The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This Four Speed, Straight Axle Fairlane Get Power Shifted At Eagle Field
Jul 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
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...
Historical Footage: Playing Catch and Release With Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawks Aboard USS Akron
Jul 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Nowadays, we can only imagine what it must have been like to see a gigantic airship like USS Akron or Graf Zepplin flying around in the skies. To put it to scale, the Akron was over three times as...
Video – Hot Rodded Oliver Inline Six Tractor Engine Make 405hp And 560+ lb/ft On The Dyno Naturally Aspirated!
Jul 10, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
When one thinks of an antique tractor pulling engine thoughts normally wander to updraft carbs and old oil and grease seeping around ancient bolt heads. If that’s what you actually think that...
Buick V6 Build: The L67 Gets Introduced To It’s New Home!
Jul 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos
Scotty’s L67 Buick V6 build is probably my favorite project going this year that doesn’t involve me sweating my fat ass off in the Kentucky heat and humidity. I enjoy the 3.8L...
SUV Of Doom: Watch This Denali Spin Both Rollers On An AWD Dyno To The Tune Of 775HP To The Tires!
Jul 10, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
We’ve said it a lot over the years and the fact is nothing is cooler in our book than big and fast. Big is good, fast is good, but big and fast together? That’s as nice as beer and...
Ford Diesel Revival, Round Two: How Do You Start A Truck Hell-Bent On Staying Dead?
Jul 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartENGINES, FUNNY STUFF, Videos
Two years ago, I saw one of Kevin’s earliest revival videos, the one that involved him chasing a pissed-off possum from the engine nest it had made on a Fiat 850 Spyder. Back then, not many...
Baby Huey Inbound: The One Time A C-130 Hercules Performed Carrier Operations!
Jul 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
The sheer scope of size that an aircraft carrier brings to the table defies belief. Even if you go back over fifty years ago, the aircraft carriers of the day were something to behold. Holding nearly...
Ride Along In A Gear Jamming VW Bug As It Runs The Quarter Mile In England
Jul 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
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...
Southeast Gassers Last Blast: More Great Drag Racing Photos From Mooresville Dagway!
Jul 09, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, BangShift News, Drag Races, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Photos by David Whealon) – This is our last and finally installment of killer David Whealon action photos featuring the Southeast Gassers at Mooresville Dragway in North Carolina. The event...
The 2020 Bentley Bentayga Has More Of Everything, Especially Horsepower – Bring The Brinks Truck
Jul 09, 2020Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
(By Tom Lohnes) – The new Bentley Bentayga is here and it is quite expensive. With a refresh this year, the new-for-2017 model year Bentley SUV has some tricks up its sleeve. The Bentley...
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MAHLE Motorsport Introduces Chrysler Hemi 5.7L Dome PowerPak Plus Forged Piston Kits
Jul 09, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 New Drag Race Products, 1320 Sponsor News, Apex New Products, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL, New Products, Sponsor News, XL New Truck Products, XL Sponsor News
There’s just something about pistons, right? These hard working little engine anvils are what can make or break the hopes and dreams of a project. They are subjected to incredible forces and...
Rare Breather: This Shanafelt Intake For A Flathead Ford Is Unobtanium Early Hot Rodding Goodness
Jul 09, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Online Find, Apex Online Find, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, eBay Find
Before the speed parts industry actually became and industry, there were loads of guys across the country making stuff. One of those guys was Portland, Oregon’s Bill Shanafelt. Shanafelt...
Slow Air In – Fast Air Out: This 60+ Year Old Film About Gas Turbines Is Awesome, Great History, Tech, More
Jul 09, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, ENGINES, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
While theory and ideas that make gas turbine engine function have long been known by humanity, it was really little more than 100 years ago that people had the means to make them into anything that...
