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last time on roadkill, motortrend'skia rio 5 mopped up the autocross with the 'rotsun' here today we get revenge. we threw a turbo on this junk and headed outto the goodguys show the spring nationals in scottsdale, arizona where we are going to kill us some kia! our '71 datsun 240z came from the guys at white flagracing. this is a five hundred dollar rust bucket of a datsun. it's got a chevy4.3 liter v6, a junk yard 5-speed also out of a chevys10, and the rear end came from a

wrx car that we found on ebay. we kicked the 240z back into action for the last episode of roadkill becausewe were convinced that it was going to just destroy everything in our our autocross shootoutbut unfortunately we only got a couple laps at the datsun because it broke and it didn't beat the kia rio 5. we justcouldn't have that and what's the best way to fix a beat up datsun? more horsepower so we decided to turbo this thing. there's your guy. off a powerstroke of some kind.

normal people they call up themanufacturer and have them recommend the right turbo for their engine. but this is roadkill we buy whateverjunk is laying around. so our turbo came from a 7.3 liter ford super duty diesel. but thatis the right turbo because it cost $250, which is the theory that holds up until:you realize that cost about $300 dollars and we have two of them. and a blowout valve. lipstick on a pig. in the alternate world of roadkill timeour mind told us that we're gonna be able

to get this turbo installed in about two days. that turned into about two weeks. finnegan ended up having to spend a coupledays working on this thing by himself. most of which was spent running around town picking up all the little nickel-and-dime stuff that kills you and slows you down. but he also got a lost of things fabricated like the exhaust pipe and the cold air tube. i have just created the world's first datsun 240z to chevy v6 turbo header. ohhh....yep. i just did that. ok. now the world's first datsun 240z to

4.3 liter chevy v6 header for turbo isdone. i'm particularly proud of his bill because i don't get to tig weld thatoften and turbo-ing this car meant i got to sit down for hours tig welding aluminum and stainless pipes together. and i gotta say the welds don't suck this thing is actually a pretty sturdy build. you know what i was thinking of? what are we actually doing with this car? we're going to the autocross right? yeah. have we spent 5 minutes on the suspension? no. we could use a sway bar in the back.. --but it will have a turbo (laugh).

that's choice! dude right now people canhate on that 'oh why'd you put a 4.3 in here?' but the moment you slam the hood and they see the hater pipe come through then they just have to shut up. this is the nicest things we've ever fabricated right now. i figure the rear end blows up before the engine block ever breaks. center section or axel? axle. yeah? okay did the water pump thing hit the turbo is that what that was? didn't you hear a bang? that's like the starter falling off.

that's something really gnarly. and it turnsout that we had a sunken floater something wrong with theneedle and seat and the engine got filled up with gas and we hydraulic-ed the number three cylinder.i pulled the spark plug out of it and it just gushed gasoline and now we've got gas in the oil as well. so its 2:30 in the morning we'resupposed to be in the dyno tomorrow and we're about ready to have a reallygood time. now i think we're both pretty dejected. the only thing left to do isload it up take it our there, deal with it at west tech in the morning.

change the oil there. (sigh) normally when you take the car to achassis dyno you wanna show up completely prepared with the thing running, driving ready to strap down to make power. i've gotta say that we have more to do on this car than any vehicle had ever taken to a dyno ever. talking with steve brulee at westech we were scared we cranked the starter over and

hydraulic-ed the cylinder, and he was saying if it didn't try a light off so that it wasn't banging the cylinderunder actual engine power its fine so we'll take that. as a 100% guarantee. i think i estimated leaving here atsix o'clock which means midnight so we're exactly on target. time for the pay off! finally we had the v6 running betterthan it ever had. then it was time to make boost.

come on, baby stay together! all those problems fixed and now we havea 430 lb/ft, 387.4 horsepower mule in that car. that's about a 450 horsepower v6 and it sounds and smokes like a mack truck. it sounds like a powerstroke diesel. this is about the time we realized wewere going to need a scavenge pump in the oil return line out of the turbo. we came back to westech in themorning and put a tune up in the car

that would survive on 91 octane because up to this point we've been runningit on some118 that i had left over from bonneville. god, this is the moment i've been waiting forall that welding, all that grinding, all that work, finallyget to drive the 'rotsun'. we made a couple trips around theblock in the 240z and what's amazing is even in the rain this thing wanted tohook up hard. we tried to do some burnouts but it just wasn't smoking the tires. we tried harderand were

rewarded with a broken axle shaft. theshortened axle shaft broke right on the weld we added in the lastepisode. instead of hitting the road it was back to the shop. i'm not exactlysure why but finnegan got this new used and beefier center section forthe datsun even though we didn't break that we broke an axle. ever since finnegan fell in love withthis car we've been trying to do things a little bit more right on it and whatdo you do when you love something? you gunk it. so i'm gonna clean the thing upinstead of just installing it as a complete scunge pit.

ooh. gunk. wanna see how late we are? that door won't stay shut that's freiburger's solution right therethis is about to get welded to the rotsun. you know sometimes you run outta timeand have to butcher things together and then other times for the shear sake of styleyou've got to butcher them together. it's really a theft deterrent anythingabout it. you can attach a padlock to this,

but who's gonna see this thing and go 'yeah i want inside that car'? nobody. alright it was nice knowing us. see ya in about 10 minutes. gonna break an axel right here? no. (laugh) you bolted everything back together onthe rear end right? axles, sway bars? oh we didn't tighten the sway bar in place. really? nope. so like the nuts are gonna fall off? right. well that was a short trip. we lived so far.

it's not much of a life but we did live. would you like a car wash? uh.... and now it's peaking all over the ground.hop in i'll push. oh you want me to be in the car if it bursts into flames you're safely out to the side? yep. not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, notyet.... okay. oh! oh oh oh! it doesn't wanna go into gear.

how fast are we going? i will coordinate the exhaust noise to our speed since i don't have a tach[ometer]. 75. we only made it maybe an hour away fromthere and stopped in cabazon, california where there's this really good sorta high end casino. we figuredyou know what let's vallet this thing. y'all build this thing? yeah, just put the key in the ignition right there. the guy was completely unfazed he hopped in like it was his own and drove the thing away.

goodbye native american goodness. ah that's a good sound. that's like bacon for my ears. as soon as we hit the highway we foundout that this thing cruises we thought the v6 was all gonna be shaky and a big problem: nope. this thing hauled! 70 degrees out, blue skies. straightest road on the planet heading into the desert. got a turbo charged datsun. best day at work ever.

survey says: $1134. we got out of the hotel this morningreasonably nice hotel and finnegan's toolbox is stolen. lots and lots of heritage there and lots and lots of tools so we had to buy all of this stuff. this all started with a five hundreddollar dotson. we just spent more than that on screwdrivers. so after all of this wefinally arrived at the autocross at the goodguys spring nationals at westworld inscottsdale. the goodguys shows are super cool. but one other thing about him is thatthey don't allow import cars.

the exception is if you've got a olderone that has like a v8 or american power plant like our dotsun does but when we pulled the 240z in the front gate man did we get a lot of stares and a lot of hate. people did not want to see that import car there especially lookinglike absolute garbage and they hadn't even seen the kia yet. alright chief what year is this? '71. alright i think you're legal. he didn't wanna let us in. he didn't. he tried hard.

you don't have any paint onthat thing i've never bet on this side of the fence before. all of a sudden i'm an import car guy. the best part about this whole trip was that we had used facebook to leteverybody know we were coming and when we arrived at the autocrosscourse there were roadkill fan's there waiting to check out the rotsunand meet us. is this the datsun from roadkill? yes sir. oh no way! dude i love your show. thank you. a couple of the roadkill fans that showed up that day were jake and eric roswerski

who saw that i had lost mygrandfather's toolbox on facebook and generously brought me their own. oh wowthat's really generous. you sure you wanna give this up? yes. ericand jake brought me their tool box. it's good car karma and i'm trying not to cry. what are we going to do about the kia i say one run and done. yeah we only need one lap in this and i don't really wanna drive it. oh no you have to. i'm no touching it. ok rock-paper-scissors. ready? ....oh. what is that? it's paper. you were watching that's like a half paper

maybe i wanted scissors kinda thing. no cheating going down there look up. me in the eyes. ready? ....smash! (laugh) and it was super cool that our tent wasset up right next to the starting line so that we can watch all the action onthe track. but we didn't we decided there was evenmore to do on the datsun. first of all the tech guy said we hadto have seat belts imagine that well we threw some seat belts in we bought at pep boys and we also threw in some guages, we changed the oil,

finally we were ready to go thrash this thing. look at that and tell me there is anything wrong with it. and staging up next is david freiburger from hot rod magazine in the roadkill '71 datsun. i know what you're thinking hot rod magazine with a datsun that's just un-american. i haven't even watched out here which means i'm highly likely to get lost this will be embarrassing. announcer: they're ready to go they got their seatbelts in. and they are getting in line i don't wanna say to do something awesome

because i don't want to lie to you all. he's never even seen this autocross course so he doens't even know where the first turn is and by the time we got here the transmission really didn't wanna go into second gear. so pretty much he's hosed. wow this thing has power. 4.3 v6 low dollar at its finest and he is running a turbocharger out of a ford diesel pickup truck. yes it's as hideous up close as it is far away

i guess they're afraid their doors are going to fall off because they have a barn door latch on the door on the passenger side. my hat's off to the roadkill guys as they're washing the track for us. i got lost. hey guys this thing is dumping fuel out of it. the good news is it's race fuel and it's already evaporated. i understand but... this thing has way more power. you lost to a pinto. oh i got lost out there. i'm just kidding i don't even think they had a timer on

for whatever reason. they weren't really taking you seriously. this thing has a lot more power! when it takes off man it motors. the big partof it is just getting lost out there and it's tough i took the exit the first time and then had todive back onto the track. it's not a clean time. the thing that made my performance all that much better is that finnegan wasmaking fun of me for it the announcer was making fun of me for it

and then when finnegan lines up in the kia which is embarrassing to begin with he goes out there and got completely lost on the autocross making me look like i actually knew what i was doing. remember it's all-american sundaytomorrow. did we give him a sobriety test? i'm going the wrong way. did they have driver's ed in california any more? no. i have no idea where i'm going. we have a ran two roadkill cars andneither one of those boys can figure out how to run the autocross course.

can you put some signs up or something? i don't have not lost. was i in theinfield or something. oh completely. oh so that you don't go there at all? at this point we really hadn't gottengood numbers from the datsun or kia because we got so lost on track but we had a good opportunity. rob macgregor from no-limit engineeringis the guy who builds these really radical gambling pickup trucksand who dominates the goodguys autocross series. he decided to put his butt in the seat and he went out there and the datsunpouring smoke have raw oil because we

didn't turn on the scavenge pump for the turbocharger. he laid down a 77 second time which waspretty competitive with a lot of the muscle cars and late models that were there. after rob ran i jumped behind the wheel to turn a lap and i really blame him for breaking thecar because i got about half way around the track before the fan belt came off, knocked the oilline of the turbo, and covered most of the racetrack in dirty oil. smoke is not your friend on the autocross course.

make sure it's not on fire. yeah that came off and hit an oil line we're pretty much out of your hair for the day. hey at least you didn't get lost. i didn't get lost. so all we gotta do is tighten it degrease this thing and put oil in it. he was doing good looks like it didn'teven lose his way right up to the point where the thing burst into billowing smoke. due i was friggin cranking out there until this exploded. we ended up putting a new

fan belt on the datsun but ran outtatime to make another pass on the autocross. but we were stoked to find out we getanother shot at it on sunday. well today i think we finally have our poop in a group we're gonna get around the track withthe datsun we're actually gonna know how to drive the thing i think we'regonna put finnegan in it because he's got more track time than me at this point. and maybe we'll improve on that 77second time rob lay down yesterday. maybe not cuz he's a pro driver compared to us but what we're already seeing the

datsun is out-running some of these latemodel cars. so i don't think we'll embarrassourselves today. alright here we go let's try not to suck. c'mon, baby let's not get lost. hi-tech fabrication on the course right now. i love how they made it so the front turning signal lights come onevery time they hit the brakes not everybody can do that or would want to. there's a nice lap out of finnegan

a 75.055 actually have him in 8th position for the day. eighth place out of every car here? eighth out of every car here this morning. sothe very first lap i didn't get lost we ran a seventy five out of every car here. you wonder how good is 75 secondsreally? well it was good enough to beat ahandful of nearly stock muscle cars and a hand full of brand new hopped up muscle cars so 75 was not at all embarrassing for us. all that was left to do was to find out was it really faster than the kia

and we didn't have a lot of time to do thatbecause nobody around wanted that kia on the race track so i only had one shot at it. and he runs a 78.8 and a one second violation. 78.8 lower than the rotsun. i'm the fastest man alive thanks motor trend we beat your car finally and only took two tries and a lot more money. so you might ask how impressed was it really that are 400 horsepower datsun beat a brand new kia rio? well what it comesdown to is the datsun is

way faster in a straight it actually hauls when it comes up on boost and the kia's gonna kill it everysingle time in abs braking. fact is we took a ford powerstrokediesel turbo made it run on a chevy 4.3 liter v6 stuffed into a worthless 240z andyup we outran a new rental car. so what do we learn: everything deserves a turbo and the rotsun will outrun the kia and autocross racing is a helluva good time. i'm not gonna lie to you none of the otherguys could have drove this.

i love the datsun now i think we'venever spent more money on a roadkill car. and that's probably why it works prettywell where did the zip ties go?