FInnegan was so excited about the oil pan, he explained why he wanted one on there three times!

Can’t wait to see Newbern trolling for fish at 80MPH.

I knew Finnegan was into jet boats but I did not know he was that big into it! He's an officianato!

Loving the jet bot videos. No one else on KZfaq has any quality jet boat video and it’s good to see the boats getting some love.

“Attempted Murder Nova” is hands down my favorite vehicle nickname.

Yes!!!!! Just give every boat 1000hp

Honestly sometimes when i watch this I just see two dads filming their fun activities together. Wholesome

Man jet boat talk is awesome. Bought my first jet when I was 17, it was a cheetah I think, deep V 18 foot, 455 Olds, was cool as all get out. My dad was working on a 1974 Wreidt with a 455 olds as well. Little known fact, Michigan used to have a ton of bad ass jet boats. Bay City held the River Roar boat race for years.

Newbern, actually from the south: "Just need some rod holders and a depth finder...'

Gotta admit I had trouble paying attention to the LS with the Caddy waiting patiently in the background... but it did turn out to be a pretty engine.

I went 92.9 in that boat with 800hp without the pump set back. You know you are going to have a blast!. Not owning the Roger's anymore sucks. But atleast I get to watch you guys with it. Keep the Rogers content coming 👌

Thank you Mike! Super into all the jetboat content!

"Clearance Clarence" LOL! I thought I was the only one who said silly stuff like this while working in the shop, that was one of my all-time favorites during engine rebuilds.

You guys are just so cool and relaxed, and that makes your vids a pleasure to watch, thank you!

I have a 1965 18' Rayson Craft V-drive, flat bottom with a Pontiac 400. I got it in 1972 with a 389 Pontiac with Trips and changed the motor to the GTO 400, put on a Holley 850 double pumper and I had the motor redone with the good parts in it. I did some local racing in Oakmont, Pa. and Pittsburgh, Pa. at the 3 Rivers Regatta. Took one first place and one second place. I sold it in 1982. I also put on a bigger oil pan. I Love that look of yours with the motor and the open headers. That Boat should fly.

I met Newbern and Cotton at the car show in Ocean City Maryland this past weekend, and I asked Newbern if Nova was still running, he told me it was sold and LS went in a boat. Bought a shirt and they both signed it. VERY cool guys !

80-90 mph feels A LOT faster when your on the water

Blimey! I am so impressed at how well you followed the line with your bandsaw - that is much harder than most people realise. And I am speaking as a 40 years as a toolmaker and design engineer at Ford Research & Engineering in the UK. It also shows that you have the bandsaw set up nicely.

Great build! Love the old school jet boats. Brings back a lot of good memories growing up boating on the Colorado River. Thanks for going to history and design characteristics of the TR hull.

Exactly why I race/play with RC vehicles. Keep it coming! Finn..... Newburn Shirts???

Mike , thanks for showing this build. There isn’t much info about installing LS engines into boats out there . Your knowledge and experience in this field is very greatly appreciated down under . Long live jet boats

The shrapnel from that previous grenade. Dayum. XD

I enjoyed the jet boat history/ explainer part, you should do more of that for people like me that think jet boats are cool but don’t really know what we are looking at. What do you think of v drive boats? With the drive shafts inside the boat? My dad worked on a coworkers once when I was a kid and the guy took me for a ride in it as a reward. It was a pretty memorable experience for me as a young kid.

Sounds like a Godsmack sound. Thousand horse power. OMG. !!!

"Good eyesight and quality tools" is a killer shop slogan.

So.. Idea for a race. Finnegan in Game Over, Newburn in the Renegade. Standing start there at the lake and then race to your preferred fishing spot on the lake, get your fishing gear out, bait up, and start casting. First one to land a fish and race back to the boat dock at the boat ramp wins.

Honestly never have had the urge to build a jet boat... after all the videos you’ve been involved with around jet boats has me convinced that I need to ask my good buddy to go in with me on a build 👍 thank you, peace and love 🇨🇦

"it's that sinking feeling" the one when you forget the drainplug in your new racing hovercraft?

Oh Finn this is giving me such an urge to put the LS I built on my channel into a boat! Thanks for the video as always!

That thing would sound insane blasting down the water with a 8-1 header!

I live up the Chesapeake Bay. Our water is salt water but very weak and brackish this far up. I noticed that Mike is just running a garden hose for cooling. This means that all the water the block sees will be quite cool. Therefore the engine may never come up to temperature. This method is called raw water cooling. We usually run fresh water cooling with a closed circuit radiator like on a car with thermostat, antifreeze, and all. The radiator is really a liquid to liquid heat exchanger which is quite efficient and quite small. The raw water outflow is mixed in with the exhaust.

I remember once upon a time what feels like many ages ago we used to see roadkill once a month when events were current in the world and not half a year later

More jet boats=more fun lol, I can't wait to see the brand new boat come together!

"Use a sacrificial piece of wood, I learned that from 3 finger Louie"

Bring your toys and come play in S.W. Missouri. We will go drag boat fishing and hit the local dragstrip. lol

I've been looking for a jet boat like that for a while now! Not easy to come by that's not beat to death.

Love that little shop & jet boat ...

I have an old jet boat that was super fun!!! 400 hp with an old jacuzzi pump,,0-60 was crazy quick. Nothing as fast as yours but was fun. Outboard boaters cussed me till hard till 65 mph.

Mike is a phenomenal teacher

I support the idea of taking it fishing.

Such Gorgeous Stuff to work with there, meanwhile Freiburger is at Dulcich's farm dingle ball honing a worn out 318 block...lol

After hearing the story about your folks buying the jet boat it makes sense now. My father drag boat raced back in the early 70's . When I was born in 75' the 1968 Howard flat bottom got put away till 1985.. I can remember as a kid going to get Buttercup. All the gas had turned to varnish. He worked on it and got it ready and off to the river we went. So we are in the water Cruising along and a wall of water came blowing by. You know what that was...yelling at the top of his lungs at me..That's a dam jet..That's when something came out of him and he said hold on. He mashed it dropped the plate and off like a skipping rock we went. He called it clinching some seat cover. When he pulled next to the guy he laid right next to them probably doing somewhere in the 80's...then he puts his arm on me so I didn't flyout..that when he put big tough in it and bye bye..on the way home he told me them dam jets always would get off the line but old buttercup could pass them on the big end. I'm happy you guys have this boat to play with. I think one of your best yet. 👍 Best of luck

drinking game : take a shot overtime Finn says that it doesn't have a transmission

Oh great, thanks a lot Finnigan, now I have to have a jet boat! What the hell.....love it!

I used to work for Dan Olsen racing parts, building oil pans 25 years ago and (in my opinion) there isn't any better oil pan made. Built in crank scraper, trap doors, windage tray, which directs the oil to the pickup and keeps it from sloshing back up into the crank. Holds at least 10qts.

Thanks for the inspiration as i'm a jack of all trades and love old school, currently working on my own jet boat 77 Witchcraft, also working on a road course car 1986 Dodge Shelby turbo Charger. Will keep watching been a fan since Roadkill started and you moved from CA. Can't wait to see the new boat.

Thanks Mike & David, I'm more of a V-drive hydroplane fan but agree with fast boats. I was born in Sanger. Central California Watching

This boat looks VERY similar to my 1980 Miller 19' jet - such a bad ass hull. I love the look of the Sanger/Rogers/Miller hulls - they all have that great curved stern but I am partial to the Miller overall.

I learned about the push stick in shop class, now I’m telling my age.

Always first class knowledge and skills for the faithful. Cheers

Working on my boat in the garage while watching Finnegan work on his boat. 👍

Cheap Wal-Mart / Dollar General house candle for the band blade lube. The wax grabs the chips better. Once the wax gets just a bit dirty from cutting ,,it flings off,,taking the stuck chips with it. Tried the Lenox stuff and others. Cheap candle wax for the win. Apply carefully. I remember the Elsinore trip. The good ole days.

I have a ls3 in my 19ft 1997 ultra t deck jet boat i have the corvette bat wing oil pan works great...I love it got it to 60 mph next is cams, running on lake Elsinore maybe see you one day out there can’t miss my boat with the paint job I have! Cheers bro 🥂🔥🚤

That sounds so good ! Can't wait to see it ripping across the lake !

Cool stuff Finnegan educating the masses on Jet boat building 😎👍

You and cleetus with your jet boats makes me want one..

Dude you must have the best neighbors ever.

Hey man ... I just grabbed your latest video 👍👍👍 to tell you how much ,,, I enjoy your channel ... Well done 👍👍👍

I glad to see hes giving us some more jet boat action it's a nice change and makes wanna get one into the jet boat raceing 😁

Looks like fun times are ahead 👍

The Count Sez: "10 Quarts!. 10! Ah Ah Ah!"

"not getting that washer back anytime soon" newbern: *bet*

Involuntary manslaughter Nova

That boat looks way better than the last time I saw it.

Cant wait to see it rip across the lake coming along nicely

The content is wonderful, also with you talking about family memories. I’m now 30 and In memory I just bought a 1984 Ski Nautique 2001. To bring back childhood memories of spending 18 years in my dads 1986 Ski Nautique 2001

I love the old school go fast boats.

Wish I could see that episode of roadkill, I should but the average person that subscribed, liked and shared the show made it so big that now we have to pay to watch it and I have to choose between a couple days food or give it to motortrend , so, miss the show dearly but I'd rather eat.

I know nothing about boats but I do know I like your show

I know I watch your shows too much because I actually said “clearance clarance” to the tire shop guys this week 🤣🤣

Rotary jet boat? Somebody call Rob “Dorito” Dahm 😄

That is THE best sounding LS I have ever heard.

Mike knows so much about boats who would of thought

Best episode episode of roadkill

not even lying i rewatched that old roadkill episode 5 days ago!!!

"I learned that at MRC Fab" ... I learned that in high school woodshop XD

Makes me want my 74 Miller back big time.

25:44 seeing an engine that tall just makes your inner kid emotions come out lol 😂

Awesome content! Thanks Finnegan and Newbern!

Learn something new every day, thanks!

Dude it’s such a nice engine though if only I could see this in person

28:10 "A mountment of silence for the Attempted Murder Nova which is no longer with us." Wait? What? Did Newburn have to sell the Attempted Murder Nova to buy the '57 (and the boat)?

Great video , liked hearing your knowledge about boats .COOL MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nicely done boys

@9:36 I appreciate the clearance joke because my grandfather's name is Clarence an its been used more than once lol

Looking forward to the day you build a prop boat. You know...to go really fast 😉

Wow, the editing of your videos is improving massively, I would dare calling them profesional!

I like knowing why jet boats need the high capacity oil pans. In fact, I like it so much, I’m not even mad about being told about it twice 😉

I really like the stance of the trailer!

ive got a 21 ft v-drive project thats been in storage longer than its worth haha.. glad at least one person on youtube is into boats, been needing some reasonable inspiration haha.

i wish I had just half the build knowledge you have. love your channel mate

Thank you for posting this video beautiful boat .

Good eyesight and quality tools is all you need man.

I had a 16' Baja with a rebuilt Evinrude 150 that was radared at 74 mph with no jacking plates, just a well dialed SS prop , but the tach was bouncing off 9K . All for under $7k. In 1990. Those were the days.

I would like to see a nice bank on an EFI holly sniper, seem an inexpensive route for some big power, not to say this don't work but that e85 is calling

Hey Finn. For the benefit of us with shop experience and OCD, can you show that you dressed out the cut marks and de-burred after you cut stuff on the band saw. It would really help us. Thanks dude.

i feel like you could make a little sliding sheet of metal that has matching holes cut in them to put underneath the welding table, that way when you slide the holes out of alignment you can stop stuff from falling through. and if you want the mounting holes back you can just align the metal sheet holes with the welding table holes. kind of the same concept as a slide valve

Have the same bandsaw at work. Gets used every day. Still weld up blades once in a while just to show off.

I miss my Tahiti Day Cruiser, Tan and Root Beer Brown. Time to hit up CL.

Proper resto-mod, I like it.