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00:23 This time on Hot Rod Garage we're gonna take Hot Rod Magazine's Crusher Camaro
00:27 and hit it with the bottle on top of motor that already makes 700 horsepower.
00:31 That's right and we're also gonna have another Q&A session but right now
00:35 here's a quick tip from Lincoln Tech.
00:39 Hi I'm Roy Putman I'm an instructor here at Lincoln Tech and today I'm going to
00:46 teach you how to MIG weld. First thing you got to have is safety gear. You got
00:50 to have OSHA approved safety glasses, some nice leather gloves to protect your
00:54 hands and you also got to have an approved welding hood. In order to set
00:58 your machine up the first thing you got to do is have your workpiece grounded.
01:02 Then you're gonna set your heat and your wire speed and you'll be able to weld.
01:06 The size of the bead you're wanting to run is going to determine your welding
01:11 amperage and your wire speed. You have to hold your gun at 90 degrees to the
01:15 workpiece and 7 to 12 degrees on your travel angle. All right let's run a basic
01:21 T joint here. I'm gonna start from one end of the plate, get my arc, join the two
01:27 pieces and then I'm gonna push my puddle all the way to the other end nice and
01:33 even. In order to make a complete weld I need to go from one end of the plate to
01:39 the other end of the plate. Notice how my angles are staying consistent and my
01:45 travel speed is consistent throughout the entire weld. When I get to the end I
01:50 do a little back up and let off the trigger and you've just welded a T joint.
01:55 MIG welding is one of the easiest things you can do. All you got to do is set your
01:59 heat, your wire speed and pull the trigger. Lincoln Tech can teach you how
02:03 to have a career working with cars. See LincolnEDU.com
02:09 This is the Roadkill Project Car Update which is presented by Dickies and I'm on
02:16 my own this time because Finnegan's out reproducing. His wife's having a baby
02:20 and so I'm gonna be on my own working on the Crusher Camaro. You probably remember
02:24 we did a live video feed with this car from the PRI show in Indy last December
02:28 where we put a masked 427 cubic inch LS7 in the car and then we drove it back to
02:34 California, took it to Sacramento Raceway where it ran a string of 10-0's and that
02:38 was just a bitchin day for weather. Literally the density altitude was
02:42 subterranean. I don't know if I can repeat that out here in Southern
02:45 California in the heat. It would probably run 1020s or 1030s naturally aspirated.
02:50 That's not good enough. We're gonna put nitrous oxide on it looking for some low
02:54 9s. We'll show you every step and then go race it on this segment of the Dickies
02:58 Roadkill Project Car Update. What we have here is an NOS Fogger nitrous system.
03:02 Fogger is kind of used generically. It's actually an NOS brand. The generic term
03:07 would be direct port nitrous injection because it's got these nozzles which are
03:11 gonna go in each port of the intake manifold paired up with a jet to control
03:16 how much nitrous goes in the engine. Now in the old school you would have both
03:20 the fuel and the nitrous being injected into the manifold through these nozzles
03:23 but this is what's called a dry system. We're gonna have all of our fuel
03:27 enrichment controlled by the EFI on the car which is a Holley Dominator setup
03:31 and we will just be spraying nitrous through these nozzles. So my chore today
03:36 is gonna be to drill the intake, put one of these nozzles in each runner and then
03:41 the fun part of bending the hard line to go from the nozzle up to the
03:46 distribution block which gets the solenoid. The solenoid is what controls
03:49 the flow of the nitrous in the engine. It's just an on/off switch whereas the
03:53 jet controls the volume of nitrous and these are itty bitty jets. It's a lot
03:59 like a fogger only much smaller. I'm probably only gonna put about a hundred
04:02 and seventy five horsepower hit on this thing because the piston rings in it are
04:06 not really designed for a massive 500 horsepower shot. If you don't have enough
04:10 ring end gap on the piston ring then the nitrous will tend to heat them up, make
04:14 them butt together, lift a ring land and things end badly. But speaking of mast we
04:18 can safely put a 200 shot on this thing. I don't have jets for that so we're
04:21 going 175.
04:24 Now that I have the fogger locations marked for drilling I'm gonna take the
04:33 intake manifold off so that we can actually bore into it and tap it for
04:37 these things.
04:39 Now the fun part begins. First thing I'm gonna do is take a punch and mark all
04:53 the holes, start to drill them out and then tap each hole for the fogger nozzle.
04:58 Okay.
05:01 Alright as much as it pains me to do this the right way I actually popped the
05:08 lid on this. I didn't want any aluminum chips getting into the top half. I want
05:12 to be able to clean everything out good so I took it apart.
05:15 Oh look at that trick o-ring seal on this thing. Look at me all pro with the
05:19 safety glasses and everything. Okay with metal chips on my toe not in my eye.
05:24 Alright the key here is to drill a pilot hole and I'm gonna make dead certain
05:29 it's exactly square to line them all up so that it's not foobar by the time I'm
05:34 ready to drill my quarter inch hole before tapping it.
05:38 Okay.
05:46 NOS supplies a tap which is a 16th pipe thread. They don't supply the actual tool
06:01 so be prepared for that if you're gonna start this project. We're also gonna have
06:04 to Teflon paste it so we don't have a vacuum leak here. The thing I feel about
06:09 this is no matter how badly I screw it up I can always put a pipe plug in it.
06:12 Okay now I'm gonna carb clean these out just a little bit. I'll clean it up
06:17 really well after I'm done because I'm gonna put the actual fogger nozzle in
06:24 there trying not to strip the hole. Ideally you want it pointed at the
06:29 intake valve. We're a little bit far from the valve for that in this case but this
06:33 little notch I want to make sure is pointed down the runner instead of up.
06:37 Let's bring it up into the point of makes for good entertainment but not
06:41 good horsepower. Now that I know that that's good I'll take it out Teflon seal
06:45 it put them all in and we're ready to move on to actually bending line.
06:53 The next step is the one most people will find daunting which is bending the hard
06:56 lines to go into the fogger nozzles. I've already got this side done it only took
07:00 me about an hour to do that and so I'm gonna share some tips on how to do this
07:03 side. I'm gonna start with the two middle ones measure out to here bend them
07:07 making sure that my junction block is gonna hang free of the fuel rail and
07:12 over here making sure that it's free of linkage and everything like that and
07:15 install these two on the junction block and then measure again to bend the
07:20 outers to get them into the lower part of the junction block. Working on the
07:23 other side I know that I'm gonna bend these at the three inch mark in the
07:30 middle that mark that I just made here is where the bend is going to start. You
07:37 can see that I've got the mark lined up with the zero on the bender then I'm
07:41 gonna make this into a 90 just like that eyeballing it and do the same with this
07:51 one. Notice I have not cut these things to length yet because that's the next
08:00 thing I'm going to do. The tubes are going to ultimately slide into this
08:05 fitting right here and the end of them seats about where the ends of these
08:09 threads are so that's where I'm going to mark the tube. I'm also just eyeballing
08:13 to make sure it's even with the one on the other side. Now I'm ready to cut tube.
08:17 If you've never used a tubing cutter here's the deal you can buy these almost
08:21 anywhere at any little parts store sometimes they're much tinier than this.
08:25 There's this cutting wheel right here that works up against this block. You
08:29 roll it around and then tighten it just a little bit as it digs in to the metal
08:35 you have to tighten it. What you don't want to do is ramrod it you want to take
08:39 your time because if you tighten this too much and you're digging in with the
08:43 cutting wheel it'll end up closing off or deforming the tubing. This works the
08:48 same for brake line or whatever. And there you go. This cutter is pretty good
08:53 and leaves the end of the tube wide open. But then another thing you can do is go
08:59 in and just make sure that it's all cleaned and deburred and happy which
09:04 this one really already is. So this steel nut goes over the line first then this
09:09 little collet which is cool because it means you don't have to flare the end of
09:14 this line and then it slides into the junction block with the collet up there
09:19 and then thread this on. Then I can double check here that this is about the
09:26 right length which it is. So that's where that is gonna end up. The next thing I
09:32 need to do is measure and bend these outside lines and the thing is the port
09:36 is angled like this and the distribution block is straight up and down. So you can
09:41 see that this point on the lower bung is closer to the port than the top one and
09:46 so I'm gonna make the bend just a little bit further in and I can actually
09:50 measure that out and trust me when I say that measures about four inches and when
09:56 I go to the bottom one it measures three and three-quarters.
10:06 And that's a wrap. Look at that. Mint.
10:15 Here's a problem I've had on a whole bunch of my cars including the Crusher
10:20 Camaro because I let my junk sit around way too long but unfortunately it only
10:24 takes about a year these days for modern gasoline to destroy your fuel lines.
10:28 Modern gas especially in California is a lot like gasoline except for at least 10%
10:32 ethanol. That ethanol not only attracts water and wrecks your carburetor like
10:37 you saw in the muscle truck in that episode of Roadkill but it destroys
10:40 rubber fuel line. Perhaps you've seen that it'll actually take regular old
10:44 rubber fuel line and it'll look like licorice gum or something on the inside.
10:48 It'll totally plug it. It makes this junk. So you might think that you're gonna go
10:52 to AN line and I've done this a lot as well. Unfortunately the liner of most
10:57 cheap AN line is also not gonna stand up to the ethanol and in the new gas so you
11:02 can buy from Earl's which is what I've used before a Teflon line and they have
11:06 some new budget versions of that that are pretty good but still it's more
11:09 expensive than rubber and you have to buy AN line and so you might not want to
11:13 do that. In comes our sponsor ACDelco. Check this out. They have this new
11:18 green shield hose which has got five layers to it which is what makes it
11:23 trick. We dissected this thing for you so you can see the outer layer which is
11:26 ozone protection then the fabric weave which was actually tough to cut through
11:30 with a knife. There's an adhesion layer and then you get the green shield
11:34 barrier. That's the thing it's like a thermoplastic. It prevents the gas
11:38 from seeping through the hose and an inner plastic tube that's resistant to
11:43 the modern gas. One thing you do need to know when using this hose however is
11:46 ACDelco does not recommend the barbed type fitting like this that has a whole
11:51 bunch of edges on it. It can be sharp. It can cut through that tube diminishing
11:54 the effectiveness. Instead you want to use one with just the regular old nipple
11:58 on the end like this. You can use it with regular hose clamps which is what makes
12:02 it good and you can get it at your regular old good auto parts store like a
12:05 Nappa. Again the stuff is from ACDelco. It is called green shield. It says it
12:10 right on the hose and it will say on it multi-fuel biofuel compatible. They might
12:14 look at it as EFI hose at the parts store but you can still use it with a
12:17 carburetor. Here's the thing about nitrous. It makes your car go faster as
12:21 in more mile per hour in the quarter mile. The problem with that is you got to
12:25 have your gear ratio and your rear end set up to match the engines RPM
12:29 capability. When we ran the car naturally aspirated it went 135 in the quarter
12:33 mile and was just touching the rev limiter with the 457 gears in it. The
12:37 thing is on nitrous I think it's gonna run 145 to 155 miles an hour so I've
12:42 got to take rear end gear ratio out of the car put in a higher ratio or a lower
12:47 number ring and pinion so that the RPM at that higher speed can keep up with
12:51 what the engines capable of which is about 7,000 RPM. If you want to figure
12:55 this out here's the math. Mile per hour times your rear end gear ratio times
12:59 3.36. Take that answer divide it by your tire diameter and it'll tell you the
13:04 RPM that you're gonna run and you want to add about 5% to that for converter
13:08 slippage. I did that math and I figured out I want to put 373s in the car. It'll
13:12 run through the lights at about 6,400 RPM if it goes 145 and it'll run through
13:18 at about 6,800 if it goes 155. So what I'm going to install is this
13:22 four nine inch center section from Moser Engineering. It's got those 373 gears in
13:27 it and it also has a Moser wave track which is a limited slip I've been really
13:31 happy with with a bunch of different engines in the Crusher. It's very
13:34 streetable but it's never failed to just burn both tires with drag strip.
13:40 When you saw us swap the engine into the Crusher Camaro at the PRI show we had
13:45 initially used a 4L65 transmission from Gearstar because it was what fit with
13:50 the Holley motor mounts and headers and everything but subsequently the guys at
13:54 Gearstar like we do not like you running 700 horsepower through that smaller
13:57 transmission we'd rather see a 4L85 and they said you would be whacked to throw
14:01 nitrous on top of your 700 horsepower with a 4L65 transmission. Little did
14:07 they know it actually survived some abuse that they don't even want to see
14:10 on video and so we ultimately did throw in the larger 4L85 and Gearstar
14:16 loaded this thing with straight cut gears it's got a yank converter with a
14:20 three element deal and billet. This thing is not gonna blow up. We did have to
14:24 fabricate a new crossmember and bash on the exhaust to get this thing in the car
14:28 but it's gonna be worth it. Shopping for automatic transmission fluid always
14:32 sucks. There's all this stuff on the shelf and you don't know what to get.
14:35 There's like the Dexron 3 and 4, Murcon 5, a bunch of import stuff, Dexron
14:40 6 and so we called ACDelco and we asked them what is the deal and there's a
14:44 whole lot of chemistry to it there's different viscosities, different
14:47 additives, friction modifiers and all this stuff. Apparently here's the program
14:52 though you can use Dexron 6 in any older transmission but you don't want to use
14:58 Dexron 3 in a newer transmission. The tolerances are tighter, they've got
15:02 different clutches in them, it just won't work but the good news about the Dexron
15:06 6 is you can also use it in virtually any of your aftermarket automatic
15:10 transmissions. So check with your builder but if you really have no clue you can
15:14 go with the Dexron 6. There's two common sizes of nitrous feed line. There's -4
15:20 which is smaller and the -6 which is bigger and what this is. You probably
15:25 don't need a -6 for the kind of low power level we're shooting for,
15:28 175 shot but it's what this fogger comes with and if I ever put a different
15:32 engine in the car that has ring end gap for more nitrous I can go ahead and step
15:37 all the way up to like a 400 horsepower shot with this thing but I need to run
15:41 this under here making sure that I'm not gonna melt this on anything like that
15:45 header right there so this will be zip tie artistry right about there. Now it's
15:50 the wiring part of the program for the nitrous. The thing is nitrous solenoids
15:54 draw a lot of current. You have to always run them through a relay but if you're
15:59 gonna pulse the solenoids to modulate them for a nice nitrous curve so you're
16:03 not just hitting it all at once then you have to use a solid-state relay. If you
16:08 try and pulse the solenoids through a regular old Bosch clickety-clack little
16:11 square 30 amp relay it's gonna fry immediately but Holley sells this kit
16:16 and it's basically sending big power from the battery to the solenoids and
16:20 then triggering it with a much smaller wire directly out of the ECU.
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16:34 Well I have another couple days of tinkering to do but the next time you see
16:38 the car is gonna be at the track and that'll be the fun part.
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16:50 Today we are inside my race shop working on the trailer for my drag boat. I've
16:55 notched this crossmember and I'm gonna be welding in these gusset plates and
16:58 I'm gonna be using Eastwood's TIG 200 AC/DC TIG welding machine to complete
17:03 all the welding. Because it's got both a foot pedal and a trigger on the torch
17:08 you can weld in a lot of awkward positions and you know if you're a foot
17:12 guy there you go if you're a trigger guy there you go you're dialed in. These
17:16 knobs are where all the flexibility comes from. You've got a knob for pre and
17:21 post flow and that determines how long the argon is gonna come out of that
17:24 torch. That's the amperage knob that sets the power of the machine. Over here is
17:29 clearance effect. This determines the balance between the penetrating effect
17:34 of the weld and the cleaning effect and that's really helpful for when you're
17:38 welding aluminum. So now all that matters is getting comfortable. If you're not
17:41 comfortable sitting here there's no way you're ever gonna weld beautiful dimes.
17:48 Oh man that's good. I am absolutely floored at how well the TIG 200 works.
18:01 I'm throwing down dimes like I weld every day of my life. You can head to
18:05 Eastwood.com and check out the TIG 200 and all the other killer tools that
18:09 Eastwood offers.
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18:21 Finally after a long night of wrenching we're here at the drag strip. The first
18:26 thing that we're gonna do today is go down the track a few times to establish
18:28 a baseline. The car probably won't run 10-0 like it did before because I've got
18:32 less gear in it now but we can fix that because we've got Robin Lawrence here
18:36 from Holley EFI and he is gonna help us spray it.
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19:13 We're done fooling around with it naturally aspirated. Unfortunately by
19:18 taking the gear out of the back, changing the converter and the
19:20 transmission everything, we took a lot more ET out of it than I'd hoped. We ran
19:24 11.11 at 130 miles an hour. I like that mile an hour number. I do not like the ET
19:28 number. So now we're gonna throw a 200 shot of nitrous at it. We're looking at
19:32 this dry fogger system with a 24 jet and I think we're hitting it right out of the
19:36 hole aren't we? We're going all out.
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20:09 Well I can't say that went exactly as we'd hoped. We did knock a full second
20:15 plus two tenths off the quarter mile time. The problem is we had slowed it
20:18 down so badly with our 373 gears and with our really tight converter that we
20:23 couldn't make the thing go as fast as we wanted to. It went 994 at 145 miles an
20:28 hour which is big. We can do better than that. We're gonna be coming back
20:31 eventually with a looser converter. There's probably some programming that
20:34 we can do in the Holley Dominator EFI that'll help out the transmission as
20:37 well. And of course even more nitrous, even more fiddling. I'm not gonna be
20:42 happy till this thing gets in the really low nines.
20:46 Time for the question and answer session. This is where we post on our Facebook
20:51 page, tell you to ask completely irrelevant questions and we'll answer
20:55 them if we feel like it. It's facebook.com/hotrodgarageshow. Go check
21:00 that out and that's where you'll see pretty much once a month we ask some
21:04 questions, post them, and we're gonna answer them right now. Justin Dykes wants
21:08 to know what cars of today will become the hot rods of tomorrow? Well the new
21:14 Hellcat obviously. Hellcat's pretty good. 707 horsepower. It really is. When are we
21:21 gonna see a thousand horsepower? Factory car with a thousand horsepower? Can you
21:24 imagine that? Because somebody else said when the Hellcat came out they were like
21:28 okay 700 pretty soon we'll have a thousand. I'm like nah I don't think
21:31 we're ever gonna have a thousand because think about trying to make a thousand
21:34 reliable, warrantied, I'm not changing a spark plug for you know ten years car.
21:40 That's true but imagine a 700 horsepower reliable, warrantied, gonna have it
21:45 forever car. I remember when I thought the GT 500 was gonna be the end of it. It
21:51 made like what 663 horsepower or something like that and I was like that's
21:54 it. Obama's calling it off. It's all over but nope. Dodge came back with that 707.
22:00 You know what's scary is and everybody makes fun of Obama but cars have gotten
22:05 much cooler since he's been in office and that's not an endorsement of him. I
22:08 just realized when he leaves office, cause, effect, does the horsepower war stop?
22:13 That's right. I hope not. Maybe it's like. I don't want him taking credit for it. When
22:17 Obama came in you notice how all the gun freaks ran out and bought guns? Mm-hmm.
22:21 Maybe what's happening right now is the manufacturers are going uh-oh we got to
22:26 make power as we can before he outlaws it. Yeah. We got two years. Before Cafe is
22:30 like 70. Yeah. Cafe. Derek Ross wants to know what's the story about the dead fox
22:37 that's at the beginning of the Roadkill show? It's not a fox, it's a coyote. It was the
22:41 first trip when we tried to go to you know Alaska and failed. Yep. And it was
22:46 just sitting there and we stopped and backed up and Dwayne got out and filmed
22:48 it. Yeah we didn't kill it. We did however kill the camera guy. He hasn't been back
22:52 since. Yeah Dwayne Simpson, the very first guy to work on Roadkill and subsequently
22:56 quit Roadkill filmed that. Jared Sturzenegger wants to know when are we
23:01 gonna see the F-bomb? It's right there. Next question.
23:05 Brandon Brown wants to know what is the worst modification you've done to one of
23:09 your own cars and what's the best? That could take some thought because there's
23:14 been a lot of fail over the years. It's easy. I could do a top 25 list. Total 90s
23:19 move. Four inch exhaust tip on a four cylinder powered Toyota mini truck.
23:26 Really? Absolutely unnecessary. I did it. Wow. I had a 77 Ford Bronco which is an
23:32 early Bronco and the thing was mint. It was like bright green factory color and
23:37 everything. It was uncut until I got it. Cut the quarter panels right off that
23:42 thing to put off-road tires. Yeah that truck was nice. That probably was bad.
23:47 Ford guys everywhere sending pipe bombs to your house. The problem with an early
23:51 Bronco though if you don't do that it's useless because it fits like an e78 14
23:56 tire or something like that. It's complete junk without doing that. Alright now what's the best mod? The best
24:01 modifications I've made overall are nitrous and boost. They just fix
24:05 everything. You know what? Right now tires. Tires and suspension. That my wife's
24:12 car, the El Camino, will give you whiplash. Oh because it handles now? Unreal. Yeah.
24:17 The CPP suspension on my Buick convertible is really good. I completely
24:21 changed that car. Same thing we did on Hot Rod Garage on Brandon's Pontiac.
24:25 I've broadened my horizons from just going fast on a straight line.
24:29 I enjoy corners. Speaking of wheels and tires, the best thing you can do if
24:33 you're trying to drag race something is buy a set of slicks. Seriously. You see
24:37 people out there with you know their 55 Chevy with the old pie crusts on there
24:41 that don't hook up. You need real slicks. You just need them. So you're saying they're only
24:46 good for cross-country road trips. Right. Not actual racing. Absolutely.
24:51 Larlos Cago wants to know, remember that time you guys lost to a Hyundai? When's the next time you guys plan on losing to those Motor Trend guys?
25:03 When have we ever lost to a Hyundai? I'm trying to recall. Never. Never been beaten by a Hyundai.
25:09 I've never been beaten by a Hyundai by anybody at Motor Trend. Ever. I swear it.
25:14 You know what the problem is? Is that Larlos Cargo or whatever his name is
25:20 from possibly Toter Mend? He completely biffed the joke because the question is
25:29 have you ever been outrun by a Kia Rio 5? Yeah. Mote it! Right there. Oh my gosh. I thought you had him write the question for you because he wouldn't have known it was a Kia.
25:41 No. And that's it for this time on the Garage Q&A session. At Carlos's expense. As usual. Again.
25:50 Well we have a bunch of ideas on how to actually revisit that Crusher Camaro and
25:58 make it as fast as I need it to be. How fast is that? 8.99. 8.99? I think we got to go 8.99 in that junk. And we can do it.
26:06 Bigger jets. Always bigger jets. More converter. More everything else. Yeah. Yep.
26:10 We can do that. So in the meantime while you're waiting roughly three years for
26:14 that to happen make sure to visit the Hot Rod Garage Facebook page. It is Hot Rod
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