Gramps the 11 Second Car - Part 12
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#### Introduction
Hello there and welcome to another episode of *Marty Kaan*, proudly supported by friends and Just Car Insurance. If you missed the last episode, let me catch you up. Unfortunately, our Gramps died—that’s right! Look at us; we lose compatriots every now and then. What are we gonna do? Am I right?
I think we might have to throw out that shelf. My, I’ve thrown out a shell before—absolutely! Let me tell you about it. I was walking along the beach with a lovely lady when the waves were coming in. I looked down and saw this little shell at my foot—it was quite an ugly one, yeah. Some kind of creature was trying to get out, but it didn’t look very pretty. Kind of like Finding Nemo with a drug addiction boy!
Well, I picked him up and threw him back into the water—back whence he came! And I continued walking. Long story short, I found a bigger shell, held it up against my ear, and heard the ocean. I could hear the sounds of my youth—the seagulls, the taste of fish, like oldies they say. This story is just getting bigger and better!
You throw away the shell; we can get bigger man now. Do you suppose we do that? Martin, keep watching—you’ll find out. It’s Mars’ electronic box—it’s dripping water health. It won’t light up; pH box is also dripping water. So I’d say, don’t know necessarily the context in there a fright— but being soaked is bad. It’s going to go to mechanical steps up and it’s all going to get dried out. I’m going to hope for the best and hope that we have a pride anything and then go again.
The verdict? All electronics completely drown; fuse box also full order continually pops fuses. And I guess the actual healthy food UPS—I’ve pulled out all the external boxes, but this won’t power on. Which means it’s actually dead! So we’re gonna have to go and see Scotty—and yeah, hat in hand—and say, “Hey, can you please fix our very fancy expensive ECU?”
Haltech elites are waterproof—but not when you still have your temporary programming can ports connected because you haven’t finished the install process. With the amount of water that ended up in the footwell, it never stood a chance. So we’re off to see Scott and the engineers at Haltech to get their opinion on what to do next.
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#### Assessing the Damage
Doesn’t luma it’s enough? It’s that one’s been underwater—like all there! It’s all there, yeah—just all there because I had no windscreen; all the water ran down. What are there two? So Scotty—all those white bits—that’s where the smokes living let out, right where the waters dried on well.
I’m not one eye—I don’t think we’ll try and repair that. I think we write it off—really, this is dead. Yep! It’s too hard, and you can’t warrant if you even could get it back to life there’s that many connections there; then you couldn’t warranty it—and it’s gonna die Sierra later yeah.
Yeah right—that need ditch you’ve got at the front—you need meeting our deep for the next three weeks. How’s that looking? Convenient for us really, you’re right man—that’s I don’t know swim! Don’t take your elite swimming—yeah, that’s what we have to learn from this. And we don’t swap ditch digging for ECU’s either—otherwise everyone’s gonna turn up—you’re digging holes yeah—but not with the finesse that I love cool well.
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#### Learning from Experience
I thought once once it got left out in the rain—I thought it would be wise to bring it here and get your professional opinion football building Subarus on Subarus. Oh you’d be so mad if it was not wet yeah! So there’s probably a couple centimeters of water down there—and granted, that’s not what you’d normally Madden ECU but the car wasn’t finished so that’s why nothing was mounted add note inside. But I guess now—it’s like—what do we what do we do? Me because this was like the car okay yeah—it’s like six months ago think now you gotta like build it better.
I think it’s more a question of do you think—do you think like when you put a couple of litres of water through a car with no windows like what happens? The problem is—you don’t know without pulling a you know what’s happened there’s a lot of wine behind the dash—and there’s also like foam and there’s never designed to have water on the dash so.
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#### Moving Forward
I was speaking to a guy who makes boats today—he said daddy foot boat takes in water like they are—they’d straightaway cut the loonie—I’m putting you lumen so yeah—like at minimum it’s gonna need a loom at full rewar. Yeah, I don’t know—all the issues that’s going to be replaced—the seats got completely soaked through so I don’t really know to do about that. My concern is—that was a lot of wiring back there that’s now been wet for quite a considerable amount of time—and kind of all the stuff that comes with all my airbag wiring was submerged. I’m not a fairly important see ya—so now—what do you think man? It’s a lot of work and so what into this car but at the end of the day we want it to last so I guess we gotta look for another car again—a new shell reckon that’s actually gonna be easier yes so well otherwise—we have to make that honest and that’s not like five wires to there’s like hundreds of wires behind that dashboard so you really got to find another car and then steal the harness out of it or find another car and then use that car because the other problem is—there’s all these panel joins in here that I never seem suit because they’re not designed to have water in the back now looking at rust issues growing issues—even the seats Marko moldy car I’ll screw but when you look at the shell as a as a car well there’s nothing wrong with it we’ll be totally fine but when you kind of add up these kind of gremlins it just doesn’t make sense to use the same thing unless we were to swap an entire engine room potentially a body loom as well it’s just round which means it’s shorting stuff out.
So the car will start—but alone run properly—the battery voltage comes up to 20 volts—which means something being shorted out—which means a fuse will craft at some point. So it’s looking kind of like cutting losses and just just going with a new show whether it’s same you’re looking fine ya figure in better as much as it pains me to throw a shoulder a lot of work into just do not want to be chasing gremlins for the next five years of my life while I own this car hopefully longer than partners.
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#### Conclusion
So that’s it for now—I’m going to pack up and leave it at Ichiban—and if it turns out we end up throwing the shell away—then everything pulled out here—and we’ll just—we’ll go on see Turbo Yoda and Darth Vader again—turbo Yoda use the force—and we made a plan Gramps would be reborn Benjamin I got containers that’s awesome dude—I can barely contain myself all out so what are we losing? What’s the order? What’s the what’s the ship?
All the health tech stuff out in the car—pull the Loom through ship anything on the bay—that’s going to stop the engine going at the bottom oh and the bottom yeah—just drop the whole lot at the bottom on the fork—and then put on a pallet and sent it out. Yeah bigger and better Benny and look at the positive side onwards and upwards dude—onwards and upwards exactly!
All you need is strip a Subaru ten mil 12 mil screwdriver pliers literally—you can do the whole engine bay with that until you get to things like engine mounts—which is awesome—which mister shouldn’t take long. The entire turbo setup including the up pipes dump intercooler headers and the turbo itself need to come off—they’ll be transported in containers—and then put back on the engine when it’s resealed.
Then he let me borrow his hoist which makes it a whole lot easier to get everything from under the engine off—it all comes apart fairly easily thanks to the v-band flanges we used when we first put it together—going to pull apart the manifolds and we could probably leave that—and drop it down—but I don’t want the engine to rest on the manifold so we’re going to pull that off just to keep it safe.
Now going to drain all the fluids out of it—and then I can pull the turbo off—which means we can then get the up and down pipe off—none of this is simple stuff anyone who’s watched the series recently remember how much time and work went into putting that stuff in there—it’s actually quite tricky to get it all out because of the way it’s packaged up so fluids next it’ll be dropping the motor so ready to pull the tab off do it see—and that’s why I wanted to practice—that’s the best thing that’s happened all day blooper see how we going—we have to do yeah it’d work—give my turbo back Benny agreed to return my turbo—but only I agreed to help him work on his dirty nuisance with the fluid dropped and radiated out of the way we could begin pulling more parts off grams.
We’re also gonna drain the oil for the engine is in transit is not that old like a couple of maybe thousand KS yeah—it’s like caramel it’s probably the five contamination contamination we mean well because you run so much 85 sometimes you get a bit fuel wash yeah and if you smell it wrong it actually has an 85 smell dope dope dope dope dope dope dope low blow blow blow blow blow.
Next up—we’re going to pull the wiring loom through from the engine bay—so we’ve unclipped everything on top of the engine—all those Gorge connectors that we use last time now we can actually pull the looms through—that’s all the stuff from the top of the motor—that is a top tech loom a couple of wives undo here for the rest of it—that’s pretty much it.
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#### Epilogue
Been over a week since it was out in the rainstorm—I’m still getting dripped on what I’m working up under the - the wiring loom itself is waterproof with deutsche connectors on both ends—but it is a good time to check it for any issues you know—you’ve got a project car when you’ve drained more tanks of fuel out of it than you have run through the engine—the jerry cans full of sweet ethanol would wait until we return along with any other parts that aren’t essential for the swap—just drop it at the bottom or might be a little bit of shimmying with the radiator support—we might have to pull it back and down a little bit—but and everything else is disconnected nuclear which is—and all that kind of crap—it’s all ready to go.
So with the help of mr. forklift to do the last bit of lifting we’re out dude—look at that—the EZ 36 is finally out of the car and ready to go—it gets strapped down to a pallet along with a crossmember and some other parts so we can take all of it on the long drive up to am auto in Queensland.
So that’s it for today grants is empty there’s nothing left—you don’t know what he’s doing to the shell but it’s going to make it easier to move around so next take all this gear up to am auto—thanks pretty thanks man—I know we’ve been yeah is it mate well I don’t know about you but I’m very excited about next episode that’s wrong—I mean this isn’t I expected turn of events absolutely when you are presented with lemons you make sweet liquid yellow lemonade—he’s talking about mum—it’s a metaphor my arse on the middle in the middleyou know right so there I’m pumping away if you have to pump to make it go up right you got a pop pop pop doctor’s orders doctor’s orders my I got your pumping and nothing and falling get up and if you if you really need a pocket get on better hands oh oh oh.
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