"Can I take shelter from
the snow with you?"
It took him a moment to catch his breath.
She was here.
"Y-yes, of course," Satoru choked and smiled a little bit, hoping he wouldn't scare her
off.
She smiled in return, "My name's Airi Katagiri."
She put out her hand to him.
He stared at it.
Idiot, she hasn't met you before.
"Satoru Fujinuma."
He said taking it.
They released their grip and shared a strange silence, her, staring at the falling snow
and him, staring at her.
Was it a miracle or fate or mere coincidence?
How is she here?
Airi is here! but... she doesn't even know who I am...
He had considered many times in the last eight years if he should find her but decided it
wasn't right for him to look for a girl so much younger than him.
Fate seemed to think it was time.
She looked much older than he remembered her.
If only he could talk.
"D-did the snow cancel school?"
He asked as he finally unscrewed his tongue.
"I mean, if you go to school that is…"
She turned back to him with her usual grin, "Yes, I go to school.
I study at University.
It's the perfect kind of day off, don't you think?
I'd be out in this weather even if I was missing class.
It's too beautiful for me not to be out here."
She looked back at the falling snow and sighed in happiness.
She's exactly like she was before.
It was a lifetime ago, but he clearly remembered that smile and the innocent wonder in her
eyes and he couldn't help but speculate.
"Have you ever been to Oasi Pizza?"
She turned back to him sending her hair flying and her smile wavered.
"Yes…
I have..."
You idiot.
Now you've scared her off.
You're a strange man under a bridge for goodness sake, show some tact.
Luckily she interrupted his thoughts.
"I interviewed for a job there once, but that was in high school.
I actually ended up working at Ginko's general store across the street until I graduated
high school."
She finished as she resumed her usual demeanor.
She sure is a talker isn't she?
Satoru hoped he didn't say that out loud.
He gulped and stared at her in fear.
She laughed, "You didn't mean to say that out loud did you?"
He only put his face in his hands and smiled slightly as he shook his head.
She giggled, "Do you have a job?
Or do you just sit under bridges all day?"
"I do, have a job that is," He answered almost defensively, "Let me show you I can be a little
normal."
He sat down again and leaned against the wall as he opened his sketch book.
"I'm a manga artist.
I was out for a little break and decided to sketch a little."
He flipped through the pages and the path he took reversed inside the pages, the underside
of the bridge, the river, the street, and came to sketches of the characters from his
current manga.
"It's called Galactica Sword; Seven Heroes."
He explained as he flipped through the pages.
"Wow."
She sat down beside him, "Wait, Seven heroes…
I've read that before."
"Really?"
He looked sideways at her, "Well, what did you think?"
"I thought it was boring, it was hard for me to pay attention."
That means she must have only read the first issue.
"B-but, the exposition is supposed to be informative…
That manga is critically acclaimed, it's being adapted into an anime."
She giggled again this time at his exasperation, "You really are a manga artist; you can't
take any criticism."
He chuckled slightly and put his face in his hands.
This isn't going very well.
"What's this?
A new manga idea?"
She grabbed a rather old looking note book from the ground on the other side of him despite
his objections.
"'My Hero', hmm?"
He wasn't able to even try to explain before she had it open and was reading the first
page recognizing the handwriting as a child's.
He let her read it silently and sketched out her silhouette.
She seemed so much more grown than before.
Probably because she is, you idiot.
She was awfully pretty.
She closed the book and stared at the cover, "Wow, is this your son's?
He has the mind of a manga artist."
He stifled a laugh, "No, I'm not even married, it's mine, actually, from elementary.
I visited my home town a while back and found it in my mother's house.
I don't really know why I kept it."
"I think it's important to remember who you were."
She replied, distantly.
He just wanted to finish the drawing before she ran away.
She put the book on the ground in front of her and hugged her knees to her chest, "Fujinuma…
Satoru Fujinuma…"
She glanced sideways at him.
"Are you from Hokkaido?"
Satoru's pencil stopped and he met Airi's eyes, "Yeah...
How'd you know?"
Her brows furrowed and she looked back to the book, "I read a story once... about a
Satoru Fujinuma from Hokkaido who was in a coma for more than ten years, he woke up and
exposed the man who put him in the coma when he was eleven."
"It was fifteen years."
He smiled at her kindly and stroked his chin, "Fifteen years in a coma, I woke up when I
was twenty-five with no memory of who anyone was or even who I was."
She stared at him and wondered if she dared ask him, but her curiosity outweighed her
shyness, "Why did that man put you into a coma?"
He smiled sadly at the ground, "That man was my fifth grade teacher, Gaku Yashiro.
He was going to kidnap my classmates.
I kept foiling his plans until he finally tried to get rid of me."
She murmured slowly to the ground, "How long has it been since you woke up?"
"Well today it's been about four hours."
He tried to laugh at the bad joke before clearing his throat and amending it, "Eight.
Nearly eight years since the coma."
She stared at him, "What was it like?
Waking up and having no memory of who you were?"
He looked up at the support beams and hmm-ed as he thought back, "I don't know how to describe
it..."
He closed his eyes and rested his head against the wall, "I felt like an empty shell…
My body hadn't moved on its own in fifteen years, so I felt weak.
A woman that I didn't know kept taking care of me, so I felt awkward.
And old friends who I couldn't recognize kept visiting, so I felt confused."
He opened his eyes and looked at her.
She was hugging her legs and rested her cheek on her knees.
She was watching him sadly.
"Those feelings only lasted a week at most.
One of my friends, an old target of Yashiro, came to visit and it was like someone turned
on a light switch in my mind.
I remembered everything."
They sat in silence a moment longer, she was trying to absorb all he was telling her.
He took the book from where it sat in front of her and pulled out the picture that she
had ignored before.
"This is Hiromi and this is Kayo."
He explained pointing them out.
"They were both targeted by Yashiro when we were young.
I was put in a coma because I tried to protect them.
Don't worry, I'm not bitter toward them."
He added.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet.
Finding a picture inside he held it up for her to see.
"I woke up to find them married and the new parents of this little boy.
Mirai."
She took the photograph, and saw a little boy grinning wide at the camera, showing his
missing front teeth.
Beside the boy was a smiling Satoru.
"He calls me uncle."
Satoru grinned and admired his adopted nephew, "I missed part of my life, but I gained much
more and I was able to put the man who would have prevented Mirai from ever being born
to justice.
I find myself at peace for that."
She stared at the photograph and found herself looking at the man more than the boy.
No one could tell from this picture what he had been through.
Her eyes found their way back to the boy, the boy that may not be there except for the
actions of the man that could have died before he even became a man.
"That's incredible…"
She sniffed and shut her eyes.
He gulped, finding himself at a loss for what to do.
What did I do?
"H-here, take my scarf I don't mind."
He said fumbling to take it from his neck.
She took it and put her face into it.
I made her cry.
What am I supposed to do?
He sighed, "I said that out loud didn't I?"
She chuckled through her sobs, "It's okay, I'm fine I just...
I'm really glad I met you today."
Satoru looked at her inquiringly.
"I just…
I need to know there's hope today.
I actually came out here to cheer myself up."
"No one should be alone."
He smiled.
He took the picture from her and returned it to its rightful place.
Her breath became more regular and she closed her eyes as she rested her head on his arm.
He would have sat there for hours if she wanted, but he quickly realized how cold he really
was.
"Let's go somewhere warmer."
He said trying to wake her up, "I know a pretty good pizza place."
She opened her eyes and smiled shyly, "You aren't talking about Oasi Pizza are you?"
"Yes?"
He said standing and offering his hand to her.
"Do you know why I didn't work there?"
She asked as she took his hand and jumped to her feet.
He shook his head as he put his scarf around his neck again.
She sighed, "There was nothing interesting there for me.
The only employees were creepy guys and the manager was a bit of a creep himself, as I
was walking out the old man who owned the general store and must have noticed I was
distressed.
He offered me a job right there."
She looked at him.
He looked at the floor.
You knew it wouldn't be the same, so why did you even suggest it?
"I know someplace better."
She smiled as she put on her hat and walked into the falling snow.
It was nearly ten years ago to him, but he tried to remember what happened the day she
first came to Oasi Pizza.
The day they first met.
Her smile.
Think of her smile.
He heard the echo of a joke, a joke she repeated multiple times, almost the only thing she
ever said to him before his mother's death.
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"Don't eat all the pizza on the way."
A voice said behind him.
He turned around from packing the delivery scooter and looked at the owner of the voice.
She looked like a high school student.
"Are you here for the interview?"
He asked.
"Yup," She nodded, "Do you have any advice?"
Why would a high school student want to work here?
He looked her up and down, she was pretty, not a good type to work under Takahashi, and
she was showing just a little too much skin.
"Put on a jacket, it's cold in there."
"How old are you?"
She asked without leaving a single beat after his answer.
He sighed, "Twenty-nine."
"So why do you work here?"
"It pays the rent."
He shrugged, "Why do you want to work here?"
She only shrugged, "I'll see you around."
And she was in the door.
Strange girl.
When he made it back to Oasi he decided to fold up new boxes until his next delivery.
He found his co-worker Kouta hiding behind the counter playing on his gameboy.
"Kouta, aren't you supposed to be working?"
"There's no work to do."
Kouta shrugged.
Of course there's work to do.
Satoru took the gameboy and put it in his pocket causing his immature co-worker to cross
his arms and pout.
"Hey, Satoru," Kouta jumped to his feet completely forgetting his anger towards Satoru and looked
at him excitedly.
"You just missed this really hot girl coming in for an interview.
I'm talking H-O-T.
Her legs…
"
Satoru simply quit listening.
Idiot.
He heard voices coming from the back and turned to meet them.
He looked at Takahishi and the girl emerged from the hallway leading to the office and
break room.
She had taken his advice and was now wearing a thin jacket that he assumed she must have
taken with her in her bag.
Takahishi rubbed his hands and grinned, his eyes almost closed, "I eagerly await the day
you start here, Miss Katagiri."
You would.
"I'm looking forward to it."
She replied.
"What did I tell you, Satoru?"
Satoru could almost see Kouta salivating and the idiot was talking much too loudly, "The
things I would do if I-" Satoru broke the box over his head.
A single beat of silence followed.
"Satoru!"
Takahishi yelled, "You just cost the company money, that will come out of your pay."
"Yes, sir,"
Kouta whined as he rubbed his utterly uninjured head.
The girl looked at him.
When he met her eyes she smiled and said, "I'll see you next week, Satoru!"
And she was out the door.
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Could that day have been why he always seemed to share a work shift with her?
That day must have turned out much differently for her in this timeline.
It's better that she was away from both those creeps.
"Here it is, Satoru."
She smiled and gestured grandly to the sign of the café, "This is my favorite place to
go on cold days and it's almost always open because the owners live upstairs."
Café Piasu, sounds really hip.
She opened the door and walked in ahead of him.
His face warmed immediately and his nose became overwhelmed with the scents inside.
"Do you like coffee?"
She asked as she approached the counter.
"Yes, of course.
I often need it when a deadline gets too close or-"
"Hi, Miki!
How are you doing today?"
She interrupted.
The girl behind the counter looked up from her phone and grinned at Airi, "I'm doing
well except for the cold, I need to move somewhere warmer, Osaka is really nice even in the winter,
I heard that this is the most Kanto has had in ten years!
Anyway, what do you want to drink?"
The girl must have still been in high school; she couldn't have been any older than Airi
was when he first met her.
He looked around at the small shop.
It had tables and chairs everywhere and big leather chairs all along the inner wall.
When their coffee was in hand they found a table by the small fireplace and sat down.
"This place is really hip, I almost wonder if I'm too old to be here."
She chuckled, "Elderly people come here all the time."
He shook his head and smiled despite her words, "I'm only thirty-two, I'm not elderly."
"Only thirty-two, huh?"
The curve of her lips was hidden behind the cup as she took another sip.
He took a sip of his own as he looked out the window.
The snow was coming down much harder now than it was before.
Could we get stuck here?
He looked at her again and realized he didn't care.
"Tell me, Katagiri, are you happy?"
He leaned towards her and couldn't help but cringe a little bit at how strange this seemed;
a thirty-two year old man asking a twenty-one year old college student whom he just met
if… she… was happy.
She stared at him in shock for a few seconds before recovering and reassuring him with
another smile, "I think so.
I have friends, I work hard and I'm completing my goals little by little.
And I met you.
Yeah, I'm happy."
She gave him another close-mouthed smile and brought her cup to her mouth with both hands.
He smiled in return, "So, you said you were in university, what are you studying for?"
"I want to be a teacher actually…
" She stared down at her mitted hands wrapped around the coffee cup and sitting in her lap,
"I know you may not have the best opinion of teachers considering…
"
"Don't talk nonsense," He interrupted, "I only have a bad opinion of the bad ones."
She smiled slightly at him and took another sip.
In reality Yashiro was my hero.
Satoru took a long gulp of the hot liquid and looked at his hands.
In reality he tried to kill me.
She looked at him, her eyes wide.
He looked at her, "I did it again didn't I?"
She nodded slightly, put her hand on the table between them and seemed to stare into his
soul.
I've distressed her again.
He wasn't sure why, maybe it was to comfort her, but he felt the bold desire to take her
hand.
He didn't regret it.
He squeezed it reassuringly and took another drink.
They sat in companionable silence as the minutes stretched on.
It was shattered by his ringtone.
He let go of her hand and pulled his phone from his pocket, upon seeing the caller I.D.
he answered it.
"Satoru?
Where have you been?
You said you were only going out for a little break!
You've been gone for nearly an hour!
Come back, please?"
"Yes, I'll be there before lunch, so don't eat mine.
I'll see you in a little while, Kenji."
He hung up and leaned back into his chair as he sighed, "A fellow manga artist and friend
of mine."
He explained.
"I should be going."
He stood and looked at her hand where it sat abandoned.
"See you later."
She said interrupting yet another bold thought.
"See you later."
He smiled and he was out the door.
It wasn't until he was stepping into the door of the office building that it occurred to
him that he didn't have her phone number.
Idiot, idiot, idiot.
Instead of feeling revived after his walk he felt defeated.
Satoru Fujinuma barely listened to the evening report on the radio as he got ready to go
back home for the evening.
"2010 Olympics news tonight… heavy snow fall… advised to stay indoors…
"
And a little voice from earlier that day found its way to him from the depths of his memory.
'This is my favorite place to go on cold days.'
He smiled to himself as he put his coat over his shoulders
and grabbed his suitcase.
I guess I know where I'm going tonight.
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President Moon orders probe into four additional THAAD launchers in S. Korea - Duration: 2:06.
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President Moon orders probe into four additional THAAD launchers in S. Korea - Duration: 2:08.
The deployment of THAAD in South Korea has been at the center of controversy for months
now.
Dumping fuel all over that fire is the shocking discovery of changes related to the U.S. anti-missile
system;... changes that almost went undetected.
President Moon Jae-in has ordered a thorough probe into how four additional THAAD launchers
were brought in... without his knowledge.
Moon Connyoung starts us off.
"President Moon Jae-in today ordered his Secretary of Civil Affairs and Chief National Security
Adviser to thoroughly investigate the unreported, undisclosed introduction of four additional
launchers in the nation."
A probe order from the president... announced Mr. Moon's chief press secretary... after
Seoul's defense ministry failed to report to his administration
that four more launchers for the controversial U.S. missile defense system, THAAD, had been
brought into South Korea.
The anti-missile battery was initially deployed earlier this year under the former administration...
with just two of its maximum load of six launchers... as a way to counter increasing missile threat
from North Korea.
"President Moon said he was "shocked" to learn from his national security chief that four
additional THAAD launchers were brought in without being reported to the new administration
or to the public."
The presidential office said the former government's defense ministry had even omitted this fact
from its policy briefing report to President Moon's de factor transition team last week...
noting there are suspicions that it may have been to avoid social and political scrutiny
over the possible impact the launchers could have on the environment.
"During his successful campaign for the May 9 presidential election, Mr. Moon had called
for a parliamentary review of the system, whose deployment has also infuriated China,
North Korea's lone major ally.
He hasn't yet done so... and when asked whether President Moon would pull the launchers out
of the country if procedural flaws are found, the nation's top office said it hasn't yet
reviewed the possibility.
Moon Connyoung, Arirang News."
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DIY Cylinder Head Porting Gains 92 Horsepower! - Engine Masters Ep. 21 - Duration: 16:21.
- This time on Engine Masters,
we're going to find out how Steve Dulcich
homeported a set of cylinder heads
to make big stinky power for free.
(exuberant intro music)
(engine starts)
This is Engine Masters presented by AMSOIL
and sponsored by Mr. Gasket and
Earl's Vapor Guard Plumbing.
Now this time it's going to be pretty interesting.
Because we're going to take an engine and
we're not going to change any parts on it.
But what we are going to do,
is completely hog out and port the intake
manifold and the cylinder heads and
find out how much more power we make
with just a little bit of elbow grease.
Now, this engine should be familiar
if you're a fan of Engine Masters.
It's the same one that we did in that
Ford vs. Mopar Stroker Shootout
episode awhile back,
and you'll remember in that episode
we complained a lot about the fact that
the Mopar here lost that competition
basically because the cylinder heads don't flow
very well for an engine at 410 cubic inches.
So we're out to solve that.
Now what this is, is a long block
from BluePrint Engines.
You can buy it for about 5,300 bucks
and it comes with a front cover
and an oil pan and a camshaft.
Pretty good deal.
The camshaft that's in it is a
hydraulic flat tappet.
It's 241/247 at 50,000 tappet lift.
That means that is a pretty big hydraulic
flat tappet camshaft.
This thing should RPM but it doesn't
because doesn't flow much air.
These are an out-of-the-box Edelbrock cylinder head.
Now Edelbrock has recently introduced a Victor head
that is much more bitchin' than these.
But what we're going to show you here,
is how Dulcich took a set of these heads and
made them better just with a little bit of handwork.
Now what's different since the last time
we ran this engine is two things.
First, the rocker arm ratio in here.
We've changed it to a 1.6 to 1 ratio roller rocker,
so it's got a little bit more lift
it used to have 1.5 to 1 which is stock.
Also when we ran this before it had a
dual-plane intake manifold which
favors low-end torque.
We've now got a big 'ol super Victor single plane on it.
That is probably going to run pretty bad and
kill a lot of low-end torque compared to
last time we ran this engine.
But the whole point is, it's going to be a
scientific AB test of the exact same
components before and after homeporting.
So now let's go hang a thing on the dino,
pour some oil in it and we're going to fire
it up and see how we killed the torque
curve with this intake manifold.
Before we make it heroically better
with a bunch of ported parts.
My prediction is that when we swap to this
intake manifold we probably killed
a whole lot of torque and it's probably not
going to make any more horsepower
and it's probably not going to make any more RPM.
So this thing's basically still a tame street engine but,
when we put the ported stuff on there,
I'm hoping this thing will scream.
And because of that, we are going to use
the DOMINATOR Racing Oil.
We're going to throw the 10-30 in this thing.
This is what AMSOIL has recommended
to us for this engine.
I know we've had the premium protection
in it before, we're trying to
step it up a little bit.
Oh, check this out,
see this white stuff that just came off
of the valve cover grommet?
That might freak you out because
it looks like the kind of milkshake
that happens when you get water in oil,
but we often see that on the dino.
We get a little bit of condensation
in here when it's cold in the morning and stuff,
and it just sort of burns off.
Let the AMSOIL do the lube and not the coolant.
The long pour is back.
I've still got it.
Oh, I failed.
I failed (laughing) worse than ever.
The reason that we've got this mishmash
of components is that we wanted a clean
AB test to compare with the ported intake
and heads that Dulcich has,
and that's what he used is an Edelbrock super
Victor big single plane.
- Yeah, that's the match set so we had to
make this the same component setup, right?
- Yeah, so this is going to be humiliating,
but run it.
(laughing)
- [Steve] I bet you it will still make more top-end
power than it did before.
- No. (laughing)
I don't think so.
I think the head is a little bit of a factor.
- Sometimes when you've saturated the head,
that's all there is. - That's all you get, yeah.
- Can't get there from here.
- You don't make one side any better,
you make the other side a lot worse.
- Yep, it's like taking the freeway and
necking it down to one lane (laughs).
- Yep.
- That's what that cylinder head's doing.
- Got the coolant up to temp, oil's hot.
- Ready?
- Yep. - Let 'er rip.
- Here we go.
(engine runs and revs loudly)
- What'd you see Dulcich?
- 440 horsepower?
- Okay, so that's up five.
(laughs loudly)
But wait till you see the torque.
- 448 pound feet out of a 408-inch motor.
(laughs)
- [David] That's not very good torque.
(laughs)
- Let's see what we got.
Not even a very pretty curve.
- No.
- And that's valve flow.
- It's in some sort of distress.
- [David] Yeah.
- It hasn't completely crashed yet,
but it's not happy there.
- [David] What we just saw is that it made 438.7
horsepower at 5500 RPM and
448.2 pound feet of torque at 4700.
Just out of curiosity,
I've got to see this curve laid over the one
from the earlier episode where we had
the dual-plane intake manifold.
- And the survey says,
- [Crowd] Oh!!
(laughter)
- [David] So this is horrible and what we predicted.
The red line is the prior test
with a dual-plane intake manifold.
This black line is the single plane we've got on it now.
You can see that big, tall race manifold
killed all of the torque and power in the world.
The real question to me is when we get more
airflow through it are we going to take the
RPM points of peak power and move them up?
And do you think that the torque will stay
at the same RPM and that the horsepower
will be at a higher RPM?
- I think it can shift the whole thing up a bit
when you port in a larger head.
And when I said more, a bigger head or
bigger intake, it really is.
We're probably going to see some torque improvement
because of just the improved cylinder head
not necessarily just bigger.
- Either that or you completely screwed it up
and it's going to be a disaster.
(laughs loudly)
- It might be, you want to know why?
- Why?
- Because with that setup you're depending on
a higher RPM to make the additional power,
- And your valve train might not hold it together?
- Well, it's not the valve train,
it's the hydraulic lifter cam.
When you do a really high RPM motor,
what do you want?
You want a solid roller?
Or you want a really, really good hydraulic,
- [Steve] At least a solid flat tappet.
- Or you want a solid flat tappet.
- Engine speed's the key to the upgraded
cylinder heads and intake. - Yeah.
- Less talking more, Wrenching?
- Ported heads being installed?
- Yeah, let's go.
- It's a turn.
- [Steve Dulcich] Am I hedging, am I making excuses here?
- Now we're going to get into the
cylinder head porting goodness.
But first, we were talking so much about
the torque curve in there about how much
better this engine was,
before we put the big single plane intake manifold,
- And killed all the torque? And killed all the power.
I just wanted to show people.
This is the manifold we had on that engine before.
It's a dual plane.
It has longer runners.
These things clearly make way more torque
than the race-type single plane intake manifold.
But what we're really after here,
is looking at how much we can improve
those parts that we just had on the engine.
So we're not changing anything,
we're just modifying the intake manifold and
cylinder heads that we just ran in that dino test.
Now cylinder head porting, or intake manifold porting,
is just going in here, reshaping, restyling,
usually enlarging the runners that deliver
the air and fuel into the engine.
'Cause the more air and fuel you get in there,
the more power you make.
So Steve probably spent about a week and
a half of his life - Yeah, probably.
And Bryce on this intake manifold,
Steve didn't do this one, he did the heads,
with what is called a die grinder,
and you can get stones for 'em or
cutters or sandpaper rolls and go in there
and just really carefully reshape all of this stuff.
The intake manifold has just enlargement or
do you think there's other modifications?
He's knife-edged some of the port transitions and stuff.
- Yeah there's a lot more to it than you can tell
just by a casual look. - Yeah.
- [Steve] But really you quantify how good you're doing
by testing on a flow bench like at the back
of this shop right here.
- Or a dino.
- Yeah, or a dino, even better.
But that tells you if this thing is actually
flowing more air than when you started.
- So that's it with the intake manifold.
Now moving on to the cylinder heads,
these are not only ported, but Steve also
did a trick to make the port window larger.
What'd you do?
- Well the thing is with any inline valve engine,
the pushrod's going to present a restriction
to the intake port width.
Because it pretty much cuts through in the
casting right where the ports are.
So you can't go any wider than that,
unless you move the pushrod out of the way.
And actually Chrysler started doing this
back in the '70s on their race heads
like the W2 and that's what I patterned this after.
And I refilled out the original pushrod hold,
moved it over to the W2 location,
allowing a much wider port,
and a bigger port and a higher flowing port.
So,
- You can really see the difference in the port
size on those things.
And what's neat is he did all of this at home.
This is taking the same exact parts that we
just dino tested and hopping them up.
I like that you made this epoxy matrix
of aluminum shavings and GB well to fill the old holes
and then he made a fixture to drill a new pushrod hole.
And also put a larger intake valve,
it's 208 instead of 202,
and he ported the exhaust side as well.
So the thing is, you can buy an aftermarket
head that has this type of modification
already done to it.
Edelbrock's got a new Victor series head
that's done this way,
Indy sells a bunch of them. - Yeah Indy.
The ancient Mopar performance W2/W5 heads are the same way.
- Right.
- But this is what Steve did basically
just with elbow grease and ingenuity
and a lot of time.
So it shows you what you can actually accomplish
in your own garage if you put the time
and skill into it.
- Yeah, plus I already had the heads so just
a little grinder work and hopefully
they'll make more horsepower.
Don't know about that yet.
- Free is better than good?
Is that what you were thinkin'?
- Yeah.
- That's a whole lot of work if it doesn't
make more power.
So we're going to go bolt it all on and find out.
- My anxiety level is through this freakin' roof.
- (laughs) I know it.
He always gets so worked up.
- So what's happening now is because
he's enlarged the port so much,
and they don't make an aftermarket gasket,
he's going to take a stock gasket and port it.
So that it fits these. - That's right.
- This is not normal procedure
for an intake manifold gasket.
He's doing this so he can affix it to the head
which will make it easier to hack.
The other thing Steve didn't show you before
is that this intake manifold bolt also had to be moved
because when it's over here,
it goes into the pushrod hole, right?
- [Steve Delcich] Right.
- Or it would have gone into it after
you moved the pushrod hole, so we had to move
the intake manifold bolt over as well.
That's the type of stuff when you're
really going all out with backyard
hot-rodding you sometimes have a domino
effect of stuff you need to do.
- But that's the way it used to be done
back in the day.
- [David] Yeah.
- I mean people didn't buy performance,
they made performance by experimenting
and cutting and changing and machining
and hacking and hot-rodding, right?
- Well, I'm thinking this episode is not so much
about ya know hey, go hog the stuff,
but it's just an example of the mad scientist
stuff you can do in hot-rodding to make stuff good.
- [Steve Brule] You set? No.
(nervous laugh)
- [Steve Delcich] Oh man.
- The best thing about this test is watching him squirm.
- [David] I know.
- It's not about the power?
- No, not at all.
- It's really about that? - Not at this point.
- I feel like a hog on its way to the slaughter.
(laughs loudly)
- So I think we all agree this is going to make
more horsepower right?
It can't not.
- As long as we have some engine speed.
- The problem is we discovered out there
that the lifters bleed down really easily.
Brule was lashing the valves and you could just
(spitting)
collapse the lifters like with one finger.
- Yeah it's a little scary.
Even with the good springs and lighter retainers and stuff.
- We about there?
You want to run it?
- [Steve Brule] Yeah, we're good.
- How do you feel Steve?
- Grrreat.
(laughs)
In the words of Tony Tiger.
(engine revs loudly)
- [Crowd] Bam! Bam!!
- Dude!
That was a win!
Dude!
- That was a hundred horsepower up, dude.
- A hundred horsepower gain!
Let's look at the actual numbers,
but it's somewhere around there.
So our final number, 530.8 horsepower at 6400 RPM
and the torque peak, 488 pound feet at 5200.
And again, if we go down here at 3800,
which is where it peaked with the old
cylinder heads, it's still right there
within five numbers.
So the overlay tells you,
- [Steve Brule] Wow.
- That this is absolutely worthwhile
and Dulcich looks like a superhero.
- Will you port heads for me?
- I don't really port heads for anybody except
fry burgers and things (laughter) and my stuff.
- [Steve Brule] What was your mobile number?
- Wow, okay let's go wrap up this show,
and make you like a superhero.
- I'm already feeling pretty happy.
- He is a superhero.
- Brule, thanks.
- How do you feel?
- Good.
- I know.
- Because the motor's good now.
- That was great!
I, this legit, the biggest win in the history of the show.
- You think so?
- Completely.
Because 92 horsepower with nothing but manual labor.
And it took this engine that was making like 435
and turned it into, what did it make?
539 or something?
- Yeah something like that.
It was pretty good.
- And, you did it!
That's what makes it really cool.
- It wasn't all me.
My buddy Bryce Mulby, he did the intake
manifold and he did do the valve job
and a little bit of tuning up on my port work.
But,
- But still, it just shows what's possible.
And I would like to say that anybody
who's watching the show could get the same results
homeporting their heads.
But that just isn't true.
It takes a lot of skill.
This isn't Steve's first set of heads.
But the lesson is buy the best cylinder heads you can.
It is completely worth it!
And there are a bunch of small block
Mopar heads on the market that can probably
match or beat this and they're available
on the Edelbrock Victor series, which is new.
- [Steve Dulrich] Right.
- And Indy cylinder heads makes a few versions
of the same thing where the pushrod's
moved out of the way and uses different rockers and stuff.
Big Stroker engine, completely worth it.
- Yeah that's what I always say.
If you've got the cubes, make sure you've got
the airflow to feed them.
- This episode made Steve look like a superhero.
And that was really the whole point of this
episode of Engine Masters.
- Yeah.
We do Engine Masters every single month and episodes premiere
at Motor Trend On Demand about a month
before they show up on YouTube what that
means is there's a new episode that you
can watch right now at Motor Trend On Demand.com
here's a preview
Fans asked for this and Engine
Masters delivers we will test the power
of an exhaust h-pipe versus an x-pipe
versus no crossover at all what we're
going to do is run the engine three
times in each configuration and average
the pole you can see this episode of
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I wanted to test my theory
of gravity you know Sir Isaac Newton
screws the theory of gravity and like
1720 that's the ground faster aluminum
header and iron head I know which one hurts more
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2018 Lexus LC500: Never Judge a Book by Its Cover! - Ignition Ep. 172 - Duration: 11:59.
(dramatic drum beat)
(car engine revving)
- When you see a Mercedes Benz
you know exactly what to expect from that car.
And that consistency is really important for a luxury brand.
Lexus doesn't have that.
You see a Lexus coming toward you
and it could be an ES,
which is a front wheel drive Camry based luxury sedan,
or it could be a GS, a rear wheel drive sports sedan.
So when you see something like this all new LC,
well how the hell are you supposed to know what it is.
(dramatic music)
It's not just Lexus as a brand that's inconsistent
the LC is the fourth car in the lineup of halo sports coupes
that are all over the map.
The original SC was literally a Toyota Supra in drag.
It was replaced ten years later by another SC,
a sport coupe that was neither.
And that was joined by the LFA a carbon tubbed sports car
that cost as much as a mansion.
The LC has a new name but it goes back to the same formula
as the original SC, two doors, four seats,
and it ditches the LFA's outrageous price.
92,000 dollars buys you the base LC500,
which has a five liter V8.
Or you can spend more money and upgrade to the 500H,
which is actually a downgrade to a three and half liter V6
plus a hybrid system.
The LC certainly has a bold design.
Styling is a very personal thing
but whether you like it or not
the LC is a massive step forward
for the controversial Lexus design language.
It has enough styling elements for two cars
with half a dozen materials and textures.
Carbon fiber, polished metal, distressed metal,
gray plastic, black plastic, mirrored plastic,
Jaguar door handles, and yet somehow it all works.
The LC's details all play in and with the shadows
created by it's creases.
It looks new, it looks fresh, and it looks expensive
and that's a very tough thing to do.
With the proportions of an Aston Martin,
not only does it look incredibly sporty
but it follows the very recipe of a real sports car.
(inspiring music)
So let's see what that recipe tastes like.
(engine revving)
It has a naturally aspirated
five liter, four cam, 32 valve V8
that doesn't make it's 471 horsepower
until 7,100 rpm.
Magnesium shift paddles that control a
ten speed automatic.
Ten gears.
An actual mechanical limited slip diff.
Six piston, front aluminum monoblock brake calipers
and four pistons at the rear.
Tons of grip because it has real tires.
Michelin pilot actual super sports.
On paper it is all there.
But I'm not feeling it.
And there are several reasons why.
Please allow me to elaborate.
If you had ten gears to choose from in a transmission
wouldn't you want closely spaced short ratios
bu-bam-bu-bam-bu-bam
so the car felt alive and always had a really good gear
or would you gear it like a six speed,
that's what Lexus did.
This thing hits 40 miles an hour in first gear,
67 in second, 89 in third
meaning you could get a speeding ticket
on any interstate in the country, and 110 in fourth
and then you have six useless cruising gears on top of that.
Remember this engine doesn't hit peak power
until 7,100 rpm.
That's 40 miles an hour,
from zero to 40 this car feels sluggish.
And then it has Toyota's VGRS,
variable gear ratio steering.
Which changes the relationship between the steering wheel
and the front wheels and adds in rear wheel steering
on top of that.
The more gears and motors and stuff
you put between the steering wheel and your front wheel
the less you feel.
The steering is dead, like dead, dead.
And lastly it has a full, bi-wire brake system
and I will give Lexus credit for doing it well enough
that you don't notice it in normal driving,
However, you need to know when your approaching
the limits of adhesion
and you don't feel anything back in the pedal.
You don't feel the ABS systems push back.
Luckily they did put a light on the dashboard
that flashes anytime the ABS is active.
But really do I need to pay attention to a flashing light
to know that I have a wheel slipping.
That LC, it may look like a beautiful sports car
on the outside, but the interior.
I had no idea Lexus was even capable of such a thing.
I'm not sure I realized any company
was capable of making an infotainment system
so incredibly distracting that it needs to lock you out
from changing the radio station once you're moving.
It's that bad.
But the rest, incredible.
Lexus calls the interior color toasted caramel
and it's not some half hearted attempt at color.
Look around, look carefully,
and there are multiple materials and textures
all in some shade of regurgitated yam.
It's about time we're getting actual colors
in a luxury car interior and not just the seats.
The dashboard is simple with a screen clock
and of course the intricately textured wall of L's
hidden behind one long piece of clear plastic.
It's simple, it's elegant, and it's beautifully executed.
You know on second thought, I think I screwed up.
The LC does look like a sports car but it's not.
It's really just a luxury coupe
that happens to be really capable.
So I need to change my expectations around
and go back out and drive this car
and look at it from a different perspective.
(relaxing music)
(engine revving)
When it comes to luxury cars
one of the most important things is the ride quality.
In this thing,
I've been driving this road all day
and had no idea there were bumps everywhere
until I got out of it and into something else.
The bumps are just gone
and it's not like floaty or bad in any way.
It's just really well tuned.
Steering has great effort build up.
The engine is so quiet.
It just goes back to being a luxury car V8
with smooth shifts from the transmission.
It's an amazing luxury car.
The seat is comfortable, the steering wheel feels great.
The seating position is great.
The cowl is really low
so I can see everything out of this car.
I was wrong, this is a really good luxury coupe.
It's what Lexus does the best.
All I want to do is turn up the radio
and drive all day.
Can't change the radio station, nothings perfect.
So you'll have to tune to your favorite station
before you get moving.
But once your moving, once you reset your expectations
this thing is the kind of car that sneaks up on you
and blow your mind.
The LC sounds incredible inside and out.
It feels special inside and out
and it looks special, spectacular in fact.
Maybe even too much, as it's looks fooled me
into thinking it would provide a level of sportiness
and involvement that it just wasn't designed to deliver.
I used the word spectacular on purpose.
This is an Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
It is the most beautiful car since 1753
and it does a funny trick.
You park any other car next to it
and it makes that car look hideous by comparison.
Funny you put the LC next to the Vantage
and the LC doesn't look bad, that's a first.
By the way that black hybrid is really good.
This all brings me back to my earlier point.
My initial confusion is exactly why
it's so important to know what a brand stands for.
The LC as it turns out isn't an ES or a GS.
It's a beautiful, luxurious, composed, elegant,
and incredibly capable large coupe.
And that's not only what the name LC stands for
but it's also exactly what a Lexus flagship should be.
This is a brilliant, dare I say almost perfect Lexus.
So you now you know what to expect.
here's the thing new episodes of
Ignition there live at
Motor Trend On Demand
about a month before their live on
YouTube meaning that there's a brand-new
episode of Ignition live right now but
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there's no doubt it's a luxury-car how
about how about that for terrible
delivery yeah a diamond
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U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has warned of grave consequences, if diplomatic
efforts to ease tensions between Washington and Pyongyang fail.
He also expressed concerns over North Korea's growing missile capabilities.
Yu Joonhee has this report.
In an interview that aired on CBS on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis warned,
a potential military conflict with North Korea would be "catastrophic".
Pointing to North Korea's potent arsenal of tube artillery and rocket launchers that have
Seoul within striking range, he said a war on the peninsula, would likely be the "worst
kind of fighting" many people would ever see in their lifetime.
Mattis also expressed concern over North Korea's ICBM capabilities, believing the country's
arsenal was improving with every test, and that it posed a "direct threat" to the United
States.
Mattis refused to comment in detail, when asked if there was a theoretical red line,
or a point of no return for North Korea, that would force the U.S. to intervene militarily.
Pyongyang has already conducted nine ballistic missile tests so far this year, with the latest
one occurring early Monday morning.
The latest launch follows the regime's testing of a KN-06 surface-to-air missile on Sunday,
under the supervision of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Pyongyang's state-media claimed it was a success, saying the missile's capabilities have been
upgraded since last year.
Kim Jong-un reportedly gave orders that the missile be mass-produced and deployed immediately.
As it prepares for North Korea's growing threat, the Pentagon is scheduled to conduct a test
of its missile defense system on Tuesday, where it will attempt to shoot down a mock
ICBM.
While President Trump has said he prefers a diplomatic solution, he also warned that
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Sometimes I make 3D board #2 with the smaller "cubes"
Now I am going to make a knife handle
I hope that 3D effect with the small cubes will be more visible on the knife handle than with the bigger ones
First I will make blanks and then will try to make simple handle
The dimensions of the knife handle blank are 130x50x30 mm
So made the board 270 mm wide and 30 mm thick
The knife handle blank will be 50 mm wide
This will be the size of the blank
I want to see what will happen with the 3D design after making a handle
I have a Japanese knife with the simple handle
I am going to copy it
I will glue two wooden block for fixing. Wenge will be used as a knife bolster
Two-sided milling
This is a half of the handle
Both halves are the same
I do not make knife handles, so the handle for the metal file again
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Retro NASCAR-Inspired 1960 Ford Starliner - The House Of Muscle Ep. 6 - Duration: 15:46.
- Automotive enthusiasts tend to get their inspiration
from what surrounds them.
Now, Ryan Kertz is a fabricator,
who also happens to own a shop
here at Sonoma Raceway.
Now a raceway means, well, race cars, which kind of explains
the look of the 1964 Galaxy Starliner (engine revs)
you see beside me.
(engine revving)
(quiet jazz music)
(engines racing)
The car's kind of just environmental in that
we're here at the race track, which is
one of the last two road race NASCAR track
and we happen to have
a couple shops out here that host vintage NASCARs,
and seeing them on track days, to see 'em drive by and
as I'm watching the car go by, then I see my car,
and it just kind of clicked.
That we needed to do that.
(cool jazz music)
- When he got this car, it had a 352
cubic inch Ford.
The motor was tired.
And he said he drove it like that for awhile
but then it developed a rod knock, and so he's like
alright, let me pull in, I'm going to shelve that,
and that was it.
He also got kind of tired of the original Mag Wheels
that were on the car and as opposed to just
dumping money into the body, he said
"Let me just have a little fun".
Put a 390 into it out of a Thunderbird,
tuned it up, it's got three tube barrel
Rochester carbs on it and you know what?
It's pretty good like, you jump on it
and you get this thing to rev a little bit.
(motor revving)
Get it to open up...
And it sounds like...
(motor revving)
Yo, that's proper!
Like that sounds proper!
And it's just cool.
- I bought it from a guy out towards the coast
who wasn't doing anything with it, you know,
he was a painter and he wanted to paint it,
he loved the car but, just wasn't able to, you know,
didn't have the time, space, or money,
whatever is required to get the project done.
So we took it off of his hands
and began a mechanical restoration.
We put put air ride suspension throughout
and mechanically pulled the car apart completely.
Every part of the engine is new,
transmission has all gone through,
rear axles rebuilt with epoxy.
Four wheel power disc brakes on the car.
Some things to just make it drive a little nicer.
Installed brand new lines.
Painted and plated everything underneath the car.
One of the coolest features of the car,
I think, is the side exhaust.
I was at a swap meet and picked up
some old hot rod magazines from 1963
and it documented how a (mumbles),
the Mercury NASCARs of the day,
ran the exhaust through the frame rails.
And for obvious reasons, shorter exhausts
for getting it through the frame rail,
eliminated the scraper on the ground
that could run the car lower.
We had seen one of those at some of the vintage races
and I really just wanted to duplicate that.
So the exhaust comes through the frame rail
and then out the side of the body.
(revving)
- This was originally a column shift,
it was a three on the tree.
Now, I don't know if any of you guys,
at least the younger guys, know what that is
but that was an actual manual transmission
where it was like first, second, third,
whatever the case is.
And it took a little while to get used to
but your shifter was here, not here.
So aside from upgrading the brakes to four wheel discs,
Ryan also upgraded the wheels and tires.
He's running big 17 by 8's steelies on the front,
17 by 9's on the back with a new set of
Continental extreme contact sport tires.
The bonus of upgrading wheels and tires
on an old car like this is obviously
one, you can fit a little bit of brake under that,
but, two, you do get that extra grip
and on something that's, well, 19 feet long
not a bad thing to have.
(laughter)
- I think the look of the car is ruined with the windows up.
I love this thin roof line.
Two door hardtop, no pillar.
It's just a very open feeling.
Debated on putting bucket seats
and a roll cage in it,
but I think that would kind of ruin the car,
I think that would make you not want to drive it,
it'd be less comfortable.
So we opted for the bench seat
and a low back at that, even.
So it just keeps a very open design,
very free feeling.
- The interior of the car is just cool, right?
Four speed is in the perfect spot.
Ryan did this beautiful bench seat.
Another thing that's super cool,
I want you to look at these door panels
because at first glance you look at them and you'll be like
"Oh, those a are really nice leather covered door panels".
No they're not leather covered door panels!
These are actually aluminum.
Ryan took a sheet of textured aluminum,
painted them and then put them on his roller
so it would look like a padded panel.
That's the type of crap you can do when you're a fabricator.
Cause you know why?
Fabricators make (muted) that you can't.
He can do that.
- The door panels on the car, when we got it,
they were just terrible.
Had been sitting out on the sun
and just weathered and all that.
Typically, the NASCARs of the day,
they ran this textured aluminum for the door panels
and other features on the car like bumper fairings
and instrument block offs.
So we were able to get some of that
and I just bead-rolled some lines in it
to simulate what the original interior looked like.
And then we painted the top and bottom red
and had the aluminum just stand out.
Really long lines that connect with the
exterior features of the car.
- This is Ford's big, old full-sized for 1960.
It's a 1960 Ford Galaxie Starliner.
And think of that name, Starliner.
"Where do you want to go?"
"I want to go to the stars".
You really going to get there?
No.
This car right here, this is no lightweight.
The Starliner weighs about 36, 38 hundred pounds.
It sits on a 119 inch wheel base.
And with this massive bubble top,
it makes you fell like you came right out of the Jetsons.
This is just (revving flying sound)
It's pretty cool.
And it actually kind of sounds like that.
(revving flying sound)
Love this thing.
(cool jazz music)
So the exterior of this car is a sight to behold.
It looks like a badass NASCAR that was just
found in a barn and pulled out.
Plues the fact that it is a Starliner is cool.
Look at the headlights and how
they're kind of recessed into the grill.
Look at the fins on the back,
they're not vertical fins like you see on the '59 Caddy.
They're actually horizontal fins
that are splayed out, you know,
almost like a '59 Batwing.
The taillights have moon shapes
and you've got these little details
and these nuances that really take it to the next level.
We do have the ancillary Jpods
but all the controls are actually very cool,
I mean, we have these kind of large switches
and knobs here that are very correct for the time period.
This is what automotive styling was,
it's almost like the designers....
would look at science fiction
and they would get ideas for these cars
and then they would come back
and they would incorporate them into the interiors.
And it looks great.
I mean, even on the front of the car
we have these little markers on the ends
of the front fenders that are like these little bullseye.
Old steering is...
Well, just old steering, right?
So if I go like this...
Check it out.
You see the car moving back and forth?
No.
You know why?
It ain't moving back and forth.
You get used to this, believe it or not.
I mean, as somebody who drives old stuff for a living,
every time you make an input you're just like
"Well, I know I'm going to turn the wheel
"at least an eighth of a turn in every direction
"before anything happens".
You just kind of factor it in, it's what you do.
What's cool is that Ryan is a fabricator,
but more so than that, he's also a pilot.
So, having a car that kind of represents
his love for aviation and for anything that goes up
is kind of neat because he was able to craft something
well, that is just meant to stay on the ground.
- I am a pilot.
I was always in love with airplanes,
my father was a pilot.
Growing up just fascinated with flying.
And this car really, to me it represents aviation.
It was a design change in 1960 for Ford.
I think car design, it doesn't happen
in a vacuum, it reflects what's happening
in the culture at large.
Two years earlier, Sputnik had orbited the Earth
and I think everyone's eyes were on the moon,
we were in the Cold War.
So, the car designers tried to...
connect with that, with these highlight lines,
this very long line that runs down the car.
And theme it towards aviation and jets.
I was very fortunate to have wood shop,
auto shop, metal shop, and drafting
all at the high school that I went to.
Very fortunate for that.
I think without those skills, just be another tech guy
or something like that, would never--
The schools were force feeding you at the time.
We kind of went the other way, was like
"No, this is cool, welding sparks".
Yeah.
Go fast, do burnouts.
Right?
(motor revving)
- [Mike] This car and everything that went into it
is a product of vocational education.
The beautiful welds, the mechanics,
and the metal fabrications are skills acquired
by utilizing your hands, eyes, and other senses
and not just by sitting in a massive lecture hall.
Vocational education has sparked the imagination
of millions upon millions of young minds
and encouraged them to follow the road less traveled.
It led to business owners, technicians,
and craftsmen who have turned out
some of the greatest creations we've ever seen.
It leaves me wondering why programs like this
are going away.
And although I'm not sure what the answer is,
I do know men like Ryan, they're going to be busy
for quite some time.
- Got my first job out at the race track building race cars
and just fell in love with it.
Was basically working eight to ten hours a day at one job.
I was able to get some shop space
and started buying tools and equipment
and then working nights and weekends,
realized that I was making a lot more money down there
than at the real job.
So, just eventually got the confidence
and broke off and did my own thing.
Yeah, we do see some projects that come in that are
less than quality.
I don't really think we're in competition with them,
we're in competition with ourselves.
So every project that we do we try to do better.
We had some roll cages came in
with some welds that just wouldn't pass tech
and that's kind of sad, like, it's a safety thing.
People try to save money on building roll cages
and you really shouldn't.
That's where you should spend the money.
- Everything mechanically has been gone through
in this car to the point where
turn the key, start it,
drive it where ever you're going to go.
It's not going to overheat,
it's not going to do anything funky.
It's just going to run.
- Did a mechanical restoration on it
because that's the stuff that we focus on.
The car needs to be on the race track,
it needs to finish the race
and those are the things that are important to us.
The look of the body...
The car kind of sells itself.
Sure, it's weathered and all that but I think that
the look is unique.
- The looks of this car...
It's pretty cool.
And I go back and forth with a lot of people
in regards to where you should put your money.
Should you put your money back into the paint and body?
Should you put your money into mechanics?
First and foremost, get your car to run correctly.
Because you could have the greatest paint job in the world
but if you're broken down on the side of the road...
Well, have fun with that.
Right?
The only thing that's going to happen
is people are going to look at you and be like
"Wow, that's a really nice car...
"not moving with smoke coming out of it".
"He's not having a good day".
How do I know that?
Well, years ago when I first bought my Charger,
I was more concerned with the way it looks
than the way it ran.
Paint and body were flawless.
I remember one day going out to East Hampton
and my wife and I were sitting on the side of the road
after the car vapor locked and just,
well basically stopped.
Traffic going out to The Hamptons was huge
and the license plate on that car back in the day said
"Mr. Angry".
And I just remember this one woman
driving by with her window down and going
"I bet he's angry now".
And I never forgot that.
Since that day, my main concern is mechanics.
Make the car run correctly.
Spend the money.
Get the right carburetor,
get the right fuel injections,
do whatever you have to do to make it proper.
People ask me "Why do you drive a '70 Monte every day"?
One is because I can, I live in a place
where it's allowable, the weather lets us do that.
Two, it makes me feel special.
Three, when you pull up to something like this
at a gas station or at a supermarket
or at a light or where you go,
people want to know.
People want to talk to you,
they want to ask you questions about the car,
they want to ask you questions
about what you do for a living.
It's a massive engagement piece.
And because of that, you know,
because of that...
It just makes you feel good.
And there's nothing wrong with feeling good.
Right?
Every (muted) day in the world
you get in this thing,
hear the side pipes roar, leg into the pedal,
(motor roaring)
bounce through the gears.
Man, this is the way it's supposed to be.
If you look hard enough,
you could find fault in anything.
And sometimes I think that's just what people do.
Take this old Ford, for example.
To some, it's just a kind of a rusty old body
with red wheels and some faded paint.
But to others, it's a source of inspiration.
For me personally, I'm glad somebody decided to save it
and give it a new lease on life because in the end,
isn't that what this life all about?
so just a reminder that episodes of the
House of Muscle go live on Motor Trend
On Demand.com about a month before they
go live on YouTube so head on over there
and check them out
making the decision to build an entirely
new car when you just finished one is not an
easy thing to do
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Demand sign up for a free 30-day trial
watch the latest episode now
look at the steering wheel
that's amazing
Oh manual steering
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Zack Snyder creating 'Man of Steel' Featurette [+Subtitles] - Duration: 4:33.
All right, guys. One last comment on the film.
When we left Martha and Clark in the cemetery...
...they had a little flashback where they saw Dad.
That was a scene we just shot kind of impromptu.
I felt like it was really cool to kind of revisit this experience...
...with Clark at the clothesline, and then take him into the city...
...via the shots where you're not really sure who that is.
[CHATTERING]
This is boarding school.
Trying to be normal. I think I got it wrong. Heh, heh.
Oh, wait, I'm supposed to have wheels?
- You gotta pretend you're... - Yeah.
- Do the speedwalking look. - This is the Flashdance. It's the F/ashdance.
Let's see it. Is that your pedaling motion?
What do you think, John? You ride bikes.
CLOTHIER: Yeah, no, that's good. ZACK: Okay.
You were being teased by sort of the icons of Superman...
...or the Superman that we know.
Okay, so here we are in the Daily Planet.
It's that key moment of you finally get to see Clark...
...as the traditional Clark, what everyone expected to see him as...
...at the beginning of the movie. This is a really important phase...
...because Lois is the only person who knows who I am.
Yeah, maybe that's it too. Maybe your stuff's here.
And maybe she comes in like this:
That way, she has to look at him.
You're working, he comes over and you're just like, "This is entertaining."
[ALL CHUCKLING]
And talk to me about the interaction between us in the office...
-...and trying to play it cool. - I actually love that moment...
...for Lois and Clark. I think it sets up a really great future relationship...
...and you get a peek inside. It's like we're revealing a secret to the audience...
-...that only we know. Yeah. - Right. Right.
And Lois is, you know, one of the major reasons why Kal chose Earth.
And there's that wonderful purity there...
...there's that friendship, there's that honesty with each other...
...which they probably haven't experienced anywhere else.
Kal brought about a different insight for Amy...
...about the truth and humanity.
And Amy-- Well, Lois brought about a truth to Kal...
...about, you know, humankind and them being worthy.
Well said.
That last scene could be the first scene of another movie, certainly.
You know, it's Clark Kent entering the Daily Planet...
...meeting Lois Lane, hanging out with Perry White.
It's all the things that everyone knows to be Superman.
And so it's sort of our introduction, if you will, to the man that would be Superman.
And that's what the whole film has been. And that's what the film was for me.
I wanted to make a movie that, in the very last moment...
...reconnected you to what Superman was all about.
And let you have that breadth of experience...
...of coming from Krypton, growing up with him...
...letting him have this epic battle, and now finding him in the place...
...that you know him as Superman. And it was an amazing opportunity...
...for me and I had an amazing time doing it.
Worked with amazing actors, incredible crew and cast...
...amazing producers. And really just kind of the best time...
...I've had making a movie, so, um...
I hope you enjoyed this little behind-the-scenes look.
Thanks for checking it out. So I guess until we do this again, thanks.
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Republican Tries To Get Protesters Deported - Duration: 7:11.
A
LAWMAKER BY THE
NAME OF REPRESENTATIVE MATT RINALDI DECIDED TO GO UP TO
HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS, AND ESSENTIALLY THREATEN THE
PROTESTERS.
HERE'S WHAT REPRESENTATIVE PHILIP CORTEZ SAID: " WE WERE
JUST ON THE FLOOR TALKING ABOUT SB4 PROTESTS, AND STATE
REPRESENTED OF MATT RINALDI CAME UP TO US AND MADE IT A
POINT TO SAY, I CALLED ICE ON ALL OF THEM.
AND THIS IS COMPLETE THE UNACCEPTABLE.
WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED, WE WILL NOT BE DISRESPECTED."
SO, RINALDI SEE SOME LATINO PROTESTERS AND THINGS THEY
MUST BE ILLEGALS.
AND I DON'T THINK THEY WERE ALL LATINO PROTESTERS, THEY WERE
JUST PROTESTERS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST SB4, AND HE JUST
ASSUMED THEY WERE ALL UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.
THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS, YOU THINK ON DOCUMENT DID IMMIGRANTS
SHOW UP TO A GOVERNMENT BUILDING WITH SIGNS?
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ONE PERSON THERE WAS?
I DON'T KNOW, RIGHT?
BUT CERTAINLY RINALDI DOESN'T KNOW.
HE SEES LATINOS AND GOES, ILLEGALS.
AND THEN HE TURNS AROUND AND GOES, WHAT RACISM?
I SEE BROWN PEOPLE AND I CALL THE GOVERNMENT AND ASKED
HIM TO REMOVE THEM FOR MY COUNTRY.
I DON'T KNOW, I'M JUST CALLING IT LIKE I SEE IT.
I KNOW, THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
SO, REPRESENTATIVE RAMON ROMERO JUNIOR SAYS, "HE SAW THE
CROWD AND HE SAW ILLEGALS.
HE SAW PEOPLE THAT, WHETHER HE LIKES TO ACCEPT IT OR NOT,
IN HIS HEART, YES HATE THOSE PEOPLE, AND HE WANTS TO SEE
THEM GONE.
HE WANTS TO SEE THEM GONE SO MUCH TO THE POINT THAT HE
CALLED ICE."
THINGS GOT SUPERHEATED ON THE FLOOR, UNTIL, CUE THE VIDEO,
IT APPEARS THAT THE POINT WHERE THINGS GET A LITTLE PHYSICAL.
NO ONE IS THROWING PUNCHES, BUT EVERYONE GETS TOGETHER AND
START ARGUING.
A POORLY THERE WERE SOME THREATS AS WELL.
REPRESENTATIVE JUSTIN RODRIGUEZ SAYS, "THERE WAS A THREAT
MADE FROM REPRESENTATIVE RINALDI TO PUT A BULLET IN ONE OF
MY COLLEAGUES HEADS.
THAT KIND OF THREATENING LANGUAGE, HE NEEDS TO BE
CALLED OUT AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR."
WERE KNOBBY RESPONDED BACK TO THAT AND SAID THAT 70
THREATEN HIS LIFE.
IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH AND WHO
IS LYING, BUT THIS DID LEAD TO SOME CONSTITUENTS CALLING
DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS IN TEXAS, AND ESSENTIALLY THREATENING
THEM, OR SAYING HIDEOUS THINGS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS.
SO, LET'S GO TO THE VIDEO FROM REPRESENTATIVE CAESAR BLANCO.
HE SHED THIS ON TWITTER, IT WAS ONE OF THE CONSTITUENTS CALLING
IN AND SHARING HIS THOUGHTS ON IMMIGRANTS.
YEAH, I STAND WITH MATT AND ALL THE AND FUCK THE ILLEGAL ALIEN
SPICS.
OKAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR.
THEY SEEM QUITE THOUGHTFUL.
DON'T THINK HIM.
THAT WAS SUCH A DEMOCRATIC THING TO DO, BY THE WAY.
YOU SAID SOMETHING HORRIBLE AND HEINOUS, THANK YOU SIR.
GO FUCK YOURSELF, HOW ABOUT THAT?
I KNOW THAT'S NOT THE DEMOCRATIC WAY.
OKAY, SO, LOOK, RINALDI SAYS, OLD A THREATENED ME FIRST,
THAT'S WHY HE, ACCORDING TO THE OTHER LEGISLATORS HE THREATENED
TO PUT A BULLET INTO ONE OF THEIR HEADS.
DOUBLE MEDIC?
NOW BE SAID THAT HE THOUGHT MAYBE SOME IN THE CROWD WAS
SAYING THEY WERE ILLEGAL.
WHY WOULD THEY SAY THAT?
YOU CAN CHOOSE TO BELIEVE ANYONE YOU WANT, AND IF YOU ARE A
RIGHT-WINGER YOU ARE GOING TO BELIEVE RINALDI, BUT IT'S A
WEIRD THING FOR ONE OF THE PROTESTERS TO RANDOMLY BE LIKE,
I'M ILLEGAL!
I THINK THAT IS ACTUALLY A POSSIBILITY, BECAUSE IN SOME
PROTESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS, UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS WILL TRY
TO, YOU KNOW, BE COURAGEOUS AND COME OUT THERE AND SAY, I'M
UNDOCUMENTED, DO I LOOK LIKE A THREAT TO YOU?
IT'S A POSSIBILITY.
AND RINALDI SAYS OF COURSE YOU DO, YOU ARE BROWN.
HE CALLED ICE ON ALL OF THEM.
THE REASON I BRING THAT UP IS, IF YOU WANT TO HANG ONTO A
FIG LEAF PRETENSE FOR THAT, THAT'S FINE, BUT WHAT
RINALDI IS ASHLEY TRYING TO DO IS INTIMIDATE PEOPLE.
IF YOU SHOW UP AND YOU ARE LATINO AND YOU ARE GOING TO
PROTEST, I'M GOING TO CALL ICE ON YOU.
I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE OR ARE NOT UNDOCUMENTED, I HAVE NO
WAY OF PROVING OR DISPROVING THAT, AND I CLAIM SUMMARY
SAID THAT, WHETHER THEY DID OR NOT, YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT.
BUT ONCE I CALL ICE, I'M GOOD TO HAVE THEM CLEAR ALL OF YOU
GUYS OUT, AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.
DO YOU CARRY YOUR PAPERS AROUND WITH YOU?
WHAT, MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE?
WHERE THE HELL IS MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE?
I DON'T KNOW, DO YOU KNOW?
I THINK ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO TAKE
AWAY FROM THE STORY IS, WHILE REPUBLICANS LIKES TO PRETEND
THAT THEY ARE TOUGH GUYS, IN REALITY THEY ARE GIANT PUSSIES.
HERE IS WHAT A STRONG PERSON DOES NOT DO; SEE A
PROTESTER, OR A PROTEST, AND GET SO UP IN ARMS ABOUT IT THAT
YOU HAVE TO CALL FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO DEAL WITH IT.
THAT IS WHAT A PUSSY DOES.
YOU CAN'T HANDLE PEOPLE PROTESTING?
YOU ARE THAT MUCH OF A WEAK MAN THAT YOU CAN'T HANDLE
PEOPLE PRACTICING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, AND
PROTESTING LEGISLATION THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE SUPPORTED?
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THAT?
IT HANDLES ñ IT HURTS YOUR FEELINGS THAT BAD?
YOU ARE A PUSSY.
AND IS A NON-AMERICAN MOVE.
WHEN THE TEA PARTY DOES PROTESTS, THEY LOVE THAT, RIGHT?
WHEN PEOPLE THEY DON'T AGREE WITH YOU PROTESTS, CALL THE
OFFICIALS!
CALL THE FEDS!
CALL ICE!
SO, WHICH ONE IS IT?
BY THE WAY, WE ARE CONSISTENT.
TEA PARTY, HAVE ADDED, OF COURSE YOU COULD DO PROTESTS.
IF THE TEA PARTY DECIDED THEY WERE GOING TO SIT FOR THE
NATIONAL ANTHEM BECAUSE THEY WERE UPSET ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED TO THE BUNDY'S, THAT IS YOUR RIGHT.
YOU WANT TO DO A PROTEST, GOD BLESS.
JUST DON'T BRING WEAPONS AND PUT THEM AT COPS, WHICH IS WHAT THE
GUYS DID AT THE BUNDY RANCH, AND IN THEM OREGON.
COULD YOU IMAGINE IF THESE PROTESTERS IN TEXAS BROUGHT
WEAPONS, AND POINTED THEM AT THE OFFICIALS?
HOW QUICKLY WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED?
NO NO, WE'RE JUST TO TAKE OVER THIS FEDERAL BUILDING FOR A
COUPLE MONTHS.
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WOULD HAVE WORKED AND YOU KNOW IT.
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