Video Bonanza: Dyno Time!By Brian Lohnes Posted 12/23/2009
We love dyno videos. Not dyno videos of stuff blowing up, catching fire, or generally malfunctioning, but dyno videos of cool motors being wrung out from bottom to top. We also have a love of off-beat motors and interesting things. Combining the two, we've put together a bonanza of videos featuring kick ass motors, from all walks of gearhead life, doing their thing on the pump. They're not all huge power makers, but they are all mills we'd love to have. Read More >
Video: The Old CarJunkieTV Blown Big-Block ChevyBy Chad Posted 11/17/2009
I'm sick as a dog today and am just sitting around surfing YouTube. I found this old video we did back the days of CarJunkieTV.com and realized that it shows us dyno testing the same blown 489ci Rat motor that David Freiburger just put in the Crusher Camaro (with my help) for the December 2009 issue of Hot Rod magazine. Read More >
Killer Video: SOHC Ford Floating the Valves at Eight GrandBy Brian Lohnes Posted 10/22/2009
The is gearhead voyeurism: a look inside the valve cover of a 427 SOHC Ford motor at eight-freakin'-thousand RPM. What you'll see is valve float. Not wildly bouncing valve float, but a very subtle extra set of movements that you'd only be guessing at without the bitchin' camera used to shoot this footage. Read More >
Video: Nascar Dodge R5/P7 Race Engine Lucas Oil TestBy Chad Posted 07/23/2009
The name Lucas Oil can be found in conjunction with every kind of motorsport imaginable, and in order to provide lubricants for all these applications, the company has to do a lot of testing. At BangShift.com, we're lucky enough to have a great relationship with the gang over at Lucas, so they let us hang out at Westech Performance Group while they test oil in race and street engines of all kinds. This week, we were there while a Dodge R5/P7 NASCAR Sprint Cup engine was being tested. How does 800-plus horsepower and 9,000-plus rpm sound to you? It sounds real good to us. Read More >
The Sniper Lives: Twin Turbo, Viper V10 Powered Mustang Caught on Tape!By Brian Lohnes Posted 07/1/2009
Call it project Sniper, project Nitemare, or just bat poop crazy, but Scott Vanderschoor's twin-turbo, Viper V10 powered Mustang project has officially transitioned from garage-bound dream to functioning automobile status and we have the video to prove it. Read More >
Video: Lucas Oil's 800 Horsepower, 515ci Test EngineBy Chad Posted 06/18/2009
The crew over at Lucas Oil, including BangShift.com friend Tom Bogner, is always trying to keep ahead of the competition, which means lots of oil testing. "Oil testing" means horsepower and torque, and lots of time spent on the dyno at Westech Performance Group. Read More >
Video: 1,400 Horsepower 565ci Rat Motor on Nitrous!By Chad Posted 05/22/2009
You want to see some real big-boy power? Check out this 565ci big-block Chevy with Big Chief heads, twin Dominators on a sheetmetal intake, dry-sump oiling, and something like 650 hp worth of nitrous! It's from Dave Ebbert at DNE Racing Development, and we saw it running the numbers at Westech Performance Group. Read More >
Video: 1,000-Plus Horsepower Blown Big-Block ChevyBy Chad Posted 05/18/2009
Here at BangShift.com, we're tuning up our video skills to bring you more action more often. One of the things we've been doing is hanging out more often at the Westech Performance Group dyno center and filming all the stupid-power engines that they get in there on almost a weekly basis. Read More >
Video of the Week: Nitrous Kills a Motor in a Spectacular Display of Automotive Irresponsibility. We Approve.By Brian Lohnes Posted 04/30/2009
Over the years there have been a couple well documented magazine stories about taking a wheezer junk motor and pumping it full of so much nitrous it blows its guts out giving it maximum effort. Most of those stories end with the motor making a harmless bang. Not this time. The print guys pale in any comparison to the action in this video. Read More >
More of Our Videos, Now at MSDVideos.comBy Chad Posted 04/15/2009
Several months ago, David Freiburger and I made a bunch of videos for MSD Ignition. The one called Set Your Timing has been posted for a while now, but more recently, they put up vids on how to know the differences in MSD distributors as well as the differences in MSD 6-series boxes. Read More >
Video: Check Us Out on SetYourTiming.com By Chad Posted 03/16/2009
One of the businesses I've got going on is called Boondoggle Media, a video production company for gearheads using the old AV Kids who you may remember from CarJunkieTV. So far we've done videos for Air Ride, Aeromotive, Ford, and MSD. Back before David Freiburger got his job back at Hot Rod, he and I did a series of how-to videos that MSD is using to inform people and to cut down on tech calls. The first one is now live here at SetYourTiming.com. Check it out! Also, if you have any use for car-guy video production, email me for info and help me earn a buck! Read More >
Video of the Week: Formula One WarmupBy Brian Lohnes Posted 01/22/2009
All of us drag racing guys have been at the digs when the Fuel cars warm up. It's awesome to run from trailer to trailer getting blasted in the face with nitro fumes. The sound of the big, hulking, blown Hemi cackling away and then being whacked a time or two to seat the clutch totally rules. We're going to the opposite end of the spectrum this week, with a Formula One car. Your guts aren't going to shake, but your ears may shoot blood if... Read More >
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