2JZ Polaris RZR gets some big changes! and RC drags!

Just over here for 10 seconds in my new bunk editing station and look what happened over here at least i'll go home for two seconds what do you got that's a whole damn motor dude what are you doing doing some maintenance you know yeah you know uh 2jp she's been working well but like as you experience a build like this you find all these little things you just want to tweak and improve also we blew the oil filter out it made the whole thing filthy also the engine's got quite a bit of time on it now it's a good point our boy don said hey i'd like to just maybe you know check it over give it a little look see uh before you guys explode it that's a good idea seemed reasonable she's done a lot of work she's made a lot of runs we did make one run sans oil pressure for about a second and a half seemed fine after that but rather than just really tearing up a bunch of expensive stuff figured it's a good time to just give her a look see you know refresh anything that needs to be and while it's out just tackle a bunch of the little things that we've wanted to do with this for a while things that will one allow us to actually start to use the power we have available to us that's smart because honestly we've never really been able to send this thing that hard as soon as we start to give it a little bit it just does wheelies so we're going to do some stuff to address the wheelie so it can really just get sent okay you know right from the get the cage on this thing didn't really turn out how i envisioned it because i plan on a lot higher seating height yada yada and it's just made out of you know cheap mild steel it's super thick so it's a super heavy cage that none of us really like the look of so we're gonna take the time to build a new very sweet very sleek looking lighter yet safer cage for it while it's all apart oh i like that and just uh clean her all up address a bunch of little little things we want to get at and make sure she's ready to go to the next level when she comes back well clock's ticking dude october 15th mike reed you're gonna be there i'm definitely gonna be there what's going on man tell him man listen so october 15th west michigan dragway no it's called silverback speedway i'm sorry silverback i'm used to the old name so it's silverback speedway mirrors michigan we're having our event race day is getting changed it's not gonna be in the backyard anymore we're gonna have it at a legit track yeah fast times hopefully fast cars even if you don't have fast cars slow car come on out and just have a good time yeah simple dude bracket racing outlaw racing we're doing a long jump i just i don't want to keep saying it but we're doing a long jump steve are you going to be there to figure out this long jump i'll be there for moral support we got to go at least figure out how to even build a long jump first and then do the competition what we got frankie for man we got it we got a cover we can get a jump built we can send some stuff yeah gonna be an awesome time 2j is gonna be there it's gonna be there ripping everybody's gonna be there ripping you might think oh it's not gonna be the same as in the backyard okay it'll be a little different but it's also you know we built in a level of freedom into this event that's gonna allow us to have the kind of time we all desire to have so right so either yeah feel free to bring beer don't drink while you're driving but drink after with us yeah drink all you want drink all day i don't care we're gonna have music we're gonna have a party we're gonna have drag racing that's one wide two wide three wide four wide it's gonna get it's gonna get crazy yeah and we're spending thousands of dollars just to party with you guys you don't get it out of your system that day listen silver lake sand dunes right around the corner buds right don't rip it that's a fact it might have a little uh friday night grip sesh yeah you know maybe uh for you guys that have traveled long distances in the past this is a little uh extra kicker you know you can get some additional riding in easily close to the event yeah yeah did we bite a lot off yeah but it's gonna be there so this is one of the main issues right here so we talked about this a long time ago this thing's been dropping boost at high speed tell them about that doug yeah basically our intercooler is just undersized when we first put this thing together like our mind was on thousand horsepower crank that was the goal we shot past that the intercooler we've got is sized for a thousand horsepower and in a couple hundred feet 200 300 feet not a big deal it seems to be okay but especially on the longer runs we can just see the boost drop off seems to be choking by our intercooler so we need a bigger intercooler so this thing can breathe completely makes a lot of sense and uh yeah our transmission has been great our converter has been great everything else has been really good fuel system is working good but cage fix motor tear apart don't really know what we're gonna do this header has been badass too huge thanks to alex bpa on that one uh yeah some suspension changes to allow us to actually use the power that we're capable of maybe shock changes too shock changes just clean this thing like really we were doing a pretty decent job and then when that oil filter blew out the cleanliness of this machine really just really fell apart just troublesome so four to six days later well we're in the shop on this beautiful saturday morning and we have our 2jp cage tubing so mikey went down to indianapolis and picked this stuff up for us docall r8 good stuff so that's way stronger than mild steel actually significantly stronger than chrome molly we can work with it super cool so time is ticking we're only a couple weeks away from race tober uh i don't want to show you just yet steve and i came in and we got the first tube bent up so the goals of this cage right one to be lighter to be safer also be cooler looking and i think we've achieved it all right here we go so first tube that's uh i think where we're going i love it so changes we made versus the last cage are we raked this a pillar way back to give it a faster look we've got a little bit more aggressive radius in the roof section brought it all down and then just got that fastback style back to our old mounts so i think that's going to be the new look i think we're going to tack that one in place call it good and then uh try to match it after those two main hoops are done that's really the the toughest part like that's the starting point that when you have nothing to work off of so if we get those two placed correctly matching everything makes sense then we can start building off it should go pretty quickly so okay another quick update here we got some progress going on things are looking pretty good so uh the other main hoop is in and all tacked up matched to the first one turned out really good i got this cross bar bent up and tacked in the front we got the top front bar across put a couple little bends in that just because i like the way that looks and we got this back bar in so it's taking shape i'm really happy with the way it looks so far should be a much faster looking cage we definitely should drop some weight so all good things long ways to go yet i'm going to start working on these b pillars next which are tough ones because they got multiple bends they got to match this plastic then come up here and connect in a way that looks good all these little connectors harness bar all the brackets we're going to do a connecting bar up here again to attach up here so look at the old cage you see there's a lot of stuff in it and uh most of it we're going to replicate so long ways to go but i'm excited it's looking good keep trucking okay another little update here so got uh both b pillars tacked in place did those a little different this time see the last ones kind of came up a little more straight and then i had a radius up top these ones i kicked out just a little bit more in the shoulder area and then just brought them straight up to the top bar just trying to get a tougher kind of sleeker more angular look and i like the way those turned out i think and then i'm doing a similar thing with these back bars right now just kind of experimenting with these things again on the last cage i had a radius up there um i didn't love the way that turned out so i'm kind of doing a more angular again tougher sort of sleeker look here so i just chopped off the stock frame attachment point and just have it kind of tacked in there for mock-up right now trying to decide if i like it i think i do i think it's tougher looking so probably uh just gonna go ahead and run with it all right we're chugging away here tubes are going in she's looking more and more like a cage all the time lots of little pieces left to do but while i've been working on the cage steve has come in with probably the biggest change we're actually making here and one of the biggest issues we have with 2jp basically was doing wheelies like we never really were able to launch this thing super hard because it's always just looking at the sky and what we needed to do we think to be able to really manage the wheelies is just have a little bit more adjustable geometry so he's come in chopped out the stock trailing our mounts and uh tacked in some adjustable ones that's gonna let us make big changes in how we push on the chassis hopefully get us to the point where we can really send this thing off the line without doing giant wheelies constantly so that side's all tacked in he's got this side uh about ready to tack the first spot and uh pretty cool little setup here so left one side of the existing mount it's hard to see it's down there for locating the brackets and then just came in and he actually made these three printed spacers two sets of them so this is the narrower set that we'll use to tack this side bracket in locating off the existing stock half and then once this is tacked in take it all apart put in his little wider 3d printed spacers tack this one in place and then everything's perfectly spaced located exactly where it needs to be in theory anyway i first i turned out surprisingly well i feel like so real high confidence i think it's gonna be dialed and i think being able to move that trailing our mount around a little bit is going to make huge swings in how this chassis handles the power so it's uh small from the outside but i think it's gonna be the key to success here so i'm excited we'll tack that stuff in keep putting tubes in and uh yeah getting close there's light at the end of the tunnel yeah why do we need two giant gbl 1000s who doesn't who's to say we have two of them now anyway that's a poor spend of money but what's a great spend of money is the refresh 2j motor straight from don at accelerated performance he came in did god's work on this thing yeah it's there you can feel it oh there's something going on over here yep yep some squeezies yeah all right you should probably pull this off so we can look at it okay get it out of here frank watch the trx sir it's trx dude it's not really meant for hauling she's soft in the rear by the power of harvey straps boy we are unleashing the beast it's been a billet blogman this is crazy man wow look at how clean he got the block you got to be kidding me very nice so apparently he had to scrub it with a nylon brush uh and wd-40 that was the only way to get the stuff off really unfortunate to have stuff this beautiful and then uh run them in the conditions that you do yeah with a side-by-side but hey that's the game wow turned out really good it looks yeah great this thing is great so talk about all the changes on this thing because there are monumental yes not differences but changes yeah we decided not to make major changes to the engine just because it it worked so well for so long and i mean still power on the table we're still not using anywhere near all the power capability we have but she needed she needed a little bit of attention cam gears for instance worn out really bad right with this setup in the sand like sand dirt's getting in there so we got fresh cam gears and timing belt obviously bearings put a fresh set of rods in it say we don put a fresh set of rods in it you know because the bolts felt a little funny uh coming out polished up the crank uh so the bottom end stuff was you know pretty basic said it all looked really good um the head needed some more attention so the valves were getting some significant wear on them um lash had gone away weren't sealing really tight so it's got you know other than that she's just uh got a basic checkup so yeah a lot of good stuff we actually so one thing i was trying to get you to say was we upgraded the valve train to the same one that's in his car so the valves and the seats and all that stuff are the same one that's in the drag super you didn't even tell me that really no oh shoot i thought you knew that yeah it's all the same stuff so it's like humongous upgrades compared to what we have so we were having some cupping like doug was saying before and uh hey you know doug just signs the checks dude doesn't look at what's on there put the motor in drive the car dude try to keep it simple yeah we're getting close things are coming together how they need to so uh yesterday mike finished welded 95 of the cage so the new cage is pretty much completely done at this point with the exception of i've got to do the uh door mounting hardware um on three of the four doors yeah no big deal a couple hours of work there other than that these welds look awesome yeah he did really nice work in here so uh we'll pop the cage off probably today so we can finish well some of the stuff that's tough to get to i'm curious to weigh it because i think we'll have dropped a significant amount of weight with this new cage and then also our adjustable trailing arm mounts are now 95 percent completed so there's a little bit of welding we got to do down here follow the gusseting yeah i didn't even see that gusseting before that's awesome that's a huge brace yeah yep so that'll all get uh welded in today and we'll have the ability to do some more tuning on our suspension so we can uh hit this thing way more hard focus on going forward instead of upward right you got multiple bolt holes so when it's time to change the bolt and do big wheelies and have fun you can do it but when it's time to just go fast should be able to do that as well yeah you also do that and so one thing too they're moving to the front as we're going to a fox air shock which is just a cheap replacement for the walker evans and it's actually the same length that i have on beast mode right now so wherever that thing is over there in the ether we'll steal the shocks off that throw them on here we'll still have to strap them down a little bit but the stroke and everything should be good enough for us to run that yeah drop a little bit more weight out of it and uh just start to you know pull some of this thing's potential out very very excited very excited 24 hours later how's it going mike hey man just getting ready to take cage off yeah looks like it's time for finish welding on this thing yeah we're super close to us this is gonna work real good it'll be good pull up just secondly there you go give her a little lift that thing is sweet yeah it's getting deadly close to us seeming like we're pros which is really weird wow that feels good there are so much less material on that that thing is gonna weigh so much less i hope so man i hope so less length and tubes smaller diameter thinner walls still stronger like i'm gonna be disappointed if we're uh not dropping at least 25 pounds let's find out all right boys we got the scales out i don't even know i don't even know i want to guess a number i'm gonna say 61 pounds all right that's out of nowhere we're all zeroed so okay she is on all four corners are we placing any bets on this no just hear the number through the number for all the guesses i had 67 60 70s and 80 i think that's in the ballpark 70 95 pounds wow okay okay that's a pretty heavy beast still a heavy beast it's a long cage we have no idea what the old one actually weighed we never weighed it so let's find out hopefully more than that two cages heavier i quit dude i'm done okay old cage does have a roof whatever it's aluminum not that heavy and the air filter bracket which i could weigh two ounces okay a few pounds there give us a number please let it be bigger than 95 i'm gonna say 130 i mean you guys might actually hear this number okay how much do you think we've saved is the real question i'd be happy with 40 pounds doug i would be happy with 30 pounds we saved a total of 60 pounds whoa 155 pounds no way yes holy crap that is excellent i was looking down at this like this that's a heavy girl 155 i mean that's i wouldn't say it's a heavy girl not heavy that could be a tall yeah anyway wow that's excellent yeah is a big move on this thing we went through a couple iterations of dropping weight before and with just like bolt-on parts like it's it's hard to get weight out in a couple pounds here a couple pounds there so yeah drop 60 at this stage it's huge that's ba and i think we're going to be probably close to 40 on the fronts with the different shocks so we're looking at 100 pounds weight loss dang that's probably it for now right mikey's got to finish welding this up um we got a little bit of welding to do on our uh new trailing arm mounts we got some stuff to paint up and then this weekend it's a full reassembly mode yeah motor's here mike is here cage is done she's gonna go uh back on it raw for now and just get coated wd-40 or something because uh race tober's next saturday we ain't got time for paint yeah watch out together the way it is and uh thanks for the rip man real excited real excited it's been pushed the last couple of weeks but i think this stuff's gonna pay off so i agree we'll find out soon uh until then thanks for being around you know following along on a little journey here i think we're getting to a cool place with 2jp she's gonna start to live up to her potential more and uh it's gonna be fun for all maybe we can find ourselves some more races like i'm not against it we're trying we're trying so yeah thanks guys for everything you do to support us here watching these videos subscribing if you're donating on patreon or buying the parts or the merch or buying through the rocky mountain link just thank you guys so much we're uh doing good here we're working on making projects faster we're starting new projects guys are working on organizing this place getting the building up to speed so we're gonna start ripping yeah it's nuts i mean look at all that amsoil dude like we got hella amsoil just for days oil on a regular basis it's gonna be crazy and uh i think we're gonna kick the video uh off with uh at the end here well as you guys have seen earlier we have a udr track and that's i say udr track because we all have udr some of us also have other things i have built and by built i mean i bolted on some tires and then flip the wheelie bar around a drag rustler this is a brushless 3s nothing special uh but it's got slicks on it and it's gonna race mike reed's drag specific truck what was called drag slash sorry drag slash okay how do you think you're gonna do mike it's got traction if i get traction though it's over traction ready oh false start yeah that was on me nick i just didn't go from it i might have let go of the wrong button ready ready oh that was really easy go dang mike got that one go i'm one for all go oh no oh boy they both wheelied and then into the wall that was crazy oh man how is mine okay that was race of the century there oh i blew my tire oh no i blew a tire off oh oh yeah yeah the glues let go on that this is a plastic bead lock not real these fronts held up pretty good these are actual china bead locks from amazon wow what a stout i've hit trees like very quickly i lost a wheel too now definitely gonna drive beside this oh i broke my car matt look at it i broke every axle oh i can race in reverse oh my god china bead lock dude junk absolute junk what were you just saying about those i've literally just said they're holding together great did you see that steve that's awesome it's like that when the nhra when the freaking tire blows off and it goes into the crowd it goes 200 people i just killed 200 scale people geez easy to do now mike all of a sudden he can drive it no problem there's no competition pretty weird huge rolls right now two feet away from rick casting freaking toes did the tires survive bro the tire looks okay it's got to be remounted yeah just needs a little flesh fresh glue fresh glue i think it's safe to say both cars need a little work yeah yeah i'm going back a good job driving out there when i wasn't 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