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title: 'Nobody wanted this cheap Nissan GTR because it was "too ugly". I fixed all of it for cheap!'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=qGZI3n0EiIg'
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date: 2026-06-28
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# Nobody wanted this cheap Nissan GTR because it was "too ugly". I fixed all of it for cheap!

> Source: [Nobody wanted this cheap Nissan GTR because it was "too ugly". I fixed all of it for cheap!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qGZI3n0EiIg)

## Summary

Hoovie's Garage bought the cheapest R35 Nissan GT-R in the USA under $50,000, but it was heavily modified with purple wheels, faded carbon fiber, and cloudy headlights. The video documents the 'un-pimping' process to restore its appearance and then a dyno challenge against three other 600+ horsepower cars to find the king of the garage.

### Key Points

- **Cheapest GT-R purchase** [0:00] — Hoovie bought the cheapest R35 GT-R in the USA under $50k, but it looked awful with purple wheels, extra aero, and faded carbon hood.
- **Un-pimping begins** [0:38] — The team removes the purple wheels, installs refinished black GT-R wheels with Vredestein tires, and plans to fix the hood, bumper, and headlights.
- **Head gasket repair** [1:17] — Magic Mike fixed a leaking head gasket, a known issue with this engine, after the previous owner used stop-leak.
- **Wheel swap** [3:01] — The purple wheels are removed and replaced with black edition GT-R wheels, instantly improving the car's look.
- **Transformation complete** [11:21] — After installing the new bumper, hood, and headlights, the GT-R looks like a proper spec car instead of a hoopty.
- **Dyno challenge setup** [12:35] — Four cars over 600 hp are tested: GT-R, Hellcat, AMG GT S, and Bentley Continental GT.
- **GT-R dyno result** [13:37] — GT-R makes 530 hp to the wheels, 130 over stock, with intake and downpipe mods.
- **Hellcat dyno result** [15:05] — Hellcat makes 584 hp, very strong for its age and history, becoming the new high water mark.
- **AMG GT S issues** [15:42] — AMG GT S only makes 496 hp due to boost pullback at 3,000 RPM, possibly dyno-related.
- **Bentley dyno result** [17:36] — Bentley makes 483 hp, the least of the bunch due to slushbox automatic and AWD losses.
- **Hellcat wins** [17:54] — Hellcat proves to be the king of the dyno with 584 hp, still impressive 10 years later.

## Transcript

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