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00:00 (rock music)
00:02 Hey, I'm Mike Finnegan, and welcome to the hot rod day
00:06 at Nissan SEMA Week.
00:08 (rock music)
00:10 I'm here to show you the stuff
00:29 that none of the other hosts are looking at.
00:30 Big cubic inches, lots of horsepower, big tires,
00:34 no stance stuff.
00:36 SEMA wasn't always a show.
00:37 In 1963, it was a small group of speed part manufacturers
00:41 that got together to legitimize what they were doing.
00:44 And since then, it's evolved.
00:46 It's now wholesalers and warehouses and distributors,
00:48 and yes, OEMs.
00:50 The show started in the late '60s, and it's evolved as well.
00:53 Today, you're gonna see everything from race cars,
00:56 street cars, and even art cars like this one.
00:59 This is nuts.
01:00 This car is not here to sell you anything.
01:01 It's just here to get your attention,
01:03 and I'm gonna show you why it's cool.
01:05 So the rumor is this was commissioned
01:09 by somebody who wanted to go to Burning Man.
01:12 Google that.
01:13 You'll understand completely why this thing exists,
01:15 because this is perfect for Burning Man,
01:17 and the people that show up to that deal.
01:19 The crazy part about this is there's actually
01:22 some engineering here.
01:23 Like, if you look past the welds
01:25 that look like I made them,
01:27 it's got cantilever rear suspension.
01:29 I'm assuming that thing would actually spin if this ran.
01:32 This is SEMA.
01:33 Most things here don't run,
01:34 so I'm assuming this one doesn't either.
01:36 But there's some genius in the insanity
01:39 that we're looking at right here.
01:40 It's crazy.
01:41 That guy's cooler than I am.
01:44 He's got his own monster truck.
01:54 Hello, SEMA.
01:56 I've missed you.
01:57 I've been stalking Shane Weckerle here at Holley
02:07 because he's the chief product officer, right?
02:10 C3PO?
02:10 - That's correct, C3PO.
02:11 - And he's the guy that's gonna tell me
02:13 how to fix every piece of crap I have
02:15 that's starved for fuel when I go racing.
02:18 This thing looks like it belongs on the space shuttle,
02:20 and I believe this is the solution to my problems.
02:22 So we introduced last year at the PRI show,
02:25 this is the HydroMat by Holley.
02:28 What the HydroMat does is if you can imagine
02:30 having a sponge to suck up all the fuel in your fuel tank
02:34 and make sure that it gets delivered to the fuel pump
02:36 and ultimately to your engine, this is that product.
02:40 This tank has about a third of a gallon in it.
02:42 So what we're gonna do is I'm gonna actually
02:45 pretend that I'm the engine,
02:46 and I'm gonna start using every bit of fuel
02:48 that the fuel pump will pump.
02:49 You can watch the fuel level starting to drop
02:52 here in the tank, and it's starting to disappear.
02:56 - And it's still smooth.
02:57 - Yep, still going, still got fuel flow,
03:00 getting to a point where it's just about out, gone.
03:04 - Oh, you can see it aerating a little bit, yeah.
03:06 - I still got fuel flow, I still got fuel flow.
03:10 Finally it runs out, and there is nothing left in the tank.
03:14 Nothing.
03:16 - Thanks Shane.
03:17 - You bet, Mike, thanks for coming by and checking it out.
03:19 - Wow.
03:20 This is why I'm not rich.
03:22 I can't think of stuff like this.
03:24 I know I need it though.
03:25 (upbeat music)
03:28 It's completely rare where I'm gonna show you
03:40 two products in one booth,
03:41 but this right here is the future of your dashboard.
03:45 This is your gauges, this is your EFI.
03:48 This will start your car, this does everything.
03:50 Throw the keys away, throw the gauges away,
03:52 everything, you don't need it anymore.
03:53 Adam, tell me about this, 'cause it's beautiful.
03:56 - Basically anything with an engine,
03:58 you can put this thing on now.
03:59 This thing is fully configurable out of the box.
04:02 If this is hooked up to an EFI system,
04:04 you're gonna have probably a couple hundred things
04:06 to choose from, anything from boost
04:08 to transmission gears, speed.
04:10 - Who farted in the backseat, all that.
04:11 - Exactly.
04:12 You can come through here, change colors,
04:14 transparency, size, do math channels on it.
04:18 I mean, it's pretty much limitless.
04:20 - No matter what you're building,
04:21 no matter whose EFI you have,
04:22 whether you're starting from scratch
04:24 or rebuilding your car, this is it, man.
04:27 Throw the gauges away, start over.
04:29 Badass, thanks Adam.
04:30 - You're welcome, man. - Appreciate it.
04:32 Let's go see more cool stuff.
04:33 (upbeat music)
04:36 You can drive your quad into the lake
04:41 and then just go jet skiing with a smile on your face.
04:44 This might be one of my favorite cars at SEMA right here.
04:47 I'm done, I don't need to see anything else.
04:50 This is it right here.
04:52 Well, here's a rarity.
04:53 We're in the 10 booth where I work.
04:55 And the reason we're here is
04:56 there's no roadkill cars here.
04:57 We don't need those.
04:58 We have a street legal pro mod
05:01 converted by you, Jeff Flutz.
05:03 And you just won drag weekend,
05:05 our inaugural, what was it?
05:06 500 miles, three days, three tracks.
05:09 Badass street car event.
05:10 - Tucson, Phoenix, and California.
05:12 - Oh my God.
05:13 So this was your yellow, legit, Bickel pro mod.
05:16 - Yes.
05:17 - And you've converted it to go drive down I-5
05:19 and not get pulled over.
05:20 - Why I did that, I have no idea.
05:22 - It works.
05:23 - But it's something I wanted to do.
05:25 And with the competition away,
05:27 it is getting for drag week.
05:29 I wanted to show how easy it was gonna be to do that.
05:33 - So the gas tank for the street is on the wheelie bars.
05:35 You get to the track, pull the pins,
05:36 couple of bolts, and that's out.
05:38 - Yes.
05:38 - So you have stretched the definition of street car
05:41 way past where it needs to go.
05:43 - Yes.
05:44 - Honestly, does it suck driving?
05:46 - It's horrible to drive.
05:47 - Okay, 'cause there's no air conditioning.
05:48 It's loud.
05:49 I've been in your 57.
05:50 - I hated it. - It's hot.
05:51 Yeah.
05:52 - Okay, so now that you've done it,
05:53 you've proven your point.
05:54 Is there a reason to keep driving this on the street?
05:56 - Well, I lowered the bar down to a 640 average.
05:59 My goal was to put it in the files.
06:02 And I won't quit until I do that.
06:04 - Good luck, brother.
06:05 (upbeat music)
06:07 When 1,000 horsepower blown,
06:12 Hemi is not enough, just put four in your Econoline.
06:14 Oh my God, I'm ready, I'm outta here.
06:17 Now I'm gonna go to the track
06:18 and just work my friends over like a rented mule.
06:21 Let's go racing.
06:22 (upbeat music)
06:25 It's my day.
06:31 And we're at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
06:32 to play out one of my automotive fantasies,
06:34 where I torture my co-host in a game of horse.
06:37 Except we're not using basketballs,
06:39 we're using four different and unique Datsun Z cars.
06:42 (car engine revving)
06:45 The rules of the game are this.
06:46 Everyone's gonna have a shot at the challenge.
06:48 You don't want letters in this game.
06:49 So you do well at these challenges,
06:51 you're not gonna get one.
06:52 If they fail, they get a letter.
06:54 Whoever gets 240, 240 first, is out.
06:57 And the last man standing wins.
06:59 What?
07:01 I have no idea.
07:01 Oh, you lucky devils.
07:05 Earlier today, we drew names out of a hat
07:07 to figure out which of the four Datsun 240s
07:09 you'll be driving.
07:09 I swear we didn't cheat.
07:11 You're car number one.
07:13 Car number two, I'm number three.
07:14 Sabuuchi, you're number four.
07:16 I'm gonna tease you a little bit here right now.
07:18 You have 360 wheel horsepower and a fabulous paint job.
07:22 You have around 450.
07:23 I have around 460 and you had 390.
07:26 It's all on you if you lose this deal.
07:28 Are you ready for this?
07:29 - Ready.
07:30 - Move this truck.
07:32 (car horn honking)
07:37 (laughing)
07:48 - Oh dude, if Darth Vader was going grocery shopping,
07:50 that's the car he would push right there.
07:52 - So this is my car.
07:57 It's got a five speed manual transmission.
07:59 It's got a motor out of a Nissan Skyline,
08:01 so twin turbo, 360 horsepower.
08:03 Oh, I can't wait to drive it.
08:05 Even though Finnegan said that he drew names out of a hat,
08:08 I'm pretty sure I was given this car
08:09 because it has the most adjustable seat
08:11 and therefore it is most likely I will fit in this car.
08:16 So this is my car, the Blueberry Bullet.
08:18 It has turbo chargers and lots of power.
08:22 But most important to me being the off-road guy,
08:24 it has the biggest tires of all these cars.
08:28 Fortunately the tires are wide, not tall,
08:30 and it's got a bunch of other car stuff
08:31 that I don't even understand.
08:33 - So I've got 430 horsepower out of an LS6
08:38 and a six speed manual gearbox.
08:39 And I don't care for once because there's a handle here
08:42 that you grab and you pull it this way
08:43 and it locks up the rear brakes, the car does donuts.
08:46 - You know that saying,
08:49 if you polish a turd, it's still a turd.
08:51 Well, these guys built the turd.
08:53 Now I have to drive the (beep) out of this turd today.
08:56 Thanks, Finnegan.
08:58 First challenge is the autocross.
09:00 Let's do this.
09:00 - All right.
09:01 - Get in your car, let's go.
09:03 Gave you the best car, I want you to know this.
09:07 - This is tight.
09:09 - Don't get scratched.
09:11 We don't have any band-aids.
09:13 - Hey, Finnegan?
09:14 - Yeah.
09:15 - Do I gotta turn this thing to turn it on or something?
09:18 - Oh, on the floor, there's vice grips
09:21 holding the wires together.
09:22 Make sure it's clamped real tight.
09:23 Nothing, huh?
09:31 All right, get out of the car.
09:34 I wouldn't do this to you.
09:35 I actually brought you another car.
09:37 - Did you really?
09:38 - I did.
09:38 I told you we were friends.
09:39 - Really?
09:40 - Yeah, you don't have to drive this.
09:41 - What?
09:42 Oh, all right.
09:43 - Oh yeah.
09:44 - It's a Chevy Sonic.
09:45 - That's in the garage.
09:47 So they gave me this car.
09:52 Doesn't seem to want to turn on.
09:53 I don't know what's wrong with it.
09:54 Finnegan doesn't seem to care
09:56 that there's something wrong with it,
09:58 but I hear they gave me a different car and it's orange.
10:03 Let's see if that one works.
10:05 - All right, this is the autocross.
10:09 And in case you're lost,
10:10 go around there without hitting any cones.
10:12 You hit one, that's a one second penalty.
10:14 You don't make it into the box completely,
10:16 two second penalty.
10:17 And I have another surprise.
10:19 If you run over our RC car, that's two letters.
10:23 See that guy up there?
10:25 Homeboy's got a gas powered remote control car
10:27 that's gonna try to outrun you.
10:29 You need to beat him, okay?
10:31 - No way.
10:32 - Love me.
10:33 Love me.
10:34 Don't run it over, all right?
10:37 Let's do this.
10:40 Start the car, man.
10:41 (car engine revving)
10:44 Everybody ready?
10:46 Nabuchi, you ready for this?
10:47 - Yeah.
10:48 - Watch the little car, okay?
10:50 Five, four, three, two, one, go.
10:52 (car engine revving)
10:58 That car is so fast.
10:59 (car engine revving)
11:03 - Dude, that's awesome.
11:09 - Oh, he's got him, watch this.
11:12 - He's ahead, he's ahead.
11:16 - Go little car, go.
11:21 - Nice job.
11:25 - Stop, woo.
11:26 - That was awesome.
11:28 - Wow, either Sabuchi can really drive
11:29 or that little car's not that fast.
11:31 - Yeah.
11:31 - 27.63 seconds.
11:35 You wanna go next?
11:36 - 27.63.
11:37 All right.
11:39 - All right, you have two more cylinders
11:41 and another turbo, so you should be able
11:43 to beat Sabuchi's time.
11:44 - Okay.
11:45 - Don't run over the little car.
11:46 - Okay, I thought it was gonna be on the outside.
11:49 - He will eventually.
11:50 - Okay.
11:51 - All right, five, four, three, two, one, go.
11:56 Oh, she gets the whole shot.
11:59 (car engine revving)
12:02 - He's right behind you.
12:05 - That was close.
12:06 - Oh.
12:07 - Go, go, go, go.
12:14 (all yelling)
12:16 - Oh, he's got slippers.
12:18 - Go, go, go, go.
12:23 (all yelling)
12:25 (all laughing)
12:28 - Oh, what a fail, what a fail.
12:30 - 29.52.
12:33 - That's shameful.
12:36 - Can you do any better?
12:37 - Oh, I got this, no problem.
12:39 Could possibly go wrong.
12:41 - Okay, ready?
12:43 Five, four, three, two, one.
12:48 - Something's not right.
12:51 - Clock's ticking, dude.
12:52 - I think the clutch is going out.
12:55 - Uh-oh.
12:58 - Hey, the clock's still running, man.
13:02 - Go, Forrest.
13:03 (all laughing)
13:05 (upbeat music)
13:08 - Do you even think he'll make it the whole way?
13:13 - This is gonna be the longest lap ever.
13:15 - Is he doing the whole lap?
13:17 - What is he doing?
13:19 - He's gonna run out of gas before the first corner.
13:22 - Fred or the car?
13:23 - Fred.
13:24 (all laughing)
13:29 - Come on, Fred.
13:34 (all laughing)
13:37 - Percy, don't leave.
13:39 - Woo!
13:49 - Well played, sir, well played.
13:51 - Did I win?
13:52 - Oh, you won.
13:53 Something. - Like a lemonade.
13:55 - You won a letter.
13:56 One minute and 10 seconds.
13:58 Are you gonna die?
14:02 - Good job, Fred.
14:03 - I can't have anything nice, can I?
14:04 - Nice work, man.
14:05 - Nice work.
14:06 (all laughing)
14:07 - Okay, I'm gonna get it.
14:09 Fred's at it.
14:11 The RC car needs just,
14:13 the only person you gotta beat is me.
14:15 No pressure.
14:16 Ready?
14:18 Five, four, three, two, one.
14:21 (car engine roaring)
14:27 (car engine roaring)
14:30 (beep)
14:38 (all laughing)
14:43 - Did he miss one of the corners?
14:47 (all cheering)
14:50 - In it, girl.
14:51 - Yes!
14:53 (all cheering)
14:55 - Woo!
14:56 - You are the winner!
15:00 (all laughing)
15:02 - I'm the winner.
15:03 - That was awesome.
15:05 (all laughing)
15:06 - 39 seconds and a whole bunch of tire smoke.
15:08 - All right, next challenge.
15:10 So here's where we sit.
15:12 Mr. Sabuuchi is in the lead.
15:13 He doesn't have any letters.
15:15 We all, we got a two.
15:17 So we're a third of the way from being eliminated here.
15:19 So we're gonna do backwards burnouts.
15:21 The only real rule here is continuous.
15:24 Can't stop.
15:24 So drop the hammer, go as far as you can
15:27 while spinning the tires.
15:28 What are you gonna do, Fred?
15:29 - I'm gonna ride with him because he's in the lead.
15:31 Yeah, burnout bros!
15:33 (all laughing)
15:34 Hashtag burnout bros.
15:35 (car engine roaring)
15:38 - All right, Mike.
15:42 We are safely away from the half shafts
15:44 and the transmission.
15:46 I hope you have like an SFI approved bell housing on there.
15:49 Your feet will thank you.
15:51 - I'm actually really nervous.
15:53 - I am too, I don't know how to do this.
15:55 - So just go whenever?
15:56 - Go on, it's Mythbusters.
15:57 (car engine roaring)
16:00 - You got this!
16:06 I think he's dragging the brake.
16:09 It's working!
16:10 Yeah, now we're going really fast.
16:14 - Not bad, it looks like the fourth line.
16:17 40 yards, let's go lay a come down.
16:20 - Oh, is that a stop right there?
16:22 - It's by the waste gate.
16:24 It's not stopped, it's just light.
16:26 (car engine roaring)
16:29 - Yeah, beat that Finnegan!
16:32 - So not the straightest thing I've ever seen,
16:35 but it is a backwards burnout that ends right about here.
16:38 There's the mark.
16:40 Next!
16:42 (car engine roaring)
16:50 (cheering)
16:52 - Oh, it ended.
16:56 - It ended.
16:57 She's still going though, should we tell her?
16:59 - Yeah.
16:59 - Not bad, I don't think she beat you though.
17:03 - That's pretty close.
17:05 - You think?
17:06 - I don't know, let's walk out there and check.
17:08 - You be cone guy.
17:09 You were spinning, and then it stopped spinning
17:12 and you just kept going.
17:14 So we were like, wow, look how far she's going.
17:16 - Wow, it's going fast!
17:17 - Whoa.
17:18 - It was a victory something.
17:20 - All right.
17:21 - It was good, I like it.
17:23 More smoke than him.
17:24 Smoke is all that matters really in life.
17:26 - That's cool, man, I never did that before.
17:30 That's pretty awesome to have learned, right?
17:32 - Mark that off the bucket list.
17:33 - Yes.
17:34 - All right, my turn.
17:36 So Finnegan, you saw what Jessie and I did.
17:39 You got two cones to beat, my friend.
17:42 - You nervous?
17:43 - Yeah, you've already won one event
17:44 and you're in the lead on this one.
17:45 So if I can't do this, the best someone can do is tie you.
17:50 - That's unacceptable.
17:51 - All right, I'll try it.
17:53 Can't tell if I'm in reverse.
17:59 I'm in reverse.
18:01 Ready?
18:04 Yeehaw!
18:07 (engine revving)
18:09 And he takes it.
18:24 Fin for the win.
18:26 - Might have beat me.
18:27 - All right.
18:27 - It did beat me.
18:28 - You've been dethroned, at least temporarily here.
18:31 - Well, here's where we stand.
18:34 I have a two, Sabuuchi has a two,
18:36 Jessie has a two, four,
18:37 and Fred, well, he doesn't even have a car.
18:40 So, two more events.
18:42 Our next event is called extreme parallel parking.
18:49 Here's how it works.
18:50 Drift the car sideways through these cones
18:52 and try to park it parallel to those cones.
18:55 For them, that's a curb right there.
18:57 Basically, whoever comes closest to the curb,
18:59 parallel to it, is gonna win this deal.
19:01 All right, Fred, I have a little bit
19:05 of a confession to make.
19:07 I think my chances of parallel parking in there
19:09 are absolutely zero.
19:11 So, I'm gonna try something I've always wanted to do.
19:14 Forward 360, ready?
19:16 - Ready.
19:17 - Here it comes, coming in.
19:20 (engine revving)
19:23 - Oh.
19:27 - Oh, my, the cone destroyer.
19:30 - Yeah, and they're stuck underneath the car there.
19:32 - I think we hit the little old lady on the curb.
19:35 - We're going in forward 360.
19:37 - Woo hoo.
19:38 Yeah, that was terrible.
19:40 How are we scoring this?
19:41 'Cause that was way off.
19:42 We need to count the number of cones he has disrupted here.
19:46 - Jessie's turn.
19:47 - She's got this.
19:48 - She can just keep it in this state.
19:49 She does better than I did.
19:50 - Yeah.
19:51 Or less cones.
19:52 - Less cones.
19:54 It's a good goal to have.
19:55 - Your goal.
19:55 (engine revving)
20:03 - Oh.
20:05 - Hey, you know what?
20:06 Technically, those are standing.
20:07 - Yeah.
20:08 - So we're pretty good.
20:08 - Those really only like the last,
20:10 she jumped the curb,
20:11 but I don't think she killed the little old lady
20:13 that was walking on the side.
20:14 - Those first 10 or 20 cones are still technically standing.
20:18 There's only two that flew.
20:19 Technically, those 10 or 20 cones
20:21 on the other side of your car are still standing.
20:22 - Really?
20:23 - You've just displaced them a little bit.
20:25 - So bad.
20:26 - I believe you're in first place right now.
20:27 - Oh, yeah.
20:29 I could do even better, man,
20:30 if I just had a little more time.
20:31 - Yeah, there's something happening.
20:32 - Look at that, dude.
20:34 She didn't knock them over.
20:35 - I was pretty bad.
20:37 - See how gently I just nugged them away?
20:39 - Sliding on down.
20:40 - That's what I do with curbs when I'm parking.
20:43 So, Sobuchi's up.
20:44 You're in first place right now for this challenge,
20:47 which means if you stay there,
20:50 we're tied going into the last challenge.
20:51 - Yes.
20:52 That would be ideal.
20:53 - You basically need to put the voodoo hex on him right now.
20:55 - Okay.
20:56 - Make him fail.
20:57 - All right.
20:57 Done.
20:58 - Hit it.
20:59 (engine revving)
21:02 (cheering)
21:08 - I think I'm still the winner.
21:10 Am I still the winner?
21:11 - 360 out the box.
21:12 - That was pretty epic.
21:14 - That was awesome.
21:16 - That was pretty awesome.
21:17 - Pretty much, that was the favorite thing
21:18 I've seen all day.
21:19 - I'm still in the fight, man.
21:20 - But you lose.
21:21 It feels a lot like reality television
21:23 'cause we have a three-way tie.
21:24 Our next challenge is drifting.
21:26 And because Jessie won the last challenge,
21:28 I'm gonna let her set up the course for this one.
21:30 Basically, best performance wins.
21:32 Did you make that entry that narrow on purpose?
21:40 - Yes.
21:40 - What?
21:41 - No, what?
21:42 - You want me drifting through that?
21:43 - You don't have to drift through it.
21:45 - You have to go through it.
21:46 - You just have to drift everywhere else.
21:47 - You gotta go through it.
21:47 - You gotta go through it and come back out it.
21:49 - Don't hit a cone.
21:50 - So if he doesn't get this, then I have to do it.
21:54 - Here he goes.
21:55 (laughing)
21:57 - Go, go, go, go.
22:01 - That's way too narrow.
22:03 - Well, I'm out of this deal.
22:05 It's down to you and Sabuuchi.
22:07 - I know.
22:07 - Can he do it?
22:08 - I'm kinda hoping he does.
22:09 I could use a drink and a meal.
22:12 - Me too.
22:12 - Nice, nice.
22:20 - Oh, oh, oh.
22:22 - Ah.
22:23 - Ah.
22:24 - Understeer.
22:25 - Oh.
22:25 (laughing)
22:28 - You got it, dude.
22:30 - I don't know what that was, but.
22:32 - That counts.
22:33 - That was awesome.
22:34 (upbeat music)
22:36 - We can do it again.
22:37 We can do it again.
22:39 - That was solid.
22:40 - It was solid.
22:41 - But, if you can outdo that, you win.
22:43 - Okay, I'll give it my best shot.
22:45 - Hit it.
22:46 - All right.
22:47 - All right, Jessie's up.
22:49 She does this, she wins.
22:51 She doesn't, it's you.
22:52 (laughing)
22:55 - I think you won.
22:57 (laughing)
22:59 - Drifting's hard.
23:01 Jessie and I aren't very good at it.
23:03 You did well, though, so when you combine that win
23:06 with first in the autocross,
23:07 second in the backwards burnout,
23:09 you are our victor, my friend.
23:10 (clapping)
23:11 - Good work.
23:12 - Well played, well played.
23:13 And these are amazing cars.
23:15 - Oh my goodness.
23:15 - Everything I ever wanted in a 240Z right here.
23:18 - Absolutely.
23:19 - Good stuff.
23:20 - Winner buys us dinner.
23:21 Let's go.
23:22 - All right, let's go.
23:23 Steaks.
23:24 - Flash puppies?
23:25 (laughing)
23:27 - Oh man.
23:29 - Oh, it looks like she missed the gear.
23:31 - Oh, he's right behind her.
23:33 - Go, go, go.
23:34 Go, go, go, go.
23:35 (screaming)
23:38 - Watch out.
23:40 Here she comes.
23:42 Here she comes.
23:43 - Go, go, go, go.
23:43 (screaming)
23:46 (laughing)