Category Archive: ENGINE, Tech Stories, Videos
Video: 1,000-Plus Horsepower Blown Big-Block Chevy
May 19, 2009Chad Reynolds1
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
May 11, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on 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
Mar 20, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on 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
Mar 18, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on 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
Mar 16, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on 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!
Feb 02, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on 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
Jan 15, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on 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
Nov 25, 2008Chad ReynoldsComments Off on 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...