[Yep, this video is community closed captioned. MAAAAAD!]
Welcome to Mighty Car Mods, Season 4!
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We're into our 5th year of filming the show
and it's gonna be a MASSIVE season.
With new mods and new cars!
Like the new car in THIS episode that
we're really excited to show you.
...so its time to go back!
*Gong sounds*
Japan is country of over 127 million people
and around 60 million cars
with such a massive population
and the huge demand for new vehicles
secondhand cars and parts are available for much
cheaper than in Australia.
So we've flown into Japan, To pick up a car that we bought on the internet
We've driven south to Matsusaka
where our new car is waiting, a few hundered metres away
in the rice paddies
..and we've brought a couple of freinds to help out
This is our 1991 JZX81 Toyota Chaser
We've scored ourselves a top of the line GT twin turbo version
with the famous 1JZ engine
It puts out the maximum power allowable in Japan
of 206 Kilowatts, but ours
pushes out a bit more than that.
its also a freakin' auto..
but its also freakin' cheap, and freakin' fast
....which is exactly what we are looking for.
Most car makers design car platforms
where a bunch of different models are based on the same layout.
This means engines, drivelines and even interiors
can be directly transplanted across
In to slower and lower spec models
than we get in Australia.
*Blow off valve sounds*
Now if you're going to be doing an engine conversion
in a car back home, and need a whole bunch of parts,
you're much better off buying a whole car
and chopping it in half, then you are buying parts individually
Exactly, now this car cost about twelve hundred bucks,
for that, we got the complete car, we got the coilovers
there's the front mount, there's all the bizarre switches
we've literally got the whole lot for just $1200
but we only need the front half of it
so we're going to chop it in half, and send the good end home.
We've pulled into the Import Monster headquarters in Japan
and they're going to let us use thier shop for the day.
OK so this our JZX81, its a 1991 model Toyota Chaser
and this is problaby one of my most favourite things
about buying a secondhand car
...its what I call "Automotive Archaeology"
Lets go and have a look, and see what we can find. so...
Some of the mysteries have already started revealing themselves...
in the cockpit. ahhh... we've got umm... well obviously
we've got our usual assortment of Gaff tape
and gauges here so this is proper mighty mods here
so look at that, they've been watching marty
this lets the missiles off and oil out the back
that's awesome now over here we haven't quite worked out
what this is, and we think these are hold switches
that hold the car in certain gears
uhh for drifting
we can't quite work out what that does yet
we don't know, more gauges here
look at that, look at that install
he hasn't been watching Mighty Car Mods
Now the car is genuinely second hand
look at this we've got an assortment of cigarettes
in there, now this is legit
he's also left all of his cigarette lighters in here
and there's heaps of them, all different kinds, all different styles
and he obviously enjoyed drifting, and smoking, at the same time
glovebox, nothing in there
down here so much garbage, we're just gonna go through that later
just all sorts of wrappers and crap
so that's that, let's go ahead and have a look in the boot Martin
oh did you see that Martin?
it's got an auto boot open, I'm going to show you again
watch this
auto boot open
yesss
and in the boot Martin, what have we got?
alright
we've got our usual assortment of drain catches
our stuck to, wow
that's about as wrong as it gets, so that's some Tokyo bondage tape
and it's stuck with what looks like a massive pair of underpants, with little bows on it
so that's hot, uhh
added to that of course, we've got the gloves
someone was having a big night Martin
now in here we've got some spare parts
uh, all sorts of crap, more drain catches
more um, look at this, it's a um
what's that Martin?
I think you should put that on Martin.
I think it's a skirt Martin
I'm going to continue the tour with my skirt on.
It's like a little French maids kinda thing