Supercharged 'Barn Find' Part 1

What have we got here ?

This is a treasure .

An absolute treat here may not look at it for sight .

It's a , you know , got some stuff going on here with its paint issue and we'll call it character .

It's got some character .

It does have a little bit of character .

This is an infinity G 35 you picked up for pretty cheap .

Yeah , this is the equivalent of a barn fine for us .

The most surprising thing about this particular car was is that maybe you guys , this is a little secret that carbon fiber hood with a big bulge in it .

You know what a big bulge means ?

Oh , big bulge is nice .

Still in a full , still in super charge your kit on it .

And that's what makes this a barn find because that kit is worth well , more than what you paid for this by itself .

Plus the guy like , I mean , he kind of didn't tell us a lot about the car .

I mean , obviously we bought it for cheap and he wanted it gone .

So we weren't gonna sit there and pick his brain about it .

But uh apparently this , this supercharger has been rebuilt very recently .

So all that stuff has been redone .

He was having issues getting it to run .

We actually drove it here , put a battery on it and drove it here .

So that was pretty cool .

But as we kind of dig into the car , we're sort of trying to , you know , reverse engineer , reverse decide what someone was deciding when they built this obviously full sting kit all the way down to the intake plu it has the sting , carbon fiber hood and the exhaust .

Yeah , it's got the exhaust too .

It clears the clears the blower .

So you can actually have a hood that clears the blower because normally you'd have to cut a big hole for that to sit as far as the interior goes if you come in here and you can look , the headliner is actually all sued , sued .

Headliner .

This thing's got complete suede headliner all the way down to the pillars and whatnot .

Um Obviously it's got the , you know , the flip out touch screen .

We're thinking that this was probably around a 2005 or a six kind of a build back when all this stuff was new and tricked to have the seat doesn't actually go up anymore or work at all .

So we just had to drive it home , sitting in the gangster lean gangster .

Um Overall , the car is actually in decent , decent shape .

It looks like it's been sitting outside , the driver door is a little rough .

Yeah , it got hit in the driver door .

So now we get to do the nitty gritty foam part of , uh , figuring out what is wrong and why he wanted to get rid of it for so cheap .

Is it hot ?

Yeah .

No , we got a title for it .

It's good .

See , it , not at all .

There's no flow and I don't know if , maybe it , it uses the heat , this slow heats up and then it circles itself .

It seems like it would be so much more efficient with the pump .

Yeah , that , normally they do , like any time we do these on the drift cars or anything , they've got an external pump , turn the pump on and blow it through , but the car seems to run pretty good .

You can hear the exhaust leak coming out of there .

Oh , yeah , I can hear that .

You hear it blowing the exhaust .

Yeah , you can hear the blower really get up in the front switches down there .

They're just mystery switches .

We don't know what they go to plan on .

This will be at a pump , fix the exhaust leak underneath , place the door and the seat .

We've got a replacement of both of those and then maybe coil overs , new wheels style it up a little , you know , buff the headlights out , coil overs and wheels and we'll just , we'll just , we'll just see what Derek's feeling , you know , all the things dent a door , not a door and the seat is in , it doesn't exactly match , but I think it still looks pretty good .

We still have to figure out how to make it work .

So it doesn't work .

Unbeknownst to us , apparently different model years had different plugs on the bottom of the seat .

So , even though this came out of , um , this came out of a four door G 35 from the Junkyard , the , uh , main power plug isn't the same as the main power plug on the seat we took out .

So as of right now it doesn't move , but it's already a huge improvement because it's not in the sleeping position .

So we're gonna pull that back apart and then we'll basically get a wiring diagram and then we'll just put the , uh , the old plug on there .

So that should all work when we're done .

Um , the door is swapped over the windows are having a little bit of an issue .

This control panel right here may have already been bad , but it's not controlling these front windows .

Yeah , we get a new one , swap that out .

And that's another problem that we're finding is like , must be a common issue on these is that those are always seem to be broken .

So we'll just have to keep playing around and trying our luck with junk ones or buy one off ebay or something next step .

Sorry , we didn't film gutting this all out .

But the uh , the struts are all gonna get replaced .

And , uh , what , what do you got in store ?

Yeah .

So on this , we kind of obviously we wanted to alter the look of the car because it was bone stock in like a four by four .

So what we're actually going to do on this to keep a very , uh , just like a stiffer stock height or a stiffer stock ride .

We're gonna put 3 50 coil or 3 50 Z like factory suspension on this , not coil overs , but the 3 50 Z struts lower this car between two and three inches .

Is that just a direct swap with those ?

Yep , they bolt right on .

So one bolt here , three bolts there , we can swap our struts out and basically play around and see what we wanna do with it .

So these were the factory wheels that we had on the car , obviously , when we bought it , they're not really in great shape and they're kind of ugly and they're stock and not very fun .

So if you follow me over here , we call this the pile of wheel work C R K s to raise G Games to Ewings .

Just all manners of ritzy , nice expensive wheels .

Those , those don't look special .

Yeah , those are factory R S wheels off a Subaru , those ones , they won't work .

We have the 57 Extremes anyway .

So the fun part is , is now we get to kind of pick and choose what we want to do .

So these are 19 inch wheels , which is for kind of what we do at the shop , we don't use 19 S really all that often .

So this was sort of my choice .

So for drifting , that is right .

Yeah , most of our cars , most of the drift cars and all that stuff that we do use uh 18 , 17 to 18 inch wheels .

So really , these have been kind of just chilling here .

So I kinda wanna see how good they look on the car .

So as far as the styling goes on a G 35 sedan , it would be considered , I think more of a big body car .

So nineteens are obviously going to be filling up that wheel arch a little bit .

So it's only going to be , you know , not too much lower than stock , but if you take a look at that , I think that's gonna be a pretty decent look for , for that car .

I think that looks good .

Got some good fitment here , you know , it's pretty flush on the outside .

So once the actual suspension is up , it'll , it'll be raised up a bit .

Yeah , this , this wheel will be coming up to here and then we can choose our tire size based on like how we want our fitment .

And then hopefully it turns out looking really good when we're all done .

Baller .

Yes , this is what she looks like with her new shoes .

I got new shoes .

It's got new shoes .

These are , I feel left out now .

Whoa , man , those are whack .

That looks pretty good though .

It's sitting just a hair lower than it was before .

It's not , we still got some gap there .

There's quite a bit of gap still .

We got plenty of clearance .

I mean , it just depends on what we actually are gonna decide to do with this car .

I had never put 3 50 Z suspension on a G .

Um , we had just heard that it would lower it a little bit and it did , I mean , it didn't do anything substantial , but it makes the car look way better than it did .

Like it was almost a four by four .

It was crazy .

We did clean up the rest of the inside .

It .

I mean , I think we did really good cleaned up nice .

The outside could use some help though .

Yeah , we've definitely got on special this hood .

You can see where we kind of rubbed a little bit like we won't be able to fix those cracks in the gel coat , but we are gonna be able to buff the rest of this hood out and hopefully get some of this , whatever that is on it .

That's , that's smuts .

Would you look at that ?

So next video we will clean up the hood headlights .

We got to install a water pump for the supercharger , liquid , the air cooler that sits in here and then we've got an exhaust leak right about there , but underneath that we gotta fix as well because it sounds a little ghetto and maybe just , you know , just clean it up .

Basic maintenance .

So , yeah , next video we'll , uh , get this to the point of doing some burnouts and it'll look a lot better .

Hopefully used car salesman .

Who ?

Mhm .