so we did a video with Justyn's car which was like one of the first videos on the youtube channel in
like december 2019 i think and it's been pretty much a whole yeah it's been more than a year but
i just thought we'd cover some of the things that have gone on with the car changes maybe
things didn't cover originally i thought we'd have like a bit more of a detailed walk around
point at things you know like they do on car channels where they point at things they've done
and talk about it and then probably just talk about like future plans and stuff like that
obviously Justyn did uh tam attack runway brung round last year and hopefully gonna do the
full thing this year hopefully four goes to plan
um so yeah just thought we'd have a chat about that i guess
when when was when was cadwell it wasn't cadwell it failed that was it snatterton what we had was
we did when we did that video it was december which one
uh the first video we filmed on your car it was outside i believe that was october and then
how many track days did you complete after that before the turbos one oh well between then a
match right so four five and then like full-on pre-covered we did the turbo swap video which we
have got a load of videos on already i think two videos maybe maybe three i can't remember because
we had like the making of the manifold and then actually that fitting it all and it's a s252 sxe
borgwarner twin scroll 425 horsepower which is you know more than enough for a track car it's
you know perfectly respectable it's um you know not going modern hopefully keeps things reliable
so how many track days have you done since the turbo kit enough not enough how many two three
did two track days and then two round well one in a bit rounds of time attack
one in a bit rounds what was the first round
cadwell how did that go absolutely brilliantly did a 1431 which was my personal best buy quite
a long shot and yeah it was brilliant i could have gone a lot quicker which me trying to learn the
limits i suppose when you've set up yeah i guess because
obviously the car for you has always been you never had a hybrid it was like a stock ko4
so the the car's always been pretty much the same in terms of
it was a hybrid i can't remember but yeah more or less the same in terms of power delivery obviously
when you go to like a 400 plus horsepower twin scroll setup it you know it would you know drive
quite a lot differently um and then there was snatton then there was nothing so engine failure
didn't go well it split the water jacket on cylinder one quite spectacularly but you
don't we don't really know why it just you know classic z20 no it wasn't wedged to be fair and
i don't know it was it was a fair bit of both behind i think it was running
28 ps early yeah i think with the z20 stuff i mean i've said so many times like i think you either
like rod jobham you know new rings at best and rods or you don't touch them like i think you
leave them as is and and run like you know ko6 hybrid power or you rod job if it's a i
mean obviously if it's a 100 000 mile engine you don't want to do that but i think like rod job
and new rings is absolutely all you need for like a fairly reliable-ish 400 horsepower
and i think you know that's how my car was for quite a long time and i never had any problems
but look at the draw i think things change um you know i guess the engines are quite finicky
and you only need one thing to kind of change and then
you are risking engine failure with this much kind of power i guess
um so at the minute it's got my engine in it we've talked about it a little bit i think people will
probably have seen it on instagram maybe follow on instagram but yeah at the minute it has my
engine in because i don't really drive my car and i haven't done in i don't even know a long time
yeah i think it's been five years since i've really used my engine in my car so
um that originally your engine failed um and then it was like supposed to be in dunnington yeah
donington this was like pre-locked down again like lock down three so the plan was throw my engine in
get it mapped do a round and then like reassess because that was the final round wasn't it
that was the final round of the year um and of course by the time you've got the
engine fitted in your car uh yeah lockdown happened so it was not a waste of time but
we never really got to actually use the engine in justin's car properly and it's pretty much been
just sat since the plan is to leave it like this for most of the year if the engine stays reliable
obviously this is an engine i built myself which again like that's kind of the advice i tend to
you know just rod job chinese rod job cheapest rods you can find like the cheapest ones um and
mine's just got like piper cams and you also got different cams so it needs mapping again anyway
and the plan is to leave it like that for the majority of the year and hopefully it stays
nicely reliable and then hopefully we just take the engine out put it back in my car
and the plan is actually to do an engine swap
so we've already filmed a video talking about the engine we're going to use
because it's in my car right now it's not hung on engine mounts but it is in the car so that
will come out after this video at some point um but the plan is to use a honda k20 engine
it seems like one of those things where you go well k20 swap's the way to go because you know
it's a superior engine and you know it's kind of like the go-to engine swap but i think it's
the go-to engine swap because it kind of should be like it is you know if you're gonna swap for
another four-cylinder two-liter engine there's probably not another one you you'd choose really
um so that's the plan and hopefully we can you know cover some of the details in that other video
but um and it's like it's definitely one of those things where i'd say it's far more cost effective
for you where you technically don't have an engine because if you've got to buy another
z20 and then build it it becomes quite costly whereas you can just take a k20 off the shelf
and it's already more capable in terms of power than a z20 would be but obviously
you've got all of the issue of engine mounts drive shafts ecu and all the plumbing involved
but that's the plan k20 swapped astra i think the thing with it is it's because they will
handle so much more power you know straight out of the box they've got the limit obviously yeah
and everything yeah and it's the aftermarket support so that you can basically get aftermarket
everything i mean you can basically build a k20 engine just from aftermarket bits um
and that makes it a lot easier like because you're now pretty much exclusively using the car
just as either a track car or for racing it does make more sense
because reliability is what you want reliability is the most important thing because one issue
what even might be a small issue ends your track day you know ruins your your race day
so to me you know reliability is key and i think you know you you are more or less
inevitably going to get more reliability from a k20 and that's not to hate on vauxhalls it's just
you know you have to look at value for money and reliability and i
think you're going to get that far more from the honda engine really
so yeah there's going to be uh hopefully lots of footage of justin's car on track this year if we
can go i mean i'm not sure i mean like cover it's over now in it um i'm not sure what the
spectator rules are going to be at tracks but we're hopefully going to try and cover it you
know at least 50 of the rounds i think um and try and do some like trackside videos kind of like we
did a little bit at cadwell but probably go a bit more in depth and follow it like a series yeah
like a race series i guess that's the plan because i think that'll be a really fun thing to do yeah
we'll uh we'll hopefully be putting out lots of videos on track stuff this year and then towards
the end of the year well hopefully it's just going to be a case of swapping the engine over
like we're gonna get the engine running in my car that's gonna be like a mule car and then
we're just gonna swap it over probably do some mods to the engine maybe stuff like cams um maybe
some form of baffled sump no oil pump stuff like that just kind of refresh it i guess but again
not going crazy with engine mods because i don't think you really need to so yeah if anybody's got
any questions about justin's car put it in the comments and i'm sure he'll be happy to
answer them or i will best i can but yeah thanks for watching and we'll see you next time