It’s the final countdown to the Hoonigan’s Kall Out Kings faceoff between their own Jon Chase and Roadkill’s Mike Finnegan. This Chevy vs. Chevy and beard vs. beard brawl is going down at the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, California on February 8th and 9th. Are men and machines ready to leave it all on the drag strip, or have they succumbed to catastrophic mishaps forcing them to throw caution to the wind and leave mechanical guts all over starting line? Click here to get caught up on the antics.
Since our last update, things have been a little crazy with Mike Finnegan. If you follow him on social media, you’ll see that he and buddies Mike Cotton and David Newbern have been road tripping to the West Coast with Blasphemi stuffed in the back of the new-to-Finnegan square-body ramp-truck. For the past couple days, they’ve been stuck in Lake Havasu City, Arizona at Merlin’s Old School Garage trying to nurse the car through some follies on the dyno.
After making an insane 1,045 hp power run in the wee hours of Monday morning, they woke up to a hydro-locked engine. With scrambling in full effect, the heads were sent off to be pressure tested and the head gaskets were attended to. According to an Instagram post, the heads have been on and off the engine twice, and oil was changed seven times in 24 hours to no avail. The Hemi was still making milkshakes. The trio got to Pomona this morning with the engine in Blasphemi now full of Block Seal in a final attempt to race Jon Chase and the Hoonigans.
Meanwhile, for the last week in the Hoonigan camp, things haven’t been much easier. After the most painful rod-knock occurred before making chassis dyno hits at Accelerated Racing Solutions, Jon Chase’s Tri 5 by Fire went in for emergency surgery. They yanked the, built, boosted, sprayed, and now-wounded 5.3L out of the car and snaked a 6.0L from a wrecking yard. All of the speed parts from the 5.3 were transplanted to the junkyard dog, and the whole combo was dropped in the car.
We spoke with Jon a couple of days ago, and it was confirmed that the high-mile 6.0L was going to the dyno, despite him getting his hands on a punched out LSX 427 block. Two days ago, HOT ROD staffer Jacob Davis spotted Chase and the Tri 5 in the Irwindale area after doing some test passes and it sounds like he’s all ready to go this weekend!
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