Roadkill (2012–2020): Season 7, Episode 4 - Ice Drag Racing Redemption! - full transcript

(rock music)

(engine racing)

- [Mike] Yeah buddy, yeah!

(engine starting)

(backfire)

(rock theme song)

(engine revving)

- [Mike] Ah, there she is.

- [Tony] It's beautiful,
beautiful machine.

- Let's play a game called
things that seem better

in theory than in real
life, the El Camino.



- I've actually lived
my whole life by that,

playing that game.

- Wisconsin in January

Standing on a frozen lake in January.

This is a, I won't say this is a bad idea

I'll just say this is an idea.

Yes, we are in Illinois

and seven to eight hours north of us,

directly north, straight up,
is a lake in Merrill Wisconsin,

where crazy people drag race their cars

with tires that have
nails in them, seriously.

And we're all gung ho to do that.

Well we were gung ho to do
that until we arrived here

and realized here in
Illinois it's approximately



32 degrees, there it's minus seven.

- [Tony] For those of you
unfamiliar with the Earle Camino

it's our 1977 El Camino
that Finnegan and I bought

from a guy named Tex Earle in episode 69.

It has a small block with Iron heads,

camshaft, carb, intake, and headers.

Probably makes 350 horsepower.

And it's got a turbo 350
with shift kit in it.

We went to North Carolina to a swamp

pulled it out of a
barn, spent several days

getting this thing back
in great running order.

Then put the largest bottle
of nitrous we could find

in it in the back and ran
it down the drag strip.

(engine revving)

When I say ran it down the drag strip

what I mean is, I exploded
the transmission on launch

and hosed down an entire
eighth mile track.

That might be the end
of that transmission.

- We ended up leaving the car with

our friend Biggin for almost a year.

Before deciding giving it the chance

at the glory it deserves.

Biggin got a head start by making the car

a little more streetable
before we shipping it out

so we can take ole Earle to Wisconsin

and run it at the Merrill Ice Drags.

Because if we already failed
horribly going down asphalt

why not attempt to do the
same thing on ice this time.

So this is Midwest Images

this is a custom shop in Illinois

and my buddy Mike Cotton owns the place

he builds hot rods and mini trucks.

And we are here because
he is much closer to the

drag racing on ice in Wisconsin
than the Earle Camino was.

We're making it this time because

it's only seven hours, right?

Right!

This is going to go well.

- Did we get it to stop throwing belts?

Or not, no, right?

- No because that
happened when it exploded.

- Yeah, you know I went out and bought

a car like this after we got home.

- Did you?

- I was so stoked, yeah
I bought a '74 Malibu.

- Not a lot of men utter that statement.

- I know.

- I was so excited about
the '76 El Camino I blew up

that I went out and bought a '74.

- I know, I actually
have a couple nice cars

and I was like you know what
I need something like this.

I drove this car and I'm like here's

what I need I need this at home.

(engine turning over)

- Okay.

- It's too tired. Let it charge.

- Remarkably the engine
doesn't want to run.

I can't understand why.

We only overheated it to 500 degrees

blew the transmission up.

So we're going to put
it up on jack stands,

ignore the fact that the car doesn't even

move or run under its own power.

And instead replace our old transmission

with our new transmission.

- Exhaust is now off, I've
got to disconnect the shifter,

take the trans bolts out, the cross member

and the driveshaft,
pull that stuff all out.

Install our new GearStar 700R4,

that's way beefier and stronger.

We have to shorten the driveshaft

that was in here because
it's a longer transmission.

Throw it in and then we can hit the road

so we can go freeze our
asses off up in Wisconsin.

Pretty close.

- Dude, that's awesome.

So that's our old, blown up turbo 350,

this is a brand new 700R4
that we got from GearStar

and this is different,
the tail shaft housing

is really short and beyond that,

this is a bad ass transmission.

It is full of quality parts from Sonnax.

Instead of having a 306
first gear, it has a 284.

So, Earle Camino going to leave hard.

Has a Yank converter, custom built

for this application that's billet.

Everything in here is brand new.

One technician assembles
this start to finish,

dyno tunes it, crates
it, including the fluid,

including the dipstick, kick-down cable,

trans cooler, everything,
ships it out to you

and if you ever have an issue,

that's who you're going
to talk to on the phone.

Love these guys!

Remarkably, our transmission is shorter

than our old one and now
our driveshaft is too short.

This never happens, usually when you go

from a three speed to a
four speed with overdrive,

the driveshaft's too long.

Not today, not on RoadKill.

- We may be able to find a random one

that is the right length is
what we're hoping for, too.

- [Mike] We've got time for that.

- Yeah, just use the internet, man.

So, that Barry Grant, we're just concerned

that it's warn out, could
be a bunch of corrosion

inside of it, this thing
doesn't want to run.

We've got this fresh Holley set up,

this will be better and easier to tune.

So, that's going on there.

I bet once this is all filled with gas,

it will fire right up.

- Look at this, this is our new

Innovate wideband, fuel ratio gauge.

This is going to tell us, in real time,

how our engine is running.

Ideally, it would be right
here, front and center

so the driver could see it while he or she

is wide open throttle, that can't happen

because we have a broken water temp gauge

sitting there and faulty
oil pressure gauge.

So, we're probably going to put this, just

you know, right here
where it's easy to drill

and you'll have to momentarily look,

at a glance and not crash.

(drilling)

(welding pops)

(metal clanging)

Look at that, only took
six hours instead of 24.

We're going to get this in right now

and we're going to get the car running

a day earlier than we
thought we were going to.

(engine cranking)

It's like it doesn't have any timing.

I like big changes.

- [Tony] What'd you just do?

- I gave it some timing.

Alright.

- Maybe put that back,
it wasn't too bad before.

(engine cranking)

(engine running then cutting out)

- Nah, not enough timing, it's way off.

Which way did you move it?

- Well I had advanced it before
but then we turned it back.

- We, then we turned it back?

- As a group, as a team, you told me to,

so that's what I did, I did what you said.

- I appreciate that.

(fire popping)

- (laughing) We're getting
there now, hold on.

- Hit it, hit it.

(engine cranking)

- Excuse me.

(engine trying to start)

Don't give it any fuel,
it's still on fire.

- Trying not to, you
have the pump off, right?

Yeah, it's out.

- This engine was supposed to be rebuilt.

- Yeah, sometime in the mid 90's

just after the Humpty Dance came out.

So, our El Camino does not want to fire up

after sitting for 10 months or so.

One of the problems we're seeing,

we yanked one of the plugs out,

it's super coated in gas and oil,

which means it's going to
be really hard to start.

It's because it either
was running super rich

and also may have some oil issues

from bad rings or something like that.

Not good, this one's fresh as you can see,

no garbage on it, nice sharp
corner on the electrode,

this will help it fire right up.

(engine starting)

- Like a champ!

It's beautiful, it's
just won't race, not yet.

(rock music)

Busy day, got a drive shaft made,

got that installed, put
our exhaust system back in.

Hooked up everything else that
goes with the transmission.

Tranny cooler, shifter,
tranny lines, all that stuff.

New carburetor, ended up
changing all the spark plugs,

'cause they were all fouled.

Just needs a little tuning, tweaking,

clean up the mess we made and we will

hit the road tomorrow.

I'm hoping we get to Chicago for pizza,

that's kind of my goal,
maybe some donuts in the snow

because it's supposed to, I don't know,

we'll see how it goes.

(chains dragging)

(engine idling)

Whoops! (laughing)

- Alright, where am I going?

- Uh, well, we have no license plates,

let's go on Main Street.

- [Tony] Perfect!

- [Mike] Well, it's still really loud.

- [Tony] Yeah.

- Let's find out if
our three speed shifter

will work our four speed trans.

(engine revving)

Second,

Third,

Fourth.

- Four, yeah.

- We got four gears!

- There you go.

- We can drive on the highway.

(engine revving)

Little lean on top, but it sounds good.

(engine fire pop)

(laughing)

Well, we're still at Midwest Images

here in New Baden, Illinois
and we are itching to leave.

Owner, Mikey's in there,
patching our floor boards

so we don't freeze to death.

While I adjust our ignition timing curve.

This thing is unhappy and the reason

it's unhappy is we put a
brand new distributor in,

was it last summer when we
tried to race this thing?

From the factory, they have a very slow

ignition advance curve, so
I'm going to adjust that.

I'm going to take the distributor cap off

and I'm going to replace
these two heavy springs

with a pair of light weight ones.

That will allow these weights
to spring out quickly.

So, instead of having 20
degrees of timing advance

at 4,500 RPM, we're going to
have it at about 3,000 RPM.

This thing will be much snappier,

much more responsive and less likely

to shoot fireballs into the air

like we've had happen already today.

- These are our Mickey
Thompson ET Streets,

it's basically a grooved slick.

They're calling for a blizzard in Chicago,

these are not going to work.

Went out and got some light truck,

mud and snow tires for
the back of this thing

that are still pretty
calm so we can cruise.

They're going to work and at least,

hopefully, get us there.

You know, if the engine doesn't explode.

We took it around the block and the

Earle Camino overheated immediately.

We're like, oh, I wonder
if it has coolant in it?

Turns out, it's full of

chunky, brown milkshake garbage.

- [Mike] Why is that Tony?

- Likely the head gaskets
on this thing are smoked.

- [Mike] Why is that Tony?

- Phew, I guess Tex must
of sold us a bum motor,

I don't know, man.

- [Mike] How dare you throw
Howard under the bus like that.

- Several times, at the track last time,

the belt came off the water pump

and there was a long return road

and this thing got to 280 degrees, so.

- Did the belt come off
when you refused to lift?

- Listen, that is just a
thing you need to accept,

I'm never letting off the gas, period.

Easy, it's a finely tuned machine.

Hit it.

- [Mike] We've got nothing.

Did the installation of the
carpet break the starter?

Dude, the wiring in here is sketchy.

- [Tony] Yeah, think?

- You see any wire?

- I don't see any wires, dude.

- There's no wires go to the starter.

- I mean, there's one big red one,

obviously but that's it.

- (laughing) That's going to be reliable.

- Fantastic.

- Giggle a bunch of wires and okay,

let's put the hood back on.

- Alright, she's fixed!

- We're not going to fix the problem,

this is Roadkill, we're
just going to ignore it

and put the hood on and drive.

- [Tony] Oh yeah, don't turn it off.

- Wait for it to snow
before it really screws us.

(laughing) Okay, it won't
run with the hood on.

- Alright, it hate the hood, copy that.

(banging)

Try it now.

(engine starting)

- (laughing) Like Fonzy!

Let's go on an adventure, whoop, hoo!

- Working on 260 there.

- That aint right, there's no way.

- We have gone about a quarter mile.

- Wow, it's at 265 already,
that can't be right.

- It's climbing straight up, dude.

- There's no way.

- You're supposed to make a left here.

I can smell it.

- Wow, we didn't get very far.

- I can see the shop from here.

- (laughing)

- Alright, so the belt
came of immediately.

- At 2,000 RPM, that's brilliant.

- And it got super hot.

- Actually it was 280 degrees.

- 280 degrees.

- Yeah.

- Not good, not in the good zone.

- This is a recurring problem

but it didn't start occurring until

lead foot over here didn't
lift at the drag strip.

- Oh here we go.

You know you're supposed to
hit the gas when your racing,

everybody knows that, right?

- [Mike] I feel good about this.

- What?

- I feel good about this.

Go get an extra belt, or ten.

- Oh yeah.

- Keep going.

(engine revving)

- Is your side loud, my side's loud.

- This is loud, running good though.

(engine accelerating)

Sounds good.

(rock music)

Well, we don't have a volt gauge so it was

news to us that the charging
system wasn't working.

We only discovered it
after things in the car

started malfunctioning, like the tach

started reading weird, O2
sensor stopped working.

Finally the ignition
just shut of completely.

So, we got another battery,

we're going to ratchet
strap it to the roll bar

and just get off the road.

Then figure out a solution
for the charging system.

- Nothing has charged the car since

we left the shop this afternoon.

So we got a battery brought to us

on the side of the road, threw it in,

limped our way to this Auto Zone,

ran out of gas at one
point, filled it back up.

Now we're here, crudely
reinstalling our wiring solution.

Look at that beauty, look at her.

- Look at all of this,
with enough insulation.

- Yeah, it should be fine, alright.

- Not a fire hazard at all.

Wait, that is the battery, this side.

- That's not going to the
battery, know what I'm saying?

Alright, we have decided that
our old alternator was shot

and the wire that we put in
wasn't helping anybody anyway.

so, we're going to put
a new alternator in it.

- Yes, it's sure to fix the problem.

When all else fails, replace
every available part.

- Hold on.

- That's trouble shooting, friends.

- Also, if you're going to break down,

try to break down in an
Auto Zone parking lot.

That ain't right.

- Should I rev it?

- Nothing?
- Nothing.

That's why it wasn't working.

- We got not exciter wire.

- So the difference
between parts replacers

and mechanics is their ability to

realize their own Tomfoolery and mistakes.

We just changed an alternator

then we discovered the excitor wire

going to the old alternator
had no voltage going to it,

thereby rendering the old alternator

useless and the new one.

Back to the store, to buy more stuff,

to replace more things. (laughing)

- I hot wired the igniter
right to the positive terminal,

now this thing is charging and
we're going to hit the road.

(engine accelerating)

- What day is it?
- Thursday.

- We're early.
- Sort of.

- Yeah.

- It's six degrees here in Chicago.

- Six.

- Yeah, we drove 240 miles last night.

- Damn right, I believe it's
minus 14 where we're headed.

- Yeah.

- So we're going to hang out
in Chicago for a little while,

get some deep dish pizza, maybe
tune the car a little bit.

Inside of a shop, where it's warm.

- Yeah, I like that.

- Yeah, like men, because
that's how men do things.

- That's right, inside where it's toasty.

- Yeah.

(rock music)

(engine revving)

Dude, killer day already.

And now, we're inside of Speed Inc.

Here in Schaumburg, Illinois

and we're going to tune this thing.

We're going to make it run as good as

we possibly can before we go sink it,

I mean drive it on a frozen lake.

(engine racing)

- Dude, it sounds rowdy!

I nailed it, 284.

- 284 ain't bad, dude.

It through the belt off again

for the nine millionth time
and it's a little bit lean

but rock steady, so we'll
put a couple jet sizes

in the main jet and should be cool.

- It's going to rip.

- But we have to deal, we're
going to change the belt first.

And it's going to come off again.

(engine racing)

This belt keeps popping off

and it's getting really frustrating

because we just don't have good alignment.

I either need a fan
spacer or I guess I could

throw a washer behind
the water pump pulley,

but really, the whole thing is kind of

rigged up in there and it's, it would take

some real doing to fix it.

- We put four main jets in it,

dropped the air, fuel ration
from 13 and a half to one

down to 13 to one, picked
up 10 pounds of torque

and it eliminated a bog down low

when you first get into the pull

but up top, horsepower didn't really

move it much at all, maybe one.

So, we're going to throw
two degrees of timing in it,

right now, see if it picks up there

and if it doesn't, we're done tuning it.

And there's a snow storm coming

so I think we're going to hit the road.

- But it runs clean and
it's making 285 horsepower

with these giant mud and snow,
heavy ass tires in the back.

- Yep.

- [Tony] I'm happy with this.

- Oh yeah, it sounds great.

- Yeah, it sounds gnarly.

- It just doesn't--

- If the belt would stay
on, we'd be in business.

(engine racing)

- Like clockwork.

- I think we leave it.

- Yeah, we got almost
300 pound feet of torque

at the tires now and
then the belt fell off.

- [Tony] Yep.

- And so did the pick
up for the RPM trace,

so we don't know what the horsepower is.

- But I'm assuming it's probably better,

were probably in the neighborhood

of 300 horsepower at the tires.

- Yeah, I think we are.

- [Tony] I think we're good.

- Let's let it stop smoking and then

maybe get a belt that fits.

- Get a belt on it, get air, yep.

- Put some coolant in it and drive.

- Alright.

- 'Cause snow's coming!

- Snow is lots, they're calling for

eight to 14 inches, no big deal.

- Now, what I want you to not do

is test out our new found power

since we're driving into
a blizzard now, okay?

- I get it, I get it.

(pop rock music)

So we're driving along through a blizzard

like total idiots, there's
inches of snow on the ground

and inches more falling,
let's call it a snow storm.

We don't have wipers,
it's got a spool in it,

it's a bad idea.

- We also, apparently,
don't have any coolant flow

'cause the temp just kept
climbing and climbing.

Kind of settled around 250 degrees

and then at some point the heater

just stopped blowing hot air out.

- We know there's now coolant

flowing through the heater core.

- Yeah, on the bright
side, the slush is gone.

Remember all that sludge?

- Yeah.

- Totally gone now.

- Where is it though?

- Well, it's probably at
the bottom. (laughing)

- I feel medium about it.

(engine revving)

(rock music)

- Ah, it's snowed in the car.

- No!

- Right in the seat, no!

- Hold on.

It's getting there, just breath on

the throttle a little bit, just a touch.

(engine cranking)

Just a little bit.

(engine starting)

Turn it on, there you go.

(engine cranking)

There, now hold it, hold it there.

- You were right.

- There we go.

Finally!

- Alright, so it's zero degrees out.

It snowed in our car last night.

- Yep.

- Ironically, we're
overheating and have no heater,

pretty sure either the heads are cracked,

the blocks cracked or
we lost a head gasket.

So, we're driving to my buddy Tom's shop

to rip this thing apart.

- I have seen this gauge say 280 degrees.

- That's 'cause that's as far as it goes.

- Like, 10 times.

- [Mike] I can't see anything, dude.

- [Tony] You're doing great!

- [Mike] All I'm seeing is the ...

- [Tony] Doing great.

- [Mike] I feel good about it.

- [Tony] There's your boy!

- Alright, here we go.

Well, there's another curb.

24 hours to go until race day,

we're at my buddy Tom's
shop and we are going to

probably R and R the cylinder heads

off of this thing to find
and fix our coolant leak.

It is raining under this car,

this is something I've never experienced.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, put the car up on the
lift, put on your rain gear.

- You clouded in here man,
we just scooped up so much

and brought it right in, yep.

(rock music)

(drilling)

That's a different valve.

- That is different valve,
see how these are the same?

- Yeah, these are the same.

- Yeah, these are different valves.

It's probably why they don't fit.

These valves don't even fit in this head.

- So with the first
inspection of these heads,

now that they're off, we're seeing

a couple problems for sure.

This intake valve has
a big chunk out of it.

That's never good, that could be

from detonation or something like that.

Definitely some damage or
something went through the motor.

And this exhaust valve, I'm look at it,

I notice that it's not seeded in

as far as these other two and the more

I look at it, Fin noticed
it's a different valve.

You see how thin, how it's shaped,

how this little dome inside, this cup,

is big on this one and small on that one.

That's not right, they're
not sitting the same.

I'm sure they're not at
the same installed height.

I can see from here they're not

at the same installed height,

so that's a problem in and of itself.

- Things are not looking too good.

When we took that head off, the first two

heads bolts I pulled out, the middle ones,

coolant gushed out and
there wasn't any sealant

on the threads and all of those head bolts

need thread sealant on them
because their not blind.

Which means they go right into coolant.

So, if you don't seal
them, they're going to leak

and that could very well be
why we were leaking coolant

into the combustion chamber and

having it come out the tail pipe.

So, we're getting heads, sold.

A little detour, that's all.

These are beautiful.

- Yeah, these are way
nicer than the whole car.

- And it's going to be
lighter, which means faster.

- So we went down and did a little bit

of a splurge at a local speed shop

because we have to get
right back on the road.

The only thing that
they had that would work

right out of the box
for us are a killer set

of Dart PRO1 aluminum cylinder heads.

They've got 185cc intake runners,

64cc chambers, a little
bit more compression.

But the best part is, they're set up

for a hydraulic flat
tappet cam, which we have.

We can bolt them on and if our push rods

are the right length, we
can just hit the road.

- More importantly, they
have accessory bolt holes

at the end of the cylinder heads

which is the real reason
we bought new heads.

It was so we that we could
bolt our alternator on here

and keep the belt from fly off.

People, that's the tip here.

- [Tony] Yes.

- When your belt falls off, buy new heads.

Look at that, intakes
on, rockers are adjusted,

this is going way too smoothly.

Which makes me terrified that

we're going to get right to the end,

go to put our headers on
and they're not going to fit

these angle plug cylinder heads.

But let's not think about that.

- We've got hammers, dude.

- We have hammers.

This will not go in there
because of that header.

This and this will solve the problem.

- Burning off the protective coating

he says, doesn't seem right.

You sure?

- Doesn't look right
from where I'm standing.

- You sure this is right?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

(coughing)

I'm sure this is good for me, right?

- [Mike] Got it?

(tapping metal)

- Oh yeah, it's working.

- Now, if it doesn't stay
full, I'm going to throw tools.

- That's it, that's it, I'm
walking away from this thing.

- I'm going to throw tools, light
a match and head to the bar.

- I'll be like, Uber,
how far to Philadelphia?

Do it.

(engine cranking)

- She's flooded, just wait.

(engine idling)

- Sounds pretty good, reasonable.

(engine revving)

We're done.

It sounds great.

Perfect.
- Okay.

- Yeah, she's good now.

- Yay, let's go.

- Cool.

- Well, we handled that in record time.

It's not even 10 o'clock yet.

And as we're only 250 miles
away from our destination,

so I see no reason why we
can't arrive there tomorrow,

stylishly on time, which is weird for us.

Tony's going to win lots of races

and first time ever, he
will not break the car.

- What?

- He promised me that.

- Sorry, I like to put the
pedal down all the way.

I'll be drinking beers,
I'll watch you race.

- Not at bad day's work.

- Yeah, not too bad.

- [Mike] Alright, let's go ice racing.

(mellow rock music)

(engine revving)

- Pretty good.

- [Mike] We finally made
it, to Merrill, Wisconsin

to meet up with the Merrill Ice Draggers.

Since 1965, these crazy racers

have been making an eighth mile drag strip

on a frozen lake in the middle of winter.

It's turn into a huge event
with hundreds of people

snowmobiling, drag
racing, all kinds of fun.

And it's all out on a frozen lake,

which is unbelievable and totally

unnerving to drive out onto.

I think right now, you're on a lake.

- I think so.

- I think you're on a
frozen lake right now.

- There's no grip.

- Forget about the grip,
worried about falling through.

- That too, there's a
lot of people out here.

- Nobody seems concerned about this.

- Not at all.

- Today is our professional
ice racing debut.

Earle Camino is ready,
put new cylinder heads

on it yesterday, new friends of ours

gave us spiked tires today.

I see no reason why you
cannot win this entire race.

- That's right.
- [Mike] Yeah.

- Totally, alright, let's put these on.

Which they set us up
with these gnarly tires.

We thought we could come
in a little bit early,

throw a couple screws
in some tires we brought

and hit the road but this
is like 10,000 screws.

- I think you can do a wheelie with these.

- Yeah, this is going to be gnarly.

- [Mike] The car's wheelie here?

- I'm really excited, I just
want to feel what this does.

- Car wheelie here,
then you better wheelie.

- Car's wheelie here, that's amazing.

- Brap!

- Let's put them on, let's go.

(dramatic music)

- I don't even know what this is like,

when you get to the end of the track

and you let off the throttle,
do you just spin out?

I mean, you throw it in neutral and coast?

I have no idea how to drag
race on ice with spiked tires.

So, I'm just going to send it!

- Alright, we're about
to take the first run

of the Earle Camino, Finnegan's driving,

they told me to line him up on a

fresh patch of ice, which is ridiculous.

They say they get dep ruts,

it will throw you all over the place.

I did my best, I think he's all set up.

We've got our stud tires on

and we're going to see
how this thing runs.

I think it felt pretty
strong on the highway,

so I'm excited.

- Here we go.

- [Track Announcer] One
Roadkill, out of California,

lane two, lights are tight.

- Come on baby.

(engine racing)

- Whoop, what!

- [Track Announcer] Travis out here

with a reaction time 5.22.

(gears shifting)

- [Tony] Did he win?

- [Track Announcer] Roadkill,
right lane, takes it.

- Whoop, we won something, unbelievable!

- [Track Announcer] Miles an hour,

he's got an ET of 9.441
at 72.3 miles an hour.

- Nice, Fin won his
first race with a 9.40,

that's almost as fast
as we went on the dry.

That's unbelievable, those
studded tires are awesome,

car's running great, we won something!

You won!
- I know!

- We won something!

- I left it in drive and it bogged, so.

- Yeah, but dudes are
like, oh, he killed it,

that's perfect, what ever
you did, do it again.

Whatever bog you made happen
and down through there,

they're like, Oh yeah, that'
pretty good for first time.

They're like, oh, alright!

- (laughing) Well, apparently
we're bracket racing

because that time slip says
10 seconds and we broke out.

Okay, here we go.

- Ah, come on!

- [Track Announcer] Right
lane says Roadkill, red light.

Randy Jerboski, reaction
time, lane one .2, 314.

- You had one job!

Fin got a little pumped,
red lighted at the line

through the run in the trash.

The car's running strong, so we definitely

can get some fast runs today
and then I'll get in the car

I'll go a little faster.

- So, that was racing, not qualifying?

- That was racing, there's no qualifying.

But, your ET was a 9.2, so
we've already gone as fast

as we've ever gone in this car, period.

- It was awesome, oh my god.

Any day you can do something
you've never done before,

almost crash just trying to stop

and then get a high five for losing,

that's the best day at
work, ever, right there.

(engine racing)

(determined music)

(motorcycle revving)

(engine racing)

(engine idling)

(gears shifting)

- [Track Announcer]
And Roadkill, lane one,

takes it with an ET of 9.507.

- Booya, whoop!

Yay, I won!

- You get to go again!

- Whoop!

- Nice work.

- Thank you, what did it do?

- It slowed down, but you treed him.

- Yeah.

- So find some ET in the
hole-shot or shifting.

- Alright, nice!

- Yeah, you're good, we're
not going to break out

so the better you drive, the
closer we're going to get.

- Awesome, it just went, I was like, yup!

- Good traction, huh?

- Yeah, I can't believe it.

- These tires are insane.

This car is so cool, I have fallen

in love with Earle again, I have.

- Yeah, this things rips!

- This is awesome, Roadkill
showed up to something

by the seat of their pants and is

still racing after round one.

This never happens.

You got this!

- Alright.
- Yeah.

Don't worry about it, just
pick up half a second.

- No problem.

Here we go, stage.

(engine racing)

- Treed him!

Go, go, go, go, go!

Whoop!

- [Track Announcer] Got
Roadkill, in lane two.

- Treed him, wow!

Tony left like a large kid
going after the last cupcake.

- I can't believe the grip in
this thing, it's hilarious.

Oh, I want to do this forever.

Whoop!

- You're going to love this.

- What?

- Not only did you tree him

and win the race, you broke out.

- What!

- You ran an 8.85.

- What!

- That's fastest ever in this car.

- Whoop!

- On ice or pavement.

- Oh boy!

- And to make it better,
he broke out worse

trying to run you down.

- Yeah, he was flying at the end.

- So you get to go on, another round.

- What!

- So now, all you have to
do is tree the next guy,

right at the very end, look over

and if he's not there, dump it.

- Chill, okay.

- Stuff that in you bra.

- Will do!

- Wow, Roadkill, kicking ass.

No fluids on the track, that we know of,

it's been a good day.

- So I ran an 8.80, which
is too fast for this class,

but since I basically
beat the guy at the light,

he has way more car and ran an 8.6,

broke out worse that we did, so we win.

But, I get to go on and race the next guy.

Also, this car ran eight seconds, on ice.

- [Mike] On ice!

- [Tony] Unbelievable, dude.

- [Mike] We suck less this time.

- [Tony] Yeah, it's actually awesome.

- [Track Announcer] Bob Kreager out of

Oconto Falls, lane one.

Roadkill, out of California,
lane two and they are tight.

(engine racing)

- [Mike] Go, buddy go!

Yeah, whoop, yeah!

- [Track Announcer] Lane one broke out,

giving it to Roadkill, lane two,

with an ET of 9.028, almost perfect.

- Whoop, nice work!

- It bogged on me off the line,

that's why my reaction times so slow

but it saved my ass at the end there.

- That bog helped you win!

- Yeah, I'll take it.

- You guys ready, then?

- We going right away?

- Whoop, this is crazy!

- [Track Announcer]
Alright, Now I'm really

in a moral dilemma here,
this is for the finals.

- This is the final!

- [Track Announcer]
I'm a huge Roadkill fan

but Eugene, in my old car,

is going against him in the finals.

I really don't know who to pick.

(dramatic music)

(engine idling)

- [Mike] Come on, Tony.

- [Track Announcer] Okay, Lane says race.

- [Mike] Go!

- [Track Announcer] Oh, no, on both sides.

Looks like Roadkill, lane
two, red lighted on us.

(engine racing)

Leaving Eugene Fakes getting out of here

with a reaction time of miles per hour.

- Ah, damn it!

- [Track Announcer] He
stalled the converter up,

I saw myself and he just pushed

the front tire right through
the beams and red lighted.

Ah, I really wanted to
see a good race there.

But, that was fun!

- [Mike] I want at rematch. (laughing)

- What!

Beautiful, thanks man!

Nice, I got a trophy.

We don't get these on Roadkill.

- [Mike] You realize
what we just did, right?

- [Tony] What's that?

- Dude, just took a car
with a dead transmission

four days ago, put a trans
in it, drove it 250 miles.

Overheated it, nuclear hot.

Put a set of cylinder
heads on it last night.

Drove here, entered a bracket race

that we didn't even know existed.

- That's true.

- And you just got second place.

- That's right, yeah.

- Dude!

- It's the best day.

- Ever.
- Ever.

Ice racing is awesome.

The fact that we even got
here, I'm stoked about.

But yeah, this is, what a day.

- [Mike] You know, the Earle Camino

is not the best looking
car we've ever bought

and it's certainly not the fastest thing

in the Roadkill fleet, but Ole Earle

has given us something we've
never experienced before

and that's speed on frozen water.

And for that, we are thankful.

- [Tony] I mean yes, I
got a second place trophy

but I feel like for Roadkill,

that's as good as it's going to get.

And, we didn't even turn the nitrous on,

so who knows what this
thing is capable of.

Hopefully, we'll get to find out more

on a future episode of Roadkill.

- [Mike] Let's wait until it thaws out

before we drive Earle again.

- Yeah, or go south.

- This no heat thing,
is cramping my style.

- [David] Support companies
that support Roadkill,

- Install it or drink beer?

- [Tony] Let's drink beers!

- Okay.

That's a good first day guys, thanks.

Nice work, nice work.

(engine racing)