Street Outlaws TV show

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by P-R-N-D-3-2-1, Jan 6, 2015.

  1. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    I wonder if Mike Murillo got a letter banning him as well. His turbo Stang got down the road pretty well on Cash Days.

    With his conspicuous absence from the racing scene this season, you may be wondering where Mike Murillo and his familiar “Lafawnduh” Ford Mustang have been as of late. After all, the popular Texan has been barnstorming the country for years with his SCT Performance-sponsored twin-turbo Mustang, collecting a staggering 14 (fourteen!) NMRA and NMCA championships along the way, and needless to say, his success has made him quite the fixture in street legal and small-tire drag racing.As many will recall, Murillo made the long-awaited switch to alcohol on his 542 cubic inch big block over the winter and was out shaking the new combination down back in the early spring months to prepare for the racing season ahead. But, as it turns out, his racing plans got a little sidetracked when a pair of newly-minted television stars (one of whom could almost qualify as his own doppelgnger) came calling.[​IMG]And who are those individuals you ask? How about “Murder Nova” Shawn Ellington and “Big Chief” Justin Shearer of Discovery Channel’s Street Outlaws fame. That’s right, Mike Murillo has been in the ‘405’, and you’re likely to see him — and possibly even Lafawnduh — on an upcoming season of the wildly popular reality television program.Murillo, who operates Murillo Motorsports, a do-it-all high performance shop in San Antonio, has been assisting the Midwest Street Cars gang up in Oklahoma City with their turbocharged street cars made famous over the last couple of years on the Discovery Channel, working to make them quicker and faster than ever.“Assisting is a pretty good word for it,” says Murillo. “Chief is Chief and he knows what he’s doing. I’ve given my input on several occasions and will continue to assist as long as they want me to and as much as I can along the way. We have quite the mix of opinions that can cloud the waters of progression at times but it’s working out well so far. “I by no means am taking credit for all their successes and for sure any and all failures,” he says with a laugh.[​IMG]He continued, “Chief and I have some scary weird things in common besides our looks — but he knows I’m sexier. DNA tests are inconclusive at this point but both of our mothers have no knowledge of one another. Chief and I are both smartasses, but we work very well together. Shawn is my boy and he’s my ride-or-die ninja. That man is just driven to win and loves to burn rubber.”
     

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  2. Doubleclutch

    Doubleclutch Well-Known Member

    I just saw the Farm Truck duo in the old Caddy Hearse. What a crack-up!! They hollowed out the front seats and made chest covers that look like seats with speaker boxes with a front grill for their heads. The Caddy is rigged to smoke. Then they cruise the members garages --just a drive through with the ancient Caddy looks like no driver. I thought a great one.
     
  3. wildcat4

    wildcat4 Well-Known Member

    I enjoy the show...FOR THE CARS!
    I just wish the retard producers would pick 1 or maybe 2 camera views per race. Heck I can't hardly tell what
    happened when a car starts to slide, they flash to the rear tire, then the driver then the starter, then the other driver
    , then my grandmas yard...
    they never just show the cars. It's giving me a headache wishing I could see all of Big Chiefs' wheel stand not
    just 1 second clip.
    They even have replays of each race but do we ever see a different view...NO just the same exact thing.
    I guess the director or editor or producer thinks this makes racing exciting! YEA the cars are too boring to watch
    so lets get this to look really fast!!!! and we will even dub in some street tires screeching too!!!
    Other than the cameras I like the show.
     
  4. hugger

    hugger Well-Known Member

    Probably the same old sound bytes of screeching tires on dirt they used on Dukes of Hazzard HA but yea they run a like a half mile time the race is over
     
  5. BQUICK

    BQUICK Gold Level Contributor

    Do they ever even say if it is 1/8 or 1/4?

    You're right...the filming makes it seem like 1/2 or more....
     
  6. hugger

    hugger Well-Known Member

    They say its a 1/8
     
  7. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    It is 1/8th. Cars are too fast to do a quarter on the street. I agree, the way they film it, it seems to be a standing mile. Next season they are using a laugh track every time someone says something they think is funny. [​IMG]
     
  8. TimR

    TimR Nutcase at large

    I agree with you 100% but it seems to be the new way of filming stuff to make it look more exciting, not to mention it hides the real times the cars run :) I do love the cars, the guys are pretty funny too... Even my wife thinks its an interesting show....(she is well educated and all of these reality shows bore her (and me) completely, most are stupid IMHO... we are debating shutting off the cable completely since it is mostly crap these days...
     
  9. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    I agree, the camera angles are annoying. I too watch it mainly for the cars, but I get a kick out of some of the personalities. And I have to give credit, even my wife has gotten into the show and likes to watch the racing and thinks the cars are pretty B.A. I just take it for what its worth, edited for TV entertainment. I do think they are legit car guys though and would be cool to hang out in the shop with (and play with their toys!) And getting those cars to hook the way they do is pretty impressive.
     
  10. Joe65SkylarkGS

    Joe65SkylarkGS 462 ina 65 Lark / GN

    Farmtruck and Azn are the best part of the show hands down.

    The hearse bit had me rolling on the floor!!!!

    I think it's safe to say Big Chief is the show favorite. Seems like a cool dude and drives a sweet goat. That boogies I might add lol.
     
  11. moleary

    moleary GOD Bless America

    Entertaining television for sure.
     
  12. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

    I did something the other day and was shocked, go to youtube and search each driver, you'll get a quick since on how fast those cars are! Look up Big Chief first and hit the one him testing his new combo ;) by the way The Cutty is in the next lane.. Holy Sxxt was my words after the video... Sincerely Gary M.
     
  13. moleary

    moleary GOD Bless America

    Too bad not one of those cars are true street cars. Nice trucks and trailers though.

    Clearly they lost touch with real street racing But it makes for entertaining televison, right?

    This only puts passhole ideas into passholes on the street who have no businesss with thier pee brains driving piles of ship blowing down the road flunking up lives.

    Stay Cool..
     
  14. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

    So, I assume the dragweek cars are not street cars either then? The Farmtruck does get driven more then you think and most of those guys do drive their cars on the road more then you think. Then again you probably say atleast I have a/c and can drive anywhere but you are not pushing no where near the power any of those guys, right? I'm still wanting to see someone build a big block Buick to challenge these guys but No one on here has enough money or their just not up to it, I haven't figured which one yet :( Besides that, if I had the cash to do it, you betcha I woulf build a sick twin turbo bbb ;)
     
  15. tufbuick

    tufbuick RIP

  16. crazychevy

    crazychevy Gold Level Contributor

  17. moleary

    moleary GOD Bless America

    These guys are good at what they do. Farm Truck is the best. Yes, They drive those cars on the road all the time...Right off the trailer, and race down the road and back on the trailer. These are not street cars; they are street raced cars Is the point I am making and heavily sponsored.

    Why dont you get sponsored by those big name companies you constantly are telling us about and build something to go all out and whoop those guys and represent the BUICK community ? that Riviera project would be perfect.

    Clearly there isn't a drag car owned by anyone on this forum that knows enough or has the resources, right?
     
  18. Jim Rodgers

    Jim Rodgers Well-Known Member

    Thats correct. There will never be a Buick powered Buick in their top three.
     
  19. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    I, as well as others on this site, have the resources and capability to build a car capable of competing with anyone on the street. The question is, "How many want to?" If I decide to invest enough time and money into a fast race car, I'm not going to risk losing everything.
     
  20. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

    Smokey, you no longer have to worry about that anymore, they are doing no prep races all over the nation to prove their point too. Matter of fact, they will be in Memphis motorplex this March doing one and its $20,000 grand to the winner. They are looking for people that are like Kye . If you can build it, they want you to prove you are faster then them not just say you are and you have a legit street car. Everyone has their opinion on street cars, look at Larry Larson's S-10, he can and has driven that thing more then most people on here making a misly 700 horsepower. :( Smokey, I know where you work and what you can get done, matter of fact , why don't you explain to folks here what you do and what the company does! They would crap them selves knowing what you are capable of doing.. Sincerely Gary M.
     

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