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[Jordan] We're good back here.

So, let's bring it home.

[Brax] Okay. Nut's on.

[power tool rattles]

[Jordan chuckles] Look
how beautifully that fits.

- [Brax] Huh?
- I like it. There we go.

With Dave
Maxwell coming out to see
the progress on the car,

I would really like to see
as much together as we can

so he gets an idea
of where we're at
in the build process.

What I'm here to see
is the special build,

to win the award,
the most...

The best award...
It's like going
to the Academy Awards.

I know a little bit about it.
Seen some renderings of it.

But I'm very anxious
to see it in person.

Well, come on in.

- Mind-blown 101.
- Oh. [laughs]

Wow. [laughs]

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

[Kevin] It's going to
take a team, everybody's
expertise, everybody's input.

[Dave] These cars
cannot be displayed,

promoted, seen by the public

until they arrive
at Detroit Autorama.

[man] There's only
so many teams that
have put these cars together.

So, it's a great,
great, great opportunity.

[Dave] We'll
build a car that nobody
has ever seen before.

The goal is
to build a Ridler.

What I'm here to see
is the special build

to win the award,
the most...

The best award...
It's like going
to the Academy Awards.

I know a little bit about it,
seen some renderings of it.

But I'm very anxious
to see it in person.

That is incredible.

There's no words.

There's no words.

I mean, the car
is just... It's incredible.
There's no words for it.

There's just no words.
I'm astonished.

[Dave] What we're
looking at here, obviously,
is a one-of-one body.

All of the trim,
this is all CNCd
out of multiple pieces.

I think we have
what's 13 pieces
on the windshield alone.

They've welded it
and hand-shaped it.

All of the trim on this car
will be flush mount.

Every time
I look at something,

I want different materials
to flow from one to the next.

[Dave M] This is...
It's all aluminum.

- It's...
- [Dave] Everything
is aluminum. Yep.

[Dave M] The bare aluminum,
to see it without paint...

I kind of liked it.
But, naturally,
you got to do the paint.

- [Dave] There's a full
roll cage built into it...
- [Dave M] Yeah.

...that'll all
be hidden by all of
the leather upholstery.

- [Dave M giggles]
It's incredible.
- [Dave] From back here,

you've got some really
trick stuff going on, too.

- [Dave M] Oh, yeah.
- [Dave] If you look at
everything, the back window,

the license plate,
and the exhaust tip,

it all flows
in that same pattern.

The indent part of the roof
caught my eye.

The back glass...

- Talk about straight.
Oh, my goodness.
- [laughter]

It was a lot straighter
before this guy got
ahold of it.

[Dave M] Oh,
I'll tell you what...

It was
a 10-foot-by-4-foot
flat sheet of aluminum.

I've talked to Dave,
seen some pictures,

but I never
would have expected it
to come out that way.

The hand work
that was done on it,
it's, like, oh... I'm excited.

[Dave] Let me show you
a couple more
technical things.

This is gonna blow your mind,
that Will didn't sleep for
what, the last three years?

- [Dave M laughs]
- This is based on
the new IndyCar technology.

- Yeah.
- This is a single coilover
that's lateral.

It has pushrods
left and right,

and then that is the sway bar
built into the suspension.

Everything is up here.

It's going to be hidden
inside of the luggage

that will be a focal point
from the back window.

[Dave M] You almost
don't want to cover it.
It's a piece of art.

[Dave] It's a rear
jewelry box...

- [Dave M] Yes.
- ...is what
it's gonna look like.

Speaking of rear jewelry box,
you want to see the front
jewelry box?

Yes, I'd love
to see the front.

Let me show you
the face first.

And then, we're gonna
open the hood and
blow your mind.

- [Dave M] Oh, yeah.
- [Dave] The view
from right here

is just over the top.

That just has
a nice, clean stylizing.

- [Dave M] It looks great, man.
- [Kevin] All right.
Let's look under the hood.

[Dave] You wanna see
under the hood? Come here.

- Is it a V6?
- It's a V6 Twin Turbo.

- Ford. We put a Ford in it.
- It's a four-banger.

- I've got a Ford in here.
- Okay.

- Ecotec. Yeah.
- Ecotec?

Holy...

When they lifted that hood up,

all you see is
there's nothing else there
but the engine itself.

[Dave] This is a V12 LS.

The same engineering
that's in the back there...

- Yes.
- ...is inside
the front nose of this.

You could technically
take the whole drivetrain
out of this car

and roll it down the street
without the body.

[Dave M] You hid everything.

[Dave] Everything.
There is no hardware
showing anywhere.

You have to basically
build the car from
the inside out.

You almost need to put
a piece of glass on there
so I can see down there.

[laughter]

[Dave M] Most Ridlers
are just basically,

push them in
and out of the trailer.

After we show this car,
it's gonna be my driver.

I don't want it
to just sit somewhere.

The car is designed
and made to drive.

Let's look at the bottom now.

We're gonna
get this car up on skates.

- We're gonna
put it out here on the lift.
- [Dave M] Okay.

[Dave] We really
are excited for you
to see the bottom of the car.

[Dave M] Dave's done
some builds for me,
and they're... beautiful.

They're one-of-a-kind.

But this one is over the top.
It's a little different.

Have you ever seen
a real UFO in
your life there, Dave?

- Let me show you something.
- Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my gosh.

- Where is everything at?
- Yeah, exactly.

[Dave] It's all
hidden inside the car. And
then, check out that exhaust.

This is long sweeps
of 3.5 inch stainless.

The mufflers are hidden
inside of the pipe.

[Dave M] That is incredible.

So, hey, Kevin, I got an idea.
In the wintertime,

- we just put snow tires
on the back--
- Skis.

- Put skis on the front.
- Yeah.

- And then, yes, stud it.
- [Dave M] Yeah.

Put some screws in it
like they do on snowmobiles.

- You're set.
- Or we could
get some tracks.

- Yeah, Tracks.
- We need to talk.

[chuckling] Okay.

Ridler is the hot rod world
or the custom car world
or the builders' world...

I mean, there's
no better award out there.

Everything is just...
just perfect.

- [Dave] Yeah.
- [Dave M] I don't know how
you could pick anything apart.

I mean, it's just...
Everything, the alignment

and everything is just...
This is incredible.

I believe there's
nothing out there
that could ever beat this car.

I've seen
past years' Ridlers,

talked to people
about future ones.

With the work
that went into this,

I've never seen where
everything was handmade.

There's no car
like this in the world.

[knocks] What do you
figure the weight is...

We actually
weighed it the other day,

- and it is... Ready?
- Well, guess.

- Big V12.
- 35?

- Lower.
- 25?

- Twenty-seven.
- Twenty-seven?

[Will] With no fluids
and no interior
and stuff. So...

[Jordan] It might
go another 100.

- [Dave] It will be under
3,000 pounds.
- [Dave M] Under 3,000?

- [Dave] Mmm-hmm.
- [Dave M] With that motor?

This is incredible.
This is definitely one off.

I appreciate it, guys.
Very, very good job.

- Thank you.
- I'm anxious. Now,
you've really got me pumped.

I can't be
more satisfied
and happy and blessed

to have a crew
work on this car
and take it to heart.

They're very
protective of the car,
and that makes me feel good.

They're very proud of it.

I'm very proud of them.
I'm very proud
of the whole team.

[Kevin] You said you
can't thank us enough.

- Why don't you
take us to lunch?
- Hey, maybe we do that.

- Maybe we do that.
- Yeah.

[Brax] This is the fastest
this car's ever moved.

- [laughter]
- This is a huge deal.

This is years
in the making, right here.

A huge deal for this project.
Huge deal for the shop.

It's big time.

I think this is the milestone
where everybody gets involved

and things are going
to start getting crazy.

Starting to feel like
I'm caught up
in something here.

[Brax] All right,
we'll see you in six months.

[paint technician]
We're going to prime
the bottom of this car,

and the engine bay,
and the wheel wells.

[paint gun hissing]

We want to align the doors
with the weight of the car
on its own wheels.

So, in this case,
we're gonna have
to bodywork the bottom,

and then,
bring it back over to you.

[Will] This is
pretty cool, right?

- [Jordan] Yeah.
- [Will] All the bodywork
on the bottom is done, smooth.

Now, we need to get
all the drivetrain in.

So, let's get it down.

Let's get it off these boards,
and we'll get it on
the actual body pucks.

Then, we'll grab the engine
and transmissions,
throw it in.

- [Jordan] Okay. I'm on.
- [Will] Okay. Stop there.
Stop there.

[Kevin] These cars,
they just move around.

You have to have 'em...
How they're going to be...

- Yeah, we have to. We always
put the engine in.
- [Kevin] 100%.

- All right, it's ready to go.
- [Will] Yeah, let's get
all the drivetrain in.

[power tool whining]

It's crazy, the procedure
we have to go through
with this thing.

Yeah.

What's this whole drivetrain
weigh, you think?
1,000 pounds?

- I'd say, at least.
- Yeah.

- Especially with
all that stuff we've added on.
- And how much

it will affect the body
when that thing
is all together?

Most cars,
it affects the body a lot.

On this one,
we've seen a little effect.

- Very minimal.
- But not... Enough.

We need to eliminate
the very minimal. Yeah.

- It's a Ridler.
So, it needs...
- Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm.

[Will] We're taking
the heads off the engine
so we can put it in the car.

It's not something
that is ideal, but I think
it's going to be necessary.

The whole reason
we want to take
the heads off

is because it is
extremely tight
to the firewall,

and then,
the front fan shroud area.

And it's just gonna
be a lot safer to have
as much room as we can.

- Blasted my face with oil.
- [Will] To the car?

Uh, yeah.

It's just a tiny bit lighter
without those heads, huh?

- [Will] The engine lift--
- [Kevin] Keeps getting
improvements.

So that it doesn't make you
want to vomit while
you're operating it.

We've got to come up
with the whole engine-trans,

and then, we've got
to tilt it back to land
these front pucks.

on top of the front
motor-mount pads
right there.

And then, the rest
just sucks right up to it.

But, in the past,
what we've been
caught up on is,

the head is very,
very close to the firewall.

And particularly
on the right side,

and really close
right here on this
upper control-arm mount.

So, that's our biggest thing
that we're going
to be watching.

But, yeah, this
teeter-totter is pretty fun.

Me and Brax
have ridden it a lot.

Yeah, we... [cackles]

- Yeah.
- [Jordan] Are you gonna
set it up there?

Say when.

Okay. We're good.

- [Jordan] Okay. Ready?
- Yeah.

[power tool whining]

[Brax] Come forward.

We're clearing the top okay?

- [Brax speaking]
- [Jordan] Okay.

I don't have a ton of room
on these transmission ones.

- So, Steve, you raise that.
- [Jordan] Wanna raise that end
a little?

[Will] Is it way heavy?

Then, grab a jack.
Then, let's grab a jack...

We're in a rock
and a hard place here.

We're just being very careful.

We don't want to scratch
or chip this primer.

They've spent
a lot of time on this thing.

So, we just have
to be really careful.

And our whole makeshift
lifting device here,

we've changed
the balance point on.

So, now all of a sudden,
the transmission's acting
very heavy,

and it's tricky enough,
but we don't want
to get in a hurry.

- Go ahead.
- [Brax] Nice and slow.
We're getting close.

- [Will] Okay. That's good.
- [Brax] Okay.

[Jordan] Come up.

[hydraulic lift whining]

[Brax] Okay.

Come back...
Oh! Stop.

Okay, come back a little bit.

I'm super tight
to this engine mount.

[Brax] We've got to go back.
Can we go back?

- [Jordan] Yeah.
- [Brax] Okay. No wiggles
for one sec.

You want to go up
a little, Jordan?

Stop. Jack.

- [Steve speaking]
- Okay, that's maxed.

What we can do is, we can pull
from the front down, and...

- [Will] So, we just bring in
the car down around it?
- [Jordan] Yeah.

[Will] Because
that's pretty controllable.

- [Jordan] Ready?
- No.

I'm coming up a tiny bit.

- Stop!
- [Jordan] Stop?

- [Brax] Yeah.
- [Jordan] Coming down.

We're still looking good
on the back of the engine.

- [Brax] Stop! Stop!
- [Will] You gotta do
more body.

- [Jordan] More body?
- [Will] Hold on. Hold on.
Stop. one second.

- I just heard a bonk.
- I heard a bonk, too.

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[Brax] More body, less engine.

Just let the body
go for a second.

[Will] Okay.
Wait, wait, wait. Stop.

[Brax] Whoa!

- [Jordan] What was that?
- [Brax] It's moving wide.

[Jordan] I didn't
touch anything.

- [Will] It was me.
- [Jordan] Okay.

[Brax] You're pretty
darn close, too.

Yeah, I'm on
the body mount, basically.

[Brax] Bump
the engine slightly.

- Down?
- [Brax] Yeah.

- Okay. Okay.
Right there.
- [Will] Okay.

The engine,
transmission, drivetrain
has bolted onto the body.

We're sitting
pretty good there.

We're throwing
the heads on right now

just since the car's low down.

And then, we can
go up and start putting
suspension components on it.

So, we're sitting pretty good.

This is a different
procedure to put in
than most cars, but...

This is tight. But this
is extra, extra cautious

- for not ruining it.
- [Will] Yeah.

Super cool.

[Dave] If I was
looking at this car,
what would this car look like?

What would make it stand out?

It's safe to say
that champagne
isn't necessarily

the most flashiest color.

I think, by changing
the house side color,

now, I've got to
kind of reconfigure

the entire theme
and colors of this car.

Instead of doing
the red interior,

I'm kind of thinking
along the lines of

like a sienna brown
color interior.

Definitely, the first step
will be putting the concept
of the color change together.

But much like everything,
I like to incorporate
and include

the guys in the back
to help me make sure that
we're making the right move.

I just want to make sure
that I've got the entire team
behind me on this decision.

We've made a decision
to do a more vibrant color

on the outside of the car.

Kind of the consensus is,
we need to do something

that makes it kind of
jump a little bit.

So, we're going
to switch the colors
from a red interior,

and the silver or platinum
more neutral outside
to the opposite.

We'll go more neutral
on the interior,

and go a little bit more
awesome on the outside.

This is Infrared
Modern Classic.

We've never actually sprayed
that color on a car.

I developed the color.

I love the color.
It's got a lot
of brass undertones,

which I think
is really sharp.

But bend it, and you can see
the flop on this thing.

It has that flare still
all the way on the low side.
It doesn't go milky.

What I'm kind of thinking is,
we need to find colors
for the engine,

which is gonna be
in a matte finish
and chrome.

And then, also,
for the interior,

I've got a couple
of different samples
that I'd like you guys

to give me your
thoughts and your input
on interior color.

And then, also,
I want to paint the engine
in an accent color.

I narrowed it down to three
to not overwhelm us.

So, this is our darkest color
for the engine,
in a matte finish.

And this is the color I would
go with, with these two.

This is saddle.
And then, watch this.

So, you take
this one right here,

and you match it with...

Very conservative,
but it's nice.
It's really nice.

And then,
take this and this.

It's sharp.
Look how rich that is.

[Stephens]
It's already dirty.

- [laughter]
- Because I touched it.

I know.

I was trying to push him
on the interior
for red on red.

Quite gutsy,
but it looks so good.

I'm going
to not complicate it.

I think that the bronze
or the copper
undertones of the red

comes really quite nice,
with the darker contrast

against chrome,
matte finish on the pearls.

And then, that
brown interior just kind of
ties all of it together.

I think that's
a winner, guys.

- Everybody in agreeance?
- Let's do it.

[Jordan] What're you
thinking, Will?

- I always eat crow
on these colors. So...
- [man] You do.

I'd pick your expertise
over what I might think.

Thanks for taking
the pressure off me.

If it's ugly, it's all
of our fault, not just mine.

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- All right. [whoops]
- [Jordan] Up there?

[Will] Hold on, hold on.

[Jordan] Clear here.

Basically, tearing
this down for paint.

There's gonna be
just some adjustments

and really
fine detail fitments.

But all of the fab
that we could do
is pretty much done.

- [Jordan] On to paint.
- [Will] Yeah, into paint.

We're gonna put it
on the rotisserie,
then, get some paint on it.

Basically, you've
got to be super careful

because there is nowhere
to blend out an edge.

There is no hard lines.

There is no straight lines
on this car.

Everything has a curve.

[paint gun hissing]

- So, how's it looking?
- [paint technician]
It's looking great.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

- Can I see it?
- Absolutely not.

[laughs]

The less dust in there,
the better.

- Can I see it
through a window?
- Yes.

You can lick the glass
like everyone else gets to.

- Have you been licking the
glass? What part did you lick?
- Maybe.

Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about that.

We've got how many
coats of base on the car now?

We've got two on it now.

[Kevin] Is it covering?
Are we going to use
a ton of material?

[paint technician]
It's covering pretty good
on the first coat,

but on the second coat,
as I was just laying it down,

I could see it
becoming more...

- [Dave] It's flowing out.
- [Kevin] How's the bottom
of the car look?

[paint technician]
Oh, it looks great.

[Kevin] I can't wait
to see that.

It's all sculpted
and beautiful.

[paint technician] The hard
thing about the car is,
there's no break-up points.

You pretty much
have to spray the car...

- [Dave] Front-to-back?
- ...front-to-back.

If you stop in the middle
of a panel, you see that
dry spray right there.

- [Kevin] Right.
- [paint technician] So, you
have to run the whole car.

[Dave] So, you've got
the hood and the doors

- in the other booth?
- [paint technician] Yes.

[Dave] Running them
in correlation with
the direction of the car?

[paint technician] Yeah.
Same air pressure,
same temperature.

-Everything's the same.
- [Dave] Okay. Cool.

Well, I'm gonna look
through the window.
I gotta see it.

- [paint technician] Okay.
- I'm so excited.

Everything on this car
is finished to the nines.
Everything.

Or actually,
well, I'll just call it
finished to the tens.

[Dave] Tens.

Oh.

[Kevin]
Doesn't it look orange?
Is that the color you picked?

I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.

[Dave] We do nines
on everything else.

- This is a ten.
- Yeah, ten.

I think it's going
to look very classy.
I think that's the color.

- I think that's it.
- That's it.

[Dave] Mmm-hmm.
I'm so pumped,
it's ridiculous.

[Kevin] Show me
your "pumped" face.

[all laughing]

- [Kevin] Let's get
out of here.
- Was that not it?

This is a full-blown,
start-from-600,
work-all-the-way-to-5000,

polish top, bottom.
Every surface is perfect.

Dang, Harlan.

- What?
- This engine base
is sure looking nice.

Thank you, man.

[Brian] What's taking
so long, though?

[Harlan] Because it's
incredibly complicated.

- [Brian] Is it?
- Yes. This is the pinnacle
of my entire auto body career.

Happening right now.
On this car.
It's blowing my mind.

You've got
the easy panels, though.

- Easy?
- Yeah.

None of this is easy.

No, none of it's easy,
but you don't have
compound curves

coming into tight corners
that still have to be--

There's a compound curve
right here.

There's a compound curve
up there, right there.

Don't tell me there's
no compound curves.

[Harlan] The engine bay
is Formula 1 ridiculous...

[Brian] This is
a one-off engine bay...

- [Harlan] Yeah, it's nice.
- ...that is incredibly
complex.

[Harlan] It's a work of art.

The engine takes up
the whole engine bay,

and it's also structural

for the suspension
and the frame of the car.

The engine block itself
is structural.

The A-arms come through here.
But they're also attached
to the block.

It's a lot of compound curves
coming together at once,

and it still has
to be blocked flat.

But there's not
a flat spot on any of it.
Not at all.

I've never really
done anything
quite like this before.

Everything I've ever
done in my entire life
has led to this moment.

Which is an honor.

[Brian] It's nerve-racking,
for sure.

Because, if
we make any mistakes
that require a paint touch up,

there's no way
to blend on this car.

It would basically be
an entire repaint for
the whole car

if we screw up anything.

[Harlan] The level
of scrutiny on a Ridler entry

is just going to be
off the charts.

If I think about it too hard,
it's harder to do.
[chuckles]

But we're really
in the homestretch now,
and it's beautiful.

- It's getting there.
- [Brian] Homestretch?
We're halfway there.

I know, but we got
shiny everywhere.

It looks kind of like
we're getting somewhere now.

You say that because
you've been with
this car from...

Bodywork stage
had to be perfect.

Primer stage
had to be perfect.

Wet sand and prep for paint
had to be perfect.

And now, painted...

This car has consumed my life
for the last six months.

- Yeah.
- I want it to be done.

- I love it, though.
It's a beautiful car.
- It's amazing.

It just should have
been blue.

[laughs]

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We need to invest
in some ergonomic chairs.
That's what I know.

[laughs] Yeah, like
the paint guys do.

They're just,
like, kicking back,
like sanding parts.

We need a La-Z-Boy
up in here.

When you're looking
at the surroundings,

being reflective,
and you can follow
the same light

bend through the trim
and the glass
and there is no deviation,

it basically is
different materials,

all flowing in the exact
same slippery direction,

which is just super trick.

It's got to be perfect.
So, you just keep sanding,
dip it, sand it...

dip it, sand it again.

Sand, sand, sand.

Dip, dip, dip.

[Eric] I wish
you guys would quit
stealing my sandpaper, too.

Whenever you dip this copper,
it likes to build up on
the edges a little more.

So, you get
a little ridge on everything.

So, we've got to get
everything knife-edged
and then blocked down.

You can see kind of
where the lows are, where
it's dark here, you know,

sand until we get into that
and just make it
nice and smooth.

This thing's got to be 100.
So, that's what
we're striving for.

It might look
like it's straight, but it's
gotta dip down this way

and a dip down that way
to match the body.

[Eric] That's about where
you stop right there.

We start
getting into some nickel.

We want to slow down
a little bit,

because if we get
into bare metal,
then we've got to start over.

We don't want that.

A little nickel
ain't gonna hurt.

[man] It's very
time-consuming...

- [Eric] Yes, it takes forever.
- ...doing the same thing
over and over again.

And I'm not a body guy.

Yeah, exactly.

[producer speaking]

It's a great question.

It's a question for
someone above me.

You're asking the wrong guys.

It's not so bad for the first
four hours. The last four
get a little rough.

But, the first day,
I was kind of like,
nice about it.

And then,
the second day, I was like...
[groans]

Now, I'm like, Day 6...

And then, by the third day,
it's like, "What am I doing?"

I don't know what
they're complaining about.

This is kind of cathartic.
Is that the right word?

The real problem is
listening to Neil talk

for eight hours a day,
right next to him.

- It's pretty rough.
- They'll end up
with red beards

by the end of this,
that's for sure.

It starts red,
and then it turns green
because the oxidation.

The difficulty level
is there on the car.

And it makes it
a lot more difficult to
go back and repair mistakes.

We need to make sure that
we have our game together,
just like we always have.

[Will] Okay, that's plenty.

This is our little
lift device here.

[lift whining]

It has a hydraulic ram
in the bottom,
and it's gonna pick it up.

There's a bit of balancing
that we'll have to do.

We're just gonna go
as slow as we can.

[man] Okay. Right there.

[Will] Ready? Up.

We'll go up into
the nose cone a bit,

we'll get this leveled out
and then, we'll be up
in place for the most part.

[man] Bump it up.

[Bledsoe] Should we get
something on these pads here,
just in case this thing...

[Will] Yeah, you can
put some rags
in there for now.

- Get some rags.
- [sighs] It's very
nervy, though.

We've got a lot
of time in this paint,

and just no room for error
on bumping something together.

- Hold up.
- [man] Yeah,
it's pretty close.

[Will] So, do we need...

We need to shift a bit
towards the passenger side,
I think.

I'll keep an eye on it.
I'll just stay right here.

[Will] Just so. Push it in.

[man] Okay. Hold up. Hold up.
Hold up. Needs to shift over
some more.

[Bledsoe] I don't know
if we can go back at all.

But I am right into
this nose cone,

and if I let this thing
move either way,
it's gonna hit it.

[Will] Okay, let's go back
a little bit.

And then we're gonna raise
the transmission more.

[Bledsoe] Okay. It's better.

Okay.

[Will] Okay,
how are we sitting?

[Bledsoe] Okay, now, you can
try to go up on that.

Whoa, okay,
you're close to this.
You're close back here again.

It goes in close.

There's not a bunch of room,
just so you're aware.

Okay, we're going up.

[Bledsoe] I'm
getting super close.

Is that running
into stuff up there?

[Bledsoe] Just my hands,
we're good.

- Is everybody okay?
- [man] I think so.

[Bledsoe] Okay, move.

Okay. I think we need
to grab the spacers,
and some bolts and stuff.

- [man] There room to do that?
- [man 2] Yeah, I got
just enough room.

[man] There it goes. I'm in.

[Will] Okay.

All right. Cool.

- [man] Wow. We did it.
- [Will] Ta-da!

- Yeah. Just roll it out.
- Let's just roll it out and...

[Will] We're going to
get it supported,

get the heads on,
get the radiator in,

get the coolant system
all squared away,
the whole nine yards

so that we know that we
don't have to come back out
as soon as we just put it in.

So, here we go.

2
- [Kyle] You ready?
- [Bledsoe] Yep.

- It's pretty close.
- [Kevin] Whoo!

- A little tight.
- A little.

[Kevin] Whoever puts the
valve covers on, dude better
be super careful.

[Kevin laughs]

- I'll leave that
for the final assembly guys.
- That's you.

- What?
- Yeah, you're
the final assembly guys.

- You're funny. [laughs]
- No, that's true.

That's true. This is Kyle,
the new final assembly guy.

Right road
to the Ridler.

[Kyle] You gotta do
three different passes
on these ARP head studs.

The first round
is gonna be 25 foot pounds.

[Bledsoe] Okay, Kyle,
don't break my fingers.

[Kyle] Start yelling
and then, maybe I'll stop.

Ow. That's my finger.

Well, I made sure
to ask if you were good,
and you said, yeah.

Well, I am,
but my finger wasn't.

Once we follow that sequence
and get them all at 25,

And then, after that,
there's one more pass

and we'll take them all to 70
in the same sequence.

Get as close as you can
without going over.

[groans] Be careful.

[tool beeps]

2
You don't really ever want
to fire up a dry engine.

Now, these engines will make
oil pressure pretty quick.

But these rocker arms
also have a bunch of needle
bearings inside of them.

We're gonna put oil
in the engine anyways, right?

So, we'll take a half a quart
and dump it all over
the rocker arms.

That way,
they have something
on first fire-up.

I'm gonna dump
some more oil
inside of here

so I can see the bottom
of the lifters.

Boop!

That kind of just
tied everything together.

Looks pretty good.

No scratches.

[Will] The suspension is all
completely unique to this car.

We basically designed it
all in the computer,

and it's all just
one big dream.

I wanted it all
kind of race-inspired.

So, that was kind of my thing
with the suspension,

and that's the direction
we went there.

Absolutely one-of-one.

I mean, I can't imagine
we'll get anywhere near
recreating this thing again.

Every piece on here,
pretty unique.

You need up or down?

[Will] Yeah. Lift
that control arm
just a little bit.

Okay, I'm in the hole.

So, I'm not sure if you need
to go back down or...

- About right there?
- [Will] A little more.

Okay. I'm good on that side.

Um...

That's right where
we need to be, but
the pin won't go through.

Well, we got the shock in.

We're just fighting with
one pin to get the pushrod
to go to the control arms.

It's slow-going and
everything is very particular,
how it wants to fit.

I don't know what engineer
designed this thing,

but we're gonna have
to have a talk with him.

[Kyle] Oh, wowee.
Look at that, guys.

Whatever straight-six
these are going on
is gonna be real cool.

I just want
to make sure that they
don't have any imperfections

because these
are going to be
a pretty big focal point

when you open up the hood.

The engine is,
like, a green color,

and then, these
are gonna pop out.

Your eyes are
naturally going to go
right towards them.

And if they've got
a big a blemish on the top
of the primary or something,

we don't want to see that
right off the bat.

Because, on this car,
even the smallest little nick
is a no-go.

Um...

How do these...

We're not going that way?

[Kevin] It's called
"Will tolerances"
around here

because Will can build stuff
very, very, very tight
and precise.

[Kyle] It's super tight.
And we have this bracket here

that's gonna hold
the steering shaft.

It doesn't look like much.
But if you've ever tried to
snake headers through a car,

you know 3/8 of an inch
will really just
ruin your day.

And that thing
is what's holding us up.

So, we'll have to pull
this bracket back off

to get this driver's side
mum in place.

It's not ideal,
but it's not
the end of the world either.

There you go.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, man.

Hey, it looks like
we need to rotate that.

[Jordan]
Fits good right there.

[Will] This is not
our standard exhaust.

This is
a pretty bizarre exhaust.

The biggest thing
with the exhaust
is it's kind of sized up.

It's 3.5 inch tubing
instead of 3.

We did these
big long radius sweeps

that just flow really cool
with the car.
It's pretty wild.

Hold it, hold it.
There we go. That helps.

[Dave] To go for
the type of award
that we're hoping for,

you've got to make sure
that the tolerances are tight

and that the gaps are perfect.

That the flow
of the car is perfect.

[man] It'll fit through. Yeah.
Go down closer to the belt.

Here you go.

It's done.
Fire it up now.

No, we've got to bolt it
down still and everything.

But this is the final,
final install on it.

[Kyle] Hang on a second.
Isn't Will gonna lose his mind

if these wires
are still colored
underneath the intake?

Let's pop it
back off real quick.

[Bledsoe] It's not
the final install on it.

It's not
the final install anymore.

Let's just take
a black paint marker

and just dab those.

That's not gonna work.
It's not thick enough.

I wonder if we can
almost use Tesa tape on that

if we just keep it real slim.

We're gonna have to.

[Kyle] Let's do
the same thing.

Once we get it closer,
Kenny can just
pull this pigtail out.

- [Will] Let me help here.
Right there.
- On the driver's side.

[Will] Just like that.
Keep coming.

We'll just have to get
a pick and shove that
little pigtail up under there.

So...

2
[Kyle] Yeah, go down
closer to the belt.

We didn't manage
any of that stuff
so it can float around.

Yeah.

[Kevin] Everything's
so tight underneath.

If you have
the injector harness
in the wrong spot,

you're basically pinching
the injector harness.

That's bad.

[Will] Well, let's get that
squared away before
we get too much farther.

I was really hoping to have
that thing tied up so it
wasn't just wandering around.

We're going to pot in
everything on our injectors,

keep everything up
really nice and tight

so then
we don't have any issues
with any of that stuff.

Even if we
had a plastic clip,

just a pretty simple
little tab of material,

just so we know that these
things aren't gonna relax
on the way to the show...

And I have some gum
on my toolbox.

- I don't want
your bubble gum.
- No?

[Will] No. Let me see
what I can't find real quick.

It's... some AVS plastic.

Just a little retainer.

- Try it?
- [Kyle] Try that.

Okay, now,
basically just straight down.
Get your light and see...

Way better. And not
the fear of those wires

falling down after the fact.

[Kyle] Cool. Okay, so,
we can put the bolts in
and torque it down, right?

- Get it torqued down, right?
- Yeah.

They look like
some shoe inserts, huh?
Or some salmon.

Gotta be careful
with these, apparently.

I gotta build some trim
that'll sit on this thing
around the perimeter.

Doesn't sound too trick,
but this thing's all got to be
a little bit of an angle, too.

So, it's not like I can just
bend it up around this.
It's got to flow through.

And sit on this perfectly.

I want to do a door pull
that's actually incorporated
in the scallop,

but let's do
a dart across it,

but let's have that actually
as the door pull.

Oh, like, hover it
over a cove?

As you can see, it's got shape
every which way, you know?

Hopefully, it just bends
right into place.
So, pray for me.

Measure this thing up.

Or...

Now, we got plenty.

I think I'm just gonna
try to get the shape,

and then, I'll try
to put a little twist
in it after, I suppose.

Let's go find
something to bend this with.

What do we got here?

Maybe some old frame rail.
Let's see where that
will get us.

Just start getting some
shape, and I'll be able
to fine-tune it from there.

But I just gotta pull
the trigger somewhere.

On something.

Oh, yeah, that's tough stuff.

I feel like we're gonna have
to bust out some heat.
Let me go get the persuader.

[cameraman] Yeah, I see that.

[Eric] So, I hope I can
do it again.

[laughs dryly]

Right on. I like it.

[Dave] The door panel,
I want layers,

I want to have a lot
of contour and a lot
of dimension to it.

I don't want
a just flat door panel.

I gotta bend these
into this radius, hopefully.
That's the goal.

It should be nice and
soft now. Go slam it
through the sheet metal roller

and see if it does anything,

And then after
we get a bend in it,
I'll be able to cut it loose

and clean it up a little bit,
and have a cool little
pull handle.

I'm not even
thinking this thing
is really going to bend,

but we'll have
to figure out a way.

This thing will even fit...

I'm not feeling
too confident.

Hey. Did something.

[laughs] I wasn't
expecting that to work.

All right.
We'll cut it loose now.

[tool whirring]

[Dave] I'm more
and more inspired
every single day,

watching this stuff now
finally come together
with color.

I'm very excited
to come to work
every single day,

and I'm even
more excited to see
more parts go in this car.

It's not bad.
Tweak on 'em a little bit.

Get these cleaned up.

[power tools whirring]

I might just have
to look at it on the car
and see if we like it.

[Will] This is not
our standard exhaust.

This is
a pretty bizarre exhaust.

[Bledsoe] These headers,
we've got these set up.
Gonna start the engine.

- [Kyle] You guys ready?
- Yep. Hit it.

[engine revving]

'Cause Austin's
got to sit right here
and get his arm in there.

- Oh, is he that...
- I feel that.

[bleep]

We are out of time.

If that cracks the fender,
we are out of time
to go backwards.

We cannot... The doors
need to be on this car.

Now. The body needs
to start going together.

We get the car running,
and start getting
[bleep] together.

We're gonna run out of time.