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 [...]
Driveway Tech: Bodywork on Buford T Justice – We Close Our Roof Hole For Fun and (NO) Profit!
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice April 16, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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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 [...]
Best of BangShift: Blizzard Preparedness- Screw Canned Goods and Batteries, Fix the Antique John Deere Snowmobile!
Posted in OTHER February 8, 2013 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 Tech Video: Size Matters…Exhaust Collector Length Testing Part 1
Posted in ENGINE April 26, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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If you hang out at any racetrack, car show, or dyno shop for long enough, you’ll hear all kinds of stories. Old wives tales about this thing or that thing making big power, cars that guys used to own, and tuning tricks seem to be at the top of the list. Well this weeks BangShift [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Driveway Tech: Engine Compartment Detailing, BangShift Style
Posted in ENGINE August 14, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) - There are three things gearheads and even people with a mild interest in cars look at. The paint, the interior, and under the hood. The paint is obvious. The interior too. But, for some, the engine is left in the grease and untouched. On the other end of the [...]
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 [...]
Tech: How to Swap a Junkyard Hyrdoboost on Your Classic GM Muscle Car or Truck
Posted in OTHER April 25, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(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 [...]
Buford T Justice Update: It Lives Again Thanks to a Down and Dirty Driveway Thrash and Junkyard Parts
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice June 19, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Back in May, as I am sure you remember, Buford T Justice spit the bit during dyno session hi-jinx. The car spit the drive shaft out violently, busted the hell out of the 700R4 transmission, and was generally rendered a 4,000lb paper weight in my driveway. It took a while but the car is finally [...]
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
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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 [...]
MSD ATOMIC LS Sneak Peek – MSD Unveils Revolutionary Plug and Play EFI Solution For LS Engines At SEMA 2012 – Plus Dual Quad Atomic!
Posted in ENGINE October 30, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Chevrolet wasn’t the only one who threw BangShift an invite last night. Our pals at MSD dropped us a line and told us to show up for the unveiling of their new Atomic LS EFI as well as the dual quad traditional Atomic EFI. The Atomic LS is a game changer in the world of [...]
Video: We Test Snow Tires At Miller Motorsports Park With NITTO! Pants Mandatory.
Posted in FUNNY STUFF March 4, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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Last week when I left town for Salt Lake City to attend the Nitto Winter Ride N Drive media event, I was wearing my typical Dickies shorts, flip flops and a BangShift.com shirt. I had an extra change of clothes, toiletries, and my helmet along with my camera and laptop. And… I wasn’t really expecting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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