Pandem Perfection Daniel Song’s Widebody A90 Toyota Supra

What's up everyone, Larry Chen here. Welcome to another episode of Hoonigan Autofocus. We got two amazing Supras here. We got the owner Daniel Sung of this one which is the very very modified one. That one is mine. This is actually the first time I've ever done a shoot when we have the legitimate stock version next to the very modified one. Yeah, you can see the before and after. It legitimately is a before and after which is just so cool. You can actually go from back and forth like this is different. This is yeah this is stock. Tell us a little bit about this. I actually had a chance to see this on the SEMA show floor at the Toyo Tire Treadpass and in my eyes it was probably one of the better built A90 Supras of the 2019 SEMA show. Yeah I mean there was uh it's obviously no big surprise. Supras were everywhere at last year's SEMA show. I think there was like what you guys did a count right like over 50? I think it was 64. So 64 Supras and I want to say there was like 11 Pandem Supras. Out of the 11 I think two or three of them were the version 1.5 versus this first version of the car. Obviously there was really not going to be that much we could do to visually stand out from everybody else. So from the beginning of the project we really focused on like the execution of the build. We didn't want to fall prey into the idea of the rushed SEMA build where people are using duct tape and bubble gum to hold their cars together. We wanted to make sure that it was done properly especially because Stan gave me the opportunity to do it for the Treadpass. I mean you got some incredible builders. I mean you guys covered a lot of the cars there too. All right without a doubt every single year the best builds that actually speak to me and that evoke this emotion of real car culture and a lot of them are crazy and they're so imaginative but some of them are simpler builds but they're still very inspiring. Absolutely so I think it's not like not every car has to be overdone but it's got to have a lot of personality and uniqueness to it. So again given the platform to build for Toyota Treadpass I just wanted to make sure we delivered something even though again I couldn't avoid that there was going to be 65 Supras, 11 Pandem cars. I just wanted to make sure that I put together something that was quality you know what I mean for the Treadpass. Yeah so definitely no Bluetooth anything on this car except for the Bluetooth radio right? I mean everything works. Yes. And it looks the part it looks amazing. Can we kind of do a little walk around from the outside? Yeah tell me. So all right the first thing that I notice is it's missing a headlight. Yeah so this was something that came after SEMA. So a company out of the UK called Eventuri they do a lot of high-end intake systems for BMWs and other European applications kind of jumped into this well it's a natural transition right I mean this is a BMW DNA car. So literally for SEMA they were able to produce two prototype intakes maybe three and just a few engine covers and so they were installed the intake and the engine cover were installed on day one of SEMA. That's like how fresh and new it was. The headlight duct was something that they knew that they were going to build but it just wasn't ready for SEMA so we recently put this in. Wow so this is actually functional. Yeah it is so basically I mean it sits in there the intake box was designed with a removable sort of port so there's the stock air intake which feeds into the box and then there's another like cover plate that you can remove which now feeds the air directly from the headlight duct into the intake box so it's absolutely functional. So that actually seems like to be a trend with this car like the Toyota engineers actually kind of mentioned that a lot of this is built so we can to some degree yeah and even to the point where it's actually relatively simple to swap it to a manual transmission to the point where there was actually a manual transmission car at the SEMA show. Yeah I mean there's a lot of little like signs when you kind of take apart the car and look into the car you can see mounting points you can see areas that were designed to receive a part but there is no part there right I mean most notably you look at for example like the the strut tower brace you can see clearly where there was meant to be marking markings for mounting points you even see like indentations in the stock intake box where bars can run across so I think Toyota engineers were like very intentional saying hey we know people are going to tinker with this car let's embrace that I mean there are like other manufacturers that will say you touch the car you breathe on it the wrong way we're going to void your warranty and like Toyota seemed to go like the other way around we're like yeah personalize it we'll make it like your canvas to work with. Let's decide maybe there's a happy tree evergreen tree he lives right there. Very cool all right so let's talk about the kit. Yeah so like I said this is the Pandem version 1.5 now everything else is going to look relatively the same as the version 1.0 the most notable thing is going to be the rear wing setup so again on the 1.0s you get kind of that sort of sort of combat early 2090s style sort of combat style wing and the version 1.5 you get that sort of GT swan neck wing so that's the most notable feature on the 1.5. So this is actually part of the kit? Yeah so wow this ducktail deck is specifically to receive the swan neck wing whereas again the combat wing this trunk deck would actually be molded in with the up wing uprights so again that's where the biggest difference is between the one and the 1.5. Oh and then you have Marathon's signature right? Yeah so I mean he has a lot of projects that he's very involved with obviously there's U.S. side builders that he's worked with all the time I think this was one of the Pandem builds that yeah he knew how many kits were in the U.S. obviously but he wasn't really supervising this project so when he saw it at SEMA when this was unloading ironically enough his cars were also unloading and he came over and spent quite a number of hours like just really looking at the car and he was just telling us that he was really happy with the results very pleased with the quality of the build and you know I said can you please sign the car and so he went over and signed it. You know I do have to say like if there's one person to make such an impact on the tuning world man Mirason like I don't know if he really grasps it I don't know if he understands it every time I see him it's such a joyous moment to kind of you know share stories with him and talk to him about cars but like I don't know if he actually understands how much of an impact he's made on the industry. And I think a lot of people just won't recognize that until we look back in hindsight right you know we look back like in an era where again I call it the quote-unquote fast and the furious era and now somehow we can go back and reflect on that and say like how awesome was that in its own weird way that early 2000s era of building cars was unique it was just it was defined by a look it was defined by a style and I think again whether people appreciate it or not I think 10 years from now we're going to look back and say this guy's made a huge impact on the tuning world very cool all right so while we're back here you got Remarque exhaust for this yeah like what people probably don't understand is how much of a rush everything was on this car I mean we're looking at it now you know way after SEMA and you've had a chance to button up a lot of things yeah and a lot of people are starting to actually get these parts on their actual cars yeah but this was probably one of the first cars to receive that exhaust yeah Remarque literally had the exhaust prototype and made they didn't have a car to display it on they were rushing and you know I again like I said I won't send the name but I had an exhaust purchased for this car and one of the Remarque dealers came with me and said we need a Supra can you please please run this and again I wasn't familiar with the brand I've built a great relationship now and they're just again they're amazing the quality of their product is amazing again there's just support I got a Christmas present from them too they sent a Lego those speed Lego sets you know it's pretty cool all right so let's take a look around here I know the wheels that that was a big thing for you too to to handle I mean because pretty much nobody made an offset for this car yeah and still probably unless you go with a custom cut like three-piece wheel you know from any of the bespoke sort of forged cut like wheels you're not going to find an aggressive wheel that's going to work for this kit one the kit is really really wide um number two was again when we built this for SEMA the T37s didn't even come in super spec there was no 5x112s all the 5x114 applications so I knew I had to run a custom spacer anyways so I had a shop basically machine me the spacers and that also served as like PCD converters so that I was able to run the 5x114s on the Supra and that allowed me to not have to re-drill the wheels or scuff the wheels up so yeah this is essentially a one-off application this way and again it was an intentional thing like you had a lot of these wide-body cars that are running on air right so they can just drop the car on the ground it looks great this is on KW version 3s V3s but beyond just the KWs again I wanted to make sure we had sort of a motor sports feel to the car so we ran with the 19 inch wheels not the big 20 or 21 inch wheels a lot of meat on the tires and then I didn't want that deep like three-piece wheel look you know what it means yeah honestly I think that's one of my favorite parts of this car the fact that there is a lot of meat on that tire I'm all about function you know and if it happens to look good then more power to you one of the crazy parts about this kit is that it kind of extends onto the door so when you actually open the door like that's part of the kit it's just such a crazy design feature I really like that I mean again just the installation of the kit this is like different from your traditional fender flare kits where you had one fender piece that just slaps on and then the front lip and the side skirts are independent of that so if you go back to for example like the Rocket Bunny FR-S you'll if you look at the way the fender flares work it's independent of everything else but this kit if you look at it carefully from the front lip to the bumper cap to the hood piece to the everything actually fits with each other so if you're off by like two or three millimeters on fitment in the front by the time you get to the back you're off by six or eight millimeters and so everything has to be fine-tuned to work because I mean you can see these seam lines I mean there's no there's no forgiveness to it I mean so again if something is tweaked incorrectly you're going to see that later on so it's kind of interesting because uh one of the unique parts of the Supra uh on the stock one one of the things that I noticed right away is that the top of the the fender here it's like part of the hood exactly it's just a different design element compared to a lot of sports cars that you see out there and then I thought as soon as I saw that I'm like okay I know Mirosan's gonna make a kit for this car what is he gonna do yeah you know and then he came up with this craziness right here that it separates uh but it still looks good yeah and that's again it looks great the solution works and obviously every sort of wide body application since the original Pandem kit sort of treats it the same way there's a bumper cap there's a hood cap and then there's a fender cap right so it's usually a three-piece front fender piece um the downside though is you have that many more panels you have to align and make sure they fit to the body of the car again when we're talking about the execution of it you'll notice that there's like zero rubber weltings on the car so we made sure that we sanded and reglassed and reshaped every piece the quality of the kit is great but it's not perfect I don't think there's any brand that's going to ever be perfect but you'll see again the fitment of the kit along the body is like paper thin flush you know what I mean oh that's a good point yeah it's one of those things that until you just pointed it out I didn't actually notice it yeah I mean if I look back on the pictures from the SEMA show I'm sure a lot of other kits had that yeah I actually had a chance to see uh Nakai-san from RWB he actually does it all with his finger yeah right so he tapes it off puts the silicone yeah the silicone and he uses his finger to to kind of like draw out the lines um that so tell me a little bit about the brakes the brakes are insane yeah they're the Brembo GTS kits again like I said there's I believe there's a rear application now available but again at the time of SEMA the front application was the only thing available you know we had the choice between running the GT kit and then the GTS kit but you know again going with the theme of motorsports and performance and functional performance the GTS is obviously the way to go you know what I mean so yeah it's a massive rotor too yeah that is massive what about the interior did you do anything to the interior oh yeah oh the interior is crazy too all right oh my goodness I mean there's only so much we were able to get done before SEMA so we're running the full studio RSR roll cage as well as the rear brace and we had these seats these are Recaro Pro Racer seats these were only available through Recaro Japan so obviously there's there's really not many that float around in the U.S. one because of the cost but number two you would have to import them in luckily evasive had two pairs like on a container coming in there I think though the the wait time on these seats even in the fiberglass the FRP version is almost like 12 months the carbon ones are even longer and so yeah I mean evasive luckily had two seats while I was building the Supra I was told and I just I begged them like I need to have a pair and so luckily these work again Supra cabin is very very small you can see how close these sort of head bolsters get yeah how is that oh my god trust me there are a lot it is so close you can't even I can't even put my finger in there are a lot of people running aftermarket seats where their seat bolster their shoulder and head bolsters are actually hitting the pillars or it's actually hitting the door cards how the I mean wow you really did you have to custom make these brackets no luckily we did it so again Brid and and Recaro again it just worked again we we weren't going to know until we got the seats in so again we were a week out from SEMA the slider rails landed landed the seats came in and we just crossed our fingers put it in and we were expecting to modify maybe um cut and re-weld some of the brackets but it dropped in and again the clearance is tight but it's we get it there's no rubbing there's no um any issue with with whatsoever so we we lucked out for sure this is seriously I've never actually seen these seats before this is probably one of the craziest seats craziest design like what the heck is so modern it's it really is modern it's actually very very good looking I do have to say I've never seen anything like it I'm sure it uh it's pretty comfortable too it is I mean for as intimidating as the seats look it's actually very comfortable it's I mean it's memory form inserts you know given that I've only driven the car I mean this coming out to this shoot was probably the longest drive I've ever taken in the Supra but again it's it's great it looks a lot more intimidating I was afraid that this was going to be a painful seat to stay in and tell me about the cage the thing about the Supra is I even have trouble removing the luggage cover yeah I have to basically you have to like turn it and then shoot it out the front yeah there's a whole puzzle like a Tetris like like process to be able to get things out of the car even even again the spare well cover and like the trunk mat to get all of that stuff out yeah it's a little bit of work again it's a tight tight space but again Studio RSR built this cage again the tolerance the clearance is very great there's not a lot of room which obviously a good roll cage should not have a lot of room again like I said we powder coated this to match as close to of course the turbulence gray so it's a satin version of the exterior paint versus again I just didn't want to do anything bright or like like I know a lot of people run accent colors on their cars the only accent color on this car is the teal that you'll see and that was really just for me I just I was really inspired by the Patronus F1 livery so I just figured with the silver with the dark colors the monotone like that silver like or that teal accent would pop and so that's really the only color you'll find on the car can we see under the hood yeah I like how you know your way around the car hey you see that other thing sitting right there so here it is so how much did you actually do to the engine so right now the eVenturi carbon intake box obviously all the full array of Cusco parts the eVenturi engine cover down right there is the pure 700 turbo upgrade so that's the pure upgrade oh what the and then it's the turbo mates to a SSR performance down pipe and then of course out through the remark exhaust and we also have an SSR performance charge pipe here as well so I think aside from Frederick Osbo's brand new Formula Drift car this is the only Supra that I've seen with any other things than just bolt-ons yeah I mean there's a few guys riding the the pure setup and there are a lot of and again at SEMA a lot less but there are definitely enthusiasts out there that are looking for high horsepower numbers a lot of YouTube vloggers and stuff like that so this was a setup that I think a lot of people ran between the pure 700 a good performance down pipe and a good tune I mean people are putting out I mean with 93 octane or even race fuel people are doing like high 600s this was tuned for 91 octane just because of California we're doing upper 400s on this right now as it is I think it was a 493 yeah hey man and just driving that stock one with just a little over 300 horsepower it already kind of gets me in trouble you know because it's a it's a modern sports car you know and that's kind of why I love these cars so much because a lot of people like to talk badly about these cars let's be honest right yeah but in my eyes any manufacturer that can come out with a brand new sports car in this day and age is all right by me yeah I mean again I think a lot of people have an idea and don't get me wrong I think platforms like the Supra and the NSX the reception has always been controversial because they're such a nostalgic romantic attachment to the name and the heritage of the car so when you disrupt that people get offended real quickly and so especially the Supra especially like the NC1 NSX like both cars just have an immense amount of criticism and like hatred for the car but if you judge it as its own car this is a phenomenal car just like the NC1 was you know what I mean and so I think people have to understand that car dealerships or car manufacturers don't make a lot of money on sports cars they make money on crossovers and compacts and family cars so the fact that Toyota is willing to put out a Supra I think we should just be grateful and enjoy the car for what it is and not be overly critical that it doesn't have a six-speed or doesn't have an updated 2JZ motor or whatever it is you know what I mean all right so and another thing what's funny is um I realized we're like totally twinning in so many ways only their mother can tell them apart uh let's see we're both Asian uh we both have gray Supras and we both have 240z's how crazy is that yeah yeah I've been following your build as well um again our Z's been done for now about two years um that I think was completed back in 2017 I think it was done debuted at JCCS and then the following year showed up at SEMA for Enios but yeah I mean that's my pride and joy that one I think that's what we're gonna have to shoot next but uh for now I actually want to hear this thing uh because uh I've never actually heard a Supra with this many modifications yeah I mean just maybe with exhaust and tune but this thing is really really cool oh man it is so much more aggressive than stock like like 10 times more aggressive than stock and what's really cool is with the headlight duct you get to hear the intake working so much loudly I mean it's it's pretty cool I mean you get to hear the exhaust noise you get to hear the intake working I mean yeah you get to hear the turbo spooling up it's just it's really cool unfortunately the gas struts are not powerful enough to hold this up with the wing but if you want to I don't know if you want to get any oh wow yeah this is pretty impressive so this actually it bolts to yeah so yeah to the chassis and stiffens up the rear area um again getting you remember we were talking about how it was difficult getting the cargo cover off imagine getting this piece in here because again the tolerance I mean if you look at where it bolts it's like literally less than a finger space between of it so it literally there's like one perfect solution to get it in and if not you're scratching your panels that is even to the point where I feel like you probably had to like remove some of this stuff you know actually it fit but there's a specific way that you have to orient and turn and twist and bring it back in it's just it's not a straightforward solution for sure wow yeah all right about to go for a ride in this thing um wow these seats are just unlike anything else you think you've seen everything you know you you think that that they've designed everything that there is to design but this it's just so crazy looking it really is wow so it's pretty tight yep but but because it's designed well it's still like supporting me in yeah and where I need to get where I need to have support okay you're clear on this side you're clear on this side yep well it's still quiet oh okay all right now now you can really hear it all right so that's the difference uh right right up here that's the difference right away in the stock one you can't actually hear the turbos um but just a little bit right there I can hear the turbos oh man you've probably never even really driven this on a canyon road huh not like this wow okay it feels really good I mean the kws are amazing the exhaust sounds really really good especially when you let off this is these are the roads that you built this for yeah seriously like this is very very cool only here all I know this set to the wheels did you have a chance to that yeah with a new tune again this was done with a conservative 91 octane tune just because I didn't want to go through the hassle of like sourcing race fuel every time I needed to get out so again on a 91 octane tune this is doing 493. I forget the torque rating on this car but I that's it's very close wow so that's that's probably close to 550 or so at the crank yeah and again there are people that are with again 93 with ethanol meth injection race fuel people are getting high 600s out of this same setup so it's not a theory people have done it with this exact same setup getting high 600s just again for all the effort that went into fitting this kit and even the paint like I repainted the car so I had the kit painted and it was like the paint match was off enough that it bothered me now again most people wouldn't even stand even came over it's like I don't notice it but like to me like it was bothering me that the paint was just off just a little bit um and so literally I think four days before SEMA we sanded and prepped and resprayed the whole the all the body kit again um and it's like so complicated because wow yeah like it was that last minute yeah four days before yeah at least on again the biggest thing that we stressed on was the execution of the car and I felt like paint and body work was part of execution it wasn't just a bolt-on item so again getting the paint match to be absolutely dialed in was imperative to me especially because the lighting condition in the tread pass is very like dynamic you like during the daytime you have the natural sunlight coming through and that influences the paint one way and then in the evening hours they have that like sort of like fluorescent indoor lighting and that will influence the paint in another way so like there was no one way to like say oh well this light is a little bit more forgiving but this light will totally exploit the paint issue you know what I mean and here's the thing about the tread pass it's actually the brightest area in all of SEMA that's indoors still because it's lit like a gallery piece you know what I mean every car I mean they have a lighting tech come in and once the cars are like sort of set up a lighting engineer comes in and just makes sure the lights are hitting the car in a way that's like an art piece you know what I mean so there's really I mean there's not there's a lot of again I just just wanted to make sure it was perfect and so I was learning from the painter a lot of unique things like for example certain metallics because of the way the metallics spray out from the gun because there's an actual structure to the metallics it's not like a circular sort of structure so when you see a metallic in one direction it looks one color but when it flops on the other side it can look like another color so in order to match it not only do you have to get the paint code correct but you almost have to orient almost have to orient the piece the way it would go on the car and spray it in a uniform direction I see what you mean we couldn't just lay the pieces all flat we had to actually set up like jigs and like like almost set up the fenders upright like the way it would be like the all the pieces in the orientation it was supposed to be so when they sprayed it it would be uniform so the way the color would shift because turbulence gray has like a this warm gray to cool gray shift if you ever notice right and in order to get that correct you have to get the direction of the metallics to sit a certain way okay you guys uh on the paint side really took it to a different level that I never expected from a SEMA build that's pretty cool and again like I get it I get the functional value of vinyl wraps and I again look I've vinyl wrapped some of my other cars but you know when you see builders that are saying hey I could wide body a car and wrap it in three days and have it at SEMA there's a reason why they do that because there's no prep work to the kit needed you just dry fit the kit you send it to your vinyl guy and he's done 24 hours later and it hides especially if you're running a lot of the satin vinyls it will hide a lot of the flaws and the imperfection so again there's a reason why some of those pandem cars showed up just vinyl wrap you know what I mean well thank you so much for bringing out your car for us to shoot absolutely this thing is really well executed I love the story behind it I love the heart and soul that you put behind it and you're a real car guy you know we're gonna have a chance to shoot some of your other cars which I'm really excited about but it's it's just kind of cool to see this story you know as these cars get older and they get more affordable yeah there's gonna be some crazy builds but to be the first is uh something else yeah definitely is thanks