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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]

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[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?

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[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.