Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320
Finally A Champion; Ron Capps Is Your 2016 Funny Car Champ!
Ron Capps and the NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car team, led by crew chief Rahn Tobler, delivered Capps his first NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series world championship after being...
Mr. Lewis’ Wild Ride: This Challenger Goes Lane-To-Lane And Manages To Miss Both Walls!
(Video courtesy of Justin Skudder) There’s one thing we all have learned after years of dragstrip time: If things seem to be going smoothly, just wait…something will happen shortly that...
Project Angry Grandpa: The Final Race At ATCO – Did Grandpa Redeem Himself?
Let’s not sugarcoat how things were after the last Angry Grandpa update: after parts-bombing our Chrysler 300C with a healthy amount of go-fast goodies, the first trip out to the track proved...
Capps Closes In On 1st NHRA Funny Car Championship at NHRA Finals!
Ron Capps‘ dream season, as he characterized it, has been dominant in 2016. Capps is looking at his best shot ever for the NHRA funny car championship after four #2 points finishes. His five wins...
This 1966 SS 396 Chevelle Is Old School Super Gas Cool!
Electronics racing, like Super Gas and Super Comp, get a bad rap sometimes because seeing cars leave on the chip and then sit on a throttle stop is boring. And weird to spectators. We get it. And we...
Pro Street Mustang Goodness: Fairground Cruising Starts Here
Okay, to be fair this car should be a perfectly nice driver. And we will publicly call you out if you buy it and don’t have the hair on your sack to drive it regularly. This is what our car...
Complete A-Fuel Dragster Operation, Including Truck And Trailer For $148k!
And we’re not talking junk here, we’re talking Bill Litton’s complete A-Fuel Dragster operation. This is an operation that any A-Fuel fan will know, as Bill has been successful with...
5.87! Jeff Lutz Resets All Time Street-Legal Quarter Mile Record – Cue Haters and Competitors
It happened yesterday at Orlando Speed World Dragway. Jeff Lutz punched his “Mad Max” Camaro down the quarter mile drag strip at the facility in 5.87 at a speed of 251.30mph. By doing...
COMP Cams Releases SPR Radius Tip Rocker Arms For LS1 and LS3 Engines – Better Materials, Reduced Sweep
If there is one thing among many that GM engineers got right on factory LS engine, it is the rocker arms. They are fine pieces for use in many engine builds and hot rodders have proved that point...
Watch Onboard From a Wild Top Doorslammer Run in Australia
The Top Doorslammer class in the Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is not unlike NHRA Pro Mod racing with lookalike bodies draped over full chassis. The cars go deep into the 5s and...
The Wind Split VW High Top Van Is A Nitrous Huffing Bad Ass
Racing anything weird, like a VW van for instance, is just fun. And some people do it just because of the fun factor, with no regard for actual performance. And then there are those folks who take...
La Vicktoria S10 Giant Wheelstand And Crash From Doomsday No Prep At Denton
We’ve got not one, but two angles of the giant bumper dragging wheelstand and subsequent crash that the La Vicktoria No Prep truck had at the Doomsday No Prep race at North Star Dragway in...
Watch Kevin Fiscus Make Multiple 5-Second, 250mph Runs On Radials – Amazing!
The Fiscus/Klugger racing team had one hell of a weekend at the 2016 World Cup Finals at Maryland International Raceway just days ago. With Kevin Fiscus at the wheel, the infamous little blue Mustang...
