Category Archive: BangShift 1320
Which One Of These Would Make A Better Sleeper? Which Would You Put Horsepower Into?
I’m always looking at Craigslist and doing searches for stuff under $1000 just to see what I might find. And sometimes there isn’t a damn thing anyone would care about and sometimes there...
Supra-Powered Corvette. Yup, Here It Is…Because How Can You Argue With 1100 Horsepower?
Hey, look at the bright side, folks: it isn’t another LS swap! Nope, instead we have one of the heavy hitters from the land of the rising sun sitting inside this clean Corvette, where a 572ci...
Bitchin Hilborn Injection That We Wish We Had A Car For!
Mechanical Fuel Injection is bad ass. There isn’t much cooler looking than all those stacks on a naturally aspirated setup, or an injector hat on a blower. Sure they are finicky and hard to...
Flamin’ Awesome: Mark Rebilas Releases His Best Of 2015 Photos – Amazing Images
(Photos by Mark Rebilas) – He’s never standing still, he’s almost always smiling, he’s willing to accept a golf cart ride back from the top end every now and again,...
How To Build Your Own Chassis Table With The Guys From Eastwood
With my son Cole’s Project First LUV in the grinding phase, we’re looking forward to the next phase after frame cleanup which is suspension design. Following that we’ll be doing our...
Birdman Defeats Kye Kelly For $15k In Texas Some No-Prep Wreckage Along The Way At Redemption 4.0 (Videos)
Lest you thought that there was no big money left to win in the no-prep world at this time of the year, the crew at Texas Raceway proved you wrong. The eighth-mile track in Kennedale, Texas had their...
This Is What A Top End Interview Should Look Like – John Force Raw, Intense, Semi-Threatening, And On The Chip
This isn’t goofy, this isn’t corny, this isn’t scripted. This is what top end interviews in drag racing should look like. Lots of you may not agree with me here because of some...
Best of 2015: Meet The Chrysler CL Ute With The Idle From Heaven – Blows The Tires Off Each Time Blower Surge Hits!
Used to be, if you had big tires out back, a blower sticking through the hood and were tooling around at idle that you would be nothing more than a show car, cannon fodder for every trailer queen...
Best Of 2015: This 829WHP Dodge Colt Will Embarrass You If You Test It Out
By 1989 the Dodge Colt had pretty much dropped any aspirations of being a sporty subcompact and had instead shifted to a front-wheel-drive econobox platform. Shame, really, because some of the...
FREE LIVE Drag Racing All Weekend From New Year Nationals At South Georgia Motorsports Park!
And you thought you’d have to sit around watching the Rose Parade today! Ha! Our partner’s in crime over at Motor Mania TV are jamming it out already on New Years Day! This is the very...
Best of BangShift 2015: A Live Interview As An ECTA Racer “Speeds” Down The Track On A 50cc Sidecar Motorcycle
(Photo by Doug Gregory/Video by Steve Murphree) – There’s no reason to go racing if you aren’t having any fun, right? That cuts both ways. It is fun for the racers and it is fun...
Killer Video: Urban Hillbilly Highlights The 10 Closest Passes They Saw In 2015
The guys at Urban Hillbilly Action Videos seem to be everywhere all the time. Because of that they are constantly filling their archives with drag racing footage that ranges from the ugly to the...
Watch The Low Buck Wild Rat Injected Fuel Altered Bust Into The 4-teens On About A 100% Load Of Nitro
With a new paint job (and maybe a new chassis?), BangShift’s adopted fuel altered heroes have outdone themselves again. The Wild Rat crew has found more performance out of their tried and true...
Best Of BangShift 2015: Jungle Jim Liberman’s Actual 1969 Chevy Fires Up On Nitro, Does Dry Hops Makes Pass!
Friend O’ BangShift Ron Huegli has the greatest job on Earth. We think we have it pretty good sometimes but Ron is living the dream working as the curator as the freshly opened World of Speed...