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00:00 This time on Roadkill, homeless Dave and I drive all the way to Kansas in February
00:05 in a wagon with no windows and no heater but a lot of style.
00:12 [Music]
00:35 So I bought this thing at Pomona for 800 bucks.
00:38 Really?
00:39 And I figured I was going to flip it same day.
00:40 Right.
00:41 How do you think that ended?
00:42 You buy high and sell low.
00:45 So you still have it though.
00:46 Ultimately I put it on our Facebook page and I found this kid in Wichita who wants it really
00:51 bad and so we have to drive it to Wichita.
00:55 This in February.
00:58 We've been to Alaska.
00:59 I didn't consider that.
01:00 Is it going to snow on us?
01:01 I don't even know.
01:02 It's going to snow.
01:03 She's ready for a derby.
01:04 Holy crap dude, where's the door?
01:06 So the guy I bought this from has another one and he bought this car and hacked it up
01:11 just because he wanted the window regulators out of it.
01:14 That was the only way to get the regulators out?
01:16 Yeah, the skins are back here in the back.
01:19 So it's got no glass, no door skins, no rear glass so we can breathe fumes.
01:23 Yeah, oh it's bad.
01:26 There's a guy who's here, I don't even know where he lives.
01:28 He's like half an hour away.
01:29 He has a Buick junkyard in his backyard so on the way out I want to pick up some other
01:33 doors for it.
01:34 We'll probably keep these in case the kid wants these but who knows maybe we'll paint
01:38 the car halfway there or something.
01:39 I was going to say those other doors better be the right color.
01:41 No they're not, they're like blue so I think...
01:44 Because I remember the Cuda episode, you couldn't stand to live with yourself when you had blue
01:47 doors on the white car.
01:48 I couldn't.
01:49 Oh it's going to look bad, I know.
01:50 The red brake drums are a nice touch.
01:51 Did you paint those yourself?
01:53 I cannot be charged with that crime.
01:56 400, four barrel.
01:58 Is it fast?
02:00 No.
02:01 This is solid.
02:02 I think other than we're going to freeze our nuts off, this looks like this will get
02:05 there.
02:06 The wagon's really good.
02:07 I regret that the guy hacked it up.
02:08 He thought it was a worthless car.
02:10 He's like man this thing's garbage.
02:11 He was almost ready to give it to me.
02:14 Then I offered him 500 bucks and he said no so he took 8.
02:17 That's half price, it says 17.50 on the windshield.
02:19 Oh that was me trying to flip it.
02:21 I assumed if I put 17.50 it's Pomona so somebody would give me 1200 for it.
02:26 I was wrong.
02:27 Okay but this cannot be the second wagon episode where we buy it, it doesn't break, and we
02:32 don't make it fast.
02:33 I hadn't actually considered that.
02:34 That was a flop last time wasn't it?
02:38 And this may not break either, this actually looks pretty nice.
02:40 Now I'm thinking we hose it down with every sponsor part we can lay our hands on.
02:44 Let's nitrous fuel injection, paint it, lower it, you know whatever.
02:50 Starting with antifreeze because it's February.
02:52 Yeah fill that up.
02:53 You need this before you start it.
02:55 I'm prepared.
02:56 Doesn't have a lift or tick.
03:04 Home free.
03:07 Oh look.
03:10 Oh we're gonna be fine.
03:12 We got the gallon bottle.
03:13 Why did you need that much?
03:14 Oh this is gonna end well I can tell already.
03:20 Perfect.
03:21 I've made it around the block, I see no reason why we can't go cross country in this.
03:30 We've done it before, we'll do it again.
03:33 We might need the roof rack because we can, when the car overheats, install the roof rack
03:37 and then mount the hood to the roof rack.
03:39 This car is big enough you can put the hood inside.
03:41 We shouldn't clean the windshield because it has a price on it.
03:45 Somebody might buy this from us.
03:47 I can avoid that part.
03:49 After I bought this car at the Pomona swap meet and failed to sell it that day, we decided
03:53 to get rid of it and I put it on our Facebook page and said that it was for sale.
03:57 We got a bunch of response from fans, but there was one guy who really stood out as
04:02 dying to have this car and he didn't have the cash but he said you know what, I'll trade
04:06 you for my Z24 Cavalier.
04:09 And who can pass that up?
04:11 We started putting two and two together and realized we didn't need a Z24, no one really
04:15 does, so we decided to just give him the Buick.
04:19 We're at Hector's place, that's all you need to know.
04:22 Car Hex is what he calls his business which is basically a backyard junkyard.
04:26 All he does is part out GM stuff and I got hooked up with him through Facebook because
04:30 he saw the wagon and he's like man, I can get you the parts you need.
04:33 Yeah?
04:34 Ready to sell some parts, drink some beer?
04:35 You guys want a beer?
04:36 That happens.
04:37 Alright.
04:38 The joys of Craigslist.
04:40 David buys a car, it really doesn't have doors even though it looks like it has doors.
04:45 And Hector here apparently has a yard back there full of parts that will fit this car
04:50 and these are all his buddies.
04:51 And they're very smart men because they lured us here with Buick parts and cold beer.
04:57 Well let's go look at your stash, we could probably go shopping right?
04:59 Yeah, come on.
05:00 Here we have the door section.
05:02 You know what?
05:04 That's the color this car used to be.
05:05 Really?
05:06 I think the insides of it is like verdure green or something like that?
05:09 And these have door panels too?
05:11 No.
05:12 What?
05:13 Dude.
05:14 It is slow you down.
05:15 What are you trying to get me here man?
05:16 We had them but you guys called me too late.
05:17 I know.
05:18 I'm just happy to have windows, who cares about the door panels?
05:20 Oh and the windows work.
05:22 So what's our plan here?
05:23 What are we doing?
05:24 Well we got your doors, what other parts do you need?
05:26 We should put the doors on.
05:27 Yeah, you want to put the doors on?
05:29 We should paint the car.
05:30 We have to look at time.
05:31 We do have to make it to Kansas in four days.
05:34 You can't go there looking fugly.
05:37 I know.
05:38 I got a shower dude.
05:42 What makes you think I need that ever?
05:44 Wash the dirt off your feet?
05:45 Yeah.
05:46 Well I say let's bolt some doors on and figure it out.
05:48 Can we pull our junk in the backyard?
05:50 Yeah.
05:51 Okay.
05:52 We're working on the wagon trying to put new doors on it because the old ones were completely
05:56 hacked out by the guy who owned this thing before.
05:58 The wagon is a 69 and we assumed that either 68 or 69 Buick four-door doors were going
06:03 to fit and that's what he's got but he doesn't have four-door wagon doors and so the window
06:08 frame on the back doors doesn't match the shape of the wagon.
06:12 So we're somewhat screwed here trying to figure out how to overcome.
06:15 Dude that's not going to work.
06:16 That's backwards.
06:17 Why not?
06:18 Oh it's a different uh.
06:19 Oh.
06:20 Fail.
06:21 These are off a four-door.
06:22 If it matches up right here just take the top part off.
06:26 But then the window won't work.
06:27 Well we'll cut the glass.
06:28 No you can't cut glass.
06:29 You can't cut that.
06:32 That's not going to work.
06:33 Our wagon is a 69 Buick Special and I thought that the doors would work off of a Buick four-door
06:38 sedan.
06:39 That turned out not to be true.
06:40 The doors in the rear have a different shape on the window opening and a different shape
06:45 in the door jamb.
06:46 So we weren't going to be able to use those doors.
06:48 We could use the fronts though and 50% that's a roadkill average.
06:52 While we were working on the doors Hector's guys decided that we needed a new seat.
06:56 They pulled our old one out of the car and they came up with this new plush unit complete
07:00 with fold down armrest.
07:02 In theory this was going to be the Lapid Luxury.
07:12 Last night when we left Hector's we loaded the car up on a trailer and had a guy cannonball
07:15 it here to Phoenix for us because we've got five days to make it to Wichita and we wanted
07:19 to be able to do some pop-ups on the car and also drive every day.
07:22 I was kind of bummed about the doors and so what we're going to do is paint the whole
07:25 car, we're going to put nitrous on it because it does not do burnouts right now and to do
07:29 the nitrous we're also going to upgrade to EFI and put an ignition system on it and anything
07:34 else that comes our way along the road.
07:36 My goal is to give this guy way more than his money's worth.
07:40 We wanted to paint the car but we only managed to find two cans of blue paint that we liked
07:44 here at this Pep Boys.
07:46 So now our plan is every day stop at a Pep Boys, try to get even more of the same color
07:50 and keep transforming the car.
07:52 So I think we'll start at the front and by the end of the trip maybe the whole car will
07:55 be one color and that kid won't be disappointed.
07:59 This seat blows.
08:00 I promise the cover would have helped it.
08:03 That was a downgrade.
08:04 Hector, your free seat sucks!
08:07 Hector boned us.
08:09 Yeah.
08:10 Right now Hector's at home going check out the couch I got.
08:12 Yeah, no I think he's going check it out, I needed to sell a guy one of these seats
08:16 for about $300 and I didn't have one.
08:18 So I gave these chumps the fold down armrest leaning forward dog pee seat that doesn't
08:23 bolt in right.
08:24 We know how Hector rolls.
08:25 Somehow I'm okay with it.
08:27 This side is actually not bad.
08:28 I think it's because there's no steering wheel in my lap.
08:30 Yeah, this side's tilting forward, too close to the wheel, no lumbar and smells like dog
08:37 pee.
08:39 Once we rolled out of Phoenix we could only handle so much asphalt before we got bored
08:44 but in Flagstaff we found this cool little road and we couldn't help but check it out.
08:49 Ready for this?
08:50 You're planning on blowing up the transmission right now aren't you?
08:53 I think neutral drop's the only way we get enough speed.
08:55 Why did I mistakenly give you the wheel?
08:57 Let's go.
08:58 Come on girl.
08:59 Oh this is rough.
09:00 This is not bad.
09:01 This is very rough.
09:02 Oh dude this is cush.
09:03 Oh she's floating over this.
09:04 No problem at all.
09:05 Check the articulation.
09:06 Like a butterfly.
09:07 Oh!
09:08 Oh!
09:09 That went pretty well for you.
09:20 Once again off road muscle cars.
09:22 Wow.
09:23 Cannot be beat.
09:24 Greatest things ever.
09:25 Oh!
09:26 Oh!
09:27 Oh!
09:28 That one hurt.
09:29 I didn't see that one coming.
09:30 That could have been prevented.
09:31 Don't hit that one.
09:32 No that one I see.
09:33 That one we're not hitting.
09:34 Oh!
09:35 Where did that come from?
09:36 That was oil pan dude.
09:37 I think we've gotten lower.
09:38 I think we actually need to look at the oil pan.
09:42 There's a cross member there right?
09:44 It's been a long time since we were out on the open road with just a few hours to kill
09:48 so we did some off road and checked out the scenery, just hung back for a little bit before
09:52 it started to get dark and we had to find our way back to pavement.
09:57 This is the coldest I've ever been in a car on road kill.
10:01 Hands down colder than Alaska.
10:02 We're in Gallup New Mexico.
10:05 We made it like 275 miles today so we're technically ahead of schedule but it's like 32 degrees
10:10 and because of Hector we don't have rear glass.
10:13 I hate you Hector.
10:16 And that toe is frost bitten.
10:18 That might fall off.
10:19 I need beer.
10:20 I need a hot tub.
10:21 I can't get warm.
10:22 This sucks.
10:23 That hurts.
10:24 It's 25 degrees.
10:25 It's Gallup New Mexico.
10:34 Our main concern right now is that it's going to be so cold between now and Wichita that
10:37 we're not going to be able to paint this thing because it's like an ice cube right now.
10:41 That's not my main concern.
10:42 No?
10:43 My main concern is freezing my gillets off.
10:45 Yeah.
10:46 So what's the plan today?
10:47 We need to put brakes on it.
10:49 We need to paint it.
10:50 We need to put fuel injection.
10:51 We need to put nitrous.
10:52 That all involves working outdoors.
10:54 Yeah.
10:55 My plan during the first part of the drive was to call a florist back home and order
11:00 my wife flowers for Valentine's Day tomorrow.
11:03 But my excuse when I don't do that will be that it was too cold to take the gloves off
11:06 to dial the phone number.
11:08 Here, I'll just roll the window down.
11:10 Oh dude we're smoking out the lobby.
11:12 Are we?
11:13 Oh we're blowing smoke in the lobby.
11:17 Oh dude.
11:21 Not cool.
11:27 Went into Pep Boys here to get a few things we needed to paint the car later.
11:32 And then, I don't know, Freiburger was so disgusted by the car that he just decided
11:36 to blow it apart and he's starting to clean it.
11:38 Now he's talking about changing the brakes out.
11:40 So maybe we're doing a brake job right now.
11:41 I'm not sure.
11:42 I'm not even sure what day it is.
11:44 And I'm not sure of the name of the kid who's accepting this awesome automobile.
11:48 And I don't know when we need to be there.
11:51 So I don't know if I should be concerned about the fact that we just started a yard sale
11:55 in the parking lot of Pep Boys in Gallup instead of driving.
12:03 Feels good not to be freezing.
12:04 Don't get used to it.
12:07 We don't even get one block away from the Pep Boys parking lot before the left rear
12:12 tire starts rubbing.
12:13 We're going to have to do something about this.
12:15 It's going to eat right through the sidewall.
12:16 In fact, it's beginning to.
12:18 We got a sledgehammer and I'm going to take this off and just fold in, not the lip, but
12:23 the actual inside of the quarter panel here.
12:29 That's not doing anything.
12:30 What if I hold the propane tank up against the side here?
12:33 Do you want to hit it?
12:36 This might be a first.
12:37 Yeah.
12:38 It's working.
12:39 Oh, that's mint.
12:42 We're good now.
12:46 We're going to end up spray painting this car and I don't want the doors to be mismatched.
12:57 So I'm going to paint the doors white.
12:58 I'm just going to scuff a little bit, wipe it down, mask it and fog it.
13:03 Then we're going to do the front brakes here at the same time.
13:05 Before we left town, I had converted the Buick from factory drum brakes over to discs with
13:09 CPP pistons.
13:11 But our goal here is to pretty much mooch everything we can from our sponsors so that
13:15 this guy can get a really cool car when we're done.
13:18 So we stopped and upgraded the rotors to some units from EBC brakes and also threw on some
13:23 EBC yellow stuff pads.
13:25 People question the environmental rules and regulations of doing this in a parking lot,
13:29 but my answer to that is this isn't California.
13:31 We're in the United States.
13:32 This is New Mexico.
13:33 Wow, this might actually match pretty well.
13:37 So you may think that I'm a complete butcher, but there's actually a method to the artfulness
13:41 of beaters.
13:42 Good morning.
13:43 Good morning.
13:44 How are you?
13:45 Oh, we're busy.
13:46 How are you?
13:47 I'm doing great.
13:48 I'll be doing even better if you can send a dozen roses to my wife tomorrow so I can
13:49 stay married.
13:50 Okay.
13:51 No pressure.
13:52 You want a dozen red roses for tomorrow?
13:53 I'll be doing even better if you can send a dozen roses to my wife tomorrow so I can
13:54 stay married.
13:55 Okay.
13:56 No pressure.
13:57 You want a dozen red roses for tomorrow?
13:58 I'll be doing even better if you can send a dozen roses to my wife tomorrow so I can
13:59 stay married.
14:00 Okay.
14:01 No pressure.
14:02 You want a dozen red roses for tomorrow?
14:03 Yes, ma'am.
14:04 What do you want the clerk to read?
14:06 Sorry for once again missing Valentine's Day.
14:11 I hope you still love me.
14:12 Well, tomorrow's Valentine's Day.
14:13 Yeah, I'm in New Mexico.
14:14 Oh, okay.
14:15 Oh, I see what you're saying.
14:16 And please add, "Pretend these are diamonds."
14:17 Love, Mike, or Deadman.
14:18 I think we've gone maybe 20 miles.
14:19 I think we've gone maybe 20 miles.
14:20 I think we've gone maybe 20 miles.
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14:51 I think we've gone maybe 20 miles.
14:52 I'll fix it.
14:53 I'll fix it.
14:54 I'll fix it.
14:55 I'll fix it.
14:56 I'll fix it.
14:57 I'll fix it.
14:58 I'll fix it.
14:59 I'll fix it.
15:00 I'll fix it.
15:01 I'll fix it.
15:02 I'll fix it.
15:03 I'll fix it.
15:04 I'll fix it.
15:05 I'll fix it.
15:06 I'll fix it.
15:07 So, quarter mile down the road, we ran out of oil.
15:08 I checked it and it was low.
15:09 Quarter mile later, I'm like, huh?
15:10 Transmission's slipping a little bit.
15:12 So, yeah, we checked that and it's low.
15:17 Low to zero.
15:18 So, here's my thought on the paint.
15:20 We only have three cans.
15:22 We should start and just do the roof in case it turns into a nightmare and we don't want
15:25 to finish it.
15:26 It'll just be two-toned.
15:27 Yeah, let's flake the roof.
15:28 Just metal flake roof, everything else white, and then we can sort of judge our progress
15:32 from there.
15:33 Let's do it right here, right now.
15:34 We can.
15:35 I'm ready.
15:36 Well, our other two cans of spray paint magically disappeared.
15:49 Now, we need to unmask the car and try to find another store that sells this paint,
15:55 remask the car, and continue on with our art.
16:01 Oh, I'm close.
16:13 It's Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14th.
16:16 Is it Saturday?
16:17 No.
16:18 That is not happening.
16:19 It's Valentine's Day.
16:20 Right now, we're going to head over to an auto parts store and try and buy more paint
16:26 because we lost that stuff yesterday because finishing that roof is a priority over getting
16:31 nitrous and fuel injection on the wagon.
16:33 That's the plan today.
16:34 Then we still got like 600 miles to go to Wichita.
16:40 Happy Valentine's Day.
16:41 It's fantastic.
16:42 Yeah.
16:43 I can't believe I'm spending it with you.
16:44 This is amazing.
16:45 Again.
16:46 Want me to call your wife for you?
16:47 How many of these have we spent together?
16:50 Lot of wife birthdays, lot of Valentine's Days, lot of nearly Thanksgivings.
16:55 In separate hotel rooms, mind you.
16:57 Okay?
16:58 Let's go to Clarify.
16:59 Yeah.
17:00 We don't have a lot of budget, but we have enough budget for two rooms.
17:09 We have 600 miles to go, two days to get there, and we have to put on nitrous EFI, an ignition
17:14 system and paint the roof.
17:18 Right.
17:19 But I'm also worried about expediency.
17:21 And then we hand this over to Z24 kid and say, "Sorry."
17:24 Yeah.
17:25 Hey, he's got to learn.
17:27 Unroad kill your car.
17:28 Exactly.
17:29 So we're in Albuquerque.
17:30 Just went into this Pep Boys and found a single can of blue spray paint that we need.
17:34 But the good news is there are five more Pep Boys here in Albuquerque.
17:38 So if we go to every one of those places and they only have one can, we can paint the roof.
17:43 We also found a speed shop that has nitrous jets and a bunch of other stuff we need.
17:46 So we may actually finish this install today and get on the road.
17:51 We hit a muffler shop because we needed to weld in a bung for an oxygen sensor for the
17:55 atomic EFI.
17:56 And while we were there, I realized the Buick is way too quiet.
18:00 And what's louder?
18:01 A cheap glass pack.
18:03 So I picked one up and asked those guys to weld it in the system so that we could actually
18:06 make some noise with this turd.
18:08 They have a welder and a man willing to weld in David's bung into the exhaust pipe on Valentine's
18:14 Day.
18:15 Ha ha!
18:16 Kill me!
18:17 Ready for the sound of power!
18:18 That's disappointingly quiet.
18:19 It's the same.
18:20 It's the same.
18:21 That does not sound any different.
18:22 Wow.
18:23 Muffler fail.
18:24 That's redonk.
18:25 Alright, the day's half over.
18:39 What have we accomplished?
18:41 In theory, we are right now cannonballing to Vega, Texas for the world's best onion
18:46 rings and EFI installation.
18:48 It says we arrived there at 4.
18:51 Just in time for it to be dark.
18:52 At 4 o'clock, that's when the Valentine's dinner starts.
18:53 Perfect, we won't bother anybody on Valentine's Day changing our fuel system in the parking
19:00 lot of a high-end restaurant.
19:01 Nah.
19:02 Actually, would you call it high-end or just tasty?
19:04 The food is high-end.
19:05 Yeah.
19:06 The place, not so much.
19:09 Welcome to Vega, Texas, where we're going to be installing EFI.
19:13 That right there is the Boot Hill Saloon, the greatest onion rings known to man.
19:17 We're not allowed to eat even one of them until this thing runs.
19:19 What?
19:20 On fuel injection.
19:21 Wait, wait, wait.
19:22 We didn't talk about that.
19:24 You missed it while your headphones were on.
19:25 We didn't talk about that at all.
19:28 We'll be installing MSD Atomic EFI, which is a throttle body deal.
19:33 They claim it's the simplest fuel injection you can possibly install.
19:37 And so we'll have to see if we can get it running in time for Finnegan to be able to
19:43 eat his onion ring.
19:45 Most of the day, we've been rolling with the Glimpse app, which if you haven't checked
19:48 that out, it's pretty cool.
19:50 You get it on your phone and you can follow us live on a GPS map.
19:54 And because we had that rolling, all of a sudden, a bunch of fans showed up to hang
19:58 out.
19:59 So carburetor off, EFI on, and then we got to plumb a new fuel system for it.
20:03 So the deal with this is that it's throttle body fuel injection, but it's a little different
20:07 than the old GM ones.
20:09 It's got injectors here and here, four of them.
20:12 And so you just run your fuel in one side and out the other.
20:14 You can run the system either return style or returnless.
20:18 The thing that's going to slow us down more than anything here is the fuel system.
20:21 We'll be under the back of the car in the dark trying to figure out where to put the
20:24 pump.
20:25 That's the bung we had welded into the exhaust pipe this morning.
20:28 This is an oxygen sensor.
20:30 The computer is going to use this to monitor air/fuel ratio of the engine.
20:35 We're about halfway through the fuel injection installation and I realize we don't have the
20:39 fuel pressure regulator that we need.
20:41 And it's getting dark and we're starting to freeze.
20:44 And there was bad news from the restaurant.
20:46 The fuel pressure regulator isn't going to happen right here right now.
20:50 And we just got the news that they have a Valentine's Day menu with no onion rings.
20:56 F*** with dude.
20:59 It's all over.
21:00 Looking like our options right now are put the carburetor back on the thing, drive it
21:03 back to Amarillo, try and convince somebody that we know to open their speed shop on Sunday
21:07 to get us an EFI fuel pressure regulator to drive 400 miles from here to Wichita tomorrow.
21:12 Z24 kid, you better appreciate this.
21:16 That's right.
21:17 Buildin' your car kid.
21:18 Buildin' your car.
21:19 It's about 32 degrees here in Vega, Texas right now.
21:32 We didn't finish the fuel injection last night because we had a problem with the fuel pressure
21:35 regulator and I did not find out until we were actually eating a steak that we didn't
21:41 really need it.
21:42 Fair enough, I've said this 20 or 30 times already on this episode, but Z24 kid better
21:47 like this car.
21:48 Oh I know.
21:49 You know what, this is like the end of Saving Private Ryan when Tom Hanks is like, "Earn
21:54 this kid, earn this."
21:57 Saving Private Buick.
22:03 From Vega, Texas to Wichita, Kansas where we were dropping the car off was 388 miles.
22:09 Now that doesn't sound too bad for you, but the odds of Roadkill doing 388 in a day are
22:14 low, especially since we still had to make the EFI run on this garbage.
22:18 There goes my legs.
22:19 I'm thinking of this as balmy right now because of what we have coming in Wichita.
22:20 I'm enjoying the heat.
22:21 I think the glory that comes with a successful EFI installation, nitrous and a painted roof,
22:22 will keep us warm.
22:23 When does that glory come?
22:24 Because it's been a loose one.
22:25 We're going to install the EFI right here before we get to Wichita and it's even colder
22:49 than it is right now, which is like low 40s, high 30s, something like that.
22:55 And off comes the carburetor once again.
22:58 The good news is that although we've got to redo quite a bit of work we did last night,
23:02 we're probably about 50% done with this.
23:04 The controller has already run into the cab, the power module's on the firewall, some of
23:09 the wiring is finished.
23:10 I think this is the junkiest motor that parts this nice have ever been installed on.
23:15 Probably not.
23:16 I've watched Roadkill.
23:18 This is the coolant temperature sensor, which the Atomic EFI uses to decide how much timing
23:25 to put into this thing, how much fuel to put into it.
23:30 You know, you start it up in the morning, engine's cold, it'll throw more fuel at the
23:33 motor and we can't get the old sending unit out of the intake manifold that goes to the
23:39 factory gauge because it's frozen there.
23:42 But there's a port right here on the radiator, which means I could stuff this thing into
23:47 a piece of hose with a hose clamp, clamp it to the radiator on the other end and generally
23:51 just put this wherever I damn well please.
23:54 This is innovation that you're witnessing right now, ladies and gentlemen.
23:57 This will be the only thing on the car not butchered.
23:59 Alright, so we need to plumb the fuel line and install the fuel pump.
24:05 And we're there.
24:06 Putting off the ugly part to the last.
24:09 Fuel line means crawling under, getting gas on your hands in freezing cold weather.
24:13 Holy s***, it's cold.
24:16 First question is, do we want to use the factory hard line for fuel, which they recommend against,
24:22 but it would be easier?
24:24 How cold are you?
24:26 Yeah.
24:28 By now we've got the throttle body installed, all the wiring is done, and I'm underneath
24:33 the car having to run all of the fuel line and I am completely over it at this point.
24:37 The level of suffering could be worse, but my mental attitude probably couldn't be.
24:42 Oh, it's cold.
24:44 I wasn't this cold in Alaska.
24:49 My goodness.
24:50 The ground's cold, my hands are cold, stainless steel line is cold.
24:57 I'm trying to make sure that the fuel line doesn't fall on the exhaust pipe here.
25:01 Feel the sun?
25:02 Wow.
25:03 Feel the sun.
25:04 That's almost warm.
25:05 Whoa.
25:06 Thank you, Jesus.
25:07 Okay, ready?
25:08 I'll go for it.
25:09 Okay, tighten.
25:10 Wow, that was minimal spillage.
25:11 I know.
25:12 The installation's all complete now, we think, and Finnegan's going through the handheld controller.
25:25 You just have to tell it really basic stuff, like what camshaft's in it, what displacement
25:28 it is, and then the EFI will pick just a base fuel map.
25:33 It's usually a little bit rich, just to make sure it'll run, and after you get it fired
25:36 up and driving, it starts to look at the data from the O2 sensor, and it looks at the target
25:40 air fuel mixtures, and it starts to correct how much fuel it's delivering to it, and it
25:45 remembers that and makes its own map.
25:47 It's actually an overlay of the map that tells it a percentage of correction.
25:51 That's how the self-learning deal works.
25:53 Okay, engine coolant temp, 38 degrees.
25:56 38 degrees engine coolant temp, awesome.
25:58 TPS, zero, so that's good.
26:01 I don't think you have to train the TPS, do you?
26:03 Oh, we still haven't done wide open throttle.
26:05 This says 100%.
26:06 Wow, we're good.
26:09 Battery volts, 12.2.
26:10 All right.
26:11 All right, let's see if it primes.
26:15 Stop.
26:17 Major leak at that same connection we've been messing with.
26:20 We'll be getting there late.
26:21 I think we'll be meeting this kid tomorrow, right before we get on the airplane, in which
26:26 case it'll be like every other time we have to leave a car somewhere, it'll be, "Hey,
26:29 look at all these parts we didn't get time to install."
26:32 You'll have to paint the roof yourself and keep the tools.
26:36 Later.
26:38 Wow.
26:40 You got to give that some credit.
26:44 Yeah.
26:45 First key turn, runs.
26:46 My goodness.
26:47 Amazing.
26:48 It's still too cold to be painting, but I'm going to try it because I can't stand the
26:57 fact that we're going to deliver this thing half blue.
26:59 I think it's going to look kind of good if we can get it done.
27:02 Do not spray under temperatures below 60.
27:05 It looks like that.
27:06 If people were on the fence about whether or not we were truly hacks on this show, this
27:13 will just cement the legend.
27:14 This leaves no doubt.
27:17 Got my nails done.
27:25 We only rolled about 30 miles out of Vega before we stopped in Amarillo to install that
27:29 CFI, and so once it was running and once the roof was painted, because that was critical,
27:34 we still had 350 miles to drive that day, and it was getting dark and cold.
27:44 I opened the radiator a little bit too soon and splattered stuff everywhere.
27:49 Turns out this, I hear, was not that genius of an idea after all.
27:52 The thing is running super, super rich because there's no water getting to that sensor, and
27:58 so it thinks that the coolant temp is 32 degrees, so it's richening it up so that it would run
28:02 in that cold of a weather.
28:05 So I'm going to fill up the radiator as much as I possibly can to get water to that sensor.
28:09 Might have to move it again.
28:15 You might think it's cold at your house just because you've got like 12 feet of snow in
28:19 your front yard, but let me tell you, 25 degrees at night in a '69 Buick with no windows in
28:24 it and the heater blowing ice cubes on your toes is bad, and it excuses what's about to
28:29 happen.
28:30 Oh, I feel better already.
28:31 You're not sharing the comforter?
28:32 Hey!
28:33 Oh, sorry.
28:34 You always steal the covers.
28:35 The door hit my blanket.
28:36 Give me some.
28:37 Hold on.
28:38 Holy crap, it's cold.
28:39 Look at the steam coming off.
29:01 I know.
29:03 That's going to freeze right away.
29:05 The wipers are just smearing the rain, and if I don't have the wipers on, it freezes
29:12 the rain to the windshield because we've got no heat whatsoever inside.
29:16 We have a couple solutions here.
29:18 Step one, Rain-X. Step two, dress.
29:24 Step three, we've got a 12-volt little like semi-truck in-cab heater that we're going
29:30 to plug in to put right here to try and like make a defroster.
29:33 Oh, it's like a bed and breakfast in here.
29:36 And now that we have Rain-X and a heater and a windshield scraper just in case, I think
29:41 we'll be fine.
29:42 We'll make it.
29:43 Oh, we left a bottle in the hood.
29:47 Just jump right out there and get that.
29:48 It'll be fine.
29:51 We finally got to the point where we had to throw in the towel.
29:57 The freezing rain was coming down and icing directly on the windshield.
30:01 There was nothing we could do about it.
30:03 We had this 12-volt heater and it caught on fire but didn't even make enough flame to
30:07 melt the ice on the window.
30:08 It's on fire.
30:09 That smells like melted plastic.
30:10 It is.
30:11 It's fully on fire.
30:12 Yeah, not good.
30:19 So we caved in and stopped and spent the night in Elk City, Oklahoma, nowhere near where
30:24 we needed to be the next morning.
30:37 Now it's like 10 o'clock.
30:38 We're completely behind schedule.
30:40 We're not going to make it to Wichita in time to actually see that guy.
30:43 So I think we're going to go to Oklahoma City and if we live that long, we're going to play
30:46 it by ear from there.
30:47 Is that kind of the deal?
30:48 Sounds good to me.
30:49 Oh, hey.
30:50 How good do you think the vehicle is?
30:51 Oh, hey.
30:52 How good do you think the EFI works right now in 25 degrees?
30:58 Well, considering the controller has been hanging out the door all night long.
31:02 Oh, then it's custom.
31:04 Hope I didn't pinch the wire.
31:06 Look at that.
31:09 Have you noticed how good the paint job actually is?
31:13 Well it's blue.
31:14 That's right.
31:15 It's burned through.
31:16 It's fine.
31:17 Finally, the thing does a burnout.
31:23 We need donuts, dude.
31:24 Oh, let's go find a parking lot.
31:26 We need a donut shop.
31:27 We need an enlarged parking lot.
31:28 Not happening.
31:29 Not happening at all.
31:30 Maybe it works better to the right.
31:31 Thank God for the blanket that I'm using as a skirt.
31:55 It's working.
31:56 I'm warm.
31:57 Your skirt is helping?
31:58 Totally.
31:59 So are the three pairs of pants I'm wearing.
32:04 There was still evidence of all of the gnarly crashes that we'd heard about on the highway
32:08 with the black ice the night before.
32:11 And what's worse is that the weather had put us so far behind and there was something that
32:15 I could not escape at the office the next day.
32:18 And so I was going to have to fly home, leaving Finnegan to suffer out the rest of the trip.
32:27 Woo!
32:29 Just Ironman-ed about 170 miles of freeway.
32:33 Freezing my cones off.
32:34 But we're here.
32:35 We are blocks away from Z24 Kid's house.
32:38 We're going to go show up and surprise him with a car that he thinks he's trading for,
32:43 but I'm actually going to give it to him.
32:45 I hope he appreciates it.
32:56 I'm Mike.
32:57 I'm Dalton.
32:58 Dalton.
32:59 There she is.
33:00 Wow.
33:01 Road proven.
33:02 A thousand miles.
33:03 Yeah, that's road worthy.
33:04 So I think I'm just going to give it to you.
33:08 No way.
33:09 Yeah, I'm not going to lie.
33:10 I don't want a Z24 Cavalier.
33:11 You're the only man in America that has one that still runs.
33:15 You should keep that because this really should not be on the road.
33:18 Are you sure?
33:19 I should be arrested for driving in here.
33:20 So you should keep that and drive that while you fix this.
33:24 Yeah.
33:25 That's what I think should happen.
33:27 But there's a few rules here.
33:29 Okay.
33:30 Stipulations, which we should spell out on the hood.
33:33 Seat belts.
33:34 They're in there.
33:35 Just not bolted down to anything.
33:39 You're going to be cold.
33:40 Put the windows back in.
33:41 Lights.
33:42 Water pump.
33:43 Check the air pressure in the tires.
33:44 We never did.
33:45 Neutral safety switch.
33:46 Sometimes works.
33:47 After you've done all of this and every time you cross something off the way we do, I want
33:52 photographic evidence of it.
33:53 Yeah.
33:54 Email, text, Facebook, whatever it is.
33:56 Just cross it off.
33:57 Let us know you're taking care of her.
34:00 And when mom and dad say this list is done and she's safe, go ahead and drive her.
34:06 I feel good about this.
34:07 I do too.
34:08 You're very delicious.
34:09 Thank you.
34:10 Welcome to the Roadkill family.
34:12 I'm sorry.
34:13 I really am.
34:16 When we started this trip, I was a little worried.
34:19 I thought, okay, another station wagon, another road trip.
34:22 We're not going racing.
34:24 How fun will this actually be?
34:26 By the time I got to Wichita, I realized, you know what?
34:29 It doesn't matter what you're driving.
34:31 It doesn't matter where you're going.
34:33 Old cars break.
34:34 Mother Nature gets in the way.
34:36 You're going to make new friends.
34:38 No matter what, just get out there and have yourself a good time.
34:41 And that's what Roadkill's all about.
34:48 I'm shocked how many people of the younger generation have not seen this.
34:52 This is called the dual action tailgate.
34:54 Check that out.
34:55 It opens this way and it opens this way.
35:04 Check out the action on that baby.
35:05 Yeah, that's like magic, isn't it?
35:08 How do they do that?
35:14 This is much better.
35:15 I don't even know why we have these.
35:17 They're not doing much.
35:18 You look great.
35:19 It's a fashion statement more than anything.
35:22 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
35:24 That's Freon.
35:25 That's odorless, colorless, and tasteless.
35:26 You should never huff it.
35:27 There's your good Samaritan tech tip for the day.
35:28 You've got two out of three.
35:29 You're colorless and tasteless.
35:30 For the most part.
35:31 17 in R. Why do we always end up somehow off road with
35:32 our cars?
35:33 It's kind of a thing.
35:34 Video guys wanted a scenic location.
35:35 We'll give them a scenic location.
35:36 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
35:37 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
35:38 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
35:39 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
35:40 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
35:41 Why do we always end up somehow off road with our cars?
35:48 It's kind of a thing.
35:49 Video guys wanted a scenic location.
35:50 We'll give them a scenic location.
35:51 We may not be leaving this location.
35:52 Yeah, we're unexpectedly spending the night in Flagstaff.
35:56 My junk always falls out of the front of Boxers.
35:58 And I'm leaving.
35:59 On the road again.
36:00 I can't wait to get on the road again.
36:01 Making new friends.
36:02 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:03 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:04 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:05 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:06 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:07 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:08 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:09 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:11 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:12 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:13 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.
36:14 I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.