UniClutch

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OK, and because it's not a superduck, it's not automatic.
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Long live my Ltd. Welcome to Car Talk.
It's choosing out here on 90.9 Northwest FM.
It's me, Maddie J in the studio with Mr Chad, The Bell online

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with Mr Scotty O Johnson, David Prince and Edward Bunting, but
also in studio. Hello, just puts the head up
with Julian Petain. Welcome, Julian.
How you doing? Yeah, great guys.
Thanks for having me. Thanks.
Thanks for coming, Julian. Probably haven't heard the show
much, but this is, this is Ed, this is David, this is Scotty.
And you've you've met Chad in the studio.
Alan's out there. He's got he's got committee

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duties tonight, but so he's doing a David Prince with
committee, Judy says Hang. On Matt, what do you mean Julian
hasn't heard the show much yet? What?
Isn't he a long time listener? He's a he's.
AI can't say I'm a long time listener but I have listened to
the show ever since it was introduced to me.
OK, so. 10 minutes ago no. No, no, it's been longer than

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that. I've listened to, you know, the
last probably I'd say maybe 8 or9 episode.
Cool people take just so get a bit of a that's.
What I've listened. Back to that's.
Very good. Here we go.
I've seen it. It's definitely been going for a
very long time Yeah, which is which is great.
And I was just saying to the guys, I'm actually a local of of
the area and completely didn't even realise that the radio

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station was here. Literally I probably walk from
my house. So I I brought I I was I am I am
able to see a car person. That's why I'm here.
And I brought my A 86 in becauseI figured if W comes worse it
doesn't start, I can sort of walk.
So yeah, we're we're sort of allgood there.

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Just for just for AG things, right?
Yeah, that's pretty much. Just we actually had an inkling
that might have been your car because we got a message before
the podcast started to the chat from a very excited Chad.
Yeah, yeah. Before I was on the show, I was
like the N 86 just rolled up to the car park.
What the Hell's going on? Then I yeah, obviously that we
met. And then, right.

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So yeah, bit random, you get lost.
And Angelina, how did you hear about the said show?
Through mutual friends of that, yeah.
So a good friend of mine, he's his fiance, works with Matt.
So yeah, just sort of connected us that way.

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And yeah, then obviously startedlistening to the pod and that
kind of thing and. Well, once you're in, you're in.
There's no going back out now. Yeah, it's a secret society,
apparently, Yeah. There's a secret handshake and
come on. It is it is the secret Society
of Car Talk hearing in the suburbs of Hadfield.

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But welcome Julian, Good to haveyou on board man.
We caught up a few weeks ago just as a catch up to, to get,
to get to know you as as I said,I work with, I work with your,
your good friends, you know, fiance, lovely lady.
She's like, oh, I've got, you know, I've got, you know, my
partner's friends really into cars.
He does really cool stuff with cars.
You got to get him on your podcast to have a chat.

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And I'm like, yeah, sure, why not?
And then, you know, it's here you are.
So, yeah. So it's all it kind of takes
really just to come with the podcast.
I mean, just for some context, Chad came on the podcast because
we met through super cheap. He's coming to, he's coming to
work a few times. Yeah, I was trying to ask for
discounts at the OR whatever, and then I'm like, oh, is that
your MR2 out there? Yeah, cool.

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And it now, now he's part of theshow.
Edward I met at A at a car show.Scotty I met through work.
We talked about cars. David I I met through Ed.
So it's you kind of just build this family called connection of
people through, through, throughthe automotive industry.
And there's not many industries that do that, you know, like the
automotive industry. No, but that's and I was going
to say actually just one thing to that to further cement that

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is we've also, we also have a connection through another super
cheap auto alumni as well. And also I'm also a super cheap
auto alumni. So I used to work there while I
was going through uni, high school, that kind of thing.
So I was talking about a secret handshake, some of the same
stores as Matt as well. Yeah.

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So I think we just didn't cross paths when I finished up, when I
then went into my yeah, first like full time professional sort
of job. Which is, which is, which is
crazy because this is, it's likeI've been at super cheap so
long. And you were, you were there for
quite a while. And but we, we know, we know

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like the same people that we've worked with, like we both knew
Tarabi, we both knew all these people that have been in that
industry for such a long time where you're just like fire,
like, like, you know, you know this person and you know this
person and you know this person.And it's just one of those, you
know, it's, it's, it's just a weird kind of, you know.
How did we crosspads? Working there when I was working

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there. Sorry, sorry, what was that,
Scotty? I wonder if he was working there
when I was working there. When were you there Scotty?
Because because you were there performing, you brought me over.
So so fun fact of the show, Scotty brought me over to super
cheap because we still work together at Target.
Post the post me. Yeah, sucked you in.
What? You were there what, 20/20/11?
Yeah, probably it was. What stores did you work at,

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Scott? No, it was just the SNN.
So I was Broadmeadows primarily.So I actually, so funnily
enough, I actually used to work for, well, I when I was employed
Supercheap Auto had just bought Marlow's.
So I actually worked at Marlow'sin Broadmeadows, but OK, next
door to Supercheap. Yeah, yeah.
OK Started there when I was like16 or 16, yeah.

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And then, yeah, started, you know, Broadmeadows at being
Roxburgh Park, Essendon. I do like 3 IC stuff, that kind
of thing just to help out in that sort of region.
So yeah, we probably may have crossed paths at some.
Yeah, could have. Yep.
It's yeah, it's it's but it's such a small world.
Like, you know, when you think about it more like, like

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everyone. The the first question Chad
asked me when when when I boughtmy Scamp was do they they?
They just told me you bought a scamp.
I'm like, oh, hang on, do do you?
Yeah, 'cause it's the only person I know who owns.
The Scamp. So it was like, do I know David
Prince? It was, it was just like, it's,

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it's such a small, tight knit community, the the car industry.
And it's just, it's such a yeah,it's, it's, it's kind of an
enigma in itself, isn't it really?
Like there's, there's, there's nothing really like it in terms
of what, you know, like the, thelength of the space that, that
this, this field, you know, kindof kind of engulfs people.

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But no, it was really cool to meet you that, that the other
night when we're having a discussion about and discussion
about you, about your cars and what you've owned and stuff.
And and that night you brought out your your daily, which is a
crown. Yes.
Nice. I've got a as a yeah, daily
drive family car. I've got like an O8 GRS 2O4
athlete crown. So about the 5-6 years now, that

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kind of thing. So it's been really good and
from before they were cool. So what was that, David?
From before they were cool but. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, now it's kind of yeah. They're kind of getting a bit of
a reputation, I guess that the undergrounds it's it's starting
to be the. I think that the P played a car
of choice now that it is. Yeah, VESV sixes and stuff like

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that. Maybe a few and far between, but
I get up for that for. A while, as long as it doesn't
become the G35 like this United States that the sideshows.
Yeah, as soon as they become that, you'll be fine.
Exactly right, Yeah, exactly. But you know, I've got that
we've got the a 86 as as my thatwas my first car.
So that's basically being the long term project that I've had

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since I was 16. So it's.
Such a cool first car. Fantastic find it back before
the Tokumi tax and that kind of thing.
So like, you know, I I picked itup.
It was from just out past winter.
No, it was a Winton car. So what's the sorry?
I'm just going to play. Yeah.

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So it was a banana car. It was in.
So this was back in trading postdays.
The guy had advertised in the trading post and then because it
was in banana, I was 16, I couldn't go see it.
But then it got advertised againand it was in North Coburg, the
same car, like same car. Oh, right.

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And I'm like, oh, cool, got my brother went and checked it out
and yeah, it was an Adm car at the time.
So saying to Chad, you know, there were yeah, 1.64 AC carby
slow as, but you know, basicallystandard pretty decent from a
rust perspective. Which is hard to.

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Find back then now is a different story and yeah that's
just progressed over the years. So you know I've done a four AG
a big port, you know conversion coil overs.
I've got like a Hilux differ. I've got AW 55 gearbox got a
turbo setup for it yeah got all these things for I've actually

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got even like ATID wide body kit, the original bolts on group
end style kit. I've got all that.
But again, it's one of those things that as life's gone
through, you know, family, all that kind of stuff, the the car
just gets pushed to the side. So, you know, now hopefully I
can dedicate a little bit more time to actually working on it

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and getting it to where it should be.
But yeah, one thing is, you know, the old, as you guys would
all know, you know, 80s Toyotas,but they, you know, rust like
them for that too. And that is one thing that,
yeah, I need to get sorted because I, I sort of picked a
bit of a rust scab a couple of weeks back on the lower wheel

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arch and I've kind of got like agaping hole now in the wheel
arch. It's such a descriptive, yeah.
Descriptive a Rust. Scab.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that's what it was.
We've all been here. You know, just just, I was like,
I'll just, I'll see how where this goes.
And yeah, it went a bit too far.So I do have some side skirts.

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So that will be covering it, covering that for a little bit
and until I, yeah, until I actually get that fixed.
But I actually just today, one of the guys that I used to work
with in another role, which I'll, I'll bring that in
shortly. He actually just got his
century. I've cleaned up a little bit of

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rust that had formed and actually just didn't.
Glenn Royce. I know that, I know that.
Guy. Oh, there we go.
I know the guy with the same oneis oh, you know the guy that
was. I know exactly what you're.
Talking about. So there we go Yeah.
So yeah, I'm going to give him acall and maybe take it around
there and just sort of say what we're looking at and then yeah,
plug away at that and go from there.
Because, you know, reality is I'd love to do it myself.

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I'd love to be able to do that. It's sort of that thing of
opportunity cost and it's like how, you know, there's only so
much time on the weekends and stuff like that.
It's yeah, it's kind of like maybe I've just got to give it
to someone and let go that let go that part of the build and

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get someone to do it and then I can actually enjoy it.
Especially as you're saying, like with family and stuff,
like, you know, you've got, you've got a young family and
everything and you get a house and everything.
It's those things come into playand you know, it takes your
time, you know, and and by the time you finish putting the kid
to bed, put an IST on that. I speak to my brother.
What was talking about? Like he wants to play with his
cars, but he's like, I'm wrecked.
Like I come home from work, you know, come home, feed the kid,

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you know, bath the kid, play with the kid, put the kid to
bed. And then and then now I'm like,
I'm exhausted. So like he's like, I'll go to
bed. No, that's it's just yeah, just
rinse and repeat. So, yeah, it's, it's a bit, it's
a bit like that. And that's why a lot of projects
stop. And and Chad, Chad sent me a
funny, funny video the other day.
What was it today? It was, it was like, you know,

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one in every 10 projects. So sorry, like only gets
completed or something. And it's like you can help solve
this probably. It was like, it was like a
world, it was like a World Vision ad, but for for like
project cars, you know, donate today.
It's like. It's like exactly made like
World Vision or you know. Save the Children.
Translation The project car, Save a car, save a car or

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whatever. Yeah.
You have to send that through tothe chat, dude.
Like it's, it's just, it's a, it's a brilliant video and I
always like to show you where doI donate?
But yeah, I, I, I, I get it, man.
I I. Yeah.
And one thing I'll add to that, I'm sure that we're all guilty
of this. It still doesn't stop us from
constantly looking at Marketplace and.

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Seeing. As I'm going, Oh yeah, that I
could totally see myself. Yeah, there we, there we go.
This is like a sickness. Yeah.
I mean, you can't help it. Like Matt, you said the G35
before and I've like legitimately been looking at G30
fives only because they've got the backseat.
It's like. OK, cool.

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I can get back into a manual, can have a backseat.
You know, I thought I can go in the back and I can drive that as
a as a daily. Yeah.
And obviously, yeah. And then you know that the
aspirations and get into the track and all that sort of thing
may happen, but probably won't. But still it's not to have.
Yeah, it's like that, yeah. Exactly.
So, but yeah, I guess I'll just,so I'm not talking too much

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about myself, but I'll just sortof give you guys a bit of a back
story. So yeah, I worked at Supercheap
Auto, you know, went to uni, studied marketing, stuff like
that and then first job out of the university worked for a
company called Harrop Engineering.
So a lot of people may or may not know what, you know, Harrop,
the company, the staple of the automotive performance in

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Australia, especially for, you know, V eights, you know, LS,
GM, Ford, yeah, Holden, Holden, Type V eights.
Now they're doing other stuff aswell, getting into Japanese cars
too, with GT86, stuff like that.So yeah, at the time when I
actually started there being I was a, you know, I will say I

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was a bit of a Japanese car purist at the time.
I was, I was never one to go, I'm going to own AV8I, get
Commodores on my thing. I was, you know, always, you
know, had the 86. I had a 82 twin Cam.
I had an AE1O1 GZD supercharged 11 as well.
Cool car. So yeah, a.
Few different cars, RA 60 Silicafor a brief moment in time.

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Yeah, so couple of bits and pieces like nothing flash.
But you know, I was, yeah, very much Japanese.
And when I saw the ad pop up on seek, I was like, oh, who's
this? And I Googled them and they're
like, oh, sweet, these guys, youknow, they do some cool stuff.
Superchargers, diffs, you know, VA supercar parts, all this sort

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of stuff. I'm like, yeah, this was for a
sales role. So it's like, you know, yeah,
hey, it's not specifically marketing, but there was
marketing elements to it. So like, yeah, this would be
cool. And yeah, basically, you know,
went into that, you know, for I was there for 11 years.
I, you know, I, I sort of became, I guess like the senior

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sales team leader there heading up the sales team technical.
I was a bit of AI was a bit of abecause I've been there for so
long. And at the time, you know, their
systems, their training stuff wasn't that great.
I was very much learning by, youknow, through the engineering
team. So whenever there was a

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technical question regarding a product, whether it be an
installation issue, whether it be, you know, just a general
issue, whether it be a, a real technical, you know, element to
it, I'd constantly be speaking with the engineers and sort of
going through it. So really, really sort of
cemented, you know, my my knowledge in in that field.
And the thing with Harrah is that they make a lot of

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different products for a lot of different vehicles.
So you're not just talking superchargers, but they were
doing manifolds or doing brakes.They were doing, you know, the
VH supercar components, which not so much, but there was a bit
of like, you know, the support categories because they moved to
car in the future and stuff likethat.
So yeah, it became a bit of a staple there.

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And that really, you know, with that obviously speaking out, you
know, and we would get people that would want to, you know,
supercharge their car at Harrop and, and for a period of time,
they never had an installation workshop.
So set up a workshop. So then it was sort of, you
know, doing like a workshop performance advisor like you

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sort of get nowadays where people come and, you know,
they're like, I want to make 400kilowatts because this was back
in, you know, 2012. So that's kind of where we're
at. That was the number, yeah.
That was sort of the number. That number's growing
substantially, you know, like, yeah, when I first started
there, 400 kilowatts, that was like nuts.
That was nuts. And 400 kilowatts is still nuts

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regardless. Like you look at that, that's a
lot of power. And and that's, you know,
nowadays I've got, you know, people that I still deal with
that are contacts through Harrodthat, you know, LS type stuff,
supercharged type stuff. You're getting into the the six
5700 hub kilowatt figures for these kind of cars, which is

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pretty crazy. Have you been in a car with that
much belt? It is.
It is not fun. Yeah, you know, it's terrifying.
It's I've, I've, you know, obviously driven a few different
customer cars, but obviously being customer cars, you're
never driving it like your own and you're never driving it like
you would, you know, on the streets, that's for sure.
But yeah, like some of these cars, you kind of go, what's the

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point? You can't.
It gets to a certain point whereyou're like, this is just such a
handful. It's not actually that
enjoyable. But you know, a lot of people
it's bragging rights. It's, you know, that kind of
thing. So, you know, when people want
to do it, you know, you just advise them.
And that was always my thing. You know, I always enjoyed the

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thing of helping, you know, really getting to the bottom of
like, OK, what does someone wantto achieve and how can they
achieve it? But also doing it in a way where
they're not, you know, if they want to do this and they want to
do it in stages, sort out a sortof Ave to do that as opposed to
going, OK, I want to do, you know, someone comes in and they

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go I want a big lumpy Cam, but then I want to supercharge it
later. And you're kind of like, well,
that doesn't really work. You know, if you have a
massively lumpy Cam in an LS, you will then like boost when
you do a supercharger. So sort of varies.
But yeah, so you know that that was good.
That was great. And yeah, you know, after a

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period of time, I sort of thought, well, what's next?
Sort of getting a bit, you know,a little bit stale, that kind of
thing. And yeah, was working on on seek
again. And this isn't about for seek it
just what I was looking on. And yeah, you know, a position
came up for a product manager ata company called Clutch

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Industries. Beautiful thing about that was,
you know, being a local to the area, I would drive past where
the workplace was every day to go to my, you know, to go to
Harrick. And I was like, oh, wow, that's,
you know, how close is this? That's going to be great.
You know, I'm sort of like 10 minutes away from work.
Not even and yeah, and kind of just, you know, from there went
into the role, you know, clutches watch being.

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So it's really interesting and wanting to discuss at work.
You think of a clutch and go, oh, it's just a clutch.
Like you press it, it opens, it releases.
That's pretty much it. But the idiosyncrasies of the
product and of the actuation system and everything like that

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is very unique. And, you know, I've learned so
much about clutch product that I'd never experienced in the
entire time of, you know, being Arab because we weren't really
doing much of that. Obviously, if someone came in,
they needed a clutch yet cool with, you know, spec one out to
suit the power that they needed,that sort of thing.

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But yeah, like, you know, clutchis a very involved product and
with that came, you know, one thing with that is standard
clutch or aftermarket replacement heavy duty stuff,
performance stuff. It's it's like it's one of those
things that you have to have, you know, different products for
different people. So you get, you know, nowadays

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everyone uses stages as a, as a,you know, stage 123 tunes
packages, whatever it is. We had that, you know, with
clutch in one of their brands and you would have, you know, 5
different stages of product depending on what the person was
doing. So you know, someone that just
had a mild streetcar that might want to run a stage 1 clutch,

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which is just basically, you know, a heavy duty diaphragm.
So people clamping force organic, organic plate and you
can go to like a stage 5, which would be a TVG diaphragm, but
then you've got like a rigid button style ceramic clutch.
So it just varies and, and one thing you know, I also came into
yeah, clutch industry the time at a pretty good spot because we

(22:26):
were just about to bring in a new brands called Uni Clutch,
which effectively Uni Clutch sort of helps bridge the gap
with all of those products and it's a modular clutch system.
So, so now you've started at UniClutch and again, we've got a
mutual friend that works at uni Clutch, which is just showing

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all the different, you know, avenues of, of, of the people we
know. Shout out to you Damo who also
works at Super Cheap. Becoming like a bit incestuous
or something. I don't know what's going on
anymore. Funnily at that, I also he
actually worked at Harrap as well with me for Yeah, so that

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that's how I know that that's where when I was looking for
someone, he messaged through andcame back to uni Clutch.
Yeah. So, so, so Uni clutch is a new
brand from Clutch Industries, correct?
Yes, that's right. And you offer a like a clutch
solution from what I from what from my research and what we've
discussed before. Yeah.
So, so basically it's it's a, it's a modular clutch solution.

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So effectively, and it's, you know, it bridges the gap between
a performance clutch and an OEM clutch effectively.
So you've got, it's a twin plateclutch.
So it's obviously got 2 clutch plates.
But with that it gives you, we, we've sort of been able to
design it and development where you've got the torque capacity

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coming from the, the 2 clutch plates, but without the heavy
pedal that you would generally get from a, you know, a heavy
duty clutch. So it gives you the ability to,
to run, you know, a, you know, aclutch that's got a torque
capacity. We've got, we've got two in the
range, but an 8 inch and a 10 inch.

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So our unit clutch track in the 8 inch, you can get a peak
torque of 13120 Newt metres. And then so that's in smaller
so, and it's the thing with clutch that's in smaller vehicle
applications. And what I mean by that is just
physically the actual clutch size.
So depending on the vehicle, youknow, like some notable things

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like a, you know, S55, like M3M4BMW, they would run like an 8
inch style clutch. They say like an LS or a Ford
Coyote, they run out 10 inch which we've got up to 2000 new
metres. Oh my God.
And then just to to scale it up again, we've actually got a quad

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plate. So that's, you know, two of the
10s spec together and that off. And I should know this, it's
about 3500 new metres. Oh jeez.
Hold. On yeah, that that one there is,
is dedicated specifically for V8, you know, American
application, so LS, Coyote, Dodge, that kind of thing,

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because that needs to go with our ultra flywheel as well to
make that work. But yeah, you know what one
thing with the product that really does make things a lot
easier for, you know, the the car enthusiasts out there is the
the modularity factor. So you've got a system where
you've got a sealed clutch core.So by sealed it means it doesn't

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rely on the friction surface of the flywheel, so it's got its
own inbuilt friction surface. And then you've got a flywheel
mount and an interchangeable spline, so and.
That's how we change between cars.
Yeah, and that's between cars. So like we've got we've been
able to, we've been able to set it up where we'll have, you
know, you could hypothetically someone that's doing, I don't

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know if you know, we don't want to enter conversion like a real
drive K swap in with a, you know, Nissan CD double O 9 or
something like that. One thing with that would be
that you would need to get like a custom clutch or you'd be
relying on, you know, some of the manufacturers that have done
those adapters where they then sell you into their flywheel and

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their clutch system and you can't really get out of that
with unique clutch. You're able to you're able to
basically mix and match. So one thing that's done, you
know, obviously great for all those sort of weird and
wonderful conversions, you're able to get a a high torque
capacity clutch without the driveability compromises a lot
of the time. And we've also got a spacing

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system thrown in there as well. So with clutches, you've got
your clutch finger height will vary depending on the vehicle
and the amount of throw that theactuation system has.
So you're able to basically set your finger height up to suit
your particular conversion. So that's one thing that we get
a lot of like a lot of people that have, you know, we've had

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guys with just recently a guy with a Lambo Gallardo hit car.
That. Has got a turbo 1UZ FA with a 6
speed STI box modified as a transactional setup.

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OK, so we were able to work withhim to be able to have a unique
clutch solution. So so how does that?
Hang on, is the Lambo the kit car?
Is it the kit of the Lambo or isthe Lambo the basis of the kit
car? No, it's I, I don't know too
many details about the actual kit car itself and what it was,

(27:52):
but it was effectively what he was saying was it was pretty
much insured for as much as like.
Like. The equivalent car, it was a
really good job, was engineered,all that sort of stuff.
But yeah, it was like a, you know, a space frame type car.
Yeah, I saw the photos, you know, underneath that kind of
thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, it's all right. So.

(28:14):
Used to be like a sleeker or a beetle or something.
Was it done? Yeah, wasn't it not a beetle?
More often than not, yeah. So will they bring the car to
you guys and say this is the gearbox, this is the engine,
make that work. No, no.
So one thing, our team, you know, we've got a team, two
engineers that work on the technical side of things that
deal with, you know, this sort of more technical stuff.

(28:36):
And we, we really rely on the people that are providing, you
know, that have the cars they need to do some work.
So they need to take some measurements.
We've got a sheet that we've developed, you know, over a
couple of months years now wherewe were finding it constantly to
make it easier. So effectively, you know, people
need to take measurements that bell housing, measurements of

(28:58):
their flywheel, stuff like that.And then we can have a look at
all of that and go, OK, we've got, you know, we have this
particular flywheel PCD, so we can do that on this mount.
We do have that spline and now we look at the setup part.
Is the setup part going to work?And that's, and that's the
finger height basically. So effectively we can do it, but
it does take groundwork from theperson, you know, that's that's

(29:20):
undertaking the project and it'svital that we need those people
if they want us to help them effectively they need to provide
that information because there'sa lot of stuff there.
We can't, you know, you need thecar there.
We can't do that. And there's a lot of variables
that come along with that 100%. So, all right, so, so then when,
OK, hypothetically speaking, so someone comes in with that, you

(29:44):
figure something out, is there alot of trial and error or is
like, yeah, it's not going to work, have you or is it?
No, it has to be right before you send it out the door.
No, no, it's, it's, it's often, you know, often the main things
that we look at. So First off is do we have a
spline for the gearbox? So that's the first thing.
Because if we don't have a spline, generally the reason we

(30:05):
don't have the spline is that wejust haven't had, you know,
enough interest in that particular vehicle or that
particular spline to go, OK, we need to make that.
So that would be one thing or the next thing is can we
physically fit? So that's probably a big thing
with our uni clutch product in the 8 inch, the smaller top one,
we've got a minimum PC the flywheel needs to be to actually

(30:28):
fit it. So they my a 86 with the four AG
8, they the earlier ones had a 200 mil flywheel and the later
ones had like a 212 mil. So I had to get the 212 mil
flywheel to fit the unique clutch to that.
So because the, the the minimum bolt up of the flywheel needs to

(30:51):
be within that's about core size.
So like there are some cars where we just can't fit because
it's just physically the flywheel and the factory clutch
is too small. So like notable ones like D
series civics, Suzuki, Yeah, like, because, because because
we're global, like so many people do do it for D series.

(31:13):
It's just crazy. And it's just like, no, can't,
can't do it right now. You know, D series, civics, the
Suzuki genies, all those, all those sort of generally what I
sort of as a general fund for myself when I'm sort of sorting
through inquiry, sorting throughFacebook comments, socials, all
that sort of stuff. It's like if we don't have a
particular car on file or look at what's the factory clutch

(31:35):
plate size? And generally if it's about a
215 mil or lower, then it's kindof like we're not going to be
able to help you out. We won't.
It's physically too small. And then the flip side of that
is anything bigger than like a 13 inch sort of cover, which is
quite we're talking verging on not light truck, but like 2500,

(31:59):
you know, sort of American full size trucks, that kind of thing.
With Virginia, we're probably it's a bit too big for the
clutch. So you got that, you got that.
Then there's other variables. One thing that you know people
may or may not know, you know, again, going back to clutch
being very, very idiosyncral actuation methods.

(32:23):
So majority of cars run a push style clutch system where you're
pushing into the diaphragm with the bearing.
But a lot of cars also run a pool, so you're pulling away
from it. Notably, you know, Subarus,
STI's, Mitsubishi, Evos, 1J2J, Toyota's, they all run pool.

(32:46):
A lot of Porsches run pool. A lot of odd sort of
applications run a pool style clutch because it saves on space
and valve housing. So that's how they get around
being able to, you know, save onspace in certain applications.
One thing with that, you know, is a unique system where it
changes the diaphragm, changes the way the pivot of the clutch

(33:06):
is working and everything like that.
So if it's a pool style clutch, we can only fit to like a Subaru
style bearing or Mitsubishi style bearing.
A lot of the old Nissan actuallyas well, sorry, notably I32
GDRS, the 334, they were on poolstyle as well.
So I'll be 26. But yeah, a lot of instances

(33:32):
it's very common to run a pull to push conversion.
So, you know, there are a lot ofaftermath companies that will
make pull to push conversion clutch actuation systems for
their clutches because you run into issues with the pull style
clutch to a certain point when you're making really big power
or in certain applications. All people go to an internal

(33:52):
style concentric slave. So and also hydraulic slave and
you run that push. So that's another thing, you
know, where we have a hard cut off if it's a particular one,
it's kind of like, oh, hi, you have to run a conversion.
If there's a conversion available for your car, that's
easy. You know, R30I did an install on
an R33 GTR. We've filmed some content.

(34:14):
It was up on our YouTube channel, which that runs that
conversion to convert it from pull to push is really simple.
It just runs OEM Nissan parts and you're just literally
changing over the front, the front input shaft cover and
converting it over and then justtapping drill and tapping two

(34:34):
holes in the battle housing. They're kind of already there.
You just got to tap it and then mounting this the external
slaves or slaves cylinder in your.
Yes, OK, so it's. Really easy, but then there are
other ones where it's a lot moreconvoluted.
It's, you know, you're running other brands actuation
conversions and that can then lead to, you know, potential

(34:58):
need to check, you know, heightsof bearing carriers and all
sorts of stuff. So yeah, you're going back to
that. You know, if, if there are
people that have got random things, you know, working on
random projects where it's like they need something specific
this yeah, the UNI Clutch product really does allow you to
mix and match and customise to what your project potentially

(35:20):
is. And also then offering, you
know, the talk capacity benefits, the driveability
benefits, all of that sort of stuff where you know, you'd be
going a custom clutch effectively.
And nowadays as well, you know, the fact of the matter is
another part to all this is obviously clutch, you know,
manual cars, new manual cars, a few and far between.

(35:43):
You know, every year goes by andthere are less manual cars
available from manufacturers from new.
We're seeing a bit of researchers now, which is cool.
You know, got the I30 and the I20IN, GR, Supra, GR, Yaris,
Corolla. You know, the whole GR range was
great because that's breathing abit of life.
Yeah, thanks for that. And sort of, you know, seeing

(36:04):
manufacturers go back to that more mechanical element and away
from, well, not away from it, but less, you know, they wanted
to bring the, yeah, they're wanting to bring, you know, have
their performance offering as anactual performance offering
instead of an EV performance offering.
I guess that kind of thing, which is, you know, good, good
for us because being, you know, we, we look at punches and

(36:27):
that's the great thing about theproduct too.
Actually, just from a development perspective, our
development time is super quick.So like a new car comes out like
the I30 N had a guy down the road that had one from work and
he's like, he burnt his clutch out.
It's like you guys do 1 because admittedly he was sort of like,
Oh yeah, I haven't really drivenmanual for a while.

(36:51):
Not drive, you know, driving habits, stuff like that.
He's burnt it out and I'm sayinghe's burnt out the factory
clutch. So I'm like, yeah, sweet take.
You know, he was a mechanic. So I'm like, listen, take your
flywheel off, bring your clutch in and we can just measure it
up. And we did that and like perfect
that we happened to have a flywheel mount that was already

(37:11):
suitable for his flywheel ratherto measure the finger height
where we got the setup part right.
And we had a spline for the gearbox.
So it was literally a OK, cool, here you go, go and fit it and
yeah, put it together, see how it goes.
And, and we're good. So effectively then we've got,
you know, where where traditionally if you were having

(37:34):
to develop a product from scratch, you would be, you know,
you'd either be buying the OEM components, getting them in,
viewing them, cadding them, changing them, all this sort of
stuff. Yeah, yeah.
The the beauty of this product is it saves on development time.
So like effectively, you know, I20 N I've got a yeah, a big, you

(37:55):
know, end specialist in New South Wales that I'm working
with that I'm waiting to get an I-20 N clutch and flywheel in so
we can have a look at that and see whether we can do something.
Yeah. So it's.
Interesting because like obviously it's owned by the
Clutch Industries, you know, brand and clutch industries do
exactly what you just explained,which is like get the car in, do

(38:19):
development, you know, like frombase up basically.
And without having this sort of,you know, level 1 sort of kit to
start with. And then to build on how does
clutch industries sort of go with almost like competing with
unique, unique clutches like their own product, but also they

(38:42):
obviously own it. And then or how have they that
completely completely cut out some of the old school in
inverted commas way of developing?
Yeah, no, no, great question. So effectively, yeah, we've kind
of gone, you know, where we would have previously, you know,
if say, you know, the you know, I30 in because you've got one

(39:04):
that kind of easy to talk to, you know where where previously
we would have gone. OK, we need to get, you know, we
need to get a car or we need to get a clutch.
Well, I will review it and then go, OK, we're going to have a
standard replacement clutch. We then need something that, you
know, someone's going to do some, you know, a little bit of
work too. They need something.

(39:26):
So you go HD then you sort of gointo, you know, the the stages
system. So it's like, OK, we need to do
a stage two or three. So a stage two or three was
generally like heavy duty diaphragm with a ceramic organic
mixed, that kind of thing. And then it might even be OK,

(39:49):
we'll do a twin plate option as well.
So we had a previous brand that we did twin plates too.
So we've we've been doing twin plates for a very long time.
This is the Uni clutch is like the next evolution.
So where it changes for for Clutch industries is that.
We kind of look at, OK, what's the demographic of that
potential vehicle and what are they going to want to do or have

(40:14):
the, you know, have the aspirations to do as well.
That's the other thing because often it's like, you know,
people get cars they won't have aspirations to do stuff.
Will they do it will they won't don't know.
But then also can we give them aproduct that they can drive it
just like the OEM style clutch that have the ability to go
further in the future? So yeah, so, so for example, our

(40:38):
unique clutch track products, that's a that, you know, the
13/20/2000 uni metre options, they're ceramic based products,
but we've got them in a few of our development cars.
So we've got like a, you know, aGR Supra manual, one obviously
VASTI, the last of the Polo GTI manuals then, you know, like

(41:03):
Damo's got him in all his cars, Yeah.
He does, yeah. They're all daily drive cars,
they all get driven daily, but they've got ceramic clutches in
them driving around daily. So you've got that ability, you
know where you're not compromising on the drivability.
Factor because that's always been a big issue with clutches,
right? Because I want to put more power

(41:24):
and the first thing is, are you going to upgrade your clutch?
And then people just put these most heaviest duty clutches in
there and then they're undrivable.
They're so hard to drive and they're peak to drive.
My brother had an extra 6 turbo years ago and it just had a few
upgrades and it wasn't the most part.
There was, you know, quick enough, 300 kilowatts of the
rear wheels. But this person put in this

(41:45):
Melwood stage 5 crazy equal 3 whatever high end clutch and it
was you could never drive. It's moon.
It was an absolute pig to drive because you just you'd be doing
leg day every day. Yeah, with that, with that
clutch. And every time I got every time
I drove that back to back with my with my car, I was like, Oh
my God, like, why? Why is that even necessary, you

(42:08):
know? And just on that one thing I'm
leading to with, you know, actually to both of your points,
which is really good. So the fact that we have a lot
of the data because we make the original clutches, Yeah, we know
what the factory torque capacityis, what the factory bearing
loads are. So what we've got on the unique
clutch side is when you look up your car and you get your

(42:29):
installation instruction, it will actually tell you what the
torque capacity of the clutch isover the OEM.
Oh. Cool and.
Also tell you what the expected bearing effort so pedal feel.
Feel. Like, so whether it'll be
lighter, whether it'll be the same or whether it'll be
heavier. Some instances we have somewhere
it will be heavier and it's just, it is what it is.

(42:50):
But in general, we haven't had specific feedback unless there's
been something going on with thesetup and it's like now
something's not quite right. You know, we haven't had
feedback that's like on your clutches, you know, the pedal if
it's ridiculous. We've had a lot of instances
where people have actually purchased them and put them into

(43:11):
cars because they've had other clutches that have been quite
heavy. And, you know, some people it's
just it's they can't drive a heavy clutch anymore.
It's it's just not possible now.And you know, they want to stay
in the manual. Yeah.
So they don't want to go to an auto.
So it's like, oh, well, let's look at this.
So yeah, there's a lot of that in the background.

(43:31):
There's a lot of tech in the actual product.
Another thing that we have is that each each unique clutch has
got AQR code on the bottom of it, so.
That. You can scan that and you can
see all the test data for that. Oh cool.
So you can see, you know, the finger height, the release spec,
when the parts were manufactured, all that sort of

(43:52):
stuff. So you've got that ability, you
know, we sort of thought like, you know, people will like that
kind of stuff where they can check it.
And then also we know that, you know, another thing is from a
perspective of we know that thatclutch was working when it left
us. So if potentially someone has an
issue, it's like, OK, we'll clutch is releasing.
So is there something going on with your hydraulics?

(44:13):
And there are a lot of instanceswhere that can be a problem.
People don't realise that, you know, the hydraulics might not
be leaking, but internally can be bypassing and you can have
issues with release. It's not throwing as much as
what it would expect. So it's not releasing or it's
maybe releasing the clutch, but the clutch is actually dragging.

(44:34):
So you get like potential, you know, we've had some situations
where people are my clutch is burned out and you get it back
and it's like, yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't releasing.
So it's just been dragging and dragging and dragging is
building up hate and hate and hate, but it's because the the
actuation system wasn't actuallyreleasing it.
So just sort of berries. Yeah.
And that goes back to that, you know, idiosyncrasies.

(44:56):
It's pretty full on. But I'm yeah, overall it's, you
know, being being really good. Yeah.
It's given me, you know, wait, wait, wait.
Global. So you know, obviously we, you
know, selling Australia and New Zealand, but we also selling
America in the UK, Southeast Asia, Japan, yeah, Southeast
Asia, you know, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, all that.

(45:20):
Yeah, a lot of that region and we're going further into, you
know, into Europe as well. So we're in the UK currently,
but we're sort of working in with a few companies over there
too. So it's really becoming a real
global thing. And another thing, you know,
from that side of things, not a part of the modularity factor of
the product is for these large distribution companies that
we're working with, from an inventory perspective, it works

(45:44):
in their favour because, you know, and this is kind of boring
part of it, but it makes sense. You know, you're not having to
have a clutch, 1 clutch for every single car in the car park
that you think you're going to sell to.
You can have a clutch core, you can have, you know, 14 fitment
kits and you might be sorted for, you know, if you're a
performance specialist and you only deal with a certain car

(46:08):
rather than have and someone comes in, needs a clutch and
needs it urgently. You could effectively have every
single clutch that you need on the shelf and literally have a
clutch and a couple of differentkits and a way, you know,
whereas traditionally you would have a clutch for every single
vehicle. Yeah, some, some vehicles that
share clutches, like a lot of Toyota share clutches, a lot of
Nissans, they'll they'll share them, but it's only to a certain

(46:30):
extent. Whereas yeah, you know, this
product affords that. Another thing, you know, a lot
of people may or may not know, but you know, in, well, geez,
from the 90s, you know, dual mass flywheels.
Dual mass flywheels are a big thing.
A lot of newer cars coming, you know, out with dual mass.
But one benefit of the product is being that it's a sealed

(46:53):
unit. You're not relying on the
friction surface of the flywheel.
So if your dual mass is still fine, that it's got a bit of
burn, that kind of thing, you can installed the.
Way you have. To replace the dual mass.
So yeah. One thing that that did interest
me when when we're talking last and and I know guys, this would
be probably interesting for you guys too, is I was asking about
his Tom and Harry and you were saying the legalities.

(47:17):
This is this is a really interesting point.
So this is a guy that knows about legalities and
modification. So it's to an extent, to an
extent he's pretty much what yousaid to me was that was what I
kind of figured out was as soon as you really do anything, you
should really take technically need to get it plated, right.

(47:38):
That's on a town of technicalitylevels, like for example, people
camming their cars, supercharging their cars,
exhausting, you know, doing all that sort of stuff.
Technicality level? Do they need to mod plate the
car? Effectively, how far I can go
into this without No, no, effectively really.
Obviously the vehicle design rules and ADR rules are in

(48:01):
place. So effectively you just need to
be sure that you're meeting those requirements that they've
got in place. And, and one thing that you'll
have, you know, the easiest way to put it is, you know, the
putting big wheels, like that's probably the easiest one that
people know is you know, you've got a car that came out with
four teens and you want to put seventeens on.

(48:22):
But then there was a factory option that had the tyre placard
that ran 15. So then you've got the two
inches, that kind of thing. So you do that sort of stuff,
you can get around it. I'm not saying that you should
do that. You know.
But yeah, yeah, there is, there is, there is an element where,
you know, technically, yeah, doing, you know, that sort of

(48:42):
stuff. You know, you need to make sure
that it's meeting emissions and stuff like that.
You know, sound is a big thing to effectively.
Yeah, I used to play, you know, people would pull through and
it'd be like, hey, I want to do this.
I generally didn't get too many people that would actually not
ask that would question what it was sort of like an unwritten

(49:05):
rule. They just knew that, hey, if it
happens, it happens, you know, that they're going to have to
put the car back to standard andget it cleared.
Away you go. And I think for the majority of
people out there that modify their cars, even if it's
modifying it, you know, to a retro mod spec sort of car
that's sort of know, well, you know, if I'm the, the, the

(49:26):
disadvantage of having a loud exhaust is that I could
potentially get pulled over. So it's sort of like if you
want, well, if you, if you've got a car that can benefit from
a larger exhaust from a power perspective, then you kind of
got to go, well, where do I drawthe line?
You know, if I want to have a blow valve, that's going to draw
attention. If I'm going to have wheels

(49:48):
sticking out the guards, that's going to draw attention.
So it's always that thing of like I just used to say to
people, hey, I've not had peoplepull up that had problems, but
also they're not drawing attention to themselves.
Yeah. So Dr respectfully, don't be
Yeah, take out on the road and Ithink it's fine.
And like, you know, I think I know that there is talk about

(50:15):
unifying like the engineering requirements and stuff like that
across states. Because one thing that you have
is like up in Queensland, the they can engineer cars really
easily or, you know, a lot easier than here when they just
have people come out mod plate the car sweet done.
So there is talk of that and trywell, not, I won't say it's

(50:36):
specifically talk of that. It's specifically talk of
unifying the states right now. Every state has different
engineering rules, different compliance rules, different
admissions rules, stuff like that.
And they're talking about, you know, unifying that.
But yeah, it was it was one of those things that, you know,
luckily never had any issues. So it.
Was, you know, touch wood. Touch wood.

(50:58):
Having. Oh no, personally, yeah, been
defected once. OK, the time is super cheap.
Not not for anything. Went went to Maccas and one of
my tyres was a bit bulls and thecops saw that Easy done.
Yeah, just tyres, you tyre. I was like, yeah, no, it's
definitely needed to be replaced.

(51:19):
Admittedly, the, the front, yeah, I've still got the front
set on that car. That's the, the years later.
I, I don't want to look at the, the tread or the tide, how old
they are, because, yeah, that's why I, I have not allowed my
daughter to be in the car yet of, you know, one thing being a,

(51:42):
you know, I guess a bit of a wheel hoarder.
I've got a whole heap of different wheels and.
You're in. You're talking to the right kind
of people. Yeah, they're.
Like you know, need to need to choose a set and stick with it.
That's the problem. So no.
That's ridiculous. Why would you do that?
Just go one on each corner maybeto do something like that.

(52:03):
Yeah, it's been done. It's just about to say it's it's
been done. No, you sound like you.
You've got a pretty cool gig at at your place and yeah, at uni
clutch and or clutch industries with, you know, promoting this,
promoting the uni clutch brand. Last question that I've got for
you guys. I like, I know you guys might
have some questions, but what's next for uni clutch?

(52:25):
So like what's what's happening with that brand?
Like what's happening with products?
So, yeah, like right now we're sort of working on some things
in the background, looking at like a couple of different, you
know, sort of like different so vehicle application thing for
me. So, so part of my role, which I
didn't really explain it, you know, I'm product manager and

(52:48):
brand manager. So I do the technical side of
things, but then also, you know,the branding side of things as
well. So like, you know, if you hit up
the unique clutch socials that'll you'll get me,
unfortunately, you'll get me. And depending on how many, how
many messages I've had and the tone of the messages, you'll, it

(53:08):
will depend on the answer that Igive you.
So because you know, this day and age, one thing and, and
Matt, you'd probably attest to it, but the changing landscape
of social media and the demands of people are quite significant.
So like there's an expectation alot of the time that, you know,

(53:31):
our brand is 24/7. Yeah.
And and that's one thing that can be difficult because, you
know, we're we're a global business, but we're still a
small team. So it's like, you know, I've had
people that are like, oh, how come you haven't responded that
are messaging from, you know, overseas and it's the middle of

(53:52):
the night here. Yeah.
It's like, yeah, I mean, not online, yeah, but get back to
them the next day, that kind of thing.
And that's all good. You know, everyone's fine when
they realise that, but that that's, and that's kind of one
of those things where it's actually a bit of a, it's a, it
can be fluttering because it obviously shows that, you know,
some of these people that have seen what we're putting out,

(54:14):
they obviously like they think that we're where we are a global
brand, but they obviously think that we're much larger, have a
much larger team than what we dohave right now.
Yeah, that's it. So, yeah.
So as far as like what's next, we're constantly, I'm constantly
looking at vehicle applications and getting more vehicles onto

(54:35):
our catalogue. So yeah, anyone out there if you
know, if you go to our site and you can't find your car, send
through a message. Just going to have a look at
that on the back end. And sometimes and also actually
call out to everyone, have a look at our website.
Tell me what you think. Yeah, cool.
I want some user feedback because that's another thing

(54:57):
making the website user friendly, user friendly.
And often the difficult thing with that is when you know, the
back end data and how to find stuff and it can sometimes, you
know, put, you put the blinkers,not blinkers on, but you can
kind of go, Oh yeah, this is easy because you just look this

(55:18):
up. Then that's because yeah, like,
you know something. And it's like, Oh yeah, I know
that, you know, sometimes our search system and the data that
we have, you know, like a 4A GE might be catalogued.
There's 4A dash GE. Yeah, yeah.
So there's stuff. And some people might go, oh,

(55:38):
I've looked up my car and I can't find it.
And then I'll look it up and I'll go, oh, no, it's this.
It's just you need to search for, you know, 4A dash GE, not
4A GE. And there's some stuff like that
usability stuff, quirks that I want to work through and fix.
So it makes a lot more of a userfriendly experience.
So yeah. Anyone out there you know, let
me know. Your feedback could take it on

(55:59):
board. Coming from like a design
background, I worked, I was on ateam that helped readers on the
Melbourne Uni Law Faculty website.
Just seeing how user friendliness is such an
important thing cuz we'll all beguilty of this going on a
website and doing 2 clues like Ican't get to this.

(56:21):
Yeah, I'm out. Yeah, I'm out essentially.
Yeah, It's a bit, It's a big thing.
It's a bit, it's definitely a big thing.
And especially with today's TikTok Society of, of, of brain,
brain wave of 15 seconds. No more.
You know, it's, it's, it's a, it's a really, it's a real
thing. Yeah, yeah, no, 100%.
And like I said, it's, it's, youknow, always looking at it, you
know, even at Harrop, I have thesame thing because it's like, I

(56:43):
know, you know, I know the product so well.
I know the website so well. Like I know how to find stuff
that you kind of then try and put yourself in a place of
someone that doesn't know the product, that doesn't know the
website. And it's like, how how's that
flow work? Can they find stuff easily?
Is it user friendly, all that sort of stuff.
So yeah, that, that's definitelyone thing, you know, cataloguing

(57:03):
website, obviously socials and stuff like that.
Like today I went out and did some filming out in Port
Melbourne area and stuff like that.
Got one of the guys that's got a2019 Mustang which we've been
meaning to do some rolling dropsand stuff like that.
And we we did that today finally, which was good.
But then yeah, from product development side of things,

(57:24):
we've got a few things we're working on in the background,
specifically looking at some, you know, like buy out talk
capacity and more race orientated product.
So like right now we've got, youknow, uni clutch track, which,
you know, we kind of geared towards.
It's a it's you know, your car is a street registered car that
you want to take to the track sometimes and stuff like that.

(57:48):
And you know, in some elements, you know, there are some cars,
track cars out there that dedicate track cars that do have
the product that there's a teetering line where you might
have, you know, something that's, you know, getting.
And this is the thing, you know,like K series especially, you're
getting higher and higher in thehorsepower and driveline loads

(58:08):
and, you know, all drive and sticky ties and all that and all
that has an effect on the clutchas well.
So looking at ways that we can, you know, go to the next step
and offer a product that is, yeah, you know, a bit more
tailored to that, where it's notjust the OK.
Now we, we sort of don't recommend it, but yeah, that's

(58:31):
kind of where at the moment we do also have a new product which
I'll probably probably shouldn'ttalk about, no.
Don't you there is something. Coming which which will yes
slotting next year so so yeah, definitely as as time goes

(58:51):
through yeah, I can. We'll get you back on the talk.
Yeah, come back on and talk about it.
Yeah. And, and yeah, so that's that's
probably where it's at the moment.
Another thing actually I didn't touch on is our flywheel range.
We've got, we've got a range called ultra flywheel, which
effectively is a, because mentioned earlier, we don't have

(59:12):
a friction surface on the flywheel.
So I've actually section cut thefriction surface out on the
flywheel, right. So it's taking that rotating
mass out of the flywheel becauseit doesn't need it.
So you can go super light on theflywheel, have the clutch on it
and you end up being lighter than what you know, the
equivalent OEM clutch would be. So I'm just looking at expanding

(59:32):
that range, doing one for like, you know, golfer, that kind of
thing, dual mass replacement type stuff and K series stuff,
actually amalgamating those all 1 to 1 flywheel and what else?
Yeah, a few other bits and pieces.
Yeah. So yeah, again, you know, anyone
out there listening, if there's any suggestions, stuff like

(59:53):
that, feel free to reach out because.
And yeah, if you know, again, there's some stuff that, you
know, going back to, you know, getting measurements from people
and stuff like that. If there's stuff that we don't
have on the website and you've got a clutch of flywheel
available to measure. You know, whether in Melbourne
you can always message in and, you know, come in and drop it

(01:00:15):
off and we can measure it up or we can send out a sheet that you
can take some measurements on and we can have a bit of a
lookout. So yeah, if people are
struggling to get, you know, a performance type product for
their car, then yeah, there are solutions there as well.
Yeah, awesome. Let's go.
Julian, I've just been to the website.
I'm pleased to say the rego lookup worked well and it found

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my Pajero but no products to suit.
But good thing it's an auto. There's no Renault 16 you know
in the model look up. Disappointing.
No, he's got, he's got to go through his whole, his whole car
is the whole car. Yeah.
Yeah, it's funny. And I think the rego look up, I
don't think you're using us. We do that at my work and I

(01:01:01):
don't think that's us in the background for uni clutch.
So are. You at liberty to say where you
currently work? Yeah, yeah, a company called
Blue Flag and we're brokers of that government Rd authority
data. So, you know, if you're paying
someone else for that, we can switch you out, maybe save you
money here we. Go maybe?
Well, you've got a, yeah. Yeah, we could talk after the

(01:01:24):
pod man. Yeah.
I. I need to find this for you
gentlemen, but just put it over there.
Just a. 2nd. You might not be high high
enough volume for us. But yeah, yeah, no, The Reg look
up Australia, New Zealand, that's probably one thing I've
had people from overseas say, oh, my rego doesn't work.
And I we've got the note that there's Australia, New Zealand,

(01:01:46):
like, yeah, that's not going to work, but all good.
But yeah, we're sort of looking at ways that we can get data
from overseas and stuff like that.
But it's hard because, you know,you've got so many different,
you know, so many different vehicles, so many different rail
authorities. Also, model complexity is crazy.
You know, like I had one the other day, a VW Rabbit.

(01:02:08):
I'm not a VW person, but a VW Rabbit might.
What the Hell's up? It's a Golf and it's a gold.
And I'm like, oh cool. Yeah, there's a 2.5 litre.
Gold. OK, so I'm like, I've never
come. No, this was Europe somewhere.
Yeah, Yep. So but yeah, there's a lot of
that sort of stuff, you know where where we the other thing
is to our site, we might have cars catalogued, but we might

(01:02:31):
not have them cat. We might have them kind of the
Australian version, not the, youknow, Japanese version or not
the, you know, European version,that kind of thing.
So there are ways around it and I've got resources on the back
end where I can sort of do some cheques and cross references and
stuff like that and and sort of try and find, find products for
people. Yeah.
So, yeah, yeah. I was wondering on the website

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side of things, are you thinkingof going and using some AI to
help out or? It's it's something that it's
something that's come up, you know, like we, we've had it,
we've we've spoken about it, youknow, do we have like an AI chat
bot or something like that? Do I, you know, feed it all of
my emails and all the tech emails and everything like that

(01:03:20):
and train it? And you know, AI is definitely a
tool that's becoming obviously like businesses are using it
more and more, no denying it. Profile.
Yeah, yeah. Like Copilot, stuff like that.
Just GBT. It's that it's that human
element that I think in this industry you need though.

(01:03:41):
There is a level of that too. Yeah, you can't, you know, the
the the thing, and I don't thinkI touched on it, you know, at
the very start. But one thing, you know, that I
really enjoyed when I was at super cheap was when someone
would come in that would have a car, you know, a Jack car or
have a performance car, stuff like that.
Like even though you sell on thePhiltre and stuff like that, I
would always enjoy that interaction.

(01:04:03):
It wasn't just an ER Falcon. It wasn't just a, you know, a VL
Falcon probably get that a lot. In the old rego.
In the old rego label days. I had a guy come up to me with
a, with a, with, he had a, he had a Vt Commodore and, and he's

(01:04:24):
always like, I've got a 1998 VL come on.
I'm like, they didn't make them in 1998.
He's like, he's like, I know my car.
I've owned it for 10 years and I'm like, I'm like, but that
does the, Are you sure it's not 1988 or like an 87?
Oh, you think, you know, I'm like, no, no, I'm, I'm, I
generally it's a completely different car.
I'm like, have you got the car here?

(01:04:45):
He's like, yeah, I walk outside.It's a Vt Commodore and he's
like, but it's this veil on the sticker.
And it was, it was the registration video for a very
long vehicle. I'm like, sorry, I'm just like.
And then he was, he's like, he'slike, oh, so, So what model is
it? I'm like, oh, it's a, you know,
it's a Vt Commodore since beforewe had all redo like redo
search. We had VIN search.

(01:05:06):
We did a redo search back then and he got his back up like
crazy. You would have believed it was.
I'm just so I'm like, I'm tryingto help you here.
I'm not trying to, not trying tosay you're wrong, but I'm but
you're wrong. It's just so that was so that
was a bit of a funny one, Yeah. I would constantly have to walk
outside. I'd just say just just show me
the car. Yeah, like it's just just show

(01:05:28):
me What Car you've got. All good.
I'll sort it out, you know? Yeah, that was that was a
constant thing, you know, back in the day.
And yeah, the old yeah, Holdens and Fords were definitely yeah,
a staple. VL Falcon Throw.
Throw a Camry and a magnet in there and yeah, we're pretty
good. Got it sorted mate.
Yeah. It sucks.

(01:05:50):
They come in and just say, oh, I've got a Toya Corolla and
leave it as that. You're like, oh, OK, well.
That's a wide range. I've had people come and say,
oh, I'd like to get, you know, some oil from like, Oh yeah,
well, what type of car is it? It's red.
Genuinely, I've, I swear to God,I've had people coming.

(01:06:11):
I'm just looking at. I'm like.
Red. You need the premium stuff for
red I'm. Just looking at him like.
Betting the other way I'd go is how many K is it on 200,020?
Sixty. Is it leaking 4070 get to that.
It's like, yeah, All stop Lake. When you start it, can you see

(01:06:35):
out the back window? We had this guy I used to work
and used to work with us and Scottie, you might remember him,
starts with L and ends in K. He was.
So cool. And you said that now?
Yes. Anyway, this guy came up with

(01:06:55):
him with a brand new BMW M5 likeF-10 thing like it was this is,
you know, it was quite literally, you know, not even
not even a year old or anything.And he's like, look, it's
getting service next week, but the oil lights come on for top
of like BMW things. But anyway, I didn't say that to
him. So I I was like, yeah, but
before he asked me. So what happened was he came to

(01:07:16):
the he came to the counter with with 2060 and I saw he pulled up
in it in the M5 and I'm like, I'm like, Oh yeah, is this for
the your car? He's like, yeah, the guy
recommended it to me. I'm like, no, it's just not for
your car. He's like, but he said it was a
2050. I'm like, believe me, this car
does not take 2050 this. So I looked up for a minute and
he's like, oh, the oil was like almost three times the price.

(01:07:38):
I'm like, yeah, because it's notit's, it's yeah, it's, it's a
special. He's like, well, he's like,
well, lucky you checked it for me because the other guy just
said, Oh yeah, 2050, you know, just quiet.
Zero cares in the world. Yeah, That's, that's that's that
was that was a good time. He was, he was a funny dude,
wasn't he, Scotty? If you're needing to do stock
take, he can do it very, very fast.

(01:07:59):
He. Could.
For a certain reason. With a match I was.
Thinking of the person that you guys might be talking.
About, We'll talk after the show.
But he also used to, he used to also go out and clean his car
and shift. Will I, will I be the only one
in the store? That was that was a lot of fun
too. He just looked at the front and

(01:08:20):
he's like, I'm just cleaning thecar, guys.
And he'd be like dusting his mats out, throwing his rubbish
in the bin. I'm just like, oh God.
Like this is, yeah. He just did that so he could
have a look because we're right next door to the gym.
Yeah, he did that for a perv, Definitely.
That's that's absolutely. And he would have maybe the
first one to admit that as well.Oh yeah, happy to.

(01:08:41):
Yeah, jeez, that was a that was a funny time, Scotty, funny time
back in the old back in the old days with super cheap, but cool.
Anyway, so plans for yourself and with your cars.
So like, what's you plan on? You say you've mentioned your
G35 because we're about to get the car updates because as
you've probably heard the show, like we we were talking about
our weekly update, but plans going forward with your cars.

(01:09:04):
Anything in particular? So yeah, I'm, I miss serial.
I'm a serial pest when it comes to like looking at, you know,
marketplace and stuff like that.And I'm kind of like, I'm in
this stage where I'm like, I kind of, you know, I want a new
car. I need a new car, I want a new
car. And obviously, you know, with
the brand when you get into a manual.

(01:09:26):
So it's actually Speaking of Chad when we just met about, you
know, the I30 ends and sort of been looking at them or the I-20
ends, something like that. But then the, you know, the, the
polar opposite of it is like, oh, do I sell the crown and get,
you know, AG 35 or something? And I, I have, I have the, the

(01:09:47):
forever struggle with that because the Crown's really
reliable, you know, 2 GR or yourmotor basically very reliable,
not had a problem with it. And I go from this very reliable
thing to this unknown thing that's probably not going to be
reliable and probably going to piss me off, to be honest,

(01:10:10):
because you know, when you, you need to go drop off, get to
work, you just want to gain something and work and work.
And then I kind of go, you know,I don't want another project car
because I've got the 8/6 and that's, you know, that's been
neglected for quite some time. So I sort of need to give that
some love. So yeah, yeah, potentially like,

(01:10:31):
you know, thinking about like anI-20 and I think I need to go
and take one for a test drive and.
Yeah, crossing a drive. Like that's, that's probably the
thing. But you know, yeah, when we met,
you know, we're talking Focus STS and stuff like that because
we realised we got the 2.3 litreones here.
Yeah, we did. Because that's something that
wants to have a look at too. So yeah, I've got to, you know,

(01:10:52):
a few sort of different things in mind.
But then yeah, for the 86, really we've got 86 they coming
up soon and one of the guys in the 86 club was going to
organise meet up the week before.
So I'm kind of hoping that that just runs and drives and is

(01:11:14):
good. Probably need a service and
stuff like that because give. A birthday.
Give it a little bit of a birthday, check the plugs
completely fed up from sitting around all that, just all that
sort of stuff I've had so so with that I've had wiring, you
know, old Toyota wiring gremlinsthat the last couple of years
of, you know, changed starter motors.

(01:11:35):
I've upgraded to a Honda startermotor now chasing these wiring
issues. And then finally, you know, one
of the guys at work was like, I've you checked the resistance
on the ignition, you know, the, the, the main wire going to the
starter and also your negative terminal and they were both
completely corroded. So massive, massive resistance.

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And I never thought to check it.So replaced those and then just
did the relay mod as well to give it a bit more power.
And so far it's been good. It's, it's been starting every
time and the battery's not dead,but it's been starting.
So again, you know, hopefully you walk outside and and it's
good. We're not, we're not.

(01:12:20):
We're not push starting it, I think.
We need to do it like cross to the car park.
Yeah, I was going to say you've made David very happy.
He's always like, because David's a staunch Honda man,
just just letting you know. And you said putting a Honda
part on a Toyota, which is whichis?
I just let it slide right past. I didn't say a word.
I didn't. And you're thinking it, David?

(01:12:46):
So, yeah, do that. And then just, you know,
reliability stuff, just have a look at, you know, I need to do
tyres, I need to do, you know, look at the rust, that kind of
thing. And then it's sort of like,
yeah, pretty, yeah. Where it goes from there.
So. Yeah.
Nice before you get to the quiz,which you you're more than
welcome to join in on because because you know, it's always a
bit of fun. Quick updates guys.

(01:13:06):
We'll do a quick round of updates.
Scotty, anything with you this week?
Nothing. David.
Grand Prix Civic Fixed, fixed fixed for the Yeah, brakes.
Brakes sorted out again. What was?
The issue. Oh, it was adjusted all out of I
think how he was a bit disgustedwith the guy that did it,
thankfully. OK, yeah, undrivable but

(01:13:28):
driveable now. Picked the red accord back up
from my youngest son. That's.
Gave it a good. Wash and took her for a long
drive on Sunday and fell in lovewith it all over and so it's not
going anywhere just at the moment got to give her.
Some red accord. Yep, Yep.
You had a, you had a weird word a few like a few weeks ago and
it was, it was like, hang on a minute.

(01:13:48):
I saw no uncertain stand terms only days ago I said do not give
up on the red chord. No, I can't.
I can't give up the red chord. It's lovely up thing.
And yeah, looking forward to getting out in the end.
One a bit on the weekend, going to the Fox Museum at the car
club actually, which should be interesting.
Yeah. So that's about it for me.

(01:14:08):
One thing. Wasp work happened last Sunday.
Jacked up rear shocks out, new rear shocks in.
David has done his little contribution of wasp work, you
know, driver's seat slight repair, carpet slight repair,
wipers painted back to black. I picked up two ties at the

(01:14:31):
Wrecker and had them fitted yesterday lunchtime.
So the rear end of the Wasp is alot better, and the driver's
seat. So next trajectory of that work
will be front shocks out and newfront shocks in, and then I've
got to get onto the engine rocker gaskets and spark plugs

(01:14:52):
and things. So yeah, you know, chipping away
at. Wasp.
It's improving by the week. What else?
Renault 16? I don't know if I talked about
that a week ago or two. I put the master cylinder on
myself, bled the brakes with thehelp of a friend back on the
road, so I've been driving that around on the weekend.

(01:15:13):
It was nice to put a few KS on it.
And take it back to where where you were.
Yes, I took it back to the IMLUX.
Some of you would have seen thatpost I put on Instagram.
I took it back because IMLUX is closing for good, as we know,
our favourite wrecker in the in the southeast, which is very
sad. And that's where I bought that

(01:15:33):
car. And it wasn't out the front of
him Lux. It was out the back of him Lux
up on wheels, you know, ready tobe picked apart.
And this was this was 22 years ago, so.
I have you had it that long? I mean, really.
Yeah. I've had it that long.
I know, I know. I started, I started trying to
work back and I rang my friend because I had it.
I had it towed to my friend Roland's house.

(01:15:54):
He's, he's been on here once or twice.
And then we, we filled it with oil and started up at his place.
And I thought I rang him and said, when, when did you live in
that house? Like when did you leave that
house? Because I know we had a toad
there. He said, oh, we left in like 05
or 06. And then I went, well, it was
before that and I was working here and I was trying to sort
of, you know, time stamp it. So yeah, it was, I think 2003.

(01:16:20):
Which is too impressive. I just I I love that it came
from the actual yard. Literally hard.
Yeah. Yeah, that's where.
The cars are still good, I. Know and I it was very hot.
Must have been the summer of 22 or early 23 somewhere.
Number of 22. Yeah, so I remember I was
wearing a black T shirt and I was frying, but someone

(01:16:43):
mentioned it on a French car forhim.
It's called Aussie Frogs where it's still going, you know,
Aussie Frogs with French, Peugeot, Citron, Renault chat
and whatnot. And someone said oh there's very
clean 16. It's just been sort of out the
back at, you know, Centre Rd wreckers or whatever.
And I was like, and I thought, no, you've got enough cars
there, don't even think about it, you know, dah dah dah.
So I left it for a week and thought, oh, someone will go

(01:17:05):
and, you know, save it or something.
And of course a week later I wasa bit bored and went, I'll just
steal, just pop in for a little glance.
You can't hurt. Can't, can't hurt.
And, and I walked around and just thought, shit, this thing's
very original. I, I think I need to buy this.
And so, yeah, they, they couldn't believe it.

(01:17:27):
They sort of were like, you're gonna the tow truck driver
literally said to me, you're gonna, you're gonna restore
that, You know, like he was very, very disparaging about my
choice of yeah. Where's he 22 years on?
Where's the tow truck driver, 20?
Who knows? Who knows?
The low balling people for broken down, kind of.
The irony is I really, I didn't even restore it.

(01:17:48):
Like I polished it and put oil in it and a battery in it and
it's still still running. I had the wheels.
I did comment on Instagram, I I had a set of the Renault Dunlop
Sports wheels put on it, of which it's the right optional
wheel for that car. So I did that.
So the wheels look sort of new that the rest of it's as I got

(01:18:10):
it, yeah. So anyway, I thought a photo at
the front is worthwhile because IMAX is soon to close for good.
So I thought a nicer time. We had a nice little snap of of
one that escaped from the cracker many, many moons ago.
Doing God's work Edward Bunting Doing God's.
Work well, as I said, I've saveda few cars from there and then I

(01:18:30):
was trying to run through them. I've saved a skyline from out
the front. Yes, I bought I bought a Magna
GLX manual first Gen Magna from out the front that was about to
go out the back the Mercedes 230E that Matthew you and I found
there. Yeah, out the but that was going
to go out the back and I of course, yeah, No, no, I'll buy
that. So I think there's what was a

(01:18:51):
cracker. Car.
That one, it was unbelievable. I know Renault, Mercedes,
Skyline Magna, that's 4I reckon that might be it for that.
When you've kept the imlarks afloat all these years,
probably. Nah.
Hardly. There'd be people that are far
more serious than me. But but yeah, those cars,

(01:19:12):
certainly the Magna, the Merc and the and literally the
Renault were, were going into the jewels of death.
So I've saved those 3, Chad. Not a lot.
I wasn't on last week, so I think I just did a little bit of
car cleaning on the on the last week and then I bought a bunch
of service items for the Tarago,so I'm gonna get that done this
weekend. Yeah, no, that's probably about

(01:19:34):
it. Yeah, it's been pretty quiet.
Easy. What about you man?
Well, I helped. I just finished installing your
Edwards Brothers stereo on his Pajero with the rear.
Oh, is that all? Is that all finished, Maddie?
Yeah. I finished the last night,
Edward. Wow.
Jeez, you're pretty efficient. Mate, we're not here to do what?
Do something to spiders, as the kids would say.

(01:19:55):
So rear camera when you put in reverse comes on the Bluetooth
thing. It does.
It's all there. Hold on.
Streaming of the streaming of the Spotify.
Well, I haven't connected to my phone, but that, that'll works.
It should all work. So I want to trial it tomorrow,
you know, make sure that all works.
But it's, it's all, it's all allrunning or working.
I did run into a bit of a snag. That's what we That's why I went

(01:20:18):
to bed at 2:00 in the morning 0.Matthew, what are you doing?
Because, well, I'm going. To, you know, you've got a week
to do this like this. No, actually.
I kind of don't and I'll explainto you why in a second, but the
steering wheel controls, every time I programme it into the
head unit it'd work and then it all of a sudden it just give it
revert back. So I spoke to a few mates of
mine who do stereo installs and they've said they've said there

(01:20:41):
has to be a factory reset it andgo from try again.
So I'm going to do that again and try and get that to work.
It it should work, but everything else works.
Florida State. So I'm going to have to have a
sauce for that. But the reason why I finished
that car last night was because Steph officially cracked it
about the Forest Star because the the coilovers are just,

(01:21:02):
they're just shot like they're, they're 130 or 40,000 KS old and
they're just, they're the front ends that it's so stiff at the
yeah, bitch just a little bit firm and firm and a bit and very
knocky in the 2 front shocks. She's like, she's like my
family's coming. So her brother and his wife,

(01:21:23):
their two kids are coming on Thursday and they need a car.
And she's like, we cannot give them the car like this to use.
So I went on to marketplace because that's that's what you
do. And the guy upgraded his forest
at the coils, but he's he took out of it.
He only had them in for 30,000 Kis a set of Pettit shocks and

(01:21:43):
springs and lowering springs. So it it won't be as low as it
is in coils, but it will still be this will be nice.
I got there for a steal. Like I just lowballed the guy
and he's like, yeah, done. So so I went to pick him up
yesterday and Chad, you're gonnahelp me give him put them in
tomorrow night for me. And then so.
So that's tomorrow night's job. So and then the laser is about

(01:22:04):
200 KS away from 3:50. It's almost there.
But yeah, that's pretty much it on my end now.
Carter car quiz. So join you obviously listen to
the show. Yes, yes, I I have.
I have heard this. And basically, we battle it off

(01:22:26):
as supremacy for the weak, just for the incredible award of
bragging rights for the, for the, for the weak, which which
really doesn't count for much because, well, Alan's not here
to, to defend himself about, about shenanigans and things.
So, so we can, we can say thingsabout him, but.
Yeah, so. But yeah, same questions plus
some bonus questions. Now David Prince has kindly

(01:22:48):
offered to to write the quiz today.
I was stuck at work and wasn't unable to get out of there until
late. So, David Prince, Are you ready
to go? Actually, in the interests of
transparency, a number of the questions came from this book
that I found the post office theother day.
What book is it? Just as a display, total wheel

(01:23:12):
spin, it's called. It's a series of little books
and this one says car culture quizzes, myths and motoring
madness. So I thought that's written all.
Over everyone has read that book.
Please out yourself out of this quiz because I ain't read.
It I ain't read it. I have not.
I have not, so I'm happy to. And it's matching competitive

(01:23:33):
total leadfoot. Just motoring backfires,
burnouts, rattle traps and rarities.
It's amazing what you can find in the line of the post office.
That is quite good. So we've got 5 plays tonight,
myself, Julian, Chad, Ed and Scotty.
David Prince, your quiz, you take it away that before you

(01:23:53):
start, you buzz him in your nameand then most with the most
points at the end wins for the week.
And then if you win and you know, coming for ages, you still
got bragging rights. That's that's kind of the rule.
So I'll keep the mic in between,in between you guys so, so you
guys can just jump to it. But David Prince floor is yours.
Thank. You very much so you actually

(01:24:14):
learned some. I did learn a few things
actually. So whether they're or not
they're actually true will be interesting, but I'm presuming
they are. Book has to be.
True. It's a very authoritative volume
in this scene. Question one Maddie, the Ford
Ltd. We, we all love a Ford Ltd and
this we do, some of us have actually owned them.
What does Ltd stand for? Matthew.

(01:24:36):
Matthew. Oh.
Lincoln type design. Correct.
And you? I didn't know that.
Well, I knew that. I knew it, but I wasn't quick
enough. No, I'm not quick enough here.
Lincoln buy design. Where?
There you go. Lincoln type design.
Actually, me. There you go.
Everyone thinks it's limited or something.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah.

(01:24:56):
All my life, basically. So.
There you go. You can learn something on the
catwalk pod. You're trying to hire me
something? Boy, that's.
Yeah, OK, so question 2, the Bugatti Veyron is famous for
having a 16 cylinder engine, butan engine with even more
cylinders was originally contemplated how many cylinders

(01:25:19):
Ed engine have Ed? It had 24.
Incorrect. Yeah.
Matthew, trying to think of that, yeah.
Matthew. It's Tiktok, Matthew.
I know. Yeah, I'm.
Doing it? Yeah.
Tiktok Allen would be happy withthis.
Shenanigans, shenanigans. 18. Correct.

(01:25:40):
Oh, so it the first the the concept the EB118 show car which
was unveiled by the 98 Paris Motor Show.
It was powered by 6.3 litre W 18comprising of three banks of 6
cylinders. Imagine, imagine working on
that. Like that'd be the, that'd be
and it and it'd just be. Horrific.

(01:26:00):
I want to do a rocket cover gasket on that.
Yeah, the middle 1 needs doing all right.
Right. You're just gonna change the
plugs? I don't know if it was like the
Mercedes style, the twin like. That where the.
Cylinder had the 2 spark. Plugs 2 plugs.
I, I once got, I once got pickedup in a success, organised me a,

(01:26:25):
a drive in a, in a Maybach and it was a like AV 12 Maybach twin
turbo thing. And it was a beautiful car,
right? He's like, yeah, we've just
spent almost like 6 or 7 grand just on basic maintenance on the
car. Yeah, 2 spark plugs per
cylinder, coil packs all round. It was just it was and I'm like
my God. And then I was complaining the

(01:26:45):
other day about how cheap the the AED.
So the the MR2 was in Toyota past to to do the clutch in
every league. So.
Perspective. Terrific.
Question. Next question.
So Sanyo but continuing with theMusso name.
So the original Sangyongs that were released in Australia back

(01:27:07):
in the low 90s but not late 90s.I think Sangyong Musso and now
the dual Caveux, the Sangyong Musso.
What does where does the name come from?
Not Sangyong Musso. Where does Musso name come from?
You say like the origins of it or like.

(01:27:28):
Yeah. What does it mean?
Is it? Julian, I'd be a real stab like
in the dark, but is it somethingto do with like the Italian name
for mouth like? Sorry, I can't quite hear you.
The Italian name for mouth is muscle.
Muscle, muscle. So no, interestingly, you're on
the right track. They had an interesting face.

(01:27:48):
That's where it's arrived, you know, interesting.
I designed those old Sagans. I like what you think.
That's actually quite, that's actually quite good.
He's really thought about. That's more than any of us do,
really. No idea, but that was just.
Yeah, and even more technically,he's on the right track.
Is that is that .5? No.

(01:28:09):
No, not quite. Not quite OK.
No, Chad. Anyone else?
I'm going to say it's some sort of variation of like muscle,
like strength. No, no.
Ed. It's named after Mussolini.
Mussolini, you know. No, that's not right either.

(01:28:29):
Surprisingly. Got.
His Matthew Sumo like but they they just they they got the only
because it's a yeah, it's a big truck instead of sort of like.
Musso sumo. They'll just swap the letters
around. Is that is that where they go
from? I like your thinking.
Again, no incorrect. Scotty on you, you gotta.

(01:28:51):
Have something that's that's that's it.
No, all your guesses are kind ofkicked off all mine that I was
thinking of. Russo.
Russo. Nah, can't even have a guess.
OK, got to think of the origin of the car.
It's the Korean word for rhinoceros.
Oh, really? Yeah.

(01:29:13):
Yeah. It looks like a rhinoceros.
In metallic grey particularly. Exactly right.
Hey, it's a Mercedes. Got Mercedes guts guys.
Mercedes engine. Ain't no poachers after that
one. No, they can all go extinct.
OK. The next question is related to

(01:29:34):
it as well. So the Rhino interestingly was
also the design inspiration for another car.
Can anybody name the car? Japanese car?
I'll give you that much. Not a.
Korean Car. David, Matthew.
The Suzuki Samurai. No.

(01:29:54):
OK, this is a Rhino was the inspiration for another brand
of. Design language?
No, no, not the name, sorry. The design language.
So we know, we know about photo design and we know about, you
know how what influences some ofthe designers of Japanese cars
over the years? The rhinoceros.
I'm trying to think of a Jack car that looks like a rhino.

(01:30:19):
Specifically a jet car? Or could it have been a truck
SUV? Halfway between.
I was thinking like, for some reason, was it like Hino that
was using rhinos and their advertisers?
Yeah, look, I'm, I'll, I'll that's where.
I was going with that, yeah, yeah.
That's good, that's good. He's very analytical.
He must be an engineer of some sort.

(01:30:41):
He's putting us to shame, boys, in terms of how he's thinking.
No, no. Anyone.
Anyone. I just can't think of a car that
looks like a rhino. When when I tell you what it is,
you go see that. Maybe Sanyong Stavik?
I think, I think that's degrading to to rhinos
everywhere. Yeah.

(01:31:04):
Think of something maybe like Boxy or yeah, the thing I can
think of and I'll just say the pro box.
I saw one, saw one on the road the other day.
Oh, did you? Yeah, yeah, With some really
nice sealies. It was really cool of me.
Yeah, like a pro box. I assume that's the wrong

(01:31:25):
answer. David, I might.
I might just have a stab. I'm not sure if I've had a guess
yet. No, no, I was.
Just yes, Chad, it'll. Be blank.
Go ahead, Chad. The famous went to Chad about 3
minutes ago. TikTok, Chad.
TikTok. I've completely blank.
I forgot what I'm never mind. You're too young to be having

(01:31:47):
those moments, buddy. No, Done no good.
It's all done to. I jet or something like that,
like a random K truck. I like that too, but no no, it
was actually a Honda of. Course one more guest, David,
like I have already gone but theNissan Duke.

(01:32:10):
No, no. But I I see you thinking it's.
Just ugly. This is ugly.
Yeah, well, maybe Rhino West. Honda actually were inspired by
the rhinoceros in the design of the MDX.
The. MDX.
Really. That's quite an MDX, Nothing
like a rhino. Yep, it is, according to Honda,

(01:32:33):
in the same way that the flounder fish inspired the EG
city. Well.
Well, then I can sort of see. No.
Well, I'm I'm going to say it. David Honda, you're wrong.
Sorry. It's.
I don't know what they were saying I.
Don't know what they were smoking about what?
Do you mean when you say found? It have a look at the.
Chat, I found it. That's very cool, Scotty.

(01:32:56):
A blound of fish. Scotty's what?
What's the basis of that, do youreckon?
Looks like? Oh gosh, no, I'm sort of.
Yeah, yeah. How nice or something?
That's the car, isn't it? Yeah, no, that's not MDX.
Next question. Next question, Hang on, let me
go back. I was busy depicted this this is

(01:33:17):
a bit of an easy one. I think an upgraded version of
the Mini minor released in 1969 was called the Mini.
K Yes, Ed. Ed.
It was an 1100 CCK, stands for kangaroo, was a round nose, the
newer door handles and the newertail lights.
It was an Australian only edition.
Is there anything I haven't covered off?

(01:33:39):
Would would you like the rest ofthe question?
Would you like to answer the question squarely in all of
that? It had a little badge on the
front quarter panel. It ran back to the kangaroo.
Surely in all of that I've covered off your question.
I didn't really quite get the question.
David made a statement. It did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I gave information that

(01:34:01):
covered the question. I did think that would be a
ladder and mazir for you actually that one, and I was
right. So there you go, the mini.
The K stood for Kangaroo becauseit's an Australian only model.
Chick Well done, Ed. Yeah.
Go ahead. Thank you.
SO. Much next question which which
Australian car has had a movie named after?

(01:34:21):
It was released in 1977 and it started Sigrid Thornton and Paul
Cousins. Matthew.
Matthew. Charger.
No. OK.
No, I know. I know 77 years before some of
you were born, not all of you itrebounding.

(01:34:45):
As per my jump up. No, I missed it.
I'm sorry. The the The Adventures of Ford
Fairlane. That's completely wrong, but I
just have to. That's a good one, I like that.
I keep thinking of the goddess of 1967, but that I mean, that's

(01:35:05):
a French castle. I know the answer to this, so
that's alright. Go, Matthew, Go.
But I've already I've already answered, I've answered it
wrong. But I don't know that.
When you guys answer it and and just before it, I'm not pretty
sure I got it right. I want to make sure I am I am
right. Well, I'm I'm out.
I don't know. Movie was it?
Yeah. Go and think of ATV show.
Remember Kingswood Country? Yeah, Kingswood, Yeah, not

(01:35:29):
taking the Kingswood. Yes, very well.
No clue. You guys are all out.
It's it was the P-76, wasn't it?No it.
Wasn't no they the movie? Was called FJ Holden.
Oh, right. OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And was it about it?

(01:35:49):
Was about FJ Holden and it was asort of a surface sort of, you
know, like punky sort of thing. Not really good or.
I don't think it won any Baftas,any Oscars, the Oscars or
anything. Well.
David I'm pretty sure I saw I, I, it's a, it's a terrible film,

(01:36:10):
but they, they did a, they did alike a promotional movie for the
P-76 and it was, you know. Oh, they did.
I'd like to see it. I've seen bits of that online
recently, I think, yeah. Yeah, actually that was quite
common with when they released, you know, to do a sort of movie
style thing. I've got one of the the Torana
hatchback with Gil Tucker who was in cop shop for years and

(01:36:32):
it's like an ad and it goes for like 3540 minutes and they're
camping in the back of the the Torana with the Hatch hutch.
And it's very cool. But no, there was a movie and it
started Secret Thorn, Australianmovie royalty and was made in
1977. And the theme song was sang by

(01:36:52):
Frankie J Holden from Old 55. So I mean FJ Holden.
There you go that. Makes.
Sense it was a synergy, it was asynergy.
Total sense. Next question, the successor of
the we'll, we'll just change gears here.
Literally and figuratively. The successor of the Porsche 356
was to be known as the 901 modelEd.

(01:37:13):
Matthew. Ed Oh, I did get it first on
yes. Yes, it was to be known as the
901, but Peugeot had the copyright of the O in the middle
of the zero in the middle, so Porsche had to call it the 911.
He's absolutely correct, yes. I've got deja vu, wasn't that a
question recently? It was.
Yeah, I. Was going to say I think I was

(01:37:34):
literally listening to this today.
Might have been one that I was. I do listen.
Oh, wow. OK, OK, baby.
You're rehashing. I wasn't on that episode.
I don't think this must have been a.
That might have not been my quiz.
That's fair. That's why I knew what the EDS
was. And my guy, he's going to ask
that. OK, thank you.

(01:37:55):
Oh, it's the book's fault. And I had, like, 40 minutes
notice, so, you know, come on, give me a ring.
Yeah, you did. Doing well, Very well.
Following the successful successof the relaunch of the Renault 5
as an electric car, what's the next model Renault that has been
reborn in a new generation? Ed.

(01:38:16):
Ed. Is it the Renault 4?
Correct. It is the Renault four that
little 5 speed hatch and next toyou there actually bringing out
a 4 by 4 version of it of. Course they are like that.
Of course they are to fill a segment that doesn't doesn't
actually need to. OK, Question 9, which is the

(01:38:36):
latest manufacturer to an oh, very topical tonight actually
given our discussion, which is the latest manufacturer to
announce that the manual gearboxis dead to their range announced
this week? Everyone's looking at at Julie
Vodka. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Get to their range. They've had manuals since the

(01:38:57):
car was released in 1959. I think manual gearbox has been
offered. Jesus, Ed, is it the Mini as in
BMW Mini? Correct.
Well, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

(01:39:17):
Yeah, yeah, many manuals are gone.
I mean, I don't, I don't think many people took it up, but they
were available, but especially in the JCWS and the sort of
things no more, no more in the in the the new incoming
generation. I guess there's no point making
if no one's buying it and. Where are you going to find a
clutch? Oh, I know.

(01:39:38):
Yes. OK, last question it better
news, which manufacturer has just announced that manuals will
continue in a new version of their popular small car again
this week? Chad.
Ed. Chad.
Chad, I think, I know Ed might have not heard that, but.

(01:39:59):
Ben here, you guys did Chad he off you go.
Chad. Is Ed Mazda?
Incorrect. Ed is it Kia?
Incorrect. Matthew.
Matthew. Is it Toyota with the Yaris?

(01:40:21):
Incorrect. OK, so see what Scotty and
Julian. Is it Ford with the Mustang?
Incorrect. I haven't been online much this
week, so I haven't really kept up with the news, but I feel
like I'm I'm trying see, I'm trying to think back to like the

(01:40:41):
Instagram feed. Yeah.
And, and no doubt I would have. Passed it.
Somewhere because obviously it'svery topical that I keep an eye
on this sort of stuff. But yeah, it hasn't been the way
this week. I'm just going to throw Mazda
like this, yeah. Incorrect.
Incorrect. No, the answer is Fiat.

(01:41:04):
Fiat. Fiat have actually reengineered
the the new, the newer bigger, abigger chassis, electric 500 to
take a petrol engine. Oh cool.
And as part of that, well a petrol hybrid engine and as part
of that reengineering is going to be a 6 speed manual gearbox.

(01:41:25):
That's cool. Which?
Would actually make it an interesting and and worthwhile
kind of drive especially. Yeah, it could be.
It's the electric one I'd say. Now, is that 9 questions or 10?
Oh yeah, that's 10. Oh, OK, OK, I had another one,
but that's all right. We've got a tiebreaker 1 so.
Cool. There's there's no need for it

(01:41:46):
because Edward was cleaned us out today on for Well done
Edward, do you win? Oh, the grand.
Well done. Yes, Edward is on fire.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Edward, is anyone you want to thank?
Just myself. I'm turning into Scotty.
Yeah, I like it. Here's a goal, Here's a golf
tip. Take up a different sport that's

(01:42:07):
more fun, No? Such thing.
Well, that's the end of the that's the end of the show.
Let's do some plugs. Let's go in the room, Julian,
things are coming on. We'll, we'll, we'll plug you
guys when what you do. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, just jump on to, you know, yeah, Uni Clutch website,
go to our social stuff like that.

(01:42:29):
If you're a listener, you heard heard me talking.
If you've got any questions, just start reach out on our
socials and yeah, you know anyone that's listening, you
know, and said through an email PR at uni clutch com, you'll get
me there. So if you've got any feedback
for the website or just in general questions, stuff like
that, yeah, feel free to reach out and just mention that you,

(01:42:50):
you know, heard the pod and and yeah, give some positive
criticism or negative, I guess. Hopefully positive, but you
know. Criticism, whatever, we all will
learn stuff like that, so that'sall good.
It'll be a critique. Yeah.
Critique. Yeah, that's it.
Perfect. Yeah.
Awesome dude. Scooty's golf tip of the week.
Golf tip of the week is how to give your backswing more power.

(01:43:14):
So as you start with your club going back, what you want to do
is make sure that your your hands are as far away from your
right ear as possible. So that means that you're
stretching out. You're stretching out a lot more
with that arm. So that means you're, I guess
your swing arc is going to be a lot, a lot wider.

(01:43:37):
Everyone's doing it. Yeah, far as you can like feel.
Like I'm hurling a hammer, yeah.Because a lot of.
People. Elbows too much, Scotty.
A lot of people bend their elbows and go in like this.
You want to keep it out. The club's still going to aim
out here towards your head anyway.

(01:43:57):
You don't want to like that, Select that and then come in.
The arc is a lot better, more power off you go there.
You go nice. Interesting.
Do you play golf? Julian no, I haven't.
I haven't played, even though I'm right around the corner from
Norman. You are.
I I go, I, you know, walk aroundit and jog around it quite a

(01:44:19):
bit. But yeah, I haven't diverted in.
But I feel like with time. And we've got his tips.
Probably, yeah, we've got his tips.
Yeah, let me know how it goes. David Prince and Edward Bunting,
anything you'd like to plug? I've got a Suzuki Swift coming
up for sale in 2005 auto and I've got a 2006 Mercedes E350

(01:44:44):
Elegance coming up soon as well.Spokane, the Gale.
Japanese economy. German.
Luxury. Luxury.
Chad's deliveries delivering to a place near you.
As is Penal. Yeah, he'll bring it.
Yeah, you're bringing that like your Facebook pages can't talk
TORQATUTORQA with any of our previous episodes.

(01:45:05):
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(01:45:26):
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