Turning a $4,000 beater into an Unlimited Time Attack MONSTER

0:03 New year, same MR2.

0:05 We're back.

0:06 And the last time you saw this car, we were actually at the racetrack and we

0:09 discovered that this thing is a bonkers fast.

0:12 Did 147 mph on the back street at the IR.

0:15 And B, there are a lot of places that we can improve on it.

0:19 So, in this episode, we're going to make some changes.

0:23 We got a lot to do.

0:24 We got a lot to do.

0:26 Ah, yeah.

0:27 So, we do need a catch can ASAP.

0:33 We need to make it so that the car will actually

0:36 turn a lap without filling up the intake tract with oil.

0:40 The issue is because the engine that we

0:43 have in this car was originally intended to be

0:45 used in a minivan and Toyota Siennas are

0:47 not usually pulling a lot of lateral G- Load.

0:49 So, I've got this little catch can from a company called Wilhelm Raceworks.

0:53 And uh he designed this to fit in a uh engine made of a MR2 SW20,

0:59 which is the generation that came before this.

1:01 The one that everybody likes.

1:02 Yeah.

1:02 The one that I like.

1:03 Yeah.

1:03 Right.

1:04 Uh cuz you hate all my cars.

1:05 We got to figure out where it's going to go.

1:07 We got to take the intake off cuz it protrudes through the engine cover.

1:14 And this was just kind of a temporary

1:16 thing because we had a track day coming up.

1:17 Something else we're going to change is this intake

1:19 position before we go back out on track.

1:21 This catch can is designed to drain back into the oil pan.

1:27 Uh, which makes sense because a lot of oil

1:29 is getting pushed out into the catch can.

1:31 It's either going to fill up the catch can

1:33 or it's got to it's got to drain somewhere, right?

1:35 It's the same thing I do on my Evo, but we need to weld in a bung on the oil pan

1:41 in order to uh actually have somewhere to drain it back into.

1:45 So, the oil pan's got to come out.

1:46 While we're under here,

1:47 we're also noticing that we've got some leaks here where it's

1:50 the oil pan is uh mating up to like the upper oil pan.

1:54 We're touching right here on this sweet exhaust and this this motor mount.

1:58 The motor mounts probably got to get clearanced

2:00 a little bit cuz this is a project car.

2:01 So, let's start with draining the oil.

2:04 Then, we can take the oil pan off.

2:06 A that's not looking the greatest.

2:09 Uh Ben, I've seen it this color just usually with coolant in it.

2:12 I know what it is.

2:14 I know what that is.

2:16 That is E85.

2:17 I was like, you know, that smells just like my Evo oil.

2:20 My Evo oil always looks insane coming out,

2:22 too, because you've got the fuel dilution.

2:25 The fuel in the the E85 like seeps into the oil.

2:29 I've actually I'm not worried about it at all.

2:32 The oil is ugly coming out, but that's the effect of running E85.

2:37 confident that I haven't blown a head gasket.

2:39 We proceed with dropping the oil pan out of the MR2

2:41 so we can weld a bung on to it.

2:44 I also remove a part of the exhaust so I can clearance the motor mount.

2:47 You can actually see right there where it was rubbing a little bit.

2:50 So I just marked there and we'll just clearance that.

2:54 Just grind that down a little bit right on that edge.

2:58 And that'll help with fitment.

3:11 To split and remove the oil pan from the block,

3:13 I use my favorite tool for this job, a drywall putty knife.

3:26 Bada bing.

3:27 This is how your grandpa used to do drywall.

3:30 If if we had smellvision, all you would be smelling right now is E85.

3:34 The whole purpose of that was now we need to clean

3:39 that and take it to get a bum weld onto it.

3:43 In the meantime, we are going to pivot and work

3:45 on some other stuff uh that we needed to correct.

3:48 A big thing that I was hearing from Kobe Shield,

3:50 who was my pro test driver the first time that we took the 2GR to the track,

3:54 the car feels really fast,

3:57 but the suspension is sprung for an engine that weighs like 100 lb less.

4:02 Just with the speeds that we were seeing,

4:04 we wanted to have stiffer spring rates.

4:06 Uh, and honestly, we're still on single adjustable coilovers.

4:09 So, there's a lot of room for improvement considering this is a unlimited

4:14 car with no no rule set that it needs to abide by.

4:31 Now that is a Fortune Auto 510 coilover.

4:35 Single adjustable.

4:36 You adjust rebound and compression all with one knob.

4:40 Right.

4:41 This is a Fortune Auto Pro 2-way

4:44 with a remote canister for additional fluid capacity.

4:48 And on this remote canister, you can adjust your compression.

4:51 So, we've got rebound adjustment on the strut

4:54 and we've got compression adjustment on the canister.

4:56 This is going to level us up massively.

4:58 I didn't really realize how big of a deal

5:00 two-ways were until I put some on my Evo.

5:02 I didn't really think it was going to make a noticeable difference.

5:04 It made a tremendous, gigantic difference.

5:07 And the Evo was significantly faster and more

5:10 comfortable to drive fast after I went to two-ways.

5:14 And this is an absolute track dedicated car.

5:18 The Evos, you know, street street track hybrid.

5:21 This is 100% track, baby.

5:23 So, it needs some two-ways.

5:25 And uh this is going to make us go a whole lot faster.

5:28 Kobe asked for stiffer spring rates.

5:31 So, we've got 7Ks for the front and we've got 10Ks for the rear.

5:39 Uh, stepping up from a 7K.

5:41 Going to take apart the old one first because

5:44 we're missing some stuff obviously on on the two-ways.

5:50 We're going to need all this, all this.

6:03 So, Ben, what you're telling me is Yep.

6:06 This is a good car, right?

6:07 Yeah, this is a good car.

6:08 Better better than Ben's car on track.

6:11 You would say uh the Civic.

6:15 I mean, at the moment, it is faster.

6:17 M.

6:18 Okay.

6:18 So, you got the faster car.

6:21 So, what you're saying is he's like far behind you.

6:23 I mean, he's Yeah.

6:26 Speaking of Ben Thorne and his Honda Civic,

6:28 I am not the only person building an unlimited

6:30 time attack car here at Gears and Gasoline.

6:32 He's got the Civic, which he's turboing.

6:33 He's going to go as fast as he possibly can on track.

6:35 Of course, he will not be going quite

6:37 as fast as the MR2 as we have already proven.

6:40 Uh, but the competition isn't only on track.

6:42 We have both got our own shirt designs for our respective unlimited build.

6:48 In my case, of course, I've got the Toyota Unlimited Racing Development MR2.

6:52 And in Ben Thorne's case, he's got his Honda Civic,

6:55 which he's turboing and all that.

6:57 And that is on its own shirt,

6:59 also kind of in a NASCAR inspired style, and they are available at oildrip.shop.

7:04 Unlike on track, where we decide who wins,

7:07 you guys get to decide who wins with merchandise.

7:10 Uh because whoever sells more shirts will be the victor.

7:14 Maybe don't buy a Civic shirt and do buy an MR2

7:16 shirt or buy a Civic shirt and then buy two MR2 shirts.

7:18 You know, that would be phenomenal.

7:44 While Mark is working on those two ways, we have to camber arms.

7:49 Ooh.

7:51 This is going to be our camber arm.

7:53 This is going to be our toe arm.

7:55 And then this is going to be our uh trailing arm.

7:59 Going to get to replace all

8:00 of these stock components uh going into our subframe, which is also not stock.

8:05 We'll have very little stock suspension still remaining on the car.

8:11 The axles are aftermarket.

8:12 The coilovers are Fortunado two-ways.

8:15 All we need is an aftermarket knuckle.

8:29 So, we've got on these Techno Toy tuning arms

8:31 are these uh these are called pillow ball mounts,

8:33 which are great for race cars because there's there's no cushion,

8:40 there's no rubber bushing,

8:41 there's no deflection, there's no comfort, so they're also bad for street cars.

8:45 We have this subframe here.

8:47 This uh aftermarket subframe for the 2GR.

8:49 Well, it's not for 2GR, but we made it work.

8:52 The the upside is that it allows us with these bolt

8:55 holes here to change the pickup points of our arms.

9:00 We can lower the car but still adjust

9:02 by putting our arm connecting in a higher bolt hole.

9:06 We can keep the the droop angle

9:09 that you want to have with factory suspension geometry,

9:12 which you want factory suspension geometry.

9:15 Otherwise, as you lower the car,

9:16 the suspension arm angle gets flatter and flatter.

9:20 So, how what do you do?

9:22 You know, can you do you lower the car and compromise

9:24 suspension geometry or do you keep it higher and compromise aerodynamics?

9:28 You do neither.

9:29 You just get one of these aftermarket

9:30 arms with this uh turnbuckle design where it's

9:34 able to rotate in the sensor and you

9:37 can reach whichever bolt hole you want, right?

9:39 And that's really the only way that we

9:41 could take advantage of this uh aftermarket subframe.

9:44 So, that's huge.

9:45 Trying to make aftermarket stuff play with aftermarket stuff.

9:48 Yeah, you could probably shave that.

9:50 Well, they the subframe came with uh with some aftermarket parts

9:54 companies do not build their parts to work with each other's parts.

10:00 They built them to work with the the factory thing.

10:03 They're assuming your car is bone stock.

10:05 Trying to combine these arms with this subframe.

10:08 This bolt will go through when there's no arm in it.

10:12 Okay.

10:13 But then when there's an arm installed, I can't get the bolt to go through.

10:18 And I was very confused as to why the bolt wouldn't go through.

10:22 And then I realized it's because the eyelet uh of the pillow

10:27 ball mount just is touching on the bottom of the subframe.

10:30 So that's as high as it goes.

10:32 So now the three holes are not one hole

10:35 is lower in the middle than the other two.

10:40 Heat.

10:42 Heat.

11:11 No more bushings.

11:14 Mark helps me install the rear suspension and a bit

11:17 of friendly competition begins to blossom with CarGuys.

11:21 Everything is a race.

11:22 Oh no.

11:23 Mark.

11:25 Mark, you might be washed, bro.

11:27 I hate to tell you.

11:29 Yeah, I'm washed.

11:31 Not Not looking good.

11:33 Me or you?

11:35 Uh, things for you.

11:36 Oh, yeah.

11:38 Unfortunately.

11:38 Well, you know what?

11:39 It's about time for me to retire anyway.

11:42 Yeah.

11:42 Right below the 37.

11:44 What you guys don't know is that Mark's salary is about $500,000 a year.

11:50 Yeah.

11:50 Okay.

11:51 So, after just a few years of working at Gears and Gasoline,

11:54 he's ready to retire.

12:02 How the heck tighten this up?

12:04 That's insane.

12:07 Whoever it was, I hate them.

12:08 It's me.

12:09 I thought it was me.

12:12 Did you still haven't?

12:17 Oh my.

12:18 I'm worried now.

12:21 Oh, wait.

12:21 Did I just tighten that?

12:22 Oh my gosh.

12:23 Oh yeah,

12:25 Mark.

12:41 Sorry, wash, Mark.

12:43 Sorry, Mark.

12:43 You won't You're still wash mark.

12:48 Hey, you got lucky.

12:50 I learned from the best.

12:51 What can I say?

12:52 It is so tight.

12:55 It is tight.

13:00 Wow.

13:01 Quick hands.

13:02 Quick hands.

13:07 Read a comment in a video a couple of videos ago where

13:10 somebody said that watching me swing a hammer made them feel so masculine.

13:14 That was brutal.

13:16 Thanks for that comment.

13:28 Yep, there it is.

13:36 Finish up this suspension over here.

13:53 Hey guys, what about this?

13:54 Like what if I I don't know put uh some rib nuts here and put it like this.

14:04 Kind of show off the the canisters.

14:08 In order to mount the external reservoirs that came

14:11 with the two-ways on the the Fortunado coilovers,

14:15 um we are going to use some really nice hardware from a company called RS Pro.

14:21 Uh it's run by a buddy of mine named David.

14:23 Uh they do a bunch of like 3D design and aluminum work like

14:27 these clamps and where you can mount

14:29 your external reservoirs like to a roll cage.

14:32 uh or in this case, we're just going to riv nut these.

14:35 And then uh we can just have our external reservoirs mounted, hard mounted,

14:40 and all you have to do is pop

14:42 the rear engine cover and you can adjust your compression.

14:46 Um it'll be really, really nice.

14:48 Super nice uh product.

14:50 They come in a ton of different sizes,

14:52 and they can, you know, custom make stuff for you.

14:55 Shoot them an email or or whatever with your specific use case.

14:58 RS Pro, amazing product.

15:02 These drill bits are unbelievable.

15:07 That's so good.

15:09 When you've got crazy nice suspension like these two ways,

15:13 I think the least you can do is put on some uh some nice mounts.

15:18 These are kind of like a level of fit and finish above the rest of the cars.

15:22 With the rear canisters mounted and looking beautiful,

15:25 I've got to make a quick call with our sponsor, Nikki.

15:28 Check it out.

15:30 Quadlock branding on the race car,

15:35 huh?

15:34 Looking good.

15:34 A little small, but you know what?

15:36 It's okay.

15:37 Well, I mean, on the side of the car, like it doesn't look half bad.

15:40 Like, you can see it pretty well.

15:41 What is What does that say in the red square?

15:44 Oh, it's So that's that's Toyota Unlimited Racing Development.

15:48 Um, so that's like the name of the build.

15:50 So that's kind of like the the ethos that we have,

15:52 you know, it's like full like no holds barred, you know, unlimited racing.

15:57 Yeah.

15:57 Is that T U R D?

16:01 Yeah.

16:01 T U R O.

16:02 No, T U R D.

16:03 Development.

16:03 Yeah.

16:04 Yeah.

16:04 Yeah.

16:04 So, just just like the Toyota TRD, but it's unlimited.

16:09 You know, that stands for something else.

16:11 Uh, what do you Is there another race team that's already using that?

16:15 No, it's just I think it it could be interpreted as something else.

16:21 I don't know.

16:22 Maybe let's think about a different spot.

16:23 Maybe somewhere else on the car.

16:26 Someone else in the car.

16:27 Yeah.

16:27 All right.

16:28 There you go, Nikki.

16:29 So, that's that's dead center with the with the middle

16:31 of the car and then uh you know,

16:34 I think the the color scheme looks good like with the canisters here.

16:37 So, that's that's what it would look like,

16:38 you know, with the whole view of the rear.

16:41 So, pretty good.

16:42 Pretty good if I do say so myself.

16:45 Um, what's that say underneath?

16:47 Oh, it says Attack Sup Sport, the Japanese like time attack series.

16:52 There's a series called Attack and you know that that you

16:55 know it's just kind of like an homage sort of.

16:57 Have you thought about what the the first

17:00 letters of each word kind of looks like?

17:03 Oh, look.

17:04 Okay, Nate, I think I see what you're driving at.

17:06 And like I like let me just be real with you, okay?

17:09 Like we are we're professionals, okay?

17:11 So, we're not we're not just like covering our cars in rude jokes.

17:14 We have a pretty good sense of humor like with the quad lock ads and stuff,

17:17 but I mean obviously we're not we're not

17:19 just covering our cars in like naughty humor.

17:22 Of course, we do have one fun joke that I just got.

17:25 I got a vanity plate and it's actually a uh it's a it's a donate life plate.

17:31 So, it's kind of like a little bit of a joke, you know,

17:32 cuz this car is so dangerous that like when I eventually inevitably crash it,

17:36 I'll become an organ donor, you know?

17:38 So, uh, I did talk to Nikki a little bit more and we decided, uh,

17:42 in the end we should probably just put

17:44 the Quad Lock advertisement right here on the end plate.

17:48 It's a little bit more, uh, sponsor friendly.

17:50 So, thank you Quadlock, uh, for sponsoring this video.

17:55 So, we've got to make some, uh,

17:56 changes in order to get the lines for the external

18:01 reservoirs on the front of the car to route properly.

18:04 Fortune Auto, they'll do everything custom, the way that you want to mount it.

18:07 So, I told them how I wanted it and they made it how

18:10 I asked and then it's just not quite like I kind of misestimated.

18:15 So, we're going to go back to the drawing board

18:17 a little bit with how to locate those external reservoirs, uh,

18:20 which we'll do later on, but for right now,

18:23 there is another huge change that we can make, and it is this hood.

18:30 I'm going to pop this off real quick.

18:31 We'll make a little modification that I

18:34 think will have a potentially drastic effect.

18:36 done with this guy and instead we are going to use this guy.

18:42 Yay.

18:45 This is a piece of fiberglass that I bought off of eBay.

18:50 Oh, is it?

18:51 Yes, sir.

18:52 Just a like generic eBay fiberglass hood.

18:56 Astonishingly, it is actually saving weight.

19:00 209 lb.

19:07 12 lb.

19:10 The hood weighs 12 lbs.

19:11 No, the the difference is 12 lb.

19:13 Oh, that's huge actually.

19:15 Right.

19:15 Okay.

19:15 186.

19:16 The hood weighs 11 lb.

19:18 11 lb.

19:19 Wow.

19:19 The real real important reason why I wanted this is for these guys right here.

19:24 These uh MR2s get a good bit of lift

19:28 in the nose from air getting stuck in this empty

19:32 void here under the engine or uh not engine

19:35 cover under the the front cover because there's no engine.

19:39 So there's just it's just a big cavity for air to collect.

19:42 So this is going to let that air escape.

19:44 And I don't think this is actually going to fit

19:46 quite yet because we have to relocate the power steering.

19:51 We're hitting right here on the power steering pump.

19:55 MR2s obviously famously have uh electronic

19:57 power steering or electric power steering.

19:59 A lot of people use MR2 electric power

20:02 steering pumps for like their project cars or whatever.

20:06 It makes it easier to relocate this pump cuz

20:08 it doesn't have drive belts or anything running to it.

20:10 You want to try that?

20:17 We don't need the latch.

20:19 Then Oh, wow.

20:28 Okay, look at that.

20:28 That's more weight savings right there.

20:30 It's true.

20:31 Now we're going to add like four arrow catches.

20:33 So, yeah, it's not like the the hood used to have great fitment.

20:37 There were gigantic gaps here.

20:39 If anything, this fits as good.

20:41 If it stays on, that's the important part.

20:44 And for that, he's not super concerned about it because he is

20:48 going to beat Ben Thorne in his Civic every time.

20:51 We got these uh arrow catches a fix these guys onto the chassis or somewhere.

20:57 And um then drill holes here.

21:01 Here.

21:01 And honestly, I'm fine with just removing

21:04 the hinges and doing some up there as well.

21:08 Oh, yeah.

21:08 So, we want to have a prop.

21:10 You don't have to worry about a prop.

21:11 Yeah.

21:12 The hood's so light.

21:13 You could take it off by yourself.

21:15 Yeah.

21:15 While Mark begins drilling holes for the hood,

21:17 I have an appointment with my arch rival.

21:19 Hey, Ben.

21:19 I heard you needed some help with your bung hole,

21:21 so I figured I could probably help with that, right?

21:24 Wow.

21:24 Thank you.

21:25 Is that what you need?

21:26 You just want that part right there.

21:27 That's actually I I'm surprised you know so much about my bung hole.

21:30 That's exactly what I need.

21:31 Well, you were telling me all about it on your on your way.

21:33 I do tend to overshare about my bung hole.

21:35 All right.

21:35 Well, I'm just going to drill out a hole here uh that's the same size as that.

21:39 And then I'm going to try to weld it from the backside cuz

21:42 I don't think I'll be able to get like a welder tip up there.

21:47 Mhm.

21:46 Uh just just be aware that if this pan warps because of the heat,

21:51 you owe me $40.

21:52 It wasn't me.

21:52 Uh and if it leaks because of the weld, it wasn't me.

21:56 And if your car is slower than my EK Civic,

21:57 it's because it's just slower than my EK Civic.

22:00 But it wasn't you.

22:01 No, that one's

22:06 All right.

22:06 All done.

22:07 Enjoy your leak.

22:16 Snug as a bug on a rug.

22:17 That is a snug fit.

22:20 I mean, it's backwards.

22:20 Goes this way, but I would say that's perfect, buddy.

22:25 Wow.

22:26 This This might be some of my best work ever on your bung hole.

22:37 I did that one.

22:38 So smooth.

22:40 There's no dime stacking on that one.

22:41 That one's polished.

22:42 Look at that.

22:43 The good news is the color of the tip is even.

22:46 So, that means that the flange part shouldn't be warped.

22:50 It's not ideal, but it is better than I expected.

22:52 There you go.

22:53 So, in addition to this oil catch can, uh,

22:55 which we can now use because we have a bung welded onto the oil pan,

22:59 Wilhelm Raceworks also made this, uh, which is an oil pan baffle.

23:03 He sells these.

23:04 He's got four in stock right now on his website.

23:06 He designed this because the 2GR engine when it

23:10 sees uh right hand turns with a lot of geforce,

23:13 like sustained geforce, the oil in the pan will tend to slush away

23:18 from the pickup and then you'll start to see oil pressures dip.

23:21 The baffle, it actually keeps oil with the pickup

23:24 and and blocks it from quickly running

23:27 away uh from where it needs to be in the pan on those uh gloed corners.

23:32 We're just going to RTV it and then stick it

23:34 up on there on the studs that are on there.

23:36 Uh put a nut on to hold it on while we prep the pan.

23:39 Then we'll put the pan on.

23:40 And you literally just sandwich this in between

23:43 the pan and uh the upper oil pan.

23:46 And that's it.

23:48 Pretty pretty simple fix.

23:49 Pretty cheap part.

23:50 It's like a hundred bucks and uh could potentially save your engine.

23:54 So we did all that oil pan stuff.

23:56 one so that we could get that baffle plate in there

23:58 and help prevent oil starvation when we're on the track.

24:02 But it all originated from the fact that we need to put this catch can in.

24:05 So now that we have the bung welded onto the oil pan,

24:08 courtesy of Ben, we need to locate the catch can.

24:12 I think we're just going to like set it roughly here and say

24:16 we will put a tab on so that we can attach it here.

24:20 Here and here actually.

24:21 That's perfect.

24:22 We've got two riv nuts in here already.

24:24 So, we could just actually I mean we can fabricate something just like clamp it.

24:30 If we just get some flat bar, it wouldn't be

24:33 it wouldn't be visually apparent, but you know, it's a catch 22.

24:37 I mean, it's a catch can, but catch can 22.

24:39 Yeah.

24:40 In the meantime, I've got a bunch of the stuff that we need for fittings.

24:44 This is all -6 here.

24:47 The PCV valve we want to take off of the head and put it in here.

24:53 We just need to extend this hose.

24:56 This 3/8 hose which goes into the intake manifold.

25:00 We need to extend that over to here.

25:04 Go on there.

25:50 This is what happens when you're safety first.

26:10 There he is.

26:18 Big dog.

26:19 Nice job, buddy.

26:28 This is the reason for the catch can.

26:30 The oil gets stuck up in the heads of the engine.

26:33 Positive crankcase ventilation sucks bunch of oil.

26:36 You wind up with a bunch of oil that's trapped up, gets sucked into the intake.

26:40 Car starts burning oil.

26:41 So hopefully the catch can solves this.

26:52 So, now we're going to replace the check valve that we

26:55 took out of the valve cover over here with this AM bond,

27:02 which is BSP on one side and -6 on the other.

27:09 In the competition between Ben Civic and my MR2,

27:14 whichever car has more A fittings on it will be faster.

27:19 So, we just got to make sure we we use them where we can.

27:28 Well, that's one.

27:30 Still got three more to go.

27:42 Yeah.

27:43 Now I'm underneath it and I'm going to use this drill

27:45 bit to go through what I just drilled and make my marking.

28:03 Put this pin And it's going to fit on the first try.

28:39 The first try.

28:43 It's going to fit on the first try.

28:46 Son of a gun.

28:50 The heck you hit.

28:53 First try.

28:57 Yes, sir.

28:58 Like I said, first try.

29:16 All right, fam.

29:17 What do you think?

29:18 Should we leave it like this?

29:19 Should we put it like this?

29:22 Like that?

29:25 How does that look, actually?

29:45 All right, Ben, I've got a question for you that everybody's been wondering.

29:49 Oh, yeah.

29:50 How does it feel to be the better Ben?

29:54 I wake up every day and I piss excellence.

29:58 Oh, very good.

29:59 Very good.

29:59 How do you feel about how this hood looks?

30:02 I feel great.

30:03 And you did an amazing job.

30:05 Thank you.

30:06 Thank you.

30:06 I was I was trying to go for a very symmetrical.

30:09 Yeah, I would have helped, but I was in a meeting.

30:10 It looks awesome.

30:12 Now, why did we put four of these on?

30:14 Exactly.

30:15 Well, if you want to handle that side, 12 lb.

30:28 All right.

30:28 All right.

30:28 Now, one of the last things that I need

30:29 to do is um actually lock this thing down.

30:34 That's about the right angle that I need.

30:36 You got you got to get the right angle sometimes.

30:58 I guess I need a third spot.

31:01 I guess I can do like um maybe like a rivet.

31:06 I can drill straight down.

31:20 Okay, so we got three points of contact now, which is great.

31:29 We don't need these uh hinges anymore.

31:32 So, that's just more weight reduction.

31:40 There we go.

31:42 I thought that we were going to have to uh run this drain back

31:46 line all the way around the back of the motor into the oil pan.

31:52 And I had that all routed up.

31:54 I had like a very gradual slope, super long, super inefficient.

31:58 Then Mark found that there actually is

31:59 space in between the motor and the firewall.

32:02 That's nice because this is a much more direct path,

32:05 which means that the oil can travel at a steeper incline

32:09 and flow more efficiently than if it's kind of just slightly downhill.

32:15 So, in this episode of the MR2 build series, the first one for 2026,

32:19 we have accomplished an oil pan baffle,

32:21 an oil pan drain back to relieve crankcase pressure,

32:25 rear suspension arms so that the car can retain its suspension geometry,

32:28 two-way coilovers from Fortune Auto,

32:30 and mounted the remote canisters at least in the rear.

32:34 We'll finish up the front in the next episode.

32:36 And speaking of the front,

32:37 Mark has done a phenomenal job fitting that fiberglass

32:40 hood onto the car and that is going

32:42 to be really good for reducing the floatiness

32:45 of the front end of the car on track.

32:47 And Mark, I think in the next episode we need to do something about this.

32:51 This is uh not a permanent solution.

32:55 And I think the solution that we're going

32:56 to use for that is sitting in the driver's seat.

33:00 Could you grab that for me?

33:02 Sure.

33:02 I've actually not seen this yet.

33:04 So, what is that?

33:13 Ram Air.

33:14 Does this go here?

33:15 Yes, it does.

33:16 No way.

33:17 Oh, and it fits really well.

33:20 So, tune in for the next episode where we put Ram Air on the MR2 Spider.

33:24 This is exciting.

33:25 Like, it's