Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINES, MISC, Videos

Little Engine, Little Headache: Assembly Begins On The Hagerty Mini Four-Banger

Ahh, the fun process of building an engine. Getting the parts, making the sub assemblies up (pistons and rods), measuring things, and then bolting all of those exacting, clean, awesome new parts...

Sheet Metal Fab Tech: Inner Fenders On A Rad Wide Body Slant Nose Porsche Project.

There have been a lot of wide-body cars built in the past few years and a lot of them are really cool. But there are a bunch of them out there that look good on the outside but not so much on the...

Project Binky Update: lt’s Back And It’s Badass, But Has Had To Have Some Tweaks

Despite being the most well thought out car build I’ve ever seen online, and also being finished to a much more show car level than anyone ever expected at the beginning of this whole project....

How Much Power Does A NASCAR Impact Gun Make? The Torque Test Channel Customizes And Tests One!

NASCAR impact guns are some badass pieces. They are not just a stock impact gun, but rather one that has been blueprinted, ported, and more so that they can run on much higher air pressure and way...

Buyer Beware: This $130,000 1970 Hemi Plymouth Superbird Is A Giant Orange Collection Of Problems

This is an interesting video. Hoovies Garage is a huge YouTube Channel and it’s a good channel as well. My sons like watching it and the dude who founded it and runs it seems to be a salt of...

Rip Tide: The Incredible and Dark History of The World‘s Water Speed Record – In-Depth History!

The world’s water speed record has been held by only 9 people since 1928. It has an 85% death rate in attempts and the current record has stood since 1978 with each successive attempt to unseat...

We All Need One: This Guy Daily Drives A Turbo LS Swapped Mitsubishi Van And It Rules

This is one of the weirdest and most awesome sleepers we have seen in some time. You are looking at Mitsubishi work van that would have had about a 2.0L four banger in it and how has an turbocharged...

Fun Wheel Drive: The 1998 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS May Not Have Had Much Power But It Was Still A Riot

It’s fun how everyone learns stuff differently in the automotive world. For instance, I learned that a balanced car is the most fun type to drive and that lesson came via one of the machines...

Rally 2021: Crashes, Rolls, Flips, Close Calls, And Epic Saves!

I love rally racing, and when each stop of the World Rally Championship used to be covered on tv it was awesome to watch week in and week out. Now you have to subscribe to the WRC to watch it, but...

Incredible Video: This Film Showing The Creation And Build Of The 1952 Cummins Diesel Special Is Amazing

In 1952 the Indy 500 started with a diesel powered car up front. Many people know that and they know that the car was powered by a lay down style Cummins turbocharged diesel. It was the first...

The Name Game: Goodwood Gives Their 11 Favorite Car Names Of All Time – Good List!

This is pretty good if we don’t say so ourselves. The crew at the Goodwood YouTube Channel decided to give us their 11 favorite car names of all time. Before you think that this will be a list...

Mini Block, Big Problems: Can The Machine Shop Save A 1965 Mini Block With A Badly Gouged Deck?

When last we left this latest Hagerty Redline Rebuild project, Davin had pulled the 1965 Mini engine apart and things looked a little grave. Why? The deck had some bizarre gouges in it. We’re...

Rally Car Revival Part 2: Giving a Bug Eye Subaru WRX A New Lease On Life With Cobb Tuning

Written By Steve Baur – Photography by the Author Most everyone with a performance car thinks about how they can extract more performance from his/her vehicle. Whether it’s improved...

Unplanned Peek: Someone Spotted The New Generation Of Mini Cooper In China Recently – Here’s Our Take

(By Tom Lohnes) – The all-new 2023 Mini Cooper was found in China with no camo recently, and it isn’t looking so great. Starting with the obvious here, this is likely not the final design....