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[Jordan] We're good back here.

So, let's bring it home.

[Brax] Okay. Nut's on.

[power tool rattles]

[Jordan chuckles] Look how beautifully that fits.

- [Brax] Huh? - I like it. There we go.

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.

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

to win the award, the most...

The best award... It's like going to the Academy Awards.

I know a little bit about it. Seen some renderings of it.

But I'm very anxious to see it in person.

Well, come on in.

- Mind-blown 101. - Oh. [laughs]

Wow. [laughs]

[Dave] This has been a dream well before I was in business.

[Kevin] It's going to take a team, everybody's expertise, everybody's input.

[Dave] These cars cannot be displayed,

promoted, seen by the public

until they arrive at Detroit Autorama.

[man] There's only so many teams that have put these cars together.

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

[Dave] We'll build a car that nobody has ever seen before.

The goal is to build a Ridler.

What I'm here to see is the special build

to win the award, the most...

The best award... It's like going to the Academy Awards.

I know a little bit about it, seen some renderings of it.

But I'm very anxious to see it in person.

That is incredible.

There's no words.

There's no words.

I mean, the car is just... It's incredible. There's no words for it.

There's just no words. I'm astonished.

[Dave] What we're looking at here, obviously, is a one-of-one body.

All of the trim, this is all CNCd out of multiple pieces.

I think we have what's 13 pieces on the windshield alone.

They've welded it and hand-shaped it.

All of the trim on this car will be flush mount.

Every time I look at something,

I want different materials to flow from one to the next.

[Dave M] This is... It's all aluminum.

- It's... - [Dave] Everything is aluminum. Yep.

[Dave M] The bare aluminum, to see it without paint...

I kind of liked it. But, naturally, you got to do the paint.

- [Dave] There's a full roll cage built into it... - [Dave M] Yeah.

...that'll all be hidden by all of the leather upholstery.

- [Dave M giggles] It's incredible. - [Dave] From back here,

you've got some really trick stuff going on, too.

- [Dave M] Oh, yeah. - [Dave] If you look at everything, the back window,

the license plate, and the exhaust tip,

it all flows in that same pattern.

The indent part of the roof caught my eye.

The back glass...

- Talk about straight. Oh, my goodness. - [laughter]

It was a lot straighter before this guy got ahold of it.

[Dave M] Oh, I'll tell you what...

It was a 10-foot-by-4-foot flat sheet of aluminum.

I've talked to Dave, seen some pictures,

but I never would have expected it to come out that way.

The hand work that was done on it, it's, like, oh... I'm excited.

[Dave] Let me show you a couple more technical things.

This is gonna blow your mind, that Will didn't sleep for what, the last three years?

- [Dave M laughs] - This is based on the new IndyCar technology.

- Yeah. - This is a single coilover that's lateral.

It has pushrods left and right,

and then that is the sway bar built into the suspension.

Everything is up here.

It's going to be hidden inside of the luggage

that will be a focal point from the back window.

[Dave M] You almost don't want to cover it. It's a piece of art.

[Dave] It's a rear jewelry box...

- [Dave M] Yes. - ...is what it's gonna look like.

Speaking of rear jewelry box, you want to see the front jewelry box?

Yes, I'd love to see the front.

Let me show you the face first.

And then, we're gonna open the hood and blow your mind.

- [Dave M] Oh, yeah. - [Dave] The view from right here

is just over the top.

That just has a nice, clean stylizing.

- [Dave M] It looks great, man. - [Kevin] All right. Let's look under the hood.

[Dave] You wanna see under the hood? Come here.

- Is it a V6? - It's a V6 Twin Turbo.

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

- I've got a Ford in here. - Okay.

- Ecotec. Yeah. - Ecotec?

Holy...

When they lifted that hood up,

all you see is there's nothing else there but the engine itself.

[Dave] This is a V12 LS.

The same engineering that's in the back there...

- Yes. - ...is inside the front nose of this.

You could technically take the whole drivetrain out of this car

and roll it down the street without the body.

[Dave M] You hid everything.

[Dave] Everything. There is no hardware showing anywhere.

You have to basically build the car from the inside out.

You almost need to put a piece of glass on there so I can see down there.

[laughter]

[Dave M] Most Ridlers are just basically,

push them in and out of the trailer.

After we show this car, it's gonna be my driver.

I don't want it to just sit somewhere.

The car is designed and made to drive.

Let's look at the bottom now.

We're gonna get this car up on skates.

- We're gonna put it out here on the lift. - [Dave M] Okay.

[Dave] We really are excited for you to see the bottom of the car.

[Dave M] Dave's done some builds for me, and they're... beautiful.

They're one-of-a-kind.

But this one is over the top. It's a little different.

Have you ever seen a real UFO in your life there, Dave?

- Let me show you something. - Oh, my goodness. Oh, my gosh.

- Where is everything at? - Yeah, exactly.

[Dave] It's all hidden inside the car. And then, check out that exhaust.

This is long sweeps of 3.5 inch stainless.

The mufflers are hidden inside of the pipe.

[Dave M] That is incredible.

So, hey, Kevin, I got an idea. In the wintertime,

- we just put snow tires on the back-- - Skis.

- Put skis on the front. - Yeah.

- And then, yes, stud it. - [Dave M] Yeah.

Put some screws in it like they do on snowmobiles.

- You're set. - Or we could get some tracks.

- Yeah, Tracks. - We need to talk.

[chuckling] Okay.

Ridler is the hot rod world or the custom car world or the builders' world...

I mean, there's no better award out there.

Everything is just... just perfect.

- [Dave] Yeah. - [Dave M] I don't know how you could pick anything apart.

I mean, it's just... Everything, the alignment

and everything is just... This is incredible.

I believe there's nothing out there that could ever beat this car.

I've seen past years' Ridlers,

talked to people about future ones.

With the work that went into this,

I've never seen where everything was handmade.

There's no car like this in the world.

[knocks] What do you figure the weight is...

We actually weighed it the other day,

- and it is... Ready? - Well, guess.

- Big V12. - 35?

- Lower. - 25?

- Twenty-seven. - Twenty-seven?

[Will] With no fluids and no interior and stuff. So...

[Jordan] It might go another 100.

- [Dave] It will be under 3,000 pounds. - [Dave M] Under 3,000?

- [Dave] Mmm-hmm. - [Dave M] With that motor?

This is incredible. This is definitely one off.

I appreciate it, guys. Very, very good job.

- Thank you. - I'm anxious. Now, you've really got me pumped.

I can't be more satisfied and happy and blessed

to have a crew work on this car and take it to heart.

They're very protective of the car, and that makes me feel good.

They're very proud of it.

I'm very proud of them. I'm very proud of the whole team.

[Kevin] You said you can't thank us enough.

- Why don't you take us to lunch? - Hey, maybe we do that.

- Maybe we do that. - Yeah.

[Brax] This is the fastest this car's ever moved.

- [laughter] - This is a huge deal.

This is years in the making, right here.

A huge deal for this project. Huge deal for the shop.

It's big time.

I think this is the milestone where everybody gets involved

and things are going to start getting crazy.

Starting to feel like I'm caught up in something here.

[Brax] All right, we'll see you in six months.

[paint technician] We're going to prime the bottom of this car,

and the engine bay, and the wheel wells.

[paint gun hissing]

We want to align the doors with the weight of the car on its own wheels.

So, in this case, we're gonna have to bodywork the bottom,

and then, bring it back over to you.

[Will] This is pretty cool, right?

- [Jordan] Yeah. - [Will] All the bodywork on the bottom is done, smooth.

Now, we need to get all the drivetrain in.

So, let's get it down.

Let's get it off these boards, and we'll get it on the actual body pucks.

Then, we'll grab the engine and transmissions, throw it in.

- [Jordan] Okay. I'm on. - [Will] Okay. Stop there. Stop there.

[Kevin] These cars, they just move around.

You have to have 'em... How they're going to be...

- Yeah, we have to. We always put the engine in. - [Kevin] 100%.

- All right, it's ready to go. - [Will] Yeah, let's get all the drivetrain in.

[power tool whining]

It's crazy, the procedure we have to go through with this thing.

Yeah.

What's this whole drivetrain weigh, you think? 1,000 pounds?

- I'd say, at least. - Yeah.

- Especially with all that stuff we've added on. - And how much

it will affect the body when that thing is all together?

Most cars, it affects the body a lot.

On this one, we've seen a little effect.

- Very minimal. - But not... Enough.

We need to eliminate the very minimal. Yeah.

- It's a Ridler. So, it needs... - Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm.

[Will] We're taking the heads off the engine so we can put it in the car.

It's not something that is ideal, but I think it's going to be necessary.

The whole reason we want to take the heads off

is because it is extremely tight to the firewall,

and then, the front fan shroud area.

And it's just gonna be a lot safer to have as much room as we can.

- Blasted my face with oil. - [Will] To the car?

Uh, yeah.

It's just a tiny bit lighter without those heads, huh?

- [Will] The engine lift-- - [Kevin] Keeps getting improvements.

So that it doesn't make you want to vomit while you're operating it.

We've got to come up with the whole engine-trans,

and then, we've got to tilt it back to land these front pucks.

on top of the front motor-mount pads right there.

And then, the rest just sucks right up to it.

But, in the past, what we've been caught up on is,

the head is very, very close to the firewall.

And particularly on the right side,

and really close right here on this upper control-arm mount.

So, that's our biggest thing that we're going to be watching.

But, yeah, this teeter-totter is pretty fun.

Me and Brax have ridden it a lot.

Yeah, we... [cackles]

- Yeah. - [Jordan] Are you gonna set it up there?

Say when.

Okay. We're good.

- [Jordan] Okay. Ready? - Yeah.

[power tool whining]

[Brax] Come forward.

We're clearing the top okay?

- [Brax speaking] - [Jordan] Okay.

I don't have a ton of room on these transmission ones.

- So, Steve, you raise that. - [Jordan] Wanna raise that end a little?

[Will] Is it way heavy?

Then, grab a jack. Then, let's grab a jack...

We're in a rock and a hard place here.

We're just being very careful.

We don't want to scratch or chip this primer.

They've spent a lot of time on this thing.

So, we just have to be really careful.

And our whole makeshift lifting device here,

we've changed the balance point on.

So, now all of a sudden, the transmission's acting very heavy,

and it's tricky enough, but we don't want to get in a hurry.

- Go ahead. - [Brax] Nice and slow. We're getting close.

- [Will] Okay. That's good. - [Brax] Okay.

[Jordan] Come up.

[hydraulic lift whining]

[Brax] Okay.

Come back... Oh! Stop.

Okay, come back a little bit.

I'm super tight to this engine mount.

[Brax] We've got to go back. Can we go back?

- [Jordan] Yeah. - [Brax] Okay. No wiggles for one sec.

You want to go up a little, Jordan?

Stop. Jack.

- [Steve speaking] - Okay, that's maxed.

What we can do is, we can pull from the front down, and...

- [Will] So, we just bring in the car down around it? - [Jordan] Yeah.

[Will] Because that's pretty controllable.

- [Jordan] Ready? - No.

I'm coming up a tiny bit.

- Stop! - [Jordan] Stop?

- [Brax] Yeah. - [Jordan] Coming down.

We're still looking good on the back of the engine.

- [Brax] Stop! Stop! - [Will] You gotta do more body.

- [Jordan] More body? - [Will] Hold on. Hold on. Stop. one second.

- I just heard a bonk. - I heard a bonk, too.

2 [Brax] More body, less engine.

Just let the body go for a second.

[Will] Okay. Wait, wait, wait. Stop.

[Brax] Whoa!

- [Jordan] What was that? - [Brax] It's moving wide.

[Jordan] I didn't touch anything.

- [Will] It was me. - [Jordan] Okay.

[Brax] You're pretty darn close, too.

Yeah, I'm on the body mount, basically.

[Brax] Bump the engine slightly.

- Down? - [Brax] Yeah.

- Okay. Okay. Right there. - [Will] Okay.

The engine, transmission, drivetrain has bolted onto the body.

We're sitting pretty good there.

We're throwing the heads on right now

just since the car's low down.

And then, we can go up and start putting suspension components on it.

So, we're sitting pretty good.

This is a different procedure to put in than most cars, but...

This is tight. But this is extra, extra cautious

- for not ruining it. - [Will] Yeah.

Super cool.

[Dave] If I was looking at this car, what would this car look like?

What would make it stand out?

It's safe to say that champagne isn't necessarily

the most flashiest color.

I think, by changing the house side color,

now, I've got to kind of reconfigure

the entire theme and colors of this car.

Instead of doing the red interior,

I'm kind of thinking along the lines of

like a sienna brown color interior.

Definitely, the first step will be putting the concept of the color change together.

But much like everything, I like to incorporate and include

the guys in the back to help me make sure that we're making the right move.

I just want to make sure that I've got the entire team behind me on this decision.

We've made a decision to do a more vibrant color

on the outside of the car.

Kind of the consensus is, we need to do something

that makes it kind of jump a little bit.

So, we're going to switch the colors from a red interior,

and the silver or platinum more neutral outside to the opposite.

We'll go more neutral on the interior,

and go a little bit more awesome on the outside.

This is Infrared Modern Classic.

We've never actually sprayed that color on a car.

I developed the color.

I love the color. It's got a lot of brass undertones,

which I think is really sharp.

But bend it, and you can see the flop on this thing.

It has that flare still all the way on the low side. It doesn't go milky.

What I'm kind of thinking is, we need to find colors for the engine,

which is gonna be in a matte finish and chrome.

And then, also, for the interior,

I've got a couple of different samples that I'd like you guys

to give me your thoughts and your input on interior color.

And then, also, I want to paint the engine in an accent color.

I narrowed it down to three to not overwhelm us.

So, this is our darkest color for the engine, in a matte finish.

And this is the color I would go with, with these two.

This is saddle. And then, watch this.

So, you take this one right here,

and you match it with...

Very conservative, but it's nice. It's really nice.

And then, take this and this.

It's sharp. Look how rich that is.

[Stephens] It's already dirty.

- [laughter] - Because I touched it.

I know.

I was trying to push him on the interior for red on red.

Quite gutsy, but it looks so good.

I'm going to not complicate it.

I think that the bronze or the copper undertones of the red

comes really quite nice, with the darker contrast

against chrome, matte finish on the pearls.

And then, that brown interior just kind of ties all of it together.

I think that's a winner, guys.

- Everybody in agreeance? - Let's do it.

[Jordan] What're you thinking, Will?

- I always eat crow on these colors. So... - [man] You do.

I'd pick your expertise over what I might think.

Thanks for taking the pressure off me.

If it's ugly, it's all of our fault, not just mine.

2 - All right. [whoops] - [Jordan] Up there?

[Will] Hold on, hold on.

[Jordan] Clear here.

Basically, tearing this down for paint.

There's gonna be just some adjustments

and really fine detail fitments.

But all of the fab that we could do is pretty much done.

- [Jordan] On to paint. - [Will] Yeah, into paint.

We're gonna put it on the rotisserie, then, get some paint on it.

Basically, you've got to be super careful

because there is nowhere to blend out an edge.

There is no hard lines.

There is no straight lines on this car.

Everything has a curve.

[paint gun hissing]

- So, how's it looking? - [paint technician] It's looking great.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

- Can I see it? - Absolutely not.

[laughs]

The less dust in there, the better.

- Can I see it through a window? - Yes.

You can lick the glass like everyone else gets to.

- Have you been licking the glass? What part did you lick? - Maybe.

Don't worry about it. Don't worry about that.

We've got how many coats of base on the car now?

We've got two on it now.

[Kevin] Is it covering? Are we going to use a ton of material?

[paint technician] It's covering pretty good on the first coat,

but on the second coat, as I was just laying it down,

I could see it becoming more...

- [Dave] It's flowing out. - [Kevin] How's the bottom of the car look?

[paint technician] Oh, it looks great.

[Kevin] I can't wait to see that.

It's all sculpted and beautiful.

[paint technician] The hard thing about the car is, there's no break-up points.

You pretty much have to spray the car...

- [Dave] Front-to-back? - ...front-to-back.

If you stop in the middle of a panel, you see that dry spray right there.

- [Kevin] Right. - [paint technician] So, you have to run the whole car.

[Dave] So, you've got the hood and the doors

- in the other booth? - [paint technician] Yes.

[Dave] Running them in correlation with the direction of the car?

[paint technician] Yeah. Same air pressure, same temperature.

-Everything's the same. - [Dave] Okay. Cool.

Well, I'm gonna look through the window. I gotta see it.

- [paint technician] Okay. - I'm so excited.

Everything on this car is finished to the nines. Everything.

Or actually, well, I'll just call it finished to the tens.

[Dave] Tens.

Oh.

[Kevin] Doesn't it look orange? Is that the color you picked?

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

[Dave] We do nines on everything else.

- This is a ten. - Yeah, ten.

I think it's going to look very classy. I think that's the color.

- I think that's it. - That's it.

[Dave] Mmm-hmm. I'm so pumped, it's ridiculous.

[Kevin] Show me your "pumped" face.

[all laughing]

- [Kevin] Let's get out of here. - Was that not it?

This is a full-blown, start-from-600, work-all-the-way-to-5000,

polish top, bottom. Every surface is perfect.

Dang, Harlan.

- What? - This engine base is sure looking nice.

Thank you, man.

[Brian] What's taking so long, though?

[Harlan] Because it's incredibly complicated.

- [Brian] Is it? - Yes. This is the pinnacle of my entire auto body career.

Happening right now. On this car. It's blowing my mind.

You've got the easy panels, though.

- Easy? - Yeah.

None of this is easy.

No, none of it's easy, but you don't have compound curves

coming into tight corners that still have to be--

There's a compound curve right here.

There's a compound curve up there, right there.

Don't tell me there's no compound curves.

[Harlan] The engine bay is Formula 1 ridiculous...

[Brian] This is a one-off engine bay...

- [Harlan] Yeah, it's nice. - ...that is incredibly complex.

[Harlan] It's a work of art.

The engine takes up the whole engine bay,

and it's also structural

for the suspension and the frame of the car.

The engine block itself is structural.

The A-arms come through here. But they're also attached to the block.

It's a lot of compound curves coming together at once,

and it still has to be blocked flat.

But there's not a flat spot on any of it. Not at all.

I've never really done anything quite like this before.

Everything I've ever done in my entire life has led to this moment.

Which is an honor.

[Brian] It's nerve-racking, for sure.

Because, if we make any mistakes that require a paint touch up,

there's no way to blend on this car.

It would basically be an entire repaint for the whole car

if we screw up anything.

[Harlan] The level of scrutiny on a Ridler entry

is just going to be off the charts.

If I think about it too hard, it's harder to do. [chuckles]

But we're really in the homestretch now, and it's beautiful.

- It's getting there. - [Brian] Homestretch? We're halfway there.

I know, but we got shiny everywhere.

It looks kind of like we're getting somewhere now.

You say that because you've been with this car from...

Bodywork stage had to be perfect.

Primer stage had to be perfect.

Wet sand and prep for paint had to be perfect.

And now, painted...

This car has consumed my life for the last six months.

- Yeah. - I want it to be done.

- I love it, though. It's a beautiful car. - It's amazing.

It just should have been blue.

[laughs]

2 We need to invest in some ergonomic chairs. That's what I know.

[laughs] Yeah, like the paint guys do.

They're just, like, kicking back, like sanding parts.

We need a La-Z-Boy up in here.

When you're looking at the surroundings,

being reflective, and you can follow the same light

bend through the trim and the glass and there is no deviation,

it basically is different materials,

all flowing in the exact same slippery direction,

which is just super trick.

It's got to be perfect. So, you just keep sanding, dip it, sand it...

dip it, sand it again.

Sand, sand, sand.

Dip, dip, dip.

[Eric] I wish you guys would quit stealing my sandpaper, too.

Whenever you dip this copper, it likes to build up on the edges a little more.

So, you get a little ridge on everything.

So, we've got to get everything knife-edged and then blocked down.

You can see kind of where the lows are, where it's dark here, you know,

sand until we get into that and just make it nice and smooth.

This thing's got to be 100. So, that's what we're striving for.

It might look like it's straight, but it's gotta dip down this way

and a dip down that way to match the body.

[Eric] That's about where you stop right there.

We start getting into some nickel.

We want to slow down a little bit,

because if we get into bare metal, then we've got to start over.

We don't want that.

A little nickel ain't gonna hurt.

[man] It's very time-consuming...

- [Eric] Yes, it takes forever. - ...doing the same thing over and over again.

And I'm not a body guy.

Yeah, exactly.

[producer speaking]

It's a great question.

It's a question for someone above me.

You're asking the wrong guys.

It's not so bad for the first four hours. The last four get a little rough.

But, the first day, I was kind of like, nice about it.

And then, the second day, I was like... [groans]

Now, I'm like, Day 6...

And then, by the third day, it's like, "What am I doing?"

I don't know what they're complaining about.

This is kind of cathartic. Is that the right word?

The real problem is listening to Neil talk

for eight hours a day, right next to him.

- It's pretty rough. - They'll end up with red beards

by the end of this, that's for sure.

It starts red, and then it turns green because the oxidation.

The difficulty level is there on the car.

And it makes it a lot more difficult to go back and repair mistakes.

We need to make sure that we have our game together, just like we always have.

[Will] Okay, that's plenty.

This is our little lift device here.

[lift whining]

It has a hydraulic ram in the bottom, and it's gonna pick it up.

There's a bit of balancing that we'll have to do.

We're just gonna go as slow as we can.

[man] Okay. Right there.

[Will] Ready? Up.

We'll go up into the nose cone a bit,

we'll get this leveled out and then, we'll be up in place for the most part.

[man] Bump it up.

[Bledsoe] Should we get something on these pads here, just in case this thing...

[Will] Yeah, you can put some rags in there for now.

- Get some rags. - [sighs] It's very nervy, though.

We've got a lot of time in this paint,

and just no room for error on bumping something together.

- Hold up. - [man] Yeah, it's pretty close.

[Will] So, do we need...

We need to shift a bit towards the passenger side, I think.

I'll keep an eye on it. I'll just stay right here.

[Will] Just so. Push it in.

[man] Okay. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Needs to shift over some more.

[Bledsoe] I don't know if we can go back at all.

But I am right into this nose cone,

and if I let this thing move either way, it's gonna hit it.

[Will] Okay, let's go back a little bit.

And then we're gonna raise the transmission more.

[Bledsoe] Okay. It's better.

Okay.

[Will] Okay, how are we sitting?

[Bledsoe] Okay, now, you can try to go up on that.

Whoa, okay, you're close to this. You're close back here again.

It goes in close.

There's not a bunch of room, just so you're aware.

Okay, we're going up.

[Bledsoe] I'm getting super close.

Is that running into stuff up there?

[Bledsoe] Just my hands, we're good.

- Is everybody okay? - [man] I think so.

[Bledsoe] Okay, move.

Okay. I think we need to grab the spacers, and some bolts and stuff.

- [man] There room to do that? - [man 2] Yeah, I got just enough room.

[man] There it goes. I'm in.

[Will] Okay.

All right. Cool.

- [man] Wow. We did it. - [Will] Ta-da!

- Yeah. Just roll it out. - Let's just roll it out and...

[Will] We're going to get it supported,

get the heads on, get the radiator in,

get the coolant system all squared away, the whole nine yards

so that we know that we don't have to come back out as soon as we just put it in.

So, here we go.

2 - [Kyle] You ready? - [Bledsoe] Yep.

- It's pretty close. - [Kevin] Whoo!

- A little tight. - A little.

[Kevin] Whoever puts the valve covers on, dude better be super careful.

[Kevin laughs]

- I'll leave that for the final assembly guys. - That's you.

- What? - Yeah, you're the final assembly guys.

- You're funny. [laughs] - No, that's true.

That's true. This is Kyle, the new final assembly guy.

Right road to the Ridler.

[Kyle] You gotta do three different passes on these ARP head studs.

The first round is gonna be 25 foot pounds.

[Bledsoe] Okay, Kyle, don't break my fingers.

[Kyle] Start yelling and then, maybe I'll stop.

Ow. That's my finger.

Well, I made sure to ask if you were good, and you said, yeah.

Well, I am, but my finger wasn't.

Once we follow that sequence and get them all at 25,

And then, after that, there's one more pass

and we'll take them all to 70 in the same sequence.

Get as close as you can without going over.

[groans] Be careful.

[tool beeps]

2 You don't really ever want to fire up a dry engine.

Now, these engines will make oil pressure pretty quick.

But these rocker arms also have a bunch of needle bearings inside of them.

We're gonna put oil in the engine anyways, right?

So, we'll take a half a quart and dump it all over the rocker arms.

That way, they have something on first fire-up.

I'm gonna dump some more oil inside of here

so I can see the bottom of the lifters.

Boop!

That kind of just tied everything together.

Looks pretty good.

No scratches.

[Will] The suspension is all completely unique to this car.

We basically designed it all in the computer,

and it's all just one big dream.

I wanted it all kind of race-inspired.

So, that was kind of my thing with the suspension,

and that's the direction we went there.

Absolutely one-of-one.

I mean, I can't imagine we'll get anywhere near recreating this thing again.

Every piece on here, pretty unique.

You need up or down?

[Will] Yeah. Lift that control arm just a little bit.

Okay, I'm in the hole.

So, I'm not sure if you need to go back down or...

- About right there? - [Will] A little more.

Okay. I'm good on that side.

Um...

That's right where we need to be, but the pin won't go through.

Well, we got the shock in.

We're just fighting with one pin to get the pushrod to go to the control arms.

It's slow-going and everything is very particular, how it wants to fit.

I don't know what engineer designed this thing,

but we're gonna have to have a talk with him.

[Kyle] Oh, wowee. Look at that, guys.

Whatever straight-six these are going on is gonna be real cool.

I just want to make sure that they don't have any imperfections

because these are going to be a pretty big focal point

when you open up the hood.

The engine is, like, a green color,

and then, these are gonna pop out.

Your eyes are naturally going to go right towards them.

And if they've got a big a blemish on the top of the primary or something,

we don't want to see that right off the bat.

Because, on this car, even the smallest little nick is a no-go.

Um...

How do these...

We're not going that way?

[Kevin] It's called "Will tolerances" around here

because Will can build stuff very, very, very tight and precise.

[Kyle] It's super tight. And we have this bracket here

that's gonna hold the steering shaft.

It doesn't look like much. But if you've ever tried to snake headers through a car,

you know 3/8 of an inch will really just ruin your day.

And that thing is what's holding us up.

So, we'll have to pull this bracket back off

to get this driver's side mum in place.

It's not ideal, but it's not the end of the world either.

There you go.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, man.

Hey, it looks like we need to rotate that.

[Jordan] Fits good right there.

[Will] This is not our standard exhaust.

This is a pretty bizarre exhaust.

The biggest thing with the exhaust is it's kind of sized up.

It's 3.5 inch tubing instead of 3.

We did these big long radius sweeps

that just flow really cool with the car. It's pretty wild.

Hold it, hold it. There we go. That helps.

[Dave] To go for the type of award that we're hoping for,

you've got to make sure that the tolerances are tight

and that the gaps are perfect.

That the flow of the car is perfect.

[man] It'll fit through. Yeah. Go down closer to the belt.

Here you go.

It's done. Fire it up now.

No, we've got to bolt it down still and everything.

But this is the final, final install on it.

[Kyle] Hang on a second. Isn't Will gonna lose his mind

if these wires are still colored underneath the intake?

Let's pop it back off real quick.

[Bledsoe] It's not the final install on it.

It's not the final install anymore.

Let's just take a black paint marker

and just dab those.

That's not gonna work. It's not thick enough.

I wonder if we can almost use Tesa tape on that

if we just keep it real slim.

We're gonna have to.

[Kyle] Let's do the same thing.

Once we get it closer, Kenny can just pull this pigtail out.

- [Will] Let me help here. Right there. - On the driver's side.

[Will] Just like that. Keep coming.

We'll just have to get a pick and shove that little pigtail up under there.

So...

2 [Kyle] Yeah, go down closer to the belt.

We didn't manage any of that stuff so it can float around.

Yeah.

[Kevin] Everything's so tight underneath.

If you have the injector harness in the wrong spot,

you're basically pinching the injector harness.

That's bad.

[Will] Well, let's get that squared away before we get too much farther.

I was really hoping to have that thing tied up so it wasn't just wandering around.

We're going to pot in everything on our injectors,

keep everything up really nice and tight

so then we don't have any issues with any of that stuff.

Even if we had a plastic clip,

just a pretty simple little tab of material,

just so we know that these things aren't gonna relax on the way to the show...

And I have some gum on my toolbox.

- I don't want your bubble gum. - No?

[Will] No. Let me see what I can't find real quick.

It's... some AVS plastic.

Just a little retainer.

- Try it? - [Kyle] Try that.

Okay, now, basically just straight down. Get your light and see...

Way better. And not the fear of those wires

falling down after the fact.

[Kyle] Cool. Okay, so, we can put the bolts in and torque it down, right?

- Get it torqued down, right? - Yeah.

They look like some shoe inserts, huh? Or some salmon.

Gotta be careful with these, apparently.

I gotta build some trim that'll sit on this thing around the perimeter.

Doesn't sound too trick, but this thing's all got to be a little bit of an angle, too.

So, it's not like I can just bend it up around this. It's got to flow through.

And sit on this perfectly.

I want to do a door pull that's actually incorporated in the scallop,

but let's do a dart across it,

but let's have that actually as the door pull.

Oh, like, hover it over a cove?

As you can see, it's got shape every which way, you know?

Hopefully, it just bends right into place. So, pray for me.

Measure this thing up.

Or...

Now, we got plenty.

I think I'm just gonna try to get the shape,

and then, I'll try to put a little twist in it after, I suppose.

Let's go find something to bend this with.

What do we got here?

Maybe some old frame rail. Let's see where that will get us.

Just start getting some shape, and I'll be able to fine-tune it from there.

But I just gotta pull the trigger somewhere.

On something.

Oh, yeah, that's tough stuff.

I feel like we're gonna have to bust out some heat. Let me go get the persuader.

[cameraman] Yeah, I see that.

[Eric] So, I hope I can do it again.

[laughs dryly]

Right on. I like it.

[Dave] The door panel, I want layers,

I want to have a lot of contour and a lot of dimension to it.

I don't want a just flat door panel.

I gotta bend these into this radius, hopefully. That's the goal.

It should be nice and soft now. Go slam it through the sheet metal roller

and see if it does anything,

And then after we get a bend in it, I'll be able to cut it loose

and clean it up a little bit, and have a cool little pull handle.

I'm not even thinking this thing is really going to bend,

but we'll have to figure out a way.

This thing will even fit...

I'm not feeling too confident.

Hey. Did something.

[laughs] I wasn't expecting that to work.

All right. We'll cut it loose now.

[tool whirring]

[Dave] I'm more and more inspired every single day,

watching this stuff now finally come together with color.

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.

It's not bad. Tweak on 'em a little bit.

Get these cleaned up.

[power tools whirring]

I might just have to look at it on the car and see if we like it.

[Will] This is not our standard exhaust.

This is a pretty bizarre exhaust.

[Bledsoe] These headers, we've got these set up. Gonna start the engine.

- [Kyle] You guys ready? - Yep. Hit it.

[engine revving]

'Cause Austin's got to sit right here and get his arm in there.

- Oh, is he that... - I feel that.

[bleep]

We are out of time.

If that cracks the fender, we are out of time to go backwards.

We cannot... The doors need to be on this car.

Now. The body needs to start going together.

We get the car running, and start getting [bleep] together.

We're gonna run out of time.