- Welcome back to a new season of "Hot Rod Garage."
I'm Tony Angelo, this maniac is Lucky Costa.
- Hello.
- And we were thinking about the new season
what to build and we realized
we've got all sorts of stuff left over
that's really just unfinished business.
And we should take care of it.
- We should.
- Yeah, we should make it good.
We've got this El Camino,
it's one of our prettiest cars
it's got a five nine Cummins in it
that makes two million ft pounds of torque.
And we only ever drove this car like half a block.
We were towing like forty thousand pounds at the time
but we really haven't seen any miles on it.
So maybe take it up and see what it does at the track.
- It does need something.
- This is the last car we built
our 73 duster that's got a five seven hemi in it
from an 05 charger
it sounds good and it hasn't even
pulled out of the shop yet.
It needs exhaust,
it needs a couple of steering things,
we're missing some headlights, small stuff,
but would be nice to make it a driver.
- Nice.
- And then last but not least is our Bonemaro,
this is a long time project car we have.
It's a ten second drag car we built as cheaply
as we could but the last time we took it out
we hurt it pretty bad.
We smoked the transmission
or the torque converter
it decided third gear doesn't work anymore
and it could really use a set of gears
and this thing would be an absolute rocketship.
We got all these cars that maybe we built them
but didn't drive them
or maybe we drove them and didn't race them,
so what we decided to do is take all three of these cars
get them fixed up take them to the track
and have some fun. - Nice.
- Yeah, it's going to be sweet.
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- We've got our 1970 El Camino,
we've been calling our diesel Camino.
That's in the exact state it's been in
when we got it fired up a year and a half ago
but its a diesel it still runs
Lucky took it out this weekend.
- I had to move some furniture.
- Did a little puttin around in it.
But what do you think?
Just some brakes and make sure it goes straight?
- Yeah, really I think the brakes are just worn out.
- Yeah, for sure and we're just like,
this is the two of us here and I know you've seen
other TV shows where everyone's struggling,
"If we don't get this done
"we're going to have to sell the shop."
- I hope this sells at auction.
- If we don't get this car sold
they're going to beat my dog.
So, we don't do that here
we just build cars and drive them.
So I'm thinking check the lines in the back,
cause they're probably shot.
The front's probably shot from holding
power braking it and that's it.
We want to--
- Basic maintenance.
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- This is old antiquated dinosaur turd technology.
Blue, never a good color for a brake rotor.
- Yeah.
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- That shouldn't look like a sweet
early vinyl maybe Electric Warrior
something good and classic.
No this is wrong.
(clatters)
- We have a new spring kit, new retainers,
the wheel cylinder looks brand new,
the shoes have seen minimal amounts of usage.
So I'm probably just going to hit that with some sandpaper
clean up the drums, put them back on,
I think all the issues are in the front
and then we'll get rid of all the old brake fluid
and we're good.
So the brake line kit that we chose
gives you two options
because there is a bunch of different options
in the rear differential and brake line sizes.
So instead of them going back and forth
with you not knowing what you have in your car
they just sent you both of them.
Kind of a good idea.
- So one big problem we had once we fitted
the 1000 pound diesel motor into this thing
is that the front end was bouncing
and dragging on the ground.
It was a mess it's just too much
for the stock shocks and springs.
So our buddies at QA1 sent over 625 pound springs
and beefier shocks, and this thing rides way better
it totally worked.
- [Lucky] Tony!
Karate. (board breaks)
Karate.
- So the brake pads we're going to run are EBC ultamax twos
which is just like they're high end replacement series
it's not like one of their racing pads
but they should work really well on this thing.
You just drive nice and easy
for like two hundred miles
and then these things are dialed.
- These brake pads are definitely using up every
inch of space for them.
(clatters)
That is crazy.
And it all goes together smooth.
Same in the front as we did in the back.
We took off the old rotten lines
these aren't as bad as the ones in the back
but they're probably still bad.
And we put these steel brake lines on.
Plenty of clearance make sure they don't hit anything
and wipe all the grease off the rotors Tony.
- And everybody else.
(screeches)
- Wait hold on.
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- Dj Dorky Jeff over here.
- Dj tell your mom to call me.
- [Tony] Wow.
- [Narrator] Coming up on "Hot Rod Garage"
- I was thinking about going on break today, Tony.
- Dude the only brakes you should be working on
are the ones on this El Camino!
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