Big Chief: Oklahoma city's top 10 list
has produced the fastest street race cars in history.
[ Rewinding ]
Nice!
Monza: That's what I'm talking about.
[ Crowd shouting ]
[ Tires squeal ]
Woo!
...but when we focused on dominating the track...
Yeah!
...other street racers got better and cars got faster.
[Bleep]!
Now, it's a new era, and we have a plan
to build this crew better.
It's gonna suck right now,
but we're gonna do whatever the [Bleep] we have to do.
I've been working my ass off.
[Bleep] Everybody on this [bleep] list.
Stronger...
I'll drive the wheels off this thing.
[Bleep] Damn.
...and faster.
I haven't made a pass like that in a long [bleep] time, dude.
But we have to push our cars and ourselves...
There may not be a chance that we can stay friends.
...harder than ever.
It was everything I had, in my whole life.
Everything, yeah. Literally.
Nothing like it.
...even if that means flipping the script like never before.
We suck at the list, so we're gonna get rid of it.
We're about to prove...
[Bleep].
Whew!
...no one can dominate the street like the 405.
That's how you do it.
Thing in gear!
♪♪
So after all these seasons of street racing
and having a list,
street racing is evolving and we Aren't.
For awhile, we have been the fastest
and we have been the authority
on street racing in the whole country.
People look at us as what's cool.
It was all Texas, Oklahoma, down south.
Well, let's head [bleep] south and take all of Texas' money.
Bust that ass!
Together: Yeah!
Our two states were the fastest in the country
and we knew it.
This is what I wanted, right here.
We all got to get down the same [bleep] road.
[Bleep] Yeah!
This Texas money's getting heavy!
In order to be able to claim
that we're the fastest in the country...
We keep saying that, and I get it, we've earned it.
We have spent our time traveling around, racing other cities.
You know, we have.
Not in Kansas anymore.
And we've won every time.
Who's your daddy? Daddy Dave.
But you can't keep claiming those wins forever.
Now street racing isn't what we do anymore.
The last few years, we've gone a different direction.
We started track racing.
Most of the guys on the list traveling around
thrashing to win "no-prep kings."
And with a chance at
32 of the elite, top drivers in the country
and $40,000 to win each event,
all of a sudden, the list and the crown
didn't look too shiny anymore.
The list is not a fallback plan.
It's not a safety net
where drivers come to practice their craft.
It is meant to be a gauntlet to prove who is
the fastest on the street, night in and night out.
If these guys don't start taking the list more seriously,
it could mean the end of the list forever.
There are guys in this group that don't truly believe
that they're on this list to go to number 1.
They may have got on it for that reason,
but they're not on it for that reason anymore.
They're okay with ending at,
you know, this number or that number,
as long as they're involved,
as long as they're still doing it, they're cool.
They're not trying to race three, four times a night,
changing motors between rounds.
You know, they're gonna race their one time
and then put it in the trailer.
And it doesn't help us on our journey of being
the fastest in the [bleep] country.
Over the years,
position on the list has meant more than anything,
but more and more, we're starting to see
a separation of two groups.
There's the guys at the top, and there's everybody else.
Last year, I managed to walk away with the crown,
fighting off Ryan and Dave all season, who ended at 2 and 3.
Lutz came in at 4, and Shawn rounded out the top 5.
On the bottom half, you had doc, Momza, and Chuck at 6, 7, 8.
And then way down at the bottom, you had Dominator at 9,
and bringing up the rear was Shane.
For this list to mean anything, it can't be enough
for guys just to be on it.
We legitimately need guys out here
who are racing for number 1.
Every one of you that are in this drivers' meeting
should know in your heart
that you've got a number-1 car and you're here to prove it.
This is a season where I ended at number 1.
I'm starting at number 1.
It'd be chicken[Bleep] if I didn't do a list shakeup.
We need to get back to the ways of the street,
so I'm calling for a list shakeup.
And the rules of the list shakeup are simple...
Take whatever number you were last year
and you throw it out the window.
When we get to the first race of the season,
we're all racing for the number-1 spot.
First guy to lose is 10. Last man standing is number 1.
And with the list being all shaken up
at the very first of the season,
no one can cry about being at an unfair disadvantage.
It may not be a bad idea, if you guys are all interested,
if we want to kick in a little money in a pot
and then the number-1 guy
gets it at the end of the season.
That's cool. Yeah.
List racing used to mean everything to us.
But with all the track racing we've been doing lately,
list racing has kind of faded into the background.
I'm not gonna let that happen on my watch.
My theory is that everybody in this room
will take this as a challenge and will put the effort in.
So it's time to hit the reset button,
shake-up the list, and give every driver out here
more of a chance to show that they belong here,
'cause if this list isn't full of badass street racers
who are willing to push themselves
and their cars to the limit for the crown,
then what's the point of even having a list?
And I will make sure that everybody here
elevates to the occasion rather than runs from it.
♪♪
[ Clattering ]
Man: Do you want to go over all the fuel lines or...?
Ryan: Yeah, let's go over all the fuel lines.
You know, we've been testing the thing to death this week,
so let's go over all of the fuel lines.
Yeah, just, you know, all these...
Air lines.
All that stuff that could fall off,
and it would either make us lose races or cause a fuel leak.
I don't want any fires. I don't want anything stupid, you know?
This is pretty much a changed-up combo from last season,
and I don't know if that's good or bad yet.
I've got four or five tune-ups
that I'm pretty sure are faster than we ran last year.
I don't know that that road will take it, but...
Man: I think we're gonna find out.
We're gonna find out.
You got to remember, we're running the car
with a three-speed this year.
You remember that? Yeah.
We tried that a couple years ago, it didn't like it.
Yeah, you got away from that pretty quick.
So I'm not sold on it myself, but I know this...
If we don't make changes to this thing to get faster,
it's not gonna be fast enough.
So, I'm coming off a huge and long-awaited
"no-prep kings" championship.
I've proved that the fireball is the car to beat
at "no-prep kings" and on the track,
but racing on the street is a totally different ball game.
My pro line 481x makes so much power
and it's a beast at the racetrack,
but it's neutralized a little bit on the street,
because you just can't put as much power on the road
as you can at the track.
So I've made some major changes this season
so that the transition from the track to the street
will be even smoother.
I've changed from a two-speed to a three-speed transmission.
I'm running a different wheel and tire combination.
I'm just running the car a little bit different,
the way we do the power management.
I fell short a couple of times last year.
I missed that number-1 spot
three or four times by fenders and headlights,
and I don't want that to happen this year.
This is my year to get back to number 1.
Everything I've done in the off-season
was to make those changes, try to get this thing faster,
so we'll see what it does.
♪♪
Murder nova: What's happening?
Big Chief: What's up with you, man?
Like, how are you doing with everything?
How do I seem to you?
I feel like it's time for us to have a deeper talk than normal.
With Shawn, our plan has always been to be 1 and 2.
So, let's pretend I'm 11.
I got to figure out a way to get from here to there, quickly.
We've got to be number 1 and number 2.
I don't care the order.
And we've had that plan over and over and over again...
I want to kick your ass, just like you want to kick my ass.
...so our friendship is based on that.
Perfect.
[ Boom ]
So we opened up our own business, Midwest streetcars.
We worked side-by-side to make our cars
as fast as they could be...
That's a '91 fox body.
...and we helped other drivers...
We re-scaled it, changed the suspension.
[ Engine revs ]
...who wanted to win on the street as well.
Man, we'll roll to the top together.
Ain't nobody else got anything for us.
No.
Last season, he barely even cracked the top 5.
Jeff: My boy, right there.
You know, I never beat you before.
I know Shawn's not oblivious to the fact that he's losing races
and he's not making a run for number 1.
[Bleep].
Every time he loses, he spends less time at the shop.
I don't know how to deal with
Shawn doesn't care about being number 1
or winning races anymore.
Big Chief: Normally, at the beginning of every season,
you know, there's the part where I scream at everybody,
"if you don't think you got a number-1 car,
you shouldn't be here."
But then when the guy that I know has a number-1 car,
that I share a shop with, doesn't seem to mind
not being the number-1 car or even losing that much...
Basically, what I'm asking is, are you over the racing thing?
Coming up, we return to the streets of the 405...
He's got a chance, this is it.
...'cause this season, we either prove we belong...
You're gonna beat him in the right lane and send him home
in that badass left lane?
...or we all go home.
[ Tires squeal ]
I feel like it's time for us to have a deeper talk than normal.
Basically what I'm asking is, are you over the racing thing?
Because it seems like you've lost
that winning attitude, the swagger,
like, I don't want to alienate you or push you away,
but it it is tough to share a shop
with two different sides of the spectrum.
It's inevitable. When there's one guy
who does the things he needs to do
for his family and his life and his future,
and then he does racing on the side,
and then there's another guy who doesn't care about
anything in the world but racing.
After awhile, though, then it starts to breed resentment,
because I am here 24 hours a day, it seems like.
This is a conversation that's needed to happen for awhile.
I've kind of been waiting on this.
There's something missing in my life right now.
I love racing. It's my passion.
It's what I love doing, but so is my family, you know?
And my family is definitely gonna come first.
Chief's way of all-or-none, being at the shop 24/7,
it definitely makes him a really good racer, but that's not me.
I can't be here 24/7,
and I need to figure out what I want to do
and come up with what's good for me and for my life.
Murder nova: The last thing I want to do is to hold you up
from being happy or excited.
And there's a reason that I haven't
been up here a whole lot.
I mean, I'll be honest with you, man,
I don't want to come up here.
I don't want to look at the car. I don't want to be up here.
And to be honest with you, man,
I've been thinking about this a lot.
It may be best if I leave, you know?
It will push me more into doing my own thing
instead of doing your thing.
Maybe that's what I need,
is to not depend on somebody else.
I think I need to take everything to my house
and work, you know... Closer to home. I get it.
I at least have to try that.
I think if we keep going the way that it's going right now,
there may not be a chance that we can stay friends.
I don't want us to resent each other.
I don't want you to resent me. I don't want to resent you.
And I think that if we make this change, then that won't happen.
I just want you to be happy,
and what you've been doing doesn't seem to make you happy.
It's not, man.
We'll be alright.
Do you, whatever it is. Just be happy.
Big Chief: It's been weird around here for awhile,
because Shawn hasn't been here.
I've always still had that one moment
at the end of the night, as I'm walking out the door...
There's always my car and Shawn's car,
and I always say, as I'm turning the lights off,
"good night, crow. We'll do it again tomorrow.
Good night, Mr. Murder nova.
Hopefully, Shawn will be here tomorrow."
Now it's just "good night, crow."
It just sucks.
♪♪
[ Thudding ] Oh, yeah.
Don't mind me. Just doing some curls.
I got to tell you, man, I'm worried.
I'm worried that the Farmtruck kind of reached its age.
It might even have to be put out to pasture.
I left an hour ago.
Technology is passing us by.
All these years of racing the Farmtruck on the streets,
it's been a wolf in sheep's clothing.
You want to race that? Yeah.
They got a race car, and you got a...
An old farm truck.
And when most people see the truck...
He wants some! He does. Yeah, he does.
...they think they've got the race in the bag.
But most of the time, they have no idea
what we have under the hood.
There's more under that truck than what you guys said.
But Azn, as you know,
the Farmtruck's becoming well-known.
You know, come to think of it,
I have been getting roasted in my dms heavier lately.
What's "dm?"
It's a direct message, you know, like...
Okay, well, in 1995, al Gore created the Internet, right?
And in the process of creating the Internet,
he also created email.
Well, it's like an evolved version of e-mail...
Okay. You know what?
Azn showed me the Internet about eight years ago,
and I haven't seen it since, and I don't miss it.
She ain't ready for that life.
She ain't gonna go in a nursing home.
The rest of the 405 is stepping up their game
and we're seeing it.
The last thing we want to do is get left in the dust,
and we need to be more competitive.
Yeah, I kind of see this as, like, an old guitar, right?
Like, it just sounds good, and we're just used to playing it.
I don't know, man.
You know, should we change up our game?
Should we get something else to race?
Should we find something lighter?
I get what you're saying...
We keep adding miles, the odometer's maxed out.
We keep adding slots. We do.
We do, you know?
I'm all about staying with the times,
but before we give up on the old girl,
I say we give her one more shot and see what she can do.
We'll make decisions, man.
Well, I'm not saying that I don't want to race.
What I am saying is I'm worried.
Sure.
Alright, that's a great idea.
Let's line up some races and see how the old girl does.
I like it.
I think she's ready.
Don't worry until we take an "I."
You know, if we take an "I," then we can worry.
If we take an "I," we'll still give her hell.
Okay.
[ Both laugh ]
♪♪
Murder nova: A lot to figure out with this deal.
We have been track racing a little bit with it,
and it has been going faster and faster, you know?
And I'm learning more and more every time I take it out.
But now I have to learn...
Now you have to be able to learn how
to turn it down and still be fast, you know?
I'd be stupid if I sat here and told you
I'm not worried about this little shakeup.
I mean... oh, I'm worried.
Nobody wants to be number 10. But I'm excited.
I'm excited, but I'm worried as [bleep].
Yeah, 'cause you could leave there in a really good spot,
or you could leave there number 10.
I know that I have the car to go to number 1.
I just don't know if I have the know-how yet.
Right. It's gonna be a challenge,
but sometimes when we're a little bit scared,
sometimes we we will [Bleep] through
and we make [bleep] work for us.
Last list shake-up, I was 10.
I landed at 10, last shake-up.
Cause, remember, I drew number 1 and raced Ryan.
I'm gonna admit it, man... I have I have a good combo.
I'm gonna need a little bit of luck on the first one,
and then after that, I'll know where I need to be.
Shaun: I got a whole lot riding on this season.
We've really struggled since we've brought the new car out.
Things haven't really worked out.
I just got to get a handle on it.
It's still a state-of-the-art car.
It's still a number-1 car. It makes plenty of power.
It's lightweight.
It's got everything that
a number-1 contender needs to take the crown.
I know a guy who got me hooked up with a set of tires
that is supposed to be
the new greatest, best thing out there, you know?
So at this point, any advantage that I can try to get,
I'm gonna try to make work.
Anything that I can do to where
I can put more power in the car and go faster, I'm gonna take.
Biggest obstacle I'm gonna have to overcome is the tuning part.
I've always had Chief around to help me tune,
and now that I don't, I'm gonna have to learn really fast.
It's one of those deals where I'm gonna have to
be able to go to a road, look at the surface,
figure out what tune I'm gonna put in the car,
go over the data, figure out what the car wants on that road,
and try to go as fast as I possibly can.
So, like...
People get divorces all the time, right?
Yeah, I know. I'm still battling my ex right now.
But I don't think we saw you and Chief getting a divorce.
It's one of those deals that, at some point, man,
you know, you start doing this,
and you start veering off the same [bleep] path.
Right.
For us to continue to be friends,
this is just something that needed to happen.
Chuck: Look, I've been friends with Chief.
I've been friends with murder nova for a long, long time.
Come here.
And one thing that's never changed
is the partnership between those two.
You took a rear end out of a car that won't go straight
and put it in a car that goes straight!
That's why we build cars that are the same!
So we can do [Bleep] do this!
Love you, baby.
So I think we're all curious what's gonna happen in the 405
with those two racing on their own.
[Bleep] Damn!
This may be exactly what I need to revive
what I love about street racing.
It's gonna be a lot of getting used to,
because he helps me out a lot, you know what I mean?
And we've been seeing you tune on your own car
and doing all that stuff, so, you know,
I know you're kind of already set up to go on your own way,
but it's still hard.
It's gonna be real tough, and to be honest with you, man,
I'm not real sure how this season is gonna go for me,
because he's always been there to help me out, you know,
if I have tuning problems.
Or even him grabbing my laptop
and putting a tune in it, you know what I mean?
And I'm probably not gonna have that now.
Tuning is all about putting the amount of power
that the surface that you're racing on is gonna handle,
and nobody's better in the business than Chief
at just reading a road
and knowing what type of tune-up to put in the car,
and that's something I'm gonna have to learn.
It's one of those deals where this season is
gonna be a sink or swim for me,
and either I'm gonna figure it out or I'm gonna sink.
♪♪
Big Chief: The list shake-up is happening this weekend.
There's a lot riding on this, you know?
With Shawn leaving and I got to worry about that,
and then now it's a list shake-up.
I'm not number 1 anymore. I could be 10.
Usually, I'm really confident about this stuff, but...
You just need to quit worrying about
what everybody else is doing
and worry about you and us and our team.
It's easy for me to get caught up
in all the list race drama,
and Shawn leaving and going to do something else.
I forget that it's 4:00 A.M. in the shop, and she's still there.
This is what I need. This is why she's here.
This is why I'm successful.
I cannot worry about the birds that have left the nest.
I need to worry about the ones that are still in it.
The crow is a 1970 Pontiac GTO,
and with its 482-cubic-inch engine,
it's still the most underpowered car on the list,
which means I have to work harder, longer hours,
put in more effort and more energy
to be competitive on this list,
and that's exactly what I plan to do.
It's just a lot.
What if I draw Shawn first round and I lose to Shawn?
I'm just second-guessing everything now because...
It's just... my brain's a wreck, you know?
You're stupid.
[ Sighs ]
♪♪
It's list shake-up night in OKC, and by the end of tonight,
we will have a new number 1.
This season, the 405 needs to prove our commitment
to the list race after race, night after night.
If we want to remain the fastest street racers in the country,
we need to prove that we want it bad enough.
♪♪
Morning. Hook it in? No!
Oh, great.
What the [bleep]? To you and your trailer, sir.
So, after a long season of "no-prep kings,"
I just didn't have enough time
to get the '57 ready for this list shake-up.
So, this past season, I've put that car through hell,
and it's taken a lot longer
to get it ready for this season of list racing.
I don't even know if I'm allowed to draw a chip
with not having a car here so I need to go talk to Chief,
find out what I'm supposed to do.
Okay, so I'm here to draw a chip,
but I don't have my car.
Well, as the race master, I would recommend
you don't tell the race master those things,
because the race master is supposed to be a neutral party
that upholds the rules and all the things
that he says in all the meetings
that are supposed to mean something, you know?
So that guy, I wouldn't tell that son of a bitch nothing.
If I talk to you as a friend and a racer, how should we...
How would you... Hypothetically,
strictly as a racer,
I would show up with my truck and trailer
and I would go to the drivers meeting and I would draw a chip,
and then when it was my time to race, I wouldn't show up
and I'd get timed out and I would take my loss.
Sounds good.
So after talking to Chief, you know what?
I'm gonna play the game.
I'm drawing a chip to stay on the list,
and I'll have my car ready for the next list race,
Mark my words.
As of right now, you all showed up here a number,
but you lost it when you entered the drivers' ring.
As of right now, nobody has a number.
Perfect. My number sucked.
The way the list shake-up works... shootout style.
First person to lose is 10.
Second person to lose is 9,
and so on and so on and so on until the end, correct?
Till you have one guy standing.
Last two people standing are gonna be 1 and 2.
How much money do you want to do for the list shake-up,
and how much money do you want to do
for the king at the end of the season?
We need to decide.
I'm good with $1,000 min.
Okay. I'm good with $1,000.
$1,000 a piece?
Everybody puts in $1,000 a piece.
And at the end of the year, the king gets it, right?
Now, how much for the list shake-up?
$500. $500?
Everybody good? Raise your hand for $500.
Yep, yep, yep, alright. Let's do it.
So, the winner of tonight's list shake-up,
the last man winning gets $5,000.
Everybody good? Everybody got the money? Everybody good?
As you bring your money up,
give it to her and draw out of the bag.
I don't give a [bleep] when or how you do it.
Okay, here's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Aleisha: I trust you.
I wouldn't trust everybody. I'm just saying.
♪♪
Oh, [bleep] Damn.
Yep.
The last person I want to race here,
first down the [bleep] tree, is Shane.
[Bleep] Damn it.
Okay, let's get our number twos. Number twos? Number twos?
Oh, Monza gets the bye.
There's no bye.
He said "there's no... " [ Laughs ]
Be safe.
And threes... who's our threes?
Ryan: Might as well just redo that again, huh?
Murder nova: Ah, [bleep] Damn it.
Man, [bleep].
That happens a lot.
Ryan: He gonna get the bye.
Look, I'm just gonna say it... [bleep].
Okay, fours. Do you have a four?
I have a four.
There's one of the fours. Ohh...
Daddy Dave and doc. The double-d.
Yeah.
Number five. Fives?
Chuck: You're fixing to be sixth.
He said "you're fixing to be sixth."
Okay, go get your [bleep] ready.
Let's find out who's number 1 and who's number 10
and everything in between.
Aleisha: Do you want to flag? Do what?
Yeah. Oh, that's right. Chief's up first, isn't he?
Yeah. Yeah.
I have a flashlight if you want ours, or if you have one...
I'll use whatever you guys...
Whatever he's gonna use all night,
I'd rather just use that, if you're good with that.
Yeah. Okay. Okay.
That button's just on the back.
Got it.
It's a hard job.
Somebody's got to do it. Somebody's got to do it.
Do they know...
Have they already flipped for lanes and stuff?
Shane got lane choice. Okay.
He's the best at this situation, you know?
No hits on the road, nobody's racing all day.
'Cause he doesn't make a lot of power.
Yeah. Yeah, it can be tricky.
Just like that slick road that was at cash days that time.
That first pass I made at cash days,
and I spun and I pedaled it?
Phew. Took off, stole one.
This is just like it. Just like that road.
It's what we wanted.
First race of the season. First race of the night.
No one wants to draw Shane, whether they believe it or not,
because his procharge Vega has the ability
to hook up on the road, first off the trailer,
better than anyone here.
If I make one mistake and spin the tires in this race,
I fall from number 1 to number 10,
so the pressure here on me is unbelievable.
We need number 1 to be good.
Big Chief: Tires are set. Daddy Dave: Good job, buddy.
Yeah, good job. Good job.
Hey, zero or hero.
Number 1 draws number-1 chip. That's just [bleep] weird.
On a number-10 guy.
♪♪
You got this. Big Chief: [ Laughs ]
You're gonna be number 1. Thank you. Love you.
Murder nova: What's happening? Farmtruck: You alright, man?
Yeah, no, I'm good.
You need anything? No, I don't think so.
No, I think this is,
you know, the happiest that I've been.
Hell, yeah. I'm good.
Yeah, good.
I think things will work out fine.
♪♪
[ Engines revving ]
♪♪
What's the call down there, super Nick?
Big Chief by a country mile.
Big Chief by country mile.
Big Chief: Light comes on, I let off the button, the car goes hard left.
I have to correct, pedal it. I'm just fighting for my life.
Finally get down through there and throw the chute,
and I look back and he's not even back there.
[Bleep]. [Bleep] Damn it.
Man: You'll be alright. [Bleep].
I should be able to go down that [Bleep] road every time first,
no problem... And I had problems.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm not cut out to be a street racer no more.
Maybe I had my time. I don't know.
I'm already trying to rethink my strategy, right now.
Of all [bleep] things.
[Bleep].
Ahh.
Well, I guess I'm gonna pull up there and shut it off,
if we're waiting on Jeff
we draw number 2, which is Jeff Lutz.
Okay.
We've got a pretty good tune-up for this street.
Just like everybody else. We're coming off a long, tough,
"no-prep kings" season that took us all over the United States.
We finished in the middle somewhere.
The car proved to be fast.
We know we got a contender...
...but we just couldn't get our [bleep] together.
We thrashed to get the car turned around
and get it back ready for the street.
We did some testing before tonight and I feel pretty good.
I think it's gonna do pretty decent.
Jeff: Dude, would you mind running up, telling Monza...
So what, just let him go make a bye run?
What am I gonna do? Yeah, what else can you do?
What's the worst you're gonna end up?
9. Hey, it's better than 10.
Yeah, what are you gonna do?
Jeff: My car actually isn't here, but I had to go through
the motions to draw chips so I can stay on the list.
Okay, Monza.
Looks like you're a solo tonight, brother.
♪♪
[ Engines rev ]
[ Pop ]
[ Engine dies ]
Brandon: That thing's hurting.
Chuck: Yeah, something just happened.
It goes, "rrrr..." It goes "rarrrrr..."
Even in the burnout.
On our bye run, the car leaves... I mean, it just...
It won't get out of its own way.
It acts like it's slowing down, the more gas I give it.
I told Brandon, I go, "hey, something...
Like, the tranny or something's dragging the motor down."
We got a definite issue somewhere we're gonna
have to try and pinpoint and get fixed before round 2.
If you need anything, let me know, man.
Okay.
Jeff: Who's calling it?
Murder nova: I'm going to. Okay.
Ready? Yep.
Tails. [ Clink ]
Heads. Is it [bleep] heads?
I'm gonna take the left.
It's a [bleep] move for you to put me over in the right.
I'll probably lose because I did it,
but I'm still gonna take the left.
Good luck. Good luck, buddy.
Yeah, that [bleep] right lane sucks.
Yeah.
Murder nova: Okay, so I'm not real sure
that it could start off any worse.
Another list shake-up, another first round I draw Ryan.
There's not really any easy races,
but I'm not sure if there's any tougher races either.
The fireball Camaro
is arguably one of the fastest cars out here,
so we're gonna put my little bit of tuning skills
to the test right here, and see how we do.
This line right here's my timing.
I got a little bit more timing pulled out,
and I got it pulled out, out here,
all the way to where I lost the tire last night, testing.
This is what I had last night.
I'm shortening the shift
so I don't lose the tire right here,
and I also pulled a little timing out of it,
so it should be good.
If you go number 1 again on the second list shake-up?
It'd be pretty [bleep] cool. It would be cool.
I don't consider murder nova, like, a really easy draw.
You know, him and I ended up testing the same spot
a couple of nights ago, I seen his car make some passes.
It looked pretty good. I'm not gonna take him lightly.
But on the other side of that,
there is the fact that I won the coin toss,
so I'm gonna stick him in the bumpy lane,
which I know is gonna be difficult for him,
especially considering Chief's not helping him anymore.
He leaned on Chief a lot for tuning stuff.
He's doing it on his own.
Maybe this is the best time to get a hold of him.
[ Clears throat ]
Murder nova: I do feel like there's more pressure on me right now.
There's more pressure on me to step up to the plate,
for me to shine.
I'm gonna be doing this on my own.
Every pass I make, I'm gonna be trying new things
that I haven't tried before,
and some of them's gonna work, some of them's not gonna work.
Jeff: Good luck, buddy. Murder nova: Thanks, buddy.
Do what you do.
[ Engine rumbles ]
My goal this season's pretty simple, man...
I got a number-1 car.
I feel like everybody on the list knows
I got a number-1 car.
I just got to prove it.
Big Chief: Are we ready? Man: Yep.
♪♪
[ Engines rev ]
♪♪
Wow.
What's the call down there?
Fireball by a semi.
Murder nova: I tried new tires.
I spun, I had to pedal it a couple of times,
and if you make any mistakes against him,
you're gonna lose.
So, I really thought that these new tires
were gonna give me a step up,
but right now, I obviously don't know how to use them.
We're gonna go ahead and put the old tires back on
that we have had success with before, and see how we do.
Good lick. You ever see him?
Ryan: Nope. You left on him.
Thank god I was able to outrun him this time.
At least I'm guaranteed a spot in the top 5.
Alright, well, let's see what the data looks like.
Good run. What are you gonna do, man?
Boy, it [bleep] upset, though. It shook like a [bleep].
Racing the car out of my own shop, not getting any help,
it's gonna force me to be a better tuner.
It's gonna force me to check everything on the car,
and hopefully, I'll get good enough
and learn how to make the right decisions
for my car and my team.
But one thing's for sure,
the murder nova belongs here and so do I.
Hey, Chuck. What's up? Hi.
Did you win the toss or lose the toss?
Doc won.
Oh, then doc definitely took the left lane,
so that means he put your ass in the right lane.
Yeah.
You're gonna beat him in the right lane
and send him home in that badass left lane?
I forgot I love you. I mean...
The first three races have been won out of the left lane.
To get down a sketchy street, I do it with timing.
I tell the motor exactly where I want it to run, as far as rpm,
and if it tries to go above that line I put in there,
it pulls timing out, pulls power out
to get it back below the line.
I adjusted tune as needed to win in the right lane
and show doc that he probably picked the wrong lane.
[ Engine starts ]
I don't want to have to start my season at the bottom 5
and fight my way up all damn year.
[ Engine rumbles ]
Let's set this the right way, go six on both sides.
We got Dave. We got the good line.
If we can get off the starting line with a 959,
I think the turbo guys are in trouble.
And Dave's in the bad lane, so...
I think we got more than a puncher's chance.
[ Tool whirs ]
We got him right where we want him, Bubba.
I feel like it.
So this race against Dave,
the number three race of the night,
is a very big race for me. It's huge.
This past season of "no-prep kings,"
we put a brand-new Sonny's 959 in the street beast.
We've been racing at the track pretty extensively
and got a good handle on it,
and this will be the very first time we raced it on the street.
We'll see what the street will hold.
[ Smooches ]
[ Taps ] Come on, baby.
But we feel like we have a tune-up in the car
that can take care of Dave and handle Dave,
and nothing's sweeter than getting a win versus Dave.
♪♪
[ Engines rev ]
♪♪
Big Chief: Hurry up, man.
Murder nova: Man, what do you mean, "hurry up?"
Chief and I I've been pretty much inseparable for years.
Put it right here. [ Clattering ]
You gonna [bleep] the desk all up.
You might even say we're thick as thieves.
I told you there was money in there.
Let's get the [bleep] out of here, man.
I'll see you tomorrow! Alright.
We kept the guys on the list honest.
[ Sirens wail ] Man: Shut the door!
[ Over bullhorn ] Everybody out on the curb, right now.
[ Chuckles ] [Bleep] Yeah.
They were [bleep] their britches.
And we'd do anything it takes to get an edge.
Alright, boys, here we go.
Yeah, it's good right here. Fall out.
Fall out. Fall out. Fall out.
Oh, oh! Right on my...
I landed on my canteen right on my left [bleep].
So while I know taking a step back is the best thing
for me and my program...
Look at the size of this thing.
I can't even see over the hood.
...I'm sure gonna miss the good old days.
See, we looked really cool, till now.
Now they're like, "look at those idiots."
Now we look like morons, in a convertible and it's raining.
[ Engines rumble ]
[ Engines rev ]
♪♪
Big Chief: [Bleep] Dave! Nice [bleep] Job.
Dave, by two and a half cars.
Dave, by two and a half! Nice job.
First lick, make everybody look stupid.
Nice job.
Doc: Well, I feel like I shot myself in the foot.
We have a brand new 959, big, huge motor power plant,
and I just didn't put enough power in it.
Dave came around on the back end.
But that's the learning curve you got
when you try to play this game on the street.
Well, one way to look at it is, I'm ahead of Shawn.
I'm ahead of Shawn.
The 959, we'll hold.
Man: Finally got some data with the 959.
It needs more power.
Good job, boys.
This pass was kind of nerve-wracking,
'cause we didn't know if the car was gonna work.
I know everything in my car is working, it's hauling ass,
and I'm looking for the next round.
Get it cooled down.
♪♪
'Sup, man.
I ain't gonna lie to you... I'm not looking past you,
I know I got to beat you to race them,
but I'm testing for the fastest [bleep] out here.
But I'll still shake hands with you,
and I still gain three spots.
Let him do the honors.
In the air? No, hold on, hold on.
Side bet. Side bet.
Okay, two breakfast burritos and a hash brown.
That's delicious.
There we go. Alright. Side bet.
Heads. For all the browns.
Ohh! Tails never fails.
It did that time.
I feel like you're gonna give me the left lane.
I can win in either lane,
but you are gonna try the right lane.
I am gonna try the right lane?
You're [bleep] gonna try the [bleep] out of it,
and good luck to you.
Going into the list shake-up, I draw the number 5 chip.
Look, I win, I go into the next round
and that much closer to number 1.
Everything's tip-top, right?
Everything's the same as it was at the warehouse?
The death trap has a brand-new three-speed transmission,
and it is wicked fast on the track.
The car hasn't been on the street in awhile.
It's been number 1 before,
but I feel like this combination can go right back to number 1.
But look, I'm not here to race Dominator
and be number 5 or be number 6.
I'm testing for number 1.
[ Engine starts ]
I'm second guessing the [bleep] out of myself now.
Chuck's got the good lane.
I drew Chuck, which
everybody's been watching for who knows how long.
Chuck's very fast. I'm very apprehensive about my tune-up.
I'm afraid it's gonna be not enough,
but I don't want to have too much.
Can I do something? Yeah.
I can get more aggressive here,
but that's the hang-up I've had the entire evening,
is looking at the [bleep] right lane,
knowing it ain't gonna take [bleep].
I'm just gonna take that last one out, right there.
From there to there, I'm just gonna put a little lip in it.
You want to? Yeah.
You sure?
Well it's either gonna [bleep] take it, or it's not.
[Bleep] Damn right.
Kamikaze walks up, he looks at and voices his opinion,
I agree, we put the power in it, and we're fixing to send it.
♪♪
[ Engines rev ]
♪♪
[ Tires squeal ]
[ Big Chief groans ] Woman: Woo!
Farmhouse: I thought that was the one, right there.
Whew! [ Exhales deeply ]
Chief bangs the light, boom, we're gone.
And I'm telling you, I am way too hot.
It makes a violent right turn, I save it.
Dominator wins the race, and I'm stuck at number 6.
Did you try and hit me? Is that what I saw?
No, I didn't. I'm sorry, man.
Chuck: But I told you before we raced...
You, I know I got to get past you,
but I'm racing to be number 1.
Dominator: Look, the right lane was supposed to be the worst lane
all night long, but I'm a street racer and I adjusted,
so I put the right tune-up in it
and I got right down through there and I get the win.
I'm very confident I can go down that lane even faster next pass.
The bottom line is, I'm in the top 5,
and I'm fixing to attempt to be in the top 3.
Good job. Thanks, man.
You did what you had to do.
Big Chief: Next week, on "street outlaws"...
Let's get it on. Second round, right now.
...5 drivers still stand,
but only one will walk away with the $5,000 and the crown.
Hey, anything can happen.
Go under the hood and find out
how we make our cars so freakin' fast at
discovery.com/streetoutlaws.