Burnouts in a Boat Car! | Roadkill

We're in freezing Kansas City Kansas and this will be another episode of Roadkill where Mike chooses the destination. I chose the car. I think our best example of that is when we did Low Rider. I really hope this lives up to it because this is going to be potentially better. I'm going to laugh more. Please don't be a motorcycle. Please don't be a motorcycle. OMG, you stole this from a theme park, isn't that cool? Tell me it floats. I knew it was like that. is going to be the first question oh my god, this is incredibly, isn't it the worst evil?

And I love it, it has a CD player and oh, Nashville, it sounds good, great country music, wow, so this is a 2010 Nissan Versa, possibly the worst rental ever. car I've ever owned and the

boat

is a 57 glass

boat

, not a Criss boat, not a par glass boat going straight on a lake, no, no amount of Flex Seal makes this one float well, challenge taken . Wow, does the outboard motor work? I don't know, so my friend took a compact car and put a boat body on it. It has the bad CV transmission it actually has. It's not too old because it's actually a four-speed automatic.

The engine, depending on the model, is a 1.6 with 107 horsepower or a 1.8 with 122 horsepower, so it needs 100 shots and we can double the power, yes. It has a handbrake so it could burn out oh let's find out and we're going to freeze oh this is a convertible. I just noticed that it is not a convertible at this time, which would imply that it has a folding top. oh has this ever been on the road? I don't think this is going to make the trip but the seat reclines which means it could go down enough that maybe it doesn't matter and the heater works and you can go down and I can go down yes it's 27° at Indie in right now, huh, but it's not snowing, oh man, uh, I guess going Indie, let's go oh spicy, yeah, wait, the brakes work pretty good, oh man, the tires crash, okay, it's like a new car, can you? adjust the rearview mirror can't reach it I feel like this windshield might not be in the original location yeah down oh perfect that's weird oh oh maybe don't do that again all the lights are on the dash dude well yeah they took them all out airbags and all kinds of stuff so that's going to happen that noise sounded like the mechanical fan hitting something but there shouldn't be a mechanical fan on this thing yeah they put a flat valve on it it looks like it's smoking , but I think.

That's just steam, look in the back, ready, okay, yeah, let's go with steam, steam sounds good because it's so cold outside, man, just hearing that noise and looking at the light on the front of this thing is just a trip, Now the breeze is a little oppressive. come on 65 try 80 I want to see how bad it gets it's on the floor okay that's 7 70 75 we're good that's 80 right there that's a little cold I bought us battery operated underwear oh well we don't have to share one, We are not fine, thank you. Maybe I need to get the homeless blanket, although yeah, I think we're going to have to employ quite a few different methods to stay alive in this one.

I feel like this is a pretty successful first test drive. of the vehicle it's raining now it's actually raining ooh 69 Impala I know what to do with that supercharger and burns yeah it's a two door it's been sitting for a while we're 15 miles from a tire store and a hotel oh we can . Don't leave these tires with the tread on, can we? I don't think so, so here we go, don't vote. You can't do

burnouts

, do overhead cam action, this thing has up to 122 horsepower. I don't feel like I've roasted our tired enough, you're right, maybe you should look behind us before doing that, just as a tip.

Well, in a remarkable show of responsibility, we're going to put new tires on this thing so we don't throw Caren into a ditch when like rain, snow, we hit the ice, I grab your E brake when you're, yeah, that happens too, he's already turned the rear tires into stop signs by grabbing my ear brake, so it's going to take these guys a couple of hours to get tires. On this, I'm looking forward to how they're going to do that on the rear, since the tire is trapped under the fiberglass. I'm sure they have a saw or something.

I think we could have gone just a little. a little over the top with the new tires, but they're ready and I put on my power underwear because it's really cold and we're at Lawrence Dragway, which is an abandoned Eighth Mile track here in Lawrence Kansas, so we're going to go. look at that, do you want to drive it or walk it, i want to drive it, okay yeah we're going to be a drag racer woohoo oh tight so this was a race track yeah yeah it opened in the late 50's and It was closed in 1986.

I wonder if they closed it when they divided it in two with this road, it's like half is on this side of this main road and the other half is on the other side, look, it's strange, they only put the blocks of concrete where the pavement is, they simply thought that no one would leave the road because of the smoke that was coming in. the G, that was the quality, I give it that credit, hey, maybe it'll back off, oh yeah, oh it is, oh yeah, we did it, you did it, you did it, this is a lot more slippery than whatever we were in doing yesterday.

The good thing is that these tires are new, I really like them. the smoke coming out of the dashboard is the best part of all. I'm so glad we have new tires, yeah, yeah, doing it oh we've got them both going now, just hooking up, oh we're dumb, it looks like a forest fire. I feel like we should go, okay. Oh, that was a great drag strip. If I liked. I'll support you on M. We thought we had to try a boat ramp. This thing is completely open at the bottom. There's nothing like. Hull, there's no chance of it floating uh, let's see, you've got about 15 feet of concrete here, let me look, you can go back further.

I hear the exhaust in the water, oh yeah, the exhaust is in and stop, there's about a foot behind you, you're not quite there. in the water here, you H, we might want to get the tires wet. I'd stop there after that, it's going to the drink, so are you winking at me right now? Wait, what are you saying, wait, okay. It's going to be a different version of what we like to call the run-over boat launch oh this is working yeah both tires no tires I can't see that was awesome I can't see anything dude I'll be like James Bond , this is coming. off the board that was so good wow you know what the best part was the underwater exhaust sounded like a motor boat do it again okay slow okay a little more stop oh there come on, come on, come on, come on, now we have Steady As She Goes. woo wo that was awesome yeah okay yeah baby it makes a good rock yeah I really like that wet gravel for the handbrake turn you want to try it try it what did you do?

Maybe I've flipped out a little. I could have done it, okay? I'm going to leave it. I think it's unfortunate that it's generating less power than when we arrived. Aha, it's probably very hot. Yeah, we'll just relax on our way to Indie at this point in the program. I know you like us. You have noticed. the disappointing reliability of the Nissan Versa on which the boat is based, we plan to challenge that reliability with nitrous oxide, that's how it will work first, we are going to have a drag race here and we have acquired a 2021 Nissan Versa that is not the same. auto, it's the same 1.6L engine, it's the higher power version we have here, but it has the disadvantage of the CBT, the constantly variable transmission, which means a constantly horrible transmission, speaking of constantly horrible, we have our own version by The Stig. call it stench yes, it's producer Taylor ready to drive 2021 against Mike Finnean and the ship.

I think you know how this is going to end and once it's over we'll go to the boat hose, here we go. three two oh definitely try it go car go oh we're running away from that car P who who crashed into dangers oh bre and all you got nothing wow that could have been a lot more impressive, maybe we have to go. again let's give it a go, give it a go, yeah, give it a jump, okay, you hear him get it ready, you ready to start again, I'm three, two, play with them, play with them, oh, we're running away from that, oh no, now he's starting. to catch that is because I let off the accelerator and I still won, that was that corner.

I was running backwards wondering where the obstacles we gained are, they are weak, we may have worn out our e-brake, maybe I'm sorry, it sucks, it's okay, you got fired. I'm a little surprised by this one. I would have thought the technology would have improved, so it has W more power than this, this is 107, this is 122, but I guess it's a lot heavier and boy, the CVT sucks. Have you ever driven one? like it has a loose converter, only it never changes, it's two rounds for the boat, which honestly surprised us, so now let's get the stink out of the seat and I'm going to go up and see if I can do better. maybe you had the parking brake on the whole time, that's possible FR Burger, are you ready, ready, okay Mason, count to three then honk two, oh I've got the car on, go, oh yeah Oh yes, Captain Fools, give me the dangers? you have nothing and the ship cannot be defeated, sure, he obviously passed me there, but still the ship is clearly faster than this stack.

I can't even believe that the victory is mine. I feel like we need nitrous now. I'd like to let the record show that I not only got him up the tree, but I beat him to the finish line and gave him the hurdles and gave him the W. Yes, you did great, you passed me, but it's still that way a lot. faster, yes. it just means it needs nitrous maybe this will work fine let's use nitrous for that car let me tell you a little story about how cool the internet is. Yesterday we decided that the boat car might not be as fast as the non-rental car, so we decided we needed nitrous for The boat we went to Facebook Marketplace found a bunch of used nitrous bottles for sale, but no one wanted meet us which is weird I know so I called my friend Jonathan and he said yeah I have this trophy that I won at the king of the Dragon Drive open road event and it's empty but you can come borrow it , fill it up, use it in the non-rental car and then bring it to me when you're done, so that's what we're going to do, thanks. jrod for putting on a cool event with cool trophies and thanks Jonathan for lending us your bottle of nitrous.

The easiest nitrous installation you can hope for, so the first step is securing the bottle and normally you would have some brackets, some bolts, things and holes. in his car, but we're not going to do that, we're just going to put it here and then secure it with probably duct tape and a seat belt, perfect because Fryberger can reach in here and open the valve. open when you want your nitrous, then we're just going to push this into the airbox without even drilling a hole and trust the EFI in our Nissen to auto-adjust for the extra O2 that's going to come out of this hose. to be amazingly ready when you are, don't do this at home ooh, the performance, um, where's the actual entrance right here?

If we take the cover off the flange, there we can just fog it up in the general area, you know, in the vicinity, oh. Look at that, let's tie this zipper right here or tape it to see what we're going through, it's going to come out of here and find its way to the air filter over there. This is by far the best moment of this episode. I'm really enjoying it, I think tell your friends, fast forward to the end, it gets great. I think people at home will love it too and then we put it under the lid, yeah, we kind of prop it up.

Let's record, yeah, that's the key, look, don't do this at home or behind an abandoned warehouse anywhere or in a rental car, it's not a rental car, I'm Ernie, okay, here we go, got I have to give in a little. I think it's probably getting to the uh. that everything will be fine see you ready two one oh i got the hole injection i can see the nitrous coming out oh dude it's working it's working it's absolutely hitting me oh my god that's cool oh i killed it dude 100% works it's just R out of the hood but It's totally working oh, I killed him, he trained me.

I'm a little jealous, now I want nitrous, oh that was amazing.