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

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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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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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Pro Stock, Pro Stock Bikes, And Factory Stock 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Ford Big-Blocks Unleashed! FE Race & Reunion Muncie Dragway! 352, 390, 406, 427, 428, SOHC!

The Ford FE powerplant is arguably one of the most important engines in Ford’s racing heritage. Sure there have been plenty of other powerful combos over the years, but when Chevrolet and Ford...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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Forced Induction: Newest Challenger Demon Video Shows Intake Tract, Two Seats?

FCA has released the newest in a string of weekly videos teasing us and promoting their new Challenger Demon “super muscle car”. This one focuses on the intake tract or the cold air...

Watch The Opening Four Minutes Of The 1965 Winternationals As Shown On Wide World Of Sports

If this isn’t the single coolest gem I have ever extracted from the mines of YouTube than it has to be damned close to the coolest. This is the actual footage from the 1965 ABC Wide World of...

Fast Friends: Krista Baldwin To Race NHRA Winternationals In A/Fuel With Support From Baldwin Filters and McLeod

Our pal Krista Baldwin will be appearing at the NHRA Winternationals this coming weekend in an A/Fuel dragster for the second year in a row, which is awesome. Baldwin is the daughter of the late...

Wheelie Video! This Is A Collection Of Cool Wheelstands From The 2016 Season In Australia

While their toilets may swirl in the wrong direction, they may thoroughly enjoy Vegemite, and they steer their cars on the wrong side, Australians are as awesome and hardcore as American hot rodders....

Awesome Historic Drag Footage: Home Videos From The 1972 NHRA Winternationals – Wild Willie, All The Great Heroes Of Yesteryear!

Wow, is this awesome stuff! I happened to stumble upon this 15-minute home video made at the 1972 NHRA Winternationals by a pair of Australian brothers who traveled over to take in the race. Their...

John Force Racing Is Back In SoCal And Holding A Wednesday Open House At The RaceStation!

(Phoenix testing photos by Gary Nastase Photography)   Years ago, John Force Racing moved from their remodeled luxury car dealership in SoCal’s Yorba Linda heading for new headquarters with...

Progress For A Drag Strip On Long Island, New York? Seems Like It

It has been years since Long Island Dragway in Hampton, New York closed its doors and with it, left drag racing fans with no other option but to head to places like Atco and Englishtown. Since then...

Australian Nationals Footage From Calder Park: V8s, Rotaries, And…Wait, Is That A Previa?!

Now that the Super Bowl is over for us here in the Northern Hemisphere, can we finally get to drag racing? Please? For most, the answer is still “no”…unless you live in a place...

Winternationals Video: This Footage From The 1970 AHRA Winternationals Is Simply Great

For many years, there was more than one Winternationals race to kick off a drag racing season. While the NHRA’s event at Pomona was always the better known of the two, the running of the AHRA...

Watch Jason Rupert Lay Down Two Beautiful and Thundering Funny Car Passes – IHRA Record Breakers!

While the IHRA may not have a professional series in 2017 they sure did in 2016 and in the nitro funny car category Jason Rupert hammered all comers and took home the title. In this Les Mayhew video...

Conesville Drag Strip Video: Madness At The No Frills, No BS, No Under 21 Strip Your Mom Warned You About

(By Greg Rourke) – To paraphrase The Stranger from The Big Lebowski, sometimes there’s a drag strip, it’s the drag strip for it’s time and place. It fits right in there....

Football?! Nah, Watch The 1991 NHRA Winternationals Right Here!

Apparently today there’s a sporting contest going on between two cities. Many people seem to be highly interested in said contest and are clogging up the roads, airwaves, and internets with...

Zip Tie Drags Adventure Video – Emily Williams and Her Husband Buy A Nova And Make The Trip

The Roadkill Zip Tie Drags were a big success with Tuscon Dragway being packed to the gills with fans and many Roadkill devotees making the run from Southern California to the Arizona track. People...

Greg Wants A Galaxie, Greg’s Got Expensive Taste! Check This Baby Out

(By Greg Rourke) – Brian recently showed us a $40,000 transmission, which was only a little more than the trans in my 98 Plymouth Voyager cost.  The trans was originally for a factory...