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Engineer The Quit Out Of It: This Tour Of The Optima Battery Manufacturing Plant Is Amazing
This is one of the coolest videos that highlight the manufacturing end of a product that we have ever seen. Not only do we get a peek behind the curtain of the manufacturing process for Optima...
The Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport Is All Internal Combustion, All The Money, and Not That Bad On Gas!
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you have a spare four million dollars lying around? Do you care about fuel economy? If you do, you would be buying a Ferrari FXX K, Porsche 918 RSR, or a Mclaren P1 GTR...
Killer Coyote: Watch As A 315ci Ford Coyote Engine With A 3.8L Whipple Blower Makes 2,000+ HP On The Dyno
Chris Holbrook is known far and wide in drag racing circles as a guy who can build basically any combo of engine into a beastly class mangler. I have personally seen his work in a multitude of drag...
Not A Supercharger: This All-Billet Four Rotor Engine Build Is Awesome And Wild!
It was 1991 when Mazda won the 24 hours of Le Mans with their famed C787B race car which was powered by a four rotor version of the company’s rotary engine called the 13J (also built as the...
A Longer Long Block: The Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Gets A Head – One Step Closer
The saga of the Hagerty Buick Straight eight build is not over yet but it’s moving in that direction. This engine has been a protracted battle from the jump and the cool thing is that the...
Goodbye, Jim: Ride With Jim Pace At Road America In An Can-Am Car – We Remember A Racer Gone Too Soon
I never actually met Jim Pace. If you look back at the BangShift archive of stories you will see his name all over the place. We ran dozens and dozens of videos of Jim competing at places like...
Classic YouTube: “Autocrossing” At Alveringem – Small Cars, Muddy Field, Big-Time Fun!
Doing muddy laps in a farmer’s field sounds less like an actual race and more like something I may or may not be guilty of doing in some beater car, but apparently in Europe it is perfectly...
Watch Race Driver Leh Keen Pound On His Custom Built Safari Porsche In The Woods
Leh Keen is an accomplished American race car driver who has been pounding road courses for the better part of a decade now as a professional racer. He’s also a car guy who races and loves...
MAHLE Motorsport Celebrates a Century of MAHLE Automotive Innovation – Announces $100 PowerPak Piston Rebate
This is pretty awesome. MAHLE Motorsport is celebrating their 100th anniversary and they are doing by giving back to their customers. From October 15th through December 15th the company is offering a...
BMW Introduces The iX Crossover SUV – Inching From Electric Eclectic Towards A New Normal?
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do electric cars need giant kidney grilles? Of course not, but apparently it is a BMW tradition now to stamp those tall front teeth on to every single car they make and the...
E85 Flex Fuel Made Easy! New Billet High Flow 10AN Dual Channel Sensor Mount
Converting your hot rod, muscle car, race car, or truck to run on E85 has never been easier than it is today. But with that said, there are some times when doing this conversion or installation...
The Final Installment Of Bargain Racement, Bad Obsession Motorsports City Cup Race Car Build On The Cheap
The Bargain Racement Project was supposed to show just how much fun you can have on the cheap, by putting together a little bitty compact racer to beat on at every race possible. The idea was that...
Black Operation: Mighty Car Mods Rocks Out Their New LS-Swapped BMW E30
Yes, we know…LS swaps have been done half to death and then some. Whatever. The end goal is not to appease the masses. The end goal is to haul ass, provide horsepower and torque without going...
Put An In Tank Pump In Anything: Earl’s Weld-in Fuel Module Mounting Rings Simplify Fuel Pump Module Installation
In the last 5 years there have been hundreds of vehicles that you can buy a brand new fuel tank for that has an in-tank fuel pump capable of supporting 400-2000 horsepower. Never before has it been...