FastLifeNick's camshaft upgrade takes a detour to the machine shop

A Challenger teardown at Underground Tuning brings warped cylinder heads, a borrowed Corvette and some hands-on learning.

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CRAZIEST UPGRADED STAGE 4 CAMSHAFT INSTALLED IN MY MANUAL SCATPACK...

FastLifeNick gets past the valve covers and into unfamiliar territory in his only upload of the week. With technician Jacob guiding the teardown at Underground Tuning, the manual Challenger Scat Pack loses its bumper, intake and cylinder heads on the way to a Stage 4 camshaft upgrade.

"The furthest of my knowledge got to be the valve covers," Nick admits. That makes the garage work more interesting than a simple parts reveal: he's helping dismantle the engine while learning what comes next. Jacob removes the factory camshaft and slides in its replacement, but the following day brings a complication. The cylinder heads are slightly warped and need machining. Nick takes them over in a Mustang GT, having already borrowed Jordan's red Corvette Z06 for a lunch run.

"CRAZIEST UPGRADED STAGE 4 CAMSHAFT INSTALLED IN MY MANUAL SCATPACK..." has reached about 386,000 views and is comfortably the channel's busiest video by daily viewing. The upload includes a sponsored trading-platform segment. In the comments, viewers suggest further engine upgrades, while several pick out the music around the twenty-minute mark and ask for the song.

The manual Scat Pack's earlier racing and dyno-tuning uploads are also among the channel's most active videos. Across the week, FastLifeNick added subscribers, though the current daily viewing pace is well below its usual level. Among nearby motoring channels, Jim's Automotive Machine Shop had a particularly busy week, while DEBOSS GARAGE was quieter.

Back at Underground Tuning, the resurfaced heads return and Jacob lays out thicker replacement pushrods. This installment leaves plenty of its attention on the work behind the horsepower, rather than a finished power figure.

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The numbers

Here's how FastLifeNick's week looks across views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Jim's Automotive Machine …

2,882,552

ClawBoss

1,691,686

FastLifeNick

962,160

NoNonsenseKnowHow

689,094

Car and Driver

571,261

Autoalex Cars

562,261

The Late Brake Show

376,302

DEBOSS GARAGE

187,919

Autocar

112,172

subscribers

821,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

132,564,372

views per day

100,464

typical day: 179,710

first-day views of each video posted this week

CRAZIEST UPGRADED STAGE 4 CAMSHAFT INST…

214,688

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

NoNonsenseKnowHow

883,000

DEBOSS GARAGE

869,000

Car and Driver

861,000

Jim's Automotive Machine …

849,000

FastLifeNick

821,000

ClawBoss

820,000

Autoalex Cars

818,000

Autocar

814,000

The Late Brake Show

808,000

As of November 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.