explaining why anyone would cut the floor boards out of a car and replace them with diamond plate pattern plates that would fall out when the piston rings blow.

Spilner has blown the piston rings on his green Mitsubishi Eclipse, and the car is in bad enough shape that it is belching out smoke when he rolls up after the race, seemingly the last rolling that car will be doing for a while. However, suddenly, when the police show up, those blown piston rings are no longer a problem and the green Eclipse is loose and outrunning police interceptor patrol cars.

Toretto jumps into the Eclipse for a quick gettaway, but he doesn't seem to worry about his feet hanging out the bottom of the car. Remember, the floor fell out during the race.