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my friend organizes races for a living (like, safe and legal races with permits and everything) and when i heard 20 grand for a roll cage in a bus, my first thought was "wow, thats a great price"
For most race series the cage has to be built by a roll cage certified welder which drives supply scarcity. At the end of the day though it's important to bear in mind when looking at the cost that while the cage is a part you hope to never use (beyond the chassis rigidity benefit of course) should the day come when you do need it your life may depend on it in a very real sense.
@@flacjacket add to it reading a tech manual for a cage for a specific class of cars can make your brain melt. It's not just tubing thickness but gusset requirements angles clearances sometimes those clearances are to the driver's helmet sometimes those are between say the cage and the door skin. Some of those clearances must be with a protective pad some are to the bar itself. And that's not all standard between every race association so a cage for a Ford Mustang for NHRA may have different specs than the same car in SCCA or Lemons and so on
20 grand? That’s hella expensive 😅 I got badass Mexican welders who are smart asf and will do the same quality of cage work… while also not charging you an arm and a leg and your left nut to put that in your vehicle of choice. I estimate 5 grand, would be the price they charge for a bus. Do unto others as you’d like done unto you! That’s the motto they live by and that’s why they lol charge WAYYY LESS and give you the same quality work 🤷🏻♂️
Roll cages are expensive also because there is a liability issue , if a breakage happens and a faulty weld is responsible it could cost the company millions so they need to have insurance in place and you would be amazed at what that costs.
By the time "uuh, what was the question" I was already in tears. That mind of his has waaay to many cross connections... which is amazing for problem solving.
I am not trying to rain on a parade, but take a look at the number of views the Tested videos tend to get. It's unfortunately quite low, especially with so many subscribers.
@@watcherofwatchers I think that's dependent on subject matter. I skip some vids too, but the main thing is the support and love we give it. You gotta his positivity.
One of my friends had a car with an exhaust leak for years near the head. One day he stopped by my house, I told him to pull it into my garage. We opened the hood and I could see the problem. Had him shut it off, gave him a wrench and told him start from the center and go back and forth and tighten the exhaust manifold bolts. After he was done I told him to start it up, The look on his face was priceless. Told me he was driving the car for 4 years with the exhaust leak. I think he told the story for a couple of years the "He" had fixed his car.
Former SCCA competition licensee here, and I have built my own roll cages as well. Five-point belts are considerably safer than four-point, as the main purpose of the the "sub strap" (the one between your legs) is to keep the lap belt in the correct low position. Otherwise when you crank the shoulder straps tight the lap belt creeps up, and you really don't want it running across your soft middle in a crash. Adam - I'd be pretty surprised if you used four-points. Five-point belts are pretty standard in competition vehicles where the driver is mostly sitting upright as would be typical in a off-road truck or road-racing sedan. If under heavy braking or even an impact if your crotch hits the belt.... it wasn't adjusted right to keep the lap belt low. Six-point belts are more common in open-wheel/formula cars where the driver position is closer to lying down and during braking or impact the driver WOULD tend to hit the sub straps. In the case the straps are adjusted against the thighs - think of it as close to how leg-loops work on a climbing harness.
I work in the automotive upfitting industry. I still have a slight hesitation every time u have to drill through a roof for an antenna or a headlight for a strobe or the dash for a switch on a brand new car.
I'd have a bigger hesitation drilling through the floor because I'd be so worried about what is under it. I don't want to find out I was directly over the gas tank or oil pan.
@@HariSeldon913 Fair, I was never needing to match up holes from the topside, I was mostly making patches and reinforcements rather than installing seats.
The fifth belt in a racing harness is almost always the most important one. The "submarine" belt keeps you from sliding out from under your harness in an impact.
I could listen to Adam speak about his craft and career for hours. And that's exactly what I've been doing the last couple weeks! I related so much to when he was speaking about the sense of accomplishment when repairing or modifying your car. I remember when I had to drill holes in the fairings of my 2008 Honda CBR600RR in order to accommodate "frame sliders", I was so pleased with myself. The sense of accomplishment was made that much better by how nervous I was by the task. Those OEM motorcycle fairings are very expensive and not something you want to have to buy again!
like the German ads for Haribo (used to) say : "Haribo macht Kinder froh ... und Erwachsenen eben so" (Haribo makes kids happy ... as well as grown ups" :D )
I too had a "Wait, you can do that?!" moment in metal shop. I understood carving a block of metal down to a desired size and shape, then using nuts and bolts to join parts together. But this one time, the bolts in shop where too long. The teacher said "just machine them down to size." Wait, you can do that? You can carve fasteners just the same as any part? Woh... My mind was blown.
I think that's a reasonable thing to have overlooked. After all, you can't resize nails or wood screws like that. It's not a hard concept, but there's not a clear cue that you ought to think about it.
I grew with a dad who was always fixing and making things, so small stuff like drilling a hole in a car isn't a big stretch. However, I do know what you mean. A few years ago I installed a range hood with exhaust in my kitchen. The house never had a hood before, was built in 1924, and is stucco. Installing the exhaust required drilling a 5 or 6 inch hole through the stucco and into the kitchen. It was a little nerve racking, but I managed to find the perfect tool to do it. IIRC is was an abrasive tool designed to cut holes in ceilings to install recessed lighting. I measured everything properly, went outside my house, and the tool worked perfectly cutting a nice round hole through my house. I still have the little piece of stucco+board that was cut out by the abrasive hole saw. But yeah, it's kind of awesome when you can do something like that. A bit different than just cutting a hole for electrical, since if you screw up you can't just fill it with a little cement and it's fine.
The first time you diagnose a problem, come up with a solution, then actually do it and it works, all before your fix it dad has a chance to see it is great.
One guy that I work with actually helped on the episode where you guys tested two cars going into each other at high speeds, he showed me the pictures with the group which was really awesome to see.
Mythbusters is the gift that keeps on giving. Most other channels have to use borderline click bait titles to maximise engagement. This channel just adds the question to the title and away Adam goes!
I credit this show with sparking my interest in cars at such a young age. My favorite episodes were automotive related. Thank you Mythbusters. Heading out on my self maintained 20’ bow rider today on the delta.
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Greetings from Bonn, Germany, less than one kilometer from the seat of Haribo. Fun fact: the name is an abbreviation of "Hans Riegel, Bonn", the founder and his hometown
I would love to hear Adam's viewpoint on the one wheel saga going on at the moment. He is a loyal fan of them and has owned them for years but now if he so much as unplugs the battery on a new one it is left bricked and unable to use it unless it goes back to the manufacturer.
I met the guy that build the bottom for your water heater myth, and I talk to him whenever I visit his work for service. He's a brilliant machinist, as well.
I am a Mechanic as well as a Body/Paint man. I had a little shop on Mt. Hood where I tuned Volvos. My shop car was a 72' Volvo 145 wagon that could turn 8000 RPM's all day long with an IPD suspension that could turn at over 1 G. It looked like grandpa's grocery getter but could smoke Mustangs and Cameros in stop light to stop light drags and smoke any sports car in the corners. You should check out IPD in Portland Oregon for all kinds of goodies, every year Volvo gives them a car or 2 to modify and they do some spectacular stuff.
Your shot into the trash can at the beginning reminds me of a myth I always wanted tested: Is there in fact a mysterious force field over trash cans, golf cups, etc. that deflects things? You might have discovered a brand new field of physics :-).
Small world...I looked up Don Best at work yesterday (Boeing)...turns out we report to the same manager! Got to meet him today, turns out we have some similar life experiences (diving, firefighting, EMT, fabrication, etc.) Very cool dude, looking forward to getting to know him better 😁
I still remember being younger than I probably should have been and bending steel with a cutting torch as me and my dad built a small trailer to pull behind an atv. Just the excitement of wow you can actually do that!
As someone who lives in the rust belt, it genuinely made me wince when you said to just drill through the floor. You'd get maybe 5 years out of those holes and bolts before that seat just fell through the floor
This winter, I took my son out to an icy parking lot and turned off all the traction control to give him his first taste of drifting. I think he may be hooked now, and I got allllll the cool mom points. 😎
My first car was a 1979 Oldsmobile Delta 88. I loved working on that thing. I know what you mean when you say you could get inside the engine compartment with the engine. I could crawl under it to change the oil without using ramps. When the alternator died, I bought a kit for $20, and rebuilt it myself. The days of easily working on your own cars are sadly, mostly behind us.
I had a 77 olds cutlass supreme, I almost could put the hood down while I was in the engine compartment with the endgine, I miss that car! And my parents had the 1976 Delta 88, that thing's hood was bigger than my bed's mattress.
I had dodge ram b250 van. The inside stunk. I removed all foam carpet curtains. Most fabric apart from seats. I had bench seat that could be folded down to double bed. Replaced door cards with doorskin. And did the entire floor in truck bed liner. No more smells. I live in Florida saw sunrise at beach everyday before work on boats. Could wash out interior in 5 mins, and dry in 10.
My very first car mod is splicing the power lock circuit to accept a wireless fob. Burned a little bit of my hair while working on it because I was using a butane soldering iron. Still worth it.
My first drilling holes in a car was fitting seat belts to a Mk 1 Ford Cortina. Back in the 60's we would think nothing of whipping off the head to give it a decoke and reseat the valves.
Hey Adam. First and foremost, i want to thank you. You and Jamie helped my through a very rough time in my life and your shows gave my mind a place to disconnect, rest and have some fun. So I've been here since the first episode of Mythbusters. Okay, my question is in your early years, have you ever Jerry Rigged one or more tools, to serve a purpose of a tool you didn't have or could afford and with your, more mature eyes today, would consider an absolute deathtrap? haha If so, what did you Jerry Rig and did it serve its purpose as intended? Example, i make dioramas and i frequently clamp and turn my jigsaw upside down on the table, for more precision cuts. 😂 i know, I KNOW! but i simply can't spare the space for a miniature tablesaw. Your dude, Decan Frost.
Thanks for the reminder of the stress and excitement of cutting up perfectly good car parts and other expensive things. You're right to say that that feeling was lost to me, and the reminder of those times bring me a joy I didn't know I needed today
_"...but that'd not why you're thinking in here..."_ I know this is an old video but I'm still going to say this: Adam, we come here because you're a bastion of knowledge and a goddamn fine human to boot! So it doesn't matter if it's wax on about a band saw, or about gummy candies, if you want to go off on a side tangent about either one... _DO IT!_ ♥️🍻
People are drilling through the car floor there in California. Here in Northern Europe drilling hole in the floor means it would rot a through hole in some 5 years %) Keeping your paint intact is important with all that salt and water and snow and shit.
The first time you modify your vehicle.... I took the handle off a spare back door and installed it above the front passenger door so I had the only Chevette with a holy s$!t handle! I'd been fixing them for years, but I think that was my first modification!
Speaking of modification to things you own, what is your take on how Future motion has been treating the creator community in regards to their one wheel skateboard? Also, I've drilled a number of holes in my truck for modifications and it is very satisfying when it all comes together just right.
Haribo were introduced to Australia by Aldi (Note Aldi US has a different parent company to Aldi Australia - Aldi Nord vs Aldi Sud). Allen’s were more common before that.
At 7:14 when Adam's son says I'm gonna drill thru a car? I was laughing so hard. for once I was glad youtube put in an Ad at that exact moment. I needed to compose myself.
Life savers hard candy is my favorite... although for some reason alot of stores must be targeting kids or something because every time I go to any store they have like 5 boxes of life savers gummies and 1 box of life savers hard candy already empty. I had to resort to my second favorite tootsie pops.
Yup, the coolest moment, when we, um, raised up our 1979 dodge aspen and drove up the Great Heath in Washington County, Maine. Kids, don’t try, truly, but yeah, way cool.
We could be kindred spirits! I would disassemble my toys as kid to understand why they did what they did! My first car was a Volvo 544. I rebuilt the engine and transmission and many other repairs to it as well as many Volvos/vehicles I owned. Later in life I was involved with a few Volvos that were raced around the Bakersfield CA area. Roll cages, shock mounts exhaust systems were all hand fabricated because….. there was not any parts available! Go figure!
4 point harnesses are fine as long as they have anti-submarining features built-in. Submarining with harnesses are the biggest issue and can cause serious injuries including death so keep them in mind if you're interested in getting harnesses installed.
My first car had some kind of leak between panels and I could never nail it down so every time it rained, I'd have a pond in the foot well. I drilled a hole in the floor instead of paying who knows how much to fix it properly. Never had any more pondage under my feet 🤣
I knew how to change my oil, belts and other basics on my first car, but my current car I can barely change the lightbulbs without help. I appreciate some of the improvements, but I absolutely hate all the things being done unnecessarily to make cars harder to maintain. And honestly, I don't know why either since it's clear they intended at one point to make it user friendly and then just botched it shockingly. My bulb example is a 2012 Imapala. To change the bulb you take out a plastic tab sticking upright from the frame at the front which is very convenient to get to and only a little confusing to move into and out of the locking position. Clearly meant to be toolless. Next you take out 3 socket screws of 2 different sizes...so there went the toolless part. Next you twist and force the light module backwards through a weirdly shaped, tight fitting space. Then you twist a plastic panel on the back (back to toolless) to expose the inner chamber of the light module. Then you take out the bulb with a twist. Then you pull a little tab on the bulb socket to take the bulb out. Then, without touching the glass of the new bulb, you put the tiny socket part of it into that socket holder, put it through the small hole and twist it again, and reverse everything above.
Sounds like a headache We have like 2015-newer fords and Holdens/chevies where I work and they’re fairly standard globes to change. Pull off a rubber cover, pull the plug off, unlatch a piece of wire, pull out the globe. Reverse the instructions. It’s just difficult cause you can’t see what you’re doing and need an extra elbow in your arm.
@@thomasa5619 Yeah, I'm pretty sure these cars were designed for alien mechanics with many more joints than us humans. Glad to hear others don't require taking out the whole module to change a bulb. With so many things going LED these days I was half expecting them to go to replacing the whole module every time.
@@Merennulli yeah I don’t know anything about fancy LED headlights. They should last longer anyway due to the technology. These are just plain old halogens
@@thomasa5619 Same. From what I've seen it needs a retrofit and then it's just swapping LED bulbs if they ever go out. I hate the blue hue so many of them have but if they're as durable as they say, it would be nice. My employer installed the wrong kind of speedbump in our parking garage and I was losing a headlight bulb about once every other week it seemed like until they put the right kind in. I was very close to switching to LED at that point in hopes of ending that but they caved first. (Damaging the vehicles of elected officials by making the posted clearance off by 6+ inches wasn't a great look so I'm a little surprised they lasted as long as they did.)
I want to make a Bingo card for these episodes (strictly in a spirit of good-natured-ness and admiration, not mocking). Blocks will include “what was the original question?”, rushing off-screen to get something to show, and mention of Things 1 and 2
I drove a '76 Toyota SR5 Longbed in high school. Hated the seats (chiropractic nightmares upholstered with cheap foam and plastic). So in 85 I went down to the junkyard and found a wrecked out 1 year old Toyota 4x4 with 'top of the line' cloth seats. Offered the guy at the desk $150 for both and ripped them out that afternoon. Bright and early the next morning my buddy and I were busily modifying the seat rails and anchor points to fit those bad boys in my beater of a truck. No worries about an airbag being deployed. No wiring to tell some obscure computer that there's a baby sitting in the passenger seat. Just shade tree engineering, a couple of Pepsi's, more swear words than I like to admit, and two guys making a vehicle drivable. Try that crap today without a comp sci degree and you'll brick your entire car.
Working on your own vehicles is fun (unless it's an electrical fault). Still get a good feeling when I can repair something that would otherwise have to go to a garage.
In the episode where you used an SN95 Mustang to drive on 2 tires, who had the brilliant idea to do this without helmets on? BTW, I work for the company that supplied the rollbar for this car in the episode.
Harnesses have shelf lives. They have expire dates on the tag, if it’s passed the date on the harness they won’t allow my car to be teched into the race.
Not many people know is that car harnesses EXPIRE, I understand where it's coming from as if you are racing, it's your life saving device but for daily driver vehicles it shouldn't be a worry, maybe replace it once every few years of you really value your life, but if you drive a car that will crumple before you have the chance to fling out of the vehicle, it's not really necessary
Adam, I have a question on the myth that you can't open a car door once it's underwater. When you set 300lbs on the windshield to test to see if the windshield motor could roll down the window, did you take into account friction? 300lbs of water on a window with no friction is a lot different than 300lbs of physical weights setting on the glass. Do you think if you tried to roll the window down with actual water providing the pressure, would it work?
It's the same. While yes the weight bags were centralized and might have skewed things a little, the water would still push the glass against the window frame and slide paths with the same force.
"Modern cars ar much harder to work on and modify than they used to be." 2 things from this statment alone, 1) Ain't that the truth. My brother had a '93 F150 that we did just about all of the repairs on ourselves, other than the ones tied to the accidents he ended up in, and the rear drum brakes (and a related issue). Meanwhile I opened up the hood to test the spark plug wires on my 08 Sonata and took one look and noped out of that because it was going to be that much of a pain in the ass. 2) I would be very surprised if Adam didn't support the right to repair movement.
I would think he'd be conflicted on right of repair, since he's a big OneWheel fan and they've been getting a lot of coverage on how repair unfriendly they are, like on the latest models if you disconnect the battery the thing is bricked until you ship it to their shop for repair.
@@shorttimer874 I don't know how he'd be conflicted about that... we're talking about the guy who put shoes and velcroed a cardboard head on an experimental, at the time, robot. Not to say he wouldn't be, I'm not him obviously, it doesn't seem to jive in my head too well, but people are weird sometimes.
I remember having to use a drill to install a set of subwoofers into my car. I had the same kind of reaction asking my dad if we really were allowed to drill a hole to run a wire from the battery.
You should build a Prusa printer, they always include a pack of Haribo gummies with the printer for the build process. It's like buying expensive candy with a free 3D printer! (Also, that random fact does not work on my wife, as I'm in a country where Haribo is ubiquitous)
In my opinion, the cost of having someone build a roll cage also includes the liability factor. Any safety related organization is going to have to pay a lot to cover their butts in the event of a failure of their product. There are no second chances.
Adam's interest and enthusiasm for what he's doing is infectious. For me, it's such a melancholy delight to listen to him. He reminds me of how my dad used to be before his current wife cut off his balls, ripped out his spine and broke his soul.
8:11 That was kind of what I felt when I took my first drumset completely apart. Power, too. Which I also felt, oddly, when I killed off my first character in my fiction writing. Odd series of connections there... ~ shrugs
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my friend organizes races for a living (like, safe and legal races with permits and everything) and when i heard 20 grand for a roll cage in a bus, my first thought was "wow, thats a great price"
I’m sure a chunk of that is liability and lawyer fees. Like how mundane airplane parts are outrageously expensive.
@@wormhole331 its mostly all due to low volume of parts produced, rolls cages, mundane parts, etc
For most race series the cage has to be built by a roll cage certified welder which drives supply scarcity. At the end of the day though it's important to bear in mind when looking at the cost that while the cage is a part you hope to never use (beyond the chassis rigidity benefit of course) should the day come when you do need it your life may depend on it in a very real sense.
@@flacjacket add to it reading a tech manual for a cage for a specific class of cars can make your brain melt. It's not just tubing thickness but gusset requirements angles clearances sometimes those clearances are to the driver's helmet sometimes those are between say the cage and the door skin. Some of those clearances must be with a protective pad some are to the bar itself. And that's not all standard between every race association so a cage for a Ford Mustang for NHRA may have different specs than the same car in SCCA or Lemons and so on
20 grand? That’s hella expensive 😅 I got badass Mexican welders who are smart asf and will do the same quality of cage work… while also not charging you an arm and a leg and your left nut to put that in your vehicle of choice.
I estimate 5 grand, would be the price they charge for a bus.
Do unto others as you’d like done unto you!
That’s the motto they live by and that’s why they lol charge WAYYY LESS and give you the same quality work 🤷🏻♂️
Roll cages are expensive also because there is a liability issue , if a breakage happens and a faulty weld is responsible it could cost the company millions so they need to have insurance in place and you would be amazed at what that costs.
Adams enthusiasm is so contagious, the way he answered such a simple question with these stories is awesome!
By the time "uuh, what was the question" I was already in tears. That mind of his has waaay to many cross connections... which is amazing for problem solving.
5.8 MILLION subscribers. TV providers would kill for that kind of loyalty. Adam has EARNED it.
I am not trying to rain on a parade, but take a look at the number of views the Tested videos tend to get. It's unfortunately quite low, especially with so many subscribers.
@@watcherofwatchers I think that's dependent on subject matter. I skip some vids too, but the main thing is the support and love we give it. You gotta his positivity.
One of my friends had a car with an exhaust leak for years near the head. One day he stopped by my house, I told him to pull it into my garage. We opened the hood and I could see the problem. Had him shut it off, gave him a wrench and told him start from the center and go back and forth and tighten the exhaust manifold bolts. After he was done I told him to start it up,
The look on his face was priceless. Told me he was driving the car for 4 years with the exhaust leak. I think he told the story for a couple of years the "He" had fixed his car.
"LOG ENTRY: SOL 211 I am smiling a great smile. The smile of a man who fucked with his car and didn't break it." - Mark Watney
Former SCCA competition licensee here, and I have built my own roll cages as well. Five-point belts are considerably safer than four-point, as the main purpose of the the "sub strap" (the one between your legs) is to keep the lap belt in the correct low position. Otherwise when you crank the shoulder straps tight the lap belt creeps up, and you really don't want it running across your soft middle in a crash. Adam - I'd be pretty surprised if you used four-points. Five-point belts are pretty standard in competition vehicles where the driver is mostly sitting upright as would be typical in a off-road truck or road-racing sedan. If under heavy braking or even an impact if your crotch hits the belt.... it wasn't adjusted right to keep the lap belt low. Six-point belts are more common in open-wheel/formula cars where the driver position is closer to lying down and during braking or impact the driver WOULD tend to hit the sub straps. In the case the straps are adjusted against the thighs - think of it as close to how leg-loops work on a climbing harness.
My father did racing back when 4 point harness' where standard.
I work in the automotive upfitting industry. I still have a slight hesitation every time u have to drill through a roof for an antenna or a headlight for a strobe or the dash for a switch on a brand new car.
Yep. You get one shot to make it perfect. Maybe another shot to make it workable. But you can never undrill that hole.
I'd have a bigger hesitation drilling through the floor because I'd be so worried about what is under it. I don't want to find out I was directly over the gas tank or oil pan.
@@HariSeldon913 That's why I'd drill up from the bottom rather than down from the footwell...
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 A little difficult to match up those holes when you do it that way.
@@HariSeldon913 Fair, I was never needing to match up holes from the topside, I was mostly making patches and reinforcements rather than installing seats.
My favorite modification was the ejector seat.
Agreed 🚨
"James Bond!" Is burned into my memory
The fifth belt in a racing harness is almost always the most important one. The "submarine" belt keeps you from sliding out from under your harness in an impact.
I could listen to Adam speak about his craft and career for hours. And that's exactly what I've been doing the last couple weeks! I related so much to when he was speaking about the sense of accomplishment when repairing or modifying your car. I remember when I had to drill holes in the fairings of my 2008 Honda CBR600RR in order to accommodate "frame sliders", I was so pleased with myself. The sense of accomplishment was made that much better by how nervous I was by the task. Those OEM motorcycle fairings are very expensive and not something you want to have to buy again!
The haribo gummi peaches are so incredibly good if you can find them. They’re like peach rings with a Michelin star.
Dang straight
like the German ads for Haribo (used to) say :
"Haribo macht Kinder froh ... und Erwachsenen eben so"
(Haribo makes kids happy ... as well as grown ups" :D )
I too had a "Wait, you can do that?!" moment in metal shop. I understood carving a block of metal down to a desired size and shape, then using nuts and bolts to join parts together. But this one time, the bolts in shop where too long. The teacher said "just machine them down to size." Wait, you can do that? You can carve fasteners just the same as any part? Woh... My mind was blown.
I think that's a reasonable thing to have overlooked. After all, you can't resize nails or wood screws like that. It's not a hard concept, but there's not a clear cue that you ought to think about it.
I grew with a dad who was always fixing and making things, so small stuff like drilling a hole in a car isn't a big stretch.
However, I do know what you mean. A few years ago I installed a range hood with exhaust in my kitchen. The house never had a hood before, was built in 1924, and is stucco. Installing the exhaust required drilling a 5 or 6 inch hole through the stucco and into the kitchen.
It was a little nerve racking, but I managed to find the perfect tool to do it. IIRC is was an abrasive tool designed to cut holes in ceilings to install recessed lighting. I measured everything properly, went outside my house, and the tool worked perfectly cutting a nice round hole through my house. I still have the little piece of stucco+board that was cut out by the abrasive hole saw.
But yeah, it's kind of awesome when you can do something like that. A bit different than just cutting a hole for electrical, since if you screw up you can't just fill it with a little cement and it's fine.
The first time you diagnose a problem, come up with a solution, then actually do it and it works, all before your fix it dad has a chance to see it is great.
One guy that I work with actually helped on the episode where you guys tested two cars going into each other at high speeds, he showed me the pictures with the group which was really awesome to see.
Adam’s joy is so contagious. So glad I bought his book and can enjoy it there too.
Mythbusters is the gift that keeps on giving. Most other channels have to use borderline click bait titles to maximise engagement. This channel just adds the question to the title and away Adam goes!
I credit this show with sparking my interest in cars at such a young age. My favorite episodes were automotive related. Thank you Mythbusters. Heading out on my self maintained 20’ bow rider today on the delta.
Greetings from Bonn, Germany, less than one kilometer from the seat of Haribo. Fun fact: the name is an abbreviation of "Hans Riegel, Bonn", the founder and his hometown
I would love to hear Adam's viewpoint on the one wheel saga going on at the moment. He is a loyal fan of them and has owned them for years but now if he so much as unplugs the battery on a new one it is left bricked and unable to use it unless it goes back to the manufacturer.
Yeah, the company is finished, that's a John Deere level of evil !
Yes, I wondered the same. He could only dream of modding his (next?) One-Wheel.
Definitely a right-to-repair issue there.
I met the guy that build the bottom for your water heater myth, and I talk to him whenever I visit his work for service. He's a brilliant machinist, as well.
Just getting rid of out of round tires can make a big difference.
I am a Mechanic as well as a Body/Paint man. I had a little shop on Mt. Hood where I tuned Volvos. My shop car was a 72' Volvo 145 wagon that could turn 8000 RPM's all day long with an IPD suspension that could turn at over 1 G. It looked like grandpa's grocery getter but could smoke Mustangs and Cameros in stop light to stop light drags and smoke any sports car in the corners. You should check out IPD in Portland Oregon for all kinds of goodies, every year Volvo gives them a car or 2 to modify and they do some spectacular stuff.
Your shot into the trash can at the beginning reminds me of a myth I always wanted tested: Is there in fact a mysterious force field over trash cans, golf cups, etc. that deflects things? You might have discovered a brand new field of physics :-).
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The force field only applies when other people are watching.
@@chronosferatu345 It's like quantum physics; when there's an observer, it behaves like a wall and when there isn't, it behaves like a wave.
@@ktaylor9095 That's clever and exactly right! Thanks for the chuckle.
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Adam, don't stop going off on tangents... We love it.
Small world...I looked up Don Best at work yesterday (Boeing)...turns out we report to the same manager! Got to meet him today, turns out we have some similar life experiences (diving, firefighting, EMT, fabrication, etc.) Very cool dude, looking forward to getting to know him better 😁
Hi John!!!!
@@SuperGrinch69 Hi Scott!!
I still remember being younger than I probably should have been and bending steel with a cutting torch as me and my dad built a small trailer to pull behind an atv. Just the excitement of wow you can actually do that!
"What was the original question?"
Yes, most of the time even Adam's thoughts are on their own adventure - and we like it that way! 😁😎✌️
As someone who lives in the rust belt, it genuinely made me wince when you said to just drill through the floor. You'd get maybe 5 years out of those holes and bolts before that seat just fell through the floor
This winter, I took my son out to an icy parking lot and turned off all the traction control to give him his first taste of drifting. I think he may be hooked now, and I got allllll the cool mom points. 😎
Adam just unintentionally explained why I love my 72 Beetle so much.
My first car was a 1979 Oldsmobile Delta 88. I loved working on that thing. I know what you mean when you say you could get inside the engine compartment with the engine. I could crawl under it to change the oil without using ramps.
When the alternator died, I bought a kit for $20, and rebuilt it myself. The days of easily working on your own cars are sadly, mostly behind us.
I had a 77 olds cutlass supreme, I almost could put the hood down while I was in the engine compartment with the endgine, I miss that car! And my parents had the 1976 Delta 88, that thing's hood was bigger than my bed's mattress.
Have always found your tangents to a subject’s enlightening and amusing. Thank you for your sharing.
One of the joys of parenting is quietly seeing the things that give joy to your kids.
I had dodge ram b250 van. The inside stunk.
I removed all foam carpet curtains. Most fabric apart from seats.
I had bench seat that could be folded down to double bed.
Replaced door cards with doorskin.
And did the entire floor in truck bed liner.
No more smells.
I live in Florida saw sunrise at beach everyday before work on boats. Could wash out interior in 5 mins, and dry in 10.
My very first car mod is splicing the power lock circuit to accept a wireless fob. Burned a little bit of my hair while working on it because I was using a butane soldering iron. Still worth it.
My first drilling holes in a car was fitting seat belts to a Mk 1 Ford Cortina. Back in the 60's we would think nothing of whipping off the head to give it a decoke and reseat the valves.
The Uncle Adam a lot of us need.
Hey Adam.
First and foremost, i want to thank you.
You and Jamie helped my through a very rough time in my life
and your shows gave my mind a place to disconnect, rest and have some fun.
So I've been here since the first episode of Mythbusters.
Okay, my question is
in your early years, have you ever Jerry Rigged one or more tools,
to serve a purpose of a tool you didn't have or could afford and with your, more mature eyes today,
would consider an absolute deathtrap? haha
If so, what did you Jerry Rig and did it serve its purpose as intended?
Example, i make dioramas and i frequently clamp and turn my jigsaw upside down on the table, for more precision cuts. 😂
i know, I KNOW! but i simply can't spare the space for a miniature tablesaw.
Your dude,
Decan Frost.
...yeah don't ask how one makes a skilsaw pretend to be a tablesaw, it's not pretty.... but it's also not nearly as unsafe as it sounds...
Someday someone is just going to write in “what was the original question?” And send Adam into an endless loop of tangents.
Thanks for the reminder of the stress and excitement of cutting up perfectly good car parts and other expensive things. You're right to say that that feeling was lost to me, and the reminder of those times bring me a joy I didn't know I needed today
_"...but that'd not why you're thinking in here..."_
I know this is an old video but I'm still going to say this: Adam, we come here because you're a bastion of knowledge and a goddamn fine human to boot! So it doesn't matter if it's wax on about a band saw, or about gummy candies, if you want to go off on a side tangent about either one... _DO IT!_ ♥️🍻
This week, we all smile as we watch Adam being a happy, enthusiastic nerd
I think the date this was filmed had a little something to do with it ;)
People are drilling through the car floor there in California.
Here in Northern Europe drilling hole in the floor means it would rot a through hole in some 5 years %) Keeping your paint intact is important with all that salt and water and snow and shit.
The first time you modify your vehicle.... I took the handle off a spare back door and installed it above the front passenger door so I had the only Chevette with a holy s$!t handle! I'd been fixing them for years, but I think that was my first modification!
Speaking of modification to things you own, what is your take on how Future motion has been treating the creator community in regards to their one wheel skateboard? Also, I've drilled a number of holes in my truck for modifications and it is very satisfying when it all comes together just right.
I can confirm! As an Australian we do love our Gummy Bears and Gummy Lollies
Very early into the ownership of my Hilux, I decided to fit a snorkel myself. Drilling into your guard with a 115mm? holesaw was intense.......
Haribo were introduced to Australia by Aldi (Note Aldi US has a different parent company to Aldi Australia - Aldi Nord vs Aldi Sud).
Allen’s were more common before that.
I still have a hard time cutting or drilling holes on/in my car and I'm 65.
That bit about working on your own car is why certain vehicle ownerships (like Jeep) are an endless pit of chasing the dopamine.
Nice car!! First car for me: 89 chevy silverado 1500. Got in 2000, kept it running for 12+ years
I love your New Zealand connection.
Now I gotta go find some Haribo Berries! They're my favorite and I haven't had them in ages... Thanks goodness for Amazon!
At 7:14 when Adam's son says I'm gonna drill thru a car? I was laughing so hard. for once I was glad youtube put in an Ad at that exact moment. I needed to compose myself.
I would probably still have cable if MythBusters was still on
Life savers hard candy is my favorite... although for some reason alot of stores must be targeting kids or something because every time I go to any store they have like 5 boxes of life savers gummies and 1 box of life savers hard candy already empty. I had to resort to my second favorite tootsie pops.
Yup, the coolest moment, when we, um, raised up our 1979 dodge aspen and drove up the Great Heath in Washington County, Maine. Kids, don’t try, truly, but yeah, way cool.
We could be kindred spirits! I would disassemble my toys as kid to understand why they did what they did!
My first car was a Volvo 544. I rebuilt the engine and transmission and many other repairs to it as well as many Volvos/vehicles I owned. Later in life I was involved with a few Volvos that were raced around the Bakersfield CA area. Roll cages, shock mounts exhaust systems were all hand fabricated because….. there was not any parts available! Go figure!
4 point harnesses are fine as long as they have anti-submarining features built-in. Submarining with harnesses are the biggest issue and can cause serious injuries including death so keep them in mind if you're interested in getting harnesses installed.
I believe this is one of the greatest TH-cam channels out there.
I'm surprised lead balloon was so cheap given how hard it was to get the thin lead manufactured.
Memory serves you did the welding of the roll cage on the first jato rocket car episode
My first car had some kind of leak between panels and I could never nail it down so every time it rained, I'd have a pond in the foot well. I drilled a hole in the floor instead of paying who knows how much to fix it properly. Never had any more pondage under my feet 🤣
I knew how to change my oil, belts and other basics on my first car, but my current car I can barely change the lightbulbs without help. I appreciate some of the improvements, but I absolutely hate all the things being done unnecessarily to make cars harder to maintain. And honestly, I don't know why either since it's clear they intended at one point to make it user friendly and then just botched it shockingly.
My bulb example is a 2012 Imapala. To change the bulb you take out a plastic tab sticking upright from the frame at the front which is very convenient to get to and only a little confusing to move into and out of the locking position. Clearly meant to be toolless. Next you take out 3 socket screws of 2 different sizes...so there went the toolless part. Next you twist and force the light module backwards through a weirdly shaped, tight fitting space. Then you twist a plastic panel on the back (back to toolless) to expose the inner chamber of the light module. Then you take out the bulb with a twist. Then you pull a little tab on the bulb socket to take the bulb out. Then, without touching the glass of the new bulb, you put the tiny socket part of it into that socket holder, put it through the small hole and twist it again, and reverse everything above.
Sounds like a headache
We have like 2015-newer fords and Holdens/chevies where I work and they’re fairly standard globes to change. Pull off a rubber cover, pull the plug off, unlatch a piece of wire, pull out the globe. Reverse the instructions.
It’s just difficult cause you can’t see what you’re doing and need an extra elbow in your arm.
@@thomasa5619 Yeah, I'm pretty sure these cars were designed for alien mechanics with many more joints than us humans.
Glad to hear others don't require taking out the whole module to change a bulb. With so many things going LED these days I was half expecting them to go to replacing the whole module every time.
@@Merennulli yeah I don’t know anything about fancy LED headlights. They should last longer anyway due to the technology.
These are just plain old halogens
@@thomasa5619 Same. From what I've seen it needs a retrofit and then it's just swapping LED bulbs if they ever go out. I hate the blue hue so many of them have but if they're as durable as they say, it would be nice. My employer installed the wrong kind of speedbump in our parking garage and I was losing a headlight bulb about once every other week it seemed like until they put the right kind in. I was very close to switching to LED at that point in hopes of ending that but they caved first. (Damaging the vehicles of elected officials by making the posted clearance off by 6+ inches wasn't a great look so I'm a little surprised they lasted as long as they did.)
Have you thought about having some of the behind the scenes people on to answer questions?
If you're a gummie fan, have you tried any of the Albanese brand or Black Forest bears?! Both are far better than Haribo (in my opinion).
I would absolutely watch an entire podcast of Adam taking about candy
I would too
The first time I drilled a hole in a car was to re-attach the plastic end of the bumper on a 1985 Toyota pick-up.
I always wonder what happened to that Porsche 924 after Adam flipped it with the truck.
All the MythBusters cars were the, rustiest, junked, most broken cars $500 would buy 👍
I want to make a Bingo card for these episodes (strictly in a spirit of good-natured-ness and admiration, not mocking). Blocks will include “what was the original question?”, rushing off-screen to get something to show, and mention of Things 1 and 2
I’m about the drill my first ever holes in a car to install a drawer system. I hope it’s as exciting for me as it was for your son
Love the nav lights on the chest! ;)
My favorite black licorice chews are Australian made. They certainly know how to do it right.
I grow up with fabricators and mechanics. I love doing mods but I don't have the money to do that
I drove a '76 Toyota SR5 Longbed in high school. Hated the seats (chiropractic nightmares upholstered with cheap foam and plastic). So in 85 I went down to the junkyard and found a wrecked out 1 year old Toyota 4x4 with 'top of the line' cloth seats. Offered the guy at the desk $150 for both and ripped them out that afternoon. Bright and early the next morning my buddy and I were busily modifying the seat rails and anchor points to fit those bad boys in my beater of a truck. No worries about an airbag being deployed. No wiring to tell some obscure computer that there's a baby sitting in the passenger seat. Just shade tree engineering, a couple of Pepsi's, more swear words than I like to admit, and two guys making a vehicle drivable. Try that crap today without a comp sci degree and you'll brick your entire car.
Working on your own vehicles is fun (unless it's an electrical fault). Still get a good feeling when I can repair something that would otherwise have to go to a garage.
In the episode where you used an SN95 Mustang to drive on 2 tires, who had the brilliant idea to do this without helmets on?
BTW, I work for the company that supplied the rollbar for this car in the episode.
Harnesses have shelf lives.
They have expire dates on the tag, if it’s passed the date on the harness they won’t allow my car to be teched into the race.
Gummy coke bottles. Been addicted to those for decades.
Not many people know is that car harnesses EXPIRE, I understand where it's coming from as if you are racing, it's your life saving device but for daily driver vehicles it shouldn't be a worry, maybe replace it once every few years of you really value your life, but if you drive a car that will crumple before you have the chance to fling out of the vehicle, it's not really necessary
Adam, I have a question on the myth that you can't open a car door once it's underwater. When you set 300lbs on the windshield to test to see if the windshield motor could roll down the window, did you take into account friction? 300lbs of water on a window with no friction is a lot different than 300lbs of physical weights setting on the glass. Do you think if you tried to roll the window down with actual water providing the pressure, would it work?
It's the same. While yes the weight bags were centralized and might have skewed things a little, the water would still push the glass against the window frame and slide paths with the same force.
"Modern cars ar much harder to work on and modify than they used to be." 2 things from this statment alone, 1) Ain't that the truth. My brother had a '93 F150 that we did just about all of the repairs on ourselves, other than the ones tied to the accidents he ended up in, and the rear drum brakes (and a related issue). Meanwhile I opened up the hood to test the spark plug wires on my 08 Sonata and took one look and noped out of that because it was going to be that much of a pain in the ass. 2) I would be very surprised if Adam didn't support the right to repair movement.
I would think he'd be conflicted on right of repair, since he's a big OneWheel fan and they've been getting a lot of coverage on how repair unfriendly they are, like on the latest models if you disconnect the battery the thing is bricked until you ship it to their shop for repair.
@@shorttimer874 I don't know how he'd be conflicted about that... we're talking about the guy who put shoes and velcroed a cardboard head on an experimental, at the time, robot. Not to say he wouldn't be, I'm not him obviously, it doesn't seem to jive in my head too well, but people are weird sometimes.
@1:50 Savage, from downtown . . . . . BOOM SHAKALAKA!
Amazing , goes to show that hard work is only a small part of it
There is no Patreon link here!
Why is there a cast-iron pan hanging on the wall behind your right shoulder(ish)?
The one time I drilled holes in my car it was to rivet in some sheet metal to cover a bigger hole. 😂
Damn you, Adam. I ended up buying Haribo because of you.
I love your stuff Adam!
Thing 2’s reaction to modifying the car was like my kids reaction when saw me drilling and sawing at my computer.
I remember having to use a drill to install a set of subwoofers into my car. I had the same kind of reaction asking my dad if we really were allowed to drill a hole to run a wire from the battery.
I would watch a whole video where Adam just talks about candy.
You should build a Prusa printer, they always include a pack of Haribo gummies with the printer for the build process.
It's like buying expensive candy with a free 3D printer!
(Also, that random fact does not work on my wife, as I'm in a country where Haribo is ubiquitous)
In my opinion, the cost of having someone build a roll cage also includes the liability factor. Any safety related organization is going to have to pay a lot to cover their butts in the event of a failure of their product. There are no second chances.
How were the farmed out roll cages different from the in house built ones ?
They got done without a crew member having to do them.
Adam's interest and enthusiasm for what he's doing is infectious. For me, it's such a melancholy delight to listen to him. He reminds me of how my dad used to be before his current wife cut off his balls, ripped out his spine and broke his soul.
Oh, I could listen on you talking about candies.
8:11 That was kind of what I felt when I took my first drumset completely apart. Power, too. Which I also felt, oddly, when I killed off my first character in my fiction writing.
Odd series of connections there... ~ shrugs
I thought the candy conversation was heading somewhere. Food for thought.