Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Uproarious: This Video Featuring Jim Hall’s 1970 Camaro Trans-Am Racer Is Awesome – The Noise Is Epic

Tomy Drissi is a name that some hardcore sports car and road racing fans may know and maybe not for the greatest of reasons, but we’ll get to that in a second. This video is an awesome profile...

HOW TO BUILD BETTER BBC BOOST-VORTECH 454 VS VORTECH 496-HOW TO MAKE MORE POWER WITH LESS BOOST!

Big blocks with blowthrough carburetors and superchargers makes for big power and lots of fun. Check out these two combos, one a 454 and one a 496. How to make more power with less boost! Video...

Carnage Video: Launching Cars 300ft Off A CLIFF In Alaska On The 4th Of July!

Alaska is the largest state in the United States of America by more than double, so it’s only fitting that 4th of July festivities would be huge there as well. And while we’ve heard of...

U-8 Miss Tri-Cities Hydroplane Blows Turbine Engine Into A Pile Of Parts During The APBA Gold Cup Final Heat

I don’t know what it costs to replace a turbine engine in one of these APBA Off-Shore hydroplanes, but I can tell you that the Miss Tri-Cities team had to spend all of it after this big bang...

Are They All The Same Motor Oil? Let’s Settle This! Four Levels of Pennzoil Motor Oil Compared

Oil is a mystery to most folks, as we don’t really know what is inside the quart we pick up at the auto parts store, and don’t understand the additives that might make one different than...

Video: Ford’s New Electric SuperVan Is A 2,000hp EV So Wrong, It’s Right

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ford SuperVan has been a very overcooked part of Ford’s history. Starting as essentially a modified UK-market Transit in 1971. The next two models retained the Transit...

New Redline Rebuild Video: The Time Lapse Of The 283 Chevy Teardown and Assembly Is Here And It’s A Fun Watch

We tend to stick onto the Redline Rebuild series videos like glue around here. But this time? To be totally honest, we weren’t really THAT into the 2-bbl 283 rebuild in-depth but we sure wanted...

Ride Along With The Late Colin McRae As He Grabs Gears and Slides The Course

There have been few larger tragedies in the world of racing than the untimely loss of rally great Colin McRae in 2007. He died in a helicopter crash and it was a crushing blow to his fans and lovers...

Ride Along On A USAC Silver Crown Car As It Flies And Slides Around The Fastest Mile Dirt Track In The World

Springfield, Illinois is home to the “Springfield Mile”, a virtual paradise for anyone who like dirt track racing. Why? They advertise this place as the fastest dirt mile in the world and...

Remember The 1990 Olds Trofeo? We Forgot And Then Saw This Old Motor Week Review – Weird and Interesting Car!

As I was putting David Whealon’s Lamborghini Super Trofeo photos together I had a synapse misfire and thought, “Wait, didn’t GM have a car in the early 1990s called the...

Hustling Little Hottie: The 1994 Toyota MR2 Turbo Was Like A Baby Supra With A Price Tag To Match

We always think of Toyota as kind of a staid manufacturer who doesn’t pay a lot of attention to performance, flash, and dash. That’s effectively wrong because over the years, they have...

Think You Are A Road Course Boss? Watch This Guy On A Shifter Kart Racing In The Rain Show You That You’re Not

I am no great shakes as a driver but I can tell you that I have driven a “racing” go kart in the rain and it is like trying to ride a greased pig. The machine I was driving had four...

How AWD Is your Modern All Wheel Drive Car? This Video Tells You That The Answer Is Not Very

This is a really interesting video and educational as well. Why? Well, so many cars these days are all wheel drive, but what does that really mean? How AWD is your modern all wheel drive car? Jason...

Flathead History and Build Video: The Little V8 That Changed The World Is Awesome And This Video Tells You Why

The Ford flathead V8 is iconic for so many reasons. It was the first V8 that was mass produced for the common man and at the time it was created the engine was amazingly innovative. Why? Someone who...