Original subtitles

Ta-da.

Oh, this is heavier than I thought.

Is this made out of aluminum?

[Will] Since we're done with the car,

we're gonna take it to Mars.

It's like you've been to Mars.

[Kevin] Putting the transmission,

and normally, you guys,

you would think the transmission

goes in the front.

This one goes in the back.

[David] Next level stuff.

I have to change my hairstyle.

Yeah. You might have to get a haircut.

[Jordan] Not so much of telling the metal

it's gonna move as suggesting it move

and it listening.

[David] Yeah, I like that.

One more step closer to the ultimate car.

Mind-blown 101.

Wow.

Masterpiece.

[David] This has been a dream

well before I was in business.

[Kevin] It's gonna take a team

and everybody's expertise, everybody's input.

[David] These cars cannot be displayed,

promoted, seen by the public

until they arrive at Detroit Autorama.

[Will] There's only so many teams

that have put these cars together.

So it's a great, great, great opportunity.

[David] We'll build a car

that nobody has ever seen before.

The goal is to build the Ridler.

[Will] Hell, yeah.

[Kevin] Gonna use this transaxle

out of a 2017 Corvette

as the jump-off point for the transmission.

[Will] Lots of amazing engineering in this deal.

We don't really know what we're looking at yet.

[Will] You could see it's just a process.

The shape will get there.

It takes a minute or an hour or two.

I don't know if I'm nervous or just...

Or overly cautious. I don't know.

It seems like that big irreversible step.

Fitting is pretty decent.

First two pieces tacked together.

[Will] We're just gonna start standing things up

and make our best shot of it and we'll go from there.

[David] This is kinda cool.

[Will] It's really cool, isn't it?

[David] Uh-huh.

It's like we're gonna go to Mars.

It's like you've been to Mars.

[mellow music playing]

This is the start of the rocker pieces.

So I just need to get a general curve

in the profile of it,

and then I can start chasing...

Chipping edges and defining door openings

and stuff like that.

Rubber band on the top

to try to make a soft upper wheel, so...

Hopefully, I can just kind of roll it through here

and get the profile I'm after and stretch it.

I think it's the right profile.

I just got to make it do this number now

just ever so slightly.

The start of something good.

[dramatic music playing]

[David] Seeing all three parts come together

all at the same time,

all on one table is super exciting to me.

[Eric] This part of the floor,

I gotta roll these edges up a little bit,

get a nice little half of the radius to meet up

with the wheel drive

so everything will be nice and flowy.

I'm gonna see if I can get it done in two passes.

It might take a third.

We're getting the tunnel

finally squared away on the rear.

Eric's got the side pieces all dialed in,

so I'm cutting them back

and tacking them together so I get this...

all as one piece.

And he's putting all the flooring

to the front and so it's all coming together pretty good.

[Will] When we came down to the point

where we're trying to join

the lower panel,

the lower skin with the body,

we didn't want things to move.

I mean, there was a little bit of a quandary,

like how are we gonna get to this,

how are we gonna do it?

- Okay. Ready? - Yeah.

All right. Heave-ho.

Oh, this is heavier than I thought.

Is this made out of aluminum?

Well, and it was a huge milestone

because getting those three pieces together,

I mean, it was a long road up to that point.

[Kevin grunts]

I think you're gonna wanna come up here, Max.

[grunts]

[Jordan speaking]

[Kevin] Good? Everyone clear?

[Jordan speaking]

- Like a glove. - It's glove.

Caught his glove like a glove.

His glove was stuck underneath the...

- Is it just your glove? - Yeah.

Okay.

[Kevin] Is the next one lighter or heavier?

Way lighter.

[Kevin] 'Cause I'm just spent, dude.

So that one will go onto the back,

and then, we kind of just do this number.

So like up high in the front and then you'll set

the back in, we'll kind of bring it down?

Yeah.

[Jordan speaking]

[Kevin] Oh, yeah. That's way better.

We go slow so we don't crush Jordan.

Oh, yeah, I can hang out with this for a while.

[Jordan speaking]

[Kevin] Gotta spread the rockers, Greg.

- Are we good? - [Jordan] Yup.

[Jordan speaking]

[Kevin] Like a glove, bro.

[Jordan] Dude, that's amazing.

[chuckles]

Yeah, look at this masterpiece.

[Kevin] For the very first time,

it's a car with a chassis on the floor.

Man.

[Kevin] Can you believe that I thought this up

- and we made this? - You're just amazing.

[laughter]

[David] I was about to compliment you,

but you got to me...

You got to you before I got.

- He beat you to it. - [David] Looks great, Jordan.

- Isn't it cool? - [Kevin] Yeah.

Yeah. This is awesome.

You know, it's funny to see the stuff

going together over so much time.

You know, big chunks.

But when you see it all together,

- this is-- - It's breathtaking.

[David] To see the belly pan section,

the structure going in the center of it,

and then the body actually sitting

on the top of it, now I'm getting chills.

Now I can start to really see the car come to life.

[Kevin] You look over there,

that's what this car started as.

- Uh-hmm. - [Kevin] Flat sheets.

And now it's this beautiful masterpiece that I designed.

[laughs]

- [Kevin] Well done. - [David] Save your phone.

The craps getting deep in here.

- [Kevin] Now we have this body. - [David] Right.

[Kevin] It's beautiful.

And it's a milestone and it's a huge achievement,

but it's like, "Okay,

we still have to finish this thing."

[David] How is the door gonna swing?

- Exactly. - How are they gonna latch?

Is there anything else that we're not thinking of

before we weld the body to the floor itself.

The body is incredibly light and easy to put on.

The frame is heavy.

And so I would rather him just weld it to the floor

so I don't have to pick it up ever again.

[laughs]

The sooner we have the big chunks

going together and they don't come back apart,

that means we're getting closer to the finish line.

And, you know, I would really love

to see this car debut when we're open.

But I think you're doing great.

- I think this is awesome. - [Jordan] Yeah.

What are we gonna name this car?

Awesome.

That's what I was gonna say.

I figured you'd come up with something

way fancier than that.

Come on.

Tubular?

Coo-coo-ka-choo?

[laughs]

[Kevin] What's the name of that dude

on the Fantastic 4

that surfs around on the surfboard that's metal?

Silver Surfer.

That's what we're calling it.

Already been taken.

[Kevin] Like this is exciting.

I wanna be in the moment and enjoy it,

but it's like, okay, we start move on,

and then it just opened up like another list of...

- [David] Right. - ...all the other things

that we need to accomplish, right?

[David] How do we do this? Yeah.

I'm gonna get out of your way.

Let's keep going. Yeah, it looks amazing.

This car is ten steps above anything

we've ever built, period.

Masterpiece.

[dramatic music playing]

[Jordan] We're welding the chassis to the floor.

This mostly will be stitch welds.

A little bit here and there.

I don't wanna do a good foot-long weld.

It's just gonna shrink all over the place if I do that.

Try to make sure that the tabs are very,

very tight to the floor when I weld it.

This is the point of no return.

No adjustment after this.

[Kevin] So now that we have the floor

and then we have the body ready to attach,

we don't have the engine yet.

[Will] We don't have the real engine, no.

- We have a printed version. - Because it's custom.

- [David] Mmm-hmm. - [Will] Yeah.

So you're thinking this is not

gonna come out the bottom?

I'm hesitant, but we'll see.

[Will] We have the mock-up plastic version,

so we can build the whole engine bay out, you know?

- It has to fit. - Looks great on the computer.

[Will] Yeah. It has to fit in the real world.

Gonna have to make sure we're gonna have real world space.

[Will] Yes. Uh-huh.

This will dictate what we're gonna see

in the future with the aluminum block.

Like if this doesn't come out now,

this is gonna tell us do we have

to take the heads off to get it in and out.

Not only is it the engine but it's the torque tube...

The whole torque tube

and then the entire transmission.

It's like the entire drivetrain.

The body was leveled and we have to drop

at such an angle that we have to take it out,

all of a sudden everything is gonna have

to be ten foot off the ground.

- Yeah. - [Will] Or we're gonna have

to lift the body this way

- so that we can get it apart. - Yeah.

I'm hoping it doesn't have to see

that kind of angle, but it's gonna have to see a bit.

- Okay. Let's see. - [Jordan] All right.

[Will] It's gonna be real easy with this plastic one.

I know. I don't think I'm gonna be able

to bench press the aluminum block.

[Will] I know.

Well, get under there and get ready to catch it.

- [chuckles] - All right.

I'll catch it with my face.

[Will] You want me to knock that bolt out?

- Got it. - [Will] Got it?

Okay. There's the passenger side one.

All righty.

Let's see.

2 Well, get under there and get ready to catch it.

- [chuckles] - All right.

I'll catch it with my face.

All righty.

Let's see.

It's mainly this valve cover.

All right. Go take the valve covers off.

So far, we have to take the valve covers off.

- [Will] Which is easy. - [Jordan] Yeah.

That's not a problem.

What about the other side?

- [Will] No. - [Jordan] Okay.

Coming down. Maybe.

Whoop.

[Will] Yeah, see all the rest of It's fine.

[Jordan] All right.

- [Will] But... - [Jordan] That wasn't bad.

...set it back up in there.

- Like, it's... - Like it's going back in.

what angle we have to get to into.

It didn't seem that extreme, really.

[Will] Okay.

[Jordan] So...

- [Will] Right there. - [Jordan] about that angle.

Which is pretty decent, like 20 degrees.

It's definitely doable on a lift.

With something that we can adjust

the angle of the drive shaft.

- Oh, yes, to trans jacks? - [Will] Mmm-hmm.

[David] This will be really helpful.

The torque tube and then the bell housing,

all that stuff is gonna already be attached...

- [Will] Yes. - ...to the engine.

- Yes. - So where you're trying

to go in at an angle, you're not going in

from the top like a regular engine would be.

[Will] No, no, no, no.

You're gonna basically go the opposite from the bottom.

[Will] From the bottom. Mmm-hmm.

You want me to hand it to you?

I don't know that it'll tilt enough.

We've done all the math and then it really...

I mean, it should be simple.

- It's gonna be simple. - Stay tuned.

Yeah, I think it'll come out this way.

It's taller than our 18-inch stands.

[whimsical music playing]

[Will laughs]

There you go.

You're gonna have to be way more careful

with Dave's paint, you know that.

[scoffs]

Stupid paint. Let's polish it.

[upbeat music playing]

[machine whirring]

[upbeat music playing]

[Jordan] We're taking the door off

so we can clearance the front edge

of the door shell and then get it swinging,

proof of concept that we like where the hinge is, and so...

Proof of concept?

[David] I've had a lot of ideas.

Well, not just using a standard door hinge,

you know, going and designing a constant radius

in a very small porthole where it comes

- in and out of the body. - [Will] That is so trick.

This is the structure for mounting the door hinge

to the rest of the shell.

Once this guy is tacked on to the shell,

we can swing the whole thing

as if the actual door was here.

All right. Moment of truth.

Hopefully, that's enough clearance.

If not, we'll, uh, find out shortly.

Conk.

[Will laughs]

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

It is cool.

How much does it clear there, though?

That clears by a lot.

Just for giggles.

Look at that.

That's cool.

Open it again.

Yeah, there's plenty of room.

[David] By doing a chromed constant radius

where that thing's just disappearing into the body,

it comes and goes and then you have

that slider, I think it's gonna be really,

really trick with the neoprene on it.

- Yeah. - You just can't see past it.

[classical music playing]

Sixty thousandths.

And that's from the center axis itself.

Yeah.

So that's 15 degrees?

- 15.7. - All right. Okay.

Let's see what the other side is.

[Will] 3.3.

So it's within a degree.

Well, I say we mock it up

with this as a spacer in there.

[Will] And then if we have to, we're just shimming

or whatever a little bit of adjustment.

Yup.

[David] We'll not just use the standard door hinge,

you know, going and designing a constant radius

in a very small porthole where it comes

- in and out of the body. - [Kevin] That is so trick.

Makes the most sense for a show car.

It is the cleanest, period.

[Jordan] Fifty-seven and three-eighths.

I think this side is up higher.

58? The ground is not level, you know?

[Will] But I think we need to change

the pivot angle a little bit.

[upbeat music playing]

[Jordan] Weld one washer on here

and then refit this guy

to totally flush and re-tack it.

Okay.

The hope is that we're happy in the closed position

and symmetric in the open position.

We'll see if the laser agrees

that we're the same height.

Yeah, this looks pretty good side to side now.

Exactly like we want it.

[David] How goes it, Jordan? Oh, yeah.

- Nice. - [Jordan] It's going.

[David] Sweet.

Here, let me get this for you.

Oh, you want me to get in?

[Jordan] Uh, no.

I just want you to look at it.

No, get in.

- [laughs] I wanna get in. - Good.

I think that the team is doing very well.

I'm very excited to come to work every single day.

And I'm even more excited to see

more parts go in this car.

Yeah, this is actually really nice.

Yeah. It's not too bad, huh?

I don't feel like I'm eating the car or wearing it.

I think we have the pedal position

- locked in pretty good. - Okay.

I guess what should be decided

is the steering wheel...

Work with the steering wheel.

[Jordan]...position.

And then does that feel comfortable

for the center shifter

and everything right there?

[David] Yeah.

I have to change my hairstyle a little bit.

Yeah, you might have to get a haircut.

Yeah. This is comfortable. It's very comfortable.

But I think that the seat, because our center console,

- the transaxles right here... - Mmm-hmm.

- The bell housing is. - Yeah.

I think we might have to get a little creative

with the seat.

The next thing would be, I guess,

build a wire frame of the dash itself.

I want this very low and dramatic.

- [Jordan] Okay. - You know, long sweep.

I want these built up.

Almost like a cartoon version of an original '53 dash.

- Uh-huh. - Oversized big time.

I want them laid back.

I want the face of the gauges

laid back a little bit further.

Very elegant.

And I want this just to have a nice flow

and just real low so it feels like when that shifter's...

Or that's... That there's no spot.

Shouldn't be a problem with that.

No window switches.

This is gonna get exciting, 'cause now, the next step

really is gonna be welding it all together.

Yeah, I'm pumped.

Here. Hold.

[Jordan] Oh, let me take your wheel.

Hey, you wanna valet my car?

Custom key.

All right. [chuckles]

2 [upbeat music playing]

[machine whirring]

[Brax] I'm taking this quarter round

and creating just a wireframe

of the most important points in the dash,

so we have the center console here,

trying to figure out how wide we're gonna have it,

how much slope it's gonna need.

The real challenge is taking Dave's drawing

and turning it into reality.

But sometimes, things, you know,

end in your imagination,

just don't actually work in the real space.

Ultimately, there's a couple of important things

that we have to work around

that are non-negotiable, you know?

Steering wheel location,

space for hands, all that sort of thing.

And then the rest of the aesthetic stuff,

that's really where you, kind of, make compromises.

Well, don't let Dave hear me say that.

[laughs] That's not really true, but it is true.

If we think too far ahead into the pretty side of it

and you just neglect the ergonomics of it

and where your shifter needs to be,

it ends up with feeling super awkward.

We have a lot of space. I was afraid

this was gonna feel super high

like it was, like, in your face,

but it feels really good actually.

Gives you perfect clearance in here

to actually see the gauges so your steering wheel's

not right in your eye line.

We also have it to where the steering wheel

is just maybe a quarter inch or so, half inch below

the top of this surface, so it all just, kind of,

lines up nicely with your eyes.

You can still see the hood.

And once we scan this thing, it'll all be in the computer

and we can reference it whenever we need.

That could totally work.

Yeah, I like that.

[whistles]

[dramatic music playing]

[machine whirring]

[metal clanging]

I got a hole.

This opening will allow the suspension

to travel from the engine bay to the wheel.

[machine whirring]

[Jordan] And it'll be one big hole

instead of three weird-shaped small holes,

and this will allow things to be able

to assemble a lot easier and give it a clean access.

Weird shape, although look at this.

That's the profile of this inner skin through that hole.

The next step is I gotta finish welding

this thing up and make sure it fits exactly how I want,

and then trim this opening back a little bit.

This will be a much more functional hole

and, uh, pretty neat hole.

I guess. I don't know. As holes go. [chuckles]

All right, it fits.

I finally got everything about put together.

So let's take it apart.

[classical music playing]

[Kevin] To put the floor and the body together,

everything had to be checked off.

- That's right. - Because it can--

Which includes the engine bay.

The engine bay.

That's the radiator mount.

I have to finish welding and smoothing a few things

on the floor

and the underside of the body,

but I cannot deal with it together.

Water pump.

Here's the other side.

Pretty, huh?

So, we have to divorce the two

and then finish all that stuff up.

Stuff like the taillight, we need to be able

to get to the back side of it, weld it,

hammer it out, and then smooth it out.

And then think about anything else

that we're gonna regret not doing

while it's off, and then weld the engine bay

to the body, and then the body to the floor.

This would be kind of a momentous occasion.

As you can see,

I'm celebrating by myself again.

[classical music playing]

I think they'll be able to do that

without scratching it in final assembly?

We should be considering stuff like that,

like order of operations

and can stuff go together well,

post paint.

But in the day-to-day,

there's so much we can do.

There's some things that are just...

Even at this point, we're like,

"Sorry. It's a ridler."

So it should be a riddle

to put it back together.

[tense music playing]

[Jordan] I think it's loose.

The big question is gonna be...

can this all come out

with the engine bay panels still in place...

'cause I need to weld those in.

Then it's gonna have to come back on

from this direction.

So it's kind of important that it comes out

with that stuff on it.

Hopefully, it works out

where we can just loop, loop, loop.

Nice. Where's the light side?

[Jordan] It's all terrible.

[tense music playing]

- [metal thuds] - Ooh.

It only has to happen once.

If it bends a little, that's okay.

Where is it caught on here?

2 [Kevin] Ta-da.

Okay.

[Kevin speaking]

Yeah, in the wheel arch.

[Kevin] Okay.

Thank you, guys.

Now, that we have twice as much room as before,

we can get to the other stuff.

I'll grab you in another seven weeks

when it's time to go back on.

Seven weeks?

Seven days?

Seven hours.

Whoa.

I think it's lunchtime.

[man] The moment of truth.

[metal clanging]

[Jordan] Probably add a little bit of filler

in a couple small spots

where it's crater to touch...

but not a lot.

[quirky music playing]

[Brax] I wanted to show you the windshield.

We've gone over the design quite a bit.

We've made sure we got all of the style cues

that you're looking for.

And we finalized the frame design

and we're in the process of machining it now.

[David] Okay. So visually on this car,

I wanna make sure that

we have obviously the chrome

on the outside of the windshield.

But I want also to chrome

on the inside of the windshield

and around the window treatments

to basically just kind of give you

that feel of a classic car.

[Brax] Because it's a two-piece frame,

it basically overlapped the seams.

So, when we go to put it together,

the whole thing will just--

[David] It will align itself.

[Brax] Exactly.

So, you have an inner frame

- and an outer frame. - Yeah. Exactly.

How many total pieces

are you having to do it in then?

So, we're gonna do nine inner, nine outer...

- Oh. Okay. - ...and just... flip 'em.

It's gonna be a little bit more difficult

because I really want the glass, the chrome,

and the paint to all just flow in one, no light bend.

[Brax] This is the piece right here that I'm machining.

You can see it actually

in the assembly of the windshield.

[David] So, these...

All of these little lines

are breaking up the pieces,

the individual pieces. Okay. That makes sense.

[Brax] Yeah. Those will be the individual pieces

that we'll actually weld together.

- [David] That's great. - [Brax] And that's what's gonna be so cool about is--

I don't want a blacked-out frame. Yeah.

No blacked-out frame,

no step-up to the glass,

- no weather stripping... - [David] Nice.

like it's literally just gonna look

like a flashy.

[David] That's awesome.

I'd like to see some of the stuff

that you got it cut already. Yeah.

- Let's do it. - Yeah, that's cool.

[quirky music playing]

This is one of our A-pillars.

So, this is an interior or exterior?

Interior piece.

- Okay. - Yup.

And this will have all of the strength basically

- to create-- - [Brax] Yeah.

This is the strength of the A-pillar?

Yup. And it's gonna tie...

- So cool. - ...into the roll cage up top.

So cool.

And then the frame down low.

[David] I don't know how we can do it,

but I think that we...

Maybe we can, you know,

trap the glass between two pieces

or come up with a way to just...

Where we can maybe route her.

Those are the two side pieces

that are go up in front of the dash.

[David] So next-level.

[Brax] Yah, I'm stoked on it.

[David] Yeah, this is awesome.

In the past, if we were trying to do this

without these machines and stuff,

we literally would have been just grinding this stuff

by hand out of, like, stick.

[Brax] Yeah. I can't imagine

a seamless windshield like we're gonna make

- using old methods. - No.

[David] Yo, Howard.

You wanna do some lifts?

Yo, Eric, can I borrow you?

Yo, Mad Max, Steve,

come give us a hand, will you?

[dramatic music playing]

[Kevin] We really had to make sure

that this thing was checked off

because once we weld it together,

there ain't no coming back.

[David] Yeah.

[Jordan] Walking on for the last time

and weld it up.

On for good?

Hopefully.

That's the dream.

I've been dreaming about it for quite some time.

I think this will be awesome.

[laughter]

Both fingers crossed.

Lick it and stick it.

Potentially super exciting.

One, two, three, go.

[dramatic music playing]

[David] Okay. And hold on.

We're gonna move off the wall

just a little bit.

- Groovy? - [Jordan] Okay.

Okay. Flare the sides out

just a little bit.

I think we're held up just a little bit

right here in the wheel well.

[metal clanging]

[David] Almost there.

- Just a little more. - [man] Hold up.

Finesse.

[laughs]

[car frame thuds]

[man] Yay.

[metal thuds]

Engine bay is in place.

Pretty slick.

Looks like it fell right into place.

Cool, guys.

- I think we're in. - [Jordan] Sweet.

Thanks for your help, fellas.

Woo-hoo.

I think we're winning now.

I think so.

Next big exciting moment

is when we get on the ground, eh?

When is that?

- [laughs] - Soon.

[David] Close the Batcave down.

We'll get back to work.

[metal clanking]

[Jordan] This seam right here...

push it up on like that

and get right in there.

Once this thing's welded together,

it's done.

[Jordan] This guy's bent down just a tiny bit,

so I gotta smack that back up before I--

Just trying to cross all the Ts

and make sure that we're right there,

- halfway there. - [Kevin] We should do it soon

because Dave Kindig has asked me

to weld the body together

about 13 million times.

- [Will] Yeah. - [Kevin laughs]

I thought you were gonna have that going today.

In the last... In the last--

Yeah, in the last two hours.

[David] Yeah.

[Jordan] This is a pretty monumental step.

This is pretty big.

We've been waiting quite a while

to make sure everything was done

before these two actually get married.

Once this is all stuck together,

then we can really start

moving forward on finishing the items,

and there's no going back. [chuckles]

So, hopefully, we've thought of everything.

[machine whirring]

[Jordan] I've tried to make it everywhere

that it welds together

to have a backing plate,

so that it's not welding

to just one layer thick.

It has something to stop the weld.

[metal clanks]

I'm not always cold

when I put on a sweater.

This MIG aluminum,

it kicks off a lot of radiation,

so if you're not fully covered,

you're gonna get a pretty gnarly sunburn.

And I kinda hate sunburns,

so I'll sweat for a little while

to save me sweating

with a sunburn later.

[machine whirring]

Hard to see in there.

Tack welds hold everything in place

in the position that I want it

without doing a full weld

that's gonna start warping things.

If you just have two pieces together

and start welding from here,

trying to do the full seam,

the heat's gonna make it distort

and you're not gonna be able to get the weld that you want.

This tack is filling up a gap

that needs to exist.

Lame.

2 This jacket is very special to me.

They got worn pretty good.

A lot of the holes are from spatter.

And this is to aluminum spatters,

so this isn't even crazy gnarly MIG steel spatter,

but it's beat.

It's done.

[intense music playing]

That's better.

[intense music continues]

[Jordan] The front's all tacked together

and it's all sitting level,

and all the seams are nice

and flushed together.

I'm pretty happy with it so far.

[intense music playing]

2 [Jordan] These are all the pieces

that Greg and Brax have machined

for the windshield frame.

So, this is the main frame itself

that the glass will sit on.

And then, this is the trim frame

that will sandwich the glass.

This is a lot of pieces.

If we had a really, really, really, really big billet,

we could've done that in one piece,

but that would have been really, really,

really expensive.

The hard part about this

will be making sure

everything is aligned

and then gonna plop right on the car.

Luckily, they've designed these

where all the stuff overlaps,

so that these two pieces

will fit together like that.

So, if I can get that

lined up really well,

these will line up really, really well.

It should be pretty much dead on,

and it's gonna work perfectly the first try.

[intense music playing]

Maybe that's close enough.

I don't know.

I don't love it.

[intense music playing]

[machine whirring]

Everything has to be perfect.

[David] Super precise.

- It's going to be-- - [Kevin] Yup. Exactly.

[David] Well, that seems to fit in

with everything else we're doing on the car

to make it super precise

- and tight and perfect. - [Will] Yeah, it does.

It's just that that one

- is still eluding me. - Cool. Sounds great.

- Let's do it. [laughs] - [Kevin] Yeah.

Beautimous.

Within tolerance.

[intense music playing]

So far, so very good.

Much better than it was.

[forklift revving]

[metal clanking]

[slow upbeat music playing]

[Kevin] Putting the transmission,

and normally you guys,

you'd think the transmission

goes in the front.

This one goes in the back.

- [Will] Okay. Bring it on up. - Up.

[Will] About a foot.

Tilt back just a hair.

Up, another two inches.

Just ever so slightly forward.

Okay. Stop.

Okay. That's good.

- Whamo. - Nice.

Yeah, it's good.

You can let this down

and get that forklift out, Kev.

Success.

One more step closer...

to the ultimate car.

[engine revving]

Oh, great. I got to cut the body.

Cut a path.

Yeah.

This is our mock-up

of our control arms printed.

And...

now that we have our side bells

on the transmission,

then that provides the lower mount

for our lower control arm.

Then this shape right here,

this taper will...

Once this bottom of the car is cut away,

this surface will live right there...

all your handmade bodyworks

with our computer-generated dreams,

and then it's just gonna be everything else.

Okay. I'm getting out of your way

'cause I just want you to cut

the big hole in there.

Okay.

[machine whirring]

[thrilling music playing]

[metal clanks]

[Jordan] We should be able

to test fit this side now.

There we go.

Climb up.

[dramatic music playing]

[David] So now that we've got

all of the actual components,

how do you guys plan

on getting that into the car?

We're gonna have to build a contraption

for light of a better word.

The front engine mount...

drivetrain mount, sits

on top of the chassis.

[Jordan] Brax has gone through

and made a stand that will pivot

so we can get the whole engine drivetrain

scooted under the car

and up to the car

in one fell swoop,

and hopefully it all works perfectly.

[Kevin] Well, so not only is...

You wanna have it in for Dave,

but I think we want to see

if it'll actually fit.

- [chuckles] - I don't think anybody

sitting at this table

is 100% positive

that it will go in the car.

[Will] And a torque cube coming up.

[Jordan] Torque tubes are used on Corvettes.

That's probably good.

From '97 and up,

that's so you can mount the transmission in the rear.

Torque tube makes the drivetrain

one solid unit

from the transmission

all the way to the engine.

And you have the driveshaft going through there,

spinning at engine speed.

And the cool thing about this setup

is it allows the transmission

to be in the rear which gives you

a better weight distribution.

So, better for performance driving.

It's a big milestone for us.

I mean, it's gonna be a first

for the whole suspension,

engine, drivetrain,

all of it in the car.

It's gonna be a first for mankind.

- [Will] Yeah. - Basically.

[laughs]

[Jordan] One, two, three, grunt.

Okay. Now.

[suspenseful music playing]

[metal clanking]

[tool whirring]

Give it to you.

It's such a tight squeeze up in this engine bay

that we actually have to pop the valve covers off,

take the intake off. We'll get it down

to just basically naked long blocks,

then we'll stick it up in there

and dress it in the car.

Makes it a heck of a lot easier

getting it in and out

without scratching stuff.

[thrilling music playing]

[Will] How close is the snap to the crossmember?

[Jordan] A good foot and a half.

[Will] Yeah, keep coming forward.

Okay. Are you ready?

- Oh. There you go. - Give it to me.

[Jordan] We're rearranging these braces

so that we can actually slip

the engine in place.

[Will grunts] All right.

[Jordan] There we go.

- [Will] Okay. - [Jordan] I think that's it.

Car back, engine forward.

[Will] Seems like it's easier

- to push the car, right? - [Brax] Yeah.

[Will] All right.

[Jordan] 'Cause we're just really close

to the heads on that trans mount.

[Will] We'll go up.

- Okay. - [Jordan] Okay. You're touching.

[Will] Back with the car, forward with the unit.

[Brax] Yeah. I'm gonna start to lift the rear end a little.

[Jordan] Right there is about as far as we can go.

[Brax] If we go up, can we go

a little more forward, Will?

[Will] No.

It's gonna be a really hard thing to--

[Will] Holy smokes.

2 [suspenseful music playing]

[Brax] Yeah. I'm gonna start to lift the rear end a little.

[Jordan] Right there is about as far as we can go.

[Brax] If we go up, can we go

a little more forward, Will?

[Will] No.

It's gonna be a really hard thing to--

[Will] Holy smokes.

[Kevin] My concern with this whole deal

is it's the first time.

It works in math world.

[Will] I don't like this

with our hundred-thousand-dollars

drivetrain unit.

[Jordan] We're just really close to the heads

on that trans mount.

So we need more tilt.

- [Will speaking] - [Jordan] So let's see

if it's available.

Whoa.

The heads are so close

to the back, like, how...

We're stuck on the fixture.

Right there is about as far as we can go.

Are we hitting stuff up there?

[Will] Yeah.

It's very tight on the back side

of the passenger side.

I mean, we're talking, like,

- like this. - [Will] Yeah.

[Jordan] Honestly, it may be smart

on final assembly

to just assemble

the heads off the car.

[Will] I know we're gonna have to take

the valve covers off.

- [Kevin] It's gonna be tight-- - We'll have

- to take the valve covers off. - [Kevin laughs]

And then we'll see.

We're kinda up against the timeline a little bit.

I mean, Dave wants to see the car.

We all wanna see the car

at a certain level here real soon.

[thrilling music playing]

So, let's bring it home.

[Will] Yeah.

[metal clanks]

[Will] Okay. That's all.

[tool whirring]

[Jordan] Oh. Look how beautifully that fits.

- [Will] Yeah? - [Jordan] I like it.

There we go.

[David] Well, with Dave Maxwell

coming out to see the progress on the car,

I would really like to see

as much together as we can

so he gets an idea

of where we're at in the build process.

[thrilling music playing]

What I'm here to see is the special build.

To win the award that most...

The best award is, like, going to the Academy Awards.

I know a little bit about it.

I've seen some renderings of it.

But I'm very anxious

to see it in person.

You know, there has been so much pressure

on all of us to really try

and push the envelope

and create something that's super awesome.

And the proof is in the pudding.

Well, come on in.

- Mind-blown 101. - Oh, oh, oh.

Wow.

That is incredible.

[thrilling music playing]

[David] What we're looking at here

obviously is a one of one body.

[Dave] Is that a V6 or--

[Kevin] It's a V6 Twin-Turbo Ford.

- We put a Ford in there. - It's a four-banger.

That is incredible.

[Will] We gotta put it on the rotisserie,

and then get some paint on it.

Kinda the consensus is when you do something

that makes it kinda jump a little bit.

So we're gonna switch the colors, I think

- that's a winner, guys. - [Kevin] Let's do it.

[Jordan] Hang on a second.

Isn't Will gonna lose his mind

if these wires are still colored

underneath the intake?

[Will] A huge deal for this project,

huge deal for the shop.

It's big time.

Might just have to look at it on the car

and see if we like it.

Hold on. Stop one second.

I just heard a bonk.