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MotorTrend's "Pure Power Pony" Drag Car Powered by Amazon! | Episode 1
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7/2/2024
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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My name is Steve Pazmani, I'm the CEO and owner of Fully Torqued Industries.
00:15
We specialize in building hot rods, particularly muscle cars.
00:18
I'm young, I grew up driving muscle cars, I love it, I like to work on them, and so
00:22
for me it's to teach this younger generation how amazing these cars are so we can keep
00:27
the culture alive.
00:28
Today I have John McGann coming by from Hot Rod Magazine.
00:31
I met him not too long ago and we had done a whole interview and everything and it was
00:36
awesome, it was a podcast, and now he's come by today, we're working on a new project.
00:40
You know, I had a car dropped off here not too long ago, I wasn't in town, it was a 1967
00:46
Fastback.
00:47
I don't know a ton about the car, I just know that it was built a few years ago and now
00:52
we're going to be taking this in from essentially a Restomod Canyon Carver and we're going
00:57
to make it a drag car.
01:02
It's good to see you again.
01:03
Nice to see you man, how you been?
01:04
Awesome.
01:05
I'm excited about our project.
01:06
Dude, I know, I'm really stoked.
01:08
I really haven't even put my eyes on it yet.
01:09
Well, I'm excited to see it.
01:11
Let's do it, let's pull it off.
01:13
It's not even my car.
01:14
I feel like it's a new car.
01:18
This thing looks really nice.
01:20
It is.
01:21
Wow.
01:23
I love the wheels, I love the way it sits.
01:28
It's kind of got like that Eleanor look with the rims on it, which I totally dig.
01:33
The coupe to hardtop conversion was done at a shop in Texas and then the car was shipped
01:38
to us and we did the drivetrain and the rest of it.
01:40
Do you remember what engine they had put in this, a 289 or a 351?
01:44
Well, it's a Coyote, I know that.
01:46
They put a Coyote in it.
01:47
Oh, so it was updated.
01:48
Yes.
01:49
So it's a Coyote 5 liter, but I don't know much past that.
01:53
So I think we should pop the hood.
01:55
Nice.
01:56
Oh, I love it.
01:59
Right.
02:00
A little dusty, but it looks good.
02:02
Hey man, a little dust didn't hurt nobody, as long as I can do some burnouts, I'm happy.
02:06
This thing is rad.
02:08
So I was expecting maybe a 289 or a 302, maybe it's got a 351.
02:13
I don't know.
02:14
And then all of a sudden we pop the hood and it's got a crate motor Coyote.
02:18
I mean, technically it's a 302, it's a 5 liter, but I mean, it's much bigger because it's
02:22
a gen three.
02:23
I mean, this is pretty insane.
02:26
We have a little bit of help from Amazon, which is cool because a lot of people don't
02:29
realize like you can literally build a car off their website.
02:32
They have every part you can think of.
02:34
We want to have this Mustang at our company's events.
02:37
The first one is Roadkill Nights in Michigan.
02:39
From Roadkill Nights, we're going to have it at Hot Rod Power Tour West.
02:43
And then the last place we want to have the car is at the SEMA show.
02:45
Yeah, I think what we got to do is, I haven't even heard it.
02:49
Let's try and get it fired up maybe.
02:51
Sounds good.
02:52
All right.
02:53
Fingers crossed.
02:54
Well, I don't hear, I don't hear any fuel pump.
02:57
Nope.
02:58
I got nothing.
02:59
I think battery's smoked.
03:01
I kind of figured.
03:02
Yeah.
03:03
Even if the battery's not hooked up, I know in these cars it sits for too long and everything's
03:08
electronic.
03:09
More than likely, and it has a sound system.
03:11
Yeah.
03:12
If there's an amp, draw.
03:13
Right.
03:14
If the electronics not properly hooked up, draw.
03:16
Yeah.
03:17
I did order one of those no-co starters from Amazon.
03:21
I had a weird feeling in my stomach.
03:22
I'm like, if it doesn't start, let's at least try and jump it.
03:27
I think that would be what it is.
03:29
How convenient.
03:30
Right away.
03:31
I love it.
03:32
It works for me.
03:33
All right, let me go grab this really quick.
03:34
Okay.
03:35
Look what showed up.
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Nice.
03:37
All right.
03:38
I'm liking it.
03:40
All right.
03:45
I've seen these things before, so.
03:48
Now we're talking.
03:49
Excellent.
03:50
Look at that.
03:51
Let's throw some power at this thing and see if we can get it to start up.
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I'm excited.
03:56
All right.
03:57
You let me know when you're ready so I don't electrocute you.
04:00
Ready?
04:01
Yeah.
04:02
See if it works.
04:05
I got some power.
04:06
All right.
04:08
Pump.
04:12
All right.
04:17
It wants to start.
04:18
It does.
04:19
Right.
04:20
Let's try it again.
04:28
Okay.
04:31
That's good.
04:32
It's a start.
04:33
Well, it got started.
04:34
Yeah.
04:35
Well, now that we finally got it going, throwing up on the lift and we can actually see underneath
04:47
it.
04:48
Yeah.
04:49
Yeah.
04:50
All right.
04:51
There's a lot of cool parts under here.
04:57
Yeah.
04:58
Now, Steve, I got to apologize because I didn't do my research ahead of time.
05:01
I'm going to figure out what suspension this is because I don't recognize it, but it's
05:04
cool because it's got this torque arm and then this frame stiffening thing, which is
05:08
pretty sweet.
05:09
On a lot of these cars, when you throw that much power at it, you're going to get in the
05:12
rear.
05:13
It's going to want to go a different way than the front.
05:14
And these are very flexible.
05:15
These early Mustangs are very flexible chassis.
05:18
This almost seems like it's meant to go in a straight line.
05:21
Yes.
05:22
Yeah.
05:23
They knew that its identity would change one day to a drag car.
05:28
And yes, and then we can, but it is the adjustability still there that we can do some handling
05:32
stuff with it, too.
05:33
Yeah.
05:34
If you wanted to.
05:35
Yeah.
05:36
The other surprise underneath the car was the vice grips that were clamping off the
05:37
rear brake line flex hose.
05:39
Whoa.
05:40
I got the vice grips, which when I first saw them, I'm like, someone left them under here
05:45
for like, oh, we need to make a bracket right here.
05:47
And then I was wondering if it was a leak.
05:49
So there maybe is a leak, but it's pinching off this flexible line.
05:52
The other thing I was thinking, Steve, was at the end of all the week to wickets, they'd
05:56
do a burnout.
05:57
So I think maybe he clamped off this, the fluid pressure to the rear brake so he could
06:01
have a monster burnout in the parking lot at work.
06:04
That would make sense.
06:05
That's awesome.
06:06
So this is for a burnout.
06:07
So yeah, probably.
06:08
You know, once we put this car on the lift, it is sick.
06:12
There's all the fun goodies in here.
06:13
You got a full on chassis stabilizer, you have aluminum drive shaft, disc brakes all
06:18
the way around.
06:19
I mean, it's, it's set up to run.
06:22
You know, I'm thinking is I got to figure something out with this exhaust.
06:24
I don't want to go smaller piping.
06:27
I'm thinking maybe if we had a smaller muffler, maybe that we could do like here and do a
06:34
side exhaust.
06:35
That might be the better way to do it.
06:37
So we're not running it fully out the back and we want the exhaust to evacuate as quick
06:41
as possible.
06:42
Yeah.
06:43
Well, I think we've pretty much seen everything there is to see under here.
06:47
You know what I'm thinking?
06:48
I think I know what you're thinking.
06:49
We need to see if that line lock works and do some burnouts.
06:53
I'm down.
07:05
I think we got it.
07:06
Does it sound like it?
07:08
Now that we have the Mustang here at the shop, we've driven it, we've put our eyes on it.
07:12
I got to start ordering parts.
07:14
I'm going to go through Amazon.
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I'm going to see what we need.
07:16
I'm going to make a little bit of a wishlist.
07:19
Hopefully the Amazon gods can help me out.
07:21
And phase two, once we've ordered those parts, is going to be the deconstruction with the
07:26
new construction of what is going to be our streetable drag car.
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