BS Tech: Pro Tuning Secrets – Finding 20hp in Your Distributor!
Posted in ENGINE April 5, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) - The proof is in the numbers. In our first part to this article we followed Yannick Sire of Sire Custom Performance take an old crusty GM HEI and do a little magic to it to find a few more horsepower. With nothing more than a little time, a bit [...]
Pro Touring Tech: High Performance Tires 101 With the Experts at BFG
Posted in SUSPENSION April 4, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words by Dave Nutting) – Hello and welcome to the second installment in our on-going Pro-touring tech series, a little something that we like to call “Pro-touring 101”. Think less magazine bench-racing and more real-world results, our plan to is practice what we preach by taking the lessons learned and applying them to our long-term project [...]
Driveway Tech: We Install at K&N Cold Air Intake on a 2007 F250 Powerstroke for Performance and Economy Gains
Posted in ENGINE March 26, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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With diesel fuel well over $4.00 per gallon in most parts of the country, BangShifters have to do what they can do to get the most bang for their buck at the pump. While good maintenance will help to maximize fuel economy and doing stuff like monitoring tire pressures will also help, there are some [...]
Driveway Tech: We Install Air Intake Upgrades on Two Trucks For Performance and Economy Gains – Part 1
Posted in ENGINE March 21, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Lots of BangShifters own late model trucks. They daily drive them, tow with them, haul the family around in them, and maybe even beat on them a little from time to time. With gas prices headed toward $4.00 and diesel cresting $4.00 per gallon in some places, we wanted to [...]
Tech: How JPC Racing Made 1,032hp From a Ford Coyote 5.0L Engine With a Paxton NOVI 2200 Huffer
Posted in ENGINE March 13, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and Photos by Mike Galimi) – The shop is silent as the garage door opens and the drafty night air enters into JPC Racing’s chassis dyno room. It was judgment time for the company’s flagship Coyote 5.0L front-runner as it enters the testing cell. The day had been spent modifying the Paxton NOVI 2200 [...]
BangShift Pro Touring Tech: The Basics of Traction Made Easy!
Posted in SUSPENSION March 12, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(By Dave Nutting) – (Editor’s Note: As we get ready to unveil our newest project car later this week, which is going to burn corners and the strip, we are going to be bringing you more tech centered around making your junk do more than just haul ass in a straight line. Here’s the first [...]
Driveway Tech: Battling the Oil Burning Monte Carlo – Part 3- Death Match!
Posted in ENGINE February 23, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words, Photos, Bleeding and Struggle by Scott Liggett) – As we continued to fight this darn car’s oil burning 350 we transitioned from frustration to inspiration, back to frustration, then to desperation to try to fix this issue. During the last two months we as close to ripping the engine clean out of the car [...]
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 [...]
BangShift Engine Tech: How a programmable ignition can make anyone look like a pro
Posted in ENGINE January 26, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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BangShift.com is proud to announce that we have partnered with Westech Performance Group to bring you killer engine tech in 2011! From the complicated to the just plain fun, we’ll have it all right here at BangShift.com, so stay tuned for more. We started off with two solid days on the Superflow Dyno, along with [...]
BangShift Tech: We Show You How to Rebuild a GM 12 Bolt Clutch Type Posi Unit
Posted in DRIVETRAIN January 16, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Tech Story by Scott Liggett: We bought a GM 12 bolt posi a while back at Long Beach Swap Meet. It looked OK, but we wanted to check out the the clutches before we stab this posi into our 12 bolt differential that is destined for our project 65 Impala SS. GM and Eaton clutch [...]
BS TECH: PRO TUNING SECRETS PART 1 – FINDING POWER RIGHT IN YOUR DISTRIBUTOR
Posted in ENGINE January 6, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Those Bangshifters who are old enough to have owned muscle cars when they were new, or nearly new, remember taking their rides to a performance oriented dealership to get a super tune that was good for a couple of tenths on the quarter mile. From the stories we read and heard over the years, they [...]
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 [...]
QUICK TECH VIDEO: PROPER FLAT TAPPET CAM BREAK IN PROCEDURE FROM COMP CAMS
Posted in ENGINES December 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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While we know that this video is not advanced science, people screw up and wipe out flat tappet cams all the time. Incorrectly, people often cite the cam manufacturer for selling them a defective product, while it was actually their inability to follow directions and well documented procedures for breaking in their new camshaft. The [...]
Driveway Tech: Battling the Stuck Rings on the Monte Carlo – Round 2
Posted in ENGINE December 8, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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In our continuing attempts to be cheapskates and fix our oil burning ’73 Monte Carlo’s 350 spending as little as possible; we decided to try a tried and true solution to our engine’s stuck piston rings. In our last installment of this Driveway Tech we failed miserably when we filled the cylinders with transmission fluid [...]
Driveway Tech: Attempt One at Freeing Stuck Piston Rings – Did We Succceed?
Posted in ENGINE November 30, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Everyone says that buying a ganny fresh old car is the best. They are one owner, low mileage gems that granny ony drove to bingo and her Wednesday hair appointment. There can be a problem with driving nothing but short trips. Carbon builds up on the pistons, rings, and valves without longer trips where the [...]
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