Talking 3D Printing Cars and other non traditional building methods

Talking 3D Printing Cars and other non traditional building methods

Episode Transcript

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Garage. Willie Bee's garage is nowopen. Oh what up? You guys?
Will be his garage. How arewe doing? How is your Saturday
morning? So far, so good? Just rolling solo today. But today,
well today we're gonna have some fun. I got my couple of buddies
calling up today. Man, there'ssome crazy cool builds going on. There's

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some crazy cool So you guys knowSterling, who we have talked to a
few times over crazy wild Lamborghini deal. He's building that thing has been How
many years have we known Sterling?I want to say that was a pre
pandemic thing, right, was it. Well, I'm trying to think when

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they did the Lamborghini commercial. Weknew him shortly before they did their commercial.
Yeah, so I want to sayprobably four or five years now,
if not longer. He's been youknow, basically taking a dream from his
son to three D build a threeD print basically a Lamborghini. Uh and

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uh and kind of well, justcreate something that's never been done before.
It's wild because a lot of peoplehave caught, you know, wind of
the story. Lamborghini came out andshot some videos. Uh, they brought
him a they brought him up,I want to say, a steering wheel.
Yeah, yep, but that videocame out for Christmas of twenty nineteen.

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Whoa, So I'm guessing we methim earlier that year. Yeah.
Wow, it's crazy when you thinkabout it. So so speaking with him,
because he's just about ready to wrapup that particular build. He's got
another build that he's he's begun.That is just insane. That's just like

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what also three D printed. Iwill have to talk to him. Okay,
So he's got another buddy, Daria, that's doing something similar. I
think these these two cats are likeyang okay, and like to build stuff,
you know, alongside one another andhelp each other with the hurdles and
challenge each other get it done.Daria's deal was fiberglass, correct, Yes,

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now he's done fiberglass. So we'regonna talk to them a little bit.
We're also going to talk to alocal cat. Gonna highlight some local
things today, some local places,shops, builds. There's also a guy
we spoken to him before, probablyabout a year ago, a little bit
maybe a little bit more when itcomes to getting God say, nowadays,

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rooms are huge, by the way, so let's just use rims as example,
nowadays, if you're gonna go geta you know, a set of
rims, obviously getting some of thepops sort of sets the build apart from
all the others. It's always gonnabe a cool move to make, and
I think more appreciated now than everbefore. So when it comes to coding

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wheels, brackets, any sort ofharder component, powder coating is the way
to go. And what you're ableto do with powder coating nowadays it's the
same. So we're gonna talk toa local powder coador. Got himn leet
pristine powder coating gets caught up onanything you need. There a lot of
people decide to do. You know, I'll be honest. Mad chloride,
which you're about to see you throwndown on the highways and byways here in

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the old city of Colorado or Denverand Colorado is just awful. It is
just Oh, it rips your rimsapart. Man, it eats the sort
of protective layer of coatings on it. So powder coating is one of the
best ways to go to fend yourselfagainst that. A lot of people tend
to put uglier rims on for thewinter and then turn you know, their

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stock or what was just a kindof a plain Jane rim into something that
really pops, or you know alot of times you'll put different wild colors
on it to set it off alittle bit. So we'll catch up with
Lee on that and has the fundoing so. So all kinds of stuff
for you today. Will it behis garage? Glad to be here talking
about some mother nonsense in the newstoo. Do this logo Paul Dylan's Dan

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to fight. This is stupid.We gotta talk about this, admits.
But I'm in shock that they're allowingthe brother to step in for that fight.
Like it's like, is that whatis happening? I believe so,
man, I'll get the details herein just the second. All right,
a little back to nine o'clock quickbreak. Now we'll come back tee it

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up. Will be his garage isone A seven nine KVP I Willy B's
garage? You back in Willybe's garage? Yeah, man, will be his
garage. Welcome to it, youguys. I'm waiting for that big solar
clips man. Yeah, thinking aboutthree minutes, the moon just about starts

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to touch the Sun's edge and thenuh yeah, it's gonna get a little
darker and a little darker for thenext hour or so. Yeah, I'm
kind of excited about it, kindof like, Oh, I was telling
you this morning. I was like, you're telling I'm like, this morning,
when you get up, I'm like, the sun is going to disappear.
And she's like, oh what,And I'm like, Yeah, it's

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gonna just vanish. It's gonna bedark in the morning. She's like what.
So on the phone, we gotLee from Pristine Powder Coating. Lee,
how long you been doing the wholepowder coating deal? Man, I
have been powder coating close to twentyfour years. Good lord, that's a

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lot. Yeah, I would hopei'd be retired by that, right,
Nope, you know how it is. Yeah, Man, it's just because
you love it so much. Butthe reality is, Man, I'm telling
you, this is one of thecoolest things because a lot of people,
I think a lot of people thinkpowder coating and they just think sort when

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powder coating first sort of popped ontothe scene, it was much better than
a spray paint, much stronger,more resistant and sort of better for you
know, things got beat up oryou know, slammed around or heated up
or things like that, and peoplekind of in their minds perceived powder coating

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as a protective type thing and helpsfight corrosion, which it all does.
What's really interesting is the evolution ofpowder coating and what's gone from a few
different type colors to really now thesky's the limit. You can do crazy
antidized stuff and all the other thingsthat you know, really enhanced the way

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you can have anything from wheels,rims, brackets, bumper anything and what
powder coding. Get powder coated aslong as it basically is metal, right,
yeah, correct, And we couldcode any type metals, aluminum,
brass, steels, stainless, youknow, we could blast and coat over
chrome parts. That's what we do. A lot of blackout Harley's, you

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know, they come with a tonof chrome. People want them black.
But yeah, as you were saying, the evolution of powder coating, it
has just been amazing what I've seenin the past twenty years. You know,
you were able to get some youknow, exotic colors at first,
but now it is unbelievable what theycome up with, and especially you've probably

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heard of it, prismatic powders.Yeah, this is what's wild. This
is what's really crazy because it's almostanadized, right. It gives you that
wild with it. You put downa chrome base of powder or a metallic
based, and then it's like atinted clear top coat and you could virtually

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get any color you know from candyred, candy purples which really popular,
or smokes to make it similar toblack chrome. And then they have a
whole line of color shifting powders whichare just unbelievable. What is that wait,
color color shifting? Yeah, yeah, they flip flop between colors,

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like from purple to blue, thered, you know, green to teal.
Now, I've seen that before inpain I've got actually my fifty eight
Dodgs custom Rolls got a little bitof that flop on the roof of it,
whereas the rest of the car,the body anyway, is black because
I wanted to make it stand outa little bit and give people a little

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wow when they walked up to it. So you're able to do that now
with powder coating with powder. Yeah, and that's all just from different angles
looking at it. Yeah, differentangles looking at it. As you walk
around it, it starts changing colors, so it will look blue from one
angle purple and to pink, andit's pretty. It is, man,

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it's a it's one of those thingsyou look at you gotta do a double
or triple take you like, wait, let's just flip different colors. So
god, that's I didn't know theyhad taken it that far. What it's
really obvious nowadays, you know,take one of the most probably i'd say
more often than not eight to youknow, nine out of ten things you

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probably get through the door or rims. I see everybody trying to powder coat
rims nowadays. M Yeah, whatyou do most of Yeah, we do.
We do a ton of wheels,probably two to three sets a week
and that and that's another big thingnow with wheels is the two toning.
You know, two colors on aon a single wheel. It's more time

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consuming and difficult, but the personalsatisfaction of when you complete a job like
that is is pretty high. Sohow do you how do you get how
do you get that done? Tocolors? Because don't you have to do
them and apply them at different times? Yeah? Mm hmm. Yeah.
You you apply one color and thenyou partially cure it and then you either

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tape off or we do a lotof wiping and vacuuming of the second coat
of powder. So you apply itand then you wipe it off, or
you vacuum in off the areas youdon't want it to be on, and
that's how you two tone a wheel. There's a ton of a ton of

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videos online you can see the process. They make it look easy. It's
extremely difficult. Yeah, I feellike, honestly, I feel like it
all of that through the magic oftelevision because I do some of that too.
That's the that's the trick is tomake it look easy. The reality

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is far different. But you know, kind of through what you're you're seeing
there, that seems like a veryinvolved process. But with these colors,
with these options, with some ofthis, you know you mentioned just a
second ago, the flop and someof the you know, the powder coating
you have now is is powder coatingjust as versatile as as just regular paint

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nowadays as far as what you willdo, Yeah, powder coating is just
as versatile as paint. You couldyou could pretty much color match almost every
paint out there. It's it's difficult. You have to go through a lot
of color swatches to match some ofthese colors now, especially metallics, you

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know, just because of the flopfactor. You know, they flop back
and forth from one angle they looklighter than the other. But you could
virtually match any color. And ifyou can't and somebody really really wants an
exact color match, you could setcolor sample into the powder company and they'll

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match that. That powder to thepain. That's that's next level. That's
man and you know what it does. It gives everything so sort of this
cohesive and you know, sort ofnext level look on the build. I'm
sure that suspending opponents, wheels,things like that that live live in a

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kind of an ugly environment. There'sgot to be some protection along with the
powder coating. Is that is thatbasically what the powder coating is designed for,
just protection as well as that color. Like, how do you protect
against like mad chloride and that stuff? Is powder coating the right direction to

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go. Yeah, powder coating isthe right direction to go if you do
it correctly. Now and my shop, and not a lot of shops do
this. We prime everything. Weput a popsy parmers on a lumine them
because aluminium will will oxidize and beginto corrode if moisture or anything gets underneath

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the coating. Okay, all coatingsare not impervious to moisture. A certain
level will get through eventually. That'sbut probably not a lot of people I
think that or believe that what youjust said. A lot of people I
think once they they feel like it'spowder coder. They you know, they

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got in their mind this you know, shield and or wall and barrier that's
permeable and will never get moisture behindit. But that's not really the case,
not not really the case. Butit takes a while. And we're
lucky here in Colorado because we're insuch a dry climate. But you take

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something down to Florida and that's whereyour show is filmed. You I'm sure
you see all the corrosion on outdoorfurniture. Yeah, stuff like that.
It has to be refinished every fewyears. With steel products like jeep bumpers,
suspension components, stuff that's going tosee real abuse and mad chloride and

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moisture and uh, just stuff sittingon them all the time if they're made
of steel. We use a zincrich primer, which is a really heavy
anti corrosive primer and then we putthe you know, any color on top
of it. And then when youget into metallics and the candies, they're

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multiple layers. So at the endof the day, when we do a
metallic or a candy, you'll havethree layers of powder on there and it's
it's pretty much going to last youthe lifetime of your vehicle. So when
people bring these pieces and components inkind kind of walking. So you mentioned
that you you primer everything, likeeverything, and why the need to do

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that on everything just to make sureit lasts okay and if there's any imperfections,
any dings, den scrapes, anytype of cloth in the metal.
Right once you prime it, yousee it, you stand it. I
mean, we we put a lotof work into reparts that comes into our

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shop to make sure when it leaves, it is perfect and the customer,
you know, is happy with themoney they're spending. Because you know,
people are spending their hard earned moneywith me, they're trusting me with their
parts, so I want to makesure that they're one hundred happy when they
leave our shop. So we putin the extra effort, We put in

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the extra time, and we doextra steps to make sure that you know,
the product we're delivering is going tolast and also look good, you
know, right right, So we'respeaking with Lee Pristine Powder Coating. Uh
here in Denver. I'm telling youthis guy, he's for all the hot
riders, street riders, most carguys, all that stuff. Man,

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he has been kind of the goto in the town. Oh you need
somebody, go see Louie Pristine.You're just kind of the guy in town
for that. Uh. When peoplebring in all these crazy suspension parts and
wheels and rims, and you know, I want these bumper brackets done up
in shinny red or black over this, that and the other. It's really

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amazing. Some of these parts willnever ever be seen just you know,
standing up right walking around in thecar. However, when you get underneath
the car, a lot of peopleare blown away. It really is kind
of wild to see the opportunity outthere that's available for you and your company
as far as powder coating getting coloron so many parts and components. What's

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sort of the requirement for PC,said, do you do anything metal?
Right? Thing? Metal? Yeah, And when suspension comes in, you
know, we prefer that bushings arepushed out. We we can't coat them
with rubber bushings. We do alot of break calibers. We prefer they're
disassembled before they come in ye sealsand pistons out, dust boots off.

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We will disassemble them if we haveto, but due to liability, I
prefer not to disassemble and reassemble people'sbrakes. But you're not a break person.
But you've done it before, rightexactly. I'll do it for myself
and I but you know liability reasons. Well, it's just smarter too,

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man. Look, haven't your it'swild because this has become such such a
big market. But break calibers everybodywants some kind of wild and weird color,
you know, because I gotta geta you know, a bigger like
a four or five spoke wheel whereyou know, you go to see that
shiny fancy rotor probably drilled and slotted, and you want a caliber to kind

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of offset or grab people's eye todraw their attention towards it, because it
is a little performance kind of likeyou know, notching the belt. There
a little thumbs up on the performanceside. If you have some cool powder
coated you know, calibers in there, and it really does pop when you
get the wheel on it and yousee it all assembled together exactly. And

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we could also do logos and thensignal if somebody wants their Brambo bit brakes
restored, we could get Brambo logos. We could either put them on the
brake or we can two tone thebrake with that logo and use it kind
of as a stencil where you'll putdown the color that you want the lettering

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to be. You partially, youpartially cure it. Then you put down
the vinyl. It's typically high templevinyl. Put that second layer of powder
down and you you partially cure it, and you pull that vinyl the lettering
off while the caliper is still kindof hot. And you can two tone

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letters and logos into valve covers brakes. You can put them on the lip
of a wheel and it will allbe powder, no sticker, but it
will look like a sticker that ofa wheel. Yeah, yeah, we've
done, you know, like onthe new the Dodgers, the two red

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stripes that on the lip of people'swheels. You know, logos on brakes,
Corvette breaks, Brambo brakes, youcould we could put your name on
it. We could put Willie bon a caliper. That'd be kind of
cool. Actually, hey, that'smy damn car. Yeah. All right.

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So when people are, you know, think about you mentioned valve covers,
think about under the hood. Whatare some of the components and pieces
that you guys mess with under thehood. A lot of the newer cars
they're shrouded in plastic. It's harderto see things, you know, and
the intakes are plastic. But theolder stuff, you know, intake manifolds,

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uh, you know, air conditioning, alternator, power steering brackets.
You can see the sway bars andall that from the looking down from the
top of the hood. We doexhaust coatings through the headers. You do
exhaust coatings, yeah, thermal barrier, exhaust coatings. All right, what

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what does somebody has got an olderset of headers that will want to look,
you know, brand new and thatcand of get that ceramic looking shine
back to it. You guys doall that as well. Yep, we
do all that. We do externalengine coatings, which are thermal barriers for
the headers and anything that hot gasesflow through to internal coatings where we coat

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the tops of pistons and thermal barrier. We coat the combustion chambers and thermal
barrier. We'll rete the exhaust portsand thermal barrier. And then we have
dry film lubricants where we put themon the piston skirts, the bearing faces.
We've done cam lobes in them,crank crank journals, stuff like that.

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So the thermal barrier stuff. Alot of people don't necessarily maybe don't
quite understand why you would put something. You know, you said you're you're
doing combustion chambers. Uh so thatwould require like the dude bringing in the
head and like a piston and everything, and you're putting a coating in that,

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right, So we would coat thetop of the piston. Typically people
are bringing that stuff in because they'veblown up their motor. They needs it,
needs to rebuild, so you know, do it right the second time,
I guess, So people bring thestuff in, they bring it in,
will coat the piston tops. Typicallyfor supercharged nitrous high compression stuff,

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it's really not that beneficial with naturallyaspirated stock stuff, but you know,
running any type of force deduction nitrousthings like that where you can experience detonation.
Coat the top of the pistons andit will protect that aluminum from melting,

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and it also prevents hotspots on thatpiston that can cause detonation. So
what people don't understand about detonation isit's a killer inside that combustion chamber.
So what happens, you know,you got that cylinder and a combustion chamber
is constantly getting you know, fueledup, getting fired off, and then
gases get pushed out, or whathappens over a period of time or higher

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RPMs for a lot of people thatmay not know, you'll develop these these
hot spots. So what happens isthere's a specific design. Once that light
off event occurs, once that sparkoccurs from the spark plug, that flame
front as it travels through the combustionchamber is designed to burn in a certain

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way, in a certain manner,in a certain direction. Well, if
you have a hotspot on one particularside or that flame front that you know,
once that that spark event occurs,that flame front may light off and
start going through that natural progression andthat down that natural path. But what
happens if you got hotspot or detonation, it's lit off somewhere because it's so

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hot, the combustion chamber. Theyhave another flame front, you know,
coming at you, and it's aone way street, right, you got
two flame fronts once they once theycollide, that's when you get these these
detonation events that really are catastrophic.You'll you wouldn't believe how bad you can
damage you know, ring lands,top of pistons, the combustion chamber,

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e stuf. You wouldn't believe howvolatile that that environment becomes. When you
have these massive flame fronts just runninginto each other and exploding and causing causing
the whole thing to light off,you know, too soon or too early.
There's a lot of damage that occursin that. And the better protected
against that, the more you cankind of lean on the engine, the

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more. You know, a lotof guys will find the ability to eke
out just a little bit more power. They can control that to the best
of their ability. Yeah, especiallynow you know the temperatures cool, people
think they could put a little bitmore timing in, you know, get
that get that two tenths off andmake a record abandon yeah, you know,

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blow a hole in your christon.So the coatings help prevent that.
The internal engine coatings yeah, man, that's kind of cool. So talk
to me a little bit about howlong it takes. Is it different the
coatings that you you're using on theinternal parts, How does that differ from

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say a powder coating, And doyou ever have to worry about that stuff
degrading? Is there a certain amountof degradation that occurs or flaking off?
Is there anything that you gotta worryabout when you coat say a combustion team,
do you lose or get more compressionwhen you do that? No,
it will be marginal. You don'thave to worry about your you know,

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having your combustion chambers made bigger toaccommodate the coating. It's a quarter of
a thousand thick. It's super thin, but it does an amazing job.
It's amazing how thin. They're calledthin build coatings, so they're so thin,

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but yet they do such an incrediblejob with thermal protection. It's unbelievable.
But no, you don't have toworry about clearances, tolerances. The
coating should not flake off. Alot of the dry film lubricants, they're
called sacrificial coating. So if you'regetting some skirt rub on your cylinders,

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it's going to rub off a littlebit. I mean, I'm sure you've
seen pistons come out of motors andthey have that scuffing on the skirts.
But the coating impregnates the metal,So even though it looks like it's gone,
they say, it's still adding uh, you know, lubrication properties to

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that metal even though it's kind ofscraped it off. Yeah, obviously could
understand that why you want that thatprotection, especially on the cylinder wall,
especially opposite of the way that thecrankshaft is coming in and throwing. It's
the opposite side of that cylinder.It normally gets worn on those skirts and
they're you know, kind of clockingback and forth together, especially on cold

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starts. When that oil isn't youknow, providing the film strength and it's
not sliding like you're you're probably hopingit does. You can see where where
that coating will give that cylinder alot of protection, a lot of you
know, just a sort of abarrier between uh, metal and metal contact.

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Mm h, Yeah, smart moodto have that done. Now,
let's talk what does all this cost? What is the you know, like
anything else nowadays when it comes toautomotive world, I feel like God,
I feel like parks nowadays is throughthe roof. I feel like materials are
through the roof. I feel likeanything and everything we need. You know,

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that was you know, halfway affordablejust a year or two ago has
definitely exploded in price. How doespowder coating you know, a set of
rims compared to you know, buyinga new one a waiting three months from
the show up. Kind Of walkus through what you're getting as far as
you know, price point, whatpeople could expect to spend on this,

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and but trely obviously you know youdo't bust anybody's budget. But some
of this is preventive. Some ofthis, like coding your combustion chamber for
example, some of that's something youwant to do as far as a protective
measure, so you can't really puta price on that, but you can
as far as getting the job done. Kind of walk us through what some
of these costs are. Yeah,typically a set of wheels in a single

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stage color. Stay brings their wheelsand then they want them black. Our
pricing varies on the size of thewheels, So say somebody brings in a
seventeen to eighteen inch wheel, tostrip the wheel. That's to remove all
the coating that's on that wheel.Sam blasted we epoxy primate and then top

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coated. It would be one hundredand seventy five dollars a wheel to do
a seventeen or eighteen inch wheel.Once you step up to nineteens or twenties,
it adds twenty five dollars a wheel, so you'd bed two hundred dollars
a wheel and so on. Peopleget it. What's crazy, bros.

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I got this blazer and I waspricing out some wheels the other day.
I was like, you know what, mas, I scored his old blazer,
check me out some wheels for it. And I was like, four
hundred dollars a wheel. You kissmy ass. I was like, damn
wheels a joke though I've bought wheelsfor a long time. But just like
I've missing before, men, priceof everything is just gone through the roof

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man, bro. I had tobuy a rack and pinion for a car
Christmas the other day that we're doingand it was nine hundred dollars for rack
and pinion. Nine one hundred bucksfor a rack and pinion. Steering bro.
Yeah, it's unbelievable. And ourindustry has been hit hard by it
too. You know, all myoverhead has gone up significantly from utility bills

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to raw material costs. You know, these chemicals that we get in to
strip wheels. You know, weuse some pretty uh you know, volatile
acids and things like that to stripthe coatings off the wheels. And the
price is almost doubled for us toget that stuff. And at one point

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we had to wait six months toget it. But that that's all over,
you know, that's insane. Allright, Well, so look,
I'm a little bit late on abreak. I'm come back. We'll wrap
up the conversation. We have Leepower coding. Pristine powder coating is where
you can find this guy. He'sbeen in the business forever for he's been
in a game, uh forever herein Colorado. So if you're thinking about

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you know, protective coatings, ifyou think about what to do with suspension
components, I'll be honest, man, you could take an old car that's
you know, just getting restored,and you wouldn't believe the impact that has
esthetically when you're you know, whenyou're powder coating cool things that like bump
or brackets or suspension parts or youknow, a arms, things like that.

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They man, it just makes thebuild look so much better. It
pops man like you wouldn't believe.It really does have an impact on the
way people perceive that build. Sowe'll talk a little bit more about that.
Check him out online Pristine Powder Coating, Quick Break, wrap things up
with Lee. It's will he Behis garage and one is seven nine KVP.
I wily Be's garage. Feel badin Willie B's garage? Well,

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so you guys would be as garadesman. We can see a Saturday afternoon,
so I caught winding of the dayband AMR. So the last testing
tune they're having is the twentieth.That's Friday. Yeah? Is that Friday
same night as shine Down? Yeah? So the last a leap? Have
you heard the last testingtuon is thetwentieth. I know they're usually open until

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like the twenty third, but Idon't know, so I don't what the
end date is. I've heard thelast one is October twentieth, and you
I just found out yesterday because Iwanted to take my charger up there.
I heard yesterday that all the passesthat you could buy, meaning the entry
passes the race that day, becauseit's like a yeah to buy an entry

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pass, not like a normal Wednesdaytestingtoon where they just go all right,
everybody show up, all those passesand entries, I've all been yeah,
all been sold out. Can youbelieve we may not have an actual racetrack
in a city of more than threeplus million people like that? That's mind

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blowing, isn't it. Yeah,it's sad, It's really sad. But
you know what, hopefully they'll buildit better that we just have to that
they're true to their word and they'vegot land or they're looking at land,
and they're gonna build a top notchfacility and we'll all be enjoying drag racing

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and hopefully a multi purpose facility.We'll see what happens, right, Yeah,
so too, man, that's uhyeah, I love those guys.
Man. I'm sure I'm gonna missthem. It's just wild to think of
the city without a drag strip.But that means said, you're gonna build
one out at your house, rightright man, I'm ready to everybody wants
to go in and look, somebodybuys a pavement. I'm open for a

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you're talking to lead from pristine powdercoating. He's been in this game forever.
If you guys ask around hot riders, street cards, muscle cars,
racers, whatever, maybe this isthe guy to go to when it comes
to anything you might need for powdercoating. Now, obviously there are some
limitations at your shop, so giveus sort of dimensions. Give us.

(34:22):
We're mentioning a little bit ago aboutabout some price and some of the other
things. So what are some ofthe limitations you have as far as being
able to do certain things? Oris the sky the limit? Sky is
not the limit? Right now?We can do pretty big stuff. We

(34:43):
could do up to thirteen feet inlength, about five feet wide and about
six feet tall. Okay, sowe could do pretty big things, you
know, Corvette frames. We justdid a rock buggy chassis. We've done
kick car chassis. But we dohave a limitation where we can't do like
big struck chassis right now. Wehad bought a bigger oven a few years

(35:07):
ago, but we haven't been ableto run it because of the infrastructure in
our building. And I never thoughtthat we wouldn't have the gas supply that
we needed to run the burner forthis oven, but we ran into that
problem and Excel wouldn't work with us. So right now we're limited to thirteen
feet in length. But I gota project coming. I've been working on

(35:34):
a fifty Chevy truck for too manyyears, but it's it's getting close to
being done, and I'm going topowder coat the entire truck, the cab,
the fenders, the hood, thebed, everything. Yep, no
wild yeah, wow. So it'sgot to be a yeah, it's got

(35:54):
to be one of those fifty everybody'skind of familiar with that forty nine Chevy
pickup. Chuck. Look that thatwould be the cab to do it,
because it's small, it's you know, yeah, you can probably get that
in the oven and you can removeall of the the material that would sort
of melt under that much heat.How much right? How much heat are

(36:16):
we talking about? What do youwhat do you actually cook these things out?
And for how long most powder's cure? You know, it depends on
the powder, but most powders curein between three ninety and four hundred degrees.
That temperature is from when the metalreaches that temperature. So you know

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a thin piece of paneling is goingto reach four hundred degrees a lot quicker
than say a rear end housing.Sure, So like a rear end housing
typically in the oven for forty fiveto fifty minutes, we have a laser
gun that we shoot into their tomake sure it reaches cure temperature. Once

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it reaches four hundred degrees, it'sten minutes in there. But you know
it could take thirty five minutes fora big chunk of metal to reach a
degree. Right, you know yougave me another idea. Rear ends a
lot of people. You know,if you think about a rear end up,
great, how cool would that be? So get the rear end set

(37:23):
in a way or looking in away that pops or drags people's attention towards
it. Again, one of thosethings under the car that you know people
look at and it really shows thequality of build when you have suspension components
or you know, your brackets tohold the bumper or you know the front
balance or all the thing when youlook at a car and you see upgrades

(37:43):
suspension or court lovers or you know, brackets that have all been powdered Coto
black and have this amazing shine andsen to it. You really start to
see the quality and you know whatthis person or individual has done for the
build. What's really unique is theflip like what people are doing like me,
I got a sixty bel air andall the pieces underneath the car,

(38:06):
I've all been powder coated or lookedclean, uh and and really super super
super nice. But on the outsideof the car, meaning what you would
see if you're just walking up unbeknownstto you, uh, in a parking
lot. It's it's rough. It'sit's a twenty footers, they like to
say. And that's just one ofthe many ways people are building unique and
different cars. And I imagine youget a little bit of all of it.

(38:30):
Really cool that you know, youcould throw all these colors and flops
and things in the powder. Nowadaysthat really have has said it above and
beyond what the expectation was just yearsago. I remember people trying to trying
to do the home I got aoven, I'm gonna you know, it's
a couple of car parks and bracketsin my in my you know, my

(38:52):
home oven, and trying to powdercoat it that way. Yeah, and
then not to knock, not toknock that. You know, if somebody's
got an Eastwood kit, which isa small bargain powder coating kit in the
kitchen oven, and they want todo their own stuff, then that's great.
You know, they can take pridein what they've done. But you

(39:13):
know, if if people don't wantto take the time and deal with them
theirself, or have someone with experiencewho's going to do it right the first
time, you know, then theycould bring it to me. But I
have plenty of customers who do homepowder coding, and then they'll bring their
bigger stuff to me. And I'mmore than happy to give people advice and

(39:35):
help them out. You know,I'm I'm good at what I do,
but I'm also not afraid to helpout somebody who's doing something at home,
you know, And that's that's awesome. Shows a lot about you know,
it's it's the person individual you areon that on that and things helping them
out, even though that you knowthat business may not become in your direction,

(39:58):
but that being a SAI, giveus a little bit of where people
can find you, where people candrop things off. I know, I
know you're you're a busy man,dude, and you're uh you're pretty Uh,
you're pretty loaded up when I seeyou. Uh, what's the what's
the weight time for things right now? Uh? And are there anythings anything
right now that you can't do asfar as you know the ramp up Because

(40:22):
this is the time I feel likea lot of people are looking at what
they're gonna do over the winter project, how they're gonna tear down the car
and make it bigger, better andbadd uh for the spring. This this
seems like a time you might getreally busy. Yeah. And with Seema
coming up, you know Sema usuallythere's a push, you know, people
want last minute things done, uhfor Seema cars. But oh and I

(40:45):
actually mentioned a couple of years agowhen I did my Seema car. Man,
I took some some stuff to toLee here and we had a very
very specific color that we had tomatch for this Seema build. Seema builds
a way over the top and Ihad all of this, I mean heights
through the kitchen sink. At me, They're like, all right, heights

(41:07):
you know is in on the build. They threw all of this stuff,
man, this pro G series,independent front suspension, independent rear suspension,
and I had all of it droppedoff to Lee, and let me tell
you, I said, Lee,this is the color that I'm trying to
get, and his match is perfect. I mean, I'm dead nuts on

(41:29):
what my wheels are, what thepaint color on the car is, and
I mean we looked at it withseema eyes and man, you nailed that.
Yeah that that car is so badass, and I appreciate you giving me
the opportunity to do contribute to it. You know, the car is amazing,

(41:49):
Yeah, and you really that stuffset it off. Dude. When
people look under that car and seeall that that popping candy red uh,
man, they're like, oh mygod, gorgeous. Yeah, yeah,
that's it. That's one of myfavorite colors. And it's wild because it
looks so good you would think somebodypainted it, but it's all it's all

(42:10):
powders. So there's nothing this guycan't do. How do people find you?
And where do people you know cometo your shop? And what's the
what's the weight time on some stuffright now? Right now? Our weight
time is it's about two weeks fromthe time you drop off. And then
if people have daily drivers, youknow, wheels that they need done quick

(42:36):
quick, and they coordinate with me. You can typically drop them off on
Monday and pick them up by Wednesday. If it's a daily driver situation where
someone is going to be out ofcar, we try to accommodate them because
logistically taking the wheels off a car, a lot of people don't have spare

(42:57):
wheels or winter wheels to put onthem, so we have to turn them
around pretty quick. But right nowwe're about two week turnaround time. We're
located at eighteen thirty five West UnionAvenue in the Sheridan area, unit at
fourteen, so we're pretty much Unionand Santa Fe in the Sheridan Inglewood area.

(43:23):
We're there eight to five Monday throughFriday. I'm typically there until six,
but eight to five Monday through Friday. People could drop off. They
don't have to call, they couldjust stop in. If they're not ready
to drop off parts, they couldjust come in and look at our color

(43:43):
swatches. We have thousands of colorsfor people to look at. We don't
stock thousands of colors, but wedo have a lot of the popular colors
that people want in stock, sowe could get the jobs done quick.
Game into that lee at Pristine Powdercoding. What's your uh, what's your

(44:04):
phone number? Boss? Our phonenumber is seven to zero four eight eight,
five four, nine to nine.You could call us again in between
eight and five, or you couldmessage us through our Instagram account or Facebook
business account, or through our websiteat info at pristinetc. Dot com.

(44:31):
There you go. Man. Seventwo zero four eight eight five four,
nine to nine. You got aproject. Maybe it's wheels, maybe suspension
parts. Maybe it's we're in.Maybe it's you more than that. If
you're thinking about putting color on it, think about powder coding, and think
about what kind of cool pop youwant a lot of times, if you're
offsetting a color with some sort ofwild accessory color, Man, he can

(44:54):
really go big there. It's it'sreally cool to see these, you know,
the colors go against each other andall of a sudden bring the whole
thing together at the same time.It's, Uh, it's really cool what
they're doing down there. Sky's thelimit, man, Whether it's an ands
look, something with a little flopin it, something that's just a you
know, base and clear. Uh, they can do it all. It's

(45:15):
pristine powder coating. Seven two zerofour eight eight five four nine nine.
Hey, Ma, Man, Iwas good and also catching up with you.
Love love love that you just you'reout there killing it each and every
day. There's so many hot riders, so many race cardos and car enthusiasts
are like, Man, I gotso dead, Lee, he's where it's
at. Man. He does absolutelyhome run work. Definitely a man of

(45:38):
his craft. Well, I appreciateit, Willie, And I appreciate you
getting my name out there and youknow, letting the people who don't already
know about me know about me.Yeah. Man, Well you do great
stuff, man, and they shouldPristine powder coding. Hey, Lee,
thanks for the time. Man.Go check out that wild of clips is
getting darker outside as we speak.I don't see. Don't look directly at

(46:01):
it. All right, buddy,we'll talk to you soon. All right,
all right, all right you too, man. Christine Powder Coating Guys
seventeen zero four eight eight five fournine to nine. We're gonna take a
break now, go burn our eyesreal fast. Look through this eclipse,
at least the start of it asit started. Yeah, yeah, it's

(46:22):
well underwear. Oh oh, can'twait. We got about a half hour
till it peaks. Oh my alrightback and before so we'll seven nine KVP
I Willy P's garage. You're backin Willybe's garage. What up you guys?

(46:43):
Will Be's garage live during the eclipse. All right, so clip's going
on right now. Kind of cool. They're something we'll go check out.
Don't look directly at it, becauseI did a minute ago. I'm still
just kind of blind about this littlething I'm visiting now on the phone.
Oh man, we got this guyyou guys known Sterling. We brought him
on the air before probably seeing hisunbelievable three D printed Lamborghini, which started

(47:07):
out, you know, really justas a request from his kids, kids
like deck, we build one ofthose. And you know what most dads
do is just right then and therethey were just like ate, all hold
up, stiff arm the son like, h now, that's that's crazy.
But when he was asked about it, Sterling kind of processed a little bit

(47:28):
different. He's like, well,there's no reason why I don't feel like
I can't and then boom his storybegins, which is kind of wild.
Man to watch the thing unfold.Over the last number of years, Lamborghini
got evolved. You shot TV commercials. You met, Hell, Lamborghini flew

(47:52):
in to look at your project whenyou, you know, were a couple
of years into this three D pLamborghini deal. Right, Yeah, that's
correct. Wow, And I guaranteethey didn't flight coach. Right. Can
imagine all the Lamborghini twenty five peoplefrom Lamborghini, We're gonna fly out to

(48:14):
Colorado and we're gonna see this dudethree D printing what of our cars?
And actually, you know what,they could have probably been a pain or
a thorn and sterling side. However, they were mutually appreciative of the effort
involved with what you're doing and reallykind of cool genesis of the concept itself.

(48:37):
They were kind of blown away byit all. Yeah, they really
were. I mean they the executivesin sin Takada, Italy heard about it
through the workers who were building thesecars in the factory floor. So they
were the ones who kind of pickedup on the story and elevated it up

(48:59):
the food chain, and that's whenthey contacted me. Now, that particular
build has boys, it corners youa lot of tension in that world,
in that arena, and that itselfhas been I'm sure a blessing. Right,
this three D printing adventure that youand your son kind of embarked on
has probably been able to open upsome wild and entertaining doors for you.

(49:22):
Right, Well, I think mostlywhat it's done has has gotten a lot
of kids interested in the cause andinterested in the technology that goes along with
it. And so what it's allowedus to do is go around to the
local high schools and talk about thebuild, talk about the car, the
story, all of that kind ofstuff, and then basically show the kids,

(49:44):
you know, how cool technology isand how far it's come, and
what you can actually do in yourown garage with a small three D printer
you get off of Amazon. Soit's been great, and we've gotten a
now teach a science class at alocal high school during the summertime. So

(50:06):
yeah, it's it's it's had agreat impact, yeah, man, and
really has sort of probably springboarded yourline of thinking. Right. You're you
know, if you're just looking atthis this line and and what your con
your concept, what you're imagining withthree D printing, it probably took it
and just elevated it, you know, almost like a big linear curve,

(50:29):
right, just a big fume toyou know, to uh what is to
infinity and beyond? Yeah, Iknow that's right. I mean it's it's
it's been a great project. It'snot over by any means. There's still
a lot to do. I'm kindof a one man band, so it
gets worked on when I have timeto do it because I have a day

(50:52):
job. Yeah, and so rightnow I'm working on getting it painted.
As you know, I ran intoa little snaff thoo where I hydro locked
the engine because one of the injectorsstuck open. And I appreciate the advice
because I think you saved my engine. Yeah. Man, well I hope

(51:13):
so. And I will tell youman, it's uh that that is going
to be a wild and unbelievably coolcar. Now, as you went through
this process, you obviously learned significantlyyour your curve on the efficiency of three
D printing, how to manipulate itor get it to work for what your

(51:34):
application is. I'm sure that curvehas has been something of amazement to watch
what you're aware of and how youapproach a build like this from you know,
from now, uh to a fewyears back when you first started it.
Yeah, No, that's exactly right. And you know, technology obviously
has not stood still. You know, the new technology I get from the

(52:00):
three D printing company Creality is fantastic. They're sending me they're actually sponsoring my
YouTube channel, and they're sending medevices to try out, like scanners,
printers, and engravers. So thatis actually added a new level to what
I can do with this build.And maybe now now you said scanners,

(52:27):
a lot of people don't understand whatyou mean when you say scanners. This
this is what makes three D printingso inviting for people like me, Like
when I when I see what iswhat you're about to describe, I'm blown
away by this, y'all. Thisis this is where three D printing is
really going to have an evolutionary leaponce people realize how easy it is to

(52:52):
create, build and generate things intheir own homes. Explain what you mean
when you say is scanning. Soone of the biggest issues that I faced
with this car is that you know, once I get a panel and it's
not exactly what you know I hadin CAD, right, it gains thickness

(53:12):
and there's some other distortions I haveto take out and stuff like that.
So when I'm printing trim pieces forit and designing trim pieces, it usually
takes me four or five times toprint that part, try it out,
see that it doesn't fit the wayI want it, and then have to
do it again, and from thatlearning curve tell me what happens. So
your three D and this is probablyearly on, you would three D print

(53:36):
something and some of the geometry involvedwould change a little bit, some of
the angles or the measurements, whatever, and then you have to go back.
You may print one piece, findit, oh, now this is
one hundred thous or you know,one thousands off, and you gotta go
back and do it again. Butnow you probably have have become well versed

(54:00):
in sort of that adaptation. Yeah, that's right, And that's where the
stand comes in. The scanner allowsyou to take basically a three D image
of the area that you want tomodel, and then you can pull that
into your CAD program and then youcan design around that, and then when

(54:22):
you print it out, it fitsthe first time. And it's just it's
totally crazy and it's so awesome.Wow, crazy out of curiosity. How
many roles of filament have you gonethrough this project. So the the eventa
door, I've clocked about three hundredkilos, which is three hundred school Okay,

(54:45):
each school is about two point twopounds, right one yeah, one
killogm. So it's uh yeah,it's a lot of plastic. That's insane.
Not all of that's still on thecar, right, you know,
because there's a lot of printing andoh that doesn't good. Yeah right,

(55:06):
crazy. So I mean really,three D printing is becoming such a well
versed means to get so many parksthat you can't necessarily go find, recreate,
or just populate in so many ways. Like I wish I had a
bracket that would hold this up soI could do this. Well, now

(55:28):
you can just go in and scansomething and be able to, you know,
come up with a bracket or apiece or a part that fills in
the gap or brings something together.Yeah. So they then you get you
know, somebody corners you in yourfender on the passenger side, So you
go over and you scan the driver'sside, and then you put that into

(55:50):
CAD, you mirror it, andthen you just print it out. Now
you've got a fender for your passengerside. That's the beauty of three D
printing is you only need to dodesion half the car, which is kind
of amazing. And I'll tell you, I see three D printers and everybody's
homes in the middle ten years,like it's gonna be like in a microwave.

(56:12):
Yeah. Yeah, And I thinkyou're seeing a lot of that nowadays.
I think kids are using them forlike doing RC cars obviously cosplay,
you know, little knickknacks and toysandff like that. But what we're hoping
is is that the automotive community justsees how valuable this type of method is
and more and more people get intoit. So it's a huge timesaver.

(56:35):
Yeah, really it is, man, So where's the limitations? What do
you see? What do you seethe limitations being before we get into this
crazy, wild new project you're takenunder. Yeah, So I think the
limitations currently are the materials. Sothe thermoplastics that are currently used tend not

(57:00):
to have as good a mechanical propertyuse as you would want so that you
could just three D print a paneland stick it on your car, body
work it and paint it. Butwe're getting there, so I see that
as being probably some of the thingsthat need to change. But then the
printers are actually able to print moredurable thermoplastics like polycarbonate polycarbonate ABS, which

(57:25):
is used in the automotive industry.So yeah, I think, I think
the materials and the machines that canprint those materials efficiently and effectively. So
I gotta tell you're probably on thecutting eds of all things three D printing.
And I'm sure you're one of thoseresources that everybody looks at all over

(57:46):
the country and hell for that matter. You know, you have people coming
to in ever Milly all over theglobe kind of watching what you're doing.
Now, this is gonna be wildbecause you know, you're not tethered necessarily
to any brand. You chose theLamborghini, but I think because your son
wanted it, right, Yeah,I mean the Lamborghini was chose chosen for

(58:08):
a couple of reasons. First oneis that my son loves it. The
second reason is is that it's alwaysbeen my favorite brand since I was a
iys it. I had a cuntashposter in in my room that had Lamborghini
had a girls but you know,status had our hands on the fan.
I know that picture yeah, youknow what I'm talking about. Yes,

(58:31):
yeah, so you know. Andalso as an adult, I've kind of
learned that Lamborghini, unlike Ferrari,is not going to send me, probably
not send me a cease and desistand crush my car because they're not known
for doing that. Now. They'reknown for going after, you know,

(58:51):
companies that are trying to you know, rip off their cars and sell them.
But they're not going over They're notgoing after the hobbyists, right,
you know, Joe Bluff building onein this garage. That is, they
just take that as a form offlattery, as they should, unlike those
pretentious pricks from Ferrari. So thatbeing said, you gotta peel the lid

(59:15):
off this crazy new project. WhenI saw you were doing this, I
was like, what in the worldis he? Is? He? I
don't know gonna endure now, becauseagain, I mean, it's not like
you chose a you know, nineteenseventy no, but to build you went
off deep in and went, oh, you're going big. I'll just say

(59:37):
that you're going big, yes,sir. So, as I was talking
to Scooper earlier, you walked byyour three D printer and it's not doing
anything. You're kind of a senseof it to be doing something. So
I hold on before you begin this. I gotta We were off the air

(01:00:00):
and Scoop asked Sterling, He's like, if if your three D printers aren't
printing, do you feel like you'remissing out on something or you're a loser,
And him and Sterling had his bondingmoment because you know, Scoop's gotten
into three D printing lately. Uh, scoops quality plastics on the Etsy.

(01:00:21):
But the funny thing is is there'sa there's a fomo effect for these dudes
and they're three D printers. It'slike, I feel like I'm missing out
or I feel like I'm not I'mnot even working today, is that yeah?
Yeah, hilarious. Yeah, Soyou just get that bug, you

(01:00:42):
know. And since the Lamborghini isgetting close to the end, especially with
the three D printing part, Imean, I have a few things that
I want to do, sure,but it's it's it's really important to keep
that going. And so we starteda new project. Oh and what a
new project, bro, what aproject? Yeah, tell the crowd what

(01:01:07):
it is, Willy, It's aMcLaren. You guys, a freaking McLaren.
And not only is it a youknow, is it a McLaren,
it's a six hundred Well you said, so what six hundred is it?
Lt? Lt leem tango. SoI don't I don't know why you're gonna,
honestly, sterling, I don't knowwhy you're gonna do this, because

(01:01:28):
let me look. Uh, Isee one for sale right now online for
uh this was two hundred and twentyseven hundred dollars to buy it now price.
Well, why don't you just whydon't you just write a check?
Uh? Uh huh buy it nowprice two hundred twenty seven thousands. That's

(01:01:50):
why I bought mine for twenty fivedollars. So I think I got a
good deal. So you're going tobe building another super car McLaren six hundred
lt. These things a wicked cool, wicked fast, wicked nasty. What's
the difference in your mind between theMcLaren and the Lamborghini. Well, the

(01:02:14):
Lamborghini is a much bigger car,right, So the McLaren is smaller.
It's going to be lighter, andI think it's just going to be really
fun to shoot around in a smallercar like that. Yeah, it's like
Lamba is a hammer, right right, it's a monster. If everybody remembers
a maybe a little smaller Lotuses youmight have seen rulling around town, it's

(01:02:37):
similar to to that. They're supersuper small and light and nasty drive trains
and big power. McLaren's are ona few cars. Do you'll see you
know, my boy Matteo if he'slistening to he took his he wrecked his
his GTR at Texas, I thinktwo mile raised several years and everybody was

(01:03:00):
kind of curious as to what hewas going to come out with, and
he came out with this crazy fastMcClaren same thing as six hundred lt.
These cars are what what big boysbring to big boy races. Like these
cars legit are are warriors, man. They're they're designed to go fast and
rip. There's not a lot oflike the Lamborghini is almost like a status

(01:03:22):
quo. It's like a you know, it's a little bit of a flex
and a little bit of a lookat me, whereas the McLaren is just
like if you get out of myway because we're racing. Yeah, and
I think for me, the youknow, the Lamborghini is just you know,
radical and all of the you know, uh really cool uh lines of

(01:03:44):
the car and all of that kindof stuff. It's just bananas, right.
McLaren I think is a little bitrefined as far as design is concerned.
You know, it's got it's gotsmoother edges and things and not you
know, as many angles as uhas the event to or does it looks?
I love it? Yeah, Yeah, it's a little slicker. That's
a good way to put it.Yeah. Man, So you have found

(01:04:09):
one, and you're going to againtry to tackle a three D printed McLaren.
Right, Basically, you're gonna buildthis car using some of the technology
that you incorporated into the Lamborghini.But what else you bring into the table.
What's gonna make this one so uniqueand different? Well? I think

(01:04:30):
I think the fact that, youknow, we we started this build with
something, right the eventa door billis built from scratch, We didn't start
with anything whatsoever. But I actuallybought the entire tub and frame of the
McLaren. So I'm not starting fromzero. Wow, and looking with a
few of the of the panels andso the panels that I have I'm scanning

(01:04:56):
because part of them are destroyed,and so I scan and the other one
put it on the other side,and then I can repair that panel.
So so it's a little bit moreof a Frankenstein does your machine when you
say you scan something. If youhave a left front fender and the right
front fender is destroyed or jacked up, can you three D scan the left

(01:05:19):
side and then somehow flip it sothat it works for the right side.
Easy shit, No brainer. Yeah, so that no brainer. And in
my case, I actually have tworear cord panels and one quarter panel has
damage in one spot and the otherquarter panel has damage in another spot.

(01:05:42):
So I can scan it and thenI can merge the two together. All
right, you got, I haveit, so have a clean panel.
So let me tell you what he'she's done here for those old schoolers out
there. For example, my widebody charger, when I started moving the
driver's side fender on the rear quarterpanel, right, it was the driver's
side rear quarter panel that was thefirst fender I started kind of attacking when

(01:06:08):
I was moving and trying to createa wide body kit for that first gin
charger. Now this is what's reallywild. When I got it to the
place where I thought, all right, this is where I need to have
it. I had to make abuck. I used some two by fours
in wood, and I put thiswood and it basically the wood mimicked mirror

(01:06:30):
the bend of the metal on mydriver's side and I had to walk this
big cumbersome thing over and then putit to the passenger side and what I
hoped was the right spot and startedmoving and shaving the metal so that it
would match up or a ligne tothis buck, this big wooden thing that
I made to mirror the way therear quarterer's curve. And to be able

(01:06:57):
to do that is one thing.It's very evolved, very painstaking, a
lot of time to get to mirrorand mimic that other side. And because
you took your impression off of wood, it's not it's not perfect, you
know, you can't. For me. I got the upper curve, but
how the metal got manipulated, youknow, past that one body line.

(01:07:18):
I didn't do a buck for eachyou know, phase of the body line.
So after it went, you know, on the middle of the body
line below that, I was justkind of looking on one side, walk
over and look on you know theother side, go that it's a little
bit off and try to work throughthat is painstakingly. Uh is it's forever.
It takes forever to get it done. This this cuts the time to

(01:07:42):
do something like that to mirror aside. I mean like like INSTANTTD like next
day, like five mouse clicks.I would guess that's insane. Yeah,
it takes about an hour to dothat. But yeah, it's very very
quick. And I mean a goodexample is that when I got this McLaren,
the passenger side A pillar was obliterated, so it was gone, but

(01:08:03):
the driver side A pillar was stillintact, so I was able to scan
it, three D print it andthen uh basically encapsulate it in carbon fiber
and make it actually stronger than thealuminum that's on the driver's side. And
so now I have an A pillaron the passenger side and it's a perfect

(01:08:25):
replica of the other side. Ohgod man, all right, So in
that regard, and that took melike a week. That took me like
a week from concept scan to actualpart that I put on the car.
And that is I mean, thatis unbelievable when you think about it.
If you had to make that outof metal. Good, Like, hey,

(01:08:45):
make it an a pillar begin withye try to get all that done.
Yeah, I've harvested in an apillar on that charger because I cut
the you know, I cut theeight pillars in it, so I know,
just grabbing one of welding style isa bit I can't imagine. Like,
man, the time that you savejust in being able to mimic other

(01:09:06):
sides and parts. Dude, that'sa home run, that says, on
a on a massive build like that, that saves weeks of time. Weeks.
Yeah, and McLaren told me thatthey wouldn't even sell it to me
because it's the structural part of thecar that's almost too easy. Like that

(01:09:27):
part of the stuff, It reallyis almost too easy. Man, you're
killing me with that. That's prettyimpressive, goals. Let people understand how
powerful this these techniques are, andyou know, if you can do it
in your own garage, just imaginethe cool stuff that people can do.

(01:09:49):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Andit's not costive either, right, it's
you know something, these these toolsyou can fly off Amazon. How do
people follow this build? Man?I just want to get plugged in right
now because imagine seeing things like this, and watching things like this could and
will inspire a ton of people togo out and at least looking at this

(01:10:13):
technology, at least bring it intothe fold with a little less you know,
trepidation, you know, a littleless like I don't know about this,
and and really open some doors andavenues because this thing, to me
seems like it's going to be thedirection we all are going to go in
a matter of years. Yeah.Yeah, So we have a YouTube channel

(01:10:36):
that's under the Moniker Laser Sterling solaser and then my first name Sterling all
one word okay, and you cango there both builds. So we haven't
we haven't stopped putting content on forthe eventa door and now we're doing this
kind of new energizing build with theMcLaren and so you can see our progress

(01:11:01):
and see the three D printing andthen scanning. And I've actually done a
few videos where I show you howto go through the steps and then that
way you can kind of see youknow what you need and how to go
through the steps of doing this andand and frankly, I think it shows
you that it's not that difficult.It's it's hard to wrap your head around

(01:11:26):
this whole technology that's out there,and the fact that you have the ability
to build and create like this,like like most people wouldn't quite grasp how
far this has come in such ashort time. I feel like, you
know, another handful of years.Man, who again, there's could be
who wouldn't have one of these Whowho's gonna be like a microwave or you

(01:11:47):
know, just uh oh, i'sgo to three D printer and import this
design or this liquid whatever and theprint out. It's crazy. Yeah,
no, And it really helps thecreative process, right because know you you
you put a part on the car, you stand back and look at it
and you go, oh my god, what the hell was I thinking?
You know? And then so youyou can rapidly go through that process and

(01:12:12):
get to something that you're just like, I'm really happy with that. That
looks really cool. Yeah man,what a crazy adventure. Now, what
was the genesis of this particular build? Why did you just have to stumble
upon a McLaren or you know,I know Daria's got one? Is it?
You and Daria? So Daria doesthe same simpiar thing with fiberglass.

(01:12:32):
You and him are like ying andyang. Yeah, we are, We're
We're We're an interesting pair. Sothis this actually came out of discussions I
had with Dario and he wanting todo an interesting build on uh on on
his in his in his garage,and he wants to do a YouTube channel

(01:12:55):
and stuff like that. So Iwon't give away what he's doing, but
we start talking about that, andI was like, oh, that's a
great idea, you know what,I should do another project. And so
you started looking at the same placefor you know, craft cars and wrecked
bodies and stuff like that, andI just, uh, I just decided
to pull the trigger. Yeah,crazy man, So I got too excited.

(01:13:18):
You were car guys really you know, you know man, I know
the addiction, bro, I knowthe addiction all the time, right,
Yeah. Unfortunately I've been bitten bythe bug. So yeah, wow man,
So when when do you expect Imean, you can follow along one
more time? What is your Youcan we share the YouTube page of scoop

(01:13:39):
please? Sure? Yeah, I'llgo to link up. I just subscribed
him. He's got about thirty fivethousand followers already. Oh man, wow,
So when when do you expect thiswell to be done? Is one
thing. But when do you expectyou know, big parts and pieces and
uh things be adhered putting applied tothis car? So I, oh,

(01:14:04):
did we lose them a little bit? Oh? There you are, we
lost it for one second. Sorry. I think it's still to go a
little bit faster since we're not startingfrom zero. Okay, now, so
maybe maybe a couple of years.Wow, and who you building it for?
Me? No? Who are youbuilding for? It could be my

(01:14:26):
daily driver? Man? Shut up? Yeah, what a crazy cool daily
driver. Now, obviously you can'tgo buy one of two hundred and twenty
seven thousand dollars. However, whatdo you think like when it's all said
and done? You know, obviouslymaybe sponsors come and help you out since
you're so new to the three Dprinting world and you're evolving it probably at

(01:14:50):
a faster and more rapid pace thanyou know, ordinary Joe blow getting in.
Are there companies out there that areyou know, chomping at the bit
to throw you, you know,scanners and more printers? And I mean,
well, are we gonna see aSterling car company in another ten fifteen
years where you're just building you know, Lambeau's and McLaren's out out of a

(01:15:14):
you know, three bay shop herein Denver. What's the end goal?
There is no end goal other thantrying to get kids into technology and science.
That's that's kind of my end goalfor all of this, other than
the fact that I love supercars andI love you know, driving them around,
so that that's kind of the endgoal for it. Just to and

(01:15:36):
and to help you know, thehobbyists to get into this and and and
start you know, building their ownvisions. That's what I wanted them.
Yeah, But you know, Crealityis a three D printing company and they're
supporting us by giving us equipment totry out and see if it worked for

(01:15:58):
for this process. And you know, the printers are great because the newer
ones are like three times faster,so I can turn out parts much much
faster. Wow, what a crazycool way to attack a car build.
Man, you guys need to followthis, You need to jump on.
Just describe to it again. It'slaser sterling. It's on YouTube. It's

(01:16:20):
one of those things you look atand you see and you go, I
can't believe this is actually happening.It's sure enough, man, dude,
three D print Lamborghini. Now he'sthree D print freaking McLaren. Who knows,
Man, that could be us inanother few years. I'm just gonna
get in line and be like,yo, let me be an apprentice.
This dude is killing it. Youhaven't asked me about the drive train yet,

(01:16:41):
Willy, Well, what is thedrive train? Man? Give us
a reveal? What are you gonnado at the moment? There is no
drive train? And I'm sorry,but I'm not doing an LS what why
not? It's only one of thebest pieces of architecture ever rolling down on
an engine. I understand, Buttell me do a HMMI. Then tell

(01:17:04):
me you're gonna step up and doa Gen three HMMI and a McLaren that
would shake the very ground of everyMcLaren owner in the world. Bro actually
has some real hemmy power. Comeon, you're doing here me, aren't
you? No, I'm not doinghammy. I'm sorry. Hell well all
right, what are you doing forthe power plant? Well? Again,

(01:17:27):
since I'm kind of on a budget, the new UH eight drive train is
on my list, and I thinkthat's exactly the way we're going. And
and eighth speed UH automatic transmission withflappy paddles. So yeah, that's sick,

(01:17:50):
all right, all right, Ford, it's a cost issue really because
the McLaren engines are you know,even the even the broken once or twenty
five grand So yeah, my brotherjust scored one of those new LT fours.
Bro, you know you're gonna beso pissed at this. Somebody ordered
through a Chevy dealership there in Kentuckyand they didn't they didn't take it or

(01:18:11):
whatever. And this dealership called mybrother and said, hey, we got
this new you know, C eightwhatever engine to this guy ordered now he
doesn't want it or whatever, andwe don't know who to sell to.
Are you interested in it? Andhis buddy at the Chevrolet dealership so to
him, are you ready seven grandoh for the brand new nasty LT fours

(01:18:39):
whatever it is that d I dovet engine? Yeah, man, nasty.
I'm going that route now. Youknow why I'm going that route because
it's wait, don't worry not,We're gonna throw a couple of hair dryers
on us. You have to allright, man, uh, out of
time now, but follow this man. Check out this build Laser Sterling on

(01:19:01):
YouTube. Laser Sterling. Really coolman. This guy could help you with
your three D stuff. Definitely teacha thing or two if you follow around
this YouTube channel. Just cool ashell that once again we can see what
you're creating building and doing so inyour own shop garage. Damn cool man
will definitely follow it along, right, Thank you brother, Hi man,

(01:19:23):
Thank you bro. All right,talk to you soon. All right,
it's a break back on it.Just want to seven nine KVP. I
will abuse garage, Willyb's garage.You're back in Willybe's garage. The vaccine
may not be for everyone or anyone? Do I say that a lot anyway?

(01:19:46):
Will it be a garage? Won't? Seven nine kvpi. So you
just heard Sterling and encourage people jumpon that YouTube channel Laser Sterling on YouTube.
You're gonna see something and just theunfoldeds kind of wild, completely different,
uh, and a different way tosort of attack building the car.

(01:20:08):
Now. Sterling has this ying Yangcounterpart in the world of Lamborghinis and you
know, building kind of wild cars, you know, and starting out with
like a I have a dream.I want to own a Lambeau without Lambeau
payment. Dario is on the phone. You I gotta tell you man.

(01:20:30):
Between you and Sterling. You know, he mentioned your project. I was
like, I gotta get this dudeon the phone. You're a fiberglass and
a composite specialist. You're one ofthose guys that you know, you took
one sort of tentacle of fiberglass andyou know gel composits, and you know,
you got this business of doing somecool camping and outdoor stuff. But

(01:20:53):
you're a hot rider. And onceyou get that sort of that bug,
or once you're bitten by, youknow, be the car enthusiast. It's
really, really, really hard notto constantly want to create, build and
put yourself in a in a badassplatform. So explain it to people may
not know what you have recently built, and then we're going to get into

(01:21:16):
your new project, which is justas wild as what Sterling is building.
Right on. Yeah, So whatI did initially is I kind of like
Sterling. Am am a hot rodderat heart. You know, been wrenching
on cars since I was fifteen,sixteen years old, and I love I
love the Lamborghini platform. I justdon't want the eighteen hundred dollars oil changes,

(01:21:39):
the thirty five hundred dollars break job, and I also can't afford them,
right, So yeah, so Idecided to, Like you said,
I'm a composite expert, and Iput that to kind of use. And
what I did is I sentially wouldbuy oh rec so smart, so smart.
Yeah, I would buy a rexLamborghini front bumper or rear bumper or

(01:22:00):
batwing or door. I would Iwould repair it, and then I would
take a fiberglass mold of it,and then I'd sell the part right to
get my money back. But nowI have a fiberglass mold of this part,
and that I can make my ownparts out of either out of parking
fiber or out of fiberglass or whatever. Now I have a fourteen thousand dollars
front bumper for three hundred bucks.Right. Yeah, So I did that

(01:22:24):
that, right, I did thatessentially. And then I just built an
all two race chassis with an OUDYVeight in it, my own suspension QA
one shock Porsche breaks, I meanfull on race race you know race parts,
and and and build my own myown Lambo essentially using you know,
factory lamboat parts. Yeah, soyou built your own Lamborghini. I saw

(01:22:46):
it, but I was blown awayby it. I was like these people
just build Lamborghinis in their own garage. What the what the flip flop is
going on here? Man? Uh? But they are and it's amazing and
it's unbelievable to see these cars.They look they they I mean everything aesthetically
You're walking up to New Land asa Lamborghini. Ah, it's just uh

(01:23:06):
so what this dude is building hisown grog? It's kind of crazy.
So yours? What point? Whatphase is it now? And are you
more excited about this new this newbuild since you've learned so much over the
last few years and building that yourfirst offering, because it's never the first

(01:23:27):
car is never the best one,right, it's normally that second one or
the third one. You learn,you become wiser, smarter and decision making,
You get a little bit better atwhat you need to develop first and
look at first. So what isyour next build and how does that stack
up? Or where are you atin your first Lamborghini build? Yeah?

(01:23:50):
So the first Lambeau build is prettymuch of I would say about ninety five
percent finished. I need headlights,tail lights, and then kind of a
game plan for the interior, andof course I save the most expensive parts
for last. I mean a headlightthirty five hundred bucks each, you know,
and a tail lights headlights yeah,man, crazy, yeah, so

(01:24:12):
you're you're in fifteen K and headlightsand tail lights. So I you know,
that's kind of where I'm at rightnow, and I am. I
am piecing my interior together. Ihave a factory Lambo center console and dash
and things like that. So it'slooking really really good now. I drove
it to home Depot and AutoZone theother day to pick up some parts,
and people just thumbs up, likecrazy, you know, right, yeah,

(01:24:33):
yeah, that build. Yeah,that build's kind of coming to an
end now, I, like Stirling, am kind of getting clammy hands,
and I'm like, hey, what'snext, you know? And so yeah,
I got put on this website azycycle parts essentially, and these guys
they buy these wrecked salvage performance carsLambos Ferraris, Porsche's, McLaren's, and

(01:24:57):
they part them out, I meandown to the the last nut bolt rivet
you name it. And so Ifound a twenty fifteen factory Lamborghini events of
the Lord Monocock, essentially the chassisitself from Monocock. Did you say Monocock
is this is that family friendly?Yeah? Those are all carbon fiber.

(01:25:20):
You know, the entire thing iscarbon fiber. So they've got one for
sale and I'm going to pull thetrigger on it, and i want to
essentially Testla swap the Lamborghini chassis.You want to do one, shut up,
hold on, you want to dowhat? Not? I mean this
straight. Secondly, this is asas this is a car porn pornography.

(01:25:44):
Here we all what you want todo. No. I know I'm gonna
get so much teap for it becauseyou buy a Lambo so you can hear
the beat twelve right, this isgonna be dead silent, A battery powered
basically a Tesla model ass That's that'sa ripping platform to begin with for people

(01:26:06):
that don't know. So this kindof wild. If you were to sit
there and just peel back layers onthe Tesla. I think the biggest,
most mind blowing reveal of that caris when you get down to that tray
that houses like seven thousand double Abatteries. I mean, honestly, god,

(01:26:26):
guys, they look they look justlike a double A battery. And
some of them will say Panasonic onsomeone say whatever, but arm just got
a Tesla least the one that I'vehad. You know, uh, the
ability to start peeling back. It'sjust a bunch of well double A batteries.
But these things have amazing amount ofpower, instant torque. All of

(01:26:49):
it's available. I mean, theirright to tell. Everybody knows by now
how fast electric cars can go becauseyou don't have to ramp it up.
All the torque is available to instantyou want it. So you're taking a
Lamborghini and you're putting a Tesla chassisor a Tesla drive train underath it.

(01:27:11):
Correct, Yeah, it's oh,it's definitely possible. It's not possible to
swap the Tesla models flat rear drivetrain and then a Model S front drive
train, making an all wild drivelike thousand horsepower, just a monster.
You can't do it. You can'tdo it, can't be done. How
do you do in your own garage? Come on in my garage with with

(01:27:34):
three D printers and a take whilethere, No, come on, uh,
this is wild man, This isI mean for you, for your
circle. When you threw this ideaat him, were they were they like
oh yeah I could see it,or they like me like, you can't
you could. That's too far man. You know, it's one thing to

(01:27:57):
build up, you know, Iguess a replica using the molding and what
you're capable of doing. It's anotherthing to say I'm building. I'm build
a space shuttle back here, guys, don't worry about me. I'll see
it about a year and a half. Uh, when I'm in orbit,
right. No, yeah, Imean I got kind of like raised eyebrows,
like confusion. Mostly people are like, wait a minute, So you

(01:28:17):
found a wrecked car, and I'mlike, yep, it's titled got a
VENT number on it. It's awrecked OEM chassis, and I'm gonna use
all factory suspension, all factory youknow, drive that stuff. But I'm
gonna put electric motors on it.And they're like, you know, still
confused. People still don't even knowwhat's going on at this at the moment,
I suppose, Yeah, it's it'ssuch a different Well how are you

(01:28:40):
gonna do it? I mean,where you gonna find the space to incorporate
all of these you know, seventhousand plus batteries? Like how you gotta
walk us through? How how areyou gonna be able to go? Yeah?
So the biggest challenge with EV swaps, and it's kind of a thing
right now, you know we're talkingyou. We were talking to Sterling earlier
about kind of what new way ofbuilding cars is going to be like a
ten years. Unfortunately, the newdrive trains are all going to be EV

(01:29:04):
as well. Like I'm a hugecar guy. I love the sound of
a VA, I love the soundof an inline for turbo, I love
all that stuff. But I'm alsowith the times, you know, and
for me, EV is the way. But to answer your question, will
it's it's not so much the amountof power as it is to your capacity.
Right. So like if I puta fifty kilo hour battery in it,

(01:29:26):
it's still going to make a thousandhorse powers, but it's only going
to make a thousand horse power forfifty miles, right, Whereas if I
put a seventy five k DUB orif I put one hundred k DUB,
it'll do it for two D twohundred and twenty miles right, right.
So my goal, I mean,what's the goal here? Just to have
a really fast quarter mile past.Then you could put a pretty small battery
pack in there and then in betweenyour runs you just turn on the generator

(01:29:47):
and charge your battery pack, rightright, But that's not the case.
Yeah soon no, Yeah, Sowhat I want to do is essentially kind
of like kind of like Stirling isdo a daily iver all electric with something
like a seventy five kilo watt hourbattery bank. Now, the good thing
about this OEM chassis is that itnormally houses a giant B twelve with an

(01:30:10):
all will drive drive train. Sothere's a huge, huge engine. Bay.
I mean, the car is sixteenfeet long, you know, it's
almost as long as a truck.So you know, based off the dimensions
that I have at hand, itlooks like I will be able to sit
a seventy five kilo watt battery fromthe Model three per formance. Man,
that's wild, dude, that isa wild build. So again, a

(01:30:31):
Lamborghini and a Tesla built as one. The name you decided is to me
is Sterica. One of the bestparts I'm waiting for the T shirts.
Tell everybody what your nickname you comeup with it is. It's gonna be
the Tesla Ghini first in the world. Tesla GINI, y'all, Tesla gany

(01:30:56):
can imagine T shirts? Oh myGod, what do you think lamberg any
feels about that? You know,I don't know. I hope that they
kind of latch onto it, justbecause I am gonna be using a factory
Lambeau Chassie, you know, suspensionupper and lower control arms like the whole
the whole nine from Lambeau, bututilies in the model s plaid rear drive

(01:31:17):
train in the model's front drive train. So I don't know. I hope.
I don't get I don't think I'llget in trouble, but I think
that, you know, hopefully theytry to highlight that'd be cool, you
know, because from the Xperior it'sgonna be one to one factory OEM Lambeau.
You know, it's gonna yeah wow, but it's not gonna make any

(01:31:38):
noise, which is crazy, justnuts. All right, you're at the
infancy stage of this project now.We definitely will keep in touch with you.
Is this unfold? I love takingthe opportunity highlight local guys doing insanely
cool and wild things. Uh,you're definitely on the cusp for that.
So Dario, I'm stoked for you. Can't wait. Have you got a

(01:31:58):
YouTube channel yet? I have it? Man, I'm gonna launch it with
this, with this project, butI will definitely keep you in the loop,
so I think, yeahs here,yeah, man, you let me
know what you do and we'll catcheverybody up to speed. Congratulations on setting
the bar again the way the hellup there man, you and Sterling.
I'mmost sticking my chargers for now,man, but I'll I'll be more than

(01:32:20):
happy to drive those things when youguys get him done. I'm like,
well, wild man, awesome,so okay, cool as hell, keep
in touch. Let us know whenyou get the YouTube channel. Anxiously awaiting
the well the Tesla Ghini and everythingthat brings. Man, So keep up
the date with this, all right, appreciate you, all right, man,

(01:32:43):
take care bro. Look, whetherit's something wild like Sterling again lasers
Sterling on YouTube, make sure youfollow him or what Dario is doing.
I gotta tell you, man,it is so cool to watch people push
kind of the threshold and where they'retaking these cars and the incorporation of newer
technology and you know, an olderbuild even though it's a Lamborghini, it's

(01:33:09):
still new technology. Nobody's done it, and watching guys sort of navigate the
process and everything involved with it is. Really it is so freaking cool and
it's such a wild factor. Soif that's you and whatever you want to
build, create make. Look it'sno different than what Scoop does every day.
But he goes home and he's like, you know what, I think

(01:33:30):
I need to build something. Andlook, I'm gonna tell you that is
not the Scoop. But I knewa year ago. What do you do
today? It's que I watched themovie today. He watches movies and builds
something right at the same time,I have toys at the end of the
mon Yeah. Man, at theend of the movie he gets the stuff.
Man, It's like, uh,pretty damn cool man. So it

(01:33:53):
really is changing the game. Itreally is, you know, allowing people
to create in their own homes,in their own shops, own places.
So what that says before we getout of here, tell everybody how to
find some of the cool stuff thatyou're making and creating. I know a
lot of stuff ties in with BPI, so probably the best way is go
to Etsy and just type in KVPI. Right, that's right. I've started

(01:34:15):
adding those to all my search resultsor my tags. Okay, so you'll
come up if you find kdpi.But I'm Scoops quality plastic on Etsy plastic
plural singular. Yeah, I ranout of letters, so when you change
your name, they only give youa certain amount of letters. And okay,
plastics was just too much. Allright, Well, I will tell
you. When my buddies picked upyour knife, he's he's created cool KBPI

(01:34:40):
knife holder for that spider colt knife. My buddy walked out the other day
had it on the holder. He'slike, how cool is this? So
again, man, sky's a limit. All you need is a little ingenuity,
a little you know, what whatshould I build today? Little imagination
and a lot of uh, justwhat do you need? Look try on

(01:35:00):
air for me, mostly air,But it's a it's kind of there's some
sense of pride you get when yousit back and whether it's off a three
D printer, whether it's off youknow, hammer and nails and skill sell
or you know tig welding and fabricatingmetal, when you do it your own,
when you build it, when youcreate it, when you you know
you're finished, products is sitting therein front of you. Definitely a sense

(01:35:21):
of pride and a sense of accomplishment, and I wish that for everybody listening.
So enjoy the rest of your weekend. Have a blast doing whatever it
is you're passionate crazy about. Maybeeven some friends and some some fun times
between now and Monday. Outside that, at least we don't have a broncos
canus, so we won't be thatdepressed. We'll see you bright and early

(01:35:45):
on Monday morning. Have a greatweekend. Go check out that eclipse as
won't sit at nine kvp I.Williebe's garage is now closed until next Saturday
morning. Email your questions for nextweek Willy B at KBPI dot com one
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