The GT350's New Engine Arrived!

I'm so excited .

It's here , it's here .

Dominic just dropped it off and it is 1 30 in the morning taking everything in me right now to not start mocking this thing up in the stang .

All right guys , welcome to today's video .

As you see by the title .

It is pretty exciting times and I have to be fully transparent with you before we actually pull the engine in the Mustang .

We kind of had a plan to do this .

I kind of may have already had the engine on the way , but this G T D 50 right here is going to be the proud home of a bar , Alberto .

You wanna give them a basic rundown real quick on what you know about this thing right here before I fill them in on the rest .

All I know is in line six and it makes like horse power very easily .

And I'm pretty excited to build one of these .

I never built one myself .

I never seen one in person myself .

Very excited to be part of this project .

So I actually reached out to you guys on Instagram and you connected me with a guy by the name of Dominic from Dominator Motorsports and he had a bunch of Barras in stock .

So if you're not familiar with this , this is a four liter in line six made by Ford , sold in a lot of different cars in Australia .

They like to refer to it as the mighty Bera because with a few little internals in this thing making 1000 horsepower is no sweat .

Now , they're big , they're heavy .

I think they weigh somewhere around £500 in its current state .

It's about two inches taller than a Jay Z which we have over here for reference .

Alberto , can I lift the cover or is this all secret is still secret ?

It's very much anyway , it's about two inches taller because it's so tall and because it's so heavy , it's not super common for like drift car swaps .

Coincidentally there is one car in Australia that I know of , that is an S 550 that's doing a bear swap , but it's a drift car and what I want to do .

What , how many videos behind is this going to be from now ?

I think we're like three videos behind .

So this will be up in like three days .

Uh I don't know if I didnt need enough time to reveal .

That is like , Albert is like , I didn't want to edit tonight so much work into that thing and like , all right , that's fine .

That's fine .

But anyway , um there's one car that I know of in Australia that is an S 550 with a beer .

It's a drift car .

And what I want to do with this is a little bit different .

I really thought it was cool .

How Trevor got that Jay Z to work in the S 550 with the cluster .

All working .

I don't know if you had AC in it , but if we can make this like a street car with the beer have working AC have a cluster , all the O E M functionalities work .

It would basically be like a factory turbo in line six S 550 .

So it's obviously going to complicate things a little bit that we have no harness left and I'm still searching for a front clip or something that I can rob parts from .

But what we're going to do today is kind of go over a little bit of what our plans are with this , mock it up in the engine bay , take some measurements .

Alberto ?

Do you , do you , do you , do you not like ?

But it makes cars so much more enjoyable to drive .

It doesn't make it enjoyable to work on them .

Yeah , exactly .

But look how big it is .

Like the , the OK .

So my logic with it , I think I explained this to you guys already .

It's such a capable chassis you can put on so much power .

It would be almost a joke .

To make anything less than 1000 .

You gonna find it short .

Let me find it short .

A hold on .

I , I was gonna diagnose the AC was not K on , hold on .

I can't figure out the wires for the same matter .

So it was either do like I thought an R B 30 might be cool , but R V s are like super complicated and we've already done a bunch with it .

And once I found a bear state side , it is so unbelievably simple , you know , getting some of the parts from Australia has proven to be a little bit complicated , but dominator does have quite a bit in stock .

Um Obviously , we'll talk about this a little bit .

So there's different generations .

This is the F G , there's an importer in California that constantly posts these for sale .

But as far as I know all theirs are the B A ones .

And it's really important to have the F G because what I understand the head flows a bit better and it's rear sump , which is what you need for most swaps .

If it was front , it would basically not work with where this cross member is .

So what we're about to do now and we're very excited to do is toss this thing in there and kind of see how it lies , take some measurements .

So we can figure out what we could do for exhaust manifold , what we could do for intake manifold and then kind of fill you guys from there on what the plans are and kind of what the rough timeline is looking like on this thing .

I'm curious too , like I want to know what you guys think I should do with paint on this .

I know I asked you in the last video .

But what , let's be that it's not gonna clear the , well , we already know that the thing is on this oil paint .

It has this weird looking like fin thing .

Would you say that is now ?

Does it pick up ?

No , no , no , no .

It's a shark fin .

I know that all pick up two goes through an air after seeing some illustration .

So it's like it's called the Shark Fin , not a boat .

Alberto , you can use this for marine and put it in the front of the boat and it's already like , not good .

You just put a propeller and you just imagine .

Imagine if Alberto was Australian .

Imagine if you had an Australian accent and said , Alberta , what do your best Australian accent for me when we work on the bar ?

Hey , mate , imagine this had a propeller on it .

You can actually like make the whole thing go some how his voice got higher pitch when he was talking in Australian .

That's funny .

Um All right , the who , who it , it will go as fast as a turbo .

Uh What a wanker .

All right , let's throw this thing in there .

Hey , mate .

Well , you guys , the , yeah , I got it , bro .

I'm curious how it's gonna work with the electric power steering stuff in the way as well .

If it'll , like , kind of tuck behind it .

It should , it'll go back more .

It is crazy how far it's gonna sit back the s already .

Yeah , we call it that .

It might actually tuck behind it though .

We've got , we have like a few inches back here .

But , uh , it needs to go lower though .

Yeah , I'm not too worried about the pain in this .

Uh , I don't think it's gonna work at .

Oh , it's , it's , it's , it's laying on it .

It's like a boat thing under the boat , you know , like that's what I was saying .

You put on the back and it just , all right .

Take two .

No sway bar .

Will it fit if that is it ?

I mean , if it doesn't , we can always just put this .

Yeah .

Sure .

Sounds good to me .

It's actually going to be tighter than I thought the pan is actually hitting the cross member a little bit .

So , looking at the photos from the S 5 50 in Australia , I kind of neglected to realize that one's actually right hand drive .

So the steering shaft is on the other side and it looked like it had a normal power steering rack where this is the whole electric power steering that gets way more in the way with that fin thing .

But I'm curious , we can rest the hood on it now , will it fit ?

Because it does have that little hump ready ?

Feel like those went down instead of up if we could find a mustang in the same color .

I'm pretty sure it's there .

Oh , yeah .

It's , it , we could just try cutting it out .

Yeah , I stopped bulge like downwards .

Yeah .

It's hard to tell too if that's like , what was caused by the buyer or not .

Is there anyone there ?

But this , this looks about the same ?

Right .

Yeah , it's just a start out .

Right .

I'm having second thoughts .

I kinda wanna know your opinion .

Should we try to resurrect this chassis and try to save it and have it be the burned down G G D 50 that went bear swap or should we just kind of use this for a mock up and then get a , like , cleaner , maybe wrecked or blown up .

Mustang G T or something ?

Since 90% of the G D 3 50 parts are going to come off it .

Or we could just swap them from this one on another one .

I don't know what to do .

I see .

For starters .

We just , if we just trim like this section , I think that'll be enough .

Yeah , it'll cut it .

Oh , my God .

That's easy .

Yeah .

It worked better than my scissors back in preschool .

Construction .

It feels like cutting construction paper with regular scissors .

For some reason .

I can't picture you as a child .

Cutting construction paper .

I feel like I feel like you were still building like K series when you were 12 .

I was just signing there .

Yeah , I never owned one .

Of course , Alberta leaves the hard part for me .

I was an Adam .

He has curve and elevation changes too and he just died at the end .

Look at that , right at the finish line .

Look at this dude .

It's so light .

Feel it .

Oh , There's waste nothing .

It's like it's aluminum .

So that's why it was so easy to cut .

All right .

Round two Albo .

Let's do it .

Oh What the hell is that ?

Yeah .

Mm Yeah .

What's going on the side ?

Of course , you tell me the round three .

You bye .

Hello .

She from that hit the , I don't know for like the size of right now with the intake manifold off and the engine is sitting a little bit lower .

We get a try for a third time to see if the hud will fit .

We think Alberto , I think we , we shall see .

Yeah .

Where's the touching this thing ?

What all the room in the world now , let , let the look at that .

It's wild without the manifolds .

There's so much room for activity if we wanted to put the biggest turbo imaginable .

If we want to put three tours in here compared to most of the engine bases , we're , we're used to working on , this is a lot of space and then even on the intake manifold side too , a little crooked now .

But you had an idea .

Well , Alberto begins disassembly of the Bear .

Me and Johann are tearing this thing a little bit more and removing what we can and seeing what's salvageable from here back .

It looks like the only portion of the harness that might still be salvageable .

I don't know about the wires running this way , but the fire did not get this side of the bay nearly as bad as this side .

I'm afraid that we might actually end up having to do the splicing inside the cabin because it's so melted all in here .

So I know this is something that I mentioned to you guys briefly the other day .

I'm curious your input on it because me , Johan and Alberto are all kind of like on the same page about it .

Um , getting the harness and finding a G G 3 50 front clip where we could confidently know that everything would work in the dash and the cluster climate controls , um , is proving to be rather difficult because all the parts that I can find .

It seems like the first thing that they do is they cut out the engine as quickly as they can cut up the harness , trash the shell because no one wants it .

Um And the idea kind of came about maybe we could get a car that's the same color like a front end collision .

Mustang G T like five oh and transfer .

You know , the G T 3 50 special bits from this , you know , like keep the same seats , keep the same rear end , keep the fenders , keep the burnt hood .

I don't know if you guys want to see the bear mustang or if you want to see a burnt car be brought back to life .

I'm just concerned that it's going to be extremely difficult and a big headache trying to source all the little random stuff we need for this engine bay without either buying a full front clip and transferring everything over and having to repaint this or getting a car that's like together and then just kind of fixing that .

So where , where are you guys at with ?

I want to hear your , your opinions for me .

It wouldn't be the same if it's not this car , but I understand you .

You know why you're bringing it up .

Um , would it be easier ?

Yeah , a lot easier , but it will be special to bring this car back .

We all could say we all driven this car so we all know how special this car is because it's just , you know , there's nothing crazy about it but it's just , it's a good car .

It's a great car .

So , but we could take all the parts from this car and just pop it on another Mustang .

That's it .

Everything is .

I mean , it's , it's like almost the same thing we gotta see .

Like I know that's probably additional bracing on this car which you might be able to bolt onto the other one and so on .

But the , the important thing , if you get a collision , car or whatever , we're gonna make sure it's straight , at least this one is straight .

So from what I understand , the biggest difference with the G G 3 50 obviously , the drive train , the suspension is slightly different .

Um And in the later years , they came out with a performance pack for the G T which almost made it very similar to the G 3 50 in terms of suspension , it had the same big Brembo , but I still think the allure of the G 3 50 was the different gearbox was the engine which we were both removing and then the aesthetics like the different hood bumpers , uh trunk fenders , which we could just take off this car and the interior .

So I think in terms of chassis , it's not really that much different .

It would literally just be if we're trying to preserve and like , really , you know , the fact that this car was the car that caught on fire .

Um I mean , even if we , so if we don't use this card for this specific swap , it , I know it's gonna be used for something else .

So it's not like we're not gonna ever see it again .

I , I think , yeah , have all the plans for it .

If we don't use it for the swap , we don't we don't have any real drive trains later on that we could just toss in it .

The only thing that I feel like this would be good for would be like a drift car where , you know , we have a plug and play , like stand alone with no sort of integration , just ignition and go drive .

Especially because here's , here's another big thing .

I haven't told you this guys .

I don't know how you're gonna feel about it .

A cool transmission that we can do that .

I'm planning to do is a six R 80 .

So it's an automatic transmission that came in some Mustangs , but I'm actually going to get one from an F 150 where it's a six speed .

Um you paddle shifted trans brake capable , standalone controlled automatic transmission that can hold about like 8 50 wheel reliably or built can handle about 1500 because putting down 1200 horsepower on a stick shift car is going to be very difficult and I think it would be fun to kind of do something a little different .

So what I fail to mention was that car that I showed you already had the automatic transmission , all the sort of stock E C U controls drive shaft , everything all bolted up to where all we would need to do is adapt it to this engine versus taking a manual car and making it auto .

The one that I was looking at , I mean , you could take the V eight engine and put it on this and turn into a car .

I mean , that is another option .

I know .

I know a guy .

Yeah , because we could just take that E C U but again , no chassis harness .

But I guess that'd be easy enough to just switch wire .

Simplify it .

You got it , send it , I mean , that , but I don't need another drift car .

That's the problem that you have it .

Ok .

So it would be really interesting .

I know Vaugh uh is able to make mustangs , like , pretty light and everything .

But I'm curious , like if we stripped out a new mustang , like what we could get it down to like full on ignorance .

Cut out stuff .

Wait like 4000 or something ?

Absurd .

Yeah .

Where are their cars at ?

Like 27 20 8000 ?

No , I think they're still like 3200 or something .

Like all the room in this car they have like , once you take the and everything , it's like you have like all the room ever that , that idea of turning this into a drift car with a G T would be kind of cool .

Like , but then I , then I , then I'm stuck with another car , bro .

What do I need a Mustang drift car for ?

I know .

But then we got to get , but then we still have to get all the parts of this things missing .

Yeah , we still have to figure out a radiator still have to figure out .

I guess we have to figure out a condenser .

You got to figure out all the pedal assembly crap .

We still need to worry about all controlling the power steering unless we do a manual rack .

That's an idea for sure .

Hm .

Thinking I would not want to give away a burnt car .

Oh , yeah .

Poor person .

Are we about to see what's underneath the oil pan here ?

I'm so curious about seeing what's underneath that .

That is kind of weird .

The boat shaped thing .

Yeah .

Oh my God , this is , well , that is a weird design .

Huh ?

So it does have , it just like a spacing for that is a big suffering for all that .

Dang .

That was wild .

You don't want to damage that , Han , what do you think ?

I know you used to work at a , uh G D M importing place .

It's not J D M but it's , well , the G D M stuff is a different smell .

It has like an American .

It kind of like kind of like vegemite .

Vegemite .

Yeah .

Doesn't it , is it the feel or the fact that it's in , I don't know , similar to this as well ?

Hm .

Yeah , that the turbo motors have a different smell .

That's what happens when you're cool and you have women around you .

Uh , it does smell before we start pulling apart the Barra because we do have the tools that we need to pull the Pulleys off .

Now I'm gonna do a little test spot in the bay with some aircraft paint remover and see how easy this paint comes up .

So I know what I'm getting into .

If I do want to go ahead and try to prep this all for paint , I've used this before when stripping some style fives that I built for my E 46 .

So , what I'm going to do is spray one little section here and let it sit for 45 minutes and see how well it works .

Otherwise , I might have the option of getting some sort of portable media blaster or something to try to clean it up that way .

But this is not going to be fun to try to dial in with a sander .

It looks like it's doing something only about 20 minutes in and I can see it starting to love the paint .

It's working a lot better than I thought it would .

That's impressive .

Now , this is sick .

Just take the paint right off right down to bare metal .

That's awesome .

Looks like I might need to do a little bit thicker coats in some places , but this can make life so easy .

Brandy , stopped by to ridicule my paint stripping work .

So you , you , you know how to fix burn cars .

We do this all the time .

So what do you do ?

Uh , pretty much , we'll just go ahead and water , sand .

It beat it with a first .

We'll beat it with a pressure washer and we'll just kind of scuff through it and put two K primer on it .

So it'll seal it .

Sand .

A two K primer , lay some ba and clear .

So I'm , I'm making your life a lot harder by doing this .

Yeah .

All right .

So , I'm gonna stop , I'm just gonna drop the car off at your bay and we'll pick it up and I'm thinking like a pink on your bay .

You got any leftover paint ?

No , no , no , no , no , no , none of that .

None of that .

I'm pulling off the fenders right now to try to .

I mean , what do you , how much do you want pulled off if I'm gonna drop this thing off to you ?

All right , we'll put off the cradle , we'll fix , we'll paint the cradle back to black you .

We'll pressure wash that off to see what we can reuse .

I mean , that'd be sick .

I'm game , I think .

And you were saying you might even be able to salvage the hood and make it fit better .

Well , that saves me time .

All right .

So while we dissemble this , I just want to let you guys know that , uh , we are going to be going with some rather mild power goals for the build , but for what we're used to doing , this thing is gonna make some power .

Alberto , what numbers do you want to see out of this thing ?

A lot ?

All of it .

So , our goal , which is a modest goal for a bar , uh especially with the mods that we're gonna be doing is to make four digit horsepower .

Where do I think it's going to land probably somewhere between 1000 and 1200 wheels .

So we're going to show you guys the process of disassembling this .

Um I'll kind of tell you some of the things we're gonna be upgrading and then once we have parts and once we get it back from the machine shop , we can begin assembly .

But these engines are super , super simple , even with dual variable cams still just looking at this thing .

Neither of us have seen one before and it's very , very self explanatory in regards to how everything works .

I got a little bit alarmed at first when I saw that this thing had Rocker arms because you guys know S RT 20 plus Rocker arms equals bad time .

But these are similar to the ones that are on like a four G +63 and they don't tend to fly off like S RT 20 do .

Neither of us are super knowledgeable on the Vera .

But I will say as we're kind of delving into it , we're getting a lot of knowledge from online , from other people .

And what it seems like is a fair assumption is if we wanted to make say 506 100 with this engine which originally was in A , I know it's a little bit weaker in the bottom end .

But the two most important things that people do with these are valve springs and oil pump gears .

So if we were doing just a very cheap and quick rebuild , we would just do valve springs and oil pump gears .

But like I said , we are going all out four digit horsepower bust because this is a chassis that can handle big power .

This is probably one of the few times that I'm like , all right , we can shoot for the moon and the car will be able to put the power down one comfortable thing right off the bat that we have noticed .

There are marks for the proper timing of engines .

So disassembling this , we don't have to really worry too much because on the O E M chain , there are little yellow marks that we'll just be able to line right up .

Now , we are going to be using a new O E M chain .

Um But just an interesting thing we're noticing as we go through this .

I think it's really cool .

The design of the actual cam caps are almost like a main girdle .

It's kind of cool how they're all braced together .

I don't know that that's actually something that an engine would need for any sort of strength , but it just kind of looks cool .

Another really cool thing .

Um You guys know that we've had issues with wood rift keys before on different engines .

Look at how massive this is , it's not like a tiny little one that can just break or slide off .

That thing is huge .

Slide out .

Me and Alberto have both had our fun with broken woodruff keys .

Ain't that right ?

Alberto ?

So , subject loose .

Crank bolts , ridiculously tight tolerance .

Crank bolts .

I need to go to like £400 or £500 or something .

Like , I don't even have a tool that goes out .

Are you talking about my R B or your BMW engine ?

Really ?

BMW .

S the same way I gonna break the rotary too .

No , we're gonna have to go the water pump for that , but it has like a double gasket .

Why is it that every water pump looks fair ?

Like Alberta .

You ever noticed that ?

But see if I spin this , you see this like part , it has to like crush but there's a gasket between this part and this and then another gasket between this and the , and the engine .

So , like , how do you replace that one gas ?

You almost have to replace the whole pump to get it to seal properly .

Right .

I , I wouldn't know this is my first pair .

It is , it is mine too .

But yeah , I believe that we don't work unless you put a new one for some reason .

Uh It's always nice when it just pops out .

So I assume in this Alberto is what we would take apart when we go to replace those gears with billet ones , but I also got an aftermarket backing plate um because I guess these are prone to failure as well .

Kind of interesting .

It is interesting .

We should open it up .

I'm game also , since this is another Australian engine , I guess the R B isn't , but I'm still going to go ahead and compare it to an R B .

Check out the engagement that the oil pump gets on the crank shaft .

If you guys remember on some RBS , that point of engagement is really small and it's a very common mod to add an extended snout .

So it has better engagement .

This one has a big chunk in there .

Very cool Birdo trick .

We have to take out Phillips bolts that just to make sure that doesn't strip them .

It's an impact Phillip crew bolt driver thing , whatever it's called .

But yeah , it's used for this kind of bolts .

Did I hit it ?

And he was like , oh , I , I didn't realize that .

I thought you were just tapping it to like get it in deeper and then you're screwing with your hand when you're hitting it , it's making it turn spring loaded , turn .

No way .

That's sick at the moment .

You touch it .

You're gonna break this tip .

I had it for years .

Now , why do you think Alberto that uh everyone breaks his oil pump gears ?

What would your guest be without knowing the actual reason ?

Not sure .

Well , for once is like , it doesn't sit center like some other pumps that I've seen some , like , for example , A C has like AAA front part that like centers onto the housing .

This one is like free spinning so it doesn't have that support .

So you need like added strength material to maintain rigidity , especially the revenue that high Alberta .

What just happened off camera ?

I was what you got there in your hand , dude .

I don't know why you just scared the crap out of me for like two Children .

I'm , I'm running around with a leaf blower .

He's running around with the torch .

Yeah , it did land on our arms .

We have now maybe it's an Australian wasp that came in the barrow .

Mhm One interesting thing you'll notice Alberta is not just zapping those with an impact like I probably would and you want to explain your reasoning why this way to familiarize like with each bolt on the on the motor .

That way I know about how tight it should be and I will familiarize myself with it and I know if something is right or wrong later , upgraded CAMS isn't a very common thing to do on these engines .

I'm guessing because they're both variable .

It isn't really necessary .

People commonly make four digit horsepower , the stock cams .

No , also as I've explained , please remember guys , this isn't us making a video instructing you guys how to disassemble a bear or telling you that we are the most knowledgeable people .

I'm sure .

There's a million videos in Australia explaining things with all of their knowledge that they have acquired over the years .

This is two people that like to mess with Jay Z and R B and delving into a new fancy .

Uh I guess this would be um what's it called in video games ?

A new map , a new world , new territory .

Yeah , this is our D L C package .

Our Australia D L C package .

We got the bar next up is an R B 30 .

Pretty cool .

Got it .

The lifters and the rocker and maybe that's why they don't fall off .

A look .

Can't fall off .

Why did Nissan think of that ?

So you're just ling , you're telling me you're already taking the hat off .

Is that easy ?

Now , what was this big special socket that we didn't have ?

Well , I should say you didn't have , but I had 18 .

I was not that tight .

That was gonna be like super tight .

That is one thing that's going to be getting replaced along with the head gasket whenever you're ready .

Puppy glued on .

Oh , ah , M R s .

Yes .

Paper thing .

No , it's factory MLS .

So one thing that you guys will notice this is a four liter engine , but if you look at the block , it doesn't have the craziest stroke .

It's all in the piston board .

So compared to most other engines that are like 86 mil pistons , this is actually a 92 Mil Piston .

So , you , I see that the , the half of the is sticking out the bottom of the block .

I know it doesn't have anything now .

It's just like the shortest block ever .

That's probably why the pan is so deep .

Yeah .

And that's why it has to have the oil pickup tube under the current shaft , stuff .

Like outside of the oil pan .

Like a special probation just for that .

Oh , that makes sense .

All right .

Break it to me , doctor .

How are we looking ?

That's , that's gross .

And it looks like very , like Ford naturally aspirated old engine specs .

Is this what your explore engine looked like when you took it apart ?

C G E got one layer steel too .

So the good news is , it looks like the cylinder walls look good .

I don't see any sort of detonation or any sort of damage .

It's actually a good thing that this thing is N A because it's less likely to have any sort of damage like that .

You went to a hardware to get the current bolt again .

He's making a joke because it looks like an ace bolt .

It doesn't look like an ace bolt .

What is this ?

What is this for a crank bolt ?

We have to get a A R P replacement for this .

Is that what I think it is ?

Just scan it and see what , what price , price check up on the bar .

Do you think my phone would scan it ?

Right .

That's kind of crazy .

There's a barcode on the piston .

What is this scanning for you ?

Alberto ?

No way .

What did it pull up ?

A gunman ?

B two spirit A plane ?

What if it uses the same pistons ?

Alberto ?

Wow .

You know , a piston cost $44.75 billion .

Why do they have the barcode for that ?

I have no idea what else , what the app show now mean ?

Ok .

I thought it was a water jacket but it's clearly a head drain .

Like I was trying to explain to you Alberto .

Oh , gosh , it's like why is there all of my water jacket ?

Like that's a head drain and whatever I'm trying to learn out here seems like it rotates pretty smooth , huh ?

Dude , it does look at this .

What was that for ?

Hm .

£200 for , and there goes my cylinder walls so we can order the correct bearings .

We need to check and see how the bearings look to see if we're gonna need oversized ones .

And what is the , uh , consensus Alberto based on that one bearing still looks ?

Ok .

It's not bad .

I think that coating might be a stern , may be starting to wear off .

I'll have to just completely clean the bearing and inspect .

I'll take some photos too .

How's your kid , sir ?

Yeah , the definitely have quite a bit of wear on the bearings .

No , I'm gonna start .

It started a big cam .

I take this heavy old cruncher off .

Right .