BangShift Pro Touring Tech: The Basics of Traction Made Easy!

Posted in SUSPENSION March 12, 2012 by Brian Lohnes > >

(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 [...]

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Driveway Tech: How To Swap A Jeep Steering Shaft Into Your GM B-Body or G-Body Car With A Trashed Rag Joint

Posted in BangShift Projects October 23, 2012 by Brian Lohnes > >

We’ve been piling up the miles on Buford T Justice, our 1987 Chevy Caprice project recently. Having completed the suspension upgrade and installed the new wheels and tires, the thing is a riot to heave into the corners and scare the kids, passengers, and passers by with. That being said, there was still a nagging [...]

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Brake Tech From Baer: How To Properly Season Your Rotors and Bed Your Brake Pads

Posted in OTHER December 17, 2012 by Brian Lohnes > >

High performance brakes are a great upgrade to your street machine, pro touring style car, autocross warrior, or even your daily driver. Most of us start building horsepower before setting the proper foundation to get it all dragged to a halt, which is doing it wrong. Starting from the ground up with products from a [...]

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Homegrown IRS for a ’66 Dodge Dart

Posted in SUSPENSION January 15, 2009 by Chad Reynolds > >

This is pretty fascinating and well done! A guy named David Belau is blogging over at CarDomain.com about how he’s installing a ’93 Thunderbird SuperCoupe IRS unit under his autocrossing ’66 Dodge Dart using a homebuilt cradle under the rear. The story starts here with the selection process of the IRS unit and continues here [...]

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Pro Touring Tech: High Performance Tires 101 With the Experts at BFG

Posted in SUSPENSION April 4, 2012 by Brian Lohnes > >

(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 [...]

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