Truly an honor to have an engine that has had Nicks hands on it! Congratulations!

You're onto it, mate !

This car deserves to look good and run properly. 71 Cuda Convertible, rare indeed.

A car like that, your preference, dollars don't come into the equation. You have a mopar master on it. You don't need luck

Nick your the right man for the job.

I see he likes strong coffee. I get like this after a very strong black coffee late at night too.

@@ThePaulv12 he’s old school. Had a teacher like that who was a stickler for detail.

my uncle was same way but he knew if another human had been under hood

Thanks to the fantastic customers who bring their engines in.

😂👍🏽

Oof. Haha!

@boat392 😂😂😂😂😂

booooooooooooooo. hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiss. 😝

Hello there! Thanks for staying up with us.

Very cool!

Wix preferably,or napa gold for me

The tear down videos are the most interesting to me. Great content as always. Really appreciate Nick’s OEM focus.

Been using them for 40 years and yet to have one fail or destroy a engine I've either built for HP or stock for my vehicles . A couple years ago I had a Wix go bad for my 5.3 LS because the anti drain back valve stuck open and caused the lifters to drain back and make lifter noise on a cold start in the morning to I bought another Wix and it was ok after but I cut that filter open and that's what I found inside . The problem is our politicians have sold America out to China and thought it was a good idea to have most of our products made over their and the quality has just hit rock bottom compared to when it was made here so even oil filters are not the quality they used to be amongst a ton of other things being most everything now isn't designed to last very long because we live in a throw away society .

@@michaelbaumgardner2530 I am convinced that Wix makes the Napa, and Purolator filters. Edit: all of my vehicles get Wix filters, and I use Napa filters on my customers vehicles. I consider Fram the doorman of filters. If all the parts store has is that, you go to the next store. Even if you have to walk a mile in the pouring rain.

@@Spike-sk7ql Napa Gold,it's my understanding wix makes those

Always something good going on around here!

@@NicksGarage a real pleasure to watch your experience & skill. Maybe one day I'll get a old car again 😓

Enjoy! Thanks for joining us, Eugene. We are glad to have you here.

@@NicksGarage hi Eugene.

Hi Eugene. Sorry we missed your car in Chicago. Did you make it there with it?

@@ericball6000 Hi Eric.

Hello Eugene, hope your keeping well mate. That was an interesting tear down but Raymond's in the best of hands with Nick.

Thank you Tim. It was a pleasure working on your A12 Road Runner. This Hemicuda reminds me of your car.

Most honest man in the business- who is going to replace him???

Remember back in our day permatex was the problem!

@@moosemanmagee4495 ... Really. ??

I meant the cam shaft right to the bucket. Not engine.

Any for saying really about permatex then there's a problem!

Go on you KZfaq and watch ''' 337 Speed''' ...Hellcat Video. Enjoy.

No problem !

Hope you enjoy it!

Thank you for coming by the shop. Always a pleasure George. Nassai Kala.

A real dream.

It's a "tribute" car.

Thanks Matt.

I've watched some of those videos as well but I've been using Fram filters for 40 years and have yet to have one go bad or a engine failure because of using them but I had a couple years ago a Wix filter for my GM 5.3 LS for my truck that the anti drain back valve in it stuck open which was causing some lifter noise after it would sit over night then a cold start in the morning so I went and bought another Wix for it then cut the old filter open and found out what was wrong with it which I get sometimes you get a defect which on something like this could be catastrophic to the engine if it clogs shut or supplies the engine with unfiltered oil to the cam and main bearings but I got lucky and the lifter noise at cold start went away . I had a local ALCO that was going out of business about 10 years ago and they had brand new Fram oil filters for small block Chevrolet engines marked at 50 cents each so I bought everyone of them off the shelf to use for my 82 Chevrolet K10 that is my plow truck to plow my driveway out and so far no issues with the filters and this engine gets it's oil changed twice a year from 10w40 for the summer because I do drive it on occasion in the summer with the plow off it because it's actually in pretty nice condition for it's age then when fall comes I get it ready for winter and put 5w30 in it with a can of zinc added at each oil change because the 400 sbc I put in it from my old 78 k5 Blazer the cam went flat in the engine years ago and I had to tear down and new cam lifters push rods and rocker arms so after pulling the pan and making sure everything was cleaned and flushed good I keep using the zinc for each oil change so hopefully no flat cam in it ever again . K&N makes a really good oil filter you can buy that has fine mesh metal screens in them that you can take it apart to clean the filter screens out plus it has magnets on the side of it to help hold any metal shavings to the filter screens and they work very good but aren't cheap but for piece of mind especially on a fresh rebuilt engine or a race engine they are great because you can look to see if your getting any metal shavings from the engine just by pulling the filter apart instead of having to cut them open then clean it out and reuse it again . I'm thinking of buying one for my 5.3 LS and what irks me is how damn small the oil filters are on these engines being my truck takes just over 6 quarts of oil and you would have thought GM would have made the filter larger to filter the oil more on these tight tolerance engines and there's really no room for a larger filter length wise it would hang down past the pan and width wise not going to fit because the oil pan again is so close to the sides of the filter and the only way around this would be to install a oil filter by pass kit to mount either a bigger filter or dual oil filters under the hood some place to get more filtration and even then there isn't much room to do this so the cheapest and best bet for me on this newer truck is the K&N filter .

The fact that the canisters are so weak that they will actually split, and blow your oil that's supposed to be going to your vital engine components, inside the engine, all over the underhood of your car, causing a fire when the oil gets on a very, very hot turbo, and exhaust manifold. Yes. I actually seen that happen to someone with a very nice 1993 Talon, with a substantially built engine. This guy was running low 9s in a 4 cylinder car that had full interior back in 2006.

@@Spike-sk7ql Fram was the very first to design the race filter series that were used on the top fuel nitro hemi engines that had thick walled canisters because of the high oil pressure these engine have to have to keep the babbitt bearings from being destroyed under the immense shock put into the connecting rods to the crank bearings. Wix also has them now and I'm sure it's just a copy of what the Fram was way back in the day but if your ever building a engine that has to have high oil pressure you should never run a stock type oil filter on that engine and go with a race series filter so you don't have bulged cracked or split oil filter canisters because they are a thin wall canister . The reason why these nitro engines use babbitt bearings is because of the shock and load put on by the nitro and if they used a standard tri metal bearing like most engines use now days the shock and load put to those type of bearings would crush and destroy the bearings just on initial start up and run on fuel first then switched over to nitromethane. If you ever watch a nitro engine first start and warm up you can clearly hear the engine sounds different at first still radical sounding but once the tuner deems the engine is warmed up enough he will turn an adjustment screw on the blower hat that allows the nitromethane to then fuel the engine from that point on and the engine then sounds like a whole different beast . At the end of a run the driver has to shut the fuel off then the magneto because the plugs are used up and are cherry red so if the fuel isn't turned off first the extra fuel that's pumped into the engine will keep igniting acting like a diesel because of the high compression and the volatility of the nitromethane and the engine will keep running and detonate and destroy it's self . They say the the power of both magnetoes to light the nitromethane off under the kinds of compression those engines have that there is enough voltage that you could weld steel with them if they were hooked to a stick welder rod holder .

@@peteloomis8456 been to the NHRA nationals in Ohio every year, since back when they were using Columbus. I'm not talking about a full out race/nitro engine. Although, watching nitro cars go down the track is something I think everyone should experience even just once in their life! Watching those guys turn them around is awesome too. I still say that the NHRA is the best motorsport to go see live, as you definitely get the most for your money. Anyways, I'm talking about a substantially, yet moderately built 4G63T engine, making in the 600 hp range. I always used Wix after I seen a Fram filter basically explode all over the left lane of Norwalk raceway some years ago. Back when Buscher was putting on the DSM shootout, and was still into them.

After 31 years as a mechanic and garage owner, and living in CA, we had to crush the filters. Found a few without filter elements. Yup, they were Fram. Take one apart and compare with Wix. You’ll see the difference.

Yup. :) Mine is a zombie!

My pleasure !

Yes you can!

Not just to look correct but to also fit the the right length pushrods

May the power be with you.

@@NicksGarage lol.

Thanks for watching.

Good point.

Thank you !

Thanks for watching.

Thanks 👍

RIP Tom.

Was, but was tampered with later.