BangShift Tech and Video: Does staggered jetting a Holley Carb really work?
Posted in ENGINE March 23, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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We learned several things during our staggered jetting test, and some might surprise you. We also came to a couple of conclusions. 4-Corner Jetting is not for everyone, and ignorance is bliss. And then there are the questions. But before we get into those, let’s get into the test. Our goal was to determine whether [...]
Great Tech Thread: How to Remove the Motor of Your 4th Gen Camaro/Firebird From The Bottom
Posted in ENGINE February 3, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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BangShift member Buddy blew the LT1 engine in his Camaro up about a year ago while ripping through the gears. This was not going to be a quick fix, the plant had to be pulled out of the car. At that time Buddy didn’t have a shop, but since then he built a sweet place [...]
Project Goliath Update: We Sort of Rebuilt the 292ci Six, It Runs
Posted in ENGINE May 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We know that the coil is mounted wrong, the spark plugs are only in hand tight, and the vacuum lines are routed like some sort of Chinese maze, but Goliath lives once again! Our big 1966 Chevy C50 truck rumbled to life a week after a mad thrash to reassemble the engine on a weirdly [...]
Project Goliath Update: Our Perfect Plan Goes to Hell
Posted in ENGINE April 21, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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It was all going to be so perfect. We were going to re-ring one cylinder in Goliath’s 292ci straight six and then it would be off to the shop to have the rotted cab floors repaired. That pipe dream ended when we popped the number two piston out, found a chunk of ring land missing, [...]
Project Goliath Update: The One Cylinder Rebuild, Part One
Posted in ENGINE March 22, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The great thing about having a couple of project vehicles beating around here at BangShift.com is that our pain and suffering gets to become your entertainment! This is the first of a two-part story on what we’re calling a “one cylinder rebuild” on Goliath, our 1966 Chevy C50 monster truck. We had not intended to [...]
Shop Tour: Accufab Manufacturing and Racing with John Mihovetz Himself
Posted in ENGINE January 14, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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We were blown away last weekend when we showed up at Accufab in Ontario, California, with our buddy Larry Larson. We expected the “no camera policy” to be in full effect, but it was just the opposite. We were invited in with open arms, and got to check out all the manufacturing and race operations, [...]
Basic Tech: Rebuilding A Rochester B Carburetor
Posted in ENGINE January 4, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Goliath, our lumbering 1966 Chevy C50 project truck, is equipped with a 292ci straight six engine. That workaday mill is not exactly what you’d call a performance piece in stock condition. That being said, it still cranks out nearly 300 ft/lbs and it moves the big truck along pretty well. Ever since we got the [...]
It Came From the Forums: Holley Carb Rebuild
Posted in ENGINE September 28, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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The BangShift.com forums are ripe with all kinds of good technical info. Forum member milner351 recently tackled the rebuild of a Holley double pumper carb and did so with great photos and blow-by-blow instructions. Some of our other members interjected with great info as well. If you have never rebuilt a carb before, this is [...]
Chart of Common V8 Firing Orders, Courtesy MSD
Posted in ENGINE September 14, 2009 by Chad Reynolds
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This is pretty neat. BangShift.com sponsor MSD Ignition has produced a chart of many common V8 firing orders (plus the air-cooled VW), handy to hang in the shop. We’ve pasted it below, but you can download your own at the MSD site here.
Video: Nascar Dodge R5/P7 Race Engine Lucas Oil Test
Posted in ENGINE July 23, 2009 by Chad Reynolds
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The name Lucas Oil can be found in conjunction with every kind of motorsport imaginable, and in order to provide lubricants for all these applications, the company has to do a lot of testing. At BangShift.com, we’re lucky enough to have a great relationship with the gang over at Lucas, so they let us hang [...]
Attila the Jav: New Parts Spotlight
Posted in ENGINE July 18, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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We’re making plodding progress with our project 1968 Javelin that we’ve named Attila after the legendary warrior that scared the pants off the Romans way back in the day. Attila was kinda ugly, crude, and by all accounts, one mean dude. The Jav fits all those traits to the letter. The guy even knew how [...]
Attila the Jav: Quick Bore Check
Posted in ENGINE July 14, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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A couple weeks back we tore our AMC 360 project motor down to the block in anticipation of its trip to the machine shop where magic will be performed and the true seeds of horespower will be sown. In order to have the most accurate info possible in our conversations with the machinist, we needed [...]
Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360
Posted in ENGINE June 26, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Being an eternal optimist has its pitfalls. Mainly it’s the times when you’ve talked youself into thinking something is a lock when it really isn’t. Such is the case with our smog-era AMC 360 that will find its way into the gullet of Attilla the Jav, BangShift.com’s former dirt-track stock car 1968 AMC Javelin. Our [...]
Video: Lucas Oil’s 800 Horsepower, 515ci Test Engine
Posted in ENGINE June 18, 2009 by Chad Reynolds
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The crew over at Lucas Oil, including BangShift.com friend Tom Bogner, is always trying to keep ahead of the competition, which means lots of oil testing. “Oil testing” means horsepower and torque, and lots of time spent on the dyno at Westech Performance Group. Below is our latest dyno video showing one of Lucas’ test [...]
A/Fuel Tech Part 2: The $13,000 Intake Manifold
Posted in ENGINE June 1, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Last week we announced that BangShift.com will deliver a weekly tech series that looks inside an NHRA A/Fuel, nitro-burning, 5-second dragster, and the first installment included some basics of what these cars are all about. This second part is a short installment, taking a look at the intake manifold that sits atop the injected nitro [...]
Video: 1,400 Horsepower 565ci Rat Motor on Nitrous!
Posted in ENGINE May 22, 2009 by Chad Reynolds
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You want to see some real big-boy power? Check out this 565ci big-block Chevy with Big Chief heads, twin Dominators on a sheetmetal intake, dry-sump oiling, and something like 650 hp worth of nitrous! It’s from Dave Ebbert at DNE Racing Development, and we saw it running the numbers at Westech Performance Group. How about [...]
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