I Bought the CHEAPEST HEMI from Marketplace, and it's WORSE Than You Think It Is! 

What do you guys think of this series? Are you interested in a super cheap build, our do you want me to focus on nicer cars and more modifications?

You don't need a scanner to check codes on MOPARs with a digital odometer. Flip the key from the ACC position to the ON position in rapid succession 3 times, on the third time leave the key in the ON position, your codes will pop up right on the dash for you.

I picked up a 300C that was also overheated at 135k miles for $800. Pulled the motor and it had both number 4& 7 dropped seats. Replaced both heads with rebuilt from a heads place in Texas for under $500. Sleeved 2 cylinders & bored everything out 40mm over. New quality pistons & rings. Then I bought a rebuild kit for less then $450 containing new water & oil pumps. New lifters & all new bearings. I'm retired so time is a hobby; replaced the exhaust system with Flowmasters and now it's a nice caged animal that wants to just go.........It has a clean interior and only a few minor bumps. With machine shop I have approx $3k out of pocket. Turned down $8k....this one's mine. Really like your earilier series, I'm 70 and learned a lot! Looking for another cheap buy to fix & flip.

I like this kind of videos. Specially that we just talk that I'm rebuilding the 300c. It's possible I did it on a wheelchair and I'm proud of my self for that. 😎

I recently purchased a 08 300C for $600. A little rougher around the edges but the power train was great. which is fine as I only wanted the engine for a 70 duster hemi swap. love your videos. Thank you from Ontario Canada.

I have a SRT8 Magnum 2007 as well as a 300c 06 so I’ll definitely be watching an following this build.

Looking forward to this series for sure. I drive an 05 Magnum RT with 227000 on it. Now I have installed a 180 T-STAT and tuned the fans. This series is right up my alley.

We've all been down this road before.. You have to make the best of what you have. Looking forward to this build series. Project: Power per dollar 300

The recognition if it is a hemi or not by the“c“ and the headlights only works on the 300 for the US market. In other countrys and regions like europe and australia this model was always called 300c and had these rounded headlights even if there is a diesel engine in the car.

I think this series is wonderful! I can’t wait to see the end result and thanks for putting the time into it as I know it won’t be easy…

So excited for this build, I own a 2005 Chrysler 300c with 125,000 and I tryna get mine to last 250,000 plus miles 🔥

I would love to see a VERY detailed vid on cam and lifter replacement on a 5.7 4th gen ram 1500. By detailed I mean start to finish, tq specs, timing, head tq patterns, rocker tq paterns etc...

I fit perfectly into I gusss this demographic I’ll be 22 years old but I also own 3 vehicles 😂

I think u should repair it these old style hemis need some love and it’ll be badass to watch it getting rebuilt. i had a 08 non vvt and I dropped a valve seat @ 84000miles & never repaired it I ended buying a 09 eagle head vvt 300c with 94000 miles and im in love 😍 smooth ride and definitely has more power than the non vvt

I bought my 06 awd 300c for $1800 a few years ago. Now it has a $1500 78mm china turbo setup on it and run's 11's in the 1/4. original 185k engine and trans. Lots of potential in these cars, and now I know way too much about them haha.

I think what you’re doing to help young people in America is a really fantastic idea Eddie UK🇬🇧🇬🇧

I have this exact engine waiting for tlc so I’m definitely looking forward to this series. Personally I’d like to see the least expensive way to make the most of it. Whether it’s carbon cleanup or budget jy add-ons or chaos prevention. We appreciate any lessons you’ve got for us. You’re doing the Lord’s work on here.

Love he honesty of your videos. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you simply have to live to fight another day.

I purchased a 2006 300 2 years ago from the Son of the original owner, it was garage kept and still is its entire life, it had 35,000 miles on it then and 41,000 now, The body is almost flawless, Threw a set of tires and a new battery at it had the cooling system flushed just because of the age and the A/C had a bad O ring in one hose end and now runs perfectly. No, it is not the Hemi and thankfully it has the 3.5L V6 instead of the POS 2.4 L V6. Paid 1500.00 for it, the best deal of my life. PS the color is silver same as mine.

This is a awesome concept for a series. This is going to be showing everyone everyday problems and that you can actually fix them regardless of who you are. Just take your time and think your way through it.

Thank you for the video. Just changing the camshaft on my 2011 dodge ram. I'm not a mechanic and your videos help a lot. Thanks again

My 2007 300c Is straight piped with 2 15s in the back with 24inch rins and everybody loves it when I ride by!

I just bought a 06 jeep Commander for $900. It dropped a valve seat and destroyed the #2 piston and the head. I went to the machine shop to get it bored out but they were so swamped they wouldn't even take the engine. (No room). That engine and sub-frame we're super easy to pull. The hardest thing was lifting the front high enough to slide out the engine and transmission. I used some pallet rack and a chain hoist. Thanks for your hemi videos they are very helpful.

I am really happy to discover this channel. Professional

funny ....I was gonna do the same thing like now I'm going thru ads and searching a hemi 300c and your video just came out...how is that possible??? great content!!! very good approach! thank you

In 1982 I was 20 my first Dodge was a 73 4 door Polara with a 360 2bbl the camshaft timing gear went the gear teeth were a plastic resin I think. Anyway got a Chilton manual basic craftsman hand tools and change it myself and that was the first time I done any engine work to a car. Later afterwards I went to Lincoln Tech for auto repair. Dodge changed my life...LOL!

I'm real excited for this series. I think it should be a lot of fun. These days I can afford things that are a little nicer, but you know the cheap crap I bought as a teen.

Im 63, if it aint broke dont fix it. Keep your show the same...love it!!

My neighbor has a 2007 Chrysler 300c Heritage in Inferno Red Pearl/Cream Leather Interior. The car has 212,000 original miles, but the exterior and interior is like new. Not a ding, dent or faded paint. The car is gorgeous!

I bought an 06 300c with a 6.4 swap, comp cam, .600" lifters, edelbrock RPM heads, Moroso billet valve covers, hellcat throttle body, 525 flow matched injectors, kooks ceramic short tube headers, 3" high flow bullet converters, 3" borla xr-1 race mufflers, and a corsa intake ALL with 80k miles after reubild for $6,500. Absolutely worth the money for older hemi's.

Love your channel, I own a 2006 300C and I completely agree that it’s a very nice car for someone to start learning and a great project car! Excited for the series ! Keep the good work

Great episode. I'm in Australia and have an 06 300C with 330000 kilometers on it. Car stills drives great and is tight. Performance is almost like new although the engine is a little noisy at idle, something like timing chain slap. Love these cars enough that I've just bought a MY17 300C SRT Core

I just found your channel a few weeks ago and I have a 2017 RAM with a Hemi. I had bought it used and had a few problems under warranty, but it is a great truck now. I really have enjoyed your channel and plan to keep watching. Thanks for making it interesting!

The Silver Elephant, in homage to the old nickname for the 426 HEMI. They called em "elephant" motors, both for size and sound.

This is going to be a fun project! Helping people see that you don’t have to have a big savings or go go deep into debt to end up with something that’s nice fun to drive and customized to your liking is great! Great tip on swapping known good parts with questionable parts, a good free way to help diagnose problems, even if the problem ends up being what you first thought you were able to make sure before spending time and money on something that could have a cheaper easier fix.

The 299 , not really up to 300 standards lol

My dad has the same 06 300C, inherited from his father who put very little miles on it, I think it has like 65k miles on it now. It's in really great shape and damn is that car fast and fun! Also one of my favorite Rams I've had(I've probably had 20 now, I love buying/fixing/driving/selling alittle down the line) was a 2006 Ram 1500 2 door short bed 4wd Hemi, bought from original owner with 240k miles for $2k and that thing ran and drove like brand new the whole time I had it, driving all over the tri-state area. a/c ice cold, it just never needed a thing. I drove home from my wedding in that truck haha

I think this is a great series as you show old and new school troubleshooting techniques that are really helpful to someone trying to fix cars like this. With regards to this 300C, I would not have purchased this car with all the issues you explained. If the heads or engine bore cannot be fixed, l saw cut you’re losses and get some of you’re $$ back by selling it to the junk yard.

If you are wanting to save as much money as possible then you can just do the “key dance” to get the power train codes to display in the dash. No code reader necessary.

Really great demonstration of how to use critical thinking to diagnose an automotive issue. Good job!

Very informative channel man keep it up! Use to be a dodge tech myself when I was younger

Keep it coming. Good job

Not sure if it applies to the 300C, but most of the dodges I've worked on had a "free" OBD2 reader. Engine off. On/Off/On/Off/On. On meaning the click right before start (Not to be confused with accessory). If it has a digital odometer, you'll see the codes e.g. P0400, and eventually if will flash line or done (Can't remember). Learned that from my buddy's dad back in the 80's. I think then, it used blink codes for the SES light, but my memory isn't good enough to be sure. I don't think this is a good idea, but I'll throw it out there, depending on the oil pan clearance, you could pull the pan, pull off the connecting rod, and push the piston out the top. Of course you might need to rent a ridge reamer. And probably want to run a bottle brush hone to clean it up. But I've even put new bearings in (Rolled them in) leaving the engine in the car. Not easy to do, but if you gotta do it in the driveway or something, it works. Name? Hopeful Hemi.... or maybe Thousand-dollar-Hemi-power?

I bought 05 Dodge Mangum R/T for $2000 so far I've put about 7000 in it including another motor with 58××× miles. I know I definitely would not be able to afford to do a build like this straight out high school back in the day. Nice video!💯

I bought a Black '07 300 SRT and LOVED that car. Unfortunately, it was such a disaster for parts because when I bought it, EVERYTHING started going on it and I was not in the financial position to go crazy fixing everything . I learned my lesson.

Awesome video and content. Nice 2 see a true mechanic not a dam parts changer.lmk when it's finished I'll swing by and pick it up. Lol

I got my 07 Chrysler 300c with no engine for 1000 in cali and it’s almost done no body damage,interior is mint.

I have the same car mine has 250,520 miles on it and I also got it for 1,000 from my dad, but mine has the nicer wheels and one handle was missing one speaker of bad, the headlights were just a little foggy, I did a lot of work on other myself putting the door handle on which was a pain, replacing the speakers and adding more in the back, clearing up the headlights replacing all the bulbs and a tail light that was broken, the only thing for me to do is to replace tires and the oil pressure sensor

The door handles are very very common to come off, I’ve replaced all four of mine because all of them broke off. The side door chrome trim is also common to come off

I have 2006 Chrysler 300c 5.7l and the car as of today has 274, 542 miles on it and still running.

Damn im surprised the engine even ran, they typically don't run after dropping a valve seat

Really useful channel! It's such hard to find any videos about US cars repairing in russian part of youtube, so you are definitely salvation.

All 300s are called 300Cs in the UK. Even the diesel. Also those front wheels were available for the 300c in the UK never seen the rear ones here.

I’ve got a 300c from 05 with 88,000 miles and this video gave me insight on the boats future

Well buy the most expensive one i bought a 300c 2009 srt8 here in Australia looked for the best one immaculate leather seats are like new owned by 2 older owners only problem i am having is on and off ignition delay but i just love it.

This guy is awesome I have a 09 ram with the hemi and it dropped a valve now I can finally watch a in depth video on how to fix it

The cars silver, but I love the rag on Scotto 😂. Also at first it almost looked like it had an egr delete which would've been pretty cool lol

I'd say the scratches and dents by the fuel door would be from children riding their bike along side the vehicle in a narrow drive way. Looks pretty rough but great vid!

I honestly appreciate this video, gives me motivation bc honestly my income isn’t really high but I love cars and it sucks to have that combination for someone in their early 20s

Such a clean and well explained diagnosis...a very solid effort.

I myself was that average high schooler who had to fix their car. Funny enough I got handed down my moms 2007 300C SRT/Design. Being the stupid teenager I was, I drove the absolute hell out of it and blew the lifters and soon after the transmission and rear diff. My dad and I replaced all 3 without a lift. Engine took a couple months (school and work also) but all in all, it is very possible to restore a hemi or damn near any vehicle without a lift and other things. Maybe more difficult but not impossible.

I pick up a 08 chrysler 300c on 22s really clean interior, TVs on the back of the seats and a really nice touch screen stereo "pioneer"

See if you can repair the motor , if not 6,1 swap it and do a complete SRT8 Conversion SRT8 Seats Front (black, replace existing ones) also do a odometer swap do a exhaust setup CIA Brembo Breaks Fix the outside damage

door handles are on of the first things to go lol i have a 2008 and i love it

Looking forward to this series!! Gonna b fun!

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but go over that cooling system again. Especially check the fan. Replace if oem. Definitely keep a couple extra door handles too.

Ooooo yesss i got a 05 300c imaaa take notess 🙌🏽🙌🏽

I always called mine a "loaf of bread on wheels" since its so big and boxy lol

love the 300c can't wait to watch this series

FYI guys you can do the key dance to check codes as well

I have a 2005 300c for 5 years now and love it no problems yet knock on wood haha

Love it. Little under a year with my 2019 charger rt. Got it right after graduation

I'm sure that you have seen alot of messed up things concerning old or high mileage cars, but there are always more messed up things to come later if you work on anything long enough.

Good work looking forward for you to bring your car back to life!!

I have a 2010 Charger keep up the build I could learn so much just started college

2009 I bought a, 2006 Chrysler 300C had 39k miles on it. sold it in, 2013 and I miss it still.

My '05 Chrysler 300c is that exact color and in much better condition. I have 145k on it and it's still going strong. I'm thinking about sealing the sunroof with caulk bc it leaks during bad rainstorms. Plus the clear coat on the roof is starting to fade unfortunately.

I have a 08 300 limited. The limited editions come with the 300c front end and sun roof. Those dodge wheels are no different then Chrysler 300 wheels except the emblems.

Got a running driving hemi magnum for 3k because it needed a drive shaft and cv axles

I just bought a 2006 Chrysler 300C for $1200 but the engine needs to come out because it was run without oil and probably has bearing damage. Its throwing misfire codes and oil pressure codes. Still runs and drives, but it runs like crap.

Same thing when I rebuilt my 300, had the wrong (undersized) battery in it, caused all kinds of random things to happen. I had all those abs/trac codes tho and thats a whole process in itself lol. People do the worst things to these cars so I'd say yours is pretty nice for what it is

Thanks for all of your videos you Rock!!

Thank you from KSA.

FIX IT, FILM IT, SHOW IT. THAT WHAT LOVE 2 SEE!!!

the 3.5 is always a good option too, obviously not as fun/powerful but for 250hp and 3800lbs she’ll go lmao. personally i think the front end of the v6 looks better since the fog lights have the actual trim piece around it. as long as you do your research you can’t go wrong with these cars unless you get the 2.7 (but that’s just from what i’ve heard) i mean shit like half my front suspension was busted and it was still the smoothest car i’ve driven lmao

My 2005 dropped a valve seat on number one after i had rebuilt it. The machine shop were supposed to have fixed the heads and I did not know how it was supposed to have been fixed. My bad. I replaced the head and had both fixed correctly, replaced the piston, and honed the cylinder all with the motor in the car. Was not to hard in the car

0:42 that statement doesnt apply to the kids in Dearborn MI driving Hellcats, AMG, and M series cars after graduation xD

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens with this car and name when I see what you do with this car

I never knew that about the headlights , I don’t remember ever seeing one with the rectangle headlights

Woohoo, another Hemi build!! I think I know why the rear doors were missing handles. You're looking at an attempt of a 2 door conversion...

I thought the car was grey…. And you have spent plenty of time in your youth working on motorcycles and cars in the dirt. Then you built your first shop. What was it 10x20? I don’t know how you were able to complete your projects out there, you made use of every inch of that shop. 😊

I can’t wait to see more off this build I have the same motor so some performance upgrades would be awesome to see with the pre Eagle hemi motors but this car is solid. Looking forward to this content for sure I love these cars

3:42 Not true.. hahaha in 2008 they changed that up with the rounded version for the touring,, i have the v6 touring 3.5 and have the same headlights man lol

those cars are the king in the ghetto when i drive thru the hood all i see are those cars

Just bought a 2005 300c had it for 2 months and now the motor is going out hoping it Just the oil pump but it overheating also blown gasket somewhere

If that wiring harness in the trunk hasn't been thrown away I would definitely be interested in buying it. Part of high school cheap car purchases are trying to get some of your money back by any means ;)

weird that the valve seat dropped on #1. normally see it in the back 4 cylinders because of the MDS. I wouldn't be surprised of that whole block is a writeoff.

Let’s get a 4th gen ram 1500 in that shop 👌🏼

I'm enthusiastic about this project as I just finished the finance on my Le Hemi , and want to fix it . I'm in Australia , and the charger rims were standard for us here , as for the V6 / Diesel it got the same headlight and bumper as the Hemi .

never really been a Chrysler guy but wondering are these older hemis more reliable than the newer ones would love to get a Chrysler 300 as a family hauler