[car engine revving] matt farah: people tend tocompare supercars to works of art, and worship them as such. from their finely sculptedlines to their superior engineering to the emotionsthey stir while behind the wheel, it's easy to understandwhy they inspire people so. and like fine art, thebest supercars are all about the details. it has a 5 liter v8,like a koenigsegg.
it has leather bonnet straps,like a pagani. it has lightweight bodypanels and a stripped interior, like a gt3 rs. it has an external speedometer,like an old muscle car. it has a big oil cooler,like a corvette zr1. it has a trunk-mounted battery,like a bentley gt. it utilizes wood in itsstructure, like a morgan. it has airplane styles switches,like an aventador,
and a fire suppression systembecause from where we stand, this car is much more likelyto catch on fire than any ferrari ever built. what would it take for you toagree to test drive a car that makes nearly 400 horsepower,weighs less than a mini cooper, and was built by someonebarely old enough to vote in their parents'driveway? if that sounds scary, that'sbecause it is. if a car is the sum of itsparts, then corbin's first gen
rx7 is a schizophrenichomeless man. it's ugly, dirty, weathered,and an all-around disaster. but, as often goes with thesethings, a car can be not only far more than the sum of itsparts, but a brilliant representation of not onlyits creator, but also the environment in whichit is created. and now it's time we meet thismonster's creator, corbin. he's only 19, but for the pastfew years has dumped every dollar he's earned deliveringpizzas into
his mischief mobile. corbin goodwin: well, it's whatstarted out as a 1984 mazda rx7 with a 12 [inaudible]and an automatic owned by someone who'sprobably dead now. but anyway, i got it in a ditchin fresno for about $350, had to trailer it back,listened to johnny cash the whole way. and i decided that i neededsomething insane, something that would try to kill meat any opportunity.
life wasn't exciting enough. anyway, so i decided it neededa v8 and something that i could really have fun inthe canyons with-- not care about, beat onmercilessly, and that would hopefully take it withoutbreaking. [car engine] corbin goodwin: theoff-the-shelf components are trick flow heads, edelbrockmanifold, 24-pound cobra injectors.
what else do we have on there? dfi fuel rails. we have a walbropump going on. we have a jegs radiator witha custom mount bracket. half the stuff's custom. some volvo ductingto keep the air going through the radiator. what else do we have? bbk chromed long tubes.
we have a c&l intake, a70-millimeter throttle body. we also have a k&n filter, a65-millimeter thunderbird supercharged maf, a t5 with anunsprung 6-puck cerametallic clutch, and a 12-pound aluminumflywheel with an act stage 3 pressure plate. that i didn't want, but it'sthe only one i had. so i was like, whatever,send it over. used the respeed coiloverconversion kit, so it has adjustable height hats 350-poundsprings up front,
200s in the rear, illuminafive-way adjustable dampers, full poly. i have a little burn mark. yeah, you can barely see it fromwhere i got molten rubber burning up the old bushings. because this car just beatsme whenever possible. and also, camber platesto top it off. matt farah: and if you'llallow me a minute, i'll explain why this rusted mess ofa sports car is one of the
best home brew tuner carsi've ever driven. to start the car, clutch in. three toggles at the bottomfor ignition and fan. then the second ignitionswitch. then you kick the starter motor,it fires, and then you have to shut the startermotor back off. nice, little shifter actually. the e-brake works. that's good.
sunroof comes out, soi can actually fit. matt farah: sounds likea five liter mustang. you know what? it runs great. temperatures are good. the oil's good. all the gauges work-ish. so i'm showing a 7.3 on the fueltank, which i think means i have fuel.
it's running. he said, don't trust thetack, trust the motor. i'm not sure i trustthe motor. whoa! this thing is so sketchy. corbin goodwin: i tried to adaptas many of the stock instruments as i could. unfortunately, the gas gauge wasnot adapt-- well, it might have been adaptable, but ididn't want to figure out the
resistances and howto wire it. so i just went to harborfreight, got a $7 multimeter and hooked it in ohms style. that's hot roddingright there. you go to michael's, youget some glow paint and a little brush. you go to harbor freight, youget some cheap multimeter. the gas gauge is full, or at 0,and it just gets higher in the numbers.
and it fuel starves on leftturns at about 70 ohms. matt farah: well, this thing'sa piece of crap, but it's a fast piece of crap. corbin goodwin: it'sa hot rod. and to get philosophicalfor a brief moment, what makes a hot rod? it has to have rebellion,in my opinion. and so there we have anoffensive statement. and we also have "free candy,"which the cops don't like that
one very much. and we also pedobearand a troll face. basically, i didn't thinkit was making people angry enough. you got to troll on peoplewith your car sometimes. and i think this has done asuperb job now that i have jokes all over the thing. matt farah: and i mean, is therea more obnoxious place to drive this car than in thehills of malibu, ruining these
people view, ruiningtheir quite peace, and just [yelling] with the ugliest, ricketiest,most obnoxious best car ever? ok, wait. whoa. all right, i thought i wasgoing to die there. corbin goodwin: imagine for amoment that you're in a prison during a prison break. now, this is goingto be chaotic.
but now imagine all theprisoners are on pcp. and they all have knives. and it's almost that bad. it's not quite there. it's like the prisonerswithout the knives. you go in. you're driving it. you turn, and it may understeerand you might die. it may overseer andyou might die.
or you may be a total badassand get around the corner. you just kind of takeit corner by corner. it reminds you every day thatyou may die at any moment. especially while drivingthis car. that's what it'slike to drive. matt farah: something about thiscar makes you want to be just a total dick. i mean, like, what i love aboutcorbin is that with this build, zero [bleep]
are given. zero [bleep] are given to the paint. it's all a big joke. the whole car existsonly for laughs. and it makes you laugh. whether you're driving it,whether you just see him drive by, whether he cuts a cornersideways at a zillion miles an hour, you've gotto laugh at it.
i will say this-- as anexperience, as a car that will keep you engaged whether you'resitting in traffic, or on the canyons, or on thehighway, this does provide far more thrills per hour than, say,a nissan gtr, which, when driven at the limitis amazing. when driven below thelimit is boring. never a dull moment here. while, yes, this car terrifiedme on camera. not for lack of capability,rather for the potentially
dire consequences of anotherwise small accident, something happened over thecourse of our drive-- i got used to it. once you understand how tomanhandle it, the mazda no longer becomes scary andtransitions into a raw, sticky, and very capable hoonmobile that would absolutely dominate a lemon's race if onlyit were cheap enough. corbin goodwin: well, if i hadto put it in a dealer's show room, i would put at leasta $3,000 price tag--
i honestly think people willthink it's worth $2,000. i mean, looking at itfrom the outside, it clearly doesn't look-- it looks like someone took anrx7, and then just made it-- just put some jokes on it andput some wheels on it. and that's not so farfrom the truth. but in reality, there's about$13,000 worth of parts alone, as many as i couldget cheaply. and then, about two years oflabor, all which i did myself.
so if you value my time,which is questionable. then, considerable expense. matt farah: i think the mostvaluable lesson we've learned so far this season on "tuned" isthat cars are a reflection of their owners. look at the hennessey venomgt, i mean, that thing is basically john hennesseywith four wheels. frank's crazy lotus is an angrydemon of death because frank is an angrydemon of death.
corey's drift car has nakedzombies on it because this is a guy who walks around with hisown face on t-shirts, and it's perfect. it reflects the owner. and corbin's car, hewanted to go fast. he lives at home withhis parents. he doesn't care whatpeople think. more importantly, he wants toget a rise out of people in malibu with all thismoney, with his
angry, fast, crazy rx7. it has character coming outof every ghetto-drilled hole in this car. and that's what i loveabout this car. this car is corbin on wheels. see you all next week. corbin goodwin: here,you see low down we have our corbin special. it's the aero-plank.
it's not patented yet. you can't use this. well, don't use this, please,until i get it patented, so i can get money out of you. well, you see, we here at corbinmotors have done the finest testing inall conditions. we went up stunt road, and thenwent down stunt road. and repeated until thecar could do it many times without breaking.
and it almost is there. we'll find out.
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