- This time on Roadkill,
we unearth the elusive barn find,
'76 Chevy El Camino.
- And I think we set a world record
for the longest trail of kitty litter ever.
- [Mike] Yo, that guy's going to beat you
with his broom. - I know,
I'd like to get out of here now.
(laughs)
Don't look him in the face.
- Run.
(engine revs)
(engine turns over)
(car speeds off)
(rock music)
(car speeds off)
- [Mike] We are in North Carolina.
Tony and I just flew in here because
we found a car on Craigslist
that is not the Pinto I was shopping for.
It is much worse.
Somewhere here on this farm,
is a 1976 Chevrolet El Camino
that at one point went drag race.
And now, we are going to go drag racing squared.
We are going to go half mile,
airport runway racing.
If we can make this pile of crap run
in the next three days.
I know in the past,
I may have done you wrong.
(laughs)
- That's true.
- But not this time.
This will not be another Firebird escapade.
Unless it is.
Hey there.
- How you doin'?
- You must be Tex.
Nice to meet you. - I talked to you
on the phone once and this must be Tony.
- Tony. How you doin'?
Yeah, we spoke on the phone.
- Yep. Sorry I didn't believe either one
of you guys, I thought it was a scam.
- Oh! - We get that a lot.
- We're kind of a scam.
- Yeah, when you call someone and say,
"How long has the car not run for?
"Great, we want to come make it run
"and go race it."
- Yeah.
- People tend to look at you funny.
- Exactly.
- It runs.
- It runs?
- It does run.
But it's been sittin' almost 10 years.
- Just 2007 was the last time it was on the strip.
You know, six passes.
The best time it did was a seven, eight.
And that's with this 300-pound body.
I shot a turbo 350 and I would've shifted it,
we don't have a shifter,
it's three to 300 stall.
- Okay. - Okay.
And how much gear does it have in the back?
- 488.
- 488. - That's got a nice chance.
We're going half mile racing.
You were going eighth mile, that was perfect for that.
Yeah.
Can we see? - Very cool.
- Down here in the barn.
- In the barn. - In the barn, okay.
- Perfect.
- There might be some bird crap on it.
- Well don't clean it on our account.
- Look dude it's halfway built,
there's stickers on it already.
- Yeah. - Perfect,
that means it's fast right?
Oh, yeah. - This thing's cool.
Oh.
- [Tex] It needs cleanin' up.
- You want to drive it? - Yeah.
- [Tex] You want me to pull it out?
- Sure, yeah.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- You do the honors, fire it up.
- [Tex] Right now?
- Yeah, please.
(engine sputters)
- [Tony] Sounds great.
- [Mike] I have a feeling all those stickers are legit.
- Yeah.
(engine sputters)
- [Mike] Dude, this isn't bad.
Like the floor's not,
I mean except for the ventilated trans tunnel.
Look this cage isn't bad, either.
Compared to some of the other cars with cages
we've had, this is not bad.
- So light.
Everything is covered in rust,
but it's got some good stuff on it.
- [Mike] Oh that's not an alternator,
that's the electric fan?
- That's the electric fan motor.
That's been in the water pump.
Yeah, it's an electric water pump set-up.
- Wow. - Yeah, that's vintage.
- So we run an alternator on here somewhere?
- [Tony] No, no alternator.
Got it.
- Alright, so we're going to need ...
- An alternator. - Alternator, yeah.
Okay.
Put the hood back on it and air cleaner
and go see it go to the ground.
- All right. We'll work it out.
- We'll just get some hundred leaded,
and we'll be in business.
- They sell that around here? - Aren't we
in the cradle of racing?
Don't they have that stuff around here?
- I think it comes out of the walls here.
- Yeah.
Doesn't that come out of the faucet?
This is awesome!
- Oh my God, it's ...
Way better than I thought it would be,
I got to be honest with you.
Any time you pull a car out of a barn,
it doesn't go this smoothly.
And the best part about it is,
he's taking care of it.
He's come out here every now and again,
fired it up so the motor's not locked up, you know.
It apparently runs, it sounds good.
It sounds healthy.
But there's just enough things on this car
that do need replacing, do need maintaining.
And do need modifying that we have work to do
that is genuinely going to be fun.
We will be able to improve it.
We will make it faster.
We will have an epic road trip.
Before we do this, just want to point out something
that in no way, shape or form is going to deter you
from what we're about to do.
- Uh-huh. - That's duct tape
holding the top of the fuel cell
to the bottom of the fuel cell.
- [Tony] Oh, great.
(funk music) (engine sputters)
(laughter)
(engine revs)
- It's loud!
(engine revs)
Whoo!
I don't think this is a good idea!
- That water's really hot!
- It's from the explosions.
- Yeah.
(car backfires)
Look at that, when it backfires it makes the leaves jump.
(laughs)
We're probably going to do more harm than good right now.
- I agree.
- Let's go work on it.
- [Tony] Oh my God, this is,
I felt okay before.
I feel less okay now.
All right!
Where do we start?
- We need a list, dude.
We need a list of everything that stops us
from getting to the airport.
- [Tony] Yup.
- And everything that stops us from beating a Lamborghini.
- [Tony] So we need a multi-tiered list.
- Yeah.
There's going to be a lot of levels--
- Wants and needs. - Yeah.
Some sort of must-haves,
don't care, - Hopeful?
- Not going to have. - Hope we get this.
(inquisitive music)
- [Mike] One bump.
There you go.
Right now we're taking the spark plugs out.
And that's a good easy way to determine
if there's anything seriously wrong with the engine.
You know, if there's water in the cylinders
you'll see it here on the spark plug.
If there's a lot of oil in the cylinders,
you'll see it here on the spark plug
and right now we look good.
I mean they're sooty, it's been running rich.
But there's not much oil on the thread, so.
I say, (object clatters)
give it nitrous.
(object clatters)
(oil spills)
- [Tony] Yeah that is hot, chunky garbage.
- [Mike] This is what happens
when you don't run antifreeze in your radiator.
When you just run straight water
and it sits around, so we're going to replace the radiator,
we're going to replace the hoses.
We're going to flush the block out,
and put probably just a little bit
of antifreeze in there.
What are the odds that that would go
right in the pan? (laughs)
That is right in the pan.
(blues music)
Watch your hand, dude.
That was close.
Hey, there we go.
It's a gusher.
(engine sputters)
- So we decided that we're going to put on
a proper alternator that will run the fan
fully and charge the car.
And since we have the radiator out
and we have all this access,
we're going to do all that stuff now
and then work our way back outward.
- Look, we have a radiator.
It's not the same as our original radiator,
but it is a radiator.
So we're going to put it in and go for a test drive.
- [Tony] I'm fabricating this strap,
and later I'm sure when we get to this half mile race,
they'll frown on this heavily.
(cranking) (rock music)
(tool drilling)
(pounding)
(door shuts)
So we've got the car all back together
and Tex is nice enough to let us take the car out
and make a little bit of a,
a test track in his backyard.
- I'm riding under protest, just so you know.
- It's fine.
(engine revs)
- [Mike] Hey, hey!
Is there oil in the engine?
- Yeah, I think so.
It's got pressure.
- Oh, okay.
(engine revs)
(laughs)
- That car runs way better.
That was super fun.
Sometimes I just need to get behind the wheel
and do a bunch of sliding around.
It's pretty much my favorite.
- Never before has Roadkill had such success
on the first day.
I mean I'm so cocky right now,
I'd say we already won and,
we can probably take the next three days off
and still beat a Lamborghini.
But we won't.
'Cause there's nitrous.
And that's like an atomic bomb.
You just have to put the pieces together.
You have to drop it, you have to find out
what happens when you put nitrous on an engine
you know nothing about for a half of a mile.
And we will.
Soon.
(country music)
(engine sputtering)
(engine revs)
It's day two, morning time.
We have two days left before we are supposed
to be racing,
the Earle Camino for a full half mile.
That's right, we have a name, which is important.
It is named after Tex Earle,
the guy who sold us the car and also,
My Name is Earl, great TV show.
- Yeah.
- What did we accomplish?
We sort of have an alternator.
It threw the belt yesterday during the test drive.
- Test drive.
- So I'm not crossing that off.
I did cross off radiator because it has one.
And batteries. - Yup.
- 'Cause you installed a battery.
- I did.
- And we crossed off things we bought, sort of.
But there's a lot left.
I don't think we're going to do all of this here.
That's not much adventure in that.
I think we're going to re-gear it,
put a windshield in it,
take out the side windows so we don't suffocate.
- And hit the road.
- And hit the road. - And hit the road.
- I got three holes, you feel me?
- Yeah you do.
(upbeat music)
So we've got the car running pretty well.
But with the 488 gears, this thing
only wants to go about 95 miles an hour.
And at a half mile, we're trying to go about 150 or more,
so we have a set of 308 gears which,
I think technically would put our top speed at 160.
- Oh it's clean.
That's really clean, look at it.
- Yeah.
- That probably tastes all right.
- The blast came out all right.
But those center pieces are, look at that.
- Is that broke? - It's broke.
See this square edge here?
That's how it should be here.
(banging)
(upbeat music)
(object clatters)
All right so, we have an alternator
but we don't have a complete charging system,
because we need to connect the output
of the alternator to our battery.
- [Man] What?
- Except our battery is all the way in the back
of this 116 inch wheel-based car,
and I only have a wire that long.
I'm going to something I'm ashamed to do.
I'm actually going to splice
the zero gauge wire that's going to the starter
from the battery.
I will poke a hole through it.
Put that through it and twist it around
and wrap it in copious amounts of tape.
Because I know the rules,
which means you can break them.
Here on Roadkill.
Yeah, three A.
Off the list.
(blues music)
You all right dude? - Yeah.
(object clatters)
- [Mike] Suddenly I got to pee.
(blues music)
(drilling)
(tool drilling)
- All right, gear's done.
- I like that you crossed out gears
but then added mini-spool, so.
- I know. - The list technically
didn't get shorter,
but you accomplished something.
- [Tony] I got to cross something off,
that was the big move.
- Tomorrow we roll.
- Oh, totally. - Yeah.
- First thing in the morning.
- Well.
- First thing in the afternoon.
Tomorrow.
(upbeat music)
Well right now,
I'm drilling out all of the pop rivets
holding this old lex into the side of the car.
Because we can't see through it,
and making left and/or right turns
is kind of dangerous, so we're going to roll
without the windows, and maybe,
if they require us to,
we'll put these back in at the racetrack.
If you're ever considering doing this at home,
you don't need this many.
One here, one here, one here.
It'll be fine.
Trust me, it's like they were on sale.
(upbeat music)
Big progress today.
It's the end of day two and we've gotten a lot done.
We have a cooling system, we have a charging system.
We have a fuel system that leaks
and a rear axle that won't spin on its own.
Which we'll fix tomorrow.
Tonight we're going to get a windshield put in it,
we're going to program our new ignition system
that we finished today
and I anticipate us leaving tomorrow tonight in the dark,
probably with flashlights taped to the front of the car,
'cause we have no headlights.
Yeah.
So, everything's normal here on Roadkill.
Except that Dave's not here, which is weird.
(chain drags)
It's day three.
I'd really like to leave today,
because the bugs are bad.
The humidity, real bad.
The tools, well.
They don't exactly work.
I'm about to cut this transmission tunnel open
with tin snips that are not tinny,
nor are they snippy.
And we need to finish the wiring.
We need to get another seat in here,
patch the hole in the floor,
and hit the road and find out
how truly awful is the Earle Camino?
(object clatters)
Whoo.
That's better.
- That's beautiful.
The diamond plate will be good for
when we're running across the transmission tunnel, too.
- Yeah, I mean.
I don't want anyone slipping.
- Exactly. - When they're in here.
- Yep.
- Hope that didn't suck that up, but it did.
Okay, floor's fixed-ish.
(funk music)
I just spent five minutes drilling out
all of the pop rivets holding in the lexan
for the back window, which we can't see through
and I don't know why I bothered to do that,
'cause I could've just done this.
(slams foot)
(laughter)
That was really strong.
Wow, that is strong.
(slams foot)
(laughs)
This is unreal. (slams foot)
- You're getting there, and it looks super cool.
- Yeah, That's definitely (mumbles).
(laughs)
All right, it's ventilated.
(tool drilling)
Done.
Done.
Done.
Not much left, just brakes.
And speed.
And a seat. We're close.
- We had Jegs overnight us a fresh mini-spool
so there's spline pieces here
that replace the spider gears,
so more or less the axles are now connected
to these outside pieces,
and there's just two big blocks that go between them
and connect everything to the carrier
with this center post.
(blues music)
All right dude, that's it.
One of the last things we have to do
is get the brakes working
and we can finally get out of here.
So I managed to convince those two
to do the drum brakes 'cause they're experts
and I don't know what I'm doing.
But I'm going to do the fronts 'cause it's way easier
and it's just going to be a fresh set of
hardstore calipers and some EBC yellow stuff brake pads.
Gross.
So I've got the new Machin cylinder in place
and it's time to bleed the brakes.
I've got this red Motive products
one man power bleeder.
There's these two ports on this plate.
I kind of chain this thing down,
and then I think we just add pressure here
and push the fluid through.
And so the whole system is now pressurized.
I'm just going to go around and crack each bleeder
and it should pump all the way through
and then I can do this all by myself.
(tool drills)
(rock music)
All right so this is race gas.
- There goes eight bucks - Hold on.
- Well, fourteen. - There it is.
There it is.
(engine turns over)
(engine sputters)
Here she goes.
(engine revs)
- Yeah brakes.
(engine revs) (laughter)
Yeah. We're crop dusting.
(engine revs)
It's not bad. - It works.
- It's not bad.
- We're going to get arrested.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- What are the odds?
We buy a car off Craigslist
and the guy would be so cool.
Not only would he let us wrench in his garage,
he brought parts from his own car collection
and then tell us to screw up his lawn
and do burnouts in his driveway.
- It's one in a million.
- If he had a daughter, somebody should marry her.
- I know.
(engine turns over) - Come on, baby.
(engine revs)
(engine sputters) Oh, yeah!
- Whoo! - It does the humpty hump.
Please don't catch on fire.
(rock music) (car speeds off)
Yeah.
It's not so bad.
- I can't hear anything! (laughs)
Yeah we're all set to go,
but I think maybe the residual effects
of Finnegan off-roading this thing.
We are puking out transmission fluid,
so we're going to figure out what's going on.
- Everything was going smooth.
Car does burnouts, we screwed up the man's lawn.
Spun the tires down the street, brakes work.
Awesome.
And then we decided to park the car
in the garage tonight so it'd be secure,
get up and leave in the morning.
And we rolled in here and look, Draguar 2.0.
The exact same thing that happened to the turbo 400
happened to our turbo 350.
It blew out the adapter for the speedometer cable.
Pshew, right out of the side of the trans.
So tomorrow morning, we get to find one of those
off of Tex's cars, put it back in there,
plug it, fill it, hit the road again.
Find out what else is going to break next because,
it will.
(chain drags)
Here's our solution to fix the hole in the transmission.
It's a lot like a drain plug for a boat.
Tighten this nut, the washer squishes down on it
and it expands the rubber part.
This will plug nearly any holes
as long as you can get the right sized one.
Well the trans leak is fixed.
It's now well into the afternoon
and we are finally hitting the road.
To find out, you know, does the car even work?
We've basically only been around the block
and we're not going half mile racing,
because it's raining at the airport.
We are now going to go to Mooresville, North Carolina,
south of us, where there is some drag racing
and truck pulling and shenanigans.
(blues music)
(engine revs)
- How far are we going?
- Not far.
(car backfires)
Looks like we're out of gas.
Oh we're driving down the road, going deaf.
Passing out on fumes, everything's good.
- Yeah. - Getting real woozy,
and then ...
Boom!
(door shuts) Engine just decides
I don't want to run.
Dying, we're out of gas.
- No, listen. (knocks)
That's full.
I felt like one little hesitation and then,
stumble, stumble, stop.
(engine cranks)
- That's not good, it has fuel.
(chuckles)
I have a bad feeling I know exactly
what's wrong with this.
- Yeah, what's that?
- Cam gear, camshaft.
- Maybe that distributor spinner?
- Let's grab tools.
(engine cranks)
- You got any kind of dodgy power on your MSB set-up?
- Oh yeah, I mean all the wiring in the car's dodgy.
- That's true. - Definitely.
Let's give it power.
(engine cranks)
That ain't right.
(engine sputters) That ain't right at all.
I'm going to check for a spark.
Yep. - Got it?
- We got a spark.
There's a spark there.
(laughs)
It's not as bad as it should have been, though.
We have troubleshooted the entire ignition system
and we've discovered we have a spark
but it's kind of a crappy spark.
- It's like yellow. - Yeah.
- And weak.
- So we went down the road, bought ourselves another coil,
and of course that coil doesn't have
the same kind of terminal as our coil wire.
So we're going to shove this metric bolt
in our coil wire here.
We're going to shove that in the coil.
Nothing but the best for Roadkill here.
- [Tony] Oh look at that.
Insulated and everything.
- Yeah, notice that's the good tape.
The super 33. - That's right.
- And you want to go vertical when you do this,
'cause you want to make sure it's on there.
The car should run now.
(engine turns over)
- [Tony] Whoo!
(country music)
(car speeds off)
(blues music)
(engine revs)
- It's the next day.
We drove a whopping 154 miles.
We are in Mooresville, North Carolina
and there is an eighth-mile drag strip
right around the corner here from Customs by Bigun
and we are going to race it tonight
after we install the nitrous.
Look at you showing off. (chuckles)
- [Tony] Hot stuff coming through.
- You know can roll those, right?
- Whoo!
- You are a silly, sad man.
- Whoo! (laughs)
We're doing eighth-mile drag racing
because we are poor planners,
and our half mile event got rained out.
Which is bad because I spent all that time putting
these 308 gears in it,
and the 488's that came in the car would've been perfect.
So we shot ourselves in the foot,
and then we will hopefully jam as much nitrous
in there as we can to get back to square one.
So the delivery of the nitrous
and the extra fuel are controlled by these solenoids.
We need at least one of each,
we've got two of each 'cause we have a dual stage,
pretty gnarly.
I think it's like a 250 shock kit,
so that's we're disassembling, everything out
of the original packaging.
It's weird, this thing also came with
a bunch of sheets of paper
that said instructions on it.
- What does that mean?
- I have no idea.
(rock music)
Bigun.
Happened to have this monster bottle clamp laying around.
We were thinking instead of running a million small bottles
we have this giant monster mother bottle.
We'll just weld it into the car
and hit the road.
- [Mike] Well we're kind of antsy.
- Yeah. - And it's going to take awhile
to fill, - Yeah.
- The regular nitrous bottle.
- Sounds boring.
- Why fill it when we can just have a full one.
- [Tony] Right to the source.
(engine sputtering)
(blues music)
(bottle clangs)
(tool drills)
(bottle clangs)
Got it.
- Holy cow.
- [Tony] Maybe don't throw that in
next time. - What's the lottery up to
right now?
- I don't know.
- Thank God the cap was on.
- [Tony] This is one of the stupider things I've ever done.
(laughter)
We'll mount the bottle up, open up the line,
and it is spraying out of the middle of the line
where someone might've arc weld it into the battery
and set it almost on fire.
(laughs)
- And it's also leaking up here,
where someone might've plumbed it backwards.
- Man.
- Who could it be?
- Both our faults. - Yeah.
High-five.
(hands slap) We suck.
(rock music)
(engine revs)
Might've gone in the wrong way.
(engines revving)
(truck peels off)
Here at Mooresville Dragway,
we're about to rip this El Camino down the track
and try to beat Tex's 7:80 number.
I will do it without the nitrous first,
and then we will cram a ton of nitrous
into this thing and hopefully it's fast
and doesn't explode.
(engine sputters)
(engine revs)
(engine revs)
- 9:28. That means we've got about a second and a half
to knock off the ET using spray.
Otherwise, we are fools.
And we've spent a lot of time rescuing a barn find
drag car and actually made it slower, so.
Yeah.
Back to the pit, turn on the nitrous system.
- [Tony] Not bad.
- [Mike] It sounded like you shifted fine.
- [Tony] Yeah.
- No more flaring?
- Not as bad. - Nice.
There's more there but I say screw it,
let's go right to the bottle.
- I'm with that. - All right.
I've always just wanted to stick the mother bottle
in the car and run it for miles.
And we're not going miles, but it still looks amazing
to have a missile in the
bed of your car. - If you want
I'll hold on to it, I'll just keep going.
- No I'd like to have you come back
and maybe we'll do this again sometime.
- I like it.
This button turns on the nitrous.
- That's the fun button. - We could've put on
a full throttle switch but this is much funnier.
- Don't forget you have to flip on the headlights switch
to arm everything for that to work.
And as soon as you go wide open out of the hole,
get on it.
- Got it. - And stay on it.
- On the button, on the button.
- [Mike] And stay on it.
This is going to be crazy.
(engine sputters)
- I think reverse might've left the building.
- No way.
What did you do?
All right well we don't need reverse to race.
We'll just push it.
- [Tony] Do it.
(intense music)
(engines revving)
This might be the end of the transmission.
Come on, transmission.
(car backfires)
Come on!
(engine cranks)
(engine turns over)
(engine revs)
- [Mike] Well everything that could've gone wrong,
went wrong.
During the burnout the wheels wouldn't spin.
Then the engine shut off.
Then it really didn't sound like the trans
was shifting good.
We ran a 9:22 this time.
We didn't pick up much, like a couple tenths, so.
Back, back again.
- Hey, I think the car threw the belt
and I'm up here
by the big white trailers.
- We'll come get you.
- This is no good.
- Oh, no belt.
- Yeah, it broke.
- Was the trans slipping too?
- I think so.
I really feel it was the same time, nine-two again.
- No didn't you run a nine-eight the last time?
- [Tony] Nine-two both times.
- Both times? - Yeah.
- It sounded like it turned on.
- I think so.
It didn't go anywhere though.
- Okay.
- But also, I think that's why it kept stalling
at the line.
- [Mike] Was it hot?
How hot did it get? - Ooh.
All the way.
- Peg the gauge? - Very hot.
- That gauge goes really far.
- Pegged the gauge at 280.
- 80? Shh.
I'm refraining from going, "Tony!"
- It just broke, dude.
- All right, let's go get a belt.
That'll give it time to cool off.
- [Tony] Yeah, it's perfect.
- We can tow you back.
I think we pulled too much timing.
- Maybe.
- I pulled 10 degrees for a 250 shot.
- Yeah. - And we only put
a 150 shot in there.
- They only tell you to pull a eight degrees
for a 250. We only need to pull like four.
- [Mike] Here's where we're at.
Pretty much the transmission is screwed.
We don't have reverse, it slips in every gear.
We're going to put more fluid in it right now.
A new belt on it and a whole bunch of timing
at the motor because pretty much
our first nitrous pass was not clean.
We're the only team in the world
that goes exactly the same with nitrous
as without nitrous.
That's not something to be proud of.
Well we put another quart of trans fluid in it.
That would be four for today,
and suddenly we have reverse, so.
I think what's been going on is we drove
all the way here from Tex's house
with very little to almost no tranny fluid in this thing.
(engine sputters)
(intense music)
(engine revs)
Yeah we need to figure out where the tranny leak is.
- [Man] You want to go back to the start?
- [Mike] Yeah go back.
- Don't see anything, the only place I see
that thing even wet is the front corner here
and it's not from the top.
Some of it's from like the pan seal.
- [Mike] All right, let's try again.
- [Loudspeaker] All right candidates last call,
last call for dragging.
(engine revs)
- Hold on.
(engine sputters)
Dude where we at?
- I have no idea where it's coming from,
but it's coming out bad.
- Argh! - All right.
- We tore the center cover off
and haven't found any crazy significant leak.
We think that it's maybe just the pan
bolts being loose.
So we're going to tighten those up and see what happens.
- Yeah, that's something we haven't looked at yet.
- There's just no like, oh my god,
it's crazy pouring out of here.
We don't have that.
- No.
It only happens when you sit there
and put it on the converter for a little while
and spin the tires.
It looks like it's coming out the edge of the pan,
right down there.
'Cause this side is completely dry.
- All right, going out for R.
Third attempt at a third run.
We got shut down for transmission fluid leak.
Again, heading back out.
I think we have to race people now.
Just to get out there.
(engine revs)
- Unreal.
- Is the converter soaked?
- The converter's not soaked.
It's shooting out the side of the pan
between the gasket.
(acoustic music)
We're going to put the fluid back in it
and try to get the level right.
And go make another hit.
- There you go.
- Yeah that kind of looks right.
- Yep.
- See it's coming onto the plates.
- All right.
(engine sputters)
Man, that carburetor is not happy.
- Hey, leave the ignition off and crank it.
(engine cranks)
That's out.
Leave it off and let's look at it.
- Yeah.
Does there need to be a bunch of brake clean in it?
- Yeah, I did.
I cleaned out the air bleeds.
- Got it.
- But it was doing this before right?
- Well yeah, it's starting to do the same thing.
- This isn't the first time it caught on fire.
- Yeah hesitating, and catching on fire.
(engine turns over)
(blues music)
- It runs now; you can drive it over there
and we'll put a screwdriver on.
- Yep.
(engine sputters)
- Ah well, the trans is back together.
Hopefully not leaking.
The track guy just told us they're about
to end racing,
we only get one pass.
And right now the car doesn't even want to idle.
- [Tony] Yeah and it's got a big hole as soon as
you step on it. - Yeah.
We have no idea, but the carburetor's not happy
all of a sudden.
Now that we've worked on the transmission, so.
Turn some screws.
- Jump into it slow, it's ...
- The timing.
(engine revs)
All right.
Hold on.
Shut it off.
Shut it off.
So here's what happened.
This has a centrifugal advance system
in the distributor,
and so it's got a combination of springs
and a stop that advances the ignition timing based on,
load and engine RPM.
And what was happening is, is he's giving it
all this throttle and all this fuel,
and it's so lazy it's not giving it any
additional spark advance to go with it.
So we just put more spark in to begin with
and now it runs, so.
(rock music)
- [Tony] Whoo!
This is going to work.
If I get up there and do a burnout,
and the guy doesn't scream at me,
I'll be so happy.
(engine sputters)
(engine revs)
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
No more leaks!
Yes!
- It's going to work!
- Yeah! - Good luck!
- [Tony] How you doin'?
(engine revs)
Oh, my God.
It might be the end of that transmission.
- Oh.
Remember kids, keep having dreams,
even if you never achieve them.
The problem with putting a drift guy
behind the wheel of your drag car is,
when the trans goes and you hit the rev limiter,
he doesn't lift.
He just keeps going.
Well we worked really hard,
and we did bring an old drag car out of a barn
for you know, that haven't moved in a long time.
I'm proud of that.
Even if we sucked and failed miserably here
at the drag strip.
- [Crowd Member] I told him an hour ago!
- These people will not forget that smoke show.
No, no. No they won't. (chuckles)
sometimes in drag racing you pump a bunch of nitrous into a car
and really rip down a track and other times you'll leave
a eighth mille slick of transmission fluid trying
but going fast isn't always the point the Earle Camino took us for quite the ride
we resurrected a old drag car and gave this thing a second chance and although we didn't run a super fast time
we had a ton fun and who knows maybe you'll see the Earle Camino on a later episode of Roadkill
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- [Mike] Looks like a giant golf cart.
Oh! (laughs)
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