Fastest Car

I'm a big adrenaline junkie. I enjoy the rush.

A supercar is ultra-high performance.

A sleeper, it's gonna get its ass kicked.

I built this sleeper in my garage.

Supercar guys just went to the dealership and bought a fancy car.

This Odyssey is the perfect sleeper because it looks like

it can't do much of anything.

We've actually made minivans sexy.

Supercars are built by a bunch of engineers.

With this sleeper car, it's just me and my dad.

You're making decisions

within, you know, hundredths of milliseconds

and then those decisions ultimately can be catastrophic if you make the wrong ones.

There is four really, really fast cars racing at incredible speeds,

inches away from each other, all fighting for position.

When I'm ready to race, I'm in the zone.

Nothing matters. I visualize the win, I get the win.

It's a quarter-mile race. People look at my truck

and assume that it's not gonna be that fast,

but I'll turn the nitrous on and destroy.

The winner of this race will go on to the championship race

in El Mirage Dry Lake Bed.

I've got to win. I wanna win. I need to beat that person. I need to win.

It's gonna be insanity no matter what.

My name is Corey Caouette. I'm from Huntington Beach, California.

I drive this thing everywhere.

I'm proud to have this thing on the road next to just regular old cars.

The name of my car is Lunch Money.

The name Lunch Money came from, like when you're back in junior high

and you're saving as much money as you can to build something on a budget,

and compete against things that are worth a ton of money.

People are shocked when they know it can go over 150 miles an hour.

I put a lot of work and...

pretty much blood, sweat and tears into this.

It's when I'm driving this car it's...

It's like I'm a hundred percent... normal.

Just doing what I love to do.

Growing up in Huntington Beach, I surfed a lot,

but I skated and road bikes even more.

You would catch me there pretty much every day after school.

If I wasn't doing that, I was at the skate park, skating.

I never broke a bone in my body... until my accident.

2007, I'm out of high school,

I'm 21 years old, you know, I was in my prime.

We're hanging out and I take a phone call,

so I stepped out to a hallway with a handrail,

leaning over the handrail... and woke up in ICU.

I looked over and somebody said, "You fell from very high up."

And I looked down and I felt I was like, "I'm paralyzed."

I had complete spinal cord injury T5.

I had broken all my ribs, I collapsed both of my lungs,

I broke my collar bone and my shoulder blade.

Two months later, they let me start rehab.

Learning how to get around in a wheelchair,

learning how to shower.

That stuff is difficult.

Balance is a huge thing and I worked on that for a long time,

just sitting on a flat surface, holding my arms out,

and trying to keep myself from falling over.

Driving a car, I thought it was gonna be impossible forever.

Two, three years after my accident, I was really bored.

I needed something to do.

So, I bought the cab. It had the big giant doors,

it was perfect for me transferring in in my wheelchair.

I had to have it.

The cab is a 1927 Dodge 3-Window Coupe.

The bed is a 1935 bed cut down.

The engine is out of a 2002 Corvette with all the fuel injection

and there's about 20 different vehicles in this car.

The first version took nine months from start to driving.

When I designed this hand controller right here,

I was thinking what was gonna be the most comfortable for me to use.

With me not having abdominal muscles to hold myself up, really,

I decided that pushing forward is obviously gonna push my body

back into the seat. And as far as the throttle,

it's just as simple as pulling a lever.

Driving it for the first time, I was definitely proud of the fact

that I built it myself in my garage.

I think my whole life, I've always wanted to drive something that,

you know, screams "Look at me," but is cool.

It was freedom. It was just a total independence.

I'm going and doing things that I wanted to do

and not having to ask somebody for a ride and you get sick of it.

You don't wanna rely on people for anything.

This race is important to me because I just wanna prove that experience

beats a pocket full of cash.

My name is Hannah Maloof and I am 19 years old.

I wouldn't say I'm girly at all. I barely do my makeup.

I always put my all into everything,

a hundred and ten percent into everything I do.

I just love racing, I love going fast, I love the adrenaline. I love...

building the car and the engine.

I like naturally aspirated. Like no turbos, no nitrous.

I like to pull as much horsepower as I can out of the engine and get it done.

I don't use nitrous. I think nitrous is, you know, bottles are for babies so...

I've never been nervous around cars. I grew up in it.

My dad is Sammy Maloof, he's a stuntman...

...and he builds racing engines and owns a shop

and has been racing his whole life.

My dad is one of the best. I couldn't have asked for a better dad.

I'm a Hollywood stuntman. Vehicular stunts is my specialty.

It's a nature to me. It's not second nature, it's my nature.

It's what I eat, drink, breath, and sleep.

I didn't just grow up around quiet, everyday cars,

I grew up around loud muscle cars. You know, fast cars.

Here we go, hold it up. More, more, more.

More, more. More, more.

My dad has been training me in precision driving. Stunts.

My first race, I was 16. I had just got my license.

I'm not good with the whole school thing.

I was home-schooled.

I've learned so much more being here than I do at a school,

because at a school, you're not really learning anything.

- That one? Wait. - No, it's too big. Way too big.

- What size is that? - Just give me a crescent wrench.

When you send kids to schools,

and this is not knocking a school, this is just me.

You got 700 kids... training their kids.

They're gonna teach them how to lie. They're gonna teach them how to steal.

Go in my engine room and get my box of fittings.

Where's those wrenches?

I have three daughters, and they are so mechanically inclined.

Go get four shorties that'll go in here.

I went to college for two weeks.

I listened to a teacher making 36 grand a year.

I made more than him in one month in illegal street racing

than he did all year.

Every day, Hannah is building racing engines with me.

I love being here. I love the shop.

Eventually, when I get older, I'm gonna take over the shop.

Then I'm gonna be racing in my dad's 1964 Chevy Pickup Truck.

It's got one of my dad's engines in it, so it's definitely a sleeper.

This was his first car.

When I was 15, I wanted to get into street racing

because that's what I wanted, to make my money.

Most of the time, they're gonna look at this brick and they're gonna say,

"How is this thing gonna ever run against the car?"

I never lost a race in my pickup.

I'm super-excited to race a supercar.

That's really cool and it's really exciting.

My name is Bisi Ezerioha.

I was actually born in Lynwood, California,

but I went to Nigeria when I was very young,

and I spent a majority of my life there.

But came here to United States really to pursue my passion with engineering.

My dad was a geologist and my mom was a biochemist

who's brilliant, by the way, and was a big influence on me.

But the entire time I was in school, I did something quite naughty.

I got into street racing.

It was a really good way to make money.

The best night I had was a $5,000 pot.

After that, I was hooked.

After graduating from university, I was doing very well,

making six figures in pharmaceutical sales.

But the whole time I was in pharma, I raced.

I raced, and raced, and raced.

And then this other side of my business started picking up very nicely on the side

where I go to track and people kept approaching me to make things for them.

Well, it started becoming quite lucrative,

but I don't have the balls to just leave this six-figure comfortable job.

- And then here comes Hedi. - I was a pre-med major at USC.

He comes up to me and he goes, "Are you courting anyone?"

And I was like, "Whoa, this is like Gaelic English or something."

We both have engineering and chemistry type of backgrounds.

We are both very technical.

She comes from a family of entrepreneurs

and watched me for a long time and says, "Bisi, you need to do this."

She really pushed me to work on cars,

and now I'm the owner and founder of Bisimoto Engineering.

We take these cars that you would never expect to be exciting,

and we make them exciting.

I really enjoy what I do, but it is a balancing act.

If I spend all my time on my business, my family life will suffer.

My wife and I after getting married didn't even...

we've not gone on our honeymoon yet. We constantly work.

It's one of our biggest hurdles, I think.

There's so many fears of, like, failure, not being able to make ends meet,

or what could happen if the business didn't go as planned.

Hi, Akira.

When Akira was born, it changed significantly my outlook on life.

That's what got me into building minivans. Because I love speed...

but I have a growing family. So how could I eat my cake and have it, too?

I know. Let's build this van. It will just be a fun project.

It's not a bright red, or menacing black, or... or canary yellow.

It's burgundy.

You can't get any more bland... than burgundy.

This Odyssey is the perfect sleeper

because it looks like it can't do much of anything.

1029 is the official horsepower rating

for this 2014 Bisimoto Odyssey.

- What's the unofficial? - I can't say.

Quite a bit more than that.

I'm severely underestimated in my racing,

and upon launch I'm left,

and then by the time I hit third gear, I'm right there,

and by the time I'm fourth and fifth, I'm passing everyone.

I am... accustomed to winning.

I'm very proud of my accomplishments.

If you go to my office, you'll see tons of trophies.

Street cred...