Mike Finnegan's Garage is all about crossing another one off of my bucket list and don't worry, the Cadillac is not taking a back seat to this one. In fact, a week from now I should have the engine for the Caddy, which means more work, more progress, and more videos. In the meantime, I managed to drag this 1963 Chevrolet Split Window Corvette out of my neighbor's basement, where it's been sitting for years. After the Caddy is running, then it's full steam ahead on turning the Vette into a 6 second street car, using the 711ci Sonny Leonard Hemi as the powerplant. Hope you enjoy this video as much as I had buying and pulling this car home.

I tell stories, answer questions and open a bunch of cool mail from viewers. The Mazdarati was ripped off from the Roadkill crew in Blythe, California. We had just wrapped an episode of Roadkill where Freiburger and I tried hard to make the truck finally run a 10 second pass at the dragstrip. We installed a tunnel ramp, added nitrous and in the end the engine leaked out of every orifice and the transaxle was destroyed. The truck left the track on a trailer during an overnight stay at a motel, someone shoved it off our trailer onto another trailer, and disappeared into the night. The local police Department has a good idea of who stole and and where the engine ended up, but the truck is long gone. We have no casting numbers for the engine so we werent able to recover the engine from the thieves. In this video I talk about what's next and if we are going to replace the crappy, but lovable mini-truck. Thanks for watching!

Making big time progress on my 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille because we finally have the Nelson Racing Engines 540ci twin-turbo big-block Chevrolet engine. We wasted no time in swinging the Dart engine block, Master Motorsports cylinder heads and NRE Alien intake maninold between the fenders of the Mac Daddy Caddy only to find out that fitting this thing under the stock hood is gonna be harder than it looks!

I venture to Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Home Of Holley and Jessie's Garage, a local shop with a sweet chassis dyno. Jessie was kind enough to allow us to strap my 1967 Chevrolet C10 to the dyno to finally finishing tuning the Terminator X EFI system. The end result was unleashing an additional 200 hp from the Chevrolet Performance LT4 supercharged engine and doing epic burnouts in every gear of the six-speed sequential gearbox.

Going drag boat racing on the Colorado River and I've got good news; This is the first of two shorter episodes about the weekend and then I'll also have a longer episode once I get home and have time to finish it. We are legit uploading this video from the racetrack on raceday. lol

Mike Finnegan's Garage picks up where we left off at the drag boat races with a big block chevy that had water in the oil.

It's time to open the mail and you sent some incredible gag gifts, heartfelt letters, and awesome tools and toys for me to play with. I love it! While unboxing a ton of fun stuff, I share brief stories about my life, including that time a dude named after a meat on a stick fired me from the Kibbe and Finnegan show. I also once again dive into the philosophical discussion about the Roadkill Mazdarati, try a bunch of awful Swedish candy and discover a new replacement for fruitcake.

Mike Finnegan's Garage is huge and we are bringing you over two hours of action as we drag Side Chick, my 2016 RPM Cheyenne jet boat to the Colorado River to race against the best of the best. The weekend was almost over before it began as our 632ci Big Block Chevrolet engine had water mixing with the oil. However, we fixed it with some liquid voodoo called JB Weld and the managed to nab Second Place in two different racing classes. Thanks to Wirecare for sponsoring this video and providing two very important tools, which helped us fix the boat:

Mike Finnegan's Garage is all about creating homemade engine mounts to lock the 540ci twin-turbo Big Block Chevy engine into my 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Stick around for the full video and I'll show you all kinds of new tools to make fabricating parts from steel much easier and more efficient.

After a little exhaust system work I drive my car to Caffeine and Octane in Kennesaw, Georgia, to pop the hood and find out how the crowd feels about seeing the legendary Toyota turbo inline 6 between the fenders of the most famous model of Dodge ever produced. I call this 1968 Dodge Charger, a car that was hidden inside of a barn in Indiana for 50 years before it landed on eBay, the Death Metal Charger. Shortly after it was drug out of the barn I bought it and Tony Angelo and I got together in my basement, put a new drivetrain in the car, and drove it from Georgia to Indiana to show the original owner what we had done. He was unimpressed with the Big-Block Chrysler powered machine and so I stopped caring about having his blessing on the project. Death Metal: Phase 2 came quickly. Phase 2 involved removing the 383 V8 and replacing it with a Junkyard Toyota 2JZ GE engine sourced from a junkyard. Jay Meagher from Real Street Performance met me and Tony at Kevin Smith's shop in Gainsvil

Mike Finnegan's Garage will give you all some insight into how I got here. Plus, I open more of your fan mail. If you'd like to send me something and I happen to open it up on one of these videos then I will send you some Finnegan Speed and Marine merch. Don't forget to include your address and shirt size.

Mike Finnegan's Garage takes us back into the basement as I fix several things on my Chevy C10 to get it ready for an upcoming Roadkill episode. First off, during a pretty rowdy burnout session, I destroyed the clutch so that needs replacing. The question is why? We'll answer it with help from Geoff Gerko from Mantic Clutch USA. Mantic clutches are assembled right here in America and my new clutch still has twin discs and ceremetallic material, but this time we went with solid hubs instead of sprung hubs. And also, we are re-using my old flywheel because we didnt have the correct eight-bolt flyhweel for my LT4. Want more information about Mantic Clutch USA? Go here: https://manticclutchusa.com We are also going inspect the inside of the 6xd billet sequential gearbox. Mainly, we are doing this because I wanted to replace Sixth Gear with something that offers a lower cruising speed (numerically lower, but a higher gear ratio) for highway driving. Rick Lamber from RTS/6XD had the gearbo

Mike Finnegan’s Garage we finally Dyno-test my Cummins 12 Valve diesel-swapped Chevy Square Body ramp truck. The guys from Power Driven Diesel are back to upgrade the compound turbo system and swap my stock head for a ported unit. We also installed a better set of injectors and a custom p-pump. We did the work in one day inside of my garage and then drove 20 minutes to Mo’s Speed Shop in Dallas, Georgia to find out how much power the truck makes.

Finnegan's Garage and right now I'm on the road so today's drop is a fun video where I tell stories, open fan mail, and give you inside info on my world. I really hope you enjoy it. If you'd like to win a Finnegan Speed and Marine shirt all you have to do is mail me a letter and if I open it during one of these upcoming episodes then I'll send you something cool. It's just that easy! Thanks for watching!

Mike Finnegan's Garage and I'm giving you what you've been asking for...I'm wrenching on the Caddy. This time I fabricate mounts for the Nelson Racing Engines 88mm "Mirror Image" turbochargers. These patented and polished beauties are going to flank both sides of the 540ci Dart iron Big-Block Chevy engine block and aluminum Mast Motorsports 20 degree cylinder heads. This video will show you all of the tools and techniques I used to craft custom steel mounts for the turbos.

Yeah, i'm opening the mail here but I'm also going really deep into my personal reasons for walking away from the Motor Trend show that had my name on it, Faster With Finnegan. I hope you enjoy the insight into the most significant career decision I've ever had to make as well as the fun of seeing what viewers sent in the mail this week. Thanks for watching!

Episode 243 of Mike Finnegan's Garage was produced while I was out of town filming a new episode of Roadkill for the Motor Trend Plus App. As usual, this unboxing vid is full of good stories and of course, mail from viewers. I hope you dig the video and with any luck, I'll have an actual "wrenching" video for ya next Sunday. Thanks for watching!

This is Episode 244 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and it's all about revealing a new tow rig. Of course I bought another Square Body Chevy and you're not at all surprised by that fact. However, you probably weren't expecting it to be an actual red neck limousine, though! This stretch limo has all the creature comforts and a history that involves shuttling patrons to a local strip club!

This is episode 245 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and since it's droppin on Mother's Day I figured I'd take you all behind-the-scenes of my adventure of trying to buy the right car for my wonderful wife. It was a rollercoaster of emotions as I navigated bidding on this hot hatch I found on bringatrailer.com.

This is episode 246 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and once again you have inundated my UPS box with 10mm sockets, imported baked goods, and other awesome gifts and stories. Thank you all! I have so much making these unboxing videos.

This is episode 247 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and I owe you all an apology. Last weekend while I was off racing I accidentally sent the wrong footage to my editor. He edited an unboxing video that I had already uploaded to the channel. Late at night I watched his edit and it seemed familiar to me so I quickly looked back at the videos I had recently put on the channel. I didnt see the same video and just chalked up the feeling that I had already uploaded the video to the fact that I was in the video and that's why it seemed familiar. I even made a new thumbnail for the video not realizing that I was about to uploaded the same episode for a second time. The really funny thing is that somebody else edited the first version of this video so editor number 2 had no clue he was working on something I had already used. Anyway, I put the video on the channel and went racing and it wasn't until later that day that I ran into a fan who said I had uploaded the same video twice! So, I'm an idiot!

This is Episode 248 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and this time I'm getting my wife's twin-turbo LSX jet boat ready for a family vacation. The cooling system is a mess so I spent a day cutting, crimping and installing new hoses and then Kevin Smith from KSR came over to help water test the boat on my local lake. It went about as well as it always does but we did learn some valuable lessons. Once testing ended I decided to teach Kevin how to ride my old 1994 Yamaha Superjet stand-up personal watercraft. That turned out to be really fun and I think he may now be as addicted to riding the thing as I am. Hope you enjoy the vid! Thanks for watching and I'll see ya soon.

This episode 249 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and we are bringing the heat. My friend and co-pilot Tony Angelo is back and we are actually doing pre-race rep on Blasphemi, rather than just throwing the engine in the car and showing up to race.

This is Episode 250 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and I'm literally typing this as I pack my bag and head to the airport to film a new episode of Roadkill. So, Yes, this is going to be an unboxing video full of amazing letters, memorabilia, and gifts from fans. I am floored at the contents of these packages and as always, everyone who sent me something that was opened in this video received something cool from https://www.fsmgarage.com

Wow, this is Episode 251 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and I can't believe we've come this far! I say "We" because you guys and girls are as much a part of the fun of this channel and those of us who make it are. It's a been a wild ride and it will only get wilder as we continue to tackle some of the crazy projects around the basement shop of my house. Today we are once again working on my 1961 Cadillac Coupe Deville and I'm so stoked at the progress. In this video we are moving the turbos and making new front bars to complete the rollcage.

Mike Finnegan's Garage is here and this time I'm not only working on my 1985 Toyota pickup but I've also partnered with Bling Sauce to give you a shot at meeting up with me in Las Vegas for the SEMA Show? What is the SEMA Show? It's that automotive aftermarket parts manufacturers, retailers and distributors annual trade show. It's massive and full of the latest and greatest gadgets for your vehicle.

Mike Finnegan's Garage and we are back working on my 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona clone. In this video we are going to convert the car from two pedals to three; that's right I intend to run a manual transmission in Dumpster Fire! A week from now the entire Roadkill Crew, including Steve Dulcich, will be in my garage thrashing to put this car together in just five days. Before they arrive, Joe Cole and I will be installing the pedals assembly into the Charger, rebuilding the front brakes, and marrying the 383 Chrysler big block engine out of Death Metal to the GForce Five speed gearbox out of Blasphemi.

Mike Finnegan's Garage we journey to Mooresville, North Carolina to visit Customs by Bigun. Inside the shop we put in more work on my 1955 Chevy Bel Air to get it ready for the street and strip. This time around we pulled the trans to investigate the reason behind my slipping clutch and Bigun and friends cut three inches out of the overall track width of the Quick Performance 9 inch rearend so that the Mickey Thompson ET Drag slicks would no longer hit the 1/4 panels at high speed. With any luck, the car will be back on Harrell Engine's chassis dyno soon and the back to the dragstrip to see if we can get back to running 8 second passes.

Mike Finnegan's Garage and it's a good one because are finally wrapping up the last few details before test driving my 1969 Dodge Charger for the very first time. There's lots of fab work and laughs in this video and some really cool tools that you might want to check out for yourself.

Mike Finnegan's Garage is all about making my wife happy, making you guys happy, and building new tools. First off, I worked with Andy Weyenberg of Real Garage to make a water bed for my plasma cutter table that will eliminate the fumes and mess created whenever I cut metal in my basement. I used a stainless steel kitchen sink that I bought from Amazon and the end result is my wife is stoked that she's not breathing my mess upstairs anymore.

Mike Finnegan's Garage, I get back to work on my 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, which was a beautifully stock luxury car until I decided to cut it up and make it faster. The original x-frame chassis was removed and replaced with a custom, mandrel bent frame from MRC Fab in Kernersville, North Carolina. The car rides on Weld Racing Wheels, Mickey Thompson tires and Viking coilover dampers now. In this video, I cut into the chassis to make room for a massive radiator, aluminum shroud and dual brushless electric fans from Delta PAG. This video also marks the end of the contest for the Miller Welders Millermatic 142 MIG welder.

All about bringing Blasphemi back to life. My 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air has been hibernating all year long while we continue working on it to create a more reliable, fun street/strip car. So far we've narrowed the Quick Performance 9 inch rearend, we've replaced the triple disc Mantic USA clutch, and today we are headed back to the dyno several new bolt-on parts to try. We'll be testing my old stainless steel headers with 2-1/4 stepped to 2-3/8 diameter primary tubes (3.5-inch OD collectors) against my new 2-3/8 stepped to 2-1/2-inch primary tubes headers (4-1/2-inch OD collectors). We'll also try a new, larger diameter throttlebody from Phil Rohr, and we are gonna test the 528ci Pete Harrell-built hemi with and without a Walker Performance Filtration air filter on top of the four-port throttlebody. We make more dyno pulls that ever in the quest for reliably putting 1000WHP down to the chassis dyno and deciding will or won't we be ready for Hot Rod Drag Week 2023.

Joe Cole and I prepped my Chevy truck for a road trip to Cletus McFarland's Bristol 1000 oval track race at Bristol Motor Speedway. The we road tripped the C10 and my Cummins-Swapped '73 Chevy Squarebody to the race. Of course the trip did not go smoothly but the race did. I ended up beating 23 other drivers and finished in 8th Place. Not a bad result for a dude with very little wheel-to-wheel racing experience. Hope you enjoy this video and please tell your friends about it.

Mike Finnegan's Garage is all about giving back to everybody who took the time to mail me something. Whether you wrote me a letter, created some awesome artwork, or simply bought an 11mm socket from Amazon and sent it to my UPS box, I heard you and am responding in-kind. If I open your package in one of my videos then I'm sending you a shirt, hat or stickers from my website, https://www.fsmgarage.com

First off, I need to correct an error I made while filming this video. I spaced and forgot to mention that Jake Sanders and his friends were a huge part of rebuilding the Hemi during drag week 2022. I said Tony Angelo and I rebuilt the Hemi and even though there's a clip of Jake wrenching on the engine, I want to make sure he's he gets the credit for saving our bacon during DW 2022. So, if you're near Brownsburg, Indiana and need a Hemi fixed, Jake's Snake Performance is the spot! Anyway, this is Episode 261 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and this time we venture out of the garage in Georgia and head to Race City USA aka Mooresville, North Carolina. It's the home of Harrell Engine and Dyno, the spot we've spent countless hours trying to tune more power into the 528ci Chrysler Hemi of Blasphemi. After several chassis dyno sessions we decided to take the Hemi apart to assess the condition of the rotating assembly and address two issues that we knew ahead of time that needed fixing. This video

Mike Finnegan's Garage is the next unboxing session and boy was this a fun one. We got wedding invitations, graduation announcements and we talk about the snoring habits of my wife. lol. Hope you enjoy the vid. Thanks for watching!

Mike Finnegan's Garage is all about our long term tow pig, the OG Roadkill ramp truck. This 1973 Chevrolet R30 crew cab dually has all the mods; we've swapped a Cummins 12 valve 6BT diesel in place of the old 454 Big Block V8, we've replaced the old three-speed TH400 automatic trans with a Dodge 47RH four-speed automatic with a lockup converter. We've added rear airbags to the leaf spring suspension, and switched from stock 16 inch wheels to aftermarket 19.5 inch wheels from Michael's Truckworks. The cab has been fully restored inside and out. The only things we've havent really touched on this old school hauler are beneath the ramp bed and it's time to replace a seemingly unsafe trailer hitch by fabricating a beefy one that will be up to the job of towing doubles. That's right, not only are we going to continue hauling cars on the bed but we are also going to drag a 30ft long enclosed trailer behind this truck! In this video we'll show you the tools and techniques we used to seriously

Tried to upload this on Wednesday but ran into some technical difficulties and so here we are with what could possibly be the very first ever Friday upload in the history of this channel. It's an unboxing video where I open up fan mail and everybody who's mail is opened receives Finnegan Speed and Marine swag from me.

We are working the oiling system of my 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air. The 528ci Hemi is missing but that doesn't mean that we can't fabricate a custom mount for a used Moroso dry sump oil tank. We decided to hide it behind the passenger side headlight and use the existing radiator mount for the base.

You know the deal. Mail me something cool along with your contact info and shirt size and if I open your package during an unboxing video then I'll return the favor by sending you some Finnegan Speed and Marine merch!

After doing a bit of suspension tuning on my Toyota 2JZ-swapped '68 Charger we road trip it and my '69 Charger to the local Caffeine and Octane car show here in Georgia. We wanted to see what the people thought of the ratty muscle car and so we mounted a camera on the windshield and let it roll for over an hour to capture folks' impressions of the cardboard radiator ducting, ratchet strap battery hold down and rusty body. Boy was that exciting! lol.

Mike Finnegan's Garage is one of our new traditions, opening your mail during the week before our giant Sunday morning wrench session. This is always fun for me as I get to see your creativity at work and good vibes.

Mike Finnegan's Garage is awesome because not only do I have the Hemi back between the frame rails of my Bel Air but for once I have video footage of the Hei being assembled. This is a huge deal because every other time I've had someone else work on this engine it's been because I was out of town filming Roadkill and couldn't be there. This time my buddy Joe was at Harrel Engine and Dyno to witness the assembly and I couldn't be happier about the results and I'm pumped to put the car back on the dyno.

Mike Finnegan's Garage? Why yes it is! So let's celebrate by opening some fan mail, shall we? Thanks for the years of support and inspiration. As always, if I happen to open your package here on a video then I'll send you a shirt, hat or sticker pack

Mike Finnegan's Garage is all about modifying my 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, which is called Blasphemi. This Hemi-powered beast is fast and unreliable and I fully intend on making it even faster and hopefully a bit more reliable

In this video I travelled to Arizona with my friends to enter my jet boat into the world final's of drag boat racing. This is a huge deal for me because I love the Wild Horse Pass Motorsports venue and have made a lot of great memories here but I have not ever won an event at this spot. With all the time, money and work I've been putting into Blasphemi recently, getting to this particular boat race was a challenge and during the first two days of qualifying we struggled hard.

We chopped this footage down to two-plus hours and it is still just barely enough time to convey the rollercoaster of emotions my friends and I experienced during a weekend of racing. It began with the transmission in the ramp truck blowing up. We broke the input shaft and smoked the Third gear clutch while towing our all-steel 30ft trailer with the dragboat inside and a Kawasaki Mule UTV on the back of the Chevy Squarebody ramp truck. When we finally arrived at Wildhorse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona, things went from bad to worse as everything under the sun fought us as we desperately tried to stay in competition. In the end we had fun and made memories but it wasn't easy!

Although brief, this video is full of good stuff because not only did I pick up the frame but also the front and rear suspension and original IRS rearend for my Vette. Episode 274 of Mike Finnegan's Garage asks the important questions about this project car build, in particular what direction do we take it? Should it be a nostalgia drag car with vintage paint and lettering or a modern Pro Touring build with big power, huge brakes, and wide rubber? We could go vintage road racing vibe or with the right parts this could be a mild resto-mod type deal. I'd love to hear your opinion about the subject so feel free to wax poetic in the comment section about what to do with this collectible hot rod.

We are back to work on my gangster '61 Caddy, the car with the twin-turbo Nelson Racing Engines 540ci Big-Block Chevrolet under the hood and Weld bead Lock wheels wrapped in phat Mickey rubber out back. Until now it was really just a single turbo deal but today we are releasing the twins! Both of the Mirror Image turbskis are mounted in the engine back and the front half to the cage is done. Plus, we I brought Side Chick home with me and in this video we are taking the first step toward's building a more reliable jet boat. The unreliable 632ci Big-Block Chevy is out and the 711ci Sonny Leonard Racing Engines Hemi that was in my old Placecraft Jet Boat, is in! In this video we see if the 5-inch bore space Brodix aluminum block fits in the same spot as the old 4.84-inch bore space Dart aluminum block and if we can re-used the old aluminum motor mounts. I'm super stoked on this episode and hope you guys enjoy it, too!

It's taken 14 months for me to finally have Blasphemi ready to rip down a dragstrip and for the first time ever, I'm actually attending a private test session. Episode 276 of Mike Finnegan's Garage takes you along for the ride as we track-prep my 528ci Hemi-swapped 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air and then head to Alabama International Dragway in Steele, Alabama to see how the car runs. And without fail, we managed to find an entirely new weak point in my car and exploit said weak point in spectacular fashion. We legit littered the starting line with massive pieces of my brand new transmission.

I'm excited about this one because as you know, a week ago, my transmission exploded on the starting line of Alabama International Dragway. Well, I'm happy to report that thanks to GForce Racing Transmissions and Tick Performance, the transmission is fixed and we are ready to test the car again. It wasn't easy to make happen, since I had to leave town to film an episode of Roadkill right after that fateful day when Blasphemi grenaded the gearbox. But thanks to my friends, the car was transported from Alabama to North Carolina where Team Tick performed a miracle using new parts provided by GForce.

This is a big day! Episode 278 continues the whirlwind two weeks of my life that saw me break Blasphemi at the dragstrip in Alabama, rush to have the transmission repaired in North Carolina, display the car at the Performance Racing Industry Show in Indiana, and then road trip the ramp truck to pick up a new enclosed trailer before heading all the way home to Georgia. It was nuts but ended on a high note as we now have a lighter, safer, and more functional car hauler than ever before. Not only was I able to work directly with Aluminum Trailer Company to design and purchase my trailer but I was also able got a factory tour of how it was built, which I've shared here.

Once back at my warehouse, we repacked the new ATC Trailer ROM550 car hauler with tools and Blasphemi and immediately headed east to Alabama to see how my '55 Chevy Bel Air runs. The goal for this track test was to see if we could soften the launch of my car by using a new product called The Bangshift Billy to control the release of the clutch throwout bearing. It took awhile to get it set up correctly but by the end of the day we were seeing the potential of this cool product.

My 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, and I'm custom building my own set of stainless steel headers for the twin-turbo Big Block Chevy. The 540ci monster is going to breathe through 2-1/4 inch primary tubes, which will exit into a 3" billet stainless steel merge collector and then flow into Nelson Racing Engines Mirror Image turbos. This video is full of tricks, tips and tools that will help you build your own headers, too! Want more info on the stuff I used in this video?