- [Schwag] Hello, Monster fans. Big Schwag here.
Having a rough day at the office?
[assailant grunts]
The boss been riding you too hard?
[bodies thumping]
Do you feel beat up at the end of the day?
I know you do.
Don't be a dummy and pop a pill.
Dr. James recommends popping a wheelie,
and he's making house calls.
So bend over, cough, and take your medicine.
"Monster Garage" will see you now.
[Jesse screams] [upbeat rock music]
- [Announcer] Join us now
as Jesse and his g*ng of maverick mechanics
rip, grind, and burn,
transforming ordinary street vehicles into monster machines
in the Monster Garage.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
[signing booming] [rain pattering]
- [Announcer] This week's challenge,
take a 1983 Ford Ambulance
and turn it into a 0-to-60-in-five-seconds wheelie wagon.
[siren wailing] The rules.
When completed, the monster machine must appear to be stock.
The team can spend no more than $3,000 for parts.
If the team meets the challenge,
each crew member will wheelie away
with a Mack toolkit worth 3,400 bucks.
Jesse and his team have seven days and nights
to design, build, and race the ambulance.
And the clock starts now.
[flames whooshing]
Day one, the design team enters the Monster Garage.
Their mission,
turn a sister of mercy into an angel of death.
As guru of the Monster Garage,
Jesse James answers the big question.
Why?
- Everything's cooler going, [imitates engine zooming].
[engine zooming]
It's all about the [beep] wheelie.
When I was a kid, if you had a bike
and you could, like, pop a little one,
that was cool,
but if you could ride one-handed
giving the peace sign all the way around the block...
I was the king.
It's the wheelie.
- It's all about the wheelie.
- I love modern drag racing, like a grudge match,
and they take off and both cars just, whoa,
like, pull a wheelie all the way to mid-track.
Actually, I got goosebumps right now thinking about it.
- [Announcer] Okay, wheelies are cool,
but how do you take a 7,000-pound vehicle
and make it stand on its tail?
- We're gonna do a little deep surgery to it.
We're gonna take the motor and transmission from here
and we're gonna completely turn it around
and put it where the fan is, almost at the back door.
This is the balance point of this entire truck.
And so all the weight, the major part of the weight,
sits all back in here.
[engine roaring]
That's why we're turning the motor backwards,
and then we can go ahead and use the existing chassis setup.
- [Announcer] Richard Schroeder is lord of wheeliedom.
In 1971, his top fuel dragster did an unexpected wheelie,
and he decided that was the way to go.
Now three decades and scores of wheelie cars later,
Richard has never looked back.
[engine roaring]
- I know the motor's gotta go in the back,
so we're gonna have to fabricate mounts and stuff like that.
But as far as drive line,
I know it has to have steering brakes
and a hole in the floor.
- Why don't we just pull the whole dash out of it
and you can look right through the grill.
- [Announcer] Mike Desmond
is the leading concept car designer for Mitsubishi Motors.
No stranger to the garage,
he was part of the team which gave us the Mustang mower.
- [Mike] Do you wanna drag it and make sparks?
- [Richard] Oh yeah, we wanna make sparks.
We wanna dig up some asphalt,
[engine roaring]
- Titanium scrapers or blocks
so it shoots a bunch of sparks?
- That's right.
Titanium will sh**t a very bright white.
[engine roaring]
Then we'll use similar to what a Casale-type V-drive is
in a boat. - Uh-huh.
- Well, leave her in its standard location,
and then kind of remount it a little bit,
and then we'll be coming out of the engine transmission
to the V-drive and then back to the original rear end.
- [Announcer] So here's the battle plan.
First, pull the motor from the front and put it in the back.
Next, flip the motor around
and link it to the rear end through a V-drive.
Then strengthen the body with an internal rib cage.
And finally, add scraper bars.
- It's basically like doing heart surgery on someone,
but instead of putting it back in their chest,
you're putting it in their [censored].
I'm excited.
This is gonna be my favorite project, I can already tell.
[upbeat rock music]
[engine roaring]
[flames whooshing]
- [Announcer] Day two, enter the builders.
[upbeat rock music]
From Hemet, California, comes master mechanic Josh Brown.
Richard Pauza, hot rod designer from Gilbert, Illinois.
David Dyson, paramedic and race car builder
from Fremont, California.
From El Sobrante, California,
Darrell Ferguson, designer of high-speed muscle cars.
And staying on for the build,
Wheelie guru Richard Schroeder.
[siren wailing]
For Jesse, the task is clear.
- Anybody that's ever done a wheelie...
[engine roaring]
It's totally self-explanatory.
This one's gonna be a big chunk of labor.
Gotta pull the motor out, flip it around,
prop it up at an angle, V-drive it,
make this thing so it sits back
and not just pops a wheelie, but rides it for a while.
By the end of the day, we need to have the motor out,
and we'll start cutting
pretty much everything outta that thing.
Let's roll on it. - Let's go to work.
- [Jesse] Front, if you wanna start draining
the fuel tank and stuff? - Yeah,
I'm gonna start doing that.
- [Announcer] Josh and David
cut out the truck's dual gas tanks.
- It's coming. - Done, done.
- [Announcer] Best get these out of harm's way.
Jesse tears into the underside,
slicing off any excess metal.
If the ambulance is going to rise,
its weight has got to come down.
- You gotta sacrifice some stuff for the wheelie.
We're purifying it.
[dreamy music]
- [Announcer] Ambulances are chock full of instruments,
paneling, cabinetry, flooring, and insulation,
but it's all got to go.
[stern rock music]
♪ Vengeance is mine
[parts clattering]
- [Announcer] This has got to be
every juvenile delinquent's wildest dream.
[parts clattering]
[hammer banging]
[parts clattering]
[upbeat rock music]
[cabinet thudding]
[parts clattering]
- [Jesse] I think that's the most [censored] I've seen
pulled out of a vehicle.
- [Announcer] This has got to be the biggest mound of crap
in "Monster Garage" history. - All better now.
- [Announcer] Now Jesse attacks the frame itself.
He plasma cuts the rear cross pieces
to make room for the motor.
- Did you hear the frames go, "Boom"?
I'm not scared.
[upbeat music]
[welder whooshing]
[metal clanking]
Make the body respond to what the mind demands.
[metal clanking]
The bumper's off.
- Jesse's almost done with what he has to do now.
Soon as we get the wood floor out, Jesse can come in.
We'll cut the floor out to where the motor's gonna go.
[tool whirring]
- Yeah, there's another bolt over here somewhere
that's holding it in. - The seatbelt is?
[welder whooshing]
- [Announcer] The heck with power tools.
Let's get back to basics.
[monkeys screeching] [wood thumping]
"Monster Garage" mantra.
When heads fail, let feet flail.
[monkeys screeching] [wood thumping]
- [David] That's how you throw the floor pad.
- And it'll be above this frame member here.
- [Announcer] Now that the plywood floor
and rear crossmembers are gone,
Jesse cuts a three-by-six-foot hole in the floor.
This is where the motor will go.
[upbeat rock music] [welder whooshing]
[floor thumping]
[metal clanking]
- First wound of the day, and I told you it'd be me.
When I was in high school,
I was primarily into nothing but cars.
And when it came to something that everybody else was doing,
I was off in the corner trying to reinvent the wheel.
This is my latest creation.
It's an F-250, Power Stroke diesel.
Dropped the leaf springs all down.
The chrome hoops, the dual Foxes.
The California high patrol didn't like it very much
on the way here.
They gave me a ticket for tinted glass and no mud flaps.
- [Announcer] Just five hours into the first day,
the Monster mechanics have made strong progress, but...
- Need to get ahead of the curve
because what always happens,
you get into a project like this
and you think that you're on schedule,
and as you get near the end,
you find out, in reality, you're behind the eight ball.
We need to expect the unexpected.
- I agree.
Solve as many problems now as you can.
- But let's get the motor out.
We got the back cut, all that stuff,
and then tomorrow they can pull this lift out
and then we can lift it up.
- [Announcer] It's time for open-heart surgery,
but it's not going to be easy
to pull the rusted, calcified heart
of a 19-year-old 200,000-mile-plus wagon.
- There's studs to the mount. - It's the end
of the motor mount that's connected to the front.
- [Announcer] At first, it seems only a single motor mount
is in the way.
- Oh, there's two tabs that are hanging down?
- Yeah, yeah. - That's the only thing
that's holding it from going forward.
[upbeat music] [welder whooshing]
- Ooh. - That was a good sign.
Easy. - Yeah, the fire.
- There it is. - Here you go.
- There it is. - Can you get it through?
- It's very tight. - It's tight here, too.
- [Announcer] But now they've hit another snag.
- Tank's hitting the front crossmember.
Stupid motor.
- [Josh] Drop it down
till it's about an inch and a half away
from that front dip on the oil pan,
and then someone needs to get up underneath
and push up on the snout.
- [Richard] And you're really close.
Can you go forward?
Go forward, keep going.
- Pull. - Come on, you got it.
- Hold on. - The oil fan is clear.
Keep going. - I got the end.
It ain't going. - Aim toward me.
- Come on, damn it. - Screw it,
I'll just get it to you right there.
All we gotta do is just manhandle it out the front.
- All right. - Dude, what has to happen,
this has to come up. - Come on.
- [Jesse] They did not leave enough room to do this.
- Yeah.
- [Jesse] You guys are basically gonna have to-
- Push forward. - Get it from this.
- Here you go. - There it is.
- [Jesse] What'd you just do?
A little bit of angle.
- Prised in there. - There you go.
- There we go. - Now push up on the O.
- I feel like total White Tr*sh right now.
The only thing more Arkansas than this
is if we didn't have a cherry picker,
we had to hook to a tree. [group laughing]
[whip cracking] - Yeehaw!
- Come on, Ma, push harder.
- [Announcer] Ma can't push that hard,
so let's remove some basic structure.
This is going to compromise the strength of the front end.
[metal clanking]
Finally, the engine is free.
Not.
- It's going, it's just hung up on this little corner
of this oil pan right here. - Do you want me to-
- [Announcer] The oil pan still will not clear
the frame's front crossmember.
So the plan is to cut a 4-by-12-inch channel through it.
But if Jesse cuts too deep, the frame will give way
and the entire face of the truck will implode.
[upbeat music] [welder crackling]
[metal clanking]
[hammer banging] - There it is now.
There we go.
- Bam! - Oh. [laughs]
[metal clanking]
Like heart surgery.
[metal clanking] Open heart.
Whoa. - That's far enough, isn't it?
- Yo. - Hold down on the trans.
Hold down on the transmission. - A beauty.
Hold down on this transmission.
- Oh, I know, I know. - Oil pan.
- [Jesse] Good thing there's a lubricant on there.
- All right, lift it up again. [metal clanking]
- Oh, damn. - Just get out.
Go, your home's not in here anymore.
Get out.
You go now, you've been here too long.
- Fighting every inch. - You eat the whole thing.
- Ah, we're stuck on a piece of steel down on the ground.
- [Jesse] Yeah, what a beast.
- [Announcer] The stubborn old engine
is finally pried out of the van.
- We've did really well for a first day.
- [Announcer] It's been a day
of purifying fire and elbow grease.
The Satanbulance is now just a shell of its former self.
Tomorrow, the fiendish resurrection begins.
- Yeah. - I think this is gonna be
about the wildest machine
that's come out of the Monster Garage
for Jesse James. - Yeah, you're gonna have to
really stretch at the top. - This thing's gonna be
a wild, wild ride. [sirens wailing]
[upbeat rock music]
- [Announcer] "Monster Garage" factoid.
Little Red Wagon, a 1964 Dodge A100 truck,
was one of the first wheelstanders ever built.
Equally legendary was Hemi Under Glass,
a 1963 Dodge factory reject.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage [neon sign buzzing]
- [Announcer] Day three.
- Burt, this is Darrell Ferguson.
I'm calling from the television show "Monster Garage."
- [Announcer] To produce a wheelie,
the motor must be capable of delivering 300 horsepower
and 350 foot-pounds of torque.
The team's doubtful that this ancient thing
is up to the task.
So Darrell's been given the job of scoring a new motor,
but it must be delivered in two days.
- We've hit the wall.
I got about six calls I'm waiting to hear back on.
But I want this thing to be a monster.
Yeah, that's why I was brought here.
[engine roaring] [upbeat rock music]
This is Black Radon.
This is the car I went 259 miles an hour in.
It's a '68 Camaro with a Firebird fiberglass front end.
It's currently the world's fastest muscle car.
Radon is a colorless, odorless, radioactive, poisonous gas
that doesn't really mix well with anything else,
and tells a lot about my approach to racing.
I like to work by myself
and make sure everything's the way I like it.
Okay, great.
- [Announcer] While Darrell continues his search,
Richard is on a shopping trip.
He's at Casale Engineering to order the all-important link
between the motor and the rear end, the V-drive.
- [Richard] And it'll come out of the V-drive like this.
- [Announcer] A V-drive is a gearbox
most commonly used in high-speed racing boats.
Power from the backward-facing transmission
will pass via a short drive shaft into the V-drive,
back out the V-drive,
down through another short drive shaft,
into the rear end.
Back at the garage, Dave has procured booty.
- Hey, guys, I got a little gift.
- [Announcer] When Jesse hikes up the ambu-stander,
he's going to need racing seats to hold him in.
- 20 pounds, FIA-approved, so they can be dragster.
[upbeat rock music]
- [Announcer] Freebie, freebie, freebie.
- Speaking of...
Speak of the devil.
- [Announcer] The big issue today is get a brand new motor
or just stick with the old.
- I've been calling around all morning
trying to get a rebuilt engine for this thing.
Right now, I got one supplier in Riverside
that may be able to give us an entirely rebuilt motor.
- [Jesse] What's the name of the place?
- Wayne's. - I know that place.
- [Announcer] Josh and others
want to stay with the old motor,
but boost it with nitrous and speed parts.
- JEGS, or an offsite supplier,
will next-day air us all the hop-ups for that.
- With the low shot,
if we tried to do anything of that though,
I think it's going to take a crap.
It's not too- - The scenario is not-
- I wish you guys could have drove it.
I wanna have fun with it.
Trying to screw with bent valves and springs
and all that other crap,
that's not fun.
Fun is [imitates engine zooming], popping a wheelie.
What's the deal with Wayne?
- He's gonna give us an answer at 2:33 o'clock today.
- What about a V-drive?
We got that? - We got that.
- V-drive we'll have today. - Okay.
So we'll just start attacking all the stuff
we know we have to do. - I'm cool with that.
- [Announcer] They're standing at a crossroad,
but which one will lead to victory?
Their decision?
Take both.
They'll reinstall the old motor
and continue searching for a new motor.
If they find one and there's time to install it,
they'll make a last-minute swap.
The first order of business
is to build a subframe to support the motor.
- What I'm getting ready to do
is I'm making a bunch of clearance.
I'm gonna run the frame rails
all the way down the side of the frame.
It's gonna give us our stability
where we put our motor in and try in our V-drive.
That's my goal for now.
[upbeat rock music]
[welder crackling]
Woo!
It's like- [hammer banging]
Yeah, that's what I say.
[welder crackling]
- We had the battery boxes, we're eliminating those
as they go to the back, all the cabling.
[bicycle bell ringing]
- [Jesse] Getting the feel of a wheelie-
- [Announcer] To get ready for the big event,
Jesse's dug up the 1966 manual that started it all.
- Keep both feet on the ground.
With your arms straight, grasp the handlebar grips.
You have to lean back and relax to do a wheelie.
Try riding.
[uplifting music]
Arms straight, pedal, and lean back. [chuckles]
- Do we need this dash?
- [Announcer] When the doctor orders liposuction,
he means all fat must go.
This includes a dash reduction.
Scalpel, please.
[angry rock music]
Darrell and MG parts manager Alex Anderson
have made the fateful call.
Do they have a new motor?
- Hey, Jay, we have a motor. - We have a motor.
- Yes, we got a motor for free.
- Sweet. - Who is this guy?
- This is-
- Mark at Wayne's. - Mark Godfrey from Wayne's
down Riverside.
Took care of us very large.
Thank you.
So when are we gonna have that motor?
- Tomorrow afternoon or first thing Thursday morning.
- [Announcer] Wayne's has a new motor,
but it can't be delivered until day five.
Meanwhile, Richard and Dave continue
reinstalling the stubborn old engine.
- [Richard] Let's push here.
Are you ready? - Okay.
Keep going while I'm going.
[suspenseful music]
- Okay.
[Announcer] Now with most of its weight behind the axle,
the Satanbulance is like a seesaw
with a skinny kid on the long end
and the fat kid on the short.
[kid screams]
[ambulance rumbling]
At the end of the day, on a scale of one to 10,
where do we stand?
- And this thing's gonna get finished.
We just got the motor in.
It's only Tuesday.
- Not only that,
it's gonna be slicker than when we originally set out
by a factor of 10.
- I'm giving it two thumbs up.
[flames whooshing]
- [Announcer] Day four.
[upbeat rock music]
Looks like Santa came down the chimney last night.
- Hey, guys, the engine parts are here.
- [Announcer] The speed parts, compliments of JEGS,
include brand-new aluminum heads, manifold,
a carburetor, distributor, and pushrods.
- Check it out.
We got all the parts to trick this engine out.
They even sent us some cool hats.
- [Announcer] Freebie, freebie, freebie.
Zip, nada.
[upbeat rock music]
- Just making a larger opening
so Jesse can see out when he's up in the air.
It's a lot better to drive than the piece of crap...
I mean, the thing I have to drive at work.
- [Announcer] As a paramedic, Dave drives an ambulance,
but on weekends...
- This is my baby.
It's a 2001 Audi S4.
Top speed probably is in the 150 range right now.
I would love to get it up to the 170 range,
and my goal is 600 horsepower with the car.
My dad's a huge inspiration to me.
I'm a gearhead because of him.
My dad died two weeks before my final in paramedicine.
I took a month off, came back, took my test, passed,
and just kept going.
You can throw anything at me and I'll find a way through it.
♪ This is Monster Garage
♪ This is Monster Garage
♪ Monster boys, monster boys
- [Announcer] When Tyrambosaurus Rex hikes up,
it's going to need a much stronger rib cage.
So Richard is building an internal structure
which can handle the torque.
- This is a double hoop structure.
The main hoop structure, the roll bar.
This is the mockup tube for our diagonal
to the rear of truck.
We're gonna go approximately from this corner
all the way back to the blocks
that actually touch the ground
when the truck's up on two wheels.
That's gonna make the chassis into the gigantic triangle,
which is gonna be real nice and stiff and strong.
It's something the wheelie car can definitely have.
Definitely.
- [Announcer] Richard Pauza has a hot new fabrication shop
- What we do is hot rods with race car DNA.
It's a really good feeling
when you put something together and it works.
Acceleration, percussion, noise, sound,
the symphony of moving parts.
When you take a pile of nothing
and make it into something that goes down the track,
it's magnificent.
After "Monster Garage" is over,
turn off the TV set and go take something apart.
- [Announcer] About 11 a.m., Jesse arrives.
He's been up since dawn at the helm of a hot air balloon.
- Get outta the way!
- [Announcer] He's had his head in the clouds all morning,
but now it's back to earth.
- Hey, what's happening? - I'm alive.
- You're a flyboy, right? - [laughs] Yes.
Just the wrongness of it is what makes it good.
[upbeat rock music]
- [Announcer] From this box of tubes,
Jesse plans to fabricate eight exhaust pipes.
One for each cylinder.
These simple bends are going to transform a humble ambulance
into a fire-belching dragon.
♪ And sitting there was you
♪ Don't remember being new
♪ Well, sitting on the truth
♪ Too full up, too much
♪ You, you wanted to k*ll me
- Whoa!
That makes me happy.
Look at that.
Except for I'm gonna do three-inch.
- [Announcer] Compliments of Bazo Rims and Toyo Tires,
standard 20s for the front, but giant 22s for the back.
Now the aft axle's going to be three inches higher
and going to rear up like trigger on a red bull.
Freebee.
Zip, zero, nada.
[heroic music]
- [Jesse] Hell yeah. Here it comes.
- [Announcer] Finally, all hail the arrival of the V-drive.
[upbeat rock music] [cash register chimes]
[miraculous music]
- The V-drive. - The V-drive.
- Oh, the V-drive. - Long-awaited V-drive.
Left hand, right hand.
- [Announcer] The V-drive will be welded to the frame
about two feet forward of the transmission.
- [Josh] What I figured is the couple of the square tubes,
we can just come right off there, bolt it right into it.
That's all we have to do, 'cause it ain't going nowhere.
- My tires are three inches off the ground
and I still have to whack three coils out of the front.
- [Announcer] To take the play out of the front end,
the springs must be lowered.
According to the manual, you're supposed to cut the springs,
but why waste time?
[flames whooshing]
- We don't wanna take these springs out
because they're rusted in.
The easiest thing is just to flame them.
- [Announcer] To take the spring out of the springs,
Dave must heat them up to 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit.
Once they are molten, they can be squashed.
[glass shattering]
Warning, never do this without dark glasses.
The arc light produced by welding
is beautiful but dangerous.
It's many times brighter than the sun.
Staring too long can cause serious eye damage.
[flames whooshing] [jack creaking]
- Right, you watch the dash cam, I'll watch the join.
- [Announcer] The end of day four
and it's been pretty much of a bust.
The back wheels are not on, the V-drive came late,
and Jesse didn't finish the pipes.
- The only thing we're waiting for is parts.
We're just waiting for some parts.
We still have a couple things that are still out there, so.
- My confidence in the crew and fabrication is still a 10.
My confidence in the parts and procurement
came down to an 8. - [chuckles] There you go.
[anticipative music]
[parts clattering]
- [Announcer] "Monster Garage" factoid.
Last year the New York Fire Department
made 1,239,474 ambulance runs.
That's one every 30 seconds.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage [bubbles burbling]
[angry rock music]
- Well, we're on day five of the entire project,
now it's the little stuff.
Now it's getting just little things together
and the nitpicky stuff where one little tiny item
could probably destroy this whole thing if we don't have it.
Our goal is to maybe try to start it tonight
to see what happens.
- Man, I can't believe it's Thursday already.
Four days. Zoom.
I'm kind of being careful where I walk.
- Why? - I don't wanna be
the second guy to the hospital.
- Oh, come on. - Who was the first?
- You don't know the story? - No. [chuckles]
- You're talking to him. [group chuckling]
- [Announcer] Dave is paying the price
for his earlier carelessness.
- I am the first casualty from the ambulance from hell, so.
I actually got flash burns last night from welding.
- [Announcer] By staring at his welder
with unprotected eyes,
he's flash-burned his corneas.
[victim screams]
- And so I had to go to the hospital last night,
and pretty much my welding days are done
for the rest of this build.
- [Announcer] Dave's eyes will heal in a few weeks,
but the damage could have been permanent.
- Don't stare at the light.
[welder crackling]
I'm gonna come in here
and I'm gonna plasma these two rivets off,
which are what's holding a crossmember
and keep the axle from bottoming out on the frame.
I'm gonna blow those off, clean up the frame rail.
Then I'm gonna put this in here, weld that in.
That'll make our axle completely rigid with the frame.
Instead of having the suspension move,
the whole car is gonna move with it now.
So it's kind of acting like a seesaw.
You know, it's a pivot point.
So the axle's gonna be pivoting with a flat frame.
No give.
[upbeat rock music] [welder whooshing]
[hammer banging]
[welder whooshing] [tools whirring]
- [Announcer] The chassis now rests hard
on top of the rear axle.
If enough force is applied to the rear end,
the front wheels should come off the ground.
[ambulance thumping]
[Richard chuckling]
[uplifting music] [flames whooshing]
From Wayne's Engine Rebuilders in Riverside, California,
the mint 460 arrives.
- Yay! - It's right here.
- [Announcer] Darrell sets up shop
in the south wing of the Monster Garage.
- Tell you what, spin around, I'm gonna be working.
Putting this little bad boy together for Jesse.
It is five minutes, afternoon.
I think around six o'clock should be done.
- [Announcer] But the rest of the team
has reverted to plan A.
- We're gonna make this motor run.
We're not even thinking about the other motor right now.
- We know it was running
when it came out of the front of the car.
Now we'll see what it runs like when we put it back here.
- If he comes through with the souped-up motor,
then it's nothing to swap it out real quick.
[tool whirring] [welder crackling]
- I'm cool as a cat.
We got this thing whooped.
- The guys from Wayne's dropped the engine block off.
We got forged pistons, ARP rod bolts,
got a valet pump, dual-roller timing chains.
This thing should do all right.
- Cool.
Look at those pants.
- Look at that. - Hey, Richard.
Whoa. [beep]
[fire extinguisher whooshing]
Oh [beep].
I thought there was a fire over there in your pants.
[group laughing]
- [Announcer] When the drive shafts
are linked to the V-drive,
they must form a 12-degree angle.
Positioning of this key part has to be dead on.
[welder crackling]
- [Darrell] V-drive, it's done.
It's welded in.
[upbeat rock music]
- [Announcer] Jesse's putting the finishing touches
on the pipes.
[saw crackling]
[sander whirring]
[upbeat rock music continues]
[welder crackling]
- Oh, what's this? - Birthday boy.
♪ Happy birthday to you [Richard laughing]
[saw whirring]
[cake squelching]
[Richard laughing]
[saw whirring] [cake squelching]
- Put the seat in it and let's put Jesse up.
- [Announcer] Now to see what the monster will look like
in fighting position.
[upbeat music]
- You wanna jump up in there and see where you can see?
You should be able get higher now.
[group laughing] - All right.
- Pretty sturdy. - He looks like a monkey
- Whoa. [laughs] - Oh, yeah.
- Yeah. - Oh, that's cool.
- 52.
[upbeat music continues]
- [Announcer] Jesse's done his homework
on the fine art of popping a wheelie.
- That's what I'm gonna do.
Lightly depress the accelerator pedal
all the way to the floor.
If I crash, it wouldn't be the first time
and it won't be the last.
- [Announcer] It's 6:20.
How's the new engine coming?
- This thing is just about done.
The timing chain needs go on.
I got one bolt there, drop the intake on.
That's as far as I can go with this.
They want to test fire it
and make sure it'll do a wheelstand with the stock motor.
Because in order to fire this motor,
we gotta pull the parts out of the motor
that's already in the car.
- [Announcer] Darrell has taken the new motor
as far as he can go.
To finish it, he'll have to steal parts from the old engine,
but it's late in the game
and the rest of the team wants to fire up the old motor,
perform the required wheelie, and victory will be theirs.
[uplifting music]
Dinner break of the fourth day.
How is the crew holding up?
- We're tired, whipped, beat.
- Tired.
- We need to go fire it and go home and go to bed.
- In about 10 minutes, we should be able to...
I feel we should be able to turn it over,
get a little noise out of her.
- I ain't going home yet.
Look at this damn thing fire.
- One, two, here goes. - Go.
- Nope, we have no starter. [Richard laughing]
We have no starter.
- Oh, you guys did well on that one.
- There it is. - Push it harder, go.
[engine revving]
- [Announcer] It's 11 p.m.
The team thought they'd have this thing running
No one's got a Ford manual.
So like the old engine's wiring, tempers are getting frayed.
- You just asked me for a butt connector.
What is in the front of it?
What connector? - No, I asked you
for a different wire. - No, you didn't.
You asked for a butt connector.
Oh, you know what?
I'm tired. - Now, girls.
You wanna know something about working tired?
- Huh? - Can I show you something?
I was leaning on a Bridgeport milling machine
and I slid into the cutter and my finger came off.
So when I know I'm too tired, I know when to stop.
- Ow.
That's two.
Quit screwing around here. - We're not screwing around.
Ready? - Okay, another light spark.
- Try it. - Go, go.
[engine revving] - Sounds better.
- Okay, let's do the same thing and let's do David's idea.
- [David] You're in a hurry to electrocute me. [chuckles]
- He's ready to go home. - All right.
- Okay, go, go. - Okay, you ready?
- Yep, yep. [engine revving]
- That's it. - Nice spark.
Let's try it again.
Maybe it was the really hot sparky one.
So far, you- - It should have a coil then.
[engine zapping]
- Wow, that can't be good. - What?
- Try it. Try it again. - That's a lot of amps, man.
- [laughs] Yeah. - That's a lot of amps.
- Well, just go ahead. Go ahead.
You hit the start, I'll hit this.
[engine revving] - No, no, no, no, no, no.
We can build a car that can do anything,
but we can't fire it up, right?
- Three little wires are what are holding us up.
That's it.
- Make sure you get this on tape
'cause this really looks stupid.
- Of course, man. [metal clanking]
- Here.
He's got cutters in his teeth. - Gotta get that off.
- Wild animal.
- That's great, huh? - Come on, it's Josh.
- Hey, on a Ford E-350,
there's three wires that come off the distributor,
where do they go?
- [Announcer] Apparently, Josh's buddy knew
what he was talking about.
- You heard what? - I heard it, a click.
- Get outta here. - I swear to you.
[engine revving]
- Kick a*s. - Go, done.
Ow! - All right,
we still got an extra one. - It shocked me.
- [Jesse] Okay, how come it didn't fire?
- Give me a little alcohol.
Your timing is off. - Timing, we're off.
- Your timing is just off.
- [Announcer] Richard's fed up.
Time for drastic measures.
- What is it, lacquer thinner? - Lacquer thinner.
- Not a problem.
- [David] Okay, hold on, settle just a little.
Are you ready? [group laughing]
- Come on, you guys.
You want this to run or do you wanna play?
- Go get the fire. - Fire.
- Get the fire. - Ready?
- Get the fire. - Oh, hell no.
- Get the fire. - Hell no, come on.
- Nothing's gonna cave. - Fire, go.
[engine revving]
[engine humming]
- Hey, yeah! - Yeah!
- Wait a minute. - No, no.
- [Richard] You need just a touch, just for-
[group laughing] Just to fortify it.
[engine revving]
[flames whooshing]
- Wow. - Hey, wait a minute,
It'll burn out.
- Uh, let's put it out. [group blowing]
- [Richard] Give me a rag that doesn't have gas on it.
- We don't have one. - We do?
- [Richard] Yeah, you do.
[group blowing]
It's not that big of a..
- The boat's done that a couple times.
We got the ignition box to work, we got the coil to work,
the distributor,
the timing could still be a little bit [censored],
but we'll fix that tomorrow. [laughs]
- But that's the hardest part. - All right, I'm leaving.
- [Announcer] At the end of day five,
the old motor still lies dead,
but everyone's sure that on day six, the final day of build,
they'll be able to bring it to life.
[radio crackling]
- [Dispatch] Attention, we have a code blue situation.
Jesse James' condition has turned critical.
He's got a bad case of the wheelies.
If he doesn't pop one soon, he's gonna blow.
Stay tuned.
[engine roaring]
♪ Monster, Monster Garage [neon sign buzzing]
[flames whooshing]
- [Announcer] Day six. This is it.
It's 5 a.m. and Dave is at West Coast Choppers.
He's here to make two short drive shafts from two long ones.
[uplifting music]
[upbeat music]
[hammer banging] [air whooshing]
[welder crackling]
As Dave is welding away,
Jesse rolls into the Monster Garage.
[welder crackling]
- Hey. - Look at that.
We just finished the drive shaft,
so he was right behind me. - Sweet.
- I have a present for you. - Sweet, drive shaft.
- We're ready to rock. - It'll go.
- Yeah. - Yeah, easily.
- [David] This goes in at least two inches.
[upbeat music]
- [Announcer] The drive shafts fit perfectly.
- [David] Wow, my drive shaft fits.
- [Announcer] The final link.
- [David] My drive shafts, beautiful.
Man.
- [Josh] That's it right there, go.
- [Announcer] Now Josh and Richard Pauza
add the scraper bars, armed with titanium tips.
When the wagon hits the wheelie point, the sparks will fly.
Replace the old car with the new.
- And then gel there. - The motor looks pretty good.
It looks like it's gonna fly.
Let's run the throttle cable, let's go.
Whoa!
You got enough, you think?
All right, go ahead.
[engine revving]
[engine clanking]
[flames whooshing]
- [Announcer] Richard's finally got a copy of the manual.
This should help.
- Okay, the battery switch on the coil
has to go right to ignition.
- Do you remember the- - That was a hot spot.
[engine revving] [engine sputtering]
- Is the battery dead? - No.
[engine clanking]
[engine revving]
- [Jesse] Did we move the distributor initially?
[engine clanking]
[engine sputtering]
- All right! - Yay!
[engine roaring]
- Yeah! - Yeah!
- Shut it down! - Shut it down!
- Shut it down. - Too hot.
- We get this thing too hot. [group applauding]
We put coolant, it'll crack- - It runs. It runs.
- Welding the dudes, dammit. - Open the door and drive it.
[angry rock music]
[siren wailing]
- [Announcer] The good news is that the Satanbulance
has set off every car alarm in the neighborhood.
But the bad news is it refuses to wheelie.
- [Jesse] It shifted.
- Bounce it up. - Needs more weight on it.
- [Richard] Okay, we put another 100 pounds in it,
and it'll go right up. - Gonna get down the shop,
put a bunch of weights in the back,
and see if we can advance the timing a little bit.
[angry rock music]
- [Announcer] The Satanbulance has the will to wheelie.
It just needs some weight training.
[weights clanking]
- Stuff it in here. - Okay.
Oh, there's a tray here.
What's the last one?
Bring one more.
- [Announcer] 400 pounds later,
and it's ready to rock and rise.
- You ready?
The car.
[upbeat rock music]
[engine roaring]
♪ My enemy, my zero
♪ Lost inside of me
♪ My hero, my hero
♪ Rise up, rise up, rise up
♪ Build me up, tear me down
- I think when we get the other motor in there,
this thing's gonna [beep] rock and roll.
- [Richard] Just bring it around here
and see if it'll work up once. - All right.
♪ Build me up, tear me down
♪ I understand, I hit the ground ♪
♪ Steal my heart, rip my soul
♪ I win the game, I'll take control ♪
♪ Build me up, tear me down
- [chuckles] Pretty cool, huh?
♪ Steal my heart, rip my soul
♪ I win the game, I'll take control ♪
♪ Build me up, tear me down
♪ I understand, I hit the ground ♪
♪ Steal my heart, rip my soul
♪ I win the game, I'll take control ♪
[engine roaring]
- Yeah! [group cheering]
- Oh, what a major thing, yeah!
Oh, I feel wonderful.
I knew it would do it.
Isn't that great? - Never doubted for a minute.
[group laughing]
- Yeah. [laughs] - All right.
- [Jesse] Getting the feel for the wheelie.
- Oh, that was radical. - Amazing driving, yeah.
- Hey, yeah. - We did this one.
How'd it feel up there?
What you were seeing?
Can you see good? - It was cool.
I could see just fine. - Oh yeah,
you can see all the way down the street.
- [laughs] I want to drive it home.
I think this is the "Monster Garage" car I keep.
[engine roaring]
- [Announcer] That night,
Tom Pruitt of Damon's House of Paint goes to work.
- I just hope if I'm in a bad situation
that I can have somebody like Jesse coming down to get me
with this much horsepower.
I'm gonna mix up some custom orange base coat.
Gonna put in a double flame job.
Jesse said he likes to have a subtle flame
in the orange stripe.
We're gonna put in three different color pearl flames,
and a pearl white,
maybe with some ice pearl on the rest of it.
[upbeat rock music]
[paint whooshing]
The horsepower this baby has,
Jesse will really be able to get it up.
[uplifting music]
- [Announcer] And now to steal parts from the old motor
and add them to the new.
[upbeat rock music]
This baby will pony up a lot more horsepower.
- [Tom] Yeah.
- [Announcer] The new motor is in.
A new monster is born.
Satanbulance.
"Monster Garage" factoid.
In the 1860s, hospital ambulances were equipped
with bandages, splints, blankets,
and a quart of brandy.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage [bubbles burbling]
[upbeat rock music]
- [Schwag] Monday, Monday, Monday.
Hello again, Monster heads.
Big Schwag here and, ready to come to my rescue as always,
my good friend Frankie Whiteside.
How's it hanging, Frankie?
- [Frankie] Straight as a quarter-mile drag strip, Schwag.
Like the sign says, we're here at Irwindale Speedway,
ready for a monster challenge
that's anything but street legal.
- [Schwag] Frankie, I don't think I've ever seen
Jesse this stoked before a monster challenge.
- Yeah, I've been ready for this my whole life.
All I heard was, "You go do a wheelie."
And I went, "Okay."
- [Frankie] It's all about the wheelie, Schwag.
The competition couldn't be simpler.
A good old-fashioned drag race
between Satanbulance and a stock fire rescue ambulance.
An eighth of a mile down the track, and don't look back.
First one to cross the finish line takes home the chrome.
- [Schwag] But before he races,
Jesse needs to spin the wheels on his wheelie wagon.
For the challenge,
the team installed a new engine on their monster.
Jesse wants to make sure it's nut and bolted.
[engine roaring] [upbeat rock music]
It looks like he's good to go.
[engine cranking]
[flames whooshing]
- [Frankie] Whoa, that's not good.
- [Schwag] That's bad.
Fire!
- [Jesse] Got fire, got fire.
[siren wailing]
- [Frankie] We're looking at a real 911 call, Schwag.
The rescue car needs rescuing.
[sirens wailing]
- [Jesse] It's okay, it's all right.
- [Schwag] Holy shizz, Jesse's waving them off.
- [Frankie] The fire's out for now.
- [Schwag] But that monster is just not safe, Frankie.
- [Frankie] And Mrs. James is not happy.
- I just saw my husband about to be burned alive.
That's real fun.
- [Schwag] Satanbulance could be a one-way trip
to the hospital for Jesse James.
- [Frankie] All drag and no race.
- [Schwag] Here he goes, folks.
He's ordering his crew to fire it back up.
- [Jesse] It's fine, just fire it up.
- [Frankie] Don't say fire.
[engine roaring]
- [Schwag] I can't believe it.
Jesse James is going to risk being barbecued alive
just for the thrill of a wheelie.
Now that's some big brass cahones.
[engine roaring]
- [Frankie] They're lined up at the start.
The Christmas tree is green.
They're off!
[upbeat rock music] [engines roaring]
- [Schwag] You gotta be kidding me!
Looking at Jesse James high up in the sky.
[engine roaring] [upbeat rock music]
And he takes the win with ease.
- [Frankie] He's crazy, but no risk, no reward.
- [Jesse] Come on, come on.
- [Schwag] Pull over, Frankie.
Jesse's not stopping.
- [Frankie] He's going back for a second.
- [Schwag] Oh, I get it, I get it.
He didn't come here to race, Frank.
It's truly all about the wheelie.
- [Frankie] And that spark, fire-spewing Satanbulance
is one heck of a hell raiser.
- [Schwag] We have liftoff!
- [Frankie] There she blows.
- [Schwag] Jesse James has got it up again.
And again.
And again.
Frankie, what the hell's that ambulance running on, Viagra?
- Okay, how do you get him out of there?
[upbeat rock music] [engine roaring]
♪ Yes, you stay wild
♪ I'll leave this here
♪ For you
♪ For you
- [Jesse] I think I found my calling. [laughs]
[Richard laughing]
- What a great, great job.
Out of sight.
- I could still go more. [chuckles]
Now I know why God put me on this earth.
All that metal work and fabrication, that's all BS.
I was meant just to do a wheelie.
Never underestimate the power of a wheelie.
- [Schwag] But for Jesse James,
there's no time for ambulance fires, flat tires,
or lame pants on fire.
He's got metal to burn, sparks to fly.
The next "Monster Garage" challenge is just around the bend.
[siren wailing]
[upbeat music]
- Richard. - Yes.
- Josh.
Dave.
Got some tools?
Good a*s.
- Oh yeah. - Yeah.
- "Monster Garage" CDs somewhere.
Right here?
Let's get the hell outta here.
[group applauding]
[energetic rock music]
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Yeah
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Huh, huh
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Yeah
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Huh, huh
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Yeah
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Huh, huh
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Yeah
♪ Monster, Monster
[gentle music] [light whooshing]
[uplifting music]
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02x09 - Satambulance
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A team of five people with mechanical, fabricating, or modifying expertise was assembled to modify a vehicle into a "monster machine."
A team of five people with mechanical, fabricating, or modifying expertise was assembled to modify a vehicle into a "monster machine."