@@musewolfman I'm sorry officer. My dog ate my spark plug leads. Officer looks at you funny for pointing at a snake. And also because the officer pulled you over because his grandpa owned the car rest his soul.
I'm suprised how brave Tony has been so far. Usually the 126p breaks down, just because the allignment of stars just happened to be wrong, so you have to introduce duct tape and a screwdriver to the party
Way back when "Party like it's 1999" was still a future thing, I had a friend who raced thiese beasties. After a few months of helping out and wrenching on these, I learned one thing, Maluchy seemed to only exist in one of two states: - It would die if you looked at it wrong or, - it would just not quit no matter what. It makes sense that a Maluch that survived all the way to 2023 would fit into the latter category.
@spicey_art I'm looking to get one as a first car because they're actually cheap. Around £600 for the one I'm looking at. I want to engine swap it to a motor bike engine. Mf will be zooming 😂😂
@@MoraFermi My grandad had a car crash with the entire family in one of these, He was behind the wheel and my grandma at the passenger seat, with my dad and my uncle at the back seats, apparently they were bickering and grandad tried to swat at them with his hand and somehow they started to do barrel rolls, and iirc they apparently landed on the roof. Nobody but my grandma was hurt (sprained ankle), they still used it for a bit after that :D
So this one time mate I was so bloody off my head on spirits yea, and I decided "Eh if it works for me I'll put it in my nicky yea-" so I got the spirits and poured it in the niki eh, little tony, and then it stalled at 30mphs and crashed my car before I even got outta the bunnings car park I'm in jail.
If you cut open the actual spark plug wires you'll find the copper is probably about the same wire gauge as the speaker wire, most of the thickness is in the insulation, that speaker wire would probably give you a good shock if you held onto it, especially if you let it age in the engine bay for a year or so.
fun fact: the average speaker wire (16awg) can pass over 3600 volts, but can't really hold more than 10 amps of current before it starts overheating and melt its insulation. it is the current that causes the heat, not the voltage. and spark plugs require high voltage, not high current. so essentially if you want to cause any type of wire to burn from acting as a spark source you would need something more in the range of 20-24awg electronics wires lol
@@HoLDoN4Sec Electrical fires in engines are almost exclusively from accessories running 12V but high amps, without the proper fuse. Spark plugs are 50k V I think, but almost no amps as you said. Arcing requires voltage, not amps, and the higher the voltage, the hotter the spark.
Thanks for making all these videos kept me entertained during quarantine and still now with the James Chanel and as one great man said you need to thin out the soup a bit
Tony: Wins the fuel economy tests despite mauling its engine inside out Also Tony: Being ran on 8 different types of fuel, risk for external combustion with zip tie fan belts, and now being shreked with speaker spark leads
@@948320z Iirc in the first episode he said the model was a 91, you'd have to fact check me on that one lmao good chance they forgot it like they forgot the headlight housing screw hole lol
the thickness is both to prevent arching through the insulation (with high voltages arcing can occur even through wires which have too thin of an insulation) and they are also thick to act as shielding from the engine bay heat - this isn't just regular rubber insulation it is actually high temp protective insulation. this is why most 3rd party Chinese made spark plug wiring harnesses fail - they all cheap out on the insulation material type and thickness lol
So much time, effort, and money has gone into getting Tony working as best he can And now significantly more time and effort are going into trying to abuse Tony into submission
I have a video suggestion: how much TLC/proper maintenance can you and James do on one of these nuggets in a single trip to an auto parts store? though that said you could probably upload an unedited video of you two doing an oil change and I’d watch it
0:41 I recently ruined an ignition coil in a 1984 Honda Spree because I had no idea that I was supposed to screw off the end of the spark plug first. Wish I had watched this video a month ago. 😂
The thickness of the sparkplug wire is for insulation. If you look at just the wire, it's likely pretty skinny with a thick jacket around it. For my 03 fors taurus, the sparkplug wire is around 16-14 gauge in size, with an 8-6gauge jacket. Speaker wire (general wire, not specialty like for subs) is about the same gauge, minus the thick insulation. As you said in the video, it's for noise compression but also prevents "leakage" and or sparking to anything else but the sparkplug. In theory, if all your cars sparkplug wires broke while your driving, just about any wire can act as one for a temporary fix. Just don't expect it to perform well or last long. Most jackets (material) used for speaker wires don't really survive in the hot place that is the engine bay.
This was uploaded at the perfect time. I need to replace the plugs and wires on the Goldwing and it was looking to be an expensive task, this'll save me heaps of £
Once worked on a 1928 Packard 526. Beast of an inline 6, flathead engine. Used solid core copper wires, thick as coat hangers, jacketed with asbestos. Hadn't been replaced since the car rolled out of the showroom, and didn't need to be, even 80 years on.
All these Tony Abuse videos make me think of the wild adventures Pavel and his mate Jan must have had back in the 1980s. When due to problems with centrally planned logistics and lack of (spare) parts they would just have to make do with whatever was available.
As an American working in the automotive parts industry, I LOVE this content. Gearhead's a gearhead, no matter what part of the world. Much love from your Yankee brothers!
Next week: Wade and James get so fed up with waiting for wheels for the free car. They take Tony's wheels off and see if Tony can drive without its wheels.
if you cut a spark plug wire in half, you'll notice that the conductor is actually pretty small, the speaker wire is probably a heavier gauge wire than the real plug wires. most of the thickness is for RF and heat insulation. A lot of engines from the early 20th century had thin little wires with basically no insulation. At work I worked on a car from the early 50s that just didn't have boots on the plug wires, just a bare clip!
I actually have an old car from the 1920s and it has just plain wires for sparkplugs. I tried to listen to a radio that runs on batteries and i got these loud pops every time the engine ran.
My '84 MB 500SEL has that type of spark lead. It's really annoying because the ignition system also requires low resistance spark plugs. They're damn near impossible to find, but the good news? You're right about lawn mowers, there are still low quantities of lawn mower and dirt bike plugs that work for the car 😂
if theres another tony abuse you should start it by shorting out the starter motor i dunno about those fiats but you can start beetles with ratchet straps by wrapping it around the alternator which is also the fan pulley and pulling it
It'll work temporarily but you have to remember ignition sparks are between 5,000-40,000 volts, it'll quickly break down the insulation and start jumping.
Spark plug cables are mostly insulation to handle the electric field stress that comes from high voltages. The rubber boots at each end are also there to prevent any arcing. You'd probably find that the copper conductor in a conventional spark plug lead would be about the same as speaker wire which is already overkill because the current is so low and it's a low duty cycle electrical load.
Literally JUST watched today’s DankPods video and checked if I had missed the garbage time video, the same moment I clicked another video I got the notification for this, as sad as it is to see Tony get bullied it’s also hilarious how many of these things have actually _sorta_ worked
The tips of the spark plugs thread off because some older motorcycles and small engines used eyelets instead of snap-on clips for extra security since the engines were usually bolted directly to the frame and didn't run as smooth as you'd expect so vibration was a big problem. Also modern spark plug wires are more for electrical noise suppression than extra conductivity, so speaker wires actually aren't that out there for spark plug wires.
The bit that screws of the plug is for different type of cap probably best described as like a ratchet type cap. Usually found on small engine maybe its to do with rattling of small engines i dont know.
The reason why the top of the spark plugs unscrew dates back to farming equipment, back then they used a copper bar with a fork at the end like part number A-12275-AR
After the Dankpods x Garbage Time crossover, I was hoping for a Garbage Time x Dankpods crossover somehow. Not sure how that would work, i guess reviewing a weird car part with a green iPad behind it 🤔
For the grand finale of Tony Abuse you should see just how many of these abuses you can stack at the same time and still have tony drive under his own power.
now for the finale you need to run it with all of the tony abuse mods at once, speaker wire ignition coil, running on alcohol with a a zip tie fan belt
Definitely not trying to tell you how to live your life but fair warning a fire extinguisher is very messy if you need to use it and can be corrosive. Dont hesitate to use one if you have to but regular old water can be a good first line of defense.
The core in HT leads is pretty much the same if not less than what the speaker wire has, the thick insulation (why HT leads look so chonky) is for arc prevention and some RF protection.
this is effectively _solid core_ wire, you can still find this at the parts store with the proper amount of insulation but sold as a universal kit, cut them up to assemble and it's stranded copper wire all the way through
imagine replacing your coil wire and finding out that the reason you got pulled over is because your car is no longer FCC compliant
😂😂😂😂 "do you know why I pulled you over? Bet you don't!"
@@musewolfman I'm sorry officer. My dog ate my spark plug leads.
Officer looks at you funny for pointing at a snake. And also because the officer pulled you over because his grandpa owned the car rest his soul.
Quick mate pop on Without Me, because the FCC won’t let me FUCKING BE
fcc can't do shit down under :)
Cop: is there any particular reason why my radio equipment sounds like a Geiger Counter when I get within 30’ of your vehicle?
I'm suprised how brave Tony has been so far. Usually the 126p breaks down, just because the allignment of stars just happened to be wrong, so you have to introduce duct tape and a screwdriver to the party
This isn't just any 126p, this is Tony, the god of all 126p's
Way back when "Party like it's 1999" was still a future thing, I had a friend who raced thiese beasties. After a few months of helping out and wrenching on these, I learned one thing,
Maluchy seemed to only exist in one of two states:
- It would die if you looked at it wrong or,
- it would just not quit no matter what.
It makes sense that a Maluch that survived all the way to 2023 would fit into the latter category.
@@MoraFermiI own one now as a toy, and you're absolutely spot on 😂
@spicey_art I'm looking to get one as a first car because they're actually cheap. Around £600 for the one I'm looking at. I want to engine swap it to a motor bike engine. Mf will be zooming 😂😂
@@MoraFermi My grandad had a car crash with the entire family in one of these, He was behind the wheel and my grandma at the passenger seat, with my dad and my uncle at the back seats, apparently they were bickering and grandad tried to swat at them with his hand and somehow they started to do barrel rolls, and iirc they apparently landed on the roof. Nobody but my grandma was hurt (sprained ankle), they still used it for a bit after that :D
I'm just waiting for Wade to end up buying a Delorean for this channel purely because they came standard with Craig stereos from the factory.
Wait really! That’s so funny. The Craig font does match the Delorean vibe though.
I wonder if the back to the future DeLorean canonically has a Craig speaker?
Are you serious? 😂
This has to happen now, Wade needs to see this. Craig and DMC a combo we didn't know we needed.
WAT?! THEY DID?
I like that the Tony abuse methods are basically real-world versions of Wade's mic-test stories.
Enough proof that every mic-test story actually happened.
So this one time mate I was so bloody off my head on spirits yea, and I decided "Eh if it works for me I'll put it in my nicky yea-" so I got the spirits and poured it in the niki eh, little tony, and then it stalled at 30mphs and crashed my car before I even got outta the bunnings car park
I'm in jail.
2:20 Wade having fire extinguisher while James proceeds to do experiment on Tony is sweet, he may be an abuser, but at least he still cares about Tony
You have to keep the Tony Abuse series up while waiting for the nugget wheels after all
Wouldn't blasting Tony with a fire extinguisher completely ruin him?
Nah he just doesn't want the warehouse burning down.
@@thenarstarwe have a winner here, the warehouse is the valuable protected here lol
Kind of like torturing someone and keeping them alive so you can try new things. Or is that too dark?
I won't be surprised if by the end of this series, they'll just attach a sail to tony and try to catch the wind 😂
Honestly? It's small. It's light. Maybe not the worst experiment.
Lmao
If you cut open the actual spark plug wires you'll find the copper is probably about the same wire gauge as the speaker wire, most of the thickness is in the insulation, that speaker wire would probably give you a good shock if you held onto it, especially if you let it age in the engine bay for a year or so.
Or melt against any mildly warm part...
fun fact: the average speaker wire (16awg) can pass over 3600 volts, but can't really hold more than 10 amps of current before it starts overheating and melt its insulation.
it is the current that causes the heat, not the voltage.
and spark plugs require high voltage, not high current.
so essentially if you want to cause any type of wire to burn from acting as a spark source you would need something more in the range of 20-24awg electronics wires lol
@@HoLDoN4Sec it's both
@@HoLDoN4Sec Electrical fires in engines are almost exclusively from accessories running 12V but high amps, without the proper fuse. Spark plugs are 50k V I think, but almost no amps as you said. Arcing requires voltage, not amps, and the higher the voltage, the hotter the spark.
@@HoLDoN4Sec Spark plugs are usually 12k and up(probably not much higher on good-ole Tony), wouldn't trust the insulation to do much
Oh Tony. Way to go. Always putting on a show for us. Great content while we wait for the WHEELS!!!!
Its never a bad day when Wade uploads
Who?
Wadepods doesn't sound right
Wade is dankpods
Toaster
Yeah mate!
Thanks for making all these videos kept me entertained during quarantine and still now with the James Chanel and as one great man said you need to thin out the soup a bit
Tony: Wins the fuel economy tests despite mauling its engine inside out
Also Tony: Being ran on 8 different types of fuel, risk for external combustion with zip tie fan belts, and now being shreked with speaker spark leads
And missing a bolt on the exhaust manifold (probably since the 80s).
@@948320z Iirc in the first episode he said the model was a 91, you'd have to fact check me on that one lmao
good chance they forgot it like they forgot the headlight housing screw hole lol
THAT'S POLAND BABY
Didn't ya know, mate? Tony gets 15 hectares on a singke tank of kerosene :P
@@SilverPrince_PUT IT IN H
I imagine the cables are also thicker because of the high voltage they are carrying. Specifically, the insulating rubber is thicker.
I was thinking maybe heat insulation too, engine bays cab get hot. Well, not Tony's... but on a real car
Idk man just wrap it in electrical tape or.duct tape. Whichever works better
the thickness is both to prevent arching through the insulation (with high voltages arcing can occur even through wires which have too thin of an insulation) and they are also thick to act as shielding from the engine bay heat - this isn't just regular rubber insulation it is actually high temp protective insulation.
this is why most 3rd party Chinese made spark plug wiring harnesses fail - they all cheap out on the insulation material type and thickness lol
@Taistelupelto420 This would wreak havoc on the poor MP5 player...
Tony deserves to be the star of the next series, really fix him up good. He deserves happiness after all this
He really does id love to see a resto on tony
I think you guys need to try this with Christmas lights! Imagine how festive Tony's engine bay would be!
So much time, effort, and money has gone into getting Tony working as best he can
And now significantly more time and effort are going into trying to abuse Tony into submission
Tony was a wild bronco in disguise all along and at some point Dank figured it all out
At this put I'm fairly certain he's trying to get the wheels sent quicker by using the "I'll keep torturing Tony until they arrive" tactic.
ILL DO IT DON’T TEST ME!! 😂
I have a video suggestion: how much TLC/proper maintenance can you and James do on one of these nuggets in a single trip to an auto parts store?
though that said you could probably upload an unedited video of you two doing an oil change and I’d watch it
that would involve them doing proper maintenance, and we all know that's never going to happen
Oil change and throw a chair at Tony.
0:41
I recently ruined an ignition coil in a 1984 Honda Spree because I had no idea that I was supposed to screw off the end of the spark plug first. Wish I had watched this video a month ago. 😂
The thickness of the sparkplug wire is for insulation. If you look at just the wire, it's likely pretty skinny with a thick jacket around it.
For my 03 fors taurus, the sparkplug wire is around 16-14 gauge in size, with an 8-6gauge jacket. Speaker wire (general wire, not specialty like for subs) is about the same gauge, minus the thick insulation. As you said in the video, it's for noise compression but also prevents "leakage" and or sparking to anything else but the sparkplug.
In theory, if all your cars sparkplug wires broke while your driving, just about any wire can act as one for a temporary fix. Just don't expect it to perform well or last long. Most jackets (material) used for speaker wires don't really survive in the hot place that is the engine bay.
This was uploaded at the perfect time. I need to replace the plugs and wires on the Goldwing and it was looking to be an expensive task, this'll save me heaps of £
what we learn from all this is that THERE'S NO WHEELS
Lieutenant Dan! You got NO wheels!
Wade's slow descent into madness with Tony experiments has been a light in uni life haha
"I'm so sorry Tony" - No you're not, you monsters! 😫
Just kidding, keep the Tony torture coming! 🤣
Most spark plugs have screw on connectors but nobody uses them. It's a throwback to when all engines had forks or eyelets on the HT leads.
So spark plugs have legacy features?
Have seen more that don't than do.
Alot of sparkplug caps have use a smaller clip than the big ones found on cars
Next Tony abuse episode would be running NO2 or a ebay nugget turbo and seeing how far it can go
Nooooo that'd break it :(
Blow the head sky high, then see if you can just make a head out of fire proof foam while the head gets rebuilt
turbo tony would be amazing
@@yappingfornothing Turbony
I want to see them get new batteries for the electric Tony, the E-Nugg
It's currently 4 AM right now and I'm watching a brand new Garbage Time video, best way to lose my sleep
Once worked on a 1928 Packard 526. Beast of an inline 6, flathead engine. Used solid core copper wires, thick as coat hangers, jacketed with asbestos. Hadn't been replaced since the car rolled out of the showroom, and didn't need to be, even 80 years on.
Done once, done right. My '31 Ford uses bronze strips, hardly a millimetre thick and 6mm across.
Oh god, may the motor gods have mercy on Tony today
All these Tony Abuse videos make me think of the wild adventures Pavel and his mate Jan must have had back in the 1980s. When due to problems with centrally planned logistics and lack of (spare) parts they would just have to make do with whatever was available.
As an American working in the automotive parts industry, I LOVE this content. Gearhead's a gearhead, no matter what part of the world. Much love from your Yankee brothers!
Any day with tony abuse is a good day love the nugget work!
It's been a rough day and a rough while and honestly tony abuse is the only perfect thing to cheer me up, thank you upside down land man
RUclips flagged this video in my notifications as "Important"
Yes it is very important
It's 4am here in the middle of freedom land and I couldn't be happier to be up
i scour your channel for depravity in all shapes and sizes and i love all of it thank you for recording your passions.
Next week: Wade and James get so fed up with waiting for wheels for the free car. They take Tony's wheels off and see if Tony can drive without its wheels.
I love how when you go to this channel page and check the "Videos" tab, the caption on three videos straight just says "I'm so sorry Tony"
I really REALLY love that Auto Barn in an Australian accent sounds exactly like autobahn. Us Canadians couldn't possibly make such funny puns.
No joke I first heard "autobahn" and had to go back a bit to see what the sign actually said lol
Can Tony use vegetable oil instead of motor oil?
if you cut a spark plug wire in half, you'll notice that the conductor is actually pretty small, the speaker wire is probably a heavier gauge wire than the real plug wires. most of the thickness is for RF and heat insulation. A lot of engines from the early 20th century had thin little wires with basically no insulation. At work I worked on a car from the early 50s that just didn't have boots on the plug wires, just a bare clip!
I'm starting to believe that Wade was scammed when buying Tony. It's not a car it's a tank
What kind of tank
@@Dat-fox-in-a-box T-54 made in poland
I've never seen another person appart from my parents who own one of the wicker box/baskets, nice to know there are more of them out here
You guys are the best lol three cheers for Dank, James, and Tony
this is quality content right here. no joke garbage time might be my favourite channel in all of youtube lol. Love you, Danklord
This channel answers all the questions that my co-workers would look at me and ask "are you stupid?"
DankPods and Garbage Time never fails to make me laugh and make my day that much better
Waking up every Friday to the sound of an Aussie shouting at a car became the peak of my week
Tony is literally the most durable car ever created
Not gonna lie. Tony Abuse might be the best content you've put out.
I actually have an old car from the 1920s and it has just plain wires for sparkplugs. I tried to listen to a radio that runs on batteries and i got these loud pops every time the engine ran.
Tony's a real trooper for putting up with you guys
U shld just keep the opening as no wheels. Brings me to tears every time i see it 😂😂😂😂😂
Once again petitioning for Tony to get a "birthday" after all of this abuse
Spaught aughn
The voltage is quite high but the current is really low. That's why this works.
its cool that it seems james has become alot more comfortable talking on cam
My '84 MB 500SEL has that type of spark lead. It's really annoying because the ignition system also requires low resistance spark plugs. They're damn near impossible to find, but the good news? You're right about lawn mowers, there are still low quantities of lawn mower and dirt bike plugs that work for the car 😂
I love you guys, I just can't wait for you to upload mate. Love you guys so much, thank you for the great videos 🍻
Tony Tanking another video for us! Good Job Tony!
At this rate we're going to need the dedicated Tony abuse channel
For the Grand Finale of this series, we need all of these “modifications” combined into Tony
Let Tony rest, he may need it after this one
O hare time … let it die let it die
He shall rest when the wheels arrive
if theres another tony abuse you should start it by shorting out the starter motor
i dunno about those fiats but you can start beetles with ratchet straps by wrapping it around the alternator which is also the fan pulley and pulling it
this is the best thing i have ever seen in my entire life
tony is a true survivor, he's stronger than i'll ever be
two car videos??? BACK TO BACK??? We are blessed on this day
This whole thing screams electrical fire. Its perfect. Only thing you can try now is to run Tony with an AA or a 9-Volt
Speaking of radio waves, would spark plug cables make good speaker wires? People spend lots of money on EMI-shielded speaker wire.
Absolutely glorious. Gotta admit, I'm way more excited about mad Tony experiments than I am about free car. I live for the jank.
It'll work temporarily but you have to remember ignition sparks are between 5,000-40,000 volts, it'll quickly break down the insulation and start jumping.
Spark plug cables are mostly insulation to handle the electric field stress that comes from high voltages. The rubber boots at each end are also there to prevent any arcing. You'd probably find that the copper conductor in a conventional spark plug lead would be about the same as speaker wire which is already overkill because the current is so low and it's a low duty cycle electrical load.
Literally JUST watched today’s DankPods video and checked if I had missed the garbage time video, the same moment I clicked another video I got the notification for this, as sad as it is to see Tony get bullied it’s also hilarious how many of these things have actually _sorta_ worked
1:01 "This isn't a lawnmower!"
James: "Well......"
It may not be a lawnmower but it has the engine of one
The tips of the spark plugs thread off because some older motorcycles and small engines used eyelets instead of snap-on clips for extra security since the engines were usually bolted directly to the frame and didn't run as smooth as you'd expect so vibration was a big problem. Also modern spark plug wires are more for electrical noise suppression than extra conductivity, so speaker wires actually aren't that out there for spark plug wires.
James squealing, “Y-You might need to?!” was 😭😹.
Tony fix for the week, love it
Daaamn, WHEELS are escaped! 😂😂😂
Ok, I just subscribed...Love the Tony videos. I would love to see Tony get a turbo or a supercharger...lmao
two uploads in one day, boy am I getting a treat
One on Garbage time and one on Dankpods
We need the reverse... how much power does it take to run speakers through ignition wire?!
That went better than expected
Loving this series regardless! If you're in a pinch you can rip out the 6x9s in your Corolla and limp it home with speaker wire!
I totaly forgot this video existed
The bit that screws of the plug is for different type of cap probably best described as like a ratchet type cap. Usually found on small engine maybe its to do with rattling of small engines i dont know.
After the wheels arrive, you better do something special for Tony. And by special, I mean amusing enough to share with us.
The reason why the top of the spark plugs unscrew dates back to farming equipment, back then they used a copper bar with a fork at the end like part number A-12275-AR
After the Dankpods x Garbage Time crossover, I was hoping for a Garbage Time x Dankpods crossover somehow.
Not sure how that would work, i guess reviewing a weird car part with a green iPad behind it 🤔
For the grand finale of Tony Abuse you should see just how many of these abuses you can stack at the same time and still have tony drive under his own power.
I saw that and I was like "yeah, that's fine."
I don't think you were expecting this to not even be sketchy.
now for the finale you need to run it with all of the tony abuse mods at once, speaker wire ignition coil, running on alcohol with a a zip tie fan belt
the guys from garage54 made ignition leads from paper strips covered in pencil grafite on one side andit actually worked
"this isn't a lawnmower!" yeah, they don't usually run on just kerosene, do they?
The thickness is and extra insulation because of the high voltage. The current isn't high enough to heat up the wires.
Definitely not trying to tell you how to live your life but fair warning a fire extinguisher is very messy if you need to use it and can be corrosive. Dont hesitate to use one if you have to but regular old water can be a good first line of defense.
The core in HT leads is pretty much the same if not less than what the speaker wire has, the thick insulation (why HT leads look so chonky) is for arc prevention and some RF protection.
this is effectively _solid core_ wire, you can still find this at the parts store with the proper amount of insulation but sold as a universal kit, cut them up to assemble and it's stranded copper wire all the way through
I just saw a Tony in Estonia while on a trip, it's an iconic car.
The screw top plugs are common for mopeds, my old 50cc needed the screws off for the boot to go on
I can’t wait for the final free car episode but these tony abuse ones are actually interesting to watch
Next episode is gonna be "FREE CAR PART 10, also the tony died."