Roadkill Extras

The best video dog ever was Bika, The Roadkill Dog, who starred in many episodes but has sadly passed away. No one will replace her, but you may have noticed a whole pack of dogs that show up in nearly every episode of Roadkill Garage. These mutts are part of Steve Dulcich’s pet farm. In this episode of Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, you’ll hear about Big Joe the Shop Dog, aka BJTSD.

Follow Roadkill on Facebook @RoadkillShow! That’s where we go to get fodder for the Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge installments, during which hosts David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan answer questions from fans and generally wax poetic on all sorts of gearhead subjects.

You can’t keep Roadkill’s David Freiburger away from vintage 4x4s, and this Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge shows you why he finds merit in a super-rusty 1973 Chevy Blazer that he spotted in Colorado during the filming of Roadkill Episode 55.

This Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge is a twofer: You get to see a cool, junkyard-find, low- mileage 1969 Plymouth Satellite, and at the same time, David Freiburger gives you some background on the Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth line of B- and RB-series big-block V-8s. This spotter’s guide could help you figure out what you’re looking at during the next junkyard crawl or cruise night.

Get to know the background of Elana Scherr, the new editor for Roadkill.com and Roadkill magazine in this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge! She’s a real car nut, a former Hot Rod magazine staffer, and a great writer, so make sure to check out her stuff every day at Roadkill.com.

In this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge, we explore an engine’s ignition timing, or spark timing, which is much like the mysteries of the pyramids for many car people. In this video, David Freiburger hopes to make it all clear with words and bad drawings. What is timing? How about advance and retard? Why does an engine need the timing advanced as rpm increases? It’s all covered here.

A Roadkill question-and-answer session featuring Steve Dulcich from Roadkill Garage and Engine Masters (rather than with Mike Finnegan, but don’t worry, Fin is still on the show). This time, on Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, hang out with Dulcich and Freiburger in their secret 90-weight pond and petting zoo as they respond to questions from fans posted to Facebook.com/RoadkillShow.

Fans have asked for details on David Freiburger’s Jeep, so we are delivering on this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge. Interestingly, this 2001 Jeep Wrangler has never been on Roadkill or Roadkill Garage, but it’s appeared often enough on Facebook and Instagram that it’s recognizable to hard-core Roadkillers worldwide.

You’ll get a guided tour on this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge. David Freiburger walks you behind the scenes at The Enthusiast Network to share some magazine lore, give a peek at the photo studio where so many top magazine covers have been shot, and let you see the whole shop in which Roadkill and Hot Rod Garage are shot.

Gear ratios can be confusing, so in this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge, David Freiburger tries to clear up the differences between high gears (which have low numbers) and low gears (which have higher numbers). You’ll get a few other tech tips and factoids along the way.

You should drive an interesting car every day! David Freiburger and Elana Scherr are here to convince you of that and to discuss the pros and cons of a vintage transportation car. It’s the first of our opinion pieces here on Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge.

This time the dogs upstage David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich as they wax philosophical when responding to questions from the fans. As you watch, cruise over to Facebook.com/RoadkillShow, follow us, and watch for future posts asking for your questions to be answered on the Q&A sessions that are posted every Friday on Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge.

In episode 54 of Roadkill, David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan rescued a 1970 Challenger that was a former dirt-track car and returned it to the street, later racing it at the 2016 Roadkill Nights event in Pontiac, Michigan. This Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge gives you a deeper look at the car than what you may have gotten in the full-length Roadkill episodes.

Tony Angelo has become a fan favorite as the host of Hot Rod Garage, and he’s been in three episodes of Roadkill so far. This Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge will let you know about Angelo’s background in Mopars, drifiting, and Roadkill costarring.

The Crusher Camaro is stuffed with more power than it’s ever had! This long-term Hot Rod magazine project car has made plenty of cameo appearances on Roadkill and Hot Rod Garage, and in this Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge, you’ll learn about its history, its current state, and David Freiburger’s plans for the next phase of this shape-shifting F-body.

Roadkill loves using ludicrous speed parts in incorrect applications, and the tunnel ram, dual-quad intake used on our near-stock Mopar 318ci V-8 is a perfect example of that. This Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge features David Freiburger attempting to justify this high-rpm speed part on a low-rpm engine and telling you all about how a tunnel ram works.

Here’s another question-and-answer session, this time with Roadkill host David Freiburger alongside Steve Dulcich of Engine Masters and Roadkill Garage. This time the answers get a little philosophical about the guy’s gearhead roots.

Hot Rod Drag Week 2016 played out in September, and social media and our own content outlets are still buzzing with the cars and the news. In this episode of Roadkill Extra, Drag Week founder David Freiburger describes what the event is all about.

In nearly every episode of Roadkill Garage, Steve Dulcich admonishes David Freiburger not to run into his ’69 Dodge Dart. In this episode of Roadkill Extra, Dulcich tells you the story behind his Dart and the future plans for it.

In Roadkill Episode 16, the guys famously “supercharged” a ’78 Chevy Monza using five leaf blowers. After a long rest at Lutz Race Cars in Pennsylvania, the Monza is back and being prepped for a new episode. Watch this episode of Roadkill Extra as David Freiburger catches you up on the basics of the car.

Hot Rod Drag Week is the ultimate Roadkill event for its unexpected breakdowns and feats of automotive survival. In this Roadkill Extra, David Freiburger shows you the disasters that befell racer Matt Martin and his 8-second, turbocharged Ford LTD.

Here’s another question-and-answer session, this time with Roadkill host David Freiburger alongside Steve Dulcich of Engine Masters and Roadkill Garage. This time the answers get a little philosophical about the guy’s gearhead roots.