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Mighty C
mods welcome to another episode of
Mighty C mods parly supported by just
car insurance Martin what have you done
mate I did it
again I I bought a car that arrived on a
tow truck then I bought another car that
arrived on a tow truck and then another
one and I put them all together and made
one Bodywork rubbish engine blown
outside of the car blue inside of the
car smells like turd ladies and
gentlemen the blue turd
this is a dihatsu I bought as my new
daily driver affectionately labeled by
moo as the blue turd the car did manage
to escape the Transformers is that meant
to do that stealthy Gaff mirror there
used to be some kind of Courier van and
it was fast well faster than the Civic
anyway is it actually faster um
now Parts can be a little bit hard to
find for this car if only I had a second
one with all the bits that I
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needed and I found one for 300 bucks it
had everything except an engine included
lowered Springs and super clean panels
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so I set about swapping all the good
stuff into the blue
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turd having the car side by side makes
it fast to swap things and like most
Japanese small cars they are
ridiculously easy to work
on we're going to take these shops with
us they're 100,000 K newer and they'll
match the front that are also going in
the car the wre I bought came with reset
Springs which would drop the car a good
height for more looners the car had been
hit on the rear driver's side at some
point it wasn't enough to send it to
scrap but it was enough to make the
bumper and reail lights not fit properly
with the lowered rear springs in and the
new Wheels fitted we passed the shoe
test with flying
colors we've covered lowering your car
before and in this case it was just a
matter of swapping parts from one car to
the other there's no camer bolts in the
strats so there's no alignment settings
to remember
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it's always a good idea to run these
adapter rings which makes the wheel
match up to the hub perfectly and you
don't get any shutter at high speeds
also known as Hub centering Rings these
are a good idea on any aftermarket
wheels you can get them from most good
wheel shops with the car looking good
all that was left to do was remove some
questionable stickers and then set about
swapping out the scratched up old doors
for newer ones from the donut car
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all the outside is done all that's left
to do is the inside and it's gone from a
blue turd to a slightly less turdy blue
turd after driving the car around for a
while soon the true sey past of the car
came to life in the form of a blown
engine that is the sound of a very very
sick engine the engine was burning oil
and water as well as is running long
compression on two out of the three
cylinders me and moo got together and
came up with a
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plan so here I am at the wrecking yard
and up there is the car which will
hopefully donate its 1.3 l heart to the
little blue turd it's a bit smashed up
but it's the best thing I've been able
to find and the deal's good for the
whole car meaning I can scavenge a whole
bunch of parts brakes Wheels fuel pump
um interior a whole bunch of things so
hopefully this thing works we're just
about to start it up and if it starts
and runs then it's
sold here's hoping it did start and then
proceeded to spew out oil everywhere all
right so after having no luck at the
Wreckers the next option is to bid on an
E Salvage
lot um which will hopefully give me a
car I can get all those parts from few
bonuses Wheels steering wheels airbags
blown can use those um all looks good
it's just now a matter of actually
winning it so we'll see what happens got
to put in a bid and it begins the
bidding process looked a little bit like
this I think I W it I want
it so I just paid for my
car at the auction house I don't
actually even get to see it I just want
it and so it's mine and um I happen to
run into a tow truck driver there and
he's going to drop it at the mighty mods
headquarters so that's a done deal mad
look at my new Falcon
taxi or is it the GTV serion with a KV
3E 1.3 l awesome
engine goodbye tow
truck hello D
hatsu dude we got it what do you think
I'm pretty impressed man bit of a
bargain oh mad score the most important
bit is that the engine the gearbox and
the K frame right that's the bit that
we've got to swap out and the wiring
without the wiring we're pretty screwed
right okay mad dude I'm excited let's
just do it
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yeah yeah man doesn't sound too bad I'd
budget it up to $15,000 if the donut car
was perfect this is about the value of
the parts by themselves first up we had
to take everything off the Syrian that
we couldn't use so crash panels went in
the bin and the bolts went into a
specially marked
box the damage on the front of the car
was quite minor but the rear was another
story
open H Fiona hi Fiona that's a big hit
hey that's punted it didn't look that
bad from the outside but now we know why
was at the
auctions we don't need that bit though
so it's perfect for us excellent sweet
mechanical stick said about freeing some
wires that have been smashed up in the
crash
we're removing the whole wiring
harness so that everything we could
possibly need to make this engine work
in the little blue car we'll
have fuel tanks out man mad the most
important acquisition of all
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is
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that that's the front bit that was
smashed look at it man it's not smashed
at
all that is such a
score did I tell you that every single
one I looked at that bit was totally
mangled how good is it the K frame is
the front part of the car that the
engine and body attached to in small
front-wheel drive cars the manufacturers
use this type of arrangement as it's
faster to assemble the engine suspension
and steering on the K frame and then
lift the whole lot into the car in one
go or drop the body onto the KF frame
which is exactly what we're doing here
without a hoist you need a variety of
Jackson stands and maybe even an angle
grinder to release the
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frame the K frame's out I wouldn't say
it's easy but actually wasn't that hard
either with two people and one and a
half people who know what they're doing
we saved the dashboard so we could
attempt to fit it into this seore which
didn't work
oh water car what water car what heaps
wider what that's weird is it how did we
not know this I don't know I should have
measured it yep heaps wider okay so
here's where we're at on this side is
the serion that's now been completely
stripped engine is gone rolled out on
this side is the little seor now the
idea of course is not just to replace
the engine but Marty also wants to
replace the whole interior so that means
all the seats um as well as the dash and
all the electrics now the only problem
is is that the dash in this car uh is
about this much longer than the whole
width of this car so what's had to
happen now is to get inside the little
seor hack up all of the mounts and then
the dash which is sitting over there on
the lawn will also need to be hacked
down the same amount I asked how much
need to be chopped off and mechanical
Stig said a little bit so a little bit
will be chopped off uh and then the dash
from that car will be put into that car
this is a first no one's ever done it
before so today is going to be a mad and
exciting day and a first not just for
Mighty K mods but a first anywhere in
the world dude the dash don't fit
I just told them that M it's a bit of a
kind of it's actually almost a bit of a
fail no it's not we're going to make it
a we're going to make it a win what are
you doing Martin I got to grind this cuz
this is part of the what's left of the
dash that's going to be welded in
mad so that was already there supporting
the dash and you just cut it off we just
need to take that much out of it yeah
that much so that's how much will be
chopped off the dash as well we'll try
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how you going there mate getting there
it's just needs needs to be some heating
up I'm heating up using electricity I
was told once I was filming some boats
being built Martin and they said if you
look at a wer and smell toast it means
the back of your eyeballs have been
fried yeah exactly and they said if you
smell toast let us know and we'll call
an
ambulance problem was I was cooking
toast at the time
Martin with the dash support fitted
securely the plastic Dash could be cut
down using a high-tech Precision Tool
commonly known as a
handsaw the blue turd then needed to be
freed of its broken and oily engine and
this meant stripping pretty much
everything
wiring bumpers guards radiator Wheels
brake suspension it all has to come
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out rattle gun plus spider equals
scared every time I see dangly things I
think it's spiders now dangly thing
there a spider with a SC on M
do they have SCS I think
so the front wheels are reinstalled and
then the exhaust is cut and the shifter
mechanism removed it's then a matter of
removing the four main bolts and then
jacking the car and the cave frame up
and down until it comes away from the
body
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with the engine out it's a great time to
clean up the engine bay and repair any
rust caused by leaky batteries or brake
fluid the serion K frame is then rolled
underneath the car and jacked into
place check out MCM TV 2 our second
YouTube channel to see mechanical Stig
super fast jacking
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technique my four cylinders in I've got
1.3 l of power it's done the only thing
left to do is just to go and check all
the bolts are tight stick the wiring in
wire it all into the dash plug in a
computer plug in a battery plug in
exhaust and turn the key installation is
quite literally a reversal of the
removal process the beauty of
conversions using the same engine
platform is that everything
fits all right so I'm at the stage where
I have to Wi in all the wiring for the
rear of the car and match it up to the
Syrian Loom which is now in the dash
I've got the serrian Loom from the old
car here and the SE one here and it's
just a matter of matching up the wiring
colors and plugging it in and crossing
my fingers that all those wires do the
same
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thing follow me it may be very very
interesting or extremely boring the fuel
pump's priming so that's good you can
hear
that it's
awesome be so loud if it does go
go mouse works cracked out his
multimeter and oscilloscope to help
fault fine why the car wouldn't fire but
it turned out to be a door harness
plugged into the ECU instead of the
engine Loom
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with the engine running we could start
to reconstruct the blue turd only this
time with mad Syrian
Parts free petrol now that's seriously
probably about 50 bucks worth of fuel in
there he right so I've got the ugly old
back seat out of the seor which I've
ripped the material off and going to
replace it with this from the serion
which is much nicer and it's not that
much different that it won't uh it won't
fit nicely but the actual metal frame
doesn't fit in the back of the car cuz
it's too wide like everything
else to make the re seats fit it's just
a matter of removing the metal clips and
replacing them with either new clips or
cable ties trim removal tools make this
all a lot
easier the Syrian seat material is then
stretched over the sea orw frame and
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foam doing it this way means the seats
will bolt straight in and fold down
properly so the second back seat is done
still got to put something on the back
to cover it up but that is the whole
interior finished and this should fit
we'll
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see serion interior
goodness I'm
the all right made in Voyage she's oiled
up she's watered and the Camp's probably
really out but we're going to take it
for a drive
anyway see what happens smells like it's
running pretty rich so it's probably a
sensor or something a bit messed up in
there but the car Works which is
freaking
awesome gearbox is nice clutch feels
good
I love it I'm
stoked what a mad car the GTV transplant
has transformed the car giving it at
least an extra 40% power over stock and
it uses all the factory mounting points
and safety features making it a
practical and affordable
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Swap all right so we're going for a
drive around
marulan in the blue tur
and this thing is a heap of
fun it's actually got too much
power not surprisingly and way not
enough grip that's partly because the
tires are too
skinny but there's a lot of camber on
those front wheels which really does
help but you got to be careful that when
you come off the power on the brakes
that the back of the car doesn't
overtake the front like now
and being road tires once they get hot
they're pretty well useless so the first
few laps are generally a lot
quicker than the last
few they just revs five there 5 1/2 6
grand 6 and 1/2 7 G we
change on the brakes at the end of the
straight and turn
around there it goes so much fun
all right so there it is it's an awesome
little car it's got a crazy good powder
weight ratio it looks sort of tough and
it's a great economical and fast daily
driver now we've been working on these
little dxus ever since season 1 episode
1 so this is our fifth year of working
on these crappy little cars now here's
the thing Marty when I bought the red
one it was around $45,000 how much was
your total build just over $25,000 wow
that's pretty awesome considering you
got something that's going to chop some
slow V8s and if you spend any time in
Japan these things are everywhere and
actually well expected in Australia not
as much so if you've got a die hatu
people are going to laugh at you but
while they're laughing you're learning
and then when you get more money you
already know how to rip apart cars you
buy a better one and then you CHP
everyone and that's kick ass that's
right now we've got a brand new shop at
shop.my mods.com lots of mad new stuff
there to check out awesome now guys I'm
going home you know what I'm eating
don't you Martin a big filthy tofu
Burger it's going to be mad here guys
having a mistak that's dirty man
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I how
you know every single bit of food that
you've ever eaten every single piece of
water you've ever drunk has been through
a dinosaur's penis twice that is a fact
that is a fact dinosaur's penis yeah
Google it if you don't that is a fact
every single bit of water you've drunk
has bang to a dinosaurs penis two times
I can't even imagine what a dinosaur's
penis looks like it looks like Alexus
what the