Category Archive: Angry Grandpa Chrysler, BangShift Projects, Project Cars
Project Angry Grandpa: Will Coils And A Tuner Finally Shove Grandpa Into The 13-Second Range?
If you’ll recall from the last time Angry Grandpa (our 2006 Chrysler 300C) was on the quarter-mile at Beech Bend Raceway Park, we had been fighting throughout all of ChallengerFest 7 trying to...
Project Angry Grandpa: A Beautiful Day, An Open Racetrack, And No Reason To Hold Back
I needed an escape. There was no doubt about it…between work, the ongoing project that is BangShift Mid-West HQ (coming attraction: garage!), and weather that I wouldn’t wish on my worst...
Unhinged: The ChallengerFest 7 Story – From Running Angry Grandpa Like A Rental To Racing With Good People
I told myself over and over after ChallengerFest 6 that come hell or high water, as long as the Project Angry Grandpa Chrysler was running, that I was going to do more than spectate at ChallengerFest...
2015 Year In Review: We Take A Look At Our Two In-House Mopar Projects And The Progress…And Lack Thereof…We Have Made!
The sun is setting on 2015, and what a year it has been. From the moment the weather hinted at warming up…and the second Lohnes finally dug himself out of ass-deep snow…we have been...
Project Angry Grandpa: How Did Our Billet Technology Catch Can Do?
It’s been about a month since we installed the Billet Technology catch can onto our 2006 Chrysler 300C, and in that matter of time we’ve driven the car well over 3,000 miles in varying...
Billet Technology’s Oil Catch Cans For Mopar 5.7 and 6.1 Hemi Engines Are Easy-To-Install Insurance
Would you pour a capful of oil down the carburetor of your hot rod? Of course you wouldn’t. So why would you let the same thing happen to your daily driver? Oil vapor, along with other...
Project Angry Grandpa: Running For Broke At Wilmington – The Final Baseline Test!
Taking our project 2006 Chrysler 300C to a land-speed racing event at first doesn’t seem right, does it? It’s too heavy to be that impressive, it’s still pretty much stock, and we...
Project Angry Grandpa: Our Crotchety Chrysler Gets New Brakes And New Tortion Struts For His 100,000th Mile!
Ok, in the spirit of being honest, we’re a few hundred off of the magical 100,000 mile mark with our 2006 Chrysler 300C, but it is a good testament to both the care that the car received from...
Project Angry Grandpa: We Put Grandpa On The Lie Detector (For A Baseline Run)
When the opportunity to take cheap dyno runs presents itself, you take it, and that’s exactly what landed in our lap as we were in Somerset, Kentucky covering the first of this year’s...
Project Angry Grandpa: Helping The Old Man Breathe Better With A Spectre Cold Air Intake
In order for the 5.7 inside of our Chrysler 300C to make noise and tire smoke, the engine has to breathe, simple as that. We first started by letting it exhale better with the Magnaflow exhaust, and...
Project Angry Grandpa: We Take Our 300C To The NCM Motorsports Park For Some Exercise!
(Track photos of the car courtesy of JRP Photos) Testing a two-ton RWD car on a racetrack on a cold morning in late January sounds like the dumbest idea in the world. Tires won’t be up to...
Project Angry Grandpa: Our 300C Gets A New Fuel Tank – If You Have A Late-Model Hemi Mopar, You Might Want To Check This Out
At first I thought I managed to miss a shift with a manu-matic. Leaving a gas station a week ago, I had our project 300C in the “shift-it-youself” mode with the traction control off, ready to go...
Two Cars, One Strip: Projects Raven And Angry Grandpa Hit Beech Bend!
Summer is winding down and so is the action. As the air gets cooler and the first few leaves start to change color, I found myself restless: Brian and Chad are fresh off of the crazy train that was...
Meet The Newest BangShift Project, “Angry Grandpa”, And Check Out The First Mod: A Cat-Back Magnaflow System!
After running my 2006 Chrysler 300C at London Dragway in Kentucky, I drove away both very impressed and wanting more. The big barge had turned better times than I was expecting; honestly, instead of...