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Tall Drink Of Bad Ass: This 572ci Hemi Has A 10-71 Blower And Four Digit Horsepower On Tap!

While it has not been too loudly crowed about over the last couple of years, the availability of good quality blocks for the legendary Gen II hemi has been really spotty. The aftermarket offerings...

How to Select Spark Plugs for Your Engine: Your Guide To The Right Spark

Spark plugs create one of the three things needed for an engine to run. Air, fuel, and spark are all three needed in order to create the fire that powers the engines we know and love so much. In some...

Running Out Of Inputs And Outputs? Holley EFI’s CAN Input/Output Module Allows You To Expand Your Current ECU’s Capabilities

The current crop of EFI systems on the market are light years ahead of where we were 10 years ago. With that said, there are lots of times when someone purchases an EFI system for their ride that...

Bello’s Kustoms COE Project: It Got Wider, And Now It’s Getting Shorter!

In the last episode it was all about making the bed wide enough to cover the giant dual wheels outback, and in this one it’s all about shortening up the wheelbase so the back of the cab and the...

HOW TO: NA & BOOSTED LS INTAKE TEST! CARB & EFI. TRUCK VS DUAL PLANE VS SINGLE PLANE (WHO IS BEST?)

What intake should you run on your LS build? Are you going to spray it with nitrous? Pack it full of boost? Or go old school with no EFI and instead run a carburetor on it? All valid questions, and...

HOW TO ADD 120 HP: JUNKYARD TURBO LS CAM SWAP-BIG HP AT SAME PSI-TURBO HEADERS VS CAST MANIFOLDS-HP?

Every cam is a turbo cam, in the words of Richard Holdener himself, so if that is the case then how can you possibly make more than 100 extra horsepower from a cam swap on a junkyard LS turbo combo?...

Make It Kustom’s 1939 Lincoln Zephyr Project: Making These 4-Door Sedan Doors Into Longer Coupe Doors With Suicide Hinges

In the second video from the Lincoln Zephyr project, Karl takes the doors from this 4-door sedan and makes them into coupe doors. Not only that, but he makes them suicide doors by utilizing the...

This 1970 Corvette Is 454 Equipped And Has Been Sitting For Almost 20 Years Under A Tree. Watch The Details Job Go Down!

While it is cool to see barn find videos where they drag a car out and try to get it running, they usually don’t get cleaned up much, or go straight to being restored. In this video we see a...

Complete Guide To Painting Your Own Car Part 1 – Disassembly: How Much Do You Really Have To Take Apart?

Anyone who has owned a car or truck with crap paint has felt the pain of knowing just how much it costs to have a car painted and not being able to spend it. At that point the ideas of painting it...

Iron Trap Shop Truck Build Part 3: A Few Bits Of Metal Work And This Thing Is Almost Ready to Start Bolting The Body Together!

Here is the third installment of the shop truck build, and as rough as this thing looks the sheet metal work needed is really pretty minor. In this video you’ll see a couple panels get made,...

Punching Louvers In An Aluminum Hood! Louvers Rule, And Technically You Can Do Them Yourself!

In this video from This Old Hotrod you’ll see what really goes into louvering a panel. In this case it is an aluminum hood, but the process is the same regardless of what you are building. I...

FIRE!!!! How To Build Flame Thrower Exhaust!!! (Stand Alone Ignition System)

I’ve never owned a vehicle with flame throwers, and never really cared to, but they sure are fun to watch! The principle behind them is actually pretty simple, but the ways they have been done...

More Pinstriping Inspiration: Practice Pinstriping Panels With HotRod Jen

We’ve featured some of Hot Rod Jen’s work here on BANGshift lately and appreciate her cool videos that show how to pinstripe, her work flow, and her process for practicing and perfecting designs....

Pro Touring Triumph GT6 Build: This Sucker Is Going To Be LS Swapped Greatness

So this project here has been going on for several years, and we kind of dig it, mostly because it is going from restomod to pro-touring machine and we dig the direction. To bring everyone up to...