03x12 - Street-Line Painter

[bunniefuu]

- [Narrator] Time to line up Monster fans.

[engine roaring]

Just try and walk the straightened arrow.

- Oops.

- [Narrator] Jesse's fighting man.

- Come up, come up, come up.

We're almost there?

- [Narrator] A Lady line painter takes a spin.

- Woo-hoo!

- [Narrator] But not everyone likes the camera.

- sh**t that camera and shove it where sun don't shine.

- [Narrator] Jesse's got a vested interest,

so stick around as "Monster Garage" hits the road, painting.

- [Jesse] Don't cross that line.

[dog growling]

- [Announcer] Join us now as Jesse

and his g*ng of maverick mechanics rip, grind, and burn,

transforming ordinary street vehicles

into monster machines in the "Monster Garage."

[brooding rock music] [thunder rumbling]

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster garage

- [Narrator] This week's challenge,

take a 1999 Champ Car and transform it

into the world's fastest street line painter.

The rules, the monster must appear to be stock.

They'll get 5,000 greenbacks to spend.

The crew have seven days and nights.

The first day, they design.

The next five, they build.

And on the seventh day, they race.

If successful, the team gets a $3,400 set of Mac Tools.

And the clock starts now.

[upbeat rock music]

Jesse James looks over his latest victim,

a 1999 Reynard Champ Car.

Like an Indy car or a Formula One racer,

a Champ Car is a single seat open wheel race car.

It's capable of speeds up to 240 miles per hour

and can go from zero to 60 in just over two seconds.

Of course, that was when it had an engine,

a transmission and brakes.

[upbeat rock music]

The design team entered the garage

to transform their Champ Car chassis

into a slick street striper.

- I'm gonna try to make

the world's fastest street line painter.

This is kinda gonna be a dual build.

One, we gotta make the car work and run.

And two, we've gotta make it paint lines really fast.

It's gonna kinda be a trick

to get engine and tr*nny and all that stuff.

I mean, you know, an engine and tr*nny package

would probably be a couple hundred grand or more.

- I could sell you some.

- Yeah? [laughter]

You know, instead of trying to piece stuff together

where it's like a real Champ Car

and stuff like that, we could just,

I mean "Monster Garage" it and make it work.

- We could build the back half of a top fuel car.

- [Narrator] The first man in Jesse's pit

is Paul Gentilozzi.

- I own a Champ Car team,

and I have a knowledge of hot riding

and racing that goes back to the late 60's.

- [Narrator] He may have already been there and done that,

but there's room for one more prize on this racer's medal.

- One more dream left

to win a Champ Car championship.

That would be a big deal for me.

With the front wheel chassis that goes this way,

a solid axle with a little short power glide,

automatic transmission

and then a small blocker, big block forward

that sits in these chassis rails.

It'll fit inside the body work, sort of.

- [Narrator] There's a plan for powering the vehicle,

but painting is another storage.

- Is there a target speed?

- 150. - [Clyde] 150?

- Yeah. - Yeah, he's driving.

- [Jesse] Yeah, what speed do you normally do?

- Normally, we stripe at five to seven miles an hour.

[experimental music]

- [Narrator] For asphalt artist Clyde Foss,

every road is a canvas.

- I guess you might say, I'm a graphic artist on the ground.

I started a 4S Company in 1972,

and here it is, 30 years later,

I'm doing a "Monster Garage" segment,

which is probably the culmination of my career

in line striping.

Marking those funny things on the ground

has been very, very, very rewarding.

- What's the fastest you've ever striped?

- The fast, like are we talking straight?

- Friday afternoon. - Friday afternoon-

- 445, you gotta get that one street done.

- Yeah, 445, maybe 20 miles an hour

and just close my eyes and go for it.

[Jesse laughing]

- We need to take it apart

and look at how much space we have and measure it.

- Yeah.

- To keep the wheel base the same.

I think- - And we got some flexibility.

- I think it'll be good too

if we're gonna put the paint sprayer

and stuff, probably across the back.

- If you got a plate, I can bolt it too.

Stainless steel pumps come with brackets

because they all bolt too, something.

It boggles my mind

because I don't know if anybody's ever striped it

at that speed.

I mean, it's just normally, we're aiming

for quality, not quantity, so.

- [Paul] It could use a week of planning.

- We have five days.

My friend made his own Indy car in his garage,

qualified at Indy.

- [Paul] Who was that?

- Lil' John.

- Oh, Buttera. - Yeah.

- I've known John a long time.

- You wanna call him?

- Yeah. When I met John,

he was- - I love that guy.

- He had his Bridgeport in his living room.

- Hey, you wanna be on TV again?

We're making the world's fastest street line painter.

I've been listening to you say like how much

of an Indy car guy you are for like the last 15 years,

but I ain't never seen it, so.

[Paul laughing]

- [Narrator] Lil' John Buttera is no stranger

to the garage.

He made his debut on the Doomed Buggy episode.

[upbeat rock music]

Let's hope this one turns out better.

Let's go look at this thing.

- [Narrator] Before signing off on the plan,

they head down for a hands-on look

at the carbon fiber monocoque.

- I think we could do it and not make the car

but a few inches longer.

Making it work is not the problem.

Time is the problem.

- Yeah. - Time's the enemy.

- I don't know.

My dad always told me, "There's a will, there's a way."

- Yeah, I wish I had hair, I don't.

[Jesse laughing] [upbeat rock music]

- [Narrator] Their plan calls for the team

to ditch the back half of the Champ Car,

starting at the aluminum bulkhead.

They'll build a steel frame and mount an engine,

a shortened transmission and a solid rear axle.

The street line painting system

will bolt somewhere in the backend.

[glass squeaking] [upbeat rock music]

[engine rumbling]

[tires screeching]

Day two, the build team rolls into the garage

for pre-race instructions

from their high speed host, Jesse James.

[effects rattling]

Joining the team from Jamestown, California,

fabricator, Tony Giaccone.

[effects rattling]

Racing in from Nazareth, Pennsylvania

is fabricator, John Gregory.

[effects rattling]

Long Beach asphalt artist, Clyde Foss

came to paint a straight line.

[effects rattling]

Mechanic, Gavin Diehl is in from San Jose, California.

[upbeat rock music] [effects rattling]

Speed specialist, Paul Gentilozzi sticks around

to get the crew on track.

[effects rattling]

And returning to steer the team to victory lane

is Lil' John Buttera from Seal Beach, California.

[upbeat rock music]

[screen zipping]

- We're gonna make the world's fastest street line painter

but we're gonna have to graft on a whole, you know,

rear subframe off the back of that bulkhead.

We gotta figure out what motor we're gonna be able

to dial in today and then find either a block

or something to mock it up off of.

What do you think?

- I think it would've been nice

if you had more parts here

'cause we're gonna lose a day right off,

but the only thing that we can do is make

a bunch of small parts and everything

so we're ready when the motor gets here.

- It doesn't matter what I say now

'cause anything I say since John's here

is gonna be wrong,

so moot point. [crew laughing]

- What we gotta do is kinda have some idea

how we're gonna get from the bulkhead to the rear end.

- We gotta start working on getting a motor right now.

We'll just stack it.

- [Narrator] The Champ Car's carbon fiber body panels

popped off with ease,

but before they toss the back half

in the Monster scrap yard,

the team meticulously measures.

- So far out, you wanna go with 'em.

- [Paul] How about 24 inches?

- [Narrator] Keeping the cars proportions the same

is essential for handling.

A Champ Car's wheel base ranges from 124

to 128 inches and allows for tight turns at high speed.

Extending the wheel base increases the turning radius,

dulls the handling and amplifies

the danger factor which is bad,

[car booms]

very bad. [upbeat rock music]

In seconds flat, the back half is history.

[upbeat rock music]

[crew chattering]

- [John G] Look, I feel like a small block chevy.

- [Narrator] The aluminum bulkhead

is the central mounting point

for the entire back half of the car.

But before they begin building off of it,

they make use of the open space behind it.

- Paint. - Paint tank in there.

- Paint tank in there.

- Let's sit on top.

- 24 wide. - Nine high.

- 17 deep. - 17 deep.

- [Narrator] Paul's working on borrowed time.

A busy race season has him booked in Miami this week.

He's decided to show up a couple of days late

so he can help the monster crew get

a jumpstart on their mission.

- Both my ChampCar team and the Trans Am team are racing.

I can't afford not to be there.

- What year were you at Indy, 81?

- 82, 84 and 87.

- I was 11, 12 and 17.

Now he built this whole thing

in his little small garage shop in Huntington.

Motor, trans, chassis, everything.

[vocalist rapping]

- While Jesse was terrorizing his teachers,

Lil' John Buttera was making the impossible his mission.

He shocked the open wheel racing world

in 1982 when he built and qualified

for the Indianapolis 500 on his own.

- Yeah, I started with an empty spot in my garage

and 120 grand later, we had a car and a motor

and some spare parts and pit equipment.

- [Narrator] No huge corporate sponsor,

no giant race team.

Just him, some buddies and a good set of tools.

- [Jesse] Wednesday on the rear end.

- [Lil' John] Wednesday?

- [Jesse] Yeah. [upbeat rock music]

- You ain't leaving yourself much time here, Bubba.

- [Jesse] It's a show called "Monster Garage."

- Yeah, well why don't you make this one be the net-

- What we do here. - Some parts here.

- [Jesse] Well, that's part of the show.

What you think we can't do it?

- [Lil' John] What? - This.

[metal clanking]

[Lil' John laughing]

- Oh, My pal Jesse.

I remember him when he used to be in his right mind.

[Lil' John chuckling]

- What was that like? - It was horrible too.

- [Narrator] The parts problems plaguing

the car sends Lil' John to the paint department

for a pep talk.

- The problem with this whole situation is,

- [Paul] What?

- We ain't got nothing to work with,

and we won't have nothing for a couple days.

So as much of this little you can get done out

of the way, mounted,

you know, whatever fittings you need and stuff,

if you can get all that out of the way first

'cause you know it's gonna turn into a real zoo

at the end of this deal.

- [Narrator] Heeding Lil' John's warning,

Clyde checks the first of his components.

[upbeat rock music]

- I am taking off.

I think you got enough people standing around,

looking at this.

I don't have to be here, do I?

Good to see you.

- Good to see you again, man.

This is fun. - Alright.

- [Narrator] As Lil' John makes his exit,

Jesse and Paul can't help but admire the man.

- He basically invented billet aluminum.

It's the first guy to ever make a set

of billet of wheels for a car.

- Yeah, And he brought Dzus fasteners into racing.

Nobody had ever used Dzus fasteners.

- I think really, ultimately,

he probably wouldn't tell you

but it's not about the money for him.

He's changed a lot of stuff.

- [Narrator] The fuel cell arrives giving

the crew something to install.

[bell dings] [upbeat rock music]

- Ooh, pretty close.

- [Jesse] We're good, we're gonna have to-

- Pretty close 'cause here's the body line.

We could mount it here.

The fittings are the only issue.

You see the fuel cell right here.

[upbeat rock music]

Yeah, that'll work.

[grinder buzzing] [upbeat rock music]

- [Gavin] It needs to like come up here.

- [John G] A high compression pump.

Breaks my heart to have to do this, but.

[power tool buzzing]

- [Narrator] A little cut in the carbon

and the fuel cell should fit.

- [Crew Member] Oh yeah.

- [Narrator] At the end of the day,

there is just one thing on everyone's mind.

- Parts. - No parts.

- Parts, parts, parts, parts,

- Parts. - Hurry up and wait for parts.

- This is the first build I think we've had

where we didn't have anything.

- Yeah, parts wise. - Usually, you know,

we got a little bit of something.

Today was kinda, everybody looked busy

until the motor shows up. [chuckling]

- [Narrator] The team seems to have jumped the start.

They cut the car in half

and are ready to build their monster

but with virtually no parts,

they end the day stuck in the pits.

[brooding upbeat rock music]

[metal clanking]

- A goal. [chuckling]

[upbeat rock music]

- [Narrator] "Monster Garage" Factoid.

To paint a four-inch line from Long Beach

to New York City would take 561 hours

and 44,928 gallons of paint.

♪ Monster, monster garage

[car engine buzzing]

- [Narrator] Day three, the crew arrive ready

to make up for lost time,

but already they are starting behind.

Gavin is out sick with food poisoning,

and the most important part,

the engine has still not arrived.

- I hate doing busy work waiting for parts.

- [Narrator] The word from the paint department

is no better.

- We're right back to ground zero.

- [Narrator] Overwhelmed by the weight,

Clyde has completely changed the paint pump configuration.

- Our problem right now is weight,

and the only way to cut out the weight

is I gotta eliminate something.

So I went from two pumps to one,

went from high pressure to low pressure

and went to bigger tips.

[race car buzzing]

- The wall comes up really quick, if you don't have breaks.

- [Narrator] To keep Jesse from swapping paint

with the wall, Paul has secured a used set

of brakes from Brembo.

- They record the amount of time,

the amount of races and hours that these parts have,

and when they get to a certain level of lifecycle,

they take 'em out of the car.

The parts we have are lifed out, as we would say,

but they're still good for what we're gonna do.

- [Narrator] While Paul piecemeals the brake system,

the other boss shows up.

- I got my hands dirty.

- No, sir, that's the first time.

Somebody get...

You got that on camera?

- How many guys come to the garage in a white T-shirt?

- Huh? - Huh?

- Guys, that ain't gonna do no work.

- Oh, the manager.

- [Narrator] Their secondhand brakes

look first rate on the car.

- Yeah, well. - Let's hope they work.

- Yeah, he's gonna have to help but need a rubber hammer.

- [John] No usually after.

- [Narrator] A second delivery arrives

with an essential item,

a complete rear axle built to couple directly

to the transmission.

♪ Freedre, zip, zero, nada [brooding rock music]

- [Lil' John] Okay, now push this forward.

- [Narrator] The clock has run out for Paul.

It's race time in Miami and his team is waiting.

- I gotta go.

- Nobody asked you to come in the first place-

- I know, I didn't wanna be here.

- [Lil' John] You're running around like a chicken

with your head- - They told me you

are the guide- - Everybody nervous.

- When they said you were the only help they had,

I said, - You're like-

- Somebody's gotta come. - Everyone's mother-in-law

around here.

- [Paul] The only satisfaction is he's gonna die before me.

- No, no. I don't dare do that.

You know how long the line will be,

people wanting to pull down my grave?

[Paul laughing]

Oh, I gotta outlive them people.

[brooding electronic music]

- [Narrator] As Paul leaves,

a super short transmission arrives.

- [John G] We got pieces.

Just like being a kid in the candy store.

[brooding electronic music]

[turns to rock music]

Shorter the better.

We don't wanna get the rear wheels back

too far 'cause this thing looked like it's deformed.

- [Narrator] John Gregory knows racing.

For 23 years, he's built race cars

and the technology to make them faster.

raceTronics manufactures Traction Control Systems.

What we do is we compare front wheel speed

to the rear wheel speed of the race cars

to know when they're losing traction.

- [Narrator] Using John's traction control

is against the rules of Champ Car racing.

- It's rather controversial in some cases,

which that's part of the fun, in my opinion.

Anytime somebody tells me I can't do something,

I'm bound to determine to show 'em wrong anyway.

[car engine buzzing]

- It's 18 and 5/8th.

[playful Western music]

- [Lil' John] Okay, first down, those two.

- [Narrator] Clyde's paint tank has arrived.

But unfortunately, it's the wrong size.

- [Clyde] Son of a...

It's thin, right?

- [John G] Yeah, I'd say no more than 10.

- My mistake in measuring.

This was my fault 'cause I didn't measure correctly, okay.

- [Narrator] Clyde sends his son, Kevin,

to return the mismeasured tank for one that fits.

Clyde's minor mistake makes Jesse wonder

about their paint expert.

- Can you fire that up so I can look at it?

How fast do those pistons work?

- Yeah, let me show you the one out here.

- [Narrator] Before they go any further,

he wants to get a handle on how Clyde's pump works.

- [Lil' John] This is like a field trip.

- [Jesse] Do we need to put vests on or are we cool?

- No, you need to put vests on.

There's a law about that.

[Jesse chuckling]

[pump engine purring]

[pump rumbling]

You can see how fast that I got a cycle.

- I can figure out how to mount all this stuff

if you know how to plumb it.

- Oh, I can plumb it.

- All right. - I can plumb it.

Oh, your welding and cutting, that's plumbing.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Narrator] A piece of welding wire makes

the perfect template for the bottom rails

of the new frame.

[upbeat rock music]

♪ Obscure the sight back

- Looks good to me.

♪ A little space for my homie, finesse ♪

♪ And what's the matter

♪ Get the grease in

[power saw buzzing]

- That'll keep me busy.

Thank you very much.

- [Narrator] With the frame rails mocked up,

John moves on to installing the pedals and shifter.

- [John G] This is gonna go on here.

[energetic rock music]

Back to the waiting game.

Motors, as far as I know, is left Detroit, so.

- The tank.

- [Narrator] The weight is over for the paint tank.

On the second try, it fits.

- No parts, we're looking busy right now.

[metal clanging]

- [Narrator] No parts means no Jesse.

He settles up and heads out.

With the bulk of their labor left to the end,

the days ahead will be long.

[motorcycle engine rumbling]

[motorcycle engine revving]

- It's gonna be more of a challenge now

because it's taken a little while

to get the parts a little longer than what we thought.

But you know, challenge is what the whole game's all about.

- [Narrator] Tired of waiting around for parts,

the team packs it in.

Day four, the supercharged street liners storm

the garage, ready to leave their mark.

[upbeat rock music]

Unfortunately, their biggest problem still remains.

- We need parts!

Damn, we need parts.

The engine, we are in desperate need of,

it would've been great to have it yesterday.

They went last night to pick it up

and, for whatever reason,

the Air Cargo people said it wasn't there.

- I dunno what the big deal is.

There's two days and now all that's left is everything.

- [Narrator] Isn't that Jesse's line?

- [Jesse] All that's left is everything.

So all that's left is everything.

All that's left to do is everything.

- [Narrator] One thing they can do

is decide where they'll mount the paint bumper.

- [Clyde] 52 will be up here.

- [Jesse] Yeah, but if we take it...

See if we can put it on a slant.

If we put it on a slant and put it like something like that,

- [Clyde] I'll put it out like that.

I'll call right now and see if-

- [Jesse] When you think that's gonna mess up the-

- [John G] That would be much better.

- [Jesse] That would be much better?

- Yeah, some big towers to me-

- I mean, I'm gonna like...

That whole ram thing is pretty cool, right?

Because for something this modern

to put something that, chu, chu du, bang, bang

looking on it, it's pretty good.

- Time for a commercial.

[crew laughing]

- [Narrator] A morning delivery brings in the key components

to the paint striping system.

A paint pumper and a hydraulic motor to run it.

[energetic rock music]

- I can't hang this until they build

the frame for the motor.

Then I got a plumb it and prime it and do the rest of it.

That's the hard part.

While Clyde waits, Tony works.

He mocks up a mounting bracket that will hold the front

and the rear of the car together.

- We're not limited to what we can do.

- [Narrator] Tony Giaccone is a welder by day

and a hot rod builder by desire.

- Me and a friend of mine put together

a 66 Chevelle and we took all the parts from the garages,

combined them together.

I had a tr*nny, he had an engine,

and we put it all together

and got run in about three months,

and we're trying to build it

for fastest speed car competition.

I just like to work with my hands.

[car wheels screeching]

- [Narrator] Tony finishes his bracket

and delivers it to the boss.

- Weld it up. [energetic rock music]

- Weld that up, let's get something going.

[upbeat rock music] [blow torch whooshing]

- Well this is just giving us a good anchor point

to anchor the whole rear cage.

Hopefully the back end doesn't fall off when I drive it.

[car engines buzzing]

- [Narrator] Tony attaches

the freshly welded mounting bracket

just in time for the delivery of the week.

After days of unsatisfied expectation,

the engine has finally arrived.

Jesse opens the box, Monster style.

[upbeat rock music]

[text dings] [upbeat rock music]

A 351 cubic inch, 410 horsepower Ford crate motor

shifts the mood in the garage into overdrive.

- We're getting happier.

- It's a real racing motor,

more than what you're gonna find

in your family Taurus at home, that's for sure.

[upbeat music]

- [Narrator] As a fleet maintenance manager,

Gavin Diehl appreciates a finely built machine.

- There's a lot of big equipment in the world

and it all interests me.

I always liked tractors and big trucks.

To sit behind a desk, I'd go crazy.

I'd lose my mind.

- [Narrator] Now that Jesse's got the big part,

he starts tearing Clyde apart.

- The only thing that's gonna hold us up is his deal.

His fancy smancy paint.

I can machine this down right there.

The thickness of that.

- [Narrator] The standard pulley adds unnecessary inches

to the wheel base, so Jesse heads back to his shop

and machines off the excess metal.

[metal clangs] [upbeat rock music]

[welding machine buzzing]

A few good welds and their machine is kept lean and mean.

[upbeat rock music]

[machine buzzing]

For the first time in this build,

everyone has something to do.

[upbeat rock music]

But the tortoise paced world of street line painting

and the high speed world of car building

are on a collision course.

Clyde is worried that the pulley off the power plant

will fry his hydraulic motor.

- But it doesn't have to be tarp up.

If two to one, if he's at 7000 rpm-

- [Lil' John] Then get a bigger pulley.

- That's what I kept-

- [Lil' John] then go past-

- Go past. - To the wire.

- But then I k*ll myself on the other side.

- I mean, that won't be a problem.

Just get a bigger one on here

and tell him to stand on the gas.

If you don't stand on the gas, it's his problem, right?

- I Guess. - I mean-

- Some of the stuff you're thinking about,

the perfect world situation.

It doesn't have to have the absolute drop dead perfect line.

If it's close enough to have a little bit

of paint on the ground-

- Well, you don't understand the way these hydraulics work.

- Well, I understand hydraulics quite a bit actually.

- Okay, but then you know that as the flow drops off,

okay, that pump is not gonna wanna stroke.

- You know what? Don't worry about it.

- Yeah, I-

- Just get a big pulley for that,

and if it blows up, it blows up.

He's all right.

He just ain't ever been involved

with a bunch of before.

This is a whole new experience for him.

- That's right.

[techno music]

- [Narrator] To connect the Ford engine

with a Chevy machine's transmission,

they use an adapter plate.

- John, I couldn't push on my belly anymore, I get tired.

- [Narrator] John and Gavin trim the excess metal plate

and make frame mounts for the engine

- Bolts right on as long as you got a halyard,

a bandsaw, a mill.

- Exactly. - And a lathe.

- Exactly. - Direct bolt on.

- [John G] Directs it, yeah.

[metal clanking] [brooding rock music]

[wrench rasping]

- [Lil' John] Now, you're a professional.

Pull on it.

- More crooked.

- [Jesse] Just slide it on.

- See, if I was doing that,

that's what he would've said to me, right?

- You're right. - I'm learning.

- You're learning all my tricks.

- Is everything still square as far as the...

- [Crew Member] It's just kinda simple right now.

- Yeah, the next thing to do is to make sure

that this is parallel with the back bulkhead or something.

- [Narrator] Squaring the frame and power components

is a crucial step before welding it solid.

- Got 53... - 53 and a eight here.

[machine buzzing]

- There you go. There you go.

- I'm 25 and 13/16ths.

- The motor's outta whack. - Okay, okay, it's gotta come.

- Okay, cool. - Did that move?

- [Tony] Yeah, it moved.

[upbeat rock music]

Now, I'm 25 and a half. - I'm 25 and a half.

Turn two now, the front head.

- Yeah, to the caliper bracket.

- [Lil' John] 52 and a half.

- [Paul] 52 and a half.

- [Lil' John] I said it first.

- Okay. - Mine counts.

Mine counts, yours don't.

- Okay, that's cool though.

[welding rod zapping]

[gentle ambient music]

- Sometimes I have to show the guys

that I can do it if I have to.

[machine buzzing]

[welding rod zapping] [gentle ambient music]

- Now, we get the paint situation done, we'll be fine.

- Alright, I'm outta here.

- [Tony] Hey, thanks a lot for hanging around today, man.

- [Lil' John] Hey, that's what I was supposed to do.

Guys, I'll see you.

- [Tony] Okay, then we'll see you all day tomorrow.

- All right.

- [Narrator] Day four was a day of doing.

A much needed change from the lack of parts

that plagued days two and three,

the team is in position to make the car run.

But the paint is anyone's guess.

- It came out pretty good.

End of the day, it worked a lot better than

in the beginning of the day, that's for sure.

[brooding rock music]

- [Narrator] "Monster Garage" factoid.

Since 1982, almost 40 street line painters

have died on the job.

In the same time,

there have been only 10 deaths in all

of open wheel racing.

♪ Monster, monster garage

[car engine buzzing]

- [Narrator] Welcome to day five.

Before putting the car together,

the team must first take it apart.

- We got to take the superstructure off the car

so we can weld it.

Like, the main point where it fastens in down here,

you can't weld it all the way around.

And that's by far,

the most critical join on the whole deal.

[brooding electronic music]

- [Narrator] Tony takes charge of finishing the frame.

Wielding his welding wand,

he makes sure every connection is certified solid.

Across the garage,

it's final assembly time for the engine and transmission.

[upbeat rock music]

- Thing looks pretty good, huh?

- [Lil' John] Yeah.

- Should be all right though.

These things hit the wall at 200

and don't come apart.

With that stuff in it, and that ain't light.

I mean, that's lightweight, but not really.

- No, I mean, it's well designed for what it does.

- [Jesse] Do you wanna drive it?

- No. - As long as you're standing

on a pit wall, watching somebody else drive it.

- [Narrator] As each of the individual elements

come together, it's crucial

that everything works as a whole.

As Tony finishes welding the structure,

the complete power plant is dropped into the frame.

[upbeat techno music]

- [Paul] The motor's a little bit crooked,

so it's not lined up.

- That's what you can expect

when you weld that much mile steel.

It shrinks.

[upbeat techno music]

- [Narrator] As the motor is pulled to make

a few minor adjustments to the mounting brackets,

more supplies arrive.

A custom-built Ron Davis radiator.

- The cool thing about it's as a built-in water pump,

so we're trying to push the limits

of what the space has to offer.

[rock music] [digits buzzing]

[upbeat rock music]

- [Narrator] Jesse has another present,

a carburetor for a car that will go like hell.

Human carburetor.

Human makes it.

- [Narrator] With the motor secure,

Tony moves on to mounting the hydraulic pump.

- Get the degrees right.

[welding rod zapping]

- [Narrator] Lining up the pulleys

is fundamental to powering the paint pump off the engine.

[welding rod zapping]

- Hey, Clyde, you're dialed in on everything, yeah?

- Yeah, I'm there. I'm there.

- [Jesse] Okay.

- Man, that scares me.

Every time I hear that, it means like.

[Jesse imitates car crash]

Boom. [chuckles]

- [Narrator] Clyde's confidence inspires Jesse

to come up with a plan B.

By late afternoon, the crew is ready

to reassemble the back half of the Champ Car.

The frame slides on with ease.

- [Lil' John] I know, that's everybody's gizmo.

- [Narrator] And the engine locks in place.

- [Lil' John] Is that cool or what?

[upbeat rock music]

- [Narrator] The rear axle has no trouble bolting on.

As the car builders hit the final stretch,

Clyde can delay no longer.

- This is my part of the deal.

I'm now starting plumb everything up

because there's to the point

where I can almost start to work.

- [Narrator] Gavin helps assemble the paint pumper.

They dangle the paint pumper in place

and agree on an angle that works.

- Push on it.

It'll be, we'll look.

- [Clyde] Okay, here we go.

- Cut this down and we'll take two plates

and maybe make 'em triangle shaped and go up into here.

- Let's just run tubing,

two pieces of tubing off it and they match

the frame like this, and you're so good

at coping 'em and making 'em look cool.

I mean, do they-

- Are you patronizing me?

- No, I'm serious.

I mean, you could probably whip it out, no problem.

[upbeat rock music]

[welding rod zapping]

- [Narrator] In a shower of sparks,

a custom framework forms around the paint pumper.

[upbeat rock music]

[grinder rasping]

[machine buzzing] [upbeat rock music]

- Well, at least it doesn't stick up too much.

If we would've ran that straight up and down,

it wouldn't have looked as good.

It looks like it's going faster now.

[upbeat rock music]

[cars engine buzzing]

- [Narrator] It looks like the build team

has picked up the pace as well.

And Clyde wants to make sure he's measured right

to give his paint machine enough clearance.

[upbeat rock music]

I think I can make the exhaust hide most of that big gap.

- [John G] Are you gonna, you know, put something on it.

- No, I'm gonna have him come up.

- [John G] Oh cool.

- And kinda wrap around so it'll-

- [John G] Oh, wow.

- It'll be all this big rib cage, so.

[effects fluttering]

[upbeat rock music]

- [Narrator] Before calling it a day,

Jesse gets a head start on a set of monster exhaust pipes.

[spirited rock music]

[car engine buzzing]

On the eve of their final build day,

everything is coming together.

Their engine is close to firing,

and their paint pumper just needs to be plumbed.

- It's gonna be close, no doubt,

but I think we'll get it.

- [Narrator] With a full day left,

what could possibly go wrong?

- [Announcer] Coming up,

Jesse's gonna paint his masterpiece.

[presenting rock music]

Or the master's gonna wind up in pieces.

[car engine roaring]

Stick around.

♪ Monster, monster garage

[racing cars buzzing]

- [Narrator] Day six,

the monster paint crew head into their final lap.

On their last day in the garage,

the team is split down the street line.

- My patience is like running out.

This paint stuff's gotta be hooked up.

I don't wanna hear, you know,

"Oh, I'm waiting for this.

Well, let's do this first and then we'll do that."

No, get it done.

Just get it done.

- No, that's the least of you're worries

is a paint spray,

and I'm worried about starting it running.

- [Narrator] Clyde may not be worried, but Jesse is.

- What are you waiting on, Clyde?

What are you waiting on?

- Just parts, just the last.

Kevin's my son spraying the last touch.

- [Narrator] All week long,

this old school line painter has assured the crew

that his part will be no problem.

- Mine's a lot easier than theirs.

Yeah, I'm there. I'm there.

- [Narrator] But the time for talk is over.

- Okay.

- [Narrator] John eases his tension

with a little game of pin the tail on the monster.

[welding rod zapping]

- That looked straight.

- [Narrator] As it regains its Champ Car look,

Jesse makes sure it has the sound to match.

He works on exhaust pipes with the right amplitude

for this car's attitude.

[upbeat techno music]

- [Jesse] Very good.

- [Narrator] A trip by Jesse's desk reminds Clyde

that he better get on the stick

or he's gonna get the stick.

- It's just a joke, I wouldn't actually hit him

across his forehead with it.

I'm a nonviolent person.

[stick thumping]

- I don't know if that's called incentive or fear.

- [Narrator] Speaking of fear,

Lil' John is terrorizing the cameraman.

[stick clattering]

He's headed with the camera in his face,

and he's fighting back.

[upbeat rock music]

Clyde better watch it.

- How's it looking? - [Narrator] He's next.

- Yeah, these guys did a hell of a job.

It's just the paint, you know?

If he quit profiling and getting something done,

this thing might be finished.

I mean, he's had five days

and he still don't have all his stuff he needs.

Should have been done.

- [Narrator] All essential elements

for the car are complete.

The focus has shifted to Clyde.

Success or failure has come down to him and he knows it.

- Get a hose in to go on this and then turn this.

- Walk away, please.

Walk away, please.

Walk away.

- [Jesse] Hey Clyde, you sure you know what you're doing?

[gentle ominous music]

[turns to upbeat music]

- Key to success is look good while you're doing it.

- [Jesse] Yeah, well you look good.

- [Narrator] Amidst the intense scrutiny of his crew mates,

Clyde finishes plumbing the paint system.

Okay, open it up.

He adds water for testing and holds his breath.

It's time to bring this monster to life.

[car engine purring]

[car engine roaring]

The engine fires.

To these gearheads, hearing the bold rumblings

of an engine on its first run never gets old.

- Perfect. [car engine roaring]

Savoring this moment is the last thing on Clyde's mind,

his paint pumper is lifeless.

- They won't prime.

- [Jesse] It's not even moving at all?

- No. - It didn't move at all.

It's still full.

- Our part's working. - Yeah, our part's working.

- [Jesse] What do you think, Clyde?

If the problem was suction,

that thing would just be going up and down

and up and down and up and down

till it finally build pressure against the head,

but it's not moving at all.

- That's why I hate to be totally dependent on one guy.

- You fix it, you're the world's greatest-

- That's what he's been doing since Monday.

- He's got instructions.

[bright guitar music]

- [Narrator] A chill falls over the garage.

The Picasso of pavement is left alone

to fix his motionless masterpiece in the presence

of these garage legends.

The last thing Clyde needs is his sprayer to sputter.

- And I got the deep seated feeling

from the way that stalling, it's reversed.

The bottom is the inlet and the top is the return.

- He follows his gut and reverses the hydraulic lines.

- It won't be pretty, but what the hell?

[upbeat rock music]

- I need a beer bad. I need a beer.

- If you fix that, I'll get you a beer.

I just worry about what happens if you don't fix it.

- We're ready to paint.

[pump slurping]

- [Narrator] Clyde's sprayer comes to life,

but it doesn't look good.

It spews its blood like a gaping chest wound.

- Yeah, the bath.

[brooding rock music]

- [Narrator] He tourniquets the leaking parts

before giving it another try.

- Kinda funny, but we'll see. - Adjust the gear for you.

- Ah, how's it coming there, Clyde?

Are we almost there? Speak up.

[car engine rumbling] [brooding rock music]

- Hey, John. Hit the red button.

Hit the red button.

[spray fizzing]

There you go, it's spraying.

- [Narrator] A fine spray of water

means redemption for Clyde.

He celebrates quietly by himself.

I knew he'd spray.

- Yeah? - Has to spray.

- [Narrator] The build team is surprised

the line painter actually works.

- That was crazy.

- [Narrator] They're anxious to take it out

for the final test.

They load the tank with paint

and roll out in search of a worthy patch of pavement.

[car engine rumbling]

[bumper rasping]

- Danger. Danger.

What could possibly go wrong, right?

- [Lil' John] I can't imagine anything.

- [Jesse] I just don't know any better.

[Jesse giggling]

Hang on, let me get my helmet.

[crew chattering]

[car engine revving]

- [Narrator] Jesse warms up the slicks

and attracts some unwanted attention.

[siren blaring]

- [Jesse] Our escort's in here.

[car tires screeching]

[upbeat rock music]

- [Jesse] Let's go.

[car engine rumbling]

[car engines roaring]

[John cheers]

- We don't do that in Pennsylvania, man.

- [Narrator] Jesse takes the checkered flag,

but there's another link to this race.

They need to paint a line

before this car can be called a monster.

[car engine roaring]

- [Gavin] Yeah!

- Yeah, yeah!

[Jesse chattering]

- [Tony] Yeah! [laughing]

[Jesse laughing]

[Gavin hoots]

- [Gavin] Yeah!

- Yeah. - That's right.

- That's cool.

What do you think about that?

- I think it's crazy, but that's cool.

That's a monster.

[car engine roaring] [whistling music]

- What's up guys?

Good job, guys.

[crew laughing]

Mac Tools, "Monster Garage" CDs.

- [Lil' John] You got no Harry Potters.

[disk player rasping]

[gentle chiming music]

[crew member chatting]

- I'm just asking.

- All right, good job.

- [Narrator] Tom Prewitt of Damon's Motorcycle Creations

is on the scene to turn the newest monster

into a green-flamed purple pavement painter.

Build cost tally.

Hard cash, $17,323.

Freebie value, $1,500.

Vehicle cost, $500,000.

Grand total, $518,823.

♪ Monster, monster garage

- [Swaggy] Welcome again SPOs

to another "Monster Garage" Challenge.

Frankie, where the heck are we?

- [Frankie] We're at the "Monster Garage" home away

from Home Swag, Irwin Dale Speedway.

- [Swaggy] Oh yeah.

But folks don't try this at home

because Jesse James has white line fever,

and he's primed and ready to set a new world record

for laying paint.

- [Frankie] Right you are, Swaggy.

Jesse and the boys turned a Champ Car

into a street line painter,

and he's going up against one of the dudes

who helped him build this monster, Clyde Foss.

- [Swaggy] Does Clyde think he actually

has a chance against way fast Whitey?

- [Frankie] Let's ask him.

- I'm gonna kick Jesse's a*s.

- [Swaggy] Uh, whatever, Clyde.

Frankie, what are the rules to this paint fest?

- [Frankie] It is a race against the clock

to see who can lay down a 150 foot line

of white paint in the shortest amount of time.

First up will be Clyde

with the state-of-the-Art Road Laser Street line painter.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Swaggy] Oh yeah, it's the monster stare down.

Jesse's looking lean and mean and Clyde's ready to ride.

- [Frankie] Clyde's gonna do one full lap to get a feel

for Irwin Dale's half mile oval.

When he comes around to the starting line,

he'll start painting his own line.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Swaggy] Check it out.

One of Irwin Dale's finest, Sergeant Glenn Furba

watching in on the fun.

He's gonna clock our speed painters

with his radar g*n.

That'll keep 'em honest.

- [Frankie] Here comes Clyde.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Swaggy] Oh yeah, he's spraying it down.

- [Frankie] Nice job, Clyde.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Swaggy] Frankie, he's posted a time of 12.63 seconds.

- [Frankie] At a speed of nine miles per hour.

- [Swaggy] Uh-oh, Jesse's got his work cut out

for him on this one.

The master blaster is off and running.

[car engine roaring]

- [Frankie] Jesse needs to run a couple of test laps

before he gets his paint on.

- [Swaggy] A Champ Car's built to go 200 miles per hour

and then some, but not a half mile on the track.

- [Frankie] And Swagman,

the added weight of the street line painter equipment

has made this Champ Car a lot harder to handle.

He's laying it on the line.

- [Swaggy] You gotta be kidding me.

[car engine rumbling]

- [Frankie] His time, 2.46 seconds.

- [Swaggy] On a speed of 65 miles per hour.

- [Frankie] Respectable.

- [Swaggy] A word seldom use for Jesse James.

- [Jesse] All right, two more left, we're good.

- [Swaggy] He's going around again.

[car engine revving]

- [Frankie] He spraying line number two.

- [Swaggy] 2.27 seconds and 85 miles per hour.

That's more like it.

- [Frankie] Oh my Jesse's running and gunning

for number three.

- [Swaggy] Did you hear that, Clyde?

[car engine roaring]

- [Frankie] Oh yeah, it's a way fast white line.

- [Swaggy] Give us the time, Frankie.

- [Frankie] 1.85 seconds.

- [Swaggy] And his speed, officer?

- 91. [upbeat rock music]

- [Swaggy] That's it.

The world record for street line painting

is officially busted.

- Thanks, Jesse.

I need to get your autograph.

- [Jesse] Alright. - It's on a citation, though.

[crew laughing]

- But I left the road.

- [Swaggy] Jesse's got no time for slow run,

speed g*ns and anyone who wants to nerve to say this.

- I'm gonna kick Jesse's a*s.

- [Swaggy] He's got middle burn, sparks that fly.

The next "Monster Garage" challenge

is just around the bend.

[upbeat rock music]

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster garage

♪ Monster, monster

[gentle ethereal music]

[text music presenting and chiming]