Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby NitroDann » Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:51 pm

Lol.

And I felt better when the doctor gave me sugar tablets to fix my flu.

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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby hks_kansei » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:29 pm

Anybody remember Djhives?

welded a couple of flat sections of steel over the boot opening and claimed it felt much stiffer.
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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby Dweezle » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:33 pm

Hahaha that guy was fantastic!!!
Though I do feel the forum died a little the day he signed up.

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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby hks_kansei » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:59 pm

Dweezle wrote:Hahaha that guy was fantastic!!!
Though I do feel the forum died a little the day he signed up.


Yeah.

He was an "interesting" individual if you did some e-stalking.
Banned from pretty much every forum, has written a book which is banned from import to Australia because it contains some apparently rather violent and hate filled speech.
And some other stuff that I can't remember now.

But yeah.
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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby PaulF » Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:16 pm

So they doubled the horsepower on a $2000 car without any real attention to suspension, brakes, cooling or the rest of the drivetrain? Great example for their audience, which mostly consists of teenagers just getting into cars.

(Even if this isn't 100% correct, it's the impression that I get from the videos.)

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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby 22Silver » Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:26 pm

PaulF wrote:So they doubled the horsepower on a $2000 car without any real attention to suspension, brakes, cooling or the rest of the drivetrain? Great example for their audience, which mostly consists of teenagers just getting into cars.

(Even if this isn't 100% correct, it's the impression that I get from the videos.)


They do address it.
He ends up putting some new shocks and springs, I believe he ends up putting bigger brakes, does what seems to be the coolant reroute, and recommends an LSD and something else too.
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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby emily_mx5 » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:09 pm

I think what Paul means, which I have thought from the beginning, is that they went straight to power, and left all the other bits till after. Not a very wholistic approach to it :/


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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby Okibi » Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:14 pm

Lets be fair, they are addressing the other things AND teaching their audience to "take it to the track".

Did they do it all at once? Hell no, they're using the MX-5 to do a series of videos.

I have a huge amount of respect for the hard work and hours these guys put in to produce their show.
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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby NitroDann » Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:32 pm

They make a lot of money doing it.

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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby Sean » Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:09 pm

NitroDann wrote:They make a lot of money doing it.

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They don't actually make much - well under what I'd imagine the average hourly wage of forum users on here make.

If they wanted to sell out they had the opportunity to make good money at one stage, save for a lack of ideas on what to make new episodes about...
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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby Pokmx5 » Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:12 am

Moog is a music producer for some high powered clients so his set.

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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby NitroDann » Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:16 am

I'd really nee to see proof of that.

You can easily do the math on what they earn from youtube page views and its like 8k/month not including any merch or advertising.

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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby Timmeh » Mon Oct 07, 2013 7:53 pm

NitroDann wrote:I'd really nee to see proof of that.

You can easily do the math on what they earn from youtube page views and its like 8k/month not including any merch or advertising.

Dann

Check out his facebook page mate.
https://www.facebook.com/blairjoscelyne ... ion=stream

He has done some pretty big name stuff and you'd be surprised on how much of his stuff you actually see on tv.
Hyundai, Domino's Pizza, Jetstar, Nova, AAMI, Origin Energy and Mazda to name a few.

A few examples.


This one


and this aswell
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Re: Mighty Car Mods builds a Turbo NA

Postby NitroDann » Mon Oct 07, 2013 7:58 pm

Sweet, I think he is good, dont get me wrong, just didnt think he would be doing that stuff.

Power to him.

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