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all right we're in here in Yelm Washington today and Louie's gonna show

us his drift truck you may have seen this in previous videos and I'll probably do another

montage at the end of it but he's going to take us through the ins and outs of

this unique truck build so let's get started where I'm going to start off

with the pickup it's the 87 Toyota pickup it was a junker in a junkyard

spent $250 on the truck originally it was primer gray primer gray primer gray

I think Factory was the tannish color

and what is the color actually I mean it looks like it's black but it's got this

blue metal flake I don't know if the camera will pick it out or RSX Acura RSX

color so it's got blue pearl okay I guess we'll start with the motor cuz

you're saying I mean the big thing about this is

think about this this is a small-block Chevy right and which one is it like

what year 75 Chevy pickup yep it's got high rev heads I rise and take manifold

it has 30 over motor roller rockers cam what do you do to stop getting dry Bowl

when you're out there sliding around is there anything you do no I haven't

done anything I just kind of got lucky actually gotcha okay yeah no okay no it wasn't cutting out on you ?

cool that seems to be when everybody thinks when you go carb car I thought

about going EFI live maybe later on down the road actually my big plans for

this vehicle is to put an LS in it you already got the transmission for it yep

so this is a t56 now and then obviously you've got a lot of fabrication in this

area you put in did you buy a 240 SX when I cut it up or did you just happen

to find some sub frames up yeah a buddy of mine totaled his car so I got a 98

Nissan 240 front sub frame and rear so you got S14 yep nice yep and cut the

whole truck to pieces very cool and there was one thing you're

talking about that you did with the suspension geometry that you were

talking to me about yes which was you set it all up so that it's it's factory

ride high is this low so that you didn't have to run a special lower control arms right so

this is all factory everything factory yep what did you do to overcome our

where did you for steering there's not a lot of room in here well the steering

what didn't work out that was actually a big hurdle that I ran into so this is

out of a 91 mr2 which is also Toyota part which I really like yeah

and it's full hydraulic steering so yes this has full hydraulic so is there like

a PSC Ram hidin in here or something 14 okay so it has a s 14 rack in it but I'm

missing something there is this electric over hydraulic that's just keeping it so

instead of it being off of here runs off is all off of a switch you flip a switch

on and turn the wheel left right and it works that's awesome so you never have

to worry about it getting hotter once they get hot or like just not having

enough going into price yeah so did you have to run a bigger

alternator to get enough power to keep the thing going as he got an auxiliary battery?

that's factory alternator there okay cool

and then now what's inside I mean what's

alright just a grant wheel and then what are these seats out of these are like s14 seats maybe I'm wrong

maybe somebody in the comments could tell me which seats these are I like the

headrests they look familiar for some reason maybe Honda I don't know so you

got some black and some grey where'd you paint this is that what

happened yeah ah was painted in the brown pieces it'll come out it may be

the very cool no tach this was actually I thought the rear of this was gonna be

the easiest and it turned out to be the hardest is that due to keeping it square

well the subframe when I set the rear subframe up under the pickup it didn't

fit in between the frame rails and hit all these a arms here so I had to cut

the back of the frame off I here and to hold back half so I can

get rails where I wanted them so that the gas tank sitting inside of this yep

did you use the factory gas tank factory nice that's clever

yeah this reused that popped in there looks all yeah and then so what's our

coil did you know these are I think they were no tien it's possible they're

really different Springs on this I'm talking actually about these are here oh

I don't know they should they work they work that's it go on and obviously

that's so that explains this yeah this is the frame rails so that means this

whole subframe this factory diff has just got like a vsld be in it or like a

viscous lsd in it ? its welded now you just welded in that pack weld it up okay it's

all up so far yeah it probably doesn't get enough traction you're really that's

over work it yeah you know gotcha did you as their knuckle kit on it or

anything like that right now or huh there is okay do you know whose or what

my brother actually manufactured that part there okay so maybe just shortened

it and then right okay I got rack spacers cool is there anything else

that's hidden here that you wouldn't normally think about like if anybody

goes out here and tries to you know build their you know I would ii began

trouble or four wheel drive fenders for the front if you want to run wheel spacers

the two wheel drive fenders did not fit and i had a heck of a time getting the

rear wheels to fit under there, did you end up just going in there with a hammer?

they're actually flared out quite a bit probably two and a half inches or so

um how many inches did you take out of this cause obviously its bobbed

took 18 inches out of the bed

the bed so that explains the flat paint which i think is again just another

touch that makes it makes it its own you know so I mean perfect is great don't

get me wrong

today right spot this is the debris field yeah definitely

all right now we're gonna go underneath of it here and kind of show you how

difficult it was to fit all of these pieces inside here and I hope the

Lighting's good but I'm at the mercy of whatever is going on that short header

has to go back and around to be able to fit through

here and this is the business side of that whole steering setup is really just all

oh megan me again that's what the shocks are yep part two or three different exhaust

shops they all turned me down and they told me it was impossible so I figured

I'd go home and cut some headers apart some tubing made a bunch of Pie cuts

and definitely I can do out a tour of you back here

Definitely a can do attitude with you

sorry this is shake cam right now but I'm making new alright and what is

another cool fact is that you use the factory brake cables yeah and then this

just likely just a welded diff but it's all no kidding all factory arms and

everything like no fancy anything

wow that is so rad

I mean thank you for taking us through this

through this and if anybody has any questions or whatever you can just pop

it into the comments