Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Is This The World’s Smallest Electronically Fuel Injected Engine? 100% Scratch Built By Hand And MegaSquirt Brains! (Video)
This video is heading around the internet like wildfire and for good reason. It features a 100% scratch built 45cc V8 engine that is electronically fuel injected. If that isn’t awesome enough,...
The Aussies Have A Two Seat Top Fuel Dragster – This Is Not A Flipping Drill! (Video)
We’ve long reveled at the awesome Powercruise shows that go down in Australia and at a couple locations here in the USA. Sadly we haven’t been able to attend one ourselves, but we sure...
Throwdown In T-Town LIVE Broadcast: Saturday Replay Available Now!
UPDATE: Watch all of Saturday’s action without some of the downtime! Pro Mods, Outlaw Doorslammers, Outlaw 10.5, Drag Radial and Much More! This Friday and Saturday we’ll be live...
BangShift Question of the Day: What Dead Car Company Would You Bring Back to Life With One Billion Dollars?
The list of dead car companies is damned long. Some of the names are infamous like Yugo. Some of the names are legendary like Duesenberg and nearly all of them are lamented by legions of devoted...
100 Photos of Chevy Novas!
The Chevy Nova is a staple at car shows, drag strips, cruise nights, autocrosses, and anywhere that car guys are getting together with their classic American iron. Hell, my dad still races the 1970...
BangShift Blog Archive: We Interview EJ Potter, The Michigan Madman
(Editor’s note: We ran this piece on EJ Potter back in 2010- We’re running it again today because we were thinking of EJ yesterday when the dude wiped out on the V8 bike in the vide we...
Tech Video: How to Degree a Camshaft
As we all know, one of the biggest pieces in being successful with building your own high performance engine is attention to detail. The details of keeping your work space clean and organized, the...
The Lambrecht Collection Auction By The Numbers – Here’s the List Of Every Car and Every Sale Price!
It was one of the most hyped, publicized, and anticipated car auctions of all time. It was a massive collection of old dealer trade ins as well as “new” cars that were close to 50 years...
Rumors: Jeff Lutz Goes 6.97/216 In His 1957 Chevy – Heading To Oklahoma To Tangle With Street Outlaws TV Cast!
So the soup can with the string attached to it here at the remote BangShift HQ in Florida went nuts last night with reports that Jeff Lutz was testing at Indy and laid down a big 6.97/216-mph lap...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Lamest Automotive Excuse?
From the parking lot cruise night to the race track and beyond, you can always find a car guy with an excuse as to why something isn’t going as planned. The dude who crap talks other...
Watch A Large Scale Model Of A 1927 Miller 91 Race Car Get Entirely Built Of 3D Printed Parts – Truly Amazing
We have shown some cool videos featuring the amazing technology that is 3D printing here on BangShift over the nearly six years we have been around, but this one takes the cake by a country...
Save The Fatties! 34 Massive, Vintage American Cars Destined To Be Demo Derby Fodder For Sale! Buy Them And Save Them One By One!
We have to thank Gray Had for the tip on this wild Craigslist ad which was targeting the eastern Colorado area. The ad is simple enough, it states that a former serious demo derby competitor is...
This Video Of A Massive Horde Of Classic Cars and Trucks In Texas Will Blow Your Mind!
Drag Week gasser ace Keith Fox posted this amazing video (that we think he actually shot) on his Facebook page yesterday and our jaws have not come up off the floor yet. As Fox lives in the Lubbock,...
Jason Line Wins NHRA Pro Stock Race With Holley Gen III Ultra Dominator Carbs!
If there is a tougher testbed for the performance of carburetors than NHRA pro stock drag racing we’d like to see it. These guys are wringing nearly 1500hp out of naturally aspirated 500ci...