- Looking at it, I think we've gained 15 horsepower.
- I think it should work just fine.
We also blew up our engine.
Blew up our engine, blew up our engine.
- All right, everybody ready?
(engine starting)
- We bought the cheapest supercharger available
on Wish.com and today,
we are actually installing it on our beloved shop car,
Leonardo Decabrio.
(bubbles popping)
- Will this goofy product give our lovely Cabrio more power?
Or will it just blow it up?
- Today, we're gonna find out
with a little help from our friends.
(playful music) (shoes squeaking)
I'm James, he's Justin.
These guys are Grind Hard Plumbing Co.
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- All right, we're gonna be honest with you guys
because we're always honest with you guys.
We bought this supercharger as a joke
and it's definitely not meant for this car.
In fact, we don't even think it's meant for a car at all.
Universal Turbocharger AMR500 Fit
for 0.8 to 2.0 Liter AMR500 Mini
Supercharger Blower Booster.
- Turbocharger?
- It's a little sus.
If you didn't see the previous video where we bought
this thing, you should check it out.
I'll put the link in the description.
It cost $192.
- Which, in terms of supercharger, is unreal cheap.
Like, that doesn't make any sense.
But, they usually come with a bunch of
extra stuff with them.
- Like uh, hardware and plumbing.
And ours came with literally nothing
except for a claimed 10 to 30 percent increase
in engine power.
For $192?
That's a bargain.
So, we don't know if this is a supercharger.
So, to find out for sure,
we brought in supercharger experts,
Grind Hard Plumbing Co, aka our new best friends!
Ethan and Edwin.
If you don't already watch these guys' channel,
you probably should.
In fact, you probably recognize a lot of their projects.
They're known for building insanely
and I underline insanely fast Barbie jeeps,
amongst other things.
You're some of the only guys that I know
that have experience with this exact supercharger.
(blinging) (chuckles)
- The one we used, we made 15 psi boost.
We also blew up our engine, so no guarantees on that.
- Honestly, if it makes any more power,
we're gonna call it a win
and I've set the baseline when he took Leonardo
to the dyno.
What do you guys think that he made?
- 84 horsepower.
- 80.
- My guess was 80 as well.
- And mine was 89.
Our little Cabrio that could made a whopping
81 horsepower.
So, in order for this to be successful,
we need to make at least 82.
(dinging) (laughing)
- Only gaining one horsepower should be pretty easy.
- To add a little bit of drama to it,
we've only got four days till your Visas
from Idaho expire.
So we better get to work.
(jazzy music)
- Oh, there's so much space!
Like, I could sleep in there with this thing.
Look at all that space as well.
That's, yeah, that can go away.
- You don't want that, do you?
How much destructure are you guys down for?
- Worst case scenario, we put it way over here
and just make a long shaft for it.
Every way, it spins the wrong way.
That doesn't even make sense.
I still have to figure out how to get it to
run the right direction.
That would be the right way.
Cool, perfect.
So, that means it can mount where the air box goes.
The physical ya know, mounting and stuff's
gonna be super simple.
All right well, we've more or less got a plan.
Time to start removing parts and deleting them.
Yeeting them across the shop.
(laughing)
(upbeat music)
- A roof style supercharge like this
gives the engine more air by using the pulley
to spin a set of rotors inside of it
to blow air into the intake manifold.
If you want a more in depth view of what Ethan is doing,
check out the link in the description.
(upbeat music)
So yeah, where are you at with this already?
You not done yet?
(laughing)
- No, not done yet.
That goes about there.
By the way, that engine mount is
torn in half.
- I heard we need new engine mounts.
- This side wiggles but,
I went scavenging and found this alternator off of
one of your other cars.
I stole the pulley off of it and it happens to be
the exact same diameter of shaft so.
Win, win.
- Convenient!
(upbeat music) (tools whirring)
- [Ethan] This is gonna fit like, shockingly well in there.
(hood clicks)
- It's the beginning of day two.
I haven't seen the car in over 24 hours.
I miss it so much.
How's it going?
- Uh, pretty good.
I got the first and most sturdy mount built.
- That is massively sturdy.
- Yeah.
You just need a lug nut.
- Uh huh, yeah.
- You know?
- It is three-thirty on Tuesday.
How do you feel about time?
- Should be able to get it mounted and plumbed.
I hear the ECU isn't gonna be here until like,
as we're leaving.
- Really?
- Anyway.
So, we can totally get this all hooked up
and then, start it up even without the other ECU
'cause it's like, it'll still run.
It won't run optimally.
- I don't think we've ever built a car
that runs optimally.
(laughs)
- It's a pretty hard thing to do for YouTube
is build cars that actually run right.
- It's nice to talk to someone who understands my pain.
- Yeah.
(calm music)
- What's goin' on, man?
- Oh, ya know, just mounting a supercharger.
- What do you expect to happen here?
We gonna make some more?
- I think so.
I think it's good, yeah.
I think we should make some more power.
- It's gonna be fun either way. I'm excited to see it.
This is awesome, but I have some bad news for you actually.
I kinda need this lift.
I am also in the middle
of a huge project. - Of course you do.
- Someone was messing around with the supercharger
and found the gasket in there.
It's just like, a piece of random, I don't know,
packaging for something
that they cut into a gasket.
- Get outta here.
- It's just a piece of paper.
- No way! - Like a piece of used paper.
(laughing)
- Oh my God, there's symbols on it.
- Cigarette, harmful, healthy.
(laughing)
- Some guy in the shop is just like
putting this supercharger together
and he needs a gasket, just took a slice out of this thing.
- Cuts the box?
- Don't smoke.
(chuckles)
- Was that advice for the car?
- (laughs) Yeah, please don't smoke.
(laughing)
Don't smoke.
Dude, this is so funny.
- See the air filter there?
- Is that like--
- Yeah, that's like where it's gonna go.
- Dude, that means we can do a vent
and it'll make sense.
Dude.
I like this car more than my Gulf.
This is so funny and so cool.
You guys are funny and cool.
(laughing)
Do you recognize any of these like couplers there?
- Yeah.
(laughing) - How'd you line up the belt?
Just eyeball? - Yep.
- Or throw a belt on kind of? - Yep.
Dude, triple digits baby.
I'm callin' it.
It's like the biggest waste of a dyno time.
We've done it twice.
(laughing) Look at this thing.
We gotta shave the bay.
(laughing)
I love this car.
This is my favorite car in the fleet.
- Well, hopefully, I don't kill it.
(upbeat hip hop music)
- I've been told that the Grind Hart guys
have the supercharger complete and in the car.
I have definitely not heard it,
but apparently, it starts and it runs
and I'm super excited!
Looks nice.
The moment we've all been waiting for.
Let's see how it sounds.
Then how it drives.
- All right, everybody ready?
- Looking at it, I think we've gained 15 horsepower.
(car engine whirring)
I don't like it!
- Ahh, it sounds so cool!
(laughing)
(engine whirring loudly)
Dude, this rules.
This is so sick.
It's moving forward.
This is honestly pretty cool.
- You guys wanna keep this thing working.
(laughing) (engine whirring)
Oh, that doesn't sound great.
(engine whirring)
- Get the beans!
Hey!
- Well, it sounded pretty good until it died.
Oh, we had like a little over.
I think we had one psi boost there for a second.
- Can't take your foot off the gas.
- Nope.
- Recreate real world situations.
Our test track has stop signs.
(laughing)
- That actually sounded kind of neat.
- It sounds great.
- It's quieted down a lot.
- Dude, we passed a raw F1 car.
(engine whirring)
- Something that just popped off.
No, the belt's still on there.
It blew off the boot. - The coupler.
- Yeah.
- We lost a coupler.
- So good.
I can't wait for this thing to be tuned.
- You think it sounds good?
It feels even better.
(laughing)
- It's amazing how much quieter it got.
(metal crunching) (laughing)
Not that part!
- I'd say that was a success.
- Dude, 100 percent
successful. - That was awesome.
- Nice!
- Dude, good job, bro.
- Thanks!
- Good job, guys.
This thing is a certified ripper!
- Watch it make like 50 horsepower.
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(upbeat hip hop music)
- For this one last test, we gotta put this thing through,
will it make more power, baby?
To find out, we're goin' to the dyno right now!
(engine revving)
- All right everybody, I just got back from the dyno.
I have some results to show you.
(music ascending) (clapping)
- Come on!
Let's go, Max!
- Number one, triple digits baby.
- Watch it make like 50 horsepower.
- Three digits, baby.
(laughing)
- What!
Oh my God!
Cut it in half.
- That's terrible.
- That's awesome.
- Okay, lesson learned here.
Technically, it did work but I would not buy it
and I would not put it on your car.
Shouts out to Grind Hard Plumbing Co.
Check out their YouTube channel.
We'll put a link in the description below.
Here's their video about putting the
supercharger on Leonardo Decabrio.
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(laughing)