Dulcich is my spirit guide.
"this fan could have as much as 5 blades on it! If it does it's a huge upgrade from the old three-blader" (the fan was literally in his hand, could have confirmed with a quick count, didn't)
10 minutes later: *recites half a cam card and explains how it's going to behave with the heads and pistons he's using, entirely off the top of his head in one take with no prompt or notes*
I always dug Dulcich's perennial optimism. It seems just who he is.
Car's on fire.
Dulcich: "Well, at least we're warm. Now we don't have to fix the heater core."
Dulcich, about a big old Dodge flatbed: "It mocks safety!"
Finnegan is hard to watch if you like to see something get done start to finish, and have it work. He always seems to be jumping around from thing to thing, never getting something done, then taking the time to truly shake it out to make sure it's reliable.
The whole roadkill "Don't get it right, just get it running" is fine for a TV show but doesn't work when you want to compete in a week long event like Drag Week, One Lap, etc.
In reply to docwyte :
Finn doesn't even follow that mantra. It takes him a long, long time to even get it running.
Most of us can relate, but then, we don't have a YouTubes show as a job.
Finnegan can weld, and he's got a good fabricator's brain, but his execution of making cars functional and reliable is seriously lacking. I think he and Freiburger get a long so well because neither of them ever seem to finish a project beyond the 'barely functional' stage.
I can't watch Finnegan. I tried. I really did. 2 hours of him derping around in the garage on some project that hasnt seen daylight in a year just doesn't do it. Where is the Caddy drag car? The Lexus drag car?
Dirthead Dave/The Dirthead Shed is fantastic. Awesome fabrication, enough commentary explaining the hows and the whys, gets things done, and most episodes are in that digestible length.
In reply to 93gsxturbo :
Yeah, I end up forwarding through a lot of his content. It's just too boring. The caddy drag car kills me when he's installing this huge roll cage, then saying he's going to put in the back seat and carry his kids back there. I would never put my kids in a car with a roll cage, in the back seat. Nothing like having to explain to your family why your kids died during an accident because their heads hit roll cage tubing...
I like Dirthead Dave but his camera work is lacking. I get it, he's solo and I sure couldn't do better camera work, but it's hard to watch sometimes.
93gsxturbo said:I can't watch Finnegan. I tried. I really did. 2 hours of him derping around in the garage on some project that hasnt seen daylight in a year just doesn't do it. Where is the Caddy drag car? The Lexus drag car?...
I think what you're seeing is that he, like many YT presenters, fall into a desperate search for a magic combination that maximizes views instead of just doing what they want / being themselves. It's almost an ADD-like thing, flailing around even within the same video, randomly doing different things, trying to hit gold. I know that presenters have control panels that show what portion of their videos that people view the most. Sadly, many end up focused on that instead of just doing their thing and letting the clicks land where they may.
Watched it the other day, was moderately entertaining.
In reply to 93gsxturbo :
It feels like bench racing with your buddies... because it kind of is. I was more than moderately entertained. 
I've really been digging David Newbern's channel. There's enough variety to not become stale, the videos are just right at 15-30 minutes, and you see actual progress.
I've also gotten heavy into Brian Lohnes' channel. He just tells tales about some of the old drag-racing history, and a lot of it is pretty wild.
docwyte said:In reply to 93gsxturbo :
I like Dirthead Dave but his camera work is lacking. I get it, he's solo and I sure couldn't do better camera work, but it's hard to watch sometimes.
Ha. I was watching some of his Nissan Hardbody minitruck build on the family room TV and my wife walked in and said "Ugh. This is terrible. The camera just keeps moving around. How can you watch that?"
It's definitely more amateur, and I hadn't noticed it too bad, but her being more sensitive to it I quickly became more aware of it. Definite room for improvement cuz his content itself is great.
In reply to NickD :
Oh, hell yes. The sound of the Moto Guzzi V-8 was worth it alone.
In reply to Appleseed :
The Terrifying Toronado series was fascinating.
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