Jacey sense here in my messy garage.

Just way too early for this.

I'm tired.

Mommy, do some work today on the 01 We've got a lazy thermostat when you change taking over to my buddy Bowtie Bridges house and we're gonna change.

That is actually the master mechanic who built the engine in this car when I had the engine ripped out at, like, 5000 miles and completely overhauled.

And so we're on drive over there today, Hang out with him to see another friend and do some car stuff today.

So little different change of pace.

And if you go in for that sort of thing and what, you going to hop in with me and go along for the ride?

So when I leave early in the morning, I hate waking up the family.

So when the nice things about this car is, even though I have my straight through exhaust, I use on track, I think the stock muffler on when I'm on the street So all the 800 plus horsepower that's in this thing doesn't wake up the whole freaking neighborhood when I started.

So you just go to engine management put it in stealth mode.

The valves turn on which block off a whole different Divert er in the muffler and super quiet.

Well, I don't know how quiet that actually sounds on the mic.

It's actually pretty damn quiet.

Person versus what?

Itwas but the stainless works.

The whole neighborhood would have woken up right now.

A few moments later.

Here we are.

This is Mike Bowtie Bridges guys to see me.

Tag him on Instagram We are working on the 01 I mentioned before we before I drove out here today that the thermostat is is sticking mostly in the closed position.

We're assuming the car runs about 20 degrees, 30 degrees hotter than it should.

So we're gonna actually do the boil test with this too.

I brought my fluke thermometer so that we can boil it and see where it's actually opening.

If it's opening at all, I think we're gonna maybe go old school, too.

And, uh, well, this this thermostat we have already has a hole in it, right?

We have to drill a hole.

Okay, so it's already got the little bleeder hole in it, which is it's nice that lets a little bit of coolant through.

It'll take a little bit longer to warm up.

But also more importantly, let's air through so that we don't get air pockets of steam buildup in the engine.

I have checked the levels in this coolant a 1,000,000 times since this problem started.

I'm pretty sure there's no air in the system, but we're gonna find out today.

So we're gonna draining.

Uh, least enough cooling out to get it below the thermostat, which is right there except nice shiny thermostat housing.

It's actually l s three style billet housing.

So we upgraded that as well.

And to be honest, I don't think I ever told you guys what I did to this car.

So maybe at some point today we'll go over the parts list.

The invoice was like two pages long.

Don't even think I remember all the parts we put in here.

But, uh, yeah, Mike built it, though, so he knows.

It's kind of a cookie cutter sheet of parts that go into these stage three bills.

This black zeal, one he's got right here, though this is a customer car that well, according to Mike, the guy just basically pointed at the catalog and said, I want everything.

So I guess his goals, like 1200 horsepower in this black one.

So I'll tell you properly void the warranty and a 2018 01 You take the heads off to supercharge or off, you send it all out for porting and stuff.

Not even 2000 miles on this car.

And my look like that, huh?

When you when you built it, that's his weight reduction.

Just get rid of the heads.

They're not necessary.

The thing with most of the mods in my engine here is most of it's not visible.

So we've got a, uh, got obviously a cam in there.

It's equivalent to a buck.

A stage to Cam.

We've got E 85 flex fuel, all the air P studs, titanium valve springs.

The whole valve train was kind of improved to deal with the cam.

And, uh, you know, the obviously the a little bit higher rpm that we got out of it.

This is our catch can right here with the vented catch.

Can I've got this shield to protect it from water because, unfortunately, the drip tray, which is off right now drips right onto this when I washed the car.

So that's to protect it from fluid.

Obviously, you've got our gates belt.

10% overdrive, uh, 80.

I pull you down there, right?

Oh, Fab intake, Tony Memo reported throughout the body.

It's not a larger for a body.

It's just smoothing out the inlet.

There's a terrible step in there when you first when the air enters, so that step has been smoothed out.

Uh, American racing long to headers on their one and 7/8 going down into a three inch all the way back to right now, which is a stock muffler.

But I have a V band on that's that I can easily remove it.

My stainless works on which is way too loud for the street.

In my opinion, what else?

We have GSX fuel system so it does have an added fuel pump on the bottom of the tank will be working on that today to put in different fitting in there, but that's obviously got its own fuel controller for that.

You kind of see the led under there somewhere.

Maybe not, but anyway, that's to deal with the 85 the extra fuel that's needed, which, as if this car needed more fuel being pumped in the engine.

When I got 85 going and I'm cruising, I'm at approximately the 11 or 12 miles per gallon.

But I'm on track.

I'm probably gonna be reaching about four if that I'm from the car.

We've got extremely upgraded air cooler for the supercharger.

Obviously, it's air, the water, inter cooler, the core.

And this is actually a C in our core, which is one of the best brand that you can get in terms of reliability and racing applications.

And I also have a CNR racing radiator in there as well.

You can kind of see it obviously, right there.

So cooling is a big aspect to this build on what you can't see behind the fender here is actually a one and 1/2 gallon tank for a reservoir.

So, yes, you guys always telling me Go custom Lupo ago.

Custom water loop.

With that, that joke, everyone thinks is original.

We actually did a custom water loop in here.

You can't really see it because it's all hidden and looks very factory.

For the most part, And then that's the thermostat housing I was telling you about right there.

That shiny piece.

So the stock thermostat housing is Ah, is a plastic piece with a fairly restrictive thermostat.

Smaller thermostat that's a 1 60 Or right now it's more like a 200 but it's not really opening.

And then I've got my Arrow Force gauge is right there, which hook directly into the computer port.

And then I consider the gauges to anything that I want.

So, yeah, the car is definitely not stopped by any means.

We were hitting 700 wheel horsepower on a Mustang dino when the intakes were overheating because we had a issue where the supercharger cooling bricks inside the supercharger.

We're one of the most clogged.

At least Mike had a fun time tracing that, didn't you?

It was kind of funny on the OnStar system, seeing the car like constantly driving because you were trying to figure that that issue.

But I did 700 wheel horsepower and unless staying with the intakes reaching 180 degrees, which is pulling what you said about three degrees of timing at least, and that's a lot of horsepower so we're probably sitting closer to maybe 7 27 30 wheel without the intakes overheating.

But unfortunately, when we tried to read, I know it.

We were just spending on the dyno, so we have no idea what is exactly making.

But I haven't lost a race yet, and that's because of that guy.

My car's taping, all right, So as you can see, that thermostat is completely closed, we have the probe right there at the thermostat so we can measure the temperature.

It's currently at 125 Fahrenheit.

We'll be measuring Fahrenheit.

Obviously, it's a 1 60 thermostats we want to see compared to when this crosses 1 60 What is this doing?

As it approaches 1 60 it should start to slowly crack open.

But once it passes 1 60 it should open pretty much all the ways that we're going to checking for before.

So right now is where it would start cracking just barely.

But theoretically, at 1 60 is where it should.

You should see that spring movement.

Well, I guess we'll just let it keep heating up and see where it starts to move.

But so far we've passed 1 60 it has not.

It is not opened even a little bit.

1 76 And the thermostat still has not moved.

So you know what?

That says a lot for the cooling in this car.

Mike, if the only flow we were getting was through that we pull and it kept me from overheating.

I mean, we were overheating where we should be, but we never read.

Um, Went to factory 10 of 2 10 to 8 was the hottest I saw on the freeway at 1 80 now.

So Mike's doing the old school method of drilling out the thermostat, so we have small, constant amount of flow.

It helped with air.

And, uh, well, because race car.

So, yeah, it'll heat up a little slower, but once you get through, All right.

So what?

1 96?

It still hasn't opened.

Mike's gonna drop another 1 60 thermostat in there to see if it opens and take some time to absorb that heat.

Yeah.

Yeah, you see, opening now, take some time for it to kind of absorb the heat.

We see how it's opening Now on the bottom, you see light coming through right there through that see the one above, not opening it all were at just under 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

So that's how thermostat works and, comparatively, how one doesn't work.

The question is, what causes it not to open any more fucking science.

That's why massive meets Mike likes the massive meat.

I mean, he likes and Mike Eminem, the Romans.

So everything I've done to this car is this man's fault.

Is not this this phone?

Nothing at all.

Mr.

Lethal Garage, Little Camaro Whatever lethal he is today, I think lethal conquest and what we say earlier You know what it is?

The legal crusade crusade?

Because we're getting Crusader Crusader shocks from fighting all because of his 800 plus wheel horsepower drag car.

We're on a crusade that all you guys 800?

Well, you spent way more than $800.800 horsepower worth of dollars, Man, you're doing it wrong.

Mike is determined to get the thermostat open, you know?

And it opened.

Oh, dear.

Snap open to like stuff, huh?

It snapped open violently.

Yeah, it opened.

Whatever.

And now it's permanently stuck open.

Oh, it's closing sort of thermostats just completely Bluebeard.

It was like looking at the kind of crooked the spring is Yeah.

Oh, yeah, That's, uh, that's for meat, all right.

And that's how they used to lower cars.

So we use the infrared thermometer on it.

It was, what, 400 degrees on the element and finally opened.

But now it doesn't close, right?

So it won't be reusing that one, obviously.

So the reason why we've taken the fuel tank out of the zeal one, as you could see right here is because we actually have an aftermarket fuel line right there is, You can see that was threaded into the tank.

That's what the TSX low side fuel system.

And unfortunately, mine was starting to leak on May This discolorations there because I actually used a fuel tank repair plenty to keep it from dripping on me.

But Mike now has this bulkhead fitting, which we're putting in there.

So it's kind of like a pastor fitting like I use the computers when I do my water cooling stuff, and it will sandwich in there, and that will give us much better fitting to kind of clamp onto in there and lines right and fittings But to do that, he has to take the fuel tank out.

And obviously the fuel pumps we can reach in there.

And to do that, the entire drive line out of the car Pretty easy.

Install.

This is what it's like to be six foot seven.

All right, we're done.

The car is ready to go, As you could see right there taking a test drive.

Temperatures are well within check.

Max, I saw was 181 degrees Fahrenheit after doing, like four.

Back to back pulls through.

Ah, top a second, middle of third.

If I had tried to do that on the way here, I would have guaranteed overheated the car because as you saw the thermostat, stop texi meet the thermostat did not open whatsoever.

So not least until we hit it with a 400 degrees worth of heat off of, Ah, butane torch so that you know this was gonna work.

So what also change that fitting inside the gas tank is you guys saw So no more leaking there.

So I think we're gonna be knock on wood ready for the track day on the 18th.

Otherwise, Mike's get another fury if I hate this car, This is a stupid car.

Why did I buy this car?

Actually, no, Mike.

I'm more tactful with Matt.

The one I'm, like, Fuck you forever telling me to build this car.

All right, guys, Thanks for watching this little log.

Um, I don't know what else to say.

So, yeah.