Project X: Making it to SEMA (Episode 3) 

why go backwards?

Sooner hopefully

@@hueroski because as hot roders that’s what we do.

I mean it’s cool but I would have rather seen the 632 in it

@@rumblesspeedshop-inrustwet1061 Hot rodders go forward with technology

supposed to move forward not backwards.

Because it's all part of an organized attack, on the things we love. The same people has infected the movie industry destroying Icons of pop culture, then comics games, now the automotive industry. it's all about taking away choices to make the majority fall in line and just accept it. Motor Trend is part of a dying mainstream media that is trying to placate to the green people and hoping others just roll over and accept it

Seriously. I don’t know anybody that wants their second most expensive lifetime investment to be more like a cell phone… well, except for the uneducated kids that everyone is raising…

Gee, I dunno. I've got a roots blower sticking out of my hood so I don't get EV at all.

@@crazylarryjr I think the plan is to eventually get us all living in cities and riding around on bicycles, devolution. Next step is back to living in caves.

@@fratzogmopars, If Greta Thunberg had her way this is exactly where we'd be. This is why we should never give 16 year old's a voice

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This scenario checks out.

Lol Can you imagine the 2022 version of the movie American Graffiti?... I can and it's nothing like the original. 😔

@@xtoyota1990x Yes, lots of rainbows, bronies, and man-buns.

@@-Barracuda-426 Yes, Brandon is doing everything in his power to tilt the playing field for EV’s.

Totally agree!!

I think HR Garage put a blown LS in, but I share the same sentiment.

No sane person would!

Project X is a test mule that’s had numerous engines. I really wouldn’t sweat it.

Its had every engine in it

i get how you feel bro but you dont sound sane yourself

Cause it probably took everything they had just to get it mobile

More battery , bigger cables, and bigger electric motors.

@@hueroski No, a better motor like a V8

This is hotrodding just in a different generation

This is literally hotrodding as it was 70 years ago ...it's no different doing this to a car today as it was putting a sbc into a rod in the late 50s ...modern driveline set in old cars to go fast af

For one it's not fast, and for two this is some corporate money shoved down a historic hotrods throat, you're telling me that hotrodders just swapped drive lines and that's the deal? No way man hotrodders tweak every single thing they can for speed and power, what's the common man and his buddies gonna do to tweak that electric motor without burning it to the ground

@@jackass123455then use a twenty year old Honda

@@midknightx5 then use a ten year old car

I actually had the same thought lol

well, luckily they lowered those chances by going electric.

@@joshkiej6601 hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

@@natenasty6292 you do realize that per mile driven ICE cars catch 10x as much on fire as electric cars right? Or do you not know actual facts?

And the fire department will have to treat it as a hazmat incident.

people kind of are, just look at how exponentionally the electric market is growing. The most sold car in europe was the model 3 a few months ago.

@@joshkiej6601 yes because they are forced to by government regulations, not because people want to.

@@fanatic26 oh no a lot of people actually want them to. No one is being forced. In pretty much all countries its the more expensive option.

@@joshkiej6601 Well maybe they are popular in Europe, but that may be because they pay $6 for a gallon of gas there. Plenty of oil in North America, only problem is politicians with an agenda are imposing policies strangling the industry, in hopes of making electric vehicles look more appealing. The logistics aren’t in place for electric vehicles to viable in the U.S., a country too large to try and drive across in an EV. You can pull that off in Europe where you could traverse several countries in a single day of driving. Bottom line, government is pushing hard for EV’s with subsidies, they should keep their nose out of business. P.S. It is a crime what they did to that 57 Chevy.

@@fratzogmopars did you really say that its impossible to drive an EV cross country? They literally did that a month ago, the rivian truck that was towing a trailer. Cross country in a tesla has been possible for nearly 10 years too. And yes, CO2 emissions in general need to drop, climate change is a proven phenomenon and its proven to be cause by humanities co2 emissions. And alternative ways of transportation is one of the ways. Where i live they're preparing steel mills etc to run on green hydrogen to reduce emissions.

this is a car that people have always done things like this with. When fuel injection started to exist there were a shitton of people reacting exactly like you just did, and now fuel injection is the norm for racing. What they did can easily be reversed, this is a car to experiment with. I can guarantee that there will be a hydrogen swap within 10 years, as well as other ICE engines.

But doing this follows this cars history ...this car has been evolving and had so many different drivelines in it since day one ..won't be long we'll be watching another video of this coming out and the latest greatest driveline going in

And why do all the highest level pros still race nitro RC cars?

ah yes, because heating and moving is definitely similar. An electric car has a total efficiency of over 90%, an ICE car struggles to get above 35.

@@joshkiej6601 The efficiency difference also applies to natural gas, vs. oil, vs electric, vs coal, vs. propane. Wait till 100% of vehicles are electric and the cost of electricity sky rockets. Everyones "perceived savings" is if electricity prices remain as is compared to gasoline. Supply and demand. Good luck with that.

@@BBBILLY86 supply and demand works the other way too. If oil consumption drops it'll become more expensive to produce, raising prices of gas. And smart people charge for free 😉 a one time fee and you can make your own electricity.

@@joshkiej6601 and please pray tell, what is the combustion efficiency of the coal-fired power plant that is recharging that POS-EV.

Project X has always been a test mule and has had dozens of drivetrains built by dozens of teams.

Yeah, like a Chevy Citation.

Yes, it's immaculate and they still managed to "F"-up Project X.

Blaphemi is the better Chevrolet now

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you can literally build this. People have been electric swapping cars for decades...

@@joshkiej6601 I understand but it’s not something the average hot rodder can do or afford project x used to be about the average guys build

@@christianwise4403 it honestly isn't hard to do an electric swap. If you can swap in a regular engine and wire in things you can do this too. i know several people who have electric classics. I even know a guy who dailies an electric beetle that he built himself.

@@joshkiej6601 to each there own I’m an industrial electromechanical maintenance person and I’d rather do a internal combustion engine anyday I’m not saying I can’t I just won’t. I drive my classic to shows 180 miles from home I’m not waiting to charge it to cruise the show etc I think it’s going to be bad anyway where’s the programs to recycle the batteries? Where’s your power generated if your doing ev to go zero emissions most of the control still has coal and nat gas fired generation. I live in an area we have several hydroelectric plants but those still leave environmental issues because most dams aren’t new anymore more. Even solar and wind have environmental impact so I’ll stay internal combustion your more then welcome to go ev

@@christianwise4403 pretty much every EV owner i know has solar panels so they charge for free. Range depends on what you do with the car/truck but usually the converted cars have a 100-150mile range. There are a lot of battery recycle programs already around, and theyre getting bigger on a daily basis. Electric cars cause a lot less environment issues than ICE cars. Just think of all the biggest man cause environmental disasters, they all have 1 thing in common: they're caused by oil drilling.

Hey Ryan, would love to hear about what was happening around this car at Sema. All the videos I saw seemed like it wasn't getting much attention.

Perhaps a hybrid?

It's been a V8 many times. Now it's the future.

Ever seen the power EVs can put down vs a V8?

It’s dead. They killed it.

You better get used to change because it is coming ready or not.

@@hueroski yup,I'm sure people that loved horse and buggy fought tooth and nail against ICE cars 115+years ago,time marches on,keep up or get left behind.

I think you bring up a good point with the fact that it is always changing. I thought the original intention of the project was to be budget oriented? But I am not familiar with the history of the car.

255 kW 440 Nm probably wont be very fast

@@PiDsPagePrototypes it's a perfect small car platform to work with

I agree I think a smaller car would have worked better. Ev conversion supplied by GM so a GM car might makemore sense. 80s camaro maybe?

@@PiDsPagePrototypes Oh yes, those are some good ideas. I really like the idea of the fiero, probably make it awd.

well like you said, its project X. in a few months there will be another engine in it, in a few years probably a hydrogen drivetrain, maybe a diesel. The more changes they do on it the better imo... Its all about new things.

bro calm down its not like its gonna be a ev forever

same here

It needs the blown Chevy motor that it had! GM already ruined it once with an LS. Don't let them have it again!

You can now call it Efficient Rod :D

Project X has always been a "new technology" advertisement car. Since when has it been a "every man's" car? This car has always been a crazy budget show piece. Guess what the new technology is....ev drivetrains. This doesn't have any extra computers or technology than a modern EFI system. If anything, it has less.