Category Archive: BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos

Best of 2019: Te Definition Of Tuff Truck: Watch This Jeep Cherokee Get Pounded!

We’re not sure if the driver ever walked in a fully upright position after completing this Tuff Truck run at the 2018 Lebanon Fair in Pennsylvania. We have seen plenty of gutsy tuff truck runs...

Best of 2019: If You Have Ever Wondered How A Roots Blower Works, This Animation Is Just The Ticket

They were a novel pump. The Roots brothers invented the design in Civil War America and Roots pumps were used for moving air into mines, moving water where it needed to go, and even used to feed...

Best of 2019: The Liwa Sand Dune Hillclimb In The UAE

Gearheads can be found in every corner of the planet. Every last one. From Chevrolet Opalas racing in the jungles of South America to the brutal off-roaders of the remote Russian forests, if vehicles...

Best of 2019: Katech Made Nearly 1,500hp With Their Stock Bottom End LT5 Before They Called it Quits

A couple of weeks go we reported on the 1,000+hp LT5 that Katech had created with the stock fuel system and minimal amounts of bolt on parts. That particular engine still had the stock camshaft in...

Best of 2019: Watch This Crusher Bound Detroit Diesel V-16 Two Stroke Go Out With Its Boots On

Many of you are going to hate this video because it involves the destruction of an engine and a cool engine at that. Many of you will be disgusted by seeing a crusher bound Detroit Diesel V-16 two...

Best of 2019: The Union Pacific #4014 Big Boy and #844 Steam Locomotives In Action

I don’t know of any little kid that isn’t fascinated by trains. Whether it was listening to the freight trains of the Illinois Central line rip past the backyard of my stepmother’s...

Best of 2019: Big Mess Video: Watch A Huge Crane Topple When The Earth Under It Gives Way!

(By Greg Rourke) – Having worked on a few job sites with big cranes on them, I have to say they scare the crap out of me. The biggest piece of equipment  on the site lifting stuff that seems...

Best of 2019: The Marmon-Herrington Rhino, From Back When Creativity Could Get Weird Fast

Picture this: it is a nice, sunny day in 1954. All is quiet and peaceful…right up until the ground starts to rumble with the the pulsations of something heavy coming close. Soon, you see...

Dreamtime For Lohnes: Rtech’s Custom Trucks Visit Jay Leno!

We’ve seen both of the trucks you will see here at SEMA. Both of these trucks gathered a ton of attention, both of these trucks stand tall and broad, both of these trucks were the perfect...

Watch This 4.6L Jeep Stroker Engine Make Solid Power That Would Have Your Jeep Roasting Mudders

We all get hung up on engines that makes a zillion horsepower or are made of solid billet and cost as much as a small aircraft. The nature of this stuff is to zone in on the shiny stuff that makes...

Video: Check Out These 10 Amazing Engines From The 2019 PRI Show – Horsepower!

The 2019 PRI show was packed to the rafters with new parts, cool race cars, industry celebrities, and activity galore, but the most important thing it was packed with? Awesome engines! This video...

Redline Rebuild: Watch A Chevy Stovebolt Six Get Saved From The Woods And Revived!

The Hagerty Redline Rebuild series has been awesome and continues to be awesome because of variety. From top fuel engines to workaday power plants, this thing has really been chock full of the kinds...

Fire Man: Here’s How You Keep A Steam Locomotive Hot And Happy!

The image of the steam locomotive in action is a romantic sight, isn’t it? Puffing and chugging along the tracks, the plume of steam puffing along, the hissing and chuffing of the engine as an...

Bug Out ‘Stang: This 2009 Ford Mustang Has 11″ Of Suspension Travel, And Exocage, and An Evil Demeanor

We have to thank BangShifter Chris Yocum for tipping us off to the existence of this creation the likes of which we have never seen before. Not a trar because it is all car, not a chassis swap of any...