AS SEEN ON TV Tools that Beat Yours: Are As Seen on TV Tools Better Than We’ve Been Giving Them Credit For?

AS SEEN ON TV! We’ve all fallen for the trap at some point or another and bought some kitchen gadget, tool, or “performance” part that had huge claims as to how wonderful it was....

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Here Are All The American Powertrain Shifter Fitment Options On TREMEC 5 & 6 Speed Transmissions For Your Project

Wondering if there is a way to get your Tremec transmission’s shifter to line up in your application? Have a weird one and want to move the shifter forward or back to make it just right? In the...

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HOW TO READ A TURBO COMPRESSOR MAP. WHAT IS THE MAX EFFICIENCY ISLAND? HOW MUCH BOOST & POWER?

Richard Holdener is back at it with even more fun turbo tech. While turbo sizes are pretty simple, compressor maps are not necessarily as easy to understand. If you have an engine that can use a 76...

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Where’s Larry? Exploring Late Night Car Culture in Tokyo with The Nissan Party at 7 Eleven

The Nissan Party at 7/11 kind of reminds me of our meetups at Taco Bell or Circle K back in my street racing days, but when you first hear it you certainly don’t think this is a MUST STOP place...

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Daily Junkyard Crawl With Steve Magnante: A Real Deal 1970 Boss 302 Mustang! Trans Am Racing Greatness Right Here!

The Boss 302 Mustangs and Z28 Camaros, battled it out on road courses all over in the late 1960s and put on a hell of a show while doing it. With seriously under rated 302 cubic inch V8 engines,...

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EFI Tech: Here’s How To Use Holley’s Built In Output Testing Feature For Terminator X, HP, Dominator ECUs

Unless you are a professional EFI tuner, you probably don’t know all the features that are included in one of the new ECUs that are available today. Hell, even if you are a professional you...

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Train Wreck Tuesday: Because Sometimes Twin Turbos Are Just The Beginning Of The Fun

It just so happens that we not only got one tip on a crazed rat rod truck creation but we also had a second and since it is Tuesday and we like trains, you know the rest. Brian Blackstone sent us...

Train Wreck Tuesday: A Rat Rod Truck Build That You Really Have To See To Believe

There are times when we get tips from BangShifter out there that read the site every day, run across something, and just have to tell us about it. There are other times when guys that we know through...

A Mad Max Mercedes And A Mangled Porsche From Last Weekend’s Action At The Nurburgring – Wild Video

(By Eric Rood) – The VLN (Don’t ask us to type out the incredibly long proper German name for which that is an abbreviation) hosts endurance races 10 times a year on the fabled Nurburgring...

eBay Find: This 1985 Buick Somerset Trans-Am/IMSA GTO Car Is Flippin’ Awesome!

Want to know what the most BangShift approved road racing car for sale in America is RIGHT NOW? You’re looking at it, baby. This 1985 Buick Somerset has all kinds of racing history from when it...

The RideTech Report: New Products, A Survey, Videos, And A KILLER New Tool To Check Out!

…annnnnd we’re back! The latest issue of the RideTech report has been published and this one is a must read. Why? Beyond the cool customer car profiles, the shop information, the new...

The Greatest Yugo Ever? Someone Converted This One Into A Little Panzer Tank!

(By Eric Rood) – The magical land of CraigsList delivers today, as it so often does, with a heavy dose of WTF sprinkled and a liberal seasoning of “Just…why?” The notorious econobox...

CarThrottle Sends In The Drift Van To Prank Chris Forsberg For April Fools’ Day!

Yeah, we know that April Fools’ Day was yesterday…we saw all of the posts, from Chad’s beard packing up, giving us the finger and bailing out on it’s own in the movie biz...

Battle Royale Video: The Greatest Three Laps Of Road Racing Video You’ll Ever See

(By Eric Rood) – April brings a fool’s day and showers, which coincidentally are also things that the British Touring Car Championship brings when it debuts in, you guessed it, April. I...

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles To Be Renamed “The Hellcat Depot” – New Slogan “If It’s Not 4,000lbs And 700hp…It’s Crap”

In a stunning announcement today, Sergio Marchionne who is the current CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has announced that the company will be changing their name to “The Hellcat Depot”...

After Trouble At Daytona and Sebring Ford GT Racing Program Turned Over To Sloppy Mechanics Facebook Page

After a rough debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona and issues at the 12 hours of Sebring Ford Performance has made a bold change and fired the entire engineering department involved with the Ford GT...

Formula One Might Dump The Italian Grand Prix At Monza For…Las Vegas?!

First held in 1921, held in succession since 1950, and only moved once (to Imola, in 1980), the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is an institution to itself, a center of pride for Italian motorsports, an...

Morning Symphony: Round One Of Lone Star Drift’s 2016 Season!

You know what drifting is all about…the skills of a driver that is sticking a toe or two over the line of car control while laughing about it all. Slip angles, power application, steering...

This 5th Gen Camaro Is A Screaming Deal For Pro Touring Greatness!

I can personally attest to how bad ass this ride is. In fact, when I saw the posting this morning I emailed the owner and told him I though it sounded way to cheap. I haven’t priced 5th Gen...

Watch This Ferrari F355 Berlinetta On The Autocross, But Better Yet Listen To It. Epic.

The sounds that come from some cars are spectacular. Arguably as good as watching them. Others not so much. One make that has pretty much always nailed it on sound is Ferrari. They know that all your...