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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Know Your Volatile Race Fuels: A Look At The Happily Violent Nitromethane Molecule

It is the liquid that’s killed more engine parts, singed more fire suits, and caused the most havoc of any single substance in drag racing history. It is an indispensable fuel in the modeling...

Actual Two Lane Blacktop 1955 Chevy Movie Car To Hit Block At Barrett Jackson Scottsdale 2015

How’s this for a scoop? One of the actual 1955 Chevys used in the making of the gearhead cult movie hit Two Lane Blacktop will hit the auction block in Scottsdale come January at the giant...

Best of 2014: Watch A Violent Double Dragster Wreck From NHRA Brainerd – Top Dragster Competitors Survive Horrible Incident

Racers Monte Green and Don Kritzky were involved in one of the scariest double top dragster crashes in recent memory yesterday during the NHRA race in Brainerd, Minnesota. As the cars were flying...

Best of 2014: Watch A 270hp Golf Kart Based Electric Dragster Power Wheelie Itself Completely Over Backwards At The Hit Of The Throttle

When we say the words, “golf kart based electric dragster” don’t go making some assumption that what we’re about to show you sucks…because it doesn’t. The vehicle...

Watch This Steel Bodied, 520ci Blown Hemi Powered Mustang Carry The Front Wheels 4-500ft On Every Pass!

Stop us when we get to the bad part. Steel body, 520ci blown Brad Anderson Hemi engine, wheelie bars set tall enough that a German Shepherd could walk under them, driver that doesn’t lift for...

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY: MSD Performance Is Selling Their Insanely Sweet 1970 SS396 Chevelle

MSD Performance is selling their 1970 Chevelle SS396 (which is a reall 1970 Chevelle SS396) and you should buy it because it is priced right for a car in this condition and it is simply an awesome...

Best Of 2014: Antron Brown Suffers A Horrendous 318mph Top End Crash At Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals – Is OK

On Friday night at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals, driver Antron Brown in the Matco Tools, US Army top fuel dragster suffered a frightening top end crash at 318mph when the...

Best Of 2014: Apple Pulls Drag Racing App From Its Store, Apparently Does Not Know Difference Between Street Racing and Drag Racing – More Will Vanish

Stuff like this really makes us cringe. Mark Bright is the creator and owner of Drag Log, a smart phone application that drag racers can use to log their runs, document what tracks they have been to,...

Awesome Video: Watch Dom Lagana Make a 4.59/325 Quarter Mile Blast At Martin, Michigan In The Nitro Ninja Top Fueler

I’ve never really hid the fact that I am a Lagana family fan-boy to the core. I get to see Bobby Lagana Jr quite frequently out on the NHRA tour as he works with Steve Torrance’s team...

Video: Watch A Norwegian Alcohol Funny Car Go For A Test Drive In The Snow

The winters are a lot longer than the racing season in the nordic region, so guys in places like Sweden need to make their own fun. Apparently that fun came in the form of a snowy street cruise...

A Tracked T-Bucket Powered By A Blown Alky Burning Rat Motor Is Even More Awesome Than You Can Imagine (Video)

Since it has started snowing around parts of the US already and there’s some sort of massive winter air blast coming for lots of us soon I thought it would be appropriate to bust this video out...

This Is The Most Personal, Fun, And Cool Video You’ll Ever See About John Force – A GoPro And His Grandkids – Great Watch

As we are now just days away from Christmas we hope that you’ll either be able to hang out with family, catch up with family, or otherwise surround yourself with people that you love over the...

Just Add Salt: This 1931 Model A May Live In Massachusetts But It Has The True Spirit Of An Ancient Salt Running Hot Rod

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Sometimes simplicity can be jaw-droppingly cool and that is the case with this 1931 Ford Model A (with ’32 grill shell) owned by Jesse Treveloni of...

Six Minutes Of Non-Stop Drag Race Wheelstands From Urban Hillbilly Video – This One Is Hot Off The Presses

In what has become a multiple time a week tradition around here, we’re back with another awesome video from Urban Hillbilly Action Videos (for those of you rolling your eyes, NO, we...