Category Archive: TECH, Videos
Suspension Tech Videos from Detroit Speed – Camber/Caster Explained and Backspacing
With the explosion in popularity of Pro Touring cars, and more importantly, using Pro Touring cars, learning how to properly set up a suspension is super important. Years ago, a car with big wheels...
Leaked Test Video:Prototype Enderle Bug Catcher With Holley EFI!
Long established as the industry leader in high performance carburetors, the men and women of Holley are quickly becoming known as EFI ninjas as well. Their easy to use and tune EFI systems have...
Hot Six Video: An Aussie Ford Falcon With Turbo Straight Six Power Tears Up the Strip
While Aussie gearheads love the V8 engine as much as their American brothers and sisters do, the history of performance cars down under has been marked with some pretty bad ass six cylinder engines....
Killer Documentary Video Alert – Black Air: The Buick Grand National Documentary
Without question, the Buick Grand National is one of the greatest performance cars ever produced by General Motors. During a rather moribund time in the performance history of the Buick brand, this...
Update: Epic Project Thread: Building a Twin Engine Dragster From Scratch
We have lots of respect and interest for all the projects that BangShifters have going on currently, but one has really got our tongue hanging out. BangShift member Toymaker is building a twin engine...
Cool Vintage Army Training Video: Missile Men – A Look at the Dawn of the Guided Missile Age
We have proclaimed ourselves history dweebs many times here on the electronic pages of BangShift, so it should come as no surprise that we’ve dug up a killer old Army video that is quite...
Fun Video: The General Lee and The Bandit Firebird In a High Speed Chase!
In the realm of fantasy car chases there isn’t a match up cooler than this one! The guys over at Hot Rod Magazine got a General Lee and a Bandit Firebird together for a good old fashion romp...
Killer Historic Stunt Video: The Astro Spiral Jump Circa 1972!
Yesterday we asked what the coolest car related stunt you’ve ever seen was. One reader tipped us off to a rather legendary jump made back in 1972. Using the appropriate AMC Javelin, American...
KaBOOM Video: The Spectacular End to a Cummins Powered Dodge Pulling Truck
If truck pulling has an equivalent to cars like Larry Larson’s six second street legal Nova and other of that ilk, it’s the street legal pulling classes. With advancements in diesel...
Awesome Video: 27 Minutes Inside a Chevrolet Plant Circa 1936
Recently, a nine-minute video of life inside a Chevrolet plant in 1936 has been making the rounds on the internets. You know what we say about nine minute videos? Screw ’em! Why? Because...
Hard Landing Video: What Happens When the Wheelie Bar Breaks While Launching Your Fuel Altered
Our pal Kyle Loftis was at the World Fuel Altered Nationals in Eddyville, Iowa last weekend. The event normally draws some of the wildest short wheelbase, front engined, nitro burning iron that North...
Cool Video: The Most Artistic Drag Racing Video We’ve Seen In a While
We’re usually bringing you videos of stuff wrecking, exploding, and generally self-destructing on the drag strip. Today, for this brief shining moment, we’re going uptown, kids! The guys...
Kick Ass “Redband” Trailer For Car-Centric Movie Drive Released: Movie Looks Killer
You’ve undoubtedly heard some stuff about the upcoming movie, “Drive” starring Ryan Gosling. The premise of the movie pretty much rules. A Hollywood stunt driver supplements his...
Truckin’ Awesome Video: True Monster Truck Drag Racing at Englishtown
We can hear the hate mail now. “MONSTER TRUCKS ON A DRAG STRIP?! Like our condoning or celebration of such a kick ass event is out of place. The whole sport of drag racing, especially on the...