- So here's the thing, all right?
Is that since we're at the new shop,
and we get to have food together, this is Toppers.
If you've never had Toppers, you're missing out on life.
If you're missing out on life, it means
you've never been up to the Mid-West
where you got yourself some Toppers,
because that is the second best thing
I've experienced in my life, in the past week.
You guys wanted us to talk about how
last time we were talking about things that ruined your car,
a lot of people got angry.
And we thought, you know what we could do?
Just in the spirit of 2019, making everybody feel
(clears throat)
wholesome about themselves
(clears throat)
nice, maybe?
It's a happy time.
We're gonna give you some tips on things that help your car,
and that if you're looking for things to do to your car,
that you should start with this list.
By the way, I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
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Mario Kart champion, number one, right here.
All right so let's just get it right out of the way.
The first thing that you're gonna want to do
is go get good tires.
Please.
Please, por favor.
Because they don't have to be Michelin Pilots
or four esses, they just have to be made
out of like a good soft compound and have a good tread.
Your tires are where the power from your car
either end up making it or breaking it.
So if you have a thousand horsepower car,
but you have (bleep) tires, no one's gonna be
really impressed because you're just not going
to go anywhere even though burnouts are
probably one of the most exciting things
you could possibly do with a car
that required very little skill.
You're gonna sit there and spin and then you're gonna be sad
because you're just not gonna be able to have a good time
and actually go fast when you wanna race somebody else.
But if you get good tires, you can actually hook
and you can get traction, you'd probably end up being
like the Johnny Tran guy in the Fast and Furious
where he yells "Too soon Junior," before blowin' past
another car like 50 miles an hour 'cause you think,
I mean, we just all think our slow cars are fast.
It's just a good thing to buy, it's a no-brainer.
It's something that a lot of people don't really think about
because they just never end up putting money into the tires,
they put a lot of money into their wheels.
Something else you're probably not thinking about
is brakes and it's probably one of the best things
to pay attention to right at the start
of doing something to your car because upgrading
your brake pads is an absolutely great idea.
Brakes are super important.
And they're probably one of the best things
you could possibly have for your car
right next to your tires because when you're slamming
on your brakes, that's when you're gonna notice that brakes
are either good or not good, but what you'll end up
actually realizing is that when you have good brakes,
a lot of times you're gonna enjoy driving your car smarter
when you're going through any sort of time attack,
autocross or anything in between because you're actually
gonna be relying on the brakes more because they're gonna
be behaving better to how you drive because they're gonna
have less deterioration, they're not gonna go die as fast,
they're not gonna get as hot.
And a lot of that has to do with the quality of your brakes
so as you increase the quality of your brakes,
you'll actually find yourself enjoying your car more
because you're gonna feel like you control it more
instead of the car actually just feeling
like it's out of your control because it's
4,500 pounds and you've got 15 year old brakes on it.
Now we're not gonna get into the logistics
and difficulty of all the different types of brakes,
but you can go out and different styles of brakes
depending on how you drive, depending on if you track
it all the time or whether you daily drive it.
But at the end of the day,
you should probably just upgrade your brakes
and pretty much anything else that's associated with it
like your brake lines, switching from rubber
to stainless are gonna be a great thing to do.
So when pressure builds up, they don't expand outwards
which happens in rubber lines.
A lot of times with older cars, you're gonna notice
that a lot of the stuff that are in or around
your suspension components are probably gonna
need to be replaced and that's why we usually recommend
the bushings, the brakes, the brake lines
and everything in between.
Another thing that I would recommend would be
a cold air intake or just an open intake as a get go.
Now, disclaimer, a lot of new cars have an intake system
a cold air intake system that's better than
a lot of people's aftermarket applications.
There's only a few applications, especially in the higher
echelon of Motorsport cars like M series
and things like that, that are gonna be able
to make an intake better.
However, they usually sound better when you take 'em
out of the big ol' hotbox that you call your intake.
Which is pretty typical, but if you wanna go into getting
a cold air intake or just an intake in general,
we would recommend it as long as it's routed correctly,
it'll actually get to a little bit of an increase
in overall horsepower if you have something
that's extremely restricting.
But, don't take your $80,000 BMW and go cut it up
or take the box off and expect to get a ton of power.
'Cause BMW is actually pretty good at what they do.
Now another good tip that we would recommend
in terms of things that help your car would be
actually, a tune.
Now you guys might be like, Alex, that's a very,
very simple thing to say, and yes it is.
But here's the thing, a lot of times people have
a tendency to go out there and they get like a WRX.
And they're like, "I'm going to put this big intake on it
"so it sucks it all in like shloop, you know, like that?
And then they have this big ol' like,
you ever see the exhaust that's like yay big?
And then it gurgles and it backfires
and it makes all the noise and then,
turns out they're actually making less horsepower
than they were before because the car cannot figure out
what the (bleep) is going on with intake and the exhaust
and the downpipe and all the other stuff
that they ended up doing to the car.
That has to do with the fact that it was never tuned.
So it doesn't know what to do
with the additional modifications.
And a lot of people go cheap
and they don't tune their car, they just do a couple
of the modifications and this goes across the platform,
not just Subarus, but a lot of different cars
where you need to tune the car if you end up modifying
anything that has to do with anything
with an air/fuel ratio, intake, exhaust
or anything that changes the car to a point out of OE spec
that the computer actually can't adjust for.
And a lot of times you'll see that happen
in a much narrower field of view
with the newer cars than the older ones.
If you have an older one, then you can pretty much do
whatever you want, you can take a 350
and pretty much run motor oil through it
with no gasoline and it's probably still gonna run.
But with a lot of the newer stuff,
and a lot of Subarus and a lot of tuner cars in general,
anything out of spec is gonna be
a massive pain in the (bleep).
One of the things that we usually recommend,
and this goes more towards the people that have built cars
in the past or at least modified them,
is don't do all of your modifications at once.
If you do it all at once, a lot of times
you're gonna have issues, in fact,
even when you install parts one at a time,
you're probably gonna have issues.
But it makes it much more difficult for you
to source the problem if you go
and install everything at once.
If you do it in steps, then at least
you can actually trace back to the actually problem
that you had and you can test out whatever modification
that you added to the car.
Now, this isn't necessarily a part or a product
that's gonna help your car, but it is gonna help
the overall, you know, like you actually understand
what you're doing, part of the car.
'Cause a lot of the times, if you don't understand
what you're doing and you just jump in.
It's not usually the best thing to end up
standing there as the car's not running
because you decided to put $7000 into it,
you did it all in your garage, there's a car show
in four days, you read one forum page and you watched
one YouTube video and all of a sudden
you can't figure out why your car isn't sparking.
We just recommend do it in steps.
And even though everybody in the world
wants everybody to build a car like overnight it seems like
these days, take your time because taking your time
is gonna be the difference between your car running
the way that it wants to and the way
that it actually needs to.
And our last tip that we would probably have for you is
suspension, not just suspension in general,
but as you're adding on coil overs, lowering springs,
polyurethane bushings, whether you're adjusting
your camber or tow or anything like that,
but actually dialing in your suspension
can be a modification that improves your car
in and of itself.
There's so many people that throw in coil overs
and then never get an alignment
and it's actually, probably the worst things
that you could do to the driving quality of your car.
The whole point of coil overs is to be able to adjust
your damping, your compression, your rebound,
your preload, all of that sort of stuff.
Your drive height, everything in between.
And if you don't actually use any of that stuff,
a lot of times you're not going to get the full
experience out of your coil overs.
And if you actually end up diving into that,
or as I like to say, delving into that sort of information,
you can actually find out a lot.
And you can dial in your car to a point
where a lot times, it will outperform,
even if it's a slower car.
Many cars that have more horsepower than yours
because your suspension is dialed in,
where theirs more than likely is not.
And you can ask pretty much any autocross
or timing tech guy that when you dial in
your suspension to a tee, it actually behaves
like an entirely different car.
So if you're looking to learn more about suspension
and the dynamics of it all, you can probably check out
some of our videos that are that way.
Yeah, definitely that way.
So that's everything that we have for mods
that would help your car,
aka not screw it up, aka not ruin your car
because last time we did a video about ruining cars,
people got really angry, mostly people that got mad
about Plasti Dip because DipYourCar got mad
and it was just a weird thing.
I didn't know it was such a big deal.
I apologize, I didn't, whatever.
Jeez, okay, I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
We'll see you later, peace.