Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINES, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Screaming Mimi: Watch And Listen To This 2.0L Vauxhall Four Banger Make 284 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower On The Dyno
Normally when we showcase engine dyno videos here at BangShift, there’s big horsepower involved. Today the horsepower is more modest but the engine is really neat. This is not an engine that we...
The Mongrel Project Gets Paint!!! The Color Is On And Awesome Even If It Isn’t Perfect
When Matt from Urchfab had issues with a body shop that was going to paint his Mongrel project, he was mad but ultimately got over it and decided to jump head first into the “paint your own...
Buy Bunkie’s Intake: This 1956 Pontiac Dual Quad Setup Is Complete, Awesome, and Rare
Old parts have an aura not because they are old but because we largely know the history of how they came to exist. In this case, we have a factory 1956 Pontiac dual quad setup and it is 100% complete...
Holley EFI Expands Lo-Ram Intake Manifold Lineup – Looking To Keep A Low Profile? Handled!
When it comes to induction and trends over the last few years, it is impossible to deny the influence of the Holley Hi-Ram intake. The intake is everywhere and it has been seen climbing through the...
Battle Of The Big Boys: Chrysler Newport, Oldsmobile 88, and Buick LeSabre Comparo Circa The Early 1970s
We’re not sure what America’s greatest era for big cars was but the early 1970s has to be up there in the ranking, right? If you have ever ridden in one of the softly spring, wheelbase...
Incredible Send Off: This Collection Of The Top 10 Stirling Moss Moments At Goodwood Is Awesome
The world is still celebrating the life and times of Sir Stirling Moss, the British racing legend who owned the world of competitive driving from the late 1950 into the 1960s before suffering a...
Amazing Find: This 1950s Custom Sports Car Was Dragged Out Of Storage, Is For Sale – Kaiser Henry J Based!
Banghifter Rob Miller gets all the credit for sending us this pretty incredible Craigslist find which is centered around a custom built sport cars from the 1950s that is based on a Kaiser Henry J...
Engine Tech: How To Check Piston To Valve Clearance Two Different Ways – Using Clay or Using A Dial Indicator
It’s kind of funny. Lots of our lives are spent in a rush, right? Trying to make time for the stuff we want to do after finishing the stuff we have to do. If there is one thing we know...
Road Race Battle Video: Watch This GT350 Dice and Slice At Road Atlanta – Crank Up The Speakers!
While nostalgia drag racing is totally awesome and something that we have long loved around here, historic style road racing kind of brings the old school competition up another gear, right? Unlike...
History Fun: How Two Drag Racers With The Wrong Car Set The World’s Closed Course Speed Record In 1961 – Great Story
If you love a good racing story that takes interesting people, a weird car, and a big payoff, this is the one for you. This is the story of Bob Osiecki and Art Malone taking on the scariest speed...
Wrecking Machine: A Guy Named Ben Chen Wrecked A Rare Gemballa GT And A Load Of Other Cars On A NYC Street
(By Tom Lohnes) – Ben Chen, the co-founder of the famed gold-rush supercar rally, has done it again. After crashing one of the first Mclaren MP4-12Cs in the United states, a one-of-three...
Let Wink Martindale Sell You On The Greatness Of The 1978 Dodge Diplomat Line – Cars We Never Knew Existed
I guessed I missed a day in obscure Chrysler history class. I never knew there was such a thing as a 1978 Dodge Diplomat and I sure as hell did not know that there was a 1978 Dodge Diplomat Medallion...
2020 Mercedes GLC 300 4Matic: Options Galore But Is The Whole Better Than The Sum Of The Parts?
If we were to ask you to guess Mercedes’ best selling model, we’re guessing you’d go somewhere in the sedan range that the company has been so well known for over the course of...
