I filmed it while I was traveling to film Roadkill. Once we wrapped filming Roadkill in Gardena, California I drove to Torrance, California to the headquarters of Ace Racing Engines. There, I got to look at and fondle parts that I've collected over the past 12 months for an upcoming project car. This episode is about the very first steps in building the engine, namely measuring the oil clearances of each crankshaft main bearing. It's a sweet video that will help you when it's time to build your first engine.

Finnegan's Garage is all about discovery how and why my all-aluminum 632ci Big Block Chevy Nitrous Motor broke during the World Finals of Drag Boat Racing last November. It was a disappointing racing weekend to say the least. We travelled from Georgia to Arizona with high hopes that we could be competitive in two different racing classes. Instead of running with the big dogs we struggled to go as fast as we had in the past when this engine was naturally aspirated. After hours of disassembling the engine, carefully measuring and staring at parts, now we know what happened. Check it out.

You asked me top get crackin on my '61 Cadillac Coupe DeVille and that's what I'm doing in Episode 283 of Finnegan's Garage. After a full week of cutting, grinding, sanding, fitting and welding, the entire driver side exhaust system is finished. From turbo to tailpipe, she is done! Watch this video and I'm going to show you how I did it as well as school you on some cool parts and cools!

Mike Finnegan's Garage is all about the adventure! This time we journey to Dallas, Georgia in search of automotive treasure as we seek out the original location of Southeastern International Dragway. Sadly, by the time we arrived there wasn't much left in the way of treasure, but we still had fun in our fake 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona and that's all the really matters.

Mike Finnegan's Garage and this time we are fixing Blasphemi, moddying my 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, and hopping up my garage. It's a super fun one! First up, we had a leaking head gasket on Blasphemi and rather than ripping the motor apart we did what most humans would do, we went to the auto parts store and bought a can of fix-it sauce. Oddly enough, it worked!

I hope you're sitting down cause this is one long, strange and fun road trip. This episode of Mike Finnegan's Garage is all about a trip my friends I took, which began in Georgia but saw us driving to the coast of South Carolina and then to the mountains of North Carolina and finally, back to Georgia. Along the way I bought a 1970 Datsun 510 two-door, with the goal of driving it from the beach to the mountains so we could go snowboarding one last time before the season ended. The car was mostly great and it made it home intact. My leg? Not so much. lol

Who doesn't like a shot at scoring free stuff and who doesn't like their car wiring to melt? Everybody! That's why I've teamed up with the good people at Wire Care to not only fix the wiring nightmares under the hood of my latest project car, a 1970 Datsun 510, but I'm also gonna give away some cool tools and supplies so that you can do the same to your ride. All you have to do is leave a comment on this video. I'll choose my favorite response from the comment section and that person is gonna win a massive haul of Deutch connectors, tools and swag from Wire Care. Three more people are going to win my signature series Cable Tie kits as well! Just leave a comment in the next 48 hours and I promise I'll read every single one of them until I find my favorite and choose the winners.

Mike Finnegan's Garage is a sad one because I'm sending the Roadkill Ramp Truck, my 1973 Chevrolet Crew Cab Dually, down the road to it's new owner. After 8 years of proud ownership, it's time to say goodbye, fix a few odds and ends, and fondly look back at the good times we've had together. I know this is a sudden departure but I have good reasons to sell the truck and I'm excited about the future. So sit back, relax and take a trip down memory lane with Joe and I as we say, "Goodbye, Old Friend."

Mike Finnegan's Garage is a banger! I'm introducing a new project, exploring a spooky warehouse full of cool equipment while trying not to get killed, and driving cross country in a 26 year old truck. This was all made possible by the good people at Bling Sauce and its Platinum line of automotive detailing products.

First off, I had to take care of the shifter in my 1970 Datsun 510 because every time I reached for Second Gear, the shifter punched the dashboard and I smashed my knuckles. I ended up fixing it with fire! Then, I pulled my 13,000 original mile 1998 GMC Sierra short bed truck into the garage to measure it for new wheels and tires and a better suspension. Finally, I headed to Lithia Springs Ford to test drive two different 2024 Ford F250 Superduty trucks while towing my 28 foot ATC RoM 550 trailer. Not a lot of dealers will let the customer hook up their race trailer to a truck like that just for a test drive but I was determined to find out which was going to work better for my needs; the 7.3L Godzilla gas engine or the 6.7L high-output diesel engine.

We head back to Alabama International Dragway in Steele, Alabama, to track test the Rubber Duck. My 1967 Pontiac Firebird 400 is a legit barn find, a car that my friends and I drug out of a Georgia wood barn after lying dormant for 16 years. Since that day we have been tweaking and refining this Pro Street car in search of turning it into an 8 second street/strip car.

After finding problems with The Rubber Duck at the dragstrip, we headed right to the chassis dyno to figure it out. We left the dyno with more horsepower and a happier car. This video gives a breakdown of the changes and we double check our camshaft valve lash and valve springs at home in my garage. Hope you enjoy it. Next stop, is back to the dragstrip to see if we can finally run an 8 second pass in my 1967 Pontiac Firebird.

The car I've been teasing you about for over a year is finally in my garage and being worked on. In this video we show you portions of my new drag and drive beast, a car that hopefully is fast enough to trip the beams of a 1/4 mile dragstrip in under 7 seconds at over 200 mph. Powering the project is a custom-built 400ci LS engine crafted by Ace Racing Engines in Torrance, California.

I can't believe we are nearing the 300th episode we've dropped since 2016. It's been a wild ride and the pursuit to make our barn-find '67 Pontiac Firebird run an 8 second pass at the dragstrip has been just as wild. In this vid we are back at Alabama Dragway to see if recent upgrades and tuning changes results in quicker ETs. We are on on the right track and the car is improving, even doing a small wheelie in this video!

Hands-down, this is the most fun I've had with cars in a long, long time. We took my 1968 Dodge Charger, aka The Death Metal Charger, to Mooresville Dragway and instead of pointing it straight down the asphalt dragstrip for a few seconds we went round and round a new dirt roadcourse for hours! The 450hp turbocharged Toyota 2JZGE engine and new QA1 front suspension performed flawlessly and aside from a couple of minor fixes to the cooling and air inlet systems, the car just kept going and going like a boss.

My favorite car in the Finnegan's Garage fleet--Blasphemi! This 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air has been with me the longest and its the first long-term project we ever tackled on Roadkill, the Motor Trend show I still film each month with David Freiburger. I'm still pushing towards that magical place where speed and reliability share real estate and in this video we perform three new mods to accomplish that goal. First, we slide a larger pair of Stainless Headers Manufacturing collectors onto the primary tubes of our headers. Next, we replace a small Hilborn injector with a larger one that my buddy Phil Rohr sent me. Finally, we build a new set of header collector extensions aka Bullhorns and then a longer pair of front leaf spring shackles.

Mike Finnegan's Garage sees us heading to Mooresville, North Carolina to visit Pete Harrell and Mike Moore. The goal is to further our diagnosis as to why the valves are hitting the pistons of our really expensive 632ci Big Block Chevy race engine. In Episode 282, after a disastrous weekend of racing, we tore the entire engine down in my home garage only to discover some major issues with parts hitting other parts inside the aluminum V8.

it's all about modifying my OBS GMC truck. I bought this 1998 GMC Sierra W/T in Austin, Texas with just over 12,000 miles on the odometer and the drove it about 1,000 miles back home to Georgia. Now it's time to make it lower, louder and faster in time to show it off at the 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. This video is Part 1 of 2 that will detail the installation of a Ridetech coilover conversion. In this video we tackle the front suspension and next week we'll show you how to revamp the rear of the truck.

Modifying my 1998 GMC Sierra W/T. I bought this truck in Texas with just over 12,000 miles on the odometer and then drove it about 1,000 miles back home to Georgia. Now it's time to make it lower, louder and faster in time to show it off at the 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. This video is Part 2 of a full Ridetech coilover conversion and will cover the revamp of the rear suspension.

I decided to do something big; I'm finally going to show you the mystery project car that I've been hiding for a very long time.

Update on the no-longer-a-secret small tire project, my 2018 Lexus LC500. Now that it's at RK Racecraft in Cartersville, Georgia, it's time to get to work. The car was blown completely apart until it was nothing but a shell, some tubing, and an engine. During the process of taking the car apart, all of the carbon fiber inner paneling was removed and a lot of the interior rollcage tubing was removed in preparation for a new design.