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00:00 This time on Roadkill, Subaru was foolhardy enough to challenge us, their legacy, against
00:07 our garbage.
00:08 It doesn't even have a turbo!
00:14 This time on Roadkill, we go legit, because Subaru of America watched an episode of ours
00:34 and said, "You know what?
00:35 We can beat these guys in any of their pieces of junk."
00:38 And so Subaru has set up three distinct competitions for us, and they're going to let us pick whatever
00:43 car we want to go head-to-head with them.
00:54 Our first challenge brought us to Bakersfield, California at the fairgrounds, and this was
00:58 the first time we had ever seen the Subaru Legacy.
01:01 We expected Subaru to bring out a WRX, but nope.
01:05 This is the base model.
01:07 They were like, "You guys suck so bad, we're not even going to bring out the big guns?"
01:10 Right.
01:11 Dude, it's an automatic.
01:12 Wow, this is weird.
01:14 It's a boxer motor, you know?
01:16 It's a posed four-cylinder.
01:17 That looks like that's going to make smoothies for me.
01:19 This one's a four-banger, but the key is it's got that symmetrical all-wheel drive, and
01:23 they are convinced that they can smoke us in the dirt.
01:26 I think that's what they're counting on to beat us, because it ain't the 175 horsepower.
01:31 This feels like day one of high school auto shop.
01:33 I don't even know what I'm looking at there.
01:35 It's got paddle shifters, cameras in the front and the back, and electric parking brakes,
01:40 all stuff I don't quite understand.
01:44 Ooh, sunroof.
01:47 Sunroof.
01:49 Ah.
01:50 The first thing that we're going to do is just get some kind of a feel for the Legacy,
01:55 because we've never driven it before, and we don't know exactly what's going to happen
01:58 in the dirt.
01:59 It starts to push.
02:01 Oh, you go way wide.
02:05 We might win this.
02:10 Is a big wide turn in speed faster than carrying very little speed in and out of a donut?
02:16 Who knows?
02:21 What's your take right now?
02:22 I think this makes wide turns and whoops our asses, which is why I'm hoping you did
02:26 a bunch of cool stuff to this when it's gone.
02:29 We selected the Ranchero as our ringer for the first race.
02:32 We bought the Ranchero three years ago for cheap, because we wanted to drive to Alaska
02:37 for an ice race.
02:38 We failed to get there the first time, but in 2013, we made it all the way from Los Angeles
02:43 to Big Lake, Alaska, and indeed slid sideways around a frozen racetrack.
02:48 We brought in some help with some other guys from the shop, and the first thing we had
02:51 to do was change the engine.
02:53 We had overheated the old one so many times, it was just junk.
02:56 We drove this thing to Alaska, and I don't know at what point it got dropped to the bottom
02:59 of the ocean.
03:00 Oh my God, there's stuff growing on it.
03:03 Oh, I know.
03:04 It's literally got mold on it.
03:06 Dude, it's like the SS Minnow under here.
03:08 Oh, it's bad.
03:09 We ended up having to put in this really weak little 302, just because it was the engine
03:14 that we could get our hands on most quickly.
03:16 It's 10 to 1 compression, it's got Edelbrock EZ Street heads on it, it's a regular carbureted
03:20 deal.
03:21 It's actually a pretty decent motor, it makes something like 330 or 350 horsepower, we're
03:25 not sure.
03:29 It's backed up by a Gearstar C4 and an 8 inch rear end that has two 78 to 1 gears, but the
03:34 huge problem with the Ranchero is that the suspension was junk.
03:39 She's actually been lowered, just the front.
03:41 The back is still jacked up.
03:44 It's got coilovers on the front now.
03:46 Alston Chassisworks, brand new set of coilovers with maybe the right spring rate, maybe not.
03:51 And zero adjustment, we just put them in the car and left.
03:54 And that's it?
03:55 Yeah, roadkill.
03:56 It'll work.
03:59 I wonder if they realize that they paid for hop-ups on a bunch of clapped out old American
04:04 junk.
04:05 Well, I mean, think about it, this car was never going to get used again.
04:08 It was just going to sit.
04:09 Now it's got a new engine.
04:10 Thank you, Subaru.
04:11 I wonder if Subaru has ever bought a small block Ford before.
04:16 Probably not.
04:17 I'm guessing not.
04:18 Probably not.
04:19 We'd been thinking about this whole thing as Subaru versus roadkill until we realized,
04:21 you know what?
04:22 There needed to be higher stakes.
04:24 This can also be Freiburger versus Finnegan.
04:26 What are the stakes?
04:28 What happens if we fail?
04:31 Subaru wins?
04:32 I don't know.
04:34 That's a good point.
04:35 They challenged us, but where's our incentive, really?
04:38 I got it.
04:39 What?
04:40 I got it, I got it, I got it.
04:41 Okay.
04:42 Let's have another competition, you and me.
04:45 So we decided to have a little manscaping competition.
04:49 Whoever won the most races would get to remove some body hair from the other guy.
04:53 Freiburger would lose what's left of his dome fuzz, and I would actually lose my beard.
04:57 Wait, what's the deal then?
04:59 So we each race both cars and we time it, and whoever's fastest gets to pick the other
05:05 guy going full Brazilian or what?
05:07 Our manlyhood was on the line.
05:09 Our hair was on the line.
05:10 My wife hadn't seen my chin in over a decade, so pretty much my marriage was on the line
05:15 if I lost.
05:16 Wow.
05:17 That's going to be really bad.
05:20 No good can come from this.
05:21 Great.
05:22 I guess I need to go practice some barrel racing.
05:25 What do you want to go in first?
05:27 It doesn't matter, either way you're losing half the hair on your head.
05:32 Turn on the fan.
05:33 Still have to start it from the outside of the car.
05:36 It's been two years.
05:38 Roadkill.
05:39 After a few practice laps in both cars.
05:41 This should be violent.
05:42 I was feeling pretty good about this.
05:43 I predict in a few moments you won't even see the Ranchero because of all the dirt in
05:47 the air.
05:48 It's very crunchy.
06:13 This is ugly.
06:28 We should just shave his head right now.
06:31 He's not winning.
06:33 This isn't really practicing.
06:35 This is just filling the car up with dirt for the next time I have to be inside of it.
06:48 Wow am I losing this one.
06:50 Oh that was perfect.
06:51 I cannot deal with the steering.
06:53 Don't change a thing.
06:54 You're doing amazing.
06:55 We can throw the Ranchero around the barrels, which seems like the quick way to get around
06:59 them.
07:00 The Legacy, it made big wide sweeping turns.
07:03 It really didn't seem like that thing was going to be fast.
07:08 So we've got to figure out what is the fastest way to get this done.
07:11 And he's going to have his technique and I'm going to have mine.
07:15 Traction.
07:16 Stability.
07:18 Off.
07:21 What he's done is he's figured out how to turn off all the computer interference in
07:25 the Subaru.
07:26 Let's see if it works.
07:31 No.
07:32 It won't slide.
07:33 It will not slide.
07:35 Even Google couldn't help us defeat the electronic wizardry in the Legacy.
07:39 We couldn't slide the car around the barrels.
07:44 Confidence was high.
07:45 Alright practice is over.
07:47 Didn't do us much good.
07:48 Now we go to the big time.
07:49 We were in a bigger rodeo arena and this thing was going to be a barrel race.
08:09 Basically two big figure eights in the dirt without hitting anything.
08:13 With some nutty obstacles thrown in around the perimeter to make it interesting.
08:16 And it's going to be a straight up timed competition between the Subaru and the Ranchero and between
08:21 Freiburger and Finnegan.
08:27 Oh, hot.
08:36 How's that air conditioning treating you?
08:38 That doesn't suck.
08:39 That's for sure.
08:40 Is that Pam and Tommy Lee?
08:43 It's pretty disturbing.
08:46 Hot dogs.
08:47 What is that?
08:48 We had all these obstacles set up and the goal was not to hit them while we were racing.
08:51 But I think you know as well as I, these things are not going to survive the day.
08:55 We didn't want to trash the course right away.
08:57 We decided the Legacy was probably the safest car to go racing in.
09:01 So it was up first.
09:02 Alright.
09:03 Don't embarrass yourself.
09:04 Three, two, one.
09:05 Go, go, go.
09:06 As soon as I tried to transfer weight from the rear of the car to the front tires to
09:20 rotate it around the corner, the fun police kicked in and stopped me.
09:24 The downside is that the car wouldn't slide.
09:26 The upside is that it was impossible to crash this thing into the obstacles.
09:30 And was probably the best way to navigate the course.
09:37 Come on, come on, come on, come on.
09:46 Go, go, go, go, go.
09:49 56, 57.
09:50 You didn't hit anything.
09:51 We might have to solve that here pretty quickly.
09:54 Alright.
09:55 Three, two, one.
09:58 Go.
09:59 It's not an aggressive takeoff.
10:03 We ended up turning off the traction control, trying to pitch the car sideways a little
10:07 bit.
10:08 But the stability control doesn't turn off.
10:10 And it was just going to dig in and take us around those barrels.
10:12 Oh, going way wide.
10:13 Oh, does that count?
10:16 He brushed the pool.
10:17 Really, the only complaint is that if you put in too much steering angle, the thing
10:21 would understeer.
10:22 But aside from that, it was just grip and go.
10:25 A lot of pushing.
10:28 Real aggressive here.
10:30 Going way outside.
10:33 Alright, what was my time?
10:39 I think you should reveal my time first.
10:41 I don't want you to cheat.
10:45 I'm showing yours to camera right now.
10:46 I can't cheat.
10:48 55.50.
10:50 And I still beat you because you ran 56.57.
10:53 Alright, let's get the ranchero.
10:58 Good call.
11:02 Finnegan, I will say the driving gloves are a stylish touch.
11:12 Looking for any advantage I can get.
11:15 Three, two, one.
11:19 Oh, this could be good.
11:23 Stop, stop, stop.
11:24 Watch out.
11:25 Go, go, go, go.
11:26 Oh, you're hitting stuff.
11:27 Go, go.
11:28 You were yelling at me so I stopped.
11:29 What are you doing?
11:34 Making sure your time's really slow.
11:36 Yeah, I think we're starting over.
11:40 He's irritable.
11:41 Three, two, one.
11:42 Oh, it's slippery.
11:43 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:44 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:45 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:46 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:47 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:48 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:49 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:50 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:51 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:52 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:53 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:54 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:55 Oh, I'm going to fall.
11:56 Oh, it's slippery out there.
11:57 Oh, this could be good.
11:58 Oh, he's dragging some gator.
11:59 Oh, I'm going to fall.
12:00 Oh, I'm going to fall.
12:01 Oh, I'm going to fall.
12:02 Oh, I'm going to fall.
12:03 Oh, I'm going to fall.
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12:37 Oh, I'm going to fall.
12:38 Oh, I'm going to fall.
12:39 Oh, I'm going to fall.
12:40 Oh, I'm going to fall.
12:42 [LAUGHTER]
12:43 Whoa.
12:44 [LAUGHTER]
12:47 I have no--
12:48 I have no idea how many laps I've even done.
12:51 [LAUGHTER]
12:54 I don't even know how to score that.
12:57 Yeah!
12:58 [LAUGHTER]
13:01 I'll admit that once I lost control and ran over all the beer,
13:04 I just didn't care after that part.
13:07 You got to entertain yourself.
13:08 Now it's my turn.
13:10 Climb on in.
13:11 Have fun.
13:12 This is the best day at a rodeo ever.
13:14 Finnegan had a little bit too much fun on his first run.
13:17 He also got a flat tire.
13:18 Lucky for us, we brought out a set of spares,
13:20 and they were the leftovers from our Alaska trip,
13:23 which means a set of all-terrains that were studded for the snow.
13:27 All of a sudden, we've got a huge advantage.
13:29 The irony of buying ice tires for Alaska and never using them
13:33 and then bolting them onto the Ranchero in Bakersfield to drive on dirt--
13:38 totally not lost on us.
13:41 The Subaru went 55-50 with you behind the wheel around this same course.
13:47 You need to beat that.
13:49 Retain your integrity, your pride, the joie de vivre of this show.
13:55 Joie de vivre?
13:56 [LAUGHTER]
13:59 I make no promises.
14:01 3, 2, 1.
14:03 [ENGINE REVVING]
14:06 I feel good about this.
14:09 Oh.
14:11 Oh, that was close.
14:14 There we go.
14:16 It looks like it hooks pretty good.
14:18 There we go.
14:23 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:24 That looks good.
14:35 I'm going to ignore the tire that just flew out of there.
14:37 That's no real penalty.
14:38 There we go.
14:39 He has figured out the track now and the car.
14:42 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
14:44 Come on, come on.
14:45 Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
14:50 We're winning.
14:52 Wow, that was a lot of tank slappers.
14:54 Are you ready for this?
14:56 55.25 seconds.
14:58 That is 0.25 quicker than you are with ABS, traction control--
15:04 Bluetooth, satellite, everything.
15:07 The key, barefoot.
15:10 I lost to Fryburger in the Legacy,
15:12 spun out the Ranchero, and pretty much the only thing left for me to do
15:16 was vent my frustration at losing by running over everything left in the arena.
15:22 So in the end, Roadkill pulled off a victory.
15:25 If you count iPhone timing in the middle of a rodeo arena,
15:28 having a whole bunch of fun, a victory.
15:30 And you know what?
15:31 We cheated because those studded alterings on the Ranchero really hooked up.
15:36 That thing was fun.
15:38 [music]
15:49 For the next challenge, we headed up to Snoqualmie, Washington,
15:52 to Dirt Fish Rally School.
15:54 Dirt Fish is located on an old warehouse or lumber mill property,
15:58 and they also have a fleet of Subaru WRXs and BRZs.
16:02 On a mixture of asphalt and gravel roads,
16:04 Dirt Fish might as well be Subaru's backyard.
16:07 We're going to learn how to drive Rally,
16:09 and then we're going to do timed shootouts between the Legacy
16:11 and our 440-powered Mopar.
16:14 The general mayhem.
16:16 This is going to be really good.
16:18 [engine revving]
16:21 Oh, this is going to be fun.
16:23 Yep.
16:25 [engine revving]
16:30 I didn't expect the surface to be this, like, gravelly and loose.
16:34 Yeah, we probably have the wrong tires for this deal.
16:39 Yeah, I'd say so.
16:41 It's going to be fun losing, though.
16:43 [laughs]
16:46 Double your pleasure.
16:49 Double your fun.
16:51 Why do we have two now?
16:52 I don't know.
16:53 I guess they figured that when we wrap one around a tree,
16:56 there better be a spare here.
16:58 Oh.
16:59 Huh.
17:00 There's an R, and there's dual exhausts on this.
17:02 Oh, dude.
17:03 V6.
17:04 No, flat six.
17:05 Oh, that's right.
17:06 We're not winning in this.
17:08 Oh, there's no chance.
17:09 I can tell from the entrance road that we're losing this deal,
17:12 so we might as well drive fast while losing.
17:14 Mm-hmm.
17:16 I like blue.
17:17 All of a sudden, there's two Subarus here.
17:19 This one is a 3.6 model.
17:21 It's got 256 horsepower.
17:22 Unlike the other one that we were racing that is 175.
17:25 So we're going to race that car.
17:27 And we were going to be racing it with the General Mayhem Charger.
17:30 General Mayhem is a '68 Dodge Charger that we got as a bare shell.
17:34 And in Episode 23, we put the thing together using some parts out of our old Beater 73 Fury
17:40 and an engine out of this ludicrous Class A motorhome.
17:44 First, we're going to hang out with Nate from the rally school here,
17:47 who's going to show us the track and show us some tips on how to deal with the all-wheel drive.
17:50 Has anybody come seriously out here with a two-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive deal and tried to race?
17:56 Seriously?
17:57 Yeah.
17:58 No.
17:59 So we're really going to look like idiots here.
18:00 Well, you know, something probably 1,000 pounds lighter than that would probably be good.
18:05 Nate here is one of the driving instructors at Dirt Fish,
18:08 and so we were going to hop in with him and learn the course
18:10 and also pick up some tips on how to rally with all-wheel drive.
18:19 This course was epic.
18:21 It had big sweeping turns for drifting,
18:24 a slalom section,
18:27 a water crossing,
18:29 Yeah.
18:31 That was awesome.
18:32 pretty much every great aspect of a Dukes of Hazzard chase scene.
18:36 That's weird. It's letting it rotate a little.
18:38 Yeah, that's what I was noticing.
18:40 It seemed like a natural setting for the all-wheel drive Legacy and rear-wheel drive Charger to race in,
18:45 even if the Charger was at a disadvantage.
18:49 No, we're losing by 10 seconds or more.
18:51 More than that.
18:52 I need to drive it.
18:53 Yeah, totally.
18:55 Well, we took a test lap in the six-cylinder-powered Legacy here,
19:02 which is way more fun than the 4-banger.
19:05 This car, Nate was actually able to get it to rotate around corners for a little bit
19:10 until the computer said, "Hell no,"
19:12 but this thing is fast,
19:14 and it is going to wipe the floor with the Charger.
19:18 This won't even be close.
19:20 You know how if you had boobs, you'd never leave the house?
19:23 If I had this, I'd never leave the property.
19:26 The guys at Dirtfish really wanted to pull the traction control fuse out of the Legacy,
19:30 but we thought, "Now we need to race it as delivered,"
19:33 and that was really a learning curve,
19:35 because we had to figure out how to slide the car as much as we could using the stability control,
19:39 but I thought there was a chance that that was going to slow it down around the track
19:42 and give us the edge.
19:44 That's a forest over there. Don't know if you noticed.
19:47 Oh, this car is so much fun.
19:51 The all-wheel drive was amazing,
19:55 because you could get to the apex of a turn and just stand on it,
19:58 and it would pull you through.
20:00 There are bushes on the outside.
20:02 Just to let you know that.
20:04 But the stability control would only let you slide so much
20:07 before it started taking power out and applying the ABS,
20:10 to straighten the car up.
20:12 Oh, s***! Cameraguy, look out!
20:15 What'd you say?
20:17 Off-gas.
20:18 Oh, yeah. I was totally off.
20:20 I've got it on the wood, and it just doesn't go.
20:24 No matter how hot I entered a corner,
20:26 the car wouldn't respond to throttle input
20:28 until it was squared up and the tires were gripping on the exit.
20:32 Oh, come on! Go, go, go!
20:34 Stay inside on this one. Stay inside.
20:37 God, that's fun!
20:41 That's awesome.
20:47 Oh, that's fun and frustrating at the same time,
20:50 because I can't get my foot off the gas.
20:52 I'm not going to do it.
20:54 I'm going to do it.
20:56 I'm going to do it.
20:58 Oh, that's fun and frustrating at the same time,
21:01 because I can't drive, but I'm having a lot of fun.
21:03 Wow, that's good.
21:05 Basically, you can't really go wrong,
21:08 because the car protects you from everything.
21:10 It's hard to really screw up in this car.
21:13 You seemed like you knew what you were doing.
21:15 That was the car.
21:16 But you stand on it, because the car doesn't accelerate.
21:20 It accelerates at its own rate.
21:22 I've done a lot of blasting around dirt roads before,
21:25 but I've never done rally racing,
21:27 so it's kind of new to me.
21:28 There's a little bit of a different line that you have to take.
21:31 And with the all-wheel drive, wow,
21:33 that's a big change in what you're used to
21:35 from driving an old muscle car around.
21:37 As long as you don't kill us, this is going to be amazing.
21:40 I think it'll be amazing if I do kill us.
21:42 Okay.
21:45 Okay, here we go now.
21:47 All right, I got it.
21:49 Come on.
21:50 Remember, you're going to go left.
21:56 30 seconds in.
21:58 Doesn't mean much, but there you go.
22:00 Looking good.
22:02 Okay, now we get to my favorite part of the course.
22:06 Oh, camera guy, look out.
22:09 Hi.
22:10 Still alive, all right.
22:16 Sweeping right turn.
22:18 Oh, we're done.
22:23 Okay, here we go.
22:24 Don't kill us.
22:25 All right.
22:26 Heading up right, left.
22:28 That was good.
22:31 All right, your favorite right.
22:33 Okay, ready, everybody?
22:39 Now.
22:41 3 minutes, 18 seconds.
22:44 Okay.
22:45 And we did that with the air conditioning on.
22:47 Yes, we did.
22:49 All the body panels are intact.
22:51 That's a problem.
22:52 That means I wasn't trying hard enough.
22:54 I didn't break anything.
22:55 Now, there we go.
22:58 One second ahead of me right now.
23:04 Well, I was definitely faster than you right there.
23:08 I might be a little out of control there.
23:23 Oh, fail.
23:25 This is fun.
23:32 Come on, shift, shift.
23:41 Okay, 3.06, 3.08.
23:46 You're going to win.
23:47 3.10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
23:53 16.
23:54 Oh.
23:55 3.16, 89.
23:56 Not getting shaved.
23:58 Not getting shaved.
24:00 Yeah, 3.10, I'm like, I got this.
24:04 I know.
24:05 And then you're just, go, go, go.
24:07 After our first two runs in the Subaru, Finnegan tied up the overall challenge for the shaved head.
24:12 Yep, he ran 3 minutes, 16.89 seconds, and I ran 3 minutes, 18.61 seconds.
24:19 Next up, the General Mayhem.
24:22 The Charger received some pretty significant upgrades for Dirt Fish.
24:25 We got rid of some of the used motorhome parts we originally built the car with, and hopped it up with some fresh hardware.
24:32 In the makeover, I decided to give it a little more power with an Edelbrock Performer RPM intake and a Holley carb,
24:38 but the big problem was that the suspension on this car was a disaster.
24:42 This is about the worst handling car of all time.
24:47 [tires screeching]
24:49 Standles really badly.
24:54 And I got to fix that here by completely overhauling the suspension.
24:58 I put Hotchkiss control arms in the front, Hotchkiss shocks, it's got bigger torsion bars on it, and ADCO sway bars at both ends.
25:05 Not only did the Charger corner, but now we had power steering attached to the bus driver's steering wheel.
25:11 But this is road kill, so we had a problem.
25:14 Melted the trans-shift cable.
25:17 Haven't even started racing yet.
25:21 We've got a broken shifter cable, gas tank leaking, haven't even raced yet, car's already bust.
25:27 And we think now that it's cooled off enough, we can actually move the shifter enough to get it into A gear,
25:32 and we'll just leave it in A gear and race the track.
25:35 We're going with second gear, you know, so roll the dice for second, third.
25:39 We're doing second.
25:41 We've already raced the Subaru, and now we're going to hop in, and Finnegan's going first in the Charger.
25:46 Still rolling. Still getting in. Still getting in. Like it.
25:50 I like your confidence.
25:52 Alright, we've got one gear, an engine that came out of a motorhome.
26:02 No shame.
26:04 Okay.
26:07 I'll try not to kill us.
26:09 [Music]
26:16 Whoa!
26:17 [Laughter]
26:18 Oh, yeah!
26:22 Yeah!
26:23 Dude, this is good!
26:35 [Music]
26:43 Oh!
26:44 [Laughter]
26:46 Oh!
26:57 [Music]
27:11 Oh, bummer!
27:13 Bummer!
27:17 Okay, left.
27:25 Left!
27:26 Oh!
27:28 3.37!
27:38 Oh, my God.
27:40 Even if you hadn't of looped it, I don't think we would have beat the Subaru, but that was epic!
27:45 That car's great!
27:46 Full-on epic!
27:47 Oh, this car is great!
27:49 I don't think I could beat that. That's just way too good.
27:52 That was so much fun.
27:54 I think I hit the brake pedal twice.
27:57 Okay, here's the key.
27:59 Rally School '68 Chargers.
28:01 I'm telling you, sell out every day.
28:03 There's just no way that can be topped.
28:05 That was so all hanging out, it's redonk.
28:08 Man, that was fun!
28:10 [Laughter]
28:12 And look at it.
28:14 Wow!
28:16 That is proper.
28:18 That's the most fun I've ever had on Roadkill.
28:22 I'll shave my head, I don't care.
28:23 I lived out every Dukes of Hazzard fantasy I ever had as a child at Dirt Fish.
28:29 We've had a lot of fun making Roadkill, but I gotta tell you,
28:32 the lap with Finnegan driving, going around the course of the Charger, was the best moment ever.
28:38 No BS. I drove as if Roscoe P. Coltrane was behind me.
28:42 That was the best passenger-ing at work ever.
28:46 When we crossed the finish line, Finnegan had timed out at 3 minutes, 37.05 seconds.
28:52 And man, it felt fast.
28:54 I thought I could probably beat that by being just a little bit more cautious.
28:58 [Music]
29:19 Whoa!
29:20 Oh boy!
29:23 [Laughter]
29:24 Oh god, I'm wet.
29:25 Yeah!
29:30 Woohoo!
29:39 There goes the hat!
29:41 Oh, we're going fast now.
29:43 Whoa!
29:44 [Music]
29:47 [Laughter]
29:52 Good save.
30:01 Go straight.
30:05 Go left.
30:06 Go straight.
30:11 Left-hander.
30:14 3.25!
30:15 Stop!
30:20 3.30.56.
30:22 Oh, I win!
30:24 Oh man.
30:25 Damn!
30:28 If I hadn't spun the thing out...
30:30 The hat flew off!
30:32 It's because you were going really fast.
30:34 Finnegan won in the Subaru, and he also won for style points in the Charger, but I won on time.
30:39 But that's all that matters, because overall, it's now Freiburger 2, Finnegan 1.
30:44 I might be keeping my hair. What's left of it.
30:46 In the end, we found out that there is a reason why Subaru dominates in rally,
30:52 and why they even use them at the school here at Dirt Fish.
30:55 Because that all-wheel drive is virtually impossible to beat.
30:58 And with the traction control and everything,
31:00 essentially anybody could hop in the Subaru and run just as quick as we did.
31:05 But, for fun and style, the Charger dominated.
31:09 I'm going out in the woods in this thing again as soon as I possibly can.
31:13 Man, that was fun. I still can't get over it.
31:16 Challenge number three was like game seven of the World Series.
31:30 This is it. We've got to beat Subaru at its own game.
31:35 [MUSIC]
31:39 For the next challenge, it is the Urban Apocalypse Road Race.
31:43 We found this crazy neighborhood at what used to be Georgia Air Force Base.
31:48 And it is like two square miles of absolute just bleak, abandoned ghost town.
31:54 Creepy.
31:56 And we're going to road race it.
31:58 That's right. This challenge is wheel-to-wheel with the Subaru against the Ratsan.
32:03 [MUSIC]
32:09 Wow. It looks like there was a nuclear war here.
32:12 [MUSIC]
32:18 This place is crazy.
32:21 I need your help getting out of the car. Thanks, Jared.
32:25 Oh, that's right.
32:26 Thank you.
32:28 All right. V6 versus flat six. And Subaru didn't bring their turbo.
32:33 But we did.
32:34 The Ratsan is our 1971 Datsun 240Z that is stuffed with a Chevy 4.3 liter V6.
32:41 And what's funny about it is that we turbocharged it using a Ford Power Stroke diesel turbo.
32:46 The first thing we had to fix was the broken turbo.
32:49 So we went straight to the man, Gale Banks of Gale Banks Engineering.
32:53 It looks like you've cornered the market on rust here.
32:55 Yes.
32:56 The fact that you're making a diesel turbo work on this V6 is pretty cool.
33:01 He showed up with a brand new exhaust housing.
33:03 Something a little tighter to get this diesel turbo spun up quicker.
33:08 And had that thing running like a champ.
33:10 We had blown the engine up the last time you saw this thing on Roadkill.
33:14 And so we had to completely rebuild it, stuff it back in the car, remount the turbo so that the oil would drain out of it well.
33:21 And then we took it to the dyno where it made 320 horsepower and 400 pound feet at the tires.
33:27 We were ready for the Subaru challenge.
33:29 Yeah, $500 car.
33:31 Right.
33:32 What have I got to lose?
33:33 I love it.
33:34 Absolutely love it.
33:35 And if all else fails, we'll just cheat and drive off road because who cares?
33:40 That's what we do.
33:41 Who cares?
33:42 We don't care.
33:43 Perfect.
33:46 We're going to race these two cars side by side through a bunch of backyards and crazy neighborhoods.
33:51 And we figured that the one car we had that might give the Subaru a run for its money is the Datsun.
33:55 It does not handle good.
33:57 The fuel line is held up with electrical tape.
33:59 The alignment is jacked.
34:00 Might not even finish the race.
34:02 I don't care.
34:03 I'm going to have fun.
34:04 Not your Datsun.
34:08 My Datsun.
34:09 Okay, test run?
34:11 Yeah.
34:13 The first thing we did at the bombed out neighborhood is just hopped in the cars and made sure that we knew the course.
34:18 The big deal this time is that it is not a time trial.
34:22 We're going to go wheel to wheel.
34:24 Let's see.
34:25 Where can I cheat?
34:26 Here looks good.
34:28 This place is empty.
34:33 It looks like the people were just swept away.
34:36 It's the perfect place for Roadkill, the perfect place for this race,
34:40 and the perfect place for the Ratsun to show what it can do.
34:43 I hope I don't end up in the Ratsun because I have air conditioning
34:51 and really comfortable suspension right now.
34:55 Oh, and my door is flying open and he went the wrong way.
35:00 There's all kinds of shortcuts we could be taking through here.
35:04 And I know he's thought of them already because he's Slim Shady.
35:09 I'm practicing my shortcuts now that he can't see me.
35:12 Oh, wow. You know what? The Ratsun may be in trouble.
35:17 This is actually pretty fast.
35:19 Oh, the Datsun is way faster.
35:22 But highly more likely to fall apart.
35:28 Oh!
35:29 That's bad.
35:38 This thing might not make it.
35:43 It ain't winning.
35:44 It's real bad.
35:45 So we both want the Subaru, right?
35:48 I don't want it, but it's going to win.
35:51 The Datsun is kind of your pet.
35:53 I really love the Datsun, but I don't like losing.
35:56 On the pavement, this is a rocket.
35:58 So Rochambeau?
36:00 You cheated this, though.
36:01 All right, I'll turn around again.
36:02 Shady, shitey old man.
36:04 Don't care.
36:05 Losing your hair.
36:06 Ready? Best two out of three?
36:08 Are you scared you can't win once?
36:10 Yeah.
36:11 Ready? Two out of three?
36:13 Yeah.
36:14 You lose.
36:17 Smashed.
36:20 Smashed.
36:21 You lose.
36:24 What was this?
36:25 Paper.
36:26 That looked like you were going to go scissors, but then you saw my rock.
36:29 What's this?
36:30 Smash!
36:32 Subaru!
36:34 I'll beat you anyway.
36:36 How's that beard feeling?
36:38 Don't get used to it.
36:39 You're so old!
36:42 You have the big advantage being on the inside.
36:47 The only advantage I have is my willingness to force you off the road.
36:51 So, you ready to do this?
36:53 Let's go.
36:54 And in three, two, one.
36:58 [Engine revving]
37:26 Oh, he passes me!
37:28 Oh, whoa, coming in hot.
37:56 [Engine revving]
38:07 A lot of drifting.
38:08 A lot of drifting.
38:10 Oh, no!
38:13 Oh, s***.
38:20 [Engine revving]
38:28 Oh, water on the ground.
38:30 Let me just go ahead and put my wipers on.
38:33 Oh, jump!
38:39 [Laughing]
38:47 In the end, I blasted through our fence first in the Subaru.
38:50 So, Subaru wins, and more importantly, Freiburger wins.
38:54 So, what happened?
39:00 I believe smart people would say I lost.
39:03 I thought this thing was slow because it kept on doing the traction control thing.
39:08 It hauls on pavement.
39:09 Oh, yeah.
39:10 It's amazing.
39:11 This is a fast car.
39:12 You've scuffed it a little.
39:13 I might have scuffed it on the fence.
39:14 Hmm.
39:16 So, here's the thing.
39:17 Clear and epic victory on the part of the Subaru,
39:20 but I think really it's a fail on the Datsun's part more than anything.
39:24 The most impressive part about the Ratsit is that it's still in one piece.
39:28 I didn't expect it to win, but I also didn't expect it to get this far either, so not bad.
39:36 After the official competition, I really wanted Finnegan to check out what the Subaru was like,
39:40 and I wanted to haul in the Datsun, so we did just another fun run,
39:44 and we agreed this one wasn't really going to count.
39:46 I'd already won.
39:48 Me in the Datsun, him in the Subaru, and I have a feeling we're going to see same results.
39:51 Subaru way out front.
39:53 Three, two, one.
39:56 Go, car, go.
39:58 Wow, this thing's fast.
40:04 Uh-oh, I might have blown a tire.
40:12 [engine revving]
40:14 Wow, this thing is fast.
40:27 I cannot see at all.
40:32 Oh.
40:33 [cheering]
40:40 Yeah!
40:41 Oh, that thing is fun.
40:46 [laughing]
40:48 Wow.
40:51 What happened to him?
40:54 No Subaru.
40:57 Is he okay?
41:00 [music]
41:02 [laughing]
41:04 They see me rolling, they hating.
41:15 Looking good.
41:18 I'll lean my seat back further.
41:21 Here we go.
41:24 Here he comes.
41:25 Get it.
41:29 Yeah!
41:31 [laughing]
41:32 I blew a tire in the first turn and ended up limping the Legacy all the way back to the finish line.
41:39 Never give up.
41:40 Never.
41:42 Looks like I'm going to be losing most of the hair on my face and some of my dignity.
41:47 At this point, it's true.
41:49 Subaru has won the Subaru Roadkill Challenge.
41:52 We've run the three events that they asked us to do, and Subaru dominated at two of them
41:57 and probably should have beat us at the rodeo as well.
42:00 But we just couldn't have that, and so we're going to throw in one more challenge,
42:05 the Down and Dirty Drag Race.
42:07 As a bonus challenge, we decided to have a competition we're a little more familiar with,
42:19 a drag race.
42:21 So, we took what was left of Subaru's money and rented out a 15,000-foot airstrip
42:27 that would have been the perfect place to find out just how fast the Ratsan really is.
42:33 Now, you're probably asking yourself, "Where's the Datsun?"
42:36 And I'm ashamed to admit this, but we blew it up again.
42:40 This is an exciting time here at Roadkill because this is the last day of our competition versus Subaru.
42:46 And I'd be even more excited if it weren't for the fact that this engine just expired
42:52 between the parking lot of the airport and the runway.
42:56 Yeah, this car, cursed.
43:00 It was brutal yesterday, but that was its peak.
43:03 Cursed.
43:04 We suck at this.
43:05 We kind of knew we were going to lose some stuff, and so we planned this in order to have a victory.
43:12 And we thought the Datsun was going to win because it has a lot of power,
43:15 but then we blew up the engine this morning when the fan belt blew off and nobody knew it.
43:18 And so now it's down to the Charger and the Ranchero defending our honor.
43:22 I'm going to go work on a car that might actually run.
43:25 We also had some wrenching to do on the Charger because we hadn't replaced the shift cable
43:29 since it came back from Washington, and so we were going to do that right here, right now, and then go dominate.
43:34 It's only 90 in the desert today, which is refreshing.
43:38 And if nothing else, I can look forward to having my face awkwardly shaved by an old man.
43:46 So that'll be fun.
43:48 Finally, it was time to drag race.
43:50 And this is no quarter mile. We're going 2,000 feet.
43:53 So here's what we've got.
43:55 The General Mayhem with a worn out old motorhome 440.
43:59 The brand new Subaru 3.6 R with its 256 horsepower.
44:04 And the Ranchero with a fresh 302, and we really don't know what kind of power it's making,
44:09 but we're guessing it beats the Subaru anyway.
44:11 We got two V8s against one flat six.
44:15 This is going our way.
44:17 I'll admit I have not researched the car one bit.
44:20 So I don't even know where the speed limiter is on this, but we're going to find it.
44:23 We've got Sean, who's our social media guy from work, driving the Ranchero, and we're going to go heads up.
44:28 What are we betting now?
44:29 What?
44:30 Now what are we betting?
44:31 Oh, I see where you're going.
44:33 You're not going by me.
44:34 You're trying to keep facial hair right now.
44:36 Whatever. Let's race.
44:38 Let's just race.
44:40 Three, two, one.
44:43 This is for sure an unconventional episode of Roadkill, but I got to admit, it's pretty cool that Subaru are fans of this show.
44:54 Obviously, we got big bucks to do some crazy stuff that we've never done before.
44:59 We're going to go head to head with the Ranchero.
45:01 We're going to go head to head with the Ranchero.
45:03 We're going to go head to head with the Ranchero.
45:09 We fixed up a bunch of our cars on Subaru's dime, which was awesome.
45:13 And I'd be totally down if they want to rematch, you know, with a WRX, you know, maybe an STI.
45:19 But at the end of the day, we are still Roadkill.
45:26 We'll be heading back to the junkyard, back to the road trips, and back to the burnouts.
45:30 I feel that was a highly scientific comparison of apples, oranges, and total pieces of junk.
45:36 Those are some good drugs you're on right there.
45:38 Everyone watching?
45:57 You're rolling, right?
45:58 We're only doing this once. Go ahead.
46:00 We're going straight for the Finnegan.
46:02 Right there.
46:04 Yeah.
46:06 Is there another chin?
46:08 No, you've lost a lot of weight. Looking good.
46:10 I have not seen my chin in 15 years.
46:13 Give it to the bald guy.
46:15 He's bald and creative. Go ahead.
46:17 [Music]
46:19 [Music]
46:22 [Music]
46:25 [Music]
46:27 [Music]
46:33 [Music]
46:39 [Music]
46:45 [Music]
46:51 (upbeat music)
46:54 (upbeat music)