CHEAP 8.1L CAM TEST-HOW TO ADD 30 HP AND 30 LB-FT FOR TOWING. 8.1L DART CARB INTAKE VS EFI-WHO WINS?

I love me some 8.1 horsepower, and in the video below our friend Richard Holdener is back at Westech Performance doing some cam testing on his dyno mule 8.1. He also does some testing with a carb vs...

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Big Truck Frame Repair: This Scania Truck Is Totaled. Can This Frame Be Straightened Out And The Truck Repaired?

Big truck frame repair is kind of mezmorizing sometimes. Whether it’s the guys in eastern Europe that take a completely pretzeled chassis and straighten it out so they can weld it all back...

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Desert Racing Tech: The SCIENCE Behind BAJA 1000 Support Vehicles! Check Out The Optima Batteries, Ford, Steel-It, Polvoorde Racing Support Rig.

Having just finished watching all the racing action from the Dakar Rally, and their famed trucks, it’s cool to see what a BAJA 1000 support rig looks like. They aren’t the same, as the...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: It’s The Last Stage Of Dakar 2026! Dramatic Stage 13 Racing Action Is Below!

Here comes Stage 13! It’s the final stage of Dakar Rally 2026, and will determine who’s going to take home the win. These racers are still going to have to race in this stage, and there...

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Installing a Two Post Lift Is Easy! With Just A Few Tools, You Can Install Your Own Two Post Lift At Home In A Couple Of Hours!

I bought my first Two Post lift from a friend of a friend in Southern California for just $800 but it had to be taken down, transported to my shop, and then installed again. I called a couple of lift...

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Parker 400 Race Day Onboard With The Isenhouer Bros! These Dudes Slay, And Are Ultra Fun To Watch! Dirt Flying Off-Road Action!

The Isenhouer brothers, aka Chris and Nick, are pretty fun dudes. I got to know them from LSFest West in Las Vegas where they brought their awesome Heatwave Visual sponsored bumpside Ford F100 to...

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Listen To A Cool And Rare Detroit Diesel 1-71 Fire Up And Clatter Away – How Neat!

When we talk about Detroit Diesel engines here at BangShift, typically we’re talking about the mighty 6/8/12 and larger variants of the two stroke family that gained life in the late 1930s and...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Meet America’s Most Unique Truck – The Three Trans Equipped Holy Smokes!

Well, after 34,000 blog items, today stands as proof that there’s still an infinite universe of new and unique stuff to find out there. This time it is a 1966 Ford flatbed with a 390ci engine,...

Awesome Historical Video: The Industrial Use Of Caterpillar Tractors – Mechanical Awesome From 1926

Well this is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever found on YouTube. You are about to watch a silent film (not apologizing for the lack of sound) called The Industrial Use of Caterpillar...

The Land The Man and White: This White Tractor Promotional Video Was Made As The Company Was Going Broke

From the Iowa factory to the testing fields, this video from White, made in 1980 it is a look inside what the world of American industry looked like back then. Of course this is a sales film for the...

Crazy Skills: Check Out This Guy’s Sick Lego Builds – One Off GM Dually Truck, Jeeps, Hot Rods, More!

The wonders never cease around here, that’s for sure. Anthony Ambrosio sent us some incredible links to a person who’s skills with Legos outstrip our skills with, well everything...

Classic YouTube: Autocrossing A Cummins Ram, Because Physics Doesn’t Matter!

Ok, this one is for every diesel-bro I’ve ever met who keeps telling me that their souped up PowerStroke/Cummins/Duramax/whatever is better in the long run than owning a musclecar or a sports...

Distance Learning Time: Watch This ARP Fasteners Seminar To Learn More About Bolts and Fasteners Than You Do Now!

Distance learning, remote learning, whatever you want to call it, your kids have been doing it for weeks and now you get to jump in on the fun. Why? Because we found an awesome seminar put on by ARP...

Strength On Strength: MGP Connecting Rods Completes Move To New Jersey – Same Facility As Manley Performance

MGP Connecting rods are recognized as some of the finest on the planet and they can be found in loads of extremely high horsepower cars across the world. The company, founded in 1996 and built on the...

Double Down: Watch This Naturally Aspirated Jeep Inline Six Make 395hp – Twice The Stock Rating!

It’s one thing to build a hot rodded version of a cool engine. It’s another thing to combine all your skills as a fabricator, engineer, and engine builder to take a platform and double...

Godzilla Roars! Watch This 7.3L Ford V8 Make 789hp Naturally Aspirated As It Awaits A Blower

Ok, this is really starting to get awesome. Brian Wolfe the legendary Ford engineer, drag racer, and blue oval horsepower maker has really started to stand on his 7.3L Godzilla development engine and...

Hitting Peak: This 1994 Video Showing Off The New S-10 and GMC Sonoma Represents The Little Truck At Its Best

Small trucks have always been an interesting things to us. Obviously we are back in the middle of a small truck war as we told you about the new Ranger Tremor that Ford just released but the small...

2021 Ford Ranger Tremor: The Small Truck In Ford’s Lineup Packs A Big Punch!

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want the awesome Ford Ranger Raptor in the USA? Well, you can’t have it but you can have the new Ranger Tremor. With Tremor being Ford’s more subtle off-road pack...

2020 Performance Racing Industry Show Has Been Cancelled – Hard But Not Shocking News

Perhaps this isn’t a headline that shocks anyone in the high performance aftermarket or racing world, but it still stings pretty hard nonetheless. Officials with PRI have announced that the...

Craziest Car Engine Ever? The Crankshaft Is Stationary And The Engine Rotates Around It! The Adams-Farwell

I have to thank BangShift tipster Tony Hoffer for the lead on this amazing video of what is probably the craziest automotive engine ever actually running. This is an Adams-Farwell rotating cylinder...