Thanks to Mobil 1™ motor oil for sponsoring this video. Mobil 1 motor oil is the recommended service fill for some of the most coveted cars on the market like Corvettes, Porsches, and Bentleys, as well as the factory fill for the Nissan GT-R, the high-powered cousin to our very own HiLow 350Zs. Visit AutoZone to find the right high-quality Mobil 1 synthetic oil for you: http://bit.ly/369T3Dd Are $2500 coilovers worth the money or can a $300 set get the job done? The HiLow boys set out to answer the tough questions about upgrading suspension. We bought two identical Nissan 350z's and have been modifying them to be FUN daily drivers that you can take to the track. James Pumphery and Zach Jobe's 350z gets the expensive parts, while Nolan Sykes and Aaron Parker's gets the cheap ones. Then we test them to see which components are actually worth spending the money on. Hi Team got a set of fully adjustable KW Suspension V3s and Low Team spent $300 on a set of eBay coilovers… well they don’t actually even have a name. So is it worth it? And which ones would you buy? Be sure to subscribe and hit that little bell icon so you get notified every time we drop a new video. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donutmedia/ Click here if you want to learn more about Donut Media: http://www.donut.media/ Donut Media is at the center of digital media for the next generation of automotive and motorsports enthusiasts. We are drivers, drifters, and car enthusiasts who love to tell stories
Checkout Car Wars! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_arx... We have a podcast! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOvw... $450 brake upgrade kit vs. a $4400 big brake kit. Does more expensive mean more better? And is it worth it? Donut bought two identical 350z’s and we have been modifying them to be fun, daily drivers that you can take to the track. James Pumphrey and Zach Jobe are on Team Hi, and their Z gets the expensive parts. Nolan Sykes and Aaron Parker are on Team Low, and their 350z gets the cheap parts. Afterwards, the teams test them to see which components are actually worth spending the money on. So far, we’ve installed coilovers and new wheel and tire combos on the 350Zs, and now we’re moving on to brakes. The ability to stop well is probably one of the more underrated features of a car. But if you’re planning some serious go-fast mods, like the turbo kits coming soon, or you want to turn yourself into a track rat, braking should be a priority. It’s just plain safer. And if you’re looking for the fastest possible laps, being able to brake harder and later means you’ll be shaving off time. So we want to see what kind of results we can get from a really basic brake upgrade versus a full super expensive brake kit. This time, Nolan and Aaron are getting a lot less total stuff for their money. Their $450 basic brake upgrade kit just comes with drilled and slotted rotors, braided stainless steel brake lines, Centric Posi Quiet brake pads for the street, and some Motul brake fluid. Low Car is keeping its stock sliding calipers, which aren’t quite as confidence-inspiring as opposed-piston calipers. Their design makes them flex more, so the pedal might not feel as good as James’ will after his brake upgrade. Hi Team is getting a full-on, 4-wheel upgrade with Wilwood 6-piston front calipers and 2-piston rear calipers, bigger 13-inch front rotors, pads, and braided stainless lines to the tune of $4400. Is more expensive more better? Wat
$1200 Limited Slip Differential vs a Free Welded Differential! Is saving the cash worth it? Let’s find out. Team Hi (James Pumphrey & Zach Jobe) and Team Low (Nolan Sykes & Aaron Parker) have installed coilovers, wheels, and big meaty tires in order to make their cars faster, but we’re not just building these 350zs to be race cars, we’re building them to be fun cars. And what’s more fun than doing some sweet drifties on the skid pad. To do that, we’re going to be swapping out our differentials... well Team Hi is. Nolan will be doing the time honored option of welding his. With an open differential, the power from your engine takes the path of least resistance to the wheels. That’s good for allowing the inside and outside wheels to spin at different speeds when taking a turn —which is the reason diffs were invented in the first place. But, if one wheel totally loses traction the open diff just keeps directing more power to it and that one wheel will keep spinning til kingdom come. This is what we call a one-tire fire. One way to limit that wheel from slipping is with a limited slip differential, or LSD. Team Hi bought a KAAZ SuperQ 2-way clutch-type Limited slip differential! 2 way means that the LSD engages the same amount during acceleration and deceleration. 2 way is generally the choice of drifters, because it keeps your lsd engaged pretty much all the time, which is good for skids. Another way to prevent that one tire fire slippage and not spend $1200, is to weld the spider gears together leaving your back wheels permanently locked together all the time. This is great in a straight lines and when drifting, but when you go around corners and the wheels need to go different speeds, the diff can’t do its job anymore and the wheels end up constantly scrubbing and breaking traction in small jumps. But sometimes breaking traction is exactly what you want :) Check out more Donut Media Videos: https://youtu.be/Pz8IGLgFE2s?list=PLF... Some of our bes
Get in on tha Butcher Box: www.butcherbox.com/hilow $2600 vinyl wrap vs $500 DIY Plasti dip kit. Is the wrap worth the cost? We bought two identical 350Zs and have been modifying them to be FUN, daily drivers that you can take to the track. James Pumphrey and Zach Jobe are on Team Hi, and their car gets the expensive parts. Nolan Sykes and Aaron Parker are on team Low. Their car gets the cheap ones. Then we test them to see which components are actually worth spending the money on. If you want to “paint” or change the color of your car, you basically have three options- A traditional paint job, a vinyl wrap, or plastidip. The gloss of a paint job is intoxicating, but a perfect paint job like that is not only ridonkulously expensive, but it takes forever. There is so much prep work involved with a paint job like! So Hi Team is taking the happy medium route: they're getting Hi Car professionally vinyl wrapped. $2600 bucks. A quality wrap job is the best of every world. Hardly any prep work. It only takes a few days to get one done, though if you’re doing it yourself, put your patience-pants on. It protects your paint --if it’s worth protecting, it’s totally reversible --for when you change your mind, and you can have any sort of graphic screen printed onto a vinyl wrap. Team Low will be plastidipping their car by hand. Plasti dip offers many of the same benefits as vinyl-wrapping, but for a fraction of the price. We bought this plasti dip kit from “dip your car” for $500. It is California compliant, so that might make it worse. But on the bright side, it is relatively easy to do yourself (or so Nolan thought), there’s very little prep work, it’s totally reversible, and it’s easy to fix damage or mistakes. The only downsides are that it’s never going to look like a great paint job, it’s not that durable, and Team Low has to do it themselves Does it look $2000 better? Let's find out! Check out more Donut Media Videos: https://youtu.be/Pz8IGLg
This is an epic one, fam! We bought two identical 350z’s and have been modifying them to be FUN, daily drivers that you can take to the track. Team Hi (James Pumphrey & Zach Jobe) get the expensive parts and Team Low (Nolan Sykes & Aaron Parker) get the cheap ones. Then we test them to see which components are actually worth spending the money on. If you want more power out of your Z, you really have to go forced induction. Which basically means, forcing more air into the engine to get more combustion. So in this episode we're installing turbochargers. Hi Team went with a Jim Wolf Technologies twin turbo kit. It’s high quality across the board. Best materials, it’s been through lots of R&D, everything should bolt up easily. But it’s $8000 DOLLARS! That’s more than we paid for the actual car! Can that possibly be worth it? It comes with two Garrett GT25 turbos. Garrett is one of the most trusted brands of turbo. It also comes with all the piping, plumbing and pieces you could ever ask for. Sometimes with these kits, the plumbing won’t fit quite right so you’ll find yourself having to do fabrication or calling your friend who knows how to weld. But with this expensive kit, theoretically everything should bolt right up and we won’t have to get our Tinker Boyz on. Part of that $8000 price tag. It was designed to be an OEM+ set-up with OEM reliability in mind, which means it shouldn’t require a lot of attention from you once its in--another benefit. It comes with its’ own piggyback box which talks with the car’s ECU or computer, and the right one can save you a lot of time and effort. These turbos are good for up to 530 hp, which is beneficial in two ways. If you do choose to go FULL hot boi down the line, you won’t need to upgrade your turbos, you can just keep these. The other benefit is that because these are way more than what we’re going to be throwing at them, they’re not likely to be a failure point. Team Low went with a Rev9 turbo kit, purc
$13,000 Turbo 350Z built with CHEAP parts vs. $33,000 twin-turbo 350Z built with EXPENSIVE parts. Does more expensive mean more better? We’re gonna find out once and for all. Donut bought two identical Nissan 350z’s, and for the past few weeks have been modifying them to be FUN, daily drivers that you can take to the track. Team Low (Nolan Sykes & Aaron Parker) got a bunch of really cheap parts and in the end got a slammed turbo z that shoots flames all for around $13,000. Team Hi (James Pumphrey & Zach Jobe) on the other hand, got a bunch of really nice expensive stuff totaling an astounding $33,000. Then we tested them to see which components are actually worth spending the money on. We’re gonna break down the cost of building these two cars, test them head to head on track, and decide which is better. Low Car got a set of eBay coilovers of unknown origin, and Hi Car was treated to a set of KW V3s. Next, we installed wheels and tires. Hi Car got some sick Advan RGIII’s wrapped in Bridgestone RE71s. Meanwhile on the Low Car, We bought some XXR 527s, and decided to run Federal RS-RR tires. In the end, both cars were able to achieve supercar-level braking distance by switching to super sticky rubber. Nolan and Aaron installed more aggressive brake pads, steel braided brake lines, flushed and replaced the brake fluid, and bled the lines. Over on Hi Car, Zach and James replaced the car’s entire braking system with a 6 piston, 13 brake kit from Wilwood. After that we went inside our Zs, installing racing seats. The Hi Car got two Sparco QRT-R seats, a Greddy steering wheel, and a hub to make it removable. Lo Car received some Corbeau DFXs racing seats. Next, both cars were fitted with modified differentials to make sick skids easier. Hi Car got a very trick Kaaz 2-way differential. Zach spent a lot of time adjusting the spacing, making sure it was perfect. Over on Lo Car we took a different route. Instead of installing a new differenti
Today we are installing ROLL CAGES! James and Zach are getting a professionally installed $4,000 4-pt bolt in Custom Painted and Color matched Chromoly roll cage. While Nolan and Aaron are getting a $2,000 4-pt bolt in Steel Roll Cage that they will install themselves.
James and Zach are getting a $5,500 C-West body kit built by the JDM Gods themselves! It comes with front and rear bumpers, side skirts, canards, a cf hood, and a rear wing. They also bought a set of $600 carbon fiber mirrors from Chargespeed. Shout out to our boy Tony at SocalZ who managed to track one down a wing for us that was hiding in a back room and sold it to us just in time to make this episode. Nolan and Aaron are getting a $300 Duraflex N1 Body Kit. Dude, $300!! But it didn’t come with a sweet hood or wing like Hi-car’s kit did. SO, they got a gigantic Street Faction wing and a JGTC inspired carbon fiber hood. The wing itself was $800, which makes the wing officially the most expensive thing on Low Car. The CF hood was $540 -- It was the cheapest one we could find. Oh, and they also got some eBay KNOCKOFF ganador mirrors for $40. Body Kits are one of the coolest mods you can do to your car because it really changes the way the car looks, it almost feels like you own a new car! Is all the extra money Team Hi is throwing at their body kit actually gonna make it look THAT much better than Low Car?
We Screwed Up! --- We heard you! -- AND WE'RE HERE TO MAKE IT RIGHT!!! Today we are seeking to redeem ourselves. We tried plastidipping LowCar previously, but we didn’t do the best job to say the least. You guys went to town in the comments and Nolan had to reconsider what he was doing with his life. BUT we are still confident that Plasti Dip is a viable option for changing the color of your car --as long as you do a good job. It can be pretty easily reversible (we hope), fairly inexpensive (if you only do it once), and it can look good.
Like everything in this series... WE DID IT WRONG THE FIRST TIME! Time to get them terbbies up to their full potential. When you add turbos you are jamming more air into the engine. When you jam more air, you need more fuel. Injectors and a fuel pump are gonna help the cars do just that. Stick around yall, it's time to actually see which car make a Mo p0wah bAbEh!!
$3,000 Suspension vs. $500 Suspension. Is the extra money worth it? We find out.
Welcome back boys & girls! In this episode the guys are trying to cool down their cars. Do you need the extra money to get the job done? Will Zach and James figure out why their car won't rev up? Will Nolan and Aaron's car catch on fire? Will we ever learn the names of all the dogs in the office?
Can cheap swag flex on expensive swag??? We’ve compared coilovers, brakes, wheels, tires, seats, turbo kits! And now we’re adding some mods that aren’t necessarily improving the car’s PERFORMANCE. BUT when you look good, you feel good, and when you feel good you drive good. At least that is what we're hoping. Today we are installing the MOST IMPORTANT part of any build, especially a performance build! We are talking lights, the type that make cars look hard. Hi Car is getting some crazy LED tail lights, some XK Glow RGB LED headlights, and underglow that they can control with their phone. Low car is getting some certified eBay garbage headlights, tail lights, and some ridiculously cheap underglows. And that’s it! We’ll see how nicely all of this stuff installs, and how it looks. THEN, we’ll hit the streets and get the public’ opinion. Can the cheap stuff flex as hard as the expensive parts?
WE'RE GOING TO THE TRACK!!!! Well gals and guys, this is it. This is the end of the epic saga of the 350z builds. We finally figure out if more expensive means more better. Is Hi Car actually faster than Low Car? WHY DID WE EVER THINK THAT WE COULD DO ALL OF THESE MODS IN THREE WEEKS!!!!????
$700 suspension upgrade vs. $3200 off-road suspension upgrade Does more expensive mean more better? Let’s find out! We bought two identical Toyota Tacomas, and we’re modifying them to be fun, daily drivers that you can take literally anywhere, except the ocean. One Taco gets expensive parts, and one gets cheap parts. Then we test them, to see which components are worth spending your hard-earned money on. Upgrading your suspension with new, longer travel springs and shocks can improve your truck’s ground clearance, ride quality, and ability to keep all 4 tires in touch with the ground while driving over uneven terrain. They also let you run bigger, sicker wheels and tires. Today, Hi Truck is getting…. An ICON Stage 4 Suspension System including front coilovers and rear shocks --both with external reservoirs-- a pair of add-a-leafs, and upper control arms all for $3200. And Low Truck is getting a Bilstein 3” lift kit which comes with springs, shocks, and an add-a-leaf kit. Our suspension upgrade costs $700-- less than a fourth the cost of Hi Team’s kit.
We bought two identical Toyota Tacomas, and we’ve been modifying them to be fun, daily drivers that you can take literally anywhere, except the ocean. One Taco gets expensive parts, and one gets cheap parts. Then we test them, to see which components are worth spending your hard-earned money on. Hi Truck is getting a set of Nitto Ridge Grappler All-Terrains… at $342 per tire! And Low Truck is getting some enda Klever All-Terrainss which are less than half the price at $147 per tire
We weld in this one!!! Hi Team is getting off-the-shelf predesigned armor, while Nolan and Aaron have to design and build their own. Who will come out on top?
$4000 front and rear pneumatic locking differential vs. $1300 used OEM e-locker. They're both better than an open diff, but which one is MORE better?
In this episode of HiLow, James Pumphrey and Nolan Sykes compare a $900 Smittybilt 2783 Overlander roof top tent vs a $3500 iKamper Skycamp hard shell rooftop tent to see if more expensive equals more better.
In the HiLow finale, Nolan Sykes and James Pumphrey compare a $21,000 Overlanding Toyota Tacoma build versus a $45,000 Overlanding Toyota Tacoma build.
HiLow with the Nissan 350Z's is back! But no turbos this time --we're going #v8 baby!
One Nissan 350Z is getting expensive cheap suspension parts ($1,500 worth of GKTech and Megan Racing) and one is getting expensive suspension parts ($8,000 worth of Wisefab and Feal), so we can slide and drift like the pros.
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