Restoring my First Car - The Worst Comes First!

What's up guys and welcome to today's video .

If you remember .

Not too long ago , I was lucky enough to find my very first car with the help of Mike Massey shadow , Mike Massey .

So my E 46 3 25 I , you might notice it already has the front bumper that I used to have .

This is a Z H P bumper .

It's actually a replica just like the one that I had back when I had my , the color is not perfect , but for now until I repaint the whole car because it was missing a front bumper and the rear bumper .

I now have Z H P front and rear bumpers .

The color is just a little bit off .

But today in this video , we are going to dive into the car and I'm trying to resist doing the fun stuff first and that is like coil overs wheels , putting a roof rack on it and I want to get the thing mechanically sound .

Every time I drive this car I get spider bites .

So we bug bombed it .

It's been sitting with like all the bug stuff to make it not have bugs .

So hopefully they're gone , but cleaning the interior , not something I'm excited to do .

So , it's going to come next right after this thing got dropped off .

Me and Duarte walked around and tried to make a master list of what the car needed .

He's a biggie 46 guy .

He knows a lot of the little things that fail , both mechanically and cosmetic .

So we made that master list and now we got it .

As you can see , we're starting up with a lot of parts and pretty much all this stuff is either O E or O E replacements .

I'm super excited to let you guys know that I'm working with F C P U on this project for O E stuff for aftermarket stuff .

Whenever we're ordering things for the Euro cars , we already work with F C P .

But I knew I was going to have a lot of questions because there's a lot of year variances .

There's a lot of different parts to choose and their team helped us dial in the list to make sure we got exactly what we needed .

I know some of you .

I watch my videos .

I also work at F C P and it's cool to hear from them how excited you guys are about this project .

But you don't know F C P is actually out of Milford Connecticut too .

So being that this car came from Connecticut originally and that's where I grew up at school to be working with a Connecticut company on a build that in my mind is so heavily tied to Connecticut .

I don't even know what we're going to have time to get into today .

This looks like probably like three days of work .

So first thing we got to do , open up all the boxes and come up with a plan of attack .

I know all this stuff looks exciting .

But before we get into that , we , we have an ongoing debate going on in the shop of whether or not it's gonna hurt to jump into this Jesus .

They requested that I put a cushion for my head .

I think it will be fine .

That was so funny , bro .

I don't think a single one popped .

No , no .

The disapproving dad , what is that doing ?

There ?

Just put these in masks .

You're done , dude , we may have went a little overboard .

This is the fun side .

This is all the cosmetic stuff , everything from window trim , glass seals , shift boots , lights , badges , and then this is the side that no one ever likes to do like window regulators , radiator cooling stuff .

And I want to reiterate that this car is going to have multiple stages .

And at some point , I do want to put a different engine in it .

I haven't decided yet , but stage one , I want the car to be able to drive , run safely , be able to stop , be able to run without stalling .

So we had a little ghetto fix with some JB .

Well , last time with the cooling system and now we're just going to do it right .

So , we've got new hoses , water pump , thermostat , belts , clutch fan , radiator .

We'll see how quickly we knock that out .

Usually in this scenario it wouldn't be too fun doing the cooling system because you got to deal with draining cooling , making a mess and everything .

But we're in luck because this puppy's been running with no cooling for the past couple of weeks .

So she's bone dry .

Really ?

Oh , jeez .

The burn out .

It started with cool during the burnout but it ended without the , it's just a crack .

We're coming up with a game plan .

We'll talk soon suck .

So we didn't have all these parts back when it was all a part .

First .

Steps , remove all the plastic junk .

So you see , don't , don't smell that .

Don't smell that .

Oh , it smells like , uh , another version of a to , but it smells better than TJ S .

We're probably going to tag team the cooling system first .

But while I'm removing stuff , I'm actually going to do a smoke test in this car when they get old and brittle , you'll have lots of vacuum leaks .

And that could be part of the reason why the car isn't running very well because the math is seeing a certain amount of air but the car is not actually getting it .

It's actually getting more because of the fact that air is escaping in post .

So even though it doesn't look like there's a lot coming out of this , it's like a baby oil or something that's safe for the car .

When it like fills up inside of a system , it'll start to pour out of any holes in this case .

I'm assuming there's probably a leak here .

It looks like this probably was brittle and cracked at some point and you can see that someone repaired it .

We're gonna stick a little girl in there and see .

Yeah , look at that right off the rope .

I bet y'all did .

Honestly , that's probably where 90% of the problem is coming from .

I just that one and see where they come from .

It would be cool if I could just get a new one of those .

You have another one down there , do I ?

Oh , yeah , probably .

That's cool .

How good that works .

Yeah , it has a little too much pressure .

Why should that be like the main reason ?

Like how we're gonna clean the injectors in the fuel system ?

Why should it just be like that little pin hole all the time ?

Oh , yeah , I can see the boots split down there .

All the dudes are super ty eyes watching this video right now .

These loves down in here , dude .

The love bugs are everywhere .

Oh I just broke a line .

You know , we put it to you .

We don't have to do a small test , right ?

I tell that to TJ .

Yeah , everyone's gonna be blessed in T J's ass about his bootle for like the rest of his life .

I feel bad .

Didn't want to get , what are you doing ?

Why would you start out with this ?

That's why I'm confused .

No , I wanted a tag team and I was , and I pretty much found the whole reason why the car doesn't run .

Right .

I feel like everything is gonna be like that in this engine .

I don't miss bringing cars from Connecticut .

Yuck , yay .

It's kind of common sense .

But whenever you're working anything on the intake side , if you have a lot of debris like this really , really good idea to vacuum it first .

Otherwise when you pull it off , you could end up dropping stuff in the cylinder .

Don't want that .

Usually you don't want that .

Obviously , these have seen better days , but on the off chance that you're still watching us , I want to say your name was Kevin Quezada .

And you took me to , I think it was your dad or your dad friend shop in Danbury that specialized in H ID installs back in the day .

And I remember you guys hooked it up with some H I Ds in this car .

I almost feel bad taking them out , but there's no way they still work and this is definitely old technology .

But working on this car is like going down memory lane , we were just pulling out the cabana filter me remembering , like , when me changing that I was looking up forums and Diy s and shut up Cabana filter , bro .

I was like 16 .

So literally , I think I was 15 when I started working on this car .

Yeah , I knew how to work on a bike though .

I'm like , honestly , like , yeah , bikes are pretty easy to convert to cars .

I like puzzles though .

And that's definitely what a BMW is .

Look at that .

Not even self tappers , just wood screws .

Yeah , it's fine .

It's fine .

So the reason why I'm moving , this is because if there's any power anywhere in those wires , we're probably gonna get some shorts and we only wear pants around here , your camera guy with the jokes .

So these were for the angel eyes that I had at one point and , uh , I'm actually gonna be putting them back in , but again , I'm just deleting all the old wiring that I don't trust anymore .

Look , I , I tapped into a wire in the fuse box .

Look at me .

Angel Eye .

I know .

And it honestly , one of them still worked too .

I can't wait to put those back in later .

You know , I don't even remember using a relay , but I guess I did want to leave this and make my life easier when I'm putting them back in .

I shouldn't be taking the headlights off right now .

But I'm like , there's too much mess and chaos going on and I just want it gone stressing me out a fun fact .

There's no 10 mil bolts or screws anywhere holding the headlights in .

That wasn't me .

Someone wanted to steal my angel eyes .

I guess the before and after it's gonna go stupid .

Yeah .

Go , go injectors got a lot of crud in them .

Thankfully we have an injector cleaner .

A little trick that Jaimie Marsh taught me was actually before putting an injector cleaner , open them backwards and then sending a little bit of compressed air through them to just blow it any debris .

And you can actually see it usually on paper .

If there was anything that came out of the feed side , you wanna ask me where the feed was ?

Because he's removing the fuel rail .

I said it's in the trunk .

Yo , someone took it out , there's a bag in here , the feed , there's literally a bag of like feed for animals .

That's why that was it .

Yeah .

Where did you put it ?

I think we took out .

Ruin my joke .

It's weird .

Someone took the head and they like tilted sideways .

I don't know .

It was kind of , isn't that weird ?

Why ?

Why does he love you do that ?

Did you see that ?

All right .

So I grab a seven because has a lot of seven , no , seven mil bolts and nuts and this battery or , I mean , this fuel fuel to cover has a seven mil and a eight mil .

Come on , pick one .

Hm .

Oh man .

It still is good .

That's the , that's the fuel filter , the fluid pump , the fluid pump filter , fluid pump filter rain on me .

This looks like a regulator , right ?

Am I wrong ?

That's right .

Where the regulator is ?

Makes sense because there's no like free return on the fuel fuel line .

Put this on there .

Well , there you go .

Fluid filter machines .

This is not how you're supposed to take the radiator out .

It just worked out .

I wish we're Nissan mechanics .

Ok .

What the kicks , bro ?

One , super cool thing about F C pe is they actually have a lifetime warranty on their parts .

So whether a part wears out or something goes wrong , you essentially order a second one and then when you ship the old one back , they'll actually refund your order .

So all you end up paying is the cost of return shipping .

People do have brake pads , oil and it's legit .

It sounds too good to be true .

But just a cool thing that F C pe does .

Nothing serious .

You get off the phone , dude , she's pissing me off .

There you go .

New Yone .

I mean , New Thermo .

That very nice .

Everybody in this room wearing a black shirt had an E 46 .

Yep , Mike .

You're wearing gray .

So you didn't have no E 46 .

Nope , blah , blah , blah .

And everyone's except for mine was manual .

Boom .

Wow .

What does that say ?

We all broke you ?

Money , stuff that we're inventing ?

New new techniques , John , things like that .

So once this is in place and it just attaches to this bird poop on my new M three seats , it just so happened that Duarte happened to have a set of black E 46 M three seats that have been sitting right here on this over here .

I was just scrolling by on my daily route , you know , checking on my gators .

We got baby gators on , Maybe we can go find one and I saw him sitting here .

So I gave him a ring .

Hey , pal , how much for your seats ?

He goes .

They're yours , baby .

So the 46 sedan is getting black M three seats .

They're not perfect , but I'd say they're about 15 to 20% better than the ones that are in my car and they'll have nice bolsters since now , but I've evolved into a better driver .

I really got to get stuck in my seat .

I can't be flying around as I'm shredding the compound in my E 46 325 by automatic sedan and pushing about 183 ft pounds of horse power and torque .

They're equal because it's a really efficient motor .

Get her hummed .

That's your seat .

Yes .

Thank you .

My seat .

Remove the lug .

Hello .

Yo , this sucked .

It was fighting me .

I did like put way more rings than you're supposed to .

You're supposed to use 10 ring .

I used way more than 10 ring .

It's ok though .

Oh , are we leaking ?

No leaks ?

We're good .

Nothing better than putting new headlights in a car .

Not gonna lie .

This thing is definitely a bit of a departure from the normal cars we used to working on .

We kind of got spoiled with all the clean , simplified race cars , but Johann killed it on getting the complicated intake manifold back together and we're about to start it and see if it runs better than it did before .

With fuel system cleaned .

All the vacuum leak , fixed , completely overhauled cooling system with all the goodies from F C P fingers crossed .

Uh You put a jump back on it .

It's a brand new battery , brand new because I didn't connect the positive all the way and the battery might not charge .

Remember that stupid wire that came through the intake and then back through here and then , yeah , bro , you don't have compression .

Is there no plugs in the matter ?

I don't , I didn't touch them .

You , you guys took him up maybe unless the is freaking out .

You go drive by wire .

Oh man .

Who just , who just needed the fuel ?

Yeah , I ran better before .

Maybe we should put the old stuff back on better .

Yeah , it almost went to idle and I didn't used to do that before .

I probably need the E C U .

The guys every start , it gets better and the guys unplug the map .

Yeah , I just need to do that , you know , I'll have that .

All we need is a math .

We did all that for math .

We did all that B for math like lots of actively .

Yo John .

Sure .

Yeah , we're about to miss our flight as much as I'd love to say and , and rev this 180 100 power sick mobile .

I'll have to catch you guys soon .

Uh next video when we dive into this thing .

Yeah , I want to work on that , that I think even that on the left is going to like get me excited to work out .

We got a lot more cool stuff to do on this .

Now , we can dive into the fun , cosmetic stuff and seats and wheels and all the things that make the car look cool now that it , I'm just kidding .

So the one he knows God .