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♪ Let's go

[narrator] On this one-off special...

Check, check, one, two, three.

[narrator] ...the Motor MythBusters hook up ...

That thing was absolutely perfect.

[narrator] ...to countdown the season finale.

-Gun it! -[laughs manically]

-Wow, nice job. -Oh!

-[narrator] Tory, Faye and Bisi... -Look at that!

[Bisi] That looks like a water hose.

[narrator] Pop the hood, uncover bonus scenes.

[Tory] Peel it!

[narrator] ...credit our extraordinary build team...

[Bisi] It was perfect.

[narrator] ...and pick their favorite moments.

The giant concrete vibrating rod.

[narrator] From an action packed season...

-[Tory] That's a fire. -[narrator] ...of automotive mayhem.

-[laughs] -I say, flip the truck. Who cares?

-Oh! -[both laughing excitedly]

[Faye] And I wanna start with a pretty obvious one for you guys.

What were y'alls [clicks tongue] favorite vehicles?

Or your one favorite vehicle from everything that we worked on.

[Bisi laughing manically]

Whoo!

Oh, mine is easy. Oh.

You know, mine has to do something with electricity, of course, right?

I loved the Hotrod Hybrid.

Uh, it's pretty crappy.

[Bisi] It was my favorite vehicle and if you remember the myth...

Putting a turbocharger on a hybrid can improve fuel economy.

And that car, when it was done, it went from like,

-a big zero to a hero as far as I was concerned. -[all laughing]

[Bisi] We had turbo stick out the hood.

It was sounding amazing.

It had fuller system and hence more opportunities for power.

You did say it was similar to a nitrous, but you never let us drive it.

What did it feel like?

[Bisi] Oh, it really was electric nitrous.

Three, two, one!

You gotta wait till we say "go".

With a little press of a button, get that little kick in the pants,

the little smack in the back.

Time to hit the electronic boost. Here we go!

You cannot mess with technology.

[exclaiming] Oh ho!

So, Faye, what was your favorite car?

Okay, my favorite vehicle from the entire first season of Motor MythBusters

was actually Big Red.

[Tory] I would imagine that the trailer that Big Red was towing

would've been your favorite vehicle.

Yeah, well that was kind of like, part of the reason too.

It was so much fun decorating the trailer.

A chicken! It definitely needs another chicken.

Okay. Let me explain you why and then it'll make sense.

Big Red was so faithful to us.

And all we did was load him down with a bunch of crap

and throw him down an airstrip.

[Tory laughs manically]

Oh, my God.

-Out of control. -[Bisi laughs]

And he never let us down, you know?

What about our trailer?

-I remember the look of horror and disgust... -[Tory laughs]

...on Faye's face

when that thing got obliterated.

Oh, my God. I, I felt uncomfortable.

-[Bisi laughing] Oh. -[Tory] Oh, my God. That looks nuts.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

-It's going! It's going! Oh, my God! -[tires screeching]

[Tory] Would you guys be interested in retesting it?

-Sorry, Faye, about your trailer. -[Faye groaning]

[Tory] Don't worry. It'll buff out.

-But driving it ourselves this time? -No way.

[Bisi] Faye, how did you learn how to skate so well?

How did you learn to do that? You're so good.

[Faye] Believe it or not, I didn't always live in the great nation of Texas.

-Punch it! - Actually grew up in rural New Hampshire.

And there wasn't really much to do.

Come on, you can go faster than that.

But we did have this pond across the street from us.

So like, as kids, I liked to compete with the neighborhood boys

and play ice hockey.

And according to my mother, I skated before I could walk.

-I think I can guess what Tory's gonna say. -[laughs]

Tory, is your favorite car Flintstones? I just have to ask.

My favorite car was a 100% Flintstones.

Tory, you have your work cut out for you over here.

Faye, do you remember when he was doing that,

- it was hour after hour. -[Faye] Oh, my God, yeah.

And I don't even know what happened to him,

it's like some sort of spirit took over his body.

[imitating caveman grunts]

He just really became the role, shall we say.

[continues imitating]

-Hey, I'm a method builder. -[Bisi laughs]

[Faye] Here comes...

[Bisi] I mean, just taking it from,

you know, a cartoon and building it in the three-dimensional world,

-[Faye] No! -[Bisi and Tory laughing]

[Faye] We pour it nice and slow.

[Tory] It was more of a work of art

than it was building a car, you know what I mean?

Like, there was so much sculpture involved with the chassis.

And then, the construction of the wheels.

So many different techniques of fabrication.

[Faye] Definitely, like, I definitely learned a lot of new skills on that build.

[Tory] Look at this for a second.

-It's awesome. -It's coming together.

I mean, you just couldn't deny how close it looked to the cartoon.

It was like, my childhood dream come true.

It still makes me smile every time I see it.

-Here it is, in its glory. -[Bisi] Tory.

-That's amazing. -[both laugh]

-[Bisi] Look at these things. [laughs heartily] -[Faye] I know.

-The feet she made, that was amazing. -[Tory laughing]

That's so freaking cool.

I think I'm gonna start making those for Halloween.

-[Faye] Are those to scale? -[Bisi laughs]

[Tory] Pretty much.

The fact that we got it to roll just--

It blew my mind. I mean, nobody had any faith in this thing.

They thought it was gonna be too heavy.

-Look it, it's working. -[Bisi] Oh, it's moving.

[Tory] We'll get it working in no time.

But the crazy part is when we took it out onto the road and got it up to speed...

[cheering] Yeah!

This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

And then the back wheel just completely blew out.

[Tory laughing manically]

-[Bisi] Oh, no! -[Tory] Oh, my God. We split the wheel.

That's awesome.

[Tory laughs]

[man] Al right. Look at that beauty.

Guys, you know what was so appealing in this show,

is that we had the opportunity to build so much wonderful stuff.

I feel like a mad scientist. All right.

[Bisi] You remember the miniature wind tunnel we put together?

-[Tory] Look at that. -[Bisi] That is beautiful. That's exactly what we want.

And we even mimicked trailer sway on a small treadmill.

-[Bisi] Oh, my goodness. -[Tory] I think you would be having a heart attack.

-[Bisi] Yes, I would. -[Bisi and Tory laugh]

[Bisi] I'd like to hear the favorite things you guys built.

Out of all the weird and wacky things that we've built,

doing the Van Chop, to me, was one of the coolest builds.

-Think, you know, if we get really low. -[Bisi laughs]

I mean, that's how hotrods did it, right?

I mean, that was the myth that chopping a vehicle's top

will increase the vehicle speed.

And so, to be able to actually chop that van...

and learn how to do it correctly,

I mean, it blew my mind.

I'd never done a chop before.

In my mind, I was like, "Let's just cut it in half,

take a section out..."

[laughs hysterically]

"...drop it, weld it back together."

But there is so much artistry and so much craft that goes into it.

It's just like making sure the steel's lining up.

Making sure the form, the top of the van, is perfect.

It's more like sculpting than it is fabricating.

[Faye] There's a lot of skill, a lot of talent,

a lot of time, a lot of patience that goes into that job.

[Bisi] Oh, she's ready to drive.

-We gotta chop, chop. -Yes, we do, sir.

[Tory] Dude, look at how much headspace we have in there.

-[Tory laughs] -[Bisi] Wow.

[Tory] This thing is so cool looking!

[Bisi] It was just a beautiful car. Beautiful, beautiful indeed.

- I loved it. -[Tory] And you didn't think we'd be able to

see out the windshield.

All we needed was four inches.

Are we gonna die?

Those old-timers knew what they were talking about.

-Chopping your car will make you go faster. -[Bisi] Absolutely.

I was blown away by that. Good choice, Tory.

From a build process perspective,

I loved, absolutely loved, putting together with you guys

Poor Man's Turbo.

He took this soda can tab and a bin wire,

connected to the vacuum line, pulls it.

-[exclaiming] Oh! -[Tory] Hey, it works!

-It increases boost like crazy and mayhem happens. -Oh.

-Oh! -Oh, it's smoking!

[laughing]

[Bisi] Yay! Look at that!

It was dirty, it was, it was smelly. It was just painful.

When we ripped everything off,

did some very creative lightning of the chassis.

Look, it's running. Here's the battery.

[Bisi] With a K-gen, a turbo system.

It's starting to look like a Mad Max car.

[Bisi] The inner cooler, the new, large, shiny high flowing carburetor.

[Tory laughing] Isn't that beautiful? It's so beautiful.

Absolutely gorgeous.

Here we go.

Got it down in the first start up.

[Bisi laughing]

This sounds great.

It was perfect.

And I've gotta say, it definitely sounded the part.

[engine revving]

[laughing] My God.

-That sounds amazing. -[Faye] It does.

Best sounding Monte Carlo in the world.

[Tory] Yeah. That thing was a beast.

[engine revving]

It had the [imitating revving], it was so-- And then it--

It sounded so good.

[engine revving]

Oh, my God.

My heartrate just went like, through the roof.

[Bisi] And then...

That's gonna be [bleep] awesome.

...I had the unique opportunity to take

the Monte Carlo on its maiden voyage...

[Tory] Peel it!

[Bisi] ...around the complex.

[Tory] Unreal.

-Whoo! -Yo!

[Bisi] Seeing how poorly it ran,

and got it to a car that did triple digits in miles per hour...

[Tory] Hitting the nitrous.

[shrieks] Ah-ha-ha!

Oh, he must hit the nitrous. Look at that.

Wow, that's like a builder's dream to be able to take

something that was nothing and create something marvelous from it.

[Tory screaming excitedly] One! Oh, my God!

And it looked the part, too.

[Faye] And that was our first build.

So, Faye, I'm curious. Yours. What was your favorite build process?

I was trying to come up with something like different,

but I can't help but also say Big Red again.

-I am sorry. I don't know! -[laughs]

[Faye] I really loved building the training wheels.

-You like it? -Yeah. Yes.

We had to make those training wheels for Big Red

so that he didn't tip over.

Especially, while you guys were in it.

-I say, flip the truck. Who cares? -[Faye laughs]

Well, no. My friends are gonna be inside the truck.

You don't have more friends?

I had so much fun on that project.

[Faye laughing]

And I got to work, like, side by side with Rose, who gave me a ton of tips.

-How satisfying is this? It's like very pleasing. -It's oddly satisfying.

[Faye] Rose was teaching me some techniques on like, improving my welding.

Not exactly like, you know, stacking dimes. But...

-That looks great. Yeah. Sure. -Should I do it here, too?

It was one of my favorite days in the shop. Like...

which is what I loved doing.

So, like, my fondest memories are from that build.

So I can't help but choose that one. [chuckles]

Whoops, Big Red again.

Oh, my God. What?

[Bisi] So, this is a smoke leak tester.

[Tory] We covered so many different builds

and we used a lot of different equipment during that.

Do you guys have a favorite tool or piece of technology

that we used during the season?

Oh. If Bisi doesn't say the chainsaw...

The look on your face when you were using that chainsaw for the first time,

just seems like you're just really becoming one with the wood.

[Bisi] Believe it or not,

-it is injector tester and cleaning device or tool. - [Faye] Oh.

That thing was absolutely perfect.

It had clean tubes for me to view the atomization of fluid

coming out each injector,

and be able to compare one injector to the other.

And that tool was very important to me 'cause I wanted to use it

to find the best injector combination

for the hotrod hybrid.

So, I have three injectors here, factory,

a cost-effective aftermarket and a premium aftermarket.

That was something that I find so much joy in operating every time.

I'm gonna place this injector in the machine

and see what the factory atomization looks like.

So, we can see the spray pattern there has a decent atomization.

But you can see the pentil gives a V-shape.

So, that's okay.

When you connect everything and put it together,

you can see a very nice spray pattern

and see if you have an injector that can help you...

This flows the same as this.

But it's more expensive.

So let's see if the expense is worth it.

[beeps, machine starts]

[Bisi] Oh. Look at that.

It has a slight 'V' to it, which means the spray pattern is very nice,

very concise.

...or hurt you.

This is a common L-style injector.

It's a favorite of many enthusiasts because it's very cost-effective.

Wanna see how this one looks.

[beeps, machine whirrs]

[laughing] Oh, my God. Look at that.

That looks like a water hose. This is...

[chuckling] This may flow a lot to support our needs for the turbo system,

but I'm not liking how this looks in terms of spray pattern.

It was just a machine that was full of wonderment.

-And I-- -Did you just say "full of wonderment"?

-Yep, full of wonderment. Absolutely. -[Tory laughing]

I mean, you can see, you can hear,

you have the clicking going on, you can see the tube,

you can see the fluid flow,

you can measure how much fluid is coming out each injector,

you can balance them.

You can back purge it.

-I mean, it-it... -Full of wonderment!

It had so much going on it's perfect.

[Faye] What about you, Tory?

I think probably my favorite tool

was the giant concrete vibrating rod.

[all laughing]

[Tory] Basically, you shoved it into the concrete.

and it just caused all the air bubbles to come out.

What a tool. Like, that's all it's for?

Getting concrete to compact.

There we go.

This is a hard one 'cause we use so many rad tools on set, but...

I've gotta go with the acetylene torch.

And here, and here's the reason why.

As you remember, in the first episode, Poor Man's Turbo,

I was daintily, carefully removing the fenders

and removing the door, you know, with hand tools by hand.

And then, you came in...

-Oh, my God. -...with the forklift!

And with the torch!

-What the... -[Bisi] That is a fire!

[Faye] And we're just like, destroying everything.

[screams]

I was just like, "Wow." Like, "This is not something that I'm used to."

And by the end, I had come around to the acetylene torch.

Oh, that is [bleep] sweet.

[Faye] And Rose was teaching me some techniques.

Torch Doctor Extreme.

[Faye] By the end, I really felt like

I was learning to appreciate it.

So, that's why I chose it for my favorite tool.

-[Bisi laughing manically] -[Faye laughing]

[Tory] Ooh, yeah. Ooh, yeah.

All right, which one of the myths was your favorite?

[Faye] I would have to say the UFO myth.

[Tory] Close encounters is a classic.

[Faye] I actually don't believe in aliens at all.

[Tory] I mean, what could've caused the gauges to react that way?

[Bisi] Some kind of electric, magnetic force?

Be gentle. This is our baby.

[Faye] I have a personal investment in that myth.

[Tory exclaims] Oh.

-Go ahead. -[Tory and Bisi scream]

-Wow, nice job. -[Faye] Oh, my God...

Bisi, what was your favorite myth?

-Well, you may think this is shocking. -Oh.

-But it was actually the Casino myth. -Oh!

Oh!

As chemical engineer,

it was really interesting to see how

mitigation can occur with certain materials.

[Tory] Let's see if this works.

Fingers crossed.

[Bisi] And what kind of materials...

Fire in the hole!

...could absorb the energy created.

[Faye] Three, two, one, go!

-[Bisi screaming] Oh! -[Tory laughing]

-[Bisi] Huh. -[Tory] Look at that.

[Bisi] It looks like they all worked well.

[Tory and Faye laughing excitedly]

[Faye] Oh god, he's heavy!

So awkward.

-Who needs hair? What color? Easy. -I got this one.

Tory, where did you find that weird wig?

[all laughing]

[Tory] Oh, you look great.

[all laughing]

-You guys ready? -Do I look ready?

-[Tony] You need to change your profile picture. -[Bisi laughs]

[Tory] In three...

For me, it was surreal...

...two...

...to feel that shockwave.

...one!

-[loud explosion] -[all exclaiming] Oh!

[Bisi] You feel it. You feel it in your chest, you can feel it, that boom.

-You feeling the ground... -[Faye] It was just...

[stutters] It was a cool day.

-That was beautiful. All right. -That was amazing.

-[Faye] Oh, my God! -[Bisi] Oh, my goodness.

Just watching the pure joy that I brought you guys was...

it made me happy.

But I would say, my favorite myth of all of them was...

and it was not the more pleasant one,

it was, "Can putting urine in your radiator keep your engine cool?"

Oh. Feel bad already.

[Faye laughing] So gross.

I almost lost my lunch multiple times during that myth.

[Tory] Trust me, it's just as gross for me as it is for you.

Oh, yeah. Okay.

-[Tory] This is so gross. -[Bisi laughs]

[Tory] If you're in an emergency situation,

you can actually cool your engine down. I mean, I love that.

Oh, look at that.

Because you can actually use it in the real world.

-All right. -[Bisi] Engage.

[Tory] We had our Tyvek suits.

But once that engine started heating up.

-[both laugh] -Oh, my God.

[Tory] And the urine steam got into the cap.

It was, you couldn't avoid. It was so disgusting.

[Bisi] And Tory, it was bad enough when we were driving it,

the type of smells that we perceive...

[Tory] This is a good testament to urine.

...imagine what the pit crew team had to do and what they had to endure.

I didn't have to imagine, Bisi. I was there.

[all chuckling]

How's it going, you guys?

[man] Oh, we're about to take a milk bath.

[Tory] I think one thing that the audience doesn't really get to see, is the fact that

in between the tests,

we had to flush the engine, replace the radiator.

-Oh? Oh... -[man] Oh.

[Tory] That is rancid.

I could not imagine us being able to pull this off without the team that we had.

[Rose] We just wanna take a minute to thank our sponsor, urine.

Uh, car's running real good. Smells funny.

But, you know, it's been a great day at the track.

We had the most incredibly skilled, diverse build team.

Each one of these people brought so much of their own energy, enthusiasm,

talent, skillset.

We wouldn't have been able to get done what we needed to get done without them.

[Faye] So, so true. I loved working side-by-side with Rose.

We're gonna split this thing, these need to go more inboard,

-while this heads outboard. -Yeah.

She was a great teacher

and her knowledge of metal sciences and metallurgy.

At the end of, even just one of those builds with her,

I felt like I actually could do that stuff on my own.

[Bisi] I agree with you, Faye.

And the fact that we worked together intimately on the Poor Man's Turbo

was absolutely a joy.

-That's great. That's awesome. -Oh, my god.

And she brought a lot of skills to the van shop.

That looks-- Oh, my God, that is cool!

[Tory] Like, that's ridiculous.

I mean, we couldn't have done it without her.

This gives it strength so that it's dent resistant.

So it has dimensional stability.

So it gives it a little bit more structure?

-Yeah. -Good.

And speaking of skillsets though, just absolutely amazing, Davis.

-Oh, my gosh. -Oh, my God.

[Bisi] I have a good knowledge of things that are electronic in nature.

This gentlemen just takes that and pushes it to the limits.

Well, we've got a working servo mechanism

I think we're ready to blow up the sky.

-[Tory laughing] -[Bisi screaming] Oh!

-[Tory and Faye laughing] -Oh, my goodness!

Dave has really stepped up to the challenge

when we had to do Big Red's trailer sway.

This accelerator is very touchy.

And he took over the remote controls.

-I think you should drive. -I just promoted Davis.

The pressure has been ramped up about tenfold.

[Tory] 40 miles an hour.

Obviously, building this was one thing, but driving it in the moment,

is a whole another story.

[Faye] It's going! It's going!

-[Bisi] And guys, Dave Cannon. -Yes.

[laughing] Oh, ho, ho!

He is literally the epitome of jack of all trades.

It's the Dave of all trades.

[Faye] He tap dances, he paints,

he operates heavy equipment.

Like Peter Pan!

[Faye] He welds, he works with wood.

I mean, what does he not do?

And we can't forget Mario.

He was another hotrod builder

who helped us with the hotrod hybrid and the chop.

I mean, it was just the perfect combination of people

to get this show done.

And I just wanna thank you guys.

-[Faye] Yeah. -I'm really glad we got a chance to catch up.

And it gives us an opportunity to thank our fans.

And we wanna hear your myths, too.

[Tory] All right. Real quick, before we end this,

a myth that we didn't get to test but you would love to test.

[Bisi] On the whole EV spectrum, which I love so much...

Ooh, I definitely feel the torque.

Yeah, it's nice, isn't it?

...I know about this myth where there's this vehicle in a quarry

that could get filled up with quarry rock,

come down the hill,

use regen to charge up

and then, with that charge, go back up and get more rocks.

-[Tory] I love that. -And never has to get charged.

-You'll love this, Tory. -I love this idea.

[Bisi] Never has to ever go to a charging station.

Can that happen?

That's a great one, Bisi. What about you, Faye?

[Faye] I would love to do underwater EV, larger scale.

I wanna crash in the back of a Pinto and see if it explodes.

Like I heard about when I was a kid growing up.

-Oh. -I love that one.

Oh, that, that could be fun.

Ha, ha!

Yeah, with more explosions.

-Yes, I do. -Tory just wants to blow up all our stuff up.

-[Bisi] Oh! -[Faye exclaims]

Uh, can we take a pee break?

-Speaking of cooling radiator. -[laughs]