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Welcome to another episode of Mighty Car Mods. This one is brought to you by Check out this freaking mad poster that we have featuring our little red Daihatsu This is the same little red Daihatsu Same model of car that we started Mighty Car Mods with all those years ago in the driveway on the driveway These will be available for a strictly limited time Uh, and we'll autograph it to you and we'll ship it to you anywhere in the world It directly goes to support the show it the poster looks a little bit better than the real car does right now But we are working on that But we have a bit of a mission ahead of us because in this episode We are going to get this car looking mad gonna get this car driving mad We're gonna start it here. It's turbo wooshness and just turn it into an excellent little red beast like in our poster Welcome to another episode of Mighty Car Mods. Of course, we are back here in super garage working on the Daihatsu So you're the best nugget that has ever been spat out of The part of an animal that spits out a nugget which is probably its rear end nugget Capsule extension chute at the japanese industrial complex that sort of built this thing I mean I was referring to it more like a chicken nugget if instead of an egg came out a chicken actually E-eggulated a nugget which is interesting because it's coming out of a car cloaca. So a carlo a car which is where it cars eggs and ---- comes out The um speaking of that have you ever seen anyone You're just looking at someone and they might have just something on their nose Might be like a little flake of skin or a little booger or something It's just right and you can't you can't stop looking at it because it's right there This car has that in the best possible way. Look just stick it out its nose Oh, seriously, it's got a little little little boogering turbo right there It's getting a little bit see it through the grill and look at that thing. It just means business It means my nugget probably makes an extra 13.5 kilowatts over what it would have stock but I spent five grand on it Uh today We are going to turn the key. This car is actually going to start Uh, we're going to try and bring back the paint as well as we can i'm going to give it the whole black black black Fantastic. Okay. So remember how I fixed the dump on the driveway and then fixed it again last episode Yeah, that didn't work and it still doesn't fit properly So now i'm fixing it one last time in the hope it actually seals up properly and stops banging and rubbing on things A small support bracket down near the gearbox should help a flex joint is a must on front-wheel drive cars as the engines can flop Around a lot. The engine is now ready for some sweet lubricating nectar in the flavor of some castrol edge 5w40 oil We're also going to put some castrol coolant in it and my custom repinned wiring loom can now be installed for the last time Well done on the exhaust mutton. Well done It now begs the question how long until we can hear this beast roaring to life so soon I just got to go online with the ecu and tell it what engine it's trying to run uh, we're going to make sure there's some fuel in it and Uh, that's about it and then also the brakes which look freaking excellent They all need to be bled So we can then put the wheels back on so we can get it off the hoist So lock it over here so we can work on it properly While that is happening i'm going to be taking a deep dive back to season one of mighty car mods to our epic episode black That went for two minutes 46 Uh, what are we doing? Well, i'm going to cut to an old friend of mine who's a young friend of mine and he'll tell you what's up All we're going to do is get the things on the car that used to be black and make them blacker What do you reckon marty? Black, that's right. We're basically going to re-black everything. So i've just got a couple of simple things We've got some black paint. I got some tire black. We've got some mr Black which does rubber and then i've just got a sharpie an art line like a permanent black texter So i'm going to go over everything I can and re-black it also Paint up these try and make it look a little bit nicer and then martin it should be off The hoist we can move it forward. Yeah, we've got interior stuff to do. We've got to do some steam cleaning We've got some interior upgrades including new seats Um, there is heaps to do But just to clarify this episode it will be finished driving completed done 100 Awesome. Let's do it. Let's get to it It was funny looking back at some of our episodes from season one when doing this current series the black episode It had a running time of 2 minutes and 45 seconds And when you remove the intro and the outro the actual mods that was less than 90 seconds So I guess what i'm saying is that alongside inventing the ipod we also invented tiktok Back, then there was a hard limit of 10 minutes on youtube So you had to do what you could in that time You just made something uploaded it and hoped that someone had find it. Nobody knew what they were doing Which is precisely why it was awesome because no one was trying to game the system like they do now And there were no thumbnails of people doing that rectal examination face and absolutely nobody began a video by saying Hey, it's your boy. Make sure you smash that subscribe button We never did that and still don't we kind of figured that if someone liked the videos They'd know what to do 20 years later youtube's now this goliath of television hollywood advertising shopping podcasts influencers news music and social media all rolled into one and with all of the technological progress a photo of someone's face who looks Like they're getting a colonoscopy is still going to get the most clicks in the early days There wasn't that much to watch around cars. You had motor trend top gear mighty car mods and a few other random shows But now there are channels for everything like if you're into salves dentistry and chihuahuas There's a channel out there for you somewhere Meanwhile our cars well, honestly, they still suck because they always did but that's why we love them So to make this thing start we got to do a little bit of setup now I've plugged all the wires in and I know where they all go I've mapped that out in the software so I can tell it where its oil pressure sensor is Where its air temp sensor is where its coils are where its injectors are and importantly where the trigger is That's the stuff you kind of need at a very basic level to make this thing start and idle Including the idle control circuit, of course, so it actually does idle throttle things like that as well we're going to map out but um There's also a lot of setup you can do and that's where it starts to get tricky But the cool thing is i'm actually going to be able to upload the map that was in our rusty race car Directly into this ecu now It's not exactly the same the wiring locations are different But the fuel map and the injectors and a bunch of other things like that are the same So i'm going to go through load that in and that should make this thing start right up So now the cool thing is with our engine configuration It's all in here and should be correct moment of truth. Uh, it's time to crank this thing now I wired this entirely myself. So if the smoke comes out or the rods come out, it's entirely my fault But i've turned the injectors off good job. Thanks, man. I'm stoked with it This is a good one to start on if you want to wire a car from scratch This is an excellent one to start on very simple I mean you are saying that before we've tried starting it. We haven't even we have not seen any of these cranks at all So we're gonna crank it and see if we get anything up on the screen. We want to see some rpm Hopefully some oil pressure and nothing blows up. So let's go ready. Yep. Here we go. Three two one It sounds healthy not working. No, it's good. It's cranking fine, but we're not seeing rpm So that means the configuration is not correct But that's fine. That's what we're here for and that's my kind of nightmare material When you're certain that every wire is in the right spot you checked and triple checked and it won't work at all The good news is we are getting rpm, which is excellent So the trigger system is actually seeing the engine turn around which means like the haltech cannot work without it Well, no ecu can really the thing we're not seeing is oil pressure now Some people just risk it and go it doesn't matter start it Anyway, it's probably working but I think Martin Let's just start it. Anyway, it's probably working I don't think it will but let's do you want to give it a crack? Everyone's gonna be screaming when you said some people would they all scream going you can't do that You're talking to me. You can't do that. We're doing it Just turn everything on and let me turn the key Martin. You can try I don't I don't know if it'll run but you can give it you can give it a hit and see what it does Okay, are you ready? We got to we got too many flashing red lights telling us i've done it wrong One more time Cool. Thanks for watching Uh martin I'm gonna roll the guards. Yeah, cool, and i'm gonna piss on the headlights and rub some avocado all over it Well, i'm gonna fix the Problem, whatever it is. I guess i'll work it out In the early days of mcm we'd roll the guards by heating up the paint and then smash them with a hammer With lowered cars this stops the guards cutting into the tires these days We've got a professional guard roller, but there's only one problem the car is too small So at its lowest setting the rolling component up here is above the lip so That there's not going to work, which means i'm going proper old school with a heat gun and a hammer It's time to get these mad looking brake calipers working properly So i'm going to suck out any of the old fluid with this sucker thing and then fill the whole system up with some castrol react dot 4 fluid Brake fluid often gets overlooked because it looks fine. But over time it does absorb water and does degrade With some fresh fluid and a working brake system. It's finally time to fit up our mad wheels martin The wheels look incredible. They look superb. It's pretty aggressive. They only just make it on there But that is an excellent size for this little car and martin that wheel is an interesting combination Of the things that you and I like in one because you and I we agree on a lot of things Yeah, we don't agree on wheel choice. No, but this one here We fully agree on we fully agree on spoky enough for you and dishy enough for me Which is great because this is very much a team effort car So I got a few more gremlins to chase on this to make it work I've got an issue where my it's not showing oil pressure properly And I really want to be able to see that before we get it running So i'm going to work on that for a little while and then we're going to get this thing off the hoist And start making it look good. Thanks to the very clever people at haltech tech support It turns out i've got two issues the oil pressure sensor wiring was backwards and even more embarrassingly I put one of the trigger wires into the wrong pin It was a single wrong pin that brought the entire thing to a standstill And it took some clever sleuthing to figure out why we were getting a trigger signal But it looked nothing like what a Daihatsu trigger signal should here we go. Do the honors mate um Martin, I think you should do it. No, I think you should you're right there I want you now go go because I know I stopped I got one pin wrong on the wiring And I should I should martin you do it. All right. I don't really feel like arguing about it anymore Here we go. All right, you got it. Martin. Let's go. Let's go Good job, man. Awesome. Thank you. Scotty get on your scotty world's biggest exhaust leak somewhere there Mad wow excellent So good It's alive. Yes, it's all done turbos on there. Whatever. I just need to put bigger injectors Where would we be without scotty people? What a freaking legend What are you scotty legend? What are you scotty you sound like an f1 driver where they just go thanks guys after you won that, you know won the first place Confident He's a confident caravaner With a conniving desire to be a carnivore. Well, the car is running now, which is absolutely incredible Even making a few little mini turbo noises story. Uh, next job is to fix up the interior and martin You've got something special to go inside it and there's something special is not martin It's actually an upgrade and a replacement to these seats. Where is the driver's seat by the way? I don't know I actually don't know care of the blue turd Not really, but the same seats are in the blue turd. These are siri on gtbi seats. Why are they good? They bolt straight in they've got good bolstering and as a bonus the steering wheel also fits So this is a mad upgrade over the little sort of stock gray one. It looks cool Fully compatible everything just works. This will all bolt in needs a bit of a tidy up That's going to make the car way more comfy and epic to drive. What's that? I think that's on most cars. That's where people sort of wipe their burger grease hands What they really need is one of our seat covers I don't I don't think i'm not going to sit on too hard because I don't want to damage it martin, but right there it's Like why is it so disgusting there? And the next time that you get you go to put a set of new seats in and you wonder why they don't fit It's because someone one of your mates in your shed sat on the seat on concrete floor. It always bends these things Um what we could do potentially martin. These are the mighty car mod seat covers. We'll give it a proper clean anyway But that looks pretty cool If you were rolling one of them in your car that would stop you having that epicenter of human slime in the middle of your seat Yeah, but as per season one of mighty car mods, we got to clean it Where we were doing the cleaning Yep Do you remember how much came out of that thing? Like look at how much slop came out of the seats. This was from a gtir and a micro That is a lot of slop. So, uh, anyway today i'm going to clean that up properly great martin Everything in the interior needs to just come out. Yep Come out i'll tidy up all the black wiring and all the like stuff that's just floating around in there Put it all up under the dash So it's out of the way and looks stock and then uh, yeah, give it a bit of a clean and then we've got to try Get into this we'll talk more about that later. All right, let's get into it One of the best ways of upgrading your car's interior on the cheap is swapping in parts from a higher spec model And that's exactly what we're doing here with parts from the sirion, but this stuff needs a serious clean So i'm using the ryobi spot cleaner to suck out 25 years of slime There are potentially billions of bacteria living inside a used car and studies have shown that the worst spots are the steering wheel Door handles gear shifter and worst of all the driver's seat So if you're buying a used car at a minimum give these areas a proper clean Next up the filthy old floor mats are going in the bin Then the interior is also getting a proper vacuum and then we'll also use the wet dry vac on the carpet All of this stuff is really simple and easy to do yourself And even if you're not into modifying your car, it can be super satisfying and rewarding to keep it as clean as possible Plus you get a deeper connection with your car and if you care for it It'll care for you or something like that Anyway, while we're on the subject of deep philosophical questions about the meaning of life I'd really like to know the meaning of engine knock air fuel ratios and boost pressure Which is why i'm installing this haltech can gauge up on the a pillar It's a multi-function gauge that we can configure via wi-fi to show us what's going on in our engine The gauge is in so it's time to throw one of our new seat covers at marty's face There's a link for these down below our seat cover fits perfectly and next i'm going to swap over the steering wheel Our car and the siri on this came out of are very closely related So there's a huge crossover in parts seats engines steering wheels wiring looms all sorts of things making this a quick and easy upgrade Now you can buy specialized steering wheel pullers But i've found the best way is to loosen off the nut that holds the steering wheel on Give it a good bash all around the steering wheel to break the seal and then undo it Take it off and replace it with your new one Also, make sure you don't unwind the clock spring too far because that will wreck it The great outdoors has not been kind to this red paint that was sprayed on a quarter of a century ago in japan So next we're going to try and bring it back to its former glory It is time to turn some of our attention to the outside of this nugget now needless to say It is in pretty rough condition. It is this panel here. Particularly. It's rough. There's dense There's rust on there the paint is completely thrashed, but you know what I like it This is the whole wabi-sabi japanese thing like this car has lived now, of course, you could repaint the whole thing We've done it We turned one of these cars into an actual show car custom body kit and everything and an endurance car And a race car an endurance car twice Yeah, it's also worth mentioning that this particular one has lived a lot longer than our old one It's actually a bit of an achievement for a car this small and nuggety and cheap Let's be real to survive this long because people go. Oh the servicing costs a bit. I've got a reg old again It's worth more than the actual car totally and we think this one here Has spent a lot of time in the country and evidence as such is the bumper here looks like it has had a light bar Fitted to it. So you've got all of these holes. So there's obviously one aspect of me That's like leave it exactly as it is as it has been weathered, but there's another part of me That's like it's not meant to have ten holes in it So that there I am going to attempt to fix up. So basically i'm going to cut up a little bit of this gauze I'm going to melt some plastic over here and then just do some basic bog on the front The real problem is how do you match the paint? What i'm going to attempt to do is get some color match paint from super cheap Spray it on once it's been repaired then try and buff it up and age it a little bit Now you might just be thinking just paint it properly But then this won't look like the rest of the car and we also don't want to paint the whole car So I honestly don't know how it's going to turn out But i'm pretty sure it's going to look better than that And It was another epic session working on the Daihatsu I gotta say the exterior came up way better than I thought it would the front bumper is looking excellent We're going to show you the final thing all revealed next episode the interior man with the Daihatsu Chef's kiss bolt-in siri on stuff and well done getting all the wiring done except for putting one wire in the wrong spot Which meant that the triggering didn't work which meant it didn't start but thank you to haltech tech support and particularly scotty It's now running perfectly. Thank you very much scotty next episode is the finale of this build Uh, we will be pissing on the headlights. I know you're waiting for it like that's actually happening We're getting the avocados out. We're getting some of the old school mods. We're doing a bunch of stuff from season one Uh, you're doing injectors. Yeah, we're doing some ecu stuff. Then we're going to be taking the car for a drive There's some very very special things happening next episode. So stay tuned for that martin This is almost the end of the poster If you don't have one now, which means when the build's done the post has done people you should get one Like now is the time we also released at the same time as this a heritage mighty car mods pack which we've seen lots of you post about because We've been uh We've been including a few freebies and a few bonuses with a lot of those orders and we see that you've been receiving them on The mighty mods group. So thank you very much If you do want to grab these we'll autograph it. We'll send it to you anywhere in the world It directly supports the show. Uh, and this is almost your last chance to get one next episode. You'll see the final car We'll take it for a drive. Uh, it's going to be absolutely excellent. Thank you very much for watching and see you next see you then