- [Host] Yeah, it's Scumbag Labs, we see it,
we can make our own electric boost.
(engine noises)
- We're back for another episode of Scumbag Labs
here at Irwindale Speedway.
And today, we're gonna test out more power!
- It's a dragway, not the speedway, okay?
- [Hert] This is a dragway.
- This is Daddy's home.
- [Hert] Is it?
I don't know if I've ever seen you on here much recently.
- Oh!
- Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey, before anyone says anything,
I'm no-one to talk, my car is broken outside.
(laughing)
Is this a little practice for your race with Pennigan?
- Uh yeah, this is what I'll be running with the nationals.
- [Hert] Is this the charger you're gonna be running
on the gasser?
- This one looks sick out front.
- [Hert] (bleep) the headlights,
just put these fans in there.
- It looks nice, they work.
- [Hert] So this is, allegedly, going to make us faster?
- So in scientific theory, since we're all hooligan
scientific theory people,
- [Hert] There's only one scientist here, Lab Coat Ron.
- Lab Coat Ron!
The idea is generating more air,
which obviously we know makes the motor run better,
and adding a little bit of fuel, makes more power.
- Let's take it to Lab Coat Ron.
- Welcome back to Scumbag Labs.
Gas engines; they make power with two ingredients:
air and fuel.
More air, more fuel, more better, right?
Or is it?
So to find out, our lab rat this week is a carbureted
"muscle car", fitted with our own home brewed
twin turdos from the hardware store.
Will our crazy (bleep) concoction make enough CFM
to give us more horsepower?
Or will Bad Daddy Brady's "science" set the car on fire
and send us home?
Or will this be our new gadget in the Grand Tour game?
There's only one way to find out.
Let's go back to Irwindale Speedway.
- [Hert] And we're back.
- Thanks Ron.
- [Hert] So what was your thought process here,
run me through it.
- So I turned the thought processing on and just created--
(laughing)
It was better than way.
'Cause if I had to think about this,
it would have never got done.
- [Hert] No brain, no pain.
- No brain, no pain.
All we did is, we assembled it
like Legos without instructions.
You hope for something good at the end.
We had to use like a little solenoid action to add fuel.
We have Orange Burgers wired to our solenoids,
wired to a--
- [Hert] I like that your switch panel
is a piece of card board.
- Yeah, I really worked on that a lot, you know,
you like that?
- [Hert] So enough about your turdos, what is this vehicle,
this looks like Zak's dream car and you ruined it.
(slow, dramatic base music)
- This is the finest 1984 Pontiac Firebird
that you could possibly buy for $700.
- [Hert] 700 bucks?
- Yes, it is even pre-lightened
with all of the rust factored in, you know?
And somebody could have acid dipped it;
they rust dipped it for us.
Four speed.
- [Hert] Four speed.
- And when we're done, I'm gonna throw the hood back on her
and give her to Zak and he'll be cruisin'.
- Are you going to put two more lug nuts on the front?
- That's extra weight, we don't need that.
- [Hert] Oh Jon, you really are going to have (mumbles).
No, they're fine, they're fine, they're good.
- Come with (mumbles).
- [Hert] You ready to send it?
- Yeah, we're not, we still--
- [Hert] Dyno first?
- Eh, and why do we call it - Safety Third!
- [Hert] Oh so that's why it is a three?
- Safety Third!
- Brad gave you the rundown on the car,
it's a piece of (bleep).
Now we're gonna hook it up to the dyno,
dyno it in, after we've found out the power,
we're gonna send it down the strip.
And then, we're gonna turn on the turdos, dyno it again,
and then, send it back to the drag strip again.
More power!
- Power!
(mood music)
- [Hert] All right boys, predictions.
- I'm gonna say with restrictions, 85 horsepower.
Time, I'm guessing eighth mile, 16?
- 90 horsepower, 13 five.
- 112 to the hub. 13 seconds and the eighth.
- [Hert] 13 seconds and the eighth.
69 horsepower, 15 two at 69 miles an hour.
- Sounds about right.
(laughing)
(mood music)
(car idling)
- [Hert] All right, let's do this.
(engine revs up)
- 72!
- Whoa!
- This thing smells like a circus.
- [Hert] You ready?
- Yeah, I'm ready.
- [Hert] You ready?
You ready?
- Hell yeah.
- [Hert] Ron you're coming with me, let's go.
(mood music)
- All right, so this is Jon Chase's control run.
(loud engine noises)
- [Ron] Is that the burnout in front?
It sounds like he's on launch control,
but he's actually just trying to drive.
(laughing)
- 17.
- [Ron] Whoa! All right.
Jon, what happened?
- [Hert] Were you flooring it?
- Yeah I was flooring it dude.
- [Ron] It sounded like you were on launch control,
but for the whole run.
- Yeah, when I got to second gear it was doing better for
like ten feet, and then it start popping and I threw
it in third, but really, what the question is,
what was the eighth mile?
(mood music)
- [Hert] We need turdos predictions.
Your prediction, sir.
- One ten. I'm gonna shoot high, I mean...
- [Hert] All right, I respect it, I respect it.
You're the driver, so you know what the car had.
- Ugh!
- One 13.
- [Hert] One 13?
- All right, what about time?
- I think 15--
- [Hert] 15?
- 15 two.
- [Hert] 15 two?
- 15 two.
- I'll say 14 eight.
- 12.
- [Hert] 12!
He's real proud of his own work.
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go 95 horsepower,
13 in the eighth mile.
Boom shaka-laka.
(mood music)
- Check the (mumbles) on that.
(engine revs up)
- 104! We're back up!
- We made more power!
- Right off the second one.
- Made more power!
- Now we've got to see if the more power actually
gets us faster down the drag strip.
- In this (bleep) car.
- Yeah, it's pretty bad. Let's go.
- [Hert] Send it!
(mood music)
- Do us all a favor, put it into the wall.
- Well the handbrake works,
you just have to pull it up real high.
- He's moving it-- - or maybe not.
- It doesn't work!
There you go, it's fine.
- [Ron] All right, here we go.
- Cheers!
- All right, so this is Jon Chase's run on the fans,
and uh--
- On the (mumbles).
- On the (mumbles). Full (mumbles).
Full (mumbles).
(car engine running)
- No brakes!
There's no brakes!
(engine volume increases)
- Next. - Oh!
- Yeah, yeah!
- Jon can't stop!
- [Ron] He really can't stop.
- He really can't stop.
- [Ron] Oh my god.
- 13 seven.
- Hey!
- [Ron] Jon, please tell me, that from we were,
it looked like you had to use the wall to stop.
- Well, 'cause there's people on this side of the track,
you usually don't return back to the line on--
- [Ron] On the actual strip.
- So--
- [Ron] But there's Scumbag Labs.
- And they weren't really paying attention,
and I mean I could have killed it
but if the car didn't start again,
so I did the only noble thing did,
I put it into a wall to stop it, and save my friends' lives.
- Took my advice.
- See? - Yeah.
- Yes.
- [Ron] What do you think you ran on that pass?
- I don't know, 25?
- 25?
- [Brad] 16!
- [Ron] Way to go.
You're saying 16?
- 16!
- 16, 25.
- [Ron] All right, let him know.
- You did a 13 seven.
(jubilant cheering)
- [Jon] Yeah!
- [Ron] We actually made more power.
- We made more power.
- [Ron] And we went faster, so more power on the dyno,
faster down the eighth; guys, I think we did it.
- [Hert] It was a success.
- [Ron] I don't know if he agrees.
(laughing)
- We made more power with our really insane looking
possibly...
- Now it is on fire!
- [Ron] Now we're on fire--
- That's a fuel line gone, that's a fuel line going!
We need water, we actually need water.
- [Ron] Give me the recap.
- In eigth, without the turdos, 72 horsepower.
Turn the turdos on, pick up 30 even horsepower.
Jon runs a 17 three without turdos,
runs a 13 one, with turdos.
So basically, this is Bad Daddy Brady,
the inventor of the turdo, the twin-turdo,
forced induction system, that can be built and bought
from home depo, but only he can assemble it.
So, if you try to do this at home,
you'll pick up three horsepower, so...
- [Ron] At least.
- Yeah, so-- - [Ron] At least.
- If you don't consult with Brad, you're not getting any.
- So since it's pretty much confirmed
that you can make more power with this insane,
inducting air setup, there is only one thing left to do.
- That's a wrap!
- There you have it, more air equals more power,
who would have thunk it?
Anyway, join us on Mondays on Twitch where we do
Scumbag Fabs, where you can actually watch live
as we put these scientific lab rat cars together.
By we, I mean Bad Daddy Brady.
Also join us on Fridays where we play the Grand Tour live,
where we actually put some of these really dumb experiments
to the test in the virtual world.
Maybe I'll jump in with or without lab coat.
Actually, you don't want to see what's under here.
(wind blowing)
- So what happened, did we make this thing work, or no?
- We made more horsepower with our twin-turdos.
- Mm.
- Yeah. A whole whopping 20-some horsepower.
- Mm.
(engine running)