Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, MOPAR, Project Cars, Project Power Laggin', XL Project Trucks
BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Is It Scrap Or Salvage For Our Broken Chrysler 318 V8?
Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...
BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Checking In After Our MSD Atomic EFI 2 Swap!
Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...
The Charger: The Heater Core Job We Should Have Been Worried About
The last update on our 1976 Dodge Charger Daytona was done back in August 2021. You know what that means? It means it works! That’s right, for once, I’ve had an older Mopar on the...
BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Wrapping Up The Install Of Our MSD Atomic EFI 2 System!
Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...
The Charger – Electrical Chasing And Fuel Tank Modifications
A few months into owning the final project car, and wouldn’t you know it, it’s been in the garage for a good part of it. Yeah, yeah, line your jokes up. Nothing too major, but let’s...
BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Fixing Our Fuel System Before We Go Atomic!
Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...
BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: We Decide To Go Atomic With The Old Rig!
Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...
The Charger: Paint Repair And More Instrument Cluster Investigation
The Charger Chapters: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Problem Areas The nice, pleasantly warm and relatively dry early summer of Kentucky has given way to the hot, humid, and hellish season that...
The Charger – Honeymoon’s Over, Let’s Check Out The Bad Parts Of Our Late B-Body
Did you miss the introduction to the Charger? You can read about it here! Now that the odometer is reading about a thousand miles more than the day I brought it home, it’s high time I started...
Unhinged: The Final Project Car? I Believe I Have Found It
You have to hand it to my wife, Haley. She not only knew what she was signing up for when she decided that I was worth marrying, but she was on board fully. She knew I flocked to beaters. She still...
Introducing: Project Beachcomber, our 1979 Dodge Ramcharger
It’s been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It’s also been said that everything is better topless. For both of these reasons, you’re now reading about the latest addition...
Rough Start Fox Body: Transmission Work, New Quarter Windows…AND IT RUNS!
My last update on the Rough Start Fox Body Mustang was on January 20th, 2021. In that update, I highlighted that I painted the driver’s side fender because I was bored, plonked in new one-piece...
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: Gauge Lights That Actually Light Up!
If you’ve been around BangShift a while…especially if you’ve been in the Forums for a long time…then you might have heard a running joke or two about my luck with gauge lights...
Rough Start Fox Body: Disjointed Progress Is Still Progress!
I want to make something clear as a bell: when I said my goodbyes to the Imperial and welcomed in a Fox Body Mustang with open arms to replace it, the idea was that I was finally getting a project...