FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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How Much Horsepower Does An Engine Driven Cooling Fan Really Take From Your Engine?

We tested alternators, engine driven fans, and other accessories on the dyno years ago and I can tell you that most of the accessories on the front of your engine take very little power to turn under...

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Pounding Pontiac: Watch This Brutal 1963 LeMans Crank Off 9-Second Pure Poncho Elapsed Times

Yes, yes we know. There are easier ways to go 9s than to build a bad ass, multi-carb, tunnel ram, 482ci Pontiac V8 with a bunch of compression, and all the camshaft. There are easier ways but...

BangShift Tune Up: Spirit Of America – The Beach Boys (1963)

If there’s a cooler car song out there, let us know. As the only known song every written about a Bonneville car, this is about the best thing ever and it was performed by the Beach Boys! Of...

New Years No Prep Photos: More From Maple Grove Raceway’s New Year’s No Prep Race! People And Racing Action!

We’ve got our second batch of photos from the New Year’s No-Prep at The Grove, and want to thank Joe Grippo as always. If you missed any of the previous photos, we’ve got a link...

HyperSpark Ignition Buyers Guide – Everything You Need To Know To Choose The Right System For Your Ride.

The one downside to all the amazing parts that are available for making power today, is that sometimes you can’t tell which thing you actually need. It’s like sitting down at a restaurant...

Old School Chassis Tech: This Video From 30 Years Ago Shows The Al Swindahl Bolt Together Top Fuel Chassis

There are names in drag racing that have had massive impact. We all know the Don Garlits’ of the world, we all know the Bob Glidden types of the world but what about the guys who made the cars...

Twin-Engine, Turbocharged Bare Chassis Run Low 8s In The Quarter And Terrorize The Streets!

BangShifter John Mac turned us on to what has to be the nuttiest thing built in Canada in the last two decades. From what we can gather, the crew at Turbo Dynamics Canada has taken a stock car...

HOW MUCH HP IS AN INTERCOOLER WORTH? CHEAP, JUNKYARD M90 BLOWER GETS A TICK PERFORMANCE INTERCOOLER.

To intercool or not to intercool, that is the question. For years folks have debated no intercooler, an intercooler, which kind of intercooler, etc. for their supercharged or turbocharged...

New Years No Prep Photos: Maple Grove Raceway’s New Year’s No Prep Race Was Packed Full Of People And Racing Action!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) It was getting dark, around 4:30pm on a cold December Saturday in the waning days of 2023 and I was standing in the burnout box of my favorite dragstrip with the...

Massive CAR CARRIER SHIPS Hold Thousands of Cars Inside: All About Roll-On Roll-Off Car Hauling Ships.

Ever wonder how all those cars and trucks in the world get from the country they are built in to the country they are sold in? Or why companies like Toyota, Nissan, Honda and more are now building...

Cool Video: Watch Some AHRA Drag Racing At The Old Tucson Dragway Circa 1983 – John Force and Others!

This is fun video! We’re going back to what looks like the 1983 AHRA Winternationals at the “old” Tucson Dragway which is about a 15 minute (or less) ride from the current Tucson...

FULL DYNO RESULTS ON THE L78 396, OVERRATED AT 425 HP OR UNDERRATED AT 375 HP? WHAT DID IT MAKE?

Everyone always thinks that the engines of the muscle car era were the most powerful to ever come out of the big three. The truth is that newer engines make the same rated power, or more, with a much...

Beards, Burnouts, and Beer Podcast: Racing Into 2024! The Bullhorn Edition With Eric Yost From Customs By Bigun.

We had a fun Beards, Burnouts, and Beer show this past week with Eric Yost from Customs by Bigun and were talking 2024 events, what we’ve got going on, and Bullhorns. Not the kind on a four...

Local DRAG CAR Survivor and Other Cool Stuff at the Paradise Dragstrip Toy Drive With The Hot Rod Hoarder

Tommy Lee Byrd is back at it, and was recently out for a show and race at Paradise Dragstrip in December for their annual toy drive show which had been cancelled due to rain two weekends in a row!...

Historic Drag Video: Watch Connie Kalitta Spin An Accidental Funny Car 180 Back In The Early 1970s!

Here’s some fantastic old footage from Detroit Dragway that is cool on about 500 levels. For starters we have two great funny cars in the form of Connie Kalitta and Tom Prock who was driving a...