The TRUTH About Oil Additives Revealed, With Real Test Results From The Motor Oil Geek

There are too many Oil Treatments and Additives to count nowadays, and many of them make claims that are hard to believe. Over the years there have been so many of them and while some have good...

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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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How to Start a 1990s Formula 1 Engine: You Mean You Don’t Just Pump It Twice And Then Turn The Key?

I’ve been fortunate enough to be around a lot of cool race engines over the years, and a handful of them have had very particular startup procedures. A Dodge NASCAR R5P7 for example that came...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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The Duramax Camaro and the Cummins Charger – You’ve Seen Them In Print Now See The Video

Over the years I have been granted the good fortune to put lots of words on pages both electronic and paper about cool cars. I am not sure I will ever have the opportunity to introduce the world to a...

Do You Know The Twisted Tale Of The Chevy Iraqi Taxi Malibus? No Options, Three Pedals, Three On The Floor!

(By Greg Rourke) – There has been some discussion about manual transmissions in G body GM cars. BMcT recently showed us an Olds with a factory manual. Apparently, they aren’t as rare as...

German Formula Series Crash Leads to World’s Weirdest Non-Fight

When you’re used to seeing NASCAR shoving matches or…whatever it was…that happened in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Gateway, other shouting matches can seem a bit tame....

This Corvette GT3 Lost a Championship With a Horrifying Crash

Germany’s ADAC GT Masters series is the only place in the world you’ll find a GT3-spec Corvette C7.R and with a championship seemingly sewn up in the final race of its debut season, this Callaway...

We Would Own And Drive This Honda Civic Wagon In A Heart Beat

That title got your attention didn’t it? Yeah, not the words you expect to see here at BangShift.com, unless there is a turbo LS or something weird under the hood of said Civic Wagon and...

This Barracuda Project Could Be Just What You Need. The Hard Work Is Done!

We know this Barracuda project well, because it is owned by our buddy Zak who’s dad is a major contributor here at BangShift.com. In fact Zak himself shoots photos for us at certain events, and...

DragonSpeed Become First American Team to Win European Le Mans Series Race

The “Star-Spangled Banner” is not a common sound on the overall podium in Europe. The continent is largely dominated by home teams, but last weekend, Florida-based DragonSpeed managed to become...

This ’86 Omni GLH Helped Bring America Out of the Automotive Dark Age

While Ford and General Motors both continued to build V8 pony cars in the 1980s as attainable sports cars, Chrysler instead tried to turn their econoboxes into their performance offerings. They did...

American Powerplant, British Handling: Would You Drive This V6-Swapped MGB?

British automaker MG may be the very definition of British sports car. Sure, the Jaguar E-Type gets all the Oohs & Aahs and the original Shelby Cobras were built on another, less-well-known...

It’s Not An LS Swap! This 240Z Is Nissan Skyline Powered!

Z Cars are cool. Everyone seems to like them, and they work really good for a variety of applications, from daily driver to road racer to autocross machine and even drag racer. Plus they just look...

Watch This Finnish Toyota Starlet Set a New Record at Michigan’s Empire Hill Climb Revival

The Empire Hill Climb Revival might not be the longest hilll climb in the world–in fact, it’s probably one of the shortest–but in the event’s fourth year since rebooting the classic...

Flyin’: Watch This Mustang Smash a Lap Record at Watkins Glen

Road racing videos can make it hard to gauge relative speed, especially in time trial runs. Because Brian Faessler drives his monster Ford Mustang so smoothly in this video of his lap-record run at...

Watch These ‘Retired’ ChampCar and F1 Cars Ring Up Substantial Repair Bills in Crash

While many Formula 1 and other top-flight open-wheel race cars end up museums and collections in non-operative order, there is a series in Europe where once can race wheel-to-wheel in “retired”...

Dajiban! Another Great Look at the World of Dodge Race Vans in Japan

Dodge Ram vans don’t really stand out in this country. Most have been worn down to the nub and the custom vanning scene, while enjoying a resurgence, isn’t as keen on the old Mopar haulers as...