PUT TO THE TEST! - Project Goldie Engine Install Trilogy Pt. 2 

I hope you allow Bobby to have a rip in the car for all his hard work!

The tastefully capturing Bobby’s death line was epic

I love how you lied when she said “how much was that $50 bucks” lol those jacks are anything but $50 bucks 😂

Impressive your buddy is a true friend not to many people would do this, I wish I had a friend like that.

In a saturated market you are doing something unique in automotive RU-vid. I’m in the Atlanta area also, and my bmw had been on jack stands for about 6 months until recently. I’m about 80 miles into the break in, and falling back in love with the car. You’ll be there soon, and we should meet up for a drive

When you mentioned that it wasnt impossible for you to do it by yourself, but with Bobby it was much better. I felt that. Even just having the company of a friend while you're wrenching makes the unpleasant moments much better.

Yes - shaved head is the way. So excited you released another video. This is THE series for hobbyist mechanics or plain ol wannabees like me.

First time, always watch someone or a video. Can save you tons of headaches.

I’m gonna be both happy and sad when this project is done. Enjoying the videos. Thanks!

"its uncomfortable being in a transition phase. arriving? i already feel better." this hit a lot for me, honestly. i love that your videos are full of little moments like that.

Started wirh the video from 2 weeks ago, and here we are with a fresh continuation of this epic tale!

The shaved head was also when Walter White broke bad. Don’t be cooking anything in that garage but tires brother. Haha joking obviously, but top notch work on the build. I can promise you a shop would not have put half the care into that engine swap that you did. It will last many years at redline now. Oh and the how to videos for anything plastic are not a crutch, let someone else destroy their interior pieces so you don’t have to, or at least try not to.

another banger of a video!! I seriously love how you narrate your thoughts, jokes, problems, and solutions. Keep on working! You are soooooo close to the finish line!

Fantastic Josh & Bobby! Been silently following along. Josh, I’ve been a big supporter of you getting Goldie back on the road and I can’t wait for you to experience that moment. Well done sir. Well done. Next, fire her up!

A 3ft 1/2” to 3/8” extension will often reach those hard to reach bolts on the back of an engine. I’m not sure about your application but it is an excuse to but a cool tool.

This channel is a hidden gem 🙏

I just binged 5 of your videos and now I have to wait until the next one drops 😂 great content. New sub.

Dude!!!! You are killing it. You and Dr. Bobby are a serious team. Way to go. I’m pro how-to videos. You still need to do the work, but at least they help you so you don’t feel like you are fumbling around in the complete darkness.

Sweet shout out to Mike over at Stanceworks.

Great to see the progress on Goldie! Can’t wait to hear her fire up and tear up AMP!

I’ve heard the spoiler for next episode 😢 keep up the tenacity and dedication. If it was easy and problem free, everyone would do it!

This is such a great project. Thank you for documenting this for the rest of us to enjoy. I want to get to Road Atlanta at some point. You should plan a meet and greet for all the channel followers. Seeing the car live would be great.

This is my favorite video yet!!! I absolutely love the banter back and forth. It makes it feel like I’m in the garage with you guys and that’s what I love the most. It allows you to get immersed in the video completely.

I honestly appreciate you taking the time and effort to upload these videos as they are very cathartic to a guy like me. My friends are all military and veterans so we are all over the damn place and I miss these times with them.

that’s a good friend

I just found this channel and love it even though I'm a Ford guy. I like your tone and demeanor, etc. Cool channel, my brother. Rock on, brother 🤔🚫🧢💯💪🏻❤️🎬🤘🦈🥶😈🚚💨🚚💨

Keep up the great work on the car and the storytelling, it's fantastic. Also, you'll know when you graduate from beginner to intermediate mechanic, you'll know what to do instead of being lost or not having a clue, it takes time, especially since you're not a pro technician that does it day in and day out. I've been doing DIY mechanic work for 19 years, and honestly, a pro technician that's been in a shop for only 3 or 4 years has more experience than I do, especially if they're in an independent shop. Also, when I did my clutch in my E36 328i, I used 4 or 5 one foot long extensions to reach the top 2 or 3 bolts on the bellhousing. I hope someone that watches this that has a C6 drops and installs the engine from the bottom with the torque tube attached, I imagine that it took at least 2 hours of struggling and adjusting everything.

It took you less time to install the engine than my watching the entire video! Small chunks! Glad to see you making progress!

I already know I’m going to like this and I haven’t watched the whole thing yet.

yessir you are now a part of the true drivers club with this rite of passage. Congrats on the shave also brother lol

What an awesome cut🤣 "I need a rubber"

Babe wake up Josh dropped a video!!

I always love following your narrations and journey... I mentioned in a previous episode that I have a C6 as well with Apex wheels too... So I feel like I'm watching myself go through the same journey with you. Keep up the posts!

Stay at it my friend. I started my 5th gen Camaro today after 8 months of me rebuilding the engine at home to the pistons and crank. She ran and yes it was more of a relief than joy but I enjoyed the process of building it. Took it on a test drive she sounds crazy no cats x pipe loud

Congrats! Also, hat-tip to Bobby who has clearly earned himselfs Beers for Life at your house, hahaha.

Had to subscribe in hopes to support this endeavor. I moved across the US in 2012 and away from one of my best friends. Every Tuesday we would work on our Volvos together and it's something I sorely miss. There will be stumbles in a project of this magnitude, but don't worry, you are doing great and will figure it out.

Can’t wait to hear it start up.

DUDE, you're in the gaming industry and we don't have ANYTHING better than ACC and iRacing COMBINED using Unreal 5!!!!! Great videos by the way.

What?? Posted this video at the end of my lunch break? Now I have to wait half the day to see it!! 😭

I love this stuff!

Appreciate sharing your build. And the courage to do my inevitable...shaving my balding head.

I love this! Cant wait for the next one! Keep up the good work guys

Congratulations! Great Progress!

i'm glad you didnt kill bobby on camera however think of how easy it would have made it for the investigators, its captured in 4k

Great content and very entertaining editing style. love it, keep it up!

Love this. Glad I found your channel.

I've really enjoyed this journey. Glad I found this channel.

Absolutely love this! Ironically my LS7 is starting to consume oil so ive made the decision for no more tracking and moving into pricing out something similar to your setup or going with a rebuild. Still scared to take that rite of passage you took with yours lol.

As someone who just had to fight motor mounts on their 04 CTSV to get headers in, I'm envious of your creative steel elimivibes.

Great work! FYI - mount the bellhousing to the engine and you don't have to drop the torque tube and rear cradle. You can access all of the torque tube to bellhousing bolts to mate them and install.

Nice work. Looking forward to seeing back on the road. I bet it will sound insane also.

I stumbled across this vid looking for a super charger for my Z06, watched 3 and looking forward to the next one.

Keep On,Keeping On...👍

Another great one! Good luck on the next one with the start!

Josh I have to say im in love with your content and progress and reminds me of when I built my Gto from a built short block and which was my 1st ever motor build too and brought me back great memories. I understand the stress when you come across more issues and frustration when you put a deadline. The quality of your content gives me gran-turismo vibes and is one of my favorite channels Ive come across. I cant wait to see Goldies first start !

Ya queda menos ,muy buen trabajo,buen amigo ,lo mejor de todo es la pasion,a disfrutar cuando arranque y cuidarse,saludos

Absolutely loving this series! Legit get stoked everytime I see a new video pop up.

Excited for the next video

Loving this series, being from Australia, i got to drive a 2014 Z06 in vegas a while back and fell in love. Running a decently worked ls1 in my holden commodore here in aus with a t56 Keen as to see this 427 sing again.

Ive though the same thing about using how to guides for everything. I figure depnding on what youre doing you don't lose anything by watching the how to video, but bigger projects on something you want to learn its probably best to take the time and make mistakes while learning.

Like a Glove - congrats on the milestone....

Great story telling with your videos. Looking forward to you posting the first track video of you and Goldie with the new engine.

Can’t wait to see the next video, I know it’s got to be close now!

I’ve been watching your series as I work up the nerve to install my own h/c/i package on my z. Thanks for the content so far, I feel more confident than ever that it’s doable

Such a joy this channel. Thanks for sharing this journey with us Josh. Hair looks good. Listen, even if it didn't, who really cares? We are married men with wonderful kids and wives better than we deserve. They would never hold something out of our control against us! Now the funyuns bag boxer shorts I recently purchased off amazon did test my marriage.

Watching a How-to guide completely before the job helps to avoid the 1-2 complications that can cause a massive headache. After memorizing those 1-2 things, take a crack at it and see how it goes. No shame returning to the video for a quick guide on something later on.

Awesome . I'm definitely a tier below a novice mechanic , lol. My older brother, who always loved cars, and was always with my dad working on cars when we were young, grew up to open a big , reputable shop, here in Eastern NC, while I stayed on my bike hanging with my friends, building forts, playing sports, or video games. Now, since he has passed due to covid at the young age of 50, I have become really interested in cars. Well, I've always been interested, just didn't have the drive, or desire. I've started slowly doing things to my cars with help, and learning. Me and my mechanics friend walnut blasted the carbon out of my Genesis coupe 3.8 bk2 at 100k, we replaced the injectors, plugs, coil packs also. Sorry for the long post, but just saying watching your videos is inspiring, and shows your humble.

Did you do torque tube maintenance? Might want to go ahead and install some heat shield down the torque tube area and around underbody at headers while you're in there. do everything you need to while there! Been really enjoying the series btw!

Congrats on making this milestone and getting your new engine into the car! As far as the question you posited towards the beginning of the video about using guides and such like youtube and at what level is following instructions vs "real" mechanic work I think having those guides to understand the quirks of each job you may be going into is helpful and not necessarily a crutch I think the real skill in mechanics starts coming along when you get into better understanding how to diagnose issues on your own and having the confidence to go at large projects like these and there's never harm in asking for help even the pros get stumped and need help sometimes

keep it up! your doing an excellent job. there are more advanced techniques into building a race engine, but this is still very neat to watch! bravo bravo

Finally made it on time to watch my fav show.

I love how to videos. They really just speed up the whole process. Its much smarter to learn from others than to go through the hardship yourself just for the sake of it. We stand on the shoulders of giants and we all continuously add to the tree of knowledge at the branches. Even you.. by uploading these videos :)

Great video enjoyed the content keep it up. 👍🏻

Tastefully? That cracked me up

It is really enjoyable watching the sharing of the story as I am another vette owner of c5, always lazy to get into working on the cars until something really need to be done before the next track day.

I love watching this series man. Everything has been so enjoyable to watch. You two are just like 2 best friends hanging out building race cars. The dream some would say! I can relate to you though as I'm currently pulling apart my 6th gen camaro due to a lifter failure. *sigh*

Awesome job man. Keep on trucking. Because of you I did my heads and I'm back to running even better than before. Also scissor lift for the win. Beat investment I've made in years and I can park on it.

Congrats!

The way I see it, even in the wild parents are teaching youngsters how and what to hunt. Some things come naturally, to some more than others… but there is a reason why there are repair manuals. Sometimes you can’t just go in there blindly.

i need part 3 im so invested haha

I was able to get my bell housing off by dropping the x pipe and the plate with a ton of fasteners above it. The diff clocked enough dropping the bell to give me room to get the upper bolts. Doesn't help out now but for future reference lol

Thanks!

I’m 72 and I started wrenching on cars at 15. Long before RU-vid and the internet. It’s at better now, less broken parts due to the hidden fasteners and clips and such. I changed out the clutch on my C5 ZO6, using a Monster dual disk clutch, around 2017. Reading up and watching videos helped a lot. I did it by myself, pulled the trans, rear suspension and torque tube and did a lot of cleanup due to the previous owners oil down. I did have a lift, which was great, but still 100% solo. Mine was also yellow and a mostly track car but still fully street legal.

I love watching you because I'm just like you!

I'm doing a clutch in my c7z time attack car. And the while your in there list has grown! Now a cam, oil pump, lifters, headers, bigger upper pulley to lower boost and new tuning. I started to do it myself as I've d9ne everything else in my 10 years of racing gm cars and 10 years of mustang but I needed a shop for this job cause I need it done asap to make nasa f8nals schedule. I was going to do the monster sc triple but ended up going with mantic triple with with solid hub and cerametallic disk. I'll have 2 tunes and 2 pulleys. Make 645 on lower than stick boost for nasa and 720 to 750 on higher boost for global time and scca tt. Road to finals! Good chance at tt1 win this year. Stiff competition in tt1!! Good job on the car btw.

Just leaving a comment for the algorithm, your channel needs more reach, love it! 😂

One of the reasons I love watching these videos is because it gives me a vastly different perspective. I never saw how to RU-vid videos as a crutch, but as a requirement so I don't spend forever figuring out where the last bolt is or how to release the odd plastic connector. I can't see myself giving them up, I never liked video games where defeating the boss required some non-intuitive trick (prefer when they make me learn a skill) either. I also would have chosen the LS3, probably had it professionally swapped, and spent the rest of time bolting on parts to bring it up to LS7 horsepower (probably ending up with a supercharger) and been at the track. But that isn't necessarily better. This is a different journey, and I commend you for developing yourself as mechanic rather than chasing highs at the track. I'm not sure I could do it.

I like the new do.

Love the new hair! or lack there of! Much better! also, awesome episode again, super entertaining!

MGW shifter with antivenom mod is life. Also, loc-tite the shift knob screw or you'll hear the washer rattling in a month.

“Why did you wear a white shirt?” I literally had the same thought 10 seconds before I heard it haha. I should hit the lotto

With video learning, do it as much as you want. Once you say. Oh pssh I can do it now (from doing it over and over) that’s when I give it a go without the video. Just did a new alternator in my 4x4 and am confident in not needing a video. My holes to jump through is limited tools I had to use spanners solely. Eventually you just get faster and more efficient

Buzzed head is strong. I’m much younger than you and just did the same. Embrace the buzz, it’s liberating.

Can't wait to see Goldie running again.

These videos are giving me anxiety of pulling out the motor and drive train in my c6 but also info on how to

Holy crap 227 comments in 4 days. Man this channel should have 100k subs! Josh are you going to do any aero, or more track oriented coilovers, slicks setup?

be very happy you replaced the slave cylinder. its a very common failure point on these cars. I would highly recommend you upgrading to a tick performance clutch master cylinder as well. I ordered a new slave cylinder with the billet release bearing from monster when I ordered the same clutch you have. pain in the butt but certainly worth it since you're tracking your car. these cars love to kill clutch masters and slave cylinders.

Freebird brother!!!! It works so well!!! Not sponsored lol!!! I've been using it for a few months. Works great!!

first time I always watch a video or get input from someone if available. Helps from breking stuff your first time and also you will know how to do it next time. Just got to be careful with getting the correct info online. when I saw those motor mounts hanging on the motor I knew you were going to have issues getting that motor in.

I love when track guys become tire and brakes snobbs lol. If that is the first thing you look at on track days then you have graduated to a real life track guy. It took me a good 15 seconds to get the "give me some wd40" joke lol. Im definitely stealing that because it can be used in many situations with many different things.