MotorTrend's "Pure Power Pony" Drag Car Powered by Amazon! | Episode 1 - video Dailymotion

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Follow the thrilling makeover of a '67 Mustang Fastback with Amazon.com parts. Starting with a NOCO jump start by Hot Rod's John McGann and Fully Torqued Industries' Steve Pazmany. Don’t miss the revamped Mustang at Roadkill Nights

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00:00My name is Steve Pazmani, I'm the CEO and owner of Fully Torqued Industries.

00:15We specialize in building hot rods, particularly muscle cars.

00:18I'm young, I grew up driving muscle cars, I love it, I like to work on them, and so

00:22for me it's to teach this younger generation how amazing these cars are so we can keep

00:27the culture alive.

00:28Today I have John McGann coming by from Hot Rod Magazine.

00:31I met him not too long ago and we had done a whole interview and everything and it was

00:36awesome, it was a podcast, and now he's come by today, we're working on a new project.

00:40You know, I had a car dropped off here not too long ago, I wasn't in town, it was a 1967

00:46Fastback.

00:47I don't know a ton about the car, I just know that it was built a few years ago and now

00:52we're going to be taking this in from essentially a Restomod Canyon Carver and we're going

00:57to make it a drag car.

01:02It's good to see you again.

01:03Nice to see you man, how you been?

01:04Awesome.

01:05I'm excited about our project.

01:06Dude, I know, I'm really stoked.

01:08I really haven't even put my eyes on it yet.

01:09Well, I'm excited to see it.

01:11Let's do it, let's pull it off.

01:13It's not even my car.

01:14I feel like it's a new car.

01:18This thing looks really nice.

01:20It is.

01:21Wow.

01:23I love the wheels, I love the way it sits.

01:28It's kind of got like that Eleanor look with the rims on it, which I totally dig.

01:33The coupe to hardtop conversion was done at a shop in Texas and then the car was shipped

01:38to us and we did the drivetrain and the rest of it.

01:40Do you remember what engine they had put in this, a 289 or a 351?

01:44Well, it's a Coyote, I know that.

01:46They put a Coyote in it.

01:47Oh, so it was updated.

01:48Yes.

01:49So it's a Coyote 5 liter, but I don't know much past that.

01:53So I think we should pop the hood.

01:55Nice.

01:56Oh, I love it.

01:59Right.

02:00A little dusty, but it looks good.

02:02Hey man, a little dust didn't hurt nobody, as long as I can do some burnouts, I'm happy.

02:06This thing is rad.

02:08So I was expecting maybe a 289 or a 302, maybe it's got a 351.

02:13I don't know.

02:14And then all of a sudden we pop the hood and it's got a crate motor Coyote.

02:18I mean, technically it's a 302, it's a 5 liter, but I mean, it's much bigger because it's

02:22a gen three.

02:23I mean, this is pretty insane.

02:26We have a little bit of help from Amazon, which is cool because a lot of people don't

02:29realize like you can literally build a car off their website.

02:32They have every part you can think of.

02:34We want to have this Mustang at our company's events.

02:37The first one is Roadkill Nights in Michigan.

02:39From Roadkill Nights, we're going to have it at Hot Rod Power Tour West.

02:43And then the last place we want to have the car is at the SEMA show.

02:45Yeah, I think what we got to do is, I haven't even heard it.

02:49Let's try and get it fired up maybe.

02:51Sounds good.

02:52All right.

02:53Fingers crossed.

02:54Well, I don't hear, I don't hear any fuel pump.

02:57Nope.

02:58I got nothing.

02:59I think battery's smoked.

03:01I kind of figured.

03:02Yeah.

03:03Even if the battery's not hooked up, I know in these cars it sits for too long and everything's

03:08electronic.

03:09More than likely, and it has a sound system.

03:11Yeah.

03:12If there's an amp, draw.

03:13Right.

03:14If the electronics not properly hooked up, draw.

03:16Yeah.

03:17I did order one of those no-co starters from Amazon.

03:21I had a weird feeling in my stomach.

03:22I'm like, if it doesn't start, let's at least try and jump it.

03:27I think that would be what it is.

03:29How convenient.

03:30Right away.

03:31I love it.

03:32It works for me.

03:33All right, let me go grab this really quick.

03:34Okay.

03:35Look what showed up.

03:36Nice.

03:37All right.

03:38I'm liking it.

03:40All right.

03:45I've seen these things before, so.

03:48Now we're talking.

03:49Excellent.

03:50Look at that.

03:51Let's throw some power at this thing and see if we can get it to start up.

03:55I'm excited.

03:56All right.

03:57You let me know when you're ready so I don't electrocute you.

04:00Ready?

04:01Yeah.

04:02See if it works.

04:05I got some power.

04:06All right.

04:08Pump.

04:12All right.

04:17It wants to start.

04:18It does.

04:19Right.

04:20Let's try it again.

04:28Okay.

04:31That's good.

04:32It's a start.

04:33Well, it got started.

04:34Yeah.

04:35Well, now that we finally got it going, throwing up on the lift and we can actually see underneath

04:47it.

04:48Yeah.

04:49Yeah.

04:50All right.

04:51There's a lot of cool parts under here.

04:57Yeah.

04:58Now, Steve, I got to apologize because I didn't do my research ahead of time.

05:01I'm going to figure out what suspension this is because I don't recognize it, but it's

05:04cool because it's got this torque arm and then this frame stiffening thing, which is

05:08pretty sweet.

05:09On a lot of these cars, when you throw that much power at it, you're going to get in the

05:12rear.

05:13It's going to want to go a different way than the front.

05:14And these are very flexible.

05:15These early Mustangs are very flexible chassis.

05:18This almost seems like it's meant to go in a straight line.

05:21Yes.

05:22Yeah.

05:23They knew that its identity would change one day to a drag car.

05:28And yes, and then we can, but it is the adjustability still there that we can do some handling

05:32stuff with it, too.

05:33Yeah.

05:34If you wanted to.

05:35Yeah.

05:36The other surprise underneath the car was the vice grips that were clamping off the

05:37rear brake line flex hose.

05:39Whoa.

05:40I got the vice grips, which when I first saw them, I'm like, someone left them under here

05:45for like, oh, we need to make a bracket right here.

05:47And then I was wondering if it was a leak.

05:49So there maybe is a leak, but it's pinching off this flexible line.

05:52The other thing I was thinking, Steve, was at the end of all the week to wickets, they'd

05:56do a burnout.

05:57So I think maybe he clamped off this, the fluid pressure to the rear brake so he could

06:01have a monster burnout in the parking lot at work.

06:04That would make sense.

06:05That's awesome.

06:06So this is for a burnout.

06:07So yeah, probably.

06:08You know, once we put this car on the lift, it is sick.

06:12There's all the fun goodies in here.

06:13You got a full on chassis stabilizer, you have aluminum drive shaft, disc brakes all

06:18the way around.

06:19I mean, it's, it's set up to run.

06:22You know, I'm thinking is I got to figure something out with this exhaust.

06:24I don't want to go smaller piping.

06:27I'm thinking maybe if we had a smaller muffler, maybe that we could do like here and do a

06:34side exhaust.

06:35That might be the better way to do it.

06:37So we're not running it fully out the back and we want the exhaust to evacuate as quick

06:41as possible.

06:42Yeah.

06:43Well, I think we've pretty much seen everything there is to see under here.

06:47You know what I'm thinking?

06:48I think I know what you're thinking.

06:49We need to see if that line lock works and do some burnouts.

06:53I'm down.

07:05I think we got it.

07:06Does it sound like it?

07:08Now that we have the Mustang here at the shop, we've driven it, we've put our eyes on it.

07:12I got to start ordering parts.

07:14I'm going to go through Amazon.

07:15I'm going to see what we need.

07:16I'm going to make a little bit of a wishlist.

07:19Hopefully the Amazon gods can help me out.

07:21And phase two, once we've ordered those parts, is going to be the deconstruction with the

07:26new construction of what is going to be our streetable drag car.

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