11x05 - 100 Years, 100 Changes

[bunniefuu]

It's a beautiful car,
but I'm going to have to say

it's a blast from the past.

[Stephens] It's got a couple
sticks of dynamite.

It's got a couple of things
that are a little weird,
just right out the gate.

-[Kevin] Not a fan of stripe.
-[Dave] This will be, I think,

one of the big challenges
to see how much of a pain

it is to get rid of
those stripes.

[Kevin] We're going to have
to do this surgically.

[Karson] I'm folding
under pressure.

[Dave] Out with the old,
in with the new.

Come here, you sweet
little thing.

Just give it a big old kiss.

-I've never seen the car
this blown apart.
-[Dave] Right?

[Paul] This is
just going to give it
a whole new life.

There's a lot of wheel
and tire for this car.

[Kyle] Too much power.

It keeps blowing
my exhaust tubes away.

[Karson] Oh, there we go.
We're moving now.

-818?
-Beachfront Avenue!

[laughs]

[Dave] When I look
at a blank canvas,

I see endless possibilities.

As the ideas come to mind,

the lines start
to fall into place.

And before you know it,
we have a Bitchin' Ride.

[screeches]

[Dave] A Bitchin' Ride
has intense color...

-[man 1 laughs]
-[man 2] This is gorgeous!

[Dave] ...performance...

[man] It's fantastic.

-[Dave] ...stance,
wheels, sound.
-[car engine revs]

[Dave] There's one thing
that makes our car stand out,

ours are itchin' Rides.

[screeches]

-[man 3]
Well, it never gets old.
-[man 2 laughs]

[Kevin] So you got us
out here.

-Beautiful day.
-[Dave] I'll tell you what,
speaking of a pretty day.

It's a beautiful car,
but I'm going to have to say

-it's a blast from the past.
-It most certainly is.

It's like circa 1986.

When our good friend Paul
sent his '33 Roadster
out to us,

he didn't really get too deep
into detail on how much '80s

was still strapped
to the chassis.

-[Kevin] Are those
original Boyds?
-[Dave] Uh-huh.

-Probably before he was born.
-Yep.

I was born in '78, bro.

-Okay.
-So you were six.

-Big deal.
-[laughing]

[Dave] Candy Brandywine,
beige interior.

Paul has obviously good taste
in Roadsters.

This thing is
very nicely built.

So we don't have
any paint work, really,
for the most part.

A couple of things that
he really wants to tackle,

so he wants to update it,
make it a little bit more
our style.

So we're going to take
those Boyds off

and put them in
the swap meet pile.

-[Kevin] Okay.
-[Dave] We're going to do
maybe some 16s, 17s,

one-offs, or else maybe
some 17, 18s.

I'll see what I can fit
in there.

I want to do something
kind of vintage.

Why would you put 17s
back here?

That's not you.

I don't even think they make
tires for 17s anymore.

They do. They do,
and I actually checked.

[laughs]

[Dave]
The turn signals are down
underneath the fenders.

We're going to put them
in the new headlights.

I've also got a set of
new taillights coming.

-[Kevin] Okay, so that seems
all pretty easy enough.
-[Dave] Yeah.

So why is Justin here?

So Justin is going
to take care of
the inside of the car.

-Funny.
-Go figure.

-The most important part.
-The most important part.

It's a little bit dated.

I'm sure it's comfortable,
but there is definitely

some upgrades that we're going
to do on the inside.

First thing I'm going to do
is across the dash,

all of that billet ball mill
stuff needs to come out.

We're going to get rid
of the steering column,

and I think we might go ahead
and put a shifter on the floor

if it makes more sense,
just so there's a little bit

more room around the knee.

And a couple other things
that are kind of dated.

The top shape is good.
I want to do a bead on this.

I want to do a black canvas.

I want it to look like
it's a functioning
fold-down top.

Obviously, it's a Karson top.

The carpet, I think
we'll change that up as well.

Let's go with maybe
a wool or maybe another

square weave
if it makes sense.

I want to restylize
these seats.

Do we ever think about
just doing a whole bench?

[Dave] This seat
is a good fit for it.

Let's just maybe square up
the back of the rest

so it looks more like a bench.

But we'll do a split
upper bench,

and then we'll have some room
still behind it.

What's in the trunk there?
I think that's the lever.

[Kevin] Hopefully,
it's a rumble seat.
Hopefully, it's a rumble seat.

-I love rumble seats.
-[Dave] Oh, yeah.

Oh.

[Dave] No?
It's got a couple
sticks of dynamite.

-[Stephens] Sweet.
-[Kevin] I think these
are road flares.

[Stephens] Oh, my bad.

[Dave] Again,
I think we'll just kind
of keep the trunk very simple.

I think a tuck and roll really
would be kind of fitting

for the era of the car
that we're trying to go for.

[Stephens] What color
are you thinking
on the inside?

[Dave] I'm thinking
a light beige.

[Kevin] So something
that nobody can ever sit in.

Again.

Hey, wipe yourself off before
you get in a clean car.

So now we know what's behind
door number one

and door number two,
let's look behind
door number three.

-Awesome.
-[Dave] Nice.

Bunch of more ball milled
aluminum.

That was cutting edge
back in the day.

-Get yourself a mullet, dude.
That's purty.
-[Stephens] I got it.

I had a mullet.
It'd be a skullet now.

-A skullet.
-Let's do it. Let's do it.

[Dave] The spark plug wires
themselves,

all of the blingy
accessory drive.
Let's take a look.

Maybe we change that up
a little bit.

Tune port's coming off.
We're going to do
an eight stack.

-[Kevin] Okay.
-[Dave] And then also,

we'll see how much more brake
we can put in there.

He's a little concerned
with the front brakes.

They just aren't quite
cutting it.

So now we're talking about
wheels again.

I mean, the most
important wheel,

can we change
the steering wheel?

Most definitely.

I'm thinking like a '40 Ford,
or maybe we find something

that's a little bit more kind
of cool,

maybe an early Lincoln that
we can shrink down.

Just something kind of cool.

-[Stephens] Okay.
-[Dave] Let's do it.

Paul's got great taste
in early street rods,

and he's got greater taste
in builders.

-So, let's get busy.
-Thanks.

-Hey.
-I do upholstery.

I do upholstery. Okay. Okay.

[Karson] I'm just
barely skinny enough.

I gotta somehow get
that pulled out.

Come on.

Oh! Now I got it.

Every project at
Kindig-It Design,

when it comes in,
no matter what level it is,
has to be taken apart.

With this one,
most of the work's

gonna get done on the inside.

Yeah, so then you just have
a bunch of room to work with.

Okay, it should just
come out now.

Yeah. All right, you ready?

I'm going to push it your way,
and then I'm going
to set it down,

and then I'm going to get in.

I just want to set it down
up top.

Okay, let's go right there.

[Karson] Now we got room
to work with now.

What are you going to do next?

I was thinking
just the panels.

Some of this just screws off.

Maybe not.

I got to figure out
how to take this off.

I have no idea.

-What's up?
-I don't know how to take
that thing off.

That handle, that throne piece

right here. I don't know
how to take this off.

We might need to grab
some pliers,

but we don't want
to scratch it.

So we might put
some Gorilla Tape

around it and then a towel,
and then try to grab it

with some pliers
and twist it off, Karson.

Karson. Karson?

Dude.

[Dave] Paul's '33
came into us,
and of course,

we had kind of a small
laundry list of things

that he wanted to do,
but we were actually able

to add a couple more things
to it that would just

make it make more sense.

The headlights and taillights,
we're going to go ahead

and change those out.

And to replace the


I'm going to go with
the 15 up front,

a little bit skinnier
so we have lots of

turning radius and we can keep
the car down.

And also, we're going
to tie in a 17-inch wheel
in the rear.

And for the wheel design,
I've designed

a magnesium hot rod wheel.

So the interior,
we're going to go ahead

and take all of the tweed
out of it,

as well as the top material.

We're going to go to
a black canvas on the top.

We're going to do a nicer,
lighter colored interior
headliner

to match the new
leather color.

This more natural beige color
is going to look beautiful

next to the Candy Brandywine.

And of course, we're going
to add some other details

with chrome, as well as some
matte finish brass.

This car was actually
a really beautiful car.

The body and paintwork
was beautiful.

The components,
for the most part,

all the way across the board
were really nice.

We're just going
to replace the stuff
that dated it so much.

This is going to look awesome,
and it's going to continue

to carry a theme throughout
the entire vehicle.

[man] Karson,
I would have probably
started with the door panels.

Okay, I'll just do
the door panels.

[man] Get the door panels
out of the way,

and then there's an Allen
that goes back here.

And then take those out.

This should pop off,
and then you should be able

-to get the door panels off.
-Okay.

Oh, come on.

Too big?

That's definitely too small.
Oh, my gosh.

We're using every
Allen wrench.

This might take me a minute.

Too small.

[groans]

So do you guys like filming?

Too small.

I just thought I'd conversate.

So I don't have to sit here
in awkward silence.

Oh, this one looks good.

Maybe.

Nope.

This one might work.

Oh, are you serious?

I'm folding under pressure.

Oh, yeah.

This could be good.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, there we go.

Took 100 of them,

but we finally got it.

And this '33 is not
the only car in the shop

that we're getting started
on right now.

So this is a 1968 Camaro,
my favorite year personally.

Looks like a very nice build.

It's got a pretty high
horsepower engine on it.

But I will say,
not a fan of the stripe.

[Dave] Oh, Tate
and Sara's car's
here, huh?

-[Kevin] Yeah.
-[Dave] Cool.

It looks like it's got
some pretty nice parts on it.

-It's a big block car.
-It looks like a nice car.

It's got a couple of things
that are a little weird,

just right out the gate.

[Kevin]
What would you call this,
yellow or orange?

[Dave] It's a gold.
I don't know.
It's a golden orange.

But it just doesn't have
any flow with the car.

It doesn't match the car.

[Kevin]
There's nothing else on
the car that has that.

-[Dave] No.
-[Kevin] Not a detail,
not a stitch.

Like, it would be cool
to maybe, like,

if they carried it in
through the stitching.

-Nope.
-[Dave] No.

[Kevin] This stripe definitely
has to go.

We don't want to repaint
the whole car,

so we're going to have
to do this surgically.

I do not want to repaint.
I'm not looking to blend.

It should have plenty
of room where we need to go

to get rid of that stripe.

So lower valance fender door.

You want to pull that stuff
off, or you want to just
paint it on the car?

I would say paint it
on the car.

But I did notice one thing.

Yeah, you won't be able
to get around that.

I was going to say it comes
around the corner.

Uh, on the door, especially.

-[Dave] Okay.
-It comes around the back.

So we're probably going
to have to figure out,

pull one or the other
at minimum.

Okay. The wheels are cool,

but they don't fit the style
of the car at all,
in my opinion.

-They're nicely built.
-[Kevin] So we
need to do wheels.

-We need to get rid of
this orange gold stripe.
-Stripe. Mmm-hmm.

-And then--
-Some drivability issues.

Let's look under
the hood here.

He wants to be able
to drive the car.

That's kind of
his biggest...
his biggest thing.

So we want to check systems,
the cooling system,

make sure the brakes
are working,
the exhaust system.

We need to probably do
something with that.

That's low carbon steel,
or is that stainless?

-That looks steel to me.
-It looks like steel,
and it's not coated.

If it is coated,
it's at its last hurrah.

So you want to do something
with the exhaust?

Yeah, I don't want
to replace it,
but I would definitely say,

let's see if we can get
some coatings on it.

I don't want to start over.

And I don't think Tate
wants to either.

He's got a lot of money
invested in the car,

and he just wants to be able
to drive it a bit more.

Okay.

So we'll just...
Let's just update
a little bit of styling.

I'll get with him
and make some suggestions

on some wheels.

[Kevin]
I'll get all of the things
that we need ordered

-for the engine management.
-Okay, cool.

[Kevin] So we
can start with the paint
and then go from there.

Maybe you can get Shannon
to start doing some
color matches

before we even sand it open.

Let's just get the color
perfected.

Okay, perfect.

Step one, we need to work on
a proper paint match.

This is a custom mixed color.

It's going to take
a little time.

Reminds me of a joke,
this gal goes to
the golf course

and she goes in,
she's talking to the guy

at the counter and whatever
and they've had

-a nice little chat, whatever.
-Is it a par three?

Stop, stop. So anyway,
she, uh...

she's, like, well, cool,
and he goes, well,

you know what, go on out
and go in on, uh,

tee off on number one.

-She's so great. Stop.
-She has the whole one jitters

-like, that's the hardest--
-Stop.

-It's the hardest hole.
-You ruined the joke.

I know it's the hardest hole
though.

The hardest hole is the one
I'm trying to talk about

-and then you keep
interrupting me.
-Okay.

So anyway, she goes out there,
and about 20 minutes later,

she comes running back in,
and she's like...

She didn't just drive
her cart?

Yada, yada, take forever
to tell a joke like normal.

I don't want to tell
the joke anymore.

-I would let you tell.
-No, no, you won't.

-Yes, I will.
-No, you won't.

-I just said I would.
-I know you.

I know you.

-I've met you before.
-Have you?

-You don't let anybody
tell a joke.
-Really?

Nope.

-Go ahead and tell this joke.
-Nope.

I won't say one word.

You know what the biggest joke
is right now is just trying

to get this scene done
so I can go cry.

[laughs]

-Cry?
-Because I wasn't able
to tell my joke.

You don't want to hear
this joke.

It wasn't a good one.
I've heard it 100 times.

It never gets better.

So you want to tell me a joke
on the way back up
to the hospital?

-I'm not even going to bother
telling you any more jokes.
-Come on.

-[Dave] No,
you've heard them all.
-Well, come up with new ones.

Okay, what did the Eskimos say
to the chocolate bar?

[Kevin] I know what you did
for a Klondike bar?

[Dave] No.

[laughs]

We didn't paint this car,
but we have to match the gray.

I think it's going to take
multiple spray outs

before we get
the perfect match.

I'm going to use
a color camera
to figure out this color

on this car because
obviously we don't have
a color code for it.

Not a stock color by
any means, very metallic-y.

So it'll be fun to try to get
this one to match.

There we go.

Now I just have to go back to
the computer

and they'll pull me up
a formula that I can go on,

see what we come up with.

And I could get other matches
as well,

but this is the one
that's most likely
to match that color.

So that's where we'll start
out is with that one.

We'll get some paint mixed up
and do a spray out car

and see how it ends up.

[Kevin] With this camera,
sometimes it nails it

and it gets it right on
the money.

Sometimes it just gets us
real close.

We just have to make
a couple small minor tweaks

and we're there.
This thing's a lifesaver.

I'd say that camera's probably
like 85% accurate,

but this could be more tricky
since it's this high metallic.

Might have to take it over
there and just kind of
look at it

and see what this looks like
before I do a spray out.

It looks close,
but every detail matters here

at Kindig-It Design.
It has to be perfect.

[Shannon] You see,
this one has a lot
of gold metallics in it,

and this has just a lot
of silvers, fine silvers.

Really, the shade's right,
so we might just have

to figure out how to take
that gold out of it.

Other than that,
it's pretty close.

Figure out where that gold's
coming from.



Blue, green, 8111.
It's silver.

Silver, 964.

That one?

-It's blue, green.
-[Kevin] We got
a bunch of silver.

We got a bunch of blue.
We got a bunch of green.

Where's the gold?

I don't know where that gold
is coming from.

So all these are just silvers.

I don't know. It's weird.

It shouldn't have
that much gold in it

if there's no gold toners.

This is going to be harder
than we thought.

Where does the gold even
figure into this mix?

The '80s called,
and I'm going to do
something for them.

I'm going to send all
of their stuff back.

When we're all done here
with this '33,

it's going to be timeless.

But now it's time
to get going on it.

[Karson] All right.

Now it should just pop off.

I see.

We're moving now.

[Dave] Well, Paul,
I'm getting used
to voiding warranties

-on your cars, so...
-[both laughing]

Before we get too far into
this project,

I want to make sure I get
with the client, Paul,

and make sure that
we're all on the same page.

-This looks like
you're making some progress.
-Yeah.

I've never seen the car
that's blown apart.

-Right?
-It's kind of different.

I bought this car about
but it looked '80s.

So since I like the car
so much,

it's easier to redo it than
to go buy a different one.

Here's the rendering
right here.

Both Justin and I are pumped
about the color combo.

-There's the leather color.
-[Paul] Okay.

[Dave] And then
this is our carpet.

And then this is
our headliner material.

-This is an Alcantara.
-[Paul] Those three are going
to go together great.

I think it's just very deep.
It's very classy.

And I think it's really
just going to kind of
make this pop.

You know, the tweed
that was in there

was really cool in the '80s.

That and this rendering,
that's going to change

-the whole character
of the car.
-[Dave] Right.

The colors he's picked out
for the interior,

the materials and such,
I think it's really going
to come out great.

So, Dave, what are we doing
with the top?

[Dave] So, Justin, you've got
the top on your side?

Yeah, I've got the top
on my side.

We're going to wrap
the top side of it

with black Stay Fast canvas
and then finish it off

with this Alcantara
and give this
a whole new look.

[Paul] Sounds great.

You know what they say about
a black top?

It's slimming.

And so what that actually
means for the car is

it's going to make the top
look lower.

It'll make it look like
it's chopped.

Which is really going to be
very fitting for the car.

-That'll be great.
-Yeah.

[Paul]
When you tie in the carpet
and the headliner and top,

they all flow together.
And that's what he's really
good at.

And that's why
we bring cars to him.

It'll be like a different car.

It really, truly will be
because we're going

to billet machine all of
this stuff and replace

all of the turned aluminum
and ball milled stuff.

So that's what I'm looking for
is to just update the car

and make it look like
it came out this year

-instead of 30 years ago.
-[Dave] Exactly.

The car is beautiful.

The paint, I'm a true believer
in leaving every bit of it

because it's flawless.

That's one of the best parts
of the car.

The body work's great.

Underside's as nice
as the top,

so there's no reason to get
into that or change anything.

[Dave] Exhaust tips,
I'm just going
to basically take them out

and curve them down
so you won't see them.

-[Paul] Kind of
make them hide.
-[Dave] Yeah.

-And then, unfortunately,
these are going to go.
-And the wheels?

[Dave] These are definitely
got to go.

[Paul] That's history.

[Dave] Engine bay,
we've already got
your eight stack on there.

It's fitting very well,
so we've already made
modifications...

-[Paul] That looks great.
-...to your accessory drive,
so we're good there.

You wanted exhaust cutouts?

I think we can probably
accomplish that just fine.

It looks like we've got
plenty of room.

That's quite a change,
and that's just really
giving it

a whole clean look
in the engine compartment.

We've had a lot of fun
with it so far over the years,

and it's a great driving car.
I really enjoy driving it.

It's great to see this car
being updated

and brought back
to looking current.

This is just going
to give it a whole new life,

-which is what it needs.
-There you go.

[Kevin] Shannon's been mixing
and matching.

I don't think
he's quite figured it out,

but he's getting there.

Definitely see the gold,
and I maybe have
too much blue,

too, so I don't know.

[Kevin]
I don't think that this is


but we're going to get
Dave's opinion.

What you got, Shannon?
You got a spray out?

[Shannon] Yep.

Ooh.

-Yeah.
-It's missing a lot of red.

[Shannon] Yeah,
the camera didn't really
do the best.

-[Dave] Hmm.
-Way too green.

-Yeah, it's got
a lot of green.
-[Shannon] A lot of gold, too.

[Kevin] Shannon's tried
to get rid of this gold.

Now everything seems
to be off.

[Dave] You got
to go a little finer.

-Yeah, a little finer.
-Does that look like we need

to go a little bit
finer pearl?

That looks like a pearl,
and that's metallic.

That's metallic, yeah.
Let's go into pearls.

Let's reduce the amount of...

metallic.

And we got to get her away
from that...

-it's got like a blue to it.
-[Shannon] Yeah, it's got
two blue pearls in it.

-So that's...
-[Dave] Reduce your blues,

that'll bring your reds out
because this is much more

-on the red side.
-[Shannon] Yeah.

This will be I think,
one of the big challenges is

to see how much
of a pain it is
to get rid of those stripes.

I mean, sorry,
to match this paint.

So that we can get rid
of the stripes.

It should be easy to get rid
of the stripes,

-but getting the paint to
match might be a stretch.
-Get the right color.

You know, it seems like
every time we take
one step forward,

we take two steps back.

We really need to get
back on track,

'cause I have no plans of
repainting this entire car.

When Paul's '33 Ford
showed up,

it was like a blast
from the past.

It's like circa 1986.

We've totally gutted
the interior.

We're going to change up
these wheels,

and we're going to take
this thing back to where

it should have been
had this been in style
back then.

Does that make any sense?

This is just going to give it
a whole new life...

-[Kevin] Here you go.
-...which is what it needs.

We're moving now.

[Dave] Getting the dash
and these gauges and panels

is really important to keep
with the theme that
I'm going with.

Hey, Greg, what do you got?

Hey, so I got the parts
for that '33 Ford.

You told me briefly you wanted
to update this ball mill face

-on this guy,
kind of old school, 1980s.
-[Dave] Right.

What I was hoping was
I could just make a piece

that lands on top of this.

The only thing I'm seeing is
these are a little shallow.

This part has, like,
a nice shelf.

So if we put something
on top of here,

-it'll still be under further.
-It'll disappear.

The gauge panel
and the dash panels

are really going to be key
to changing that interior

to make it look more vintage,
but yet more modern.

-We can just make
taller ones of those.
-Yeah.

How fine can you do
the ball mill?

We can do it finer than
this one if you want.

[Dave] I want them
right on top of each other.

I want them the next one,
next one, next one.

Let's do a Ford script
in there, in the middle.

Put the headlight
switch at the top,
put the key at the bottom.

[Greg] Cool.
Yeah, I like the way
those gauges look.

-[Dave] Oh, yeah, it's clean.
-Yeah, it'll look good.

It's always interesting to see
how people modified cars
in the past.

-Right.
-In 40 years, people will

still think ours
is really good.

Ours is by far timeless.

-Cool.
Yeah, it looks good, Greg.
-Thank you.

I'm glad I got with Dave
on what we're gonna do.

This thing was
a little different assembly

than I expected.

Rather than remake this part,
I'm just gonna make

a faceplate.

So we're gonna be adding
a little bit of height,

and then the centerpiece
kind of the same.

Just doing the backside,
some clearance

for the ignition components,

and then clearance
for the headlight switch,

which is on the top.

And then I'll flip
this piece over,

and it'll do
the ball mill pattern.

I have to make everything
from scratch on this one.

I want to get these pieces
done so they can go to

the paint shop,
and then I'll finish out
all the chrome stuff.

[Kevin] This is how it goes
with a custom color
and a paint match.

It takes a lot of trial
and error.

That's what it takes
to get there.

So getting the color as close
as we possibly can, step one.

Step two, Rooster better
be on his game,

because he's got to make
a k*ller blend on his door.

We've got the color.
Now we need to get rid
of the stripe.

Sandpaper, please.

When you try to take
the stripe off,

it's very tricky,
because you're trying to just

take that one or two layers
of color off

of the existing base without
digging a hole.

So it is very tricky.

You have to be very mindful
of how you're sanding

and where you're sanding.

Blend is a way
to trick the eye.

So basically if you have
two colors

that are very similar to each
other and say you blend out

some of the new color
over the old color,

you just kind of
feather it out

and kind of let it mix
so you can't see like

a defiant line
of the difference.

It kind of makes
a transition where

you can't tell the difference.

This car looks great.
The paint match is perfect.

The stripe is gone.

Now it's time to move on
to wheels.

[Dave whistles]

What I'm going to do here
is I'm going to make

a wheel measurement chart
for the wheels.

Based on what's on there
right now,

I'll do the measurements
of what that is.

And then I'll go back
and make the changes.

And I'll do both
front and rear.

So this tire is way too big
for this car.

This is a 265-40-18.

And because where we're at
in the offset,

you can see it's rubbed,
though.

But it's obviously come
in contact.

You see all the scrapes
and all the marks on
the front corner of this tire.

This is rollout.
And so right here,

you see where the edge
of the rim comes down,

you have a lot more tire
sticking out beyond that.

So this is probably 10-inch
overall wheel.

And he's got about 12 inches
almost rim there.

Yeah, so that's a nine.

So 18 by 9.

If I just made a smaller tire
size and go

the same size of rim,
the rim's probably fine.

I'd have to agree with you
on that.

But there's so much rollout
on this, it's crazy.

[Kevin] Let's pull it off
and look at it.

The tire and wheel combination
this has

just doesn't really work
for me.

What we want to do
is improve the look,

get the right clearance,
get the right stance,

and have an all-around
great-fitting wheel package

on this car.

You got no rubs anywhere here.

Oh, right here.
Right in the upper.

That's just the wrong size
of tire, straight up.

It's five and three-quarter.

Four and three-quarters.

There's two things that
you really want to do.

You want to get every little
measurement possible,

and you want to leave yourself
a little bit of leeway.

Oh, I think this has a spacer.

[Dave] Can you imagine
if it didn't have that
quarter-inch spacer?

-There's no way it'd ever fit.
-Dave?

Hmm?

From there to there,
it's been rubbing.

The only thing that saved
the wheel is actually that

the tire's wider here.

[Dave] Five and half.

So now the question is,
doing a three-piece,

I can do an 11.5,
which is 12.5 overall, not 13.

-That gets rid of a half
an inch inside to make sure...
-That's what I would do.

...that we're not hitting it.

What are you going
to put on it?

[Dave] Wheel-wise,
definitely a five-spoke

and something with
a little bit of, like,
probably a polished hoop.

I'd rather go black center.

That's one of the things
that I don't like the 18-20.

I like a 19 and 20 combo.

That front wheel is two inches
smaller rim,

but only a half an inch
overall height difference

-from the front to back.
-So the tire's taller?

-The front tire's profile is
taller than the back tire.
-Yeah.

That's a no-no.

That's like wearing a tank top
over your shirt.

-Yeah.
-Beachfront Avenue!

-No? Okay.
-818?

A1A.

[Dave] Whatever.

What does that mean?

I think that's the address.

Vanilla Ice, a Floridian?

Of course.
Everybody knows that.

Of course. Yeah, of course.
Why wouldn't I know that?

Old school, man.

Got these old collared
lug nuts

that were basically designed
to be the hub-centric.

This is such an old
billet wheel design.

I mean, it works,
but there's a lot better ways

to do it now.

In the scrap pile they go.

While the guys are working on
a couple other projects

at the moment, I got something
super special for this '33,

and I'm so excited,
I'm gonna put them on myself.

Yeah!

Out with the old,
in with the new.

I really like this new wheel
fitment, too,

because the wheel's
not sticking way out
of the fender.

I like them a little bit
more tucked in.

Junk pile.
Kyle, you want to buy
some wheels?

I'm selling them real cheap.

Come here, you sweet
little thing.

Just give it a big old kiss.

So one other thing I was
really concerned with

was the position of
the valve stem.

And the valve stem's,
basically, the caliper's
right here,

valve stem's right here,
clears perfect.

So we've got plenty
of clearance for that.

We're in great shape there.

Plenty of room there.
Far out, man.

There we go.

Yeah, that's good.

Much better.

The 17's in the rear,


It's looking 100%. Sick.

[Kevin] It's a beautiful car,
but I'm going to have to say

-it's a blast from the past.
-Circa 1986.

We've successfully ripped
all of the bad out
of this roadster.

In the scrap pile they go.

And while this Camaro
doesn't have all of

the old '80s billet stuff
that this Ford does,

we still have some issues
we've got to cross
the bridge with.

[Kevin] I will say,
not a fan of the stripe.

The wheels are cool,
but they don't fit the style

of the car at all.

We're well on our way
to taking both of these cars

into the Kindig Classic
chapters.

Out with the old,
in with the new.

Got the front side of
this thing machined.

Just a few little tabs
that held it in there,

so I'll cut those off.

[Dave] The dash pieces
for the '33 project

are really starting
to take shape.

[Greg] It's got that finish,
same as the gauge bezel

on the passenger side.

And then it's got this area
that that chrome trim
will go on.

And that one's
for the ignition
and the headlight.

This piece will get painted.

And then I'll just machine
the Ford script.

That piece will go to chrome,
and then it'll just get

double-side taped on there.

[grunts]

Cool wheel, wrong car.

[man] 1985 called,
they want
their wheels back.

Well, you're not short
on jokes today.

You're short on
everything else.

You sure you guys
don't want me to work out here
every day with you?

Every day.

-Every day, please.
-[Dave] 'Cause I would.

You want me to help you
on that?

No, I can do it.

-I got this car up real high.
-[Kevin] Yeah.

There's a lot of wheel
and tire for this car.

For the size of the hole,
anyway.

How's it look under there?

I got fingers between.

You might be all right.

-You do all right
for the fart timer.
-[Dave] Well, you know...

I got my moments.

Looks like a Hot Wheels ar
now.

Hey, just real quick,


We're all working in the same


[laughs]

-Kyle. What's up, dude?
-What's up?

Not much.

-How's this Camaro coming?
-[Kyle] Pretty good, man.

All the sensors have been
swapped out.

We added fuel pressure sensor,

added oil pressure sensor,
and an idle air control valve.

-Has this never had
an IAC on it?
-No.

How did it control idle
before?

I think they just had
the throttle blade cracked
a little bit.

-Really?
-Yeah, so probably, you know,

cold starts were
a little rough.

Maybe when the AC
came on and...

-Yeah, probably.
-Wow.

Probably stumbled
a little bit.

So this should actually be
a really streetable car
after that.



And it was really nice, too,
because we just added

a remote mount iX,
so we didn't have to modify

the manifold or anything.

-[Kevin] Nice.
-I just teed into
the bottom of it.

So what's next?
What do we got left?

Obviously, we have
the headers out.

We're getting those
repowder coated.

You've got the harness
pretty much wrapped up.

Yeah, I took the Holley
harness and kind of undid

all of it and then made it fit
to this engine.

Just heat-shrinked
all my connections

and then extended some wires
and shortened some wires

so it'll fit to this engine.

And then once we get
the exhaust back,

Put it on.

I'll probably get some
fresh plugs for it.

Do an oil change.

We're really not too far off
on firing it up.

-Awesome. Well, I'm pumped.
-So...

Call me when it goes on
the dyno.

I can't wait to hear it run.
Actually, you know what?

Call me when you start it.

So I want to see how smooth
it might be.

I'm going to start it first
and then call you.

That's fair.
You do what you got to do.

-[Kyle] Sounds good.
-Later, bro.

See you.

All right, I'm gonna start
feeding the longer ones

through first.

And then you can pull
lightly, too.

Okay, now we got some of
the big ones coming through.

You got them?

I have one.

And then I'm gonna feed
a wideband connector through.

-And that's all of them.
-Cool.

We're good. Thanks, man.

[man] You bet.

[Kyle] That stuff goes under.

We're gonna route this across.

You know, honestly,
some people don't really care

how it looks.

Some people just want it
to run.

But I like to find a balance
between the two, right?

It looks good, works good.

Just like that.

It's a little extra work,
but at the end of the day,

it really makes for a super
clean install.

There we go.

[Dave] The Camaro's not
the only car making good
progress around here.

[Karson] Perfect.

Right on the money.

[Dave] From the panels
to the roof to the doors,

everything's starting
to really take shape
in this '33 project.

Oh, there we go.

[engine starts, revs]

[Dave] Tuning the new
fuel injection system
is really one of

the last things to do on
this Camaro,

and the last thing I want
to see is a bunch of steam
coming out of it.

[Kyle] It runs.

No goopy noises
from the engine.

Good oil pressure.
It stays cool.

Setting up the dyno now,
and I'll start dialing in

the fuel table.

And once we get the fuel table
dialed in,

we'll kind of creep up on that
and do some part throttle.

We'll work our way up
to full throttle

and then see what it makes.

Here comes dyno pull
number one.

And each time we do this,
hopefully we get just

a little bit more power.

[Kyle] Basically,
what I'm doing
right now is I have

a base startup map configured
for this car.

I have a target air fuel table
and a learn table.

So I'm using the learn table
to see how the computer

is correcting to match
my target air fuel table.

So right now, above 3,000 RPM
part throttle,

it's trying to add 9% fuel
to that base VE table.

We don't want to just let
the computer try to correct

the whole time.

So we'll dial in the fuel
table to where when
we do a run,

it's correcting less than 3%.

Every car is a little
different.

Some will fight you.

Sometimes you have
little issues that you got
to work through.

[Kevin] Kyle has made
some adjustments.

It's time for pull number two.
Everything should be fine.

[revving]

Too much power.

It keeps blowing
my exhaust tubes away.

Now I'm gonna have to get out
ratchet straps and stuff.

This Camaro engine
is so powerful,

it literally blew
the exhaust tubes off the car.

[Kyle] It's okay.

I've encountered this before.

So they say third time's
a charm, so take three.

[Kyle] It's kind of a process,
but it's the best way

to do it, just manually
dialing in this fuel table.

As long as you know
what's going on in the engine,

you know what kind of fuel
you're going to be running,

you can set your target
air fuels and then adjust

the fuel table to the VE table
based on that.

Just keep doing that till
you get it dialed in.

So we'll go put it
on the street

and see what it does
on the street.

[Dave]
When it comes to speed
and drivability on this '33,

the upgrades are going to be
second to none.

Rotate it down
a little bit more.

Down.

The other down. There you go.
Now just right there.

Right in there.

This Borla 8-stack is going
to make this baby fly.

Throw a little more angle
in this guy.

Mark it to the outside,
and then sand some off
on the inside.

Yeah.

[Will] And then it's pretty
darn good.

[engine starts]

[Dave]
While Professor Will figures
out all of the angles on

this exhaust tubing,
we're going to finish up
this Camaro.

Basically, right now,
I am just going to keep an eye

on coolant temps.

And then I'll pull over
shortly,

open up the laptop,
and check fuel pressure,

and just make sure that
our fuel pressure

is staying consistent at about


And if it does that,
we're good.

It doesn't take anything
to get this car out

of its own way.

And usually with this
kind of gearing in
a smaller engine,

it'll take quite a bit
to pull through,

but this thing makes
so much torque

at such little RPM.

This car makes peak torque
at like 3,700 RPM.

Most cars make peak torque
much higher in the RPM band,

so you have to rev the car
way out to get all
that torque.

But this thing is just like
your corn-fed friend

from the Midwest.

And you're like, "Hey, man,
can you help me lift
this couch?"

And then he just lifts
the couch by himself.

And you're like, "All right,
well, never mind.

Cool." [laughs]

Gobs of torque.
So much torque.

I love it.

I think we're going to hit
that goal where this car

is just start it up
and go about your way.

No special rules on how
to drive it or, you know,

don't give it gas
until it reaches this

temperature kind of thing.

We just fired this thing up
and started taking it
for a drive.

So I'm pretty happy with it.

This car runs great,
drives great, handles great.

Hopefully, the computer
shows us the same information.

Stop in here.

Pull over in the gym.

Not to work out.

I'm going to find
a little shady spot

and see if we can take a look
at some data here.

I'll admit there's definitely
good news,

but it's not all sunshine
and roses.

Coolant temps are nice.

We are down on fuel pressure,
so I'll make a change

to the regulator to bring
that back up.

The deeper I look,
the darker it's getting.

What was happening
because of the low fuel
pressure

is this thing was trying
to compensate

for the lack of fuel pressure
to meet our target

air fuel ratios. So...

You know, we're almost 10%,
which is not acceptable.

In other words,
we got some work to do.

I got to get this
fuel pressure dialed in,

and I'm kind of avoiding
looking underneath the hood
right now.

That's not what we wanted
to see.