Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: Fragola Performance Systems Is
Fragola Performance Systems is constantly striving to meet the plumbing needs of today’s racers and enthusiasts, and parts and pieces that they brought to the table at the 2017 PRI Show in...
Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: The Valvoline Engine Display Has A Cutaway Blown Hemi And It Rules All
There are certain things that we have come to expect at the PRI show each year and at this Performance Racing Industry 2017 show the Valvoline guys delivered again with another awesome collection of...
Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: Racepak Unveils Four Versions Of Vantage CL1 Cloud Based Data Acquisition System
When we last told you about the completely and utterly amazing Racepak Vantage CL1 system around the time of the 2017 SEMA show, we talked about the fact that the company had rolled it the first...
Battle Of The Diesel Freaks: Watch The Pro Mod Class From Diesel Thunder At Gulfport Dragway
When people think of diesel drag racing they mostly picture pickup trucks hammering down tracks with soot clouds looming large above them. Well as diesel performance pervades more and more of the...
Hell Yes! The Whack Is Back, Baby! Scott Palmer Inks Multi-Year Extension Wit Cat Spot, Dom Lagana To Fly Colors As Well!
One of the true good guys in the sport of professional drag racing has inked a multi-year deal to keep himself out on the road and chugging nitro for seasons to come. Scott Palmer Racing announced...
Induction Find: This Cool Four Weber Boss 429 Intake Manifold Would Be A Cool Top For A Cooler Engine
I’m a freak for induction systems. I love searching them out on eBay and other places. The weirder the better and frankly this setup, which appears to be custom built is pretty awesome. What we...
That Time Bret Kepner Predicted The Future Of Pro Stock…40 Years Ago
(Story reused with Bret Kepner’s permission) – Proudly we have had more than a few examples of Bret Kepner’s work appear on BangShift over the years. One of the preeminent...
The Vent Helps: Would You Have Ever Expected A Fox LTD To Move Like This?
The Fox-body Ford LTD was a stop-gap deal: It was an improvement over the Fairmont sedan that it replaced, but it only existed to pull a few more dollars out of the Fox tooling before the Ford Tempo...
2017 NHRA Dutch Classic Coverage: A Final Blast Of Wheels Up Stock Eliminator Action
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Big thanks to our man Joe Grippo for blasting these photos a little while back at the 2017 NHRA Dutch Classic, held at Pennsylvania’s Maple Grove Raceway. The...
Heartland Park Topeka Changes Name To Heartland Motorsports Park – Announces Major No-Prep Race For 2018
Big news from the formerly named Heartland Park Topeka facility in Topeka, Kansas. The home of the NHRA Heartland Nationals will now be known as Heartland Motorsports Park and the track announced the...
STOLEN! Help Us Locate Mark Williams Racing Enterprises Display Trailer
Thieves are the worst and that’s especially true when they mess with your friends. Well, thieves have messed with our friends at Mark Williams Enterprises, stealing a trailer from their shop....
2017 NHRA Dutch Classic Coverage: Stockers Are WAY COOL!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – A while ago up here in the Land of NED, the 2017 NHRA D1 seasons came screeching to a halt with the running of the Pennsylvania Dutch Classic National Open...
Watch Larry McBride Make The Quickest Top Fuel Drag Bike Run In History 5.611!
Larry McBride, the Ruthian motorcycle drag racing legend added even more size to his amazingly massive resume of accomplishments a couple of weeks back when he annihilated all previously existing...
NHRA Pro Stock News: In 2018 Teams Can Use ANY Accepted Engine Combo In ANY Accepted Body – Team Requested – OEM Approved
December 4th, 2017 will be a date that’ll live forever in the annals of NHRA pro stock history. Why? It is the date that the NHRA announced that pro stock teams will be able to run any accepted...
