Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Spotlight
Don Schumacher Racing Didn’t Buy Them All! The New TBS500 Top Fuel Billet Intake Is Awesome!
Looking at a Top Fuel Dragster or Funny Car, one might think that ANY intake manifold would work with that much blower on top. And to some extent that’s correct. Stuff air and fuel through it...
Tis The Season: Take A Look Back On The History Of The Christmas Tree!
For the entire time I’ve been breathing on this earth, drag races…well, professional drag races on an actual dragstrip, anyways…have been started with the electronic system and...
Wile E. Coyote Has Quit Screwing Around: The ACME Twin-Turbo Camaro From Australia, Good For 7-sec Quarters!
Poor Wile E. He fought tooth, nail and every scrap of fur he ever had trying to catch that damned Road Runner. He ran miles, just barely out of reach of the bird’s tail feathers. He landed on...
This Barn Find 1965 Gasser Corvette Is Awesome, Regardless Of What Other Magazines Say!
When one of our readers sent us a story on this eBay find 1965 Corvette Gasser style street machine, where the author bashed this bitchin ride because of it’s gasser vibe and killer paint, we...
This Pro Street 1970 Dodge Coronet Is HEMI And Lenco Equipped! Bitchin Cubed!
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the coolest Coronet we’ve ever had here on BangShift.com. Just look at it, it’s beautiful. And it’s got 528 cubic...
This Twin-Turbo, Small Tire Impala SS Is A Beast! 4.81@161 In The Eighth Mile!
Is it weird for me to say that the B-body Impala SS is starting to become the forgotten performance car of the 1990s? I know that 260 horsepower isn’t squat anymore, but in 1994 it was a reason...
This Is The New NHRA Pro Stock Induction System For 2016. Are They Doing It Wrong?
This is how most NHRA Pro Stock teams are going to be handling their induction systems for 2016, since they are now converting to EFI, but could they be leaving things on the table? Are they thinking...
Carnage Video: Doug Garrison’s Drag Week Pontiac GTO Hits The Barrier At Cecil County
Long-time readers of BangShift and Drag Week fans will know this Pontiac GTO. It belongs to Doug Garrison, and a couple of days ago it broke an axle while at Cecil County Dragway in Maryland, sending...
Lucas Oil To Launch Worldwide Racing TV Network!
Lucas Oil has announced the worldwide launch of LucasOilRacing.TV, the first streaming TV network dedicated solely to the world of motorsports – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The new network,...
Tucson Dragway Joins NHRA Member Track Network
NHRA officials announced today that Tucson Dragway, in Tucson, Ariz., has joined the NHRA Member Track Network as part of Division 7, the Pacific Division. Located just south of Interstate 10 on the...
New All Billet Top Fuel Intake At PRI: Mastercam Makes It Possible, DSR Buys Them All!
When we walked up to the Mastercam booth at the 2015 PRI Show, and our friend Darrell Reid of Reid Rocker Arms was standing there, we knew this place was legit. The next thing you know he’s...
NHDRA Top Diesel – Torque By The Ton! These Top-Tier Oil Burners Lay It Down In Texas!
One of the first events of the year we look forward to is the Diesel Power Challenge, where trucks from all over meet in Colorado to do battle, and it’s followed up with the TS Performance...
An F1 Race Car Is Fast, But Can It Take On A Funny Car? Daniel Ricciardo Gave It A Shot!
A Formula One racer is a marvel of technology. A screaming engine that can rev fast and hard enough to make a superbike jealous combined with the forefront of tire technology, suspension geometry,...
This Sleeper 5.3 Turbo LS Powered 1980 Malibu Is Our Jam
When we saw this sucker on our daily Malibu Craigslist search, it caught our attention right away. Maybe it is the perfect stance on rally wheels. Or maybe it’s the interesting color combo. Or...