(Photos by various BangShift contributors) – Is there anything better than being at a car show, seeing a cool car and then peeking under the hood with one eye open to see what the engine is, only to be surprised with a cool, unique, or different engine than you expected? We’re not sure that there is, especially in today’s day and age of “LS all the things!” This is a gallery of just engine photos that have been taken over the course of a few car shows we’ve covered lately. From flathead Fords to modern fuel injected precision mills, this is a gallery for the true gearheads that are more impressed with looking than under the hood than what’s actually around it.

Hey, it is Friday. Lock the door, kick your feet up, maybe even sneak a little pull out of that bottle you have hidden in the lower right drawer and cruise through this gallery of engine and drag strip close-ups because it pretty much rules.