Mike Finnegan's Garage we wrap up my latest project while giving you priceless tips for finishing your project car. I turned my 1957 Chevrolet 210 Wagon into a Gasser so that I can give it away to someone special. Today is the day I reveal the name of the winner of the car and also those of you who won the other awesome prizes in this amazing giveaway sponsored by ‪@WireCare‬

Anyway, this one is about the 1998 GMC Sierra work truck that Joe and I put together last October in preparation for its debut for the annual SEMA Show. While the truck ran and drove into the show and looked great, it was far from really being finished and road-ready. Before we could have real fun behind the wheel we had to get the transmission tuning for the Gearstar Level IV 6L90 worked out. That required a few hours of time spent with Jeff Harris of Mo's Speed Shop in Dallas, Georgia. Jeff plugged his laptop into the OBDII port of the truck and was able to manipulate the tune so that the truck would shift properly so we could drive at more than 1/4 throttle. While we haven't strapped the shop truck down to the dyno rollers to see how much power it makes, we did road test it and take it to our local 1/8 mile dragstrip to help donate toys for local kids who didn't have much for Christmas. Hope you enjoy the video, our next one will be about prepping Blasphemi for Sick Week 2025.

This time we are getting ready for Sick Week 2025, which happens in less than 8 days from now. We've accomplished a lot in the ol garage during the last 60 days and are confident we'll be ready for one of the best events of the season. All we need now is a Hemi and a few days to test the car, which we hope are January 25-27 at South Georgia Motorsports Park. The event officially begins on January 27 and runs until February 2nd, 2025.

We are just days away from the start of Sick Week 2025 and the car is fighting us. Starting with a shell weeks earlier we began putting Blasphemi back together to ready her for competition and we are running out of time to finish the job. On the bright side, one of the upcoming sponsors of our Sick Week 2025 movie, B&P Manufacturing, delivered a custom-build trailer that is one-of-a-kind and will make our road trip so much better!

The contest to win my 1957 Chevy G-Wagon is over but this video covers the day the winner picked up the car and immediately tried to burn the tires off of it. lol. You're gonna love it. We just wrapped up our Sick Week adventure, which we are editing now, and are set to work on my 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. We'll have more content on that bad girl real soon.

In the middle of Sick week 2025, a road-tripping drag racing event, I decided that Blasphemi really needed to be tuned on a chassis dyno. So, in the middle of the event, we stopped by Kevin Smith's KSR Performance in Gainesville, Florida, to strap the car to his Dynojet and measure the power output of the 528ci Hemi. We did this because the day before, we noticed our Holley Dominator EFI system adding nearly 300 lb/hr of additional fuel to the base fuel map even though we weren't asking it to do so. Luckily, Pete Harrell, owner of Harrel Engine and Dyno, the shop that built the Hemi was onhand to dissect the data we were looking at and to make the calls on how to adjust the tune. What we discovered on the dyno was that Cylinder number 5 was running lean, even though the average of all the cylinders were not. By adding fuel to just that cylinder, were able to lower its Exhaust Gas Temperature and subsequently the EFI system stopped adding so much extra fuel to every cylinder of the engi

Finnegan's Garage has that old school Roadkill vibe. We drug this '60 Elco out of the woods, replaced the brakes, tires, clutch and radiator, cleaned up the rat turds and managed to drive it home!

I'm happy to report that we are back to work on my 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Unfortunately, to prevent future disasters involving rust between the floor and chassis, I had to separate the two pieces. Once I did that it just felt right to build a completely new floor to gain some much-needed head room in the car.

I traded a holy 1960 Chevrolet El Camino, the same car I drug out of the woods a few weeks ago, for a 1986 Cadillac Brougham four-door that rides on air bags. After doing donuts and burnouts I cleaned it up, fixed some wiring, and am now ready to swap the Caddy for the next car. It could be yours if I like your trade offer.

Mike Finnegan's Garage was supposed to be about driving a a low-mile Third Gen Camaro home from Valdosta, Georgia but it didn't quite work out that way. Instead of blasting up I-75 with the radio cranked and my beard in the wind, Joe and I spent our time blasting brake parts cleaner through fuel injectors in an effort to fix a persistent misfire in the engine of the next FSM giveaway car. We still had fun, though, and the car is now ready for its new owner. Want a chance to win one of the prizes in our newest sweepstakes?

This is the day I snagged several cars from the Motor Trend fleet of show vehicles. These are the projects we busted our asses on, made memories behind the wheel of, and changed the path of our lives with. The Vette Kart, Momsoon, and Greta the Pinto are all coming home. Later on, I'll show you even more. This episode is about getting them running and road tripping the Vette Kart four hours home from Derek Bieri's shop in Tennessee. We got stopped by the cops, ran out of gas and had a damn good time.

Finnegan's Garage gives you more of what you've been asking for--Cadillac footage and an update on my 2018 Lexus LC500 project. This time around, we are fortifying the Caddy chassis and visiting RK Racecraft to see the progress on the Lexus, which is also receiving extensive chassis work.

A few months ago, I drug a 1960 Chevy El Camino out of a friends yard after it sat for 16 years. I traded that Elco for an '86 Cadillac Brougham and after having fun with the air suspension, I'm trading that car, too. The goal is to eventually trade cars until I end up with a bucket list ride. For now, we are trading the Caddy for a '53 Chevy 3600 3/4 ton pickup. Episode 341 of Mike Finnegan's Garage follows us to Indiana to Indian to make the trade and then back home to Georgia to get the truck running again because, of course, it hasn't run in years either.