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New From DART: 427 Cubic Inches of Small Block Ford Muscle

Dick Maskin and the rest of the Dart team are back at it with even more great SHP combos for both Ford and Chevy fans. With 427 cubic inches of small block power available for the Blue Oval and...

Racing Head Service: Leading the LS Revolution

When the Comp Performance Group brought back the Racing Head Service RHS brand, the aftermarket, and Car Junkies world wide, were excited to hear that a brand name associated with killer performance...

The Single Greatest Photo Ever: Vangina

We realize that this is completely random, but we simply had to post this photo. The picture turned up in our forum section when a discussion thread made a left hand turn into van-ville. The fact...

Event Gallery: The 2011 Northeast Motorsports Expo – Philadelphia, PA

Indoor car shows and expos keep northern BangShifters from going completely insane during the icy clutches of winter. Recently, Joe Grippo hit the 2011 Motorsports Show held annually in Philadelphia,...

BangShift Question of the Day: Is This Honda Cool?

Honest question, is this Honda cool? The little Civic has a turbo and intercooler hanging off the front of it, has big drag slicks fitted to the front end and it shoots fire like a mother. Kevin...

Photo of the Day: Wretched Excess in the Flesh

Well, we started today with an Econoline that had a small block Ford hanging out of the bed and we’ll end it with another small block Ford, this time spilling out of a Cub Cadet lawn tractor....

BangShift Project Spotlight: Plugging a Vortec 350 Into a 2000 Chevy S-10 Xtreme

If you’re a funny car driver who works at a high performance machine shop and your daily driver truck takes a dump, simply fixing it is not an option. Such was the case with our pal Jon Wall,...

RideTech’s Final Barrett Jackson Update: Velocity Sells, Brett Looks Ahead to the Future

After working right up until the last minute to make sure that the 1967 Velocity Camaro did as well as it could on the auction block, Brett Voekel of RideTech took a few minutes and captured his...

eBay Find: A Mechanically Pornographic 1966 Econoline Truck

Oh this 1966 Ford Econoline is 100% BangShift approved! It has a bruised up nose, a spartan interior, and a rear mounted 302 V8 that spins an automatic transmission which is hooked to a chain drive...

Awesome Wheelstand Video: A Fiat-Bodied Altered Gets All Four Tires Off the Ground In Super Slo-Mo

Big time wheelstand videos are always favorites of ours. The may be the best one ever though. Filmed at Santa Pod Raceway in England, it features an altered that wears a Fiat body. The car starts to...

GM Performance Parts Announces the 2011 LSX Challenge Series

GM Performance Parts has announced the creation of the LSx Challenge Series, a four race points style drag racing series that will pit racers running factory LS or GMPP LSx engines against each other...

RideTech Velocity Camaro Auctioned for 155K, Read an Awesome Recap of Auction Week With Tons of Photos

One of the busiest and most hectic weeks in the life of RideTech’s commandant, Brett Voekel has ended. Brett shepherded the awesome “Velocity” 1967 Camaro through the auction...

Nutso Racing Video: Roto-Tiller Drags From Arkansas

This is not anything like you expect it to be. This is not video of 2mph rototillers creeping along. Instead this is video of a truly wild event featuring (and we know this sounds totally insane)...

BangShift Poll Question: Did You Watch the Barrett Jackson Auction?

We’ve invested in some snappy polling software so we can run sweet polls on the blog here at BangShift. You don’t need to be a member or anything, just hit the jump to see the poll and...