Might As Well Make It Pretty: Painting The Engine Donor Mustang Up
Dec 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
The original plan for this mid-’00s Mustang was simple: rip the Boss 302 engine out of the car and shove it into the best big-boy Bronco that the Deboss Garage guys could find. And like every...
Rough Start: Bring Your Own Engine For This 1986 Olds Cutlass Racer!
Dec 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We love a good G-body machine around here. And we love anything that has proven performance and potential. A trip around RacingJunk, eBay or the right Facebook pages will find you plenty of decent...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is This Year’s Winter Project?
Dec 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
Never, ever, in the thirty-seven years that I’ve been on this planet, have I been happier for winter to show up. The last time I was this ready for winter I was still in grade school and we got...
Splitting The Difference: The 2022 F-150 Tremor Is A Perfect Off-Road Themed Step Between A Street Truck and A Raptor
Dec 10, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, XL Truck Feature, XL Truck News
(By Tom Lohnes) – It ain’t no Raptor, but the 2022 Ford F-150 Tremor packs a giant off-road punch at significantly less money than the Raptor. With the yet-to-be-driven Ford Ranger Tremor...
Rare Royalty: This 1978 Monarch Has A Factory Four Speed – Clean, Cool, Slow, and Expensive
Dec 10, 2020Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, Craigslist Find
Back in 1978 only 585 Mercury Monarchs were produced from the factory with a four speed manual transmission and the 302 small block engine. This is even crazier when you think about the fact that...
Godzilla Dyno Fun: Brian Wolfe Rips A 446ci Godzilla With Ported Heads, A New Cam, Intake, Calibration – Big Power
Dec 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINE, ENGINES, MISC, Tech Stories, Videos
Brian Wolfe’s work with hot rodding the Ford 7.3L Godzilla V8 engine has been awesome. We have seen a load of different things so far and most of them have been a little outside the parameters...
NHRA Insider Podcast: Lyle Barnett The Newest Brawler In NHRA Pro Mod and The Pressure Cooker of Funny Car
Dec 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
Lyle Barnett joins Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider to talk about his path through the world of small tire drag racing and into the ranks of the E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod Series. On the...
Wrenching On A 1949-1951 Ford? Make Sure You Upgrade To Power Steering With Borgeson!
Dec 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Sponsor News, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, Sponsor News
We all love old cars around here. The fact that they represent history, they represent evolution, and they represent the kind of mechanical progress that an industry was built on all play a part into...
Ride In The Cockpit Of The 10th Shelby Cobra Ever Built As It Rips, Roars, And Screams Around Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway
Dec 10, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
Now this is a proper ride! We got tipped off to this video of Steve Park driving one of the family’s Cobras at Laguna Seca. Steve’s related to Lyn “Mr Cobra” Park so it only...
Prodigal Buick: Driving A 1956 Special Back Home Where It Belongs
Dec 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartVideos
My father went through a few cars before his clock ran out in 2005. Most were simply daily beaters, nothing to get worked up about. He had a Pontiac GTO he always reminisced about, either a 1968 or...
Sleeper Video: Watch A 720hp GT-R and 650hp ZR-1 Get Taken On By A Cobalt SS
Dec 10, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY, OTHER
The Chevrolet Cobalt SS is what the Shelby GLHS was in the 1980s: an extremely capable and extremely underrated front-driver that, in the right hands, will serve embarrassment up on a silver platter...
Classic YouTube: This Caterpillar 319D Can Get Into A Rail Car Fine All By Itself
Dec 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
What would it take to put a hydraulic excavator into the back of a rail car? A crane? That would be nice, sure, but what if you’re in the middle of nowhere? When the excavator is the biggest...
Classic YouTube: Playing For A Bricklin SV-1 On “Let’s Make A Deal” – Listen To The Crowd’s Reactions!
Dec 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
“Let’s Make A Deal” was a strange game show for someone who wasn’t alive when it was taped. Effectively, near as I can make sense, the premise was to dress up in the most...
Big Cat Attack: The 2021 Jaguar F-Pace SVR Is Not Just A Killer Engine Wrapped In A Mundane SUV Anymore – Updates A-Plenty
Dec 09, 2020Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Jaguar F-Pace SVR is a fun vehicle. With the hilarious 550-horsepower Supercharged V8 paired with AWD and an SUV body style, it blends practicality with one of the...
