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What can you do if you can't afford a two-door, 2WD OBS Tahoe? Find a cheap 4WD Yukon and make it work! Cotten, Newbern and Finnegan tackle making a low-buck, but still decent-handling, version of an OBS Yukon by lowering it, upgrading the suspension, and fixing some performance issues.

What happens when you buy a Funny Car on the internet and then try to race a Top Eliminator Sand Drag Car with a methanol-fueled blown big-block Chevy 540 making over 2,000 hp on DIRT? This time on Faster With Finnegan, we find out as Finnegan, Cotten, and Newbern transform a one-of-a-kind '73 Opel Funny Car into a dirt-roosting machine with a small-block 406 making 686 hp at the paddle tires!?

The LS-powered S-15 mini truck gets revamped as Finnegan, Cotten and Newbern fix what didn't work from the last time they raced Randy Pobst around a road course in a Shelby GT350. Will they actually get the nitrous to work? Yes, but will they beat the Mustang?

Who said boats need water to have fun? This time on Faster With Finnegan, Newbern, Cotten, and Finnegan take a 1974 Cadillac with a 472ci V-8 to a waterless boat race. What kind of race is that, you ask? It's where you tether a boat to a car and drag it around a dirt track while trying to smash other racers' boats. The one with the most boat left in the end wins. What could go wrong?

Cotten challenges Finnegan and Newbern to some front-wheel-drive, high-school-antics-style racing. With three cheap import beaters to choose from, the guys hop them up, build metal skids to replace the rear wheels, and have the wildest race to date on FWF. Sparks will fly, but which will survive?

Newbern surprises Cotten and Finnegan with a visit to the sacred grounds of Dennis Anderson's Digger's Dungeon. The guys rebuild a busted-up mega truck and take on Finnegan's childhood idol in an unbelievable race against the creator of Grave Digger himself!

Can a 1985 S15 truck beat a new Shelby GT350 Mustang around a road course? That’s what Mike Finnegan is trying to find out with his good friends David Newbern and Mike Cotten. In this premiere episode of Faster With Finnegan, the guys use their Roadkill ingenuity to add major speed to their beater to see if they can out run Randy Pobst piloting a 526-horsepower pony car. Will they be able make their truck competitive with only a few bucks and a couple days of wrenching, or will they fail in glorious fashion? Either way they’ll teach you some new tricks and have fun along the way as Faster With Finnegan adds an all-new show to the Roadkill family.

You’ve asked for it and now you got it! On this episode of Faster With Finnegan, the guys race Roadkill’s Nascarlo vs the Death Metal Charger. This time Finnegan, Newbern and Cotten “roshambo” for seat time to see which car is faster around a dirt oval. Spoiler alert: Finnegan wrecks the Nascarlo, but the guys vastly improve its nose while also adding speed to the DMC and have the time of their lives “goin’ left” on the old school track.

What happens when you take two drag racers off the pavement and put them on dirt? All sorts of awesome, that’s what. On this episode of Faster With Finnegan, John Andrade Jr., aka The Cutty from Street Outlaws, joins the guys in a messy battle between a ’75 dirt track Camaro and big-block-powered Toyota Mud Truck on a makeshift dragstrip down the center of a mud park. Can Finnegan, Newbern, and Cotten make the Camaro a contender and once again prove that American rear-wheel muscle is the best performing off-road race vehicle for sheer fun? Watch now and find out!

Yes, they're cheap, and yes, they can autocross and road race, but do you really ever want to be seen in a Miata? When it can hill climb like a UTV, the answer is yes! Newbern challenges Finnegan and Cotten to see if they can keep up with his Honda Talon UTV.

The build continues this time on Faster With Finnegan, as the motorhome's 400 V-8 gets supercharged and Finnegan, Cotten, and Newbern attempt to make their '78 Class C GMC hang the tires in the air against Pro Wheelstander Mike Mantel and his Little Red Firetruck. The guys solid-mount the rear axle, shift weight, and construct the largest wheelie bar we've ever seen, but will it all work?

It's never easy going faster, and Cotten, Newbern, and Finnegan learn how a simple suspension upgrade can become a house of cards. Major snags are hit and overcome as the guys attempt to run an 8-second pass in the quarter mile with their supercharged barn-find '67 Firebird known as the Rubber Duck.