Tech: How to Swap a Junkyard Hyrdoboost on Your Classic GM Muscle Car or Truck
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – In this episode, we’ll show you how stupid easy it is to take a $30 junkyard hydroboost and transplant it into your classic Chevy’s brake setup. What the hell is hydroboost? Simply put, it’s using hydraulic pressure from the power steering pump as a power assist for the [...]
Driveway Tech: Bodywork on Buford T Justice – We Close Our Roof Hole For Fun and (NO) Profit!
Few jobs will give you the self-satisfaction of repairing the outside of your hot rod, project, or racer. Yes, screwing together a fire breathing engine will give you levels of joy that will make you want to crush Busch Light cans on your face, but making the thing look better by mending sheet metal is [...]
Wheel Tech: The Science and Specifications Behind a Top Fuel/Funny Car Drive Wheel From The Guys at Weld Racing
Posted in OTHER February 13, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Of all the parts that take incredible abuse on a Top Fuel Dragster or Nitro Funny Car, the drive wheels are right there at the top of the list. In the blink of an eye they go from being at rest to having the full fury of the 8,000hp motor forced upon them and then [...]
Tech Gallery: A Detailed Look at How a 25.5 Cage Goes into a 2010 Cobra Jet Mustang
Posted in Gallery February 6, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Jon Sandahl) – With lots of Ford Mustang Cobra Jet racers pushing their cars to speeds and elapsed times no one would have thought about just a couple years ago, the factory installed roll cages are becoming obsolete . Guys looking to upgrade their cars have been going the route of installing SFI [...]
Driveway Tech: Patching Your Rotted Floors – A First Hand Account From A Welding Newbie
Posted in OTHER December 20, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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At some point or another, we all have to take the next step in our skill set while working on our junk heaps. It’s either that, or we continue paying others to do certain repairs and upgrades for us. For us, the next step was learning how to weld. The reason was more for rust [...]
Best of BangShift: Blizzard Preparedness- Screw Canned Goods and Batteries, Fix the Antique John Deere Snowmobile!
Posted in OTHER November 24, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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While weiner, clean-handed automotive bloggers were preparing breathless items about the new Kia Rio, sipping a Mochachino and working up a semi to Ken Block videos, we were laying in the snow, snorting exhaust from a 1970s era John Deere snowmobile that hadn’t run in two years. Earlier this week, word spread that a massive [...]
BangShift Quick Tech: How to install window seals in your muscle car
Posted in OTHER August 2, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Sometimes it’s the little things can be intimidating when building your hot rod, and window seals and weather stripping seem to be one of those projects that people dread. The truth is they are pretty easy, and a perfect Quick Tech project for you to concour on a Saturday morning. In this BangShift Quick Tech [...]
Video: Blows Cold, Goes Fast, Makes an LS Swap a Breeze… Vintage Air
Posted in OTHER July 8, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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Vintage Air has long been known for cold air and big speed thanks to SCTA Speed Records at Bonneville at well over 200mph with the air blowing cold. Vintage Air is also installed on the highest horsepower air conditioned street machines in the world, and with good reason. Products like their new Gen IV Air [...]
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Video: Forgeline Wheels shows us how to fit massive meats on any car.
Posted in OTHER July 6, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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In the world of Pro Touring and Racing Wheels, Forgeline is synonomous with light weight, incredibly strength, and good looks. We have often drooled over Forgeline wheels on other people’s projects, cars at the races, and even on the show grounds, but never had the opportunity to work with them on our own car. When [...]
The Tiger Cage gets Certified!!!
Posted in OTHER October 8, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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We’re proud to announce that Ridetech’s Tiger Cage has just received its first Sanctioning Body Certification! The boys at Ridetech have been working diligently to certify their application specific, bolt in roll bar systems. Manufactured in the USA, like all Ridetech products, the all stainless steel, bolt in, Tiger Cage system is the simplest chassis [...]
Video: Hot Rod Magazine’s Vette Hack…The Full Story
Posted in OTHER October 5, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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Weeks ago we gave you a preview of the fun and carnage we experienced while cutting a up a 1985 Corvette with the gang at Hot Rod Magazine. It was a riot like none other, and resulted in some really cool findings on how weight affects a car on the road course. We cut the [...]
New Tech Series: Inside an A/Fuel Dragster
Posted in OTHER May 28, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Some of you may know that BangShift.com has joined forces with the A/Fuel Dragster team of Jeff Veale and Ethan Brown Motorsports. Those guys have been cool enough to school us on the ways on injected nitro. We’re now here to share that info with you as a multi-part tech series. BangShift.com will post a [...]
It Came From the Fab Shop: Tools Even Better Than Hammers
Posted in OTHER May 11, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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If you’re anything like me, the first time you took a hammer to a piece of sheetmetal intending to make something out of it you were a little miffed at the result. On one hand you might have been impressed with the way you might get a useful part out of a straight sheet, on [...]
It Came From the Fab Shop: The Speculative Disc-Brake Shield
Posted in OTHER March 20, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Many people are familiar with the term “spec house.” When a home builder has extra time or capacity they may, without an order on the books, speculatively construct a residence with the hope it will sell once it’s built. There is often a financial risk which subcontractors may share…all hope for a big win but [...]
It Came from the Fab Shop: Homemade Wheel Spacers
Posted in OTHER March 18, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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I do not work in a state-of-the-art, high-tech shop. I wouldn’t knock it, though, for the purpose of making just one or two of something there are actually only a few advantages to having sophisticated equipment. Even the most advanced manufacturing facilities often still keep a manually-operated Bridgeport or similar mill in the corner for [...]
New Gallery: 25 Paint Ideas
Posted in OTHER November 25, 2008 by FREIBURGER
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As a guy who can’t own a shiny car, it’s a little surprising that I snap photos of paint ideas everywhere I go. It’s the editor in me, wanting to share all these car-related thoughts with the world. Besides, it’s not like I can’t appreciate trick paint, it’s just that I can’t maintain it myself. [...]
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