Some days, man.
I wake up and I'm just like,
"It was good to be a gangster."
The '49s an iconic Ford pickup truck, everybody loves these.
[Bill] The next step is building all the front suspension.
[Jamie] We got that new independent rear suspension.
[Ryan] Placement of that bag is super critical,
how far up and far down it's gonna be.
You gotta make that '49 Ford real low.
I wanna try to break the world record
of doing the most donuts.
What better car than a new Mustang?
The shorter the wheelbase,
the faster you're gonna get around that tight circle.
[Jamie] So we gotta lower this thing,
cold air intake, exhaust, wheels, tires,
and then we're gonna wrap this thing up.
Oh, man!
Guinness, get my plaque ready.
[opening theme music playing]
I'm Bill Carlton.
I've built my first truck when I was 16.
And ever since,
me and my guys have been out here
creating with our hands,
building the biggest, lowest,
baddest custom trucks and cars in the game.
People don't come here for what they need,
they come here for what they want.
This...
is Texas Metal.
[car engine revving]
-What's happening? -[man] Hey, Bill.
-How you doin', man? -Good morning.
Hey, appreciate you guys comin' out.
Well, we're glad to be here.
You know, I had this crazy idea
of breaking a world record
of doing the most donuts in a car,
and immediately, I think about you guys.
Since I was little, I've always had a thing
for goin' fast
and doin' burnouts and donuts.
[tires screeching]
Recently, I had a real big idea.
What would it take to set the world record
for doin' donuts?
It's currently 280 in a row.
You know Bill, one of the things
that we remember so vividly
is a project that you did for us about five years ago.
You built the Boots for Troop truck,
-do you remember that truck? -[Bill] Oh, for sure.
[John] And it was big and it was bad
and it made a statement.
It positively impacted
so many active-duty military veterans,
we couldn't wait to get with you again
and do somethin' else.
You've always helped me out, and of course I see
you're gonna help me out one more time, right?
And we're glad you thought of us.
[Bill] You know, I needed a car
with a super short wheelbase with a lot of power.
[John] It's the 2023 Ford Mustang GT
and it has the 5.0 V8 motor in it.
-[Bill] Gotta have it. -[John] Yeah.
And manual transmission is what we've got here,
so I hope that works for you.
I mean, this is... This is perfect.
But you know I'mma do a couple things to it, right?
-We expected nothing less. -[laughs]
[John] All right. Out with it, Bill.
You know, one of the most important things
for trying to break the world record
is the wheel and tire combo,
you know, so we're definitely gonna change these
to a super-light wheel,
getting that right rpm with the right wheel speed,
and the right tire is what this is all about.
Well, what a more perfect car, American muscle car,
and it needs to sound like a muscle car.
Do you have any plans on changing the sound?
Oh, man.
Most definitely we're gonna change the exhaust on it.
We gotta get that tone right, you know?
When it's spinnin' around,
we want it to not only look good, it's gotta sound good.
-Absolutely. -Absolutely.
And, you know, not just wheels and tires, not just exhausts,
we're gonna do an air intake under the hood
so we get a little bit more fresh air into the engine
-a little faster, right? -[John] Yeah, yeah. Sure.
You know, but that's not the only thing.
We gotta make it look good.
So we'll wrap it, you know, with our sponsors
and just make it look really, really cool
and just let everybody know,
you know, what we're doing with the car.
So, after this is all done,
looking good, world record is broken,
hopefully,
what are you guys gonna do with this?
We're gonna put it on the showroom,
let the public be able to come out and see
a world-record breaking car.
We're gonna break this record.
-I know you will. -We're gonna do it.
-I appreciate you guys man. -Yeah, yeah.
-Thank you very much. -It's all yours.
And it's on your insurance, right?
-Ah. -Uh, no, no.
-It's yours. -[laughs]
[John] Good try.
-Have fun with it, Bill. -[Bill] Yes. We'll make it happen.
See you later.
[upbeat music playing]
Ever since I had my driver's license,
I'm doin' donuts in a car.
So over the years, I've gotten pretty good at it,
I had a lot of practice in a lot of different cars
and I was like,
"Man, I wonder what the world record is
on doin' donuts in a car."
So a quick internet search,
the record right now is like 280,
and it's in some other country,
and it's been held for the last 10 years or so.
What better car to break this record in
in a new Mustang.
The key to this is gonna be the right tire,
the right rpm, and the right wheelbase.
The shorter the wheelbase,
the faster you're gonna get around that tight circle.
And having that right surface,
you know, I can't have rough, rough concrete
or rough asphalt, anything like that,
it's gonna tear the tire up prematurely.
If we get to 269 revolutions
and all of a sudden a tire blows out,
it's all over.
It's gonna be super difficult to hold this car
in a tight circle for 300+ revolutions.
I mean, your body's gonna get fatigued,
you're gonna get tired, you're gonna get dizzy.
There's a lot fighting against this.
You know, the more and more people I talk to,
the more I talk about it,
the more people wanna help out.
The world record's gonna be set
right here in Houston, Texas.
[rock music playing]
[tires screeching]
[Jamie] What's this for?
Well...
it isn't mine,
and it isn't the customers.
Man, I've had this crazy idea for a while.
I've always wanted to have a world record.
So I've been thinkin',
I wanna try to break the world record
of doin' the most donuts.
Oh, man, that's a good one.
How many is it?
The record right now is, like, 280
so we're gonna go for 300.
Sheesh, dude.
[Bill] Planet Ford was happy enough to help.
I told them my crazy idea,
you know, I called John Centner over there.
He's like, "Man, I'd love to help,"
so he's letting me borrow this brand new Mustang 5.0 6-speed.
[Jamie] That's so cool, dude.
So this is gonna be key to just get the rpms
just right, the right tires,
all those conditions have to be perfect...
Yeah.
to have that longevity of getting 300 donuts...
-Yeah. -out of a set of tires.
But I don't wanna just do it in a stock car.
[Ryan] Yeah.
-That's not gonna sell. -[Bill] We gotta make the car...
-Yeah. -cool too, right?
-Yeah, definitely. -Mmm-hmm.
[Bill] So there's a few things I wanna do to it.
You know, of course, we gotta lower it.
[Jamie] Yeah.
[Bill] You know, tires are definitely gonna be key
to makin' this whole project happen.
[Ryan] So you can't run these stock tires, you got...
We gotta do somethin'.
[Bill] Definitely not.
Somethin' that don't get too hot and blow apart in...
-Melt and all. -10 minutes, yeah.
Yeah. Because, you know, who's...
-Yeah. -drivin'.
Yeah. I've been down that road...
-[Jamie] Smokey [indistinct] -a few times, man.
That's a lot of donuts, man. That's a lot of spinnin'.
Not only that, of course, we had to had it cold air intake,
we gotta get that air in quicker.
[Jamie] That's right.
[Bill] Of course, we gotta get the air out quicker
so we're gonna do exhaust also.
[Jamie] Okay.
And just to give it even more horsepower,
we're gonna throw a spoiler on the back.
[laughs]
Give it a little style, huh?
Yeah. Just give it a little extra, right?
We're gonna come up with a really cool wrap, wrap it.
After this record is broken...
-Nice. -they're gonna puttin' it
back on their showroom floor
where it's gonna be lookin' nice and pretty,
and somebody's gonna buy this thing.
When you walk in the dealership,
you know what that car did.
Yeah. [laughs]
And then somebody else would pick this up one day
and maybe they'll set another record.
-Yeah. You never know. -[Jamie] Yeah.
-[Ryan] You never know. -Then beat my record.
[laughs]
You know, somebody's out there.
Yeah.
-They better come on with it. -[Ryan] Yeah.
[Jamie] Sounds like a challenge.
Yeah.
[Ryan] So we got to lower this thing,
cold air intake, exhaust, wheels, tires,
gotta add the horsepower with the spoiler, right?
Yeah.
Then we're gonna wrap this thing up.
Well dude, let's get on so we can start spinnin'.
Let's do it.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jamie] Yeah, that's it.
[upbeat music playing]
[tool whirring]
You know, we gotta get rid of all this stock stuff.
First thing is, we gotta get the stance right.
It can't leave this shop with the stock stance
so the first thing is go ahead and pull the coilovers,
get the springs out, swap springs,
get that nice ride height Bill's lookin' for,
see how it settles.
[grunts]
[Jamie] Okay. So we got our first strut off right now,
and we're gonna be doing with this one
is gonna be replacin' the spring on both of 'em.
It's gonna be more of a compact spring
that's gonna get that performance
out of the suspension that we really want.
So you can definitely see
the difference in these two springs, you know.
This is our stock spring,
this is our aftermarket spring.
Now, this is gonna definitely lower the suspension.
This one right here is gonna be more sturdy.
This is just gonna be an overall better ride for the car.
Just need to put the spring compressors on there,
put our cap right back on.
[Ryan] Here's the other side.
[tool whirring]
Okay. So we got the old springs out, new springs in.
You can see it's kind of short in the strut up
but that's gonna give us
a lower ride height right here.
Oh, we got the front done,
now we'll head, move on the back.
[rock music playing]
[Jamie] In the rear,
we have independent suspension so,
you know, it's engineered
to not have a strut right here.
So in the back right here,
we're gonna take a lot more stuff apart
to go ahead and get that spring out.
[Ryan] We're just gonna drop the exhaust right now,
that way we can drop our subframe,
and then we'll get our spring out a lot easier.
Yeah.
Good job, Jamie.
You're so smart.
There we go.
[Jamie] Okay. So we got the springs in now.
The next thing is go ahead
and complete puttin' our subframe in
by putting our bushings in,
our aluminum bushings, and our polymer bushings.
It's really starting to come together.
You know, the front was nothin',
the rear was a little bit more involved,
but everything's tight, everything's good.
[Ryan] Seems a little bit more stout now.
Like it's gonna do what it's supposed to do now.
[upbeat music playing]
[car engine revving]
[Bill] I've been talkin' to a lot of drift car drivers
about the world record attempt for the most donuts.
Cool.
And to get our '23 Mustang to spin right,
we're gonna need the right amount of power,
so not too much but definitely not too little.
So we're gonna install the new air intake system.
[Jamie] Basically, your cold air intake is...
You know, this is somewhat restricted,
so we've got a cold air intake
that allows more air to be put into the motor,
so more air, more fuel, so we're gonna have more exhaust.
That's gonna make more ponies.
So we're gonna remove this cover
so we can get our [indistinct]
and get our pressure intake on here.
[upbeat music playing]
Come out like that.
[Jamie] And you could see, just by lookin' in depth,
you have a bigger, fresher inlet
than, what, the stock,
so I mean, you're just getting' more air in.
This one's restricted by a filter right here.
If you look inside of it,
I mean, that's two different worlds right there.
I know this is fun and stock.
Now, we're gonna upgrade.
[rock music playing]
[tool whirring]
[Ryan] All right. Have Jamie throw on our nice line in her,
and we can throw this filter on and that's that.
[rock music playing]
Now, when Bill goes out and does all those donuts,
it's gonna have plenty of air, plenty of smoke,
plenty of power burnin'.
That's exactly what he needs.
[upbeat music playing]
[Carlos] Uh-oh.
[laughs] You know what that means?
-[Carlos] Yeah. -[laughs]
What are you all doin'?
Why are y'all sittin' so close together?
-It's cold outside. -It's cold.
Hey, on the '49 Ford.
We're off to a really good start
but that's all we got, is a start, right now.
It's been just a ton of work,
but man, we're just getting' started on this.
[Matt] It's gonna be great.
[Bill] You know, we got it in the shop,
built a brand new frame
front to back, all the rectangle tubing,
and we're not gonna have any flex out of that.
Nice.
[Bill] You know, mounted the independent rear suspension
on the new frame,
you know, the customer brought in that old
2020 5.0 Coyote,
we got that all mounted up in the new frame,
firewall all cut out,
Jamie's built a new firewall for it.
Got the cab back from blast.
It was a little better than I thought it was gonna be, actually.
-Not the cheese grater? -[Bill] Yeah.
And there's still a little bit of metal there,
so that's where we're at right now, right?
You know, the next step is building
all the front suspension,
so we're gonna build new upper and lower control arms,
of course, place the bag in there.
You gotta make that '49 Ford real low.
-[Carlos] That front end needs to be on the ground. -[Matt] Mmm-hmm.
[Bill] It's gonna need
your help with spindles, brakes,
get all that comin' in.
So with the rear, we got that new
independent rear suspension.
So how are we gonna set that up?
[Bill] You know, placement of that bag
is super critical,
how far up and how far down it's gonna be
so that center shaft didn't bind up on itself.
After that, building the bed totally from scratch,
and then we're gonna build the bed floor from scratch also,
and I want the center of the bed floor to raise up
so you can see all those man-hours and where they went,
so we're gonna need a super nice tanks,
compressors.
All that's gonna be exposed, so we...
[Matt] Okay.
want the best stuff there.
-We'll get everything set up. -Hell, yeah.
Well, I'm just glad that we only have
to order the parts, they gotta do all the--
I know. Speaking of that, you need to get back to work.
All right.
Man, I know you're gonna do a good job.
[laughter]
I'll attempt to do it.
[laughter]
[soft upbeat music playing]
[Ryan] The '49s an iconic Ford pickup truck.
Everybody loves these.
A lot of people like the front ends
and they like the beds.
You know, they're a little bit different than the Chevys.
This is a cool-looking truck.
Got a good platform.
We're doing some awesome stuff so far,
so this will be a cool one.
All right, so we're gonna start
on the front suspension now,
got the wheel thrown up here on the transmission stand.
I can adjust it.
Just like every other suspension we do,
I'm just gonna get up to ride height,
make sure I got clearance whenever I turn,
it doesn't hit anything.
It's centered in the wheel well,
see what it looks like when it's gonna be laid out on the ground.
Right there.
I like it when you come down some, we got plenty [indistinct]
I can still roll the wheel.
So now, I take this half I have,
and I can attach it here to here.
So this bushing sleeve right here
to the lower ball joint cup.
I'm gonna make me a mock-up lower control arm.
So using this I can get my point.
I can get everything that I need
to be able to take this to the table
to transfer all my measurements and all my points.
So there's our jiggy-jig jiggersins.
We're gonna get jiggy with it.
Now, we got this tacked into place.
I can take some measurements, go clean some pipe, cut it
and, uh, bend it, come back here and fit it on.
[upbeat music playing]
[Ryan] So instead of doing straight pipe
or anything like that,
we're gonna have to put a step in our control arm.
So it's gonna go flat and then kick up.
That way whenever it's fully inflated,
the bag isn't fully stretched out all the way
and it's a little bit more relaxed.
And it'll also make this thing
ride that much better.
I think I'll try it
because I don't know how far I gotta go.
What? Perfect. How did I do that?
Some days, man, I wake up and I'm just like,
"It was good to be a gangster."
[upbeat music playing]
[Ryan] So I got my template made up
for our bag plate for the center of our lower control arm.
You'll give this to Jessie. He'll cut me two of these out.
While he's doing that,
I can start making my other control arm.
[upbeat music playing]
Thank you so much, dude.
We're gonna have to bend it up?
Yeah, yeah.
We just have to break it right there.
[upbeat music playing]
[Ryan] Yeah, three-eighths is perfect, damn.
All right. So I got the driver side done.
I'm gonna do the exact same thing
on my jig to the passenger side.
Make two of 'em, weld them all out
and then we can start doing
all the rest of our suspension work on the truck.
[upbeat music playing]
Now, that Ryan's finished up the lower control arms on the '49 Ford,
he's moving on to the uppers.
We got our control arms done.
I got a ball joint tacked in to the driver side.
Take it over there and mock this up.
And then, we can get a measurement
for our upper control arms.
And the alternator gets in the way, man.
Dude, that's gonna be the smallest arm ever.
We built a ton of arms here for just about everything,
and a lot of the times it doesn't work out.
Just like this case right here,
I'm going through, you know, trial and tribulation.
So I knew these were laying over there.
I'd seen 'em before.
If they're gonna clear, I just need to take, like,
two or three inches off of 'em,
which is way easier to take away than it is to add.
So I think I might luck out on this one.
Only an inch.
Not bad. Not bad, Chad.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ryan] Now, I got this all traced out
and mirror it that way I can make two of 'em the same.
What you do to one side, you gotta do the other.
Got my lines made.
I can put that there.
Tack it straight to this piece.
I already got these pieces made for the arms.
All I gotta do is just figure that out,
we get to start making our second arm.
It's real close, but we gotta make
a few changes to the stuff we have here.
So the frame, we're gonna have to notch it
for, you know, all of our lift that we're gonna get.
And then the header,
we're gonna have to just take out
this front tube here
and make a 45 and go up straight.
So you gotta sacrifice just a few little things,
a little bit of extra work,
but it saves a bunch of time
using these control arms
rather than making a whole new set.
And we'd probably still get into that anyways.
And then we can start making the upper tabs
for the control arms.
What I like to do with these shackles here,
we'll take these and I can bolt 'em on there
and tack it to the frame where I think it needs to be
just by taking some measurements.
Then I can cycle everything
as if it were, you know, in motion if it was going down the road.
It's not rubbing anymore now.
Perfect.
All right, so I got my three templates.
I can use this one for the front, too,
but these unfortunately,
I'm gonna have to make individually for both sides.
So I'm gonna lay all these out
and I can just knock 'em all down
into smaller pieces,
take it over to the band saw
and get these ones I can't get with the shear,
and then spend some time with the grinder.
I gotta give it a good punch there,
buddy old hell.
All right. I think we're ready to tack, tack that.
All right, so I got my tabs tacked in.
Mounts are good.
The travel's right just like we did on the mock-up.
Everything is good.
We could just go start working on the other side,
but I wanna build out this whole entire side first,
then I'll just take all my templates
and then knock every single thing out at one time.
So I'm gonna start on bag mounts now and shock mount.
And once that's done,
we'll have our entire driver side done.
[upbeat music playing]
[Bill] We've almost finished building out
the '23 Ford Mustang for that test run.
First, Jamie and Ryan are gonna add
that new performance exhaust.
We'll be able to get more air flow
and even more power.
[Ryan] It's going to be loud, raspy.
It's gonna have cutouts,
it's gonna be perfect
for what we're gonna throw at it.
It's gonna sound awesome and it'll look good, too.
This is, like, one of the best-looking
exhausts I've ever seen.
[tool whirring]
Make them go down level.
That actually looks better like that.
One step closer.
Burning the tires off this thing.
[tool whirring]
[Jamie] Man, dude,
that's a really nice exhaust for this car.
-The bends, c-bends... -[Ryan] It looks the slick, too.
everything is 100% polished.
-Awesome on this one. -[Ryan] We just have
to mount the wheels and tires and we're done.
Gee! Look at that.
-That's pretty cool. -[Jamie] Nitto 555s, man.
So those are them, huh?
Apparently these things aren't gonna get too hot, huh?
[Jamie] We'll see about that.
[Jamie] Man, this thing looks real good.
It's got that stance,
that aggressive stance Bill always likes.
I mean this thing is ready to hammer.
And the tires, too, man.
I'm glad that he recommended those
'cause they look awesome.
And if they're gonna hold up to what he's gonna do to it,
man, that's even better.
-I'm eager to see how it sounds out there. -[Jamie] Yeah.
-You wanna take it out? -Yup.
[funky music playing]
[Bill] The guys at the shop got the '23 Mustang
sitting right and looking good,
and we added that spoiler.
So before we go any farther,
I wanna see what the car is actually gonna do.
There's some stipulations
about breaking the donut world record.
You only have three times the length of the car.
So we have a super-tight circle
to stay within.
All right, what we need is 24 feet.
So I got my son Corbin out here today.
We're laying out that circle
to see exactly how big that diameter is
and how much room I gotta stay within.
My buddy Marcos did a great job
pouring me a super-slick piece of concrete.
So I think that's gonna be critical
in this whole journey.
We got 100 times around, you down?
Yeah. Let's go.
Today, I'm gonna shoot for 100
just to, kind of, gauge tire wear
to see where we're at with everything.
But I'm definitely gonna beat that world record.
Is this contributing to delinquency of a minor?
No.
[Bill] All right, you ready? Let's see what's up.
[Corbin] Yeah.
[upbeat music playing]
At first, it's super-simple to stay in this circle.
-How many? -[Corbin] Thirty-one.
He's real cool, having your son sit beside you
doing a lot of donuts.
-[Bill] How many? -54.
[Bill] As time goes on,
that tight circle is getting just a little more sticky.
I'm excited to see the tires after this.
Staying in that circle is getting a lot harder
the longer it goes.
-How many? -[Corbin] Ninety.
[Bill] You have to use more RPMs
to get it to stay in that tight circuit.
Tires are very sticky.
[man] [indistinct]
Hundred.
I'm dizzy.
Are you dizzy?
-Yeah. -What?
Oh, man.
Man.
That was...
It's gonna be a little challenging.
I mean, that was 100 times right now.
The circle got really sticky.
You know, getting those RPMs dialed in,
you get a little dizzy in there
and you get a little motion sickness.
So, you know, this is gonna be quite a challenge
to do that 300 times.
[Corbin] At first, it was really easy
but towards the end it gets really hard.
It... You get very nauseous during the ride.
[Bill] And also, you know, I hit one of the cones out there.
You know, if this were for real,
I'd have to start over. That wouldn't count.
I'm gonna go back to the shop,
figure out a couple things.
And when I come back, it's on.
Guinness, get my plaque ready.
[upbeat music playing]
[Bill] We're most of the way through the front suspension
on the '49 Ford.
Next up, some bag mounts.
So normally, when we set the bag brackets up,
we like to center everything
in the center of the control arm.
But the upper control arm is going over here.
It's so far over to the right
and that's usually where I put my shock.
So I'm not gonna have any shock room
over here on the right side of this arm.
But I also have a tie rod
and my steering, my...
From my rack over here that's on this side.
I wanna put a shock in this area somewhere.
So I'm gonna offset the bag bracket
and the bag and everything over,
as far over to this side
of the control arm as I can get.
That way I got enough room for my shock
to miss my rack, to miss the bag,
and to miss the tie rod whenever we're turning.
So with all that playing, this is how we're gonna do it.
I've never mounted the shock in front of the bag before.
It's always standard it's just right behind it,
off to the side of the control arm.
Another cool factor is just the offset
of the upper control arm
doesn't have to be centered.
You know, geometry doesn't know anything
in, it just knows its points, that's it.
So you can do whatever you want,
just whatever the application calls for, really.
That looks swell. I'm gonna tack it.
You know what, I'm gonna assemble all of this first,
instead of guessing.
Nice. I don't like guessing.
You know, going around the alternator
and missing the headers
is gonna be beneficial later on
for us, and it looks cool.
So it's a little bit different
than the last one that we've done.
And doing something new is always better
than doing the same repetition
over and over and over.
I'm gonna go give them to Jessie.
Watch out for that bullhorn.
[thunder rumbles]
[Ryan] I used to work at a pipe shop
and whenever it would rain and thunder, like, real bad,
they would make us shut down.
Like, we couldn't weld or, like, operate any machine.
Like, 20 years before I worked there,
they said that there was a real bad thunderstorm
and the building, like, got struck by lightning
and it fried, like, $200,000 worth
of equipment or something.
So, like, the brothers were like,
"If it ever rains ever again,
like, we're never gonna work."
All right, cool. So now we have everything built
for the driver side of this truck.
Got lower control arms done, upper control arms,
shocks, bag brackets, everything.
It's just always cool being able to, you know, not have
to do the same exact thing.
We've done thousands of suspensions here
and very rarely are two the same.
So being that this one had to go around so much stuff,
I highly doubt I'll ever have to do this ever again.
So that's the cool thing about custom,
because it's always something new.
[rain pattering]
[rock music playing]
The '49 Ford is just a really big build for us.
You know, and it feels really good
to be done with that front suspension.
Now, we can get onto the rear.
So today we're gonna mount rear airbags and the shocks.
We can see exactly where our wheel's gonna be,
where it's fully compressed
and once that fully droops,
so we know exactly what we're working with
and where everything is going to be
whenever everything is said and done.
So let's go clean some pipe.
We'll talk about it when I come back
with the clean pipe.
All right then, so I clean this thing, old [indistinct]
we're gonna put it right here.
This thing, old thing, old thing [indistinct]
this thing, old thing,
I was playing this thing the same way.
[indistinct]
All right. So after making my template,
I decided to make this little piece,
and I can make my metal piece just be small
instead of going the full width of the control arm.
We don't need to take up that whole entire space.
We just need this corner of it
and it doesn't need to really be super-reinforced
and overkilled.
So, we're gonna make it simple.
So I can take it over to Jessie
and have him cut it out on the table for me.
I'm gonna put bends right there in the circle
so don't... Just don't cut it for me, all right?
-[Jessie] All righty. -[Ryan] Two of 'em.
-[Jessie] Two? -[Ryan] Yeah. Thank you.
[upbeat music playing]
That's good. We'll use this.
This'll work out perfect.
I'll duplicate it, make two of everything,
and that way, we can just do the other side
when it's okay.
I like that.
Everything is looking good
and we'll be on to the next step after that.
[Bill] We're finishing up the custom suspension
on the '49 Ford.
So today is definitely a good day.
It's one more thing checked off
on that giant checklist.
The bed is just beyond repair.
So next up, we need to completely build
the bed floor and bed from scratch.
It's gonna take a lot of metalwork,
then its body paint,
and of course, one of one interior.
You know, we've put a lot of sweat equity
in the ground up with builds like this,
but I know once it's done,
it's gonna be worth every penny and then some.
[Ryan] Oh, yeah.
Rear suspension's done now. I think now,
all the suspension on the whole truck is done.
So, now, we can focus on getting this bed off,
and getting a new one built
and put on and keepin' on...
Keep it on.
[Bill] You know, I didn't wanna attempt
to break the world record for the most donuts
in a stock-looking '23 Mustang,
so I had to get it wrapped.
Plus, it adds some protection for the paint.
One thing I learned from the test run,
the car just didn't have enough power.
So we're gonna add a ProCharger
for that extra power that I need.
We added a cold air intake, tried it out,
and once the tires started warming up,
it just... It wasn't cutting it,
think... Thinking it was gonna be enough power
but it just wasn't there.
So we went ahead, we pulled the cold air intake out,
we're gonna install a Stage II ProCharger kit,
we're gonna add about 315 horsepower,
so no matter how sticky those tires get,
the thing is gonna have so much more power
than it has now that...
He's... That he's definitely gonna accomplish the goal
for the record.
So the first step is gonna be start dissembling everything.
We're gonna pull the front bumper cover off,
so to make room for the intercooler,
and a couple things off the motor.
The coolant reservoir is gonna get changed
just to make room for everything.
And that's where we're gonna start.
We've got the expansion tank removed
and the sway bar removed,
so we can make room
to get our drive pulley
for the ProCharger's installed.
So the drive pulley mounts
to the factory crankshaft pulley.
There's a belt that goes from here to the ProCharger
that... This is what drives it.
I'm gonna go ahead and install this
and then we're going to continue on
and mount the ProCharger and get moving along.
The bracket for the ProCharger will be next.
These brackets right here get installed
to pull the radiator closer to the core support
to give us more clearance
between the engine and the fans.
We're gonna need as much as we can get,
that's for sure.
This is ProCharger's P-1X.
It's a Stage II, pretty good-sized blower.
And essentially, all it does
is the crankshaft pulley we installed earlier
or the belt will route to this
and it'll drive this,
which this'll suck air in and create boost
and force more air into the motor.
And that's where we get the power from.
The reason we add oil into it is there's gears inside this.
They're spinning at such a high RPM.
They'd heat up without the oil,
so the oil keeps them lubricated
and without it, they would just...
They'd go so far and then just lock up.
Now, we mount the power.
So now we're gonna go ahead and connect the ProCharger
to the motor with the 8-rib belt.
Almost there.
Got it.
So this is our intercooler we're gonna mount
right here behind the bumper.
So what this does is,
as the ProCharger produces airflow,
it travels through the intercooler
and air runs through it to cool the air down.
And that cooled air
is what gets put into the motor.
The cooler the air, the better the motor runs.
All right. So now, we got our intercooler installed,
our ProChargers installed, pulleys and belt,
everything's good to go there.
But now, we're gonna start doing all our plumbing,
which is our air inlet side
and outlet side that goes to the intake.
So now, our expansion tank is in,
which was the last piece of the puzzle
for our Stage II ProCharger kit.
So now, we're gonna go ahead and button everything up,
radiator cover, front bumper on,
and see what kind of power this thing will make.
Watch Bill set some records.
So a special thing happens when Bill gets the keys
and gets behind the wheel of something.
You know, something clicks in his head
and says, "I need to go and see how far
-this car is gonna go. -Yeah.
[Jamie] We've seen so many donuts out there
and so many roller burnouts.
-Who does that? That's true. -Yeah. Bill Carlton.
Yeah, dude. He buys, like, a brand new dually
and you think he is gonna, you know, baby it.
But no, he's out, like, driving sideways.
He's in the ditch,
like, you think it's gonna roll over
and he's like, "Nah, man. This is good. We're good."
That's where his happy place, it seems like.
[Ryan] He just... He's got it down.
He's been driving for a long time.
I mean, he's been acting a fool for a long time too.
So, he's learned all the tricks of the trade.
But hands down, one of the best drivers
I've ever ridden with.
[Jamie] I can say the same exact thing, you know.
-He's just one of a kind, man. -[Ryan] Yeah.
[Jamie] And getting in a car with him,
-man, you can't not smile. -[Ryan] Yeah.
[Jamie] I mean, you're gonna be scared but at the end,
you're like, "Oh, yeah, that was pretty cool."
It was so much fun. Yeah.
[both laughing]
[funky music playing]
I've already done this before
so we just gotta do it in a circle.
Yes, sir.
[Bill] You know, I've never tried to set a world record before,
never tried to break a record like this.
So, I'm gonna give this one more attempt
to make sure everything is 100% right.
[Keegan] We gotta measure it 23
and five-eights all the way around?
See, so now, we're gonna be off
-by an 8-inch, you know what I mean? -What do you mean?
'Cause he keeps moving.
You're slow.
-Gol-ly, it does not look like a lot of space. -[Presley] I don't know.
-That's what I'm saying too. -[Keegan] That does not look like a lot.
Two hundred eighty times?
I mean, we just did 100 last time.
-What was that like? -Very nauseous.
-[car engine revving] -Oh, look, here he comes.
Oh, man.
I think it's gorgeous. Oh, my goodness.
[upbeat music playing]
[Keegan] I've seen the Stock 5.0
and this is definitely not it.
My dad's done a lot of work to it
and it's badass.
-What do y'all think? -Oh, my goodness.
-This thing is gorgeous. -A lot different than I remember.
-[Bill] Yeah, man, we changed it up a little bit, right? -Hmm-hmm.
We couldn't just have just an old stock car
if we're gonna attempt a world record, right?
I don't think you could do that in a stock car.
Right? Well, we ain't gotta worry about it anymore
'cause it's definitely not stock.
Guess not.
[Bill] Breaking a world record,
you can't have a stock car.
Of course we had to hook the car up.
The first thing you gotta do to make a car look good
is getting that stance right.
It sets the attitude for the car.
It sounds pretty mean. What did you do the exhaust?
Yeah. It's all new exhaust,
all stainless, sounds good, looks good,
-and it's gonna get that exhaust out quick. -[Keegan] Oh, yeah.
That throaty sound, the mean sound,
that's exactly what we want.
We're gonna be doing a lot, a lot, a lot of circles.
So we want it to sound real well too.
We had to make it lower, right?
-So I had to change out the coil springs... -[Keegan] Oh, yeah.
[Bill] with the shorter ones to get that low stance.
[Keegan] It looks so much more aggressive now too.
[Bill] And we had to top it off with the wrap.
[Keegan] The wrap is so pretty.
Seeing that wrap and everybody involved
along that design, it's gonna look incredible
when he officially beats the world record.
TRIK Motorsports got it all hooked up, looking good.
-It looks gorgeous. -Yeah.
Representing my shop and everybody that helped out,
so of course the wrap has to be on point.
You know, anybody that's gonna look up
the world record
is gonna see this car and see what it's all about.
One of the most important things of this
is the tires
and to be able to go around this circle,
you know, hopefully, like, 300 times...
-Yeah, exactly. -is what we're shooting for.
Tires are what this competition
is gonna be all about.
This record is gonna be based
upon, you know, the right tire compounds,
different tire pressure, keeping it in first gear,
trying to get those RPMs as low as possible
to not just blow in the tires,
totally off smoking 'em,
throwing off too much rubber at one time.
We wanna minimize that and make those tires last
as long as possible.
Since we already did the hundred,
I really think you can do it.
It's pretty easy the first time.
Well, I definitely learned a couple things
since we were out here last.
[tires screeching]
[Bill] Once we did, like, 60 or 70 last time,
the car had to be floored all the way around.
You know, it had an air intake on it
but it just needed a little bit more power.
I mean, that circle gets a little sticky,
you know, once you go around that many times.
So, ProCharger stepped up, we gave him a call,
and it's got plenty of power right now.
[Keegan] Oh, yeah. So today, you're gonna try to do 280?
[Bill] I'm gonna beat 280.
You know, the record in donuts in a car is 280.
So, the attempt today is to beat that.
You know, next week, we're gonna do it officially.
So I would wanna give it one more go around
just to see how many we can do today, right?
-Make sure you can do it. -So, Corbin,
-you were with me last time. -Yeah.
Presley, you come with me this time.
You guys be the outside counters,
so we make sure we get this a accurate count.
Sounds good.
[Bill] Man, I see you got the circle setups
-it's looking good. Thank you. -[Keegan] Yes, sir.
-[Bill] Y'all good? -Yes, sir.
[Bill] All right, girl, come on.
Of course, the car being set up perfectly
is one of the main things to break this record,
but I think the most important thing
is gonna be mental.
If you lose focus for one second,
bam, you're outside of the circle,
contest is over.
All right. We'll see what happens.
[tense music playing]
That's 30.
Trying to keep the RPMs down to keep the longevity
of the tires.
That is 60.
[Bill] You know, going around in all these circles,
of course, you're getting dizzy,
but you gotta stay focused.
You can't pay attention to anything around you.
You're just paying attention to the cone
right in front of you that you're going around on
and listening to RPMs.
That's pretty much every thought
that's in your brain.
Ninety.
[Presley] And spinning around in the car is no joke
when you're going for that long.
I've never been so nauseous in my entire life,
but it takes some, sort of, almost, like, athletic ability
to get you to be able to focus and do donuts for that long.
It takes a lot of concentration.
Man, I'm getting a little ways away.
Hundred fifty.
[Bill] Well, everything is going good.
It's super-smooth.
I'm dialed in, till all of a sudden,
just that little bit of lapse of concentration...
bumped a cone, knew I hit it,
would have been disqualification
if this would've been a real record-breaking attempt.
Since I already hit the cone,
decided to go ahead and have a little bit of fun with it.
After having a little bit of fun,
the car got a little hot.
It's making a lot of power now.
So, there's a delicate balance
of how to make this work
and how to really break that record.
You know, today, I learned a valuable lesson of focus,
of keeping that car right where it's supposed to be
and not having your mind wander.
Next time, we're bringing everybody together.
We're gonna make this happen.
I know we're gonna bring this world record
right here to Texas.