I'm Nick Taylor, we're at LS Fest, Bowling Green.
Alright so this is a 1980 Malibu, we call it the Maliboost, I got the original car when
I was 15, it's gone through some transitions, upgrades, I actually went big block for a
while, blew that up, and now we're back to a stock bottom end 5.3 with an aluminum 5.3
with twin 75's on it, I actually just put this intake on yesterday, not yesterday but
Wednesday morning, we ordered this through motor state since that's where we get our
stuff from, ordered it, it arrived there, I own my own fab shop, he does all the Holley
wiring, I do that fab, so we knocked out all the fab work, getting her on there and fired
it up, did a little bit of tuning and headed down south.
It's got Holley HP ECU on it with just a standard wiring harness, it's got the two Holley 12
1800 pumps on it with the Holley Dominator fuel regulator, just actually got the rail
kit with the intake the other day, pretty much anything electronic on it is Holley,
I'm saving up to get some of the Holley spark coils because those are awesome, we love those,
they make a lot of power, we've talked to a lot of guys who are making big power and
they help when you start pushing the stock stuff as far as we are, it can help a lot.
I was actually running the no time shoot out, yeah we actually even got a little shot of
nitrous on here because these two turbos are so big for this little 5.3, I was spraying
it on the brake and we had just got a new convertor in it and everything, ready to go
take some 10K home and tested it on the brake earlier and I put a little too much of nitrous
to it, we got a little knocking, but it's a stock bottom end motor, man, it's got a
good cam in it but that's it so we might find another one and slap it in there for tomorrow.
Back in drag week, we swapped a couple of motors actually on the road so it's nothing
we haven't done before.
We had this motor out so many times, it's made to work on, we're about functionality,
for my car we're about racing and functionality, that's why we use the Holley products, its
functionality, it works great, and I made it to work on so we can have the motor out
in 20 minutes.
We've got it set up to where it data logs everything, every time I go full throttle
we get a data log with the Holley, you know it's a great system to have, that's why we
are here.
We own our own shop so we are a Holley dealer so we push everybody towards Holley, every
single one of these cars you see here has got Holley on it, they're great, they perform
great, they work great, and they are a great price, so we push all of our customers towards
them because we work on a lot of stuff that's not Holley and we don't like it because it'
so horrible, it's just like man, do it right the first time and we won't have any issues.
So the original car I got when I was 15, a freshman, after that second year of drag week,
I had a dent in my quarter panel, and I didn't know what it was from and then I kept running
that year, I actually upgraded turbo, we were leaving harder and it was going 8's, I got
a dent in the other quarter panel and that winter I'm like, what's wrong?
The frame buckled and bent so I bought this roller just that gray bar that you see, I
bought a roller, it didn't have a floor in the back so I did all the bars, I learned
how to tig weld, I started doing fabrication on there and I took everything from my old
car, we swapped it over, all of my buddies came over one weekend and we basically built
the whole car in a weekend after I had the fab work done and it was gray and green, this
green color was the color of my old car and we just started going racing and we really
like to bring an upbeat atmosphere everywhere that we go, it doesn't matter if I blow it
up or not, I'm having a good time so we interact with everybody, started letting people sign
it, if a little kid gets to sign a cool car and they get to see it go down the track,
it gets them involved, you know, they remember that kind of stuff so I just like being a
part of the sport, getting involved, and it's just fun being able to work on something and
try to go fast and not have to worry about the paint and chipping it or bumping into
something or even the no prep stuff, you may may even bump a wall, I don't care.
Sometimes we joke around with guys, you start messing with your buddies, you run a no-prep
race or something, they'll be like, hey you better watch out, I may come in your lane.
And I'm like, man, you better stay out of my lane because I'll drive right through your
door and I'll never let out!
Yeah boy!
I've been there, I've done the eBay stuff, I've done the cheap stuff and now it's worth
the money to do it right the first time.
We get a lot of cars in with different products in our shop that we have to re-do with the
right stuff, with Holley, and with the right products because there are too many people
that do it the wrong way.
But yeah man, this is a great event and I think I went down to Holley, they pointed
me in the right direction this morning to get my bottle filled, the guy hooked me up
and helped me out.
I had a leaky seal on my nitrous bottle and he helped me out, I can't even remember his
name, but you know, filled it, fixed it, everything that I needed so it was great man.
Just having a great time, a lot of people here, a lot of great cars.
Yeah, should be a little crazy here on Saturday.
Oh yeah, it's only Friday, like yesterday we got here, I thought we were the first ones
in line, we stayed the night here Wednesday night, thought we were the first ones in line
out here, and it was 11 AM, registration doesn't open until 12 and there was a line 100 feet
long.