(electric guitar)
(drill and working sounds)
- This carpet has been a nightmare,
too, the whole time.
- Well you know what?
Let's just teach it a lesson.
- Yeah.
I don't know if you noticed, but the lighter your
car is, the faster it'll go by a quarter-mile.
So, this is all free speed.
Grab me a flat head while you're over there.
- You're not the boss of me.
(working sounds)
- We built that thing remember?
- We did, this is not an NHRA legal harness bar.
This is just somethin we had layin around, not safe.
- Speaking of not safe, pretty
sure this has black lung written all over it.
I don't know why we left this in at all, it's so gross.
- Yeah.
- That's why we left it in.
(working sounds)
- Alright, so next step in upgrading
all of our safety stuff, is we're putting an actual cage.
This is an AutoPower bolt-in cage.
It's a little bit pricier, but these
things work great and we just don't have time
to go out and build an entire cage right now.
(electric guitar)
The way this works, it bolts into
place and the base plates you drill
right through the sheet metal of the
floor and through the wheel wells,
and there's an identical sandwich plate
that goes underneath all this stuff,
is eighth inch steel and it will
sandwich your floor pan and your wheel wells,
make it nice and strong.
Look at that, beautiful sandwich plate fitment.
- I was going to say something about
your sandwich plate fitment.
You got sandwich plate game.
(drill sounds)
- So that about wraps us up underneath this car.
We're going to put the roll cage in,
tighten up everything underneath.
- I think we have to add door bars.
- Yeah, so anything that runs 10.99 or quicker
should have door bars in it, but we have those too.
- That flowed right into like, a drag racing lesson.
- Yeah.
- Huh, we should do an episode on that.
- We can call it how to drag race.
We're going to install an proper racing seat, as you saw.
The old seats were non-existent.
I've never put a Kirkey seat in anything yet.
This is a first time for me, everything
I've ever used has already got all the mounting stuff in it.
So this is will be cool.
I think we just kind of get in where we fit in here.
Find some flat spots and drill some holes.
(guitar music)
(saw sounds)
- [Tony Angelo] Perfect, this is our first bar in,
fits pretty nice, I've got a nice level.
I'm going to weld it in the car, it'll be
a super solid base for that seat,
and then we can bolt the brackets right too it.
(welding noise)
(guitar music)
(working sounds)
- [Tony Angelo] So we've got our Thunderbird here.
It's solid, it's rust free, this is a decent car.
It's a 2.3 litre turbo making 155 horsepower,
we're going to wick that up big time later,
but for now, we're just going to show you
how to get bone stock car ready for the track.
- 100% stock?
- Yeah, 100% stock, but like, brake rotors.
These rotors are gouged up, it hunts
all over the place when you hit the brakes, stuff like that.
Lucky's going to handle all that stuff,
I'm going to get back on the Camaro,
finish up those door bars and make
sure that things 100%, and then we will hit the track.
- Okay, remember, I have to get in and out of the Camaro.
- I know.
- So, fat man door bars.
- [Tony Angelo] I get it, I'll make it nice and low.
(working sounds)
- [Tony Angelo] Beautiful.
(working sounds)
(welding sounds)
- [Lucky Costa] Okay, so I just got done
throwing on new rotors, new pads.
The wheel bearings look like they
were replaced not too long ago.
The grease in 'em wasn't super filthy.
I'm going to set it on the ground
and torque the lug nuts right now
and then we're good to go.
(welding sounds)
- [Tony Angelo] So now our shop time is wrapped up.
Our bone marrow is finally ready to
be a safe, proper race car.
We've got a drive shaft loop, scatter shield,
roll cage, and a race seat.
- A seat big enough for a grown ass man.
- [Tony Angelo] Yes.
- That's me.
- We've got our little Thunderbird all freshened up too.
We just bought that thing, Lucky gave it a one.
So over what?
Fluids, brake rotors--
- Vital necessities.
- Yes, intense, intense, basic maintenance.
- Complete over maintenance.
- Now comes the fun part, we're going to the track.
It's driving time, and you guys are
going to learn everything about drag racing.
- Who's going to meet us there?
- I googled stuff, a whole bunch I googled.
- Okay, alright.