Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
BangShift Bonneville Video: In-Car With Lee Sicilio at Bonneville in His Hemi Daytona Clone at 230 MPH
Aug 18, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on BangShift Bonneville Video: In-Car With Lee Sicilio at Bonneville in His Hemi Daytona Clone at 230 MPH
First off we have to give props where they are due. Scott Clark (known as DieselGeek on the BangShift forums) gave us this awesome in-car footage of a 230 mph run in Lee Sicilio’s awesome Dodge...
Update: Even More! Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Monday – Presented by Spectre Performance
Aug 17, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Update: Even More! Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Monday – Presented by Spectre Performance
The boys and girls at Bonneville have stepped on it to start the meat of Speed Week. The Poteet and Main Speed Demon is current top speed holder with a 408mph trip down Broadway. The...
Desert Racing Tragedy Raises Questions About Racing on Federal Property
Aug 17, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Desert Racing Tragedy Raises Questions About Racing on Federal Property
After a desert racing tragedy last weekend that left scores of spectators dead and wounded in California after a truck rolled off course, the news media has glommed on to the idea that racing on...
Caption this Photo: A Slight Timing Mishap
Aug 17, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Caption this Photo: A Slight Timing Mishap
While wrasslin’ with an HEI swap onto our project truck Goliath we ran into a problem. Namely, that problem was that our fancy pants HEI unit was not producing any spark. Because it was...
Boneville Speed Week 2010 – Sunday – Presented by Spectre Performance
Aug 16, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Boneville Speed Week 2010 – Sunday – Presented by Spectre Performance
As we predicted, the crew at Spectre Performance rocketed into the record books on Sunday with a two run average of 324mph to shatter the existing A/BGS record by a large margin of nearly 50mph. The...
Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Saturday – Presented by Spectre Performance
Aug 16, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Saturday – Presented by Spectre Performance
As day two of Bonneville Speed Week 2010 dawned, the Spectre Performance crew saw themselves in line as the first streamliner of the day. Driver and company owner Amir Rosenbaum needed to make a...
Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Friday – Presented by Spectre Performance
Aug 16, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Friday – Presented by Spectre Performance
Spectre Performance has stepped up huge to become the presenting sponsor of BangShift’s 2010 Bonneville Speed Week coverage. That means our own Chad Reynolds will be on the salt as of Sunday...
The Parting Shift: Power Shifting Four Gears Down Main St.
Aug 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on The Parting Shift: Power Shifting Four Gears Down Main St.
As we prepare to bring the Bonneville coverage thunder this weekend and into next week, we’re leaving you with a short but entertaining Parting Shift this week. It is a Chevelle with a...
Dumbass Alert: Thieves Use Bulldozer to Steal ATM, Lose ATM
Aug 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Dumbass Alert: Thieves Use Bulldozer to Steal ATM, Lose ATM
The media is always so inaccurate. When we saw the headline that thieves had used a “bulldozer” to steal an ATM in Detroit we were expecting to see a Caterpillar D8 in the middle of a...
Virtual Reality: Incredible Engine Renderings From Cosworth
Aug 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Virtual Reality: Incredible Engine Renderings From Cosworth
The name Cosworth conjures up images of Formula One cars screaming around European road courses. It also conjures up the name of the rare Vega model that used an engine topped with a cylinder head...
Crazy Crash Video: A Bad Motorcyclist Pays the Price
Aug 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Crazy Crash Video: A Bad Motorcyclist Pays the Price
Riding a motorcycle is a dangerous enough enterprise when you are talented at it and generally know what you are doing. It becomes a painful experience when you are an idiot, like the man shown in...
Retro Galleries: BangShift’s 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Coverage
Aug 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Retro Galleries: BangShift’s 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Coverage
With BangShift’s Chad Reynolds hurtling east to attack the salt with wall to wall coverage courtesy of Spectre Performance this year, we thought we’d remind you of all the greatness that...
Game Changer: Aeromotive’s New Drop In Stealth Kits for 03-Up Corvettes
Aug 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Game Changer: Aeromotive’s New Drop In Stealth Kits for 03-Up Corvettes
Aeromotive has once again changed the fuel system game with the introduction of their Stealth System for 2003 1/2 and up Corvettes. This is a complete drop in fuel system that slides right into the...
Craigslist Find: A Crazy Rare and Totally Cool 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Wagon
Aug 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Craigslist Find: A Crazy Rare and Totally Cool 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Wagon
We’re getting into Bonneville mode already as Speed Week has already gotten off the ground with tech inspection yesterday. We were planning on finding some clapped out junk Bonneville for Chad...