It's a new year and a new decade so why not look back on the history of my 1967 Chevrolet C10 show truck while also crafting a custom-build roll cage for it? The dudes from MRC Fabrication in Walnut Grove, North Carolina, dropped by the garage to help build a cage that will stiffen the tube chassis and provide a measure of safety if I ever crash the truck at high speeds.

The Roadkill Chevy Square body ramp truck has served me well over the years. This 1973 Chevy R30 has hauled cars, trucks-even boats to race tracks all across America. It's even been to the famed Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah, for Speed Week, which is why the truck now has rust eating through the fenders and doors of this 40 year old Chevy. In this episode we are going to disassemble parts of the truck while still keeping the Cummins 6BT 12 valve diesel engine intact. The goal is to strip the cab down so that we can media blast the sheetmetal in preparation for replacement panels.

Ever wondered how to remove powdercoating without killing yourself? It's not easy. I've tried all kinds of ways to do the job. Today, I'm finally stepping up to a media blast cabinet so that I can strip the coating off some of my jet boat parts. Today we are working on the turbo boat, a lightweight water rocket powered by a 711ci Sonny Leonard Chevy Hemi, with twin Precision turbos and a custom jet drive. The boat has yet to hit the water but our plans are to begin water testing in spring 2020. Today's task to undo some work we previously did when this boat appeared at the 2016 SEMA show. Our charge tube, which connects the intercooler to the Accufab throttle body no longer fits and we must build a new one. Before we can do that, we've got remove some old powder coating from the aluminum tubing. Enter Clemco and Rock Ridge Abrasives. We worked with both companies to set up a media blasting station in my home garage, which is beneath my house. The Shop Mate cabinet was a great solution, offering the ability to strip small and medium size parts (We've fit a trailer hitch and long tube header in there!) without filling my garage or Wifey's kitchen with a dangerous dust cloud! This video will school you on the different types of materials available for media blasting and they are used for as well as the finer points of the Shop Mate as we keep moving along on the hardcore fabrication project.

Newbern went behind my back and replaced the headliner in Square Force 1, my 1989 GMC R30 crew cab ramp truck and it turned out so good! This video is all about my surprise gift of fresh upholstery above my head. Check it out!

The day began like any other one; I checked my messages and saw several links to ramp trucks for sale. This one was different, though. I clicked through the spam and saw no ordinary truck. In fact, it wasn't even a ramp truck and yet I was still intrigued. What flashed across the screen was a 1998 Ford F800 behemoth that was stretched from a four-door crew cab to a six-door colossus! Even better, the truck reportedly only had 30,000 miles on the odometer and was powered by a Cummins 12 valve 6BT Diesel engine and seven-speed Spicer manual transmission. This was a red and white unicorn! So David Newbern and I hatched a plan; we'd fly to Iowa, buy the truck and road trip it 900 miles back to Georgia where we'd eventually hop-up the diesel and stretch the chassis to accommodate a giant enclosed ramp bed. We made it about 150 miles before the entire plan fell apart thanks to a wounded engine. This is part 1 of the fun. Come back to see what happens after this road trip comes to a screeching halt in the parking lot of a fireworks store in Missouri.

In episode 91 Newbern and I flew from Georgia to Iowa to purchase a 1998 Ford F800 cab and chassis commercial truck that had been stretched from a four-door crew cab to a six-door behemoth. The truck only had 30,000 miles on the odometer and we believed the mileage figure to be accurate. We also believed the seller who said it was ready for a cross-country road trip, even though the truck had a few suspect attributes. First off, during the test drive, the heater kept shutting off whenever I put my foot on the floor. Second, the radiator cap was leaking and lastly, the oil level dipstick had a homemade rubber strap holding it in place. None of these were good signs that the Cummins 12-valve diesel engine was completely healthy but after flying all the way to Iowa and falling in love with the six-door cab, we figured we'd take the risk and buy it anyway. After all, the dude said he had performed a "blobby test" and it passed with flying colors. lol Anyway, the truck ran fine but about 150 miles into the trip the heater stopped blowing cold air and then the temp gauge pegged the needle at the "H" mark. I quickly pulled over and shut off the Cummins. Popping the hood revealed a radiator gushing an mixture oil and coolant from the overflow tube, a surefire sign that the combustion chambers were no longer isolated from the cooling passages of the engine. It was late at night, nobody wanted to tow the behemoth without charging us several thousand dollars to do so, and so we checked into a local motel. This video picks up the following morning after my friend Jimmy Bullard helped us find a local tow company operator who was so generous that he not only towed the truck to his shop, but he also let us use his tools and fix it ourselves. What a guy!

After nearly six years of construction, my 19-foot long Placecraft jet boat is ready to rip the water. In this video we finish fabricating, wiring and plumbing the 711 cubic inch Sonny Leonard Racing Engines twin-turbo Hemi and it roars to life. We also drop this brand new boat into the water to see if it's floats. This video also gives you tips on building battery cables, fabricating aluminum parts and how I used compressed Co2 aka Carbon Dioxide to control the Precision turbocharger wastegates as well as the shifter and Place Diverter adjustable jet drive nozzle. As much as I'd like to make a fast pass in Game Over there is still a lot of tuning to do before this boat is safe. The engine has not been Dyno-tuned and we'll likely do that ourselves by driving the boat and making changes as we go. That takes time so bear with us as we take baby steps towards finishing this insane pleasure boat project.

These are strange times we are living in. The novel Coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, has changed the way we all interact on a daily basis. Like most of you, I've been isolated at home with my family. My job, hosting the video show, Roadkill, is in limbo. I have no idea if or when the show will resume filming new episodes. My new job is working with my wife to home-school our young children and keep them safe, happy, healthy and fed. So far things have not been all that tough. We still have food to eat and we are all happy to do our part to stop the spread of the virus. A week has gone by since the world was put on notice that things had to change. Today is the first day I felt compelled to upload a new video to my YouTube channel, which I admit has been a nice distraction. I plan to upload videos more frequently from here on out and since I'm in no position to lecture or give advice on anything beyond having fun with cars, trucks and boats, that's what I'll continue to do. We are fortunate to live next to a beautiful lake called Allatoona in Northwest Georgia. This video is about lake-testing my 711ci Hemi-powered jet boat. It's actually only the second time I've ever driven the boat. It took over six years to build it from a bare hull into what you see here. The first time I drove the boat I just idled it around a marina to see if it floated and wouldn't sink. In this video I give it just enough throttle to begin tuning it and simply cruised it around the lake with my kids aboard (one at a time) and my friend David Newbern also taking a turn behind the wheel. Don't worry, the kids had life vests on while they were aboard and we never went faster than 30 mph. I'll have another video update this week. I'm still working on the jet boat and my 1967 C10 truck. Currently I'm building a custom pair of stainless steel headers and modifying the fuel cell and have some really cool tips, tricks and tools to show you that will help you build your own headers. Stay sa

Being cooped up in the shop for two weeks straight was getting to us so we decided to head to a semi-secluded spot to see if the 1969 Chevy C50 ramp truck that we traded for last year would actually smoke the tires. It wasn't easy and we tried every trick in the book (except putting tranny fluid on the tires because we have standards!) to finally make smoke pouring off the rear wheels. Now that we see the potential of the hot rod hauler we've ordered up a bunch of parts to poke a Weiand 6-71 supercharger through the hood of the truck. If all goes well, we'll have the the parts next week and will begin transforming this slow, unreliable ramp truck into a faster and still unreliable ramp truck. Thanks for watching!

Our fourth lake test was a success! After troubleshooting the ignition and fuel systems that plagued our last test session, we finally got to rip across the water at 90 mph and there's plenty of speed left in this beast once we get the air/fuel mixture tuned perfectly and stop the turbos from trying to melt the fiberglass boat hull. This video has lots of tips about troubleshooting V8 engines and it ends with us having the time of our lives in Game Over, our twin-turbo jet boat.

You've been patient and so have we; we've tested our 711ci twin-turbo Hemi-powered jet boat four times and never had any boost from the 88mm Precision turbochargers. Today, we finally fixed a few small issues, did some EFI and jet drive tuning, and shoved 8 psi of boost into the all-aluminum Hemi Chevy and the engine responded with big-time power. We wound the engine up to 7,000 rpm and ripped across the lake in seconds. In fact, the boat accelerated from idle speed to over 100 mph in just four seconds. We are just barely scratching the surface of how ridiculous this 19-foot long, 420 pound boat hull is capable of. Stay tuned for more and in the meantime enjoy this video about our latest triumphs in Game Over.

We are back working on my 1967 Chevrolet C10 project truck. For those that don't know, this truck has a tube chassis, independent front and rear suspension, a Chevrolet Performance supercharged LT4 engine and 6Xd.com six-speed sequential gearbox. The gearbox is brand new and I haven't dropped the video on it yet. That will come next week. In the meantime, here's an informative video about cutting and welding stainless steel headers for any custom project vehicle. We teamed up with Michael Furyik of Dogfab.com before the pandemic exploded to film this video using his new professional mandrel bend market tool as well as a couple other homemade tools for making the joints between tubes much tighter and easier to weld. I hope you dig this.

The last few last big pieces of the puzzle to rebuild my slammed 1967 Chevy C10 project truck are now in place. We just installed a billet 6xdgearbox.com sequential six-speed gearbox and Mantic USA twin-disc clutch on the back of the supercharged Chevy LT4 engine. The transmission can be shifted through all six gears super fast and without lifting off the gas pedal or using the clutch. It's an all-aluminum case machined from solid billets and with o-rings everywhere for easy serviceability. The clutch is capable of holding 1,000 lb-ft of torque and can be rebuilt and upgraded for more power later on. Now that the trans and driveshaft are in and now we can make a realistic list of the remaining fabrication, plumbing and wiring jobs to perform we can drive this badass truck.

Somehow, someway we have managed to film 100 episodes of this show. It happened so fast that I almost didn't notice that the magic number was rapidly approaching. When I did, though, I made plans to celebrate it the best way I knew how-with you guys! You all made this possible. This channel doesn't work without you watching and sharing the information and fun that David Newbern, Mike Cotten and I get to have on a regular basis.

Blasphemi has new graphics, there's a bagged Toyota Mini-truck in the garage, and lots of other updates on the Finnegan Garage fleet can be found in this episode.

This vid is short but sweet. I copped a new pair of MSD spark plug wire crimpers and built these plug wires for my 1969 Chevy C50 Ramp Truck in about 15 minutes. Thanks to the wonders of time-lapse video technology you can watch me do the job in under two minutes. Full vid of the supercharger install is coming soon. In the meantime, have a great day! Oh yeah, Here's a link to the crimpers, which also have replaceable jaws for crimping Weatherpak, AMP, and Deutch connectors, too!

At the end of 2019 my buddy Cletus tells me he's buying his own racetrack. I'm floored and so freakin happy for him. Then in January he calls me at the minute to fly out for the very first video shoot at the new Freedom Factory. I hopped a plane and when I wasn't hooping and smiling I filmed whatever I could on my iPhone. It was so a fun day! I can't wait to go back. In the meantime enjoy 18 minutes of mayhem courtesy of V8s, radial tires, and a few madmen behind the wheel.

It's time for a shop update and trivia night. This video is full of info on our 1969 Chevy C10, which just got a Weiand 6-71 blower and dual Holley carbs, our '67 Chevy C10, Blasphemi 1955 Chevy Bel Air, and the turbo boat.

So many of you have wondered how we are making the twin-turbo jet boat sit still while revving the Hemi and then launching it that we decided to drop a new video explaining why Game Over looks like it has a trans brake. It's true, this jet boat has no brakes, no seat belts, no transmission and yet we still treat it like a fast drag car when we spool up the turbos and unleash the twin-turbo Hemi on the water. How is this possible? Well, we'll show you. In this video we explain how we redirect the water coming out of the jet drive to the sides of the boat, which enables us to rev the engine to over 4,000 rpm and then drop the hammer and take off like we've been shot out of cannon! and just for fun, we lined up 100 ft behind my neighbors PWC for a short drag race on our local lake! No surprise, we blew past the PWC like it was tied to a dock. It was still fun though.

In this video not only will you see how we fit the massive supercharger under the stub nose hood of Chevy's medium-duty truck, but we'll also give you tips on fabricating, ignition systems, and how to get your nasty chassis clean with a brand-new product from CRC Industries.

We took a small break from wrenching on cars because it's super hot in Georgia right now and instead worked on stuff that we could play on the lake with. I've had a 1994 Yamaha Waverunner Superjet for about 10 years now and next to my jet boat, it's the most fun thing to ever rip the water. After searching high and low for a 2020 model Superjet, I found one of the last SJ's for sale in the USA in Florida. The good homie Cletus McFarland was kind enough to pick it up from the dealer and deliver it to me. I jokingly suggested he use Leroy the Savage to pick up the new ride but I didn't think he'd actually do it.

There is a place not far from me where the freedom echoes off the rooftops of lakefront houses, where men dare to blast across water in machines made of fiberglass, with engine's so large that the boats nearly sink under the weight of their awesomeness. We journey to Waterloo, South Carolina, to witness the spectacle of 30 hot road boats ripping across water with supercharged V8 engines belching the music of our people through open headers. It was all part of Leonard Pope's Waterloo Boogaloo hot boat party and it was incredible!

You asked for it-on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, in the comments of Cletus McFarland's videos, in the comments of my videos. You've wanted to see my supercharged 1955 Chevy Bel Air Gasser, Blasphemi, line up against Leroy The Savage, Cletus' turbocharged Corvette. Well, we finally made it happen! We both made our way to Paradise Dragstrip in Calhoun, Georgia, recently for a best two-out-of-three grudge match. The two-step action was on fire! The dragstrip was uphill! I did a reverse burnout (transmissions hate that so don't try it at home.)! It was an incredible day at the track and I can't thank Cletus, Cooper, Spenser, Brandon and Newbern for all the laughs and the help.

Yamaha has finally given the world an all-new Superjet stand-up personal watercraft and it rips! After 30 years of creating my favorite two-stroke stand-up, Yamaha created a clean-sheet design boat powered by the epic three-cylinder, 100hp TR1 four-stroke engine. The new ride does everything well and in this video I weigh it and every other generation of Superjet to see how heavy each one is and then I go wide open throttle to see how fast they are.

Talk about comin' up! All I had to do was let Cletus McFarland drive Game Over, my 1,700hp twin-turbo Hemi-powered Placecraft jet boat and in return, I got to spin donuts in his 60hp hovercraft. Score! After letting Ol Cleeter shoe my 19-foot long jet boat for a bit, I then took him for the ride of his life! I have no clue how fast we went but it's the best the boat has ever run so I'm guessing we beat my personal best of 115 mph in 4 seconds. Check the thumbnail-the face don't lie. lol As for the hovercraft? The Scat was unbelievably fun even though its not the fastest thing on the water. Why these little pocket water rockets aren't more popular is beyond me. I had the time of my life driving it.

Hot Rod Drag Week is a 5 day racing road trip, which mercilessly tortures the fastest street cars on the planet. Gearheads travel from all over the globe to compete in the event, which stipulates that each car must carry its own tools, luggage, spare parts-whatever it takes to make a pass down each dragstrip and then road trip to the next track. The route is usually right around 1,000 miles but in 2019 the trip was slightly shorter but no less grueling. Tony Angelo and I made the trip and won the A/Gas class in Blasphemi, my 1955 Chevy Bel Air. David Newbern and Brandon Wise were slightly less successful in Newbern's 1971 Chevy Nova. In this video we discovered why the 540ci BBC broke in the Nova and what we are gonna do now that Drag Week 2020 has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Thanks for watching and stick with us because we are going to attempt to do more frequent updates next week as we take on Rocky Mountain Raceweek 2.0, an event that's very similar to Drag Week.

This marks the final installment of our 1969 Chevy C50 ramp truck project. If you recall, this is the truck that we traded Big Red and a wad of cash for. We've put a lot of work into this ride including a complete wiring job, new front suspension, new brakes, a restored engine compartment and most importantly, a new Weiand 6-71 supercharger and dual Holley Double Pumper carbs. Now, we make her even more street friendly with the addition of a fresh 14-bolt rear axle from the dudes at Quick Performance. This axle has all he goodies for freeway flying and maximum wheelspeed burnouts; it's stuffed with a Yukon Grizzly locker, 35 spline axles, new seals and bearings throughout, and a 3.55:1 ring and pinion gearset. We swapped axles right before making an 800 mile trip to Florida to pick up a pile of parts and a Toyota Mini-Truck from our friend Steve Shaw. This truck will become Newbern's next project, which I'm sure you'll see on this channel at some point. Thanks for watching.

I own a ridiculously good and clean, original 1989 GMC Sierra 3+3 Crew Cab dually ramp truck. It's 38-feet long. I thought it was the biggest ramp truck ever until recently I purchased a 1986 Kodiak, which is 39-feet long and even taller than my GMC, which I call Square Force 1

This trip was so good that we had to split the video into two parts because so much stuff happened. First off, here's a little life update; We filmed this back in September but didn't get time to edit and upload the video until now. Immediately after filming our trip to Rocky Mountain Raceweek 2.0 (which is not in the Rocky Mountains), we left town to film Roadkill and Faster With Finnegan and we still aren't done filming those shows so we are working on Finnegan's Garage edits in our spare time. Anyway, since September, a lot has happened. I've bought a new enclosed ramp truck, which you'll briefly see in this video, I've traded away the six-door Ford F650 for a '66 Chevy Suburban, which you'll also see in this video, too. We also had a small shift linkage issue in Blasphemi during Rocky Mountain Raceweek 2.0, which resulted in a major engine failure-again, it's in this video. With any luck we'll upload Part 2 of the video next week. In that video, you'll see the rest of the road trip and you get to see my wife cry when I surprise her on our 15th wedding anniversary. :)

There's so much good stuff happening in this video. I haven't been home for many of my wedding anniversary's due to work commitments and drag racing events. This year is kinda special because it's our 15th anniversary and so when my car broke at Rocky Mountain Raceweek 2.0 on the first day of the event, I decided to cut my trip short and surprise my wife by coming home on our special day. I also had another surprise in store for her, which was a custom 1966 Chevrolet Suburban SUV, which she didn't ask for but that I figured she would fall in love with. Watch the the video until the end to see her reaction.

I've owned this car for several years now but building a really fast 1961 Cadillac Coupe De Ville is a project I've wanted to create for over 10 years. After watching several standing-mile racing events at airport runways I decided that someday I'd create a stock-appearing Caddy that could run 200 mph and 8 seconds in the 1/4 mile. The plan has always been to run a stock-appearing billet wheel with beadlock tire-retention rings. I ordered these wheels 9 months ago and they finally arrived so Newbern and I drug the car out of storage and put it into the garage to start measuring for tires and a new rear axle. Sadly, the wheels we dreamed about are not going to work on the Caddy but we are undeterred and will continue march forward with this awesome project.

In episode 119 I introduced you to my Caddy, which I bought to turn into a drag race and landspeed car. The goal is to run 8s in the 1/4 mile and 200 mph in a standing mile event while still cruising this luxurious behemoth on the street. In today's video, we completely strip the '61 down to a bare shell and then anger Kar Kulture Karens everywhere by cutting out the rust-free floors and trunk to make room for a new mandrel bent chassis. It's gonna be an awesome project car thanks to the dudes at MRC Fabrication in Kendersville, North Carolina. This shop specializes in off-the-deep-end builds and can custom build a chassis for nearly anything. Visit the shop's instagram profile ( MRCFABBULLARD ) for more photos of the build and all the other stuff they have created.

In this installment of the twin-turbo, 8 second Cadillac build, we unbox a new set of Weld Racing Alpha Pro double beadloc wheels for the back end of the car and a pair of V-Series front wheels, too. You'll also get a look at the MRC Fabrication mandrel-bent chassis, which will be the backbone of this high-speed project. Yes, we cut up a perfectly good, rust-free 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille but it will be well worth it when we cruise the street with our friends in this beast, then blast down the quarter mile, and finally go 200 mph in a car that was never intended to be anything more than a luxury liner.

Mom needed her Christmas tree brought home and I needed to test drive my barn-find 1967 Pontiac Firebird aka The Rubber Duck after installing a Blower Shop 8-71 Supercharger and dual Quickfuel carburetors. So we did both. And we did burnouts with the Christmas tree on the roof of the car and it was epic!

We've never really done a good video about David Newbern's 1971 Chevy Nova, which we call The Attempted Murder Nova, but that all changes today. The car got the name as a joke because it's nowhere near as fast as Shawn Ellington's Murder Nova, nor does it have similar race parts. Recently, though, the car received some serious upgrades when we journeyed to Florida to buy Steve Shaw's Toyota Mini-Truck and LS race engine. You can see that video in Episode 115 of Finnegan's Garage. Newbern took the mystery LS and swapped it into his Nova, replacing the old 454 that was under the hood. In this video we are going to dyno test the engine, hit it with nitrous oxide for the first time, and then head to Paradise Dragstrip in Calhoun, Georgia, for a grudge race with fellow YouTuber Emilie Reeves or Flying Sparks Garage. She has a really cool GTO with a supercharged LS engine and its a stickshift, which is super cool because we love stick cars and Newbern's Nova has a stick, too.

You asked for it and so I'm giving you a Christmas miracle--new content on my 1967 Chevrolet C10 truck. It's been far too long since I updated you on my IRS, supercharged LT4-swapped, adjustable suspension, sequential six-speed hot rod hauler but the time has come to make that final push to get it running. In this video I'll show you how to make a custom dash mounting bezel for Holley's new 12.3" touchcreen dash. I'll give you tips on making a template when you can't access the backside of a dashboard and mounting this incredible gauge system/data-logger/efi tuning system. And don't worry, we will continue to work on the C10 and uploading new content on this badass pickup!

MRC Fabrications is making quick work of the chassis on my 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, a car that I hope to run 8 seconds in the 1/4 mile and also go 200 mph with at a landspeed racing event. In this video we are going to install a full-floater rear axle from Quick Performance, finish the rear frame section, and custom build a rollcage. There's a lot going on and it all happened in 3 short days! The next time you see the car we should be installing the coilovers and finishing the cage. Then we build a floor and take her back to my garage to finish the build.