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Joe comer big Joe's here that means we
can start it's friday and so that means
that it is time for the traditional
Roadkill Extra question-and-answer
session
Joe has no questions because he has a
tiny pea brain if you're doing pattern
though but the internet as questions I
posted on Facebook and said hey let me
know what you want to know out of myself
David Freiburger or him Steve Dulcich and
what happened apparently as everybody
thinks we're hardcore Mopar guys so all
the questions are about mopars what
gives that away now weird so I'm gonna
ask the first one that is not a Dodge
plymouth related question que NOS but
meant says short quick you could own one
car non-american made what would it be
and what would be done to it
well I probably get an XKE with the 38
series one really yeah because I've got
this king of British cars where the dogs
all run to the money or what yeah
probably man their pack should see those
dogs all black he's still here
what's up Blackie I think it's got a
sticker in his paw yeah he's got one of the
thorn in his paw
I'd fix it except for shooting a video
right now and get Charles to fix it so
it for me a foreign car I i could
probably think about this for a long
time and come up with something really
good but my nature could be a toyota
fj40 landcruiser no that's not that's a
truck i know well about that are hard i
have to come up with car
yeah you don't want any cars i'd like to
point out the i don't i just i don't
really care about them which brings up
an interesting thing i've noticed the
lot
I when I was the editor hot right always
wish that people just were into cars and
want to make anything fast but they
don't what people want is the car that
they want to make fast you know what I
mean no
ok let me be more clear about that
I always thought oh man to be a general
car guy you would just get any car and
you would want to work on everything is
great or people care about performance
but they don't care about performance
because if they did they buy a brand new
challenger or instead of a 1917
challenge out but they want to go fast
in the 1970s Allinger because that makes
them feel like when
where a kid or because school or
anything like that and so I just don't
have that sort of visceral attachment to
any foreign cars except for maybe a
landcruiser so I don't know what to tell
you
I mean 240z these can be pretty good
looks like his foots ok no other than
that I don't know
yeah I just I really I almost can't even
name them maybe how about VW Bug does
that count
yeah that's good ok they're pretty cool
VW Bug remember the cow bugs are pretty
popular back in today I like them I'd
have a bug
let me scan past there's just so many
mopar questions like this one
Todd to boca y mopar did you guys grow
up and dodge families or did you come to
love them in your teen or adult years
for me it was that the guy who I let me
first drive his car it was a 71 duster
twister 318 with a three speed and he
was kind of into it and so I got into it
so when I started shopping for my first
car really all I looked at was mopars
but i also like them because i was
really into collecting old car magazines
when I was a little kid like from i
would say 10 years old and I would
always read all the road test I read all
the muscle car books and everything and
to me the Mopars had the biggest
character I liked all the colors and
stripes and all that craziness in the
the muscle car era and that's really why
I got into it about you
they were the cheapest don't wanna yeah
they had was the cheapest way to get a
performance car but actually i really
like the looks of my first car was my 71
Artie and I saw that thing when i was 16
and I thought man I think it looks
pretty cool
yeah and that i had an adult community
that I'd inherited from my granddad and
I unloaded that picked up the charger
and you know i was hooked after that
there are you gonna non mopar question
Pete Phillips pros and cons of a spring
under vs spring / on the rear of a
street truck course initially I thought
he was talking about four wheel drives
you know what i'm talking about spring
under vs spring / for the audience's
sake assume this is the rear axle of a
truck spring / is a flat spring on top
spring under is an arched spring on the
bottom of
the axle and if you're doing a like a
slam two-wheel-drive truck you want the
axle on top of the spring because then
you can get the whole thing lower if
you're dealing with a four-by-four often
if you're doing a spring under it'll
wheel hop less than a spring / because I
flat spring that front front segment is
fairly easy to twist and so it will hop
but a lot of three quarter ton trucks
like my dodge ram 2500 come with a flat
leaf spring in the back on top of the
axle but then they also use a tension
shackle instead of a compression shackle
in the back
what about spring blocks now that makes
it even worse that's what makes it worse
a four-by-four with a flat spring to
make it high needs a spring block and
that means a block between the leaf
spring and the axle to lift the truck
but that increases the length of the
lever arm between the centerline of the
axle shaft and the mounting point of the
leaf spring which means there's even
more leverage to twist that front
segment of the spring so my t3 trucking
with a spring block those three genetic
run factory yeah so does my Dodge yeah
but on a flexi off-road vehicle you'd
really rather have a flat spring because
the flat spring can bend both ways
whereas an arched spring you know that's
arched like like this does not want to
move flat and when it does it gets
longer if you imagine a arch spring like
this when it's flexing it gets longer
which means you need more shackle travel
and it also moves the centerline of the
axle around more during suspension
travel pretty good tech piece that was a
pretty good to answer it him i was
impressed with me
what are your suggestions of this alex
johnson he wants to know about low buck
mods to a 72 ish ford f-350 fe 360 you
put the cranking it to make it a 39
minutes apart yeah that would be a good
start the only difference in those i
think was the crankshaft and the
probability connecting rod length right
i think you're right yeah i think the
board's the same but yeah basically i
think that's a easy for the quarter
horse combo with a mild can an Edelbrock
cylinder head on it there's guys go to I
think it's for debbie com isn't it yeah
isn't that where all those guys hang out
there is a real fanatics on the ford f
the engine and those guys know way more
about it that I'm gonna spew off the top
of my head you can get the berry
Robotnik's book on the FBI just have a
full book yeah you want a book and he
sells like stroker kits and stuff like
that it's called survival motorsport
yeah one of our engine masters guys
sometimes and these pretty knowledgeable
on those that's actually a really good
tip let's see
but also you got Thomas Wilson says
freiburger if someone gave you a Corvair
rolling chassis what would you do with
it
that's easy spirit you put the Chevy
small block behind the seat you would
you oh yeah the crown conversion yeah i
think i would do the thing that I've
seen more these days which is you can
drop that whole car over a GM g body
chassis like a 78 Malibu chassis and it
fits perfectly sane really base the
whole thing drops right on but that's
for an engine
yeah if it's under the trunk i don't
know i just couldn't go there because
you couldn't the guy i bought my 71
charger from he was actually building a
crown conversion Corvair so that made an
impression on my mind when I was like
yeah 15 or 16 years old so you gotta
have it
I don't think he ever finished it and I
think it's still around yeah so go get
that the roadkill garage segment right
there
yeah Zach fannin wants to know what's my
favorite brand of flip-flops these
things are the base model Quicksilver
men's Carver flip-flops which I only
know because I ordered a new stock of
them from amazon only like day before
yesterday who this is not a good when
I'm not even going there aren't you try
to stump me with one with no stump you
stumped me with a hard long man you know
not an opinion one but in fact what I
don't know if I can do that really
quickly
really oh here's a good one answer this
well i'm looking up a good one okay what
are you gonna do with the blueprint
engines 400 from engine masters could
you put it into a nova or camaro who I
was hoping you'd give it to me so I
could put in my dad
ok now tell them the crusher camaro plan
while looking for one to stump you know
we might just put into the crusher
camaro with a tunnel ram and stuff it
made about 550 horsepower at West tech
and it might
or what episode was that engine masters
guy wanted to see that all the very
first episode yeah we took the yeah
engine masters episode one we took this
blueprint 400 crate motor and just took
off the dual plane put the tunnel ram on
it made 50 horsepower honestly I think
that's because that dual plane kind of
sucked
yeah but that thing's an amble we run
that thing on so many tests I know
bulletproof and then we wasted the cam
bearings the last time out and I have no
idea why to this day
yeah that's weird never had cam bearings
I got something about the cam journal
diameter that we put in or something
who ok you're going to touch a nerve
with this one right here really
Austin Morningstar I think we've
actually answered questions from him
before I recognize the name which
penetrating fluid do you like best PB
blaster or liquid wrench i think the
ultra screw loose from crc he's won me
over
really yeah it's amazing seriously
honestly
wow we get that stuff for free too I
know in the RC is our sponsor but I got
to admit I I'm a PB Blaster guy have
been for a long time but yeah I remember
you were trying to convert me to liquid
wrench liquid wrench is good but I mean
that ultra screw loose
I just used today to take out the
u-bolts a really those have been on
there since you put them on in the
nineties i think or 2,000 yeah for sure
they've spun right off
yeah i like the ultra screwloose better
than the that freeze off
yeah . better yeah but yeah the ultra
screwloose is really good i think all
those products are actually pretty good
but you know what I'm surprised you
didn't come back with saying that you
know you just want like a combination of
diesel oil and transmission fluid or
something but you gotta put the acetone
and they're going to keep resetting yeah
that's usually the farmers recipe and
learning that out it's you it's
worthless just makes a mess
ok Sam Stefan wants note go check what
is the plan for the don't hit the dart
dart I moved it out actually it's in
it's like right in front of my painting
garage i'm gonna start painting it
before the sky Rex's this is the white
69 dart shell that usually sits at the
front of his shop and in like every
episode of roadkill garage when I moving
something in he's freaking out that I'm
actually gonna dent the car
well yeah because it I've got the whole
thing prep for paint and I've sanded it
i put the primer on actually it was
completely ready to go
and then I just put work ya know what
the reason is because i had another
project in the painting garage and then
I realized you know I really want to get
the dark done so i clear that out like
just last weekend
I've got the dark stage to get hosed off
and cleaned up and rolled in painted ya
back blast i think the time flat
the dart is a 69 and it's not a 340 car
is it
no it was originally a 273 ok but you
had a very 44 speed in it and he used to
drive the thing everywhere everyday
yeah white with a red interior yeah it
was pretty it was an override 833 so
that helped the gearing and you know on
the freeway was pretty good yeah it was
fast
Keyser Soze right wants to know what are
the biggest or worst most embarrassing
mistakes you've ever made when working
on a car that should be self-evident
because we put them on every episode of
roadkill
yeah pretty much yeah but i actually
remember one high school
auto shop I remember being humiliated
because the classroom was up on a second
level and everyone in the classroom
could see down into the shop and I
remember the teacher called me up and he
was like freiburger do me a favor and
measure the rotor on the front of that
car that's in the shop and I was like
okay so I ran down there and popped open
the hood and pick the distributor cap
off and was measure in and he looks down
he goes the brake rotor and to me that
was like the most humiliating moment
ever italic oh that's pretty bad
I was 15 that's what he wants excuse
what's yours
I don't want to admit it let's hear it
one of my mentors told me never met
admit your mistakes
yeah yeah but probably well okay i put
together 33 chevy for my dad and I put
the number three piston and the number
five hole and put the number 5 piston
and the number three hole
yeah and I detailed this thing like it
was going my bed I wanted it perfect you
know I i tried to build a really nice
engine anything so when i get the West
tech I I told the guys
hey watch two Chainz don't scratch my
engine this is like the real deal and it
just so happened that like jeff smith
and and Tony mamo for me
far and all these guys you know all my
buddies were there and I heard up bent
valve drop the valve dropped it
swallowed it Oh went right through the
piston edge on the valve head like the
reason for this is if you look at the
the pattern of what does it go in take
those exhaust intake exhaust exhaust
intake and exhaust right and if the
valve notches in the pistons are in the
wrong place then you don't have enough
valve piston clearance
why wouldn't have hit when you were
rolling it around though you know what
that's I think of that you know yeah
yeah I put it on the dyno and I was
turning the crank over by hand with the
right now that's kind of a hard spot
yeah
yes I just have to hold the little it
was just hitting a little bit but would
roll through it
yeah man there's just like something
wrong with the dyno I think brûlées
got you know like a bad bearing or tight
a spot and I thought it was in the dyno
absorber and I actually felt it and I
just like rationalizing I thought
there's no way I could make a mistake
the wise and all-knowing engine master
yeah I didn't even know that one before
yeah I don't brag about it but now
everybody knows i saw one of the best
ones ever one time and i guess i won't
bring up who actually did this because
he still denies it vehemently I came
into the hot rod shop one time and there
was an engine that had been on the dyno
the day before
yeah and I looked at it and the engine
was apart and I'm like what's up with
this and I lift the intake manifold off
of it because i'm wondering you know
what's the deal there was a rag in there
that had obviously been through the
engine
really yeah i think clearly the
carburetor like when it was being
shipped and have a carburetor on it
somebody put a rag in the intake
manifold than both of the carburetor on
sucked it right there it was real
obviously happened and that was not me
but the takeaway is you have to be
pretty careful when you put an engine
together you can't make any mistakes you
know I'm the same note you for the story
about the supercharger having to oh yeah
yeah that's a good with ya tell them it
oh I don't know who did it or why this
is my idea its might even be an urban
legend is no I know you know it's fact
but somebody bolted a supercharger on
supercharger manifold but the bottom of
the blono was
eight overnights keep stuff in it and
they bolted on with the tape still on it
and then they're trying to figure out
why the engine won't run because of
course the tape is blocking the whole
passageway it wasn't I'm gonna go
I like this with no it works perfectly
with that brief it's question yeah Luke
McDermott does Dulcich have a medical
marijuana card
no man I don't mess around with any of that stuff he takes
his libations from a can
yeah repeatedly let's go with one more
question
oh here's a great one Dave Graham will
there be a general mayhem too . o
without the Hellcat know now I don't
think so you think i'm getting rid of it
I don't know what you're gonna do there
is a 68 Charger in the backyard of right
behind the camera that could become that
or could hit ebay just momentarily we're
not really sure
ok so that's a wrap on this question and
answer session for roadkill extra over
that we're here every single day with
various stuff we need to go shoot some
tech tips later people liked it when i
was doing like the carburetor stuff that
was good way so we'll get some more tech
in there for you will get some more
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