Category Archive: ENGINE, Tech Stories, Videos
Video: 1,400 Horsepower 565ci Rat Motor on Nitrous!
You want to see some real big-boy power? Check out this 565ci big-block Chevy with Big Chief heads, twin Dominators on a sheetmetal intake, dry-sump oiling, and something like 650 hp worth of...
Video: 1,000-Plus Horsepower Blown Big-Block Chevy
Here at BangShift.com, we’re tuning up our video skills to bring you more action more often. One of the things we’ve been doing is hanging out more often at the Westech Performance Group...
It Came From the Fab Shop: Tools Even Better Than Hammers
(By Loren Krussow) – If you’re anything like me, the first time you took a hammer to a piece of sheetmetal intending to make something out of it you were a little miffed at the result....
It Came From the Fab Shop: The Speculative Disc-Brake Shield
(By Loren Krussow) – Many people are familiar with the term “spec house.” When a home builder has extra time or capacity they may, without an order on the books, speculatively construct a...
It Came from the Fab Shop: Homemade Wheel Spacers
(By Loren Krussow) – I do not work in a state-of-the-art, high-tech shop. I wouldn’t knock it, though, for the purpose of making just one or two of something there are actually only a...
Video: Check Us Out on SetYourTiming.com
One of the businesses I’ve got going on is called Boondoggle Media, a video production company for gearheads using the old AV Kids who you may remember from CarJunkieTV. So far we’ve done...
Deep Inside Darren Tedder’s 654ci, E85-Burning, 1,261HP Hemi!
Darren Tedder owns what’s probably the cleanest 8-second ’71 Cuda ever. He was a Top 10 finisher in the 2006 Hot Rod Pump Gas Drags, where we got to know him a little, and had his car...
Homegrown IRS for a ’66 Dodge Dart
This is pretty fascinating and well done! A guy named David Belau is blogging over at CarDomain.com about how he’s installing a ’93 Thunderbird SuperCoupe IRS unit under his autocrossing...
New Gallery: 25 Paint Ideas
As a guy who can’t own a shiny car, it’s a little surprising that I snap photos of paint ideas everywhere I go. It’s the editor in me, wanting to share all these car-related...