Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINE, ENGINES, MISC, Tech Stories, Videos
Happy 4/18! This In-Depth Look At Building A 418ci Dirt Modified Engine Is Awesome
When it comes to circle track racing, horsepower is still the king in so many different parts of the sport. You need to to run competitively on asphalt and on dirt and not only do you need to have a...
Comfy Cruiser: This 1984 Chevrolet Caprice Review Revels In The Platform’s Longevity And It Still Had a Decade More To Go
There are some telling words at the end of this MotorWeek review of the 1984 Chevy Caprice. Those words point to a future where cars will have the same amount of interior room as a 1984 Caprice but...
This 1957 Newsreel Clip Of The 500-Mile USAC Stock Car Race At Trenton, New Jersey Has Fantastic Footage – The Cars Rule
By 1957 the idea of a 500-mile stock cars race was not exactly a new one as the first 500-miler had been contested back in 1950 but they were still a relative rarity and one being held in New Jersey...
A Sporting Venture: In 1985 Ford Tried To Add Excitement To The Mercury Topaz, We Stress Tried
Did you ever just have cars you hated no matter what? The Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz were those cars for me. I know they were needed in the lineup but all the way until their demise in the 1990s I...
A Look At The 1990 454 SS Chevy Truck That We Lusted Over As Kids
When it comes to things that we wanted as kids, specifically 10-year olds, the 454 SS Chevy truck was pretty high on the list. It was really the last time GM would use a big block in any sort of...
The Alfarrari Project: Making A Crank Position Sensor, And Figuring Out How To Mount The Injectors.
How hard can it be to make a crank position sensor work in an Alfa Romeo that has a Ferrari engine in it? Who the hell knows! Good thing Jeff has it figured out because that is what one of the two...
Leading Laps In A Nitrous Powered Crown Vic, Burnouts, Drone Show, And More!
I’m not going to lie, it looks like Derek, and everyone else that was there had a great time at the Freedom 500 racing their Crown Vics around and around and around. Of course, there were...
Remember Saturn? The Internet Does With This 1993 Saturn SW2 Review
The fortunes of car companies and brands have been amazingly unpredictable over the course of history. In the early days there were hundreds of brands and makes. Eventually the free market saw that...
Video: Ripping Around Tokyo In A 700hp 2JZ Swapped Rolls Royce Phantom – This Is Beyond Awesome!
(Words by Tom Lohnes) – Now, you’ve probably heard of the Rolls-Royce Phantom and the Toyota Supra, which are two completely different cars. The Rolls is the pinnacle of luxury in an...
Flying Sparks Starts Working On The Rough C6 Corvette’s T56: Part 3 – Ooops, There Broken Parts In Here!
They got it apart, and there are broken parts inside for sure! When Emily and Aaron bought their “new” C6 Corvette a few months ago, it was rough and ready, to say the least. This thing is NOT...
Great Video: Kingsbury Racing Is A British Shop That Approaches Old Bentleys With Modern Engineering
How lucky are we to live in the times that we do? This video about an amazing shop in England has us very thankful for the ability of people with modern skills and knowledge to lay their hands on...
Spring Little Cobra: Watch Former F1 Star Jenson Button Carve Through The Field At Goodwood In A Mighty Cobra
Sometimes it is hard to really get a peek at the talent of a race driver at work. On the professional level, there’s typically so much talent that someone’s true ability may not shine due...
The Alfarrari Project: Shifter And Trans Tunnel Fabrication Is Underway!
In this latest video, Jeff gets going on the shifter to make it work for this swap and then goes into detail on building a shifter, or transmission, tunnel so that it is all finished out and nice...
FINDING OUT WHY FINNEGAN’S LT4-SWAPPED ’67 CHEVY C10 BROKE AND HOW HE’S GETTING IT READY TO RACE FREIBURGER.
In a recent video Finnegan was out doing 6th gear burnouts in his sequentially shifted C10 truck and unfortunately he killed the clutch. Now he’s got to have it up and running for a showdown...