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

Great Calls: This Video Featuring The Best Calls Racing Announcer Bob Jenkins Has Made Rules

We all have influences in our lives. Be they personal, professional, or otherwise there are people, there are moments, and there are times when we see, hear, or experience things that stick with us....

Incredible: This Guy Pulled A Hot Rodded 2JZ Out Of His Volvo Wagon and Plugged A Lambo V10 IN!

There are cars that lead interesting lives and then there are cars that lead super hero lives. This 1975 Volvo station wagon is one of those super heroes because it has had stuff done to it that even...

Ride Along With Bobby Rahal As He Hauls Around Daytona In A Porsche RSR – Legend!

Bobby Rahal is American racing royalty. He’s won the Indy 500, been a multiple time champion as an open wheel racer, a champion as a car owner, a successful businessman with a string of car...

Boomski: This Video Compilation Of Violent Nitrous Backfires Is Pretty Wild

Nitrous Oxide has been enhancing the horsepower of piston engines for decades now and by and large it does an awesome job. When we watch pro mods with huge engines snorting the stuff to win races and...

The American Powertrain Thursday Shift: Ride With Shane Van Gisbergen As He Rips A Lap Record At Bathurst

While there may not be a shifter coming through the floor there is a whole lot of shifting going on in this video of New Zealand racer Shane Van Gisbergen setting a lap record a couple years back at...

Retro-Dress: This Modern Version Of The Lancia Stratos May Be The Coolest Ferrari Ever

The Lancia Stratos is known as one of the most amazing and awesome rally cars of all time. It’s wedge shape, screaming engine, and brutal performance were hallmarks of a car that was really...

Know It All: Here’s Why Weight Has No Effect On Your Car’s Top Speed

This is likely a topic that is not breaking news to lots of BangShifters out there, but for some of you younger guys it might be. I have actually chatted about this stuff with my sons in the last...

Holy Crap, This Might Be The Baddest Throttle Body Ever Invented! Serious Game Changer. The ICON 102 From Motion Raceworks

Wow, just wow. Throttle bodies aren’t something that is super exciting because of their functionality, but they are usually made out of all kinds of billety goodness and they look awesome so...

Fun Video: This Collection Of Skids, Spins, and Overcooked Autocross Runs Exemplifies The Fun Of Carving Cones

We have long championed autocross action as one of the easiest and most budget friendly ways to have fun in a car. From the seriousness of an SCCA event to the fun and frivolity of local gatherings,...

The Thursday Shift: Ride With Peter Brock As He Does A Live Interview While Racing Bathurst At Full Throttle

Boy is this video of Peter Brock hauling around the famed Bathurst course in 1986 is awesome. The best part of about it? As Brock is running flat-ass-out around the challenging track he is performing...

Throttle Body Dyno Fun: Check Out The Differences Between A 90mm LS Drive By Wire Vs A Holley 105mm Throttle Body

It is always interesting to us when we get to see some back to back dyno comparisons of different parts. That’s doubly true when the parts are factory vs aftermarket. In this case we are...

This Tongue In Cheek Video About Triumph Motorcycle Manufacturing Is Absolutely Hilarious

BangShifter Tim Booher gets the credit for tipping us off to this truly awesome video that was actually made by Triumph and takes a tongue in cheek look at building their Rocket III motorcycle. While...

Priceless: This Look At The Original Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Is Beautiful And Cool

110 years ago the very car you see both above and below these words rolled off the production line. At the time it was built it was special but today? Today special does not really begin to describe...

Morning Symphony: Listen To This 1970 Porsche 917K Hit The Track And Scream Like The Devil

(By Scott Liggett) – I knew of the Porsche 917 from pictures I discovered in my school library. I dug through every book that was on automobiles multiple times over that my junior high and...