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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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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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: How To Build A Custom Roll Cage For An FJ40 Land Cruiser

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might...

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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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FAIL: Watch A Rickety Truck On Massive Tires And Axles Fold Up Like A Blanket While Trying To Jump A Junker

This was certainly the most exciting thing that happened at the trailer park last week. In this video you’ll see an older Ford truck that has been propped up on massive Rockwell axles from a...

The Hybrid You’d Actually Want: A Pulling Tractor With Twin 38.8L V-12 Turbodiesels and a 526 Hemi

(By Jason Sands) – (Editor’s note: We have run some video of this massive and insanely powerful tractor in the past but this is a fresh chunk of video goodness that Jason found so...

Mike Ryan, Look Out: This MAN Can Do The Big-Rig Gymkhana Thing, Too

You should be familiar with Mike Ryan, the driver behind the Freightliner drift truck that features in the “Size Matters” series of YouTube films and has run on Pikes Peak. There’s...

Do You Miss The Early 1990’s? Then This Body-Kitted Chevy 1500 Is For You!

The 88-97 GM trucks might be best remembered for their role in the creation of the “sport truck” modification craze of the 1990s. You couldn’t get away from them…dropped low,...

Watch The World’s Baddest Sounding Hot Rodded Garden Tractor Rip Donuts and Do A Humongo Burnout

This tractor has been around for a while but we just stumbled upon this video of the radical machine tearing around on a burnout pad and then roasting its rear tires almost to the cords. The tractor...

Evel Knievel’s “Scramble Van” trailer resurfaces in Worcester, Massachusetts

For the better part of the last three decades, at the corner of Winter and Water Streets in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, there was a single-axle trailer parked in a fenced-in lot. If you...

Roadside Find: This Big Ass Truck Looks Like One That The Guys At Big Ass Trux Would Build!

While running errands yesterday look what we found! In a land that is dominated by four predominant classes of car, finding something outside the box is awesome. The predominant car categories near...

The Mega X2 Company Builds The Biggest And Most Awesome Custom Trucks We Have Ever Seen – Factory Quality On A HUGE Scale

That’s not a photoshop job in the photo above, that’s a sample of the work done by a Utah company called Mega X2. They take big trucks and make them even bigger by stretching the frames,...

Please Welcome Kelderman Air Suspension Systems To BangShift.com And BangShiftXL!

Brian and I are very excited to announce that Kelderman Air Suspension Systems has officially joined the BangShift Family of sponsors! And not only that, Kelderman will now be the BangShift XL...

Shocker Video: A 9-second, 1,500hp DIESEL Ramcharger? What? — Here’s What 80-100 PSI Boost Does For Your Cummins!

(By Jason Sands)- Yup, it’s true, and actually started out as a joke. Owner Harvey Grant initially kidded about how he had the World’s Fastest Diesel Ramcharger (it’s a diesel...

With Kelderman Air Suspension You Won’t Be Leaving Your Truck Out In The Cold This Winter

We’re proud to be bringing you all this cool BangShiftXL content with help from our pals at Kelderman Air Suspension. See, Kelderman is the place you go when you want the highest quality,...

WOW! These Apocalyptic Looking Buses Were Used to Shuttle People Onto A Canadian Glacier For Decades – Tracked Monster Buses!

Sorry if we just made your eyes bug out of your head. That was our initial reaction after getting an email from a Canadian reader who saw yesterday’s cool little tracked VW bus and then sent us...

Behind The Scenes Video Of The Big Rig Jumping The Formula 1 Car! Check it out!

We just found this brand new video of the recent World Record Big Rig jump, where Mike Ryan jumped a big rig with trailer OVER a MOVING Formula 1 car. You read that right, here is more video of the...

Ebay Find: This 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Is Wild! Four-Wheel steering, Four-Wheel Drive And Still Has The Original Frame!

This Oldsmobile Cutlass is wild. I don’t know how else to properly describe the car that is sitting on eBay right now. From the diamond-plate engine compartment to the radically chopped...