The Rotsun's Ford V8 Engine Swap! | Roadkill | MotorTrend

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

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  • @MotorTrendWatch
    @MotorTrendWatch  Год назад +3

    What's your favorite Rotsun moment?

    • @wbball15
      @wbball15 Год назад +17

      Free on RUclips

    • @RUMADD69
      @RUMADD69 Год назад +3

      reposting old content isnt cool

    • @MegaKencam
      @MegaKencam Год назад +2

      When I could actually watch it...
      BTW. I even have the Motortrend Channel yet for some reason that isn't good enough.

    • @N-Lee
      @N-Lee Год назад

      @@RUMADD69 Like Al Bundy, re-Living his glory days as a High School Football Player so He doesn't see himself as such a current Loser.

    • @user-ux2dd9pp8x
      @user-ux2dd9pp8x Год назад +2

      When this series was on RUclips

  • @ghhhp
    @ghhhp Год назад +342

    remember when david said roadkill would always be free on youtube? man the good ol days 🤦‍♂️

    • @michaelroberts3947
      @michaelroberts3947 Год назад +20

      Ik I think we all miss roadkill

    • @robertharris7027
      @robertharris7027 Год назад +7

      HAHAHAHAHA!!! They all need the money.

    • @W33DwasherME
      @W33DwasherME Год назад +29

      Pepperidge farms remembers

    • @Axial_Andrew
      @Axial_Andrew Год назад +7

      Quite possibly the greatest catfish of all time...🤠

    • @JoshsCarCorner
      @JoshsCarCorner Год назад +10

      Could be, and they would make even more money. But they chose to be corporate lemmings that no longer own their content. That's why Finnegan does his own show now.

  • @Blowinshiddup
    @Blowinshiddup Год назад +25

    Nothing to do but sit at my desk and watch Roadkill. As Finnegan says, "Best day at work EVER!"

  • @boomingtx
    @boomingtx Год назад +12

    @Motortrend. We need to bring Roadkill back. Asap

    • @sidween
      @sidween Год назад +1

      Free episodes

    • @boomingtx
      @boomingtx Год назад +5

      @@sidween I swear they used to be 30 min episodes. I really wanna see what happened to the Gremiln, Jag, and the others

  • @Notyurhandel
    @Notyurhandel Год назад +2

    FINALLY ITS BEEN YEARS somebody at motor trend pulled their head outta their asses

  • @trm4life
    @trm4life Год назад +3

    It's funny you mention the heater core, and having to take half the car apart. You're correct, entire dashboard has to go. I did a heater core in an 84 I believe. All the screws had a home when I was done though!

    • @alertgasper
      @alertgasper Год назад +1

      yeah, if you don't have factory AC, that heater core comes out the glovebox like a VCR tape. But my 1986 GT had none-working AC, so I had to move the dashboard out of the way. In winter up north.
      and it was my daily driver.
      so not only was it freezing temps, i only had one hour of daylight (old man wouldn't clear out the garage for me) to do the process. took a month and i snapped a few plastic tabs off the dash. finally got the dash far enough from the cowl on a weekend to sneak in the $20 part and avoid the $800 repair a mechanic would have done.
      you aren't kidding about leftover screws at the end of a project, however :)

  • @Torques_moto
    @Torques_moto Год назад +18

    The Rotsun definitely deserves proper engine mounts after that performance!

  • @sailinggreenpearl2571
    @sailinggreenpearl2571 Год назад +2

    Thats f**king epic, the Rotsun is one of the Roadkill signature vehicles! This thing proves that life starts at 40 ha ha ha

  • @donsimpson12
    @donsimpson12 Год назад +5

    Favorite videos are of Freiburger working with Finnegan !!
    Love all of them, but these two are an awesome team.

  • @teknoaija1762
    @teknoaija1762 Год назад +1

    Had a 89 crown victoria stw and it too did the heater core stunt on me and other typical ford lectrical gremlins

  • @dreknd
    @dreknd Год назад +1

    At 4:20 in the video, that Jegs cherry picker looks like like it would have folded in half if it had a big block on the end of it.

  • @rsamano4434
    @rsamano4434 Год назад +2

    PowerNation Droped a Datsun Video too, in the Same day?! Awesome!

  • @ThePoofdiggins
    @ThePoofdiggins Год назад +4

    Man I miss old Roadkill!

  • @kotajames6211
    @kotajames6211 Год назад +1

    Ayyyeee The Rotsun Gets A New Heart!

  • @willjohnson4145
    @willjohnson4145 Год назад +1

    It’s about time they put this episode BACK on RUclips. F motortrend

  • @patsgarage8593
    @patsgarage8593 Год назад +4

    Love the Rotsun!!

  • @johndool6567
    @johndool6567 Год назад

    I take it the shirt you had on is the firing order for the hemi engine love you r shows and videos keep up the great work wolf 🐺 Lynn Massachusett

  • @there_is_nothing_here
    @there_is_nothing_here Год назад

    That's an old school episode right there lol. Good times

  • @dagutterboy73
    @dagutterboy73 Год назад +2

    I still say you guys should have gone to Tom Nelson with that 4.3 v6.
    Even with a few minimal parts, it could have been an untouchable powerhouse.

    • @MidshipRunabout2
      @MidshipRunabout2 Год назад

      That'd be overkill for that rust bucket. And that thing vibrated like crazy too. Though it's engine note was pretty cool and unique.

    • @calvin99991
      @calvin99991 Год назад +2

      Men drive V8s.

    • @dagutterboy73
      @dagutterboy73 Год назад

      @@calvin99991 don’t get me wrong. I can get into a good v8 myself, but that v6 Tom did is no slouch.
      ruclips.net/video/KkglxJH6jGE/видео.html

    • @eriklarson9137
      @eriklarson9137 Год назад

      @@dagutterboy73 Are you attempting to argue that 2 fewer cylinders is better? Or are you Tom?

    • @dagutterboy73
      @dagutterboy73 Год назад

      @@eriklarson9137 not here to argue.

  • @jdrods1519
    @jdrods1519 Год назад +2

    Just in time while I put a turbo on one of my Foxes 🇺🇸💪🏼

  • @bcab7955
    @bcab7955 Год назад +11

    This episode is from 2017. 😂

    • @Torch4ya
      @Torch4ya Год назад +1

      It's yester-decade 💯

    • @larrykittell726
      @larrykittell726 Год назад

      Who cares, it's on RUclips and free!

    • @AB-80X
      @AB-80X Год назад

      Quite sure it's significantly older than that.

    • @joshferguson829
      @joshferguson829 12 дней назад

      Whats the point chest smacker 😂

  • @audiogarden21
    @audiogarden21 Год назад

    Roadkill made MotorTrend for me.

  • @nwredneck390
    @nwredneck390 Год назад

    That thing is hilarious and awesome!

  • @boredom.victim
    @boredom.victim Год назад +1

    a cross between Ruby and the Batrod lol

  • @STB-jh7od
    @STB-jh7od Год назад

    I love how in 80s, the 5.0 Ford V-8 only had 5 horses more than 3.0L SHO V-6.

  • @TundeEszlari
    @TundeEszlari Год назад +2

    Nice video.

  • @edirwin8784
    @edirwin8784 Год назад

    that Ratsun(my interpretation of RK project from the term "ratrod") deff needs a stroker 347 ford windsor v8 with aluminum heads,intake manifold!!🥸🥸🍿🍿

  • @SyracuseIsOranges
    @SyracuseIsOranges Год назад +2

    Here come the "remember when it was free?" jabronies

  • @timworsnop4142
    @timworsnop4142 Год назад +1

    In the dictionary next to the word "Roadkill", theres a picture of the Rotsun.

  • @河野博幸-e5w
    @河野博幸-e5w 11 месяцев назад

    Awsome motortrend and HotWheels/~

  • @michaelmckinney9215
    @michaelmckinney9215 Год назад

    Wish Motortrend would bring Garage Squad back! 😢

  • @WARD5KUSTOMZ
    @WARD5KUSTOMZ Год назад

    How did they make a blow through carb?

  • @irishclaymor74
    @irishclaymor74 Год назад

    I can't believe that the rotsun can still hold any weight without crumbling to dust.!

  • @nburgell8622
    @nburgell8622 Год назад +1

    Wish the rotson would come back

  • @studiocnos
    @studiocnos Год назад

    everytime I watch one of these videos, I'm so sad that I live in Europe. I've tried so many things to get MT+, but never got it to work :(. Will you guys ever get to Europe? Pretty please, with sprinkles on top?

    • @poowaffle
      @poowaffle Год назад

      Will not happen, because of EU laws "for your protection"

  • @northernwoodsman
    @northernwoodsman Год назад

    Are you guys making new episodes?

  • @mikecrystalrobert7898
    @mikecrystalrobert7898 Год назад +1

    Well it’s aboot dang time😂

  • @tumblelake63
    @tumblelake63 Год назад +2

    Nothing would ever go right with Freiburger and Finnegan.

  • @Flyinghigh4200
    @Flyinghigh4200 11 месяцев назад

    OK why do I want a Finnegan friburger and dulcich to do a show. our version of top gear lol.

  • @davidjustice5805
    @davidjustice5805 Год назад

    Good video

  • @chakradjuzeus9275
    @chakradjuzeus9275 7 месяцев назад

    Nice one

  • @craigengelman1369
    @craigengelman1369 Год назад

    need some hockey puck motor mounts lol....

  • @MsCriticalthinker201
    @MsCriticalthinker201 Год назад

    1:45 You are so lucky you didn't cut through the brake and fuel lines right next to your wiz wheel.

    • @AB-80X
      @AB-80X Год назад

      Semantics....

  • @finneyabraham2382
    @finneyabraham2382 Год назад

    Rotsun needs a comeback against another roadkill vehicle. Maybe the super Camaro? Or fbomb?

  • @User-12618
    @User-12618 Год назад

    You should've put the turbo in the headlight if you could

    • @AB-80X
      @AB-80X Год назад

      Little time and little money.

  • @goatee21
    @goatee21 Год назад

    I see the rotsun, I click.

  • @Khalidsvt101
    @Khalidsvt101 5 дней назад

    those 302 internals are bullet proof .. the block different story 😂

  • @richfiryn
    @richfiryn Год назад +2

    I approve of this sort of nonsense. Best day ever.............again.

  • @FakeyPlayyz
    @FakeyPlayyz 6 месяцев назад

    Yo man! I got the exact hot wheels of this car, just asking did hot wheels collab with u if so tell me!

  • @pcihector
    @pcihector Год назад

    It was in a Mustang working properly...why there is a problem to "figure out" water pump and damper?

  • @gentilejoshsaved1646
    @gentilejoshsaved1646 Год назад +1

    How old is this?

  • @spar8334
    @spar8334 Год назад +1

    my 302 needs a turbo

  • @lisam4503
    @lisam4503 Год назад

    I'd have patiently waited for Hurricane six engines to start showing up in totaled vehicles at the scrapyard! Keep it an inline six and over 500 hp stock would make that Z fly like none before it has. I see the Hurricane 6 in race form as going to be able to put some shade on the Toyota JZ engine.

  • @sinaca05
    @sinaca05 Год назад

    sell me either one of those fox bodys

  • @richrobinson7797
    @richrobinson7797 Год назад

    Back in the eighties people would corvette Motor on datsun 280zs

  • @bugguana
    @bugguana Год назад

    How did that z car have a v6 in it?

    • @AB-80X
      @AB-80X Год назад

      They originally bought the car without an engine in it. Then they swapped a 4.3 V6 from an S10 into it. Then they killed that, several times and thus did the Ford swap.

  • @lukeemms2036
    @lukeemms2036 8 месяцев назад

    The v6 definitely sounded cooler

  • @josh9422
    @josh9422 Год назад

    And then there was the 1960s mustang with a Honda motor in it .

  • @eclifton4070
    @eclifton4070 Год назад

    Ummm, I'm fairly certain the Datsun had a straight 6. Just saying. Keep up the fun projects. You guys do great work.

    • @cwhitley.sawlabs
      @cwhitley.sawlabs Год назад +1

      OEM engine was a L6. Then they swapped it to a Chevy 4.3L V6 from a S10. (And changed it several times as it kept failing).
      Then it got the Foxbody V8 as shown in this episode. Maybe do some research on the car, haha.

    • @henrysmith8012
      @henrysmith8012 Год назад

      Factory engine was a inline six. With overhead cam.

    • @eclifton4070
      @eclifton4070 Год назад

      @@henrysmith8012 Yup, Freiburger's opening line is that "they removed the V6." 😉

    • @AB-80X
      @AB-80X Год назад

      @@cwhitley.sawlabs Foxbody? No such thing. Fox Mustang if anything.

    • @cwhitley.sawlabs
      @cwhitley.sawlabs Год назад

      @@AB-80X fox-body is a nickname because the chassis is called the fox platform. Hence, fox-body.

  • @christophermcbride3284
    @christophermcbride3284 Год назад

    hey guys I was saying to myself like wht!!! lmao they didn't yup I had to see it and wht uk it fits and it was faster thn the slightly mod stang I like to say way to go 😂

  • @scobo4743
    @scobo4743 Год назад

    Lol... great job! Still not paying tho

  • @allurared9029
    @allurared9029 Год назад

    A running minimal rust 5.0 foxbody for 1500? Bullshit.

    • @AB-80X
      @AB-80X Год назад

      Way back when. Probably when people knew there was no such thing as Fox body Mustang, just a Fox Mustang.

  • @daddybiggs9343
    @daddybiggs9343 Год назад

    How about a new episode?

  • @dustinandtarynwolfe5540
    @dustinandtarynwolfe5540 Год назад

    That mustang was far more deserving of an engine swap. And im a chevy guy

  • @AdventuringwiththeS.G.O.C.C
    @AdventuringwiththeS.G.O.C.C Год назад

    Finally.

  • @chrisbennett814
    @chrisbennett814 Год назад +1

    killer

  • @JaydenCollazo-s7w
    @JaydenCollazo-s7w Год назад

    Where has the dissustan

  • @jordang94
    @jordang94 Год назад +2

    Motortrend sucks it never works , on my phone or laptop like wtfff motortrend ? Been paying for it for over a year and it never works !?

    • @robertharris7027
      @robertharris7027 Год назад +2

      "Been paying for it for over a year and it never works" That could tell us sometining about your intelligence...

    • @GeorgiaThriftNutz
      @GeorgiaThriftNutz Год назад

      I have no problems with mine. Really enjoying it. Unfortunately Roadiill is not doing a lot of content right now.

    • @scotty197878
      @scotty197878 Год назад +1

      More fool you for paying. Won’t get a penny out of me. I’ll stick the RUclipsrs that remain

  • @darryl163
    @darryl163 Год назад

    Freiburger Is a powerbottom

  • @markmarcille3848
    @markmarcille3848 Год назад

    Oh great “ford finnegan” FO!!

  • @kaleedwalwyn9776
    @kaleedwalwyn9776 Год назад

    Always had love for that car was just so powerful pile on garbage🤣

  • @dominicsosa7405
    @dominicsosa7405 Год назад

    Only 225 HP why stop there it has 300tq

    • @AB-80X
      @AB-80X Год назад

      They ran that engine on Engine Masters. It made way north of 600 hp I believe.

  • @cav3man360
    @cav3man360 Год назад +4

    Old episode...boo

  • @zvotaisvfi8678
    @zvotaisvfi8678 Год назад

    Boycott go auto insurance

  • @cliffwright9842
    @cliffwright9842 Год назад

    You know if that 302 fails a lLS4 from a front wheel drive cop car will bolt up to that transmission...really

  • @mathewhyland8925
    @mathewhyland8925 Год назад

    buy a new chassis

  • @cccc-ru9ex
    @cccc-ru9ex Год назад +1

    No respect for anything these two

  • @montes305
    @montes305 Год назад +1

    First

  • @jdunn1781
    @jdunn1781 Год назад +1

    bruh its hard to believe you guys just so happened to find a running vert fox body for 1500$ ... just like this lie, you can watch roadkill for free LMFAO what a JOKE not to mention all the complaints about the app n stuff not working at ALL .. this is why i will always watch Finnigans youtube over this .. 0:21 seconds in and i already call bullhidt LMFAO 1500$ for that fox body come on guys that's your buddies car that hooked it up .. no one else is finding deal like this ! this show is just weird now ..

    • @AB-80X
      @AB-80X Год назад

      Do you have any idea about how old this is? How old are you?

  • @mariocooldude9092
    @mariocooldude9092 Год назад

    Viva La BOOST 🙋‍♂️

  • @motorman1873
    @motorman1873 Год назад +1

    Finnegan the pansy man's pansy...

  • @zvotaisvfi8678
    @zvotaisvfi8678 Год назад

    Boycott go auto insurance