Driving from Florida to Alaska, Again - Episode 1
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Four years ago, we technically drove from Florida to Alaska. But we cheated a little bit, because we only made it to the panhandle. BUT THIS TIME, we’re going to do it for real. We’re going from Tallahassee Florida to Anchorage Alaska, in Ben's 400whp track built Evo and other Ben's 500whp street built sti. 10,000 miles across the continent, in only 3 weeks. This trip is about accomplishing something that we’ve previously failed, and to experience as much of the continent as possible.
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TAYME I need U 2 - 5YFHZMJLXJT2PSOT
TAYME Whats next - XQSYJKUUUXD4CYCZ
Matthew Sievers Run a Way - ML3MCPMXETWJXQC0
Caleb Etheridge Beyond the Bridge - RWBJGEWGGKOXYIUC
Caleb Etheridge Twilight Moon - I6PV6RKGOFEWIUTN
Autumn Summers Voyager - QHVUSXVGYOV6ECMF
Mikey Geiger Sunset Panorama - MNSLWAVYWXJ6KZNN
Sam Barsh Benny's Drill - 9JWR8IPVFM2S0UQR
Sam Barsh Tied Up in trees - Q1K7KL5CNSR4WNVC
Lunareh Sonic Sephia - OOZHCDDBJEZ73OL7
Sam Barsh Lets be three - Q9E343XZ0LE4CNSH
Desert Dive Huzzah River Blues - CDP4ZLARUVGZHGC4
Fantoms to the races - UBTVI6BOBNCHDXXP
Ghost Beatz Selfcare Sunday - NPAQ5PSIP2YBJVQW
Lone Canyon The Found - RANMDJFWY6PIGD1T
Nu Alkemi$t Airport Lounges - 9NLH3WYHRDHQLNBI
IDOLS On Top of the World - 1AGVS1PWN4XM6CEG
00:00 - Intro
00:57 - Trip Starts
06:50 - Breakdown
10:33 - Fix
12:48 - Restart
18:21 - Florida
25:04 - Into the Midwest
28:01 - RS Motors
30:47 - To Canada 
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We need a "this will make it reliable" count from Ben and his Subaru.
It’s the EJ’s fault cant make a motor from the 80s last forever
That Subaru is a headcase. my guess is it's gonna break down again before they even cross the Mississippi
Subaru and Reliable don't go. Love the content keep it up!
The EK Civic is Ben's best vehicle.
That number hasn’t been invented yet
Frankly I would watch any road trip even if it didn’t have a theme. They’re just so cool and you guys edit them together so well.
Yup, I love their trips between how entertaining they make them, how fun it is to listen to them, the beautiful cinematography and the scope of each trip.
I actually wasn't expecting this trip, I was going through their videos and with how many projects they had going on I figured they would skip a road trip or even with how grand their have been maybe put them to rest.
So happy they are continuing to do them, it's what hooked me in the first place followed by their fantastic grid life stuff.
I like the themes but I agree. I kinda want a most reliable road trip car theme but then it would lack repair content which I like
If only it didn't cost them 5 figures in gas alone LOL
Dude no way, i saw you two leaving from Tallahassee on my way to Texas, I was in serious awe over these two cars passing by them, no idea this was taking place at all, seriously cool builds and an earned subscribe from me!
Retro san, can 1996 Impreza WRX STi Version III also able to travel to Alaska?
This is awesome.
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I still remember watching the first road trip by you guys. The production quality is astonishing. I am not a car guy and certainly hate to look after my old car. Not only was the video awesome with the scenic experience, but after watching the road trip videos, I do look after my car. I really enjoy this type of content. Thanks to Advance Auto Parts for sponsoring this channel.
I'm waiting for the new series "we took a brand new stock lexus LS and a mercedes S class with a warranties on a roadtrip and everything went well and we enjoyed ourselves"
If we wanted a roadtrip to not have any issues, we'd take some Hondas
@@GearsandGasoline That would be great. you know I'm something of an average honda enjoyer myself
@@GearsandGasoline - I hear Toyota Corolla's are cool for roadtrips too! =)
Would be great for an April fools series lol
@@GearsandGasoline Nah, man. Toyotas. Short Ben gets a Camry hybrid, tall Ben gets a Sienna minivan so he can finally roadtrip in comfort.
That moment when you realize that the subaru alone is gonna use $3500-$4500 in gas ALONE during this trip really puts things into perspective. That's insane
then to think about truckers driving big rigs back and fourth idk the $ amount but gas is taking a good chunk of Americans change
The Gas truck I drive is about $600 average each month. I love these price changes :) but that being said $4500, in a 500HP car over that distance to me is quite decent.
@@frbrbrgrblgrr7777 Exactly my thought. I think its worth it. This is one in a lifetime trip not everyone can say they drove from Florida to Alaska.
Well prices vary in different states so it could be more or less (which is crazy)
@@ToStompU I'm a trucker and surprisingly it's less than that. My weekly amount is about $3000-3200. Before had went up it was $1400-1600
Being from the UK, it always blows my mind when something like 2.5 hours of travelling isn't a big deal
I'm heading out to complete my motorcycle course in a week. The closest course location is three hours away. I'm in Ontario Canada.
I was in Ireland the summer of 2016 for work. I had Fridays off. Spent the long weekend driving/exploring the entire island. Locals thought I was crazy.
Yeah same
Honestly, I know you probably wouldn't be able to, but a 20-40 hour multiday roadtrip across the US is surprisingly really fun. Just get a cooler with some snacks and drinks, a somewhat roomy ish car and a bag of chips or whatever snacks you want, and just admire the change in scenery and possibly stop at some landmarks. I would love to go to Europe and do like a tour accross a few countries, sounds awesome just walking around and taking trains and crap to go places (excuse my absence of knowledge about European cross country public transportation, I'm american so all we have is amtrak which loses money and buses which are... strange to put it that way)
Edit: you'll want at least one friend to go with you, 3 is probably to sweet spot
I regularly drive from Saskatoon to Calgary & back, it's a combined 12 hr drive lol
The funny thing is that Subarus are generally pretty reliable. It’s once you start modifying the engine is when shit starts to go wrong. Or maybe Ben just has bad luck lol! Can’t wait for the next episodes!
Yeah Stock for stock subarus are nice but when you start pushing for power they’re quite limited on stock components. Evos are the perfect 4 cylinder to build but issue is if you want to exceed 400hp and not have your rods bend you have to build the bottom end.
@@manhattanskyline4526 Agreed. I have friends that all built their Evos or STIs and they all didn’t end well. Not saying it’s impossible, just proving that Evos & STIs can be reliable if you don’t build the motor. Stock is always the most reliable. Hey, both Bens made it back home right? They proved that you can drive to Alaska & back with 500whp built motors 🙌🏽
@@manhattanskyline4526 Josh Bader is a great guy to go watch on RUclips. He shows you what you can do with a Subaru. His wife's Type RA was 700 whp for 2 years on the stock engine. He's shows it all. It takes a real specialist to get these cars reliable with power. But I think wrenching on your build is half the fun.
At 25:32 he says The Subaru was stock when it blew up at 70k miles
@@skitstv2707 Yeah man, I watched the episode when he dyno’d it and blew it up..
Watching these videos always makes me want to plan a road trip... but with these gas prices... I will live vicariously through you guys
Right!????
wait are you telling me you DONT have 2700 bucks lying around to use just for gas???? What are you some kind of pleb? The economy is doing great and I know its true cuz the government said so.
@@philstaab7420 you mean 4k ? for 10k miles ? i paid 2500 about 3 years ago in my jeep for about 9k miles from GA to Montana WY , UT , CO and back to GA. Not included hotels food and other expenses. Good luck doing a trip this long for under $10k today.
@@dankcount Yeah no joke. Pretty much the only way to do a road trip longer than 1000 miles these days is if you happen to be elon musk or jeff bezos. lol Thanks Biden... oh shit sorry I meant Putin. Forgot we were blaming him for everything now.
@@philstaab7420 Gas prices and inflation are up all over the world, so whoever told you to blame Biden was lying to you.
These road trips are my favorite part of this channel!
Agreed!
Most of the scenes in the opening minute were of Western Canada, immediately recognizable to anyone who knows it well. Cascade Mountain's southeast wall on the thumbnail, as seen from near Canmore Alberta, Mt Robson near Jasper at 0.03 seconds, entrance to the Rockies near Banff at the village of Exshaw at 0.31 seconds, google images will prove all of them, others such as the Icefield Parkway climbing Sunwapta Pass on the Banff-Jasper National Park boundary at 0:45 don't have specific pictures on-line, but anyone who knows every peak on that 150 mile long road can identify it in seconds, here taken above the cliffs of Cirrus Mtn by drone, the highway can be seen climbing the pass in the distance. That cowboy at 0:37 talking about his gun charges/criminal record looked and sounded Montana or Wyoming though.........
This trip seems amazing. Nice to see people from VA do stuff like this!!!
Thank you so much for this content guys. Feels like I also travelled with you on your journey. Keep it up!
All my anxieties disappear whenever I watch you guys. Thank you so much.
Yea but where's the next episode..? Even CarTreck don't drag their road trips like that. C'mon guy's!!
@@TermlessHGW this is better than cartrek imo :p
These are just the kind of videos you don't want to end.
You guys came SO CLOSE to my hometown in the Canadian Prairies I had no idea!! ❤️ Great video so far, and can't wait to see the next leg of the trip! 👊👊👊
Cinematics and edit of this video is simply amazing, it's better than watching movie. And those cars are beautiful :)
This came out right after I finished binging the past four road trips on this channel. Sooooooooo happy right now. These guys have the best content on RUclips, hands down.
The first version of this trip started RIGHT after I sold my VIII and was the inspiration for me buying another. Can't wait to watch this series! Love you guys!
I honestly think what makes this channel amazing is that its not only about track days and making cars to perform in the track....but the actual regular people road trip stuff combined is greatly appreciated!! I'm #PhoenixAutoConcepts🇹🇹 full support..to you guys!!
This shit is awesome. I just sold my 420hp FPred Evo in January after 10 years of ownership all throughout my 20s. sometimes I miss it but at the same time i don't. The car was reliable as hell and never had any issues!
This series would definitely bring this channel to 1 million subscribers, what a fitting series it would be, way to kick things off with another roadtrip
These videos are cinematic masterpieces. Some of the highest quality content on RUclips. It's like a TV show!
I love watching your videos cos here in Botswana we r not as ‘financially independent’ as we wud like to be and can’t really afford thee lifestyle. Therefore watching u guys go on such trips is the next best thing
Absolutely love these series you guys do! I feel like I’m on a road trip as well! Stay safe guys! 🙌
I watched that in 2018 and I really loved it and was inspired. Now here we are again! Awesome!
I love watching this guys on the road , that gives me hope that one day I’ll go on a road trip like that and enjoy every second of it .
its so great seeing ben healthy and on the road. keep that engine going you hoon.
I love these road trips. Both cars look amazing!
The first road trip I watched you guys carry out, and I can’t wait to see you do it all again.
Thank you for this guys!!! The first one was so good. I will enjoy watching and rewatching
Love your road trips! Great content.
Yea finally missed these long road trips thank you all so much
love these videos, camera work is such high quality
I loved the first trip so much. What an awesome opportunity to revisit. Can’t wait to watch this through.
amazing video, 2 legendary automotive rivals traveling the road together
Consistently watching your content and supporting your Channel all the way from 🇵🇭
Keep up the awesome work!
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Same here from pH as well.
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Ph represents!!!
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Cant get enough of these roadtrips.We need part 2 ASAP.
I traveled 6k+ miles during a road trip in a Toyota Corolla. Never had to stop for anything other than food, restrooms, and gas.
What a road trip. I don't care what are you driving or how many hp you got. The trust to your car is good enough to prove what ever is that. views makes me feel relaxed. I also like driving. I really like this vlog 🔥
Finally, I have been waiting for a trip like this for a long time. The original trip was what really got me into the channel. The itch has finally been scratched!
Absolutely love watching these type of videos, hats off to who ever edits these because they’re f*cken great
Very relaxing and fun video! Gave me a lot of positive energy and brought me back to when I was young!
Epic man. I really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing.
Honestly,i was waiting for a roadtrip like this.Guys the cars look amazing,so does the views!✌️
It’s amazing we get to watch quality content like this for free. One of the best automotive channels on RUclips 🤙🏼
I absolutely love these road trip series
Never seen any of your videos but just watched the whole trip in one sitting. Great content guys !
I knew I saw you guys driving down the road. It was hard to tell since the sti. Looks like a normal sti but once I saw the blue bar and license plate on Ben's evo's I was like yup they're in a trip again.😂. One day y'all are gonna pass by me and imma honk the horn to get into the video lol
In a trip means they doin psychedelics lmao
@@MultiSneakerLover meant to say on* lol. Nice catch
YESSSS THE ROAD TRIP SERIES IS BACK
Great first episode for this trip. I am glad I sat down a few times to finish it. Now onto episode 2. (:
Can't believe you guys are doing it again. Thank you for such an amazing video.
I love you guys, please never stop making art.
Just to clarify Subaru and boxer engines are VERY reliable, well balanced, fuel efficient and great for road trips. Modified and boosted Subarus are not reliable. If you get an Outback or a Forester you're good for 300,000 miles with no major issues.
Except head gaskets, possible trans issues, and still potential for ring failure. Not to mention 25 mpg is hardly efficient these days. I’ve driven 3 various non boosted Subarus and one boosted one for long durations and had nothing but problems.
@@dudeshark2471 those were issues from 20 years ago. Their large SUV the Ascent gets 25mpg now. The Outback and Forester reach 33mpg highway.
@@dudeshark2471 got 26 mpg from a Golf R,getting the same from a GR Yaris,98 wrx sti getting 23 mpg.Fuel economy hasn't improved as much as you'd think.
I just sold my wrx with somewhat low miles and a babied motor and it was nothing but problems. Super fun and fast car but it was such a dick of a car to own with all the issues it had at 70k miles
I just bought a new to me, 2014 Forester 2.5i and other than some small issues with my electrical (passenger side running light and brake light burning out) it's had absolutely no issues
Last episode awesome. We were early waiting for the second part.. U guys do great videos.. Feel like we are in there. 🙂🙂👍
I need more road Trips can’t get enough from this beautiful videos 🔥❤️❤️
YESSSSSS THIS SERIES IS BACK.(I really missed this roadtrip series). At this point I want to go for a roadtrip across canada first when I get my licence in 2 yrs ;-;
I know me too I love this series
Loved the first series and so glad its back! Definitely serves an inspiration to get out and do a long road trip too
Love florida cant wait to move back really tired of all this cold weather up north 😫😇
Glad to see you guys have made it to 1,000,000 subscribers. Congrats!
Thanks for this amazingness, Gears & Gasolines!
I really enjoy this series. Cars driving long distances doing what they're meant to do, drive. Keep up this content please love it.
Your first trip has inspired me to buy a forrester and start planning a trip from the uk to mongolia. With loads of octane booster. Keep up the amazing inspiring trips.
...to mongolia?
Here we go again! We love you guys! Greetings from Athens Greece!
Wow i love your road trip videos. These are the only road trip videos i watch. I search on utube but nothing gets me like u guys do. Love the evo btw.
so good to see another road trip, a massive break away from the Track stuff!!! this gives so much relief and resonates with every automobile enthusiasts....
actually liked the ride height of the 9 at the start of trip haha! solid trip so far, im bloody entertained
Bro im moving from Maryland to orlando florida with my lowered not TOO lowered but low 06 honda civic si coupe with 127367 miles and this channel and videos gives me soo much faith and hope on my car to make it there. THANK YOU GUYS SHOWING HOPE IS ALWAYS THERE ESPECIALLY TRAVELING OR MOVING TO ANOTHER STATE YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING MY DUDES!
This video came up today on my page- I drove from Panama City, FL to Fairbanks, AK in 1990. 8 days 5084 miles. Great trip!
gotta love how his amenities are "Air conditioning and Tint"
out of a brand new car
short ben.... you need an EJ207 GC instead
I love you guys so much. I want to meet you guys some day. 100% my favorite channel on you tube! Such incredible content.
I watched your first trip and loved it. I’ve been all over as an OTR truck driver, but I’d love to a trip like this in my current daily, a 2019 SHO.
I always look forward to these videos , i just binge whenever they come out
Damn I should've recorded myself two months ago when I drove from Massachusetts down here to South Carolina with my 98 Honda Accord didn't fail me once love it to death.
LETS GO! 👏👏👏 cant wait to keep up with this journey! -Edgar
These road trip vids are the best!😀😀
Nice one. Always enjoying your road trips guys. Regards from Nairobi, Kenya.
In grad school 4 years ago i drove from Panama City to visit my friend doing research in prudhoe bay Alaska. We're both biologists and we were doing our summer research in those respective places. Took me a week!
i misread this and thought you did biological research at 4 yrs old
@@thlee3 Hahaha! No, at that age I was researching ants on the window sill and taking apart my brothers Legos!
Literally had to do my subaru’s oil return line last week because it was leaking oil….it’s what makes subaru a subaru
Thanks guys, your make great content!
Oh this is gonna be fun! 👀
Love the roadtrips; from the sights to the cars; the troubles and success!
Also; 21:38 that was a clean little yellow CRX!~
Ben, thank you for reminding me never to get tempted to touch my XT. I *definitely* am not built to drive on eggshells like that 😅.
Just watching the STI here’s giving me so much stress I couldn’t handle tuning any Subaru I use 👀. I already get 17.9 mpg of which I’m so happy because I’ve been getting 12 mpg, *fully stock* & that’s all the drama I need 😂.
OEM all day. Let me live vicariously through your IAG Ben 😅.
a stock Subaru is driving on eggshells. I thought I was fine, until my stock motor blew up with 69k miles. I feel much better now with the IAG block!
@@GearsandGasoline Nice.
This. My XT needs a new motor. 1 year after the first rebuild.
@@leopoldwhylie5076 why did you rebuild in the first place/what did you replace. I have an 07 obxt and am pretty sure the ringlands are gone but it still runs fine
@@GearsandGasoline This thought keeps popping in my mind - didn’t the motor blow so early mainly because of poor maintenance by previous owner? Or just bad driving habits - boosting while it is cold and so on.
I guess short Ben is taking it to the extreme in terms of test driving his new engine 😂
I’ve always wanted to do this, driving from Florida to Alaska. You guys talk about replacing motors like it’s another day tying your shoe lol awesome video
The wrx... one of the last car i would do a long road trip in. You guys are awesome for sharing this experience!
I know what I'm watching after leg day!
Cheers fellas
Deep squats dude, bollocks in socks.
I love these road trip series! If you guys feel comfortable telling us it would be cool to know how much money you guys spent on gas throughout the entire trip. Especially in these crazy gas times lol
If they were averaging 17mpg at $4.60/gal that's like $2600 per car each way. Lines up with Ben saying they'd use about 1000gal of fuel lol about $5k in gas between them
and now gas is even more lol
they used up 6k in gas and 6k in hotels all together
first time watching you lot, this is great stuff!
i have had 2 subarus. 2017 legacy and a 2021 forester. the legacy had 100,000 in 3 years and had zero issues. only did regular maintenance. the forester has over 15k in 4 months and been to several states. still no issues. subaru for life.
The old body style WRX looks sooo much better than the new one. Love seeing everything he's done to this one.
Yep. The 2020 Impreza WRX looked like BMW M3.
Road-trips are the best content , would love to do it
this evo looks so good !! that's amazing
Good video guys, keep up the good work
Been waiting for this! Morning cup of coffee, some family time and G&G time.
I always enjoy hearing about the lack of excitement towards the Midwest - as someone who lives in it and knows that there are some amazing secrets in the upper states. We do have corn fields, flatness, and snow - but we also have some pretty sweet roads if you know where to go.
Spill the beans my dude 😂
Fellow Midwesterner, here. I second that: SPILL THE BEANS.
I haven't been to your channel since the day you posted the Moore Automotive video with the 1000hp evo. I must say man congratulations to you guys this was awesome!
this guys always make me happy :) with my two dream cars evo and sti :) as always keep this channel big! :)
I have been planning to do similar road trips. How do you all drive back? Do you take the same routes coming back? Is it 10,00 miles both to and from?
typically i dont, but most of the time you have to but you could drive the same route back using old highways or back roads depending on the state
Imagine having enough gas money for this trip 😭😭😭
But seriously tho, both cars get around 20 mpg, assuming they have to drive ~3000 miles(Idk accurately) that's like 300 gallons of gas, or $1500 in gas money alone.
They *did* have a sponsor, so it makes sense
Are they planning to stay in Alaska? What about getting back?
@@nighthawk0077 They did say 10k miles. So…
@@01hafkee I know, I was replying to Carl
This was amazing ! keep it up guys, io do plan on making a trip from FL to CA
Can we all just appreciate how perfectly straight adjacent to the line Ben parked @20:34
You guys should take some 800-1000hp drag cars on a road trip
probably illegal lmao