Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, Apex Racing News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
Huge Industry News: Race Winning Brands Acquires Dart Machinery – The Power House Gets More Power!
Aug 30, 2018Brian Lohnes1
This is HUGE aftermarket news. The title says it all. Race winning brads acquires Dart Machinery. Dick Maskin’s company has been one of the most innovative, hardcore, and respected operations...
Aeromotive Releases Enginered Stealth Fuel Systems For Late Model Corvettes, Camaros, and Mustangs
Aug 29, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on Aeromotive Releases Enginered Stealth Fuel Systems For Late Model Corvettes, Camaros, and Mustangs
Here’s some awesome news for owners of late model muscle cars like Corvettes, Camaros, and Mustangs. Why is this great news? Mainly because you can use your stock tank and support massive...
Morning Symphony: The Group 5 Zakspeed Ford Escort – Screaming For Everyone To Hear
Aug 29, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The Group 5 Zakspeed Ford Escort – Screaming For Everyone To Hear
Growing up in two different generations of Ford Escort here in the States and learning to equate that nameplate with boring commuter car (and a seriously wicked car accident I was involved in as a...
Lust-Worthy: This DSE-Built Pontiac Trans Am Is Exactly What Dreams Are Made Of!
Aug 28, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
Ok, so I’m pegged as the guy who is into the really weird stuff. I’m cool with that. I’ll own that title and wear it with pride. But I’m not just about being weird just to be...
Every Kid’s Dream: School Bus Figure-Eight Racing From Washington State
Aug 28, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
For six years, the majority of my year was occupied by a twice-a-day ride in a Gillig school bus that dated to at least the early 1970s, if not as old as the late 1950s. All but the two spare buses...
Watch The Most Overly Dramatic Tire Safety Video Featuring Junky 1960s Tires We’ve Ever Seen
Aug 27, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch The Most Overly Dramatic Tire Safety Video Featuring Junky 1960s Tires We’ve Ever Seen
We have to hand it to Jam Handy and General Tire and Rubber for their excellent work on this 1960s tire safety video (read: advertisement). The general theme of the film is that you’re pretty...
Speed Week 2018 At Bonneville Is Over But Our Photos Just Keep Coming
Aug 26, 2018Chad Reynolds1
We’re not done yet! We’ve still got a handful of galleries left from out adventures at Bonneville’s Speed Week 2018, and we’re going to keep sharing them with you. Hot rods,...
Flowmaster’s New Delta Boost Performance Tuners Make More Boost, For More Power, In Minutes
Aug 25, 2018Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Flowmaster’s New Delta Boost Performance Tuners Make More Boost, For More Power, In Minutes
Unplug the factory boost pressure sensor, plug in one end of the Delta Boost into the factory sensor and one end into the factor harness, tie it up so it won’t flop around, and download the...
Flying Brick Compilation: Celebrating Badass Volvo Rally Machines!
Aug 24, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
The Volvo 200-series was never meant to be a sporting car of any sort. That just wasn’t the Volvo way. They were meant to be safe. The 240 series was, essentially, two-thirds of the Volvo...
Harley-Davidson Shows Off New 2019 FXDR 114 Power Cruiser – This One Got Our Attention
Aug 23, 2018Brian Lohnes12
I’ve never owned a motorcycle and I have only ever ridden them very sparingly. I can’t say that many bikes have tripped my trigger enough to go, “Wait…what’s...
MAHLE Is Speed – World’s Fastest Nissan GT-R Relies On MAHLE PowerPak Plus Pistons!
Aug 23, 2018Brian Lohnes1
(Photo by Epik Productions) – We often talk about the quality, variety, and engineering that all surround MAHLE Power Pak Plus pistons and that’s all well and good but at the end of the...
Morning Symphony: The Saleen S7-R – America’s Original Hypercar
Aug 23, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The Saleen S7-R – America’s Original Hypercar
“America’s Original Hypercar”? Really? I’ll stick with that statement. Look, Cobras and Corvettes and radical, winged Chrysler products nonwithstanding, a hypercar has to be...
Oldest Trick In The Book: Will Tons Of Banana Peels Spin Out An Audi? Hoonigan Testing Continues!
Aug 23, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Oldest Trick In The Book: Will Tons Of Banana Peels Spin Out An Audi? Hoonigan Testing Continues!
Be it a comic pratfall, a cartoon cliché or the most annoying thing in Mario Kart since Luigi’s “Waaaaaa…!!!” noise, the joke is the same: you slip on a banana peel and you...
Enter The Turning Circle: Regular Car Reviews Checks Out A 1989 Honda Prelude Si With Four-Wheel Steering
Aug 21, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Enter The Turning Circle: Regular Car Reviews Checks Out A 1989 Honda Prelude Si With Four-Wheel Steering
One of the most fun times I ever had driving involved a red Honda Prelude just like the one you’ll see below. A high-school girlfriend owned one for a bit, and during a visit to town she let me...