Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

10 Seconds Of Fun: Watch This Gear Jamming Brazilian Maverick Rip Into the 10s With No Boost Or Spray

All 10-second cars are not created equal. Sure, the numbers on a time slip may look the same from one piece of paper to the next but the reality is that transiting the course is a completely...

Bitchin’ Historic Drag Video: 13-Minutes of Amazing Vintage Drag Racing Home Movies

Now this is the good stuff! We dug up a totally awesome 13-minute long video of vintage drag racing home movies. This footage comes from a variety of places like Enid, Oklahoma, Amarillo, Texas, and...

The Green Light: WebMD Highlights Paul Lee’s Journey Back To Driving A Funny Car After A Heart Attack.

When our friend, and owner of McLeod and FTI, Paul Lee had his heart attack back in 2016 the NHRA Drag Racing community was shocked. Paul was one of these in-shape guys that you never expected to...

FOUND: The “Moonburst” AA Fuel Dragster Has Been Sitting In A Field In This Trailer For 43 Years!

Barn finds are rad, but what about trailer finds? Well it seems like we’ve heard of more than a few really old and cool race cars being found inside trailers sitting outside in the weather of...

Raising Hell In The Fields: Midwest Farm Field Road Cash Days!

Can you count how many drag tracks are dead and done for 2020? You would think that the news would be calming down on that front, but no. Events getting cancelled or “postponed”, tracks...

Four In A Row Make It Go – Watch This Turbocharged Four Banger Dragster Run 6.40s at 200+!

(By Jason Mazzotta) –  One aspect of drag racing that will always be a huge part of the sport is the ability to create and innovate newer and crazier cars and combinations, and Don Nase...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This Buzzing Small Block Camaro Scream To A Win!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – There is nothing quite like a small block stick car buzzing through the gears at high rpm’s, and this immaculate inside and out ’69 Camaro runs through the gears in...

Better Engine Building Video: Eliminate Common Lifter Failures – Roller and Flat Tappet!

If there is one thing that can hurt your heart, wallet, and will to live, it is a lifter failure in your high performance engine. Whether we are talking rollers or flat tappers, when a lifter goes,...

FTI Performance Helps Power Steve Sisko To A $1.1-Million Drag Racing Payday! Video Here!

A couple weeks back I was a small part of the richest drag race ever held. The SFG Promotions Million paid an honest, guaranteed 1.1 million dollars to the driver who stayed them all during the...

Morning Symphony: Street Cars On The Track Again At Santa Pod

My current favorite meme is a simple black background, white letter picture: “i need to get out this damn house”. Being fair, I have been out of the house. Very out of the house. But with...

From Bruce Larson to Big John Mazmanian,These Indy Home Movies Are Amazing, Especially With Freeze Frames

With Indy being the site of the NHRA “re-start” races last weekend and again this weekend, we wanted to look into its past. These films were made in the late 1960s at the US Nationals and...

Final Round Videos: Check Out The Winning Passes From The E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals In Indy! Awesome Racing

It was a wild weekend of competition at Lucas Oil Raceway Indianapolis as the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series powered back into motion with an event unlike any other national event ever held....

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This Four Speed, Straight Axle Fairlane Get Power Shifted At Eagle Field

Here’s a combo we can love. Take a classic muscle car, slap a straight axle under it, built a healthy motor and back it with a four speed and then go run it at the strip. The math there is...

Ride Along In A Gear Jamming VW Bug As It Runs The Quarter Mile In England

The VW Beetle is one of drag racing’s unlikely little heroes. Whether built with an angry naturally aspirated engine or force fed with nitrous, a blower, or a turbo, these little cars can be...