Roadkill Extras

It’s been a while, but Mike Finnegan is back on Roadkill Extra with another Q&A session alongside David Freiburger, as the two hosts wait around for parts to show up while on the set of Roadkill Episode 71, which features the off-road-racing AMC Hornet.

The Roadkill Extra engine-building series continues! This time, Steve Dulcich is on the scene to show you how to use a burette to measure the volume of the chambers in your cylinder heads.

The most wrong thing ever is to go full ROADKILL while installing an engine’s harmonic balancer (vibration damper).

People are still talking about the most recent Roadkill, Episode 69, the first one without David Freiburger.

This installment of the Roadkill Extra engine-building series gets a bit theoretical: What is compression ratio, how does it affect engine performance, and how can it be altered?

Roadkill Garage Episode 4 introduced Vanishing Paint, the 1970 Dodge Challenger that was brought back to life with a clapped-out, old, 360ci V-8 from the Dodge pickup on Episode 3.

Time to get into some heavy tech information! This Roadkill Extra features Steve Dulcich and David Freiburger assembling their small-block Dodge V-8 and showing you how to degree a camshaft while also explaining what that means.

We’re running our “How to Assemble Your First Engine Series” every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Roadkill Extra.

The hood pile was a prominent character in early episodes of Roadkill Garage, but we soon moved all our spare sheetmetal up into the shop mezzanine.

Thus far in the Roadkill Extra series on how to assemble an engine, we’ve shown you how to hang a piston onto a connecting rod and how to gap and install piston rings.

The Crusher Impala is the 1969 Chevy that swallowed the 489ci, supercharged big-block engine that used to live in the famed Crusher Camaro.

The engine-assembly series continues here on Roadkill Extra, this time with David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich showing you the proper techniques for installing a crankshaft in an engine block, complete with measurements for crankshaft endplay.

A critical yet daunting and time-consuming element of engine blueprinting is ensuring that the oil clearance in connecting-rod and main-journal bearings is within spec.

Steve Dulcich is the lovable host of Roadkill Garage and Engine Masters, and the master of the awkward yet genius video presentation.

This fourth installment of our engine-building series, “How to Build Your First Engine”, focuses on the proper care and feeding of piston rings.

What’s the best burnout? On this episode of Roadkill Extra, Steve Dulcich and David Freiburger address that question and many others in this question-and-answer session based upon queries from fans.

Roadkill Extra’s “How to Build Your First Engine” series goes into deep detail you’ve likely never seen in a magazine or a YouTube how-to.

In the second installment of our “How to Build Your First Engine” series, David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich debate the finer points of fully cleansing an engine block for assembly after it comes home from the machine shop. It’s a critical step.

On Roadkill Episode 69, hosts Mike Finnegan and Tony Angelo bought a 1976 Chevy El Camino. The seller was Tex Earle, who couldn’t stop himself from helping out and jumping on camera. He’s also the impetus for the car’s name: Earle Camino. You’ll meet him in this episode of Roadkill Extra that’s full of outtakes and behind-the-scenes moments from the filming days for the Roadkill episode.

This is the launch of a 16-part series on Roadkill Extra all about how to build your first engine.

There are plenty of old cars seen in backgrounds of Roadkill Garage, and viewers often wonder what the plans are for them.

It’s impossible to believe that we’ve done this 300 times! Roadkill Extra airs every weekday on Motor Trend OnDemand, and is comprised of project-car reveals, outtakes, tech tips, opinions, and more.