was a lot that went into it I mentioned in the video that it kind of all just went up in a day as far as the work goes and you know putting it all together that is kind of true but there was a lot that went into making the route to C all-wheel drive especially with getting all these parts sent overseas that you are about to see here very soon when the video actually kind of starts you'll see us with Matt and all this stuff was filmed over a month ago and this is something I had been setting up for a very long time was my ultimate goal with the route of C was to not only make it you know a thousand horsepower sequential but also to get the all-wheel drive stuff for it and I was gonna make it all wheel drive no matter what it took and it just so happened that one of you guys a long time ago in the comments said that hey I think they made an all-wheel drive version of that exact Odyssey and I saw the comment and I did a little bit of research and I never really saw too much of it but then I thought about it again and I did more research and I really had to dive in deep to find that it was an actual thing that Honda did and they made and all-wheel drive Odyssey but it was never introduced to the states it was only in Japan and like the UK I don't even know the full statistics about it but long story short we like we were able to track one down and get the rear end of one sent over to us and yeah I'm just gonna let you guys watch the full video I was gonna turn this into multiple parts but I just threw it all in one you can probably see the length of this video is pretty long and that's why I kind of stepped out right now just to let you guys know that I just wanted to put it all in there just to show you guys the full process start to finish what it took to make the route to see all-wheel-drive and yeah I just think this is gonna be super awesome we still have to test it out and stuff like that but yeah I just want you guys to sit back and enjoy the video and just know that a whole bunch of time went into making this happen and for those of you guys that guessed it Congrats you're right the odyssey is going all-wheel-drive but yeah I just wanted to say that please watch the video all the way through and let me know what you think we'll catch you back at the end there it is all the way from the UK got it dropped off this morning got a lot of special parts inside this plastic right here on this pallet what's in the package have some rare parts right there do they know what it is the question by looking at the box of chocolates whether these are the best jokes applauding that's my damn no chocolates just some boring bolts as far as I know about making something stop - he looks like it was just all pull right up should got the dip on there the rear axles only thing we're missing is the drive shaft but it was way too long to ship so we'll get a drive shaft made the arms got it all it Springs definitely need a half a B so you can still retain that maybe you won't yep definitely gonna need to get all this like sandblasted and repainted it's been sitting in a field near the ocean yeah and the salt got to it but I mean just a whole bunch of surface rust still cleanup prestige from the UK format this would probably never happened so you guys are seeing this video later on Matt's actually not with us right now but this is when he is with us that's pretty cool because he got to kind of see it all show up because he got sent out before he came over to the US we got here the palette arrived as well and yeah so what we plan on doing with all of this is since it is pretty dirty and kind of rusted up we're gonna probably get it all cleaned off get sandblasted repaint it all you know make it nice before you stick everything into the van but before we can even do that we do have to double check that it fits in the van and also what we're actually getting ready to do right now is we're going to pull the mr2s out of the way we're gonna get the route of C in here and pull the back rear subframe out of it and make sure that this all bolts up and uses the same bolt locations because knowing Conda it's probably all kind of bolted and that's what we were hoping for I took several pictures of my rear end before we ordered all this stuff just to kind of verify that it was the same and from what we can tell it looks identical in the pictures but you never really know until you get it and since we don't have any of these to measure off of we just kind of had to chance it and order this one and see if it just bolt thread it so we're hoping this will just pull right in and making our Odyssey all wheel drive would be super simple if it all just goes right in so we're gonna go ahead and get that over with today and yeah this bolts right in this is gonna be sick what you think about that this is amazing the route I see is gonna be real rowdy now about how almost looking like it should just bolt in so the shock bolts which are these ones seem to be the same but then the other ones go to holes that are not used these guys right here so they're not threaded but we might just have some run like a long bolt through it or something yeah but obviously that was for the all-wheel drive model aside by the holes even there was for that other subframe yeah looks like you'll just go right in we're gonna have to take the gas tank off and stops but I don't think it's gonna be bad no this looks awesome just go right together I can't now it looks like this is like the CRV style dip it also looks like we could just bolt in a wagon diff straight in this is a wagon if we have and if that one doesn't work out we can always switch to the Y go diff if we need to because it's literally the same exact bolt pattern you can kind of see it down in there and all the disallowed of it but ultra rare all-wheel drive Odyssey 2 RC in the parts right now that's cool we're going to Japan to the UK to America all around the world there's probably only a handful of these in the States if any do don't mouths around for hours yeah I spent two days from truck this time we got it alright guys so the plan was to humble everything out of the Odyssey and get all this cool didn't it's but we had a billion three stick tape measure and meant it work everything counts up and we kind of confirm that this will hold up with no issues regardless we make it work but it's gonna fit no problem so we don't want to spend the whole day cleaning all this apart just to bolt this in then just to unbolt it because we have to drop this off it all Samwise to get all the dust off there and put this all back together so the Odyssey can rolled out and spent way too much time so we're just going to go ahead call it get senator Fitz and we're gonna get all this stuff apart get it dropped off for sandblasting get it all nice and clean we'll be ready to go in how's the build continues later on so by the time you guys see this video this thing's already going to have the case whap and everything in it is sequential and it's gonna be in there this is one of the last pieces of the puzzle and you guys don't even know about this but this is actually one of the first things we're filming right now it's the first major piece we got before throughout icy build but yeah pretty sick all right yes it is time to get all of this stuff cleaned off and painted so since this stuff came from an odyssey that was by the ocean as you could tell it had a whole bunch of surface rust on it and I'm getting ready to sandblast this piece off I have Wyatt sand blaster over here got it topped off with sand and this just hooks up to the air compressor and I'm gonna get it all blasted off so we can repaint it and I just kind of laid some cardboard pieces down sure probably use like a tarp or something but all I got some cardboard so that's what we're gonna work with and for now I'm just going to be sandblasting this piece because I think I can reuse like the control arms and stuff like that off the Odyssey already so I don't think I have to do much to those parts but we will find out later on I just want to get this painted and cleaned up so then we can start taking everything out of the back of the Odyssey and seeing how all this is going to fit up inside of it but I'm gonna go ahead and get this guy blasted off and get her painted just got this stuff all sandblasted off this stuff definitely makes a huge mess so I got some sweeping to do so I'm gonna go ahead and clean up all this sand and get my cardboard pieces cleaned off and then I'm gonna go ahead start getting these guys all painted up but yeah came out pretty good I've never sandblasted before that is definitely a process could probably go a little more on them but I got all of the major surface rust off and I think that's going to be perfect to get them all painted up it started to get windy outside so we brought everything inside and shut the door just so no dirt or anything blew all over this stuff since it is still drying but you guys can see this thing is looking brand freaking new again really happy with how it came out so yeah that subframe is looking awesome compared to what it just looked like with all that rust on there you guys look at it now it looks like it just came from the dealership looks brand for canoe then got that little piece painted over there that just bolts right back onto this piece so that needs to dry for a little bit longer and yeah really happy with how that came out alright guys so coming back to when we were assembling the qwave transmission currently were in the process of assembling it this is a part we were hiding from you guys until now so yeah obviously you know Vans going all wheel drive but this right here is a stock transfer case for the K series transmission and just to show you guys what we did for a little bit of an upgrade as we are putting the quake together you can see this right here is a straight cut gear so this goes on the bottom side of the diff here was the other one out right here so this is the factory one so this one is the factory one the bolts on the bottom side of the diff you can see we have the upgraded straight cut one and then this is the factory final drive gear that goes on top and then they give kind of sandwiches in between that and then this bottom one is what actually connects to the transfer case there so this guy on om wanted to slide in like that you know then that comes up here connects to your gear but we got the upgraded straight cut gear for that and then we have the matching straight cut gear right here and this guy replaces this gear so this will go on just like that and then that will you know come up right in there so we have our upgraded gear there to handle much more power for the all-wheel-drive system and then we went a step further and we also went ahead and picked ourselves up this billet transfer case cover this is from drag cartel gave us a discount on this guy this thing is beautiful so we are going to be taking apart this transfer case right here and stuff in all the guts from this into this new billet housing with the upgraded straight cut gears so the transfer case will also be upgraded well because if you guys remember Roman actually broke one of his transfer case your setups and we're gonna try to do everything we can to avoid that the band does way a little bit more we're shooting for a lot of power so wouldn't be too surprised if we left the stocks up in there but eventually it would break so we went ahead upgraded that and then this stronger housing will hopefully help hold things together a little better but yeah so as we are assembling this Quaife right now we also have to get this stock transfer case pulled apart get all that stuff swapped over but yeah I wanted to show you guys that we did upgrade the four-wheel drive system in the transmission as well so all this stuff is super strong is from PPG also from drag cartel as well if you guys you know are interested this is where we got this stuff so cool and shout out to Jeremy but yeah now back to the rest of the video we're gonna start ripping the back end of the rod to see apart we are going to be getting these control arms off this rear k-member piece that is factory with the radda see because we have to put our new one on the houses the diff and then another thing that has to happen is the stock fuel tank has to go the UK version and like the Japanese version that came all-wheel-drive it came with a tank that actually had a tunnel cut out in the center of the tank so the drive shot could go through it since this one's front-wheel drive we do not have that and this tank is going to have to go and we are going to be switching to a fuel cell in the rear so for right now I'm gonna go ahead and start getting all this stuff ripped out get the fuel tank dropped out of this thing and then we're gonna see how our new all-wheel drive stuff bolts up because there are some bolt holes that need to change a little bit but from what we've gathered just from measuring it looks like it should just all bolt in so that's what we're hoping for you'll just bolt right in it'll be quick and simple and then another thing today is we got this drive shaft right here this is out of a Honda Element and this seems to be the same size bolt pattern as the diff that came with the all-wheel drive stuff from the UK and then the other end will just go straight to our transfer case because that's just a K series transfer case so we won't need any adapters but from the looks of it so far it looks like we are going to have to cut this and probably extend it a little bit because the route of C is kind of long but yeah we'll find out more on that later but right now I'm gonna go ahead and get all this stuff ripped out of the back you got it spider-man oh yeah no steady stream now I lower I don't know what rolling with the plug beer overflowing so we'll call the police oh dude I'm missing I don't want to touch it I mean what's in here he'll just go into this this is our coolant we're just gonna get some gas with our coolant it'll be all right dude there's so much in there cuz then I'm just gonna be sitting there holding it oh it's right here I'll film you you take it cuz I ain't touching that too much beauty five dog she full she's still spewing out so we got the straps holding the gas tank off everything is unbolted to fill her neck all of its gone we got these brake lines and stuff out of the way and we've been trying to pry on this thing with a decent sized pry bar and this gas thing is like welded to the damn van so we got Big Bertha over here we got a prion er some more thinking these pieces that like go up there that kind of help with like a vibration and stuff it literally like glued itself to the van so we've been prying on it and it sounds like it's starting to creak but we got a break for free and then we got the scissor jack right there to catch it but this thing is on there good I think the other side needs it Matta - oh it's creaking that's she's in there oh it's wiggling now though there's just one more on that side I think was on there good that's a big yeah we had to get Big Bertha that thing's five and a half feet all the leverage yeah she-she splurge dude gas tank is out dude nothing was holding a I'm telling you it was just stuck on there it was these little pad things like CDs those little pad things were just stuck to the body I mean it hasn't been taken out in 25 years all right we got the gas tank and everything pulled out of the back of the minivan and now we are ready to check and see if the all-wheel drive rear subframe will bolt right up from our measurements it looks like it should so we're gonna go ahead and try to hang this thing up and see how it fits guys this is so sick it looks like this thing is just gonna bolt right up right now we just have two bolts holding it up it is just barely hitting right up there you can kind of see that so we are going to have to trim that piece and then I think it also might hit on these pieces kind of right there but if you look close you can see these little plates are kind of spot welded on right there and if you look kind of in the back there that's where the old one mounted too but we don't need that because these have this front piece that comes off of them so I was thinking to actually drill the spot welds off that back plate right there and take those guys off there's one there and one right back over here so I think I'm gonna take those off and then trim this piece and then it looks like this is gonna suck right up to those existing holes they weren't even being used that we're just you know already there in case you had an all-wheel-drive model which is awesome these are not not certain in there so we might have to run a long bolt with a nut inside the van to make it work I bet on the all-wheel-drive model that guy right there was definitely nut certain inside of there so it would have just bolted right up but yeah once we make some clearance right there and on those guys this looks like it's just gonna suck right up and be just bolted right into place and it looks like everything off this old piece right here is just gonna work directly with that so this is looking awesome it's so crazy that this has existed this whole time I literally had no idea these Aussies came in an all-wheel-drive version but once I found that out thanks to Matt he tracked one down in the UK these were not available to the states at all like we said earlier this is a super rare part and the fact that it just bolts right into the back of the router see it's just so freakin awesome but yeah we're gonna have to just drop this thing back down and get that stuff taken care of it looks like she's gonna bolt right up which is freaking amazing and then we just got to go ahead and put everything back together from there and then reuse the spindles off the one that came from overseas as well so we can run the axles alright I got these spot-welds drilled out on both of these pieces that went in the corners here so this is the piece that went right there and like I said before our old k-member bolted right through this hole right here but since we have the new all-wheel-drive one we won't be using this at all so got that whole sawed out of the way and then there was another piece right here that I had to hammer off it was really hard to get a saws are an angle grinder into this corner just because of all this stuff going on around it so I ended up just hitting it off with a hammer and then I took the color match spray-paint that I already had and I just went ahead and sprayed over all that because there was some exposed metal just to help keep that from rusting later on but yeah got both sides done and then I also got this piece right here cut off so we should be good for clearance so we're gonna go ahead and bolt this piece back on and see if she fits all right guys the all wheel drive your k-member is back in and check it out it is not hitting on anything at all and before this part right here wasn't fully budding up to the subframe right here because it was hitting but now when you push up on it it goes right up to it so we are good to go and that is freaking awesome alright so we got our new we roll the Drive cam and we bolt it up into the Odyssey right now and this is the one that came out the factory one this one still looks like it's in really good shape and this right here is the one that came on the pallet all the all-wheel drive stuff as you can see this one's also super rusty as well like this control arm is all rusted out the caliper has a whole bunch of surface rust on it all this stuff means a lot of work I'd have to probably give it the same treatment as I did that you know like sandblast it down repaint it all and that's a lot of extra work and then this piece over here that came off of the Odyssey this one looks like it's in great shape and from what we can tell all this stuff looks like you would literally just swap right onto this spindle right here we only have to reuse this spindle unless we do need these other parts for some other reason like there might be a special bolt pattern but it looks like this control arm will pull it right up to this this piece is the same if this piece this lower control arm is the same as this one and glued I think all this stuff will swap right over to here and then we can put all that into the back of our honestly I'm just power wash this stuff off and this stuff isn't really shake the only part we're gonna have to reuse is just the spindle right here because that our reacts already here that came on the pallet and this guy right into just like that so the only piece I think we really need is this guy and then it looks like all these stuffs just gonna swap right over and be nice and easy so that's gonna be awesome so I'm gonna go ahead and start taking all this apart I'll take all this apart and then just use all the good parts with that spindle stick it all back up in there and I think we could set it on the ground and she'll be officially all it'll draw it out for that about all the parts you need so and go ahead and start working all this part oh my gosh guys check it out the route of C is officially all-wheel drive just got everything kind of bolted in I did actually have to use the old rusty arms you can see right there and then also this piece right there I reuse those because when I went to get the old control arms off the original k-member piece this bolt right there and this bolt right there are completely seized into place I got the nuts off the backside of them but the bolt is fused to that inner bushing metal sleeve right there I even took this little induction heater got those things glowing red and they just did not want to hammer out at all they should literally just hammer out right now but they're just seized in there and then I even try putting a breaker bar on there and I tried turning it and then I started to shred the bushings on the inside so it was a whole process trying to get those off so I ended up just throwing the old ones on my plan is just to order some new ones of these since they are not four-wheel drive specific I can hopefully just order some new ones or go to the junkyard and just find some other ones but if I can find some new ones then I'll come with brand new bushings and everything like that and then I can also try to order a new one of these pieces right here so we don't have those ugly rusty parts anymore but for right now it is starting to get late so I wanted to get all this stuff mocked up because I'm getting ready to take the drive shop to a driveshaft shop tomorrow morning because I'm pretty sure we need to extend that guy that's on the ground right there we are going to get to that in just a second but everything is on and in place and this is freaking awesome guys so if you come over here to the diff you can spin this guy see our axle spinning and our tire is spinning so it's all in there and then this scissor jack right here is just kind of putting pressure on that guy since I don't have the bolts ran through that yet so I just want everything where it's going to be but the diff is bolted in tight then we have one of the back bolts on because yeah we're getting ready to get the driveshaft on right now the one that we got from an element and then when we took the little piece that it came with off of here it was leaking like differential fluid out of this so there might be a bad seal in there or maybe they just do that honestly I now this diff is really kind of foreign to us we'll get into that later on and I'll kind of talk about this differential but for right now so we can get out of here for tonight and I can get this drive shaft by tomorrow since it's Friday I don't want a drive shaft place to be closed for the weekend I'm gonna get the element drive shaft bolted on and then we have another scissor jack over here or screw jack just to hold the drive shaft up in place we're gonna measure how much more we need on the drive shaft and hopefully they can get that knocked out by tomorrow so I'll have a drive shaft before the weekend hits but yeah it's all in there guys definitely was a lot of work and a lot of it has to come back out to get cleaned up anyways but yeah this is freaking sweet I can't believe it all just bolted in like that so crazy all right element driveshaft is on really cool it just bolts right up to our odyssey diff in the back and then this end is going to bolt right up to our K series transfer case so you can see we are a little short there and we did just measure this with both hands but this for the camera we need about eleven and a half inches extended on the end of our drive shot there and then so port right up and be good to go we'll drive minivan and then we're gonna have to make yeah amount to hold the carrier bearing right here I was really hoping it was gonna line up with this section because I could build off that really good but it's just slightly off the only way to make that work would be to like shorten that and then add more length to this end which is this way more work than we need to do so I will probably build brackets that kind of come off of this like 90 up and then just bolt it to that somehow but we will figure that out another day once the drive shaft is actually the right length and everything so yeah we're gonna take that tomorrow to get it lengthened eleven and a half inches and then our drive shaft will bolt up and that's it she's all wheel drive everything sweet but it's a late night and we're gonna get out of here alright guys it is the next day and we have the drive shaft just picked it up they got this in lengthen and Tom's over here too he just got in town who's your treatment he's helping out brows he's about to be all wheel drive right now this is awesome moon she can be all-wheel-drive in about five seconds you're just have to build a bracket bang yeah I come from here to here with a plate you know a little box so it's pretty stout this is crazy we have dot bead all wheel drive route to see nuts hello guys we got the drive shaft in and that's it Rossi is officially all-wheel drive there's a whole bunch of little stuff that needs buttoned up on the rear and then we still need to make a mount for this carry your bearing right here we just have this ratchet strap holding her up but driveshaft is in and it's connected yeah give her a spin you've spinning them check it out rear tire spin in look at that here you're going huh get back here she all will drive boys hell yeah yeah hit Romans going easy you're gonna twist that one like you did yours but yeah yeah it's definitely long they had to add quite a bit to the nose of it there to get it to fit so she is a long drive shaft but it works it's so crazy that this stuff existed they just bolts right into the back just had to be more research than this now yeah anyone wondering it's called a Honda Odyssey prestige the prestige edition came all wound drive oh yeah so we don't have a viscous coupler on this drive shaft a lot of you guys know about all-wheel drive civics and stuff they normally run the viscous coupler from the waggle bands and that helps take some of the dampening from like any differences in tires size or anything like that going to the rear it has some slip and that's normally built into the drive shaft right here this diff is a little different so we're thinking the viscous is built inside of the front housing of this drive shaft right here it's similar to like a CRV in element style but they actually have like a little pump on the side and they have like some clutch deal going on but this diff isn't like nothing we've ever seen before so we're just going to kind of put it in and try it out and see how she works later on we do want to take this apart because it would be kind of cool if this had disks in it like a viscous like right here we might be able to just to like rebuild the nose of this with better fluid and it will you know just be good like that but yeah we're gonna have to play with it some awesome but it's in there yeah some bolts up but it's all in there looks good we just got to get these arms cleaned up so the rust isn't on those but yeah it's freakin sweet yeah literally just all bolted red and we just had to clearance a couple things and this was a Bolton all-wheel-drive kit I guess you could call it for the further outta see even though it's all om stuff which is crazy just look at that that's wild cutter driveshaft ran yeah we got pictures from the Odyssey that all this stuff came out of then it just had a carrier bed and that was it there was no viscous coupler or anything like that so we're gonna try this diff out and worst-case scenario if this diff breaks which I'm not going to be surprised if it does we have a couple extra wagon discs and it's the same bolt pattern I could just stick a WAGO diff back there and those are proven to hold the power and then we could just add a viscous yeah we can just take that out and add the viscous like we need but now we're gonna try it like this and see how it works because if this isn't you know built to solid and they're like it's kind of wore out it's just gonna let let it slip a lot so I don't think anything's nothing's gonna break or this could be you know something that knows about yeah it's it's different for sure I don't know this this diff is extremely rare at least in the u.s. in the u.s. yeah it's super rare I don't think you find one maybe Canada maybe I don't know man coronavirus going around you ain't getting nothing but yeah this the all wheel drive version was not introduced to the states so that's really cool that our boy Matt was able to track this stuff down to make it happen thank you Matt because yeah without Matt I would have not found this stuff for sure we had to have it shipped over on a pallet yeah yeah it literally took like a day just to put it in all I had to do is wait for the dry shop to get lengthened then that was it and they did that at day - yeah they did that next day so it was a pretty quick process but minivan is going all-wheel drive this is probably either the first or very few of its kind in the US at least and I know if I haven't seen another all-wheel drive Odyssey out there yeah yeah it's already but now it's gonna be all yeah but now she's gonna be all wheel drive she's gonna have the back tires helping assist push the rest of the weight of this thing cuz traction was always a huge issue with this thing yeah traction or just blow the tires now you go back to the video when we race Leroy you will see it literally the whole airstrip it just smoked all the way down through fourth gear just left a black stripe with the whole way they had radials and it was still just spinning like crazy car stuff and the whole rear is swaying and install craziness this should make it stable and breaths now it's going to sway like the red demon it's gonna come out it's gonna be so gnarly dude goals I know a lot of guys were a lot of guys guessed it in the comments they saw it coming and I actually just realized in the turbo video I kind of I barely mentioned it because I was like I was like can you imagine this thing at World Cup with all the other all-wheel drive cars I said that in the video I tried to keep it a secret but they got so they realized after that video but still a bit they're still thinking about it they didn't see it happen here it's really it happened it's done the minivan is it's all-wheel drive look at it it's officially all-wheel drive yeah we're not that so sick keep er going oh you got some gnarly angle of that Drive yeah you're not giving her enough power to get the other one going oh it's trying that opened if life here now go got to hold this tire cuz we got yeah there it goes oh yeah she's scraping on the brakes a little bit we still got to clean it up and hold yeah yeah it's cleaning the rust off the brakes oh yeah there she is boys one carrier bearing mount away from being done on the all-wheel drive stuff from tightening some bolts hmm that's it hell yes she's almost there guys yeah for the rotavirus you know you never know get away Mad Max it out thousand horsepower minivan put some spikes on the front bumper we're running up a mini-gun on the roof down like crazy we laugh now and then we're gonna be all quarantined yeah alright so we are under the raddest ear ight now you can see where our fuel lines kind of run we didn't have these zip tied up along the side right here but we actually cut all the zip ties back off because right now we are getting ready to take this plastic piece off right here this houses like the factory fuel lines and stuff we're not going to need any of that you can see they're kind of cut back here we need to get all this out of the way because right now I'm getting ready to make a mount for the carrier bearing right here for the drive shaft so I have some steel tubing right here there's actually chromoly inch and 1/4 tubing what I'm going to do is I'm going to weld a plate on either side right where the bearing goes and then this guy is going to weld in above the carrier bearing and then off of this bar I have these little inch pieces of tubing those are going to sit on top like that I'll notch these guys out and then these will weld to the bar that will be up here I will weld some nuts on the inside of those and then the carrier bearing will bolt to both of those well up to the bar then it will be nice and strong then we're using the frame rails right here on each side so we know it's gonna be nice and strong and then that won't go anywhere and our driveshaft will be completely mounted up and ready to go so we're gonna go ahead and start ripping all this stuff off and I'm gonna get to work on cutting everything to length and getting it prepped to be welded all right so we got everything tacked into place and then I took everything out and got the bar welded to both of the plates right there all the way around we got it all put back inside and then I cut these 1-inch tubes to length and I got the ends notched right here and then if you look right there there's actually a nut inside of this tube right here so then the inside of this will be threaded we're just gonna have to barely drill this hole out a little bigger for a bigger size because this fit you know perfectly in that tube so that's gonna be nice and easy to weld around it's very similar to like this nut right here how has that lip on the edge of it so that's what's right there we got one on both sides and what I'm getting ready to do now is I'm going to tack this into place and probably just tack the nut real quick just tack everything where it's at so I can take it off for one last time get everything fully welded up and then we can finish cleaning off all this stuff and then get these plates welded in with the MIG welder like I said earlier and she will be ready to go then we can get our bolts in and it will tighten down to those nuts inside of there and that's it our drive shaft will be all done and ready to go and I think that's gonna look nice and clean it's gonna be plenty strong with this chromoly bar right here going to either side of the frame rails so yeah I'm gonna go ahead and take it all apart and get it knocked out and we also you know looked from the sides to make sure that the drive shaft was nice and level we put a level on this bar right here make sure everything is nice and square and then also going down this way everything is nice and lined up straight the transfer case is actually a little over to the drier side corresponding to the diff the diff is more centered and kind of this way so drive shop does have a slight angle kind of drifting over this way overall but that's all a lot of the all-wheel-drive civics and stuff are but yeah everything is in line with each other so that's all that matters yeah gonna go ahead and pull it out and get this guy welded up and we'll have a dry shot in the minivan and done ready to go alright guys just got everything welded up and it is completely done now really happy with how the MIG welds came out because if some of you guys have welded on the frames of cars before with all this paint and gunk on there you usually get really bad welds and it actually came out pretty good I did have a tough time kind of getting up on top there but I got them welded all the way around pretty good on both sides so those are done everything's tight right here so the drive shaft is mounted and ready to go and once again we got that done with our HTP welder here so things working awesome but yeah super excited driveshaft is finally mounted and done and there it is guess route to C is all wheel drive hell yeah so we still have some other things to get done on this but that was a big step to get it done let's get that carrier bearing mounted and that is out of the way yeah we'll see how this mount holds up but I think you should be pretty strong yeah that's just freakin sweet guys so we're gonna carry on and give some other things done so it is nearly 1:00 in the morning we've been staying up all night trying to get this thing finished up we actually leave to Florida tomorrow and there's still a couple more things they need to get done on the minivan but we got a lot knocked out and we're about to fire this thing up and it's gonna be the first time we're gonna try to click it into gear and see if all four wheels are spinning and everything is working correctly got the mount and everything done today got the rear and put back together everything's tight and we got the battery and stuff in and everything kind of wired up so we're gonna try it right now look at that reverse that's well guys there it is they're out of C is officially all-wheel-drive and if you've watched the video long enough to see this outro right now I just want to say thank you for watching the video and yeah I wanted to do my best to make it a surprise for you guys my original plan with the whole route of C series was to build it start to finish and not even release the first video of it until it was completely done dyno'd making a lot of power and ready to go but with the situation going on with everything going on in the world and else you know kind of rushing to come down to Florida in case we got stuck where we were at I kind of had to take a different route and I had to start posting the videos when the route of C wasn't where I wanted it to be currently it is obviously not tuned we just got to Florida the other day and it still needs stuff before I can even drive it around it all it's still not ready to go on the street event I was hoping to release the series of videos and a little bit of a different way but you know what in the end still got the point across and yeah the big reveal was that it is going all-wheel drive which some of you guys obviously guessed let's want to let you guys know that a whole bunch of work went into this thing and there's obviously a whole bunch more to come and yeah we're definitely taking on a big project here this thing has the potential to be really fast if we actually buckled down and got a legit cage in it and we got the all-wheel-drive system strong and working correctly the minivan has potential to be very fast but for right now I see it as kind of just a fun thing to drive around and make a ridiculous amount of power and just kind of see where it goes but we might drag race it and actually take it pretty seriously just depending on how it all works out but I just want to say thank you guys for watching all the videos we put out so far we have a whole bunch more to come while we're out here in Florida we just got out here and yeah it's gonna be awesome if you guys could do me a big favor be sure to LIKE this video if you've enjoyed the minivan series so far be sure to subscribe if you haven't already and yeah definitely more to come on the road to see but that was the last piece of the puzzle was that she is going all-wheel-drive so now that's out of the way if we can move on everything else and I just wanted to put all of the all-wheel-drive stuff into one each video so I hope you guys enjoyed this one I know it was a long one but yeah that was the whole process start to finish crazy that we were able to find this stuff overseas and get it all sent over and it just bolted right into the Odyssey it was freaking insane it was almost meant to be but yeah I'm gonna stop talking I'm gonna go to bed it's like 3:00 in the morning so I will see you guys in the next video and thanks for watchingwell guys the secret is out we did make the beer out is he all-wheel-drive I did my best to keep it a secret from you guys but I had a couple slip-ups some videos you could barely see the transfer case hanging off of the transmission and then that one video where I said how cool would it be if the route of C was at World Cup competing against other all-wheel-drive Civics and I didn't even catch that in editing and I left it in and a lot of you guys caught on to it but then it also left a whole bunch of you other guys confused if we were actually making the route to see all-wheel-drive so I think it kind of worked out we're actually over in Florida right now you can see Ruby behind me we're staying over at cletus's right now and I just wanted to film a little intro to this video just kind of explaining to you guys that the all-wheel drive process on the route of C definitely took a good amount of work and a good amount of time and there was a lot that went into it I mentioned in the video that it kind of all just went up in a day as far as the work goes and you know putting it all together that is kind of true but there was a lot that went into making the route to C all-wheel drive especially with getting all these parts sent overseas that you are about to see here very soon when the video actually kind of starts you'll see us with Matt and all this stuff was filmed over a month ago and this is something I had been setting up for a very long time was my ultimate goal with the route of C was to not only make it you know a thousand horsepower sequential but also to get the all-wheel drive stuff for it and I was gonna make it all wheel drive no matter what it took and it just so happened that one of you guys a long time ago in the comments said that hey I think they made an all-wheel drive version of that exact Odyssey and I saw the comment and I did a little bit of research and I never really saw too much of it but then I thought about it again and I did more research and I really had to dive in deep to find that it was an actual thing that Honda did and they made and all-wheel drive Odyssey but it was never introduced to the states it was only in Japan and like the UK I don't even know the full statistics about it but long story short we like we were able to track one down and get the rear end of one sent over to us and yeah I'm just gonna let you guys watch the full video I was gonna turn this into multiple parts but I just threw it all in one you can probably see the length of this video is pretty long and that's why I kind of stepped out right now just to let you guys know that I just wanted to put it all in there just to show you guys the full process start to finish what it took to make the route to see all-wheel-drive and yeah I just think this is gonna be super awesome we still have to test it out and stuff like that but yeah I just want you guys to sit back and enjoy the video and just know that a whole bunch of time went into making this happen and for those of you guys that guessed it Congrats you're right the odyssey is going all-wheel-drive but yeah I just wanted to say that please watch the video all the way through and let me know what you think we'll catch you back at the end there it is all the way from the UK got it dropped off this morning got a lot of special parts inside this plastic right here on this pallet what's in the package have some rare parts right there do they know what it is the question by looking at the box of chocolates whether these are the best jokes applauding that's my damn no chocolates just some boring bolts as far as I know about making something stop - he looks like it was just all pull right up should got the dip on there the rear axles only thing we're missing is the drive shaft but it was way too long to ship so we'll get a drive shaft made the arms got it all it Springs definitely need a half a B so you can still retain that maybe you won't yep definitely gonna need to get all this like sandblasted and repainted it's been sitting in a field near the ocean yeah and the salt got to it but I mean just a whole bunch of surface rust still cleanup prestige from the UK format this would probably never happened so you guys are seeing this video later on Matt's actually not with us right now but this is when he is with us that's pretty cool because he got to kind of see it all show up because he got sent out before he came over to the US we got here the palette arrived as well and yeah so what we plan on doing with all of this is since it is pretty dirty and kind of rusted up we're gonna probably get it all cleaned off get sandblasted repaint it all you know make it nice before you stick everything into the van but before we can even do that we do have to double check that it fits in the van and also what we're actually getting ready to do right now is we're going to pull the mr2s out of the way we're gonna get the route of C in here and pull the back rear subframe out of it and make sure that this all bolts up and uses the same bolt locations because knowing Conda it's probably all kind of bolted and that's what we were hoping for I took several pictures of my rear end before we ordered all this stuff just to kind of verify that it was the same and from what we can tell it looks identical in the pictures but you never really know until you get it and since we don't have any of these to measure off of we just kind of had to chance it and order this one and see if it just bolt thread it so we're hoping this will just pull right in and making our Odyssey all wheel drive would be super simple if it all just goes right in so we're gonna go ahead and get that over with today and yeah this bolts right in this is gonna be sick what you think about that this is amazing the route I see is gonna be real rowdy now about how almost looking like it should just bolt in so the shock bolts which are these ones seem to be the same but then the other ones go to holes that are not used these guys right here so they're not threaded but we might just have some run like a long bolt through it or something yeah but obviously that was for the all-wheel drive model aside by the holes even there was for that other subframe yeah looks like you'll just go right in we're gonna have to take the gas tank off and stops but I don't think it's gonna be bad no this looks awesome just go right together I can't now it looks like this is like the CRV style dip it also looks like we could just bolt in a wagon diff straight in this is a wagon if we have and if that one doesn't work out we can always switch to the Y go diff if we need to because it's literally the same exact bolt pattern you can kind of see it down in there and all the disallowed of it but ultra rare all-wheel drive Odyssey 2 RC in the parts right now that's cool we're going to Japan to the UK to America all around the world there's probably only a handful of these in the States if any do don't mouths around for hours yeah I spent two days from truck this time we got it alright guys so the plan was to humble everything out of the Odyssey and get all this cool didn't it's but we had a billion three stick tape measure and meant it work everything counts up and we kind of confirm that this will hold up with no issues regardless we make it work but it's gonna fit no problem so we don't want to spend the whole day cleaning all this apart just to bolt this in then just to unbolt it because we have to drop this off it all Samwise to get all the dust off there and put this all back together so the Odyssey can rolled out and spent way too much time so we're just going to go ahead call it get senator Fitz and we're gonna get all this stuff apart get it dropped off for sandblasting get it all nice and clean we'll be ready to go in how's the build continues later on so by the time you guys see this video this thing's already going to have the case whap and everything in it is sequential and it's gonna be in there this is one of the last pieces of the puzzle and you guys don't even know about this but this is actually one of the first things we're filming right now it's the first major piece we got before throughout icy build but yeah pretty sick all right yes it is time to get all of this stuff cleaned off and painted so since this stuff came from an odyssey that was by the ocean as you could tell it had a whole bunch of surface rust on it and I'm getting ready to sandblast this piece off I have Wyatt sand blaster over here got it topped off with sand and this just hooks up to the air compressor and I'm gonna get it all blasted off so we can repaint it and I just kind of laid some cardboard pieces down sure probably use like a tarp or something but all I got some cardboard so that's what we're gonna work with and for now I'm just going to be sandblasting this piece because I think I can reuse like the control arms and stuff like that off the Odyssey already so I don't think I have to do much to those parts but we will find out later on I just want to get this painted and cleaned up so then we can start taking everything out of the back of the Odyssey and seeing how all this is going to fit up inside of it but I'm gonna go ahead and get this guy blasted off and get her painted just got this stuff all sandblasted off this stuff definitely makes a huge mess so I got some sweeping to do so I'm gonna go ahead and clean up all this sand and get my cardboard pieces cleaned off and then I'm gonna go ahead start getting these guys all painted up but yeah came out pretty good I've never sandblasted before that is definitely a process could probably go a little more on them but I got all of the major surface rust off and I think that's going to be perfect to get them all painted up it started to get windy outside so we brought everything inside and shut the door just so no dirt or anything blew all over this stuff since it is still drying but you guys can see this thing is looking brand freaking new again really happy with how it came out so yeah that subframe is looking awesome compared to what it just looked like with all that rust on there you guys look at it now it looks like it just came from the dealership looks brand for canoe then got that little piece painted over there that just bolts right back onto this piece so that needs to dry for a little bit longer and yeah really happy with how that came out alright guys so coming back to when we were assembling the qwave transmission currently were in the process of assembling it this is a part we were hiding from you guys until now so yeah obviously you know Vans going all wheel drive but this right here is a stock transfer case for the K series transmission and just to show you guys what we did for a little bit of an upgrade as we are putting the quake together you can see this right here is a straight cut gear so this goes on the bottom side of the diff here was the other one out right here so this is the factory one so this one is the factory one the bolts on the bottom side of the diff you can see we have the upgraded straight cut one and then this is the factory final drive gear that goes on top and then they give kind of sandwiches in between that and then this bottom one is what actually connects to the transfer case there so this guy on om wanted to slide in like that you know then that comes up here connects to your gear but we got the upgraded straight cut gear for that and then we have the matching straight cut gear right here and this guy replaces this gear so this will go on just like that and then that will you know come up right in there so we have our upgraded gear there to handle much more power for the all-wheel-drive system and then we went a step further and we also went ahead and picked ourselves up this billet transfer case cover this is from drag cartel gave us a discount on this guy this thing is beautiful so we are going to be taking apart this transfer case right here and stuff in all the guts from this into this new billet housing with the upgraded straight cut gears so the transfer case will also be upgraded well because if you guys remember Roman actually broke one of his transfer case your setups and we're gonna try to do everything we can to avoid that the band does way a little bit more we're shooting for a lot of power so wouldn't be too surprised if we left the stocks up in there but eventually it would break so we went ahead upgraded that and then this stronger housing will hopefully help hold things together a little better but yeah so as we are assembling this Quaife right now we also have to get this stock transfer case pulled apart get all that stuff swapped over but yeah I wanted to show you guys that we did upgrade the four-wheel drive system in the transmission as well so all this stuff is super strong is from PPG also from drag cartel as well if you guys you know are interested this is where we got this stuff so cool and shout out to Jeremy but yeah now back to the rest of the video we're gonna start ripping the back end of the rod to see apart we are going to be getting these control arms off this rear k-member piece that is factory with the radda see because we have to put our new one on the houses the diff and then another thing that has to happen is the stock fuel tank has to go the UK version and like the Japanese version that came all-wheel-drive it came with a tank that actually had a tunnel cut out in the center of the tank so the drive shot could go through it since this one's front-wheel drive we do not have that and this tank is going to have to go and we are going to be switching to a fuel cell in the rear so for right now I'm gonna go ahead and start getting all this stuff ripped out get the fuel tank dropped out of this thing and then we're gonna see how our new all-wheel drive stuff bolts up because there are some bolt holes that need to change a little bit but from what we've gathered just from measuring it looks like it should just all bolt in so that's what we're hoping for you'll just bolt right in it'll be quick and simple and then another thing today is we got this drive shaft right here this is out of a Honda Element and this seems to be the same size bolt pattern as the diff that came with the all-wheel drive stuff from the UK and then the other end will just go straight to our transfer case because that's just a K series transfer case so we won't need any adapters but from the looks of it so far it looks like we are going to have to cut this and probably extend it a little bit because the route of C is kind of long but yeah we'll find out more on that later but right now I'm gonna go ahead and get all this stuff ripped out of the back you got it spider-man oh yeah no steady stream now I lower I don't know what rolling with the plug beer overflowing so we'll call the police oh dude I'm missing I don't want to touch it I mean what's in here he'll just go into this this is our coolant we're just gonna get some gas with our coolant it'll be all right dude there's so much in there cuz then I'm just gonna be sitting there holding it oh it's right here I'll film you you take it cuz I ain't touching that too much beauty five dog she full she's still spewing out so we got the straps holding the gas tank off everything is unbolted to fill her neck all of its gone we got these brake lines and stuff out of the way and we've been trying to pry on this thing with a decent sized pry bar and this gas thing is like welded to the damn van so we got Big Bertha over here we got a prion er some more thinking these pieces that like go up there that kind of help with like a vibration and stuff it literally like glued itself to the van so we've been prying on it and it sounds like it's starting to creak but we got a break for free and then we got the scissor jack right there to catch it but this thing is on there good I think the other side needs it Matta - oh it's creaking that's she's in there oh it's wiggling now though there's just one more on that side I think was on there good that's a big yeah we had to get Big Bertha that thing's five and a half feet all the leverage yeah she-she splurge dude gas tank is out dude nothing was holding a I'm telling you it was just stuck on there it was these little pad things like CDs those little pad things were just stuck to the body I mean it hasn't been taken out in 25 years all right we got the gas tank and everything pulled out of the back of the minivan and now we are ready to check and see if the all-wheel drive rear subframe will bolt right up from our measurements it looks like it should so we're gonna go ahead and try to hang this thing up and see how it fits guys this is so sick it looks like this thing is just gonna bolt right up right now we just have two bolts holding it up it is just barely hitting right up there you can kind of see that so we are going to have to trim that piece and then I think it also might hit on these pieces kind of right there but if you look close you can see these little plates are kind of spot welded on right there and if you look kind of in the back there that's where the old one mounted too but we don't need that because these have this front piece that comes off of them so I was thinking to actually drill the spot welds off that back plate right there and take those guys off there's one there and one right back over here so I think I'm gonna take those off and then trim this piece and then it looks like this is gonna suck right up to those existing holes they weren't even being used that we're just you know already there in case you had an all-wheel-drive model which is awesome these are not not certain in there so we might have to run a long bolt with a nut inside the van to make it work I bet on the all-wheel-drive model that guy right there was definitely nut certain inside of there so it would have just bolted right up but yeah once we make some clearance right there and on those guys this looks like it's just gonna suck right up and be just bolted right into place and it looks like everything off this old piece right here is just gonna work directly with that so this is looking awesome it's so crazy that this has existed this whole time I literally had no idea these Aussies came in an all-wheel-drive version but once I found that out thanks to Matt he tracked one down in the UK these were not available to the states at all like we said earlier this is a super rare part and the fact that it just bolts right into the back of the router see it's just so freakin awesome but yeah we're gonna have to just drop this thing back down and get that stuff taken care of it looks like she's gonna bolt right up which is freaking amazing and then we just got to go ahead and put everything back together from there and then reuse the spindles off the one that came from overseas as well so we can run the axles alright I got these spot-welds drilled out on both of these pieces that went in the corners here so this is the piece that went right there and like I said before our old k-member bolted right through this hole right here but since we have the new all-wheel-drive one we won't be using this at all so got that whole sawed out of the way and then there was another piece right here that I had to hammer off it was really hard to get a saws are an angle grinder into this corner just because of all this stuff going on around it so I ended up just hitting it off with a hammer and then I took the color match spray-paint that I already had and I just went ahead and sprayed over all that because there was some exposed metal just to help keep that from rusting later on but yeah got both sides done and then I also got this piece right here cut off so we should be good for clearance so we're gonna go ahead and bolt this piece back on and see if she fits all right guys the all wheel drive your k-member is back in and check it out it is not hitting on anything at all and before this part right here wasn't fully budding up to the subframe right here because it was hitting but now when you push up on it it goes right up to it so we are good to go and that is freaking awesome alright so we got our new we roll the Drive cam and we bolt it up into the Odyssey right now and this is the one that came out the factory one this one still looks like it's in really good shape and this right here is the one that came on the pallet all the all-wheel drive stuff as you can see this one's also super rusty as well like this control arm is all rusted out the caliper has a whole bunch of surface rust on it all this stuff means a lot of work I'd have to probably give it the same treatment as I did that you know like sandblast it down repaint it all and that's a lot of extra work and then this piece over here that came off of the Odyssey this one looks like it's in great shape and from what we can tell all this stuff looks like you would literally just swap right onto this spindle right here we only have to reuse this spindle unless we do need these other parts for some other reason like there might be a special bolt pattern but it looks like this control arm will pull it right up to this this piece is the same if this piece this lower control arm is the same as this one and glued I think all this stuff will swap right over to here and then we can put all that into the back of our honestly I'm just power wash this stuff off and this stuff isn't really shake the only part we're gonna have to reuse is just the spindle right here because that our reacts already here that came on the pallet and this guy right into just like that so the only piece I think we really need is this guy and then it looks like all these stuffs just gonna swap right over and be nice and easy so that's gonna be awesome so I'm gonna go ahead and start taking all this apart I'll take all this apart and then just use all the good parts with that spindle stick it all back up in there and I think we could set it on the ground and she'll be officially all it'll draw it out for that about all the parts you need so and go ahead and start working all this part oh my gosh guys check it out the route of C is officially all-wheel drive just got everything kind of bolted in I did actually have to use the old rusty arms you can see right there and then also this piece right there I reuse those because when I went to get the old control arms off the original k-member piece this bolt right there and this bolt right there are completely seized into place I got the nuts off the backside of them but the bolt is fused to that inner bushing metal sleeve right there I even took this little induction heater got those things glowing red and they just did not want to hammer out at all they should literally just hammer out right now but they're just seized in there and then I even try putting a breaker bar on there and I tried turning it and then I started to shred the bushings on the inside so it was a whole process trying to get those off so I ended up just throwing the old ones on my plan is just to order some new ones of these since they are not four-wheel drive specific I can hopefully just order some new ones or go to the junkyard and just find some other ones but if I can find some new ones then I'll come with brand new bushings and everything like that and then I can also try to order a new one of these pieces right here so we don't have those ugly rusty parts anymore but for right now it is starting to get late so I wanted to get all this stuff mocked up because I'm getting ready to take the drive shop to a driveshaft shop tomorrow morning because I'm pretty sure we need to extend that guy that's on the ground right there we are going to get to that in just a second but everything is on and in place and this is freaking awesome guys so if you come over here to the diff you can spin this guy see our axle spinning and our tire is spinning so it's all in there and then this scissor jack right here is just kind of putting pressure on that guy since I don't have the bolts ran through that yet so I just want everything where it's going to be but the diff is bolted in tight then we have one of the back bolts on because yeah we're getting ready to get the driveshaft on right now the one that we got from an element and then when we took the little piece that it came with off of here it was leaking like differential fluid out of this so there might be a bad seal in there or maybe they just do that honestly I now this diff is really kind of foreign to us we'll get into that later on and I'll kind of talk about this differential but for right now so we can get out of here for tonight and I can get this drive shaft by tomorrow since it's Friday I don't want a drive shaft place to be closed for the weekend I'm gonna get the element drive shaft bolted on and then we have another scissor jack over here or screw jack just to hold the drive shaft up in place we're gonna measure how much more we need on the drive shaft and hopefully they can get that knocked out by tomorrow so I'll have a drive shaft before the weekend hits but yeah it's all in there guys definitely was a lot of work and a lot of it has to come back out to get cleaned up anyways but yeah this is freaking sweet I can't believe it all just bolted in like that so crazy all right element driveshaft is on really cool it just bolts right up to our odyssey diff in the back and then this end is going to bolt right up to our K series transfer case so you can see we are a little short there and we did just measure this with both hands but this for the camera we need about eleven and a half inches extended on the end of our drive shot there and then so port right up and be good to go we'll drive minivan and then we're gonna have to make yeah amount to hold the carrier bearing right here I was really hoping it was gonna line up with this section because I could build off that really good but it's just slightly off the only way to make that work would be to like shorten that and then add more length to this end which is this way more work than we need to do so I will probably build brackets that kind of come off of this like 90 up and then just bolt it to that somehow but we will figure that out another day once the drive shaft is actually the right length and everything so yeah we're gonna take that tomorrow to get it lengthened eleven and a half inches and then our drive shaft will bolt up and that's it she's all wheel drive everything sweet but it's a late night and we're gonna get out of here alright guys it is the next day and we have the drive shaft just picked it up they got this in lengthen and Tom's over here too he just got in town who's your treatment he's helping out brows he's about to be all wheel drive right now this is awesome moon she can be all-wheel-drive in about five seconds you're just have to build a bracket bang yeah I come from here to here with a plate you know a little box so it's pretty stout this is crazy we have dot bead all wheel drive route to see nuts hello guys we got the drive shaft in and that's it Rossi is officially all-wheel drive there's a whole bunch of little stuff that needs buttoned up on the rear and then we still need to make a mount for this carry your bearing right here we just have this ratchet strap holding her up but driveshaft is in and it's connected yeah give her a spin you've spinning them check it out rear tire spin in look at that here you're going huh get back here she all will drive boys hell yeah yeah hit Romans going easy you're gonna twist that one like you did yours but yeah yeah it's definitely long they had to add quite a bit to the nose of it there to get it to fit so she is a long drive shaft but it works it's so crazy that this stuff existed they just bolts right into the back just had to be more research than this now yeah anyone wondering it's called a Honda Odyssey prestige the prestige edition came all wound drive oh yeah so we don't have a viscous coupler on this drive shaft a lot of you guys know about all-wheel drive civics and stuff they normally run the viscous coupler from the waggle bands and that helps take some of the dampening from like any differences in tires size or anything like that going to the rear it has some slip and that's normally built into the drive shaft right here this diff is a little different so we're thinking the viscous is built inside of the front housing of this drive shaft right here it's similar to like a CRV in element style but they actually have like a little pump on the side and they have like some clutch deal going on but this diff isn't like nothing we've ever seen before so we're just going to kind of put it in and try it out and see how she works later on we do want to take this apart because it would be kind of cool if this had disks in it like a viscous like right here we might be able to just to like rebuild the nose of this with better fluid and it will you know just be good like that but yeah we're gonna have to play with it some awesome but it's in there yeah some bolts up but it's all in there looks good we just got to get these arms cleaned up so the rust isn't on those but yeah it's freakin sweet yeah literally just all bolted red and we just had to clearance a couple things and this was a Bolton all-wheel-drive kit I guess you could call it for the further outta see even though it's all om stuff which is crazy just look at that that's wild cutter driveshaft ran yeah we got pictures from the Odyssey that all this stuff came out of then it just had a carrier bed and that was it there was no viscous coupler or anything like that so we're gonna try this diff out and worst-case scenario if this diff breaks which I'm not going to be surprised if it does we have a couple extra wagon discs and it's the same bolt pattern I could just stick a WAGO diff back there and those are proven to hold the power and then we could just add a viscous yeah we can just take that out and add the viscous like we need but now we're gonna try it like this and see how it works because if this isn't you know built to solid and they're like it's kind of wore out it's just gonna let let it slip a lot so I don't think anything's nothing's gonna break or this could be you know something that knows about yeah it's it's different for sure I don't know this this diff is extremely rare at least in the u.s. in the u.s. yeah it's super rare I don't think you find one maybe Canada maybe I don't know man coronavirus going around you ain't getting nothing but yeah this the all wheel drive version was not introduced to the states so that's really cool that our boy Matt was able to track this stuff down to make it happen thank you Matt because yeah without Matt I would have not found this stuff for sure we had to have it shipped over on a pallet yeah yeah it literally took like a day just to put it in all I had to do is wait for the dry shop to get lengthened then that was it and they did that at day - yeah they did that next day so it was a pretty quick process but minivan is going all-wheel drive this is probably either the first or very few of its kind in the US at least and I know if I haven't seen another all-wheel drive Odyssey out there yeah yeah it's already but now it's gonna be all yeah but now she's gonna be all wheel drive she's gonna have the back tires helping assist push the rest of the weight of this thing cuz traction was always a huge issue with this thing yeah traction or just blow the tires now you go back to the video when we race Leroy you will see it literally the whole airstrip it just smoked all the way down through fourth gear just left a black stripe with the whole way they had radials and it was still just spinning like crazy car stuff and the whole rear is swaying and install craziness this should make it stable and breaths now it's going to sway like the red demon it's gonna come out it's gonna be so gnarly dude goals I know a lot of guys were a lot of guys guessed it in the comments they saw it coming and I actually just realized in the turbo video I kind of I barely mentioned it because I was like I was like can you imagine this thing at World Cup with all the other all-wheel drive cars I said that in the video I tried to keep it a secret but they got so they realized after that video but still a bit they're still thinking about it they didn't see it happen here it's really it happened it's done the minivan is it's all-wheel drive look at it it's officially all-wheel drive yeah we're not that so sick keep er going oh you got some gnarly angle of that Drive yeah you're not giving her enough power to get the other one going oh it's trying that opened if life here now go got to hold this tire cuz we got yeah there it goes oh yeah she's scraping on the brakes a little bit we still got to clean it up and hold yeah yeah it's cleaning the rust off the brakes oh yeah there she is boys one carrier bearing mount away from being done on the all-wheel drive stuff from tightening some bolts hmm that's it hell yes she's almost there guys yeah for the rotavirus you know you never know get away Mad Max it out thousand horsepower minivan put some spikes on the front bumper we're running up a mini-gun on the roof down like crazy we laugh now and then we're gonna be all quarantined yeah alright so we are under the raddest ear ight now you can see where our fuel lines kind of run we didn't have these zip tied up along the side right here but we actually cut all the zip ties back off because right now we are getting ready to take this plastic piece off right here this houses like the factory fuel lines and stuff we're not going to need any of that you can see they're kind of cut back here we need to get all this out of the way because right now I'm getting ready to make a mount for the carrier bearing right here for the drive shaft so I have some steel tubing right here there's actually chromoly inch and 1/4 tubing what I'm going to do is I'm going to weld a plate on either side right where the bearing goes and then this guy is going to weld in above the carrier bearing and then off of this bar I have these little inch pieces of tubing those are going to sit on top like that I'll notch these guys out and then these will weld to the bar that will be up here I will weld some nuts on the inside of those and then the carrier bearing will bolt to both of those well up to the bar then it will be nice and strong then we're using the frame rails right here on each side so we know it's gonna be nice and strong and then that won't go anywhere and our driveshaft will be completely mounted up and ready to go so we're gonna go ahead and start ripping all this stuff off and I'm gonna get to work on cutting everything to length and getting it prepped to be welded all right so we got everything tacked into place and then I took everything out and got the bar welded to both of the plates right there all the way around we got it all put back inside and then I cut these 1-inch tubes to length and I got the ends notched right here and then if you look right there there's actually a nut inside of this tube right here so then the inside of this will be threaded we're just gonna have to barely drill this hole out a little bigger for a bigger size because this fit you know perfectly in that tube so that's gonna be nice and easy to weld around it's very similar to like this nut right here how has that lip on the edge of it so that's what's right there we got one on both sides and what I'm getting ready to do now is I'm going to tack this into place and probably just tack the nut real quick just tack everything where it's at so I can take it off for one last time get everything fully welded up and then we can finish cleaning off all this stuff and then get these plates welded in with the MIG welder like I said earlier and she will be ready to go then we can get our bolts in and it will tighten down to those nuts inside of there and that's it our drive shaft will be all done and ready to go and I think that's gonna look nice and clean it's gonna be plenty strong with this chromoly bar right here going to either side of the frame rails so yeah I'm gonna go ahead and take it all apart and get it knocked out and we also you know looked from the sides to make sure that the drive shaft was nice and level we put a level on this bar right here make sure everything is nice and square and then also going down this way everything is nice and lined up straight the transfer case is actually a little over to the drier side corresponding to the diff the diff is more centered and kind of this way so drive shop does have a slight angle kind of drifting over this way overall but that's all a lot of the all-wheel-drive civics and stuff are but yeah everything is in line with each other so that's all that matters yeah gonna go ahead and pull it out and get this guy welded up and we'll have a dry shot in the minivan and done ready to go alright guys just got everything welded up and it is completely done now really happy with how the MIG welds came out because if some of you guys have welded on the frames of cars before with all this paint and gunk on there you usually get really bad welds and it actually came out pretty good I did have a tough time kind of getting up on top there but I got them welded all the way around pretty good on both sides so those are done everything's tight right here so the drive shaft is mounted and ready to go and once again we got that done with our HTP welder here so things working awesome but yeah super excited driveshaft is finally mounted and done and there it is guess route to C is all wheel drive hell yeah so we still have some other things to get done on this but that was a big step to get it done let's get that carrier bearing mounted and that is out of the way yeah we'll see how this mount holds up but I think you should be pretty strong yeah that's just freakin sweet guys so we're gonna carry on and give some other things done so it is nearly 1:00 in the morning we've been staying up all night trying to get this thing finished up we actually leave to Florida tomorrow and there's still a couple more things they need to get done on the minivan but we got a lot knocked out and we're about to fire this thing up and it's gonna be the first time we're gonna try to click it into gear and see if all four wheels are spinning and everything is working correctly got the mount and everything done today got the rear and put back together everything's tight and we got the battery and stuff in and everything kind of wired up so we're gonna try it right now look at that reverse that's well guys there it is they're out of C is officially all-wheel-drive and if you've watched the video long enough to see this outro right now I just want to say thank you for watching the video and yeah I wanted to do my best to make it a surprise for you guys my original plan with the whole route of C series was to build it start to finish and not even release the first video of it until it was completely done dyno'd making a lot of power and ready to go but with the situation going on with everything going on in the world and else you know kind of rushing to come down to Florida in case we got stuck where we were at I kind of had to take a different route and I had to start posting the videos when the route of C wasn't where I wanted it to be currently it is obviously not tuned we just got to Florida the other day and it still needs stuff before I can even drive it around it all it's still not ready to go on the street event I was hoping to release the series of videos and a little bit of a different way but you know what in the end still got the point across and yeah the big reveal was that it is going all-wheel drive which some of you guys obviously guessed let's want to let you guys know that a whole bunch of work went into this thing and there's obviously a whole bunch more to come and yeah we're definitely taking on a big project here this thing has the potential to be really fast if we actually buckled down and got a legit cage in it and we got the all-wheel-drive system strong and working correctly the minivan has potential to be very fast but for right now I see it as kind of just a fun thing to drive around and make a ridiculous amount of power and just kind of see where it goes but we might drag race it and actually take it pretty seriously just depending on how it all works out but I just want to say thank you guys for watching all the videos we put out so far we have a whole bunch more to come while we're out here in Florida we just got out here and yeah it's gonna be awesome if you guys could do me a big favor be sure to LIKE this video if you've enjoyed the minivan series so far be sure to subscribe if you haven't already and yeah definitely more to come on the road to see but that was the last piece of the puzzle was that she is going all-wheel-drive so now that's out of the way if we can move on everything else and I just wanted to put all of the all-wheel-drive stuff into one each video so I hope you guys enjoyed this one I know it was a long one but yeah that was the whole process start to finish crazy that we were able to find this stuff overseas and get it all sent over and it just bolted right into the Odyssey it was freaking insane it was almost meant to be but yeah I'm gonna stop talking I'm gonna go to bed it's like 3:00 in the morning so I will see you guys in the next video and thanks for watching\n"