WyoTech Warrior Paint

Today on muscle car. Horsepower's Wyotech Warrior is in the shop for some new fatigues. Red sled gets dressed up for a trip and Chip Foose takes us on a tour at Magna.

Hey, welcome to Muzzle Car. We're taking a break from our ongoing projects to help out with a build our buddies down in horsepower took on project Wild

Tech Warrior. This 1982 Camaro belongs to us Army E two, Kyle Jordan and as a thank you for serving this country. Wch

Summit racing and Power Block joined forces to turn his daily driver into a real street machine.

Kyle is stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky awaiting deployment to Afghanistan. His stepfather, James, also an army veteran gave the car to Kyle. He wanted to find a way to show his pride and his stepson. And that's what fueled this project.

The car arrived, wounded but alive

and the power block team got right to work, tearing it apart to see what it needed.

Wild Tech rallied their best troops to take on this build and they were men on a mission.

One team built up this GM 350

team two had their hands full rebuilding the 700 hour training

and the third team took on the rear end suspension and brakes.

Now, most of our Wyotech grads had new jobs to get back to so they didn't waste any time getting the warrior back into combat conditions.

The

dyno revealed some good news for the engine built team

383 horsepower and 435 ft pounds of

torque

to back it up. The transmission team decided to take it up a notch and fill up the case with a complete performance kit

and to keep all that power under control. Team three built a rock solid rear end,

upgraded key parts of the suspension and stepped up the brakes,

even the interior got a makeover.

And when the warrior was revealed to Kyle,

there was only one thing missing

Mike and I've got a little extra surprise for you what you

pick out your favorite color because while you're on your tour of duty,

you're gonna get a new paint job and Joe and Mike might have made that promise, but we intend to keep it.

When we heard that there was a paint job involved, we jumped at the chance to help out. Now, w

tech rides really impressed us with her mechanical skills. So we figured we'd give the body and paint guys a chance to step up, help out on the project. These guys are some of wild tech's best and they're here to get this car looking as good as it sounds y'all. It's time for you to step up to the plate because she's all yours.

And here's our Wyotech lineup.

I'm Doug,

I enjoy custom painting upholstery and metal fabrication.

Ione

and I love working on low rider.

I'm Eric Paul. I teach automotive and chas of fabrication and my school is Yote.

Now, these guys know that the first step in inequality paint job is to tear it down with bare essentials. So within minutes of picking up tools, parts are flying off this thing.

The solid third gen F body is, well, they're getting harder and harder to find

and so are the parts to keep them on the road. So most of these, well, they're gonna be reused

while the rest of us keep pulling parts, doug breaks out the sandpaper and gets the da a buzz. It,

removing all those body parts has exposed the motor and interior. So to keep from messing up all that hard work that's already been done.

We're sealing it back up.

Ramona is getting to jump start and blocking the body. Now this does chew up a lot of time which is in short supply. So everybody chipped in and got it ready for primer.

Next stop is a spray booth

masking paper used during blocking holds a lot of dust and debris. So we'll re mask it to keep the booth clean.

Is the first up with a gun loaded K 38 primer and may not have a lot of gun time in a commercial shop, but you wouldn't know it by watching him in the booth.

Now, it's Ramon's turn to put all this training to use and he's laying down a second coat just as smooth as the first.

After one more coat and A B

cycle, it's ready for a guide coat and a final blocking

400 grip paper water bottles and more elbow grease will get it ready for paint

coming up. See how the battle plan comes together for a successful mission.

Well, Doug Ramon and Tommy have been finishing up the prep work on the car. Me and Eric have been doing all the prep work on the parts. The last piece that's missing is the front spoiler and here it is a perfect timing, man. Go ahead and get that dude prepped out. Get some color laid down. Sounds good.

I remember a time not too long ago when you could find piles of parts for third gen F bodies nowadays and not so much. It took some searching but Hawks third

gen came to our rescue with a brand new Chin spoiler.

You can say goodbye to this last little bit of blue because soon it will be no more.

These parts are ready for sealer. Only the bumpers and chin spoiler are getting flex agent, but to save time,

I've got them all in the booth together

while Rick's been in the paint booth, Eric and the guys are working hard making the old parts look new. Some mother's polish and Mat Co's mini

buffer will make these lenses look years younger

parts are like the header panel. Just need some elbow grease and some semi gloss paint to bring them back up to par.

This is a team effort. So no one's getting any seat time. Doug Ramon and I are just finishing up the wet sanding. That means it's about time to roll it back into the booth.

I

turn

around.

Please

tell me when to stop.

Ramon

is first up manning the gun this time with some DP sealer loaded up, he can lay the groundwork for the color codes

after 40 minutes of flash time, Doug gives us the first look at our custom color resurrection red.

Now you're not going to find the code for this hot color in any chip book, auto body color and supply mix it to our specs and they have the secret formula,

three coats of base and two coats of clear. Later, we're ready to polish out our new gym

to help speed up the process. Tommy and I are going over first with 1500 grid on AD A and our wire tech buddies are gonna follow up behind us with 2000 grid.

The color sanding process removes any texture A K A orange peel and gets it ready for buffing.

Lucky for me and Rick, we've only got two polishers. So we left this job to Ramon and Eric Rick disappeared for some sort of covert operation and I've got some parcel details. So these guys are on their own for now. But the name Wild Tech on their shirts, that's all we need to see. No, they've got it under control.

Those parts Rick painted earlier are dry and ready to assemble. Our chin spoiler is an aftermarket piece. So we've got to line it up and drill the holes ourselves.

When CJ from Solar Solutions heard about this project, he volunteered his support for the troops by tinting the windows on the Warrior, which is no small contribution because third gen F bodies are known as some of the hardest cars to tint. Working with the hatch off, makes it a little easier and allows us to keep working on the car while he's working on keeping the UVS out.

Well, guys, all that hard work is definitely paid off. I bet old Kyle's not even gonna believe this is his old car. Yeah, I think you guys forgot of something though. Yeah, we've been wondering where you've been while we've been out here busting our backsides. I couldn't resist snatching the hood off the Wyotech Warrior here laying down some stripes and flames. I mean, hey, that's always cool. Then I threw the airborne 100 and first logo on the nose of it. Finished it out with some pinstripe man. That thing looks awesome.

It's gonna put on.

All right, all right,

power helped give the warrior its firepower and we helped give it a new coat of armor. And thanks to Wyotech Kyle's ride, it's ready for its first mission.

Hey guys, we just wanna say, thanks for stepping up to the plate, getting serious and knocking this dude out of the park. It looks awesome. We also wanna say thanks for our military no matter what branch you're in because it's you guys that lay it on the line every day to keep all of us safe. So thank you. All right guys. Let's break camp. Get out of here.

No

doubt. You remember the Magna Flow Mustang. We built on the show with the help of our good friend, Chip Foose.

It was a supercharged beast with a tricked out body kit and custom paint and underneath one sweet sounding ex pipe exhaust system.

Most people when they're building the car, they're not thinking about the exhaust.

But when you're building a show car, the exhaust is actually a part of the aesthetics of the car.

We thought it'd be cool to see just what goes into making a performance exhaust system. So we asked Chip to take us all on a little tour.

This is where it all happens. We're going to show you in detail

located in sunny Oceanside, California. Magna

Flo headquarters is a new 300,000 square foot facility that houses everything from R and d

to manufacturing,

to shipping.

It's all state of the art from the precision laser cutters

to the robots that weld each straight through muffler

to the automated shipping system.

I'm just a guy trying to build cars and I wanna build the absolute best that we can build. Every single piece has to be

basically an art form

and we can get that with the bag and flow parts.

That's because they're 100% stainless steel. So you're not only getting a great looking part but one that's warranted for life. We're using a premium material that we know we can stand by. It gives us the opportunity to offer that lifetime warranty. It's not something everybody

market can offer.

Now looks are one thing but it's got to fit and perform too.

Emphasis is put on the total package. So Magna Flow also builds catalytic converters to match every exhaust, keeping your riding missions legal without sacrificing power

over the past 30 years, they've built thousands of systems for just about everything from muscle cars to trucks.

Somebody knows what's in every one of these boxes.

The streamlined development process all done in one place has huge advantages.

We can bring a car in, run through the prototype process, have a hand built prototype ready that's gone through the testing

dyno work and all the validation and ready to sell within two weeks.

Magna Flow doesn't simply copy the oe exhaust system and tack on a new muffler,

they bring in real customer vehicles to the R and D Tech Center, put them up on the racks, remove the oe exhaust and build an entirely new performance system to go into place.

Measurements are made,

pipe is test fitted,

bend angles are set and once that's done, it's laser scanned in with a vector device that records all the data

engineering uses that to develop a prototype which gets re installed and then every vehicle is tested out on the chassis

dyno

to validate the performance

fixtures are built around the finished prototype to maintain consistency. Once it goes to production,

every single part that's built goes through a fixing process.

This gives us 100% check. So we can confidently say what we build fit.

Manufacturing starts here in these rows of high grade 49 and 34 stainless steel tubing

giant reels of 434 36 grade flat stock get stamped,

cut formed

and finally welded into muffler shells.

The flow through pipe is perforated and wrapped in stainless steel mesh, acoustic suppression material is pre cut and inserted into the muff before the end caps are welded on,

the pipe is notched and laned. While the mantle tube bender shapes the pipe according to the computer program design, all that's left is to pack it up and it's ready to be shipped out the door.

All right, Jeff, here's the system you ordered. You need some help taking it out, please.

The real reason we're here

is to pick up this system for the next big project. It's a 65 Impala that you haven't seen yet,

but stay tuned.

Well, I don't know about you but man, that was exhausting.

Oh P down

up next, we're knocking out red Sled's pre upholstery checklist.

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Hey guys, welcome back. Project. Red SLED is looking a lot more like a completed car with a grill glass and some trim. But there's a major component that still needs to be addressed the interior. We're handing it over to some upholstery experts for that part of the build, but there's a few things that we gotta take care of before we send it out.

Anything that the upholstery is gonna cover up needs to be installed. Now, otherwise you'll just have to pull that brand new interior right back out. This includes any wiring that goes to the back half of the car along with the glass, the regulators, the latches and strikers, the trim and finally the seals.

Since the latches aren't rep popped, we took the originals and cleaned them up in the blaster. All the pivot points, get a shot of lithium grease to make sure they work smooth for years to come

since latches aren't any good without strikers. We clean those up too.

Everything that I'm installing that's not an OEM part came straight from year one.

It saves a lot of hassle when you can make one call and have so many hard to find items show up on your doorstep.

All the stainless on the car including the window trim was restored to a show winning shine by advanced plating in Nashville.

The side trim attachment points are gonna be hidden by interior panels. So even these need to go on before the interior goes in

and taking care of little details like this. Now, what's gonna save us a whole bunch of hassles down the road the next time you see this old gal, she'll be sporting some slick new interior, but we've got to say bye to her for now and we're all out of time. So until next week, y'all keep it between the ditches.

Let's get this dude out of here. Let Gavin. We're pushing.

What

man? You're rude.