Roadkill Extras

If you’ve seen Episode 67 of Roadkill, you know the engine in Mike Finnegan’s newly purchased 1969 Pontiac Firebird expired after just one lap of the road course in Memphis with Tony Angelo at the wheel.

On Episode 67 of Roadkill, there was so much work required to get our 1969 Pontiac Firebird ready for the Tire Rack One Lap of America competition that we couldn’t jam it all into this episode.

This Roadkill Extra is an outtake from episode 67 of Roadkill, where Mike Finnegan buys a 1969 Pontiac Firebird and the team has to build it in two or three days in preparation for the Tire Rack One Lap of America race.

The Roadkill Zip-Tie Drags is a fan-appreciation event, and the next one is going to be September 15-16, 2017, at Gateway Motorsports Park near St. Louis.

David Freiburger is the cohost of Roadkill, Roadkill Garage, and Engine Masters, as well as the past editor of magazines HOT ROD, Hot Rod Deluxe, Car Craft, Rod & Custom, and 4-Wheel & Off-Road.

Roadkill cohost David Freiburger digs into his toolbox to show you some of his favorite old tools and problem solvers.

Roadkill cohost David Freiburger’s car-centric life began on paper with an addiction to the printed word (and photo) long before he became the editor of top car magazines.

Elana Scherr is the editor of Roadkill.com and Roadkill magazine, as well as a former staff editor for HotRod.com and HOT ROD magazine.

Want a snapshot of what’s coming up in Roadkill-land over the next few weeks? Get it straight from cohost and executive producer David Freiburger on this Roadkill Extra.

Steve Dulcich is cohost of Engine Masters and Roadkill Garage and has developed a cult following, so we sent him out solo for a question-and-answer session based on queries from fans on his @stevedulcich Instagram account.

Here’s some more cutting-room-floor gold from the Roadkill trip to One Lap of America. This one is an extended cut of Mike Finnegan and Tony Angelo out on the road in Fin’s 1969 Pontiac Firebird.

Here’s another clip about competing at the One Lap of America event that didn’t make it on the Roadkill episodes.

It’s time for more math class with David Freiburger on this episode of Roadkill Extra. You’ll learn how to calculate the change in engine rpm at any given speed after you’ve changed rear-axle ratio, tire diameter, or transmission ratio.

Have you seen Roadkill’s two-part saga of the One Lap of America adventure in Mike Finnegan’s 1969 Pontiac Firebird?

For this Q&A, David Freiburger posted to Facebook looking for questions he had never been asked before, which lead to some lively conversation between him and Steve Dulcich.

Delving deep into custom-engine-building math, David Freiburger shows you how to calculate the piston compression height needed to achieve the optimal zero deck height on any engine.

Nope, this isn’t the “Don’t Hit the Dart” Dart, it’s another part of the collection on the Dulcich Dog Farm.

David Freiburger shows you the easy match required to learn your engine’s displacement in cubic inches before and after an overbore or a stroker crankshaft.

In this Roadkill Extra, hosts David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich discuss the car-related movies you must see if you haven’t already. Consider this a primer for first-timers.

Episode 19 of Roadkill Garage delivered a cool Jeep into the fleet as well as a whole bunch of Q&As and outtakes that you’ve seen on Roadkill Extra over the past couple weeks. Here’s the last of them, an extended cut of Freiburger and Péwé riding off into the sunset in their new 1968 Wagoneer and talking about its pure greatness.

Roadkill Garage is famous for David Freiburger’s sage Zip-Tie Moment segments, but they have not appeared in every episode. Strangely, one was shot for episode 19-the Wagoneer rescue-but it didn’t make the final cut. Maybe it was just too lame. You get to decide, because we’re playing it all out for you here on Roadkill Extra.

Tire Rack hosted Roadkill as we participated in the One Lap of America event that appeared in episode 67 and that you’ll soon see wrapped up in episode 68. This Roadkill Extra has Freiburger showing you the exclusive tire-testing proving ground at Tire Rack while stuff goes up in smoke in the background.