[0:00] Welcome to Hoovie's Garage, the dumbest
[0:01] automotive channel in all of YouTube.
[0:03] And believe it or not, this is actually
[0:05] an improvement on how my Nissan GT-R
[0:07] looks. Because a few months ago, I
[0:09] bought the cheapest R35 GT-R in the USA
[0:13] under $50,000, but it had been modified
[0:17] a lot. Mostly visually and to the point
[0:19] where people would question if this was
[0:21] actually a GT-R or a dressed-up Infiniti
[0:23] G35. Purple wheels, extra aero
[0:27] everywhere, carbon fiber hood that was
[0:29] all fading, cloudy headlights, it looked
[0:31] awful, but the thing drove fantastic.
[0:38] So, today we're going to do an
[0:39] un-pimping of my cheap Nissan GT-R to
[0:43] show the diamond that was underneath all
[0:45] of that rough. I have Magic [music] Mike
[0:47] here, and Stewart is coming with the
[0:48] parts, and we're going to put a GT-R
[0:50] back together. And once she is back
[0:52] together, I've arranged a little
[0:53] challenge with my three other 600-plus
[0:55] horsepower [music] cars to see which one
[0:57] is the king of the dyno. And we've got
[0:59] one of the two of the GT-R shaken bake
[1:02] here so far. So, Magic Mike, while we
[1:04] wait for Stewart,
[1:06] is putting the finishing touches on this
[1:09] that bad head gasket, Lincoln Blackwood.
[1:12] Moment of truth.
[1:17] Well,
[1:25] running smooth. Running smooth.
[1:27] >> exhausty. A little exhaust leak. I
[1:29] probably need to tighten up a few
[1:30] things. After it gets warm and cold a
[1:32] couple of times, I can
[1:34] get that all tightened up, but she's
[1:36] running smooth, and she's happy. No
[1:38] sound of a timing chain falling off and
[1:40] >> [laughter]
[1:41] >> exploding.
[1:43] Yeah, I got it all in time. We're not
[1:44] bending any valves. We're not puking out
[1:46] the bottom. Okay. But, yeah. So, I guess
[1:50] I guess that means you're going to keep
[1:51] calling me back, huh? I suppose so. But,
[1:54] what's crazy about it is this thing had
[1:56] been leaking from its head gasket. It's
[1:57] a known thing with this engine for
[2:00] what, do you think a decade?
[2:01] >> It was probably 10 years.
[2:03] >> It was It was probably about 80 gallons
[2:06] of stop leak put through this thing
[2:08] while this person just kept driving it.
[2:10] And then I buy it at auction and you
[2:12] know, I of course I dive on the grenade.
[2:14] Some Some of them I do, some of them I
[2:15] don't, but [laughter] Stewart should be
[2:17] here any moment with some beers, not
[2:18] that there's not plenty of crap in here
[2:19] to keep you busy.
[2:21] >> [laughter]
[2:22] >> Now the wizard's, [clears throat] you
[2:23] know, he's in New Mexico half the time,
[2:24] but anyhow, this is good news. Yeah,
[2:27] we're on good terms here. Bad news, so
[2:30] Stewart was refinishing the bumper,
[2:32] painting the hood black, fixing my wing,
[2:34] all that stuff, and he did all last
[2:36] night, put a final coat of clear on it,
[2:37] came back in this morning and the clear
[2:39] had all shrunk and fish eyed and
[2:41] everything, so he's having to redo
[2:42] all of it.
[2:44] So you can come back tomorrow, right?
[2:47] >> [laughter]
[2:47] >> You weren't planning on anything to do
[2:48] with your family on Sunday afternoon,
[2:50] were you? No, I'll come back over here
[2:52] and we'll keep getting them knocked out.
[2:53] >> No, no, but it's no.
[2:55] >> [laughter]
[2:56] >> So it means my car is so of course
[2:59] it's going to go on.
[2:59] >> Nothing goes right.
[3:01] >> But we can get these I mean horrendous
[3:03] purple wheels off of it.
[3:05] >> These are your hot boy summer wheels, so
[3:06] you put your summer tires on here and
[3:08] then your black wheels, you put your
[3:09] winter tires on those. You're in the
[3:11] final days of your hot boy summer, so
[3:13] these still speak to you?
[3:16] I don't mind the purple. I'm going to be
[3:17] honest. I do I do kind of like the
[3:19] purple wheels. Well, I I'm more mature,
[3:21] I suppose. Not [laughter] Not really, I
[3:22] still have
[3:24] seventh grade bathroom humor, but I
[3:26] guess in my taste in wheels, so anyway,
[3:28] yeah, they're over here.
[3:30] There you go. Catch.
[3:34] I know with Hoovie Life there is a
[3:35] little bit of a thrill when it comes to
[3:36] getting in a car, hoping it'll start,
[3:39] and whether it gets where it's going,
[3:40] but I imagine a lot of you have a family
[3:41] that wants to get places reliably. And
[3:43] you have a vehicle that's much more
[3:44] practical to get you there. For me, it's
[3:46] my 2021 Chevy Express Conversion Van
[3:48] that I use for all the family road trips
[3:50] with its huge comfy cabin and
[3:52] entertainment system, the kids [music]
[3:54] never get bored. Since it sits on a
[3:56] 1-ton truck chassis with a 6.6 gasser
[3:58] V8, it's also a great machine to work as
[4:01] well to haul my hooptie projects home.
[4:03] So, with a bunch of summer trips around
[4:04] the corner, it was time to get my van
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[5:19] look pretty nice. I like the black
[5:22] edition GT-R wheels. That's what this
[5:24] is. And I had them refinished just just
[5:26] because it's going to look much better.
[5:29] And the new Vredestein tires, thanks to
[5:30] Tire Rack. So, that's all mounted and
[5:32] things. And they are they are staggered,
[5:34] so hopefully you can tell the
[5:36] difference. I think we can figure it
[5:37] out.
[5:37] >> Don't put the backs on the front.
[5:38] [laughter] That'd be great. All right.
[5:40] We can do that.
[5:41] It would look that It would look weird.
[5:43] If you didn't see the first video, this
[5:44] GT-R has air ride, which works great for
[5:46] putting up on the lift cuz I can raise
[5:49] up the suspension.
[5:51] Make things super easy.
[5:55] Should I just back it in?
[5:57] Uh either way should be fine.
[5:58] >> Yeah, I'll just back it in.
[6:00] No wheel locks, I wonder why? They
[6:02] probably knew that nobody was going to
[6:04] steal their purple wheels.
[6:05] >> know, some vape kid might see a crime of
[6:07] opportunity there.
[6:09] Yeah. Vape kid probably can't afford a
[6:11] lift jack though.
[6:12] >> Oh, that's right. Yeah, they wouldn't
[6:13] know how to change a wheel. [laughter]
[6:16] That's too hard. Yeah, it's too much
[6:17] work.
[6:19] Yeah, we'll zip these off of here.
[6:23] >> [screaming]
[6:24] >> I'll be as careful as I can not to
[6:25] damage them.
[6:26] Well, I've had multiple people
[6:29] try and buy these from me, so Oh.
[6:32] >> I know.
[6:44] Uh-oh.
[6:44] >> [clears throat]
[6:46] >> Okay.
[6:47] Looks like all of that gym time is
[6:49] paying off. Oh, I have tendinitis in my
[6:53] elbows where it connects to my bicep.
[6:55] All those years of tennis?
[6:57] I don't know what the hell's going on.
[6:58] Get in there.
[7:01] Oh, it's this way. Oh. They've got
[7:03] spacers on here. Do these wheels need
[7:05] spacers though? I guess it looks It
[7:07] looks pretty good with the spacers on.
[7:08] >> Well, is it going to hit when it gets
[7:10] slammed though? Uh we can find out.
[7:13] Well, I don't want to find out the hard
[7:14] [laughter] way.
[7:16] But that's what makes good YouTube
[7:17] content.
[7:18] >> [laughter]
[7:22] >> Mhm. Um Mhm, is that sticking out way
[7:25] past it? Yeah, hang on. Let's let's
[7:27] double check. I don't want to I got to
[7:29] see where those ones sat. Are those just
[7:31] as wide?
[7:33] Well, it's going to be the offset,
[7:34] right? Because of the aftermarket
[7:36] wheels.
[7:37] >> these do sit stick out farther.
[7:41] There we go.
[7:44] Much better. Solid inch spacer on there.
[7:48] That's not good.
[7:50] That's hot boy summer though right
[7:52] there. You don't want to do like
[7:53] performance [laughter] driving. Like I
[7:54] guess they're the nice spacers though,
[7:55] but Yeah, these are pretty solid.
[7:57] >> Yeah, they're not the the crappy ones
[7:59] where it's just literally a spacer, so
[8:01] they actually do move the lugs around
[8:02] and stuff, but Yeah.
[8:05] No more of that.
[8:07] This much better. This is very
[8:08] hellaflush. Well, that's not what it is.
[8:11] HelloFresh or hellaflush? Hellaflush.
[8:14] Hellaflush. Hellaflush. Yes.
[8:16] >> As opposed to HelloFresh. Exactly.
[8:18] [laughter]
[8:19] No spacer on this one. No spacer on the
[8:22] front.
[8:22] >> So, that's how they staggered them,
[8:24] Yeah, that's how they got them to fit
[8:26] right. That is an instant wave of
[8:29] relief.
[8:31] I don't want to admit it, but it does
[8:32] look a lot better.
[8:34] Man.
[8:36] Okay.
[8:37] We just raised the value of this car
[8:38] like five grand
[8:40] >> [laughter]
[8:40] >> by spending a thousand dollars on wheels
[8:41] and another grand refinishing them, so
[8:44] Oh, yeah. Okay.
[8:46] That's a good start, and whenever
[8:47] Stewart gets here, it'll
[8:49] it'll keep going, so Oh, yeah. It'll
[8:51] It's going to turn out to look pretty
[8:52] nice. Sunday funday, Michael. That's
[8:54] what it is. Sunday funday.
[8:56] There's Stewart. Hey, how are you? Good.
[9:00] [laughter]
[9:01] You done fighting the hood and the
[9:02] bumper? I am. Yeah. I see the headlights
[9:05] are here. Yep, they're here, and
[9:09] some of the small pieces over there, and
[9:12] here's some of the brackets.
[9:14] These are all for the big spoiler? Yeah,
[9:16] you know,
[9:17] these are all done, so And you've
[9:19] already been buffing. You came here last
[9:21] night and got started, and it's a
[9:22] totally different car.
[9:25] That's just crazy. You know, it's got
[9:26] great paint.
[9:28] I uh
[9:29] I was actually a little worried about
[9:30] it, and it just buffed up beautiful, so
[9:33] That's incredible. Well, we're waiting
[9:35] for Magic Mike because his night job is
[9:38] very demanding. So he he doesn't need to
[9:40] sleep in a little bit.
[9:42] And uh you know, but when he wakes up
[9:43] and comes around, he'll come back to me
[9:44] in the mechanic again. But obviously his
[9:46] night job's a lot more exciting. But we
[9:47] need him to help with the uh hood and
[9:49] the bumper which are they're outside,
[9:51] right? They're outside.
[9:52] >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
[9:54] Yeah, and remember they don't they
[9:55] they're going to look funny. Okay.
[9:57] >> Cuz they're not buffed.
[9:59] So
[10:01] There it is. Yeah, so it's wet sanded.
[10:04] Um it's just the easier for me to to do
[10:07] the final buff while it's on the
[10:08] vehicle. So
[10:09] >> Got you.
[10:10] I'm going to do that once it's on the
[10:12] car. But yeah, the black's going to look
[10:13] really cool, I think. Look who's here.
[10:17] Yeah. How was your night?
[10:19] >> [laughter]
[10:20] >> It was pretty good. I had a good time.
[10:22] All right. It was easy. Got to sleep in
[10:23] a little bit this morning. That's the
[10:25] ticket.
[10:27] So Stewart's leaving to go get some
[10:28] touch-up paint for the little chips
[10:30] here.
[10:32] But then Michael and I
[10:35] can
[10:36] start bolting up this bumper. Yeah,
[10:38] we'll get headlights in and bumper
[10:39] attached and
[10:41] It'll probably take 2 hours with him
[10:43] alone and 3 hours with me helping.
[10:57] >> [music]
[11:02] [music]
[11:08] [music]
[11:13] [music]
[11:21] >> That is
[11:22] so so much better, isn't it? Now it
[11:25] doesn't look like a hoopty. It looks
[11:26] like a proper spec GT-R with some light
[11:30] mods, which is exactly what this car is.
[11:32] There is a very pretty machine
[11:33] underneath all that gobbledygook. So,
[11:34] this is like uh the car version of She's
[11:37] All That. I saw that she was all that
[11:38] and brought her back to being hot again,
[11:41] which April's going to love that
[11:43] reference about me talking about cars
[11:44] like women again. But, anyway, BG, in
[11:46] addition to being very generous in
[11:47] sponsoring uh this video, they also said
[11:51] I could use their dyno, which they
[11:52] actually use for their testing and also
[11:53] the before and afters of what their
[11:55] treatments do to the cars if I wanted
[11:57] to. And I said, well, how about we found
[11:58] out which car is the highest horsepower
[12:00] here in the garage? Cuz it could be the
[12:03] GT-R, but it also could be the 620
[12:06] horsepower Bentley Super Sports, but it
[12:08] also could be my AMG GT S, which
[12:10] recently had a bunch of work done, but
[12:12] also it's not going to be that. We're
[12:14] not going to put that on the dyno at
[12:15] wide open throttle. Uh the obvious
[12:17] choice is my Hellcat. This one's pretty
[12:20] spicy. Four cars that are supposedly
[12:22] over 600 horsepower. So, let's find out
[12:25] who's the king of the the hoopty's
[12:26] horse.
[12:35] So, the GT-R is kind of a mystery box
[12:37] here because I have no idea what [music]
[12:39] the tune is. I see the modifications as
[12:41] far as the intake, the downpipe, that
[12:42] kind of stuff. Sort of a stage one car.
[12:44] But, stock new, this would have been
[12:45] about 400 horsepower [music] to the
[12:47] wheels, and I think it's a lot spicier
[12:49] than that, but today we're going to find
[12:51] out
[12:52] >> [music]
[12:52] >> exactly how much spicier it is.
[12:55] And hopefully not blow it up like the
[12:56] gold one. And then we've got four cars.
[12:58] They're they're hoopty's.
[13:35] >> Stay in one piece.
[13:37] 530 horsepower on the GT-R, so 130 over
[13:42] stock. About what I expected with that
[13:44] one. It hooks up. It's definitely the
[13:46] fastest car of the bunch. Maybe the AMG
[13:47] GT pretty close.
[13:49] This one, well, very stock other than
[13:52] the intake. 707 horsepower when new. I'm
[13:55] curious though, how much gets lost to
[13:58] the wheels cuz obviously this thing's
[14:00] kind of a dinosaur, the manual
[14:01] transmission. But,
[14:04] I imagine on the dyno it's going to be
[14:05] pretty strong.
[14:07] Speaking of strong, the bird poop is is
[14:09] very strong here. I needed to do about
[14:11] 700 mi on this thing with break-in oil
[14:13] before I revved it up to full blast. So,
[14:16] that's just happened yesterday. We
[14:17] changed the oil. And of course, you got
[14:19] to top it off with some MOA since we are
[14:21] at BG.
[14:23] Got a few of these sitting on the shelf.
[14:25] >> [screaming]
[14:26] >> Here you go. Drink up.
[14:30] >> [music]
[14:52] >> Says check gas cap.
[14:57] It's
[14:59] Nope.
[15:00] Evaporative emissions code.
[15:02] It should still be fine. 584.
[15:05] Very, very strong for the Hellcat,
[15:08] especially with its age and its history,
[15:10] but freshly gone through with the Car
[15:12] Wizard and Daniel's son. So, that's the
[15:14] new high water mark for the high
[15:16] horsepower hoopdies, but we know the AMG
[15:18] GTS can come close to this and maybe
[15:21] beat it. The
[15:23] pride [singing and music] of Germany.
[15:42] This thing's camera shy. It was doing it
[15:44] again, pulling 550 torque, 496
[15:48] horsepower. So, pulling all the power
[15:50] back.
[15:51] Reset the codes.
[15:53] Come on.
[15:54] Come on. It's got some corn in her now.
[15:57] 93 30%
[16:00] ethanol.
[16:18] Oh, 500 horsepower.
[16:20] Really? We're back to where we were.
[16:23] Unfortunately, even though it has the
[16:24] right fuel in it, Eurocharged Dallas had
[16:27] it once and it was doing pull after pull
[16:28] after pull with big power, but something
[16:30] just pulls back right at, you know,
[16:32] 3,000 RPM. It thinks something's wrong
[16:33] and it just pulls back the boost.
[16:37] Out she goes.
[16:39] I wonder if it's a dyno thing where it
[16:41] just gets scared on the dyno cuz driving
[16:42] it it seems like it has the power. It's
[16:45] It's incredible to drive, but some cars
[16:47] they just get weird on the dyno. Here's
[16:49] the Bentley
[16:51] in off-road mode.
[16:53] The suspension raised to [music] get it
[16:54] up easily, but twin-turbo W12 620
[16:58] horsepower from the factory. The first
[16:59] Bentley to [music] do over 200 mph, but
[17:02] she is a slushbox automatic and it is
[17:05] rocking those Walmart ignition coils,
[17:07] [music] which may hold things back. I I
[17:09] don't know about that. They seem fine,
[17:10] but all-wheel drive slushbox. I wonder
[17:12] how much is going to get lost at [music]
[17:13] the wheels. The thing about the Bentley,
[17:16] don't need ear protection. So quiet.
[17:36] 483 horsepower. Honestly, about what I
[17:39] expected for a 70,000 mile Continental
[17:41] GT with that slush box automatic. A lot
[17:44] of power steering loss to the wheels cuz
[17:45] there's there's a lot of places to lose
[17:47] it. So, this one's doing pretty good as
[17:49] well, but it is the least horsepower of
[17:52] the bunch on the dyno.
[17:54] Sorry. Well, 10 years later the Hellcat
[17:56] proved that it is still a legend. This
[17:58] thing was unbelievable when it came out
[18:00] and it's still very, very impressive
[18:02] today. It may not be able to handle a
[18:04] corner as well as all the others, so on
[18:06] the track it'd probably be the slowest,
[18:07] but for that horsepower, it's so
[18:10] incredible in 2016 for $47,000 you got a
[18:13] 707 horsepower giant muscle car. And
[18:16] that's why nice ones are basically worth
[18:17] the exact same today. They really
[18:19] haven't appreciated all that much.
[18:20] Unless you buy one like this which it
[18:22] wasn't worth the $26,000 with all the
[18:24] Hemi tick issues all getting torn down.
[18:26] $15,000 later it looks like this, which
[18:28] just buy a nice one in the first place.
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[18:43] for watching. Well, Magic Mike's work
[18:45] here is done.
[18:47] For now. Well, the sun's almost down, so
[18:49] we can't keep him anyway. Now it's just
[18:51] Stewart
[18:54] in the buff zone. What do you think
[18:56] about when you're in the buff zone?
[18:58] What I would rather be doing with my
[18:59] life. No, I'm just kidding.
[19:01] >> [laughter]