Category Archive: BangShift News
SEMA 2017 Coverage: The Malaise Uprising? This Year’s Post-1972 Finds Were Surprising!
The 1973-1996 era of automotive production that is typically lumped in as the “Malaise Era” is a section of time that, for the most part, the automotive aftermarket has willingly chosen...
SEMA 2017: Cool New Blocks Ford Ford and Chevy Diesel Fans, and A Yeoman’s Crate Engine That’s Kind Of Neat
While there are plenty of mud flaps, bedazzled valve covers, and lame junk at SEMA there’s also loads of cool hard parts that are introduced at the show. In this blog we’re looking at a...
Sport Wagon: A Laguna Nosed, Big-Block 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Longroof That Is SWEET!
Remember the scene from National Lampoon’s Vacation, when Clark and Rusty go to pick up the brand-new Antarctic Blue Super Sports Wagon? We all know that they wound up with two tons of...
Unhinged: SEMA Isn’t For Hack-Ass Comedians Who Screw Over Others For Fame.
While I was roaming through the SEMA show on Friday, I came upon a the very well known Plymouth Air Radial Truck…you know the one, the 1939 Plymouth pickup truck packing a Jacobs R-755-A2...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: Let’s Play A Game! Identify These Moroso Oil Pans By Application!
We admire companies like Moroso. Why? Because they make stuff. They design, fabricate, and build parts that racers and hot rodders rely on and most of that stuff is done from scratch. From their...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: More New Goodness From MSD – The Award-Winning Stand-Alone Solid State Relay
Wiring. Yeah, it’s the part of the build that is solidly important, yet it’s also the part of the deal that at least 95% of people would be more than happy to not touch. And I’m...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: The Sleds Of SEMA! Here’s Some Of The Boulevard Cruisers Of The Show!
The SEMA show might have tons of highly customized cars and trucks that are brand new, but not every brand new automotive part on display is meant for the latest model year vehicles. That means that...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: Racepak’s New Vantage CL1 Data Kit Can Prove You Know How To Lap A Track!
So you think you can lap a track, do you? Good for you…so does every other kind-of driver who is hot-lapping the local track to make YouTube videos that proclaim how they are the ultimate...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: The 1979 Goodguys Mustang Pace Car Was Too Good!
Earlier this year, Goodguys upped their model-year threshold to 1987, a move that will include GM G-bodies and a good portion of third-gen F-bodies, the Turbo Mopar brigade, and fans of the Four-Eye...
SEMA 2017 New Products: We Check Out Autometer’s New Chrono Line Of Gauges
AutoMeter is always coming up with new and exciting was to display data, but their new Chrono line of gauges is just plain bad ass, especially when you find out how they came to be. When one of the...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: The Holley 351W Hi-Ram Intake Gives Your Blue Oval Some Lungs!
Fans of the 351 Windsor, rejoice: Holley has got a gift for you. It’s the Hi-Ram intake setup, and it’s designed to give your mill the ability to breathe in like never before. Yes,...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: The Hooker BlackHeart Attitude Adjuster Exhaust Valve Will Give Your Car A New Vocal Range!
Some folks like their cars loud and aggressive, with an idle that can be felt and a howl that sends children running for cover. Others like having a quiet sleeper of a car that doesn’t make...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: Fragola Performance Systems And FK Rod Ends
We are big fans of Fragola and FK Rod Ends. They manufacture in the U.S.A., they are a family-owned deal that churns out quality product in solid numbers. The Connecticut-based companines have stock...
