Hellacious Dyno Video: Watch Lee Sicilio’s Turbo Barton Hemi Powered Beast Spin the Rollers!
Posted in ENGINES May 31, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Our pal Scott Clark is an EFI tuner that lays his hands and lap top on lots of different cars across the country. There are high performance street cars, drag cars, and land speed cars as well. The car featured in this video is an LSR machine that will be running at Bonneville this August. [...]
Basic Tech Video: How to Shim a GM Starter for Proper Fitment
Posted in ENGINES May 25, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Starter shimming is one of those operations that we should all be participating in at some level, but few of us do. Normally when you are swapping a starter, you are stuck somewhere, annoyed that you are doing it, or generally in no mood to take extra time to do anything but jam ass the [...]
Watch a Cross Ram Equipped AMC 401 Grind Out 480hp and More than 500 ft/lbs on the Dyno
Posted in ENGINES May 24, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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The AMC 401 is an oft overlooked mill for performance building. Yes, the guys in the AMC crowd would gash you with a rusty connecting rod in order to get their mits on one, but the 401 definitely doesn’t get the love it deserves from lots of BangShifters. The good news is that those hard [...]
Watch A Twin ProCharged Big Block Bust the Dyno at Steve Morris Racing Engines!
Posted in CRASH & BURN May 23, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Steve Morris Racing Engines is known around the country for making stupid huge horsepower engines for drag race cars and lunatic fringe street machines. We first met Steve back in 2005 when he showed up to Drag Week V1.0 in his now signature Caprice wagon. The wagon had driveline issues and didn’t make the whole [...]
Watch an Ancient, Blown Cadillac Flathead Snarl Out 500hp on John Beck’s Dyno!
Posted in ENGINES May 17, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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It seems as though we touched off a flathead horsepower war! Yesterday we ran video of a blown, Ardun headed Ford flattie making about 450hp on a dyno and then we got tipped off to a video from John Beck’s Pro Machine engine building shop in California with an even more pissed Caddie flathead. Beck’s [...]
Watch a Blown, Dual Carb’d, Ardun Headed Flattie Grunt Out 450+ Horsepower on the Dyno
Posted in ENGINES May 16, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We were chatting up a gearhead buddy recently who is into the old stuff…like the real old stuff. This dude has real vintage parts like a Kong ignition,a pile of ancient Thicksun intake manifolds and he is on the hunt for a set of first run Ardun heads. The guy is like a parts detective [...]
Watch Freiburger and Finnegan (and a pit bull) Swap the Motor in a 1969 El Camino in Summit Racing’s Parking Lot
Posted in ENGINES May 14, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Freiburger and Finnegan are back with another episode of “Roadkill” their off-kilter adventure show where they do neat and humorous car stuff. Essentially we revel in their pain and suffering. We’re ok with that. This time the guys drive a 1969 El Camino that has been in Finnegan’s family since brand new to the Sparks, [...]
Watch A Nelson Racing Engines Custom, Billet, Twin Turbo Hemi Makes 2500hp on the Dyno!
Posted in ENGINES May 4, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We have featured some cool engines and cars from the shop of Tom Nelson, but this one may take the cake. Using a CAD designed, billet aluminum block, a set of his “mirror image” twin turbos, and his “alien intake”, along with a bad ass set of cylinder heads, this wild Hemi cranks out 2500hp [...]
Happy 4-27: We’re Celebrating with Ford and Chevy 427 Dyno Videos!
Posted in ENGINES April 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Admittedly I screwed the pooch yesterday. It was 4/26 and I did not include one iota of cool Hemi or Max Wedge stuff on the blog. The Mopar guys let me have it with some Grade A hate mail. Thankfully, their angry yelling reminded me that today is a kick ass gearhead date as well, [...]
Watch A 519ci Ford SOHC Hemi Roar Past 7500 RPM on the Dyno!
Posted in ENGINES April 17, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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The Ford SOHC Hemi is one of the most vaunted and amazing products of the muscle car era. It is also the ultimate expression of Ford’s FE engine family. The wild cast iron heads were developed in just 90 days by Ford engineers when it became clear that they had nothing for the Chrysler Hemi [...]
Watch a Triple Turbocharged DT466 Diesel Powered Dragster Run Down the Strip – Smoke A-Plenty!
Posted in ENGINES April 16, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We saw a link to this video posted over at YellowBullet and thought that the BS world would want to get a look at one of the weirdest and wildest dragsters we have laid eyes on in a good, long time. The traditional rear engine dragster looks to be about the length of a “normal” [...]
Dyno Video: Watch a Seriously Pissed Aussie Nissan Straight Six Make 1250hp on 50lbs of Boost!
Posted in ENGINES April 12, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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To answer your first question, no, that header is not painted orange. To answer your second question about how a 180ci straight six makes 1250hp, well that one is easy. Lots and lots of glorious boost! We found this video while trolling YouTube and it is pretty bad ass. The engine is a Nissan six [...]
Watch an Ardun Headed Flathead Churn Out 400hp @ 6200 RPM on the Chassis Dyno
Posted in ENGINES March 30, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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While Speed Week at Bonneville is still some months away, that doesn’t mean we can’t lust after cool LSR machinery. This video shows the Kohler Racing “Street Roadster” entry on the chassis dyno back in 2007. The engine is the previously mentioned Ardun-headed Ford and it makes some glorious noise on the way up to [...]
Tech Video: How to Degree a Camshaft
Posted in ENGINES March 12, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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As we all know, one of the biggest pieces in being successful with building your own high performance engine is attention to detail. The details of keeping your work space clean and organized, the details of measuring, checking and rechecking everything, and the details of going the extra mile in doing it right all the [...]
EFI Video: Watch Holley’s Self Learning EFI Tune Itself on an Engine Dyno
Posted in ENGINES February 29, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Holley’s Avenger, HP, and Dominator EFI systems all have self learning capabilities, meaning that once you install the hard parts, you can literally fire the engine up, drive around, and the system will teach itself how much fuel to be feeding the engine as you go down the road. This is one of the many [...]
Video of a Small Block Chevy on 75% Nitro Running Through the Mufflers!
Posted in ENGINES February 6, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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This could be the most insane BangShift reader project of all time but it is also the coolest. Scott Darrow is a BangShift reader and forum member. He is also a guy who makes his living wrenching on nitro powered drag cars, so he’s pretty well addicted to the stuff. Over the last few years [...]
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