The Joy of Car Hunting: A Rotary Enthusiast's Adventure

As I stepped out of my car and onto the sun-drenched driveway, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. My friend Tommy had told me that he had acquired a rare find - a 1993 Nissan Skyline with a rotary engine. The challenge was on to see if this car would be the perfect addition to my growing collection of Japanese classics.

As we began to inspect the car, it became clear that it was in rough shape. The trim pieces were missing, and the interior could use some serious TLC. But despite its rough exterior, there was something undeniably charming about the car. Maybe it was the way it seemed to exude a sense of quiet confidence, or perhaps it was just the thrill of the hunt that had me hooked.

One thing was for sure - this car was not going to be easy to restore. The engine, a trusty 350 rotary, looked like it had been sitting for months. No trickle charger in sight, and yet, to my surprise, it roared to life as soon as I started the engine. It felt like a different car altogether - one that was ready to hit the road and leave all its troubles behind.

As we took the car for a spin, it became clear that this was not going to be your average drive. The engine seemed to have more torque than I was used to, and the acceleration was smooth and silky. It was as if the car had been built for speed - or at least, that's what my imagination told me. But in reality, it felt like a beautifully tuned machine, one that was capable of delivering a driving experience unlike any other.

One thing that struck me about this car was its connection to Tommy's own experiences with rotary engines. He had rebuilt his own Skyline several years ago and was still riding the highs of owning such a rare and beautiful machine. It was clear that he knew what he was talking about when it came to these cars, and I felt lucky to be able to learn from him.

As we continued to chat and laugh together, it became clear that Tommy's enthusiasm for rotary engines was not just limited to this one car. He spoke of the joy of driving a well-tuned Skyline, of the way the engine seemed to come alive under the right conditions. It was infectious - I found myself getting caught up in his excitement, eager to learn more about these amazing machines.

One thing that Tommy mentioned during our conversation was the rarity of cars like this Skyline. With only 350 units produced worldwide since 1993, it's clear that owning one is a true privilege. And yet, despite its scarcity, the car seemed almost... accessible. Maybe it was just the way it felt on the road, but there was something about driving this Skyline that made me feel like I was part of an exclusive club - a club of people who understood the joys and challenges of owning such a rare machine.

As we finished up our impromptu car hunt and prepared to head back down the hill, Tommy turned to me with a mischievous grin. "Hey, want to build one of these together?" he asked, his eyes sparkling with excitement. I couldn't help but feel a surge of enthusiasm at the prospect - it was an offer I couldn't refuse.

Over the next few days, we spent hours poring over diagrams and blueprints, discussing everything from engine swaps to suspension upgrades. It was clear that Tommy had some serious expertise when it came to building these cars, and I knew that with his guidance, our project would be in good hands.

As we worked on the car, bringing it back to life one piece at a time, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this journey. From its humble beginnings as a rough-around-the-edges Skyline to its current status as a highly sought-after collector's item, this car had captured my heart in a way that few others ever have.

And so, here we are - two friends embarking on a shared adventure, driven by our passion for Japanese classics and the thrill of the hunt. Whether it's a Skyline, a Nissan GT-R, or something entirely different, one thing is certain: with Tommy at the helm, you can bet that life is never going to be dull.

The car hunt was just the beginning - there were still so many stories to tell, so many adventures to share. And as I looked around at my friend and the beautiful Skyline before us, I knew that this was just the start of an epic journey - one that would take me to places both unexpected and exhilarating.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to today's video guys just a nice morning in connecticut we decided as a typical connecticut routine we'd be making a dunkin stop and i think starbucks got mad at us because look at our order number we had a blast uh doing some nice little road raging with the cars last night i didn't film for my channel i just didn't have time to set up gopros and stuff but i'm pretty sure tommy and or colette will have videos up just a really cool group enjoying the scenery and all the sounds weather uh but we're gonna head over to tommy's shop and i am gonna film today i feel like the camera just doesn't do the vibes justice we're starting off the video at tommy's shop tommy your favorite place in connecticut say it you want to explain where where me and colette just were to give some comments oh my god you're a gift i call it the never-ending tag sale this is a big gross it's a flea market you guys know the phone i hate it i hate it so much called the elephant's trunk oh you want the official name yeah to be fair colette did find uh your gift you did it are you ready for it open it up this is like the same wall that i have dude can i like roll up and just like off you want to show it wait can you see it yeah did it come in the wallet yeah do i look like a cop for me yeah kind of i need to get good at them you need a hat i'm not a hat guy not a hat guy all right so i got all right i'll return the favor come on oh wait hold on so since now finally has made the grand reveal of oh wait god no i can't because this video is going to go up today my video i can finally talk about the fact that colette has purchased grand slash tommy my for like a second and she's going to be doing former slash no longer any of y'all slash officially mine where is she from does anyone even know no you're from what part family family she's from family texas so this is the real flea market she's going to be doing some this is the real flea market you know what but it's not cheap like the trunk are you sure they have some pretty good prices over there just try try low balling and watch what happens yeah it's right i was already looking at stuff i wanted to make friends this is a gift for me or colette unfortunately what is it cause it goes with a jacket oh this is an official wait is this the dish that you're like i would get for you and it's fifty dollars that's actually a pretty nice gift tommy i saw this earlier i'm not a hat guy somebody gave it to me oh uh paul lopes in the uk the guy i want 5rs from gave it to me dude that's actually fire super sick it's pretty fire thanks so 50 bucks hey you're not talking about civic dude i'm just i'm just filming the bickering i like it no dude don't talk about josh's car i am my car is low no one talks about josh's car he said josh would smoke you yeah is that talking to adam i'm sorry i thought that was a compliment for josh but yeah for him not me this was talking about you for reference josh drives like a 1970s civic that is extremely slow on 12-inch wheels and like 85 with tires i don't even know yet that is probably the width you know those donuts that come in the in your spare wheels a lot more yeah the donuts for your lawnmower that's what josh has in his car he would have smoked green last night he would have yeah because europe you were driving like a cnu left i don't think we've talked about it much in this video but this is tommy's oem plus rv25 neo stock turbo with a 30-71 inside of it four-door are you the four-door poppy i am well then you're the guy to drive this thing i think i mean i would love to i want to i want to tell you how good it feels let me show you some wax stuff okay show me we got an rv20 air box but you'll notice that there's a filter down there this is the show what i eventually plan on doing filling this with a catch can so it's like not useful but it hides the catch game because the idea was just to make this bay look fully stock i think we did pretty good i think it's pretty cool i know aluminum right here kind of i know that this is stock it's just like my ocd drives me nuts you know when i get it redone i'll probably get it done in like a silver or something that'd be cool so i want to see what it feels like especially considering it's a stock rb25 neo and i've put so much time and effort into making mine this crazy built engine which in the beginning probably wasn't even necessary um but uh yeah neos are sick 500 493 493 for 489 torque on 35 pounds of boost on a stock head gasket that's what you get when you have a side down intercooler yeah well you don't even headsets of this engine no you're crazy yeah not yet and uh dang dude this thing seems happy and don't log it you know what i mean i love how nice it revs it grabs good you gotta like clutching it yeah exactly oh i like that a lot that's fun it's cool adam just stalled you guys i think i'm recording you guys missed it but so it's an x80 twin but it's for an r32 gtr which has a clutch booster it is this doesn't have a clutch booster it's like not heavy it's like springy you don't have the steering thing hooked up do you nope you know what i'm talking about oh look who's here finally potential victim what are you doing sid i'm doing pretty b-roll stuff okay a simple film damn gnarly you just gotta like not let your foot out um so okay so you know how there's the thing that you can hook up that goes to the power steering right makes it softer you don't have that cup this thing's dude it's so nice when you hook it up i know so this is going to explode the rb20 gearbox if you do what you're doing i don't really bang gears i just put in gear lightly rolling the throttle you know easy on stuff you know remember this pothole's new yeah it's brutal too little it's a hell hole that thing dude stick with your next ride all right so just give her a roll you're good so yeah you could do like first there's a cop down here still yeah for the flea market he's still there yeah go uh sure maybe not he's just over the hill just go right okay now that we're doing anything illegal this thing feels very responsive it's responsive it's just a transient response yeah you know it gets all confusing for me that's fun very nice it's good right yeah i see what you mean about the transient though yeah so we don't hit so it's on 35 pounds but we don't you don't really hit it unless you put in fourth gear and from set uh 2000 rpms go you can go right but i would just don't do that and i think it'll be good forever i love how quiet it is it reminds me a lot of like a gtr because they're usually quiet yeah it's fun it is quiet you can just go straight and it handles really nice too yeah it feels good it feels like dialed yeah this is very much so tommy car i think you're oh no your third adam just stalled you guys i think i'm recording you guys missed it but so it has an x80 twin but it's for an r32 gtr which has a clutch booster it is this doesn't have a clutch booster it's like not heavy it's like springy you don't have the steering thing hooked up do you nope but you know what i'm talking about oh look who's here finally a potential victim what are you doing okay a simple film damn gnarly you just gotta like not let your foot out um so okay so you know how there's the thing that you can hook up that goes to the power steering right it makes it softer you don't have that cup this thing's dude it's so nice when you hook it up i know so this is going to explode the rv20 gearbox if you do what you're doing i don't really bang gears i just put in gear lightly roll on the throttle you know i'm easy on stuff you know remember this pothole's new yeah it's brutal too it's a hell hole that thing dude stick with your next ride all right so just give her a roll so yeah you could do like first there's a cop down here still yeah for the flea market he's still there yeah go uh sure maybe not he's just over the hill chris go right okay now that we're doing anything illegal this thing feels very responsive it's responsive it's just a transient response yeah you know it gets all confusing for me that's fun very nice it's good right yeah i see what you mean about the transient though yeah so we don't hit so it's on 35 pounds but we don't you don't really hit it unless you put in fourth gear and from set uh 2000 rpms go you can go right but i would just don't do that and i think it'll be good forever i love how quiet it is it reminds me a lot of like a gtr because they're usually quiet yeah it's fun it is quite you can just go straight and it handles really nice too yeah it feels good it feels like dialed yeah this is very much so a tommy car i think oh no you're i like how it drives though i feel like people sleep on the the gts t's a lot because they feel like such a nice car there's a 240 with a little bit more weight and a lot more rigid just a nice 240. yeah that's what they are 33s feels so good kind of feels like a 34. yeah but better you just turn around forever or you can actually go to the end yeah i'll do the loop yeah sure i think one thing that people definitely sleep on especially if you're building a car up here it's really cool having a quiet car and i loved when my evo is super quiet so you can just rage back roads and it doesn't like piss people alert the neighbors yeah like they can't really tell that you're going fast if the car is closed i like to go full stealth you know remember my evil all you could use turbo noise remember your porsche that is the problem with that but i like to think that because it's such an exotic sound that people like they're like oh yeah that's like oh it's orange yeah it's orange and it sounds like an f1 card so wait uh does your porsche or did it have like a button for like yes why okay which is kind of cool yeah does that would not work anymore it'd be cool if you push that button when you were passing me the other day yeah that would have been a nice sorry about your ear drums yeah still recovering dude it's so loud that you can hear this when i'm behind you really yeah all right so that noise i get so many people asking me what blow up how i have the answer is none so we welded the stock bluff valve closed so it looked like we had the stock one i'll probably eventually add one i think to like the inner core piping there you go to the inner core piping um near the side mount this is also on the side mount intercooler it'll sound way cooler if you put an intake pipe on it though like if you have a piece of whatever four inch laying around yeah do it today dude you'll be like oh my god i don't have anything that would fit we're looking forever i'm surprised i even had that filter yeah this is like the perfect setup especially as a stock engine right it's very smooth and happy 85 really is king so it's four-door poppy approved absolutely there it is boys that's all we were trying to shoot for four-door poppy approved i'm not a four-door guy it is funny because i feel like we do and like in like certain aspects try to build cars for each other's approval but i don't care what anyone else thinks right well because people don't know yeah a lot of people haven't experienced all the cars and driven cool stuff to know like that this thing is rad and i think another thing too both of us build cars to drive them and enjoy them so we like care about the actual driving aspect a lot more than just like looks you're in that clutch dude i was just like frozen you know it reminds me of my my 32 because back in the day it was like fast enough to spin but it wouldn't do like anything real erratic so i would kind of steer in a little bit to make it feel faster yeah this thing like the the lsd is a little yeah go right the lsd is a little like i don't know about worn something to the right it's good to left it's in i'm just going to swap it yeah oh you think so possibly i don't know anything about that but i think you spin both wheels it just your line is probably making it twitch in it yeah dude that is insane response yeah so the cool thing is it's stock frame turbo with the 3071 center uh with a 18 pound actuator it's garrett's like craziest internal gate so normally we'd have creep but we just opened the boost a boost controller so creep is what we what we do to 35 that's max so eventually i want to like dial it i want to put cams on your head studs head gasket and just like hopefully it's just safe i would just leave it like this this morning yeah what do you think cams would do to it honestly with this turbo i i think it would fight the turbo oh really this turbo's like a low mid-range turbo and you'd be putting a cam to move the power band up more when this turbo is gonna choke up top anyway right that's what i was wondering like if it would give me i think so it would hurt low end yeah this setup i think is better suited for stockham yes yeah small turbo stock cam yeah oh we rolled up on an old supercar so good so good no no frog finger dude that's that's rude that's what i meant to be coil your badge yeah it's in there you're lucky i forgot my badge i found a toggle switch behind the hvac box japanese car problems yeah so what do you think we're good i like this thing how do you think you do up against like the porsche from a roller from a dig roll i'll never race that from a dig in anything it'd be close i think it'd be good i'm trying to like butt dino picture the porsche is so fast i depending on what speed we start at if i if i start above like five or six grand i think the porsche will be like dead even with this really yeah which is good that's good though yeah just cause it's heavier i think colette's evo would pull on the porsche oh really from a dig if she shifts do you think if i race colettio from a roll what would happen i think this would win okay yeah chocolate ha ha your boyfriend thinks my car is faster than you so i feel like i should probably make a video about this tommy kind of spoiled it on his channel a while back i told him to make a video of it but another cy mfd popped up i'm not super hyped on the ls one that i have just because it hasn't molded overs so tommy ripped out and picked it up ah no no i'm gonna tell the story okay i wake up to a text from 2am that says hey can you go get this car for me tomorrow and i woke up at 3am and i was like this is crazy i went back to sleep next day i woke up at 7 and i hit up the dude and i was like asking me he's like i got someone coming at 10. i gps he was like 35 minutes from my house which is super rare and i was like so that means i can get there at nine so i'll uh full disclosure i scumbag somebody i said in my video but sometimes you got to do that you know you got to beat someone to the punch so i went out there i looked at i couldn't get a hold of lz because i was i was in california he was in california sleeping because it was like 4 00 a.m there when i woke up so uh i had to make an executive decision to buy the car without talking to him and here it is so it's not perfect but these cars pop up so rarely that it was just uh it's one of those things that just seemed like the right move to get it if i end up keeping it if i end up stealing parts off it i don't know uh the biggest negative with the car tommy talked about this in his video it looks like it's had some sort of repair maybe a fender bender here there's no damage in the frame but this bumper is not the right color it doesn't match up right here with the fender the light what this is what made me like okay with that uh the guy didn't have the shields in which they're still not in and you can see down in there nothing is bent tweaked pushed moved you know what i mean like so i was like what does it need a fender a bumper two fenders a bumper like and some shrouds for the headlights to be fair i think he said this was a new uh reman engine right yeah i uh he got it from an auto car or something i don't remember now because it's been like three months but it's supposedly a pretty fresh engine and we're gonna take it for a drive and see if tom agrees but they're pretty good for a lot of the fds that i've been looking at it's a super clean uh set up under here yeah i mean who cares that it's not perfect it's missing like shroud and stuff like i knew what you wanted it for yep and i was like we're basically buying well i'm not gonna say anything this is good yeah we'll try to leave some element of surprise my fd build is something that i've been so excited for and if it takes buying seven cy mfds to find the right one i'm all for it i'll end up selling them there's a high demand for these cars if you guys ever see them pop up feel free to reach out to me or tom um and uh we'll uh maybe we'll go pick it up and add it to the full one thing they have no idea about how long has your fd building going on behind the scenes a long time i bet you it's been a year yeah but it's not even like i've been waiting for anything it's just i've been slowly taking my time to find the right find the right car get the right you know you know you know remember but other than that and these mirror paints and like some because this car had been resprayed don't you think i would i mean just judging by like a little paint here in there car that hasn't but i think for some reason flies like this i think it's probably been painted parts of it if not all of it but 10 times better respray than the other car well did you did you say why that is why oh because i realize the paint on the other car doesn't have the right amount of mica in it did you say that before or no i know i don't think i ever mentioned it but it's been driving me nuts that last car was repainted but it doesn't have the right amount of pearl and i can't sleep at night because of it like it's it's rough it's pretty important so the like you explained it's yellow with like a gold or a mica flake heavy and this thing in the right light i is it the right light yeah it's crazy you can see if you put your light out to it here man it's so tough to show on a camera but get like right on the light right there it really makes a difference with the color it's huge overall uh chassis wise it's a little bit more rough than the other one but the big thing it doesn't have those dumb molded over fenders oh dude it hasn't even had rolled fenders that's nice it doesn't have over fenders the wrong engine the wrong rear end keep up the trunk yep now the other one's super clean underneath this one still has a spare wheel a little bit more rough just the paint just come off from yeah did yours like really clean off yeah did someone paint it or no no other car is low miles but is this thing going to not have ac in it right now no junk under the motor cym cars are just hard to find and the nice ones that people have don't want to sell them and the ones that go up for sale so quick they say they're sort of fine there's 350 in existence since 1993 that's pretty insane but we know lots of people that have them they just don't want to sell them yeah and lots of people's like four yeah like it's crazy i don't know it seems like a lot it's missing the trim pieces here interior compared to the other one is a little bit more rough but the seats are decent just the trim and these gets destroyed at least this one has a handbrake though true what i think is crazy though this car was sitting for like a month no trickle charger nothing just sitting outside hop in it first try starts right up oh i got to push the clutch don't tell me he's dead now that's pretty legit that's pretty good for home sitting i know and a rotary it is a rotary let's not forget it so i want to hear from tom kind of how it feels if it feels like it's a a solid healthy engine or well the pool is we have the red one is fully rebuilt it's pretty much brand new oh so can i drive that one yeah is it stick manual yeah sick yep so you can compare a brand new like when i say brand new i mean like sub 30 mile i bet there's four miles on that car since it's been rebuilt should i put a plate on this car whoa i got it i got it i love that it's on stock wheels okay give it a couple revs it's still pretty quiet stinky stinky rotary life dog she's a little clunky girl yeah i feel like the black one feels a little faster when i was driving this home yeah it felt fat it felt quick right now it's not i think maybe it needs to warm up more or something it's all the way up but it felt like quick definitely fastened i was like surprised i was like oh this out this is how an ft should feel when it's got let's see how she feels one of us just doesn't feel that fast in first because it's spinning this thing rips you think yeah don't you think well you're driving it now now i'm in the passenger seat because your car felt so fast to me in your black car when i was driving it it felt like way more torquey where i feel like this one it's a little lazier yeah this thing rips dude it's fun though because it i feel like in stock form they're kind of one of those cars you can drive almost at ten pence you know yeah like remembering using maybe just like maybe just like some other day without me in it you can go this thing rips this feels good yeah first stock fd for sure true because it's not tuned it doesn't mean you guys think these cars were quick well they ran like 13 13 sixes in 1992. yeah it feels like in first it doesn't have enough loads the second definitely kicks in in second what are these red line at eight i think the cool thing is if we end up building on this shell i say we like we're building it together let's do it i wish can you come and help me build a car i just i want the most perfect md let's i mean starting with rc seats please help me find rc seats that's a hard one i struggle sitting in these cars yeah look at me dude i know there the seat is too high and the steering wheel's too low even this side i feel weird but at least you know worst case scenario depending on which shell i end up using both seem to have very good engines that i can either sell or use for another car right this does feel very happy sounds good too pretty quick video i just been kind of enjoying my time up here and trying to just kind of live in the moment i wanted to fill you guys in on this car i know a lot of you guys speculated and assumed it was mine but nonetheless i'm excited to add it to the stable of potential options for my upcoming fd build and uh always grateful for tommy to help acquire things like that and uh yeah i think we're gonna hang out with my dad spend some time with him maybe film a couple clips get an update on skyline and some of that stuff you can probably expect to see in the next video but make sure you let me know what you want to see while we're up here it's only gonna be a couple more days but it should be fun enjoying the weather enjoying the people i hope you guys are enjoying the videos my goshwelcome to today's video guys just a nice morning in connecticut we decided as a typical connecticut routine we'd be making a dunkin stop and i think starbucks got mad at us because look at our order number we had a blast uh doing some nice little road raging with the cars last night i didn't film for my channel i just didn't have time to set up gopros and stuff but i'm pretty sure tommy and or colette will have videos up just a really cool group enjoying the scenery and all the sounds weather uh but we're gonna head over to tommy's shop and i am gonna film today i feel like the camera just doesn't do the vibes justice we're starting off the video at tommy's shop tommy your favorite place in connecticut say it you want to explain where where me and colette just were to give some comments oh my god you're a gift i call it the never-ending tag sale this is a big gross it's a flea market you guys know the phone i hate it i hate it so much called the elephant's trunk oh you want the official name yeah to be fair colette did find uh your gift you did it are you ready for it open it up this is like the same wall that i have dude can i like roll up and just like off you want to show it wait can you see it yeah did it come in the wallet yeah do i look like a cop for me yeah kind of i need to get good at them you need a hat i'm not a hat guy not a hat guy all right so i got all right i'll return the favor come on oh wait hold on so since now finally has made the grand reveal of oh wait god no i can't because this video is going to go up today my video i can finally talk about the fact that colette has purchased grand slash tommy my for like a second and she's going to be doing former slash no longer any of y'all slash officially mine where is she from does anyone even know no you're from what part family family she's from family texas so this is the real flea market she's going to be doing some this is the real flea market you know what but it's not cheap like the trunk are you sure they have some pretty good prices over there just try try low balling and watch what happens yeah it's right i was already looking at stuff i wanted to make friends this is a gift for me or colette unfortunately what is it cause it goes with a jacket oh this is an official wait is this the dish that you're like i would get for you and it's fifty dollars that's actually a pretty nice gift tommy i saw this earlier i'm not a hat guy somebody gave it to me oh uh paul lopes in the uk the guy i want 5rs from gave it to me dude that's actually fire super sick it's pretty fire thanks so 50 bucks hey you're not talking about civic dude i'm just i'm just filming the bickering i like it no dude don't talk about josh's car i am my car is low no one talks about josh's car he said josh would smoke you yeah is that talking to adam i'm sorry i thought that was a compliment for josh but yeah for him not me this was talking about you for reference josh drives like a 1970s civic that is extremely slow on 12-inch wheels and like 85 with tires i don't even know yet that is probably the width you know those donuts that come in the in your spare wheels a lot more yeah the donuts for your lawnmower that's what josh has in his car he would have smoked green last night he would have yeah because europe you were driving like a cnu left i don't think we've talked about it much in this video but this is tommy's oem plus rv25 neo stock turbo with a 30-71 inside of it four-door are you the four-door poppy i am well then you're the guy to drive this thing i think i mean i would love to i want to i want to tell you how good it feels let me show you some wax stuff okay show me we got an rv20 air box but you'll notice that there's a filter down there this is the show what i eventually plan on doing filling this with a catch can so it's like not useful but it hides the catch game because the idea was just to make this bay look fully stock i think we did pretty good i think it's pretty cool i know aluminum right here kind of i know that this is stock it's just like my ocd drives me nuts you know when i get it redone i'll probably get it done in like a silver or something that'd be cool so i want to see what it feels like especially considering it's a stock rb25 neo and i've put so much time and effort into making mine this crazy built engine which in the beginning probably wasn't even necessary um but uh yeah neos are sick 500 493 493 for 489 torque on 35 pounds of boost on a stock head gasket that's what you get when you have a side down intercooler yeah well you don't even headsets of this engine no you're crazy yeah not yet and uh dang dude this thing seems happy and don't log it you know what i mean i love how nice it revs it grabs good you gotta like clutching it yeah exactly oh i like that a lot that's fun it's cool adam just stalled you guys i think i'm recording you guys missed it but so it's an x80 twin but it's for an r32 gtr which has a clutch booster it is this doesn't have a clutch booster it's like not heavy it's like springy you don't have the steering thing hooked up do you nope you know what i'm talking about oh look who's here finally potential victim what are you doing sid i'm doing pretty b-roll stuff okay a simple film damn gnarly you just gotta like not let your foot out um so okay so you know how there's the thing that you can hook up that goes to the power steering right makes it softer you don't have that cup this thing's dude it's so nice when you hook it up i know so this is going to explode the rb20 gearbox if you do what you're doing i don't really bang gears i just put in gear lightly rolling the throttle you know easy on stuff you know remember this pothole's new yeah it's brutal too little it's a hell hole that thing dude stick with your next ride all right so just give her a roll you're good so yeah you could do like first there's a cop down here still yeah for the flea market he's still there yeah go uh sure maybe not he's just over the hill just go right okay now that we're doing anything illegal this thing feels very responsive it's responsive it's just a transient response yeah you know it gets all confusing for me that's fun very nice it's good right yeah i see what you mean about the transient though yeah so we don't hit so it's on 35 pounds but we don't you don't really hit it unless you put in fourth gear and from set uh 2000 rpms go you can go right but i would just don't do that and i think it'll be good forever i love how quiet it is it reminds me a lot of like a gtr because they're usually quiet yeah it's fun it is quiet you can just go straight and it handles really nice too yeah it feels good it feels like dialed yeah this is very much so tommy car i think you're oh no your third adam just stalled you guys i think i'm recording you guys missed it but so it has an x80 twin but it's for an r32 gtr which has a clutch booster it is this doesn't have a clutch booster it's like not heavy it's like springy you don't have the steering thing hooked up do you nope but you know what i'm talking about oh look who's here finally a potential victim what are you doing okay a simple film damn gnarly you just gotta like not let your foot out um so okay so you know how there's the thing that you can hook up that goes to the power steering right it makes it softer you don't have that cup this thing's dude it's so nice when you hook it up i know so this is going to explode the rv20 gearbox if you do what you're doing i don't really bang gears i just put in gear lightly roll on the throttle you know i'm easy on stuff you know remember this pothole's new yeah it's brutal too it's a hell hole that thing dude stick with your next ride all right so just give her a roll so yeah you could do like first there's a cop down here still yeah for the flea market he's still there yeah go uh sure maybe not he's just over the hill chris go right okay now that we're doing anything illegal this thing feels very responsive it's responsive it's just a transient response yeah you know it gets all confusing for me that's fun very nice it's good right yeah i see what you mean about the transient though yeah so we don't hit so it's on 35 pounds but we don't you don't really hit it unless you put in fourth gear and from set uh 2000 rpms go you can go right but i would just don't do that and i think it'll be good forever i love how quiet it is it reminds me a lot of like a gtr because they're usually quiet yeah it's fun it is quite you can just go straight and it handles really nice too yeah it feels good it feels like dialed yeah this is very much so a tommy car i think oh no you're i like how it drives though i feel like people sleep on the the gts t's a lot because they feel like such a nice car there's a 240 with a little bit more weight and a lot more rigid just a nice 240. yeah that's what they are 33s feels so good kind of feels like a 34. yeah but better you just turn around forever or you can actually go to the end yeah i'll do the loop yeah sure i think one thing that people definitely sleep on especially if you're building a car up here it's really cool having a quiet car and i loved when my evo is super quiet so you can just rage back roads and it doesn't like piss people alert the neighbors yeah like they can't really tell that you're going fast if the car is closed i like to go full stealth you know remember my evil all you could use turbo noise remember your porsche that is the problem with that but i like to think that because it's such an exotic sound that people like they're like oh yeah that's like oh it's orange yeah it's orange and it sounds like an f1 card so wait uh does your porsche or did it have like a button for like yes why okay which is kind of cool yeah does that would not work anymore it'd be cool if you push that button when you were passing me the other day yeah that would have been a nice sorry about your ear drums yeah still recovering dude it's so loud that you can hear this when i'm behind you really yeah all right so that noise i get so many people asking me what blow up how i have the answer is none so we welded the stock bluff valve closed so it looked like we had the stock one i'll probably eventually add one i think to like the inner core piping there you go to the inner core piping um near the side mount this is also on the side mount intercooler it'll sound way cooler if you put an intake pipe on it though like if you have a piece of whatever four inch laying around yeah do it today dude you'll be like oh my god i don't have anything that would fit we're looking forever i'm surprised i even had that filter yeah this is like the perfect setup especially as a stock engine right it's very smooth and happy 85 really is king so it's four-door poppy approved absolutely there it is boys that's all we were trying to shoot for four-door poppy approved i'm not a four-door guy it is funny because i feel like we do and like in like certain aspects try to build cars for each other's approval but i don't care what anyone else thinks right well because people don't know yeah a lot of people haven't experienced all the cars and driven cool stuff to know like that this thing is rad and i think another thing too both of us build cars to drive them and enjoy them so we like care about the actual driving aspect a lot more than just like looks you're in that clutch dude i was just like frozen you know it reminds me of my my 32 because back in the day it was like fast enough to spin but it wouldn't do like anything real erratic so i would kind of steer in a little bit to make it feel faster yeah this thing like the the lsd is a little yeah go right the lsd is a little like i don't know about worn something to the right it's good to left it's in i'm just going to swap it yeah oh you think so possibly i don't know anything about that but i think you spin both wheels it just your line is probably making it twitch in it yeah dude that is insane response yeah so the cool thing is it's stock frame turbo with the 3071 center uh with a 18 pound actuator it's garrett's like craziest internal gate so normally we'd have creep but we just opened the boost a boost controller so creep is what we what we do to 35 that's max so eventually i want to like dial it i want to put cams on your head studs head gasket and just like hopefully it's just safe i would just leave it like this this morning yeah what do you think cams would do to it honestly with this turbo i i think it would fight the turbo oh really this turbo's like a low mid-range turbo and you'd be putting a cam to move the power band up more when this turbo is gonna choke up top anyway right that's what i was wondering like if it would give me i think so it would hurt low end yeah this setup i think is better suited for stockham yes yeah small turbo stock cam yeah oh we rolled up on an old supercar so good so good no no frog finger dude that's that's rude that's what i meant to be coil your badge yeah it's in there you're lucky i forgot my badge i found a toggle switch behind the hvac box japanese car problems yeah so what do you think we're good i like this thing how do you think you do up against like the porsche from a roller from a dig roll i'll never race that from a dig in anything it'd be close i think it'd be good i'm trying to like butt dino picture the porsche is so fast i depending on what speed we start at if i if i start above like five or six grand i think the porsche will be like dead even with this really yeah which is good that's good though yeah just cause it's heavier i think colette's evo would pull on the porsche oh really from a dig if she shifts do you think if i race colettio from a roll what would happen i think this would win okay yeah chocolate ha ha your boyfriend thinks my car is faster than you so i feel like i should probably make a video about this tommy kind of spoiled it on his channel a while back i told him to make a video of it but another cy mfd popped up i'm not super hyped on the ls one that i have just because it hasn't molded overs so tommy ripped out and picked it up ah no no i'm gonna tell the story okay i wake up to a text from 2am that says hey can you go get this car for me tomorrow and i woke up at 3am and i was like this is crazy i went back to sleep next day i woke up at 7 and i hit up the dude and i was like asking me he's like i got someone coming at 10. i gps he was like 35 minutes from my house which is super rare and i was like so that means i can get there at nine so i'll uh full disclosure i scumbag somebody i said in my video but sometimes you got to do that you know you got to beat someone to the punch so i went out there i looked at i couldn't get a hold of lz because i was i was in california he was in california sleeping because it was like 4 00 a.m there when i woke up so uh i had to make an executive decision to buy the car without talking to him and here it is so it's not perfect but these cars pop up so rarely that it was just uh it's one of those things that just seemed like the right move to get it if i end up keeping it if i end up stealing parts off it i don't know uh the biggest negative with the car tommy talked about this in his video it looks like it's had some sort of repair maybe a fender bender here there's no damage in the frame but this bumper is not the right color it doesn't match up right here with the fender the light what this is what made me like okay with that uh the guy didn't have the shields in which they're still not in and you can see down in there nothing is bent tweaked pushed moved you know what i mean like so i was like what does it need a fender a bumper two fenders a bumper like and some shrouds for the headlights to be fair i think he said this was a new uh reman engine right yeah i uh he got it from an auto car or something i don't remember now because it's been like three months but it's supposedly a pretty fresh engine and we're gonna take it for a drive and see if tom agrees but they're pretty good for a lot of the fds that i've been looking at it's a super clean uh set up under here yeah i mean who cares that it's not perfect it's missing like shroud and stuff like i knew what you wanted it for yep and i was like we're basically buying well i'm not gonna say anything this is good yeah we'll try to leave some element of surprise my fd build is something that i've been so excited for and if it takes buying seven cy mfds to find the right one i'm all for it i'll end up selling them there's a high demand for these cars if you guys ever see them pop up feel free to reach out to me or tom um and uh we'll uh maybe we'll go pick it up and add it to the full one thing they have no idea about how long has your fd building going on behind the scenes a long time i bet you it's been a year yeah but it's not even like i've been waiting for anything it's just i've been slowly taking my time to find the right find the right car get the right you know you know you know remember but other than that and these mirror paints and like some because this car had been resprayed don't you think i would i mean just judging by like a little paint here in there car that hasn't but i think for some reason flies like this i think it's probably been painted parts of it if not all of it but 10 times better respray than the other car well did you did you say why that is why oh because i realize the paint on the other car doesn't have the right amount of mica in it did you say that before or no i know i don't think i ever mentioned it but it's been driving me nuts that last car was repainted but it doesn't have the right amount of pearl and i can't sleep at night because of it like it's it's rough it's pretty important so the like you explained it's yellow with like a gold or a mica flake heavy and this thing in the right light i is it the right light yeah it's crazy you can see if you put your light out to it here man it's so tough to show on a camera but get like right on the light right there it really makes a difference with the color it's huge overall uh chassis wise it's a little bit more rough than the other one but the big thing it doesn't have those dumb molded over fenders oh dude it hasn't even had rolled fenders that's nice it doesn't have over fenders the wrong engine the wrong rear end keep up the trunk yep now the other one's super clean underneath this one still has a spare wheel a little bit more rough just the paint just come off from yeah did yours like really clean off yeah did someone paint it or no no other car is low miles but is this thing going to not have ac in it right now no junk under the motor cym cars are just hard to find and the nice ones that people have don't want to sell them and the ones that go up for sale so quick they say they're sort of fine there's 350 in existence since 1993 that's pretty insane but we know lots of people that have them they just don't want to sell them yeah and lots of people's like four yeah like it's crazy i don't know it seems like a lot it's missing the trim pieces here interior compared to the other one is a little bit more rough but the seats are decent just the trim and these gets destroyed at least this one has a handbrake though true what i think is crazy though this car was sitting for like a month no trickle charger nothing just sitting outside hop in it first try starts right up oh i got to push the clutch don't tell me he's dead now that's pretty legit that's pretty good for home sitting i know and a rotary it is a rotary let's not forget it so i want to hear from tom kind of how it feels if it feels like it's a a solid healthy engine or well the pool is we have the red one is fully rebuilt it's pretty much brand new oh so can i drive that one yeah is it stick manual yeah sick yep so you can compare a brand new like when i say brand new i mean like sub 30 mile i bet there's four miles on that car since it's been rebuilt should i put a plate on this car whoa i got it i got it i love that it's on stock wheels okay give it a couple revs it's still pretty quiet stinky stinky rotary life dog she's a little clunky girl yeah i feel like the black one feels a little faster when i was driving this home yeah it felt fat it felt quick right now it's not i think maybe it needs to warm up more or something it's all the way up but it felt like quick definitely fastened i was like surprised i was like oh this out this is how an ft should feel when it's got let's see how she feels one of us just doesn't feel that fast in first because it's spinning this thing rips you think yeah don't you think well you're driving it now now i'm in the passenger seat because your car felt so fast to me in your black car when i was driving it it felt like way more torquey where i feel like this one it's a little lazier yeah this thing rips dude it's fun though because it i feel like in stock form they're kind of one of those cars you can drive almost at ten pence you know yeah like remembering using maybe just like maybe just like some other day without me in it you can go this thing rips this feels good yeah first stock fd for sure true because it's not tuned it doesn't mean you guys think these cars were quick well they ran like 13 13 sixes in 1992. yeah it feels like in first it doesn't have enough loads the second definitely kicks in in second what are these red line at eight i think the cool thing is if we end up building on this shell i say we like we're building it together let's do it i wish can you come and help me build a car i just i want the most perfect md let's i mean starting with rc seats please help me find rc seats that's a hard one i struggle sitting in these cars yeah look at me dude i know there the seat is too high and the steering wheel's too low even this side i feel weird but at least you know worst case scenario depending on which shell i end up using both seem to have very good engines that i can either sell or use for another car right this does feel very happy sounds good too pretty quick video i just been kind of enjoying my time up here and trying to just kind of live in the moment i wanted to fill you guys in on this car i know a lot of you guys speculated and assumed it was mine but nonetheless i'm excited to add it to the stable of potential options for my upcoming fd build and uh always grateful for tommy to help acquire things like that and uh yeah i think we're gonna hang out with my dad spend some time with him maybe film a couple clips get an update on skyline and some of that stuff you can probably expect to see in the next video but make sure you let me know what you want to see while we're up here it's only gonna be a couple more days but it should be fun enjoying the weather enjoying the people i hope you guys are enjoying the videos my gosh\n"