Drift Rod = Saab power + Ford Body: Meet Urchfab - Carfection

[@AmesiesCorner]

The Saab B234 is such an awesome engine, My last handled 26lbs of boost and made 400+hp for 50,000 miles of hard wheel shredding madness.

[@cybertree]

I LOVE that he put a SAAB engine in that beautiful Ford, instead of going the easy LS route like 99% of everybody. That shape, rusty color, and how it performs is just epic.

[@MM-rf8ml]

FINALLY SOMEBODY UNDERSTANDS LS ISN'T THE BEST!!!

[@TheHoonigans]

Awesome.

[@NicolasCageisGod]

I doubt the original buyer of this car 50 or 60 years ago had any idea what would happen to it today. Really makes you think what will happen to your cars in 60 years from now :)

[@crisrose9707]

urchfab has a youtube channel as well. he does loads of awesome stuff :D

[@todogolo]

Really well done guys! This reminds me a little of Petrolicious and their personal car stories which I have always liked, plus it's nice to see more of the car culture from across the pond. Keep it up, the shots look amazing!

[@oldmateize]

+Tyler O'Donnell Agreed! like petrolicious with a twist. The shot at 4:31-4:41 is awesome.

[@kingofyou131]

Much respect to the owner for building such an awesome car !

[@GranDaddo]

I cannot get enough of that rear end. Dont know why. Love how its done. So honest car. Good luck to owner and hope to hear more about it.

[@_chipchip]

Ignore the dumb comments. Thanks for the awesome production, great vid.

[@Kent.]

Nice work and fun with your choice of engine... SAAB POWER!!!

[@Mooselover1011]

This is one of the coolest builds I've ever seen. I love it.

[@scrustle]

That has to be one of the coolest drift cars in the world.

[@mickeymouse3807]

one of the most beautiful car i have seen in a long time

[@garygag739]

Mega video this guys got some real talent. So pleased I found this channel can't stop watching it respect to urchfab. 👍

[@howmycargotlikethis3282]

5:22 is beyond belief! Love this build!

[@howmycargotlikethis3282]

This is the most inspirational video on the internet. No contest.

[@jorgehenriquepinho9947]

Amazing content! I love seeing normal people's cars and The passion that they put indo their build . You guys can be a competitor to petrolicious which i Think In the car KZbin segment is one of a kind and should have a subscription from every serious car guys on KZbin. Good Jon Carfection!!!

[@theoriginalwallace]

Absolutely adore this motor, Matt!

[@ifgezroxy]

This is awesome! Very nicely done, cleaver use of parts available and talented guy.

[@zincphonic7863]

wow this car is the best, I love the fact that you just did what you wanted and it came out Awesome. I am thinking of starting a new project with just that in mind.

[@coldvoid7579]

why don't people talk about this engine more??? It's like a 2Jz four cylinder

[@evansisgreat]

Hope you do a video on his new project when it's done. Ford 100e on a MX5 chassis. The projects called the mongrel and everyone needs to see the build!

[@LokiJotunn]

A rat rod drifting machine :) it's great to see people with the passion and skills to build these things, well done mate.

[@DuckSport]

Love the urchfab cars, loved seeing my car at 1:28 even more :D

[@andrewb.5996]

Great to see a man living his dream.

[@ARMYTRIX]

Anyone want to witness us on our way to Valhalla all shiny and chrome?

[@martinsmith8417]

Love that chopped off back end look!

[@doctorzaius4084]

Oh that's wicked rad... Saab engine sounds dope!!

[@mrmoose7049]

well bud you achieved your goal amazing build the turbo saab sounds great ,car looks great I hope you and your kids enjoy that car for a long time

[@surajsd2374]

It built amazing.. I loved the way it's simple and put on stufff

[@MLFranklin]

I really like the way you bobbed the tail of it. I think more cars need to incorporate that design element. I think Locost/Lotus7 cars could benefit from this kind of treatment.

[@mattosmond4265]

That drift rod is amazing! Great work! so bada$$

[@lapptech]

One of the weirdest and coolest combos I've seen =)

[@madfiat8932]

I dunno what's with everybody else, I like this video.

[@nasimwehbe8410]

just an awesome project!!! I love different. in my opinion awesome peice of engineering.

[@danielbrealey2924]

That was such a cool vid. Interesting fella, even more interesting was the car itself. Man, that thing was twitchy- looked like a real handful. I wonder if the rear end had been extended a little whether that would have aided handling. I believe it would, but I'm sure he's doing a lot of learning along the way. Inspirational. Keep the fantastic vids coming

[@HarryVerolme]

This is just straight up insanity!

[@brucewrandol]

Looks like fun. I see the skill involved with the driving. I have driven what we call dwarf cars (5/8 replicas). It was like the best thing you can do with your clothes on. I am watching you on the “Mongrel “ build. I am enjoying the build. Not bad for a 70 year old Yank.

[@CrazyLazyDave]

man I just love builds like this!!!!!

[@raylarkin5004]

I'm a total fan now!

[@jonasthemovie]

1:28 shows what to come for Urchfab. The 100E Miata will be so good.

[@jkotka]

Thank you for this, excellent video, very well done

[@2.fresh767]

Looks a proper handful.

[@genericautovlogs9484]

Could give a shit less about what all these people are talking about in the comments. I'm enjoying the shit outta the style & sound of that car though. Bravo Urchfab, marvelous content Carfection.

[@davidmitchell5638]

Really nice work!

[@Thatonedutchguy99]

hahaha just can't stop smiling when i see this thing just amazing what this guy has done with it

[@TuketheDuke]

Carfection will always be xcar

[@SArtisto1]

Beautiful car! You could see it constantly wanting to straighten itself out. Makes me wonder if it could be an amazing track car instead of drift monster. Still, love the look and the sound

[@sataneatcheese6243]

This thing is amazing! Looks real good with its new paint job. XD

[@toob247]

I think its very unique even for a rat. Wich are all pretty unique. Good work Sir Bravo on the build.

[@BlakesGarage]

This things so sick! I love the rat rod drift car vibe!

[@kiwi8.]

Awesome bro so much people that haven't created anything 😂 think they know better 😂 well done I have a ford pop yours is awesome so much more work than people realize well done she's a beast 😁

[@AmazingAlienGaming]

True enthousiast build! Love it

[@559bass5]

Same!

[@rs5001988]

That is absolutely gorgeous 😍😍

[@MsSossego]

Aaaaaawesome , thanks for the upload !!!

[@w-james9277]

Looks something you'll find in Mad Max

[@gerardo5720]

That's the same thing I thought.

[@cybertree]

+Leopard95 Hell yeah, this is one of the coolest custom vehicles I've seen in a long time. I LOVE that he put a SAAB engine in that beautiful Ford, instead of going the easy LS route like 99% of everybody.

[@peeting3456]

what a top soidier.good luck bro

[@rmuckluck]

That was fu@kin awesome! well done!

[@dontbeseenwithme]

For all the people commenting about the similarity to Petrolicious, you guys realize that Petrolicious has only been around for a short amount of time and that other people have been producing videos like this wayyyy before Petrolicious. Infact there have been many many instances where Petrolicious has mimicked other videos that came before them.

[@TheDuckumz]

Thats some bad ass Mad Max design right there!

[@mk2mania]

hats off to mr fab,, that ticks all the boxes

[@Xmvw2X]

There's something you don't see every day. Great job building a unique car to romp on. That thing looks like a ton of fun. I just wanted to throw out some questions, just asking because they weren't mentioned. For the handling concerns, what's the weight balance of the car? There was discussion about too much rear grip but nothing was said about increasing front grip. Has the pursuit of more front grip been exhausted? How would you describe the handling balance, dynamics, and transition between understeer/oversteer states? First, I'm no drifter. I've toyed with the concepts lightly for about 15 years and incorporate techniques into autocross and rallycross. I'm pretty comfortable behind the wheel of everything from a Civic to a Viper. My perception of a stable drift car is a stable grip car, as in the balance is near neutral, the suspension is sorted, and the dynamics control the chassis motions and inertia well. How well does the car drive at the edge of grip, particularly transitioning between grip and drift states? I ask because a lot of the trouble with handling is generated from fighting a poor setup, poor damping/inertia control, and wide gaps between moderate understeer to moderate oversteer states, etc.. As the car was described, it sounded like it understeers moderately meaning a lot of work is done by the driver to fight and overcome the wide gap from understeer up to neutral and then into oversteer, a lot of excess driver input just to literally throw the car into an unstable oversteer state. The car becomes heavily reliant on significant and precise driver inputs just to work properly. Even after it's in oversteer, it can be hard to maintain and really wants to snap hard back into a moderate understeer state which requires a drastic change in steering angle to hold and continue on a specific line. The abrupt reversion and any poor timing on driver input can promote accidents pretty easy. Then there's external factors like the rumble strips that were mentioned in the video that can knock the balance off abruptly if the suspension isn't tuned to accommodate. I tend to consider something tuned more towards neutral and with good dynamic control between grip and slip transitions is much easier to drive requiring a lot less input and corrections. You're not fighting this wide gap between heavy understeer and oversteer. Instead, you're hovering gingerly around a neutral state all the time: grip, at a low attack angle, and at a high attack angle the handling is actually almost always very near neutral and only requires small adjustments to tweak attack angle or resize your arc path. You add a touch more throttle and oversteer a wee bit more, take off a little throttle, and the rear tucks in. If you let off, it should neutral out and just hold a line. If you tap the brake, the handling and specifically the attack angle should remain relatively unaffected while tightening your arc. I'm not saying it's easy set up a car like this. It's incredibly hard to dial a car in so well, a lot of trial and error possibly over several seasons of racing, especially on an unknown/new chassis. Be careful about sway bars. A big rear sway is a good way to promote snap oversteer if there isn't enough damping control. It's generally safer to add rear spring instead because it forces you to also run more damping. You get the rear roll stiffness as well as improved inertia control. The choice depends on how you want the car to feel and behave. Rear sway and soft springs/dampers = tossable but twitchy. Rear springs/damping with a smaller rear bar = more control but less tossable You'll also generally get more off throttle oversteer with a stiff rear spring setup, and a perceptively mushier front end feel. You'll feel like you're driving the car from the back end more so than the front. Too much and you may find the rear end too damped to really toss back and forth. The front will feel too sluggish. It won't sling shot side to side like a softer damped and bigger swayed setup. It kind of depends on how rubber-bandy you want the dynamics to be. However before all of this, it's nice to get the car initially to something near a neutral state so you're not fighting that first. Then fine tune the spring/damper rate and sway bar sizing to get the dynamics you like while staying near neutral. If you have 2 or 3 way dampers, you can also fine tune dynamics of the car and continue to balance out the dynamic transitions and even steady state cornering (because it's still pretty dynamic there too).

[@getgoodkarma]

+Xmvw2X Rushed response, but the owner described the car as an amazing grip car, and understeer and front end grip were never an issue. More that the car had such little weight to it, especially with none that weight being past the rear axle, there was no body roll/momentum to smooth out transitions between drifts. The steering geometry at the time wasn't helping as it had lots of ackerman at full lock.

[@psk1w1]

Simplest way to reduce grip at the rear is to fit narrower tyres.

[@infidel900rr]

Great video!! more like this please

[@daviddavidson458]

Amazing name, congratulations! :D

[@79Tipene1]

awesome engineering

[@marvelcontestofchampionsba1227]

can't just ignore the name change can we? looool. don't worry, ill still be watching caaaaarfection with affection loool.

[@JonAlycia]

That thing is so bloody awesome! Well done mate. With I could give you a highfive. I also wish TURN 10 Would put this in forza

[@jhenukumar]

+carfection Awesome video with Great music.... Can this music be sold or shared Separately...

[@RoozenB]

+jhenu subramaniam I searched the website of Audio Network and found something pretty close. The version in the video above is way cooler imo "Back Porch Gator (7!) BY Lincoln Grounds (PRS) / Thomm Jutz (SESAC)" This one's quite close aswell "Slide Rules BY Tom Quick (PRS) / Adam Drake (PRS)"

[@untrgrnd]

such an awesome build ^^

[@tompayne4945]

What an absolutely awesome grungewagon! Hope this thread gets more views by grownups who appreciate the work and fantastic quality of raw steelwork. P.S. its not too much grip, more power is the answer. Assuming thats the Aero engine you will see 350-380 HP fairly cheaply considering your fabrication skills...skid on brother : ) 0_0_

[@Daniel-RunToRoyal]

Badass!!! Good job!

[@dumyjobby]

i came to this channel, carfection. when did i subscribe to this channel? that i realize in the comments that is actuallly xcar

[@JoeyRos]

+Carfection maybe change the profile pic. its a bit boring at the moment

[@dumyjobby]

***** thank you

[@tomclarkson6078]

Saw this car at drift matsuri in Anglesey. It's just a piece of fabrication art work.

[@jasonhowell9589]

two things that I love drifting and rat rods couldn't of done it any better

[@MrMarkpark]

Pretty cool. I wish he had touched upon the power plant a little.

[@pce0513]

I'm from the future watching this (17/02/19) and I've been watching your current mongrel series as my introduction to you but now watching this it's strange as your voice is so familiar.

[@ir3a11ydontn0]

want more power? GTX3071. Those Saab B204 engines love them!!!

[@kevinpeters9867]

absolutely awesome car!

[@murrayandru7527]

Urchfab Perfection !

[@MrNinjjja]

great work

[@TSA507]

GREAT choice of music!! Whats the name of the artist?

[@TSA507]

any info on the music?

[@ImRyo131]

Can somebody tell me the names of the songs at 0:03 and 4:15 ??? pls

[@AG-qw6nd]

very nice build.

[@Maggotforlife99]

Could you do a story on the car in front of this at the start of the video? Ford Prefect I think?

[@AnonNomad]

Rat rods exist in the UK? phwoar.

[@therealdeadpen]

+Anon I don't think it is intentional there is just so much damn rain LOL.

[@sageen]

+Anon UK? Sweden bro

[@jamesbadham3872]

+Dennis Sågström im pretty sure urchfab is in the uk bruh, as is castle combe circuit

[@dahorn100011]

+Anon my mate has the one in this at 03:40. Its pretty cool. www.carthrottle.com/post/my-crazy-24-hours-at-le-mans-road-trip-racing-evil-burnouts/

[@sageen]

James Badham Im Pretty sure this guy has an Swedish accent, and the Numberplate in the front is swedish? but dunno

[@Tivoliterror]

i would put more weight behind the rear axle, its alot of center weight which makes it twitchy maybe get a luggage compartment?

[@cassidycurl578]

I gotta know, I've been looking at swapping a b235r saab motor into a nissan s12 what did you use for a transmission and rear end. My goal is a drift car as well. Also it looked to me like you kept some of the steering components from the saab as well?

[@nikopol7993]

Not him, but a late model B2*4 (and thus B2*5) should bolt straight up to a T5 with the right bellhousing (there are two T5 patterns) - guys in the UK use Omega R28/R30 gearboxes and there's an E30 M3 with a B234 bolted up to a Getrag 260 in Serbia. Drop the B235, it has lighter built internals than the B2*4 series - so whilst it does rev higher, it can't take as much power. Get a B2*4 and remove the balance shafts for the absolute best Saab engine (without having to rebuild it).

[@fambuild]

Good stuff!

[@donalsinnott4303]

for something this custom, you need more mechanical details. The engine wasn't even mentioned besides the title

[@getgoodkarma]

+Donal Sinnott Film covers the story, website shows the specs.. urchfab.com/the-drift-rod/hot-rod-to-rat-rod-the-drift-rod-vision/

[@kuraryuX]

That's what I'm saying! If it wasn't for the guy above posting the link, i would've been upset.

[@rainyjason55555]

i love this guys car im jealous of it.

[@stephane_edouard]

For God sake, explain why "carfection" !!

[@d0718]

Car+infection=Carfection

[@bigfutus]

+Spike Club Because affection for cars.

[@ethownzbh]

Just get off it already. The content hasn't changed, that's what matters.

[@MrRaitzi]

+Spike Club Better than Xcar.

[@Hakirokone]

+Ethanmeister The content HAS changed. They're trying to be another Petrolicious.

[@lukeprowse3215]

Were you in classic ford a while back? Cool videos anyway. 👍

[@baldcreations8044]

nice job man

[@andrewpredeth2382]

nice job I love it

[@art_rayan97]

now i understand what the old is gold

[@tharimahmed9679]

looks amazing

[@BlandNutz]

when Talent meets a good imagination

[@cindyquintanilla9987]

what is the song in 0:03"?

[@anilm8607]

What is the name of the song at the beginning? I have heard it in a John Oliver show segment.

[@IHATEFRYE]

I am so jealous of this