Nitrous Muscle Truck and Mini Bikes! - Roadkill Episode 18

this time in

roadkill

it's

mini

bikes

and the

muscle

truck

and we race them all and there are no lines in this

episode

a few

episode

s ago Finnegan completely surprised me with that little hot rod Jeep and this time he's the one who has no idea about it I have these little ones Honda Trail 70 from the garage waiting for him. Are you ready? Ah man, I'm excited and scared. The big secret is in the garage. It is not a very big garage. No, it's not, but you know big enough. Uh, Turley has no idea. Yes, we are going to die, what do you think?

These are cool, they're yours, when I borrowed them from Joe who runs the

mini

bike meetup show, this one's a 70 I think, and this one's street legal and that's a 78, yeah, they're the smallest

bikes

. I was able to find that they had plates. I'm not writing doubles. Well, you never know what could happen. This is the plan. Let's take them back to the workshop. Repair the

truck

. Drive it to San Diego, to Verona to race. be too fast for the race track on their first pass, so when they throw us out we can move on to hit, well, I like it a lot, let's see if they run.

Oh, yours is on right now, it smells flooded, yeah, come on, Galloway man. It's on maybe it's the flip-flops maybe the flux capacitor needs to recharge like here down the hill where they kill Freiburger on the street Hey, look you got it working, that's a start, now we can have an episode, well, the speed falters a bit. oh, here comes a real motorcycle. I'm a murderer, look at this. Oh, this is going to be a race, right? I hope I'm first instead of second, ready man, am I throwing you the wrong way? I feel like I could catch you, but no I don't want to die we're going to have gas any minute oh yeah we should probably do that I guess it's bad - suddenly you lose power and traffic in one of these this will look good.

I stopped trying to do a Brake on the Accelerator right here, but I'm doing the brake. I have burned the accelerator that is engaged. He does the complete wheelie. It was very difficult while on the wheelie to concentrate on turning the throttle in the opposite direction. It was fun, I trust you, you know, to constantly show me what not to do, make it come in, avoid it, don't do it. We met 15 miles north to the hot rod garage in El Segundo, California to revive the truck that had been sitting. For over two years it was fun and we lived, remember the last time we drove this, yes we spent more time on the side of the road than they did in the truck, it sank so much that the tires started rubbing on the sprocket angle. went bad, the drive shaft got into the gear sellers.

I know the answer to this, we could at least try to get it going before putting the charger in. Oh, you're delusional, that's not going to happen here, the

muscle

is too dead. The truck is a 73 Chevy short bed circa 2006, my friend Chad and I put that ls6 engine in it and it has a 400 turbo and overdrive gear supplier, the Ford nine inch rear end with 513 gears has a spool, It should be pretty fast, but I've never really gotten around to it despite trying several times, the last time was two years ago and it was down for so long, so all we're trying to do here is essentially undo the neglect, okay, make list of bad gasoline fuels. pump and air filter shocks funky wiring dead battery

nitrous

training gas really old out of this and it smells horrible it was sitting so long the red anodizing this is what it should look like this is what it looks like this one has now turned pink it's not even pink that's a bear and he's sitting in the shade under the truck.

I like it to be exposed to the sun or anything. The air shocks slow me down because the shock pin here is too large in diameter for the steel sleeves on the shock and that sleeve is vulcanized to rubber. I say we just cut the supports at the weld. The new mounts will be a little faster than going to the parts store trying to find the right bushing. We have to go to the parts store to get new brackets or even both oh yes, yes at that time we could try to find a solution to this, well we need a battery, we need gas, let's go to the parts store for the mini bikes , could you bring a battery home when you are mini? bike, safe, right on your lap, seriously, I love this bike.

We're liking the girls, you can tell by the way they look away. I think he just doesn't want to make eye contact. I think he's a guy with tits who needs work. Okay, put a price on that, probably, oh yeah, nothing could go wrong with that, maybe we should cross another one, oh, you think these are comfortable cars, it's strange, I feel safer now than before having a battery tied up behind my back, oh, but like Not even close, no, exactly the same problem, yes, I would just try to press this Leo, it helps one see that the press will force that sleeve out of the shock by pushing and towards that deep impact on the wall, look at that almost like we knew what we were. doing that alone took a lot more time than it should have put together.

I put this truck together a few years ago with literally just stuff I had lying around, but I haven't driven the trunk much and it's been dead for a couple of years, so I'm really looking forward to getting it back on track. Okay, first we can check the fuel leak. I don't know if it has already been detected. Well, yes, there is pressure. Stop, the rear float has sunk a lot of gas into the engine, so don't start if you hit it with a screwdriver, the float is stuck to the bottom and is trying to fill the float ball, it comes out that way, this is the sure solution for that, except let's give it a chance, let's fix it, it's got too much gas in it, start it up, okay, yeah, we've got to let it evaporate, let's go eat and come back, it's got a four inch exhaust full bumper, this big, pretty good, we won't be running for about two years, you'll drive it in the morning, clap your hands, well, we have. what's working is most of the way, that's a pretty good run over, right?

It's morning, we got it running pretty good last night, we've got a few more things to do, but first we're going to run and do a test drive and then we're going to run to the Barona race track in San Diego, which is a bit of a deal. 8th mile, somewhat modest but cool test drive, yeah this thing has the best exhaust ever, this is a full manual valve body, right, oh my gosh, that's cool, oh yeah. We have to fix that it has a pretty serious problem at half throttle and it could be time, it could be the fuel.

Oh friend, look how rich the mixture was, they come out in turns. I have everything we need to tune into this at night. job we also have to go to for the computer, yes, after a little tune-up at the stop sign, we packed up our bikes and racing gear and hit the road to Finnegan's job in Orange County, which It's on the way to Verona. pull, let me turn on the music of my people and I will never grow old. I'm going to smash a vibe, here we come, no real pauses, but it sounds, it's pretty good even with the equipment sellers from the 26 2700, what are we doing?

This is probably 60 miles per hour 5:13 ZAR Well, you will always have that step as if you are passing normal people at the moment, there is completely stock, that is, you get into your car and turn the key, the only thing they are on thinking is where they are. Coming to that explains the fact that everyone is just a shapeless mass and you can't stop at a gas station and strike up a conversation with your partner. We are in my workshop right now. My happy place is full of motor parts and drag boats and we're going to move this one out of the way just to make it a little easier to work in here.

On the way here I was a little furious on the highway, it has 513 gears and even with overdrive it is working. at 2600 rpm, even at those rpm you can hear it missing, we'll just pull it out and take a look after sitting for so long on that new, crappy ethanol gasoline that you literally filled the carburetor with like this green mold, This is the carburetor that was on the Titanic, it's like if you parked this thing at the bottom of the lake, look, that boat goes into the water, it has never had so much rust inside the carburetors, I'm just blaming the modern gasoline that you buy today, it will run out in Six months the gas taken out of the tank of a car that has been there for 20 years will generally run.

Who is to blame? Obama sends corrosion to the little plastic float. The bowl site screw completely eliminated the threat so it just came out and leaks everywhere, it's wonderful to try to find a carburetor that has the sight screw we need but I see that all modern carburetors tend to have a glass sight, instead, no, the plug on our site was removed, so we're. make a new one with a bolt that's too long, an o-ring, too many nuts to use their spacers, a little silicone to seal everything and then, forever, screw it into the bowl, the carburetor, which is crazy engineering, there same, okay, turn that on. garbage, it's like he's bipolar, nothing he owns has a good paint job, but suddenly he's cleaning the engine bay for this garbage, you know, the thing is this truck, even though it looks bad in all these different colors , it is actually quite clean, completely rusted. free, the frame was new and powder coated when I put it together so it has potential, it just looks a little rough, we're really hoping to do a drag race today but this carburetor debacle slowed us down a lot, good thing news is that the race track is keeping their testing tight on both Saturday and Sunday, so we may get there today, but even if we don't, we'll be able to race tomorrow.

We arrived in town last night, but it's about half an hour. from the city to this race track, this is the Verona race track, which is a little row 8 on an Indian reservation here in the interior of San Diego, California, it's a really rustic track, but the people are great, There are a wide variety of cars today, it's more or less a grudge. Cartoon type day tested in matches, so we won't face anyone. I'm just looking for that 735 ET to get us kicked out for not having a roll bar, which will then give us an excuse to race the minibus much later.

Finishing up some burnouts in the morning, naturally, we were about two hours late to the racetrack and went straight to the dirt track to the MOT line from here, oh good call, yeah, I don't know if I'd let it run if I didn't own the racetrack, but I'm still very happy to drive it. David is being rushed to the starting line right now, they just snuck him in ahead of a bunch of other cars we're running right now and on street tires, so I have no idea how fast this thing will go. but there's no way it's going to run on a 735 and be thrown out eight 57's and 82's for very long before being thrown out, you've got a long way to go, hit the rev limiter now that we hear it, or the steering is really bad or something So. my water, I can turn it up, do you want to stay on these tires or put the slicks on slick, okay then put the slicks on, turn up the rev limiter and go again, well these are Mickey Thomson, eat these streets, not really It is legal to drive on the street but decided not to because they actually get flat pretty easily and with the reel in the truck they make the handling even weirder.

The rev limiter for this engine is set at 6500 because it has a hydraulic roller cam. I can't fly too high, but he was saying that the tackle was only reading six thousand dollars when it happened, so if the tax reading is low, that's a problem, I'm going to raise the rev limiter just in case, if you have a hundred rpm, give it a little. More room while I work here are the Caltrak bars, which are the ultimate traction device for crossbows. I'm pushing them to really work. This will be our second pass if everything goes well enough as I say below. pass, it'll be on the bottom, it's pretty good for now, okay, we're going in the truck on ranan 840, it's going to need

nitrous

if it has any chance of hitting its target today, there you go, it's clean, it was time to get the nitrous out, but it is standard. run over style I didn't bring everything that was needed.

I'm looking for a bottle nut board that is smaller than this one or a solenoid inlet connector that is larger than this one. Do you have a spare, for the bottle nut, if I have one. a - 6 with a line down how about an accessory like that that has a - 6? I knew this before ordering some Teflon sealants. I don't know, tell me, I hope it works great, thank you very much later. Three days of preparation for this, finally our first nitrous pass. Hopefully I can put this together because today is too short, we might only do one or two races.

Here we go. I think the tires are nowclean. Well, that was worth 2/10 of a second, that's a lot of tire spin, how far down the track you went out of the groove, the last hit, I basically had a hundred percent nitrous within a second and a half of accelerating. full throttle and the truck was skidding all the time. on the track because they were just spinning the tires, so we just used an aggressive timer to slow it down. You will have 100% nitrous three seconds after full throttle. Should give you more traction. It should develop faster. I'm going to clarify this.

It might be the last class we have, okay, the nitrous is on. Wow, my goodness, we just took almost a full second. He's going to be excited. You know, people ask how many episodes you made with the surplus vehicles Freiburg has lying around, so what can we do? To make matters worse, removing more garbage from the Freiburg fleet, yes, it never ends. I needed to race a 750 or a 735 to get kicked out of this place, but it was hot and lap after lap we just couldn't improve that 753 and I ran out of time to race the mini bikes, at least that day we're going to race these things from here to the top of the parking lot, yeah baby, I almost ate the front end of a Buick or a Monte Carlo, that was the best part.

About the cone at the auto parts store is all the craziness you'll see in the parking lot. This is from the mid 80's. I have a Roxy Camaro with a Twix motif, but that's not the cool part. There is an alligator at the dance. Look at the cup holders. Nice, maybe. I want to be one of the best things you've ever done, yeah, they have the big golf, like I know you made a baby and everything, but that cup holder is pretty cool, yeah, it's right in the perfect place to reach for it if you want it.

Are you ever going to claim the creation of something in your life? I don't know if you've had enough, go, my son, or this cup holder, let's feed it manually. I mean, oh, it has a nice Hot Rod magazine from the publisher for 15 years, but cup holders on the right