- We're good.
- Alright.
- Okay, I'm Joe.
I'm the mechanic.
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- [Robotic Voice] Joe the mechanic.
- I've got 15 years or so under my belt.
Most of my mechanic knowledge history has been
transmission rebuilding, repairs, that kinda stuff.
I have done a few projects on the side.
Most of my personal projects were Foxbody Mustangs
V8s, five-liter, rear-wheel drive.
I had planned to do a project car for quite some time.
My only real stipulations when I was looking for
a project car was rear-wheel drive, manual transmission.
Rear-wheel drive cars are, to me
a lot simpler to make consistent power with.
- I'm Justin, and I'm Joe's brother-in-law.
For this series I'm gonna be handling
more of the filming and the editing.
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- [Robotic Voice] Justin.
Cameraman.
- And stuff like that.
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We should introduce the car that we're gonna be working on.
- Cut to some footage.
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Through the shop that I currently work at
I picked up a
all original
1992 Mazda Miata MX-5
1.6L, five-speed manual car.
It had some maintenance issues
that the original owner deemed
too expensive to perform on the car.
He was ready to send it to the scrap yard.
I picked it up for $500 CAD.
The brake line from the master cylinder to the rear brakes
rusted out right under the firewall.
And that brake line had blown-out
the rear brakes were non-existent.
The pads were completely gone
the rotors were rusted down to a super thin material so...
Before we started filming I replaced the clutch
I completed entire rear brake replacement
pads, rotors, calipers, flex lines
all got replaced with stainless steel braided lines
and the hard lines all gone bent up
with new steel lines, flare fittings...
In talking to each other we kinda decided
hey, why don't we turn this into
a just dedicated project car?
Try to get some fun track days out of it.
Turn it into more of a race car.
- Right after that was when we thought
we should film this.
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So the series is called "Trash to Track"
- Yep, this car, the original owner
had deemed it for the trash
and now we're hoping to make it fairly capable on the track
as Miatas were very known for
- Is that a joke?
- Kinda. (laughs)
We've got a plan for the car on paper
but we don't wanna give away all the details right away.
We're gonna try to focus on fairly easy add-ons.
Kinda simple stuff like what you guys
might be able to do at home in your garage
and then, later on in the build series
we'll increasingly get the repairs
to come up in difficulty.
We're not a big company
we don't have a whole bunch of sponsors.
We're not just gonna make some
massive orders from part supply places.
- We're gonna try to do what we can ourselves.
- Definitely.
But when it comes to, like, bodywork and structural welding
like, we'll definitely outsource that kinda stuff.
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- What we decided to do was to break it up into
kind of the conventional season structure.
So we're gonna have seasons.
We don't know how many yet.
- Season finale episodes are going to be set aside
for a big repair or
a large performance add-on that
again, we're kinda keeping under wraps.
- Instead of just rushing through everything in a time-lapse
we're gonna slow down a little bit
so you can actually follow along.
- I will give as much instruction as to
what we're doing, why we're doing it
and how we're doing it as I can.
- And in every episode we're gonna cover
three items or three tasks.
- Three things, yeah.
- Three things.
- Yeah, we'll probably try to stick
with one performance modification
one aesthetics modification
and then another one that may
just be part of the restoration.
Like if we find a damaged component
or a rusty component
or something that needs to be restored or repaired
but mainly focusing on what we're doing to upgrade the car
and turn it kinda more from a bone-stock
Miata that it was when we got it
to the track car that we're building this series for.
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- One episode every three weeks.
- Keep in mind this is a 25, 26 year old car
so finding parts
some stuff could be very specific.
That three weeks gives us enough time
to acquire all the parts
order anything new
if we're doing some big modification and that kinda stuff
some of it takes quite a bit of time
that would happen behind the scenes, right?
If you guys like the idea of our build series
or you wanna follow along
subscribe to our page.
Give us some comments
what you wanna see us do in the future.
If you guys have any questions as well
feel free to ask, comment, and we'll do our best
to give a proper answer or get back in timely fashion, too.
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