Watch This Blown Small Block Quite Literally Blow Up In A Guy’s Face – Yowza!
Sep 16, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Superchargers and V8 engines go together like beer and chocolate cake. The combo is heavenly. In this video we see a guy somewhere in the Central/South America region standing over a small block of...
Shut Up, It’s A Great Idea: Does 400 Horsepower In A 1,500 Pound Street Kart With License Plates Sound Good To You?
Sep 16, 2017Bryan McTaggartApex Online Find, BangShift APEX, eBay Find, OTHER
The year before I graduated from university, I almost made a very interesting purchase: a tube-frame kart packing the 200 horsepower, 2.5L V6 from a Ford Contour SVT in a rear-mount setup. In...
OPGI Offers Brand New Reproduction GM Horseshoe Shifters For 1968-72 Chevelles and El Caminos!
Sep 16, 2017Brian LohnesNew Products, Sponsor News
During the 1960s, there were all kinds of different ways to select gears in your muscle car. If you were a manual transmission owner there were pistol grips, T-handles, and Hursts to hold onto. If...
Incredible Video: Watch A 1978 Nuclear Waste Cask Test Involving Rocket Trains, Big Rigs, and Massive Carnage
Sep 15, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Moving nuclear waste is no joke and the containers that the stuff moves in have to be some of the most robust on Earth. In this video you’ll see a 1978 test of a cask that was being developed...
Autobiography Of A Jeep Is A 1943 Film About How The Jeep Came To Be As Told By The Jeep!
Sep 15, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
This is must view BangShifty video. A 1943 film called Autobiography of a Jeep is a telling of the Jeep story with the twist being that the whole thing is narrated by the Jeep itself. It is at times...
Low Dollar Monte! Can $2,300 And A N/A Small Block Chevy Hit Hard? Yes It Can!
Sep 15, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY
“Speed costs money…how fast do you want to go?” It’s the story for every last racer out there. All of the dreaming in the world won’t move squat, but if you’ve got...
Ram it! Edelbrock Offering Cross Ram LS3 Intake Manifold – Dramatic Looks, Killer Performance
Sep 15, 2017Brian LohnesNew Products, Sponsor News
One of the things that has made an impact in the world of hot rodding since the V8 has been around are cross ram intake manifolds. Whether we’re talking a pair of barely offset four barrels...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You Cool With Dealerships Building What The OEMs Won’t?
Sep 15, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, FORD, TRUCKS
See that 2017 Ford F-150 regular cab right there? Yeah…with the side pipes, one-off wheels, and a badge that dates back about fifteen years or so? It’s not the work of some dreaming...
Insane Video: Watch A Demo Derby Truck Shoot Its Driveshaft Into The Grandstands! No One Killed, Somehow
Sep 15, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
That speck hovering above the grandstand in the rear of the above image is the flying driveshaft which was launched out of a demolition derby truck that had been pushed over on its side. The shaft...
Classic YouTube: This Jeep CJ-7 Tough Truck Romps Through A Course Like It’s Not Even Bothered
Sep 15, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
There is something about the way a properly pissed-off AMC V8 sounds that, to my ears at least, is unlike any other V8 made. They are deep-throated engines, snotty, with a mid-range that sounds like...
Angry Cat: This Mercury Bobcat Made Lots Of Angry Noises At LS Fest 2017!
Sep 15, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, FORD
Seeing Fords swapped with LSX mills at LS Fest isn’t a surprise at all. There’s a whole legion of Fox body Mustangs that appear, nevermind the “other” Fox bodies, trucks, and...
Too Clean: This 1976 Jeep Cherokee Is Pure SUV – Four-Wheel-Drive And Three Pedals!
Sep 15, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Craigslist Find, TRUCKS, XL Online Find
If you could use a time machine to show the designers at Kaiser-Jeep, GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC and International just what the sport-utility vehicles of the 1960s and early 1970s would become, would...
A Hand-Me-Down Plymouth Duster And A Recycled C6 Corvette Combine Into This Track Monster!
Sep 14, 2017Bryan McTaggartApex Car Feature, BangShift APEX, Car Features, MOPAR
A Mopar running around at LS Fest is like seeing a clown run by on fire: you are going to notice, even if you weren’t looking. In the sea of GM products and swapped Fords and Nissans, a...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Ultimate Shop Screw-Up? How Do You Even Manage To Do This?!
Sep 14, 2017Bryan McTaggartUPCG
For the most part, dealership mechanics are the ones you want wrenching on your car. These are the guys and gals that grew up and wanted to be Mr./Mrs. Goodwrench. They loved to work with cars and...
