Roadkill Extras

The Roadkill Rotsun, a ’71 Datsun 240Z, is famed as the car that never fails to fail. Maybe it’s the curse of the S30 chassis platform, because there was a really radical, 8-second, turbo-LS-powered 240Z at Hot Rod Drag Week 2016 that showed great promise, but then…Roadkill. See it here.

In episode 57 of Roadkill, Freiburger and Finnegan built a trailer that carried a V8 that powered a supercharger which then fed boost into the engine of the tow vehicle, which was the infamous leaf-blower Monza from episode 16. In this Roadkill Extra, Freiburger addresses fan questions about how the whole contraption worked.

Roadkill leaves trails of stray parts all across the country kinda like confetti out of a piñata, but occasionally some of the tools and speed parts we buy on the road or take off of our hoopties wind up back home to irritate our shop manager. In this Roadkill Extra, Freiburger shows you some of our juiciest leftovers from past projects.

What do you do when your full-race Mopar small-block in your Toyota Land Cruiser breaks a bunch of parts in the middle of nowhere? Figure out how to press on, regardless! That’s what a few guys did during Drag Week 2016, and Freiburger shows you some of their genius butchery that kept the show on the road.

Brian Lohnes and David Freiburger co-host the Hot Rod Drag Week live video feed every year, and as part of that they end up road tripping together for 1,000-plus miles. Things get pretty out of control.

In the last episode of Roadkill Extra, David Freiburger went through the basics of drag racing. This time, Roadkill content editor Elana Scherr takes you a step further by showing what it takes to get a legit competition license that’s required for quicker cars.

In this Extra, David Freiburger walks you through the steps you need to know for your first trip to a local drag strip. There are tracks nearby most regions of the US, and most of them have test-and-tune nights or grudge nights where anyone can go run their car. Go try it!

Old guys remember when illegal drag racing on the street was somewhat harmless, and that’s what you’ll hear about in this Roadkill Extra as David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich recall some good stories as they cruise a 1967 Pontiac Bonneville wagon during the shoot of an episode of Roadkill garage.

A 1962 Pontiac Tempest with pure Pontiac power running in the mid 10s in the quarter-mile! That timeslip and a perfect retro-beater look had David Freiburger loving this ride at Hot Rod Drag Week, and this Roadkill Extra tells you all about it.

In this Roadkill Extra, David Freiburger shows you some of the tricks guys use to pack in the critical cargo. Some of these trailers are hauled by cars with 3,000 horsepower!

Remember when Roadkill tied to set a land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats, but ended up blowing up their big-block Chevy engine? It took years to get around to it, but the guys finally disassembled that engine, and this Roadkill Extra shows you what went wrong.

Freiburger and Dulcich recently road tripped to the Bonneville Salt Flats, which you'll see in upcoming Roadkill Garage. In this Roadkill Extra, Dulcich questions Freiburger on his 200-mph land-speed racing history at the now-flooded salt flats

People often ask Roadkill host David Freiburger how he got his gearhead career editing magazines such as Hot Rod, Car Craft, Rod & Custom, and 4-Wheel & Off-Road. In this clip, Freiburger gives the short version, leaving out the fact that he never even graduated from college.

Hot Rod Drag Week is the home of #BecauseRoadkill failure moments. In this Roadkill Extra, check out the disaster that befell a racer with a convertible Mustang as it was going about 140 mph.

Ever rent the cheapest car possible and wonder what it can do? Testing the limits of the lowly rental is Roadkill standard operating procedure, and this Roadkill Extra shows Freiburger and Brian Lohnes giving you the basics.

What do you do when your car slips off a floor jack and smashes a hole in your cast-aluminum oil pan? Find out in this Roadkill Extra with a competitor of Hot Rod Drag Week who runs a 2.3L Pinto four-cylinder in is MG roadster.

Here’s another question-and-answer session!

Many Roadkill fans have never worked on a carburetor before, so this episode has Freiburger taking apart a popular Holley carb for a show and tell about how these ancient fuel-metering devices function.

The shop where you often see Roadkill working on cars was originally built for Hot Rod magazine, and it’s decorated with a number of photos shot in the ’50s by the Hot Rod staff. In this Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, David Freiburger shows you some of the photos and talks about how they represent the hot rods of the past.

The Swedes came to Hot Rod Drag Week in full force in 2016, and Freiburger shows you the quickest of them all: an Opel Ascona that has run high 7s with a nitrous big-block, and that has won the Stockholm Open six times. The car is also full of Roadkill-style junkyard parts.

Every time David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich work on the Crop Duster, it seems like they need to realign the front suspension. If you’re unfamiliar with the terms involved in suspension alignment, you can pick up that info here as Freiburger goes through the basics on this episode of Roadkill Extra.