This is the episode fans of Roadkill and Mighty Car Mods have been demanding for two years! It’s also a bonus episode of Roadkill powered by Dodge—the 13th installment of the 2016 season! David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan finally got together with Marty and Moog of Mighty Car Mods
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00:00 This time on Roadkill, we've got a blown big block Chevy
00:02 in our '69 Impala.
00:04 And a Subaru WRX with a couple of friends.
00:08 - G'day. - Hi, mate.
00:09 - Finally, right?
00:10 It's happening.
00:11 - Let's go do some skids.
00:13 - Special bonus episode of Roadkill with Mighty Car Mods.
00:17 (engine revving)
00:19 (upbeat music)
00:26 (upbeat music)
00:28 (engine revving)
00:37 This is gonna be a good one.
00:41 We are finally doing the episode with Mighty Car Mods,
00:44 which if you're unfamiliar with those guys,
00:46 is basically like the Roadkill of Australia.
00:49 And apparently there is all kinds of fans
00:52 that cross over between them and us.
00:54 They've been demanding for years
00:56 that we do an episode together,
00:58 and we're finally doing it.
00:59 The way this is gonna work is we're gonna build a car
01:02 for those guys, and they're gonna build one for us.
01:05 We have no idea what the other team is doing,
01:08 and at the end, we're gonna get together
01:09 and have a whole lot of fun.
01:11 Now, the car that I chose is as American
01:14 as I could possibly find.
01:15 A giant 1969 Chevy Impala road barge.
01:20 It currently has a 350 small block Chevy in it,
01:23 a turbo 350 transmission,
01:26 and it will not by the time we're done with it.
01:29 We are gonna load this thing with the blown big block Chevy
01:32 that we took out of the crusher Camaro.
01:34 So these guys are gonna have six or 700 horsepower
01:37 in the ultimate ill handling road pillow.
01:40 And it's gonna be a riot.
01:42 Oh, it looks like an Impala.
01:48 That is an Impala.
01:50 He loves Impalas.
01:53 (engine revving)
01:55 What year is this?
01:56 - '69.
01:59 - It's an Impala custom.
02:01 - It's big.
02:02 - It's been customized by mother nature.
02:04 - Yeah, oh, it's gonna be hilarious.
02:06 - This is cool.
02:06 - Here's kind of my theory.
02:08 Everyone outside the United States thinks
02:10 of an American car as ill handling,
02:13 won't stop, and overpowered.
02:15 There you go.
02:17 We're gonna give it to 'em.
02:18 - They are right.
02:19 (laughing)
02:20 (upbeat music)
02:22 - The whole point is that it sort of drives.
02:24 It rides great, handles terrible, barely stops,
02:28 and it's gonna have 600 to 650 horsepower.
02:32 It should smoke one 14 inch radial for like 17 blocks.
02:37 - Ah, all right.
02:39 I like this car.
02:40 It's got character.
02:42 - We're here at West Tech Performance,
02:43 our buddies where we do all of our engine dyno testing,
02:45 and one might ask,
02:47 why aren't we doing this indoors over there?
02:49 Well, it's because they're completely filled up
02:51 and had no room for us.
02:52 So yeah, we're here in the parking lot in the rain.
02:55 It's not like it's our first time though.
02:57 It's only a small block Chevy.
02:58 We should have it out in a few minutes.
03:00 It's a pretty easy swap,
03:02 but I'm sure we're gonna run into some stuff
03:04 that's gonna slow us down,
03:05 and we've only got two days to do it.
03:07 (upbeat music)
03:09 - Leaking something.
03:15 - It is leaking.
03:16 - Power steering fluid.
03:18 - Oh yeah, we just ripped those hoses right apart.
03:20 That was cool.
03:22 - Wow.
03:23 Our most clean engine swap yet.
03:25 Engine removal rather.
03:27 - You not looked under the car?
03:29 - Still our most clean yet.
03:31 Two, three.
03:33 Whoa.
03:37 (laughing)
03:39 That made it, sort of.
03:40 - That totally worked.
03:41 Never tried that before.
03:42 - It worked.
03:43 - That wasn't safe at all.
03:45 - We're not hurt.
03:46 - Now the fun begins.
03:48 - Big block.
03:49 - What if there's nothing in there?
03:54 We never opened it.
03:55 It's been three years.
03:56 - It's a pretty heavy nothing.
03:58 So you fans will remember that in 2014, 13,
04:03 we went to the PRI show,
04:05 and we had the crusher Camaro,
04:06 and we removed a blown big block Chevy,
04:09 and installed an LS7.
04:11 This is the big block Chevy.
04:14 It went to Steve Schmidt Racing Engines.
04:16 They boxed it up for us and sent it home,
04:18 and the box has not been opened since.
04:20 So this will kind of be like the Ark of the Covenant.
04:23 - Dun, dun, dun.
04:27 - Haven't seen that guy in a while.
04:30 - Hasn't gotten any lighter.
04:33 Oh, good thing we took it off.
04:34 - Good thing we took it off.
04:35 (laughing)
04:36 The Impala had power steering.
04:38 I'm gonna cut the lines right here,
04:40 and just loop them,
04:41 thereby turning it into manual steering.
04:43 Why?
04:44 Because with the blower driving everything,
04:45 we don't want to mess around
04:46 trying to mount a power steering pump to the big block.
04:49 So those guys will just have to live with manual steering.
04:53 In the interest of cheap,
04:57 we didn't want to buy a whole bunch of stuff
04:59 to make this happen.
05:00 That's why I'm giving these guys our old Turbo 400,
05:02 not our trick GearStar transmission,
05:05 and I'm using this torque converter,
05:06 which is completely wrong for the application.
05:09 It's probably gonna stall to the moon
05:11 with this much power, and that much weight,
05:13 and that lack of rear gear.
05:15 This is questionable at best.
05:17 You know, come to think of it,
05:21 this is all my stuff.
05:22 This better not get blown up.
05:25 So the steering box here is hitting that header tube there.
05:34 So we are gonna bash it.
05:36 Okay.
05:44 Watch an episode of Engine Masters
05:46 called the header bash, I think it's called.
05:48 And we absolutely destroyed a set of headers on the Dyno.
05:51 Way worse than that.
05:53 And it didn't make a bit of difference to horsepower.
05:56 Severe lack of parts is creating a roadblock for us.
05:59 There's not much left we can do
06:00 other than put the transmission cross member in,
06:03 which will not fit.
06:04 And the factory brackets are well into the frame.
06:06 We're gonna have to build some new ones.
06:08 That'll require welding.
06:10 So we're gonna push the car to the driveway of West Tech,
06:12 roll their welder out, get an extension cord,
06:15 and do a little fabricating.
06:18 FedEx guy will save us tomorrow.
06:19 Runs good with the big block.
06:22 Okay.
06:37 It's hideous, but it's on.
06:38 This thing's gotta be done by tomorrow night,
06:41 because Thursday we need to make our way down to San Diego
06:44 for the shootout with Marty and Moog.
06:46 They have no idea what they're in for with this thing.
06:49 (laughs)
06:50 In fact, I'm not really positive what they're in for either.
06:53 That torque converter is gonna be awful.
06:55 - No exhaust system is gonna be awful.
06:57 I could care less about the torque converter.
06:59 - We can fix that.
07:01 Put a couple mufflers on it.
07:02 - We could.
07:03 Will we? - Or will we?
07:05 (laughs)
07:08 - Now something just occurred to me.
07:10 - What?
07:11 - Wasn't Mad Max made in Australia?
07:13 - Yeah.
07:14 Oh, look at the motivation.
07:15 - How's that?
07:16 - You're gonna go there already.
07:18 - Oh, dude.
07:19 - Ooh.
07:20 It's pretty good.
07:21 - Oh, stand over here.
07:22 - Yeah.
07:23 - This is good.
07:25 This is really good.
07:27 - Oh, that is so ridiculous.
07:30 - You should never paint the car.
07:33 It should always look like this.
07:35 - That's hilarious.
07:36 - You show up at this like at any car cruise,
07:38 instant respect.
07:39 - Yeah.
07:40 - This is like a T-bone steak smothered in Corona.
07:43 - This is like a blue hair guzzling of Budweiser
07:45 is what this is.
07:46 - Leaded.
07:47 Not that light stuff.
07:48 - Oh, yeah.
07:53 It's going nowhere.
07:55 Radiator's mounted.
07:56 Just cross that off the list, dude.
07:58 I love this job.
08:01 - I don't know if cutting a perfectly good frame rail
08:04 just to bolt an alternator in place
08:06 when there are brackets on the market
08:07 that would have relocated up
08:08 where you didn't have to do that
08:10 is the peak of our hackery here at Roadkill,
08:12 but it's up to them.
08:13 - No, no, no, no.
08:24 Yeah, this is not gonna work.
08:28 Ever.
08:31 - Wow.
08:32 - That's just, that's not gonna happen.
08:33 You're gonna have to take out a giant chunk of that.
08:36 - Right.
08:37 Nobody needs to see this.
08:39 - It's like 5.30, car alarms,
08:46 desert race trucks, dyno testing, and us.
08:49 We're doing pretty well.
08:55 I think we still have some majors like the drive shaft
08:57 and-
08:58 - Throttle linkage.
08:59 - Lower belt throttle linkage.
09:00 - We may be pulling a wire to activate the throttle.
09:02 - Yeah.
09:03 But remember,
09:05 we don't have to be to San Diego till tomorrow night.
09:08 - And nighttime is really-
09:10 - The right time.
09:12 So the drive shaft we've been waiting for
09:19 that we set out yesterday
09:22 is too long to actually be installed.
09:24 Won't go in.
09:26 So that ain't happening tonight.
09:29 We'll have to figure out how to get that fixed tomorrow.
09:32 Okay, it runs.
09:35 - It runs.
09:36 No water in it.
09:48 - No water.
09:49 It does have fuel pressure.
09:51 But you know what that means?
09:52 - That means there's hope for tomorrow.
09:54 - All right, we're gonna put this thing inside
09:56 and get out of here,
09:57 which is the responsible thing to do
09:59 considering that we still have a full day's worth
10:01 of work to do.
10:02 And those guys are gonna be here tomorrow.
10:05 Probably with some little import car
10:08 designed to make fun of us
10:10 that will do so because it'll probably run and drive
10:12 just fine.
10:14 But it won't have a blown big block Chevy in it
10:16 is my guess.
10:17 I could be wrong,
10:18 but I don't think that's where those guys
10:20 are gonna go with this deal.
10:21 Finnegan completely butchered the frame
10:26 on this poor Impala to fit the alternator.
10:28 And then it wouldn't work.
10:29 And we didn't have time to fabricate a new bracket.
10:31 So we're gonna end up hitting the road
10:32 with no charging system whatsoever.
10:35 'Cause we've got other stuff to get done.
10:37 Stuff that's gonna keep us from hitting the highway.
10:39 Like, you know, throttle linkage, a drive shaft.
10:42 And the Mighty Car Mods guys are already on the way over.
10:45 Should we tell them the steering wheel
10:47 is held in place with zip ties?
10:48 - No, no, no, no.
10:49 - Nah.
10:50 (tires screeching)
10:53 That's about the best tire installation I've ever done.
10:58 Apparently the guys from Mighty Car Mods
11:00 have their car done
11:02 and they want to head over.
11:03 And I'm like, no, you can't come here
11:04 until this thing runs and drives.
11:06 So they could show up at any minute.
11:08 You just never know.
11:11 No fuel pump.
11:11 - Turn on the parking lights.
11:15 - Got it.
11:15 What's the fuel pressure?
11:18 - Yes.
11:20 (engine revving)
11:25 (tires screeching)
11:28 - Yeah, fix that.
11:47 - I think it's good enough to scare those guys.
11:51 - This feels about normal for road kill.
11:53 I feel like we're done on time for us anyway.
11:56 They'll be here any minute and I'm laying under the car.
12:00 - Oh dude.
12:03 - Is that a truck?
12:04 - It's a WRX.
12:08 Check that out.
12:10 - Oh, that's cool.
12:10 (laughing)
12:13 - Oh, that's way cool.
12:14 - Nah, it's bad.
12:16 - Hey.
12:17 - Wow.
12:19 - You guys went all out.
12:20 - We stuck a big turbo out the bonnet.
12:22 - We stuck a big blower out the bonnet.
12:26 - It's got a big blower.
12:26 - Oh my God, is that for us?
12:29 - Oh my God, that's so cool.
12:31 - You guys went all out.
12:32 We thought you were gonna like half-ass this.
12:34 - And we made you guys a ute.
12:35 - I see that.
12:36 - We brought a little bit of Australia all the way to you.
12:39 - This is pretty good.
12:40 Is it all wheel drive?
12:41 - It is.
12:42 And now it is a Subaru.
12:44 - The Mighty Mods guys brought us a Subaru WRX
12:48 and I have no idea how they found this thing
12:50 for like three grand.
12:51 I guess it was really bashed.
12:53 And that gave them the excuse to cut the back end off of it
12:56 and turn it into a ute.
12:58 And that turbo, it's just the stock one,
13:00 but of course they hung it out of the hood
13:02 because that's what you do.
13:04 And they added Haltech EFI to it, tuned it up
13:06 and brought it over here for us to destroy.
13:09 Now this hasn't moved under its own power yet.
13:12 - You said you wanted the quintessential giant American car.
13:16 - That's what I thought.
13:17 - All you guys think of American cars,
13:19 totally overpowered, right?
13:20 - Looks nice.
13:21 - Here you go.
13:22 You got neighborhood of 700, 650 horsepower
13:25 and you've got bone stock '69 Impala everywhere else.
13:28 - And we don't know if it does burnouts yet or not.
13:30 - Oh yes we do.
13:31 - Okay, good.
13:32 - Yeah, that's just intuitive.
13:33 - It's a really dumb question, but what kind of car is this?
13:36 - This is the 1969 Chevy Impala.
13:40 - Yes.
13:40 - That's DOT approved.
13:41 - Steering wheel is legitimately being held on
13:43 with cable ties.
13:44 - Right.
13:45 - So don't pull it too hard.
13:46 - No.
13:47 - Oh no, pull on it.
13:48 It's not going anywhere.
13:48 - Man, we thought we were loose.
13:50 You guys are next level.
13:51 Seriously.
13:52 - This is like so much better than anything I anticipated.
13:54 Those guys completely threw me off the scent
13:56 with their Instagram post.
13:57 They put a picture of them like washing a Miata
13:59 and we really thought that's what they got for us.
14:01 And then that, and they didn't even know what our car was,
14:04 which is perfect,
14:05 but we both have it all hanging out of the bonnet.
14:07 Them turbo, us blower.
14:09 This is going to be a lot of fun.
14:10 - You guys want to hear it?
14:12 - Yeah, yeah, of course.
14:12 - Fire it up.
14:13 - Go ahead.
14:14 - Go ahead.
14:15 (engine revving)
14:18 - That's what it sounds like
14:29 when you have the whole motor attached.
14:31 - Wow guys.
14:32 - That's incredible.
14:33 - Everyone wanted to find out if the Apollo
14:35 would even make it around the block.
14:36 So we all hopped in for a ride.
14:38 - Sounds amazing guys.
14:39 Let me give you a high five while we're still alive.
14:41 (laughing)
14:44 (engine revving)
14:46 - Hold a sec, donuts.
14:51 Time to make them.
14:52 (engine revving)
14:55 (laughing)
15:13 - It makes our car seem quiet.
15:15 - It's really not that bad, right?
15:18 (engine revving)
15:22 - Approved.
15:23 - Donuts approved.
15:24 It is insane.
15:26 - Approved, approved and approved.
15:28 - Well, I haven't experienced anything like that before.
15:33 I mean, I've been in some fast cars,
15:35 but not ones that feel like they will literally
15:37 rip you in half once you put your foot down.
15:41 - It was angry, aggressive and beautiful.
15:45 - When he was doing some of those donuts,
15:46 I thought literally we were going to go like this.
15:48 Like that mirror was just going to, it is gone.
15:50 We scraped the mirror off.
15:52 Oh, feel the luxury.
15:54 - Feel it caress your butt.
15:57 - Wait a minute.
15:57 - Now the air conditioning's down here.
16:00 The stereo's here.
16:01 The electric windows are over here.
16:03 And to start it, all you got to do is,
16:05 clutch has to be all the way down.
16:07 So push it down, otherwise it won't start.
16:08 - This is weird.
16:10 I don't feel like I need a hazmat suit
16:11 to like ride in this one.
16:12 - And then turn the key.
16:14 - Oh, feel the flapper.
16:17 - Is that the starter motor or is it running?
16:19 - Thank you.
16:20 - That's all you need to do.
16:20 - Is it on?
16:21 - Do not hit that red button there under any circumstances.
16:26 - Is that the red button that does the?
16:27 - No, yeah, just don't touch.
16:29 Do not touch the button.
16:31 Don't touch the button.
16:32 - Wow, this is why these guys are like famous.
16:35 - They got speakers.
16:36 - That's the key.
16:38 - This car's a wretched man.
16:40 Seriously, it's so gross.
16:42 - I believe the word is original.
16:43 - Scares the crap out of me, man.
16:49 It's those seat belts.
16:50 - It rides really stiff.
16:56 - It does?
16:57 - Maybe they're spoiled.
16:58 - Oh, it runs pretty good.
17:05 - That's not bad.
17:06 (engine revving)
17:09 (laughing)
17:14 - I need to see it ride it.
17:15 - Yeah!
17:16 - Those guys in a WRX is the funniest thing
17:20 I've possibly ever seen.
17:22 - Right.
17:23 - Look at the flapper it's on.
17:29 This is great.
17:31 - Actually looks good, man.
17:32 Well done.
17:33 That's rad.
17:34 - They did say don't touch that red button.
17:36 I'm dying to touch the red button.
17:38 What do you think it is?
17:41 - Here we are, man.
17:45 - Yeah.
17:46 - We're in California.
17:47 The sun's going down.
17:49 We got some muscle.
17:50 - Like a muscle.
17:51 - Guys from Roadkill and a Wrexy.
17:53 - Look at the size of that supercharger.
17:54 I can't see like the sky, man.
17:57 - Oh, there's sky beyond that.
17:59 - Oh, there is.
18:01 - I feel a rumble through the back end of this car
18:05 coming from that car.
18:06 - Look at that thing.
18:08 It's genius.
18:09 - I can't believe you can drive this on the road here.
18:12 But can you?
18:13 We're doing it.
18:15 - We are.
18:15 - And those guys stepped up with this thing.
18:18 - They couldn't have done any better.
18:19 This is fantastic.
18:20 - You guys all good?
18:22 - All good.
18:23 How about you guys?
18:24 - All good.
18:25 - It's loud, but it's good.
18:26 - What?
18:27 - Yeah.
18:27 (engine revving)
18:30 - This is so much fun.
18:32 - It is.
18:33 - I now understand why people buy these cars.
18:34 - Oh yeah, these are fun.
18:36 (screaming)
18:38 Seriously, man.
18:44 This is crazy.
18:45 This car.
18:46 - Yeah.
18:47 (upbeat music)
18:49 - See this?
18:54 (upbeat music)
18:56 - Yeah.
18:59 - How is it?
19:02 - We absolutely love it.
19:06 And we just saw some Mighty Mods fans go past
19:09 and they gave us a high five on the highway.
19:11 (laughing)
19:13 - Loving it.
19:15 - And thank you for the mad snacks.
19:17 We've been diving into the Cheetos.
19:19 You will find some Australian snacks in your glove box.
19:22 (upbeat music)
19:25 - That's good.
19:26 - Look what we got.
19:27 Caramel, koala, Tim and Tam.
19:31 - I'll try that too.
19:34 - The obligatory veggie bite.
19:36 - That's all you, buddy.
19:37 - Oh, fuck.
19:39 (upbeat music)
19:42 - I'm not sure I've ever driven a car
19:47 with more power than this.
19:49 - How many kilowatts is that?
19:50 - Like 400 and something, at least.
19:54 - That's crazy.
19:55 - Yeah.
19:56 This is an experience though, man.
19:58 - Oh yeah, this is.
20:00 - This car in America.
20:01 - Drive along experience.
20:04 Like for the rest of your life, like this is amazing.
20:07 - Yeah.
20:08 - Like these guys make you a car,
20:10 you drive it in America.
20:12 - Yeah.
20:13 - The windows down, the weather's beautiful.
20:15 Like this is perfect.
20:16 - Yeah, man.
20:18 - That steering wheel is held on with cable ties.
20:21 - Yeah.
20:22 - Oh man, this is one of the greatest things
20:25 we've done in a long time.
20:26 The problem now is that it's running hot.
20:28 It hasn't really puked everywhere
20:29 and overheated roadkill style,
20:31 but we don't want that to happen.
20:32 So we're gonna take a little bit of a break,
20:33 let it cool down, let the traffic go away
20:35 so that we can motor on down to San Diego.
20:37 The real hijinks hasn't even started
20:40 and everybody is already having a killer time together.
20:43 And so after we stopped to get some flashlights
20:45 to tape onto the Impala for headlights,
20:48 we decided to split up the teams for a little while.
20:51 So this feels pretty normal for you, right?
20:53 - Very.
20:54 (laughing)
20:55 - This is so out of anything I've done before.
20:57 - Did it just die?
21:00 - Yeah.
21:01 - He just did the math in his head
21:02 and this is gonna be about a seven battery trip.
21:05 We get a battery every 12 miles, not good.
21:09 - But it sounds so good for those 12 miles.
21:11 - So I guess we drop the other battery
21:14 and leave the fan off and hit it, see what we can do.
21:18 - Cool.
21:18 - The thing is we knew that was gonna be a problem,
21:20 but somehow we were delusional that we could make it
21:23 like a hundred miles on a battery.
21:25 That's not happening.
21:26 Oh wow, this seat's terrible.
21:27 - Yeah, it's really bad.
21:28 - How are you driving this garbage?
21:30 - I don't know.
21:43 - Okay.
21:44 That's strange.
21:51 - Man, this is real.
21:52 You guys don't fake this stuff.
21:54 - No, no we don't.
21:56 We're this bad.
21:58 - I'm quite enjoying the roadkill experience.
22:00 One thing is for sure, like people always,
22:02 you know, it's talking about, they go,
22:03 surely they set that up.
22:05 Surely that car does not break down six times in 10 miles.
22:08 It just happened tonight and it's for real.
22:13 The ground wire on the fuel pump was super, super sketchy.
22:17 And now I'm making it sketchier, but likely functional
22:22 by taping it to a spot on the panhard rod
22:27 that I ground bare.
22:28 And as Marty accurately noted, yes,
22:32 the panhard has rubber bushings on it,
22:34 but it did seem to work.
22:36 - I've noticed that the WRX is yet to break down.
22:40 - I couldn't help but notice that myself.
22:42 (upbeat music)
22:45 - Man, this is not a bad way to make our way
22:49 down the highway.
22:50 - No.
22:51 - Windows down, beautiful evening.
22:54 - Not a bad job.
22:55 - Rolling in the wreck seat.
22:57 - Awesome.
22:58 (engine revving)
23:02 (Marty laughing)
23:07 - So now you need to leave this here.
23:08 We need to make it faster.
23:10 - How's that? - Fixed.
23:12 - All right.
23:13 - So are you ready to go another quarter mile or so?
23:15 - Let's do it.
23:16 I live my life quarter mile at a time.
23:18 (Marty laughing)
23:20 Yeah.
23:22 - And the cloud of dirt rises.
23:23 All right, hang on.
23:27 - Yeah, let's do it.
23:28 (engine revving)
23:41 (engine revving)
23:44 - We're down here at Qualcomm Stadium
23:47 in San Diego, California,
23:49 mostly because they've got a giant parking lot
23:52 and they're not afraid of tire smoke and burnouts.
23:54 So what, drag race first?
23:56 - Yeah.
23:56 - I reckon let's just do what everybody wants to see,
23:59 which is two cars at one end,
24:01 first person over the line, no timing,
24:04 no clocks, no reaction time,
24:07 good old fashioned street race.
24:08 First person over the line is the winner.
24:11 And by winner, the person who wasn't as slow
24:13 as the other one.
24:14 - Okay.
24:15 You're going to drive this?
24:16 - Yeah, yeah, that's it.
24:17 - Which one of you guys?
24:17 Rochambeau.
24:18 - Let's do it.
24:19 So when a winner drives.
24:20 - Sure, winner gets to choose.
24:21 - Winner gets to choose.
24:22 Okay, you ready?
24:23 And one, two, three.
24:25 - I'm driving.
24:26 - You're going to like it.
24:29 Finnegan's just going straight to the driver's seat.
24:31 - What about you guys?
24:31 - He's driving this.
24:32 - Oh, okay, that's who's driving.
24:33 - I like driving.
24:34 (laughing)
24:35 - Let's do it.
24:36 - So we're going to do this drag race, Australian style.
24:39 And that means from the bridge to the dunny.
24:42 The dunny is what we call an outhouse.
24:44 But because this is Roadkill, of course,
24:49 there's one final thing that we need to do to this car.
24:51 - What?
24:52 Wait, make sure it doesn't overheat.
24:55 - To get it Roadkill ready.
24:56 - Okay, Roadkill.
25:00 That'll fit in your trunk.
25:02 - Perfect.
25:03 - Are we faster now or slower now?
25:05 - And remember, turn the headlights on
25:06 so that the fuel pump works.
25:08 - Got it.
25:09 - We got fuel.
25:10 - We'll show you guys how to race, all right?
25:12 Show you how we do it in Australia.
25:14 - Okay.
25:15 It's hard to argue with them
25:16 when they've got our 600 something horsepower car
25:18 and we have this.
25:19 We have traction though, and they don't.
25:21 - Yes.
25:23 - All right, ready?
25:27 - Jump these guys.
25:28 - Three, two, one, go.
25:30 (engine revving)
25:32 - Oh, it's tough.
25:34 Oh, it's tough.
25:38 (engine revving)
25:41 - Oh, it's tough.
25:48 - I can't decide whether I'm happy with it.
25:52 - I was going to say the same thing.
25:53 - Or bummed out that our car lost.
25:55 - That was intense.
25:57 (engine revving)
25:59 (laughing)
26:06 - We didn't quite understand the launching procedure.
26:08 - You need to confirm the kill.
26:10 Like if you actually won that, you got to confirm it.
26:12 - Well, that was a battle of traction
26:14 and we either won or lost depending on how you look at it.
26:17 We ended up having to swap cars because hey, it's only fair.
26:21 But honestly, where's the fun
26:22 in hooking up with all wheel drive
26:24 when you can smoke the tire for like 300 yards?
26:28 Do you want to see like an Australia shaming burnout
26:31 or attempt to win?
26:32 - We're not winning, so do the burnout.
26:34 - Attempt to burn.
26:35 Australia shaming burnout.
26:36 - I'm going to drive one of those
26:37 'cause they've driven them before.
26:38 - Yeah, do the burnout.
26:39 - Now don't do it.
26:40 - Warp bank.
26:41 - Oh no.
26:42 - Warp bank.
26:43 - Oh no.
26:44 - Oh, they're going to the Vegemite over there.
26:50 - We got this.
26:50 Are you ready?
26:53 - All right, you good?
26:54 Here we go.
26:55 In three, two, go.
26:56 (engine revving)
27:00 - Yeah.
27:04 (engine revving)
27:07 - Easy, easy, easy.
27:15 (laughing)
27:17 (engine revving)
27:20 (engine revving)
27:23 - Man, I tried to just walk into it.
27:40 - Amazing.
27:41 - It wasn't going to happen.
27:42 - So good.
27:44 - I think it wakes the dead.
27:45 That's so unreal.
27:46 - That one wheel spinning's incredible.
27:47 - Only one of you may be autocrossing.
27:49 We're running short on rubber.
27:51 - Oh yeah, it's just toasting the one tire
27:52 every time, isn't it?
27:53 - Yeah.
27:54 - Oh, that's plenty of tire.
27:56 - So what's next?
27:57 Autocross, which is what we call Motocarna.
27:58 So basically we have this track set up here.
28:00 - Right.
28:01 - And are we both on there at the same time
28:03 or is it timed or what's the deal?
28:04 - I want to watch.
28:05 Now we're going to hit the autocross
28:07 and I think this is the playground of mighty car mods.
28:10 They should dominate at this.
28:12 We need to make them do what we always have to do,
28:14 which is we show up at a track, we're out of time.
28:17 We have to make one lap.
28:18 That's our time, we're done.
28:19 We don't get to pre-run it.
28:20 - No warmup, no pre-run.
28:21 - Oh really?
28:22 - Yeah.
28:23 - That sounds really safe.
28:24 - Cold motor, bald tires, no brakes, have fun.
28:26 - Yep.
28:27 - I did the drags.
28:28 It's all you, man.
28:29 - All right, cool.
28:31 Let's do it.
28:31 Maybe you guys could go first.
28:33 - Oh no.
28:34 - Each team is going to drive each car one time.
28:37 No prep, no warmup, no skill.
28:40 I like our chances.
28:43 - Fuel pump is on.
28:45 Accelerator is to the ground.
28:47 Accelerator is back, accelerator is half.
28:50 Crank it up.
28:51 - Oh my lord.
28:54 - Sorry?
28:54 - Need me to navigate or just close my eyes?
28:56 - Yeah, navigate.
28:57 - All right.
28:57 - Ready?
28:58 - Three, two, one.
29:00 (laughing)
29:07 - Oh, brakes.
29:08 - Which way?
29:09 - That way.
29:11 Straight, no straight, straight.
29:13 Left around the pole.
29:15 Left around the pole.
29:16 Straight ahead.
29:17 - Straight?
29:17 - Yep, straight that way.
29:18 - Yes.
29:19 (laughing)
29:20 - Left.
29:21 - Around the pole.
29:22 Whoa!
29:23 Left.
29:25 Straight ahead.
29:27 Yes!
29:27 (laughing)
29:30 Now we're gonna go right.
29:31 - Right.
29:32 - Right here.
29:33 That way.
29:34 (engine revving)
29:37 Whoa!
29:38 That's a dunny.
29:40 Left.
29:41 No, that way.
29:42 - Around?
29:45 - Yep, around.
29:46 Then left.
29:47 (engine revving)
29:49 Right.
29:49 (engine revving)
29:52 (laughing)
29:54 Left.
29:55 (engine revving)
29:56 Oh my God.
29:56 (engine revving)
29:57 Right.
29:58 (screaming)
29:59 (laughing)
30:01 (screaming)
30:01 I'm halfway out the curve.
30:02 (engine revving)
30:04 - Yeah!
30:05 (laughing)
30:06 (engine revving)
30:07 - Oh!
30:08 - Save it, save it.
30:08 (engine revving)
30:11 (laughing)
30:13 (laughing)
30:14 - Oh my God!
30:15 (engine revving)
30:16 - Don't kill him.
30:17 (engine revving)
30:18 - Stop, stop, stop.
30:18 - All right, ready?
30:19 (screaming)
30:20 (laughing)
30:21 - Dude, that was...
30:22 (laughing)
30:23 - Done.
30:24 - Thank you, Kyle.
30:25 (engine revving)
30:25 (clapping)
30:27 - And how was it?
30:28 - Amazing.
30:29 (laughing)
30:30 - That was awesome.
30:31 - Oh my God.
30:31 (laughing)
30:33 - Oh my Lord.
30:33 - Dude, that was a good steer.
30:35 - Fantastic.
30:36 - That was beautiful.
30:37 - I love this car.
30:38 (laughing)
30:39 - This is so good.
30:39 - Good steer.
30:40 - I'm just wiggling on it.
30:41 (laughing)
30:42 This is awesome.
30:43 (laughing)
30:44 - It looked good.
30:44 - Unbelievable, guys.
30:45 - Are you guys gonna see if you can better our time?
30:47 - Yes.
30:48 - So that was, hold on.
30:50 - Oh yeah, how did we go?
30:51 Sorry, that's hard.
30:51 - You did great.
30:52 119.8 seconds.
30:54 - Okay, cool.
30:55 - With a spin out.
30:55 - Nice recovery.
30:56 - It had good flair. - Thank you very much.
30:57 - Good flair.
30:58 - Good style points.
30:59 - So you guys are now taking this car
31:00 and gonna try and beat 119?
31:02 - That's right.
31:03 - Good luck with that.
31:03 - Okay.
31:04 (engine revving)
31:05 Blunt force trauma, begin.
31:07 (engine revving)
31:09 - Good.
31:10 (engine revving)
31:11 - Good, now you're in gear.
31:12 Three,
31:13 two,
31:15 go.
31:16 (engine revving)
31:19 (laughing)
31:23 (engine revving)
31:26 (laughing)
31:29 - I like this.
31:32 (engine revving)
31:35 - It does marble a little bit.
31:39 (engine revving)
31:40 (laughing)
31:43 (laughing)
31:45 - Nice work.
31:46 (engine revving)
31:49 - See, they're trying to grip, unlike us.
31:51 30 seconds and they're more than halfway, aren't they?
31:53 (engine revving)
31:56 - Whoa, this is scary.
32:02 (engine revving)
32:04 Those are concrete.
32:06 (engine revving)
32:09 (cheering)
32:12 - Will it stop?
32:15 (laughing)
32:18 - Victory!
32:19 (laughing)
32:20 Yeah, America!
32:21 (laughing)
32:23 - That was pretty good.
32:24 - What was it?
32:25 - Man, that was incredible.
32:26 - How was the tires?
32:27 - All right, so the time for these guys
32:29 doing the same lap that we just did in 119,
32:31 they've done it in 102.
32:33 - Yes!
32:34 - Smashed it.
32:35 - America!
32:36 - America.
32:37 - Your driving was incredible.
32:38 I saw you getting racing lines,
32:39 slowing down for the corners,
32:41 like trying to grip it up.
32:42 - Everything I learned from Mighty Car Mods
32:44 all came to me in a moment when I was driving.
32:45 - So now we do the same challenge.
32:47 We swap into our Super Sally, the Super Root,
32:51 the Rexy Ute, we do the same thing again.
32:53 - Yep.
32:54 - Let's do this.
32:55 - Let me get this out of the way.
32:56 - This car is so much fun.
32:58 - Before we start, I just want to remind you,
33:01 this is what we do.
33:02 - I know, man.
33:03 - This is actually our thing.
33:04 - I'm going to try really hard.
33:05 - It's one thing to go, let's explore our brains
33:07 and be nice with the Americans.
33:08 This is what we do.
33:09 Trappy car, little tracks.
33:11 Right, Henry?
33:12 - I was going to say the same thing,
33:13 but I didn't want to.
33:14 (laughing)
33:16 - All right.
33:17 Three, two, one, go.
33:19 Oh yeah.
33:22 Great launch, man.
33:23 Great launch.
33:25 Holy, what was that?
33:27 Yeah, man.
33:29 On the brakes, around the corner.
33:32 Every day of the week.
33:33 Up there.
33:34 Up there.
33:35 This is fine.
33:37 Around this pole.
33:38 Around this pole.
33:39 Yep, and down there.
33:41 That's it.
33:42 All the way down.
33:43 Yeah, man.
33:45 Yes.
33:45 Outside of the pole and around to the left.
33:50 That's it.
33:51 Oh, a little bit on the steer.
33:53 Back around this one.
33:55 Back around this one.
33:58 Back around this one.
34:02 Around the outside and all the way back, man.
34:04 Just punch it, punch it, punch it.
34:07 All the way down, man.
34:09 Braking early and whoop.
34:17 Yes.
34:17 Ooh.
34:19 How much quicker is this than our run in the Impala?
34:23 Just throw out a number.
34:24 - Um, 15 seconds.
34:25 I reckon that was 46.
34:27 - Wow.
34:29 - Oh.
34:30 - Oh.
34:31 - It was faster than that?
34:32 - It's faster, but not much.
34:33 - 58, not much.
34:34 - Not much faster.
34:34 - Not much at all.
34:35 - Wow.
34:36 - That was a lot of fun.
34:37 You're going to enjoy that.
34:38 - Oh, I thought.
34:39 - That's amazing.
34:39 - Oh yeah.
34:40 - Did you bottom out over here?
34:41 - Yes, we did.
34:42 - Yeah, I can't.
34:43 - Danger to the manifold.
34:44 We heard that sound under our feet.
34:44 - Right.
34:45 - Yeah, yeah.
34:46 All right, you guys are up.
34:47 Let's face it.
34:48 I'll get the timer ready.
34:49 Okay, so we have just done our run in the WRX.
34:51 My compatriot, Marty here got a 58 second lap,
34:54 which is only just a little bit quicker
34:56 than what they got in the Impala.
34:58 But it is still the fastest lap of the day.
35:00 And now it is up to the Roadkill boys to beat 58 seconds.
35:04 And I hope you realize if you beat 58 seconds,
35:07 you'll have the fastest time of the day.
35:08 - That's true.
35:09 - Yeah, so there's a little bit of pressure on it
35:12 and a couple of different nations right now
35:14 that are hanging off every single second.
35:16 So are you ready to do this?
35:17 - It's a 58 second penalty if you blow the gearbox.
35:19 - Oh, thanks.
35:21 - And three, two, one.
35:23 Yeah, go on.
35:26 - Hey.
35:28 - Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
35:32 - Left turn, left turn.
35:34 Straight, quick.
35:35 Left turn, hard left.
35:39 There you go.
35:39 - Oh.
35:40 - There you go.
35:41 Gas, gas, gas.
35:42 Hard right, hard right.
35:44 Gas, gas, gas.
35:47 Keep going, gas, gas, gas.
35:50 All right, a little left turn.
35:52 Keep going, keep going, keep going.
35:54 Hard left.
35:55 - Oh, understeer brakes.
35:58 - Off the rear, rear.
35:59 - Well.
36:00 - Whoa, right, right, right.
36:02 Left.
36:03 Left, left, left.
36:05 Right, right, right, right, right, right.
36:08 Left, hard left, hard left.
36:09 Go, go, go, go.
36:11 Here.
36:17 (screaming)
36:19 (laughing)
36:21 And the car's stopped at 56.7.
36:24 - No way, it's not stopped.
36:25 Now it stops.
36:27 (laughing)
36:28 - Wait, how about, how was the first stop?
36:30 - Where were the brakes in that one?
36:32 All right, so.
36:33 - Did you turn them off with the red switch or something?
36:34 - When you stopped down there, you stopped at 57 seconds.
36:37 - Okay.
36:38 - So, so whether you could have got back here
36:41 in a second or not, I don't know.
36:43 - This is where, you know, we're going to have
36:44 to have the tiebreaker event.
36:46 (upbeat music)
36:48 So there's the crossover episode that fans of both
36:53 of these shows have been waiting for for like two years.
36:56 Who won?
36:57 Who cares?
36:58 (engine revving)
37:02 (upbeat music)
37:04 The Mighty Mods guys wanted to make sure
37:06 that we had two episodes on this whole debacle.
37:09 If you want to see their side of the story,
37:10 go check out the Mighty Car Mods channel on YouTube.
37:14 I think it's pretty obvious that all of us just wanted
37:17 to get together and have some laughs
37:18 and man, was it a good time.
37:20 As a matter of fact, we had so much fun.
37:22 I hope we can make it down to Australia
37:24 and do this again with Marty and Mood.
37:26 (upbeat music)
37:28 (engine revving)
37:31 (cheering)
37:51 - Look at that!
37:52 - They're on the rim!
37:53 They're on the rim!
37:54 - The whole tire came off!
37:58 (cheering)
38:00 - Oh yes!
38:01 (engine revving)
38:04 (laughing)
38:10 - What the hell?
38:11 - Guys, lay it on me.
38:12 (laughing)
38:13 - Actually, let's group it up.
38:14 - That was killer man.
38:15 - Bring it in.
38:16 - Well done.
38:17 - Bring it in.
38:18 - It's not killing Mighty Car Mods.
38:19 - It's a ride on the hubcap spinning in.
38:21 - Well done fellas, that was awesome.
38:24 - Nice way to end the day.
38:24 (laughing)
38:26 - The whole tire came off.
38:27 - It just popped completely off.
38:28 - The fans aren't very happy either.
38:30 - We wanted you to have a souvenir of your trip.
38:32 - Yeah.
38:33 - There it is.
38:34 - I can't think of a better way to end the show.
38:36 Guys, that was so much fun.
38:37 - That was amazing.
38:38 Of course, Roadkill, thank you so much for having us.
38:41 - Oh, of course.
38:42 - That was amazing.
38:42 - Thanks for doing it.
38:43 - Thank you guys for coming to Australia.
38:44 - Yeah, absolutely.
38:45 - Are we going to make this a regular thing
38:46 every year or two?
38:47 - It depends on those people right there.
38:48 You think they'll make it happen?
38:50 - They're absolutely going to make it happen.
38:51 Let's do this.
38:52 If you guys want to see Roadkill
38:53 and Mighty Car Mods kicking it again,
38:56 let us know in the comments.
38:57 I'm sure you will.
38:58 (laughing)
39:00 - You need that ever reliable Subaru.
39:05 - It may not make as many stints,
39:07 but it still works.
39:08 - You can find all the parts from these builds
39:16 by visiting jegs.com/roadkill.
39:24 - Wow, that was easy.
39:26 Okay, you ready with the wheel chalk?
39:28 - No.
39:30 (laughing)
39:33 - That hurt.
39:34 - I forgot about that part.
39:36 - Call this a dipstick.
39:39 Something not really liking about it.
39:45 - It smells like it's been in a barn for a long time
39:48 or a paddock or something.
39:49 - Smells like a barn has been in this,
39:50 is what it smells like.
39:52 - Probably the best thing that's happened so far for me
39:54 is when we walked into this auto store here
39:56 and the attendant sees the Roadkill guys walk in,
39:59 then he sees the Mighty Mods guys walk in
40:01 and he's just,
40:02 (grunting)
40:03 and I think he just says,
40:04 "You're asleep, it's a trap."