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Car YouTubers.
Turns out I fucking hate cars.
"Wait, why have I been watching car videos for years? I don't even like cars!"
Same but for a different reason. Im from the countryside so I don't have the same hate of car centric infrastructure as most on feddi, what I hate is theres nothing for opensource or real DIY. There is fully open source Arduino based ECMs, jerry rig a turbo and teach us how to dial in fuel and air mixture, or 3d print a cool dashboard with clicky buttons and dials
But nope, all your find on youtube is sponsored aftermarket carplay screens that are ugly as hell or $10k upgrade kits that drop into place. You wont learn any DIY or diagnostic skills
Low buck garage will take an old engine and pile of parts and make it into a working vehicle or he will fix old stuff and tells his thought process along the way. There are some decent youtubers out there but not the big ones
Watch wes work, müjin, the doubtful technician, grind hard plumbing co, there are lots of amazing builders, fixers, DIYers but you gotta find them
There's plenty of channels doing DIY stuff with cars. Open source is indeed a rare sight though.
I enjoy Wesley Kagan a lot, although he might be too much of an engineer to qualify as DIY...