00:00 [music]
00:20 Hey, it's Fryburger from Hot Rod, and this is going to be the story of resurrecting my Dodge Super V
00:24 after it's been sitting for 15 years, and then hitting the road and driving it to Las Vegas for the Mo Party at the Strip.
00:30 [music]
00:33 This will give you a good visual of how screwed we are.
00:36 Got seven days to go, and these are all the things on the car that are not done.
00:43 [music]
00:45 We still have a lot left to do in seven days, but at the end of that, I know we're going to be heroes.
00:50 You think we're going to make it?
00:51 [music]
00:54 [crickets chirping]
00:57 [music]
01:18 We've been awake all night working on the Super V. At midnight, we discovered that the heads were pouring water out both ends of them.
01:25 It healed itself. We're okay with that.
01:28 It healed itself with the installation of nitrous.
01:30 Yeah.
01:31 That's what I'm going with.
01:32 [music]
01:36 Uh-oh.
01:37 Oh, there's a puddle.
01:38 There is. This is ungood.
01:41 Remember that self-healing head gasket?
01:43 I'm not worried about that.
01:46 Who pointed that out?
01:48 So the car's leaking water.
01:50 Oh, there's a second puddle now.
01:51 And the boss has me cleaning the hood.
01:54 I'm just filing a little groove in here for the body lines. The scoop hits flat.
01:58 Finnegan's way over it by now.
02:00 [music]
02:06 Why do we find stress to be entertainment?
02:09 It's a coping mechanism.
02:11 [music]
02:17 My tech tip is you put the hood pins in, put a dab of grease on top of them, shuck the hood, and boom.
02:22 It marks exactly where you need to drill your hole.
02:25 As if by magic.
02:26 [music]
02:30 Then you get fiberglass in your eye because you didn't wear safety glasses.
02:33 Edwin, our art director, is here bringing us the latest cover of Hot Rod Magazine because we ignored the entire magazine this month while we were building my Super V.
02:40 The last minute thrasher. Pretty good.
02:42 Look, here's the blurb about this story right here.
02:45 No sleep till Vegas. Diary of a last minute car buildup.
02:48 Have you turned that story in yet, David?
02:50 Of course not.
02:51 They're only printing the magazine right now.
02:54 And we are now legit.
02:57 Except for, you know, the no brake light thing.
03:00 We're pretty much legal.
03:03 We're late.
03:06 Nothing wrong.
03:07 We need a round of applause for Grant who just fixed the brake lights.
03:11 [whistling]
03:14 Only took him four hours.
03:16 How's the toe?
03:17 Toe looks good. Okay, crossing that off the list.
03:21 Didn't bring that at all.
03:23 So we probably won't need it.
03:26 Almost.
03:27 We're catching the very last minute couple things that would have stopped us, like the radiator hose was never tightened, so that was pretty good.
03:33 We missed all the guys at Glendora Dodge that were gathering up for the Mopower cruise from Glendora to Las Vegas,
03:39 and so now our challenge is to see if we can catch up with them in Barstow.
03:43 [music]
04:09 The phone's ringing.
04:10 I wonder if it's them.
04:12 We're going 72 miles an hour.
04:15 What kind of RPM are we turning?
04:17 3,000.
04:18 I would like to catch up with some of those other Mopowers, though.
04:21 It'd be kind of fun to cruise with them.
04:23 [music]
04:34 We got 11.5 miles per gallon on our first fill-up.
04:37 Couldn't believe it.
04:39 No overdrive.
04:40 Looks like it's about the same this time.
04:42 [music]
04:57 I've been to Alien Jerky.
04:59 Now I get to see the Alien spaceship launch, which is just going to be amazing.
05:03 It's only a buck, and how can you lose for a dollar?
05:06 Like that?
05:08 Just like that.
05:09 Now leaving Baker, California.
05:11 It just occurred to me that we stopped and bought jerky and didn't get gas.
05:15 [laughter]
05:16 Should we put gas in it?
05:18 Let's find out how far it'll go.
05:20 [music]
05:28 Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
05:30 Not warm.
05:31 I hate to say this out loud, but I think there's a solid chance we're actually going to make it.
05:34 Oh, no.
05:35 [laughter]
05:37 That's a good 80, 90 miles for being even close to being able to claim that with peer liability.
05:43 [music]
05:59 You can hardly tell how excited I am because I'm about to fall on my face.
06:02 I'm so tired.
06:04 But we made it.
06:05 We're heroes once again.
06:07 Woo-hoo!
06:08 And I don't want to talk about it too much because you know it won't start in the morning if I do.
06:11 [music]
06:23 So what are we doing at Walmart?
06:25 I don't know. Buying shoes.
06:26 I never wear shoes.
06:28 And Canan left my one pair back at home because he refused to touch my socks.
06:33 Disgusting. He had to change them in two days.
06:35 I wasn't touching those.
06:37 I don't care. You have to have shoes for drag racing, so we're getting shoes and a terabyte drive for Video Guy.
06:43 There you go.
06:44 [music]
06:55 [music]
07:17 It's Friday morning and we made it to the drag strip, but I didn't pass tech inspection
07:22 because the neutral safety switch doesn't work, which I actually knew.
07:25 It's something we did not get to when we were thrashing on the car.
07:28 So now I get to do it in the pits.
07:30 [music]
07:40 We finally passed tech, but a bunch of guys have been hitting the wall out here on the drag strip, slowing down the program.
07:45 I'm just not that sure we're going to get a run in tonight, but I'm prepping the car just in case.
07:49 [music]
08:13 I am so bummed. I'm an idiot.
08:16 I have never raced at a drag strip that has a 1,000-foot finish line
08:19 because drag strips aren't supposed to have a 1,000-foot finish line.
08:23 So that's where I lifted. I'm so annoyed at myself.
08:27 The driver's a retard. Crew Chief's stellar, though.
08:30 So besides the fact that now David Freiburg or a single handling are going to go around to the national event raceways
08:36 and paint over the white stripe of the 1,000-foot mark.
08:39 I get to see out there with some black paint.
08:41 [bleep]
08:43 Exactly.
08:45 Maybe he just bust out and it was too fast. He's like, "Oh, I slipped!"
08:49 And then we got invited to be part of the Cruise Night Concert here at the Cannery.
08:58 [music]
09:10 I'm in love with the Charger.
09:12 This is general, but this is really nice.
09:15 The wheels are killer. And look how much room is in this, right?
09:18 Of course.
09:20 That's a back seat to hook up in.
09:22 [laughs]
09:23 [music]
09:31 Here's what I think.
09:36 We're going to up the main jets.
09:39 Maybe squeeze the air bleed just a little more.
09:43 And he figures out where the finish line is.
09:46 I think it's going to go...
09:48 70.
09:50 Maybe it's 60. 1160. I'll be generous.
09:53 If that's all it does, then we're going to put nitrous on it.
09:57 Lots of nitrous.
09:58 Lots of nitrous.
10:00 Lots and lots.
10:01 A little bit more than lots of nitrous.
10:03 I just had this car running for only about five seconds.
10:05 Everyone says you can't drive a Dominator on the street.
10:09 But watch. It's dead cold. It's like, what, 50 degrees?
10:12 If that.
10:13 If that.
10:14 And...
10:15 [engine starts]
10:17 Fires right up.
10:19 Drive.
10:21 See you out there.
10:22 [engine starts]
10:27 [music]
10:34 You're going to go faster.
10:35 Well, I just threw some more main jet in it.
10:39 Right now David's going to go out and wood it past the scoreboard,
10:44 which is where the real finish line is for real drag racing.
10:47 That'd be 1320 to you kids at home.
10:49 I don't know. Half hour, an hour from now, we'll see what she does.
10:52 [engine starts]
10:58 We're there.
11:00 [engine starts]
11:05 We're out of gas.
11:07 [music]
11:27 We made another pass this morning and went 1184 to 115,
11:30 but unfortunately we think we hurt the transmission.
11:33 So we're going to go see if we can get some expert advice
11:35 and find out right now why it's grinding in first gear.
11:39 Ready?
11:40 [music]
11:48 What's the story?
11:50 The transmission is blown up.
11:53 We made it through one round of qualifying today.
11:57 The car picked up a little bit, but on the return road,
12:00 it started grinding in first gear, which is never a good sign.
12:05 Took it out on the street, started grinding in second gear,
12:08 so we're a little worried the tranny may not make it home,
12:12 which isn't too much of a surprise because it was built 10 years ago
12:15 and never put in a car.
12:17 And we threw it in a car and drove it here and drag raced it.
12:21 It's failing us a little bit.
12:23 But the more urgent thing right now is we're packing
12:26 because that storm is coming, and we're going to attempt to put
12:30 some distance between us and Las Vegas before the tranny
12:32 completely gives up, and then we can use all of our AAA cards
12:35 to get us home.
12:37 Wish us luck.
12:38 [music]
12:48 Rob went to get tranny fluid.
12:50 We're going to try and drain it, put some fresh tranny fluid in it,
12:53 and drive all the way back to L.A. in third gear.
12:56 In the rain.
12:58 [music]
13:04 It is?
13:06 You probably can't see it on the camera.
13:09 There's actual snow coming out of the sky.
13:12 It's pretty awesome.
13:14 This is Las Vegas.
13:17 Vegas rules.
13:19 [laughter]
13:21 Oh!
13:22 Ah!
13:24 It's blowing all on me.
13:26 Ah!
13:33 I'm taking an ATF shower here.
13:36 So although we didn't see any chunks come out of it,
13:40 that's aluminum paste, I think.
13:45 Yeah.
13:46 Not good.
13:48 [music]
13:57 So that's the end of the drag strip part of the program.
13:59 We are going to go throw down a beer or ten,
14:02 and then first thing crack of dawn, we're going to head back to L.A.
14:04 and see if we can limp this thing home.
14:06 And that might be pretty entertaining.
14:08 [music]
14:13 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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