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Kenny, come back here.

[Dave] Something large is gonna happen that's gonna suck.

Now, do not [bleep] guess whether you can do something or not.

We're out of time, that cracked the fender.

[Neil] It's still crashing just as bad as it was before.

I can't repaint that.

Yeah, I think Dave's gonna come in in, like, 20 minutes

and be like, "Actually, no mirrors."

- [Neil] Can you hear that? That grinding in here? - [engine running]

- [Bledsoe] Shut it off. - [Neil yells] Shut it off!

[opening theme music playing]

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

[Kevin] It's gonna 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.

[Kevin] 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.

That is incredible.

It's all aluminum.

-It's... - [Dave] Everything is aluminum, yep.

[man] It's just perfect.

I don't know how you could pick anything apart.

Oh!

- [man 1] Easy? - Yeah.

- None of this is easy. - [man 2] No, none of it is easy.

[man 3] It's gotta be perfect. So you just keep sanding.

Dip it, sand it, dip it, sand it again.

- A little tight. - "A little?"

[man 4] I can't imagine we'll get anywhere near recreating this thing again.

[man 5] Way better.

[chuckles] Hey. I wasn't expecting that to work.

So, Eric's actually doing a really good job right now with those door poles,

and I really think that this is gonna add a nice element,

bringing some of the design stuff from, like, the grill,

the valve covers, the speaker grills.

[Eric] I love it. Fits great.

On to the next.

[Dave] I'm trying to create a little bit of a very light texture.

[Kevin] I don't believe that this was in the original design,

but this is definitely one of those things that evolved

as the builds started going right?

Because these are 3D-printed,

it's very, very vague,

but you can see the printing lines just barely.

And I didn't wanna get too aggressive.

Well, and it's a cove, and that black enhances the depth change there.

[Dave] Basically, what I've done is I've disrupted the surface now

so it's not lines and it's not smooth,

it has just a little bit of a bite.

That'll give it a very uniform look.

And then basically, by doing this

very light overspray will create a texture.

Then when I go and do the wet out,

it'll be nice and uniform.

And more importantly, it'll kind of be used to

the idea of having a urethane paint on it.

- Okay, it looks like we need to rotate up. - [man] Looks good right there.

[Will] This is not our standard exhaust.

This is a pretty bizarre exhaust.

[Dave] And I think it looks a lot better not being just straight.

You know, giving that long arch to it

- to fit into the body at the bottom of the car. - Yes.

The biggest thing with the exhaust is

it's kind of sized up.

It's three and a half inch tubing instead of three.

We did these big, long radius sweeps

that just flow really cool with the car.

It's pretty wild.

Getting this car wired is a little bit challenging

'cause we really don't have references we're going off of.

I'm gonna take all of the transmission harness

option port, OBD-II port, and run 'em up here

so they're closer to the ECU.

I remember back in the stereo build days,

- your wiring... - That was a showcase.

[Dave] But I thought about that, and then when we got

a little bit closer to putting the bottom of the dash together,

I'm like, "There's no room here. Let's not bother."

[Justin] We can look in here and see where it actually tucks in under the floor.

All of that just tucks in under that channel.

Can't really see any of that running through the front of the car.

I mean, as long as we're nerding out,

this ECU's gonna take this car to the next level.

This is a Haltech Nexus R5.

It does really cool stuff.

This not only will control the engine,

it also has the ability to control the headlights,

taillights, turn signals,

any ambient lighting inside, and it's super flexible.

We're no longer confined to using a traditional headlight switch.

In this case, we're gonna use Haltech's 2x4 CAN Keypad.

So if we want the engine start-stop button to be top left on the keypad,

we'll just program that here in the software.

Ultimately, at the end of the day,

it's gonna cut down on the amount of modules we put in this car.

Once everything's gathered, once everybody is on the same page,

there's a lot of simplicity to it.

Yeah, super nice.

[indistinct chatter]

Yep.

[chatter continues]

[Bledsoe] These headers, we've got these set up.

So, we're gonna start the engine.

We don't wanna discolor all of our exhaust and everything.

So, we have this setup done just to do a start-up,

make sure everything's working well,

operating system's all good and then we'll,

obviously, pull these off and install our good headers

so they're all clean and we don't have any issues.

It would look good on another car.

- Yeah, those are awesome. - [laughs] But not this car.

This one stresses me out. I don't like it.

I told Dave, I was like, "I want these."

And he's all, "Well, you could buy 'em afterward."

And I was like, "Huh, all right." [laughs]

[Kyle] I'm in here looking at the data.

Oil pressure, coolant temp, you know, air-fuels,

all the basic stuff just to make sure,

you know, nothing's going haywire on the ECU.

And Neil and Kenny are outside looking for any mechanical issues,

any leaks, any kind of concerns at all.

When that thing starts, it's just gonna shake this aluminum car.

I'm picturing it.

[Bledsoe] We have to confirm all of our wiring.

We have to make sure that where we have all of our parameters set is correct.

So, the only way we're gonna be able to do it is run it.

You wanna watch the back?

[Neil] What am I watching back there?

The, like, trans lines, that kind of stuff.

Make sure we don't have anything going on. I'll watch this front.

- [Kyle] Yeah, yeah. - [Neil] Yeah, fire it up.

- Okay. - I'm just, I'm gonna run it until you tell me otherwise.

[Bledsoe] Okay.

[Kevin] I like that.

I like the noises that made.

This is, like, a 12-piece procedure wheel.

If NASA was to build a wheel, this is how it would be.

So basically, these are a 3-piece wheel.

The very different thing about these is

we made 'em 3-piece so they could be chrome-plated.

Obviously, if anybody has ever tried to get a wheel chrome-plated,

they know that it's extremely hard

to get the copper into the dish.

So, if you break it down into pieces,

they're able to do a better job.

And even with this big drop center right here,

Ogden Chrome still had a problem getting this beautiful.

It took 'em a little time, but it turned out amazing.

But the other thing that's very special about this

is how these three pieces bolt together,

is they actually don't bolt together.

So where you can see the fasteners like a normal wheel would,

these actually bolt here, so then once the tire's on,

it looks like a 1-piece wheel, almost.

So, it's a very cool design.

I'm super excited to get all of the threads cleaned out.

We have aluminum bands that basically band this whole area,

and that's where we'll make our sealing.

That's where the whole wheel will be sealed.

So, we're just gonna try to sneak up on these.

Obviously, now that they've been chrome-plated,

they don't slip together as easily as they used to

when they were raw aluminum.

But we're gonna do our best to get these things together,

and get 'em glued and get 'em on the car,

so Dave will stop...

I don't wanna use the word, "crying," but asking.

What was my exact reaction when those wheels showed up?

[mockingly] "Can we put the wheels on? Can we put the wheels on?

Can we put the wheels on?"

Did you see these?

Yeah, I took 'em apart and put 'em back together.

You should have seen... [bleep]

Hit 'em with the [bleep] mallet.

- To get 'em back together? - [Kevin laughs] Yeah.

[gasps] Ah. You didn't scratch the chrome, did ya?

- [Kevin] Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. - Oh, my God.

These are so beautiful.

- They're all right. - [Dave] You shut your mouth.

- Oh, man, I... - The design I did on these is just second to none.

And then the plating...

Ogden Chrome really knocked it out of the ballpark.

- Yeah, they really did. - Look at the finish on this.

- Can I see one of the center caps in there? - Mmm-hmm.

- [Dave] So this is a rear, obviously. - [Kevin] Yeah.

- And by the time we throw a little paint down there... - [Dave] Mmm-hmm.

Can I set it upright?

- It won't come apart, right? - I'd rather you just not touch it.

- Oh, stop. - [chuckles] I'm just kidding.

- I think it's a gorgeous... - [Dave] That my friend is [bleep] sexy.

Yeah, man, those are dope!

When is the plan to start gluing these together?

There is a little bit of alignment issues.

We kind of need to bang the thing around

- and get it lined up right. - Mmm-hmm.

And then I wanna run a tap through all of 'em.

- Just make sure we're good. - Okay.

- I'll have sealant here in the morning. - Okay.

And we should be able to start gluing this one.

- Awesome. - Okay, I'll see you in a bit.

[whistles]

[indistinct chatter]

So, we've got the doors over here now, ready to go in.

And so do we have kind of a game plan

on putting these together?

- [groans] Ugh. - [laughs]

[Bledsoe] The doors, I mean, we'll get 'em,

but it is gonna take some time.

- I think he's nervous. - And it's gonna take some patience.

He's also gotta sit right here and get his arm in there.

I've gotta sit and move this if I need to...

- [indistinct] - ...and clear it, so...

[indistinct chatter]

It's easy to get frustrated, and we kind of ran into

a little roadblock with the door.

[indistinct]

[Kevin] Especially on this car with the paint and everything,

take a timeout, take a breather.

[Dave] With so many moving parts

and people working on the car all at the same time,

eventually, something large is gonna happen

that's gonna suck.

We're working with show-perfect body work and paintwork.

Everything's one-off, so people,

they're not seeing everything.

[Dave] We've adjusted the hinge outward so much that we have now

puckered the front fender from the inside of the body,

and we've damaged the paint.

Now, do not [bleep] guess whether you can do something or not.

We're out of time, that cracked the fender.

2 Now, do not [bleep] guess whether you can do something or not.

We're out of time, that cracked the fender.

Adjusted the door outward so much with the hinge,

it's actually cracked the paint.

We have to do everything in here on this car with confidence.

If you do not feel comfortable, don't do it.

We are out of time to go backwards.

The doors need to be on this car now.

Okay? Instead of everybody trying to learn,

I want the [bleep] guy who put doors on this car to start working on the doors.

You guys can help him, that's fine.

Um, [bleep] happens, you guys, I get it.

So, let's just make sure that we're not causing ourselves more and more work.

We can't take the car back to the booth,

- we don't have enough time. - [Dave] No, no, no, no.

That crack wasn't there the first time. It didn't just bulge and crack.

So, I don't know...

There's nowhere you can break an edge on this car. It's all one piece.

I can't repaint that.

We can pray that Javi can fix it.

You can't move the trim because it's lined up with the bumpers.

- [Dave grunts] - We can put a Hurst shifter

- sticker right there. - Sticker, but do we have a Hurst shifter?

You can build an emblem...

- No. - Should I get my glasses?

No.

It looks pretty [bleep] good to me. I don't know how you did that.

Javier is one of the MVPs of the car.

- You want me to call [bleep] Mr. Kindig? - Yes, please.

Okay, let's do it.

Hey, hey, are you almost back?

Okay, try to hurry, I got a present for you in the Ridler room.

[Javier] But I think she's gonna be okay.

I'll... I'll get it on the list and we can get it air dried.

I'll try and find the problem.

- That was the last hit. - I'll ask him.

I'd like to think I got a pretty good eyesight.

We're just gonna find out what we can and can't do.

You can't make out a defined line.

My vote, as of right this moment,

and it could change, we've still got a little ways to go,

Javi is MVP.

- I'm off, though? [laughs] - 'Cause we found-- Yeah, you're out.

- We found... - Will's off?

- Yeah. - I will tell you right now,

- that saved our ass. - Yep.

- I'm perfectly happy with Javier being the MVP... - I'm amazed because...

...at this point right now because I have not slept

until this was fixed.

Hold this.

- I love you, man. - [laughs] You're welcome.

Thank you, man. Thank you. No, really, man.

I can never repay you for what you've done today.

- Yeah. Phew. That's... - [man] Right?

[scattered laughter]

I'm amazed 'cause you guys told me it couldn't happen.

- [indistinct] - [bleep] A.

- [laughs] He's a [bleep] miracle worker, isn't he? - [laughs] He is, right?

- Ah, Javi, Javi. - You're going to sleep now, okay?

You're gonna sleep tonight?

- [Bledsoe] Yeah. - Okay, good.

I'm gonna buy you a dinner. I'm gonna buy you a car.

- [man] You'll get that massage... [indistinct] - [laughing]

I'm gonna send you to some exotic island.

- Okay. - [indistinct]

You guys, scratch the [bleep] out of the car as much as you want.

He can fix it. Don't even worry about it.

- [laughs] Jesus. - [Dave laughs]

- Dave, get the [bleep] out of here. - Okay, I gotta go.

- Good job, buddy. Whoo. - [Javier laughs] Thank you.

- [man 1] A little tape might save the day. - Yeah.

Take your time and do not scratch the paint,

or damage the paint, or scratch the chrome.

Other than that, you'll be fine.

[man 1] Little bit of tape goes a long way.

The problems we're running into, is being able to adjust this.

We have to remove the door to shim.

[man 2] Just shimin'.

[Bledsoe] We have adjustability in the hinge itself,

but that's only taking you so many directions.

[man 2] Not gonna risk that.

[indistinct]

[Neil] Kenny, are you ready?

- [Bledsoe] I'm ready. - [Neil] Okay, let's try this.

[indistinct]

Yeah.

Little bit closer?

- [man 3] No. - No, it's still...

It's still crashing just as bad as it was before.

[sighs]

[Bledsoe] Now, pull on it, just go really easy, though.

[man 4] So, these are basically 50?

- Forty-eight? - [man 5] No, they're 47.5, 48.

[man 4] Forty-eight, okay. So, what do we want?

We're looking for 60?

[man 5] We're looking for 60.

We've shimmed these things every which way.

We've taken material off. We've tried everything.

If this doesn't work, we're gonna have to go back to the drawing board.

- [man 1] I think we're good. - [small clink]

[man 2] Okay, it's all you, Kenny.

[man 1] We've gotta be almost past that point.

[man 3] We were there. I think we did it.

[man 1] Yeah, we're past the point.

- [man 3] Oh, wow. - [man 2] Okay.

- [Bledsoe] We got 'em, and they're perfect. - They look good, yeah.

- They do look good. - [Dave] Yeah, they look real good.

All right, that's it.

[man] Looks good to me.

- Good job. - Sweet.

Now, the only thing left is everything else.

[man] That's how it always is.

You wanna watch the back?

[Neil] What am I watching back there?

The, like, trans lines, that kind of stuff.

Make sure we don't have anything going on. I'll watch this front.

- [Kyle] Yeah, yeah. - [Neil] Yeah, fire it up.

[Dave] So when we get there, you know,

we have to be able to pull the car out of the trailer.

We need to be able to move forward, backward, turn left and right,

and it has to stop under its own power.

But I think that we oughta make sure that

everything's still jiving up here.

- You guys ready? - Yep.

- [Neil] Hit it. - [engine starts]

[engine revving]

Kenny, come back here.

Can you hear that?

- [Bledsoe] Shut it off. - [Neil yells] Shut it off!

That grinding in here?

- Shut it off! - [engine turns off]

2 [engine running loudly]

[Neil] Hear that?

It just kicked in.

Something's wrong.

- [Bledsoe] Shut it off. - [Neil yells] Shut it off!

- [engine turns off] - [Neil] Something's up with the transmission.

We were just checking where everything's at.

We wasn't able to run it like you do a normal car.

Bring it up to temp, add more fluid to it, and everything else.

- All right. - [Neil] The transmission doesn't sound good.

Doesn't sound good at all.

[Bledsoe] Check this, see where our fluid is.

[Kyle] It's a little low. I don't know how much

we're gonna be able to get in it, but I'll go grab the pump.

- Yeah. Oh, yeah. - [man speaks indistinctly] ...you're good.

[Neil] Now, I'm just gonna hit the trigger a couple times?

Yeah, but you gotta just be light on the trigger,

or else it'll overpressure and let off the pressure relief.

[Neil] Okay, so what do I do? Just make sure this thing doesn't go over 40?

[Kyle] Yep. Just go ahead and give it a little bit of pressure.

Those transmissions, you can never get enough.

You can have it... It's coming out the top of the dipstick,

and it's not in all the passageways.

So, it'll empty the pan in no time,

- and you still gotta put eight more quarts in the thing. - [Dave] That makes sense.

All right, keep going.

[Bledsoe] That took quite a bit.

[Kyle] Okay.

- About another quart. - [Neil] Keep going?

- [Kyle] No. - [Neil] Oh. Took a quart?

- [Kyle] Yeah. - [Neil] Good.

That's pretty full right there so we'll stop

'cause I don't wanna make a mess.

[Neil] No, you're good. That's fine.

We'll fire it up one more time and check it.

All of our roads, you know, you got 50 paths.

They all come together at once.

And then we turn the key, and we know if we're in big trouble,

or if we're on the right track.

- Well, should we roll it through the gear? - Yeah.

It's the only way we're gonna get that ran through.

[Kyle] Fluid moving?

- Do you wanna do the gears from under there? - I think, yeah.

Well, do you want, just put it in drive?

[Kyle] I would probably start it in neutral,

- and then just toggle back and forth... - Neutral...

...between drive and reverse.

- [Neil] Okay, I got you. - 'Cause we don't have any way to stop it.

If you guys need it shut down, just yell.

- Okay. - [Kyle] So if I hear anybody yelling for anything,

I'm just gonna kill it.

- [Bledsoe] Whenever you're ready. - [Neil] I'm clear.

- [Kyle] Okay, I'm gonna start. - [Neil] Okay.

[engine starts, revs]

Okay, so I'm gonna do reverse.

[Bledsoe] Okay, going to reverse.

- [Neil] Okay, so neutral. - [Bledsoe] Neutral.

- Okay, drive. - [Neil] Okay.

[Neil] It's not making the noise anymore.

[Kyle] Okay. Go back to neutral.

Okay. We're in neutral.

I think we're okay.

- Fired right up. That was the cool. - I always get super excited

like I'm a 10-year-old at Christmas every time a car fires up.

But that one was just

- little bit more, you know? - Yeah, a little more.

We just thought that's the way you are all the time, Kenny.

We had a little error in those solenoids there,

so it was just, 'cause you could hear it when you'd hit a gear,

all of a sudden, it's just cleared up. So we're good.

- [Kyle] So we're good? - Yeah.

Hell, yeah.

We still have a handful of cars that have to be done.

We didn't by no means shut the shop down.

Was a high school dream of mine,

but it's just not fast enough.

When our buddy Roy called us and wanted us to work on

his '88 Fox Body Mustang and wanted to make it faster

and funner and cooler and faster,

did I mention faster?

Well, I said ship it, buddy. Let's get it done.

Back up.

We took out an old 5-liter, tired Ford engine suspension,

which includes a K-member.

It opens up a lot more room in the engine bay,

and it's stiffer.

It'll brace up the front of the car a little better,

keep it from trying to twist.

Some link bars for the rear.

We slapped in a Roush Coyote 5.0.

It's 600 horsepower plus. It's supercharged.

This thing's going to be a rocket.

Should we upgrade the seat belt?

No, the seat belt will be fine.

Maybe it just looks worse than it is.

We've got the intake squared away on this thing

so it can breathe, but it has to exhaust good too.

So we built a two and half inch with Borla mufflers.

This thing is going to sound great.

Now we just have a few more things to do.

Are you sure it wasn't like a ladies edition or something,

like four lug ladies edition?

Maybe we can amp that up, show 'em the five lug.

Let me call Vanilla Ice real quick.

[Roy laughs]

Before we can blow the wheels off this thing.

I know it's crazy, it's just a '88 Mustang,

- but it means the world to me. - Okay.

So I just need you to do your thing.

Dude, I will hook you up.

And like I said, I want you to be able to pull up

to a light and just smoke whatever's there.

We got rid of the wimpy four lug, and we went to five lug.

These gloss black rims look amazing with this car.

Perfect.

- All right, you ready, Kenny? - Yep.

- Okay. - All right, I'm at full lock as hard as I can.

Here's the half.

So this would be one whole turn right there.

Yeah, we're good. Here, go the other way.

Okay.

One whole turn, and there's a half.

No, that's good. It's centered, so we should be good.

Yeah.

Just depends on what tires Dave puts on it.

Yeah.

He wants to track it, so hopefully some wide ones.

You know they're going to be big.

They're always big. Too big.

But we should be good.

There is a tire that'll fit it, that'll make it work.

- Yeah, there is a tire. - Let's just put it that way.

We're just going to find it.

Well, that was fast.

- Kinda. - It seems like just yesterday this didn't have an engine.

Yeah, it was in the body shop getting all gazillion holes

shaved.

Why do they have so many holes?

- I couldn't tell you. - That was a lot of holes, though.

- That was a lot of holes. - They're crush holes.

- What do you mean? - They're called crush holes.

So freaking when the car gets impacted,

they have little gives in the structure.

So then it compacts.

- Who came up with that? - That's a thing?

I've got to look at the back of my brain real quick.

- Yeah, that's redonkulous. - Okay, yeah.

So anyway, what do you got left?

- Engines in, trans is in. - Yeah, engines in, trans in.

98% of the wiring's done.

So we're getting there.

We did a conversion on this one, so...

Yeah, it's five lug now.

- Far out. - Whoever, who made it like a, what is it?

- What is this like? - I don't know.

This is an '80s sports car. Is it considered a sports car?

- I know. - Yeah.

- With a four lug? - Yeah.

Only Fords would do that.

Womp, womp, womp.

- It's very disappointing. - That's a five lug now.

Yeah. When do you think we can fire it?

Probably early next week.

- Nice. - I'm excited.

Far out.

I've got my Ice Ice Baby CD warmed up.

- Let's get it. - And we are hitting the town.

Where are we going?

We're going downtown to pick up chicks.

No, they don't go downtown. Where does he go?

- To the ice rink? - Ice rink, baby?

- I don't know. - To the ice rink, baby?

Is that a thing?

- You just said. - Did you say the ice rink?

- Yes, ice rink, baby. - Ain't they at the beach?

- In that video? - Where does he go? I don't know.

I'm older than you, and I don't even know what you're talking about.

Good job, Tim.

It's looking great.

Both of you have homework to do.

Ice Ice Baby? Ice Rink Baby?

- Isn't it Ice Rink Baby? - Not Ice Rink Baby.

[hums "Ice, Ice Baby"]

Ice Ring Baby?

What the--

2 We got a couple last things on this Fox body.

Get everything in, get it wired,

get it on the dyno, and she'll be ready to rock.

Look at that one-two shift on the Tremec. That's good.

I smell a little clutch. You hear that squeal?

So I want to test drive this car before Roy

gets here just to make sure everything is dialed.

Everything's going really good.

I hear a small squeal under the hood.

I'm wondering if it's a belt or maybe a worn out pulley.

That squeal's getting worse.

Let's look at that.

And I like the way that it's handling,

but I will say it's a little bit on the stiff side for the street.

I think probably look at the shocks.

- Yeah. - And maybe see if you can turn

those down a little bit to softer.

How'd the brakes feel?

It's good.

Charge is good. Everything looks good, isn't it?

Charge is good.

Yeah, I think we're really close, Kenny.

Just like I said, a couple of things.

We'll be cruising the boulevard in Miami.

Road test went good. We do have a couple of odds and ends

to figure out before Roy gets here.

The first thing I noticed, I mean, you know,

sometimes these belts get a little bit of oil or grease

on them, or they might get like a little,

a little burr on the pulley.

We checked out all the pulleys and everything,

but we sprayed a little bit of like rubber care silicone

on the belt as it was running.

And as soon as we did that, the belt quieted right up,

pulled the belt off.

But I noticed when I pulled the belt off that

it didn't really have a whole lot of tension on it.

So ran the part number and got rid of this belt.

This one was like an 81 and a half inch long belt.

And so I brought it down to an 81, uh,

It's just going to put more tension on

the whole serpentine setup. Since it is a supercharged car,

the supercharger obviously takes some force

to spin and create boost pressure.

So a little bit more tension is only going to help us

to prevent belt slip when it's under load.

Belt problem fixed. Now we've got to look at these shocks.

on all four corners.

And there's compression and rebound knobs

on the bottom of the coil over.

And that essentially changes the valving inside of them

for different driving scenarios.

I just looked to see what Viking recommends for street cars.

Set it to their settings. You kind of got to feel it out

and drive it, you know, and then if Roy ends up

not liking it, it's super easy to change.

You don't need any tools to change.

You can literally just lay on my back here,

reach under there and then count the clicks,

so, super easy, not a big deal to change it

or reverse it if we don't like it.

The squeals are gone, the shocks are set.

I think Roy is going to be super happy with this car.

We got it on the dyno and, uh...

Here she is.

My name is Roy Sewell, and I brought my 1988 Mustang

here to Kindig It Designs.

I just wasn't fast enough, so I called Kevin and told him

I wanted to make it much faster.

Oh, man. So that's beautiful.

You can see it's all put in there.

We tried to keep everything as factory looking as we could.

We actually went in and also painted the engine bay

- matte black so it all looks uniform and clean. - Yeah.

- I like it. - This thing's a monster.

And it's really nice actually underneath too.

So we've switched out all of your suspension,

the brakes, and we got you four more lug nuts.

- I like it. - One per corner.

I love it.

That's four more lug nuts towards being a man.

The rims are phenomenal, and I like how the rear tires

are wider than the front. It adds to the look.

Let's go ahead and let's see what the dyno does.

- Let's do it. - Let's do it.

Let's do it.

- Sounds like a tune. - It sounds good.

- Moment of truth. - Moment of truth.

- See if you did your job correctly or not. - Right?

[revving]

[revving stops]

- Yeah, so we're like 687. - 607. That was crazy.

That sounded phenomenal.

It almost hit 650 horsepower at the wheels.

I was blown away. I think that's going to be enough for me.

I think I can handle that. So I'm pretty excited.

You want to drive it now?

- Yeah, hell yeah. - You can't drive it.

I'm just kidding. It's ready.

I just can't wait. I just can't wait to drive the car.

- Let's roll, dog. - Dope.

It feels good, too. It feels really good.

It'll go tighter. Like, if you ever want to drive this

on a track, you can tighten those things up.

Dude, this thing will just stick into a corner.

Perfect.

Yeah, man, you guys did a great job.

[laughs]

The driving experience was incredible.

It just felt like a brand new car.

That feels good. It feels really good.

- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.

That's awesome.

I'm excited to get it home and just take it to car shows,

drive it around.

That was a nice ride, man.

Now you drove it. What do you think?

Oh, I love it. I absolutely love it.

2 I just think it looks sinister, bro.

- It does. - You guys did a great job.

Nice, yeah. I mean, it performed so well, Kevin.

It just, you know, just accelerated.

Oh, yeah, you were like a kid in a candy store, too.

Oh, I was blown away.

By shifting and going through the gears,

it just reacted so quickly.

- I'm so happy with it. - And it felt smooth and right.

- It did, yeah. - It didn't feel clunky like a 1988 Mustang.

No, no, it felt like a new car.

I mean, it, you know, literally accelerated with no problem.

I love the wheels, Kevin. I think you did a phenomenal job.

I really like the way the brakes look behind the rims, too.

- Right, right. - Now you matched up the rims with the paint.

And I really like the headlights with the tank.

- Like the light smoke. - Yeah.

And then the windows tinted, too.

It just looks like a whole new car.

You literally did over and beyond.

- Wow. - So I'm very happy.

- I did it for you because you're special. - I appreciate it.

- No, I do it for everybody. - [laughs]

That's it for me on this Fox body.

Now Roy can take it home and just enjoy it.

- Let's go drive it some more. - Yeah, let's drive it some more.

All right. I mean, it's a great experience

working with Kevin and Dave here

at Kindig It Designs.

I would trust them with any vehicle moving forward.

I believe I have the most bitchin' Fox body out there.

[laughs]

2 Mirrors on this car is not a requirement,

but I really think that it's going to actually add

to the car as far as the detail and everything else goes.

I think so.

Again, much like all of my design lines, no hardware.

I don't want to see anything.

I don't want to see any gaps around the mirror head.

So we'll just try and do the best we can to get it in

a position where it looks like it's a functional piece.

You want to trace this side?

- That's exactly what I want to do. - Nice.

All right, Dave, you ready?

I am.

See if these rear view mirrors view the rear.

And you don't want to just take like a CF1 mirror

and modify it and put it on?

- No, I don't. - Yeah, looks like, yep, right there.

But what I don't want to do is I don't want to turn this car

into looking like it started as a CF1

- and we just put it on. - No, no, we can't.

So I think doing something that's definitely a lot more

long and elegant, I think it's going to add

- to the flow of the car. - I think that fits way better.

- Right? - Yeah, I like it right there.

I think it looks great. Let's go with that.

- Right on, right on. - Thank you, thank you.

Looks beautiful.

Really, it kind of just flows along a lot of the lines

with just a Porsche Speedster.

- They just have these really long, beautiful stems. - Yeah, long stem.

The cup for the liberty statue.

Let me get you some flames.

- I know, right? - Ooh, nice.

- Wait. - ["Hail to the Chief" playing]

With this custom car that we're building,

we want to be able to get in and out of the car,

and it seems like we're getting smaller and smaller

where the drivers' and passengers' compartments are.

I'm thinking we kind of need some kind of a tilt.

Did you come up with anything yet?

Geez, Dave, we got mirrors going on.

We got all this stuff going on.

- Give the guy a little bit of time. - It's kind of a big thing.

Yeah.

Putting the steering wheel on.

We just got it from EVOD. It's incredibly cool.

It's incredibly intricate.

And now we really want to just open the lid

Check it for fit.

Make sure that everything's diving,

everything that we designed is all spot on.

And then we're actually going to throw the seat

in there and see how it feels.

We may bring the column back to us a little bit.

We'll see.

Feels nice.

I don't know if we want it any closer to us.

But I know it would help a little bit in some regards.

Kind of straightforward.

Making it integrated and to our level.

Well, I think that's the thing is we took something

that's just so racy and raw and ugly.

And hide it away.

And hide it away and make it look like even

when it's open, it like looks beautiful.

It's crazy to look at a square steering wheel in this car.

- Is it okay to tilt this? - Yeah.

Well, that is a crazy feeling steering wheel, man.

[imitates engine revving]

It's a crazy idea as well.

I don't know, but, boy, look how nice it fits with it

being further back away from my knee.

It's weird to actually be able to touch the pedals.

Get this out of here so it can get chrome than that.

Keep this, and obviously these other two.

Not the horn?

Yeah.

[horn squeaks]

We might have to get a different horn.

How about this one?

Aroooga!

- Nah. - [laughs]

It's more the era, but still no.

- The new horn. - What's the horn, Neil?

Did it scare you? Did it scare you, Neil?

This is why I love this right here.

This is so cool.

[Kevin] A lot has been accomplished, but it seems like

we still got to get the shifters in the car.

We still got to get the dash figured out.

So Will will send this over and just have a chrome.

And when it comes back, I'm just going to drop in

some paint behind it in the V.

There's still a handful of stuff,

believe it or not, that isn't even figured out yet.

And there's even a bigger handful that Dave's going

to come up with at the last minute.

Well, I've been thinking about the gauges.

- See what I'm saying? - Yeah, thinking about the gauges now.

- Yeah, we're almost done with the car. - Yeah.

This is a 3D printed spacer so that when the mirror

is tightened down on the car, it'll have like

a super tiny air gap, and that'll just keep

the paint from being deformed.

And it makes for a pretty good template

for drilling, so we can line these up on the car,

tape them in place, and then we'll just punch

the holes right through the mounting holes on this.

Greg, what do you think?

Yeah, I think the offset there looks good.

And we're right on with the plumb.

- Yep. - Marks line up.

- Mm-hmm. - Yep.

I think it's jiving.

- Cool. I think it's there. - Template lines up.

- Template lines up. - Let's drill some holes.

Let's put some mirrors on. I like this.

Get your M12 out.

- I think it looks good. - Hey, you did it.

Proud of you, bud. Yeah, I think Dave's going to come in in, like,

20 minutes and be like, actually, no mirrors.

You got a tool ready?

Well, now that you've gotten good at the constant radius

door hanging situation, this hood should go a lot easier.

And there's really good news for you.

I don't know if you've done the math on this,

but there's only one hood.

[laughs] Yeah.

- But now they know exactly what to expect. - Sure.

Pull these set screws out.

Will they come out all the way,

or is it going to disturb the paint?

[Dave] So this should go a lot easier, do you think?

No, now we've got four points instead of three points.

The hood has two latches with the hinges on each side.

I have those long ones too, so we need them like the ones that you...

[bleep]

2 - High. - Yeah, this side.

See if you can turn that.

We had this problem when we were taking it off.

In my head, this is simple.

But after the doors, this is not simple.

So this is just a constant radius hinge.

And the reason that we did this is because

we wanted to really hide the area behind the hinge.

Because that is a very hard place to clean.

It's a very hard place to make look awesome.

So what we did is one whole constant radius.

And it just slips through the hole.

It's got a nice cover, so you can't see past it.

It's a win-win all the way across.

Like the ones that...

You know, with so many moving parts

and so many parts and people working on the car

all at the same time,

eventually something is going to go wrong.

- To fix. - You didn't tell him about that one thing, did you?

- No. - What are you talking about?

- Let's try that out. - No!

Just kind of run this along, and if this paper starts

Yeah. Yell out to stop.

Still way high.

Let's do another couple turns on it.

- All right, let's try that again. - One of those was wobbling.

Right now, what we're facing is we've got this in.

We've got it at zero. I can't take the hood down anymore.

- It's sitting too high? - And we're still a little too high.

In the front or the back?

In the front.

Well, if it doesn't, we can lift it up

- and set it back down. - Yeah.

Because it should still be doing the same thing.

It might just be

hanging on that just a little.

Is there adjustment down in the bottom, too?

On the struts,

we got, like, half of our gap out of there,

but then we were out of adjustment,

so we're just gonna finish it off here.

I don't know how close it's gonna be this time,

Bailey, so...

Why are we still highest?

And that's weird.

I mean, there really isn't much adjustment.

- Yeah. - [Dave] Are you running into something else?

Is there anything rubbing or touching?

No, it's our, it's after we've painted

and done everything, you know,

- before, if we would have sat in the engine bay, - The chrome.

we're right there. We're super close.

On those hinges, we have no adjustment.

- Open it up. - Okay, I'll do it.

[Kevin] I don't want to grind on the hood and take any chance

of having to repaint it.

What grit you got?

I got 150. Do you want it to be sandpaper?

[Kevin] Get some 80.

Let's grab some heavy grit so we can knock it down,

- and then we'll hit it with the fine stuff. - Yeah.

[Kenny] We're doing it different on this one.

We're going to approach the hinge instead of

the pocket in the hood.

This clearance, these hinges, because they drop into

the bore on the hood right there,

They're getting a little too tight at the bottom.

We don't have room.

If we turn around and try to tap it in,

it's going to hit the skin at the top of the hood

and leave a dimple on it.

So we're just clearancing these so we can get it

to drop in another quarter inch.

All about tolerances.

That's the name of the game.

Will's looked at it.

I mean, we've had as many eyes as we could throw on it,

and everybody seems to agree this is the right move.

[Kenny] This is the best fix, because

if it's this tight right now, by the time we get it to Detroit

and it's this tight, you'll have no paint left.

- It'll be rubbing on it. - Just pray to the paint gods.

- Unbelievable. - This is a big step.

Once the windshield's in, then a lot of things can be finalized.

You know, I thought this fit better.

[Dave] But it's been a lot of stress. The last-minute things

always cause an extreme amount of stress.

I'm so excited to see what's gonna happen with the gauges,

with the joules and the floating numbers and stuff.

I had to change the design just a little bit.

I can't get that pitch, that bevel like that.

No?

- Like, I need to be higher. - Yeah, but, well, tell me what you're doing.

- Corner. - We can't go there.

Oh, there you go. Yeah, there you go.

There you go.

See you guys in Detroit.

And then I'm going to go ahead and jump in it. I'll start it.

Okay, fire it up.

[engine sputtering]

No.

- What are you going to do? - I don't know.

[sighs]