[energizing music begins]
- [Host] Hello Monster fans.
Monster Garage is on the road this week
in the capital of car racing, North Carolina,
where Jesse James is getting his learner's permit
in a 750 horsepower Kyle Petty NASCAR.
- I'll go fast. That's my goal.
[heavy metal music plays]
Big American Dumb muscle car.
♪ Yeah
- [Host] we're about to king size your monster.
- That's fun.
- [Host] King Jesse is in the house.
So is King Richard the Fast.
And a man named Kyle.
So put the dog out,
[dog barks]
tighten your mud nuts and buckle up,
because a king sized Monster Garage
is just around the bend.
- Y'all good to work now man? - Yeah.
- Okay, break time's over.
- [Host] Join us now as Jesse
and his g*ng of Maverick Mechanics
rip, grind, and burn,
transforming a not so ordinary race car
into a monster machine [engine revving]
in the Monster Garage.
[rock music begins]
♪ Monster
♪ Monster Garage
♪ Monster
♪ Monster Garage
♪ Monster
♪ Monster Garage
♪ Monster
♪ Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster Garage
- [Host] This week's challenge.
Take a high performance, thoroughbred Winston Cup race car
and transform it into a street sweeper.
[engine roaring]
The rules,
when built,
the Monster Machine must appear to be stuck.
The team can spend no more than three Gs.
Jesse and his crew
have seven days and nights
to design, build, and race the car.
If successful,
each team member receives a Mac Tools kit
worth 3,400 bucks.
[trumpets blaring] After this competition,
the monster will be auctioned off
with all proceeds go into the Victory Junction g*ng,
a camp that Kyle Petty founded
for children with chronic diseases.
[clock ringing]
And the clock starts now.
[glass crashing]
Day one,
the race is on.
The motor is still hot,
the smell of exhaust is in the air.
Jesse's design team gathers
to turn this stock race car
into a super speed street sweeper.
Jesse James,
the direct descendant to the legendary outlaw,
has made his name building custom choppers
that make the ground thunder.
But this week,
he travels to North Carolina,
the home of stock car racing.
The Monster Team has been invited
to the garages of the most famous racing family
of the modern day stock car circuit,
the Petty clan.
- People always say,
what's it like to have Rich Petty for a father?
I don't know, only father I ever had.
I just thought he was normal.
I tell people all the time,
I was nine years old before I realized everybody's family
didn't have race cars.
I thought that's what everybody did for a living,
they just had race cars.
- So here's the challenge,
make a NASCAR into a street sweeper.
- That thing looks really slow.
- [Jesse] Yeah. [laughs]
I wanna keep it so the car still goes fast.
I don't wanna modify anything that's really gonna
make it go slow.
- [Bobby] Well, sweepers actually do run
between one to five miles an hour.
With this particular one you looking at,
is a high speed performance sweeper we use on runways,
and it's 15 mile an hour sweeper,
which is considered a rocket ship for us, so.
- I work for Timco International
and we build street sweepers.
Been there for 14 years as a design engineer.
I've always loved racing.
I've got a drag car that we race right now.
It's a 96 Corvette,
runs 850s at 161 miles an hour.
It's like a gene. It's gotta be something built into you.
It could be a real gear head.
We can make anything outta anything,
if you want to bad enough.
We've gotta have four main things that I know of
to make a sweeper.
That being the gutter broom,
pickup head,
the blower,
and the debris hopper.
- So there's only really,
two elements to it,
is sweeping the stuff towards the center
and vacuuming it up basically.
- [Bobby] Yeah.
- [Host] Sounds easy enough, but-
- Uh, we don't have a lot of room.
The cars are designed
pretty much to have just what it needs to go fast.
- Course to 85,
and I'm an engineer here,
worked at NASCAR for a number of years.
For me, it's one of the greatest things,
of being an engineer,
is seeing a project from initial drawings and ideas,
whether it's on a napkin or a piece of paper
with a professional artist,
clean through to the engine,
it's nice and tested.
Since my college days.
I've been building race cars and working on race cars.
I love racing.
I love race cars.
Yeah, racing's very addictive,
because no matter how fast you're running,
you always want to run faster.
And you always want to beat the other guy.
The whole purpose of racing
is to get to the finish line first.
If you're not first,
I want to know.
It means that somebody else was better at what we do
than what we are.
If you wanna put all of this stuff on a race car.
It's gonna be real heavy.
- [Bobby] The only two places I can see we can use
would be in the rear part of the car,
and in the front part of the car.
And the only way we're gonna be able to use
the rear part of the car
is to relocate the fuel cell.
- This isn't gonna be easy, you know.
It sounds cool and everything,
but you know.
- [Bobby] Yeah, it's gonna be difficult.
- I think it's gonna be a trick squeezing,
shoehorning everything in there.
- [Host] The challenge is clear.
A street sweeper
is one of the world's most sluggish vehicles.
On the other hand,
a Winston Cup race car
is built for one purpose,
speed.
How to effectively put the brushes
in the front of the stock car,
the blower on the passenger side,
and the pickup head in the rear,
is a race car dilemma.
- [Jesse] So we got a half fast idea
about the sucking part.
Now it's just the gutter brushes.
I'm only,
I'm worried about the retraction of those.
- Ideally you want to bring 'em to swing, you know,
when it's out you want to retract,
and then lift up,
back into position.
It kind of works like your arm does.
- You wanna put a thousand pounds in this thing
and go 200 miles an hour, it's-
- So you're saying maybe this isn't a good idea?
- Any of this stuff that you put on there,
if it touches the ground,
you're gonna crash the car.
- This is what'd definitely be
a vehicle that a lot of people will be talking about.
- [Host] Albert Yu,
designed over 30 cars for Ford.
Now he has to learn the first rule of designing a monster.
Forget everything he's learned.
- As a designer,
I always thinking about
making a design appears better.
But this is adding,
these stuff on it,
it definitely doesn't make it look any better.
- I think we need to keep, like,
a race car mentality with this,
and streamline our whole system.
Pickup head, brushes,
everything need to be made for a race car street sweeper.
- Well, a normal street sweeper way is like this, Jesse.
Stripped down,
- [Jesse] And we're talking about
that car right there, about 3,500.
Fit all of that stuff inside the car,
the aerodynamics are so important.
None of this can stick out at a car,
when you're going 150 miles an hour.
- [Host] Jesse leads the design team over
to inspect the underbelly
of the meticulously engineered beast.
- Looking at the car, you can see we've got,
we don't have as much space as you think we do,
and everything on top,
everything's gotta stay above these frame routes.
- [Jon] So we need to make sure that we keep things
away from the tires cause at 160 miles an hour,
these tires will curl in around the corner.
- It's pretty bitching and nice under here.
You know, usually some of the cars we hack up are just,
who cares?
But this is cool.
- [Host] Day two, 7:00 AM.
Jesse and the builders arrive
for their first day of stock car indoctrination.
Jim Reeves from Calvert, Texas,
overhauls jet engines for a living.
Dave Jones is a custom fabricator from the Bayou,
Walker, Louisiana.
From Sacramento, California,
Laura Parker is Miss Welding Extraordinaire.
And two members stay on from the design team.
The first is our sweeper expert,
Bobby Brock from Waco, Texas.
And Jon Babek,
our engineering specialist from Petty Enterprises,
hails from the north, New Jersey.
Jesse unveils Kyle Petty's Winston Cup car.
- So, what do you think guys? - Cool.
- [Host] The team seems apprehensive.
- Fast. - Yep.
- I think we're gonna make
the world's fastest street sweeper.
This isn't going to be easy.
- Yeah, it's gonna be of utmost importance
that we make sure
that it's still fast but safe at the same time.
- Yeah.
- And picks up trash.
- And picks up trash. - Yeah.
- Gutter brooms.
- [Bobby] Absolutely.
- Yeah, that's a cool name.
Let's get started.
- Okay, I brought the parts.
Jesse, we got pick up heads, gutter brooms.
- [Host] Bobby shows the team
a car load of must have sweeper parts purchased from Timco.
These parts must somehow miraculously fit into the race car.
- [Jesse] You are gonna have to take
a long look at all the stuff
and figure out what we can use what we can't use.
- [Jim] I'm out. Got some seal here for us.
- [Host] It takes two to carry the blower,
and even more to pick up the pickup head.
- [Jesse] Yeah, that'd be quick.
[Jim laughs]
- [Jim] What's going on?
- [Jon] I can't believe
you're gonna put this under my race car.
There's nothing on it that doesn't make it go fast.
Everything's balanced and set up right where it needs to be.
So, putting all these pumps and blowers,
and gutter brushes,
that was never planned.
- [Host] When assembled,
the parts of the sweeper form what's called
a closed loop air system.
A blower forces air through a pickup head,
enabling it to suck up trash and dump it in the hopper.
- This is the first car
I'm gonna have a little respect for.
[Jim laughs] That we've done.
Usually, I just pull out a plasma or a torch,
and start relentlessly cutting away everything I don't like.
- Everything under here
is gonna have to stay pretty much the same
for the street sweeper concept.
Cause this is all absolutely mandatory
for getting around a racetrack.
- [Jesse] We're gonna start pulling all this stuff apart.
Try to make some room.
- [Bobby] Oh that's great.
- [Host] First, it's the deck lid.
Then the rear window.
- [Laura] Yeah, pull up the,
there you go.
- [Host] Off with the fuel filler tube.
And then the 26 gallon fuel cell fuel.
It's on to the front end with the hood and the windshield.
- [Jesse] We're gonna try to be a little bit methodical
about taking it apart so we,
we're not ruining anything structural on the car.
- [Host] For now, the Petty people are content
to stand back and watch one of their own get monsterized.
- [Dave] Apart comes the car.
- [Jon] All right, up and ready to go.
- Petty Engineer, Jon Babek feels every cut.
- It always makes me sad to cut up a good race car.
[drill whirring]
- [Host] Jim and Laura team up on the front of the car,
cutting away the fenders
to make way for some stock sweeper parts, gutter brooms.
[saw whizzing]
- [Jon] Typically, the only time
that we're cutting something out of a race car,
is 'cause it's been wrecked.
And we're gonna cut it off and throw it away.
- [Host] Jesse cuts out the fuel tank protector,
and its cradle.
[energizing music intensifies]
- [Jon] Anything that we cut off,
we're cutting off some kind of a purpose for the race car.
We need to put that back in somewhere else.
So we're being very, very selective
on what we're cutting out.
And what we are cutting out,
we're making sure that something else
is taking care of the function of what we cut off.
Now it's just a matter of making it all fit.
- [Host] The blower is too big and too heavy.
Too bad.
They needed to make their monster suck.
- [Jon] In there.
Don't forget, we can weld it back up.
- [Host] And it looks like an impossible task,
until Jon Babek decides to do some editing.
- Oh boy.
I basically,
I say let's cut.
- [Host] LA Dave trims the fat off the weld.
The owner of the car,
third generation NASCAR Race Driver,
Kyle Petty drops by to assess the damage.
- [Kyle] Babek, what are you doing man?
- Hey, KP! Cutting your car apart.
- We are taking a hundred thousand dollars race car
and we're gonna chop this thing up.
Ooh, that was a good race car too.
- [Jon] I had to get rid of all of that stuff,
so there's enough room?
- This car right right here
probably has two or three races on it.
It's pretty, it's a pretty new race car.
I'm anxious to see how it drives. [laughs]
- [Jim] See how it works.
- We've just not enough room to get everything in the car.
as well as once it's in the car,
we won't have enough room to assemble it.
As an alternative,
we're just gonna cut the side of the car off.
And when we're done,
we're gonna have to weld it all back up.
We're gonna destroy the side of the car to do that.
If we do it carefully,
we'll be able to put it all back in
and you won't be able to tell if we did anything.
- Yeah, if y'all cut those bars out, you'll be okay.
When you come in and you look at it,
and you cut out the trunk,
or you cut out the deck lid apart,
or you move the fuel cell around,
and you say, okay, that's good.
Go for it. That fits, that works perfect.
But,
what happens if I get into a wall at 150 miles an hour?
What does that do?
So you have to look ahead and you have to plan ahead.
- [Host] Monster Garage factoid,
street sweepers pick up 50 million pounds of trash
from US Streets every day.
♪ Monster
♪ Monster Garage
- [Host] Day three begins
with a little Petty racing history.
- You see the middle part,
where the A-frame roof is?
Okay, where the A-frame roof is,
that was the original race shop.
Every time they needed more room,
they just built enough room for another car.
And then when they needed more room,
they built enough room for another car.
So that part of the shop right there,
was built in 1948.
- [Host] Kyle takes the team on a whirlwind tour
of Petty Enterprises.
- So everything's got list,
just like regular old names,
like Gear and Transmission room,
Tire room,
that's what it is.
We'll spend just about $3 million on tires this year.
They're only made to be put on a car,
run about 60 laps,
sometimes which,
and then they're no good anymore.
- [Host] It's back to work.
The dirty business of making a race car clean up its act.
- [Jon] Trying to get a visual
of where to put the gutter broom
so that it's not only hidden when it's retracted,
and not into the tire,
but also when it comes out and it's,
it's open that it's,
out in front of the tire and out across the side of the car
to sweep everything underneath the car.
Without these gutter brooms,
it would just be a vacuum cleaner.
- Ready? - [Jon] Yeah.
- Jesse and LA Dave eyeball a heavy pickup head
against the car's rear end.
- [Dave] I don't think
we're gonna be able to drive like this.
- [Host] Loading a race car
with an extra 500 pounds of equipment,
and making it go 160 miles per hour look good on paper,
but someone has to drive it.
- [Jesse] Make it to another lawn mower.
I wonder if at any point in Monsters Garage
if I'm ever gonna say,
"Hmm, maybe this ain't such a good idea."
- [Host] Is someone having second thoughts?
- So this might not be a good idea?
The thing that sucks about it,
Kyle's my friend and it was my idea. [laughs]
- [Host] When that someone is Jesse James,
self-doubt is sent packing by self-confidence.
- We're gonna make a four link setup so it,
this whole thing sits flush against this rear frame.
- [Host] In order to make the pickup head
disappear into the body of the car,
Jesse has chosen a four link lifting mechanism.
Jesse's four link setup will use four actuators
to lift the pickup head into the back of the car.
- I gotta shorten a little bit more and sand this.
- [Host] Jesse goes to the sweeper expert
to get his expert opinion.
- [Jesse] Hey Bobby, what do you think?
I'm gonna put a crossbar here and do the four link setup
so it sits here and swivels down.
- Well, we just normally stick with just two links,
you know, like these little drag links.
You know what I'm talking about?
It's just, just two simple links that's all.
- [Jesse] All right.
- [Jesse] Just less moving parts.
- [Host] There's a disagreement
between the team leader and the sweeper expert.
For Bobby, Jesse's four link system is overkill.
He thinks just two links will be enough
to lift the sweeper head.
- Where you gonna,
where you gonna try to put them at?
- [Bobby] You get complicated with our stuff
and it winds up failing.
What Jesse is building,
a four bar linkage for the pickup head was complicated.
Simple is always the best way.
- [Jesse] If he wants to do it himself, let him.
I'll go home.
- [Host] Jesse has trust in his teammates
but when the rubber hits the road-
- They don't have to do 150 in it.
[smirks] You know,
if I hit the wall,
because something they screwed up, you know,
they're not gonna feel the pain until I catch 'em.
- [Host] For now, Jesse's giving Bobby a lot of rope.
Just enough to hang himself.
[clock chimes] High noon, day three.
The time to build is already half gone,
and the NASCAR sweeper
is turning out to be a monster load of work.
- Everything we've been doing right now,
we're so overwhelmed with how much work we have to do.
Everybody's kind of working in their own little area.
- [Host] LA Dave shortens the pickup head
so it'll hang by two links under the backside of the car.
- It's a well-built car,
it's a shame they're letting us do this to it.
I've always been raised up around cars.
Pretty much anything with wheels.
I own a fab shop.
We build custom cars.
We'll fix things that other people tried to do
that didn't work out.
Pretty neat to be here,
and a Petty garage is just really,
I mean I know people that would sell their children
to be here right now.
Yeah. [laughs]
It's just where I'm from, this is a big deal.
- [Host] Laura and Jim continue their work
on the front end of the race car.
- [Jim] You wanna try this right here?
- [Laura] Yeah.
- We think we're on,
on the most important part,
cause we're hanging in front of the wheels.
My background to bring me to Monster Garage,
is in fabrication,
welding, machining, tool making.
I like to feel like
I've tried a lot of different things in life.
This is my MC modified car
that we built and that my son drives.
If it drinks gasoline, uses oil,
makes a lot of noise,
I want to be a part of it.
This build,
build to live.
- [Host] Jim and Laura begin the complicated process
of installing the main stabilizing arm
of the gutter brooms.
- [Jim] Good job. - Hit!
- [Host] With the main arm correctly positioned,
the next step is to install an actuator under the car,
so it can retract the brush on command.
- We have to dream up a mounting system
because right here is the,
it is just the radiator. It's all aluminum.
So we can't really tie into that.
I teach art at the junior college level,
but I also teach at the Welding Department.
I teach metal fabrication in ornamental iron.
So literally I do live in two worlds.
I saw a 47 dodge and fell in love with the shape of it.
You can see I've got a lot of work in under me,
so I need to get on Monster Garage
so I can win that tool kit,
and have the tools to finish this part.
When the helmet comes down,
and it's the smell of that smoke,
that permeates all your clothes, that's,
that's hard to describe it.
That's the best part.
Because that's when you get in the zone,
and you see that molten pull and it's all good.
I don't know if I have any rocks to get off,
but if I did,
they would be off with this vehicle.
This is great.
- [Host] A few more of Laura's perfect welds
and the first gutter broom goes on.
- [Laura] Here we go.
Overhead drilling.
Oh yeah!
- If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.
- [Host] The gutter brooms are hanging in place.
They move in and out.
They need to put some new fenders back on,
but they have no idea how hard that's going to be.
Day three throttles down.
The team gets a little taste of southern cooking.
Today's special,
burnt rubber.
[engine revving]
[rock music plays]
- You think Richard would be pissed
if he came by and saw this?
[people laughing]
- [Host] Early morning. Day four.
The car is still a work in progress.
The front end has some brushes and that's about it.
The blower assembly is still big and uninstalled.
The back end is just an empty trunk.
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
Bobby and Jon need an engine to power the sweeper.
- [Bobby] What we're actually doing is,
taking one of Kyle Petty's race cars,
and converting it to a street sweeper,
for Monster Cars.
- A street sweeper?
- [Bobby] Yes sir.
- Oh my god. [laughs]
- [Host] This 24 horsepower motor
will be the air pumping heart of their monster sweeper.
- This is really a key piece to making everything work.
- [Host] In this case, key means pricey.
- [Jesse] Anybody know where Bob went?
I can't find him.
- [Host] Jesse doesn't need a plasma torch
to do some serious cutting.
This week's victim, Bobby.
- What about you? You gonna be all right?
Working without Bob?
- Yeah. You're good.
- He's a hand talker.
This is the rear deck.
What are you doing some karate there?
Don't kid yourself.
He's holding it close to his chest.
Gutter brooms are closely guarded secrets.
[Laura laughs]
No gutter will be broomed until Bobby says so.
- [Host] Jon shows off his considerable garage skills,
whipping together a slick support track
for the blower and motor.
- It's gonna be the frame for the,
the engine and blower assembly.
[electronic music plays]
- [Bobby] All right!
This good?
That'll be our belt adjustment.
- [Jon] We're not playing around here.
- [Bobby] Beautiful. We're looking great.
- The heart and soul of the vacuum assembly.
Without this, we have no suck.
Something like this is a first shot.
This is the first one we're building.
It's not something you can just draw out
and then build exactly to the drawing.
Every minute you work on this, you learn more.
- [Bobby] [yelping] I gotta turn a jam or something.
- [Host] It's time to find out if the 95 pound motor
and the bloated blower,
will fit inside A NASCAR racer.
- Yep. So we don't hurt the motor.
- [Jon] It fits!
- [Bobby] It's fitting beautiful.
- [Jon] Woo-hoo!
Just by luck to draw, the damn thing fits.
I'd like to say it was talent,
but I think it was more blind luck.
- [Host] Jesse has a knack for monsterizing
custom exhaust pipes.
The Petty crew gives Jesse what they call,
the "North Carolina Weld Test".
- You like the North Carolina welding test? [laughs]
- I didn't jump.
- [Host] He's now one of the g*ng.
[tool smashes]
- To the bottom edge is left.
That ain't too far off.
- As you can see, Jesse's finished his exhaust.
- [Host] The blower and motor are in place.
John installs a power steering pump
to put the spin on the gutter brooms.
- How does the alignment look up there?
- [Host] The team is falling behind schedule.
They need help.
Luckily, they don't have to go far to find it.
- [Jon] You'll have to weld that up.
- My husband came along just to view this show and,
since it is day four,
and we could use an extra hand,
we told him to get off his dump and come in and help.
- Men are always complaining
that women drag him around to the,
the stores, to the malls, to the,
the outlets.
And we're no different,
except that Laura drags me to the welding store.
- [Host] It's crowded but it fits.
The sweeper's got a heart.
- That my friends, is some sexy packaging.
- [Host] Sexy packaging is nice, but will it run?
- We're going try to run the motor here.
- [Bobby] Let's cross some fingers, huh?
[engine ringing]
- [Jesse] Did we put fuel in it?
[engine roaring]
- [Bobby] Oh yeah!
Oh yeah. It's going. It's gonna do just fine.
- [Host] With the engine and blower in working condition,
the team gets a hands-on look
at life in the NASCAR fast lane,
and how a good pit crew operates.
- The car gets in and it clears you.
You gonna run?
- [Host] Kyle's A team makes it look easy.
[tools buzzing]
- 1330.
- [Host] The Monster Crew don't look.
[country music plays]
- One minute, one second.
That's very, very, very, very slow.
- [Host] Monster Garage factoid.
NASCAR tires are filled with nitrogen gas
in order to keep tire pressure stable
at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour.
♪ Monster
♪ Monster Garage
- [Host] Day Five. The wee hours.
And the team is falling behind.
- [Jon] It's a lot of work.
In 50 years, Petty Enterprises has not missed a race
because the car wasn't finished.
I would pretend like today's the last day.
We may run out of time.
- [Host] The team's to-do list
goes from the front to the back
and it looks like there's an early morning problem.
The pickup head is not raising properly.
The team's plan is askew.
- Actually pick up like this.
It's not, it's actually picking up crooked.
- Bobby, we gotta have both sides working here.
- [Host] Bobby's two links set up
is tested and fails miserably.
One of the actuators burnt out
trying to lift the heavy pickup head.
It's just too much for two links.
- We got an eight inch lift.
We only have four inches of actuators.
At 150 miles an hour, a quarter inch bolt,
if it catches like an edge or a bump and hits those,
it's gonna snap the brackets for the actuators right off.
And then, plus having a two link set up.
Bob's idea.
- [Dave] A bad idea. This piece sucks.
Okay, this is supposed to suck.
This is not.
- What do I know?
I just build one of these every week.
- [Host] Somebody has underestimated
the weight of the pickup head when ordering the actuators.
Jesse's had enough.
He takes control of the situation.
- That weight sucks.
- [Host] And orders two 12 inch actuators
capable of lifting 300 pounds a piece.
- Let's call and see if we can get 'em.
- [Host] In the middle of day five,
with the team trying to focus on work,
the biggest distraction of all appears.
- What have y'all done to our race car? [giggles]
- [Host] The greatest NASCAR racer in history
and the man behind this empire,
Richard Petty, The King,
drops by for a visit.
- [Richard] All right.
Wow.
Does that suck it up? What does that do?
- It's blowing.
The dirt from one side and sucking it from the other.
- So what do you think of that?
[Richard laughs]
- Are we ruining it?
- That was a nice race car when y'all started. [laughs]
- [Jesse] You think you'd like to give it a spin?
- Not me, man.
I'm gonna stand back and watch on it.
Maybe at the top row of the grandstand when,
in case something flies loose, you know.
- [Jim] The King walking in the building,
it was just like everybody stopped working.
I mean it was just total silence.
- He's a person just like me and you.
But by the same token, when you're talking to him,
it makes you feel like you're an absolute giant.
- Hi. Lauren. - Hey, how you doing?
- Nice to meet you.
- So you're the official welder.
- I'm the official girl welder.
- Well it looks like it's gonna fall off.
Not that you hear anything, okay?
[Laura laughs]
- It's one thing to talk about knowing who he is,
but to actually have him standing here,
talking about the car that we're tearing apart.
- Wow.
That's a whole new world out there now.
Of course you can see it's a whole new world.
When you take a race car and make a sweeper out of it.
Y'all go back to work now, man.
Break time's over.
- Yell at 'em! Get 'em going.
- See y'all.
- [Host] The King has left the building.
It's back to the gutter brooms.
Before fabricating the front fenders,
the car is lowered to test for ground clearance.
- [Bobby] We actually have broom clearance.
How about them, Apple?
- [Host] An additional three inch platform
is added to simulate track surface.
Jim and Laura now mock up a front end work configuration.
- And then retract up.
- [Host] A steady stream of Petty crew members
watch intently,
anxiously awaiting the finished creation.
- [Jon] Turner?
- When you do this stuff every day,
you can't just sit over there and watch 'em tear it apart
and not do it the right way.
So you sort of have to jump in and help.
- [Host] Joining in from Petty Enterprises,
is Scott Spelman and Corey Sane,
custom stock car fabricators.
Troy Martin has an eye for the future
as the head of research and development for Petty.
Scott takes it upon himself
to fabricate a customized fender for the sweeper,
which is aerodynamically designed
to push the hybrid car down at high speeds on the track.
In racing terms, it's known as downforce.
- [Scott] I'm stretching the metal to create a flare.
And just shrink it very lightly,
to get the edge nice and true,
and straight.
One squeeze too much
and you can lose the whole shape that you're looking for.
My job here is from the center of the door forward,
I build on every single car.
Every single Winston Cup car is handmade.
- Scott's the Michelangelo of metal.
They just did an incredible amount of work.
- [Host] Scott's Fender is a drag.
When extended, it would hit the track and rip apart.
- [Scott] They don't have problems.
- [Host] It's back to the drawing board.
- I'm concerned.
- [Scott] This is the key thing right here.
Cause in order for this car to drive,
these wheels have to roll and to have to steer.
And all this stuff is mounted in front of these tires.
This cannot fail.
This fails in the whole, then nothing,
nothing else matters.
What I do is research and development,
and we will take a car,
and build it and go to the wind tunnel,
cut it, change it.
Try to make it the best we can.
Once we've come up with what we like,
then we put it into production.
- [Host] With Scott taking over the lead at the front,
Bobby is quick to stir up a little controversy
about whether this is a race car or a street sweeper first.
- Can't make it a hundred percent race car.
It's no way.
You're making race cars, it's not a hundred percent sweeper.
It's gotta be compromised on both sides to make it work.
- [Jesse] Race car, first street sweeper second.
- [Bobby] Ah, that's the way I see it.
- [Host] The closer Scott gets
to solving the front end dilemma,
the more creative he becomes.
- [Scott] You build them race cars every day,
you're sort of stuck on them.
The same thing, day in and day out.
Sometimes, it can be very monotonous, the NASCAR thing,
because of some of the tolerances we're dealing with.
- [Host] Scott welds the right front skewer.
As a precautionary measure,
he adds a roller bearing ramp,
to keep the new fender from digging into the track surface.
- I think we need to completely duplicate all of that work,
into the right front corner.
- [Host] The clock counts down,
and the car is still a long way
from race car or street sweeper.
Bobby's got the back.
His hopper platform easily settles into the trunk.
- [Bobby] This just takes off.
- [Host] And he embarks on crafting the piece
where the garbage sleeps.
- [Bobby] So,
that's roughly what a hopper's gonna look like.
[flame crackles]
- We now have a hopper.
- [Host] After five tense days,
push has finally turned to shove.
It's a battle between two know-it-all.
One knows everything,
the other, everything else.
- The hopper is not under pressure.
It's under vacuum, man.
It's sucking back there.
It's not blowing.
- It is sucking,
because the only thing that got done yesterday
was two bunks got welded in.
- Where?
- And we gotta be done tomorrow.
- Hey, we're going get it.
We're gonna get it.
But we gotta,
you gotta understand how a sweeper works man.
If you don't understand that, we're in trouble.
We're in deep.
Do man, you gonna have to work on it.
Oh well, he'll figure it out. We'll get him.
We'll get him lined out
on the ginger bear concept very soon.
You are the one with no clue, buddy.
Thinking our hopper is pressurized.
That's not even close.
It's under vacuum, dude.
- I'm quite aware.
- All under vacuum.
- I'm quite aware that it's under vacuum.
[Bobby laughs]
- But our,
our race car bodies are not designed
to operate under vacuum.
There's just enough sheet metal there
to keep the aerodynamic forces out.
There's not enough to add more on these.
- [Bobby] Oh, we can take care of that.
I know how to make the sheet metal work with vacuum.
That's what, that's my world.
- Don't tell me about it. Let's just do it.
- I was building sweepers
before John even knew what a sweeper was.
- He's a little bit of a c*ck son of a b*tch.
- Sweeper part's gonna work.
Let's see if the race car part's gonna work.
- [Jon] He's just isn't his element.
This is a little bit of a different animal.
I see this more as a race car first.
- [Host] Kyle breaks the tension
as he checks the progress of his race car.
- It's beginning to take shape.
- [Jesse] It's taking shape.
All right, how fast did I figure
you'd come in here and ask what the hell we're doing.
[Kyle laughs]
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
I didn't envision this.
Yeah, maybe like putting a man on the moon
for the first time.
I'm not sure what it's gonna be like.
I, I don't have a clue.
- Do you think I'm gonna be scared?
- No.
- [Host] As they get closer to finishing the car,
Kyle briefs Jesse on driving it.
- When you drive a race car,
for me, you're in your own little world.
It's your world.
On a highway, you have to drive defensively.
On the racetrack, you drive offensively.
It feels like God's up above you,
and he's just pushing down on your car,
and driving it exactly where you wants it to go.
And that's how simple it is.
Good deal man.
- [Jesse] Thanks for coming.
Appreciate you letting us come here and do this.
- No, thank you guys for coming, man.
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- [Big Schwag] Don't move a muscle,
cause it's a great day for Monster Racing.
And Jesse James is taking out the trash.
Y'all come back now, you hear?
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- [Host] Day six.
And the car is just a non-functioning hybrid,
as the team waits for crucial parts to arrive
- The pickup head,
if it comes off,
it could turn this car into a spin real quick.
Don't you agree, Jon?
- [Jon] Yeah. Pickup is a big unknown right now.
We can tether it,
so we'll make sure that it's safe,
that it won't hurt anybody.
- [Host] Overnight delivery became a second day nightmare.
But the new and more powerful linear actuators
have arrived with no time to spare.
The top of the actuator usually fits onto their trunk valve,
but a bottom bracket needs to be welded
onto the pickup head.
[electronic music plays]
- The actuator's in place.
But we haven't had a successful test of 'em yet.
We're wiring them up so we have some power.
- [Scott] Okay, Jon, let's move this thing up.
Oh yeah, look at that.
Look how nice and straight that moves up to.
Come on up. Come on up. Come on up.
Come on up.
That's it. Come on up.
Beautiful.
- Nice job. Nice job.
- [Scott] That baby is rock solid.
- Oh yeah.
- [Host] It's finally starting to turn for team NASCAR.
The roll bars are secured.
And the sweeper tubing is connected
from the blower to the pickup head.
- [Jon] That looks good.
We're in crunch time right now.
Wiring up the Honda motor.
We ran wires for the actuators.
Left front is buttoned up.
We just need to run hydraulic fluid
and finish buttoning up the electronics for it.
- [Host] Hydraulic fluid will flow through the pump
to power the brushes.
With less than eight hours left to go,
Jon has taken the wheel of command.
And Bobby is a backseat sulker.
- I've done my part. They won't listen to me. So.
- [Jon] No, Bobby's not doing much at all.
What can you do?
I'm not gonna twist his arm.
I twist his arm, he's not gonna do good work.
- Jon's gonna learn some farm boy engineering today.
That's what he just needs to learn.
- Well I got another pump that's tire [indistinct].
It's 50.
- He talks about building race cars for a living,
while I work hydraulics for a living.
And I can tell you,
but looking at it, we just ignorant of the farm boy way.
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- [Host] The Petty crew knows more
than one way around a race car.
Scott duplicates the front fender on the left side.
- [Jon] Yes!
- [Host] And Corey cuts out a new rear window.
- You guys ready? Let's do that again.
- [Scott] Yeah, let's go for it.
- [Host] Jon fires up the engine
to test the hydraulics for the front brushes.
And gets hit with a caution flag.
Slow speed ahead.
- We have a little problem.
The gutter brooms are turning,
but they're turning very slowly.
We think it's a flow issue.
- [Jon] The pump itself is not making enough pressure
or moving enough flow,
the power of the motors that we have.
- I've done what I can. He won't listen.
We have to have a higher volume pump. We don't have it, so.
- I'm a little agitated right now.
Put him on there, and gave me all the specs.
I gave him all the specs on our pumps,
and he said everything would work.
Now, he hasn't been involved for the last two days.
And now it doesn't work.
- These torque motors aren't gonna flow.
There's so many cubic engines in the motor.
All right?
And if you want it to go faster,
you gotta get that many more cubic inches
to go through that motor in,
in the time that you wanna run it in.
It's all in the flow.
- It's not flow, it's pressure.
Or those motors are worn out and they're leaking too much.
We got six and a half hours.
- Well, I can't do it in six and a half hours.
- Okay, then we're gonna have to try.
We're gonna have to try my way then.
- [Bobby] Go for it.
Fine. You go for it.
- [Host] It looks like our dueling experts
need a little Monster Science.
Pressure times flow over times squared,
equals ego.
- This is a delay. Yeah.
Yeah. It's a pretty big delay.
- [Host] Surprisingly, it turns out both were wrong.
The c*ck farm boy and the overegoed engineer
installed the hydraulic pump wrong.
They reversed the hoses. Error corrected.
The brushes spin.
It's time to put their monster to the test.
- The challenge is to suck up the cans of dirt
that's on the ground.
- [Host] Will their Monster Race car sweeper truly suck?
Or will it just not work?
Laura feed some garbage to the pickup head
to see if the regenerative air system is making it hungry.
- [Scott] All right, let's see if we've got some cans.
There's the number one can.
Can number two. It works.
- Alright, Dave.
- [Host] After five tense days,
with all the street sweeping components
installed in the car,
the checkered flag is in sight.
- [Jon] I think we're ready to roll.
With 12 minutes to go,
the team rolls the car out to the Petty parking lot,
to test it on the asphalt.
- Okay. Whoa. Slow down.
[crowd cheering]
[Jon screaming]
- [Host] Success.
With four minutes and 40 seconds to spare.
The build crew can head home for some well-deserved rest.
But as their work comes to a close,
paint g*n slinger Tom Pruitt's work has just begun.
- We're gonna lay some white primer sealer down.
Base coat it with some cinder red.
I put a little bit of ice red pearl down.
For the average car like this, you put about a teaspoon.
But for this car, it needs a jazzy,
I'm gonna use the whole thing.
We're gonna give it a pinch of the red metal flake here.
We're gonna quick cure it,
and then we're gonna lay out a flame job.
Base coat the rest of the car black.
This thing should be the brightest car on the track.
[people cheering]
- [Host] Monster Garage Factoid.
The only parts on a NASCAR stock car
that are actually stuck are the roof,
the front hood, and the deck lid.
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- [Big Schwag] Hello Monster fans!
The Big Schwag here,
along with my crew chief, Frankie Whiteside.
Where the hell are we Frankie?
- [Frankie] This is the pits, pal.
- [Big Schwag] What do you mean?
It's a great day for another Monster Garage Challenge.
- [Frankie] No, you big lug nut.
This is the pits.
Pit row at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Well, what's up with the number 45, Schwag?
- [Big Schwag] That 45 is not just a number.
It's a name!
Petty. As in Kyle.
- [Frankie] You gotta be kidding me.
You mean Kyle's gonna be driving this thing?
- [Big Schwag] Heck no, Taylor head.
He's leaving it to the dude putting on the fire suit,
his good old buddy,
Jesse James!
Gutter buster knows faster.
It'll turn 9,200 RPM,
make 750 horsepower,
and hit 200 down the strike.
- [Frankie] Jesse's going up against a real McCoy.
Tim Ko's flagship model 435 street sweeper.
[crowd cheering]
- [Big Schwag] And look at the crowd!
They're going ape sh*t steady.
Everybody loves Jesse.
- [Woman] Go Jesse!
- [Announcer] Give us the rules, Little Frankie.
- [Frankie] You got it, Schwag Man.
Both sweepers have to pick up two miles of crushed cans.
But here's the catch.
Jesse has to do two laps in gutter brooms.
The sweeper,
just one.
- [Announcer] Crew Chief Jon Babek
gives Jesse the good word.
He's good to go.
- Eat her up. Eat her!
[engine revving]
- [Frankie] Looks like they're set.
Jimmy Howell from NASCAR has the green flag in his hand.
Gentlemen, start your brushes!
[rock music begins]
[brushes scratching]
- [Announcer] And they're off!
To a hell of a pretty slow start there, Frankie.
What's going on?
- [Frankie] They gotta clean up
before they get to go out and play.
- [Big Schwag] Jesse drops the pickup head.
- [Frankie] And sucks it up like a pro.
- [Big Schwag] The street sweeper suckered him, Frank!
He's got an early lead.
[engine whirring]
- [Frankie] Jesse's dropped a hammer.
- [Big Schwag] Hell! He's dropped a whole damn toolbox.
Do the words, 'bad hand' ring a bell?
[rock music plays]
♪ You are the main attraction
♪ You've got all that hair
- [Big Schwag] The street sweeper sucks it up.
Jesse's done with lap one.
A quick pick me up and he's back up to speed.
- [Frankie] He is gotta be up to 160, Schwag.
♪ You are the queen bee
♪ Or was it I
♪ Oh oh oh
- [Frankie] Jogging down toward the checkered flag,
who's it gonna be,
is the best street sweeper?
Well, it's gonna be Jesse James
in the Monster Garage Winston Cup Series car.
Jesse James takes the checkered flag.
[crowd cheering]
Looks like Jesse James has swept up the competition.
Gutter busters clean the sweepers clock.
- [Big Schwag] Did you expect anything less, folks?
But there's no time for dirt bags,
trash talk, or anything that sucks.
Jesse's got metal to burn and sparks the fly,
because the next Monster's Garage Challenge
is just around the bend!
- Alright, congratulations guys.
You did it.
[team cheering]
We've got some Mac tool kits for you guys.
Some Monster Garage CDs because you guys rock.
Yeah!
[hands clapping]
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02x08 - Street Sweeper
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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."