Faster With Finnegan went full GRM this week. They have to compete against Newbern's side-by-side, so they bought an NA Miata and installed a Paco Motorsports lift, offroad tires and nitrous. It's awesome how much more capable the Miata is with just those changes.
Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:I was genuinely impressed with that car and episode except they totally missed that the rear axle was leaking all of it's gear oil out of the passenger side.
I thought that was rubber chunks flying off the tire as the fender shredded it down to the cords? They seriously nearly killed their pro driver buddy with that, I feel like they laughed it off way too easily.
NickD said:Faster With Finnegan went full GRM this week. They have to compete against Newbern's side-by-side, so they bought an NA Miata and installed a Paco Motorsports lift, offroad tires and nitrous. It's awesome how much more capable the Miata is with just those changes.
The few subtle "Miatas are for girls" assertions they felt obligated to include were annoying (it's 2021, isn't it now the future where we've matured past such things?); though I was still impressed it wasn't 45 minutes of hairdresser jokes.
I think it would've performed even better with some smaller diameter UTV tires, I was kind of surprised they went with BFGs instead. More surprising considering Newbern was in the circle-track shootout a few Roadkill episodes back and they mounted UTV tires to the rear of the blue Duster.
Gripes aside, the first two episodes of this season of Faster with Finnegan are pretty great. This year's Roadkill season is a bit meh so far, but I assume it will pick up a bit the further we get from wintertime and the worst of the coof.
Today's Faster With Finnegan was racing mega trucks. And they got to hang out with Dennis Anderson and use the shop that he built the original Grave Digger in, and steal from his cast-off parts pile. Dennis Anderson seems like a pretty awesome dude to BS with
In reply to NickD :
The Grave Digger people all seem pretty cool. We take my friend's kids whenever we visit and have been through the shop a couple times and gotten a pretty enthusiastic ride from one of his kids years ago. Scared the crap out of the kids and had Jodi and me giggling like idiots.
Dennis Anderson always said it's the fans that built Grave Digger. Buying the t-shirts and toys all those years kept it going. That was always why the team seems hell bent on giving a show, even if it breaks the truck: the fans. He hasn't forgotten that.
I took my father to the Monster Jam in Syracuse back in 2019 for his 60th birthday and we had so much fun, and then we were looking at going last year and then Covid berkeleyed that all up. And they already cancelled the Syracuse round this year as well.
newrider3 said:Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:I was genuinely impressed with that car and episode except they totally missed that the rear axle was leaking all of it's gear oil out of the passenger side.
I thought that was rubber chunks flying off the tire as the fender shredded it down to the cords? They seriously nearly killed their pro driver buddy with that, I feel like they laughed it off way too easily.
NickD said:Faster With Finnegan went full GRM this week. They have to compete against Newbern's side-by-side, so they bought an NA Miata and installed a Paco Motorsports lift, offroad tires and nitrous. It's awesome how much more capable the Miata is with just those changes.
The few subtle "Miatas are for girls" assertions they felt obligated to include were annoying (it's 2021, isn't it now the future where we've matured past such things?); though I was still impressed it wasn't 45 minutes of hairdresser jokes.
I think it would've performed even better with some smaller diameter UTV tires, I was kind of surprised they went with BFGs instead. More surprising considering Newbern was in the circle-track shootout a few Roadkill episodes back and they mounted UTV tires to the rear of the blue Duster.
Gripes aside, the first two episodes of this season of Faster with Finnegan are pretty great. This year's Roadkill season is a bit meh so far, but I assume it will pick up a bit the further we get from wintertime and the worst of the coof.
I really like Roadkill.
I was yelling at the TV when I watched them send him back out without checking the tires with their hands. That was really dangerous and embarrassing.
The 440-swapped Super Samurai is up for sale on Craigslist for $2900. Hilariously, Jalopnik fails to mention the Roadkill heritage. I'm okay with this one being culled from the herd. It was never as insane as it should have been and failed to really click with me.
In reply to NickD :
Yeah, I posted the CL ad yesterday on one of the GRM populated FB groups.
There is some discussion about why there was no mention of it as a RK car.
Freiburger announced on Facebook that he bought General Mayhem back from the company and is yanking all the Hellcat parts and the drag suspension out of it and putting it back to mild 440 power with upgraded do-it-all suspension.
Just saw the episode where they got a car in Twin Falls, ID- they found a card to suggest it was last run in '81, but if the plates were actually put on that car to drive back in the day- it was driven a whole lot more recent than that- that ID plate design didn't come out until Idaho's cenetury- which was in 1989- but the county designation (the 5 B part) was not added to the plate until a few years later. So instead of sitting for ~40 years, it was closer to 30.
Not that it changes too much- adding 10 more years should not change much after 30 years.
alfadriver (Forum Supporter) said:Just saw the episode where they got a car in Twin Falls, ID- they found a card to suggest it was last run in '81, but if the plates were actually put on that car to drive back in the day- it was driven a whole lot more recent than that- that ID plate design didn't come out until Idaho's cenetury- which was in 1989- but the county designation (the 5 B part) was not added to the plate until a few years later. So instead of sitting for ~40 years, it was closer to 30.
Not that it changes too much- adding 10 more years should not change much after 30 years.
Was that the episode with the Pontiac T-37?
If so, its funny that I knew why that car wouldn't start before they explained why. As soon as they said they put a new mechanical pump in it but it still wasn't getting fuel, I knew the fuel pump drive washer that goes behind the camshaft bolt was missing. My father had told me a story of putting a timing set in a friend's Ventura with a 350 in it, and he was putting it back together and then got interrupted, came back out and forgot to put the eccentric on, put the cam bolt in, put the front cover on and then tried to start it and had no fuel pressure. Looked over at the bench and saw that stupid little eccentric sitting there and knew he had to take it back apart again.
Especially funny, because certain details of that car seemed like somebody went through that 400 and modded it a little, dropped it in that T-37, and then couldn't get it to start and gave up on it and sent it to the boneyard. All because they forgot the fuel pump eccentric.
Tony Angelo just used a ton of my band's music in his most recent video, so that's pretty rad.
The new episode with the Super Camaro is berking awesome! Back to cool cars, road trips, and parking lot fixes with F&F.
Finnegan's garage on Youtube has shown that Mike has learned how to do stuff, and has a basic understanding of fabrication and mechanics. I enjoy his stuff, although its still easy to see he's never worked as a professional mechanic.
However, David Frieberger, for a guy who has been fooling with cars for 30 years or more, has no clue how stuff works. I was yelling at the TV when he was "fixing" a Q jet that was pouring gasoline out by the accelerator pump shaft, by putting only the new accelerator pump in it... It needs a float valve from that kit you have in front of you, you moron.
Still don't like that part of Roadkill.
The Death Metal Charger is great, although the 75 year old differential has to go. The 2JZ deal will have Mopar guys cutting their wrists all over the country, kinda like the Cadillac people did with the 61. Or, kinda like I did when he put the Blasphemi together with the gasser frame. Ok with the hemi. Not ok with a straight axle.
Streetwiseguy said:The Death Metal Charger is great, although the 75 year old differential has to go. The 2JZ deal will have Mopar guys cutting their wrists all over the country, kinda like the Cadillac people did with the 61.
Oh, all the boomers on Facebook were pitching a fit about how he "ruined" that car. He put a newer, more powerful, more reliable, more fuel efficient, lighter engine in it that sounds evil. Explain to me how that's ruining it? It's not like he did it to a numbers-matching, 426 4-speed car either. It was a wrecked, beat-up piece of junk in 1970(!) that a guy cobbled into a racecar with that never actually raced. The car already had C-body torsion bars, '50s Ford dumptruck spindles and drum brakes, and that weirdo Willys Timken rearend, why not a Toyota engine? Pretty sure you aren't going to offend that guy by modifying his "masterpiece" since it seemed like he didn't even want to ever see it again and had no desire to even drive it when they brought it up to his place. Some hot rodders need to go look back at their roots, like in the '50s when they were cramming small block Chevys, Chrysler Hemis, and Cadillac 331s into anything that they could fit it in. Hell, one of the Hot Rod staffers had a '53 Corvette with a 389 Pontiac swapped into it back in the day.
In reply to NickD :
I loved watching people loose their minds when Hotrod had that 2JZ Camaro.
In reply to Appleseed :
I still admittedly like the RB26DETT Mustang in Tokyo Drift. Although I would have put it on chunky RS Watanabes with 240ZG fender flares and fender-mounted mirrors.
In reply to NickD :
Mopar guys are... Weird.
Ask anyone in the classic car business.
They're weirder than the rivet counting Corvette anoraks.
Yes...Yes they are Shawn. My dad is one of them. It's a strange bunch for sure.
Streetwiseguy said:
However, David Frieberger, for a guy who has been fooling with cars for 30 years or more, has no clue how stuff works. I was yelling at the TV when he was "fixing" a Q jet that was pouring gasoline out by the accelerator pump shaft, by putting only the new accelerator pump in it... It needs a float valve from that kit you have in front of you, you moron.
Still don't like that part of Roadkill.
Watching Freiberger on RK garage gets me a little hot sometimes. The pair will work on absolute junk, but because of some "look" DF is trying to match from his dreams they'll just slave over the tiniest details. The point of the show is mainly to get to burnouts or bombing through the drainage ditches by Dulcich's grape farm. Paint; "good enough", headers; "heat it and beat it", but 1/4" of stance; "nope, gotta redo it."
He's a huge part of why HR magazine and now the extended HR media universe works. It's just weird to see what he gets hung up on and how he will pitch a fit until he's appeased.
Crxpilot said:Streetwiseguy said:
However, David Frieberger, for a guy who has been fooling with cars for 30 years or more, has no clue how stuff works. I was yelling at the TV when he was "fixing" a Q jet that was pouring gasoline out by the accelerator pump shaft, by putting only the new accelerator pump in it... It needs a float valve from that kit you have in front of you, you moron.
Still don't like that part of Roadkill.
Watching Freiberger on RK garage gets me a little hot sometimes. The pair will work on absolute junk, but because of some "look" DF is trying to match from his dreams they'll just slave over the tiniest details. The point of the show is mainly to get to burnouts or bombing through the drainage ditches by Dulcich's grape farm. Paint; "good enough", headers; "heat it and beat it", but 1/4" of stance; "nope, gotta redo it."
He's a huge part of why HR magazine and now the extended HR media universe works. It's just weird to see what he gets hung up on and how he will pitch a fit until he's appeased.
At least he is aware of it. He has mentioned in several columns in the magazine how he is a perfectionist for weird stuff
I don't think I ever saw an update to the white Cadillac? Anyone know the episode number?
In reply to ZOO (Forum Supporter) :
The last I saw was on Finnegan's Garage on youtube, when they set the body onto the chassis, and then, I guess, another one where they were talking about a fire system. I think that one had the car back home again, but I could be wrong.
Edit: Some about the caddy.
Second edit: I just watched that again, and that Cadillac is completely cool, and not something I would really want. I was also saddened a bit when I realized that I have all the tools those guys used for the tubs, but only a small percentage of the skills. I need to buy a car I don't really care about very much and give that a shot. I've always wanted a steamroller car. Maybe its time to find a fwd Cutlass Supreme and get to work on my F.J. Smith clone.
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