- Nostril cam. - Mm-hmm, you good?
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Hey, this is Davin with Hagerty
and our "Redline Rebuild" updates
looking through the Subaru project.
Hopefully you like that.
And if you didn't check out the time lapse video
there's a link right down here in the description.
Check it out, I think you'll like it.
Now we've had some questions relative
to the Subaru project like we do on all of them.
And one of the things is, is why?
"Why did you do a Subaru engine?"
Well, you know what?
It really wasn't the thing I wanted
to do right off the bat, but you know what?
It's been pretty interesting
and it's always cool to learn something new
'cause that's kind of the point, right?
Projects, learn something new, accomplish something,
checks all the boxes for me.
And, yeah, it's kind of cool.
So other questions of you know,
process and why we did this and why we did that?
We're gonna go over some of those in this episode
and then also we're gonna talk
to you about some of our projects
that we've completed engine wise.
We'll show you where those restorations are at.
And then maybe where we're headed.
Okay, so there was a question about machining,
and you know when you use torque plates,
when you don't use torque plates,
when you hone, all those things.
So here's the deal.
I like to divide things between using torque plates
on something higher horsepower and performance in that.
Now, can we argue that this
is going to be a high performance engine?
Sure, so use a torque plate when you really want
to get things perfect because you're running tight
on tolerances, I ran stock tolerances on everything.
Not necessarily needed on this.
Now, on the align hone.
Would I have liked to have align honed this motor?
100% because it needed it, it's warped.
I think they all are maybe
because the way I understand the design.
But the problem is finding a shop
that can do the align hone on this particular block
is difficult because of the way
the design of the block is.
You bring two halves together, it's not a cap.
Where you see on the other motors there's a cap,
you clip the cap, you machine that.
On this you have to do a CNC style single point tool
going down through, it's just a lot more cumbersome.
Up here and pretty much anywhere
in the country there's not a lot of those shops available.
So that's why.
So now to make up the align hone,
that's where we mix and match our bearings
so we get a good smooth rotation
and maintaining our oil clearances.
Now one of the other questions was relative
to why rebuild an engine?
Just in general.
Well, rebuild the engine because,
A, it's the original motor.
B, you wanna try it.
But at the end of the day regardless
of how you're going about it,
meaning you're doing it or having a shop do it,
do your diligence and understand what's there
and what's being done or what needs to be done
and decide what level you want things at.
Because even if you have a shop do it you gotta be careful
because you don't want them cutting corners
that you don't want cut.
When I say "cutting corners"
I don't mean doing a shoddy job.
What I'm saying is if you're not building 700 horsepower
you don't need all the tricks and all the fine tuning
of everything to get there.
You can live with tolerances that are closer
into your OE type spec.
That's where we're at with our engine,
is OE side of horsepower with maybe
a little bit here or there,
but well within the capabilities of the OE design.
Another sensitive area on our builds
is what oil filters we use.
This particular motor has a Fram on it.
And it is a interesting conversation
that we have with lots of people relative
to the brand of oil filters.
(Davin sighs)
Wow, that's all I have to say.
Love, hate, no middle ground.
Just an oil filter.
It filters oil, does a very good job too.
And also we always get a lot
of questions about, "What did you coat this with,
and what did you coat that?"
So I'm gonna reiterate.
Exhaust stuff, anything that gets hot, 100% Cerakote.
This is the first time
I went into having plastic parts coated by Cerakote.
It's awesome how strong the adhesion
is to plastic parts that are gonna have some flex
and movement and quite frankly it's cool
the fact that it, well, it's plastic
and it's got a good coating on it now.
All right, so the question is,
"How did we start the car without a key?"
Well if you roll back to the beginning,
when we picked up the car
I didn't have a key with us
and I had to take the facia off and all this
to get to the ignition switch
and basically just applied some fundamentals
and figured it out.
Now that's as far as I'm going with that.
(wrench thumping)
So that was starting it in the car.
Now getting it started on our test rig here
is a whole 'nother story.
You can see that we have a whole lot of wires
and at the end of the day there's only
about eight of them connected, roughly.
And I tell you what really helped
is having someone that works
on maybe more modern cars right next door,
and kinda led us in some directions.
At the end of the day everything was ready to roll
but one ground wire.
So the indicator for that one ground wire
not being connected was the fact
that when we keyed on the fuel gauge didn't move,
which means it wasn't functioning.
And lo and behold that one ground wire
is also the same one for the computer.
Let me tell you,
that wasn't shown anywhere
in all the wiring diagrams for this thing.
That came with experience from a repair shop.
The most common question
I get on every engine build is, "How much?"
It's a great question.
And you know what?
It will definitely vary depending
on what your build level is going to be
and what your personal skill level is,
because labor costs money, parts are parts.
Now, to give you some numbers, right?
You have to go to the machine shop
it's gonna cost you probably 500 bucks
to have that block prepped and ready to go.
Now crank shafts gonna be another 200 bucks
to have it cut, potentially.
And then you've got a gasket kit
that's gonna be at least 150 bucks
just to put it all back together.
That's a place to start.
Now depending on how bad the parts are,
different things need to be replaced
so on and so forth, that adds up.
So I understand that's a very vague statement,
but here's the question back to you.
Relative to an engine build, how long's the piece of rope?
The answer is, how long do you want to cut it?
Now with this Subaru project
one of the huge questions is, "What's it gonna go into?"
'Cause obviously it's not going back into the original car.
(metal crunching)
And you know what?
I really appreciate all the comments and suggestions,
and I'm just gonna say this,
probably the most popular one may or may not win.
Because, you know, doing something different
is a whole lot more fun.
And I got a couple ideas.
Okay, so here's the last question.
And quite honestly, you guys understand
that I shoot and edit all this stuff?
So I know this like that, (snaps fingers) okay?
So question is, "How do we do all the time lapse stuff
and the motion and all that jazz?"
Right?
That looks cool when you're watching it.
Well, quite frankly, it's just this machine all by itself.
It does it.
You telepathy what you wanna see
and then you just push a button and it goes click, clack.
This thing rotates, moves, does this, blah, blah, blah.
And then just like magic, it shows up on YouTube.
(snaps fingers) Boom!
Enough of that.
Let's move on to some of the projects we're doing,
or completing finally.
So we have our '37, '40, '55, '65, '85, '95,
(Simpsons character speaking rapidly)
race car over here and you can see
that all the fabrication is done.
It is ready for paint and then reassembly.
And our engine happens to be sitting right here as well.
It is ready to go off to the machine shop
and have all that work done.
Now we are gonna take some care
that you guys all want us to do, like torque plates.
They'll be done and we're gonna put some better pistons
in it and do all that jazz and run
it on the dyno and have some numbers, it'll be cool.
And hopefully it's powerful because, well,
it's gotta move this thing and it's gotta be fun.
Now we're gonna take a little trip.
Let's run over to the other garage.
Do you remember the Mini motor, the Cadillac motor?
And I said when it left here that
it was gonna go into a car that was gonna be fully restored,
we're gonna have a full restoration on those cars?
Well, those are all in process.
We'll go show you what those look like.
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Okay, like I said, over at our garage,
we come over here to the learning garage
and kind of check in on two of the other motors
that we put together.
One was for the '56 Cadillac.
And you can see it's right here,
all installed into the restored chassis.
The guys over here are wrapping up,
putting on the front clip
and getting this finished assembled.
And then over here on one of their carts is the Mini,
which looks a little different
from the last time everybody else saw it
because it was back in the car.
But like I said, we're going through
a full restoration on it over here.
And of course the motor and everything had to come back out.
So we have pieces, you know, they got pieces on this shelf,
pieces over here.
Typical restoration, pull it apart,
start restoring all the stuff and then reassemble.
But come check out the body.
It's over here on the other side.
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All right, so here's our Mini body
completely tore down and paint stripped.
Now remember it was red
and you could see some areas where it was bad,
but now you can really see where it has some rust issues.
You know, some things like this.
This should be connected and obviously not have holes here.
So as the guys go through and restore everything
they'll make new patch panels.
For instance up here,
here's a panel that Blaine's got already started.
That'll go in here, weld in.
He'll never know it was changed.
If you're wondering what the black is?
So one of the steps in restoring these
is we'll go through International Paint Strippers,
they dip the whole body and use an acid
that takes everything off of it,
and then dip it into an e-coat that recoats the body
and gets in all those cracks and crevices
so you don't have rust issues because of the acid.
Because I know everyone out there is going,
"Well, you can't get all the acid out."
Well, you can when you do it right.
All right, so you can see progress is being made
on the Mini and the Cadillac on the full restoration.
But if you haven't checked out the engine rebuilds,
go down to the description, the links are down there.
They turned out pretty cool.
Now I've got a lot of work
to get done over in the other shop.
As you can see we've got some projects that have slid,
and we got some new stuff coming
that I think you're gonna enjoy.
So while I go get my work done,
you go out and get your work done.
Enjoy, have fun.
Catch you on the flip side.
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