Surprising My Mechanic With A New Car! ( he had to fix it first )

So this is actually a pretty unique CRV. So it actually has the hard cover, which but gloss black front bumper as well. Since then, it's just been, you know, a valuable asset to motion auto. If you're a business owner and just getting people to show up and be reliable and be passionate about what you're doing in your business, it's kind of tough. So I know this, you know, I'm not giving them a Lamborghini or anything like that. We're going to head over to the shop. I'm going to tell Eric there's something freaking wrong with this thing. I'm thinking for a drive and then I guess I'm just going to hand him the title. Let's just get rid of it. What's up guys. And welcome back to the channel. It has been a busy few weeks here at motion auto. And I feel like I just haven't made any videos just been prepping for a lot of things. We went to SEMA. I was gone for a couple of days for that, got back and then we were getting some stuff ready to go to GCR festival. So I was helping out Ben and Herman from PRP and our tech getting some engines ready down there. We're planning on taking the Evo wagon. We had some issues with that ended up taking the super down to GTR festival. I don't know if you guys have seen that video yet or not been really busy around the shop and not really filming a lot of stuff, but there's been a lot of things getting done. If you guys didn't know, Eric has been working with me for about a year. Uh, when he started, he was, you know, kind of came from a tire shop. So all of the mechanical knowledge he had was kind of from working on his own project cars and stuff like that. You know, it wasn't like he was a like a tech from a dealership or went to school for it or anything like that. It was just kind of, kind of built off passion. It's a lot of his knowledge, you know, YouTube university over the course of the last year, he's really advanced his skillset and what he's been able to do and pretty much any project that I point him at, even if he doesn't know how to do it, he'll do some research. He'll go home at night and he'll watch a YouTube video. He'll come back the next day and he'll get it done to the best of his ability. And we've, we've had some pretty good success. He came in last year around the time that we're doing the RSX giveaway and helped us button up some stuff with that since then has just been, you know, a valuable asset to motion auto. He's a willing to come in early, stay late. He's always on time and uh, he's been really good. Been really good to, you know, just have somebody here. This reliable is willing to drive across the country, you know, go with me in the middle of the night to pick up a project car or something like that. I feel like that's pretty, that's pretty rare. So, so for the last four months he has been daily driving the turbo D 16 front wheel drive civic that we did a little flip series on or a couple of videos on a while back. And that's been his daily. He sold his reliable like winter daily, which was a Subaru Forester, which is all wheel drive. And he does have a family. He needs a new little daily. So I actually picked up this right here, which this is a 2004 Honda CRV and the plane was just to kind of flip it. So as soon as Eric seen this thing on the trailer when he got here, cause it wasn't running, he's like, man, I kind of want that thing. Like, you know, you can tell he was pretty stoked on it. And I got a pretty good deal on it cause it wasn't running. So it showed up on a trailer. So yesterday Eric actually pulled this thing into the shop, pushed it into the shop pretty much by himself, put in new spark plugs, checked a couple other little things on it, charges up the battery, washed it. And now it is pretty much ready to go. I just came here to the shop today. I grabbed it just to run down the street and take some pictures with it, you know, to, to get it ready for sale. So I'm going to bring it actually back to the shop and tell them that there's something else wrong with it. Take him for a little drive. See if he could figure out what that noise is. I'm just going to give it to him. So he's been, uh, like I said, he's been a huge asset to motion auto. And I feel like, you know, if you're a business owner and just getting people to show up and be reliable and be passionate about what you're doing in your business is kind of tough. And uh, yeah, Eric's been awesome for motion auto. So I know this, you know, I'm not giving him a Lamborghini or anything like that, but it's definitely a solid daily driver, which will allow him to actually put in some time with his turbo D 16 civic. Cause he's a, he's constantly wanting to work on that thing. But since it is his daily driver now, cause he sold his other vehicle to get it. He doesn't have very much time to actually pull it apart, do the things that he wants to, to, to actually be proud of, you know, he's got to pull the turbo manifold off real quick and then put it right back on. And you can tell he really wants to take that thing apart for like a week or I don't know. I'm kind of scared. You know, it takes it apart for like a month or something, but at least this would be a reliable daily. It's got good tires. It's all wheel drive. It's got heated seats. It's an EX. So it's got the gloss black painted bumpers. Pretty good unit. I think he'll, uh, I think he'll be stoked. We're going to head over to the shop. I'm going to tell Eric, there's something freaking wrong with this thing. Thank you for driving. Then I guess I'm just gonna hand him the title. See how he reacts. I popped it. Oh my D. Oh, you put the intake on it. That was off the art. I was wondering why it kind of had like a little bit of a noise. I didn't really hear VTEC though. That's what they said was wrong with it. Right? Just under five, like 48 I think. So you could hear it though. It looks like it's perfectly prepped for a turbo is what that, what should we do with this thing? I mean that there's more room in here than there is in a civic. Cause look, you have this, this engine bay is basically a K series or like a EK with a, or an RSX. It's an RSX with an extension on the top of it. So this is like a, it's an all wheel drive RSX. We've got the all wheel drive tranny right there. I don't know. It's not bad. How's your civic doing? Is it ready to rip? Where's the turbo? Did you put, you want to race this thing? The turbo and then what, what are you going to drive home? See it. Have you done anything to it? We need to give these guys a little update on, on what you've been doing with the civics. It's been your daily for how long? Has it been like four months or six months? That's crazy. And it starts every day, almost every day. So look at that. Not a bad unit. How many times have you changed this turbo set up? It's been on and off and on and off. And he has a, uh, just a straight down pipe and it's leaking a little bit of oil and you need to like pull it apart. I didn't hear VTEC. Well, I actually didn't floor it. So you want to go for it with me? Do you want to go? Show me how to drive it. Show me how to drive it. It's really nice. I turned on the seat heater and it shifts really good too. It seems like it. Did you put this sauce in here? It was laying on the floor. Look at that. It's got even new. It's even got a backup camera. I don't know what to do with it. Like part of me wants to like turbo it. I don't know. Do you think the tranny would handle it? I don't know. I mean we could find out. Let's hear that tech. It's like K24Z1. Is it a Z1? I think it's a Z1. What year is this? I don't know. I think it's an 04. If it's an 07, it's a Z1. I don't know if it's an 07. I have to look at the title. Are we going to, are we going to launch it? This thing would be cool with like 500 horsepower. Yeah. I feel like I didn't hear VTEC at all. Wow. I mean it's not bad. It drives pretty good. So what do you think we should do with it? Should we sell it or should we keep it? And then what? It's kind of a nice unit. Definitely. Yeah. The back seats just fold down. It is a little bit slow, but it's clean. Heater freaking melts you out of here. You said the AC works good. That's colder than outside. It's a really nice unit. The backup camera. So have you, do you like these CRVs? I feel like I'm driving an Element. It's weird. It's kind of big. It's kind of tall. It's real boxy. But it's pretty nice. You'd rather drive the Civic? Yeah. Like as a daily? Every day. So you couldn't, you wouldn't see yourself in one of these things? Family day. Yeah. Family day. Well, it's crazy how many rooms it has. It's like this camping. And you can just like camp in it. You can go take some pictures of it here in a little bit. How's that Civic doing? Cherry. Yeah. Well, I was, uh, I was just telling the guys on the, on the camera right here. I was like, you know what? I think Eric needs a new daily. So. This daily? This is your new daily. For real? Yeah. I'm just going to give it to you. You can just have it. No, you've been, uh, you know, the last, I think you've been working with me for like a year, something like that. And then you're always working on that thing in the parking lot in the morning before you, like, before I get here, you're like trying to tear it apart, make it work, make it, put it back together. And I got this thing for a pretty good deal. And like, as soon as I seen it, like, and then as soon as you seen it and you're like, Oh, I kind of like it. I was like, I just had the thought. I was like, I'll just give it to Eric. You can have a reliable daily. I'm going to cry. For real? Yeah. No, you can have it. The title. I was going to do it, put a bow on it, but you caught me off guard when it was just sitting outside. That's super cool. Yeah. No, you've been, you've been awesome. You've been awesome for getting shit done. Like I was telling them guys, like this last year you just been, you know, without you, I don't know what I would do. Cause there's, I've way too much shit to do. That's awesome. Yeah. I was cleaning it up. I'm like, man, this thing is so, I wasn't trying to get attached. Cause whenever I work on stuff, I get attached and I'm like, ah, don't get a cat. It's like, let's just get rid of it. That's why I was saying like, man, no way. Yeah. I was going to grab the title and put it in there and be like, all right, it's yours. I could go, I could go get a bow for it. Yeah. No, just we'll, we'll treat this as like the Christmas bonus. You know, like, like not, not like you earned it. Like that's, that's what I'm, that's what I'm getting at. Cause and it's got two keys, two keys. He brought me the other key. Man. Wow. Your new unit. Thank you so much. Yeah. I didn't know how this was going to, I didn't know how I was going to film this. I was like, you know what? You're just going to pull out the iPhone and get her done. But now you could actually, uh, you could, you could take apart your civic and not have to put it back together before you. And then let's, I want to see the table, but they put like brand new tires on it recently. So it's all wheel drive. It's got the table in the back. I know that's the main thing that everybody asks when you get one of these things. Where's the table at? And look at our, it's already wired for the subwoofer. So you could just start bumping. Where's the backup camera? Oh, it's inside. I mean, that's clean. I was wondering where it was. Cause I didn't see one. I know it's something, it's like a certified ripper vehicle, certified, something like that. But no, it's look at that. So you could stick your groceries in and not have them fall over. It's clean. Like I really like it. That's a nice unit. Well, that's it. You're welcome. Appreciate you guys. Uh, you guys watching the videos, supporting everything. You guys didn't watch the videos or support the channel, support the giveaways, any of that other stuff. Then obviously we wouldn't have the shop here. I wouldn't be able to hire. I wouldn't have been able to hire Eric pay Eric all this time and then do cool things like this. And again, it's not like I gave him a GT three RS, but I think like stuff like this is, is simple. Yeah, I really do appreciate it. Yeah. Well, uh, yeah. If you guys haven't got any entries for the F four 50 giveaway or the F two 50, that's what we've been spending this last week on was just, man, we were in Dallas. I couldn't couldn't tell you how many marketplace listings like I scrolled through trying to find the F two 50 as an alternate. So if the F four 50 is a little bit too big for you, F two 50 is an option, but I'm gonna give Eric the title of this unit and I don't know if he's going to drive it home today or not, but uh, I guess it's, it's his choice, but yeah, F two 50 alternate. If you guys haven't got any entries for chance to win this thing, appreciate you guys watching. You got any final words? If you guys don't get in or enter. Ah, I don't know if you guys don't get entered, Eric's going to quit. That's what it's going to be. No, we also have a JZX 100. The winner of that is Sean and he is in Las Vegas. So we've already been in contact with him quite a bit. He told me one of the main things is he watched the video where I was driving it kind of for the last time. And he's like, man, he's like, that thing seems like it needs all the upgrades that you described in the video. She said, I want you to do it. So when we're at GTR festival, we got this art tech Garrett G 25 hybrid. So this uses a Garrett G 25 center section. It has an art tech turbine housing, this art tech compressor housing. And what this does is actually allows you to bolt on a G 25 to the stock turbo on this thing. And so all of the beautiful piping, that true focus fab built, we don't have to make anything, modify anything. We literally stick that turbo on there and we should be able to make 400 horsepower. So, uh, we went ahead, ordered a set of thousand CCD twerks, injectors, got another downpipe coming can gauge and a couple other little things. So we're going to get this thing spiced up before Sean gets out here to check it out and then pick it up. Other than that, that's it. So there's you guys quick little shop update. Appreciate you guys watching this video. Again, grab some entries for chance to win at four 50. 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