- Hey guys, what's going on.
It's Alex from Fitment Industries
and we're in a much warmer place than Wisconsin.
A place that doesn't have humidity,
a place that's not moist when you walk outside,
we are here in California.
We're hanging out with none other than top ranked with my
good old friend, Brian and today we're reviewing your car.
- Yeah.
- Are you ready?
- I am, my baby.
- Are you sure?
So like, we're in, we're in like
the heart of automotive culture.
Let me tell you like the cars that we get to see over on
this trip have been insane. We're spoiled.
We're going to go back and we're not going to see any of
what we've seen today. So thank you.
- I am also from Wisconsin, so I know that.
- Yeah. Green Bay to be exact, really high point there.
- Go Pack.
- But, okay we're going to get into it.
So this is your car, right?
- Yes.
- Talk, walk me through the Supra.
- So, this is my personal R Z 1993 Toyota Supra
twin turbo six speed JDM of course
right-hand drive. Gotta' put on for the team.
So Alpine silver, my poster car as a child
was the Gracer supra, which is a
Greddy specification car. It was silver.
And I'm so fortunate to say that I am building this car with
Greddy. Just got it back today from some new stuff.
So I get to kind of create the Gracer Supra of my childhood.
- That's awesome. So for a lot of people that don't know,
cause this is something that was new to me is the fact that
when we hear of Greddy or we hear of HKS,
or we hear some of those older names,
sometimes we think that they're like off in like some sort
of, I don't know, closet overseas,
and they're not like they're here.
They're working on the car with you.
They're dialing it all in, right?
- Yeah, so, Trust Japan was originally founded in Japan.
When they tried to come to the U S there was already a
company called Trust,
so they needed to come up with something else.
So Greddy, it was.
- That's awesome.
- So, a fun fact about Greddy, G as in Great,
and eddy as in wind, like great wind, like a turbo.
That's Greddy.
- Oh, wow.
- Crazy. Right.
- Welcome to fitment education class.
I'm your host Bill Nye.
And here's Ryan.
- That's why the Trust is Japan and Greddy is US.
- That's awesome!
- Greddy is right up the road from us in Irvine, California.
- That's so sick.
- Yeah.
- So then you have the authentic wheels, right?
- These wheels were the same wheels from the
Greddy Gracer Supra.
I just got the Gracer front lip today,
which is not yet on the car it has to go to paint,
but the original ads for the Gracer Supra have these stern
wheels on them. As you could see,
they could use a little bit of a rebuild,
which is coming up here real quick.
- And then you still, those are still the sock brakes then.
So these are actually Lexus LS, 400 brakes for the moment.
- Oh.
- Because in the passenger seat,
if you want to get straight to brakes.
- Which is on the wrong side, I'm on the right.
- I've got something else from Greddy
that will be going on to replace
all those tiny little brakes
- Those are big boys.
- We have a Greddy six pot brake
built with endless also has an endless two piece rotor.
So six fits in the front four in the rear.
So these will be going on there.
- That's awesome.
I like the color.
- Pretty nice.
- I like the color.
- Thanks.
- So this is, this is like authentic.
This is heritage. This is like,
- This is the-
- you were really going back
and cranking it back to as close as you can.
- Right and a little bit of a modern touch
so the exhaust doesn't exist.
- That's a big exhaust.
- This is something that they made for the Supra.
So it's a titanium custom exhaust from Greddy and I could
see them laser etched in, they now sell the mufflers.
You can buy that has the Greddy etching,
but the whole exhaust was done at Greddy.
- This is a full pass of the fist test.
- It is.
- And I've got small. I can go all the way in.
There's three fingers into the inlet.
- Yep.
whole deal. And right here, we have.
- A lot of space in that exhaust. Yeah.
- OG emblem though.
- That's nuts!
- So, new exhaust, OG exhaust emblems,
so that's kind of cool.
- It's so clean!
- Yep, and uh-
- And you have clean cars everywhere, but this is like-
- Well, this is my personal one.
So you've got to do a little extra.
So it has the original RZ arrow from Japan
on it has some cool features inside,
like the confetti Recaro or I'm sorry,
the confetti floor mats,
which is an original option.
- Very nineties.
- And custom seats.
So I did this because what a lot of people don't realize is
that the rear seats are all leather in the US and Japan-
- Okay.
- but in Japan, almost all the front seats are cloth.
So they didn't really have a leather option.
So in order to have my seats match,
because it was driving me nuts that the front were cloth,
even though it was from the factory.
- You had them reupholstered?
- Had to do this.
So we put the top rank logo in there
and did this style seat,
which I think still fits the period,
maybe just a bit more modern.
- You don't realize how everybody always says, when you,
when you get in like a Mark Four Supra,
you always talk about like how it's
a very driver oriented cockpit, right?
- Everything faces you.
- But when you see it in person,
you don't realize how exaggerated that actually is,
how much that is really facing you. I mean,
everything is facing the driver
and the passenger gets to look at a glove box.
Yeah, so, you really only get like a-
you don't get much to look at when you're in the passenger
seat. Not that there's anything wrong with that?
You know, maybe,
maybe you can play some tic-tac-toe,
you can be on your iPhone
or whatever it is that you do,
but is a super clean interior.
Everything about this car is,
is pretty, pretty nutso clean.
How's the engine bay?
- We'll get to that right now.
- Clean? Unclean?
- It's clean, man. It's clean.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
- Because you do drive this car a lot.
- Yeah. I put 30-ish thousand miles
on this car last year.
- Geez.
- So not afraid to drive it.
- It's mine. I'm not selling it.
Who cares about resell?
- Stop looking at him. Stop giving him attention.
He thrives off of it.
- Under here, we have a bunch of other Greddy parts.
- Oh my goodness.
- We have some titanium pieces from Chasing J's and Greddy.
Chasing Jay's Dominic right up the street from us.
He makes really great titanium pieces like this.
Greddy front mount inter-cooler, Greddy breather tank,
Greddy radiator, hard piping kits.
- Lots of Greddy.
- The new Airinix intake.
- Greddys everywhere.
- Yeah, I mean-
- Gosh, darn.
- the only thing that's not Greddy on the car that is
aftermarket is the suspension
because Greddy doesn't make-
- Yeah.
- A coil-over for this car.
- And that's what?
- H cast.
- So H cast Hypermax Gt on these.
- That's awesome.
- Yep.
- Rides good?
- It rides great. Yeah, so happy with it for sure.
- All right, enough with how clean it is,
and the fact that you drive it 30,000 miles
and the fact that it's a perfect Greddy car.
And put this hood back down. We got to rate it
- Very reliable.
- The carbon fiber.
- Yeah.
- Are you kidding me?
- Yeah, man.
- Come on!
- It doesn't look good when you got the thing on.
- Come on! That's why it only goes up to here.
- Yeah.
- I'm like, that seems interesting.
And of course they're carbon fiber.
- Yeah.
- Small attention to detail.
- Mhm.
- Right. Thank you.
Just make me hate every build I've ever done
in my entire life. That's cool.
- Yeah.
- All right!
- Yeah there's some nice little details.
- Anything else you want to share with the class?
- Yeah. These headlights are really cool,
actually, so, okay.
We displayed a Supra at Tokyo Auto Salon in 2019
with a company called Wise Square
and they take OEM headlights and they make them nicer
and cooler. So on a regular Supra,
you'll see if you follow me over here.
- To the other supra,
- See how these are all clear and like-
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Cromey looking? So the 98 headlights
on the Supra have like a black charcoal,
but everybody puts the 98 headlights in.
So why not do that black charcoal with a 93 style headlight.
- Ohhhh, so like how they tear the whole thing apart.
- Right. They tear it all apart.
They reseal everything and the company's called Wise Square.
So I like that.
It's a cool little touch that
definitely gives it that period correct
still look with the facelift style headlight.
Details.
- Details.
- Little details.
- So how long- okay so the last question-
a hundred percent being the car is done
zero being you just started,
where are you at with the car or would you say?
- That is tough?
- Yeah. Where would you say you're at?
- There's always more.
- There's always more,
but there's gotta be like an end goal. Oh this fist test got
all over my arm.
- I'm going to say 60%.
- 60% 60. This man's at 60% with this car.
You haven't even seen his final form. Right.
- And it's like, there's still more to do what?
- I don't like this at all. We're going to rate your car.
- Okay. Go ahead.
- On 10, out of 10.
- Sure.
- We've got to rate it out of 10, right?
You've also got to rate your car.
So we're going to do 1, 2, 3,
and the number you have to rate it out of 10.
- Sure.
- I will rate it out of 10.
You have to tell me why you wrote your number.
And then I have to kind of bullshit
my way into figuring out if I
should rate your car the way that I want to.
All right. Ready.
- On 3- 1, 2, 3,
- 9
- 7
- Wow. What?
You've lied to me.
- I didn't lie to you.
- You said- I said three and then you waited.
- I didn't mean the way you were just so ready. I wasn't.
- Why did you say seven?
- So I mean, there's things right on every car.
And I think that the more time you spend in each car,
there's things. And I also, I mean,
we bring in 300 cars a year, so I'm pretty critical of cars.
I can look at a car and instantly tell you 25 things I don't
like about it. And I really do that on my own car, too.
There's things that I have planned for this or things that I
want to clean or make better or dry ice blast-
- Oh yeah, that's popular.
- And little interior things that I want better.
There's a long way to go for me.
I don't, I don't know that a 10 exists
and I've seen all a lot of cars,
- Yeah.
- You know, but I mean,
the car is definitely not a nine dude,
but I appreciate that.
- That is it. The car is a nine.
Let me tell you why it's a nine, okay.
It's- it's actually damn near a 10.
I would even call it a 10 and a half because I don't.
So here's the, here's the biggest thing for me.
Right?
- Sure.
- I love the car.
- Mhm.
- I love everything that you're doing to the car.
But what I think I appreciate the most about this car is
what you're doing with it.
- That's true.
- I think the craft of what you're going with,
like the Greddy parts and going back and really looking back
at something that you wanted to have when you were a kid and
then going out and getting that is so cool.
'Cause this could be any car in all honesty-
- Yeah.
- you could have, you could have picked any one of those.
So to hear the story of what you're doing, I think is super,
super cool.
Absolutely love the thing.
- The most fun thing about the car
has been finding the parts that don't exist anymore.
- Yeah.
- I enjoy the hunt more than probably the drive.
- Yeah. That's so cool.
- It's cool. And the hunt will never be over.
- No, absolutely not.
Yeah. Well, if you guys have a different rating
or you want to call us out for our sh- ratings,
be sure to do so in the comment section below.
And of course, if you guys haven't yet
be sure to add your car to our growing gallery,
fitmentindustrie.com/add where we actually do
these series every single week.
I am nothing more than a special guest because big boy
decode over there is usually the guy that's in front of the
camera. He slapped his stomach,
which makes me uncomfortable.
Which means if you guys are looking
for wheels, tires, suspension,
be sure to check us out at fitmentindustries.com.
And if you're looking for cars to drool over top rank
importers, I go there every night.
It seems like at like 10 o'clock.
It makes me uncomfortable. I don't tell my wife.
And then I just feel very sad that I don't own any of them.
- One day I'm going to put one in your garage.
- Hey, you should.
- I'm going to ship it there with an invoice.
- You really should. At this point, it might be best.
Let us go, let us know guys, what do you want to see next?
And of course we will see you guys later.
Peace, peace, peace.