In the video, two nearly identical Nissan 350Zs are modified to become fun daily drivers that can also be used for drifting. The main focus is on testing whether expensive or cheaper hydraulic handbrakes perform better. The team installs a basic $740 handbrake on one car (low team) and a top-tier $1500 handbrake on the other (high team). After installation, they test the handbrakes' performance through various drills at the track. Despite the high team's more sophisticated setup, both handbrakes effectively initiate drifts, but the low team's simpler setup performs comparably well, challenging the notion that more expensive necessarily means better.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The team modified two nearly identical Nissan 350Zs to create fun daily drivers that could be taken to the track.
2. They broke the cars and then transformed them to be fun daily drivers that could go drifting.
3. One car received expensive parts and the other received cheaper parts to test which components are worth spending money on.
4. The team added hydraulic handbrakes to both cars, which operate independently of the car's braking system.
5. The hydraulic handbrake has its own brake fluid reservoir, rear brake caliper, and new brake lever.
6. The team tested the hydraulic handbrake by installing it on both cars and testing its performance.
7. The team compared the performance of the two handbrakes, with the more expensive one costing $1,500 and the cheaper one costing $740.
8. The team found that the more expensive handbrake did not perform significantly better than the cheaper one.
9. The team tested the cars on a skid pad and found that the handbrake initiation was smoother on the cheaper car.
10. The team concluded that more expensive does not always mean better.