Morning Symphony: Horsepower Versus The Dirt – Off-Roading Mechanical Violence Lives Here
The dragstrip offers up the most horsepower per event than anywhere else on Earth short of space launches. A fully-loaded NASCAR starting grid typically has 30,000 horsepower on tap when you add in...
The Mars Hot Rod: This Story About The Technology And Methodology Of The SpaceX Raptor Rocket Rules
Here’s a little bit of a reality check . Every paste eating moron you read about on social media, every Tide Pod eating kid that ends up getting their guts pumped, and every schmuck that seems...
Neighborhood Trouble Stopper: This 1973 Shorland Mk3 Armored Patrol Car Probably Has Some Stories
Here’s the thing. Anytime someone builds an “armored patrol car” things are not good, right? The whole purpose of an armored patrol car is to venture into unsettled areas, protect...
BangShift Remembers Larry Koester: Three Time NTPA Grand National Champion, Inspiration, Heck Of A Guy
(Photos by David Whealon, Adam Draudt and Jeremy Tyndall) – Back on July 20th, 2019 the pulling world was rocked by the news that Larry Koester, one of the most inspirational and hard running...
COMP Cams Releases Link Bar Short Travel Hydraulic Roller Lifters For 6.4L Hemi Engines – No More Factory Failures
We love the fact that COMP Cams is in the problem solving business and that the keep solving them with a level of frequency that neither we nor the rest of the industry can keep up with! This time we...
MAHLE Motorsport Introduces Cutting Edge Ceramic Thermal Barrier Coating for PowerPak Piston
Strength, durability, longevity, toughness. These are all aspects that we want and need out of the pistons that go into a high performance engine. MAHLE Motorsport knows and embraces that which is...
The “WTF?!” Files: A Violent Mud-Bogging Camaro/HMMWV Hybrid
Chopped-up first-gen Camaro, check. LS swap, check. Mud tires on a Camaro trar that has the words “The Honky Donk” across the spoiler, check. Cue up the hate mail, today’s the day....
Blueprint Engines Drops The Price On Their 530 Horsepower LS3 Crate Engine By $1300!
We’ve been through the Blueprint Engines factory in Kearney Nebraska, have been running one of their 400 cubic inch Power Adder small block Chevrolets in pretty extreme conditions for the past...
This Is One Massive Military Wrecker: This Sucker Can Haul Anything!
Take a look at this one! This is an ultra rare M1089 Wrecker, aka a military tow truck. It only has 150 miles on it! Yep that is correct. It was never actually delivered to the US Military and was...
When You Build A Bitchin Truck And Crash It, Do You Rebuild It With Less Concern For Crashing It Again?
When our boy Marcel first built the C10 known as Foxy, it was amazingly clean and sexy. A real “show and go” truck that had a look all its own. In a land of a jillion C10 builds, this one...
Nitro Of Another Kind: This Hill Climb Bike Sounds Angry On A Full Load Of The Good Stuff
Drag racers kind of have the market cornered on nitromethane fueled excitement…or so they think. There are actually more an a few types of motorized fun that used the good fuel but the one that...
BangShifty Video: Watching This Old GMC 7500 Dump Truck Work Is Mesmerizing
(By Greg Rourke) – I’ve always been infatuated with big trucks and equipment. When I was 5, they were building a road near my grandparents house, and Grandpa knew a guy hauling gravel...
Here’s What It Looks Like When You Squash An Automotive Coil Spring With A Hydraulic Press
Just when you thought the guy at the Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube would run out of ideas, he concocts his most genius test of potentially deadly strength yet! In this video you will see a coil...
