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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First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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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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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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Holy Crap!!! This Engine Explosion On The Dyno Leaves Only The Crankshaft Spinnin0

We’ve seen some pretty impressive engine failures over the years, but this one, taken from two angles, is one of the most amazing things we’ve ever seen in our life. And it happens so...

Watching This Crew Remove And Replace A 7.5 Ton Cruise Ship Engine Crankshaft Is Amazing

Every gear head likes seeing pictures of giant connecting rods, pistons, and crankshafts from trains and ships and all kinds of huge equipment. But one thing that always seems to come up when...

8-Door Dually Donuts Are More Impressive Than You Might Think!

Doing donuts in anything big is kinda weird and fun. Everything seems to happen in slow motion, until things go wrong and then they can’t seem to stop quick enough. Such is life when dealing...

Classic YouTube: Jeep CJ For 1983 – Bring In The Buffalo?!

By the time you are reading this in the morning, the Jeep Wrangler JL will debut at the LA Auto Show. We showed you the same teaser that FCA showed us at SEMA (which you can see HERE) but for the...

A 1939 Ford COE Truck And Matching Curtiss Aerocar Land Yacht Make A Bitchin Pair

The vintage RV’s we normally see around are 1960’s and 1970’s models, with the rare 1950’s sighting, but you almost never see 1940’s or 1930’s RVs except on those...

Tough Truck Violence: Destruction-Testing In The Pacific Northwest!

I know that Tough Truck racing was originally meant to prove that you had the beefiest rig around, but somewhere along the line there was a split. On one hand, you have those who still try to survive...

Big Block, Turbo 400, And 4 Wheels Out Back Makes This Square Body A Great Start

We’ve been in the market for a Square Body, 1973-1991, Crew Cab Dually for the past couple months and have looked at too many to count. We finally purchased one a couple weeks ago and are...

Crew Cabs Rule! This 1985 Dodge Ram W350 Crew Cab Is The Mopar Battlewagon The Air Force Loved!

Chad has been on a square-body Chevy kick ever since he got ahold of his 1987 Chevy dually. Can’t blame the guy, the truck is sweet, but when it comes to brand favoritism, I have to lean...

Rough Start: This 1990 Chevrolet Kodiak Is A Great Start For A Custom RV Or Hauler Build!

On one hand, I’m enjoying watching Chad dive back deep into the world of square-body GM trucks with his recently-acquired dually. He’s been dying to get an older crew-cab truck for a...

Parking Lot Heroes: Watch The Stock/Stock Modified Classes Run The Bogs In Texas!

Pro mud trucks are one thing. Nothing goes well like watching a thousand horsepower and tall, skinny tractor tires turn ye olde mud bog into short work. It’s something else entirely when your...

Dino’s Gitdown 2017 Is GM Truck Heaven. Thank The Grinder TV Guys For Killer Coverage

We’ve never gotten to go to Dino’s Gitdown, because we’re always doing something else that weekend, but man we wish we had this year. If you are into GM trucks, and like them all...

If We Were Shopping For A New Body Style Dually, And Had A $15,000 Budget, This Would Be Our Jam

Anybody that reads BANGshift.com on a regular basis knows that we love Crew Cab Duallies around here, and that we’re pretty excited about them regardless of what year. With that said, we do...

Smoked Turkey: A Cummins Diesel Blows All The Way Up! Cylinder Head and Most Of Block Launched Into The Air

BangShift reader TruckPuller sent us a tip on the wildest engine dyno failure video we have seen in quite some time. It features a straight six diesel engine on the dyno, which we think is a Cummins,...

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again – Here’s A Rock Bouncing Video We’re Scratching Our Head Over

Before you start hucking rocks at us here, understand that we like rock bouncing, we get rock bouncing, and we think rock bouncing is generally bad ass. This video however has us scratching our head....