- [Finnegan] This time on Roadkill,
we're buying a '73 Hornet off Craigslist
and we're going rally racing
until they throw us out!
Yeah!
- [Freiburger] Yee-haw!
(engine struggling to turn over)
(backfire)
(engine squealing)
(rock music)
(loud engine accelerating)
- [Freiburger] This all started when we had an opportunity
to do something that I've wanted to do for,
no exaggeration, 20 years, which is a rally cross,
which is like an autocross, but in dirt.
And so I went on Facebook and I told the fans,
hey, we want to go rallycross racing,
what will you sell us?
And so, we came up with this 73 AMC Hornet
and it's run in the mid-400,
in the Noro 1000 three times, and it even has
off-road legacy dating way back into early '70s.
It was like a dream come true to be able to get a car
that's fully caged front to back,
it's got dual King shocks on every corner,
it's got a Ford nine-inch in the back.
It's got a Dugan's built 360 AMC under the hood,
a 727 Mopar automatic transmission,
and it's going to be a lot of fun
if we can actually get it going.
It's been sitting here I think since 2012.
It's actually street legal.
And look at the license plate, Nora 1000.
That's pretty cool.
(rock music)
- Oh we have a spare tire. - Look at that.
- [Finnegan] This is too nice for us.
- [Freiburger] Trans cooler, oil cooler.
- [Finnegan] The shocks cost more than my first car.
- [Freiburger] Oh yeah.
Look at that.
This thing is fully caged up.
- And the welds are just crappy enough
to be Roadkill alright.
It has four shocks up front,
that means we can jump it four times
higher than a stock car.
- Oh look at the aluminum radiator.
- Dude, radiator's full.
- Wow.
Oil's black, but full.
- As it should be.
- Yeah.
Trans fluid, ooh.
It's way overfull.
So we need to fire it up to find out
what the truth is there.
- 'K, cranking and watching for oil pressure.
(engine struggling to turn over)
- [Finnegan] Did you get oil pressure?
- It had a little bit, yeah.
It started moving the needle up.
- [Finnegan] All we need is fuel.
- Yup.
- Let's go to a gas station.
- [Freiburger] Yup.
- Nice.
- This is too easy so far.
Something's going to go catastrophically wrong.
- We'll get gas and we'll fire it up,
find all the leaks, and end up replacing
every hose in the vehicle.
- Yup.
- [Finnegan] Okay.
(rock music)
- You want to splash some in.
(horn)
That was an accident.
(laughter)
- It works.
- I guess that's the horn button.
- Holy cow.
- I'm going to flip a couple switches
and see if I hear a fuel pump, okay?
- Okay.
- Oh there we go, listen.
- I hear it.
- Nice.
- We have fuel now.
- Alright.
- Do it again.
- Firing it up.
(engine starts)
- Sounds good.
Can it be that easy?
- 60 pounds of oil pressure.
- There's a massive leak.
Alright it's either the ATF or the brakes.
One or the other.
This looks like a brake line though.
- It doesn't feel like there's a massive
hole on a brake line.
- See look right down here.
This is a brake line.
And it may just be loose.
- Its a brake line with transmission
fluid on it or is that brake fluid.
- Nah, it's clear it's not pink.
We need to clean it, then we'll...
Much too big.
- That fuel line leaks pretty bad right there.
I think the fan line is done.
Oh yeah, fully, it's leaking out the end line.
It's probably going to do that in the entire car.
The problem is that the California gas
has a whole lot of alcohol in it
and it ends up just eating through the rubber
AN line.
And the rubber is inside this braided steel.
- Yep, we're going to have to deal with that.
I'm about to pull the seat out of the car,
because not only is the bulk of the wild life
that wants to harm me under this seat,
but so is a transmission coil line that
is leaking everywhere.
Not for steel, challenge accepted.
This is brake line, were turning this into
transmission line.
This is Dave's idea, it is brilliant.
- This is what's called removing really
good, safe AN line and installing rubber
line which gets you connections.
- Stop.
Right there.
Oh that's going to look good.
- Were actually going to like, put this
on the ground, fire it up, and try to
drive it aren't we.
- Damn right.
- The tires we got for this are a Cooper
STT Pro, which is like their awesome
mud tire.
And we got 31 by 1050 15s all the way around.
The wheels on the back are 15 by 8s.
And the fronts are 7s.
That's going to look tough.
Before I put the tire on I should show you
all the suspension stuff this thing has going on.
Up front, this is basically the same suspension
concept as a stock AMC.
It's a stock upper control arm.
They did put the springs on top
of the upper control arm on these things.
It's all beefed up, up here.
They've welded a bunch of reinforcement
into both control arms, there's a big strut
rod here with a giant heim joint to
keep it from deflecting.
The control arm's modified with a thread
in ball joint to take a mopar type joint.
And it has a Dodge van spindle and brakes on it.
And of course the beef here for the massive
remote reservoir cane shocks.
So kind of stock, but heavily beefed.
- Now we can drive it and find out what's wrong with it.
- Yep.
- Look at all of the switches I can play with.
- You got a lot to do.
- Beep, beep, beep.
(engine starts)
- That's not right.
Don't you think that's weird.
- Yeah, but we added so much fluid in the system.
- It needs trans fluid.
- Do we have any?
- Yeah.
- Alright, don't kill it, don't kill it.
- Yeah, that's going to kill it.
- Look at it smoking.
- Alright that was a good test drive.
- How far did we get?
Well the trans fluid reads all the way up the dip stick.
I mean dude, its up to here.
- That's because it all runs down from the cooler.
- Alright.
- So let me fire it up and...
Nothing?
- It says it's full.
Whoa.
- What?
- When you shut it off, it pukes all
of it up the tube and onto the exhaust.
- Okay.
That's got to be what the sound is that
I hear in here.
- Yeah, oh man.
That may catch on fire.
- Yeah.
- Let me get some brake cleaner.
It pukes out.
- It comes out.
- Yeah.
I just dumped a butt load of it all over the place.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- This is weird.
- That's got to mean its like full.
- Well, but it doesn't move.
- Yeah.
- I think it's not pumping it through the system.
Hear that.
The issue were having here is that
basically the car won't move.
It acts like it has no trans fluid in it,
but it's overflowing out of the tube.
So its something to do with the trans cooler
being mounted up here on the roll cage
where its got an air bubble trapped in it
and the transmission's not pumping it through.
At least that's our guess.
- Yeah, there's still nothing up here.
- Really?
- Maybe the cooler might be plugged.
- Might be.
We pulled one line off of the cooler,
thinking that maybe there was a big
air bubble in it, and were going to
find out which one of these hoses squirts.
Either that is going to squirt on the ground,
or it's going to squirt out of the cooler
when I fire it up, right.
- Okay.
- Where did it come from?
- This one that we stuck through the shock tire.
- Okay, so that's the pressure side.
- Yep.
- So I would hook that up to the cooler,
disconnect the other one, and see if we can
blow through the cooler.
Eliminate the air bubble.
(engine starts)
- Nothing.
- So its plugged?
- It would be great if we had a union dash six
to hook these two hoses together and
see if the car finally started moving.
- Exactly, just see if it will drive.
- But we don't.
- We don't.
- No.
- Oh, we do.
That link of 3/8ths tubing.
We can make that happen.
- Yeah.
- So what were doing now is just completely
bypassing the cooler which may or may not
be plugged to find out if this will even run.
You trust it?
- Eh, give it a shot.
- Okay, giving it a shot.
- If it doesn't work, my face will know.
(engine starts)
That doesn't seem right.
You should pull it back into shade
and we'll put some more fluid in it.
- Yep.
- Well were once again setting records here
on Roadkill.
Trying to test drive the car for the first time
doesn't want to move.
Every time you pull the dipstick out to
check the transmission fluid, if you
turn the engine off or put it in park,
it just launches fluid out of the dipstick tube
all over the exhaust.
Which is very safe.
So right now were struggling to find out
do we have enough fluid in there and
if we don't, we need to put more in.
- Oh, that's way better.
Way better.
Oh yeah.
- It was just low.
- Okay, you want to hop in and go drive it.
- Yeah, let me remind you of where were at.
Like in terms of the grand scheme of things.
Race is in a couple of days.
We have bypassed the transmission cooler completely.
Which is a no no in a stock vehicle.
- Oh, were going to put it back.
- This vehicle has a skid plate, completely
incasing, not just the transmission, but the exhaust system.
And there's smoke coming out of the hood.
- Oh this is way better.
(laughter)
Alright, were good.
- I love the car again.
- Yeah, we've got this.
Why not, we've got a skid plate.
- You want to hit the street?
- Yes.
- Okay.
It's bumpy.
- So cool.
- Oh, it's sketchy.
- Does it drive straight?
- No.
(laughter)
- I love it.
- Oh, bumps, yeah, not bad.
Alright, not too bad.
What do you think?
- It rides slightly better than
the low rider we took to Vegas.
I need to not talk when you do that.
I just ate a bunch of dirt.
- Okay, I think were good to go.
- Is she rally ready?
- Yeah.
- Alright.
My spine might be protesting right now.
Were invincible.
(rock music)
After a quick check out run, we reconnected
the trans cooler and then hit the road
in some brutal heat.
We were going to go out to the desert to the lava pit.
The same one where Dulcich and I got
into a gnarly wind storm in an episode
of Roadkill garage.
- [All] Ah, ow.
- Sandstorm.
- How are we going to get out of this?
- I don't know.
Rocks, rocks.
- Now it's getting warm in here.
- Give me a spray like right about here.
- Alright, in the face.
- There you go, that's pretty good.
(laughter)
- Right here.
- Yeah.
- It's coming back at us.
- Yeah, it's like not so much here, in here.
- We need to take the hatch off.
- Probably.
That might help the transmission temperature too.
And where that cooler's located.
- Okay I'm ready, how about we stop
and dag it.
- Ah, perfection.
Shade.
- Were rolling down the highway, 60-70 miles
and hour.
Everything is going pretty well.
I'm shocked that the engine doesn't over heat.
But the transmission is getting to like 220 degrees.
Which means that it will explode.
That's partially because its got a cooler
underneath the hatch.
Its partially because the skid plate is trapping
all the heat.
So all we can do right now is pull
the hatch off, so that we aren't personally
overheating it and so we can do the transmission
a favor too.
So are we going to try and strap it
or hide it behind the tree?
- Were going to go off roading, which
means its going to get destroyed.
Especially after you roll us over.
- Hide it behind the tree.
- Hide it behind the tree.
- Okay.
- We can wedge it right in tree.
It's less conspicuous.
- You think so.
Don't you think we should go other side out
since it's a matching color.
- Oh, yeah.
It's like desert camouflage.
- There you go.
You got it?
I'll go around the other side.
Its like it's not even there.
You like the solution.
- Well I think you really had to put in effort
in here to like notice it and take it.
- Okay ready.
- Well that was easy.
- All set.
- Hit it.
That's the curb.
(laughter)
- I think your doors not closed.
- I definitely think its not closed.
- How do you feel?
- Its a little better.
Like you still have wind here, it doesn't feel as warm.
- Do me a favor, get the Hudson sprayer,
put it right behind my head.
Oh yeah.
That is the ticket.
- Is this the spot?
- This is it.
(laughter)
This place is super cool.
Its all volcanic rock.
Little pop corn rocks.
- Really.
- The terrain is just all of a sudden
going to change and its amazing.
Rides like a trophy truck.
Just glides over the bumps.
- Rides like a $4000 car from Craigslist.
- Look out.
Ow.
Isn't this cool?
- Oh yeah, it's amazing.
- See.
- Yeah this is great.
- Oh yeah.
(laughter)
Oh this is the Baja ash right here.
(police siren)
Oh can't see.
Your good, your good.
Yeah.
I promised you best air work ever didn't I.
- Oh yeah.
- Is it pretty good?
- You delivered my friend.
- It's pretty great.
(country music)
- Well if your going to get stuck,
get stuck by an old mine.
- Yeah perfect.
- There's plenty of crappy wood.
- Well you missed that.
We had a lot of fun.
We had already climbed that hill once.
We thought it was no big deal.
So we went to do it again, but the sand
was all tore up and soft.
And as you can see we backed up.
Started to get stuck and was rocking it
back and forth.
And it was just not happening, so
were high centered on the rear axle.
Didn't we get the low rider stuck.
- I believe so, on flat ground.
- Yeah.
Yeah, low rider power.
Try it.
Nope.
There you go.
There we go.
- He, he, he.
- Winning.
See that's what I was trying to do.
When I got us stuck to begin with.
(engine revving)
So that was actually really good,
because when he got crossed up right
here, if he had lifted, and we'd gotten stuck,
we would have never gotten going again
and backing down would have been a hassle.
But he committed and we got it.
You should see how loose it is up here.
I just came to get my jack stand.
- You know I was thinking.
- That's dangerous.
- After six years, you think we wouldn't be
running out of gas anymore.
- Nah, you got to give the audience what they want.
- Maximum suffering?
- Yeah.
- Oh.
Today was going so well.
We found this awesome place with a volcano.
We went hot rod off-roading.
And then we run out of gas.
Which is kind of derailing our plan to
get to our hotel tonight and repaint the car.
I don't really see that happening.
- We can peel skulls.
- We can peel skulls tonight.
We can make it our own.
New goal.
Get the hell out of here.
Jump the car once.
Get to the hotel, peel skulls.
Make the car our own.
- Okay jump ahead.
(engine starts)
(rock music)
- How's the oil pan now?
Well we managed to have an epic day
in the lava pits.
I think the Hornet doesn't ride as good
as the Challenger, but man its way better at jumping.
And now we get to head off to that adventure
that I've been waiting for for 20 years.
The rally cross.
(rock music)
Were here at Glen Helen raceway.
This is going to be awesome, I've wanted to
do the rally cross here, literally since
I've started to hot rod in the early '90s.
And were finally going to do it.
I've never done this before, its like
an auto cross on dirt.
Man this is going to be fun.
We are going to tear up this course
for some guys in Subaru's.
- That's alright.
I think they'll appreciate a little roughness.
Cause its flat, it's not like there's
any jumps.
- Yeah.
- We'll be doing them a favor.
- I don't know how this works.
Hanging out the entire time, have fun.
- Yeah, I mean we don't have a bogey
unless we grab the rental production
van to race.
- That's a fantastic idea.
- I'm totally down with.
In fact I'll drive it.
- You should do it.
- Okay.
- I bet you the mini van is faster
than the Hornet.
- Okay, new bogeys.
Mini van, me in it.
Versus Freiburger in the AMC.
- That's genius.
- It's time.
- Yeah I know.
- Rally racing, never done this.
- Me neither.
- This is going to be awesome.
- What's your plan?
- Here's what I'm thinking.
I'll go first, I'll set the tone.
You know.
- The tone.
- How much fun am I going to have out there?
- Not the biggest line, but the tone.
- The tone, because I figure the more fun,
the better I run.
Not a lot of dudes driving around in mini
vans wearing helmets this Saturday.
Okay, traction control off.
Let's do this.
Go baby go.
A lot of under steer.
- Oh, he's not looking fast.
Not a bit.
Oh my confidence is going up.
- Oh damn you front wheel drive.
Why do you hate me so?
Who gets to do this?
I'm in mom's mini van sliding around corners.
Your a gazelle.
Go van.
- He's not killing it.
And I'm going to feel real stupid
when he's actually quicker than me.
- This actually works pretty good, I'm surprised.
Oh, I may have missed that turn a little bit.
(laughter)
That was awesome.
- 95.678, he broke below a hundred seconds.
You were hitting it hard right here.
- There is a corner over there where I
over drove it, went in sideways and just
shot a wall of dirt in the air.
It was amazing, I don't even care I went slower.
- Well if you can't be fast, look good.
- That's right.
- I guess it's my turn.
- Yes.
This is for all the marbles or rather
an entire six pack of the beer of my choice.
- Oh man.
- 95 seconds.
- 95, I can do it.
- Alright, good luck.
- I feel good.
Yep.
- Oh dude, it's quick.
It leaves better than the van that's for sure.
I'm in a lot of trouble unless he flips it
on its roof.
Look at it, it just chews it up.
His warm up lap is going to be better
than, like, my best lap.
- Oh, this is fun.
- I mean he's old, he could forget where he's at
and just drive up a mountain.
That thing rips, I want to drive it.
- Whew, that was fun.
I can do better next time.
I was in second gear too long.
That's a workout.
I had more fun than anyone out there
I swear.
- Oh wow, 98.2.
Maybe its not as fast as I thought it was.
Maybe its just all the noise from the angry
360 V8 that is just throwing me off.
He's three seconds slower than me.
- I'm winded.
- So its time for some strategery.
He's only three seconds slower than me
and that's his first lap.
I should tell him this, but then
he'll know how much he has to push
it to beat me.
So I'm not going to tell him anything.
I'm just going to let him guess how
fast he needs to push it.
And hope he makes a mistake.
Cause Roadkill, were jerks.
Dude, I got to tell you, this thing looks fast.
- Oh it was so fun.
I had more fun than anyone out there guaranteed.
- I believe it.
I am jealous and I wish I was driving.
- Yeah.
- I'm genuinely mad at you that your not
letting me drive so I'm not going to tell
you your time.
- Oh come on.
- No.
- No.
- No.
It looks very fast, that's what I'll say.
- I think I can be quicker next time
I was in second gear for too long on
one of the straight aways.
- Okay, I feel good about this.
Have fun.
- Okay my second run.
- So the question is, does he remember
where he was slow and where he was fast
on the course and can he fix that right now.
So he got slower.
That's 100 seconds.
He already ran a 98, he actually
went slower this time.
He is in danger of losing to the mommy van.
He'll never live that down.
I won't allow it.
Let's go see him.
- That didn't seem as good, because
I got into the thick dirt a lot.
Bogged it down.
I don't know, just tell me faster or slower.
All I need to know.
- This isn't going to tell you what to do
either way, but I'd really like to ride shot gun.
- Oh you want to ride shot gun.
- And I will offer co-driving advice
if you want it.
- Okay.
You're going to have to put up that window net.
- I got zip ties.
- Okay.
- Okay, what year is this thing?
- '73.
- '73 Hornet.
- Ready.
Here we go.
Ready for more fun than we've ever had in a dirt car.
- Yeah, buddy.
- Whoa, it's bumpier.
- Oh, your doing great.
Hey I want you to know something.
You need to make up three seconds if you
want to beat the mini van.
- Ah, I lost it.
(suspenseful music)
Oh yeah.
- This car is bad ass.
- That is the most fun we've ever had in a dirt car
on Roadkill.
That was the greatest.
Yeah this car is pretty good.
- This is one of our better purchases.
This ranks up there with NASCAR low, the Rotson.
- General Mayhem.
- All of them.
- If this had a jump, it would be
everything that we need in a race track.
- Plans for the future, definitely.
- So.
- Midway through your lap I said you need to
make up three seconds or your losing to
mom's mini van.
- I didn't hear that.
I was driving too hard.
There was no way.
- Alright, yeah.
- What.
- This lap you just ran was 101 seconds.
- Get out.
- The lap before that was 100.
Your first lap, your smoothest lap 98.
You lost by three.
- That's unbelievable.
- And the crazy part is, when you took
off on that first lap I was like, I'm done.
It looked so fast.
- The thing is I'm hanging it out so hard
and over driving it and correcting and getting
into sand, its got to be faster right.
Like if you drove the thing to win instead
of drove it for fun.
- Yeah, I guess.
- Man, I'm stoked, this was fun.
- It was, now beer me.
- I owe you beer.
- Yes.
- I'm done for that.
Where do I get beer around here though?
- I don't know, were probably going to
have to walk for it.
It's worth it.
- Well the worst thing that happened
in this episode of Roadkill is that
nothing went wrong.
Nothing broke.
That car was way to reliable, but I
still managed to fail.
Yeah, Finnegan out ran me at the Rally Cross
in a Dodge mini van.
Even though I had V8 power and the big ol tires
and everything, but you know what
I was just hanging it sideways having
an awesome time and that is what this car
is all about.
It could be faster if driven more conservatively,
but why would you do that?
No, you need to drive it even more aggressively.
You know what, the Hornet, it belongs at Dirt Fish.
You think it can out run General Mayhem?
Well maybe just maybe you'll find out in
and upcoming episode of Roadkill.
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(police siren)
- Yeah, were not getting pulled over with that at all.
- No, that's not illegal.
- Half the town just hit the dirt.
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