- Well today we're just finishing up on the 2012 Dodge Challenger.

So this is a Hellcat Red Eye Edition engine transmission.

- This quarter with quarter glass is, it was packed in literally that deep and nothing but animal crap.

- Mom and I have decided now to take his ashes and we're gonna spray it into the paint.

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- Well today we're just finishing up on the 2012 Dodge Challenger.

We did a a, a conversion where we added a Edelbrock E charger, a supercharger, which is a nice under hood package.

And we also added nitrous for the drag strip.

We've put new exhaust system in with electric exhaust gates, MSD coil packs.

We made a custom console piece in the center with all the switches to open the electric exhaust gates and activate the nitrous system as well.

If you have a look inside here, you can see that in the console here, we've added this switch panel with the carbon.

So that's your activation for nitrous, your purge kit for the nitrous.

And then you've got your electric gates for for your exhaust system.

So if you go to the track, you can run open exhaust with the nitrous system as well.

Car's got a lot of power if you come around to the front here, Larry's just doing a final test on something and this is the Underhood eForce unit.

And then we have the nitrous solenoids and stuff in the front.

And you can see the red MSD packs along here.

This is adding a lot of power to a stock motor, so it's always interesting to, you know, see how it all plays out in the end.

But we're just gonna do some road testing.

We have a slight problem with one of the switches and we're just gonna rejig that and then we'll let you go for a little ride in the car up the road here you can hear the hear, hear it rumble.

So this system here from Brook, again, we have the automatic bottle opener.

So with the switch it'll actually automatically opened the bottle so the nitrous feeds up to the solenoids.

Nice simple little system.

Adds a lot of horsepower.

So a lot of guys will waste a lot of the nitrous by what they call purging it where you, you'll see it being purged up the, the nozzle at the front.

It's more that's a lot of show, you know, basically there shouldn't be any air in the system.

So you give it a quick shot, a couple of purges.

It depends how often it's used.

You can go through a bottle fairly quick or you can use it accordingly.

And I mean it's, it's not supposed to be used on the street anymore.

There's been too many incidents where guys have been using them and the rest of the car's not built for the extra power that's involved and there's been accidents.

So now it's outlawed for the street.

So this is strictly for track purposes only.

This is a 73 cuda and we're gonna, we're gonna make it to the taillight.

Panels and stuff are a little bit different.

Fenders are different, but we're gonna make it into a 70 cuda clone.

And then basically everything underneath it's gonna be modernized.

It's gonna be red eye engine and transmission combo, which is 800 horse from the factory custom frame, modern interior with paddle shifting and all kinds of stuff is gonna be a big build.

So we just sort of went through the car the last couple of days.

We're pin down a few things price wise 'cause we've got bug about four or five different combos for drive trains available.

So customers in today and hopefully we can button it down as a firm deal.

Looking forward to it.

- Yeah.

Yeah, we just brought it up from the states a couple weeks ago.

We've had it for 10 years.

We're just trying to decide what to do with it.

The plan always was to do something with it.

It just never worked out until recently.

I just like the body style of a barracuda.

It's always been my favorite.

So we had this one so we thought well let's play with this one.

Well I'm gonna be resto Moted, put a new new gen and drive train in it and make it a new drive train in the old body.

So it'll be a fun, fun go around watching it get done.

Yeah, but looking forward to it.

- Just a final couple little pieces and should be good to go.

- Well how's it going today?

Good.

If you were here about an hour ago, you would've seen the most disgusting thing I've seen in any vehicle ever in this quarter where the quarter glass is, it was packed in literally that deep and nothing but animal crap.

It was disgusting.

A double glove mask.

We're not using these seats so I don't have to worry about what's inside those seeds.

It'll just, this is my only gonna be my biggest issue.

- So we got the cuda all stripped down up on the rotisserie where it'll be spun around, brought over to the sand blasters and we got a redeye rear end that we mocked up and around the corner there we got the Hellcat red eye motor.

I dunno if you've seen that yet or not, but once this comes back from blasting we start mocking stuff up and I think we're gonna be cutting the whole frame outta this car and building a whole frame front to back for it.

But there's a lot of pieces to this car.

We got two full skids over there and I don't think any of that stuff over there is going back inside the car.

It's all gonna be new stuff.

So.

- So this baby just came, we just shipped it up just last night.

Got it in about nine o'clock last night.

So this is a Hellcat red eye addition engine transmission.

You can see we've got the shifter, the brake pedal, the accelerator air conditioning units, the gauge cluster.

And we bought complete independent rear end Ford as well.

We have front spindles and calipers.

We've got some seats that the airbags blew out of.

But basically we've got all the makings for pretty cool car.

This is going to be going in an early cuda with all modern.

So we're doing a a frame in-house.

We're gonna design it so that this stuff all fits on it.

Modern interior in it.

These motors are crazy.

They're about 800 horse right from the factory.

So I can fire it up for you.

This is the neat part.

They have the red key, which is the red eye key, and we keep following this one up as we go along and we've got a pretty nice cuda shell to work with.

So we're just getting that car apart and then it'll be on a rotisserie, we're gonna get it blasted and primed and then we gotta start working on the frame and cutting all the floors out.

Have to stay tuned for that - To get all of the essentially set up in front.

Yeah, because the, the, the actual hell cat spindle in order, in order for this to work, like all we need is this hub section right here.

That's what we need.

That's, you know, that's where your speed sensor - Is.

That's where your electronics all are.

- So if we can have this bolt into a different spindle Yep.

Because we're not gonna be able to use the spindle you and the reason for that, like it's great for the tire clearance and everything.

The reason for that though is that by the time you get any kind of movement with the suspension up and down, it's gonna be bumping into the fender.

Okay.

Because where this has to get mounted is roughly right there.

There's the top of your fender this has to move stuff.

Okay.

So this setup right here isn't gonna work.

If this was three or four inches shorter, we could do it.

But that's, that's where we're at right now with that is that we're trying to find the spindle that that hub would built into.

- Okay.

That's the, you need something that has the same housing here?

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah, I leave that up to you guys to make the best call on that.

So that was the other thing we were talking about.

When you do a flare, where do you start it - Pretty much right in there somewhere.

And it's, it's, it's not gonna go into the door.

It's gonna come from here.

- Yeah.

- It's gonna gradually flare out around here like this and then cut back in.

- Alright, so Carl is saying, just to check with you, he said typically there's about that much that stays flush with the door and then the flare starts.

Yeah, because doesn't, it doesn't flare right out here.

It - Flare.

No, no, no, no past here.

- Yeah.

No.

Okay.

So then this come out - Just it, it's gonna look, it's gonna look gradual.

Like you, you don't want to have, because some people might want to go and just take this and cut it and size merge.

- Yeah.

Somebody had like an anticipated timelines with very loose, what are we talking late twice or just, just to say the next time I come it'll be done type of thing.

Like when, like how, how long should I leave it before I come back?

Or will you send me - A note?

You know what we, we, we, Gary, Gary will message you.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

Let's say if you say like if you were back in, you know, three weeks to a month or something.

Yeah.

You know what, you know.

- Well what I see so far is things getting ready to go back together, start to do the fabricating, get the frame in and get that rear end fitted in and then the front end obviously where the motor's gonna sit and how it's all gonna fasten together.

So that should be exciting over the next couple of months.

It's exciting.

Looks good.

It's got, it's at least it's got a home in the shop.

Okay.

- Yeah, it's good to know that what's on here is a Mustang to spindle.

So the geometry should be the same.

Very close.

This is the Cuda.

Yep.

And it's got 2023 or 2022.

It's - 2022.

- 2022.

Custom made spindle now with, which allows for a big break and a big rotor to bolt up to the car.

So Oe oe, OEM equipment.

So if you look back here you can see basically what we had to do is take a Mustang to willwood spindle, basically make some hub adapters to accept this hub and some spacers temporarily to mount our brake, change our steering rack angles.

And this is all gonna get machined out of solid, I think 60 61 aluminum.

So this is basically just the prototype that we're gonna give to the machine shop and they're gonna machine this all outta one solid chunk of aluminum.

But everything so far is lining up good.

And probably the first Cuda with a 2022 big brake kit on it.

A lot of engineering, but we're getting somewhere with it.

- Yeah.

Well today John, we're going to, we're gonna go back.

Dave has painted the 66 Nova and this is sort of a special car.

It was a client, a regular client of ours, Harold, and he passed away and his family decided to continue on with this existing project of his that we were doing.

So in the discussions with them, we made a suggestion that perhaps we were gonna do real fire on the front and we would sprinkle some of Harold's ashes into the paint for the flames.

And I left that with them and they decided that they, they liked that idea 'cause they're gonna keep the car and you know it's gonna stay within the family.

So we're gonna go now and we're going to get the clear and the other mixture for the Pearl and Harold's gonna join, join in the paint job and hopefully later today we can get a chance to talk to Harold's son Gavin who's supposed to be popping in.

So he'll be able to give us a little bit more insight into what you know about the man and the cars and stuff like that.

So we'll see you in the back at the booth mixing up a batch of - A little bit of - Pearl here Pearl.

So he's mixing up the pearl and that that's gonna be the basis of the ghost flames on Harold's car.

So this is the pouch that Kathy brought in for me.

So what we have here is part of Harold.

Harold.

So we're gonna add Harold in.

Do you know how much you want to put in there or should I let you do it?

Probably.

- You know what, it really doesn't matter.

- Yep.

- I, I, a pinch will do a pinch will do - Pinch.

I'm given a only a pinch or Harold you that in there.

Put that in.

- You go Harold - To be eternally - Driven.

Well, it's sort of appropriate.

It it is claims it is.

Yeah.

But he, he was a real character.

'cause the last car that we did for him was a, a chavelle called Monster and it was black with purple real fire in it.

So there's always this fire involved in hiss cars.

I don't mean by burning, I mean by the actual paint.

What do you think of it?

Oh, I think it's awesome.

Even with the hood, not with the blowers sticking out of it.

Did an awesome job with this.

Really, really good.

It's kind of cool.

They're, like I said, the family's keeping the car and he's always gonna be part of it, you know what I mean?

So, - Well you, I think you and I had this discussion yesterday, we, you know, lots of people that are, are cremated and their, their last wishes gonna be, you know, spread in a, in a river somewhere or you know, up, up on top Mountain Mountain or whatever.

Yeah.

And you know, that's in their memory, that's their place.

Whereas what we're doing, you know, he, he's Harold's not locked to one place.

Harold will go anywhere.

- This car is, wherever that car goes, shows he used to love doing shows and cruising and stuff like that.

So this is kind of cool to be, to have him as part of the car.

So, alright, Harold, let's go for a ride.

Let's go for a ride, - Harold.

Oh, there he is.

- Oh, it looks nice.

Oh, I love that.

I love that purple to it.

Oh yeah.

All the flake in it.

I really, I love that.

See, this is a surprise for me because it was actually on September 16th, the old man picked a color and I didn't know what color he picked until today.

So, so it's a surprise for me.

It looks amazing.

I love that color.

So essentially what this is is last year, September 16th, my old man and I were in and about and then him and my mom had to go in.

He's had lots of problems, heart problems, had a fully mechanical heart.

It's been a rough few years, honestly.

Anyways, he's always had a passion for these old cars.

We've had a 66 Chevelle done at one point too by radical rods when they were back at the old shop.

And honestly, their work was just phenomenal.

And that's why the old man has choose to do another car.

And he brought this one here back, which was the 66th circadian.

Anyways, moving back to the September 16th, he, he went out and had a good day with mom, had went for his dialysis and everything and was just looking forward to come down to Barry to check out his car and pick a color and everything with Gary.

And then later that day he went to go to a job site and we're not sure what happened, but he got into an accident and unfortunately that was the last day.

We gotta see the old man.

But moving forward, it's a year later, one week away from a celebration life.

So that'll be the one year mark.

And mom and I have decided now to take his ashes and we're gonna spray it into the paint.

And the car's just gonna stay with us forever and we're not gonna get rid of it.

I think that's, that's about that pretty, pretty tight.

Just don't want - Spill.

How much am I putting it?

You know what, here, do this.

Yep.

Just a, just a, just a pinch.

Just a, a good, beautiful.

That's, that's perfect.

That's good.

That's all we need.

- Perfect.

- Now what this is, is this is what's going to highlight and, and capture that.

Yeah.

That ghost flame.

This is, this is the pearl.

This is what makes, it's gonna make this car stand out above and beyond.

Right.

I know he wasn't a big, big fan of really out in your face.

Bold flames.

Yeah.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna, I've got everything all set up in there and pardon - The term I'm going to ghost.

Yeah.

Just like the old Chave, how it turned out.

Amazing.

- This next time, the next time you see your old man is gonna be nice and shiny and full of away.

Well that's perfect.

I appreciate it.

Thanks man.

Hey, it's, it's a pleasure.

You know what, I, I didn't know your, your dad from way back, you know, days.

Yeah.

But he had been coming in here ever since I've been here.

Oh yeah, I know.

He showed up one day with this thing and I know it was almost a, a weekly visit from him.

Oh.

He loved it.

And I, I don't know if it was so much to see what was being done to his car, but just to see what else we had in.

Yeah.

- Nothing better today.

You know what?

So I don't know.

This is what he likes.

Right?

He loves everything but this Absolutely.

- We're leaving this back.

We're leaving the front end off.

Yeah.

Until motors in, everything else is done.

One of the last thing that happens is the front end headlights.

Yeah.

Let's - To it.

Awesome.

- I think it's a cool idea what you and your Yeah.

Remember doing with that.

I mean when we tossed the idea around Yeah.

I wasn't sure what the reception was gonna be on it, but I think Oh, I think it was a good decision, you know, knowing him the way he was about the car and everything.

Yeah.

I thought it was a good way to go.

- Oh, I think so.

You - Know.

- Yeah.

Be fun.

Just, yeah.

He just loved it that much, right?

So, yeah.

Yeah.

So it'll be fun.

We'll, yeah, it's cool to see how it's turning out.

Just I haven't seen it ever since we dropped it off.

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Funding for radical restoration is provided by - Rakabot sources sustainable materials to create boot racks that organize footwear while allowing drippings to go in the bowl.

Models designed for home work or recreational settings are available online@rabo.com.

Birds underwater in - Crystal River, Florida supports radical restoration, offering guided excursions with Florida manatees, kayak rentals, scuba diving certifications, and boat tours are also available since 1993 and online@birdsunderwater.com.

- Thank you for joining us.

My name's Gary Nichols.

Until next time, may all your rides be radical.