01x02 - Rivalry Road

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Here we go, guys. Picture's up.

And let's roll cameras.

In three, two, one.

Go, Sammy.

Jesus!

Let's cut, guys.
Let's go get him.

- Stay back.
- All right. Get the car off.

COT standing by, guys.

Does anybody have a ladder? A ladder?

- Is he good?
- Hold on.

- Sammy, how are ya?
- Sammy?

- Slip your arm out.
- Hold on.

Fit that through your left.

Come on out, baby.

Yes!

- Oh my God!
- How was it?

Talk about sore.

Take your time.

Sammy, are you good?

Oh, man, my shoulder hurts.

- You guys get the shot?
- So good.

It made my heart go...
...up in my throat.

I've seen Sammy
do this for a lot of years.

Each time I see the end of the stunt,

the only thing I wanna do is,
like, start running towards him.

Just to be there. Just...
Just to be close, you know?

Oh wow!
Look at it. It cracked it.

- Look at this. It ripped out.
- Look at that.

I don't care what anybody tells you,

once you crash, like I just crashed,

you need a moment to get your bearings.

On a scale from one to ten,

ten being the worst pain
you've ever felt, how's your arm feeling?

Maybe s... Maybe four to six.
Somewhere in there.

Gonna take more
than that truck to knock me out.

That was hard on my body.

Honestly, I cannot imagine
my twins going through that.

However, if they wanna continue
down this road,

I'm gonna have to teach my twins

how to roll with the punches
and stay safe.

I love you.

No matter how hard they drive.

Oh, man.

How's your shoulder?

Feels like I just went
through a bus, Hannah.

What a day.

Oh, yeah.

It was crazy. That was a huge stunt.

Geez.

The expl*si*n was huge.

I was standing a good ways away,
and I still felt it.

- Hannah, what the heck is this?
- Yeah?

No way.

- What the heck is he doing here?
- I think it is.

Are you kidding me?

- Hey, yo, Sammy!
- Oh, shut up!

Sammy!

I am so done with you.

Come on, man. You... I messed up.

You did, Corey.

Bro, talk to me.

About what?

I promise
I'll never go to nobody's shop again.

Nobody else will touch my engine.

Once an engine comes out of here,

it doesn't get touched
by anybody other than us.

Hannah, I need you to understand
that it's never gonna happen again.

Last year,
Horace brought his car to my shop.

I built him a nice big-block Chevy engine,
and Horace went as fast as he's ever gone.

And then he went
to this backyard mechanic.

And this other guy told Horace
he'll make his car go a whole lot faster.

After that,
Horace takes it out to the race

and knocks the thrust bearing
completely out of it.

It grenades halfway down the track.

And, right on top of those valve covers,
it says "Maloof Racing Engines."

Now, what do you think everybody says?
"Maloof's engine broke."

I know I messed up. I know I did.

I promise,
nobody else will touch my engine again.

It's gonna be Maloof for life.

I won't let my mama touch my car.

Look, Horace,
I've got ten clients ahead of you,

and you wanna push them off to the side.

Give me one good reason
for me to be back in your corner.

My car is a wreck.

I got this race against this dude
named Shevey Mack.

Hold on a minute.
You're racing Shevey Mack?

- Yes.
- Monti Fitzgerald is his engine builder.

Correct.

I knew if I dropped Fitzgerald's name,
that his antennas would raise up.

All I had to do is put that in there
to spice it up a little bit,

put that hot sauce, cayenne pepper on it,

and he would get hot enough to talk to me,
and let's go at this guy.

We set up a race.

One-eighth mile, all motor.

In the racing world,
each town has a kingpin.

In Southern California,

I don't need to tell everybody
what I build and what I do.

People know.

Just like in Northern California.
The Fitzgeralds are the ones to beat.

If I had to take this project on
with Horace,

it would be an access gate

to give the Maloof name
a better opportunity to be known.

After we take
the Fitzgeralds' lunch money,

hopefully we pick up
some of their clients.

So what are the stakes, man? Is it money?

We got a $20,000 pot.

Are we not gonna play?

Not gonna go behind my back?
No more letting anybody touch my stuff?

Not ever.

Look me in the eye.

Not ever.

Okay. Good enough.

Horace made a huge mistake.

But, look, he's a great racer.

Together, we got a great shot
on taking on Fitzgerald's camp.

Everything on this car is so nasty.

It's a mess.

On top of all the other stuff,
somehow we need to get the car on a diet.

- We got to.
- Or the driver.

I need to too.

The lighter the car,
the faster the car.

So, how much you weigh?

Two forty-eight.

I'll let you know if you weigh 248.

I weigh 248!

Uh, 250?

I got a scale.

What you doing with a scale, man?

- Stand on this thing.
- I will.

You're 257 pounds, you liar.

- Can we get you 15 pounds off there?
- I can do that.

That's 300 pounds off a car.
That's three-tenths of a second, buddy.

- Okay.
- I've got a lot of work to do on this.

And very little time to get it done.

And you need to eat some salad.

All jokes aside,
don't worry about nothing.

- I'ma get ready. I got it.
- Get this in order.

Oh, boy.

- I see you see it, huh?
- Yeah.

Why does it say "Maloof"?

I know nothing about it
that's Maloof right now.

So here's the deal.
I already know this car was 840 horse.

But we need about 1,100,

so I need to pick up a couple hundred
horsepower without any shortcuts.

Horace and Shevey
are going head-to-head in a drag race,

which is a race between two drivers
on a straight track.

Which is usually
either an eighth-mile or a quarter,

but in this case,
it's gonna be an eighth-mile.

Now, based on some
of the videos that we've seen,

Shevey Mack is running a 6.6 to a 6.2.

With the car Horace has now,

he's only gonna run
in the high-to mid-sixes.

That's a difference
of a third of a second,

which is a lot in an eighth-mile race.

However, if we can get
Horace's car in the low sixes,

we think that he's got
a good shot against Shevey.

And if he wins, we're gonna get
$10,000 of the $20,000 purse.

Okay, look. We already know
this engine needs to be gone through.

I don't know how much damage
he's done to this,

but I guarantee it's a lot of work.

Yeah.

Let's check the rest of this out.

Look at this. A living room in here.

He's got carpet through the thing.
Why don't you run carpet in a race car?

- Fire hazard.
- Fire.

What we need to do is,
we need to get rid of all the carpet.

This is a mess.

- Think that's a mess? Come look at this.
- My God.

Are you kidding me? What is that?

That would be your fuel hose.

- That's the fuel line?
- Yeah.

This is a big hazard, for sure.

Know what happens
if this pops off?

- Bye, Corey.
- "Bye, Corey" is right.

All right. So we need
to comb the whole car.

- We have a lot to get done in a week.
- All right. We'll get it done.

I've been training my kids
to build racing cars and racing engines

since they were knee-high
to a grasshopper.

Check the fluids.
Make sure everything's tight.

Got it.

And every single car
that they work on,

it's a great opportunity
for them to expand their skill set.

This is no good.

Look at this, Josh.

Smell that. What's that smell like to you?

- It smells burnt.
- Yeah. Smells like burnt oil.

Let's pop off one
of these valve covers, driver's side.

All right.

Yeah. Look at this.

It's burnt oil. Very burnt.
Something happened.

Something inside it got overheated.

All right, this engine has gotta come out.

We gotta put it on a stand, drain the oil,
check it, and see what's going on.

Got it.

Pick it up.

That don't look good.

That's chunks of metal right there.

Look at this right here.
It's bearing flakes.

I don't know what
we're gonna be able to save.

That not good.

In these high-horsepower engines,

there's a lot of power
and a lot of moving parts going on.

If one thing breaks,
it could destroy the entire engine.

Seeing all the metal flakes in the oil,

that's a sign that there's metal flakes
all throughout the entire engine.

And, really, that's a major problem.

The plug is full of metal.

There's a bunch of them.

- Bearing flakes.
- Oh, yeah.

This is bad. This got hot, Hannah.

- Yeah.
- This thing's hurt.

The best thing I can think of
is that we just put this one aside

and put together
a new engine, from scratch.

It saves us time of going through it.

Because we start pulling this apart,
and then find something else,

and then something else...

Yeah.
Could chase our tail with this one.

Also,
if we start with a new engine,

we can give him
a little bit more horsepower in it too.

Build him something
a little bit bigger, you know?

I love that idea. Screw this.

Let's just start from scratch.
Order everything in.

Blockheads, crank, pistons, rods.

Got it.

The new engine's going to cost $20,000,

of which Horace has agreed to pay half,
and we'll throw in the other half.

So now we've got $10,000 in this race,
plus our time and labor.

So if we win, we'll break even

and spread our name
through Northern California.

But if we lose,
we'll be down a lot of money.

Okay. So, one more thing.

Trevor, once the parts
get to the machine shop,

you tell them
I said weigh each piston individually.

Yes, I'll make sure that they weigh every
individual piece, get it balanced right.

Thank you.

Since I've turned 18,

Sammy's given me
a lot more responsibility,

which I really appreciate,

'cause I'm a little late
to the engine-building game.

When I was 13 years old,
and I got adopted into the Maloof family...

Man, looking back now, I would not let
that little kid touch anything.

I don't think I'd even trust myself
with a Hot Wheels car.

Until the parts have arrived,
why don't you start on the electrical?

And why don't you start
on the front suspension?

- Trevor, work the fuel.
- Yes, sir.

Before Trevor
became part of our family,

he used to hang with the wrong crowd.

His attitude on everything was just nasty.

Now, Trevor's a completely different
young man, from the inside out.

Trevor has changed.

I depend on Trevor,
and I trust Trevor, wholeheartedly.

- All right. Let's get it done.
- Yeah.

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Hannah?

Oh, Hannah.

Yeah?

Got the parts back from balancer.

Oh good.

Pads, intake,
pistons, everything.

All right. Well, let's pull it all out.
Make sure it's all here.

Trevor managed
to pull some favors with the balancer

and got Horace's parts
balanced and shipped in record time.

Get it all laid out in the engine room,
so we can start building it.

Sounds good.

Trevor has done his part.

Now it's time for us to do ours.

We have to get this engine assembled
as quickly as possible,

because Horace's race
is only four days away.

- How are you?
- Hey, Dad.

What's cracking, honey?

I prepped the pistons and rods.
I just need you to check 'em.

You busted the edges really nice.

- What's it reading? Three?
- Yeah. Exactly three.

Three thousandths.
God, Hannah, these are dynamite.

My dad taught me early on
that it's the precise adjustments

that add up to peak performance.

So it's very, very important

that you pay attention
to those small details.

I think these pushrods
are really close to the rocker stands.

Oh yeah, Hannah.

Good eye, pumpkin.

Why don't you stab it?

And then you can assemble the heads,
grind that stand, get it done.

Now look at it, Hannah. Look at this.

It's poetry in motion.

Let's get this thing going.

Compressor down. Turn the water on.

Let's bark this thing off.

We replaced
Horace's old engine with a bigger one.

A 582-cubic-inch engine
that we built from scratch.

Bigger cubic inch
means more horsepower and torque.

More horsepower
and torque means faster car.

Ready?

To my ears,
there's nothing greater

than a ground-pounding,
big-block Chevrolet that you've built.

Not only is it music to my ears,
but that's information to me.

If you know engines,
then you'll know exactly what it's saying.

You hear something?

Got problems.

It vibrates.

And that vibration is centrifugal.
You can feel the harmonic in it.

I don't know how my dad does it,

but he can listen to a car
and know instantly what's wrong with it.

Smooth. But you feel the vibration?

And when my dad diagnoses a car,

it ain't wrong.

Okay. This engine is not balanced.

There's no issue with our end.

There's an issue
with balance in this engine.

Trevor, I asked you to call the individual
who was gonna balance the engine.

- To do what?
- Make sure they balance the engine.

How did you tell him?

I called him and said,
"Make sure you balance the engine."

How did I ask you to tell him?

To make sure
they measured everything individually?

Exactly.

You were supposed to confirm that for me,

and it wasn't done that way, was it?

No.

Think about what could happen.
When Corey is on the big end,

and he's running that car,
and he's doing 160, 170, who knows?

This engine comes unglued...

I goofed up. I-I messed up.
I should've said exactly how you said it.

This is not a good thing right now.

There's a lot of rotating parts in there.

Now we're gonna pull it completely apart

and find out
what parts did not get balanced.

It's gonna set us back
a whole bunch of time.

If we can't balance it
within the next two days...

All this time? All this money?
Corey forfeits the race.

There will be
a consequence to this, Trevor.

I'm thinking that I want
every single car in the shop clean.

I don't wanna see
no dust on them. You got me?

Yes, sir.

While Hannah and I figure out
where this vibration's coming from,

you're gonna have about ten cars to wash.

Let's just get this thing disconnected,
drain the oil, and let's get it apart.

Now.

All right.

Let's set this mic
and check that.

That's correct.

How about the crank?

This crank is off by 160 grams.

Oh boy. That's where
this vibration is coming from.

We just gotta get it fixed.

We got so much work to do, Hannah.

Perfect, Hannah.

Okay.
Let's get this engine back together.

- Get the front ones ready?
- Tighten up these bolts.

Here we go.

After two days,
Hannah and I rebalanced Horace's engine,

and now that we've assembled it twice,

it's time to test it once again.

- Smooth!
- Yeah. Much... much better.

Now that we got Horace's engine
all back together and balanced,

the weight is definitely
off my shoulders now.

Oh my God. I was so relieved.

Let's put it together, man.

And now Horace can go test
his almost new car on the track tomorrow.

Okay. Here we go, sports fans.

So loud!

What is this thing, man?
This ain't my car, man!

- How are you?
- This ain't my car, man!

Oh, this is new!

You have no idea, brother.

Oh my God. What did you do?!

This is so clean. Is it edible?

You want this? You're kinda drooling.

That was wicked!

- Well, Corey, I did my job.
- Right.

- Did you do your job?
- Yes, sir.

You lost some serious weight?

Yeah.

Slow down, hot rod. Look me in the eye.

Yeah, I did my job.

I did my job.

All right, Hannah.
Let's see if he's done his job.

Make sure it's on good flat ground
so he can't lie.

You ready?

We... we down, bro. Look at me.

- You're right.
- I know.

You lost what? About ten pounds?

Ten pounds, bro.

Well, good thing
I took more weight out of the car.

We made
some major modifications to Horace's car,

which I know will shave nearly a second
off his eighth-mile time.

We built Horace a brand-new,
1,100 horsepower big-block Chevy.

Now that we have all this horsepower,
we put in a new radiator,

torque converter, and driveshaft,

to keep the engine nice and cool
and deliver all that power.

We also installed a new fuel cell
and all-new fuel lines.

Plus we dropped about 300 pounds

by removing the carpet, secondary battery,
and some things he just didn't need.

And we set up the suspension
for the correct weight transfer.

Last but not least,
we put on some new 29.5 Hoosier tires

to get this car to hook up on the track.

If we can get Horace's car
in the low sixes, high fives,

he'll have a good chance
at beating Shevey Mack.

Horace, listen.
You don't have to rush this.

Yeah.

I need you
to concentrate on two things.

The burnout and the light bulb.

In a drag race,
a burnout is when you heat your tires,

getting those slicks hot enough to stick
to the ground, at the starting line.

And then there's only one thing
you have to be focused on.

The Christmas tree.

Timing those lights to perfection

is the key
to crossing that finish line first.

Hit the limiter twice.
Did you hear that, guys?

He hit the limiter twice.

- What happened?
- Sir, it's a rocket ship.

This car has way more, way more power
than the... than the other one.

But that was not fast.
Something wasn't right.

It was a damn fly in here.

And it flew in my...

So I couldn't drive the damn car.

The light goes double,
and then I go on the brake,

and the damn thing jumped up out of there.

But you know what?
You broke focus on that one.

Don't break focus again.

The car will do its job.
You need to do your job.

We're not cheerleaders.

I'm not here to make Horace feel good.

I'm gonna be
the biggest challenge to that man,

because there's a lot of money
riding on the line.

Twenty thousand dollars.

So it's time to get serious.

I need you to drive a little bit harder.

Give me a little bit better data
on the second run.

Let's go!

Now we're talking.

That's the run
I'm talking about right there.

But, Horace, here's the problem.

You're making that real estate
longer than you need it to be.

You need to go as straight
as you can. You need to be a b*llet.

Five ninety-four.

Yes!

That's a good run.

- He wasn't even throttling it.
- No.

You know the Fitzgeralds.

Always bringing something up their sleeve.

They're never being up-front,

so you just gotta be prepared.

It was a lot of work we'd put into this.
It all pays off.

You did a great job, princess.

He'll be pretty tough to beat.

I'm really happy
with how Horace's car is running.

I'm happy that we've decided
to build him a new engine.

As long as Horace is on his game,
it's gonna be a good race.

Attaboy.

Good job.

Shevey Mack, I got him covered.
I promise you I got him covered.

This right here is a monster.

- They are in trouble.
- Yep.

So I was thinking
about Trevor, Joshy, Hannah.

They just work, work, work.

And it's like, you gotta put
a sandwich in their mouths.

So let's get a lot of sandwiches, man.

Dude, the last thing
I told you was to go on a diet!

Okay.

Trevor, Trevor.

What is all that?

Well, it's a little bit
of a surprise for ya.

I know you like hot wings.

I got on you for goofing up a bit.

I also know that the way you handled it

was 100% the way
I would want you to handle it.

- You did a good job.
- Well, thank you.

I gotta give credit to Trevor.

All of us make mistakes.

The good ones hold themselves accountable.

He didn't argue. He didn't complain.

He stepped up when he made the mistake.

That means a lot to me.

- Right. All the condiments that you use.
- Wow.

If you're willing
to put in the effort to fix your mistakes,

I believe in second,
third, fourth, and fifth chances.

All right.

You... you set it up.
Let me just see what you got going on.

Take this guy.

Get this here. This over here.

You're putting syrup on chicken!

Yeah, I'm putting syrup on chicken
and dunking it right in here.

- You're gonna eat that?
- You're gonna help me eat it.

- Oh yeah. Look at that.
- Get it away from me!

Stop!

That looks
like it came out of some kid's diaper.

It's a Trevor special here.

- Wow. That's good.
- Oh, man!

Trevor, you're gonna get punished again
here in a minute if I keep seeing this.

It's good stuff.

Here we go! Here we go!

Man, oh, man.

This is amazing. I'm excited.

Shevey is going down.

My beef with Shevey goes back three years.

He had a race set up
with our daughters at the go-kart track.

My daughter brought her go-kart,
and he brings a junior dragster.

His daughter
beat the pants off my daughter,

and he laughed, and he put it
on all these different websites,

just talking reckless about my daughter.

So now it's time
for me to get some revenge.

We get to race Camaro y Camaro,
street car to street car.

- I love it. Yeah.
- We got this! Let's go.

They'd better be on their game
to get a hold of you.

Man, listen. I just need...

- What is this?
- Whose car is that?

Look at this car.

If there's one thing I know,
that's engines,

and the moment Shevey rolled up
with his car and barked it off,

I'm thinking, "What is this?"

It was supposed to be a different car,

and they brought a car
that was completely out of our class.

What's up, gentlemen?

What's cracking, boys?

What is this, bro?

- What you mean? It is what it is.
- I'm just saying, man.

- Wait. Listen.
- Hold on, Corey. Slow down.

Corey, listen to me.

The car that you told me
you were gonna race

was some street-type gray Camaro.

That's it.
That's what we built this car for.

Is this the car that you bargained for?

- Uh, no, this is not the car.
- Okay. Hold on. Let me finish.

He don't have the same motor that he had.

That's the same car!

- Shevey, that's the same damn car!
- He's saying...

That is not the same damn car!

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

- Let me ask you something.
- Okay.

- What engine you have in this?
- Small-block.

You run what you brung,
but when you agree to terms,

that's what you bring.
You don't bring something else.

We came out for Horace's race expecting it
to be street car versus street car.

But they brought a pro-mod car out.

It's not built for the street.

A pro-mod car is about
a thousand pounds lighter than us,

and that straightaway
makes it a whole lot faster.

It's in a whole different class a car
that we did not agree to race.

- There's no car he owns is a street car.
- Okay.

Whatever the car was the gray car,
why didn't you bring that?

So, we'd heard through the grapevine
that you guys did the super loop.

From the 5.72, to the 5.88, to the 6.32...

You didn't hear it from the horse's mouth?

We bargained to play basketball.

I show up with a football, and I say,
"No, we're playing football today."

That's how the ball bounces.

If you're somebody's engine builder,

you have to put that driver
in the best position to win.

And we got some tricks up our sleeve.

So, today, oh, we coming up out of here
with a win. That's what we're doing.

You know that this is not right.

I really thought you was a grudge racer.

You know what I do.

- Put it in the beams!
- He's an honest racer.

Monti and Shevey's strategy
is to psych me out.

To get me out of my game. But I'm a racer.

I'm gonna race regardless.
That's what I do.

So, all right. Whatever it is,
we brought what we brought.

Let's just do this. Can we do this?

Street car against a pro-mod car.

It's not even.
But you know what, it can be done.

Horace is a very skilled race car driver.

On the other hand,
Shevey's a very green driver.

And the fact that they swapped out a car,

that tells me
that that team is very, very nervous.

I'm ready.

Okay, no more talking.

Let's lock it in. Run what you brung.

- Okay.
- What's the game plan? Where we going?

- We go eighth-mile.
- Eighth-mile it is.

- Twenty thousand. Twenty grand.
- Okay. Yeah.

- Lock it in for 20.
- All right, bro.

- Be safe.
- Be safe.

Let's go, man. Let's go, man.

Well, Monti and Shevey,
they lived up to their reputation.

But you know what? I've never backed down
from challenges in my racing career.

Anything can happen today.

- Corey.
- Yes, sir?

- You go light those things.
- Yep.

- And you get her done.
- Thank you, brother.

In Southern California,
we let our cars bark.

We don't bark our mouths.

Stop all this damn talking, man,
and let's see what these cars do.

Ready, ready? Go!