Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Explosivo Video: Nitrous Kills a Motor in a Spectacular Display of Automotive Irresponsibility. We Approve.
Over the years there have been a couple well documented magazine stories about taking a wheezer junk motor and pumping it full of so much nitrous it blows its guts out giving it maximum effort. Most...
Book Review: The Great FE Intake Comparo by Jay Brown
When Jay Brown contacted us and asked if we would be interested in a review copy of his new book, “The Great FE Intake Comparo”, our curiosity-meter was pegged. Was it really possible to...
Funny Video: The Toyota Prius Sucks as a Toy, Too
The silent, soulless, motorized appliance known as the Toyota Prius is the complete antithesis of BangShifty. It is amazingly complicated, reduces the role of the driver to that of a mindless drone,...
BangShift Garage Spotlight: An Awesome 1947 Chevy Truck Autocrosser Built for Less Than 2K!
Talk about bitchin’! This 1947 Chevy truck has been built to be a giant killer on the autocross course and it has won several events already. The real story though is the fact that the truck...
Larson Goes Rounds In Comp at NHRA Topeka Event, Continues to Rule
Larry Larson’s neato Comp Eliminator quest at the NHRA national event in Topeka, Kansas ended before the winner’s circle, but not before he dispatched a couple of Competition Eliminator...
eBay Find: A Rare Cross-Ram Hemi Rat Roaster Intake Manifold With Carbs
Yeah, yeah, we know. There are more modern, efficient, better working intake manifolds for the classic Chrysler Hemi than the old Edelbrock “Rat Roaster” but few have the reputation and...
The Parting Shift: Three Minutes of Cruising a Jeffco Planetary Transmission on the Street
We’ve made it clear in the past that we find few things more awesome than street driven cars with planetary transmissions like Lencos and Jeffcos. We’d be lying if we knew the intricate...
BangShift Question of the Day: Are you doing any car stuff this weekend?
While the weather has sucked for large portions of the country over the last couple weeks, things appear to be making a gradual turn for the better. It won’t be chamber of commerce weather, but...
Bill Caswell Video: Hauling Ass and Grabbing Air During the 2011 WRC Mexico
During our recent dinner with Bill Caswell, BangShift’s adopted bucks down rally hero, Bill told us the tales of his adventure to the 2011 WRC (World Rally Championship) Mexico. It was his...
Massive Junkyard Auction in Nebraska Coming in July!
We were recently tipped off to a huge by large auction happening in Maxwell, Nebraska during the mid-July time frame. The entire contents of a junkyard are being sold off piece by piece. The cars and...
Caption this Photo: Chad’s Deluxe Accommodations During the 48hr Camaro Build
The 48 Hour Camaro build was a huge success this week. Between the live broadcast, the collaboration from virtually every heavy hitter in the performance aftermarket, and the parking lot burnouts...
Racing Junk Find: A Restored Fuelie 1957 Chevy
Back in 1957, if you were a forward thinking BangShifter, you would have headed into your local Chevy dealer and thrown cash down for one of the hot Chevrolets with fuel injection. Since we’re...
BangShift Exclusive: Guidelines Established for Restored/Recreated Drag Cars
With the explosion in popularity of nostalgia and historic drag racing over the last two decades, many historic drag racing cars have been restored, recreated, or been honored with so-called...
Wreckage Video: The Hardest Wreck in the History of Autocrossing
This video proves two things. The first is that the Nissan VQ engine that powers virtually everything in their product line up, in one form or another, is the most awful sounding engine in the world....