Welcome to another episode of Mighty Car Mods, now if you're anything like I see you're probably really into cars
And there's nothing better than making your car
Go faster than when it originally left the factory especially if you can do it free so today
We're going to show you a technique of making your car. Go heaps faster, and it won't cost you a cent
Marty found this on the side of the road for 50 bucks
We have A 1983
Mazda 323 with so much rust in it, but it'll never be on the roads ever again
This is the worst. This is the worst car. You've ever brought home naughty by far
This Mazda 3 to 3 is all kinds of bad and has been seriously neglected by its previous owner
For no reason at all there are these little mirrors and reflectors stuck all over the car which I'm removing because they make me feel
strange
We need to make sure we've got a basis of comparison
So we're going to do a naught to 60 test using the iphone as a timer now]the reason
We're using the iphone is that's the way that most performance
Enthusiasts measure the performance of the car before they post it on the internet, so everyone can argue about it
so we're going to do one run with the car stock then we're going to get rid of some weight and do another run and
See how much faster it goes
Go!
Tell me when come on
and... yea
11.5 pretty slow
We're gonna remove as much weight from the car as we can.
Starting with all the loose items, which we're going to place in this box. We're going to weigh everything
We remove that way we know [exactly] how much weight we've lost and how this affects performance
Just a couple of things we've found so far spray paint weighing it down
Sell it
Engine stop leak, that might explain why the car basically blew up on the highway on the way here, its not leaking
um ah
Okay, so to get rid of um excess weight. You can get rid of the spare tire and the jack
[usually] they'll be under the back under here
Actually while we're at it
Excuse my language, sorry. Now down here uh if the car does have a
military spade
Don't need that it can go in our box full of crap
Well, it's wet back here get rid of all that
Right good that's where extra ten kilowatts left
All right, so this ah so I'm going to need one of those tools to get this out
Okay, that's awesome
So this here does not fit the spare tire you cannot remove the spare tire from this car
It does not come out so when you pull over to the side of the road and this doesn't come out
you just end up getting frustrated you just break
break things
That's an extra 20 kilowatts. We didn't think we'd get.
Has a use after all
Do not do this without safety goggles
Carpet is heavier than you'd realize so make like a lotus and get rid of it
Okay, so the spare wheel was 16 kilos what we get in the box Marty 24 kilos crap
so that's a total of 40 kilos in the car, which isn't needed which is about as heavy as
like a midget
True Race weapons do not have back seats. It's as simple as that
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Oh Dude, you've gotta see this man
That's so manky
I'm going in
What is that?
Aah. The back seats full of Hair.
Is that human hair or something?
Haha, I think its pubes
Who owned this car seriously who owned this car?
With the back seats gone. You've got a mini ute
So it's time to start removing panels. We've got rid of as much weight as we can without doing that
Now we get into some serious weight reduction
21 Kilos
Glass adds a lot of weight, so it's time to get rid of it
Now there's a myth that if we throw a spark plug hard enough at a window it'll explode
Today we find out
Actually breaking glass is harder than you'd think
Except the glass is meant to be on the outside of the car
now one of the best ways for a move away from your car is to take off a bonnet and put on a
Carbon-Fiber hood
But if you can't afford to do that the other best thing to do is paint it black because then people are going to think
You've upgraded it with Carbon fiber anyway
Spray the whole Bonnet black and then lay some gauze over the top and spray through that with some silver or chrome paint
Seamless it looks incredible okay time to lose the door frames
And all these added up to another four Kilos, but we still need to lose more
Thirty Kilos
How good does it look we're not quite sure about the structural integrity so marty's gonna do a quick safety check
Okay, so we've removed over a hundred kilos. Let's see. How fast it goes now
So there it is an incredible performance upgrade and it's free and can you believe how good it looks. Marty let's hit the beach
See you next time
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