Real Mechanic Reacts to Fast & Furious

If you watch the FF movies, from the first to last...you'll notice that Doms voice gets deeper and deeper, with fewer and fewer lines...its hilarious

I’m honestly surprised you guys didn’t mention the 25 speed transmissions their cars had🤭

What I think people miss is that these movies are very inspirational to car guys. It's sort of like Jurassic park to paleontologists, they are movies that captured the imagination of a generation. No one thinks they're realistic, but many people went into paleontology because of Jurassic Park and many people in the car industry went into cars precisely because they watched this movie and it inspired them to love cars.

And after the first race Dom says “Now we gotta take the block apart and replace the piston rings you melted” then Brian saves Dom and outruns the cops in the same car😂

I like how they ignore the fact that Paul literally pulled an invisible e brake to spin the car around

If I'm not mistaken the vault scene was partly done for real, obviously not with a real vault, but in parts these Charges were actually hauling a relatively heavy block, that was actually thrown against that glass building.

Random computer note: The "danger to manifold" scene has Walker opening a Compaq Presario laptop (you can see the distinctive oval with the red and silver logo), but from the other side the screen is a DVD player. Makes sense as the diagnostics were just cooked up by a digital FX team.

For Fast 5, they actually did drag the 9000lb safe around with a pair of chargers. Probably 10% of what you see in that sequence is real. There is a whole video explaining how they did it.

Are we just gonna glance over the fact that Jerry called a charger a challenger

You should’ve put that scene where the whole team tries to capture Dom and they start guessing how much horsepower he has.

In Fate of the Furious, going in reverse, there was 2 shifters in the car if you freeze when he shifts into reverse. This is because it was a combination tractor transmission with reverse on the second, meaning you could pull full speed in reverse with that particular car, but with ZERO synchronation. SNAP! goes the driveshaft

As a mechanic I knew this was gonna be brutal. The absolute cherry on the cake for me was the wheelie burnout in the snow on street tires. Can't remember which one it was in, nor do I care to look it up. Even in the interests of entertainment, there is only so much I can allow my intelligence to be challenged.

As objectively bad as they may be, Jeremiah's reactions show exactly why I will always love the F&F movies

The Evo going really fast in reverse, it's totally a super unique build there they used the Variomatic gearbox from an old DAF 66 or Volvo 340 as you could get them with the DAF gearbox. :P Basically it was a belt driven drivetrain with cones on each end, the faster you went, the belt would move on the cones, one problem though! while that gearbox meant that the DAF or Volvo had the same top speed in reverse as going forward, it also meant it only had 3 gears pretty much, Neutral, Drive, and Reverse, no 16 speed gearbox. :P

The washers falling out of the glove box is hilarious. Also, that fuel map hole will not make you run 9's 😂

Jeremiah’s reaction on repeat all throughout this video was the true entertainment 🤣

Luda's reaction over the fiero was priceless. " No that is not impressive" Extreme concerned look on face

12:28 if you look right when he goes into the reverse gear you can see it has 3 reverse gears because they added a tractor gear box which has more than more reverse gear.

Lol the "YEAH! YEAH!s" thrown in are a thing of beauty.

The car in Cuba race was portrayed to have a marine transmission, which would reverse direction of output thus allowing full forward gears to be utilized in opposite direction, it's that 'extra' shifter pulled when switching direction