Freiburger vs. Finnegan $1,500-Car Shootout!
Roadkill fans always ask to see a competition with hosts David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan going against each other
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00:00 (car engine revving)
00:01 This time on Roadkill, it's the Freiburger versus Finnegan,
00:04 $1,500 Japanese car shootout.
00:07 Ready?
00:08 (upbeat music)
00:09 Cheater!
00:10 (upbeat music)
00:13 (car engine revving)
00:22 (car crashing)
00:24 (upbeat music)
00:28 (car engine revving)
00:31 I'm stoked on this one.
00:40 - Yeah, this is-- - This is a good idea.
00:41 - This is fantastic, out of our comfort zone here.
00:44 - What we planned on doing here
00:46 was attending the Optimum Ultimate Street Car Challenge.
00:48 So finally, you're getting a Freiburger versus Finnegan,
00:51 Finnegan versus Freiburger episode,
00:53 but we put rules on it.
00:54 - Yes.
00:55 - We said we had to buy and build cars
00:56 for less than 3,000 bucks, and mine's way below that.
00:59 - Mine too.
01:00 - And we could not pick an American car.
01:03 - No big three or affiliates,
01:04 no Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth.
01:07 - So we went and secretly bought cars.
01:09 He got one, I got one, I don't know which one is mine.
01:12 - That right there. - That one?
01:13 And you know what it is?
01:14 - Yeah. - What is it?
01:15 - Sadly, they didn't disguise the roofline,
01:17 so it's a Mazda RX-7.
01:18 - Yes, it is!
01:19 (laughing)
01:20 This is completely an RX-7.
01:22 - Ooh, he got a rotary.
01:23 - Yep, first gen RX-7.
01:25 This is an '84, first year that you could get a 13A
01:28 with EFI on it, but this isn't that.
01:31 This is a GS, which has the 12A carbureted motor.
01:34 This was light, it's cool, it handles pretty good.
01:37 I get to learn about rotaries,
01:39 and it does remind me of all the guys in high school
01:42 had the little, you know,
01:43 (imitating car engine)
01:45 those kind of cars.
01:46 Yeah, let's drive this thing around
01:47 before we reveal yours.
01:49 - Oh.
01:51 Oh, that's not a good sign.
01:53 (laughing)
01:54 - It's dead already.
01:56 - Oh, it's gotta just be the cable.
01:57 - This is a tiny car to keep getting in and out of.
02:00 I like my chances now.
02:04 Pile won't even start.
02:05 - Nothing's working.
02:07 I think we might have jumper cables.
02:09 - Get the battery out of this,
02:10 'cause this was running yesterday when we were done.
02:12 - That's gotta be making a good connection.
02:14 There we go.
02:17 (engine starting)
02:18 Dorito!
02:20 Dorito, Dorito!
02:22 Okay, take two, ready?
02:24 (engine revving)
02:27 Oh, I'm in trouble.
02:31 This thing's fast-ish-ish.
02:34 That's what that sounds like.
02:39 - Sounds like cows farting.
02:41 - I am going to hit 7,000 RPM on every shift in this thing.
02:44 It's a personal goal.
02:46 - Wow!
02:50 (laughing)
02:51 - This thing's pretty awesome.
02:52 - I like it.
02:53 - Can we do that again?
02:54 - It has factory limited slip.
02:56 - That was awesome.
02:57 (laughing)
02:58 - Just do it right here, dude.
02:59 It's Saturday, nobody's around.
03:01 - Make sure there's no cops down there.
03:03 - Let's kick.
03:04 (tires screeching)
03:07 Yeah!
03:08 (laughing)
03:10 Oh, this car's awesome!
03:12 I really like this thing.
03:13 That was fun.
03:15 - I can't help but be a little jealous.
03:17 - I've not driven mine, but I don't think it's that fast.
03:19 - Really?
03:20 - I have one thing, burnouts, donuts, bark second gear.
03:23 - Yeah, the clutch seemed really questionable though.
03:26 - But I have one thing you do not have for yours.
03:29 - Wait.
03:29 - Love, inherent love without ever driving.
03:32 - Okay, I think I knew what it was before I got here,
03:36 but I'm not certain now that I've seen this.
03:39 - What did you think it was?
03:40 - An air-cooled Honda 600.
03:42 - No.
03:43 - No.
03:44 Oh, it's an Accord!
03:46 - Nope.
03:47 - Civic, early Civic.
03:48 These are great.
03:49 - '74 model.
03:50 - Yeah!
03:51 - It's 52 horsepower when new.
03:53 - 52, so I've got almost twice the horsepower?
03:56 - Yes, you do.
03:57 Let's go drive, I've never driven it.
03:59 Rule number one, you have to wear those
04:00 to ride shotgun in this car.
04:01 - Oh, look at that.
04:03 This is money.
04:04 (laughing)
04:05 - I can hardly look at you in those pants.
04:07 - I can hardly look at anything.
04:08 (upbeat music)
04:11 - Oh, that's a rough ride.
04:18 - Ooh, not running great either.
04:21 - Oh, that's on the floor, that's not good.
04:23 - That's not good.
04:24 - That's not even on the floor.
04:25 What's going on?
04:26 It just shut off.
04:27 - Will it stop?
04:28 Does it have gas?
04:30 - We just ran out of power.
04:34 - No battery.
04:36 It's a common thing.
04:37 Is it in the back somewhere?
04:38 - I've never seen it, I don't know.
04:40 It might be behind your seat, or in the trunk.
04:43 - There's a battery right here.
04:44 It might help if there was an actual
04:46 battery cable connected.
04:47 (laughing)
04:48 - Wait, wait, hold on.
04:49 - Whoa.
04:50 - It just tried to start itself.
04:51 Oh, this came with the car and he was adamant
04:54 about using the factory KTM dirt bike muffler
04:57 as the muffler tip on the exhaust.
05:00 I may do this.
05:01 - I would recommend it.
05:02 Okay, ready?
05:05 That way.
05:06 More RPM.
05:15 - That makes so much noise.
05:16 This is kind of fun, man.
05:19 This is kind of fun.
05:20 - Oh man, this just is a flashback to me.
05:26 - I'm in fourth.
05:29 It's not going to be able to go on the freeway very fast.
05:31 - You're in fourth?
05:32 - That was fourth gear.
05:33 - That's not good.
05:34 Okay, you may no longer be money.
05:37 - Well, the suspension's really stiff
05:41 and then you add in the stiff seat and it's just,
05:44 see?
05:45 - Yeah.
05:46 - What do you say we go back to the shop
05:48 and clean these things up and hit the road?
05:51 - I like that our race program is, let's wash our cars.
05:54 - Yes.
05:55 - Okay, this is cool.
05:57 This episode just got a whole lot better.
05:59 - There was a moment where I was jealous,
06:03 but then I drove LaFonda.
06:06 - And became better?
06:06 - Yeah.
06:07 - It's slow and mine's faster.
06:10 - Freiburger's a little cocky right now.
06:12 He thinks he's got horsepower, a limited slip,
06:16 but he really has not met LaFonda just yet.
06:19 What he got in that chest drive was not her true character.
06:23 1500 pounds, 50 horsepower.
06:26 And I was sandbagging.
06:27 There's stuff in the trunk.
06:29 I got this.
06:30 No problem.
06:31 Look out, clown car coming through.
06:34 There's a dirt scooter muffler sitting inside of this car.
06:40 So I'm gonna cut the exhaust off and weld that thing off.
06:43 So I wanted to knock the big dirt off of this thing.
06:52 And I went through one of those drive-through car washes.
06:54 Only then did I realize the windows
06:56 don't go all the way up on this thing.
06:57 I'm soaked and the interior is flooded.
07:00 Yuck.
07:03 That was not worth it.
07:09 Don't need that anymore.
07:10 Checked all the brakes.
07:14 I'm gonna get new pads for it
07:15 and put them on in the pits at the race.
07:17 And I really am interested to see how much oil
07:19 is in the transmission because it shifts pretty crunchy.
07:23 I had to neck down the motorcycle muffler,
07:27 one, two, three sizes before I could connect it
07:30 to the original exhaust on the car.
07:32 All right, LaFonda, let's see what you got.
07:36 (engine revving)
07:39 It's really not that much different,
07:44 but somehow it's funnier because it's motorcycle parts.
07:47 Finnegan keeps saying spinning Dorito.
07:49 Here's why.
07:50 The rotors inside the rotary engine
07:53 are shaped like a triangle.
07:55 This sticker shows what the shape of that rotor looks like.
07:58 And a lot of people like to call it a Dorito
08:00 just because it's triangular.
08:02 I can't really make more horsepower,
08:03 so I'm trying to make the car lighter
08:04 by getting rid of unnecessary safety items.
08:07 Ha ha!
08:12 Actually, look.
08:14 Looks like it's had its teeth knocked out,
08:15 but it looks faster.
08:18 There's another 15 pounds.
08:20 Remember how I said my transmission shifts a little crunchy?
08:24 I wasn't kidding.
08:25 There's actually chunks of metal in it.
08:27 I'm not too worried about it, but it's not good.
08:33 So our plan is to race these things
08:34 at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational,
08:37 but that's in Las Vegas.
08:39 So now we gotta hit the road.
08:41 Okay, I think I'm done.
08:43 She's cute, but that's about it.
08:45 This morning, I went to a hand wash,
08:53 got the car cleaned, and once I saw it clean,
08:55 I felt guilty about how little effort
08:57 I actually put into making it a show car
08:59 for that part of the competition.
09:00 So today, I'm doing some paint and body work.
09:03 Look at that, you can hardly even tell.
09:05 Couple of race stickers over the big holes.
09:08 Nobody will ever know LaFonda had a shady past.
09:11 Oh, she's looking good.
09:12 I'm also going full Type R mode with red lettering.
09:15 This is definitely worth making Frye Burger
09:19 wait on the side of the road for me.
09:20 LaFonda.
09:23 I'm done, let's go to Vegas.
09:25 Look out, LaFonda's coming through.
09:27 (engine revving)
09:30 - Well? - Good morning.
09:35 - Pretty good? - No.
09:37 - No? - Really horrible suspension.
09:39 - I don't think it has any.
09:41 Is it gonna make it?
09:42 - Oh yeah.
09:43 My spine may not be in the same shape,
09:45 but the car will make it.
09:47 (upbeat music)
09:50 (car engine revving)
09:53 - And that was all she had.
10:01 Smells like something's melting in my car.
10:06 - If it's not electrical or oil, you're okay.
10:09 I feel kind of awkward driving a Japanese car
10:16 on a Route 66 adventure.
10:18 (laughing)
10:19 - Has your car changed at all since you've been driving it?
10:23 - Yeah, it just keeps getting better and better.
10:25 We took a nice cruise on a little segment of Route 66,
10:30 but now the Honda apparently is running like garbage.
10:33 - I believe we've covered about 140-ish miles
10:36 already today. - I think you're being generous.
10:37 - LaFonda is popping and farting.
10:39 She's gaseous.
10:40 So we're gonna put a new battery in it
10:42 and then go as far as we can before it gets dark.
10:44 Battery's fixed.
10:48 - Hey, look at that. - Yeah.
10:50 (car engine revving)
10:54 - My e-brake is stuck.
10:56 I think it's broke.
11:00 (laughing)
11:04 - What happened?
11:07 - Dude, the e-brake is stuck on.
11:09 The battery works, but now the brakes are stuck.
11:13 - It's like you changed my battery
11:15 and now my parking brake doesn't work.
11:17 (upbeat music)
11:20 - Better?
11:23 - Yeah. - Oh yeah.
11:24 It wouldn't do that before.
11:25 - Okay. - All right.
11:26 Let's drive to Vegas.
11:28 - His battery has been dying so bad
11:36 that we don't wanna kill it even more using the headlights.
11:39 And so we're gonna have to go to the tried and true.
11:42 Yeah.
11:44 - Oh, look at that.
11:47 I feel safe.
11:49 All right, let's go.
11:50 (upbeat music)
11:53 - If I don't suffocate on smoke,
12:00 I'm gonna attempt to coast to that next exit.
12:03 I think I just blew the motor up in La Fonda.
12:06 - Sadly, La Fonda's heart beats no more.
12:10 Coming down the hill into Prim, Nevada,
12:12 just 50 miles from Vegas,
12:14 we pretty much kicked the rods out of her
12:16 and she's DOA on the side of the road.
12:19 - Dude, that thing blew so much smoke, I couldn't even see.
12:22 - Just started running her up
12:23 and then boom, smoke everywhere.
12:25 - It was a big smoke show.
12:27 - It's unhappy.
12:30 I think this is seized up pretty good.
12:33 - So we need to get an LS engine in it
12:34 by day after tomorrow?
12:35 Man, if it's gonna be blown up,
12:37 I kinda want a hole in the block.
12:39 - I shut it off and I imagine if I had left it running
12:41 all the way down this hill,
12:42 we would've had a hole in the block.
12:45 But I'm looking at this not as failure,
12:47 but as an opportunity to succeed
12:49 because the internet is full of used engines
12:51 and we have this much time to swap a new heart
12:56 into that Honda and still make it
12:58 to the Optum event Saturday.
13:01 That's what we're gonna do, after beers and sleep.
13:03 - It's five days later,
13:11 we've been at SEMA doing our thing
13:13 and the Honda did not heal itself,
13:14 but we did rescue it from the side of the road
13:16 and we made a post on Facebook
13:18 throwing out a lifeline to all of our fans going,
13:20 "Help, what do we do because we're clueless?"
13:22 And fortunately, we got Joel here to give us some space
13:25 in his garage right here at the Speedway
13:27 and Brian from Hassport showed up
13:29 with an engine for the Honda,
13:31 but there's a downside.
13:32 Finnegan told him that this was a CVCC engine,
13:35 which is different than the 1200 that's in here.
13:37 And so we actually have a 1500 to put in it
13:40 and a 1200 to take out
13:41 and they're not exactly the same,
13:43 so we're gonna have a night.
13:43 - Yeah, they're not really the same.
13:45 As a matter of fact, this has two mounts underneath,
13:48 plus it uses two torque rods.
13:50 This car is physically an inch and a half shorter,
13:53 the subframe's even smaller.
13:55 There's only one mount in the front,
13:57 a torque rod in the back and a mount on the left side.
14:00 - So we're gonna have some fabrication to do
14:01 and we're gonna get started on it
14:03 because Finnegan is still out at the SEMA show
14:05 signing autographs, doing his thing.
14:07 We need to get this thing done like tonight
14:09 in order to get ready for the Optima Challenge
14:11 first thing in the morning.
14:12 The driver's meeting's at 8.30,
14:13 I wanna have the car running and driving by then.
14:16 You guys good for wrenching for a while?
14:17 - Yeah.
14:18 (rock music)
14:20 - We're at the point of where
14:24 almost everything is disconnected
14:26 and we've gotta lift the engine up
14:27 so that we can drop a crossmember out from under it,
14:29 disconnect the shift linkage
14:30 and then the whole garbage should come out.
14:32 Okay, part of that crossmember's out.
14:36 This is magic right now
14:37 because I'm just dirty enough
14:39 to give the illusion of working
14:41 but in fact we've got other Brian here now,
14:42 we've got TJ here now,
14:43 we have a total of six people cramming on this thing
14:46 and Finnegan's not even here yet.
14:47 (rock music)
14:50 - Apparently I'm late.
14:52 Wow.
14:54 - Oh, you made it.
14:55 - Yeah.
14:56 - Wanna come see your handiwork?
14:57 Check it out.
14:58 - Oh, that's ventilation right there.
15:02 - Yep, so parts fell out.
15:04 - Well, here's how much you don't know Honda.
15:07 That's not a CVCC engine.
15:09 - Oh.
15:10 - The one that we have coming in is.
15:11 It only has minor differences like it's not a cross flow,
15:14 the alternator's on a different side,
15:15 water pump's in a different place,
15:17 motor mounts are different, small things like that.
15:19 But the good news is, here's your crew.
15:22 Over here, Eric.
15:23 - Hi.
15:23 - Pat, Brian, TJ, other Brian.
15:26 He's the engine donor.
15:28 The rest of these guys just made this happen
15:29 while I stood around and pretended that I was getting dirty.
15:31 - Wow, 'cause the meth head I bought it from
15:35 said it was a CVCC motor.
15:37 - When he asked you, does it say CVCC on the back,
15:40 he actually meant CVCC and not C-I-V-I-C.
15:44 - See, once I put the red paint on it, it was hard to tell.
15:47 - It was hard to tell.
15:48 - Yeah.
15:48 - That's completely different.
15:49 - Oh, so we're screwed.
15:50 - No, we're not.
15:51 - No?
15:52 - We have a TIG, we've got dudes.
15:53 - And you have pizza, so.
15:55 - Yeah, we were gonna eat that
15:55 while you were installing that.
15:56 - Okay, how do you do that?
15:57 Just spin it around a bunch of times and throw it back in?
16:00 - Yep.
16:01 (upbeat music)
16:04 - The mounts are different on the two cars.
16:05 This goes on the transmission on the bottom,
16:08 allows you to set the motor on the subframe.
16:10 - Okay.
16:11 - Okay?
16:11 The mount on the tank belt side is the same,
16:13 so you should just be able to bolt it on, be good to go.
16:15 The old torque rod attached right here
16:17 and went back to the firewall.
16:18 The new one attaches right here,
16:20 considerably further back behind the motor.
16:22 You're gonna have to shorten this up
16:24 so that it goes from here to the firewall,
16:26 'cause the firewall's probably literally that far away.
16:28 The exhaust, it's on the front on this engine,
16:30 this cross-flow head, this side,
16:32 it comes out underneath the manifold in the back.
16:34 The alternator hangs out in the front quite a bit,
16:36 but probably not gonna be a big deal.
16:39 - Oh, this doesn't sound so bad.
16:40 - All right, good luck.
16:41 - Thanks, man.
16:42 - You bet.
16:43 (upbeat music)
16:45 - I think everybody's on a pizza break,
16:51 or they're just taking a moment to laugh
16:53 at my screw-up right now.
16:55 (upbeat music)
17:00 - This is a tight squeeze.
17:02 We're 12 hours away from race day.
17:04 Engine's in the car.
17:06 Now we just have to mount it, wire it, plum it,
17:08 which would be no problem if it was the engine for the car.
17:11 All right, so center to center, five and an eighth.
17:14 - What, until?
17:15 Yeah, where do we--
17:18 - All right, group decision, where's this thing going?
17:20 - We'll go five and a half.
17:22 - All right, five and a half it is.
17:24 - Good?
17:25 - You called it.
17:25 (drill whirring)
17:28 - Well, that is not gonna be that much shorter.
17:31 Motor will be mounted.
17:32 - We need to get a lower radiator hose in place over here,
17:36 which is kind of a problem.
17:38 So we need an adapter.
17:39 So we're gonna hack it out of this guy's fender stand.
17:42 (drill whirring)
17:45 Man, we're looking pretty good.
17:50 We're down to two known problems,
17:52 one of which is exhaust, which he's putting on right now.
17:55 The other one is we had a leaky O-ring
17:57 in the back of a water pump,
17:58 which Pat's fixed like 10 times now,
18:00 and we're hoping that the 10th time is a charm.
18:03 And once that's done, I think we're ready to turn the key
18:04 and find out if it fires up.
18:06 Certainly there'll be something else wrong,
18:07 but we're close.
18:08 - I think we're good.
18:11 - I don't see any drips.
18:12 - Let's start the car.
18:13 - So, ready?
18:15 - Boom! - Make some noise.
18:18 - Whoa, look at that!
18:20 (engine revving)
18:23 Oh yeah!
18:24 You got power now!
18:26 - Dude.
18:27 - Well?
18:29 (all cheering)
18:31 - The Fonda lives again.
18:33 I was really worried I wasn't gonna go racing tomorrow.
18:35 - Oh, you are.
18:36 - Gentlemen, high fives for everyone.
18:38 High fives for everyone.
18:39 - Woo!
18:40 - I think you're gonna exhaust the leaky O-ring by the way.
18:41 - Ready?
18:42 - Yes.
18:43 - Around the block, let's get out of here.
18:45 Whoa, spunky!
18:47 (laughing)
18:49 Wide open's no thanks.
18:50 - Oh God, no.
18:52 - That's weird.
18:53 - We don't have wide open.
18:55 (engine revving)
18:57 - Yeah.
19:03 - Oh!
19:03 - Oh!
19:04 - What the hell was that?
19:05 - Speed bump.
19:07 - I'm gonna put a fan in the brand new motor.
19:09 - We should get here early tomorrow,
19:10 see if we can sort that out.
19:11 We gotta be at the driver's meeting at 8.30.
19:14 - Dave, it is early.
19:15 - Then we're racing.
19:16 That's good.
19:17 - It is tomorrow.
19:18 - Let's go sleep for 10 minutes.
19:22 (upbeat music)
19:25 - Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Optima Ultimate
19:37 street car invitation.
19:39 - We made it here at the Optima Ultimate
19:41 street car invitational.
19:42 And yeah, we did have to be invited with this garbage.
19:45 So Finnegan got his engine in the car last night.
19:48 We took it around the block.
19:49 Something's funny about it.
19:50 He's over at the shop still trying to make it run right.
19:53 I'm here miraculously passing tech.
19:56 And now I've got to take this thing
19:58 and get it all stickered up,
20:00 get all my group numbers and such,
20:02 and then I'll be out on the track.
20:04 A group is running, better go.
20:07 - Remember how I was going racing?
20:11 Well, I'm back in the shop because unbeknownst to me,
20:14 every single bolt on the front of the engine was loose.
20:17 So all of the pulleys were coming off.
20:19 Balancer, alternator, upper timing gear.
20:22 - Sticker magic.
20:24 You're required to have all the sponsored decals on the car,
20:26 even when your car is garbage.
20:29 - Now let's go racing.
20:30 Done.
20:35 (upbeat music)
20:38 - Not on fire, but I might as well be.
20:41 The Pontus got a case of the vapors.
20:44 I'm gonna need a respirator if I'm gonna drive this thing,
20:46 if they'll even let me through the gate in it,
20:48 'cause I don't think this is the kind of car they want,
20:51 representing Optima.
20:52 Hey man.
20:54 - Nice.
21:00 Why is there smoke pouring out the underside?
21:03 Oh, I know, there's oil all over the exhaust.
21:06 - Believe it or not, I'm not on fire.
21:08 - Yeah?
21:09 It smokes?
21:10 - Our used engine smokes as bad as the other one
21:12 when it kicked the rods out.
21:14 - You actually thinking you're not gonna run the thing?
21:16 - Well, I'm gonna ask them.
21:17 - They do wanna tech the thing.
21:18 They teched mine.
21:19 I passed.
21:20 Did they make you start it?
21:21 - No.
21:22 - Maybe I'll get through that.
21:23 - Maybe.
21:24 So let's sort that out.
21:25 - I warned the folks at Optima
21:33 that LaFonda's got the vapors
21:34 and that she'll smoke enough to stop everybody
21:36 on the road course, and they said,
21:38 "That's not what we want."
21:39 LaFonda's out, DNF.
21:41 - We did talk them into something
21:42 that they don't normally allow at Optima challenges,
21:45 which is we're both gonna be able to drive the car.
21:48 So it's still gonna be Freiburger versus Finnegan,
21:50 and I'm going first.
21:51 We're gonna get times.
21:53 I have to beat someone's time at something.
21:56 - Yeah.
21:56 Is that me?
21:57 - Okay, finally we're gonna run.
22:10 Ready to go?
22:13 - Yeah, buddy, go for it.
22:14 Go, go, go.
22:17 (engine revving)
22:20 You're doing good, right turn.
22:23 Hard right, hard right.
22:25 Hard right.
22:26 And right again, right again.
22:29 Keep going, keep going.
22:30 It's gonna be a hard lap.
22:32 Hard lap, finish line.
22:35 Get it.
22:36 Nice work, dude.
22:38 - Wasn't bad?
22:38 - No, that was pretty--
22:39 - I think it's great.
22:40 - That was pretty damn good.
22:41 - It just drives itself.
22:43 - Yeah, let's go see the time.
22:44 33.08.
22:46 I think you should try it.
22:48 - My driver's swap.
22:49 - You can just flip it.
22:52 Flip it.
22:53 - Oh, cool.
22:54 - That was good.
22:58 (laughing)
23:03 That was way better.
23:11 (engine revving)
23:14 Man, that thing's good.
23:18 It is so slow and so great all at the same time.
23:21 - Oh, wait a--
23:22 - I love it.
23:23 - Wait a minute.
23:24 - What?
23:25 - The hood was open.
23:26 - That's probably the problem.
23:26 - Yeah, that's why I lost.
23:27 That right there, well, it's open.
23:28 - Yeah.
23:29 So that ends the autocross portion of our day.
23:32 I think I won.
23:33 33.08 to 33 and change.
23:35 - Yeah, you won.
23:36 - And so now we're gonna go to the speed stop challenge.
23:39 - Yeah.
23:39 (upbeat music)
23:42 - See how he does.
23:45 That's a wicked car right there.
23:49 This next deal is the Power Stop Brakes Speed Stop Challenge.
23:54 You're at the starting line over there.
23:56 You run half a circle track
23:58 and then you have to swerve towards the inside
24:00 and get stopped in that stop box right there,
24:02 all without blowing through the cones
24:04 at the end of the track.
24:05 We will probably be worse at this than anybody.
24:10 (upbeat music)
24:12 Look at all these girls who came just to welcome us.
24:17 - Hey girls.
24:18 - Top priority is don't smash the wall
24:21 'cause the wall's on my side.
24:22 - All right, round one guys.
24:23 - Yep.
24:24 - So get as close to the wall as possible.
24:26 - Great.
24:27 (tires screeching)
24:30 - Over there.
24:35 (laughing)
24:37 - You totally choked.
24:38 100%.
24:40 - Blame my navigator.
24:43 - I thought you saw what every car was doing
24:46 and still 1879.
24:48 - I did it right?
24:50 - You did?
24:51 - Yeah, to the right of that one, to the left of this one.
24:54 - 1879.
24:56 So to put this in context,
24:58 the slow cars here are doing like high 14s.
25:03 Now it's my turn.
25:04 And if I don't stuff it in the wall,
25:05 I'm pretty sure I can beat Finnegan's number.
25:08 (tires screeching)
25:11 - Yeah.
25:11 Oh yeah, you're going faster than I was.
25:16 Yeah buddy.
25:17 (tires screeching)
25:22 - Dude, that was solid.
25:23 (laughing)
25:24 - Oh yeah, you kicked my butt.
25:26 1781.
25:27 - By like a full second.
25:30 - We were on it today.
25:31 That's pretty good.
25:32 - Wow, you proved your mastery of this car.
25:34 - It was nice.
25:35 We handled the autocross,
25:38 handled the speed stop challenge.
25:39 So tomorrow's the big track
25:41 and that's going to be pretty interesting
25:42 because we are going to have basically
25:44 the slowest car out there.
25:46 - Yeah, the only way we're passing anyone
25:47 is with like sabotage.
25:49 - Meanwhile, LaFonda is just going to sit there
25:51 and it's kind of sad.
25:54 Okay, food.
25:55 - Yeah, let's go.
26:00 (upbeat music)
26:03 - So this is it.
26:10 The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational.
26:13 What are we doing here?
26:15 Well, we know the owner.
26:16 Optima is a sponsor of Roadkill
26:18 and they threw open the gate and said,
26:19 "Yes, you have garbage that's not worthy,
26:22 but you can come to the invitational anyway."
26:24 (car engine roaring)
26:27 - There is so much pressure when you're out there driving
26:32 in a situation like this to not hit anybody,
26:35 not let anybody hit you.
26:38 Don't spin, don't put gravel.
26:40 - That wouldn't happen to LaFonda.
26:41 - It's day two of the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational.
26:46 Earlier today, I took the orientation run
26:49 around the track in the Mazda.
26:51 And that's when everybody is just single file,
26:53 lead and follow, learning the lines at a slow pace.
26:56 And I couldn't keep up.
26:58 I was racing, everybody else was cruising.
27:01 But because of that,
27:02 I didn't want to be a speed bump out there
27:03 for these guys who are looking for a real time
27:05 at the final event of the year.
27:07 So we're spectators at this point.
27:09 - I kind of want to drive my car.
27:11 Can we go somewhere where we can drive without shame?
27:14 - You know what the beauty is?
27:15 Is we can race those things on the street anywhere
27:17 and no one will notice.
27:18 - You're saying my car's slow.
27:19 - I'm saying my car's slow too.
27:21 I think we should find that out.
27:22 - I agree.
27:23 - Yeah.
27:24 Okay, we kind of flopped at the Optima event,
27:27 but we're going to go have our own kind of fun.
27:29 Us racing around a corner out in the middle of the desert.
27:33 (upbeat music)
27:36 (laughing)
27:50 That looked really fun.
27:52 (car engine revving)
27:55 (laughing)
28:03 (laughing)
28:09 - A little car.
28:15 Wow, where else would you race them?
28:17 - Well, we failed at the Optima challenge.
28:19 So what do you want to do?
28:20 - Figure eight.
28:21 We've got a hydrant, we've got debris,
28:23 and then a drag race.
28:25 - So you're going to make this one end?
28:26 - Yeah.
28:27 - Strip club sofa.
28:29 This looks like a pretty good turnaround.
28:31 - We will have some speed.
28:32 He's coming far.
28:34 - Ride with each other in time?
28:35 - Yeah.
28:38 So this is event number two.
28:40 - Two?
28:41 - We're starting over.
28:42 - No, no, no, the slate was not wiped clean.
28:44 - Of course it was.
28:45 I didn't get to drive my car.
28:46 - No, no, no, no.
28:47 - We left the Optima event.
28:49 This is now Sloptima.
28:51 First event, sliding around the corner.
28:53 - Who won that?
28:54 - I win.
28:55 So now, event number two, the figure eight.
28:57 - Okay.
28:58 Before we go there, we will agree
28:59 that I dominated the actual Optima event, right?
29:02 - Yeah, I'll give you that.
29:03 - Okay.
29:04 - I'll give you that.
29:04 - Thanks.
29:05 - Three, two, one.
29:07 Good start, good start.
29:10 - That's a 7,000 RPM buzzer, by the way.
29:17 - I can hear the horn honking.
29:20 (engine revving)
29:23 - I see the hydrant, I see the hydrant.
29:38 - 7,000 RPM beeper on the whole time.
29:45 - 38.96.
29:48 - I go, move your junk.
29:50 - Ready?
29:51 - Three, two, one.
29:53 - This is slow.
29:58 (engine revving)
29:59 - Oh, your parking brake works really good.
30:01 Watching the ditch.
30:05 (laughing)
30:09 - The torture.
30:16 Let me out.
30:17 That was miserable.
30:18 Bam, okay.
30:22 - 35.98.
30:23 - That nearly killed me.
30:28 - She just wants to keep running, dude.
30:31 - Yeah.
30:34 - I'm gonna get out of your sight.
30:35 I'm tired of climbing out the window.
30:36 - Let me out.
30:39 - La Fonda's victorious.
30:41 You just ran a 38 plus lap, nowhere near my 35.
30:45 But it was way more fun.
30:47 So Finnegan's claiming victory in the Sloptima Challenge.
30:50 And I can't really deny it.
30:51 I mean, there's hardcore evidence here at the figure eight,
30:54 although I'll argue that we had more fun in my car.
30:56 Out there on the street, sliding around for style.
30:58 Okay, let's give him the Sloptima Challenge,
31:01 but let's be honest, I completely destroyed him
31:03 at the actual Optima Challenge.
31:05 And now I will also destroy the La Fonda
31:07 in a drag race into the sunset
31:09 to end this episode of Roadkill.
31:14 You doing a burnout over there?
31:16 - That's the sound of torques.
31:19 - It's a lot of smoke.
31:20 Okay, you want to do the countdown?
31:22 - You go ahead.
31:23 - Three, two, one.
31:26 (engine revving)
31:29 - Oh, that was so close.
31:34 I lost, that was really close.
31:41 (engine revving)
31:44 Best day at work ever.
31:49 - Dude, that was some belligerent right there.
31:56 - Who won?
31:57 - That was really close.
31:59 I lost, but not by much.
32:01 - Yeah.
32:02 - You can find all the parts from these builds
32:04 by visiting jegs.com/roadkill.
32:10 - I'm fired up and I'm happy.
32:12 Oh my God, that's a lot of smoke.
32:20 Oh.
32:27 Oh.
32:32 (engine revving)