Brake Tech From Baer: How To Properly Season Your Rotors and Bed Your Brake Pads
Posted in OTHER December 17, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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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 [...]
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 [...]
BangShift Tech: How much horsepower does a mechanical water pump really take to spin?
Posted in ENGINE April 5, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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BangShift.com is proud to be working at Westech Performance Group on a variety of Engine Tech stories in 2011, and some are going to be in depth and others will be interesting facts or fun tests to perform. This week’s test is to see how much horsepower a mechanical water pump really costs you. With [...]
Video: Moser 12 Bolts…For GM guys that want to keep it all GM
Posted in DRIVETRAIN July 6, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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2011 marks Moser Engineering’s 25th anniversary, and we’re proud to say they are still made the right way, here in the U.S.A. And for purists like us, who think a Camaro should have a 12 bolt under it, Moser makes one hell of a setup. When we built the 48 Hour Camaro this year, we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kaase Boss 9 Hemi Ford Build: You Can Build A Boss Engine That Isn’t A Complete Bitch To Drive!
Posted in ENGINE September 27, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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When Ro McGonegal sent us a story about John Kaase Racing Engines building their new Boss 9 engines for hot rods, muscle cars, and street rods, we were intrigued. Having driven a real life Boss 429 Mustang I can tell you that these things are bitchin beyond bitchin but they are also unruly on the [...]
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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