Nobody wanted this cheap Nissan GTR because it was "too ugly". I fixed all of it for cheap!

[00:00] Welcome to Hoovie's Garage, the dumbest

[00:01] automotive channel in all of YouTube.

[00:03] And believe it or not, this is actually

[00:05] an improvement on how my Nissan GT-R

[00:07] looks. Because a few months ago, I

[00:09] bought the cheapest R35 GT-R in the USA

[00:13] under $50,000, but it had been modified

[00:17] a lot. Mostly visually and to the point

[00:19] where people would question if this was

[00:21] actually a GT-R or a dressed-up Infiniti

[00:23] G35. Purple wheels, extra aero

[00:27] everywhere, carbon fiber hood that was

[00:29] all fading, cloudy headlights, it looked

[00:31] awful, but the thing drove fantastic.

[00:38] So, today we're going to do an

[00:39] un-pimping of my cheap Nissan GT-R to

[00:43] show the diamond that was underneath all

[00:45] of that rough. I have Magic [music] Mike

[00:47] here, and Stewart is coming with the

[00:48] parts, and we're going to put a GT-R

[00:50] back together. And once she is back

[00:52] together, I've arranged a little

[00:53] challenge with my three other 600-plus

[00:55] horsepower [music] cars to see which one

[00:57] is the king of the dyno. And we've got

[00:59] one of the two of the GT-R shaken bake

[01:02] here so far. So, Magic Mike, while we

[01:04] wait for Stewart,

[01:06] is putting the finishing touches on this

[01:09] that bad head gasket, Lincoln Blackwood.

[01:12] Moment of truth.

[01:17] Well,

[01:25] running smooth. Running smooth.

[01:27] >> exhausty. A little exhaust leak. I

[01:29] probably need to tighten up a few

[01:30] things. After it gets warm and cold a

[01:32] couple of times, I can

[01:34] get that all tightened up, but she's

[01:36] running smooth, and she's happy. No

[01:38] sound of a timing chain falling off and

[01:40] >> [laughter]

[01:41] >> exploding.

[01:43] Yeah, I got it all in time. We're not

[01:44] bending any valves. We're not puking out

[01:46] the bottom. Okay. But, yeah. So, I guess

[01:50] I guess that means you're going to keep

[01:51] calling me back, huh? I suppose so. But,

[01:54] what's crazy about it is this thing had

[01:56] been leaking from its head gasket. It's

[01:57] a known thing with this engine for

[02:00] what, do you think a decade?

[02:01] >> It was probably 10 years.

[02:03] >> It was It was probably about 80 gallons

[02:06] of stop leak put through this thing

[02:08] while this person just kept driving it.

[02:10] And then I buy it at auction and you

[02:12] know, I of course I dive on the grenade.

[02:14] Some Some of them I do, some of them I

[02:15] don't, but [laughter] Stewart should be

[02:17] here any moment with some beers, not

[02:18] that there's not plenty of crap in here

[02:19] to keep you busy.

[02:21] >> [laughter]

[02:22] >> Now the wizard's, [clears throat] you

[02:23] know, he's in New Mexico half the time,

[02:24] but anyhow, this is good news. Yeah,

[02:27] we're on good terms here. Bad news, so

[02:30] Stewart was refinishing the bumper,

[02:32] painting the hood black, fixing my wing,

[02:34] all that stuff, and he did all last

[02:36] night, put a final coat of clear on it,

[02:37] came back in this morning and the clear

[02:39] had all shrunk and fish eyed and

[02:41] everything, so he's having to redo

[02:42] all of it.

[02:44] So you can come back tomorrow, right?

[02:47] >> [laughter]

[02:47] >> You weren't planning on anything to do

[02:48] with your family on Sunday afternoon,

[02:50] were you? No, I'll come back over here

[02:52] and we'll keep getting them knocked out.

[02:53] >> No, no, but it's no.

[02:55] >> [laughter]

[02:56] >> So it means my car is so of course

[02:59] it's going to go on.

[02:59] >> Nothing goes right.

[03:01] >> But we can get these I mean horrendous

[03:03] purple wheels off of it.

[03:05] >> These are your hot boy summer wheels, so

[03:06] you put your summer tires on here and

[03:08] then your black wheels, you put your

[03:09] winter tires on those. You're in the

[03:11] final days of your hot boy summer, so

[03:13] these still speak to you?

[03:16] I don't mind the purple. I'm going to be

[03:17] honest. I do I do kind of like the

[03:19] purple wheels. Well, I I'm more mature,

[03:21] I suppose. Not [laughter] Not really, I

[03:22] still have

[03:24] seventh grade bathroom humor, but I

[03:26] guess in my taste in wheels, so anyway,

[03:28] yeah, they're over here.

[03:30] There you go. Catch.

[03:34] I know with Hoovie Life there is a

[03:35] little bit of a thrill when it comes to

[03:36] getting in a car, hoping it'll start,

[03:39] and whether it gets where it's going,

[03:40] but I imagine a lot of you have a family

[03:41] that wants to get places reliably. And

[03:43] you have a vehicle that's much more

[03:44] practical to get you there. For me, it's

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[03:48] that I use for all the family road trips

[03:50] with its huge comfy cabin and

[03:52] entertainment system, the kids [music]

[03:54] never get bored. Since it sits on a

[03:56] 1-ton truck chassis with a 6.6 gasser

[03:58] V8, it's also a great machine to work as

[04:01] well to haul my hooptie projects home.

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[04:04] the corner, it was time to get my van

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[05:19] look pretty nice. I like the black

[05:22] edition GT-R wheels. That's what this

[05:24] is. And I had them refinished just just

[05:26] because it's going to look much better.

[05:29] And the new Vredestein tires, thanks to

[05:30] Tire Rack. So, that's all mounted and

[05:32] things. And they are they are staggered,

[05:34] so hopefully you can tell the

[05:36] difference. I think we can figure it

[05:37] out.

[05:37] >> Don't put the backs on the front.

[05:38] [laughter] That'd be great. All right.

[05:40] We can do that.

[05:41] It would look that It would look weird.

[05:43] If you didn't see the first video, this

[05:44] GT-R has air ride, which works great for

[05:46] putting up on the lift cuz I can raise

[05:49] up the suspension.

[05:51] Make things super easy.

[05:55] Should I just back it in?

[05:57] Uh either way should be fine.

[05:58] >> Yeah, I'll just back it in.

[06:00] No wheel locks, I wonder why? They

[06:02] probably knew that nobody was going to

[06:04] steal their purple wheels.

[06:05] >> know, some vape kid might see a crime of

[06:07] opportunity there.

[06:09] Yeah. Vape kid probably can't afford a

[06:11] lift jack though.

[06:12] >> Oh, that's right. Yeah, they wouldn't

[06:13] know how to change a wheel. [laughter]

[06:16] That's too hard. Yeah, it's too much

[06:17] work.

[06:19] Yeah, we'll zip these off of here.

[06:23] >> [screaming]

[06:24] >> I'll be as careful as I can not to

[06:25] damage them.

[06:26] Well, I've had multiple people

[06:29] try and buy these from me, so Oh.

[06:32] >> I know.

[06:44] Uh-oh.

[06:44] >> [clears throat]

[06:46] >> Okay.

[06:47] Looks like all of that gym time is

[06:49] paying off. Oh, I have tendinitis in my

[06:53] elbows where it connects to my bicep.

[06:55] All those years of tennis?

[06:57] I don't know what the hell's going on.

[06:58] Get in there.

[07:01] Oh, it's this way. Oh. They've got

[07:03] spacers on here. Do these wheels need

[07:05] spacers though? I guess it looks It

[07:07] looks pretty good with the spacers on.

[07:08] >> Well, is it going to hit when it gets

[07:10] slammed though? Uh we can find out.

[07:13] Well, I don't want to find out the hard

[07:14] [laughter] way.

[07:16] But that's what makes good YouTube

[07:17] content.

[07:18] >> [laughter]

[07:22] >> Mhm. Um Mhm, is that sticking out way

[07:25] past it? Yeah, hang on. Let's let's

[07:27] double check. I don't want to I got to

[07:29] see where those ones sat. Are those just

[07:31] as wide?

[07:33] Well, it's going to be the offset,

[07:34] right? Because of the aftermarket

[07:36] wheels.

[07:37] >> these do sit stick out farther.

[07:41] There we go.

[07:44] Much better. Solid inch spacer on there.

[07:48] That's not good.

[07:50] That's hot boy summer though right

[07:52] there. You don't want to do like

[07:53] performance [laughter] driving. Like I

[07:54] guess they're the nice spacers though,

[07:55] but Yeah, these are pretty solid.

[07:57] >> Yeah, they're not the the crappy ones

[07:59] where it's just literally a spacer, so

[08:01] they actually do move the lugs around

[08:02] and stuff, but Yeah.

[08:05] No more of that.

[08:07] This much better. This is very

[08:08] hellaflush. Well, that's not what it is.

[08:11] HelloFresh or hellaflush? Hellaflush.

[08:14] Hellaflush. Hellaflush. Yes.

[08:16] >> As opposed to HelloFresh. Exactly.

[08:18] [laughter]

[08:19] No spacer on this one. No spacer on the

[08:22] front.

[08:22] >> So, that's how they staggered them,

[08:24] Yeah, that's how they got them to fit

[08:26] right. That is an instant wave of

[08:29] relief.

[08:31] I don't want to admit it, but it does

[08:32] look a lot better.

[08:34] Man.

[08:36] Okay.

[08:37] We just raised the value of this car

[08:38] like five grand

[08:40] >> [laughter]

[08:40] >> by spending a thousand dollars on wheels

[08:41] and another grand refinishing them, so

[08:44] Oh, yeah. Okay.

[08:46] That's a good start, and whenever

[08:47] Stewart gets here, it'll

[08:49] it'll keep going, so Oh, yeah. It'll

[08:51] It's going to turn out to look pretty

[08:52] nice. Sunday funday, Michael. That's

[08:54] what it is. Sunday funday.

[08:56] There's Stewart. Hey, how are you? Good.

[09:00] [laughter]

[09:01] You done fighting the hood and the

[09:02] bumper? I am. Yeah. I see the headlights

[09:05] are here. Yep, they're here, and

[09:09] some of the small pieces over there, and

[09:12] here's some of the brackets.

[09:14] These are all for the big spoiler? Yeah,

[09:16] you know,

[09:17] these are all done, so And you've

[09:19] already been buffing. You came here last

[09:21] night and got started, and it's a

[09:22] totally different car.

[09:25] That's just crazy. You know, it's got

[09:26] great paint.

[09:28] I uh

[09:29] I was actually a little worried about

[09:30] it, and it just buffed up beautiful, so

[09:33] That's incredible. Well, we're waiting

[09:35] for Magic Mike because his night job is

[09:38] very demanding. So he he doesn't need to

[09:40] sleep in a little bit.

[09:42] And uh you know, but when he wakes up

[09:43] and comes around, he'll come back to me

[09:44] in the mechanic again. But obviously his

[09:46] night job's a lot more exciting. But we

[09:47] need him to help with the uh hood and

[09:49] the bumper which are they're outside,

[09:51] right? They're outside.

[09:52] >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

[09:54] Yeah, and remember they don't they

[09:55] they're going to look funny. Okay.

[09:57] >> Cuz they're not buffed.

[09:59] 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]