Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome back to another episode of Car Stories
Speaker 1: with Son.
Speaker 2: King and Amelia Hartford.
Speaker 3: Today we have a very special guest.
Speaker 1: He happens to be I would say, a childhood prodigy.
Speaker 2: Incredibly smart wise beyond his years. He also paid his
Speaker 2: way through college by street racing.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 1: He is in a way like the real life Dominic
Speaker 1: Toretto and always thinks out of the box. It was
Speaker 1: like the wackiest cars. He has this thousand horsepower minivan.
Speaker 1: He does yes, so he gives street cred to all
Speaker 1: the mini van owners out there.
Speaker 2: I love it. And he's really pushing the boundaries lately
Speaker 2: with his performance ev.
Speaker 1: Conversions and the most positive person that I probably ever
Speaker 1: met in my life.
Speaker 2: He I don't believe has a bad bone in his body.
Speaker 2: He wants to see everyone succeed.
Speaker 3: We're lucky to have him in our life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and on this podcast. So without further ado, there
Speaker 2: we go, bc A zarioh.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's let's go back to the origin of
Speaker 1: you coming to California. So you were in Long Beach
Speaker 1: at yes age of like.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I left Nigeria when I was sixteen. After
Speaker 4: a year, you know, I got to University of Asia fifteen.
Speaker 4: He did a year there, came here. My father typically
Speaker 4: would have scored me here in the United States because
Speaker 4: he's always here often, but he had to take care
Speaker 4: of some he had vice some machinery and finish it
Speaker 4: up in Italy, and my mom had to take her
Speaker 4: to factory so she couldn't leave.
Speaker 2: So this was for you to go to school, to
Speaker 2: go to school.
Speaker 4: So they kind of sent me by myself two suitcases
Speaker 4: on a plane. My dad when he went to school
Speaker 4: here to study geology, he had a scholarship from Golf
Speaker 4: Oil Company, and in that whole oil company he met
Speaker 4: this you know, this family, and Bob Lancaster was a
Speaker 4: very good friend of my father's and my father. He
Speaker 4: was a founder of Torco Oil Company. And my dad
Speaker 4: had him meet me at Lax and that was really
Speaker 4: interesting because I never met them before. So imagine going
Speaker 4: to a foreign country, not really knowing anyone, and you
Speaker 4: meet this older couple who's taking home to their place
Speaker 4: in Wadier and that's it.
Speaker 2: He'sill in touch with them today.
Speaker 4: I do keep in touch with them from time to time. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: Bob and Connie passed away a few years ago. So
Speaker 4: that's sad. But their sons are still around. They're really
Speaker 4: good to me. They're they're like family to me. But
Speaker 4: it was interesting coming here from Africa with a lot
Speaker 4: of African outfits on and going to church with them.
Speaker 4: People ask me questions like, hey, how does it feel
Speaker 4: wearing shoes for.
Speaker 5: The first time? I mean, I used to have Italian.
Speaker 2: My pary.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, we were my parents were comfortable.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of funny. But hearing those questions about how.
Speaker 2: This assumption, Yeah, did that make you feel like an
Speaker 2: outlier in a way.
Speaker 4: No, So what's weird is that I actually embrace those questions.
Speaker 4: I thought genuinely they want people want to know. So
Speaker 4: I was the first one. Oh no, well my father
Speaker 4: used to travel to Italy and buy a shoes, so
Speaker 4: you know. And oh no, we live right next to
Speaker 4: you know, so I would my parents are because my
Speaker 4: factory and we have factories everywhere, and we have Cocla
Speaker 4: and and Sprite and Phanta, and so I was very
Speaker 4: eager to educate and share share that. I never thought
Speaker 4: it was, you know, ignorance or a way to put
Speaker 4: me down. I really welcomed those questions and answer them aptly.
Speaker 2: So how did how did the cars start forming for you?
Speaker 2: Was it during college? Is that how you got in trouble?
Speaker 5: Was it? You can say that?
Speaker 4: So, as I mentioned earlier, my first word was called
Speaker 4: I've always loved automobiles, just had this this great affinity
Speaker 4: for them, even from having hot wheels. Yes there are
Speaker 4: hot wheys in Africa, but even from then playing with
Speaker 4: the hot we and so on and so forth, we
Speaker 4: just didn't have the environment for modifications. So even though
Speaker 4: I had access to magazines like auction magazines back then,
Speaker 4: and I'm talking this is like eight late eighties.
Speaker 3: And the nineties for the listeners that don't know what
Speaker 3: option mazing?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: So oction magazine is this is this Japanese high performance
Speaker 4: magazine that not only covers, builds, think of an Amazon
Speaker 4: catalog in.
Speaker 5: Paper, but just all parts.
Speaker 4: It was just this this high end catalog at least
Speaker 4: for us, that allowed us to really look at things
Speaker 4: and see what we can purchased that was hot in
Speaker 4: Japanese call culture at the time. And so I saw
Speaker 4: those and I'd always dream and I had three dream
Speaker 4: cars when I was back home, even though I never
Speaker 4: saw those cars myself, the Pontiac Fierron.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help when people say, and it's time it
Speaker 1: was a beautiful car.
Speaker 2: A green car when they didn't have oiling issues and
Speaker 2: catch on fire.
Speaker 4: The latter I knew about, which was scary afterwards. I
Speaker 4: didn't know at the time.
Speaker 2: Did that happen while you were on the car.
Speaker 4: That's a good that's part of my story is pretty good.
Speaker 4: And then second was the m R two to m
Speaker 4: R two so earlier on a W eleven, and then
Speaker 4: the CRX.
Speaker 5: So those are my three cars are like this is
Speaker 5: it for me?
Speaker 4: Anyway? I digress. So back to when I came here.
Speaker 4: Now I'm in a country where cal culture is pretty cool.
Speaker 4: People modifying cars. There was a lot of how should
Speaker 4: I say, domestic vehicles out there that were modified hot rods,
Speaker 4: but the sport compact scene was really in its infancy.
Speaker 5: You couldn't call a BC model and order parts.
Speaker 4: You couldn't go to eBay, you couldn't go to Amazon,
Speaker 4: you couldn't buy.
Speaker 2: You just couldn't buy at that time.
Speaker 4: So fresh there was nothing available. Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 4: I mean we could read about what some tuners did
Speaker 4: in Japan. Maybe mugan what they had done with Hondas.
Speaker 4: Maybe Oscar Jackson with Jackson Racing did some things back
Speaker 4: in the day. But if I want to buy a
Speaker 4: camshaft nowhere, I want to valve springs, you wanted pistons.
Speaker 4: Companies existed, yeah, companies of Vanolia areas, but they didn't
Speaker 4: make Honda pistons. I mean, I'm talking this far back
Speaker 4: as ninety two ninety three. There was nothing available when
Speaker 4: you went to any kind of race, whord spalled compact cars,
Speaker 4: lots of rodaries, lots of ARE one hundreds, RX two's
Speaker 4: ORX thre's. You didn't see. Hondas weren't really the hot
Speaker 4: thing at the time. And it's so strange how you
Speaker 4: can have this ability to figure things out and apply
Speaker 4: to your vehicles and then go faster, and then in
Speaker 4: turn people get attracted to what you're doing and come
Speaker 4: to you. That's pretty much in essence what I experienced.
Speaker 4: So I come here in the United States. There's great call
Speaker 4: culture already. I don't know how to get into it.
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about it. I'm just an engineering
Speaker 4: student and want to experience certain things. I could go
Speaker 4: to school and see some cause drive up. Maybe an
Speaker 4: old Corolla effects come up and this lord would exhaust.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Anyway, back to the firero thing, I decide it's time
Speaker 4: for me to buy a car. I had a couple
Speaker 4: of bucks. Well, my dad would send money every two weeks,
Speaker 4: Thank you, dad, So I want to buy if I
Speaker 4: love the car. It's beautiful, it's sexy, it's a two door,
Speaker 4: wet shape. It's just absolutely amazing. I have to have
Speaker 4: this vehicle. I decided, in normal busy fashion to go
Speaker 4: to a local bookstore and buy a book from Consumer
Speaker 4: Reports to read about how reliable this could be. Because
Speaker 4: even though I'm excited about that, as a student, I
Speaker 4: had to be frugal.
Speaker 5: Why frugal?
Speaker 4: Because I had this bright idea that since my parents
Speaker 4: took care of me growing up that now i'm in America,
Speaker 4: i don't want their help anymore.
Speaker 5: I'm going to make my own way.
Speaker 4: Because I used to get teased at school that the
Speaker 4: only reason why BC you are who you are is
Speaker 4: because your parents take care of you, and you're still spoilt.
Speaker 4: So I'm in America now by myself, with this family,
Speaker 4: and I want to prove to people inclue myself that
Speaker 4: I can do things on my own, yeah.
Speaker 2: And ideally take care of them in the future.
Speaker 5: Amen.
Speaker 4: So I called my dad and told him that, and
Speaker 4: you know he did cry, laughed, just like that, just
Speaker 4: like that. So see that last Nsson exactly my dad
Speaker 4: did and he gave me. I'm like, I'm really going
Speaker 4: to show him. So I'm going to buy my own car.
Speaker 4: But since I'm want to do it myself, I need
Speaker 4: something reliable.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Guess what consumer report says horrible car catches on fire,
Speaker 4: electrical problems. Okay, that's not for me. M R two perfect,
Speaker 4: but I didn't have enough. I couldn't afford it. I'm
Speaker 4: trying to refrugal. And I opted for the crx HF
Speaker 4: High Fuel Efficiency because as a student it got great
Speaker 4: gas mileage.
Speaker 5: So it looks the part.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's not as sexy as a fiare Oh yes,
Speaker 4: not an m R two, but it is a nice
Speaker 4: little two seater kind of you.
Speaker 5: Know, it's nice as clean, it's nice like it. So
Speaker 5: I picked it up.
Speaker 2: Well, ran side. That was probably the better decision. It
Speaker 2: was not just for economy and for daily driving, but
Speaker 2: also for the community.
Speaker 4: You know, I agree, I really want the m R Tunity.
Speaker 4: So I get the CRX and I'm driving it and
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just so excited about this car, and
Speaker 4: I'm reading about what people can do with Crx's not much,
Speaker 4: but still I'm reading trying to find out what I
Speaker 4: could do the fella. I lived with the Lancasters, still
Speaker 4: having some financial challenges, so they had to sell their
Speaker 4: housing Wittier and moved to Lovely Wyoming. I went there
Speaker 4: once with them. It was very cold, but anyway, okay.
Speaker 4: So I told my parents, Hey, the Lancasters are moving. Dad, Mom,
Speaker 4: I don't know where to stay.
Speaker 5: Oh, don't worry.
Speaker 4: We know someone. It's a lady, missus Jones, lovely lady.
Speaker 4: She lives in this amazing, beautiful Jewish community in southern California.
Speaker 4: She's been there sister's sixties. I've known her. Great woman.
Speaker 4: She will love you. She comes by, she picks me up,
Speaker 4: I have my suitcases, and we go to Compton.
Speaker 3: That wasn't that's not I guess, Yeah, wow.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that. That's my dad's tell me it
Speaker 4: was Compton. And do you know how Compton was in
Speaker 4: the late eighties early nineties. It was it was end
Speaker 4: of my guardian. I called mister my guardian. She was
Speaker 4: one of those ladies who bought her house way back
Speaker 4: in the day and would not move no matter what.
Speaker 4: So we saw all of this. I was there when
Speaker 4: the riots happened. I saw it all. Wow, But what
Speaker 4: did that environment expose me to street racing? So once
Speaker 4: again Nigerian kid here loving cars, never had an opportunity
Speaker 4: touch one. And around me at night you hear all
Speaker 4: this racing down on Alameda, which is about.
Speaker 5: To fall away from me.
Speaker 2: How old were you at this point.
Speaker 4: Eighteen nineteen and I was just really just excited about
Speaker 4: this environment. All of a sudden it was very expensive
Speaker 4: and there are no parts.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: There was one guy, Archie Madrano. He had a turble
Speaker 4: Charci RX red with a yellow bumper and he was running.
Speaker 4: At the time, we thought it was ridiculous, running like
Speaker 4: twelve eight and that was like that's like six is now.
Speaker 4: You know in a SERRX front will drive with really
Speaker 4: small slicks from Mickey Thompson all that good stuff. Thought
Speaker 4: about it, new it was expensive. After talking to him,
Speaker 4: I said, Okay, this is not for me. I'll just
Speaker 4: keep plugging along. So one morning I get up to
Speaker 4: go to school and I stop my vehicle and I
Speaker 4: hear this deep, weird sound emanating from the back of
Speaker 4: my car.
Speaker 5: I heard this, I'm like, okay, but it sounds kind
Speaker 5: of cool. But whatever.
Speaker 4: So I go to Guardina Honda, which is not too
Speaker 4: far from Compton, and they said, oh, you have a
Speaker 4: perforated muffler.
Speaker 2: Am I gonna say someone cut your cat off?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Fortunately, you know, like nowadays, the catalyst on the HF
Speaker 4: was up near the head you have to kind of
Speaker 4: pull my mother, But yeah, it was. I had a
Speaker 4: perforated muffler, and long story short, it was on cost
Speaker 4: me six hundred and twenty dollars to fix, which made
Speaker 4: not sound like a lot now, but to then it's
Speaker 4: probably like it sounded like he said sixty two thousand
Speaker 4: to me at the time, as it's chie right, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, that's not gonna work. But one of
Speaker 4: the tech guys like, hey, you can go to a
Speaker 4: regular muffler shop. You don't have to get original Honda.
Speaker 4: You can go to a muffler shop and though well
Speaker 4: went on there for you, and I go there and
Speaker 4: they say, okay, we have this dynamas Ultraflow muffler we
Speaker 4: can put on there for you.
Speaker 5: It's way cheap.
Speaker 4: I think it ended costs like seventy dollars or something
Speaker 4: like that, and you'll be good. Seventy dollars sounds better
Speaker 4: than six hundred and twenty for me. So that's what
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 4: When I started my car just to sound and may,
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, this is so cool. Right, it sounded
Speaker 4: so cool. It's like a religious moment for me. And
Speaker 4: then it got better. Right when I drove off, my
Speaker 4: car was faster. I'm like, oh my god, what the heck? Yeah,
Speaker 4: after mcha muffler straight through it wasn't chambered. So now
Speaker 4: I know why I gained power, but I didn't. Then
Speaker 4: I'm just a student who has a car that sounds better,
Speaker 4: and I have more power, and it got better even
Speaker 4: than the power and the sound by fear to call
Speaker 4: me improved. Now I'm just thirsty for knowledge. I want
Speaker 4: to know why it happened, how it happened. I caught
Speaker 4: him for the shop.
Speaker 5: We don't know. We just put a muffling air car.
Speaker 5: We don't. They don't.
Speaker 4: I want answers why no one could explain it to me?
Speaker 4: Fast forward to today, I do this thing on Instagram
Speaker 4: Tech Tuesday where I just open up and you've been
Speaker 4: on that with me before. All I do is share
Speaker 4: all my knowledge. I mean I share everything. I know everything.
Speaker 4: You can ask me something about what I did that morning,
Speaker 4: and I will share, show you the diagram, I'll send
Speaker 4: you my freaking cat files. I don't care because I
Speaker 4: remember what I experienced when I was younger, and I
Speaker 4: remember how I felt when people kind of just pushed
Speaker 4: me away and they want to tell me either they
Speaker 4: knew or they didn't know, and that hurt. So now
Speaker 4: I'm trying to be that person I needed when I
Speaker 4: was younger, and I would have been much further ahead
Speaker 4: if people just opened up to me, and I don't
Speaker 4: have that. So I'm doing that for people, and some
Speaker 4: people even in the industry woild chastise me, like BC,
Speaker 4: why are you telling all your secrets on everything you know?
Speaker 4: Because technology always changes what I know today I didn't
Speaker 4: know a year ago, and tomorrow I would know more.
Speaker 2: And life isn't a zero sum game either.
Speaker 4: The industry alive, I agree, I concur with you wholeheartedly.
Speaker 4: So that being said, people just wouldn't tell me. But
Speaker 4: I had to know. So I sought out this AM
Speaker 4: because I felt they would know and their local. So
Speaker 4: I walked in met the owner, John Concialti, and unlike others,
Speaker 4: he's like, oh, what do you want to know where?
Speaker 4: Here's why it happened, And he just opened up and
Speaker 4: he was a period. I was a student, but he
Speaker 4: was an engineer already and he was more than happy
Speaker 4: to share everything you new with me. And till today
Speaker 4: in John would deny like, okay, BC whatever. He is
Speaker 4: the reason why I am where I am today. He
Speaker 4: was a mentor to me. He he is the reason.
Speaker 4: John Concialti from AM is the reason why I'm successful today. Well,
Speaker 4: so he told me about how baffling is and tied
Speaker 4: it in with flow dynamics, which I was studying at
Speaker 4: the time, and how you know, it's flow and energy
Speaker 4: takes energy to expel gases. That energy to expel has
Speaker 4: come from somewhere from your engine. So if you remove
Speaker 4: those restrictions, your engine breathe easier. There's less energy that
Speaker 4: is required to expel those gases, and now it's available
Speaker 4: for you to propel your car forward power. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: what can I do next? He's like, I've been thinking
Speaker 4: about this new system where he can do the same
Speaker 4: thing would exhaust, but with intake. So I have this
Speaker 4: thing on you just trying a car. So he got
Speaker 4: me a filter and I went back to the muffle shop,
Speaker 4: expanded it and had to fit to my intake and
Speaker 4: to my box out and I sound more power.
Speaker 2: Did you want royalties on those intakes? No?
Speaker 5: I did not.
Speaker 4: I was just excited student trying to figure things out.
Speaker 4: I mean John ended up going on to you know, making,
Speaker 4: designing many many digger intake systems, and he did quite
Speaker 4: well with that. But I was there at the at
Speaker 4: the beginning when he played with that. And then what
Speaker 4: was next? Cam gears. I have the first cam gear
Speaker 4: John made. I still have it in my garage, put
Speaker 4: on my CRX, got power, went on his DYNO. It
Speaker 4: was just from there on, I was just thirsty for knowledge.
Speaker 4: But there was still a challenge. There was still a
Speaker 4: challenge of if you need certain parts, So if I
Speaker 4: needed camshafts, I'd have to go to a place.
Speaker 1: Before he continued, could you teach the audience why you
Speaker 1: would change the camshaft?
Speaker 5: See what is a good analogy? I can use. Okay.
Speaker 4: A cam shaft is device that actuates your valves, that
Speaker 4: allows air to come in and also combus a gas
Speaker 4: to escape. So, in essence, think of your engine as
Speaker 4: a room and you have a door in that room.
Speaker 4: Your camshaft is like the door itself. It allows the
Speaker 4: valve or the door itself to open up for a
Speaker 4: certain time, for a certain amount of time and certain
Speaker 4: how should I say, distance of opening and then it closes,
Speaker 4: and that gives you certain amount of power when that happens.
Speaker 4: Now what after make a camp shaft? Does it allows
Speaker 4: you to open that door even wider and longer? And
Speaker 4: why is that critical? In any internal combustion engine, the
Speaker 4: way to make power is to get as much air
Speaker 4: with the appropate amount of fuel as possible. That's why
Speaker 4: you have a natural aspirated Let's say Emilia had a
Speaker 4: corvette and it's not transperated, and it made x amount
Speaker 4: of power, and then she put a turbo charge on it,
Speaker 4: which forces more air in it, she will make more power.
Speaker 4: And that's key because she had the opportunity to experience,
Speaker 4: or her engine had the opportunity experience more air inside
Speaker 4: of it with the appropriate amount of fuel. A camschef
Speaker 4: does that using a spirit pressure and even a boost.
Speaker 4: It can help as well by allowing the door to
Speaker 4: open further and longer. The caveat with that is that
Speaker 4: you can consume more fuel. Also, if you have an
Speaker 4: emissions friendly vehicle, it can affect emissions negatively as well.
Speaker 4: So that's what we had to do then. And I
Speaker 4: was so interested in technology and why things maybe go faster.
Speaker 4: I just couldn't stop it. It's like a passion project
Speaker 4: for me to contry to make things better and better
Speaker 4: and better. However, there are two things that happened to
Speaker 4: me that really changed my life. When it came to
Speaker 4: that racing thing. Have you guys ever been on the
Speaker 4: roadway and saw that annoying person that will always trying
Speaker 4: to raise you and revving and all that stuff you're
Speaker 4: talking about.
Speaker 5: Then you and I didn't meet when I was a teenager.
Speaker 4: She wasn't born yet, possibly probably, And long story short,
Speaker 4: just with that intake and exhaust that I had intake
Speaker 4: from JC and exhaust from the Supreme Muffler Shop, I
Speaker 4: thought I was a fast thing on the planet.
Speaker 5: So do you remember Sircred City?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, well she doesn't. I know well you never
Speaker 3: walked in.
Speaker 5: It was a magical place.
Speaker 4: When I got a job there innineteen ninety three, there
Speaker 4: was a guy in a car audio in the back
Speaker 4: who had a Masa six to six turbo and his
Speaker 4: name is Terren.
Speaker 5: King and he h street Race.
Speaker 4: And the people in the store were being really a
Speaker 4: holes because they were telling him, Oh, there's a guy
Speaker 4: up front with a CRX, he'll spank you. They're telling me, oh,
Speaker 4: there's a guy in car stereo, he will spank you.
Speaker 4: You guys should reach each other. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll raise him. I got my intake, my exhaust, I'll
Speaker 4: smoke him, no problem. Right, I didn't know what a
Speaker 4: terrible sixty six could do. We go to a track
Speaker 4: known as Terminal Island. That's why I met people like
Speaker 4: Steph Papadacus. I met people like that there. It was
Speaker 4: a track and long beach.
Speaker 5: It was so quimin.
Speaker 4: It was right in the water, excellent sea level, great air,
Speaker 4: always cool, just amazing, lots of domestics, lots of bedding,
Speaker 4: and we went there to do our show down. I
Speaker 4: won't bore you with the groom details of how I
Speaker 4: couldn't burn out or how I launched. But let's say
Speaker 4: at the end of the quarter mile he was on
Speaker 4: the return road, and I'll still go down.
Speaker 2: I wish I was alive during these times. You care
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was pretty bad. But then I'm like, teach me.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you know. And he modified his Masa turbo.
Speaker 4: I mean, he did quite a fit to and it
Speaker 4: was much faster than factory and he gutted it and
Speaker 4: it was fast.
Speaker 5: So long story short.
Speaker 4: I was humbled by that event, but not as humbled
Speaker 4: as the one that really changed my life. On campus
Speaker 4: after racing, which after Reconent twent, he started teaching me
Speaker 4: the ropes and how to rev, how to launch. I
Speaker 4: didn't know how to do any of that. How to
Speaker 4: do a burnout, handbrake up, get the water come out
Speaker 4: of it?
Speaker 5: Do you burnout?
Speaker 4: He told me all that. That made me even more cocky.
Speaker 4: So I go to campus Calci Long Beach. I'm in
Speaker 4: the VEC Center. Unlike now the side of campus I
Speaker 4: was engineering. The parking live is always empty because I
Speaker 4: guess people don't want to study engineering. You go to
Speaker 4: Business administration, it's always packed full. We can't even get parking,
Speaker 4: but engineering parking was empty.
Speaker 2: So it was a good lot for misbehaviornigans.
Speaker 4: I'm leaving one day there's a black c R X
Speaker 4: S I in the parking lot. I'm pulling out, she
Speaker 4: pulls out. I read on them because I'm busy, naturally
Speaker 4: what I read, and she's like, all right, we pull up,
Speaker 4: we launch. At the end of the race, they're on
Speaker 4: the floor laughing at me. They got me. Not she
Speaker 4: didn't beat me. She has passengers. I'm alone in my car,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, at that point, I swore that was
Speaker 4: gonna be the fastest thing will come on the planet,
Speaker 4: like no one ever, and.
Speaker 5: I did it.
Speaker 4: I literally that day was a marker for what changed.
Speaker 4: I was just I became obsessive with make my car faster.
Speaker 4: Everything I learned in school, every time with the doctor
Speaker 4: Hile or anyone who's who's teaching, whether it's thermal or
Speaker 4: fluids or mass transfer, I'm thinking of ways to make
Speaker 4: that apply to my car. It made my schooling very
Speaker 4: interesting for me because everything I learned was how can
Speaker 4: I apply it to my car.
Speaker 5: I almost got expelled. My dad would killed.
Speaker 4: I almost got expelled for trying to test carburetors in
Speaker 4: our chemical Jurine Lab. I used water, but I was
Speaker 4: trying to test outomization of fluids. And as I did that,
Speaker 4: the lab tech walked in, BC, what are you doing here?
Speaker 4: That's not approved? And went to the dean and I
Speaker 4: had to beg dotor hile, please, please please. I told
Speaker 4: him what I was doing and he was impressed and
Speaker 4: didn't kick me out. You're not supposed to do unsupervised
Speaker 4: on authorized experiments in school, but I did that because
Speaker 4: I had to.
Speaker 5: That's how obsessive I was.
Speaker 4: From there, I got into exhaust technology and we studied
Speaker 4: in fludynamics studies about venturies and how a ventury you
Speaker 4: can put it inside a pipe and increase velocity across
Speaker 4: that gradient. I'm like, if headers are supposed to help
Speaker 4: scavenge and give us more power, shouldn't have venturi even
Speaker 4: help more? And I asked John and Joan, like it could, John,
Speaker 4: John Concadi, I were the one on and I picked
Speaker 4: up power.
Speaker 5: So just I continue. And each time I went to
Speaker 5: Termina Island.
Speaker 2: And Long Beach that was your field test was like
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 4: I went from jeez, eighteen four, That's why I ran
Speaker 4: to sixteens to fifteen to fourteens to fourteen two and.
Speaker 5: People, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 4: And I'm there Friday, Saturday, Sunday that's when track was open.
Speaker 4: Friday after work. I go straight there after I go.
Speaker 4: I couldn't stop thinking about this.
Speaker 2: So you're working, you're going to school.
Speaker 4: Going to school, working, and at night street racing, well,
Speaker 4: testing my cars, testing equipment later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it's called testing.
Speaker 4: I won't boy you the grim details of how crazy
Speaker 4: I want with this street racing and so on and
Speaker 4: so forth, but.
Speaker 5: Please do Yeah, okay, Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 4: I noticed a lot of people didn't go to the racetrack,
Speaker 4: so I would watch them and see how they launched.
Speaker 5: I'd pay attention.
Speaker 4: I kind of took a cime tape approach to stalking
Speaker 4: my prey. So I watch them and i'd see someone
Speaker 4: who thinks they're fast or the cows really love, but
Speaker 4: they really weren't that fast, and they'll tell my guys
Speaker 4: to approach him. I didn't feel comfortable.
Speaker 2: With that spoiler, because this is making me crazy? Is this?
Speaker 2: How then, did you start racing as your income and
Speaker 2: quit your job and use this to pay for your school?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 2: I feel like this is a great movie.
Speaker 5: Actually I did a little bit of both.
Speaker 4: So long story short, I had the opportunity to raise
Speaker 4: quite a few individuals and kept going faster and faster
Speaker 4: and faster. My advantage was I'd go to the track
Speaker 4: and practice and know my times, while other people just
Speaker 4: only focus on street racing.
Speaker 5: And I made a couple bucks doing that, and I
Speaker 5: knew who to hit up.
Speaker 4: And when they see my HFCR They're like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 4: race you and I'll make with some money.
Speaker 5: Sometimes people wouldn't pay Taran and his friends.
Speaker 4: They'll tell me, you see, just go ahead and leave
Speaker 4: me with you at cars Junior and they show up
Speaker 4: with my money.
Speaker 5: I don't know what they do, I said, don't know
Speaker 5: what they did. Were you're familiar with AOL chat Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: You guys are looking at it.
Speaker 4: Well, even though we have pages, back in the day,
Speaker 4: AOL chat room was a place where we could meet
Speaker 4: up and race. And there was a chat room known
Speaker 4: as AOL Japan Street Racing or Japan Racing.
Speaker 5: Sorry, we all kind of congregated there. Well. I got
Speaker 5: hit up for a race.
Speaker 4: Remember early on how I told you in the VC
Speaker 4: Center parking lot, I was spanked by that lovely young
Speaker 4: lady and her two friends. Well, I was still my
Speaker 4: quest to be the fast sale camp, and I was very,
Speaker 4: very proud of saying I was the fastest, and I
Speaker 4: beat my chest with the title of being the fastest
Speaker 4: saale camp out there until I got a someone hit
Speaker 4: me up on the chat room saying, hey, we want
Speaker 4: to race you for title of the fastest sale camp.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, okay, street cred I'm doing this, no
Speaker 4: big deal where it's money or not. What could be
Speaker 4: what would be two and a bucks, I'll do it.
Speaker 4: So you definitely want know this. But all lightning techniques
Speaker 4: back in the day consists of taking off our hatch,
Speaker 4: putting a plastic bag, taking out our doors, putting gutted doors,
Speaker 4: all weight reduction suspension, we take out our rear coils,
Speaker 4: and putting pipes so it doesn't squat. I did all
Speaker 4: this and then my exhaust system, unbolting it and going
Speaker 4: with a side exit. That was my street race setup.
Speaker 4: So this gentlemen hits me up and says, hey, we're
Speaker 4: racing you for five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a big job. And this is still your
Speaker 2: daily driver at this point.
Speaker 4: It's the only car I've ever had five thousand dollars. Now, Guys,
Speaker 4: even though my parents took care of me growing up,
Speaker 4: I never saw five thousand dollars in my life. So
Speaker 4: me racing for five thousand dollars was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Did you have the money if you lost it or
Speaker 2: did you go in you're going to win.
Speaker 5: If you search me, I probably have one hundred fifty
Speaker 5: dollars on me.
Speaker 2: So you were just confident, You're like, I can do it.
Speaker 4: For crop, for street street cred. That's what I thought
Speaker 4: I was racing for. But when we sat five thousand,
Speaker 4: I'm like, what, No. And then this one guy came up,
Speaker 4: this one African American gentleman came up to me and said, hey,
Speaker 4: you know my name is John. Here go, I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a slight tangent. Big John is now
Speaker 4: one of my good, good friends. Until today. He won't
Speaker 4: tell me how him, as a teenager, was walking around
Speaker 4: street raises a five grand This we were kids, How
Speaker 4: did you have five grand? And this is not five
Speaker 4: grand in twenty twenty three, this five grand in the nineties.
Speaker 4: Use fuel as a judge. We used to pay nine
Speaker 4: nine cents a gallon for ninety one. Then now we've
Speaker 4: put four or five dollars, so it's equivalent today's twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five thousand.
Speaker 3: That's what's before tax, before taxes, so that's a.
Speaker 5: Lot of money. And O okay, so I take it.
Speaker 4: And the guy who hit me up said he wants
Speaker 4: to hold the money, and everyone no, no, no, that day,
Speaker 4: the racers.
Speaker 5: Don't hold the money.
Speaker 4: You always have a neutral party the money, not that
Speaker 4: I would know. So lucky Mike we call him, held
Speaker 4: the five thousand from us and held five thousand from
Speaker 4: him and we lined up. So what did these guys do?
Speaker 4: Remember how I told you earlier. I used to watch
Speaker 4: my prey and see what they'll do. And I understand
Speaker 4: a lot about technology engineering. I stunded a lot about
Speaker 4: how engines work. And these guys started making really silly mistakes.
Speaker 5: So the first thing they did was start the car.
Speaker 3: What car did they bring?
Speaker 5: They have a CRX, so were for.
Speaker 4: We're going for the the world's fastest CRX or single
Speaker 4: camp So they have a CX like myself injected, I'm carbureted. Thanks,
Speaker 4: say jac Tom Young that's his name, opens my hood
Speaker 4: which is around looking for nitress.
Speaker 5: I don't have any.
Speaker 2: Did they? Was it because you guys weren't allowed to
Speaker 2: run nitrous or was it just or not respirated?
Speaker 4: So the thing is being that all motor, all motor,
Speaker 4: natural aspirated. You're not supposed to have any kind of
Speaker 4: chemical No adders, no power adders.
Speaker 5: That's the title. You know, a more yeah, hardcore?
Speaker 4: You know, So tom this hood, I look at it,
Speaker 4: it looks like a regular okay whatever. Jack Shyll like
Speaker 4: he's not gonna go anywhere close the hood. So they
Speaker 4: make this mistake. I thought it was a mistake. I
Speaker 4: thought it was cool and a lot of street racing
Speaker 4: guys used to do this. Front will drive, they'll start
Speaker 4: the car, they'll have two guys in front of the
Speaker 4: car on each side of the fender. Then they'll pour
Speaker 4: a bunch of bleach and VHD or whatever on the
Speaker 4: floor and they'll burn out. And they're burning out and
Speaker 4: the guy has his handbrake burning out, the guys on
Speaker 4: the side of pushing car left to right.
Speaker 5: You give me to look like you've never seen that?
Speaker 5: Have you never seen seen that? He was very popular.
Speaker 5: You don't do that now, you don't do that.
Speaker 2: Now they used to use Coca cola back in.
Speaker 5: The day bleach and I never knew about.
Speaker 3: But it's to make the tires sticky, sticky.
Speaker 4: So they're doing this and they're putting a lot of
Speaker 4: heating there into they're heat soaking, they're putting a lot
Speaker 4: of heat in their motor, just burning out. And they
Speaker 4: did this about it three times, just show buddy, And
Speaker 4: there are people lined up on both sides of the street.
Speaker 4: There's a big it's a big race, and they did
Speaker 4: a burnout and they pull back. I start mine up,
Speaker 4: I do a dry hop and just clean off all
Speaker 4: the rubbish on my car.
Speaker 5: That's when I stopped.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry if you said this was on street tires. Streets.
Speaker 5: They were just misbehaving where you just chirp your.
Speaker 2: Skirt skirted to clean the rocks and stuff. Street street tires.
Speaker 2: You don't want to put a lot of heat into
Speaker 2: them because then they don't their best performance isn't best
Speaker 2: optimized when they're overheated. They're they're a lot more sensitive
Speaker 2: on like a slick.
Speaker 4: So they're doing all this, all these shenanigans, and I'm like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 4: So we stage, like Mike points at me, points at him,
Speaker 4: rev hands up, drops it. This guy leaves me first gear.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the lights. Oh my god, so bad.
Speaker 2: Like a bus length between you guys, Like a car length, Like.
Speaker 4: It's probably his rear quarter panel at my front bumper,
Speaker 4: Like he leave, he's it's a car lan almost a
Speaker 4: car length.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you guys, the launch was okay, you left.
Speaker 5: My launch sucked. His launch is better, which is very
Speaker 5: typical of me.
Speaker 4: By the way, second gear, I catch him, third gear,
Speaker 4: I'm ahead of him by the time we hit fourth.
Speaker 5: It's done. I freaking won five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 5: Or actually I won for someone five thousand dollars. I didn't.
Speaker 5: I just got a lot of credit. People are streaming.
Speaker 4: Is crazy Tom because like, hey, that was a good race, man,
Speaker 4: that was good good and then tells my kid to
Speaker 4: give them money. I have ten thousand dollars in my hand.
Speaker 4: I turn over give it to John. Joe's like, oh no, no,
Speaker 4: just give me five. I keep you five. I'm like, what, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was good race. Keep the five. I didn't understand
Speaker 4: why this complete stranger will give me five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: And then the winnings tell me to keep it, so
Speaker 4: I did. Of course I kept it, and that I'm
Speaker 4: saying that money, I'm not exaggerating, lasted me almost They
Speaker 4: balanced my college years as a student.
Speaker 5: That just solved some mare problems.
Speaker 4: It really helped me tremendously, and John and I became
Speaker 4: great friends and we kept I didn't get many street
Speaker 4: races after that, but I started leaving Compton and Wilmington
Speaker 4: and coming more towards Ontario, going to Sillmar, going to
Speaker 4: street races. That's time making money there again. Never be
Speaker 4: rais same two hundred, three hundred dollar races, same procedure,
Speaker 4: watching my prey, approaching the right people, winning the races.
Speaker 4: And then one day I saw a Mustang and Integra
Speaker 4: race each other and at the end of the race,
Speaker 4: the Mustang put over it. The Integer didn't stop, kept
Speaker 4: going and going, and there's a teener section. He kept
Speaker 4: going and then went all of the embankment. We all
Speaker 4: ran towards there, and one guy, I don't even know
Speaker 4: if it's true, one guy came down like he's dead,
Speaker 4: and we all ran to our car and got out
Speaker 4: of there. And ever since then I stopped. I never
Speaker 4: want to series again. Ever since that day. Ever, there's
Speaker 4: a friend of mine who brought a velociter in for
Speaker 4: me to tune a few months ago. He was dead
Speaker 4: that same night.
Speaker 5: It's weird. It's like we He's like yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm like, he's like you Street, It's like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: stop because I went down Terry. I saw someone that
Speaker 4: I wouldn't take. He said, I was there, same thing.
Speaker 4: I stopped too. Like that same night, both of us,
Speaker 4: years apart, stopped racing because of what we saw that
Speaker 4: night just.
Speaker 5: Had to be.
Speaker 4: Now we're probably ninety nine. Yeah, night nine, I stopped,
Speaker 4: and I like, I'm not doing this anymore. So I
Speaker 4: was still very gung ho about technology and figuring things out.
Speaker 4: And then one gentleman one day just walked up to
Speaker 4: me and identified himself as Johnyo Shinaga from Honda, and
Speaker 4: they said, hey, I've been watching you for a while
Speaker 4: and I see how you interact with people. And what
Speaker 4: I mean by that is what I used to do
Speaker 4: is every time I went to a race, i'd have
Speaker 4: a table out, and all my partners who helped me
Speaker 4: with racing, whether it's then SoC Socle racing for the
Speaker 4: Wheels or MSD became one of my partners. Holly helped
Speaker 4: me with pumps.
Speaker 5: AM.
Speaker 4: They give me brochures and I'll go to race setup
Speaker 4: a table. I'm putting their brochures on. And when people
Speaker 4: ask me questions about, oh my god, you ran a
Speaker 4: good time.
Speaker 5: What did you use?
Speaker 4: I say, oh, I use this intake from AM or
Speaker 4: this carburetor from AM.
Speaker 5: And here's that I know I used and is now
Speaker 5: in Fontana sanctioned.
Speaker 2: Because I was going to put away inch of time. Okay,
Speaker 2: yeah in the street street race. Don't look at me
Speaker 2: like street racer.
Speaker 1: She does on street she tests yah.
Speaker 2: Behavior.
Speaker 4: He approached me and said, I've been watching for a
Speaker 4: while and I like what you're doing? How would you
Speaker 4: like to race for Honda?
Speaker 2: And this was what age?
Speaker 5: Oh now, okay, now I'm in my early twenties.
Speaker 2: I think you've graduated at this point or not yet.
Speaker 5: I haven't graduated yet. I didn't graduate at the time.
Speaker 4: I'm still in school, still my same CRX, much more potent,
Speaker 4: much more powerful, less and less of a street car,
Speaker 4: but still my only ways of transportation. And he's like,
Speaker 4: how would you like to race for us? I'm like,
Speaker 4: I would love that. What do you have to do
Speaker 4: that's not of contract because no, no, just run a sticker
Speaker 4: that says hand Factory Performance on your windshield and then
Speaker 4: if you win races, I'll pay twelve hundred bucks. Like
Speaker 4: is this a joke? He's like, no, this is my card.
Speaker 4: He's a hand of Factory Performance in Torrance. Feel free
Speaker 4: to come by so and so forth, And that's how
Speaker 4: you stepish the really ship put Honda wow. And it
Speaker 4: continued and I did quite well with that. And at
Speaker 4: the time it was the heyday of magazines like superstreet' Sport,
Speaker 4: Compact Car, Dragsport which is down on a D Sport.
Speaker 4: All those magazines were there. Don't cover me because of
Speaker 4: how unique my setup was.
Speaker 2: You have accomplished so much in your life and it's
Speaker 2: hard to fit it in this.
Speaker 1: Podcast because I want to talk about your evolution into
Speaker 1: ev now, because I would say you're innovating and you're
Speaker 1: dominating in this like custom ev world, and so like
Speaker 1: can we can you share how you evolved into where
Speaker 1: you are today?
Speaker 4: We all exist in California and it's a very challenging
Speaker 4: state when it comes to petrol performance.
Speaker 5: You know, I like to have fun.
Speaker 4: I'm the guy who if you looks at any of
Speaker 4: my social networks, you'll see me with twin turbo, shooting flames,
Speaker 4: doing fun stuff. I love race, I love speed, I
Speaker 4: love efficients, I love all that stuff. I've always been
Speaker 4: a diehard petrol head. But it's difficult here in California too.
Speaker 4: Want to find anything that's newer than nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 4: Would I get in trouble. You have to meet certain
Speaker 4: emission standards or just go off road only, and it
Speaker 4: got tougher and tougher for US builders as well. We
Speaker 4: noticed that agents starting to get set out to certain
Speaker 4: diner shops from the EPA to kind of bus shops
Speaker 4: that were tuning cars, and it was uncomfortable. So bearing
Speaker 4: that in mind, I kind of had to focus my
Speaker 4: business on off road vehicles only. Cars are only for
Speaker 4: the track, sandrails and so forth, and that's a very
Speaker 4: small niche compared to people who like to have a
Speaker 4: lot of fun with their cars. I noticed something out
Speaker 4: there that there were people claiming that teslas were fast
Speaker 4: and they were pretty cool, and I had no interest
Speaker 4: in evs.
Speaker 5: I heard it.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about far but no, I was far back.
Speaker 4: But as we sent this twenty eighteen, I'd have customers
Speaker 4: come by, like, you know, to buy parts or whatever
Speaker 4: for their petrol cars, and they say, Hey, I have
Speaker 4: my Tesla outside, would you like to take a ride
Speaker 4: my P one hundred. I'm like, no, I've known I
Speaker 4: didn't want anything to do with evs. Then my customers
Speaker 4: who are in my ear would say, yeah, EV suck.
Speaker 4: It's for tree huggers, it's for guys who were hemp sandals.
Speaker 4: It's not performance. I'm like, yeah, that's true. Forget those guys.
Speaker 4: I would actually ask people to leave my shop if
Speaker 4: they kept talking about EV's. I had had no interest
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 2: It's funny because you're almost trailblazing the afternoon world. Now.
Speaker 4: It's weird how that was such a challenge for me.
Speaker 4: At the time, I was really close minded, and then
Speaker 4: something happened. Harmon Carden is one of my partners, So, Emilia,
Speaker 4: you and I met on. I would say a project
Speaker 4: with the American with Hyundai. They connected me with a
Speaker 4: company known as Harmon Carden. Harmon Cartin is this great
Speaker 4: company that has to do a lot with sound. You
Speaker 4: may hurt the JBL. That's one of their divisions, so
Speaker 4: on and so forth, and they approached us to build
Speaker 4: a car for their show in Las Vegas for CES
Speaker 4: Consumer Electronic Show. So we built this pretty cool Tucson
Speaker 4: turbo charged Tucson like a seven hundred and one horse
Speaker 4: Park Tucson had all their accouterments in it, sound system, Bluetooth.
Speaker 4: It was really sounded really cool, but also the engine
Speaker 4: bait was amazing, lots of blaying but also very powerful.
Speaker 5: It was very cool.
Speaker 4: I was on bags, really cool, and they gave me
Speaker 4: access to CS as I built this car and dropped
Speaker 4: it off for them at Vegas. I mentioned that I
Speaker 4: have partnership with the American Honda and Hyundai. I've also
Speaker 4: done a little bit be Ford. I saw all through
Speaker 4: those companies in Vegas at SEES, I didn't recognize anyone
Speaker 4: in the booths, and then all the vehicles in the
Speaker 4: booths were ev Now this is a time where my
Speaker 4: budgets were getting cut every year. My seeing my budgets
Speaker 4: getting smaller and smaller because things are tough and our
Speaker 4: direction is changing, and I was okay with it.
Speaker 5: I may do.
Speaker 4: But I go to CS and now the booths look
Speaker 4: like million dollar boosts. The projects look a lot more
Speaker 4: involved than anything I've ever built, And I thought to myself,
Speaker 4: if this is where the manufacturers are going, and I
Speaker 4: want to remain relevant in this industry, I need to
Speaker 4: understand this technology, even though I don't like it, even
Speaker 4: though about dihod petrolhead, I'm about twin turbo charges and
Speaker 4: shooting flames and flex fuel and all that fun stuff
Speaker 4: and engine management solutions. It looks like the OEMs are
Speaker 4: going this way. So Song and Emelia, what did I do?
Speaker 4: I decided reluctantly to build my first one, and I
Speaker 4: didn't want people to make fun of me, so I
Speaker 4: wanted a chassis that I felt that people would pay
Speaker 4: attention to. I've always had a soft spot for Portion
Speaker 4: nine thirty five from Group five Racing. I had the
Speaker 4: opportunity to find a body kit from a curator who
Speaker 4: had the original CREMERA modes and I had you will
Speaker 4: find this interesting in Sema two thy and sixteen and
Speaker 4: there was a white Portion Eye eleven you sat in
Speaker 4: that had a large single turbo on the rear.
Speaker 5: That is the pink car.
Speaker 4: So I had a Portion Eye eleven that I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm not really driving this thing is sitting here. Sung
Speaker 4: liked it, but I should probably do something with it.
Speaker 4: I grabbed it on the KREMEA three body to that
Speaker 4: chassis that you said it and Emilia, I'm not ashamed
Speaker 4: to share this with you, but the first time I
Speaker 4: drove that pink nine thirty five almost urinated on myself.
Speaker 4: It's just I never experienced such an amazing I mean,
Speaker 4: you send the car.
Speaker 5: It looks like a oh Porsche, it smells like old Porsche.
Speaker 5: But then acceleration is just no lag is just instant. Overnight.
Speaker 4: I went from an evy hater to an advocate overnight,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, guys, and it wasn't quiet because I
Speaker 4: have my compartment pumping into the into the the cockpait,
Speaker 4: I should say, or you know where you see the
Speaker 4: pastic compartment and the engine bay or one. I didn't
Speaker 4: block anything up. There's no crazy firewall. And you hear
Speaker 4: this super charges style wind to it. So it has
Speaker 4: this is that.
Speaker 2: From the transmission or from the gears.
Speaker 5: And the motor itself. You can literally hear it's weird.
Speaker 2: Where do you get them? Are these? Like?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Where you getting the motors from?
Speaker 5: Great question.
Speaker 4: So there's one architecture that I like in the evil
Speaker 4: world a lot and it's a popular one. It's actually
Speaker 4: from the Tesla P one D rear drive unit. That
Speaker 4: Conchetu is very very clever. It's an integrated motor inverter
Speaker 4: and transactions.
Speaker 2: Can you buy that as like a crate or do
Speaker 2: you have to buy a car?
Speaker 4: You have to buy it from dismantlers. Tesla is not
Speaker 4: very coming when.
Speaker 5: It comes to brand new drive units.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, we have to scour the directing yards or reject
Speaker 4: to slanderds and buy them and then modify them in
Speaker 4: normal BC fashion.
Speaker 5: I do modify so those.
Speaker 2: Cars will drive with the sensors and all that being
Speaker 2: closed off.
Speaker 4: So a great question you just take the driving itself.
Speaker 4: We remove the inverter board itself. So the Tesla board
Speaker 4: that control everything is one of the first modifications we do.
Speaker 4: Think of it as you know how we see chip
Speaker 4: ECUs back.
Speaker 5: In the day.
Speaker 4: Think of it like that, but a little bit more advanced,
Speaker 4: where you have an inverter board that controls everything in
Speaker 4: the motor itself, and you have a separate engine management
Speaker 4: solution like a VCU two hundred from AM that controls
Speaker 4: that and then also to allow for higher rpm activity
Speaker 4: because the regular driving is Peter out about fifteen thousand rpm.
Speaker 4: I push my to eighteen five. I change the bearings
Speaker 4: inside and then because of a lot of torquiere and
Speaker 4: they come with a regular differential which is like a
Speaker 4: peg leg that you and I would know in racing circles.
Speaker 4: The Tesla original factory setups use braking systems as an
Speaker 4: anti you know, as their anti scale or better chush control.
Speaker 4: When it will spends, they use the brakes. I'm doing
Speaker 4: something a little bit more analog, so I don't have that.
Speaker 4: So my friends at KUWAF had made a I know
Speaker 4: my quait very well. We've done some really good stuff
Speaker 4: for them, made a limited slip to the French so that
Speaker 4: we can now install inside the test drive unit as well.
Speaker 2: So the region breaking that you have.
Speaker 4: That as well, Regen, is now you using the engine
Speaker 4: to almost to some extent for the guys listening, reversing
Speaker 4: the energy to allow to go back and charge the battery.
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: Am I wrong to say it's on the wheels on.
Speaker 4: It is in the motor itself as a generator and
Speaker 4: an absorption unit in so when you see acceleration, you're
Speaker 4: generating it and it absorbs energy back and almost like
Speaker 4: slows down, reverses and puts it back in your battery
Speaker 4: in the motor.
Speaker 1: When I drove your car the pink portion, it also changed,
Speaker 1: like I became I converted.
Speaker 2: I'm coming to drive this sure media.
Speaker 4: I know was say anything to you, I know your
Speaker 4: die heard petrol head, I was. But it is eye opening,
Speaker 4: it really is, and fast forward. Today cars in my
Speaker 4: facility are are EV's. We're doing a lot of EVY conversions,
Speaker 4: everything from Rose Royces to catter Hams to VW buses
Speaker 4: to lots of portions nine twelve and nine thirties. It's
Speaker 4: it's and I don't have to wory about emissions anymore. Honestly,
Speaker 4: it shouldn't be legal because it's scary fast. It's it's
Speaker 4: people are get in trouble as it is more more popular.
Speaker 4: It's really scary fast stuff.
Speaker 3: It's a scary carriage drive.
Speaker 1: And it has this visceral like feeling to it because
Speaker 1: the motor makes the sound. It's you know, it's still
Speaker 1: radically like an old portion, right, and it has the
Speaker 1: am you know ECU there right, It's so it feels
Speaker 1: familiar and and what's crazy about BC is that he
Speaker 1: lets you drive the car by yourself.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to do that, Okay,
Speaker 2: and then.
Speaker 1: And then you don't want to come back, Like I was, like,
Speaker 1: here's a freewhere, you're.
Speaker 3: About to go home?
Speaker 5: This thing?
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, he's so generous.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: The reason I felt like, you know, I really wanted
Speaker 1: Listeners to meet you is that anytime I hang out
Speaker 1: with you, aside from all the car knowledge that you
Speaker 1: are so willing to share, and I always learned something
Speaker 1: from you walk away from me, Amelia is there's not
Speaker 1: one negative bone in BC. Like he's one of those
Speaker 1: few people. He taught me something because you know, in life,
Speaker 1: like you meet people and you kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe have some bad experiences and you have something negative
Speaker 1: to say about that person. Right with BC, he's taught
Speaker 1: me like what's the point of even bringing that up?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And I used to talk a lot of shit, you
Speaker 3: know I did because.
Speaker 1: I go, you know, like I fucked me over and
Speaker 1: like you know this or this guy's attitude is this.
Speaker 3: But with b C, I never heard him say one
Speaker 3: negative thing about anybody.
Speaker 2: And it's something I can honestly say the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a trade as I get older, as
Speaker 1: you know, as an adult, I go, Yeah, that's something
Speaker 1: I need to adopt.
Speaker 2: Life's too short.
Speaker 4: Yeah, life is too short. I mean, this country has
Speaker 4: really been great to me. I mean I really came,
Speaker 4: as I mentioned earlier, as a student without much, and
Speaker 4: I've accomplished so much and people been kind and I
Speaker 4: come across the different situations, but I try to focus
Speaker 4: on the on the positive, on the things that are
Speaker 4: more beneficial than not. It is difficult. I mean even recently,
Speaker 4: I've gone through some really difficult personal things, but I
Speaker 4: still try and see positive things out of that as well.
Speaker 4: So the best yet to come. And I really appreciate
Speaker 4: you spend this time with you guys. Who knows what
Speaker 4: tomorrow brings. Nonetheless, No, you're awesome.
Speaker 2: Thank you everywhere. Now, it's been really cool to see
Speaker 2: all your success over these years. Congratulations and everyone.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the media, thank you.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and the best is yet to come to come.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you,