Hi everyone and welcome to another great
episode of MuscleKingz Lounge
I'm your host Shawn Davis we have a great
diversity of cars here today Rob
Phillips from PCH rods is here with a 69
Camaro that's a stunning car it's gonna
be a blast to walk through this car take
a look at the interior the engine bay
get into the details of this car really
looking forward to this we also have
Russ Taylor and his 2015 Z28 which is a
street-legal car yet it's a fully track
prepped car that he races in NASA and
SECA events and our final guest of the
day is gonna be Rob Lindsay from RJ
Fab this is going to be a blast to walk
through his 68 Plymouth Valiant which is
a full-blown Pro Street drag car yet
this guy took the time and energy to put
attention into the details which is very
rare in a drag car the paint and body
the interior it's a really exceptional
car we have some questions lined up from
our followers and we're ready to fire
them away for you and if you answer if
we answer your question you'll win a
prize cuz that's what this shows about
you the fans and viewers giving you the
opportunity to get a closer look at some
of these cars that we can only see
typically as they fly by us at on the
freeway or on the track joining me today
at the bar is a character and a half
Rednek bringing his sense of humor also
bringing his skills as a builder and
we've also got the extraordinarily hot
Jacky Brojaq but don't let her looks
fool you cuz she's about us she's a
former Navy veteran she'll kick your ass
we're also going to be trying something
new this episode and that's having John
Henson if Currie Enterprises get the
builders up do a walk-around of their
car and take you guys inside the details
and what went into these builds it's
going to be a great episode and we're
glad you can join us so now let's get
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hostess with the mostess and you may
recognize him as a previous guest on the
show
his name is Shawn well hello there and
we've got Steve Carlos from PCH we've
got Steve calm lows from PCH Rods they
don't build fishing rods by the way they
build actually really cool cars and
you guys see the clip of the 69 Camaro
you guys brought. I'm a big Pro Touring
restomod guy it's kind of where I live
we talked about your car a bit today but
I want it I think be fun to give
everyone insight into will talk about
the build of the car but I'm more
interested in the beginning part of like
what what what gets you guys wanting to
build cars what got you into wanting to
be a builder and go through the
nightmares you guys go through from time
to time did a lot in the long hours yeah
I've always I've always been injured in
cars ever since ever I know ever since I
could remember and basically any job
I've ever had has been related to cars
in some way and just recently I mean
fairly recently we've gotten I've gotten
in more into building you know the whole
the full projects and everything and and
this Camaro was basically one of the the
the main the the biggest first build
that I've ever done yeah so this is this
is the first like kind of big big deal
build you were part of it and that was
and being a SEMA car was just you know
building it in the short time frame that
we had and being a SEMA car was it was a
treat yeah yeah awesome yeah you guys
see the car I mean the the I'm kind of
blown away right now that this is the
first one the first big one you guys did
cuz I mean the interior on the car is
stunning on you know and and that you
guys did it all in-house interior I
think you said the only thing you didn't
do was paint well Stitch Corp actually
did the interior and the car came to us
but we did everything else right the car
was essentially a painted shell when it
showed up we had no suspension no
interior no wiring no plumbing so it was
a blank slate a painted blank slate I
think it's I think it's a beautiful car
man I think it's a super stunning car I
think it'd be fun to you know we've got
Jon Henson from from Currie Enterprises
to do a walk-through of the car cuz i'm
i'm you know i'm not a super tech guy
John's a tech guy man so I think that's
what what we should do is do a
walk-through of the car with John yeah
no worries cool how's it going Stephen
thanks for coming man I really want to
do is I want to start talking about the
engine because I know a lot of people
are gonna be curious to see what's under
the hood of course so let's go ahead and
pop your head and take a look problem
that is clean so what do we have here
what are we looking at what motor it is
a GM performance 525 horse LS3 crate
motor is essentially stock except we put
a cam in it so it's a little bit a
little bit over what that's rated at
just for a little bit of sound a little
bit of performance over what I see I see
a Holley EFI throttle body that's been
put on the front here yeah it's got full
Holley if those valve covers are really
nice they hide the the packs and
everything who made those those are a
Ring Brothers valve cover we actually
kind of took their logo off and actually
machined our logo in them just you know
to kind of make it our own and that is
definitely not a stock serpentine kit
that is a Billet Specialties front drive
oh wow so you see everything it just
comes complete absolutely bolted right
in that's really neat now that is some
suspension work - so is that a market
subframe it is okay so whose is that
it's a full Detroit Speed kit it's
actually Detroit Speed front to back
they're full front subframe it's all c6
Corvette you know uprights their control
arms JRI Shocks it drives like it's on
rails okay so it's a it's a hydra form
deal that Detroit speed makes right so
it's the tensile strength on that is
super strong so something like this is
probably built for like pro touring
autocrossing absolutely okay
Wow yeah so if you're gonna be doing
some auto crossing you probably have
some really bitchin shocks the shock
it's a JRI set up your eyes with the JRI
coil over it's got coil overs front and
rear so double adjustable single adjust
those these are just single adjustable
okay so yeah so you can dial in
compression and absolutely figured out
which is which is more than enough for
what this thing was gonna do so so this
having that much power you probably have
a really good radiator is this be cool
or it is an AFco radiator of AFco radiator so
it's all aluminum but it's been kind of
everything in here is kind of blacked
out kind of match the car it's actually
ceramic coated seracote seracote okay so
seracote is a ceramic coating if nobody
knows what that exactly is ceramic coats
really popular in the gun market it's
been really popular in the automotive
market now too so it's a really thin
coat but it's super protective and I'm
gonna guess that that's the same finish
on all of the bumpers and yeah that's
actually incorporated throughout the car
the intake manifold seracoated
radiator seracoated this trim piece the
bumpers the grille the bowtie in the
grille is multiple color seracoated
the wheels just about everything so Wow
okay well let's talk about the wheels a
little bit I know a little thing or two
about who you built this car for who's
the owner
this is Jose Marino from Intro Wheels
from Intro wheels so hence the intro
wheels yes exactly so do you know what
design wheel this is I don't remember
the exact design off the top ahead but
looks like a mesh wheel looks really big
it's a mystery to me so yeah it's an 18
by 10 front 18 by 12 rear so plenty of
tire fur for this car okay yeah and as a
speaking of tires what brand tires
you're running they're BF Goodrich
rivals okay so that's a really sticky
tire I've imagined right so if you're
gonna be out doing some some
autocrossing oh that's a good tire to go
with so this looks like a three-piece
wheel to me isn't it correct and so
those bolts are actually function they
hold the wheel together right absolutely
yeah so looking at those bolts a lot
closer
they look like they're brushed ARP bolts
is that correct that's correct every
piece of ARP Hardware on this whole car
is stainless and everything is brushed
by hand it was actually kind of a kind
of fell upon it you know as we were like
a test let's see how that looks and if
you look all the heads of the bolts are
all brushed
they're all clocked so no matter where
the wheel is all the air P logos are all
face and a sales
of hand timing yeah Wow so what is
enough yeah what happens when you wash
it and you scratch one of those guys oh
yeah we keep it pretty clean yeah so
obviously with all this power and that
sticky will and tire you probably need a
good break to get this thing to slow
down what do you guys do for breaks it's
bare front and rear 6-piston front and
rear with our PCH rods logo in the
caliper there remaster cylinder all
stainless lines yeah Baer makes some
really quality stuff man so absolutely
yeah that's a big quality decision when
you're trying to slow down a car with
this much power oh yeah yeah so let's
talk a little bit about the interior I
noticed that it's obviously very custom
what did you guys change in the interior
just about everything cuz when we got
this car it had none of it so it's a
stitch core to the interior it is all
Bentley leather and Alcantara suede in
the seats the headliner it's gotten
penalty carpet in it custom center
console gauges what you end up doing
four gauge work changes is a Auto Meter
LCD which is awesome because you can put
inputs for essentially everything you'd
ever want to see in it you can change
through the different displays and
everything it's just it's a fantastic
piece let's see what else how about you
know you kept a back seat in it so it's
everything seems to be fully functional
and oh yeah you've got a center console
and it looks functional with a push
button start is that correct
that's a Ring Brother's push start on it
so it's no key in it just touch the
little pad on yeah speaking of the ring
brothers I noticed a couple more of
their pieces on your obviously their
hood hinges which are you know they very
much Ring Brothers with the relief cuts
in it but it looks like those are there
pieces as well with the door handles and
those are they make a matching set it
looks like them yeah yeah and then for
rear suspension since I'm a rear end guy
what did you end up doing in the back I
was got a curry nine inch of course but
it's it's also Detroit Speed it's their
quadrant link four link setup and also
their mini tubs it's clear those 335
okay so Detroit Speed mini tubs
so that's what allows you to run the 12
inch wide wheel right with the 335
exactly so did you order the rear end
narrowed so that you can run that offset
on the wheel is that how that's actually
from
being in their kit set ready to go oh
really Wow so they make it almost cookie
cutter huh just about yes so you guys
put this gut this car together rather
quick he said three months it was
basically three months start to finish
it came to us as a painted car so it was
a painted shelf but it had nothing on no
suspension no interior no wiring no
nothing so it was a it was a hustle and
we did for the 2016 SEMA show well you
guys did an amazing job man thanks for
bringing it up absolutely really thank you
so I'm curious what you being the
Builder on the car what's your what's
your favorite element of the car I like
that it can be driven that that's the
that was the entire you know point of
the whole build it's not a show car and
it's not it's not you know it's not
anything you couldn't jump in and go to
grocery store and pick up milk and bread
with so right now you told me a story
earlier that I thought was super cool
was was that you guys completed the car
loaded up trailer it so the first time
he fired he's rolling it on the trailer
we fired it up about two o'clock in the
morning on the Monday we rolled it into
SEMA drove directly to SEMA and ten
o'clock rolled it into the booth that
was the first time the car had ever
moved under its own power which is super
cool but here's the part I like the this
is route I think is that at the end of
SEMA anyone that's ever been out there
knows there's Optima Alley all the cars
that are about to run in the Optima
challenge so this is a car that hasn't
been run other than to run it on a
trailer and off a trailer what do you
guys do at the end of SEMA we ended up
getting a golden ticket at SEMA so we're
you know invited to the Optima
Invitational and we raced it that
weekend right after the show so never
running the car you have no idea if it's
gonna stop if it's gonna turn if it's
gonna do anything it's supposed to do if
we're gonna shake it down that was the
time supposed to shake it down man yeah
Rob's wife Brandi actually drove it so
so cool
all right well I think what we need to
do is toss it over to the bar and hear
what Jackie that mr. Rednek got in
store for us what's up by the way a
beautiful car and I was gonna mention
that that the time crunch you guys had
but you guys did do it clean and I'm the
same way when I build stuff you could
test it you might as well put it to test
you
fails so I'm glad it worked out good
that thing shocked me when you started
up and backed it up I was like so we got
a question here from Camaro family here
that noticed that there was no roll cage
are you going to auto cross it or are
you gonna strengthen the unibody a
subframe alone it's got its got Detroit
speed subframe connectors in it now
we've already strengthened its its
underneath it's all strengthened ok we
chose not to cage it just because that's
not what the customer wanted it first
but how are they gonna make you Cajon if
you guys do side race it or you and be
able to just run it how it is and as it
is it's it's perfectly capable for for
doing Optima we raced it on the road
course and auto cross and speed stopped
it just the way it is so that's awesome
and it's built nice I mean you get the
fat and fatties on it which is nice so
that makes it it makes it nice of the
traction on it but it's it's beautiful
car I do like the color scheme over to
thank you what is it run in do you know
I'm sorry what is it like what is its
time I don't remember the times exactly
at Optima but it was it was still fairly
competitive with a lot of cars that were
out there so you guys did dyno the motor
or no we didn't down in the car no no no
but it's us through it's a it's a 520
horse LS so he was a cabinet so it's
it's fairly stout for what it is yeah
not extreme but it's plenty for what
that car is yeah definitely plenty for
that car yeah it looks come the way you
did it - awesome man you guys dude
thanks for coming and hanging with us
man bring in the car and you know taking
me for a ride earlier was that was that
was super cool all right you guys well
that's that's our buddy Steve hanging
with us so no awesome dude
so it never sucks driving a track prep
car down PCH does it yeah and no
interactions with the local PD which is
always a good which always makes it a
lot better especially in this part of
town yeah so I'm curious dude what what
I mean what makes you go like I'm gonna
I'm gonna keep it street-legal right cuz
cuz typically what we would do is we'd
go yeah I got my daily car but then I've
got my car that I'm gonna track crap or
it's you know it's purpose-built right
but this looks like it's purpose-built
and yet you can load it around the
streets yeah yeah it it's a hundred
percent dedicated track car for sure
we had the benefit of having
registration and go out and roll around
drive here didn't have a trailer cuz I'm
just down in Orange County - so it's
nice cool so so when you say fully track
prep like let's i'm inai i read some of
the details but i think everybody would
really get excited to get an idea of
what what that means yeah so I've got
about a 10 11 year history with a
national auto sport associations under
NASA and previously we had a Mitsubishi
Evo 10 I ran that for about eight years
and gaskets popping all over motors
getting blown out and so I was kind of
done with that just high tense motor and
we went to the z28 so we've been running
it now for two years come into our third
season now and obviously same motor
same motor will rebuild yeah the way the
classification works for NASA is we're
in their super 20 series and so it's a
power-to-weight ratio so actually it's
the factory ls7 we really haven't
touched much out of it specifically
because the power-to-weight we have to
keep that kind of range so right and so
you're making if I remember correctly
somewhere around 465 forces larger
wheels and you you gutted the car
considerably yeah like a track car yeah
be so so I know I have a zl1 which is
thirty-nine hundred pounds I think the
Z28 maybe a little bit heavier yeah so
what are you weighing now in that class
yeah so start to have a 3950 was Z28
weight and this now is it 33 in change
so we took about 600 pounds plus adding
the cage
which you know it's a lot of ways you
got a lot more rigid in the character
yeah extra yeah support we we just did a
big suspension overhaul partnered with
öhlins actually did full coil over know
around their Road and track system it's
fully adjustable yeah single adjustable
actually it's just a rodent track but
okay so we're going from that from the
factory set up and that will run those
but yeah the handling on the car is just
phenomenal awesome and so I'm curious
what's the what's the best you've done
racing well last year again competing in
the super touring series I took second
place for the whole season which was
really exciting was literally a stock
Z28 stock suspension stock motor
everything we took second place for the
whole season and at the Western
nationals which took place up at
Thunderhill last year we took third
place and so you know again first season
officially racing the car and coming out
with podium finishes across the board
and we had podium finishes throughout
the year as well so this year worked
we're gonna go for first place for the
season and then we're taking first place
for the Nationals it's combined actually
Western and Eastern nationals out at
Circuit of the Americas so we're stoked
oh that's such a great oh yeah I haven't
so I'm gonna have to be watching a lot
of videos ready buncher that's such a
great track to run yeah well uh I think
it's time to pass it over to the crazy
man Rednek hot Jack take it away all
right we got Prez I don't know brazuca
ate a v8 or whatever it is a badass
build if you could change anything or
one thing on this car what would it be
oh man I mean honestly the car is set up
really well I'd probably I guess wheels
we still have a factor whoo wheels on
there so cut a couple pounds on the
wheels and go go they're probably the
next thing we want to do we got American
Muscle HD what made you decide on the
graphics the graphics so my company
fusion of ideas we do app development
and iPad integrations for companies and
so kind of a technical and digital
component and if you look at the car our
crest our fusion crest is like a hexagon
and that's just basically expanded out
over the side of the car so it's our
company logo
it looks stickers just plastic oh yeah
thank you guys
then our next question comes from turbo
jigsaw what separates the z28 from the
zl1 in your opinion well I mean I think
they're just two different purpose-built
cars right the zl1 being supercharged a
little bit different Z28 is more
track-focused obviously the less power
between the two and you know for me the
Z28 was the choice because I'm it's
gonna be dedicated track car
well it's manageable power manual power
you know you get you in a bind real
quick yeah I have I actually have a c7
Corvette that we supercharged and cam to
the whole deal 602 the wheels and that's
always overeating having problems and so
I'm glad with the Z28 I've got two years
just beating it down never overheats
only thing I've had to change is tires
brakes and gas it's awesome now I go to
Laguna Seca every year the World
Superbikes we're talking about that
earlier yeah now how is that car coming
down that corkscrew incredible just
flat-out down the hill I love it that's
my one of my favorite courses that's
just I mean I on bikes and see if you
can still toss it but on a car just
seems yeah just drops it dresses thank
you we haven't run it yet with with the
new Olin set up so I can only imagine
how much better it's gonna be now that's
gonna be nice yeah when you guys running
up there next this season we're just
doing all the SoCal events of NASA SoCal
and then the Nationals out in Circa
America so this year we're actually not
doing north which which I hate it's
saddens my heart you're a hardcore car
guy your tech guy any questions you have
about his car you know what he does with
one of your next plans for it next plans
I mean I think right now would be
pulling out you know factory see you all
the harnesses and then getting getting
something like a dedicated system
because everything right now is all
factory so that that's probably the next
thing they're just more weight a little
bit more tuning things like that because
it's factory tuned still so I forgot
that steve is is on those those rims we
were talking about they had clock all
the bolts on your rims somebody was
asking you know what wheels are those
and what size they are intro intro
wheels the owner of the car Jose
is owns intro wheels and their 18 by 10
fronts and 18 by 12 in the back to 75
series front tire 335 rear and you guys
brushed every ARP bolts on that and then
you guys clocked them to where they all
face the right way on the rim absolutely
yeah I'd have been details details man I
wanted I want to do a walk through this
car I know John is the guy John's the
tech guy but let's let's go take it you
know let's go take a walk through your
car details yeah Russ dude I love this
Camaro I've been waiting to talk about
talk to you about it the first thing
that I've noticed about this car is all
the carbon fiber on it it's from the
front to the hood to the rooftop I've
tell me a little bit about putting all
the carbon fiber on this car definitely
yeah I mean you know we started out with
his all Anderson composites panels so we
got the dry carbon hood roof trunk
everything's actually removed off the
roof we completely replace it we got the
APR GT C 500 wing that's chassis mounted
on the car with their side skirts and
then these nice fat canards up on the
front here by Steve Christian composites
in their front splitter so almost
everything is carbon fiber on this car
what's really left that's stock the last
piece is really I guess the front and
rear bumper quarter panels and wheels I
guess we can do the carbon fiber wheels
at one point oh yeah so with all the
carbon fiber you've definitely trimmed a
lot of the weight out of this thing
right so I you know when I think
late-model Camaro
I think heavy Pig this doesn't strike me
as a heavy Pig so tell me do you know
how much this thing weighs
yeah the Z28 off this off the showroom
floor is it's a beast it's about 39 50
to start we've gotten this thing down to
about 33 and change right now so that
that's race car way oh yeah I mean some
of the cars that I'm experiencing out on
the racetrack are 3,200 pounds of
purpose-built race cars so this is
definitely purpose-built race represent
purpose-built bought it from the factory
got it in went right out to a shop and
phil mandela racing and just don't
immediately turn it into a track car
okay so powerplant is this LS 7 yeah so
this is the LS 7 no modifications to it
right now because we run with the
National Autosport Association and they've
got a power weight ratio and so this is
spec series are basically spec series
stuff is you know
they're gonna dictate what you can do
and what you can modify which cannot
modify right so you have to run the
stock motor in that right I'm not
necessarily stock motor it's just all
powered away so we could make some
modifications but we went with weight
we're running against a lot of BMWs
Evo's even some Porsches okay those cars
are so light and so we focused on
control and you know maneuverability on
the vehicle first okay so you probably
took some weight off of the front can we
pop the hood and ya see what's
underneath oh wow okay so immediately
I'm kind of recognizing no inner fenders
is that right yeah well know that I've
stripped all that off we try to get as
much weight obviously off the front of
the car as we could okay anything else
you pulled out of here just some of the
other you know basic plastic components
just all that unnecessary stuff but
windshield wipers are off all the
mechanic mechanism that's there and yeah
so I notice that an aftermarket strut
tower brace factory shut tower brace
factories your tower brace but you've
probably done a lot to the suspension of
this car though expansion's really again
when we when we went from weight we now
focused on suspension actually öhlins is
one of our primary partners okay I got
their rodent rack coilovers on the car
okay just put those on in December
actually and started running in a
significant difference over the factory
suspension so it's just a block lever is
probably front and rear under ear so
you're interesting rebound and
everything so you can basically get this
thing running on the track correct right
these are single adjustable so there's
not as much maybe is you know a fully
adjustable system but it's enough for
what we're doing especially compared to
the factory system it's always a race
shot yeah they're there they're
phenomenal and then in addition to that
we've got right tech lower control arms
in the rear gives a little bit more
adjustability camber and yeah in tow yes
so jealous because you know I'm used to
a solid axle car and the early muscle
car stuff guys so this is fully
independent which allows him to adjust
camber and you know everything on the
back so that he can get this thing super
dialed in for for auto crossing a road
racing yeah yeah and actually Roby spec
is a big Evo guy I had an Evo ten
originally and so he did all my stuff
we were out just a week ago at Willow
Springs and we actually pulled off the
rear sway bar so a lot of guys might give
some hassle for that but we actually
found it's a lot lot better response
reduces a lot of the the oversteer and
things like that it was actually better
setup on the car overall well in you
know speaking about the the the way this
thing responds on the track the wheel
and tire combination this is a factory
wheel that get them on this car right
yeah and what are you doing for tires so
right now we've got the our triple
Eight's
we were able to go out with the guys a
little bit earlier and you know make
sure you could send these off on a
proper burial the burnout show okay but
typically we rerun the Pirelli PZero
slicks and so that's it that's inside
the national class we can run those
gives a little bit of points but it's
worth it so super sticky tires oh yeah
so there's no real treadwear rating on
though that is a race course only tire
exactly yeah that's what's awesome about
that Cyril yep
so interior wise you've probably ripped
out everything I would imagine yes maybe
we should walk around yeah take a look
at interior that's probably on this side
yeah a little bit better light this way
so right away what I'm noticing is is
there's nothing in it so you've got a
race seat you've got a race steering
wheel and a shifter and everything else
is out of it right yeah any
non-essentials been removed to the car
we purchased the non a seed version and
non stereo version of the z28 which is
an option that you can buy so that we
don't have to worry about you know
running lines and all that stuff on the
AC pulled out the heater core ripped
everything out as the interior and yeah
we're just left with essentially the
most essential pieces yeah we've got the
race pack system their IQ three and
that's huge for driving with these
sausage patties of hands of you know
blocking the cluster with the race pack
cluster basically what that's doing is
communicating all the vitals to you the
driver right so tell me a little bit
more about the race pack and how is that
working in collaboration with the
factory cluster yeah so I mean the
factory cluster is still fully
functional and use it every now and then
but again it's tough for the big sausage
patty hands in front of that and
blocking it out the the race pack is
such a significant piece because it's
right there off-center peripheral vision
and it's got the RPM light range so you
can actually see when we know shifting
things like that and it shows
oh yeah it's
yeah significant and then the shifter
yeah awesome now I notice it's an
extended shift you know that must be so
that you have quick back and forth to
the steering wheel
exactly yeah the z28 comes with a short
shift system and then this we've just
added on the the long extension on there
so yeah yeah well speaking of long let's
talk about this this rear spoiler here
yeah a lot of you know muscle car guys
are a little bit and it's got a big
gigantic spoiler on it but I'm gonna
guess that you're pretty doing you know
except XS speeds of 120 130 in this car
easily yeah I mean we run primarily in
Southern California's tracks which are
typically a lot of high speed tracks
Willow Springs Fontana yeah you know
buck 40 bucks 65 70 things like that
rovol at Auto Club Speedway is 165
coming in and turn one and so this is a
huge huge huge difference from a PRS
that they're wing that they got from the
factory the z20 has a nice little lip
spoiler yeah looks clean and actually
has some good function to it yeah and we
ran that for the first couple months and
it was good then we'll put this on
significant difference with just
compression overall feel the car it's
fully functional yep is adjustable yeah
fully functional yeah some of these guys
that Camaro guys might might be hatin
but you know when we're out in the track
racing I that that makes a significant
difference just car control compression
overall you know getting in out of
corners yep yeah and speaking about
control I noticed these brakes are yes
big bad boy ceramic rotors tell me a
little bit about the brakes yeah so the
Z28 comes with incredible brakes to
start right this carbon ceramic Brembos
yeah we actually have partnered with
racing brake they're actually out of
here in Southern California
the two-piece forged caliper and we were
in their sintered metallic pads and so
the benefit that they claim and I've
seen personally as the sensor metallic
actually puts a surface on the carbon
ceramic rotor so this is we'll be coming
into our third season with the OEM or
factory rotor yeah you know it's a big
difference from going from there they're
the factory caliper to this caliper
yeah we're get a little bit lighter on
the calipers at weight corner you know
in the corner is huge and then on top of
that the pad is actually adding to the
life of the rotor but the bite is where
it's at I mean I I feel like there's
probably a 30% 40% difference in braking
capability over the factory system and
then just the factory pads
well rust man I wanted to tell you I
love this car I want to watch it on your
Instagram I want to watch it running
around on the track thanks so much for
bringing it out from everything save me
John how are you getting your son and
your daughter into it yeah so about once
a year actually on the back of the car
there's sponsored by my wife so that's a
kudos to her yes my addiction so anyway
not to get kicked out of their credits -
yeah so you know and my kids are awesome
my son's Nicks and he's six and my
daughter Penelope she's four and they're
like so into it they'll come we have a
lift at my my office they'll come work
work on the car with me and my son comes
out actually next weekend we have a our
first race of the season so he's gonna
be my my crew chief and help me with gas
and changing the tires and the whole
thing so it's fun it that's a good time
that's awesome I got a took it a
nine-year-old does the same thing he's
my other son's gonna be the engineer but
this one's he's a gearhead like me so
stop with no shirt
Jen's on fixing all the kids bikes
working on fork stuff so it's good to
have them interested it's so fun it
makes it fun yeah it's important to
teach these kids some good skills you
know yeah it is it's been very you know
you got to pass something down I got it
from my dad and you know it passed down
the generations generations just kind of
keep it alive yeah a lot of people are
losing that nowadays super cool man will
do thanks for coming and hanging out
with us and and bring in your car yeah
Street driving it here man I love that I
just think that's cool I really do cool
man well along with being the the host
of the MuscleKingz show I do a YouTube
channel and on the YouTube channel we
drive lots of cool cars I've had the
pleasure recently to to take the speed
core tantrum charger out for a rip I was
actually told by the Builder that the
car was smoking a bit and it needed to
be blown out and you know a thirteen
hundred and fifty horsepower charger
getting on the 210 freeway
it's amazing the burnout it does about a
hundred miles an hour shift second into
third kicked it squatted you guys have
check out this clip and you get
idea this is such a bitchin car I love
it
remember you guys I would
remember guys this car is
some dollars over $600,000
forty-five
it breaks loose
all right you guys so that is the
tantrum charger from the guys at speed
core what do you think yeah pretty
badass right seeing the details on it
I've talked you through the power that
this thing makes ridiculous amounts of
power and I'm barely barely touching the
accelerator on this and it just wants to
light up and go cars just spectacular as
all the things from the guys at speed
core a big thanks to those guys for
always letting me take care of their
cars and let me drive them I appreciate
it man
all right you guys so that should give
you a sense of what my Ototo PLA
channels about if you want to see more
of tantrum charger go check it out on my
channel oh yeah
subscribe cool so next up I'm super
stoked this is gonna be fun man we got
Rob Lindsey of RJ Fab first we're gonna
show you a clip of rolling around town
you're gonna see a gigantic smile on my
face cuz it's the first time I've ever
rolled around in a pro Street car doing
burnouts it was really awesome so you
guys this is my new buddy Rob Lindsey
hey everybody this is Rob Lyndsey of
RJ Fab dude so I had a blast today
rolling around in this car with you it's
funs really super cool and it pulls hard
you know I'm always curious with because
I'm not a builder so I'm always curious
what it is that that drives you like
what got you going what made you go
somewhere along the way I could have
been a plumber but I decided to build
cars probably just my passion for cars
when I was young so I built my first Pro
Street car for myself in 1992 and I
think it hit the streets like late 93
and driving it around people asked me if
I could do certain things for him I just
started building cars for people just
through that right ya know and and this
car as I understand from what you were
telling me earlier although it's yours
now it was built originally for somebody
else yeah I built it in 2009 for a
customer in San Diego and then probably
I think he raced it till 2013-14 and he
just was done racing so he offered me
you know to purchase a car back and so I
said yeah what the heck I'll buy it
awesome so this is another one where I
gotta admit it's kind of interesting to
me that this thing is actually
street-legal vaguely
I mean enough to it that at least
somehow somebody thought it was a good
idea to give you a license plate and
registration for this well being a 68
you know you not to follow all the
California smog laws that helps a little
bit yeah and then you know it's licensed
registered and insured so it's loosely
street-legal yeah it's not you know you
don't want to drive it a ton on the
street that's loud and obnoxious and oh
he can't talk you and I barely could
talk to each other oh my god we were so
funny we're yelling the the camera
trucks like you know watching us my
buddy Chris is in the truck with them
and and all you could see was like me
like this in his face and I'm yelling as
loud as I can and all we were doing was
trying to have a conversation yeah it's
it's loud it's loud that's part of the
fun of it though I think yeah you know
the other thing I don't know if you guys
looked into it at all but what's really
a trip about what he does is it
typically builders stick with
you know there's a lane they're going
down right like I you know I'm buddies
with a lot of builders that they build
Pro Touring the rest of those or they do
just you know whatever it might be they
have their lane Lee go down mm-hmm but I
was looking at your Instagram which I
highly recommend you guys go check this
out definitely there's a pro street drag
car on here the value but then there's
also these like crazy rock call crawlers
total off-road vehicles it's it's yeah
you're kind of all over the place yeah
we like to do a lot of different things
it just kind of keeps us on our toes you
know it's really cool to exercise your
ideas on a bunch of different you know
different things but I'm sure you guys
got questions too right like how do you
how do you I do that's fully build a pro
street car and also build a rock crawler
like well it's a I've seen all the
fabric same thing I checked out his
Instagram he's got everything I mean
it's like a toy land for me yeah you
know because I do the off-road an Street
and everything else but it's the same
thing you know you when you're mechanic
and your skills your stuff you can
bounce from project to probably some day
you get tired of doing Street you want
to do off-road sometimes you gonna play
in the dirt you want place Traci bill of
toys but the way he fabricates
everything once you have the skill to do
all that it's just a matter of putting
the geometry together for the next car
or whatever you're building you know
once you got it for a car you can get
the geometry in everything for the
suspension for your offroad trucks UTV's
all stuff so he's got the skill set and
how to do it and figure it out and
design everything Welding skill he
definitely has so I mean once again
fabricated he can build whatever he has
because he understands how it all works
right I just got to put into play from
an off-road vehicle to a street vehicle
and then what suspension works with what
and then it's like a mechanic's dream
you get to play with high-end parts and
make shit cool yeah you know is he yeah
you know different ideas and you get a
play with it you know yeah you get bored
as a mechanic most of my EDD anyway so
some shiny you're already across the
shop side track so yeah yeah how about
you guys you guys got any questions for
for our buddy Rob here blog I guess I'm
here what gears are you running in it
456 fastest quarter-mile time it's gone
955 at 140 at Fontana
how much horsepower shady Dale speed
shop on their dyno they built the engine
I think it made 600 or
yeah 693 horsepower can't remember the
torque and that was without the vacuum
pump and the correct set header so I'm
gonna guess it probably makes on the
engine about 715 well headers they have
on it now custom ones that I built and
then I've just recently added a nitrous
oxide system to it so hopefully I mean
I'm being optimistic here but hopefully
it'll run eight fifties next time out
have you played with that yet
no not yet you now have to send us the
video yeah for sure I will awesome man
well I think I mean I know everyone's
interested I'm certainly interested in
doing a walk through this thing and and
and this this one you know we're gonna
have to have John come out because this
is a serious cat car there's a lot
although it's a simple build I mean it's
pretty simple but there's a lot going on
here so I think we should have John from
curry come out and do a walkthrough with
you here excellent talking mode yeah Rob
man thank you so much for bringing us
here this thing is awesome danger to be
here and a Mopar yeah nonetheless now I
know Rob from you know we do business
back at curry so this is a little
different right it's not you're not
really a Mopar guy but you knocked it
out of the park on this yeah absolutely
so I can already tell that it's pretty
much a full tube chassis car I'm gonna
guess is that correct yeah from your
feet back it's tube chassis and then we
did a altercation k-member kit in the
front end okay so basically a k-member
basically the whole bottom end dropped
off so you can pull the motor everything
down and just replace everything back up
and then from the firewall back
everything yeah tube chassis from the
firewall back okay all the floors done
to 750 cert but the rest of the cage is
850 so that way if we wanted to update
the cert we don't have to go into the
floor yeah so basically what that means
guys is like just with some minor
modifications this car could go 750 in a
quarter-mile but it's certified for 850
now so this I mean this car could
probably definitely do that now I would
imagine right yeah that chassis works
exceptionally well so we could probably
throw another six or seven hundred
horsepower to it and we'll handle it
okay so drag car suspension is totally
different than like your street car
stuff it's not like your Pro Touring Car
with your typical type of coilovers so
tell me a little bit more about you know
how do you dial this car in as far as
going on the drag race
well you just plot your instance center
to see
G of the vehicle so in theirs plot
charts for that so that you can set it
up for the weight of the vehicle after
you scale the car so yeah and then
shocks comes down to shock tuning just
like most any performance vehicle we
have a skoshe ox on this double
adjustables which really helps the
rebound and compression because the car
leaves correctly okay so I know Mopar
big-block small-block I know this
thing's got big cubic inches what do you
got going on here man okay so it's a
small block a big small block it's 451
cubic inch r3 block has Indy cylinder
heads and intake manifold the headers I
built
Dominator carb shady Dell speed shot
built the engine so I don't remember the
exact specs on the cam but it's like
around the 278 280 at 50,000 with like
720 lift. this thing sounds wicked when
you started yeah it shakes the floor
yeah what do you have for exhaust that
bad for the headers that you made I'm
actually when I built the car for the
customer as a drag cart it was open
header the whole time he had it but
since I wanted to put it on the street I
went ahead and did an exhaust system has
three and a half inch XR one boiler race
mufflers Orla and then I'm sorry four
inch so it's four inch all the way out
yeah Wow so yeah Borla's got that you're
very unique yes now the interior is
fully custom right you guys did
everything on this yeah we like to get
creative with our tin work and so it's
just important for it to look super
clean and nice so all the tin comes out
all Zeus fastens out except for the
floor under the drivers steel everything
is powder-coated so really I want to
take a look real quick let's take sure
so two querque seats and you've got the
momo steering wheel now did you fab up
the the base on that on that shifter
there no it's like it's tilted towards
the driver obviously that's for yes we
actually fit every car that we build to
that particular customer that driver so
it was fit for Ville for Bill super
comfortable for me so but that's just
how he wanted it and it's comfortable
for just probably anybody that can get
in it you know it's only had one seat
when we built it originally so I put the
Bill seat on the other side and put the
seat he built was a little bit bigger
than me so you did all the tin work on
the floor did you did you say you
powder-coated all those yeah all the
panel's got powder coated and then
riveted the floors riveted in on this
side and then everything else is fast
and so but the wheel tubs come out the
center between the wheel tubs come out
the whole passenger floor comes out
this makes it easier to work on the car
if you need to do so get that deep into
it while you're working on it yep yep
absolutely now what are you running for
a back tire I see the Mickey Thompson
logo so this is obviously a real
critical wall sticky tire yeah yeah it's
the et Street so it's the street the
d-o-t version of their drag slick so
it's a 32 17 515 and then when we run a
regular drag slick on it it's a 32 14
515 but both of them have 14 and a half
inches of tread width Wow and four
wheels probably something superlight I'm
gonna guess those welds that I see yet
welds on it I think they're of 14 wide
15 Wow yeah yeah bitch and then for rear
end what you got going on man yeah I
know you're not gonna like to hear this
the m60 Moser in it yeah yeah with Moser
40 spot they make a quality product that
was before United I'm sure I'm sure it
obviously works real well you you're
running you know eight and a half on
this this car is amazing so thanks a lot
for bringing it out man yeah so I go one
more question for you which is typically
almost always you can bank on it
a pro street car is never pretty there
does not usually not use I mean yeah not
usually they're pretty banged up from
you know racing them that's very I don't
mean just the exterior I mean cuz but
the interior like I sat in the cockpit
of this car today and and it kind of
blew my mind how clean it was like it
didn't look ratty I mean your shifter so
badass on that thing the floor is just
sick on it dude I mean what so what what
prompted you to like go the extra mile
well the one thing about these kind of
cars is you don't need a lot of
amenities being a racecar right so we
just have the bare minimum as far as
gages the bare minimum as far as what we
need for interior yeah so it's kind of
easy just to do a clean platform where
you just do regular flat floor panels
powder coat everything I do snap in
carpets and all my racecar type stuff so
that your feet aren't scratching up the
floor and slipping around on it and just
I think sometimes simple is more so if
we just keep it simple and just powder
coat stuff and just make it clean it
just seems people seem to accept it it
seems like it works pretty well yeah
well I think it's great dude I think
it's a
it's just such a super cool car so I'm
gonna throw it back over to the hot one
and the crazy one - I think they've got
it we all do all right fans and
followers we do have the MuscleKingz
Car Show & Concert series coming up on
and Goodyear Arizona join everyone there
do it love it that is gonna be cool I
can't wait I'm super psyched I'm gonna
be there we're gonna be there with
Vicious staying round it's gonna kill
gotta say thanks to you guys all for
coming out man I know you know take some
time and energy you got a trailer a car
you got to drive a crazy ass car through
the streets you know serious though now
that it's really cool I mean this this
whole I think the whole concept of what
this show is is great it gives people an
inside view of what it takes to build
and the passion and the enthusiasm angry
yeah and thanks to the hot and the crazy
co-hosts I'm not gonna lie when you
started that car up I was like you need
to do that again has a good effect on
people oh yeah you can't replace the old
American Muscle sound I mean the newer
cars the newer motors they have that but
that Rumble in that lope is just it's
nostalgic for that you know being a kid
listening to that of the drag strips or
your neighbors got a badass car built
you hear that lope and you can feel your
heartbeat changing nothing can replace
that and the smell of race fuel it's the
best cologne yeah and you built it so
you're still so excited about it which
means it's a cool car I like it all
right yeah well my final thank-you is
thanking every one of you guys for
hanging out and watching tell all your
friends spread the news MuscleKingz is
here showing you some really super cool
stuff we're gonna take you inside car
after car after car and the passion
enthusiasm that it takes to build these
things so all I got to say at this point
is I'll see you guys next time later
