Roadkill (2012–2020): Season 7, Episode 5 - Roadkill - full transcript

- This time on Roadkill,

it's an all-junkyard build
with a big block in...

- The Super Samurai!

- Steve Dulcich, ladies and gentlemen.

(heavy rock music)

(laughing)

Hidden Valley Auto Parts.

Oh, man.

- Look at all this stuff.

- [Mike] This place is cool!

- [Steve] Yeah!



- I can't believe we're going to go here

and get a Samurai.

- Why?

- Because they have a lot
of really cool old vehicles.

- [Steve] I know, but the
Samurai's just so cute.

- [Mike] Yeah, I know!

I don't know why I just
keyed in on the Sammy.

- Yeah.

- I'm just excited to build it.

I'm here with Steve Dulcich

and we've got our brand
new Suzuki Samurai.

You're probably wondering why,

so am I.

So, let's review a little bit.



A few weeks ago, we were shooting

one of our other shows
here at this junkyard.

It's called "Junkyard Gold."

It's where Steve Magnante walks around

and looks at cool stuff.

And there's all these great
American classics here,

but they're all basically just parts cars.

They're all pretty far gone.

But when I eyeballed the Samurai,
I can't even tell you why,

I was like, "That's awesome,

I haven't seen one of
those in a long time,

I want a Samurai, let's V8-swap it."

And so Dulcich came out a couple weeks ago

and did a little bit like a pre-run here

and got a 318 Mopar running.

(engine backfiring)

- Whoa!

I thought I was a hero,
because I did get a 318 to run

without a carburetor, no less.

(engine firing roughly)

Yeah!

That was running!

- [Mike] Hmm, that's on fire.

It doesn't seem to have that much cachet

to have a 318 in Samurai,
I kind of want a big block.

So, the first step is we're
going to get a tape measure

and go measure some engines,
measure the engine compartment,

and figure out what we're going to do

to get this thing on the
road in the next five days.

(rock music)

So, let's see.

Down here at the motor mounts,

we've got 20 inches, basically.

- [Steve] Okay.

- And up here,

I mean, we've got to
account for manifolds.

- Honestly I think you're kind
of wasting your time, here.

- Why?

- That tape measure, you
should put that away,

put that back in the truck,

and just get whatever
engine you want, and start--

- Just make it fit it?

- Start plopping.

- Really?
- Yeah.

I saw a 440 out front that was
already pulled out of a van.

- Let's go get our motor.

- Okay, yeah.

- Man, there's so many good parts here,

but the vehicles are kind of shot.

- Yeah.

- I eyeballed this 440 Mopar right here.

- Yeah.

- It's kind of like a motor home 440.

That's what it is, '77 Dodge van 440.

- 750 bucks, y'know.

- It's inconveniently priced,

but it is very conveniently located,

we don't have to pull
anything out of a vehicle.

- Yeah, and I also saw the
transmission that goes with it

in the storage shed.

- Oh really?

- Yeah.

- The 440's really good.

- Okay.

- Let's find the transmission.

Look at all the old cans up
in the rafters right here.

- [Steve] Oh, yeah!

- [Mike] Where's the transes, though?

- [Steve] Right this way.

Oh, there's that big block Torqueflite.

- [Mike] Oh, it says it right on it,

'77 B300 440, that came off the 440.

- Boom, we have a power unit,

all you have to do is mate the two

and we're done!

- I think we should swing the engine in

without the transmission attached,

just to get an eyeball for it.

- Oh, definitely.

- And then blaze everything
out to fit the transmission.

- I like the way you're thinking.

- Oh man, this is going to be good.

(metal creaking)

- Do you think there could
be a scorpion inside?

- No.

- That's one thing I want to avoid,

is getting bitten by scorpions.

- [Mike] There's no scorpions here.

- [Steve] No?

I saw that one.

- [Mike] That wasn't a scorpion.

- [Steve] Oh, it wasn't?

- [Mike] No.

Man, this is service!

- I really like the sling arrangement.

- It's not even noon

and we're going to have
a big-block Samurai!

It's 11:30.

- Stop.
- Stop!

There we go.

Oh, it's pressed fit.

Oh, man, we're going to
make this happen, though.

- We're going to have to
cut the whole firewall out.

- Totally.

- You agree?

- Oh, yeah.

- K, so we know what to do.

- Okay, yep.

- The engine's going to have
to go about a whole foot back,

because we need room for a radiator, too.

- Yeah, exactly.

So, let's clear out the whole interior

so that we can start
hacking from this side, too.

You ready to savage the Samurai?

- I'm ready for you to
show me Sawzall artistry.

- We decided to go big and
just cut out the whole firewall

so that we can set the 440 way in there,

then we'll just fabricate a
new firewall when we're done,

it's easier.

- Boom!

- This is unnecessary.

- That thing is 440 ready.

But look how much room
we have for the 440, now.

I think we could probably go
with 440 with transmission

at this point.

- Really?

- Yeah.
- Yeah, we could.

We should.
- Yeah.

- Let's go get our
transmission and attach it.

Wow, it's a bummer I cut that brake line.

- [Steve] I know.

- [Mike] Hopefully it's only
one and not like all of 'em.

- [Steve] That's going to
be the biggest nightmare

of the whole install.

- Let's go get the trans.
- Yeah.

- [Mike] Looks like they
served up our transmission.

- I know!

- Alright, load that up, and let's go.

- Wait, you...

grab the other end?

- What? Oh.

- You want me to heave that
thing up there by myself?

Now this tow truck is so amazingly handy.

- It is.

- This is a shorter transmission

than you'd find in a passenger car,

the extension housing is stubby,

which is good for our 80-inch
wheelbase on the Sammy.

But, it has a bolt-on
companion flange, here.

We're going to have to figure
out how to get a driveshaft

between this and the
Suzuki Samurai rear-end

that's probably going to last ten minutes.

Alright, I think it'll safely
pull together now, right?

- Oh, yeah.

- Okay, manifold shopping.

Oh, look at that.

Center dump.

Straight up.

See, my thought is that
the pattern is the same

upside-down and right-side-up,

so I just want to get some
manifolds, turn 'em upside-down,

go straight up with the pipe, done.

I lost Steve,

but I got us a starter

and a couple of center-dump
exhaust manifolds.

Let's see if my idea here
is even going to work.

My plan is...

Oh, it's not going to work!

Can't put 'em upside down

because they're going
to hit the spark plugs.

Ugh, that's a serious bummer

with them having to
point down instead of up.

Oh, well.

Live and learn.

Okay, what I want to
do is get the manifolds

and the starter on the 440
before we even begin to

drop it in, so we have
all of our obstacles

eyeballed out.

So, let's hook it up and drop it in!

- Straight back!

Lower some more!

Lower!

Okay, come out and take a look.

- Oh, wow!

We have a 440 Samurai!

- We're getting pretty close.

- We're at the point of
fiddling with the tiny details

like fuel pump hitting,
brake lines hitting,

and ultimately we went and got

a different exhaust manifold,

instead of the center-dump one,

this one dumps back here,

which we think is going to help us more.

But, if you look right through the floor,

you can see that the
front axle of the Samurai

is really close to our oil pan.

We're going to have to push
the engine over and back

in order to get it clear
of that front axle there.

I think that's it.

We finally got the engine in position,

it's way further back than
I was really hoping for

aesthetically and fabrication-wise,

but it's clearing the front axle,

I think we've got the drive shaft angle

where it's going to work,

it's going to be a big job
building a firewall in there.

- On the bright side, the 440's in!

- Yeah!

The 440's in position,

so now we can start
fabricating motor mounts

and trans cross member.

(metal grinding)

This roof bar off the other Samurai

is about to become a
transmission cross member.

Fabrication in the field!

I'm just going to weld that up, and then,

(popping)

This thing fits perfectly
frame-rail to frame-rail.

- So these are going to
be my frame brackets.

I'm going to reverse
these, cut 'em at an angle,

weld 'em on the frame, and
they're going to become

our new frame brackets.

It's not exactly the nicest way to do it,

but it's the quickest.

- We have the engine fully mounted, now,

and so we're going to be
able to lose the tow truck.

I'm going to let the cable down,

pull out.

Ready?

- Yeah, drop it!

Okay, you're clear!

- I'm clear!

Now it's official.

The engine is fully installed,

welded in on mounts,

trans cross-member done,

it's set way further back
than I was hoping for,

but we're clear of the front axle

and now all we have left to do

is absolutely everything that it takes

to make it run and drive.

- Well, we're going to
have to relocate the pedals

for the car, both the
gas pedal and the brake,

but we don't need a
clutch pedal any longer,

so I'm just going to cut that off

because that's going to allow us

to scoot the whole pedal
assembly off to the left.

- The pedal box is going
to be really tight in here,

and really hot

because it's right next
to the exhaust manifold.

We're going to have to
get some of that, like,

heat shield stuff.

- One of the things I was
really excited about was

this Thermoquad.

Our 440 came factory-equipped
with one, but

I brought this,

a really good Thermoquad, so...

The nice thing about Thermoquads
is you can take one off

and it's immediately
replaceable by another.

Interchangeability is really good.

- Working out the steering column,

trying to figure out
how to not butcher it,

how to make it actually safe.

You can see how I made these

column-drop brackets right here.

I found some tubing that was

like a Cadillac, like,
inner fender support.

Look how perfectly that steering works.

The only downside is that it's
a little close to the door.

Yeah, two fingers.

But, that's what you get
when you got your 440,

you can't have it all.

- For me, one of the toughest parts

of this whole project so far

has been the accessory drive,

because there was no big-block
Mopar in the whole yard

that had all the pulleys,
brackets, and stuff to mount.

And I must have dug through the dirt

for about a half a dozen
of these water pump pulleys

until I found one that works.

But basically I think it's all done.

I'm pretty happy.

What do you think, Freiburger?

- Uh, that's butchered.

- Yeah, it was pretty fine
butchery, though, right?

- It's detracting from the
rest of the vehicle for me.

- Do you have any paint?

I can give it the paint octopus treatment.

This is a Super Samurai.

(upbeat rock music)

- I'm going to start building
the whole engine cover thing

and I'm just telling you now,

it is going to be so Frankenstein
and boogered together,

it's ridiculous.

I had to go roaming around
in the dark in the yard

to find this piece of sheet metal.

It's like a cabinet door
or something like that.

See, there's my template,

where I said I'm going to do this

so now I have to duplicate it here.

That's about the level
you're going to see here

for the rest of the time.

- I was able to scalp
the whole harness I need.

Plugs into the control unit,

the balanced resistor plug's broken,

but I've got my charge wire.

All out of the yard.

- Alright, we've about
had it for the night,

we got quite a bit done today,

but not enough.

Tomorrow we're going to
have to really crank it up.

- Yeah.

- I mean, we've got the motor mounts done,

we've got the trans cross-member done,

you've got the accessory drive done.

- Yeah.
- But tomorrow?

You'll at least make it run, right?

- Oh, wiring's all figured out.

(bluesy rock riff)

- It's Groundhog Day!

Working on 440 Samurai in the junkyard.

We got to make it happen today, Dulcich.

- I'll put the filter on.

- Okay.

- Yeah, you'll make the whole firewall.

- While you're putting the oil filter on?

- Yeah.

- Okay, unfortunately I got
to fire up the generator now

so it's going to get loud.

(generator running loudly)

- Man, I feel great this morning!

I got a whole bunch of really cool stuff,

voltage regulator here,

ECU, ballast resistor,

I think we're going to have this
thing running in no time flat!

- Okay, Dulcich, what do you think so far?

- Oh, it's looking great!

I'm hooking up the ignition
switch and the starter button

and the starter button's going to bypass

the ballast resistor,

so I've got a full 12 volts to the ECU.

The only problem here is the limited wire.

We had some red wire in the truck,

so every wire is red.

It's kind of, you don't want to do,

makes troubleshooting a real pain,

but it's what we have.

- Now comes the really difficult part,

which is enclosing the sides,

because it's going to be all kinds of

crazy compound shapes and stuff,

once again with no sheet metal brake,

I end up with sloppy bends
like this one right here,

bent over the back of
Harry Tow with a hammer.

- I'm probably going
overboard with the detail,

but I've actually mounted the bezel here

above the firewall,

and I've got gauges going in.

Temperature gauge is done,
got the oil pressure next.

Freiburger, you look like you're wrecked!

- Yeah.

- Your face is totally burnt up

and covered with grinding debris.

- Yours isn't.

- No.

(laughing)

That's because I was just
tinkering around with wiring.

- But, look at the dog house!

- Whoa.

See, I don't think I could've
done that good of a job.

- What do you got?

- I think I'm done with the wiring.

I've already hooked up the
battery and nothing caught fire.

- Let's see if it runs!

(engine turning over)

That's spark!

(engine starting)

- Yeah!

You got to be freakin' kidding me!

- We have life!

- Whoa!

- I knew it would fire up instantly!

It's got a Thermoquad!

- I honestly thought there
was almost no possibility

that all those used parts work.

And, I mean you got, the
magnetic pickup could be junk,

that ECU could be junk,

the ballast resistor could be junk.

- Do it again, see if
we have oil pressure.

- Okay.

(engine starting)

It went up to 25.

- Great!

Oh man, now it's official,
now we have a 440 Samurai!

- Man, isn't that great?

- Yep.

- I can't believe it just
worked the first try!

- Good work, Dulcich!

Is it time to go to the list?

- Yeah.

- Finish doghouse,

throttle.

Radiator.
- Radiator.

You really don't have to buy much

when you're working in this environment.

- No!

- The junkyard just keeps giving.

- Well that was the moment
that made it seem like

this might actually happen.

It seems like our 440 runs good enough to

at least drive this thing out of the yard.

We need to get the driveshaft and stuff.

I'm thinkin' about victory,
and this thing runs,

and I've got half the
engine doghouse done,

I'm going to finish up the
other half and then we've got

The List.

You can see how ugly that is,

but we're in good shape.

- Boy, I felt pretty lazy,

I mean I was just fiddling
with a little wiring

and fuel pumps, and spark
plugs, stuff like that.

Really easy stuff, you might
even do it on a weekend

tuning your own car.

Meanwhile, Freiburger's in
there building a doghouse,

cutting, grinding, welding,
and he looks like hell!

But I got massive amounts of glory.

I mean, the engine fired
up, and I got to take credit

because basically I got it running.

- [Mike] Dulcich!

- [Steve] Yeah?

You got it?

- Driveshaft!

- Wow look at that, so cute and small!

- Look at that weenie little u-joint,

this thing is going to
explode immediately.

- It's beefier than I was expecting.

- Yeah.

- Well, we need bolts and a belt

and a bunch of other stuff.

You look pretty wrecked.

- I know.

Okay, well, I guess that's
officially a wrap for the night.

It runs!

- I know!

Super stoked about that.

- Ready for tomorrow?

- And we'll buy the parts.

- You know what, I might actually

have a beer.

- [Steve] A beer?

- [Mike] Or eight.

- [Steve] That's crazy talk!

- [Mike] Yeah.

What'd you get there, chrome?

- Chrome air cleaner.

- Oh, wow!

- I wanted to spice it up a little bit.

- I didn't even know we were
going to have an air cleaner.

- We wouldn't want to
ingest dirt in our 440.

Perfect fit, Freiburger!

- Oh, wow!

Well, since we don't completely
want to die in the Samurai,

or at least we don't want to burn our legs

while dying in the Samurai,

we got some heat-reflective material

that's going on the
inside of the doghouse.

- I mention these scorpions a lot here,

and it's a pretty good gag,
the scorpion thing's funny.

- It's fact!

- It's no joke.

This place is frickin' crawling with them,

and they're big, nasty,
mean looking scorpions

and they walk with their
tails up in the air

like they're ready to sting,

so I'm going to crawl under
here to hook up this driveshaft,

and I'll be sleeping with
some of these angry scorpions.

Oh man, there's just a problem right here,

because if you turn this driveshaft,

it stops turning because the u-joint yoke

binds with the transmission yoke.

- Standard 4x4 problem.

It's because we need a centered diff.

- It's really tight on the
retaining strap side, too,

but it does clear.

- Let's ignore it for
now, do everything else,

and if we have time,

we'll put a better rear end
in the thing and center it.

- And then, if we don't have time?

- Then we grind that one
and just drive carefully.

- Oh.

- Finally a job that isn't making this!

I'm hanging the throttle pedal.

So you can see the brake pedal

is like absurdly higher
than the gas pedal,

but the problem is, if you
put the gas pedal way up here,

you often end up having
to lift your foot to do it

whereas you really want
to have a heel rest,

especially when you have no legroom

in an awkward driving position.

This thing is going to be
uncomfortable, to say the least.

- I know.

- The doghouse is done

except for having to close
off the firewall right there.

So I'm getting back to work.

- Rather than scrounging
around the junkyard

trying to find something that'll work,

I ended up getting this Flexalite fan.

This is ready to drop in

and the radiator cooling
system will be done.

(western guitar music)

Well, I got these new calipers.

The Suzuki calipers are

maybe a little more complex
than they need to be.

The real problem here is
we're having difficulty

sourcing metric brake lines and a T

so we can plumb all this mess together.

Hopefully tomorrow we'll
come up with something.

- We got a lot done today,

buy there was one extreme
kick in the shorts.

The driveshaft in the
back has a real problem

where the transmission's here,

and the rear end is offset
heavily to the right

and it's so extreme that
a u-joint is binding.

But, we will make this thing
move under its own power

one way or another.

Mark my words.

Ah, the sun rises over
Hidden Valley Auto Parts.

It's so tranquil.

So we need to shop now for a fuel system,

seats, brake line.

Right?

- Yeah.

Brake line?

Oh, somebody has cut the brake lines.

- So that's junk.

- The K-car, to me,
was always an ugly car.

Here we go.

- Steve, you're set.

- Really?
- Yeah.

- Oh, no way!
- Yeah.

- I was really hoping to
find a Mitsubishi Mighty Max.

- You're set!
- Am I?

- Make it happen!
- Alright!

Yeah.

Mighty Max!

- Alright, you want to harvest that,

and I'll keep looking for seats?

- Look at all these brake
lines, they're perfect!

- That seems workable.

- Yeah.

- Who knew that the Celica
had the ultimate seat design?

Here, wait.

Let me see what it's going
to be like in the Samurai.

Oh man, this thing's totally comfortable!

(laughing)

Alright, I'm going to take this
one back, make sure it fits.

Dude, the Celica just gave it up.

- Oh!

Let me see!

- Not even a fight.

The Celica seat is going to work!

Dude!

- Yeah, isn't it great?

- There's absolutely no issue.

And look at this!

Look!

- It's much better than I anticipated.

- This is no problem!

I could drive this thing cross country.

- And we will.

- If it ever runs.

- I've got the braking system
plumbed to my satisfaction,

using pretty much salvaged
brake lines and stuff like that.

I'm going to rely on
old-fashioned gravity bleeding

and letting gravity do the work.

As this settles down,

and the fluid makes
its way to the caliper,

it'll push every bit of the air out,

and I'll simply have to shut the caliper

and the system will be bled perfectly.

Gravity bleeding, old-school.

- Alright, woop-woo!

- Oh yeah!

The train knows!

- Seats, done!

Brakes, done!

Wow, this is pretty good.

- Driveshaft?

- We have to solve the
driveshaft nightmare

one way or another.

- I'm getting pumped, we're close!

- I know, I can't wait
to drive this thing!

- Man, did you check the lap
of luxury on these seats?

- Oh yeah, I have.

- Hop in, man, look at this!

Oh, yeah.

Man, look at that.

- Oh!

- It's really good.

- You know, you never need
a hotel room with this

because you could just snooze in here.

(snoring)

Here's a little tech-tip for you guys.

A lot of times it's really hard

to slip an undersized
hose on an oversized barb.

Some spray-on sunblock acts as
a great temporary lubricant.

And with that, hose clamp in,

watch the way this slides right on.

Sunblock.

Try it.

- And we're nearing the end,

I'm working on the trans cooler,

Steve's trying to fix our
driveshaft which is unfixable.

We need to find a radiator cap,

and put the wheels and tires on,

and we're firing this thing
up and we're going to try it!

- One of the last problems
we have to solve here,

is the u-joint cross is
actually binding on the yoke

because of the extreme driveshaft angle.

I'm going to use this carbide bit.

In a little bit of time,

I should able to gain
the clearance we need.

Hopefully we'll take this
thing for a ride pretty soon.

I've got this driveshaft perfected!

- Man this is a glorious moment.

Ready?

Oh, it's already crossed
off, driveshaft handled!

- Yeah!

I really wanted to put a
Samurai tank in the Sammy,

but I think we're pretty much out of time,

out of fuel tank options,
so we're going to go with

the old standby jerry can
mounted in the front grill area.

- Are you ready for wheels and tires?

- That might make me feel better.

- Check this out.

- Whoa!
- I know!

We're sponsored by Tire
Rack now which is super cool

because we can get tires like instantly.

Look at that!

- Let me take a quick look.

- Hot rod!

- Oh, yeah!

(air wrench clicking)

Okay, here we go!

- Wow!

This thing is way better than
I thought it was going to be.

- How close is that front
pinion to the oil pan

is my big thing.

- Do I have to?

- Oh!
- What?

- It's touching it right now.

- Oh, really?
- Yeah.

- Is it going to self-clearance?

- No.
- No?

- It's fully on it.
- No way!

- Un-drivable.

(groaning)

Epic fail!

So this is the thing

that we've been fighting the entire time,

which is moving the engine rearwards

in order to clear the front axle,

and sure enough when we put it down,

we've got all the weight on
the suspension and everything,

the absolute predictable thing happened.

The front pinion is on the oil pan,

and like, in a show-stopping way.

I mean, not going to happen.

But, I have a solution, which is,

this is a four-wheel-drive front axle,

with free-wheeling hubs and everything,

we're going to be able to take it apart,

pull the axles out of it,

and pull the whole center
section out of the axle

and drive around with nothing

but just the front axle in the car.

Okey-dokey.

Should be good to go.

- Everything was easy to take apart.

- Yeah.

- You could run into a real
headache trying to do that job.

- Yep.

Alright, we did that!

Ready to drive this pooch?

(engine roaring)

Let's move it!
- Yeah!

- Wow, it's got 60 pounds of oil pressure!

- [Steve] Oh, wow!

- Wow, man!

- Oh!

- That was fire.
- Yeah.

- You better crank it out.

There we go.

You can let it warm up some, but...

We built a 440 Samurai!

- Yeah!

(cheering)

- Oh, wow!
- Wow!

- That was cool!

It backfires out the vents!

- I'm glad that you got
the firewall in here,

because we would be barbecued by now!

- I don't feel the driveshaft
being weird, do you?

- No, driveshaft seems fine!

- Man, this Sammy's awesome!

- I know!

- [Mike] Oh, nice!

- There we go!

That's some RPMs!

- Runs great!

- I know!

(laughing)

- We're driving a 440 Samurai!

(yelling)

We made this happen!

This is a major victory!

- Alright!

This thing is nothing less than fantastic.

- That was awesome!

- How come it's so great?

- It's just fantastic,

because we built it
with our own four hands.

I mean, it took five days,

but we did it all with junkyard parts.

- Win!

Yeah!

(laughing)

- Beer!

- That is just awesome.

(heavy rock music)

- Oh, wow!

Shifts good!

- It's really relaxing inside the Sammy.

- It's pretty loud!

- What?

- What?

- I can't hear you!

- I know!

We better do some action on dirt

before we try to do burnouts
and break the rear-end.

- Yeah.

- [Mike] Yeah!

- Whoa!

The Samurai's awesome!

- Wow, it's pretty fun!

- Yeah!

Yeah!

(laughing)

Whoa!

(cheering)

- [Mike] No brakes!

Whoa!

(both yelling)

I can't stop!

(both laughing)

I think we're going to need to fix that!

So why is it idling at 10,000 RPM?

- The Thermoquad strangely
seems a little unstable.

They're usually so reliable.

- So we're out here blasting the Samurai

around in the desert,
and it's interesting,

because the brakes are
a little bit sketchy.

- A little?

- It has a lot of power,

and it's sticking like
at wide open throttle,

so Dulcich is working on fixing that.

- Oh, I'm going to have that
fixed in no time flat here.

- Okay.

- Okay, try it now!

(engine starting)

- Ready for more Samurai adventure?

- Yeah!

(engine misfiring)

- That's wide open.

- It's flooded.

- I smell gas, turn it off.

- Yeah.

That's a lot of gas.

- [Steve] My eyes are watering.

- [Mike] Me, too, it's flooding bad.

- [Steve] Yeah.

- Okay.

What did you do to the Thermoquad?

- I don't know.

There might've been some
debris in the fuel system

and it ended up getting
in the needle and seat.

(engine starting)

The Super Sammy was running
great, and then all at once

it just started flooding like crazy,

so I've been fiddling with
the Thermoquad carburetor.

I'm going to take it off,
I'm going to open it up,

I might be able to fix it.

We'll see.

That's it, right there.

The float is actually broken.

That will stop any Thermoquad.

But, we have an extra Thermoquad,

swap the float out, we'll
be back in business.

- We ran back to the junkyard

and got the Thermoquad that was on the 440

when we first got it,

so we're going to take the
float out of the old Thermoquad

and put it in the Dulcich Thermoquad.

- Well, I think I got
this Thermoquad fixed,

I'm just going to plop it down on our 440

and the Samurai will spring
into action once again.

(engine roaring)

That's a lot better!

The Thermoquad runs great!

- Yeah!

It does now!

- Whoa!

- That was a good one!
- Yeah!

Pretty good brodies!

(engine stops suddenly)

- [Mike] I got to be honest--

- Uh, we got major problems.

- We have a fire!

Fire! Fire!

Still burning!

- Quick, battery, disconnect!

- It's electrical?

- Yeah.

- The issue here is, all day
we've been fighting with this

dollar-fifty toggle switch,
that would never work right,

it was shutting on, shutting off,

causing running problems and everything,

and now it caught us on fire!

And it's overheating
because the fan didn't work!

- Well?

- That might be near the end
of the Super Sammy Adventure.

Well, overall I think the Super
Sammy experiment was a win,

but there are some issues
that we have to work out

like that junkyard radiator.

- Yeah, that doesn't cool.

- Completely clogged.

That fan?

- No airflow.

- Yeah.

- The wiring burned up.

- The wiring, we did it quick and easy,

didn't use fuses and it bit us
because we had a junk switch

that ended up causing a fire.

We know that the rear-end
is probably going to blow up

or the driveshaft, so the
last thing we've got to do

is scientifically discover
what the weak link is.

Will it be the axle shafts,
will it be the ring gear?

- Driveshaft?

- Will it be the driveshaft?

We find out right now, yeah?

- How do you want to test it?

- Oh, how do you think?

Ready to go for it?

- Let's hit it!

- Alright!

440 power, go!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

- That was awesome!

Man, this thing's a rocket!

- The Super Sammy might be a better

on-road car than off-road!

- Oh, for sure!

Wow!

- And, we're done!

(laughing)

- Wow!

- Sammy wins!

So there's the story of the 440 Samurai.

And, I know, you got to ask yourself,

"Why did these guys bother?"

Well, basically,

because we've always
wanted to go to a junkyard

and build a vehicle using nothing
but parts out of the yard.

And, essentially, we pulled that off.

- Win!
- Yeah!

- [Mike] The problem is, the
radiator we got out of the yard

is clogged solid, and
this thing overheats bad.

And if you ever see the 440 Samurai again,

the bad news is

it has got to lose the Thermoquad.

But, you know what?

The thing runs and drives
better than you would think.

It's got more legroom than people guess

with that giant doghouse in there,

it actually does burnouts and
the rear-end didn't explode,

and it's a miracle the
driveshaft didn't fall out of it.

So, it's all win.

When it comes down to it,
nothing can match the glory

of the big-block Samurai.

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Ready?

Ready?

Come on, yes, yes!

Ready to go for it?

- Let's hit it!

- Alright!

440 Power, go!

- Yeah!

(cheering)

(laughing)