A couple of months ago I posted about a YouTube Ferrari engine swap that sucked me in.
Mike Burroughs’ original intent for the Ferrari/Honda build, when he started in December 2020, was to finish for SEMA 2021. Because of COVID, SEMA in 2021 was canceled and it was a good thing too because he never would have been finished on time. Now he is shooting for SEMA 2022 which in November and just a few weeks away.
Well, its happened again. About two weeks ago there was a guest in the video who was sand blasting the engine compartment ahead of getting it painted. At the end of the episode Mike tells us that the fellow who did the sand blasting was doing an engine swap too and we should go check out his YouTube channel.
So I did. Talk about parallel universes. This particular build started around the same time, with the same finish goal of SEMA 2021. The same “wouldn’t have finished it” applied to him as well. Also his first name is Mike too (last name is O’Neal.) This is not a Honda engine into a Ferrari, but a Subaru EZ30 into a 1969 Porsche 911.
So far he has created 97 videos and I have watched almost half at 47 of them. I have not peeked ahead, but because I have subscribed I see whenever he post a new video and from the thumbnails it looks like the car is at about the same stage as the Ferrari one. I have my fingers crossed that they’ll both make it to SEMA this year, but I won’t be surprised if they are not.
So, to possibly suck in a few more folks to his channel and this build, below is the intro video and it’s only about 8 minutes long. Give it a spin. Also, here is the entire playlist link.